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Feb. 12, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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Thank you.
And a good Friday to you, ladies and gentlemen.
The speed of weeks is a phenomenon of life that I often comment on.
Days last the way they should feel.
But weeks?
Amazing.
Well, the Trump lawyers are presenting the defense, so let's hear what they have to say.
President George Luch, this has been aggressively disproven by the plain text of the remarks.
The President devoted nearly his entire speech to an extended discussion of how legislators should vote on the question at hand.
Instead of expressing a desire that the joint session be prevented from conducting its business, the entire premise of his remarks was that the democratic process would and should play out according to the letter of the law.
Including both the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act.
In the conclusion of his remarks, he then laid out a series of legislative steps that should be taken to improve democratic accountability going forward, such as passing universal voter ID legislation, banning ballot harvesting, requiring proof of citizenship to vote, And turning out strong in the next primaries.
These are not the words of someone inciting a violent insurrection.
Not only President Trump's speech on January 6th, but indeed his entire challenge to the election results was squarely focused on how the proper civic process could address any concerns through the established legal and constitutional system.
The president brought his case before state and federal courts, the US Supreme Court, the state legislatures, the Electoral College, and ultimately the US Congress.
In the past, numerous other candidates for president have used many of the same processes to pursue their own election challenges.
As recently as 2016, the Clinton campaign brought multiple post-election court cases, demanded recounts, and ridiculously declared the election stolen by Russia.
Many Democrats even attempted to persuade the Electoral College delegates to overturn the 2016 results.
House Manager Raskin objected.
to the certification of President Trump's victory four years ago along with many of his colleagues.
You'll remember it was Joe Biden who had to gavel them down.
I have an objection because 10 of the 29 electoral votes cast by Florida were cast By electors not lawfully certified.
I object to the votes from the state of Wisconsin, which should not be legally certified.
Mr. President, I object to the certificate from the state of Georgia on the grounds that the electoral votes were not...
No debate.
There's no debate.
I object to the certificate from the state of North Carolina.
I object to the 15 votes from the state of North Carolina.
I object.
I object to the certificate from the state of Alabama.
The electors were not lawfully certified.
Is it signed by a senator?
Not as of yet.
In that case, the objection cannot be entertained.
The objection cannot be entertained.
The debate is not in order.
There is no debate in order.
Is it signed by a Senate?
There is no debate.
There is no debate in the joint session.
There is no debate.
Please come to order.
The objection cannot be received.
The United States Code prohibits debate in the joint session.
I do not wish to debate.
I wish to ask, is there one United States senator who will join me in this letter of objection?
There is no debate.
There is no debate.
The gentlewoman will suspend.
In 2000, the dispute over the outcome was taken all the way to the Supreme Court, which ultimately rendered a decision.
To litigate questions of election integrity within this system is not incitement to resurrection.
It is the democratic system working as the founders and lawmakers have designed.
To claim that the president in any way wished, desired, or encouraged lawless or violent behavior is a preposterous and monstrous lie.
The first two messages the President sent via Twitter once the incursion of the Capitol began were, stay peaceful and no violence because we are the party of law and order.
The gathering on January 6th was supposed to be a peaceful event.
Make no mistake about that.
And the overwhelming majority of those in attendance remained peaceful.
As everyone knows, the president had spoken at hundreds of large rallies across the country over the past five years.
There had never been any mob-like or riotous behaviors, and in fact, a significant portion of each event was devoted to celebrating the rule of law, protecting our Constitution, and honoring the men and women of law enforcement.
Contrast the president's repeated combinations of violence with the rhetoric from his opponents.
I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.
The vast majority of the protesters have been peaceful.
Republicans stand for law and order.
We stand for justice.
I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
Maybe there will be.
My administration will always stand against violence, mayhem, and disorder.
There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives.
I stand with the heroes of law enforcement.
And you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.
We will never defund our police.
Together, we will ensure that America is a nation of law and order.
When I was in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
I think you need to go back and punch him in the face.
I feel like punching him.
We just want law and order.
Everybody wants that.
I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
We want law and order.
We have to have law and order.
Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
We believe in safe streets, secure communities, and we believe in law and order.
Tragically, as we know now, on January 6th, a small group who came to engage in violent and menacing behavior a small group who came to engage in violent and menacing behavior hijacked the event for their
According to publicly available reporting, it is apparent that extremists of various different stripes and political persuasions pre-planned and premeditated an attack on the Capitol.
One of the first people arrested was the leader of Antifa.
Sadly, he was also among the first to be released.
From the beginning, the President has been clear.
The criminals who infiltrated the Capitol must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
They should be imprisoned for as long as the law allows.
The fact that the attacks were apparently premeditated, as alleged by the House managers, demonstrates the ludicrousness of the incitement allegation against the President.
You can't incite what was already going to happen.
Law enforcement officers at the scene conducted themselves heroically and courageously, and our country owes them an eternal debt.
But there must be a discussion of the decision by political leadership regarding force posture and security in advance of the event.
As many will recall, Last summer, the White House was faced with violent rioters night after night.
They repeatedly attacked Secret Service officers and at one point pierced a security wall culminating in the clearing of Lafayette Square.
Since that time, there has been a sustained negative narrative in the media regarding the necessity of those security measures on that night, even though they certainly prevented many calamities from occurring.
In the wake of the Capitol attack, it must be investigated whether the proper force posture was not initiated due to the political pressure stemming from the events at Lafayette Square.
We will return.
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Joe Biden gave a really nice speech on January the 20th talking about healing the nation and unity and appears to be doing none of that during his early time in office.
What do you think is the biggest flaw in the $1.9 trillion proposal, Senator?
Well, it's just not necessary.
Only about 20% of the money that we appropriated in December has even been spent, Hugh.
And you can't tell me that a $15 minimum wage is part of a COVID-19 relief package.
And it's not as if the economy really needs more stimulus, because we're growing at a rate of about 4% a year.
Pretty good clip.
In other words, what we've done before has helped, and the American economy, as resilient as it is, is coming back.
But we do need targeted relief.
We need to deploy the vaccine to make sure we get as many shots in arms as we possibly can.
And we need to get kids safely back to school.
And, of course, we're all watching the battle between the teachers' unions and parents about what's happening to our children, which is really tragic.
Now, there is also the problem that of the, I believe, total $5 trillion at the end of the Biden...
It might be more.
None of that money will have gone to defense, Senator Cornyn.
So we will have done the most incredible thing ever.
We will have increased the debt to $28 or $29 trillion and we will not have bought a bullet.
Am I right about that?
Yes, you are.
Yes, you are.
This is nothing to do with national security or defense.
And it's all about domestic spending and spending money we don't have, as you point out.
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The impeachment trial will proceed.
Dun, dun, dun.
Big vote yesterday.
That's one headline in USA Today.
Huge font.
Trial.
To proceed.
Chilling video.
Managers open by reviving riot.
And then the vote was taken.
56-44.
Six Republicans joined with the Democrats in claiming that this show trial, this snap impeachment, is constitutional.
Bill Cassidy, for some reason, out of...
The clear blue.
Last week, he's on TV saying, oh, it's a show trial.
Doesn't mean anything.
It's unconstitutional.
But because he didn't like the performance of the president's lawyers yesterday, somehow he decided to vote suddenly that it was constitutional.
But then again, that brings you to six Republicans, which means you're far short.
From the 17 Republican threshold to get a conviction, they've given away the ending.
The vote yesterday sort of confirms that Trump will be acquitted, which will lead to the former president correctly claiming he's been vindicated.
Certainly vindicated from an impeachment, you know, Claim that he incited an insurrection.
I don't know how many times, how many places you can play this.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
So the Democrats claim that Trump saying, go peacefully, let your voice be heard, or make your voice heard peacefully, incites a riot and an insurrection.
Great.
Good luck with that.
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All right, we're going to go back.
Dennis Prager to the defense.
I want you to know he is eviscerating the Democrats.
I mean, eviscerating.
A man claiming to be inspired by the junior senator from Vermont came down here to Washington, D.C. to watch a softball game and kill as many senators and congressmen as he could.
It cannot be forgotten that President Trump did not blame the junior senator.
The senior senator from Maine has had her house surrounded by angry mobs of protesters.
When that happened and unnerved her, one of the house managers, I forget which one, tweeted, cry me a river.
Under the standards of the House impeachment article, each of these individuals should be retroactively censored, expelled, punished, or impeached for inciting violence by their supporters.
Great one.
Thank you.
Unlike the left, President Trump has been entirely consistent in his opposition to mob violence.
He opposes it in all forms.
In all places.
Just as he's been consistent that the National Guard should be deployed to protect American communities wherever protection is needed.
For Democrats, they have clearly demonstrated that their opposition to mobs and their view of using the National Guard depends upon the mob's political views.
Not only is this impeachment case preposterously wrong on the facts, no matter how much heat and emotion is injected by the political opposition, it is also plainly unconstitutional.
In effect, Congress would be claiming that the right to disqualify a private citizen, no longer a government official, from running for public office This would transform the solemn impeachment process into a mechanism for asserting congressional control over which private citizens are and are not allowed to run for president.
In short, this unprecedented effort is not about Democrats opposing political violence.
It is about Democrats trying to disqualify their political opposition.
It is constitutional cancel culture.
History will record this shameful effort as a deliberate attempt by the Democrat Party to smear, censor, and cancel not just President Trump, but the 75 million Americans who voted for him.
Now is not the time for such a campaign of retribution.
It is the time for unity and healing and focusing on the interests of the nation as a whole.
We should all be seeking to cool temperatures, calm passions, rise above partisan lines.
The Senate should reject this divisive and unconstitutional effort and allow the nation to move forward.
Over the course of the next three hours or so, you will hear next from Mr. Schoen, who's going to talk about due process and a couple other points you'll be interested to hear.
I'll return with an analysis...
Of why the First Amendment must be properly applied here.
And then Mr. Castor will discuss the law as it applies to the speech of January 6th.
And then we'll be pleased to answer your questions.
Thank you.
Okay, that was the first lawyer.
Didn't do a good job the first time, but did a fine job today.
Just the comments of Democrats over the last four years justifying violence, and there is no comparable comment from the president, President Trump, that is.
Just that alone shows, I mean, hypocrisy doesn't quite do it.
And yet I get emails, and it's terrific for me to get emails from people who can't stand me.
It's very important to me to hear how their minds operate, to read how their minds operate, to be precise.
It's an insurrection.
