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Oct. 12, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Oh, they think that's a bad thing!
	They're lamenting the fact that the conservative America is being driven in large part by some of the incredible conservative voices that grace the airwaves.
	From the Dennis Prager's of the world to the Hugh Hewitt's to the Mike Gallagher's and the Larry Elders and the Sebastian Gorka's.
	And yes, you know some of the others for some of the other companies as well.
	And I consider myself to be a very small part of that in my own little corner of the universe in Cleveland, Ohio.
	That talk radio is turning millions of Americans into conservatives.
	I think that's a great thing.
	They complain about it.
	Like I said, they lament that fact in the article.
	And I just feel like it's a great blessing and an acknowledgement of the fact that we're doing our jobs.
	And what is our job?
	What is our job, you may ask yourself, in terms of the talk radio world?
	Our job is to balance the scales.
	You see, there's an old adage that goes something like, necessity is the mother of all invention.
	And I could be butchering that a little bit, but I think you get the point of it.
	Necessity is the mother of invention.
	In other words, things are created because people recognize there is a void in some capacity and that this creation can fill that void.
	Something needs to be built in order for us to advance as a society.
	And maybe it's creation.
	Necessity is the mother of creation.
	And anyway, like I said, I may be butchering the phrasing, but that's the reality when it comes to talk radio and what we do.
	There was a need for it.
	There was a necessity.
	Because you could very easily take the headline in the New York Times, Of talk radio is turning millions of Americans into conservatives.
	And you could change that headline to the mainstream media has turned millions of Americans into leftists.
	And it's because of the mainstream media's leftward slant and leftward sprint, to be quite honest with you, in the last decade or two.
	It's that is really, and maybe three, that is really what has necessitated the balancing of the scales.
	If the New York Times itself, along with the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where I am, if they, along with the ABC,
	NBC, and CBS nightly news programs and morning news programs, If they hadn't gone so full-on leftist, there wouldn't have been a need for somebody like Rush Limbaugh to come around,
	to pave the way for so many others, the originators of this medium, like Dennis himself, and as I say, like Rush, and get into the Hannity's who've been doing this for 20-some-odd years and others.
	You know, I've no problem acknowledging other people who do the great work that we do on conservative radio, but our voice wouldn't have been so necessary if they didn't pollute what used to be journalism with full-on leftist ideology.
	And that's what they've done.
	They've polluted it.
	And so people had a hunger and a thirst, and they still have it, for the other side of the story.
	We knew that we weren't going to, and people realized they weren't going to get all of the news on matters that are so important to our society and to individually our lives.
	We weren't going to get the full story, both sides of the issue, etc., from the likes of these news organizations.
	And so talk radio was born to provide the other half of the story, the missing elements.
	You know, sometimes media commits crimes of omission as much as crimes of commission.
	In other words, they're not just printing lies, although that is the case in some circumstances.
	And they're not just broadcasting lies, although that is the case in some circumstances.
	It's what they're not saying that creates the propaganda, if you will.
	It creates the misinformation of the public.
	They'll only tell you what they want you to know, not everything that you need to know to understand the truth of an issue, a story, a candidate, an election, or what have you.
	And so here comes talk radio saying, you know what you read in the New York Times yesterday?
	About this or that?
	What you saw on the NBC Nightly News?
	About this or that?
	Well, here's what they didn't tell you.
	And suddenly it's like, oh!
	And that's an extraordinary thing, to be given the full story.
	And it changes completely the complexion of the issue.
	And so people flocked to that.
	And for 30, going on 40 years now, perhaps, you know, since people like Dennis kind of started this, and people like Rush and others, I mean, this is what we needed.
	Necessity is the mother of invention.
	Again, that's my butchered phrasing.
	Talk radio is here because people want to know the other side of the story.
	Because the leftists will shut it down and censor and suppress every bit of the other side that they can.
	You know where the latest and greatest example of that is?
	They can't shut down talk radio.
	They tried!
	Oh, you know they tried, and they will try again if Joe Biden and the Democrats get full power.
	And I firmly believe that you cannot have one without the other when it comes to Democrat victories.
	If Joe Biden wins the White House, they will have the turnout necessary in the key states to win the Senate.
	Add that to their already strong hold on the House, and they will have full-on power.
	I don't think you can have one without the other.
	Biden won't win the presidency without them also winning the Senate.
	Democrats will not win the Senate without also carrying Biden to the presidency.
	And if they do win, they'll do everything they can to shut down talk radio, to censor it, to use fairness doctrines again, as Clinton once tried to impose.
	To try to make sure that there is a balance on radio airwaves, of liberal and conservative news talk, as if there's a balance on television or in print, which of course there is not.
	But since they cannot really suppress talk radio at the moment, they do what they can to suppress conservative voices in the new media.
	The new media, of course, is the social media, between Twitter and Facebook primarily, and then you can extend that to other forms of social media, to things like, you know, the video sharing platform of YouTube owned by Google.
	We all know what YouTube has done to Dennis and Prager University and why there are lawsuits right now.
	But they do everything and anything that they can to suppress.
	Conservative voices on social media to censor, to ban, or to shadow ban conservative voices and points.
	Anything and everything they can do to undermine or undercut conservative talking points, this is what they do.
	So, and I'm getting a bit off on a tangent here to start the broadcast, and that's okay, though, because I want people to understand.
	Talk radio, and this article in New York Times, which I'll quote more extensively later, Talk radio creating millions of conservatives, that's the headline, turning millions of Americans into conservatives, is not the goal of talk radio.
	Talk radio's goal was just to provide the other side of the story that you will not get from the leftists in the mainstream network news and in the traditional print media.
	The bottom line is, talk radio just gives the other side.
	And if that happens to turn people away from liberalism and toward conservatism and fairness, that's just a byproduct.
	My name is Bob France, in for Dennis Prager.
	Thanks for being with us here on the Salem Radio Network.
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	I'm interested in hearing your reaction to the debate.
	It certainly was different, wasn't it?
	Feisty?
	Entertaining, combative.
	The president came into the debate as if he were a boxer who had come in sweaty, steamed, ready to go, and that was the problem.
	I absolutely get why Donald Trump is so pedo.
	I mean, this is a man who ran for office, was ridiculed at first, Demeaned, mocked, he wins.
	25% of the Democrat delegation does not show up for his inaugural.
	Now, this isn't because of Russia-Trump collusion.
	It isn't because of the statements that he made in Charlottesville because he hadn't made them yet.
	The attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment, that's what prompted President Trump to put on his doctor to show people he wasn't insane.
	And then, of course, we had the two-and-a-half-year investigation of Russia-Trump collusion, all based upon mostly...
	Sketchy, phony, thin stuff that they would not have used against somebody that they like.
	Oh, did I mention he was impeached?
	All of this happened in three and a half years.
	And the man is down just six points or so in the latest national poll.
	It's extraordinary what he's accomplished given the pressure he's been under.
	So this is why he was so angry.
	And I absolutely understand.
	But this is about winning over the so-called independents, the swing voters.
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	And there's a chyron.
	Defense Department says threat con levels have not been changed.
	There are articles about continuity of government and Nancy Pelosi may need to take over.
	Um...
	Have we gone crazy with the president's diagnosis, Dan?
	Well, I think it's over to the president and the administration to calm those fears, whatever they might be.
	Now, what I can tell you, just from my experience decades working at the CIA, That our friends, even our friends, but for sure our adversaries are mounting a full court press to determine what the president's health is, what are the contingency plans, how are we reacting internally.
	That's the first thing they're doing.
	So they're working overtime to try and get intel or to spin this in a way, in an informational way, which would be advantageous to inimical capitals.
	Am I right?
	Is that a good way of putting it down?
	Right, so that's the second thing.
	First thing is collect the information about what's going on.
	The second thing is weaponize it.
	Weaponize it with propaganda.
	And so you'll see our adversaries from North Korea, Iran, for sure, Russia, China Seek to portray this as weakness of our democracy Because nothing scares Xi Jinping more than democracy That's a great message for Amy Coney Barrett
	You are not alone.
	There are people who support you despite the attacks you are going to face incessantly from the demon rats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	And yes, we are going to make the Supreme Court of the United States your home.
	21 minutes after the top of the hour, Bob France sitting in for Dennis Prager live here in Cleveland, Ohio in the ReliefFactor.com studios.
	I appreciate you being with us.
	As you know, on Capitol Hill right now, the Senate Judiciary Committee is beginning the confirmation hearings for Judge Barrett to serve as the next justice on the court.
	In remarks prepared for her opening statement, Judge Barrett notes, I believe in the power of prayer, and it has been uplifting to hear that so many people are praying for me.
	In past Senate hearings, Judge Barrett has had to face serious and scurrilous attacks on her Catholic faith, but she triumphed.
	Much like Jack Denton triumphed after Alliance Defending Freedom helped defend his rights at Florida State University.
	Simply for sharing in private his Catholic beliefs with other Catholic students, a smear campaign was started and Jack was removed as president of the Student Senate.
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	I want to point something out to you as we get started.
	First of all, two guests are going to be joining us on the program today.
	In about an hour, a little over an hour from now, we are going to talk with Michael Knowles, who is a wonderful historian and a talk show host, and to me, maybe the most astute historical analyst of Christopher Columbus, working in media today.
	He has done a video for Prager University, a five-minute fantastic animated video for Prager University of Christopher Columbus' exploits.
	And today, of course, being Columbus Day, it's perfectly timed.
	We're going to have Michael on the program to talk about why it is that so many people on the left have sought to demonize Christopher Columbus' exploits.
	Again, Christopher Columbus.
	What he did in exploring Westward and finding the new world, if you will, was so extraordinarily important that his name adorns schools and cities and towns and streets and so many other things, statues of him everywhere.
	But in recent years, leftists have decided that what he did was terrible, and his sins outweigh his accomplishments.
	Michael Knowles has a lot to say about that.
	He'll be joining us in about an hour.
	Actually, at the bottom of hour number two.
	So a little bit over an hour.
	And then also in the second hour of the broadcast, we're going to talk to, or third hour of the broadcast, we're going to be talking to Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, who is a ranking member in the House Oversight Committee.
	And so we're going to be looking forward to, and he's also a member of the Judiciary Committee, so we're going to be talking to him about what's going on with Amy Coney Barrett as well.
	So that's coming up on the program.
	The other thing I want you to note is I'm a little under the weather.
	I've been having prone to coughing fits over the course of the last two or three days of the weekend.
	So just so you know, I will not allow dead air to take over the program if I have to turn off my microphone to deal with my little cough.
	So if you hear something random, Something random like, oh, I don't know, President Trump condemning white supremacy as he has done time after time after time.
	And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally, but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?
	Or if you hear random racism by Joe Biden, just kind of seemingly out of nowhere, if you hear this.
	Do you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black?
	If you hear things like this.
	What you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.
	If you hear stupidity out of nowhere from Kamala Harris...
	What else do we know about this population, 18 through 24?
	They are stupid!
	The past couple of years have seen young people getting involved in politics and activism, organizing around issues such as gun control and climate change.
	Given that policies passed now will affect the younger generation for years to come, do you believe that Americans should have the right to vote at age 16?
	I'm really interested in having that conversation.
	I have to tell you that.
	18 to 24-year-olds are stupid, and 16-year-olds should vote.
	Anyway, if you hear random drops like that, just understand it is intentional, but it's just to fill the void while I deal with an illness.
	So apologies for that in advance.
	I do want to talk and give you a little bit of audio from something that's a little more timely.
	This is how things began today.
	Good morning, everybody.
	Judge Barrett's family, welcome.
	The hearing to confirm Judge Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court will now begin.
	I appreciate everyone's cooperation, and we will have a hearing, hopefully, that the country will learn more about Judge Barrett, learn more about the law, learn about the differences And judging and maybe the differences in the party, if that happens, it'll be a successful hearing.
	Yeah, and the problem, of course, is Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the problem is that it shouldn't be learning about party, per se.
	It should simply be an evaluation of the qualifications of the nominee.
	And that used to be the format.
	That used to be the process.
	For someone becoming confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
	Is the person qualified?
	Do their experiences in the courts, or in whatever capacity of life that they were in, do they make them qualified to serve?
	If they are qualified, their ideology is irrelevant.
	You must vote yes.
	That's how it used to be.
	That's how Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself...
	Far left on the ideological scale, still received 97 yes votes when she was confirmed during the Clinton administration.
	Because Republicans knew that even though they didn't like her politics and her ideology, she was qualified.
	So their job was to give advice and consent to the President as to her qualifications.
	Yes, she's qualified.
	So you grit your teeth and you vote yes.
	The same thing was done more recently in the Obama years with Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
	They were qualified.
	Everybody knew what their left-wing politics were and their left-wing ideologies and that they were going to be pretty consistent activists on the court when it comes to matters of legislation and their constitutionality.
	But they were qualified, so they had to get yes votes.
	But that changes whenever it's Republicans being nominated or doing the nominating.
	It changed with Neil Gorsuch, it changed with Brett Kavanaugh, and it's going to change now with Amy Coney Barrett as well.
	She's not going to be given the fair hearing from the Democrats that she deserves.
	And we are here to analyze that as well, right here on the Dennis Pringer Show. right here on the Dennis Pringer Show.
	...say that we don't know how he will fare, nor how the First Lady will fare.
	Sometimes I have been shocked in the last months when you hear that somebody died, when I heard that Herman Cain died.
	My goodness.
	So this is tremendously serious, which brings up the question how this will play.
	With regard to this election, does it give him sympathy?
	I think it does.
	In other words, I think that it humanizes him precisely in the way that his debate performance didn't humanize him.