So I just had in front of me the article from Wisconsin.
This took place in 2011. Nancy Pelosi praised unionists storming Wisconsin's state capitol.
Democrats were for occupying capitals before they were against it.
Yeah, that was quite something.
And they took over the place for months, the capitol, the state capitol.
She praised them.
She didn't call it an insurrection.
She praised them.
But they own the language, do you understand?
Because they own the media.
They're indistinguishable.
You would not know any possible difference between or among them.
LA Times, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, they rival one another.
It's a competition.
Who can be more extreme?
Who can pervert the news more effectively?
Abigail Schreier has some tweets out today about how Facebook, was it Facebook, funds USA Today fact checker?
The USA fact checker what?
Goes back to Facebook.
Goes back to Facebook.
And then Facebook quotes them.
Yes, that's right.
Abigail Schreier, is this the next lawyer?
Let's hear him.
Including impeachment requires due process under the law, which includes fact-finding and the establishment of a legitimate evidentiary record with an appropriate foundation.
Even last year's impeachment followed committee hearings and months of examination and investigation by the House.
Here, President Trump and his counsel were given no opportunity to review evidence or question its propriety.
The rush to judgment for a snap impeachment in this case was just one example of the denial of due process.
Another perhaps even more vitally significant example was the denial of any opportunity ever to test the integrity of the evidence offered against Donald J. Trump in a proceeding seeking to bar him from ever holding public office again And that seeks to disenfranchise some 75 million voters.
American voters.
On Wednesday this week, countless news outlets repeated the Democrat talking point about the power of never-before-seen footage.
All right, everybody.
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Thank you.
you Thank you.
So you're Donald Trump.
And it appears you lost the election.
But you're hanging by a thread.
There's a shot.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to give a speech.
An incendiary speech.
I'm going to make a whole bunch of my supporters go insane.
Go berserk.
I'll send them to the Capitol building.
They'll trash the place.
The Democrats will go, oh my goodness, I guess Donald Trump is really, really serious about believing the election was stolen.
Maybe we should take a look at this.
We take another look at it.
The evidence is overwhelming.
The election was stolen.
Let's have him stay there four more years.
Really?
Oh, I know what I'll do.
I'll send a whole bunch of my supporters.
I'll trash the place.
Put a lot of negative footage up there, and Americans are going to go, you know what?
If this man doesn't get four more years, he'll burn the whole country down, so let's keep him there!
Really?
You think that looked good for him?
You think that advanced his agenda?
You think having that little idiot with the Viking hat helped Donald Trump four more years down the road?
And the story came out, says the guy's sorry!
Said I should have been better dressed.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't want to joke about this.
It was very serious and very scary.
And people died.
People got injured.
And Donald Trump wanted that?
He was hoping it would happen?
Really?
That's how much you hate this guy?
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I will not be persuaded where Justice Story wasn't persuaded and where the framers weren't persuaded that they really meant this and they just left it out.
I mean, has anyone come up and approached you with an argument yet that is even remotely plausible other than political?
To interpret the Constitution, it's what they left out, not what they put in.
No, I mean, this is a made-up process.
This were the impeachment of a president, as you know, required the Chief Justice to preside.
And now we've got Senator Leahy, who will be the presiding officer.
Presumably, he'll still act as a juror.
Debbie Stabenow, the senator from Michigan, said, well, we're all victims.
And then I assume we're all witnesses, too.
Anglo-American jurisprudence turned on its head.
Well, I have played your quote today because I think it's important that a condemnation of a pseudo-constitutional process not be confused with applause for what happened on January 6th.
I believe the president was reckless that day.
But that doesn't change the Constitution.
And do your colleagues across the aisle acknowledge this at all?
No, this is a political process.
And, you know, Hamilton said as much in Federalist 65, as much as we try to analogize this to a legal proceeding in a court of law.
It's unique, but it's clear that this is part of a continuum.
A lot of the same impeachment managers served on the Judiciary Committee that tried President Trump a year ago.
And so this has just been a continuum ever since he was sworn into office.
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Hi, everybody. everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Thank you.
I'd like to remind you, we're going to Israel in October, taking a cruise in June.
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I'll have more to say later.
First, we return to the second lawyer, David Sheeran.
Asking a scene here at his desk, reviewing two tweets, side by side.
The image on his screen claims to show that President Trump had retweeted one of those tweets.
Now, members of the Senate, let's look closely at this screen, because obviously Manager Raskin considered it important enough that he invited the New York Times to watch him watching it.
Now, what's wrong with this image?
Actually, there are three things very wrong with it.
Look at the date on the very bottom of the screen, on Manager Raskin's computer screen, when we zoom in to the picture.
The date that appears is January 3rd, 2020, not 2021. Why is that date wrong?
Because this is not a real screenshot that he's working with.
This is a recreation of a tweet, and you got the date wrong when you manufactured this graphic.
You did not disclose that this is a manufactured graphic and not a real screenshot of a tweet.
Now, to be fair, the House managers caught this error before showing the image on the Senate floor.
So you never saw it when it was presented to you.
But that's not all.
They didn't fix this one.
Look at the blue checkmark next to the Twitter username of the account retweeted by the President.
It indicates that this is a verified account given the blue check by Twitter to indicate it is run by a public figure.
The problem?
The user's real account is not verified and has no blue check mark, as you can see.
Were you trying to make her account seem more significant?
Or were you just sloppy?
If we had due process of law in this case, we would know the truth.
But that's not all that's wrong with this one tweet.
House Manager Swalwell showed you this tweet this week, and he emphasized that this tweet reflected a call to arms.
He told you repeatedly that this was a promise to call in the cavalry for January 6th.
He expressly led you to believe that President Trump's supporter believed that the President wanted armed supporters at the January 6th speech.
Paramilitary groups, the cavalry, ready for physical combat.
The problem is, the actual text is exactly the opposite.
The tweeter promised to bring the Calvary, a public display of Christ's crucifixion, a central symbol of her Christian faith, with her, to the president's speech.
A symbol of faith, love, and peace.
They just never want to seem to read the text and believe what the text means.
You'll see this reported in the media last evening also.
Words matter, they told you.
But they selectively edited the president's words over and over again.
They manipulated video, time-shifting clips, and made it appear the president's words were playing to a crowd when they weren't.
Let's take a look.
After this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you.
We're going to walk down.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol.
Right here, we're going to walk down.
To the Capitol.
And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.
You have to show strength and you have to be strong.
We have come to demand that Congress Do the right thing.
And only count the electors who have been lawfully slated.
Lawfully slated.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
And we are going to walk down to the Capitol.
They showed you that part.
Why are we walking to the Capitol?
Well, they cut that off.
To cheer on some members of Congress, and not others, peacefully and patriotically.
The Supreme Court ruled in Brandenburg that there's a very clear standard for incitement.
In short, to paraphrase whether the speech was intended to provoke imminent lawless action, and was it likely to do so.
Go to the Capitol and cheer on some members of Congress, but not others.
They know it doesn't meet the standard for incitement, so they edited it down.
We heard a lot this week about fight like hell, but they cut off the video before they showed you the president's optimistic, patriotic words that followed immediately after.
We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.
Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun.
My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our generation, And for our beloved country, and I say this, despite all that's happened, we've been subjected to a gigantic fraud for a week.
Gigantic.
But when the media all echo it, it sounds realistic.
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The Biden administration announced in their first week that the U.S. is rejoining the World Health Organization.
But the WHO is a flawed group, one that has performed poorly while the world has struggled with COVID-19.
Early on, the group was far too deferential to China, even parroting Beijing's early claim that the virus could not be transmitted between humans.
Since then, an independent panel concluded that the WHO dithered in its response, waiting too long to declare an international emergency.
All the while, the WHO has continued to block Taiwan's participation because of political objections from the Chinese government, despite the fact that the world has much to learn from Taiwan's exceptional response to the virus.
Before rejoining the WHO, we should have demanded some accountability and reform from the group for the $400 million in taxpayer dollars we send to it each year.
It looks like we'll keep on writing blank checks to the WHO, which they are more than happy to keep cashing.
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The reason that I am having trouble with the argument is the American people just spoke and they just changed administrations.
So in the light most favorable to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here, their system works.
The people are smart enough, in the light most favorable to them, they're smart enough to pick a new administration if they don't like the old one.
And they just did.
And he's down there at Pennsylvania Avenue now.
If you were wondering, that's not the White House Legal Counsel.
Just in case you were wondering, that person, whether you say, oh, the American people, so wise they chose Joe Biden.
Allegedly, that's Bruce Castor, who, according to reports, works for the 45th President of the United States.
Why he spent time on that argument yesterday, your job...
It's not to praise the last election.
It's to deal with the charge of incitement to insurrection.
Now, I looked at this guy's bio.
He was a prosecutor in Pennsylvania, put some very bad people away, including murderers.
But what happened to him?
Again, from yesterday.
This is Bruce Castor talking about one of our founding fathers.
Video cut two.
Play cut.
Paraphrasing the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin, who as a Philadelphian, I feel as though I can do that because he's my founding father, too.
All right.
All right.
Just remember, the more they lie, the more they have to censor.
You don't censor opponents.
When you have a strong case, you welcome them, like I do.
You're a prominent leftist?
I'll give you an hour.
Let's go back to the defense.
I don't respect this president, and I will fight every day until he is impeached.
That is grounds to start impeachment proceedings.
Those are grounds to start impeachment.
Those are grounds to start impeachment proceedings.
Yes, I think that's grounds to start impeachment proceedings.
I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to call for the impeachment of the President of the United States of America.
May 2017. November 2017. So we're calling upon the House to get impeachment hearings immediately.
On the impeachment Donald Trump, would you vote yes?
I would vote yes.
I would vote to impeach.
Because we're going to go in there, we're going to impeach the mother...
But the fact is, I introduced articles of impeachment in July of 2017. If we don't impeach this president, he will get re-elected.
My oath requires me to be for impeachment, have an impeachment hearing.
He needs a scarlet eye on his chest.
Representatives should begin impeachment proceedings against this president.
It is time to bring impeachment charges against him.
Bring impeachment charges.
My personal view is that He richly deserves impeachment.
I'm here at an impeachment rally, and we are ready to impeach them!
Well, we can impeach him every day of the week for anything he does.
That same hatred and anger has led House managers to ignore their own words and actions and set a dangerous double standard.
The House managers spoke about rhetoric about a constant drumbeat of heated language.
Well as I'm sure everyone watching expected, we need to show you some of their own words.
I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
You've got to be ready to throw a punch.
You have to be ready to throw a punch.
Donald Trump, I think he needed to go back and punch him in the face.
I thought he should have punched him in the face.
I feel like punching him.
I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school.
If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
No, I wish we were in high school, I could take him behind the gym.
I will go and take Trump out tonight.
Take them out now.
When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.
Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
It's devastating.
I think it's devastating.
I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
Please, get up!
People will do what they do.
I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.
We're gonna go in there, we're gonna...
This is just a warning to you Trumpers.
Be careful.
Minnesota State Representative.
And for those of you who are soldiers, make them pay.
If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be?
Does one of us have to come out alive?
That's Kamala Harris.
And there's more.
I promise to fight.
Every single day.
One, I'm a fighter and I'm relentless.
But I'm a fighter and I'm relentless.
A fighter and I'm relentless.
I will fight like hell.
The way I see it now is that we pick ourselves up and we fight back.
That's what I think it's all about.
We stand up and we fight back.
We do not back down.
We do not compromise.
Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
You can either lie down, you can whimper, you can pull up You can decide to move to Canada.
Or you can stand your ground and fight back.
And that's what it's about.
We do fight back, but we are going to fight back.
We are not turning this country over to what Donald Trump has sold.
We are just not.
Look, people are upset and they're right to be upset.
Now we can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back.
I'm here to fight back.
I'm here to fight back because we will not forget.
We do not want to forget.
We will use that vision to make sure that we fight harder, we fight tougher, and we fight more passionately than ever.
We'll have a fight on our hands.
Fight hard for the changes Americans are demanding.
Get in the fight to winning the fight.
Fight fighting.
He's fighting.
Use every tool possible to fight for this change.
We'll fight.
We'll fight to fight fighting hard.
Serious about fighting and fight.
We've got to get our front foot and fight back.
Problems, we call them out and we...
I am fighting.
I am fighting.
Get in this fight!
Get in this fight!
And fighting, we all need to be in the fight.
We all need to stay in the fight.
We stay in this fight.
We fought back.
We fought back.
I am not afraid of a fight.
I am in this fight all the way!
You don't get what you don't fight for!
What is she thinking?
We are in this fight for our lives.
This is the fight of our lives.
But we are going to make sure that this fight does not end tonight.
This is a fight for our lives, the lives of our friends and family members and neighbors.
It is a fight, fight, and it is a fight that we're going to work to make sure...
But when the president said fight, it caused an insurrection.
It is a fight, and that's what this fight is for.
The ease with which the left lies is very depressing.
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We already know that tech companies were interfering in the 2020 election significantly.
Little did we know there was both private and public pressure to have the tech companies act as political referees to the benefit of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
The most interfered with Election in American history.
Let me say that again.
It was the most interfered with election in American history.
From the private interests to the tech interests to the changing of how we do voting in this country.
It was as if we have...
It was the first election in American history.
Because every election before it was done in completely different ways.
But these tech companies...
Have incredible influence over Congress.
They give millions of dollars through lobbying and direct contributions to be able to dictate the legislative agenda and the regulatory agenda.
Remember, President Donald Trump, as one of the last things he did as president, tried to get Section 230 removed as part of the National Defense Bill.
Congress wanted nothing to do with it.
Would have been a great time to hold these tech companies accountable.
In a bizarre and stunning turn of events, if Congress would have repealed Section 230, Facebook could have been sued for not monitoring the violence that these rioters were planning on Facebook.
Same with Parler.
They're both protected by Section 230.
So Congress is now using this as an opportunity to do the tech company's bidding to suffocate Parler.
Joe Biden gave a really nice speech on January the 20th talking about healing the nation and unity and appears to be doing none of that during his early time in office.
What do you think is the biggest flaw in the $1.9 trillion proposal, Senator?
Well, it's just not necessary.
Only about 20% of the money that we appropriated in December has even been spent, Hugh.
And you can't tell me that a $15 minimum wage is part of a COVID-19 relief package.
And it's not as if the economy really needs more stimulus because we're growing at a rate of about 4% a year.
Pretty good clip.
In other words, what we've done before has helped.
And the American economy, as resilient as it is, is coming back.
But we do need targeted relief.
We need to deploy the vaccine to make sure we get as many shots in arms as we possibly can.
And we need to get the kids safely back to school.
And, of course, we're all watching the battle between the teachers' unions and parents about what's happening to our children, which is really...
Okay, they're playing.
There's still the entire break.
It has been Democrats saying, let's fight.
You must fight.
You must fight in the street.
You must fight them.
The words that they claim...
Inspired a quote-unquote insurrection.
Never, never, never give up this fight.
I'm a citizen fighting for it.
It means not only fighting a leader who fought for progressive change, there's a lawyer who fought for people his whole life as well as other fights.
And I'm proud to have Tim in this fight with me.
And above all, it's time for America to get back up and once again fight.
We will fight!
When we must fight.
What kind of America are we fighting for?
We've been fighting, so we need to fight.
But we also need to fight.
Fight for an America.
I am going to wake up every day and fight hard.
I have been fighting.
We're gonna fight.
We are gonna fight.
We're gonna fight.
We're gonna fight.
And I will fight.
We're in the fight of our lives right now.
We fight like hell.
To fight.
To fight.
Fight against the Trump administration.
Democrats are standing up to fight.
We're in this fight in a We're eager to take on this fight.
Get in this fight and we'll fight it out.
I have taken on the fight.
As representatives for the people, as legislators here in the halls of Congress, our job is to fight.
Who has led us in this fight.
To fight for this.
This fight.
And every day I'm in the United States Senate.
I will fight.
And one of the things we do is fight, should fight.
Because my constituents send me here each and every day to fight.
We have been fighting this fight.
And we need to be side by side so we can succeed.
And so I hope that you will all join us in our fight.
And if we fight, and as the next governor of Georgia, I will never stop fighting.
We can show the old guard something new and we can fight.
My fight.
Those fights need to fight.
To fight an administration.
Requiring us to fight and fight.
We will.
Their fight.
And their fight.
And their fight.
The fight is a fight.
And so when we fight the fight that we are in...
Right.
But when the president said we have to fight, that leads to impeachment.
Get it?
I'm so curious what those of you who believe the president should be impeached for January 6th, what do you think when you hear every single leading Democrat?
Over and over say the exact same words that the president did.
Except that the president said, go peacefully.
Which they, of course, removed when they played the president's words.
The whole thing's a fraud.
But when you have the media of any society, you can say anything.
That is the rule of life.
He who owns the media does not have to tell the truth.
That's the issue.
issue.
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The American experiment is founded upon a presupposition, a prior commitment to an ordered liberty, an established order.
That means policies.
It means a covenant.
In our case, it means a constitution.
As of right now, the U.S. Constitution is the longest surviving written constitution in human history.
It's a remarkable document.
All of that came to the fore in violent events that interrupted the joint session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College.
At the end of the day, our constitutional order proved itself once again resilient.
But that doesn't take away any of the tragedy and the horror of what took place.
It was an enormous stress test on ordered liberty, a stress test brought on by the President of the United States.
We will never give up.
We will never concede.
It doesn't happen.
You don't concede when there's theft involved.
It's an opportunity for the right, the left, conservatives, liberals, all Americans to repudiate political violence and reaffirm, once again, our commitment to ordered liberty.
It's the American way.
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If you're an attorney, is there a job more important than this one?
I mean, is it more prestigious than to defend any president, any president, in a Senate impeachment trial?
Bruce Castor, again, video cut one, play cut.
House managers who spoke earlier were brilliant speakers.
And I made some notes and they'll hear about what I think about some of the things they said later when I'm closing the case.
But I thought they were brilliant speakers and I loved listening to them.
They're smart fellas.
Okay, I'm gonna get preachy now.
Don't ever, if you are in a setting, Whether it's a high school debate club or the most important trial of the century, the second impeachment of a president who happens to have left office, don't sing the praises of the other team.
How you love listening to them and how great they were.
Unless, can you guess?
Unless, you're back!
If you're going to crush them with your rhetoric, with your argument, with your evidence, with your style, with your tone, with your delivery, then you can do it.
Then you can risk it.
Even then, not advisable.
We already know that tech companies were interfering in the 2020 election significantly.
Little did we know there was both private and public pressure to have the tech companies act as political referees to the benefit of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
The most interfered with Election in American history.
Let me say that again.
It was the most interfered with election in American history.
From the private interests to the tech interests to the changing of how we do voting in this country.
It was as if we have...
It was the first election in American history.
Because every election before it was done in completely different ways.
But these tech companies...
Have incredible influence over Congress.
They give millions of dollars through lobbying and direct contributions to be able to dictate the legislative agenda and the regulatory agenda.
Remember, President Donald Trump, as one of the last things he did as president, tried to get Section 230 removed as part of the National Defense Bill.
Congress wanted nothing to do with it.
Would have been a great time to hold these tech companies accountable.
In a bizarre and stunning turn of events, if Congress would have repealed Section 230, Facebook could have been sued for not monitoring the violence that these rioters were planning on Facebook.
Same with Parler.
They're both protected by Section 230.
So Congress is now using this as an opportunity to do the tech company's bidding to suffocate Parler.
Joe Biden gave a really nice speech on January the 20th talking about healing the nation and unity and appears to be doing none of that during his early time in office.
What do you think is the biggest flaw in the $1.9 trillion proposal, Senator?
Well, it's just not necessary.
Only about 20% of the money that we appropriated in December has even been spent, Hugh.
And you can't tell me that a $15 minimum wage is part of a COVID-19 relief package.
And it's not as if the economy really needs more stimulus because we're growing at a rate of about 4% a year.
Pretty good clip.
In other words, what we've done before has helped.
And the American economy, as resilient as it is, is coming back.
But we do need targeted relief.
We need to deploy the vaccine to make sure we get as many shots in arms as we possibly can.
And we need to get kids safely back to school.
And, of course, we're all watching the battle between the teachers' unions and parents about what's happening to our children, which is really tragic.
Now, there is also the problem that of the, I believe, total $5 trillion at the end of the Biden rescue package, it might be more.
None of that money will have gone to defense, Senator Cornyn.
So we will have done the most incredible thing ever.
We will have increased the debt to $28 or $29 trillion, and we will not have bought a bullet.
Am I right about that?
Yes, you are.
Yes, you are.
This has nothing to do with national security or defense, and it's all about domestic spending and spending money we don't have, as you point out.