	In other words, that was him at his worst, what people who don't like him or who don't know what they think of him, that didn't help him.
	I think this helps him.
	It humanizes him.
	You know, Eric, you and I are both born-again Christians, and we believe that God is sovereign and that he has a purpose for our lives.
	I was actually thinking of that point specifically while I was contemplating what to write, because I do think that for all the good that he has done, that he could be even better.
	With the reminder that his abilities only take him so far and that life is precious and that as God grants him each breath, literally, when you're talking about COVID, you're talking about a respiratory issue.
	As he grants him the next breath, there is a gratitude that can be sown into his heart for being able to do what he's doing.
	And I think if you took the monster accomplishments of Trump...
	And you added to that genuine God-centered humility that life is precious and life is valuable and we have to be thankful for every day and every breath that we have.
	I think that makes him, as you said, more sympathetic in ways that I don't think anything else could.
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	This is an enormous moment for our nation.
	I will say I've been kind of lifted up a little bit by seeing some of the president's fiercest political opponents wish him Godspeed and recovery from this.
	What's your perspective as somebody who knows the president, as somebody who's been with the president many times?
	What's the Charlie Kirk worldview on the news that the president and the first lady have tested positive for COVID? Yeah, like everyone else, still processing it.
	From kind of a macro perspective, I can tell you that the president is a terrific fighter.
	And look, he's going to take this very seriously.
	And this is not anything that any of us expected.
	People will politicize this.
	I saw a couple people very late last night when this news broke around 1 o'clock Eastern try to politicize it.
	But I think the rank and file are handling this fine from the Democrats and the left.
	But look, anyone who says they know what's going to happen is just guessing right now, Mike.
	And I just want to reinforce that.
	When I have a prediction, I will say it.
	I don't.
	There are about 500 different variables at play here of how this will impact the Supreme Court fight, how this will impact the presidential election, and how this will impact the inner workings of the White House.
	So at this point, I can take a good guess, but this is something that has so many different It causes and effects beyond, I think, what a lot of us in kind of the political prediction business can even try to chart.
	And, you know, some people are going on TV and they say, well, this is going to help and this is going to hurt.
	No one knows.
	That's just a blind guess.
	and people should just say that because when you start going on TV doing that, I think it actually, you have a responsibility to the audience.
	BOOM
	33 minutes after the hour, Bob Franz sitting in for Dennis Prager on the Salem Radio Network.
	I'm going to open up the phone lines to you at 8 Prager 776. That's 877-243-7776.
	There's a lot to discuss here, particularly with the confirmation hearings underway for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, hopefully and soon to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
	The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, I think, is really only a matter of time.
	It is not really a question of if, it's simply a matter of when.
	Then the question becomes, what will the liberal Democrats who are outraged over this appointment of an extraordinarily well-qualified female judge to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, what will they do in retaliation?
	Chuck Schumer has declared that they'll do anything and everything that they have to.
	Nothing will be off the table if they should win the Senate in this upcoming election.
	The question is, would a President Joe Biden go along with everything that is on the table, including court packing?
	Now, we know that he has refused to answer the question for weeks.
	Despite Liberal Democrats' proclamations that they will pack the court in order to offset the majority being given now by the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
	This was his latest refusal.
	Well, that wasn't supposed to happen.
	Sorry about that.
	Sir, I've got to ask you about packing the courts.
	And I know that you said yesterday you aren't going to answer the question until after the election.
	But this is the number one thing that I've been asked about.
	Sorry about that.
	A little technical glitch here.
	I want to restart that clip for you from the beginning so that you can hear the question.
	And Joe Biden's...
	Quite frankly, disqualifying answer to the question.
	Listen again.
	Sir, I've got to ask you about packing the courts.
	And I know that you said yesterday you aren't going to answer the question until after the election.
	But this is the number one thing that I've been asked about from viewers in the past couple of days.
	Well, you've been asked by the viewers who are probably Republicans who don't want me continuing to talk about what they're doing to the court right now.
	Well, sir, don't the voters deserve to know?
	No, they don't.
	I'm not going to play his game.
	I'm going to stop that there so that you can hear that part again.
	This is the disqualifying remark I was referring to.
	Talk about what they're doing to the court right now.
	Well, sir, don't the voters deserve to know?
	No, they don't.
	I'm not going to...
	No, they don't deserve to know.
	Well, sir, don't the voters deserve to know?
	No, they don't.
	I'm not going to...
	Mr. Vice President, don't the voters deserve to know what you will do if you become president?
	No, they don't deserve to know.
	They need to choose me and elect me president, and then I'll tell them what I will do.
	That is just without question a disqualifying remark.
	The voters don't deserve to know.
	If he can say that about court packing, which would have such a profound impact on government and our society as a whole for generations to come, If he can just say, I'll tell you after you elect me, of course it is reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi when it came to the 2,700-page-long Obamacare bill.
	Yeah, we have to pass it to see what's in it.
	Very reminiscent of that.
	Yeah, you have to elect me, then I'll tell you what I'll do.
	If he can do that with this extraordinarily important matter, I mean, why not other things?
	Hey, Mr. Biden, how do you feel about national security?
	I'll tell you after you elect me.
	Mr. Biden, what is your plan for border security?
	Well, you know what?
	You don't deserve to know that now.
	I'll tell you after you elect me.
	Mr. Biden, what is your stand on taxes?
	Mr. Biden, you've given a couple of different points of view on fracking.
	What is your real plan?
	You know what?
	You don't deserve to know that.
	I'll tell you after you elect me.
	Think about that.
	Have you ever heard such an absurdity from a presidential candidate in your life?
	And this man wants your votes.
	Well, sir, don't the voters deserve to know?
	No, they don't.
	I'm not going to play his game.
	He'd love me to talk about, and I've already said something on court packing.
	What does that mean?
	What does that mean?
	I've already said something on court packing.
	What does that mean?
	The only thing you've said about court packing is you're not answering the question.
	How does he say, I've already said something on court packing?
	No, you haven't.
	All you've said is I'm not going to answer the question.
	I've already said something on court packing.
	He'd love that to be the discussion instead of what he's doing now.
	He's about to make a pick in the middle of an election, first time it's ever been done.
	First time in history it's ever been done.
	It is absolutely not the first time it has ever been done.
	Nineteen other times, as Lindsey Graham explained this morning in the opening of the Emmy-Coney Barrett hearings.
	But Joe Biden literally just disqualified himself by saying you don't deserve to know what he'll do until you elect him.
	Much more coming.
	Coming, Bob Branson for Dennis Prager.
	Trending now on the Mike Delegre Show.
	I went to the, I was a private citizen, not a member of the broadcast community.
	I went as a private citizen because the press was closed off at a special event yesterday in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump National is, where the president dropped by to just give greetings to close friends in the area.
	This is his neighborhood, as it were.
	He came from New York, was in Florida now, but he comes to New Jersey.
	And it's only about 20 minutes from my house.
	In kind of about an hour southwest of New York City, a beautiful bucolic area of New Jersey.
	So they said, Joe, would you drop by, say hi, shake some hands?
	I said, I'd be more than happy to because I really believe this election, we're in the fight of our life.
	And Mike, you know, and like we talked about on the show, I saw the president.
	He was at the top of his game.
	It was three o'clock yesterday.
	When I tell you charming and vulnerable and funny.
	And warm and powerful.
	You know what he did?
	He did a speech for about a half an hour or so, and he had to go.
	He had to go.
	He had to be back at the White House, or wheels up at 4.30 out of Morristown, New Jersey.
	And he said, you know what?
	He looked at the people all around me.
	I got to take questions.
	These are my people.
	And he took 45 minutes he did questions, Mike.
	Wow.
	The stamina of this man, and I'm telling you what, I don't really...
	I concern myself with whether people like the president or not.
	I'm speaking objectively here because I'm a workout geek.
	You know that, Mike, you know, but I'll try anyway, but the stamina of president Trump, his voice was strong.
	And I talked to Dr. Greer this morning, Dr. Steven Greer, one of our guys on the air about, and Dr. Greer reiterated, he said.
	The president's voice was strong.
	I felt like top of his game.
	And that would indicate that he is asymptomatic and everything's going to be great.
	In the summer of 2016, right near the Republican convention, out of nowhere, There was chatter that started to surface around President Donald Trump allegedly having connections to Russia.
	In fact, we can go back and we find television clips of Hillary Clinton campaign surrogates starting to talk about Donald Trump is bought and paid for by Russia, or there is meaningful collusion happening on behalf of the Trump campaign in Russia.
	And it was always very bizarre.
	It was always So incongruent with the entire election because there were such bigger issues happening in 2016. Go back into 2016. Russia was not at the forefront of any sort of geopolitical conversations.
	People were mostly focused on Hillary Clinton's campaign or Hillary Clinton's emails.
	We'll talk about that.
	But 2016 was a lot about what Donald Trump was going to do if he became president.
	It was a lot about...
	It was about the Obama succession.
	It was about the Obama legacy.
	And so this conversation about Russia always felt very strange and very bizarre for those of us that were in the campaign, were around the campaign, I should say.
	And so John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, has just declassified a series of documents.
	that revealed that former CIA director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported plan to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a, quote, means of distracting the public from her use of a private email means of distracting the public from her use of a private Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show. music I want to go back to Pence.
	I was really...
	Prager, thanks so much for being with us.
	I come to you live from Cleveland, Ohio, the ReliefFactor.com studios.
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	So, I just played for you a little clip of Joe Biden refusing to answer the question about court packing.
	He had no such confusion and no such refusal to answer that question in 1983. In 1983, Senator Joe Biden made it very clear what most of us know still today.
	President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate and the United States Congress a proposal to pack the court.
	It was totally within his right to do that.
	He violated no law.
	He was legalistically absolutely correct, but it was a bonehead idea.
	It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make, and it put in question for an entire decade the independence of the most significant body, including the Congress in my view, the most significant body in this country, the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
	The President had the right to do that.
	He was totally within his power, and his objective was seen clearly.
	The President had the right to do that.
	It was totally within his power, but to do that was a bonehead decision.
	The wrong move.
	It put into question for a decade the independence of the most important body in government, including the Congress, and that would be the Supreme Court of the United States.
	What has changed nearly 40 years later?
	Joe Biden?
	And the answer is, of course, he has.
	It's no less of a bonehead idea in 2020 than it was in 1983, but Joe Biden needs something.
	Because Joe Biden knows that everything that the President of the United States is doing right now, and that the Senate is doing, the Senate Judiciary Committee undertaking today's hearings, To confirm Amy Coney Barrett are not only 100% constitutional, they're also obligatory.
	These steps must be taken.
	Now he tried to say in the other clip that I played for you, in which he refused to acknowledge the...
	Well, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, wanted to make that very clear today, that no, this is in fact just the opposite.
	History proves that when the President and the Senate majority are from the same party, in the event of a vacancy during an election year, This is exactly what has been done and should continue to be done.
	And we can talk about history, but here's the history as I understand it.
	There's never been a situation where you had a president of one party and the Senate of another where the nominee, the replacement, was made in an election year.
	It's been over 140 years ago.
	I think there have been 19 vacancies filled in election year.
	17 of the 19 were confirmed to the court when the party of the President and the Senate were the same.
	In terms of timing, The hearing is starting 16 days after a nomination.
	More than half of all Supreme Court hearings have been held within 16 days of the announcement of the nominee.
	Stevens 10, Rehnquist 13, Powell 13, Blackman 15, Berger 13. So Lindsey Graham made it very, very clear in his opening of the confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee today that this is absolutely appropriate and in keeping with American tradition.
	We have, you know, of course his first part of that response, or that remark, was in reference to the Merrick Garland situation four years ago.
	When Merrick Garland was put up by Barack Obama in the election year of 2016, after the untimely death of Antonin Scalia, and of course the Senate, led by Mitch McConnell, said, no, we're not going to be taking that up, because again, that had not been done in 140 years.
	Where the President is of one party and the Senate majority is of the other party and a nomination was made.
	It just isn't done.
	But when the parties are the same, President and Senate majority, 19 times vacancies have occurred.
	19 times in an election year.
	And 19 times nominations were made.
	And 17 of those times a confirmation was made.
	More from Lindsey Graham.
	So, the bottom line is, I think it's important.
	This is a lifetime appointment.
	I would like the world and the country to know more about Judge Barrett.
	I'm proud of you.
	I'm proud of what you've accomplished.
	I think you're a great choice by the President.
	This is probably not about persuading each other unless something really dramatic happens.
	All Republicans will vote yes and all Democrats will vote no.
	And That will be the way the breakout of the vote.
	But the hearing is a chance for Democrats to dig deep into her philosophy, appropriately ask her about the law, how she would be different, what's on her mind.
	It gives Republicans a chance to do the same thing.
	Most importantly, it gives you a chance, the American people, to find out About Judge Barrett.
	Judge for yourself.
	Is this person qualified?
	Is she as qualified as Sotomayor and Kagan?
	I think so.
	And ultimately, that is exactly what the question is supposed to come down to.
	Is she qualified for this position?
	Not do I like her politics.
	Not do I like her religion.
	Is she qualified?
	And the answer is unquestionably yes.
	And then the next question is, will the Democrats embarrass themselves, the committee, the Senate as a whole, and the United States of America by putting on another show the way they did with Brett Kavanaugh?
	All right, I promise you I'm going to take your phone calls coming up next, right here on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Bob France sitting in.
	and good to have you aboard.