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The impeachment trial will proceed.
Big vote yesterday.
That's one headline in USA Today.
Huge font.
trial to proceed.
All right, everybody.
Welcome to the Happiness Hour.
We never cancel the Happiness Hour.
In the cancel culture we have, it's the one thing you can depend on.
It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour!
Yes it is.
My friends, we don't cancel it.
There is, of course, a defense of the president that's taking place in the U.S. Senate.
You can watch it anytime, I'm sure.
And it's worth watching, ultimately.
I won't get into the politics of it next hour.
I will.
Right now, I'm opening the lines for you to talk to me about the state of your state.
That's a good way of putting it.
The governors give state-of-state addresses.
What is the state of your state at this time?
I have talked on Happiness Hours now for the course of practically a year of lockdown.
Greatest mistake in human history.
Not greatest evil.
Greatest mistake.
Made that clear when I first mentioned this fact last, I guess, March or April.
I am stunned.
Kids have not been to school.
It's stunning.
We are governed by fools.
And frauds, and I hate saying it, it's not my vision of America.
What does it have to do with happiness?
That's the issue.
I have addressed that on a number of occasions on the Happiness Hour.
How does one manage in these difficult times?
And my answer is, not in order of importance, just as they come to my mind, kindred spirits in my life.
And fighting.
Those two enable me.
Not just that.
I also retreat, if you will, into my hobbies, my passions.
I've spent the whole lockdown actually finishing, which is a long time to finish something.
My commentary on the third book.
The third book of my commentary on the Bible.
And that is Deuteronomy, the fifth book.
Hardest of all the books to do.
Contains 200 laws.
There is no narrative.
There is no story.
The only story in the entire fifth book of the Torah, the five books of Moses, is Moses dying.
It's very touching because, which very few people know, you know who buries Moses?
God is truly one of the most touching representations of God in the entire Bible.
Old Testament for Jews, old and new for Christians.
It's quite a remarkable verse that God himself buries Moses.
Anyway, This is the issue here.
You know, I always begin by saying the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse.
We are living through that as the unhappy are taking over.
The task of the left in America is to make people unhappy.
And the way you do that...
Is by fostering ingratitude.
Ingratitude is the mother of unhappiness and ingratitude is the mother of evil.
Ungrateful people do a lot of harm.
Ungrateful people are all unhappy.
I am grateful for being an American.
That's it.
The division in this country can be summarized as between the grateful and the ungrateful.
You realize that?
That's the most bottom line distinction in the country.
Not one leftist is grateful for being an American, and every conservative is grateful for being an American.
There is no other 100% guarantor.
Not race, not gender, nothing.
Gratitude is the great Dividing line.
And I have a special disdain for ingrates, to be perfectly honest.
It's totally attached to the happiness hour because the ungrateful are not happy by definition.
They cannot be happy.
It's one of the ugliest of the human traits in gratitude.
Again, if I may revert to my Bible commentary.
The thing that really ticks off God about the Israelites in the wilderness and the desert is their ingratitude.
That they complain all the time.
My task in the Rational Bible, the name of my series of five books, is to make relevant these laws and stories of 3,000 years ago.
Can you think of a more relevant story than God being ticked off at complainers?
At ingrates?
It cracks me up.
Yes, that's what we have here.
Ingrates complainers.
They had it too good.
So, they're...
They're tearing down what is so good.
How are you doing?
How is your family doing?
You have kids or grandkids not in school?
How are they doing?
Have you found kindred spirits?
I've been advocating kindred spirits.
The entire lockdown, indeed my entire career, I don't know how one goes through life without it.
Yet there are a lot of people who don't have that.
And if they have the courage to tweet what they believe, or to put on Facebook what they believe, they lose friends that they thought were friends.
What is your experience in the happiness realm?
That is the subject of today's Happiness Hour.
You have to admit that I have never been quite as vindicated on my belief that the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse as right now.
That's the way, that's a rule of life.
I am amazed at my good fortune.
That's how I go through my life.
Quite amazed.
Because I know how bad things can be.
That's the reason that I worry about America.
I know how bad things can be.
And I know that when you tear down what is essentially good, you don't get anything better.
All right, everybody.
And let's see what you folks have to say.
Let's go to Sherry in Atlanta, Georgia.
The state that unfortunately gave us a bad situation.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi there.
Hello, Dennis.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that we're very happy here in Atlanta, my husband and I. We, of course, have been, you know, experiencing everything else that everyone has with us.
By the way, you had a lot of background noise.
Are you on the road?
We're in the car.
We're driving.
My husband's driving.
I hope you can hear me.
We're very happy.
I'm sorry.
We're very happy because when, like, the restaurants supposedly could not go in, we supported them by going out as much as possible and doing pickup.
And, of course, now we can go inside restaurants.
We're grateful we have a Republican governor that did not try to control every move.
And we're both still very happy.
Well, God bless you both.
And that's a big deal.
The rules that Californians accepted lying down, you can't even enter a restaurant for much of this past year.
You couldn't even dine outside for much of it.
No, no, no.
Inside was blocked for most of the year, nearly all.
Outside was blocked for about half the year, until just a few weeks ago.
It's all political.
Abundance of caution, AOC. Parler,
which is still not active, thanks to a three-pronged attack from the corporatist elite, Amazon, Apple, and Google, they knocked Parler off the face of the earth.
Parler is being blamed for not moderating their content ahead of the January 6th tragedy.
I saw some of the posts that were put on Parler.
Some of them were disgusting and gross.
But Parler is a startup company.
To put all the pressure on them to monitor everything that was put on their application is completely and totally unfair.
But Democrats now want to know their private conversations.
They are subpoenaing.
Is that a word?
Subpoenaing?
Okay.
It doesn't flow as nicely.
They're issuing subpoenas to Parler.
And they're putting a full court press on Parler.
They are even alleging that possibly Parler was bribing Trump because they wanted to give him a part of the company while he was president or after he was president they were having the conversation.
However, new information now shows that Facebook, not Parler, played the largest role in the Capitol Hill riot.
New data from the American Department of Justice shows that despite the media and big tech campaign against Parler, it was Facebook which served as the top rallying point for those storming the Capitol building on January 6th, Forbes reports.
This is The Post Millennial by Noah David Alter Toronto.
What's with these Republicans?
I would just give a dollar and a donut to figure out what's in the mind of somebody like Senator Bill Cassidy.
Here's cut five.
This is the same guy who was last week, just the other day, on with Meet the Press and Chuck Todd.
The president wasn't there.
He wasn't allowed counsel.
They didn't amass evidence.
In five hours, they kind of judged, and boom, he's impeached.
Now, I'm told that under the Watergate, under the Clinton impeachments, there were truckloads of information.
Here, it was a video.
There was no process.
I mean, it's almost like, you know, if it happened in the Soviet Union, you would have called it a show trial.
That's the guy.
That was last week.
That's the guy who yesterday voted with the Democrats to proceed with the trial because he didn't like Bruce Castor.
And listen, Bruce Castor did a terrible job.
President Trump was said to be very angry behind the scenes.
Fox News quotes sources as saying Trump was furious and beyond angry over his defense team's showing on day one of his second impeachment trial.
Despite his ultimate acquittal almost certain.
The sources who spent time with President Trump said he was particularly incensed with the effort thus far by his attorney Bruce Castor.
Do you get the feeling that the reason he hasn't had a strong showing by his lawyers is because no attorney wants to touch this thing?
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you you So you're Donald Trump and it appears you lost the election.
All right, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Happiness Hour.
Second hour every Friday.
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The company's been banned from Twitter?
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How you doing this season, this past year?
That's the subject of the happiness hour.
I normally offer some insights into happiness, but now I'm just reacting to your condition.
Lisa in Arvada.
California.
Excuse me, Colorado.
Hi.
Hi.
Yes, I wanted to just quickly say that we are so happy in the midst of all this craziness because our son, who's in fifth grade, he goes to a Catholic school and he has been in school since the beginning.
Our teachers have been fantastic.
They have really put themselves out and made sure that the priority has been to educate our kids in school.
They know and value how important it is that our kids are in school.
And I tell you, having my son going to a Catholic school has been the best decision I have ever made in my entire life.
I believe that.
I'm curious.
First of all, are you Catholic?
Yes.
Right.
The reason I ask is many non-Catholics send their kids to Catholic school.
Correct.
I want people to understand that that is available to people of all faiths and of no faith.
It's very important.
Yes, it is.
And if it's true to its mission, It is infinitely superior to any private or public school.
So, that's really, really good to hear.
So, is there a waiting list to get in?
Not our school.
Our school is rather small.
We've actually had trouble.
Our enrollment actually has gone down over the last year or two.
Oh, gosh.
We don't really know.
We are really trying our hardest to get the word out in the community.
What's the name of the school?
I'll help you get the word out.
What's the name of the school?
Yes, it's Shrine of St. Anne's Catholic School in Arvada, Colorado.
And we do have lots of students who are not Catholic that come to the school and actually have enrolled because the families know that they are...
In school.
Exactly.
I don't care what their reason is.
I don't care if they do it because they like the building.
I just care that they do it and get out of public schools and private schools that are ruining their children.
Exactly.
I'm sure they don't teach that America was founded in 1619 at your school.
No.
I'm sure our 8th graders are not being taught that.
You say they have been in session the entire year?
Yes, I mean, except for when COVID first hit and everyone sort of went remote.
And then we have been in.
They were able to organize and figure out how we could get our kids back in.
Yeah, it's been pretty amazing.
It really has been.
Any of your teachers die from COVID, contracted from students?
I know, it was a rhetorical question.
No, nobody has contracted.
The teachers in the regular schools have betrayed their profession.
They deserve contempt from the society.
The teachers' unions are morally, intellectually bankrupt.
They are psychopathological with regards to kids.
To think that teachers lie down supine before the despicable teachers' unions shows you how the left has corrupted the teaching profession.
I was raised that teachers were as valuable as parents.
That is the Jewish tradition.
That is how I was raised.
For me to tell you that I have contempt for most American teachers today...
Is a source of deep, deep sadness.
They have earned your contempt.
Not showing up to teach your children because they're cowards and ignoramuses with regard to COVID shows you the low level and low concern they have for kids.
Okay?
Just know that.
Don't let them get away with their cowardice and politicization of teaching.
They deserve your contempt.
They have mine.
How come the teachers in the Catholic school in Arvada can show up?
How come?
You know why?
Because they're people of faith, and they understand life better than the secular fools who teach your children, than the left-wing fools who teach your children, the left-wing liars who indoctrinate your children.
If this doesn't make the case for faith in this country, nothing will.
And probably nothing will.
You've been brainwashed into believing that the religious are the irrational, the secular are the rational.
Okay?
Here's a living example of the utter and total irrationality of the secular that teachers won't teach children because they think they'll drop dead of COVID. That is as irrational As any belief that has circulated in our society since the witch trials.
Okay?
Am I clear?
I like clarity.
Thank you, Lisa.
That was a good one.
Keith in Los Angeles, California.
Hello.
How you doing, Dennis?
Okay.
Dennis, I thank you so much for your clarity and also the fact that you are...
A man of faith.
And I thank you also for your Bible.
My wife and I love it.
Thank you.
And I'm very proud and happy of the fact that 1,400,000 plus people here in California have enough courage to recall our governor.
And I'm really grateful to God that we have people of faith in this state.
And we want to do everything we can to turn it around, Dennis.
And I believe that we do.
Courage is a great value.
And I really believe that God wants us to really look at that courage for all of us.
You're the best.
There you go.
There's a kindred spirit.
Where does he live, L.A.? You should visit my synagogue on Zoom.
And I'll visit your church on Zoom.
Or in person.
That's what I mean.
Kindred spirits bring happiness.
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you Thank you. you So you're Donald Trump.
And it appears you lost the election.
But you're hanging by a thread.
There's a shot.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to give a speech.
An incendiary speech.
I'm going to make a whole bunch of my supporters go insane.
Go berserk.
I'll send them to the...
Capitol building.
They'll trash the place.
The Democrats will go, oh my goodness, I guess Donald Trump is really, really serious about believing the election was stolen.
Maybe we should take a look at this.
We take another look at it.
The evidence is overwhelming.
The election was stolen.
Let's have him stay there four more years.
Really?
Oh, I know what I'll do.
I'll send a whole bunch of my supporters.
I'll trash the place.
Put a lot of negative footage up there, and Americans are going to go, you know what?
If this man doesn't get four more years, he'll burn the whole country down, so let's keep him there!
Really?
You think that looked good for him?
You think that advanced his agenda?
You think having that little idiot with the Viking hat helped Donald Trump four more years down the road?
And the story came out and says, the guy's sorry!
Said I should have been better dressed.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't want to joke about this.
It was very serious and very scary.
And people died.
People got injured.
And Donald Trump wanted that?
He was hoping it would happen?
Really?
That's how much you hate this guy?
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I will not be persuaded where Justice Story wasn't persuaded and where the framers weren't persuaded that they really meant this and they just left it out.
I mean, has anyone come up and approached you with an argument yet that is even remotely plausible other than political?
Well, that's a new way to...
To interpret the Constitution, it's what they left out, not what they put in.
No, I mean, this is a made-up process.
This were the impeachment of a president, as you know, required the Chief Justice to preside.
And now we've got Senator Leahy, who will be the presiding officer.
Presumably he'll still act as a juror.
Debbie Stabenow, the senator from Michigan, said, well, we're all victims.
And then I assume we're all witnesses, too.
This is a...
This is Anglo-American jurisprudence turned on its head.
Well, I have played your quote today because I think it's important that a condemnation of a pseudo-constitutional process not be confused with applause for what happened on January 6th.
I believe the president was reckless that day.
But that doesn't change the Constitution.
Do your colleagues across the aisle acknowledge this at all?
No, this is a political process.
And, you know, Hamilton said as much in Federalist 65, as much as we try to analogize this to a legal proceeding in a court of law.
It's unique, but it's clear that this is part of a continuum.
A lot of the same impeachment managers served on the Judiciary Committee that tried President Trump a year ago.
And so this has just been a continuum ever since he was sworn into office.
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In some ways the most difficult given the biggest deprivation of civil liberties in American history and of free speech.
There's been no parallel in American history.
So, how are you coping in terms of happiness is the issue.
And I'm fascinated to hear your responses.
Steve in Bonita Springs, Florida.
Hi, Dennis Prager.
Hi, Dennis.
Love your show and just love your work.
We appreciate you.
It means a lot to me.
Thank you.
I have a wife, a son, his family, four grandkids here close by.
We're living an open, free life.
It's just pandemic.
We've just gone along like normal.
But I have a single Jewish friend who lives in eastern Pennsylvania.
And in his words, this whole thing has been brutal.
Worst experience of his life.
His dad passed three years ago and his mom has Alzheimer's now.
She's in Florida and he has not been able to see her this entire time.
I talk to him periodically just to kind of give him some sanity because he's just beside himself.
He's beside himself because he can't see his mother?
And because of the lockdown.
He's just been sure his life is shut down.
I thought in Pennsylvania, because I know one of my sons lives there.
So, I thought in Pennsylvania, you can go to restaurants.
In fact, I'm sure of that.
Well, I mean, his problem is that he believes so much in the media, the hype.
Ah, that's what I was digging for.
Your friend, putting this mother aside, and I want to talk to you about that, but your friend is miserable because he's scared.
Exactly.
That's right.
Well, you know what?
If you read the New York Times and watch CNN, you deserve your fate.
I'm sorry, it sounds a little heartless, but I believe that people sow what they, or reap what they sow.
If that is the content of your life, then you will live a scared life.
It's a sick, scared life that CNN and the New York Times produce.
Absolutely.
I gave you an example all the time.
My wife is an elementary school teacher.
She's been in a school five days a week since the beginning of the year.
They've had no problem with COVID. Of course not.
Wait, wait, wait.
Tell me, what kind of school is this?
I missed that.
It's a public elementary school in Naples, Florida.
Oh, in Naples.
And why have they not closed?
Because of DeSantis?
Right.
Because they've got a good governor.
open things up she began here there was like in her grade level five teachers have kids in the classroom five days a week they had two online but since the first year everybody's come back then there's only been a couple occasions where kids would have to be quarantined some My son's in Florida.
My other son is in Florida, and his son goes to a religious Jewish school.
They've been open much of the time.
But they quarantine if a kid gets it.
That's exactly the same.
I know your state.
Why can't your friend visit his mother with Alzheimer's?
Because he's afraid to travel.
Oh, okay.
So, fine.
So, his mother produced a scaredy cat.
I don't say she deserves it.
Nobody deserves not to be visited by their child.
I don't know what to say.
I really don't.
If you don't have some real debilitating comorbidity and you won't visit your mother, I can't say that I have any sympathy for your pathological condition.
Maybe I should.
We'll be back.
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now on the Eric Metaxas show but if you have Republicans who themselves are unwilling to push back.
I mean, let's call them what they are.
They're cowards.
And the magic word there is primary.
Let Representative Glatzky know that if he doesn't stand up for Internet freedom, that you will find a candidate to run against him who will.
Inter-party competition.
Now, some have spoken of the need for a new political party.
Because they're so disgusted by the inside the beltway country club Republican sellouts.
That would be a tragic mistake.
I just wrote a piece for the spectator explaining why we don't need a new party.
There are a number of legal barriers to a new party because the laws regarding ballot access were written by Republicans and Democrats working together.
Your candidate will never get into the presidential debates.
As sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is not a commission, it's not appointed by the president, and it's most certainly not about debate.
If so, the Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates should have been in the last debate.
They were on the ballot in enough states to theoretically get 270 electoral votes.
Yet another obstacle to a new party.
The other problem you have is the lamest Republican in America.
The lamest Republican nominee begins with 35% of the vote.
The lamest Democrat nominee in America begins with somewhere between 38% and 40% of the vote.
And then you build from there.
Running a new party, you start at zero.
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This is Albert Moeller for townhall.com.
The American experiment is founded upon a presupposition, a prior commitment to an ordered liberty, an established order.
That means policies.
It means a covenant.
In our case, it means a constitution.
As of right now, the U.S. Constitution is the longest surviving written constitution in human history.
It's a remarkable document.
All of that came to the fore in violent events that interrupted the joint session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College.
At the end of the day, our constitutional order proved itself once again resilient.
But that doesn't take away any of the tragedy and the horror of what took place.
It was an enormous stress test on ordered liberty, a stress test brought on by the President of the United States.
We will never give up.
We will never concede.
It doesn't happen.
You don't concede when there's theft involved.
It's an opportunity for the right, the left, conservatives, liberals, all Americans to repudiate political violence and reaffirm, once again, our commitment to ordered liberty.
It's the American way.
I'm Albert Moeller.
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For an attorney, is there a job more important than this one?
I mean, is it more prestigious than to defend any president, any president, in a Senate impeachment trial?
Bruce Castor, again, video cut one, play cut.
House managers who spoke earlier were brilliant speakers.
And I made some notes and they'll hear about what I think about some of the things they said later when I'm closing the case.
But I thought they were brilliant speakers and I loved listening to them.
They're smart fellas.
Okay, I'm going to get preachy now.
Don't ever, if you are in a setting, whether it's a high school debate club or the most important tribe, or if you are in a setting, whether or if you are in a setting, whether it's a high school debate whether it's a high school debate club or
It's the happiness hour.
I never cancel it.
How are you handling this really awful time in American history with the suppression of speech unprecedented in American history, including the Civil War, World War I, World War II? No time has speech been censored as much, but of course the left has never been in charge.
So, it's co-equal.
Left and suppression of speech.
If you don't understand that, it's because you don't want to understand that.
It is not complex.
So, how are you handling it?
My answer, I have a lot of answers.
And that includes kindred spirits in your life.
It's one of the reasons that I so advocate.
Take a trip with me, either the cruise in June, the annual Prager Cruise, or the semi-annual, every other year, trip to Israel, which is taking place at the end of October.
Both banners are up at DennisPrager.com.
You want kindred spirits?
I will supply them to you.
It's good for your health.
Stress, tension, aggravation, they're life shorteners.
The other is you've got to do something.
You'll feel better when you do something.
Even sending out a very coherent and good article on your Facebook page.
You will lose friends, but it just tells you about the friends.
It's not a statement about anything else.
Okay, let's see what you're doing here.
Good call there, Steve, in the Naples area in Florida.
And Janine in Gilbert, Arizona.
Hello.
Hi, Dennis.
It is such an honor to speak with you, and I just wanted to share how grateful I am for my kids' school.
In Gilbert, Arizona, all three of my kids attend a private Christian school.
They've been in school, in person, since we started at the beginning of the school year.
They do not require them to wear masks.
The teachers don't wear masks.