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	In the summer of 2016, right near the Republican convention, out of nowhere, there was chatter right near the Republican convention, out of nowhere, there was chatter that started to surface around President Donald Trump allegedly having connections to
	In fact, we can go back and we find television clips of Hillary Clinton campaign surrogates starting to talk about Donald Trump is bought and paid for by Russia, or there is meaningful Collusion happening on behalf of the Trump campaign in Russia and it was always very bizarre.
	It was always so incongruent with the entire election because there were such bigger issues happening in 2016. Go back into 2016. Russia was not at the forefront of any sort of geopolitical conversations.
	People were mostly focused on Hillary Clinton's campaign or Hillary Clinton's emails.
	We'll talk about that.
	But 2016 was A lot about what Donald Trump was going to do if he became president.
	It was a lot about the economy.
	It was about the Obama succession.
	It was about the Obama legacy.
	And so this conversation about Russia always felt very strange and very bizarre for those of us that were in the campaign, were around the campaign, I should say.
	And so John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, has just declassified A series of documents that revealed that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported plan to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a,
	a quote means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.
	I want to go back to Pence.
	I was really genuinely stunned and impressed at his self-control.
	I don't think I've ever seen anything like it because you did not get the impression, which the media sometimes wants to give you, is that he's dull, that he's a dud.
	I'm sitting in for Dennis Prager.
	Hope you're having an outstanding day.
	The confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett are underway.
	We're going to talk a lot more about that in the next hour.
	Also, at the bottom of the next hour, if you missed this little promotion, we're going to talk to Michael Knowles at around 30 minutes past.
	Michael Knowles is a historian.
	He is a reporter and writer for The Daily Wire, as well as an author and a podcast host as well.
	Michael Knowles is...
	A tremendous defender and supporter of Christopher Columbus.
	Today, of course, is Columbus Day.
	A lot of people have kicked that name out of their calendar and said, no, this is Indigenous Peoples Day.
	And they want Christopher Columbus erased from the annals of American and world history.
	Michael Knowles is having none of that.
	He's going to explain more coming up at the bottom of the next hour.
	All right, let's take a few phone calls now.
	We're going to go to Jacksonville, Florida first, and that's where it's...
	Ezra, I believe.
	Ezra, you are on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Bob Grant sitting in.
	Go right ahead.
	Good afternoon, Bob.
	The first item in your opening monologue about the importance of talk radio defeating the, I call, truth embargo imposed by the mainstream media links directly to something I haven't heard anybody talk about.
	What's that?
	It seems to me that the left has this tremendous urgency to promote early voting because they fear that swing voters We'll learn the truth about things such as the declassified memos that show the coup conspiracy.
	I'm sorry Ezra, I didn't quite follow your point there.
	Could you say that again?
	For example, the unredacted notes from Brennan when he's sitting in the Oval Office with Obama and others, they show that they fully understood that Hillary's Right.
	All of that is accurate.
	Some clever person on the left must have realized, hey, these swing voters might just find out about that, notwithstanding the failure of the mainstream media to cover it.
	So let's get them to vote before they can hear about it.
	Oh, so you're suggesting the reason that they are promoting early voting is so that some of this devastating information is not presented in time, that they will have already cast their vote before they find that out?
	Yes, sir.
	It is devastating.
	For somebody that cares about truth and governance, how can they possibly vote?
	for a man that was sitting in the office when this coup was being formulated.
	You raise a very, very good question, Ezra, and I totally concur with that.
	But here's the thing.
	The early voting issue or the early voting practice in many states began a few years back.
	I know here in the state of Ohio we've been doing early voting for at least the last two or three election cycles.
	My wife and I usually go to the Board of Elections and vote early rather than wait until Election Day.
	so it's not new If it were new, then I would see the point that you're making there, but I don't know that that's necessarily as valid today.
	Thank you so much for that phone call.
	We'll be coming right back.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	A day of celebration and jubilation has turned into a news cycle of condemnation and of a media circus unlike anything I've seen in recent memory.
	At times I believe that the laws of nature and just basic Newtonian physics don't apply to the members of the activist media.
	So the president was discharged from the hospital, flies back on Marine One, comes back to the White House triumphantly, should be a symbol of Conquering and a victory should be a moment that should be kind of just a post-political moment.
	But instead of just trying to take a couple hours off and a couple days off, the activist media leans in more than ever before to try and attack the president for not properly wearing his mask or not being completely forthright with everything around the Chinese coronavirus.
	In fact, some members of the media, Mika Brzezinski, See, she suggested manslaughter.
	Let's go to cut seven.
	But I'm just wondering, he's pushing all of this against the advice of the professionals in his government, against the advice of scientists.
	At some point, isn't this manslaughter?
	I mean, if you purposefully put people in a position where you send a deadly virus their way...
	Purposefully send a deadly virus their way.
	CNN also had a very aggressive take on it after the president got back to the White House being discharged from the hospital Walter Reed.
	President Trump was under attack by CNN reporters trying to shame him for taking off his mask at home, getting good care and giving hope to the nation.
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	I have almost nothing to say about last night's debate.
	It was one of those things where I thought Mike Pence is masterful.
	The idea that he was able to contain himself and to respond in this measured way, no matter what Kamala Harris said, I thought that is seriously amazing to me in these passionate times in which we live.
	And I was in awe.
	Of his self-control.
	So that's all I'll say.
	What do you say?
	Well, you know, he is a born-again Christian.
	He carries his faith very seriously.
	And I think that he represents that faith very well when he does things in public.
	And I thought last night was just an example of that.
	But there were a couple of things I was looking for.
	And I wanted to see if they were going to happen.
	And it took about 15 seconds into the debate for them to come true.
	One was I wanted to see how long it would take for the coronation to begin.
	20 minutes into the debate, you already had CNN and MSNBC saying that Kamala was killing it and she was masterfully in control of the evening and so forth.
	And the other thing I wanted to see was, would she be the one of the two that would push the envelope with the emotional side of maybe overreaction?
	And it only took a few of those side-by-side shots where she's glaring at Pence.
	While he's giving his response to whatever the question was, I mean, it wasn't like a gentle but placed smile.
	It was like...
	Not only the female, Al Gore of color.
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	Who do you think won?
	I am most happy that Mike Pence got a chance to address the abysmal and offensive lie about what the president said about the horrific events in Charlottesville years ago.
	Let's begin with Cut 17. He on the issue of Charlottesville, where people were peacefully protesting.
	The need for racial justice, where a young woman was killed.
	And on the other side, there were neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches, shouting racial epithets, anti-Semitic slurs.
	And Donald Trump, when asked about it, said there were fine people on both sides.
	You know, I think this is one of the things that makes people dislike the media so much in this country, Susan.
	Is that you selectively edit, just like Senator Harris did, comments that President Trump and I and others on our side of the aisle make.
	I mean, Senator Harris conveniently omitted, after the President made comments about people on either side of the debate over monuments, he condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists, and has done so repeatedly.
	You're concerned that he doesn't condemn neo-Nazis.
	President Trump has Jewish grandchildren.
	His daughter and son-in-law are Jewish.
	This is a president who respects and cherishes all of the American people.
	It was terrific.
	And it was overdue.
	And every time you hear someone hear the Charlottesville people on both sides, know they're lying to you and don't trust that people.
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	But last night I'm going into it.
	I've known Mike Pence for 30 years.
	I knew he was going to be the polished gentleman that he always is, a consistent Christian, very capable of keeping his testimony intact when he's in front of people.
	And I was waiting to see if the Kamala from about the third or fourth primary debate, remember where she was just like, Hacking at Joe Biden and she was just out of control.
	We didn't get that.
	Kamala Harris last night.
	But the one we did get was someone who still obviously gets very angry about things and can't keep that from expressing it on her face.
	And all you had to do was read some of the Twitter activity during the debate.
	Megyn Kelly calling her out on, you know, she's like, even if you feel it, don't wear it on your face, lady.
	I try to filter out my own biases.
	I try to be aware of my own biases.
	And I'm thinking, do I not like her just because I don't like...
	Do I not like her?
	you know but there does seem to be something uh cloying and and uh you you
	Greetings once again.
	Thanks so much for joining us for the Dennis Prager Show six minutes after the top of the hour.
	My name is Bob France sitting in for Dennis.
	Here in the ReliefFactor.com studios of AM 1420 The Answer.
	That's my home base in Cleveland, Ohio.
	If you are interested in listening to what I am doing on a regular basis, you can always tune in to WHKradio.com and listen to my program weekdays 9 until 11. It's a privilege to be here with Dennis' brilliant audience.
	I'm watching in between the segments here during our breaks.
	I'm watching the confirmation hearings, and I'm listening to some of the things that are just the absurdities that come with the new confirmation process.
	It really is.
	It's new insofar as when the Democrats don't like losing a seat on the court that they treasure and value, they will Change the confirmation process completely.
	Obviously with the filibuster rule, we know that the nuclear option that Harry Reid invoked has made this a simple majority situation.
	But also just the idea of advice and consent.
	It's supposed to be determined the qualifications and experience of the nominee, in this case Amy Coney Barrett, and instead it's we are going to evaluate her personal life, her faith, her family, and yes, We are going to evaluate her political ideology rather than just her qualifications.
	And this is what they've done.
	There's a promo running that talks about Bork, talks about Thomas, talks about Alito, talks about Kavanaugh.
	And each of those, I think, were progressively worse in terms of the way Democrats treated Republican presidential nominees for the court.
	And this is going to be no different.
	Lindsey Graham, when he opened up the hearings today, Basically begged Democrats to try and, I don't know, try and be civil.
	Try and be professional.
	Even though you don't like the idea that this president gets to name his third Supreme Court nominee.
	And that he's going to be able to put his third pick on the nine-member court.
	Even if you don't like it, you don't have to turn this into something that is uncivil.
	You don't have to recreate what you did to Brett Kavanaugh.
	This was Lindsey Graham's plea today.
	We've taken a different path at times.
	Bork, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh.
	I hope we don't take that path with Judge Barrett.
	She doesn't deserve that.
	I don't think it makes this hearing any better.
	The American people, I believe, would not deserve a repeat of those episodes in the Senate Judiciary Committee's history.
	The Judiciary Chairman also delivered a message in his opening remarks to his Democrat colleagues.
	To my Democratic colleagues, I respect you all We've done some things together, and we've had some fights in this committee.
	I've tried to give you the time you need to make your case, and you have every right in the world to make your case.
	I think I know how the vote's going to come out, but I think Judge Barrett is required for the good of the nation to submit to your questions and ours.
	This is going to be a long, contentious week.
	I would just ask one thing of the committee.
	To the extent possible, let's make it respectful.
	Let's make it challenging.
	Let's remember, the world is watching.
	Chuck Grassley was a little bit more gruff.
	He was a little bit more challenging of the Democrats because he has seen them...
	Carry out their playbook to the letter enough times to know what they are going to do.
	It doesn't matter if it's Amy Coney Barrett or any other appointee or nominee.
	If it's from a Republican president, they are going to obstruct.
	To sum up, Judge Barrett's qualifications and character are impeccable.
	Unfortunately, I expect a minority will try to ruzzle up baseless claims and scare tactics as they've done for decades.
	Anything to derail the confirmation of a Republican nominee.
	And that is exactly correct.
	There's no sugarcoating that.
	The Democrats will do anything and everything that they have to to stop a Republican appointee.
	Democrats and their leftist allies have also shown...
	That there is no low that they won't stoop to in their crusade to tarnish a nominee.
	And I saw it all as chairman of this committee when Kavanaugh came up.
	Yeah, he did.
	And it was painfully embarrassing, and it was something you would never wish upon your worst enemy.
	Enemy, rather.
	But this is what they will do, and they will attack her even on her religious faith.
	Some of my colleagues may once again try to misrepresent and outright disparage Judge Barrett's religious beliefs and affiliations.
	In 2017, they suggested Judge Barrett was too faithful or too Catholic to be a judge.
	One senator asked whether she considered herself an orthodox Catholic.
	Another told her, the dogman lives loudly within you, and that is of concern.
	Let me remind everyone that Article 1 clearly prohibits religious tests for serving in public office.
	That is exactly right.
	There can be no such religious test or, you know, I guess we'll just stop at that, you know, to serve in this position.
	Now, the last part of what he said there about the dogma lives within you, and that is concerning, that was Dianne Feinstein.
	Senator Dianne Feinstein, who said there's no way we should be even holding these hearings right now.
	Simply put, I believe we should not be moving forward on this nomination, not until the election has ended and the next president has taken office.
	Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
	And by the way, it should be pointed out, too, with respect to her faith, Amy Coney Barrett's faith, can you possibly imagine A scenario in which a Democratic president appointed a Muslim Supreme Court Justice,
	nominated a Muslim Supreme Court Justice, and any Republican senator making a statement about how your religion, your faith, your dogma lives within you, and that's deeply concerning.
	How that would go over nationally?
	CNN, I think their headquarters would just implode.
	I mean, oh my God, the outrage.
	If somebody said that about a Muslim...
	And by the way, saying that about a person who is a firm believer in the true Muslim faith would be a legitimate question.
	Because the Islamic faith, at least as it's written in the Quran, is completely incompatible with the United States Constitution.
	But if somebody were to point that out, On the Republican side, the left would go ballistic or bananas, but they would go crazy.
	But to say that about a Catholic like Amy Coney Barrett, it's legitimate.
	It's a good question.
	Is she too faithful?
	Does she let her church guide her decision-making on the bench?
	It's simply unconscionable.
	All right, phone lines are open at 8 Prager 776. That's 877-243-7776.
	I want to go to Albany, New York, and say greetings to Tom.
	You're on the Dennis Prager Show, Tom.
	This is Bob Franz sitting in.
	Go right ahead.
	Hey, how are you doing?
	Thanks for having me on.