And, you know, we've had our share of COVID issues, but our kids have been thriving and doing well, and I'm just so, so grateful for that.
You know, they've had the opportunity to pray for our country.
And they've all been healthy.
Sorry, I'm actually picking up my oldest daughter from high school right now.
It's a half day for them.
How many children did you say you have?
I have three.
Uh-huh.
And there's only one minor editing that I would do with regard to what you said, that the school has had COVID issues.
It's had COVID, but no issues.
Right, that's actually true.
Yeah.
I know.
That's why I did the editing.
We've had COVID cases.
Yep.
Yep, we've had COVID cases, and the kids, the teachers, everybody has been fine.
And also, we have, I am on the school board, we have a significant wait list for kids waiting to get in, larger than we've ever had.
And so much so that at our school board meeting the other night, we were talking about how do we expand and how do we grow with so many families desiring Private Christian education where their kids can actually attend in person and not have to wear masks.
The demand is so huge for that and for us the call is now how do we meet that demand to help all of these families?
How did you get away with the teacher and students not having to wear masks?
That I don't know.
I think just because we're a private school, we don't have to follow the rules.
That's great.
I totally agree with that.
Totally agree with it.
Your kids are lucky.
Masks.
Masks are a talisman.
Do you know what a talisman is?
A rabbit's foot is a talisman.
It's just, it's a...
It's a trinket that one believes has magical powers, like is ascribed to some gemstones.
The social price paid for Fauci's love of suppression is substantial.
Psychologically, morally, people don't act as nice when their face is covered.
Makes sense.
When you're anonymous, you don't act as nicely as when you wear a badge.
Hi, I'm Jeffrey Gordon.
Correct?
See people at a convention and they have a badge on with their name?
I'll bet you they are nicer.
Of course they are.
That's the way it is.
That's why people...
are often nicer in smaller towns because everybody knows everybody.
I think I'll bet people are nicer in Big Springs, Arkansas than in Manhattan.
It's a leap of faith.
I made up a city.
I have no idea if there's a Big Springs, Arkansas, by the way.
There's probably a Hot Springs.
I don't know if there's a Big Springs.
Ah, yes.
By the way, since it's the happiness hour, may I tell you something that is inimical to happiness?
Fear!
So, it's a little tough, I admit it.
When I tell you if you rely on the New York Times and CNN, you will be a scared human being.
Irrationally scared, I might add.
Not only will you be scared of...
Dying from COVID, but you will be scared of dying from climate change.
I can only say that you have earned your fears by relying on such sources for your understanding of the world.
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The reason that I am having trouble with the argument is the American people just spoke and they just changed administrations.
So in the light most favorable to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here, their system works.
The people are smart enough.
In the light most favorable to them, they're smart enough to pick a new administration if they don't like the old one.
And they just did.
And he's down there at Pennsylvania Avenue now.
If you were wondering, that's not the White House legal counsel.
Just in case you were wondering, that person, whether you say, oh, the American people are so wise they chose Joe Biden.
Allegedly, that's Bruce Castor, who, according to reports, Works for the 45th President of the United States.
Why he spent time on that argument yesterday?
Your job is not to praise the last election.
It's to deal with the charge of incitement to insurrection.
Now, I looked at this guy's bio.
He has a, you know, he was a prosecutor in Pennsylvania, put some very bad people away, including murderers.
But what happened to him?
Again, from yesterday, this is Bruce Castor talking about one of our founding fathers.
Video cut two.
Play cut.
Paraphrasing the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin, who, as a Philadelphian, I feel as though I can do that because he's my founding father, too.
He's my founding father.
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Parler, which is still not active, thanks to a three-pronged attack from the corporatist elite, Amazon, Apple, and Google, They knocked Parler off the face of the earth.
Parler is being blamed for not moderating their content ahead of the January 6th tragedy.
I saw some of the posts that were put on Parler.
Some of them were disgusting and gross.
But Parler is a startup company.
To put all the pressure on them, To monitor everything that was put on their application is completely and totally unfair.
But Democrats now want to know their private conversations.
They are subpoenaing.
Is that a word?
Subpoenaing?
Okay.
It doesn't flow as nicely.
They're issuing subpoenas to Parler.
And they're putting a full court press on Parler.
They are even alleging that possibly Parler was bribing Trump because they wanted to give him a part of the company while he was president or after he was president.
Dennis Prager here.
Happiness Hour final segment.
What's going on in your life?
And another insight that I have offered this hour that I've touched on but haven't emphasized I don't think in the past is you can't be afraid and happy.
A man who called up about his friend in Pennsylvania who won't even visit his mother with Alzheimer's because he's afraid to travel.
Actually, I feel pity for that man.
But when you get your news, quote-unquote, when you get your perception of the world, news is way overstating.
What is delivered by CNN or the New York Times?
When you get your perception of the world from CNN or the New York Times or their equivalents, then you have earned your fear.
So, I don't know whether to have contempt for your fear or pity for your fear.
I mean it.
I don't know.
I'm ambivalent.
Linda in Denver.
Hello, Linda.
Hi, it's Brenda, but that's okay.
Whoa, that was a bad eat.
Okay, I feel bad.
Wait a minute, I'm sorry.
No, it's okay.
I absolutely adore you.
You have caused me to have so much more wisdom and always getting people to listen to you.
But I'm calling just quickly to say that I live in a ridiculous state of Colorado where our daughter has passed over 100 executive orders that have crippled our economy.
That's right.
And our health department was going to tell you that I could not see my dying mother who had dementia.
I knew I only had a couple months more with them.
So I said, if the nurses can get by with only taking a temperature and wearing a stupid mask, then I'll have my temperature taken and wear a stupid mask.
I walked right by the front desk and told them they can call the police.
I don't care.
I love you.
That's my mother.
I love you, I love you, and I love you.
But we have to put our screener in the punishment room.
room.
I'm so sorry.
It hurts me more than it hurts our screener.
Thank you.
But Linda and Brenda, that's a boo-boo.
My friends, you know what God says to human beings more than anything else in the Hebrew Bible?
Al-Tira.
Do not be afraid.
Now call in on any subject under the sun.
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I read you.
I watch CNN so you don't have to.
And here's an exchange between Poppy Harlow, who's one of their hosts, and Douglas Brinkley, who is a left-wing historian.
Listen to this when they explain why the trial is necessary, even though everybody knows what the outcome is going to be.
Explain what you mean when you say that, you know, the importance of this, even if there is another acquittal, is creating a historical record for the future.
Absolutely everything.
I've been reminding people at the end of World War II in 1945 when Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, went to the death camps, the Holocaust camps of Europe, all the dead.
Okay.
He says, I've been reminding people that...
Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander at the end of the Second World War, went to the death camps.
And now when you hear a historian start out by talking about Nazis and death camps, you know it's not going to end well.
Immediately.
The first thing he did was write a letter to General George Marshall that said, don't document everything.
We need film footage.
We need photographs.
I want everything covered because people will claim it's a hoax and a conspiracy.
You hear this?
The reason we need to have the trial, says this historian, is because Allah, at the end of the Second World War, Dwight Eisenhower visited death camps and says, my goodness, we need to take pictures of this.
We need to get footage because someday somebody's going to say, this never happened.
And so what happened at the Capitol building on January 6th is similar to the Holocaust in the sense that some people later on are going to deny that it never happened.
Therefore, we have to have a trial.
What?
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This is Lon Heachan of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
The Biden administration announced in their first week that the U.S. is rejoining the World Health Organization.
But the WHO is a flawed group, one that has performed poorly while the world has struggled with COVID-19.
Early on, the group was far too deferential to China.
Even parroting Beijing's early claim that the virus could not be transmitted between humans.
Since then an independent panel concluded that the WHO dithered in its response, waiting too long to declare an international emergency.
All the while the WHO has continued to block Taiwan's participation because of political objections from the Chinese government, despite the fact that the world has much to learn from Taiwan's exceptional response to the virus.
Before rejoining the WHO, we should have demanded some accountability and reform from the group for the $400 million in taxpayer dollars we send to it each year.
It looks like we'll keep on writing blank checks to the WHO, which they are more than happy to keep cashing.
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The reason that I am having trouble with the argument is the American people just spoke and they just changed administrations.
So in the light most favorable to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here, their system works.
The people are smart enough.
In the light most favorable to them, they're smart enough to pick a new administration if they don't like the old one.
And they just did.
And he's down there at Pennsylvania Avenue now.
If you were wondering, that's not the White House legal counsel.
Just in case you were wondering, that person, whether you say, oh, the American people are so wise they chose Joe Biden.
Allegedly, that's Bruce Castor, who, according to reports, Works for the 45th president of the United States.
Why he spent time on that argument yesterday?
Your job is not to praise the last election.
It's to deal with the charge of incitement to insurrection.
Now, I looked at this guy's bio.
He has a, you know, he was a prosecutor in Pennsylvania, put some very bad people away, including murderers.
But what happened to him?
Again, from yesterday, this is Bruce Castor talking about one of our founding fathers.
Video cut two.
Play cut.
Paraphrasing the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin, who, as a Philadelphian, I feel as though I can do that because he's my founding father, too.
He's my founding father.
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Parler, which is still not active, thanks to a three-pronged attack from the corporatist elite, Amazon, Apple, and Google, They knocked Parler off the face of the earth.
Parler is being blamed for not moderating their content ahead of the January 6th tragedy.
I saw some of the posts that were put on Parler.
Some of them were disgusting and gross.
But Parler is a startup company.
To put all the pressure on them, To monitor everything that was put on their application is completely and totally unfair.
But Democrats now want to know their private conversations.
They are subpoenaing.
Is that a word?
Subpoenaing?
Okay.
It doesn't flow as nicely.
They are issuing subpoenas to Parler.
And they are putting a full court press on Parler.
They are even alleging that possibly Parler was bribing Trump because they wanted to give him a part of the company while he was president or after he was president they were having the conversation.
However, new information now shows that Facebook, not Parler, played the largest role in the Capitol Hill riot.
New data from the American Department of Justice shows that despite the media and big tech campaign against Parler, it was Facebook which served as the top rallying point for those storming the Capitol building on January the 6th, Forbes reports.
This is The Post Millennial by Noah David Alter, Toronto.
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. . . . . . . . .
Thank you.
Are you something in general?
Whatever's on your mind about you, about me, about life, about death, and of course about cigars, stereo equipment, audio equipment, it's now called, camera equipment, and what else?
What do I always do?
Classical music, that's right.
Cigars, did I mention that?
Enjoy the music.
So they did a good thing today.
That's what I prayed they would do.
But they didn't do it as much as I wanted.
I would have filled the Senate chamber with hours of video of the chaos, mayhem, destruction, and evil caused by left-wing thugs all year.
Or nearly all year of 2020. It would have put into context.
Their preoccupation with old videos never seen before about what the mob...
And it was.
There were people absolutely worthy of the title mob in the Capitol.
They disgraced the cause of conservatism in America.
Disgraced it.
Okay?
Can I be more severe?
Every side has fools.
God must love them.
He made a lot of them.
They teach your children.
And they provide your news.
So there are a lot of them.
And you learn to be a fool as you go through the education process in most cases.
I believe that literally.
I do not use hyperbole when I critique.
You learn to be a fool at America's high schools and colleges at this time.
There are exceptions.
There are exceptions.
So what?
Rules always have exceptions.
So, they did show some of that, but what they primarily showed is virtually every single major Democrat saying, gotta fight, gotta fight, gotta fight.
Everything that the president is accused of...
As fomenting the mob entering the Capitol on January 6th has been said over and over by Democrats, and much worse, and truly much worse.
But that means nothing.
The Democrats can say anything because the press works for the Democratic Party, just like Pravda worked for the Communist Party.
There is no difference.
Okay?
I can't believe I'm saying it, but I know Pravda, so I studied Russian to read it.
And there is no difference.
Pravda was to the Communist Party what the New York Times and CNN are to the Democratic Party.
They're just mouthpieces for the party.
The party rules, the party governs.
Those of you from the Soviet Union or Russia know exactly what I said, and that is their motto, though they don't use it.
All right, 1-8 Prager 776. First thing that struck me in my first visit to a communist country, I was 21 years old.
I got out of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moskva, in Moscow.
See a giant, giant billboard.
Not advertising Coca-Cola.
Advertising the happy worker.
Marching towards socialism.
The only happy workers you saw in the Soviet Union were on billboards.
That's the...
How shall we say?
It is like CNN and reality.
The billboards of the Soviet Union depicted reality in the Soviet Union like CNN depicts reality in America.
Yes, that's what we've come to.
And should you differ, they will do everything they can to shut you down and shut you up.
That there is not an outcry.
That the President of the United States, the former President, does not have a Twitter account?
That this is acceptable to half of this country?
Gives you an idea of how little the left values liberty.
Everybody who suppresses free speech has an excuse.
They're a danger.
They're a danger.
Oh, there's a lot for me to talk to you about, and of course I will next week, like the actress whom Disney got rid of.
I hope Disney reaps the whirlwind that they have sown.
The woman is accused of anti-Semitism by people who don't give a crap about Jews.
It's so fascinating.
There was not a scintilla of anti-Semitism in her tweet.
I will analyze it at length next week.
Having written a widely praised book on anti-Semitism in its third edition in 40 years, and having taught it at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, I have some acquaintance with the subject of anti-Semitism.
All righty, everybody.
Let us...
Let us take your calls here.
Sarah in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Hello, Sarah.
Hi, Mr. Prager.
How are you?
Well, I have two answers to that.
Really great and better than my country.
Well, I understand that.
I'm a long-time listener.
I had the honor of talking to you not too long ago, and I was so nervous that I forgot to tell you something that I thought you'd get a kick out of.
I am a personalized license site owner in the state of Michigan.
Go on.
Go on.
Wait, you're breaking up.
Wait a minute.
It sounds like we may have a repeat of the last time.
You forgot last time, and now technology is closing you down.
All I heard is you have a personalized Michigan license plate.
Then you broke up.
It is the letters E-L-R-P-B-F and the number 1. E-L-R-P-B-F? Yes.
One minute?
One minute?
Wait, wait.
Don't tell me.
Come on, guys.
Let's go.
We've got to come up with...
I love acronyms.
E-L-R-P-B-F. Every ladder rates professional biological foundations.
We're overthinking it.
I guess so.
What does it say for?
E pluribus unum.
That's EPU. Oh, so wait, wait.
E pluribus unum.
Wait, where's the BPF from?
You didn't understand my letters.
E-P-L-R-B-U-S. Wait, E-P-L-R-B-S-1.
Okay, so that's E pluribus unum 1. Is that correct?
Well, it's just E pluribus unum.
Yeah.
Oh, just one because you needed another digit.
Well, God bless you for doing that.
I mean it.
It took a while for me to figure that out.
Nevertheless, that's great.
By the way, just an invitation.
If we get to the 25 state mark, I will drive to the middle of the country and we will have a reunion of all those with PragerU license plates.
So quite a few of you already have taken up your state's personalized plate invitation and sent me a picture of your car.
I really should put them up.
It's very touching to me.
Anyway, we continue.
And Mike in Montgomery, Texas.
Hello, Mike.
Hi, Dennis.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
So, a while back you had mentioned that growing up your dad, or not growing up, but just in the life of your dad, that he only called you maybe a handful of times.
My dad called me, to the best of my knowledge, once.
In fact, when he did, I was in my mid-twenties, and when he did, I actually remember saying, are you okay?
I was worried.
I can understand that.
Let me just make clear, that generation of parents didn't do that.
They generally, especially fathers, would wait for the child to call.
Yes, right, right.
And so you haven't repeated that with your kids.
Well, no, it's a very interesting...
Stay on, because...
And you've raised a very interesting question in my own mind, because I speak to them frequently, but I would say that they engender the calls most of the time.
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Parler, which is still not active, thanks to a three-pronged attack from the corporatist elite, Amazon, Apple, and Google, they Amazon, Apple, and Google, they knocked Parler off the face of the earth.
Parler is being blamed for not moderating their content ahead of the January 6th tragedy.
I saw some of the posts that were put on Parler.
Some of them were disgusting and gross.
But Parler is a startup company.
To put all the pressure on them to monitor everything that was put on their application is completely and totally unfair.
But Democrats now want to know their private conversations.
They are subpoenaing.
Is that a word?
Subpoenaing?
Okay.
It doesn't flow as nicely.
They are issuing subpoenas to Parler.
And they are putting a full court press on Parler.
They are even alleging that possibly Parler was bribing Trump because they wanted to give him a part of the company while he was president or after he was president they were having the conversation.
However, new information now shows that Facebook, not Parler, played the largest role in the Capitol Hill riot.
New data from the American Department of Justice shows that despite the media and big tech campaign against Parler, it was Facebook which served as the top rallying point for those storming the Capitol building on January 6th, Forbes reports.
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I would just give a dollar and a donut to figure out what's in the mind of somebody like Senator Bill Cassidy.
Here's cut five.
This is the same guy who was last week, just the other day, on with Meet the Press and Chuck Todd.
The president wasn't there.
He wasn't allowed counsel.
They didn't amass evidence.
In five hours, they kind of judged, and boom, he's impeached.
Now, I'm told that under the Watergate, under the Clinton impeachments, there were truckloads of information.
Here, it was a video.
There was no process.
I mean, it's almost like, you know, if it happened in the Soviet Union, you would have called it a show trial.
That's the guy.
That was last week.
That's the guy who yesterday voted with the Democrats to proceed with the trial because he didn't like Bruce Castor.
And listen, Bruce Castor did a terrible job.
President Trump was said to be very angry behind the scenes.
Fox News quotes sources as saying Trump was furious and beyond angry over his defense team's showing on day one of his second impeachment trial.
Despite his ultimate acquittal almost certain.
The sources who spent time with President Trump said he was particularly incensed with the effort thus far by his attorney Bruce Castor.
Do you get the feeling that the reason he hasn't had a strong showing by his lawyers is because no attorney wants to touch this thing?
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So you're Donald Trump.
And it appears... ...and it appears... ...and it appears... ...and it appears... ...to the next one.
I'm going to go to the next one.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
That's right.
It was not a big miss.
By the way, I finally got it about the license plate.
E-P-L-R-B-S-1 is E Pluribus.
That's correct.
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My wife, who functions as my personal Sherlock Holmes.
In fact, on occasion, I will call her Shirley.
As a feminized Sherlock.
She does not respond with, don't call me Shirley, because in Airplane, it's a guy being called Shirley.
Hence that response.
Sean is currently amazed that I know the reference that he made, because he feels that my knowledge of movies is limited.
It's not a feeling.
That's a good response.
I like that.
Do you know?
God, that reminds me.
Do you know, if I am the butt of a joke, and it's funny, I really get a kick out of it.
It was like, I told this when it happened, and then it happened yesterday, and I don't remember it.
It's driving me crazy.
It happened again.
But I don't even mean butt of a joke.
That's the best.
I was the victim of a story.
And I'm going to get back to my caller about calling kids.
Adam Carolla, terrific, terrific human being and genius comic.
Insight into life.
Adam and I made No Safe Spaces, a movie which is so important that I feel self-conscious telling you about it, but you should see it.
It's nosafespaces.com.
Anyway, I was eating outside a restaurant.
In my little town where he also lives, he was taking a walk, saw me, came by and sat at the table.
And we spoke my entire meal.
He didn't eat anything.
At the end, he says, you know, and Adam does not gush.
He's not a gusher.
But he said, you know, my son really admires you.
I was very touched.
I think his son, by the way, is a terrific kid.
He said, would you say hello?
Let me call him up.
I said, of course.
I know him well.
I'm happy to say hello.
So basically the conversation goes like this, or went like this.
Adam says to his son, Sonny, guess who I'm having dinner with here?
One of your heroes.
And he goes, Shaquille O'Neal.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Not Shaquille O'Neal.
Then he names another sports figure.
No, no, no.
He's not in sports, Sonny.
But he's your hero.
And then he names somebody else.
And I, inside, am cracking up.
Feeling lousy.
Not for me.
For Adam.
On the fifth guess, when he sort of narrowed it down to sort of like the tallest Jew you know, his son got it.
So anyway, it's fun.
So here is Mike in Texas.
Alright, it's a very interesting question.
I should devote time to this.
About calling your kids.
So I... I text and call.
No, no.
I text and speak.
I want to be precise.
I text and speak regularly to both my sons.
They overwhelmingly do initiate.
So in your mind, am I repeating my father's mistake?
I don't think my father was mistaken for not calling me.
I think he was mistaken for not getting on the phone when I did call.
And my mother was the only one.
My mother would say, Mac, Dennis is on the phone.
And he'd go, great!
And that would be it.
So, I love talking to and texting my boys.