	I'm good, sir.
	That's the 2016 with the Russians and the investigation into Trump.
	They claim at the end, you know, they're all claiming there's nothing relevant there.
	It's all irrelevant at the end.
	They didn't know the intent.
	Well, the intent was over $20 million in three years.
	That was the intent.
	And to allow these dirtbags to keep walking around and getting away with everything that they get away with and going after this so-called paper shredder instead, this country will never get back to where it should be when you use that philosophy.
	The DOJ, why they try, it seems like they try.
	And get nowhere.
	It's almost like having a pre-orgasm, per se, and I hate to use that term, but that's what it's kind of like.
	And now I want to talk about the rear end of a goat.
	The goat is LeBron James, okay?
	He's not a goat.
	Tom, Tom, Tom is gone.
	Okay, thank you for the phone call.
	I will address the first part of what Tom just said about the Russian hoax.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So then we're going to move forward there.
	I couldn't quite make out the rest of what Tom was going to say anyway.
	So, okay.
	I will say this then, though, regardless of what the caller's point of view was on this.
	This is something that is not acceptable.
	I ranted about this on my program, my local program in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday when word came down that the Durham report, the results of the Durham investigation, Would not be made public before the election.
	I ranted about it then, and I wrote about it as well, and I know a lot of other people did as well.
	I'm just going to say this.
	I am extraordinarily disappointed in Bill Barr, the Attorney General.
	I really like him.
	I think he's a brilliant man.
	But the fact that he has not pressed and forced the prosecutor, John Durham, Report together and get it released while it can still have an impact is unconscionable.
	I've got to take a hard break here, so I'm going to save some of that commentary.
	But what was done in the Durham probe or what is being done is simply being done too slowly.
	We'll pick that up on the other side right here on the Dennis Prager show And let me ask you the obvious question, Mr Maybe I'm naive.
	Why would any party wish to pack the Supreme Court?
	What would their objective be, Andy?
	Well, obviously, it's the same objective that FDR had when he was slapped down by his own party trying to do it back in the New Deal days.
	And that is in order to convert the tribunal from its last vestige as a judicial institution into a super legislature that basically imposes the political will of the party that packed it.
	So obviously it's completely political, and it would really destroy our system, Seb, because the framers constructed A system of sort of competitive institutions.
	So our liberty depends on no one actor getting an accumulation of too much power.
	And part of that is making the Supreme Court a judicial, apolitical institution.
	That's why it's insulated from the electoral process.
	If you turn it into a political institution and it's just a proxy of Congress that throws the whole system...
	And you have nothing left to protect minority rights, which I would think would be of interest not only to people on the right, but to people on the left, because, you know, two can play this game and it never has a happy end.
	Checks and balances would be over.
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	Only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all.
	So what the president is doing is once again patently false.
	It's morally wrong.
	And yes, it is racist.
	Larry Elder, ReliefFactor.com studio, quite a statement to make.
	This is a woman, Michelle Obama.
	Who recently accused white people of still running.
	Y'all still running.
	She was complaining about white flight, which she witnessed when she was growing up in Chicago.
	I did a video about this and I said, you know, this whole business about white flight is a lot more complicated than what Michelle Obama is outlining.
	My neighborhood changed from one neighborhood that was all white to all black within a matter of years.
	And I'm not saying that a lot of people did not leave the neighborhood because of racism, because of fear of black people.
	But there were a whole lot of people who stayed in the neighborhood for a while, and then they realized a lot of their sons and daughters were being picked on and bullied by a lot of these black kids living in the neighborhood.
	There was even black flight as well.
	And Michelle Obama does not mention that.
	It's really curious, isn't it?
	She said when she was complaining about white flights, she said, quote, and I'm quoting her, y'all still running, close quote.
	Again, fascinating how people like Oprah Winfrey can just insult white people, call them bigots, and then they still say that she's respectable and we just love her and y'all still running.
	Really?
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	That's 8 Prager 776. As you know, the Senate Judiciary Committee has begun confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
	To serve on the Supreme Court.
	In her opening statement, Judge Barrett notes, I believe in the power of prayer and it has been uplifting to hear that so many people are praying for me.
	In past Senate hearings, Judge Barrett has had to face scurrilous attacks on her Catholic faith.
	But she triumphed, much like Jack Denton triumphed.
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	I want to hit something real quick here about race.
	I was just listening again during the break.
	To the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett.
	Or for her.
	And Senator John Kennedy was speaking and he talked about how one of the worst things that you can be called in the United States today is a racist.
	And he's right of course.
	It's a terrible, terrible moniker to have to wear.
	Especially when it is applied to you without any basis whatsoever.
	Look at what President Trump Has had to endure without any foundation whatsoever allegations of racism.
	President Trump, when he was just real estate mogul Donald Trump, received numerous awards from black organizations for his work with the African American community.
	But he becomes a Republican president and suddenly he's a racist who won't denounce white supremacists, etc., etc.
	It's just all garbage.
	But I bring that up just to kind of throw this other story out for you.
	Are you a user of Yelp?
	Do you participate in the Yelp ratings service, if you will, of businesses?
	Now, if you don't know what Yelp is, a lot of people don't.
	Yelp is a company that essentially allows users of businesses or patrons or customers or clients or whatever to evaluate and give ratings on their experiences, and it all goes online, and then some people use it to decide who they're going to hire and what businesses they're going to patronize, etc., etc.
	Now, Yelp has been...
	It's called out many, many times for their flawed model because people with the access to grind can just go ahead and give negative reviews of people's businesses because of personal disagreements or political disagreements or any number of other things, and then suddenly the business is damaged and harmed by negative reputation posts, right?
	But this is a new level of disgust for this company Yelp.
	Naturally, it's a California-based company.
	And what they have done is they have debuted a new policy that allows customers to report businesses as being racist without evidence.
	Now, when a business gains public attention for reports of racist conduct, such as using racist language or symbols, Yelp will place a new business accused of racist behavior alert on the Yelp page to inform users.
	Along with a link to a news article where they can learn more about the incident, the company said in a statement.
	Today we are announcing a new consumer alert to stand against racism.
	In the last few months, we've seen that there is a clear need to warn consumers about businesses associated with egregious racially charged actions to help people make more informed spending decisions.
	Communities have always turned to Yelp in reaction to current events.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Because they know you don't have to prove anything to get listed on Yelp in such a way.
	And our user operations team already places alerts on business pages when we notice an unusual uptick in reviews that are based on what someone may have seen in the news rather than on a first-hand experience.
	Now, when a business gains attention for reports of racist conduct, Yelp will place a new business accused of racist behavior alert on their page.
	To inform users, along with a link to a news article where they can learn more.
	So Yelp is essentially telling businesses, if you are simply accused of doing or saying or promoting or supporting anything racist, we're going to list it.
	And we're going to tell people to go look it up for themselves and see what they can find.
	And any damage, any defamation that is done to your reputation as a business, that's not our fault.
	This is what our users said.
	And so, you know what this means, right?
	Any business owner who might wear a MAGA hat, any business owner who might have a Trump sign in his front yard of his home, anybody, in other words, whose political affiliation is known, And can be called a racist on that basis is going to have to have his business now fighting allegations of racism.
	So this is just, you know, they talk about President Trump using dog whistles and so on and so forth, which is just so much garbage.
	And we have all seen countless examples of that.
	You know, lies about Donald Trump not condemning white supremacy and so on and so forth.
	This is the worst thing in the world that you can do to someone.
	Let other people believe or make other people believe that someone is racist without cause or foundation and then tell them it's your job to prove the negative.
	And anybody who knows anything about the law, for example, knows that you cannot prove a negative.
	You don't have to be able to prove somebody is a racist to destroy their career or destroy their business.
	But they have to find a way to prove that they're not in order to save their career or their business.
	And this is what BLM, this is what Antifa, this is what Joe Biden, this is what the DNC, this is what the socialists in the Congress, you know, the squids, AOC and Presley and Jihad Omar, and who's the other one?
	Sharia Tlaib.
	Yeah, this is what they have brought.
	Everything comes down to your identity group.
	Everything comes down to your protected class group.
	Everything comes down to racism or sexism or transphobia or homophobia or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
	And you don't have to prove that people are any of those things.
	All you have to do is make the accusation without foundation.
	It's got to stop.
	All right, let's go back to it.
	We're going to go to Culver City, California.
	David, you are waiting, and you are now on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Bob Brand sitting in.
	David, go right ahead, sir.
	Hi there.
	You know, I think one thing you're not discussing at all is the fact that the objection that most people, and again, most surveys have shown two-thirds of Americans think the Andy Coney Barrett hearings are unfair.
	David, David, David, hold on a second.
	I did you a disservice by going to you, and I only had 20 seconds left, and I didn't realize it.
	Hold the line.
	I'll bring you up first on the other side, right here on the Dennis Prager Show.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus...
	There's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this too.
	America is founded on white supremacy.
	These two sentences are not mere overheated emotion.
	They express an ideology called Critical Race Theory, or CRT, which argues that race is a social construct made by white people.
	Just as race was once used to enslave and terrorize, so it is used today to keep America unequal, unfair, and hostile to minorities.
	The Trump administration just took symbolic and courageous action against CRT. It issued a memo to federal agencies calling for the end of the government's CRT racial sensitivity trainings, terming them divisive anti-American propaganda.
	Does America have real issues in its past?
	Yes.
	Have we made real progress that we must guard carefully?
	Also yes.
	The White House has led well here.
	I'm Owen Strayer.
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	I know you don't do politics, but on the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, Kamala Harris spoke wistfully of the Iran deal.
	Joe Biden wants to get back into it.
	It's as though the left wing in this country does not understand Iran.
	Do the people in Greece understand their threat?
	To the east and the south of them, do Americans not get what the Greeks get about Iran?
	No, I actually think most Americans get the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
	It may be that certain American leaders don't understand it.
	No, the Greeks get it.
	I traveled on that same trip to Italy.
	The Europeans get it.
	Everyone understands the challenge.
	There's different approaches that different countries will take from time to time.
	No one disputes.
	They are the largest state sponsor of terror in the world.
	They continue to work to build out their capacity to have enriched material and that they foment trouble wherever they go.
	I think the entire world understands this challenge.
	We put additional sanctions on them yesterday, significant new sanctions that are on their major financial institutions of Iran.
	We will continue to pressure the regime to change its behavior.
	I think the Greeks get it.
	I think people throughout the Middle East get it.
	Certainly all the Gulf states understand the instability that Iran creates there.
	And I must say, they are very hopeful that the set of policies that this administration has taken in the Middle East that has delivered the Abraham Accords, an enormous advent for peace in the Middle East, that has put pressure on the regime in Iran and denied them all the money that they had running free under the JCPO. The Gulf states understand that this is a policy, and Israel understands that this is a policy.
	that needs to continue.
	And let me ask you the obvious question, Maybe I'm naive.
	Why would any party wish to pack the Supreme Court?
	What would their objective be, Andy?
	Well, obviously, it's the same objective that FDR had when he was slapped down by his own party trying to do it back in the New Deal days, and that is in order to convert the tribunal from its last vestige as a judicial institution into a super legislature that basically imposes the political will of The party that packed it.
	So, obviously, it's completely political.
	And it would really destroy our system, Seb, because the framers constructed a system of sort of competitive institutions.
	So our liberty depends on no one actor getting an accumulation of too much power.
	And part of that is The ReliefFactor.com studios of AM 1420, the answer here in Cleveland, Ohio.
	We'll get back to the phone calls, including David from Culver City, because I do want to talk to him.
	I know what he's talking about with the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation.
	But we have a great opportunity here to learn a little bit more about a holiday that fewer and fewer Americans seem to be interested in celebrating the way we once did.
	And that, of course, is today, Columbus Day.
	Michael Knowles is a...
	He's a brilliant historian, to be quite honest with you.
	He is also with The Daily Wire.
	He's an author, and he's a podcast host of The Michael Knowles Show.
	show and he has done a video for Prager University a five-minute video animated that really really shines a spotlight on the truth about Christopher Columbus that is being masked by although all of the leftists who have decided that his name should be one of shame should be one that is met with shame and derision rather than with praise for his extraordinary contributions to to the world Michael Knowles joins us now on the Dennis Prager show Michael, thanks for the time.
	How are you?
	Bob, I'm doing very well.
	So nice to be with you.
	I gotta tell you, I was so glad, Michael, to hear and to see the PragerU video you did, because what it was was a better version of a clip that I have played on my program before here in Cleveland of you, and I don't remember what university you were speaking at, at, but you were being challenged on Christopher Columbus and your praise for him by some indoctrinated student or another.
	And your dissection of that individual's arguments about standing on the shoulders of a giant like Christopher Columbus and calling himself tall, I thought was just brilliant.
	And I was so glad to see you piece this thing together.
	So Michael, I have to ask you, you present at colleges, you've done this video now for PragerU.
	Why are you so passionate about defending the legacy of Christopher Columbus?
	The left attacks Christopher Columbus not because they didn't like his Italian hair or not because they didn't like the way he dressed or something.
	They don't really even know anything about his life, as the academic Columbus historian, Carol Blaine, points out.
	People accuse him of things that other people did.
	He did not do.
	The reason they attack Christopher Columbus...
	- We're getting an echo from your end. - Western civilization.
	So Christopher Columbus was born not of any particular rank in Italy.
	He managed to make his way all around the world.
	He took to the sea.
	He went to Iceland.
	He went to Ireland.
	He went to Africa.
	He pitched the King of Portugal on this outrageous journey that he had in mind to make a sea route to the Indies.
	He was shot down there.
	He turned to Spain.
	He was a man of deep religious devotion.
	And he came over and he managed with virtually no tools at his disposal to make it and discover a new world.
	And I think that combination of attributes all the way down to his religious faith and up to his personal courage is why the left hates him.
	So they attack him.
	But the way they attack him is absolutely unfair.
	It is...
	It's not new.
	I mean, it's somewhat new, but what I mean is it's not, you know, just a part of this summer of attacking all things related to...
	Supremacy, if you will.
	And we can't call it white supremacy.
	He's an Italian who was sailing under the Spanish flag, essentially.
	But this is something that's been building for several years now, these attacks from the left.
	Again, I ask, what changed, though?
	All of the things that we have learned about Christopher Columbus were not new.
	We've known about some of his sins, as you call them in your Prager University video.
	We have known about these things, and yet we still named cities and towns and streets and schools after him.
	And yet, in recent years, it's suddenly become fashionable for them to say, well, he doesn't deserve those honors.
	He's a despicable colonizer.
	Well, what the left pretends is that we've learned new history about Columbus.
	But in reality, the opposite is true.
	We have forgotten about the history of Columbus, which is why people are tearing down his statues right now.
	You mentioned that school that I gave a speech at Columbus at.
	That was Notre Dame University right here in America.
	And Notre Dame is famous for these beautiful murals of the life of Christopher Columbus on the walls.
	And the murals depict the real history of his life.
	And I depict one instance in particular where he was betrayed by a political actor named Francisco de Bobadilla, on whose dubious account much of the anti-Columbus hysteria is based.
	Well, what they did at that school when I gave the speech is they decided to put black tarp up over the murals of Columbus's life.
	They want to hide that history because, of course, the history is much more interesting than the leftist indoctrination we hear of.
	And it's important, actually, to remember the history of Columbus Day itself.
	We hear a lot now about white supremacy and the awful white supremacist history of the United States and everything horribly big and racist.
	But actually, ironically, or of note...
	Columbus Day was invented 400 years after the sailor took sale in 1892, and it was instituted in the United States.
	Michael Knowles, I've got a hard break here.
	here I hate to interrupt you but I really want to get the rest of this so if you would hold that thought right there we'll come right back on the Dennis Prager show with Michael Knowles and I will I click hangar hi this is Dennis Prager and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental freedoms That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom.
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	In the summer of 2016, right near the Republican convention, out of nowhere, there was right near the Republican convention, out of nowhere, there was chatter that started to surface around President Donald Trump allegedly having connections to Russia.
	In fact, we can go back and we find television clips of Hillary Clinton campaign surrogates starting to talk about Donald Trump is bought and paid for by Russia, or there is meaningful...
	Collusion happening on behalf of the Trump campaign in Russia.
	And it was always very bizarre.
	It was always so incongruent with the entire election because there were such bigger issues happening in 2016. Go back into 2016. Russia was not at the forefront of any sort of geopolitical conversations.
	People were mostly focused on Hillary Clinton's campaign or Hillary Clinton's emails.
	We'll talk about that.
	But 2016 was A lot about what Donald Trump was going to do if he became president.
	It was a lot about the economy.
	It was about the Obama succession.
	It was about the Obama legacy.
	And so this conversation about Russia always felt very strange and very bizarre for those of us that were in the campaign, were around the campaign, I should say.
	And so John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, has just declassified A series of documents that revealed that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported plan to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a, a quote means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.
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	I want to go back to Pence.
	I was really, genuinely stunned and impressed at his self-control.
	I don't think I've ever seen anything like it because you did not get the impression, which the media sometimes wants to give you, is that he's dull, that he's a dud.
	You could see the fire within.
	I think many people saw him as incredibly presidential and thought, my goodness, you could think what you want.
	42 minutes past the top of the hour.
	18 minutes before the start of the next one.
	Thank you.
	Michael, before you continue with your lesson, I just want to hit this, because we're in Ohio.
	By the way, if you just turn your radio on, Bob France sitting in for Dennis Prager here in Cleveland.
	In 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus arriving in the West Indies, the city of Columbus, Ohio, hosted a parade down High Street that began at 7.30 p.m.
	on a Saturday.
	Fireworks at 10 p.m.
	that night, a Columbus Marathon the next day, a children's run, a chili cook-off.
	It was a full weekend of events.
	Seven years later, by 1999, the parade was gone.
	Columbus Day remains a federal holiday, but the city of Columbus does not observe it.
	They stopped in 2018. In July of this year, Franklin County Commissioners eliminated Columbus Day as a paid holiday for its agencies, replacing it with Juneteenth.
	And also after July 1st, after the protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the city removed the Christopher Columbus statue outside of City Hall in a city named for him.
	This is the insanity, Michael, that we are talking about here, and please continue with your lesson.
	Okay, I'm not hearing Michael Knowles.
	I don't know if we have got a glitch here.
	Can you hear me?
	Now I got you, Michael.
	Sorry I couldn't hear you, but now I can.
	I think you make a great point, as Columbus probably didn't do anything in 2018, so I don't think that everything changed on his end.
	What changed is on our end, and what changed is historical ignorance.
	There's a kind of irony to all of this, because they say that Columbus is a symbol of white supremacy and racial bigotry, and that's why we've got to get rid of them.
	But actually, the reason Columbus Day was implemented in 1892, on the 400th anniversary of his voyage, is because the year earlier we saw the largest mass lynching in American history, which was actually perpetrated against Italian-Americans.
	You would imagine, because of the racial history, it would be not Italian-American, but it was.
	And so as a result of that, Columbus Day was brought to the fore as a recognition of the man who discovered the New World and as a sort of welcoming in of Italians to America.
	So it's a great irony that in the name of racial solidarity and social justice, they're getting rid of this day.
	But it's because they don't know anything about the man, and they accuse him of things that he didn't do.
	And more precisely, they hate this civilization.
	So they'll attack, for instance.
	Not just General Lee, they'll attack U.S. Grant.
	General Grant was the guy who defeated the Confederacy.
	They'll attack Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, any symbol of our country and of our civilization.
	And the beginning symbol, I think, in this new world would be Christopher Columbus.
	So regardless of the historical record, they want to attack him because they hate our civilization.
	How dangerous is it that we erase this part of our history?
	I mean, the exploration, you know, because people talk about, well, he didn't actually discover America, he discovered the West Indies, which, you know, the Bahamas, and you point out, you know, San Salvador is what he called it at the time, etc., etc.
	How important is it to future generations to know the origin and to know the original exploration of Columbus and what it led to?
	Nature abhors a vacuum, so they're either going to know the history, they're going to know what happened, or they're going to know the ideological fiction that is being fed to them by people who want to tear down this civilization.
	I'm reminded of a specific line from Karl Marx, whose acolytes in the cultural sphere, and particularly in the academy, have repeated and exercised for the past hundred years at least, which is that Marx sought to undertake the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
	The process that was going to be undertaken in the culture was a purely negative one.
	You see this particularly in critical theory, which has come to the fore as President Trump has opposed it from the White House.
	What is the theory?
	The theory is to criticize.
	You can just say, well, Columbus made some poor decisions as governor of the Indies.
	Well, Columbus didn't make it to the land he intended to go to.
	He only discovered, I don't know, part of the Bahamas or something like that, which of course put Put the New World on a map and gave us our civilization.
	You could just attack, attack, attack.
	And in any case, you could say, well, what would you have done?
	Columbus himself said that he wrote this in his diaries to oppose the calumny that was foisted on him by people who lied about his record then, as they do today.
	And he said, I wish that the people who criticize me now would have been there on those voyages.
	I wish that they could have been more than armchair critics.
	But what we have today is a whole generation of armchair critics who don't really care even the truth value of what they're saying about Columbus.
	They simply want to criticize the civilization.
	And unfortunately, as the true history is covered up, it becomes easier to convince people to hate their own culture.
	We are talking with Michael Knowles, a historian, a writer, a columnist, and a podcast host as well.
	Michael, in your PragerU video, you talk about the 10 long weeks at sea.
	I think we can all relate to being in the back of the car when mom and dad were driving us.
	Are we there yet?
	We had a destination, and we were still bored, and it still took a long time when you're being driven across country or from one state to visit relatives or whatever the case might be, and we knew we had a place to be, and yet we were still annoyed.
	Can you talk more about how he managed to keep his crew and the crews of the three ships?
	Focused and willing to go you talk about how they were ready to turn on him after a week 10 weeks at sea they didn't have a destination They had a theory.
	They had a hope.
	This guy thinks there might be land over here and there's a way for us to navigate this headed westward to discover the new world.
	But they didn't even know because it had never been done before.
	I cannot overstate, I should say, the difficulty that there must have been in accomplishing this and convincing his crew not to stage a mutiny and turn the ships around.
	The crew might not have known where they were going, but Columbus did, and I mean this in more senses than want.
	Columbus had a deep and abiding religious faith.
	He took the Eucharist on the morning that he set sail.
	He read the hours and the prayers constantly on the ship.
	He would have been considered a religious extremist, perhaps.
	And Carol Delaney, a historian of Columbus, has a wonderful book that describes his religious motivations.
	To fund a new crusade.
	He wanted to bring glory to God and to the church.
	And that part is often written out of his history.
	But he had a deep and abiding faith, and I think that strengthened him.
	That discipline, I think, was able to bring his crew into line.
	And, of course, they did.
	They did finally sight land, and he called it San Salvador, Holy Savior.
	Michael, let me interrupt you there, because I've got to get our last hard break here.
	I want to come back and ask you one final question, and this is how we deal with those who tell us Columbus should not be honored.
	Michael Knowles right back after this.
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	The appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court counts as a masterstroke and easily one of the best decisions of Donald Trump's presidency.
	In an election season when liberals and media try to characterize conservatives as old, angry, bigoted, extreme, and lacking in empathy, Judge Barrett displays the opposite characteristics.
	At age 48, she's youthful, a genial consensus builder, and mother of seven, including a special needs child and two adopted kids from Haiti.
	On a court dominated for decades by Yale and Harvard graduates, she's a breath of Midwestern fresh air, beloved by her students at Notre Dame.
	Most importantly, she'll give new life to the originalist thinking of her mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia, in stressing what the Constitution actually says, not what Judge wanted to say.
	As Americans have been losing faith in public institutions, Judge Barrett can help to restore their confidence.
	I'm Michael Medved. .
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	Senator, people are clueless about the real meaning of Citizens United.
	Can you explain to people what that ruling really means, and why is the left so afraid of it?
	Yeah, I can.
	It's a hugely important question.
	The chapter on free speech in the book talks all about Citizens United.
	Most people have heard of it, but they don't know what it is, and they know Democrats hate it.
	What it was about is our right to criticize politicians.
	And in this instance, a nonprofit group in D.C. called Citizens United made a movie critical of Hillary Clinton.
	And the Obama Justice Department took the position that the government could find them, could punish them, for daring to criticize Hillary Clinton.
	The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
	The most chilling moment was an oral argument when Justice Sam Alito asked the Obama Justice Department, under your theory of the case, could the federal government ban books?
	And the Obama Justice Department said, yes, yes, we can ban books.
	Never mind what the First Amendment says, but we can, they criticize the politician.
	Now, thankfully, the Supreme Court rejected that.
	By a vote of five to four, four justices willing to say the government can censor movies, can censor books, can ban books if they criticize politicians.
	We're one vote away from our free speech rights being taken away.
	Senator, who wins on November 3?
	I genuinely don't know.
	The hard left's going to show up in massive numbers.
	If everybody else shows up, if people turn out, we could have a great election, the president could get re-elected, and we could retake the House and hold the Senate.
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	If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus, there's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this, too.
	America is founded on white supremacy okay six minutes before the top of the hour on the Dennis Prager show about friends sitting in for Dennis and back with Michael knows for one more short segment Michael this is only about a three-and-a-half-minute segment to wrap up our conversation and here's what I would like you to do what can you offer us are who are who are laymen I'm in terms of a defense of Christopher Columbus in other words how can you take what you did in PragerU On the video.
	And what you did at Notre Dame talking to those students who challenged you on your defense of Columbus and his historic legacy.
	How can we translate that, again, in layman's terms to other people when we tell them why we don't celebrate something called Indigenous Peoples Day and we continue to celebrate Columbus Day?
	How can we kind of dumb it down and simplify?
	You can tell a lot about a man by who his enemies are.
	It's no coincidence.
	It's no accident of history that schools, towns, universities, whole countries have been named after Columbus in history.
	He's one of the most important men to our civilization, and he's one that has been rightly admired by everybody until very recently, when the radical left has turned on him.
	You'll notice they never produce the historical receipts.
	They never cite their sources.
	They just throw kind of generic terms at him.
	Even this idea of the indigenous peoples that they would replace him with.
	Well, that's a pretty blanket term.
	In a certain way, we're all indigenous peoples.
	Some of the indigenous peoples that Columbus met were very nice, and he was nice to them.
	Some were not so nice.
	They were actually cannibals, which is where we get the word cannibal from.
	And some, of course, were in the middle.
	And Columbus was not a perfect man.
	No one has ever said that he is.
	But it is the height of ingratitude.
	It's the height of hubris.
	To stand in the civilization that that man helped to create and to spit on him, to stand on the shoulders of giants and pretend that we are flying.
	No civilization that is ignorant and ungrateful can long endure, and I fear that we are at risk of both.
	That's what I loved about your presentation in both places that I've seen you talking about this.
	And like I said, I want people to understand that it doesn't have to be as complex as perhaps people make it out to be.
	As you just said, you can judge a man oftentimes not by the company he keeps, but by his enemies and those that wish to slander him and tear down his legacy and to destroy.
	Let's put it to you this way, Michael, in the last minute, minute and a half here.
	Where would we be today were it not for his courage and for his willingness to embark upon that voyage whose end was never known?
	I mean, like you said, he was a man of deep faith.
	He knew.
	He really, truly believed what he was going to find, but nobody else knew and nobody else.
	Where would we be without him?
	That's the question I guess I would like more and more of these naysayers to answer.
	It's funny.
	One little side comment you can throw to people who disparage Columbus is to say that without Columbus, there would be no Latinos.
	There would be no people who came from a mixture of Spain and native indigenous.
	But more than that, people say someone would have discovered the Americas anyway if Columbus hadn't.
	And that might be true, but our civilization would look a whole lot different.
	The way that we have developed here, because of this deep faith...
	Because of the way that Europe entered the New World, that has transformed not just the continent, not just our civilization, the entire world.
	And if you have any gratitude toward that civilization, where you are in it, you have Christopher Columbus.
	Michael Knowles giving us the education we deserve on Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day.
	We'll be right back.
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	I have almost nothing to say about last night's debate.
	It was one of those things where I thought, Mike Pence is masterful.
	The idea that he was able to contain himself and to respond in this measured way no matter what.
	Kamala Harris said, I thought that is seriously amazing to me in these passionate times in which we live and I was in awe of his self-control.
	So that's all I'll say.
	What do you say?
	Well, you know, he is a born-again Christian.
	He carries his faith very seriously and I think that he represents that faith very well when he does things in public and I thought last night was just an example of that.
	But there were a couple of things I was looking for and I wanted to see if they were going to happen and it took about 15 seconds into the debate for them to come true.
	One was I wanted to see how long it would take for the coronation to begin and about 20 minutes into the debate you already had CNN and MSNBC saying that Kamala was killing it and she was she was masterfully in control of the evening and so forth and the other thing I wanted to see was would she be the be the one of the two That would push the envelope with the emotional side of maybe overreaction.
	And it only took a few of those side-by-side shots where she's glaring at Pence while he's giving his response to whatever the question was.
	I mean, it wasn't like a gentle but placed smile.
	It was like...
	Not only did Pence...
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	Music Who do you think won?
	I am most happy that Mike Pence got a chance to address the abysmal An offensive lie about what the president said about the horrific events in Charlottesville years ago.
	Let's begin with Cut 17. He, on the issue of Charlottesville, where people were peacefully protesting, the need for racial justice, where a young woman was killed, and on the other side there were neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches, shouting racial epithets.
	Anti-Semitic slurs, and Donald Trump, when asked about it, said there were fine people on both sides.
	You know, I think this is one of the things that makes people dislike the media so much in this country, Susan, is that you selectively edit, just like Senator Harris did, comments that President Trump and I and others on our side of the aisle make.
	Senator Harris conveniently omitted after the president made comments about people on either side of the debate over monuments, he condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists, and has done so repeatedly.
	You're concerned that he doesn't condemn neo-Nazis.
	President Trump has Jewish grandchildren.
	His daughter and son-in-law are Jewish.
	This is a president who respects and cherishes all of the American people.
	It was terrific.
	And it was overdue.
	And every time you hear someone hear the Charlottesville people on both sides, know they're lying to you and don't trust that people.
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	But last night I'm going into it.
	I've known Mike Pence for 30 years.
	I knew he was going to be the polished gentleman that he always is, a consistent Christian, very capable of keeping his testimony intact when he's in front of people.
	And I was waiting to see if the Kamala from about the third or fourth primary debate, remember where she was just like hacking at Joe Biden and she was just out of control.
	We didn't get that.
	Kamala Harris last night.
	But the one we did get was someone who still obviously gets very angry about things and can't keep that from expressing it on her face.
	And all you had to do was read some of the Twitter activity during the debate.
	Megyn Kelly calling her out on, you know, she's like, even if you feel it, don't wear it on your face, lady.
	I try to filter out my own biases.
	I try to be aware of my own biases.
	And I'm thinking, do I not like her just because I don't like...
	Do I not like her?
	But there does seem to be something cloying and annoying about...
	On the optics alone, and all you have to do is just look at the average number of polls that are being done by individual news stations that carried the debate and so forth last night, all across Twitter.
	I have not seen a poll come in from an independent journalism outlet or think tank group that has not said that Pence won in a landslide last night.
	And I don't think that that was purely on policy because I think a lot of those places don't agree with Mike Pence on policy.
	I think that is a reflection of how she comes across personality-wise.
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	And politically speaking, You got a Democrat candidate who's got a plan to pack the Supreme Court with four liberal justices because they can't accept the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing is going to lead to a 6-3 conservative majority.
	And they don't know what to do about it.
	So all they can do is say, well, we'll change the rules, we've got to win, and then we're going to pack the court.
	Biden doubled down yesterday on refusing to answer the question.
	They'll know my opinion in court packing when the election is over.
	Now look, I know it's a great question, and I don't blame you for asking it.
	But you know, the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be about that.
	Other than, other than focusing on what's happening now.
	The election has begun.
	There's never been a court appointment once an election has begun.
	What, four million or so people have already voted.
	Think about that.
	A guy who's running for president doesn't want to tell you what he's going to do because he's afraid the media is going to write on it, write about it.
	The media is going to report on it.
	And the media just says, okay, makes sense to me.
	We'll be right back.
	It's six minutes past the top on this Monday, the 12th morning of the 10th month of the year of our Lord, 2020. My name is Bob France, sitting in for Dennis, live in the ReliefFactor.com studios of AM 1420, The Answer.
	That's my home base here in Cleveland, Ohio.
	Good to have you aboard.
	We're going to go right back to more of your phone calls.
	Also coming up at the bottom of this hour, actually take that back a little less than the bottom, in about 14 minutes we're going to be talking with Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan.
	We're going to get his thoughts on the confirmation hearings that are underway or hearing that is underway for Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
	The judge just finished her opening remarks in which he praised Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her predecessor for this seat, if she is confirmed, greatly for her incredible work in advancing the causes of equality and more for women and for Americans in general.
	So she's, you know, it's just such a frustrating thing for me.
	I said this at the top of the broadcast.
	If you heard it, I apologize for the redundancy.
	But if you haven't, I'm just going to say it.
	I don't know that I would even take, in today's climate, I don't know that I would even take the job.
	I don't know that I would accept the nomination from the president, knowing what she is going to have to endure.
	It's not supposed to be this way.
	It really is not supposed to be the way that it was for Robert Bork, the way that it was for Clarence Thomas, the way that it was for Sam Alito, the way that it was for Brett Kavanaugh, and the way that it's going to be now for Amy Coney Barrett.
	I mean, she is being nominated to the highest court because of her extraordinary track record.
	She's being nominated because she is one of the most brilliant legal minds in America today, receiving the highest rating possible by the American Bar Association.
	She has been called the greatest student that her professors ever had when she was in law school, rated by her own students as she taught at Notre Dame in the same way.
	She could...
	Apologies, let's dump that.
	Apologies, I'm dealing with a...
	Dealing with a late summer, early fall kind of cold here that's leading to a few coughing fits, so my apologies for that as we come back.
	My point that I wanted to make with respect to Judge Barrett, she very easily could just say, you know what, Mr. President?
	I'm honored by the nomination, but I'm living a pretty good life here.
	I've got a great life, a great job.
	I'm on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
	I don't know that I want to have my personal life turned inside out.
	I don't know that I want to have my professional credentials examined to the, well, professional credentials are actually appropriate, but my personal life and my personal faith, my religious upbringing and how I'm bringing up my seven children, the allegations against me of being a racist for adopting two kids from Haiti and giving them an American upbringing and an opportunity at success in life.
	I don't want to go through all of that.
	I'm fine where I am.
	I'm surprised that more, at least in today's, and I should probably qualify those remarks as well, too, to specifically justices or judges that are appointed or nominated for the Supreme Court only by Republican presidents, because it does not go both ways.
	You know, when people ask me sometimes, or rather, when people say, Both parties are the same.
	Both parties are the problem.
	Both parties are the evil that get in the way of our true liberty and our own unity, etc.
	They're not.
	They're just not.
	This is a very, very strong and important point to me.
	Nobody did this to Elena Kagan.
	Republicans didn't do this to Sonia Sotomayor.
	They didn't do this to Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself.
	Whose untimely passing has led to this vacancy.
	Republicans have not done this stuff to Democratic nominees or nominees by Democrat presidents.
	It really is only one way.
	I'll give you another example.
	And this is very partisan, I know.
	Again, please accept my apologies as I fight through this cough.
	It seems the more my volume increases, the more the cough takes over.
	This is something that I find very, very important.
	And I fight about this, and I do raise my volume a little bit over this.
	There is a video that has gone viral that portrays, and not portrays, but shows, a young, and I don't know if he's necessarily special needs, but he comes off In some ways as being, I don't know, a little bit less...
	That's very hard to describe.
	I don't want to cast dispersions.
	This young man is being attacked.
	And this is a viral video.
	Perhaps you've seen it.
	I put it on my Facebook page.
	He was attacked at his school, assaulted by two girls who punched him in his mouth and spit on him for wearing a MAGA hat.
	Okay?
	A red Trump hat.
	This young boy is cursed and, again, is assaulted and so on and so forth.
	And as they punch him and as they spit on him, as he demands to get his hat back, one of the girls dares him to hit her back.
	The language, I cannot even begin to read this little transcript to you, much less play the audio of the video for you.
	The language that is used here as she insults and degrades and spits on him and dares him to hit her back leads him to say, quote, I was raised right.
	He shouts, I was blanking raised right.
	I don't blanking hit a little girl.
	So he took their assault and their spit and did nothing to defend himself.
	Now, this isn't the first time, of course, that we have seen these kinds of things.
	Dozens and dozens and dozens of these things caught on video that go viral across the Internet.
	I have yet to see one time a group of Trump supporters, a group of conservative-minded individuals taking a Biden hat or shirt or sign or whatever off of somebody and assaulting them, cussing at them, Spitting upon them and treating them in such an extraordinarily degrading way.
	You just don't see it.
	And if it existed, you know it would go viral.
	Because the left always likes to portray the right as being the intolerant side of the ideological scale.
	It just doesn't happen that way.
	And I'm sorry if they don't want to acknowledge this.
	But this is, and again, just to bring it back to the Supreme Court and the confirmation hearings.
	Conservative senators have not done to liberal, Democratic-appointed justices in the confirmation hearings what the liberal, Democrat senators have done to conservative, Republican-appointed justices.
	They just don't do it.
	One side is always ready and willing to fight.
	To assault and to attack, either verbally or physically or both.
	And the other side tries to stay above that fray.
	And I'm sorry, again, if they don't want to acknowledge this, but this is the reality of it.
	Some of these people who call themselves members of the party of tolerance are simply just the scum of the earth.
	They just are.
	These two girls?
	Just absolutely reprehensible and repugnant, and if it was done the other way, I guarantee you, you haven't heard about this story yet until I told you on the Dennis Prager Show.
	And I guarantee you, if a young male Biden hat wearer was assaulted by two Trump supporters, taking his hat and spitting on him and so on and so forth, it would be 24-7 coverage.
	CNN would just go crazy.
	MSNBC. And on down the line.
	You know it, and I know it.
	But it doesn't happen that way.
	So am I playing holier than thou on behalf of and on the part of conservatives?
	Yeah, I guess I am.
	It's not as much holy, it's just decency.
	It's not as much holier than thou, just reasonable and responsible.
	Reason and responsibility are something that the Democrats just simply do not practice, not on a wide scale, and they're certainly not practicing it right now in the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
	We're going to talk, coming up here in just a few minutes, we're going to talk with Congressman Jim Jordan.
	He is, of course, a ranking member of the...
	He's also on the House Judiciary Committee.
	We're going to get his thoughts on what he has seen so far in day one of these confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett.
	We're also going to talk to him about something that I mentioned in the first hour of the broadcast today that I haven't had a chance to follow up on.
	The extraordinary disappointment that I have, and I know Jim Jordan has, for Bill Barr and for John Durham for not getting anything done prior to this election.
	We'll talk to him about that next, right here on The Dennis Prager Show.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	Just a few minutes ago, let's remind everybody, Sebastian.
	So there's the Hunter Biden scandal, Ukraine.
	Hunter Biden's primary business partner, both at Burisma, the Ukrainian company, and many other things, including the China things, is a guy named Devin Archer.
	Back in 2018...
	Kerry was involved as well.
	Kerry's stepson?
	That was a third partner on some of the business ventures.
	Like Rosemont Seneca.
	Right.
	His name was Christopher Hines.
	He didn't have anything to do with Burisma, but he did have to do with some of the other ones.
	So tell us about this other partner.
	Davin Archer was the primary driving force on almost all of Hunter's big deals.
	The China deals, the Burisma deal, the Kazakhstan deal, the Russia deal, about the Russian oligarch.
	The one that Joe Biden claimed wasn't true, but it is.
	You mean the $3.5 million?
	And you know what it is?
	It's more than $3.5 million.
	According to the documents the FBI obtained in Devin Archer's criminal case, which we're going to talk about, it was $200 million that came in for Yelena Baterina.
	Well, she's a billionaire.
	She is, so $200 million is, you know, a little bit of money.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	And the FBI has known that.
	So, it's that case.
	Devin Archer, in 2018, was convicted of fraud in a case up in New York.
	And then, mysteriously, a few months After the jury verdict, the judge set aside only his verdict.
	The other men in the case were continued to be viewed as guilty.
	Only Devin Archer.
	Only Devin Archer was excised from the case and freed and guilty verdict overturned.
	The Justice Department appealed.
	The wheels of justice turned slow.
	But at 4 o'clock, just a few minutes ago, the Second District Court of Appeals in New York...
	Reinstated the guilty plea, saying the judge had no right to come up with their own theory of the case and throw out Devin Archer's conviction.
	So the prosecution said the judge can't just throw out a guilty verdict.
	Exactly.
	And more importantly, because I think this has some application to the Mike Flynn case, the judge was scolded for developing their own theory of the case.
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	subscribe on YouTube today trending now on the Mike Gallagher show you've got the Speaker of the house saying something that is so telling to me I
	I've had a number of people text and call me and say, this 25th Amendment crap that Pelosi's pulling, this stunt, it isn't for Trump, it's for Biden.
	As I think about it, and I'm listening to Nancy Pelosi's announcement, which we are just about to play for you.
	It's coming, I'm told.
	But this is just moments ago.
	Nancy Pelosi said, this is not about President Trump.
	He will face the judgment of the voters.
	But he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents.
	Future, you mean like Joe Biden if he wins?
	You know 59% of Americans polled by Rasmussen a couple of months ago don't think Joe Biden will complete a four-year term, right?
	You know in that same poll, 49% of Democrats don't think Joe Biden will complete a four-year term.
	Is Nancy Pelosi setting up?
	The 25th Amendment to remove Joe Biden so we have President Kamala Harris?
	You be the judge.
	You listen to what Nancy Pelosi said moments ago, announcing a bill on the 25th Amendment.
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	That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom.
	They are on the front lines.
	20 minutes past the top of the hour.
	Thanks so much for being with us on the Dennis Prager Show.
	We do continue now.
	Bob France live in Cleveland, Ohio, the ReliefFactor.com studios of AM 1420, The Answer.
	I want to stay in my home state now, and even though he's in Washington, D.C., welcome Ohio's fourth congressional district representative, Congressman Jim Jordan, to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Congressman, good afternoon, sir.
	I used to say good morning to you.
	Good afternoon.
	How are you?
	Good morning, normally.
	Good afternoon to you, Bob.
	Good to be right here.
	Well, Congressman, you are watching, I'm sure, with great interest as I am during the commercial breaks of the broadcast today, the confirmation hearings and the opening statements by some of the Democrats.
	I've got to tell you, I'm so disgusted with just the mindset that the Democrats have toward this nominee right out of the gate.
	I wonder if...
	You know, future appointees or nominees by Republican presidents, after seeing what has been done to Bork and to Thomas and to Alito and to Kavanaugh and not a Barrett, if they just may reject the nomination, say, thanks, but no thanks.
	I'm pretty good where I am.
	This is unbelievable.
	I hope not.
	I certainly hope not, because those are great jurists and great individuals who are nominated now on the court.
	Obviously, Mr. Bork didn't make it, but Amy Coney Barrett, that line of great intellect, who we want on the court, who, you know, She wants to follow the Constitution and adhere to the rule of law, and that's what makes the left mad, Bob, those two things.
	So I think she's a great pick, and I think she'll get confirmed.
	Can you tell me, Congressman, how appointing one person to replace one deceased person, in this case Ruth Bader Ginsburg, constitutes court packing?
	Because that's what Joe Biden is telling the media that this is.
	This is the Republicans packing the court.
	Yeah, he has said more ridiculous things.
	Court packing, everyone understood what it means, what it's always meant.
	That means you're going to add additional seats to the court to get your way and, frankly, turn the court into basically a super legislature, which is a dangerous thing for the court.
	And now he's saying, doing your constitutional duty, the president nominating someone for the opening on the court, and then the Senate advising and consent process, somehow that's court packing, which is just crazy.
	But they say all kinds of crazy.
	Kamala Harris today in her opening statement, Said that Amy Coney Barrett going on the court would somehow diminish and hurt what Ruth Bader Ginsburg was for.
	And I'm thinking, well, wait a minute.
	Wasn't it Ruth Bader Ginsburg who said you shouldn't pack the court?
	Looks to me like the Democrats are getting ready to do what Ruth Bader Ginsburg said you shouldn't do.
	She specifically said you should not pack the court and add the six seats that they're planning to do if they were to win.
	It's crazy.
	You know who else once said that you should not try to pack the court?
	President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate and the United States Congress a proposal to pack the court.
	It was totally within his right to do that.
	He violated no law.
	He was legalistically absolutely correct.
	But it was a bonehead idea.
	It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make.
	That was Joe Biden circa 1983. Quite a difference from Joe Biden today.
	Well, sir, don't the voters deserve to know?
	No, they don't.
	I'm not going to play his game.
	No, the voters do not deserve to know what I would do about court packing.
	Think about that.
	They don't.
	It's we the people who govern this union.
	We elect the people.
	It's we the people that started the Constitution.
	We don't deserve to know where a guy is on a fundamental question as he is running for.
	The highest office in the land.
	Now, that is scary.
	Now, contrast that with President Trump, who told us what he was going to do, and more than any politician in my lifetime has done exactly what he said he would do.
	Bob, he said he was going to cut taxes.
	Did it.
	Said he was going to reduce regulations.
	Did it.
	Said he was going to grow our economy.
	And he did.
	And now it's coming back even after the virus.
	Said he was going to build the wall, build the wall.
	Said he was going to get out of the Erandil, get out of the Erandil.
	Said he was going to put the embassy in Jerusalem, did it.
	Said he was going to do a new NAFTA agreement, did it.
	Said he was going to start to bring peace to the Middle East.
	It has started to do that.
	I mean, more than any, and a whole bunch of other things I can't remember.
	So the contrast, this ticks me off more than anything else.
	When a guy running for the top office will answer a fundamental question, and you contrast that with the other guy who has specifically said what he would do and then did it.
	What a contrast.
	That's why I think President Trump is going to win this thing, and I think, frankly, he's going to win it big.
	I mean, you know, everything you just said is on point.
	And what's really worth underscoring here is that Joe Biden isn't saying, I haven't decided yet.
	I'm not sure where I'm going to do with that yet.
	It's under consideration.
	He is saying, I know what I'm going to do, but you don't deserve to know.
	You elect me first, then I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
	He's not saying that he really hasn't made up his mind.
	He's literally just saying, I'm not telling you because you'll write about it.
	And I still don't understand that line.
	No, I'm right.
	He knows where he's at.
	We know where he's at.
	He just says, I ain't telling you.
	Just so there may be a little doubt.
	But, you know, deep down, if they would get power, what they would do, it is frightening to think about this.
	I think Americans understand it.
	And like I said, here in our state, Bob, you know, you get the same feel I do.
	I feel like the president's winning.
	It feels just as good, in some ways better than 16 when he won our state by eight and a half.
	And I think that same dynamic is going to play out across Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, these key battleground states.
	And I think he's going to get another four years as president.
	I want to pivot away from the election for a moment.
	You mentioned Kamala Harris' opening statement.
	One of the things that she said, in addition to, you know, about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy being undone by Amy Coney Barrett, she said that equal justice under the law is at stake.
	And I wanted to ask you about that, because...
	I think what many of us are feeling is that there is no such thing as equal justice under the law, because the Durham probe is not going to reveal any results before the election.
	We found that out on Friday from Attorney General Bill Barr as well.
	And Congressman, I mean, I understand they don't want to appear political, but why not?
	Because you know what?
	The victim of their crimes was President Donald Trump.
	And if Donald Trump is voted out, he'll never get any justice for those who...
	We victimized him.
	The only way to bring justice for the victim here is to bring this out now if you have the information.
	Yeah, and we now have all the information.
	We know now what was reached last week just kind of was the final little piece because we know Clinton made it up.
	Brennan's notes say she made it up.
	She made it up to hide the fact that she was destroying 30,000 emails.
	And then, of course, when the American people elected President Trump, they said, wow, we've got to cover up what we did.
	And we have to continue to try to undo the election.
	So they tried to grab to President Trump and undo the election, and they covered it up by getting rid of Michael Flynn.
	We know all that.
	It's all facts.
	All the facts are there.
	The only thing we had wrong, Bob, early on in this, those of us who were doing this, you were doing this, as someone in the media world and a handful of us in Congress, it was worse than we thought.
	So all the facts are out there.
	Now the question is, do you have what it takes to actually prosecute and indict people?
	And hold people accountable.
	And again, you and I can't do it.
	People in the media can't do it.
	People in Congress and the legislature, a branch of government can't do it.
	It has to come from the Justice Department.
	So we'll have to see.
	I certainly hope so.
	It seems to me that there's enough to indict and prosecute people to hold them accountable.
	And you're right.
	President Trump deserves justice.
	But as important, just as important is, if people aren't held to account for what they did, then us regular folks...
	It's dangerous to us long term because the message will be you can get away with this and then we're all in trouble going forward and that is not healthy for our great country.
	No, that is a thousand percent correct.
	It is about, you know, a precedent here.
	But it's just so utterly frustrating, again, considering the fact that all of the information you just mentioned is well known, and he will not do this now.
	And I love your optimism about President Trump winning.
	But if he doesn't, all of this is buried forever.
	Will Bill Barr is replaced?
	Possibly by Andrew Cuomo, of all people.
	And the Durham investigation is closed immediately upon day one in a Biden administration.
	That is what has this, you know, so...
	It's so frustrating.
	Congressman Jim Jordan, thank you so much for the time, sir.
	I appreciate it.
	God bless.
	You bet, Bob.
	Take care, brother.
	You too.
	Alright, you got it.
	Got it.
	We'll take a time out here and come right back with your phone calls on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	And let me ask you the obvious question.
	Maybe I'm naive.
	Why would any party wish to pack the Supreme Court?
	What would their objective be, Andy?
	Well, obviously, it's the same objective that FDR had when he was slapped down by his own party trying to do it back in the New Deal days.
	And that is in order to convert the tribunal from its last vestige as a judicial institution into a super legislature that basically imposes the political will of the party that packed it.
	So, obviously, it's completely political, and it would really destroy our system, Seb, because the framers constructed a system of sort of competitive institutions, so our liberty depends on No one actor getting an accumulation of too much power.
	And part of that is making the Supreme Court a judicial, apolitical institution.
	That's why it's insulated from the electoral process.
	If you turn it into a political institution and it's just a proxy of Congress that throws the whole system at a whack and you have nothing left to protect minority rights, which I would think...
	Would be of interest not only to people on the right, but to people on the left, because, you know, two can play this game, and it never has a happy end.
	Yeah, checks and balances would be over.
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	Only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all.
	So what the president is doing is once again patently false.
	It's morally wrong.
	And yes, it is racist.
	Larry, elder relief factor dot com studio, quite a statement to make.
	This is a woman, Michelle Obama, who recently accused white people of steel.
	Running.
	Y'all still running.
	She was complaining about white flight, which she witnessed when she was growing up in Chicago.
	I did a video about this and I said, you know, this whole business about white flight is a lot more complicated than what Michelle Obama is outlining.
	My neighborhood changed from one neighborhood that was all white to all black within a matter of years.
	And I'm not saying that a lot of people did not leave the neighborhood because of racism, because of fear of black people.
	But there were a whole lot of people who stayed in the neighborhood for a while, and then they realized a lot of their sons and daughters were being picked on and bullied by a lot of these black kids living in the neighborhood.
	There was even black flight as well.
	And Michelle Obama does not mention that.
	It's really curious, isn't it?
	She said when she was complaining about white flight, she said, quote, and I'm quoting her, y'all still running, close quote.
	Again, fascinating how people like Oprah Winfrey can just insult white people.
	Call them bigots.
	And then they still say that she's respectable and we just love her.
	And y'all still running.
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	Gilead Sciences, a U.S. company, has just announced that remdesivir will be available to any hospitalized patient in the U.S. and they expect to be able to satisfy global demand by the end of October.
	So the United States is leading the way, Mr. Secretary, on this pandemic.
	We've been working on multiple fronts to make sure that the entire world has access.
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	All right, I want to go to the phone calls.
	We're going to hit, oh, how about this?
	My own home base here, Cleveland, Ohio.
	That's Simca.
	On the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hi, Simca.
	It's Bob Franz sitting in.
	Go right ahead.
	Hi.
	Hello, Simca.
	So I'm so distressed that my fellow Jews, some of them, would say they won't vote for President Trump.
	And he's done so much for Israel and the Jewish people and for working people.
	And he's the best president.
	Well, Simca, you know, that's a...
	Yeah, I hear you.
	I heard you loud and clear.
	And Simca, you know what?
	That is a question that I have had with Jewish friends.
	A discussion, I should say, I've had with Jewish friends on more than one occasion.
	I'll never quite understand it.
	I can listen to Dennis Prager for hours and hours and hours, talk about it.
	Like I said, I can talk to friends, Jewish friends, about this as well.
	Why there continues to be a devotion to leftists among many of the Jewish population in the United States is a mystery.
	I just cannot quite wrap my head around it.
	I've read pieces of information given to me by Jewish friends about the origin of leftist Jews.
	And even when they are doing nothing for the Jewish community, even when they are propagated, the Democrat Party in many cases by anti-Semites, they continue to support leftist causes.
	And I've never quite understood why that is.
	But you're right.
	And I hope that what we are seeing in New York, for example, with Orthodox Jews being targeted by Mayor Bill de Blasio...
	Over, you know, coronavirus restrictions and trying to limit their ability to worship as they see fit.
	I'm hoping this is going to drive more of them to do what, you know, many African Americans have done in this country.
	Led by people like Candace Owens, among others, you know, with her Blexit movement.
	There's the walk away from the Democrat campaign, the Blexit movement, which is black exit of the Democrat Party.
	I am hopeful that there is going to be a stronger push toward the Jexit movement.
	Which is the Jewish exit from the Democrat Party.
	And President Trump, as you correctly pointed out, has done more for Israel and for Jews here in America and around the world, quite frankly, than any president in recent memory.
	Even if we just stop with what Jim Jordan mentioned, the recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, the moving of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, all of these things show a deep, profound respect for Jewish history, And for the Jewish culture.
	And yet still, many American Jews turn away from Donald Trump and to the leftists.
	I'll never quite understand it, but I do understand your frustration with it, and I'm glad you called.
	Thank you so much.
	Let me go to Sarasota, Florida, and Jim next on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Jim, thanks for waiting.
	You're on the air.
	Go right ahead.
	Hey, I love the show.
	You mentioned earlier about packing the court is another Biden gas.
	It's not.
	They are intentionally conflating this issue.
	Kamala repeated this very definition when she scolded Pence for interrupting him during the debates.
	They are confusing the uninformed voter by definition, or with intent.
	And by confusing them, you mean just refusing to reveal whether or not they would agree to pack the court?
	Well, changing the definition by saying that the right is packing the court and changing the definition of packing the court.
	Oh, okay.
	Got you.
	Got you.
	So, in other words, just kind of playing the people for fools, trying to convince the people that it is packing the court simply to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an election cycle.
	Okay, I got you.
	And you know what, Jim?
	You're probably right.
	Because the uninformed or the uneducated or the ignorant voter, the voter who just doesn't know the rules, may fall for that.
	That's a very good point, and they do prey upon that.
	We'll be right back.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus, there's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this, too.
	America is founded on white supremacy.
	These two sentences are not mere overheated emotion.
	They express an ideology called Critical Race Theory, or CRT, which argues that race is a social construct made by white people.
	Just as race was once used to enslave and terrorize, so it is used today to keep America unequal, unfair, and hostile to minorities.
	The Trump administration just took symbolic and courageous action against CRT. It issued a memo to federal agencies calling for the end of the government's CRT racial sensitivity trainings, terming them divisive anti-American propaganda.
	Does America have real issues in its past?
	Yes.
	Have we made real progress that we must guard carefully?
	Also yes.
	The White House has led well here.
	I'm Owen Strayer. - The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow. - Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. - I know you preparing public leaders for tomorrow. - Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. - I know you don't do politics, but on the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, Kamala Joe Biden wants to get back into it.
	It's as though the left wing in this country does not understand Iran.
	Do the people in Greece understand their threat to the east and the south of them?
	Do Americans not get what the Greeks get about Iran?
	No, I actually think most Americans get the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
	It may be that certain...
	American leaders don't understand it.
	No, the Greeks get it.
	I traveled on that same trip to Italy.
	The Europeans get it.
	Everyone understands the challenge.
	There's different approaches that different countries will take from time to time, but no one disputes.
	They are the largest state sponsor of terror in the world.
	They continue to work to build out their capacity to have enriched material.
	And that they foment trouble wherever they go.
	I think the entire world understands this challenge.
	We put additional sanctions on them yesterday, significant new sanctions that are on their major financial institutions of Iran.
	We will continue to pressure the regime to change its behavior.
	I think the Greeks get it.
	I think people throughout the Middle East get it.
	Certainly all the Gulf states understand the instability that Iran creates there.
	And I must say...
	They are very hopeful that the set of policies that this administration has taken in the Middle East that has delivered the Abraham Accords, an enormous advent for peace in the Middle East, that has put pressure on the regime in Iran and denied them all the money that they had running free under the JCPO. The Gulf states understand that this is a policy,
	And Israel understands that this is a policy that needs to continue.
	Let me ask you the obvious question.
	Maybe I'm naive.
	Why would any party wish to pack the Supreme Court?
	What would their objective be, Andy?
	Well, obviously, it's the same.
	Thank you.
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	We're going to go to Brooklyn.
	Brooklyn, New York.
	Harry, you are on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Bob France sitting in for Dennis.
	Go ahead, Harry.
	Thank you so much.
	I'm surprised that you were surprised that all those Jews vote for liberals and Democrats.
	You're talking about unaffiliated or foreign Jews.
	My opinion, they couldn't care less about anything Jewish or Judaism.
	They're totally unaffiliated.
	They have nothing to do with Jewishness.
	The only thing Jewish about them is that we're probably accidentally born to a Jewish mother.
	To prove it to you, the entire Orthodox community, the vast majority, they are pro-Trump, pro-Republican, and pro-Conservatives.
	You know, I have heard that very same explanation from a number of other people, including other Jews, that these are not true Jews in terms of being affiliated with the faith.
	They may have been born Jewish, you know, from an ethnicity standpoint, but they are not necessarily religiously Jewish, and they do not keep true to the tenets of the faith, and this is one of the reasons why they do what they do.
	Now, I'm not in a position to judge that, obviously, because I'm not, You know, I'm not Jewish and I'm not in their shoes, but I have heard many people say what you are saying right now, Harry, and that's got to be very frustrating to somebody who is a faithful Jew, as you point out, who actually try to live the faith.
	And if you're living the faith, quite frankly, it would be pretty hard to support some of the leftist policies that are put forth by the modern Democrat Party.
	Absolutely.
	The three basic hands of an Orthodox Jew...
	Is keeping the Sabbath, keeping the culture home, and Jewish family purity, which I will not get into it now, and the Reformed Jews keep nothing of that.
	They violate basic parts of the Torah, as did Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which I'm surprised the Jewish community was in the troll by her, but that's my opinion.
	Well, I'm glad to get your opinion, Harry, and I really appreciate that.
	Thanks so much for the phone call.
	I know Dennis can certainly speak with so much more authority on this than just about any Jew that I know.
	I mean, in addition to being a faithful Jew, he's just so brilliant.
	As his books constantly depict, his understanding of the faith is beyond that of anyone that I'm aware of.
	But I will just say that, yeah, as a non-Jew, I'm a Christian, I'm a Catholic.
	I look at the way that the Jewish vote goes.
	I look at and listen to people who proclaim themselves to be Jews, faithful Jews, keeping with the traditions of the faith that you just described.
	And it makes me wonder.
	But then again, and I don't want to turn this into a theological discussion.
	Because I'm not qualified to do that.
	I'm not a biblical scholar, nor am I a scholar of any other faith.
	But to be honest with you, Christians are the same way.
	There are Christians, particularly when it comes to evangelicals, evangelical Christians, who are voting for Joe Biden and proudly encouraging others to do it despite Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic National Committee's platform of being pro-choice all the way up through the third trimester of pregnancy.
	Killing babies who are viable to live outside the womb, even.
	I mean, that's how radical they are.
	That flies in the face of everything that the Christian church teaches.
	I mean, it's not even close.
	This is not a debatable issue.
	The Christian Church, and in particular the Catholic faith, are unapologetically and unabashedly pro-life.
	So how are so many Christians and Catholics willing to cast aside their own faith to vote for someone that absolutely opposes that extraordinarily important tenet, that tenet of their faith, of being pro-life, that all life is sacred?
	So it's not just a Jewish issue.
	It's a Christian issue.
	Maybe in some other cases as well, but I will tell you that, speaking as a Christian and as a Catholic, people who are, you know, and I don't want to violate a biblical principle that says, judge not lest ye be judged.
	I don't want to say they're in past judgment on anybody else for how they vote, but it does make me scratch my head and wonder, how can you call yourself a true practicing Catholic or Christian?
	And vote for someone who supports the slaughter of unborn, defenseless children.
	Catherine is in San Antonio, Texas, on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hi, Catherine.
	Go right ahead.
	Yes, you're a man after my own heart.
	What they're doing, it's called worldly in the New Testament, and keeping up with the Joneses.
	But this is what I was going to say.
	I get so mad, I think about getting even with the Democrats, the way they've treated the Supreme Court candidates in the past.
	And then I think, I'm not going down in that sewer where they are.
	They've been horrible.
	And talk about deplorable.
	I don't want to do the things they've done.
	And by the way, you can no more open your borders than you can your doors and windows.
	Let's see the Democrats taking some strangers in their homes.
	And then those of us who have a heart to do that, show us an example.
	That is very well said, Catherine.
	I appreciate that, and God bless you, and thank you for sharing that message.
	Yeah, they don't live the faith, do they?
	They don't live what they teach.
	They don't practice what they teach or preach.
	They don't walk the walk, if you will.
	You know, they talk about open borders, and everybody should be free to go where they want to go, and yet they have gated communities and locked doors and so on and so forth.
	You're 100% right about that.
	Not getting into the mud to wrestle with them.
	You're right.
	We are above that.
	And sometimes it's to our detriment.
	Sometimes the fact that we're not willing to fight in the same manner that they do and to treat their nominees and their appointees the way that they treat ours, sometimes it's to our detriment.
	But I do understand your point so much.
	much we'll be right back trending now on america first with sebastian burka just a few minutes ago let's remind everybody So there's the Hunter Biden scandal, Ukraine.
	Hunter Biden's primary business partner, both at Burisma, the Ukrainian company, and many other things, including the China things, is a guy named Devin Archer.
	Back in 2018. Kerry was involved as well.
	Kerry's stepson.
	That was a third partner on some of the business ventures.
	Like Rosemont Seneca.
	Right.
	His name was Christopher Hines.
	He didn't have anything to do with Brisma, but he did have to do with some of the other ones.
	So tell us about this other partner.
	Davin Archer was the primary driving force on almost all of Hunter's big deals, the China deals.
	The Burisma deal, the Kazakhstan deal, the Russia deal about the Russian oligarch, the one that Joe Biden claimed wasn't true, but it is.
	You mean the $3.5 million?
	And you know what it is?
	It's more than $3.5 million.
	According to the documents the FBI obtained in Devin Archer's criminal case, which we're going to talk about, it was $200 million that came in for Yelena Baturina.
	Well, she's a billionaire.
	She is, so $200 million is, you know, a little bit of money.
	And the FBI has known that.
	So it's that case.
	Devin Archer in 2018 was convicted of fraud in a case up in New York.
	And then mysteriously, a few months after the jury verdict, the judge set aside only his verdict.
	The other men in the case were continued to be viewed as guilty.
	Only Devin Archer.
	Only Devin Archer was excised from the case and freed and the guilty verdict overturned.
	The Justice Department appealed.
	The wheels of justice turned slow.
	But at 4 o'clock, just a few minutes ago, the Second District Court of Appeals in New York reinstated the guilty plea, saying the judge had no right to come up with her own theory of the case and throw out Devin Archer's convictions.
	So the prosecution said the judge can't just throw out a guilty verdict.
	Exactly.
	And more importantly, because I think this has some application to the Mike Flynn case, the judge was scolded for developing their own theory of the case.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	subscribe on YouTube today trending now on the Mike Delegre show you've got the speaker of the house saying something that is so telling to me
	I've had a number of people text and call me and say, this 25th Amendment crap that Pelosi's pulling, this stunt, it isn't for Trump, it's for Biden.
	As I think about it, and I'm listening to Nancy Pelosi's announcement, which we are just about to play for you.
	It's coming, I'm told.
	But this is just moments ago.
	Nancy Pelosi said, this is not about President Trump.
	He will face the judgment of the voters.
	But he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents.
	You mean like Joe Biden, if he wins?
	You know 59% of Americans polled by Rasmussen a couple of months ago don't think Joe Biden will complete a four-year term, right?
	Today with this story, for those not paying attention to professional sports, such as myself, I have led to the extent that I can with my limited platform.
	The walkaway campaign.
	You know the walkaway campaign from the Democrat Party, hashtag walkaway.
	For me, it's been walkaway from professional sports.
	And in particular, the WFL, that's the Woke Football League, and the NBA of BLM. They are primarily the two biggest offenders.
	And so I'm not paying attention to pro sports as long as they're going to contribute to the destruction of America by supporting a Marxist organization that believes in killing cops and creating violent confrontations in cities around America.
	So having said all of that, I am aware of the fact that the Los Angeles Lakers won a championship last night.
	And I'm also aware of the following.
	Police in California arrested 76 people outside the Staples Center on Monday night after a large crowd celebrating the Lakers championship turned, quote, violent and destructive.
	More than 1,000 Lakers fans gathered in downtown Los Angeles late Monday night to celebrate their victory.
	Things escalated when participants began throwing glass bottles and rocks at law enforcement.
	Eight police officers were injured.
	76 people were arrested.
	What started out as a largely peaceful celebration of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA championship turned into confrontational, violent, and destructive behavior last night, police said in a release.
	Unruly individuals mixed within the crowd began throwing bottles, rocks, and other projectiles at officers.
	That is when an unlawful assembly was declared and only a limited number of people complied and began to disperse.
	A larger portion of the group broke off and began vandalizing businesses while continuing to engage in violent behavior, some aimed at arresting officers.
	Again, eight officers injured as a result and received medical treatment.
	Now, why am I bringing that up to wrap up the show?
	Let me tell you why I'm bringing that up.
	A riot broke out over a basketball game.
	Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
	A riot broke out over a basketball game.
	So if anyone still believes that the rioting that is going on around the country in big cities...
	Is in any way associated whatsoever with righteous indignation over police brutality or racial equality?
	I hope this wakes your sorry behind up.
	What these people are looking for is any excuse to riot.
	That's the mindset of these people.
	It is not about righteous indignation.
	It's not about George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or anything else.
	Any excuse to riot, including a basketball game.
	You keep that in mind and keep yourself awakened.
	And that's different than being woke.
	Thanks so much for letting me be a part of your day today.
	Dennis is back tomorrow.
	We'll see you.

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