But they are the initiators.
And it's a very interesting question.
I'd like to know what...
Do the sons and daughters prefer?
Do you want your parents to call regularly?
Or would you like to be more likely the initiator?
What is your thinking on that?
That's a good question.
Well, based on what happens, I've got three adult kids, two boys and a girl, a daughter, and I do probably 95% of the initiation.
You do.
I do, yes.
Yes, that's interesting.
I would think they would prefer that, obviously, because they're not the ones that are initiating.
Right.
But they enjoy talking with me, and I think they enjoy the communication, but if I wasn't the main reach or outer...
Right, then you would talk much less frequently.
Well, it is.
It's an interesting question.
I don't know if there is a good rule for it.
I actually did like being the initiator in my parents' case.
Because the one who calls is calling when they have the time to speak, when they have the inclination, when life allows for it.
And to call...
Your kids is to obviously, I mean, it could be purely just, and usually is, an act of love.
But it also might not be their preferred way of having telephone dialogues with you.
I don't know the answer.
I think it's a legitimate question.
We will, I think I'm going to devote an hour to it sometime.
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So you're Donald Trump.
And it appears you lost the election.
But you're hanging by a thread.
There's a shot.
Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to give a speech, an incendiary speech.
I'm going to make a whole bunch of my supporters go insane, go berserk.
I'll send them to the Capitol building.
They'll trash the place.
The Democrats will go, oh my goodness, I guess Donald Trump is really, really serious about believing the election was stolen.
Maybe we should take a look at this.
We've taken another look at it.
The evidence is overwhelming.
The election was stolen.
Let's have him stay there four more years.
Really?
Oh, I know what I'll do.
I'll send a whole bunch of my supporters.
I'll trash the place, put a lot of negative footage up there, and Americans are going to go, you know what?
If this man doesn't get four more years, he'll burn the whole country down, so let's keep him there.
Really?
You think that looked good for him?
You think that advanced his agenda?
You think having that little idiot with the Viking hat helped Donald Trump four more years down the road?
And the story came out, says the guy's sorry.
Said I should have been better dressed.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't want to joke about this.
It was very serious and very scary.
And people died.
People got injured.
And Donald Trump wanted that?
He was hoping it would happen?
Really?
That's how much you hate this guy?
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I will not be persuaded where Justice Story wasn't persuaded and where the framers weren't persuaded that they really meant this and they just left it out.
I mean, has anyone come up and approached you with an argument yet that is even remotely plausible other than political?
Well, that's a new way to...
To interpret the Constitution, it's what they left out, not what they put in.
No, I mean, this is a made-up process.
This were the impeachment of a president, as you know, required the Chief Justice to preside.
And now we've got Senator Leahy, who will be the presiding officer.
Presumably he'll still act as a juror.
Debbie Stabenow, the senator from Michigan, said, well, we're all victims.
And then I assume we're all witnesses, too.
Anglo-American jurisprudence turned on its head.
Well, I have played your quote today because I think it's important that a condemnation of a pseudo-constitutional process not be confused with applause for what happened on January 6th.
I believe the president was reckless that day.
But that doesn't change the Constitution.
And do your colleagues across the aisle acknowledge this at all?
No, this is a political process.
And, you know, Hamilton said as much in Federalist 65, as much as we try to analogize this to a legal proceeding in a court of law.
It's unique, but it's clear that this is part of a continuum.
A lot of the same impeachment managers served on the Judiciary Committee that tried President Trump a year ago.
And so this has just been a continuum ever since he was sworn into office.
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And Carmen in Frankfurt, Kentucky.
Capital.
Hi.
Capital of Kentucky.
By the way, Carmen, you should know, this is a piece of trivia, but you'll find it amusing.
So I know all 50 capitals, and I often will just ask people, do you know the capitals of the states?
And a lot of people will say yes.
And I said, well, I will ask you the five toughest.
You get that, I know you know all 50. And Kentucky is right up there.
I'm not surprised.
Frankfurt's a tiny little town.
Exactly.
Okay, good to hear from you.
Well, it's great to talk to you.
I can hardly believe it, and I'm a little bit nervous.
Oh, that's sweet.
Thank you.
But I was so touched by the fireside chat and me talking about adoption yesterday.
We sent our daughter to college, and she came back for summer break.
Pregnant and so our family had to make a decision about how to deal with that situation and we decided to place along with my daughter she really didn't was terrified of thought of being a parent a mother and so we decided for the best for everyone to place a child for adoption and I can't tell you how that decision was viewed with such I don't even know the word.
Nobody could believe that we could do that.
What was their argument?
Well, kind of what you said.
It's like, how can you love someone so much that's not your own flesh and blood?
It was like, how can you love your flesh and blood?
Oh, so wait a minute.
Forgive me.
Their reaction was with regard to the prospective adoptive parents, not with putting the child up for adoption.
No, it was towards us.
Like, how could you put this child...
Because the child would not be loved like you would love it?
Well, it was more like, how could you do that?
How could you give up that pleasure?
Yeah, that's why I'm narrowing it down.
Of raising the child.
Wait, so how could you...
And we could have raised the child.
We had the means, so...
Okay, so their argument was, how could you give up the child you gave birth to?
So it was not how could people love a child that they adopt like a child that they give birth to.
Right.
Okay.
It's kind of the other side of the coin from what you were saying.
Right.
Okay.
That's why it was very important to me to understand what their issue was.
Okay.
So ask these people.
It would be easier for me, too, because I'm an outsider.
But I would ask, so I will put it in the first person.
I would ask them.
Do you think it better that a child have a loving father and mother or a loving mother alone?
That was exactly our reason.
And I did, you know, that's exactly what I said to those people.
We couldn't envision a future for this precious child where she would be with, you know, one set of grandparents and then have to travel to the other set of grandparents.
I'm sure she would have been loved and all that, and it's very typical and common these days.
Yeah, but children need more than love.
We've gone love-bombed in my lifetime.
It's the most overused word other than insurrection in current English usage.
So I obviously completely support you.
How old is your daughter?
She is now 23. And she's doing great.
By the way, the people that said this to you, what would they have said?
Are they religious people?
I'm asking because I would like to know how they would have reacted if you had confided, well, you know, she got pregnant at college, she had an abortion.
No, they were not religious people.
So good, so ask them that.
I'd be very curious.
Would you have had as negative a reaction if my daughter had an abortion?
Yeah, and no, I can tell you that.
That's amazing.
It's mystifying.
This gives you an idea of how sick this thinking has become.
Well, God bless you, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart, and God bless your daughter, and she's doing the right thing, in my opinion.
And that's the story.
And as most of you know, I have both an adopted and a biological child.
And my views on blood are well known.
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The reason that I am having trouble with the argument is the American people just spoke and they just changed administrations.
So in the light most favorable to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here, their system works.
The people are smart enough, in the light most favorable to them, they're smart enough to pick a new administration if they don't like the old one.
And they just did.
And he's down there, Pennsylvania Avenue now.
If you were wondering, that's not the White House Legal Counsel.
Just in case you were wondering, that person, whether you say, oh, the American people, so wise they chose Joe Biden.
Allegedly, that's Bruce Castor, who, according to reports, works for the 45th President of the United States.
Why he spent time on that argument yesterday, your job...
It's not to praise the last election.
It's to deal with the charge of incitement to insurrection.
Now, I looked at this guy's bio.
He was a prosecutor in Pennsylvania, put some very bad people away, including murderers.
But what happened to him?
Again, from yesterday.
This is Bruce Castor talking about one of our founding fathers.
Video cut 2. Pay cuts.
Paraphrasing the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin, who as a Philadelphian, I feel as though I can do that because he's my founding father too.
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All right, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
And, interesting, you never know what the subject will be.
You know what's interesting?
That for most of the last year, the calls on the third hour on Friday, the open hour of the week, were overwhelmingly about COVID lockdown.
And politics.
And today, it's about parents calling children.
It's about adoption.
About religion.
It's very, very interesting.
Well, that's actually, to a certain extent, a good sign.
Because we have to fight and we have to live a normal life.
All right, y'all.
Let's go to more of your calls.
And Dave in Torrance, California.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Mr. Prager, thank you for allowing me to speak with you.
Thank you for calling.
I was raised Catholic, and I would like to know if you could educate me in something that I've never been able to learn.
Every Easter, I watch the movie, I believe it's the greatest story ever told, where Moses parts the seas and leads the Jewish people to freedom.
But what I've never been able to learn, what occurred in history that caused the Jewish people to become enslaved to the pharaohs?
Well, the text itself just says that a new pharaoh arose.
This is after Joseph rose to...
The second most powerful figure in Egypt and saved Egypt from famine.
And a new king arose who did not know Joseph.
That's the great, brilliant phrase showing what happens when we have ingratitude to the past.
Anyway, the new pharaoh arose and said, uh-oh, the Hebrews are getting too numerous.
They will overwhelm us.
So we need to enslave them.
But it also ties into Genesis where God does say to Abraham, the first Jew as it were, says your descendants will be enslaved in Egypt.
So there are two references to reasons for why they were enslaved.
I see.
Okay?
If I may tell you, I'm coming over on Thursday to sign the petition, and I'll look for you.
Coming over?
What petition is that?
The recall Gavin Newsom petition.
Oh, well, I've signed it already.
Okay.
All right, thank you very much.
By the way, I do strongly commend to you my Bible commentary, The Rational Bible.
There are 2,400 reviews of it.
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They're very touching to me.
I explain the first five books of the Bible, which are the basis of everything else in the Old and New Testaments.
Everything stems from the five books of Moses, the Torah.
And I explain it all.
Whether you agree with the explanation or not is another issue, but I explain it all.
But I use reason.
It's why it's called the rational Bible.
All righty, everybody.
And let's see.
Hello in Denver.
Is this Barbie?
Yes, it is.
Okay, I have a read, but I won't have another punishment room.
Go ahead.
Well, thanks for talking to me.
I just had a comment, actually, on what I think was an ultimate issue from a couple of weeks ago.
When you had asked if it is too easy to get a divorce.
Oh, I don't think I... I think a caller might have asked that.
I... Anyway, go ahead.
I know I've discussed it, but go ahead.
Yeah, it was a subject on one of those days where you were talking about marriage and divorce and is it too simple to get one or too easy and should people break up that easily?
But I had been thinking about it ever since, thinking that I think it's too easy to get married.
Well, what obstacles would you like to place?
Well, I'm not really sure about that.
I don't know if there should be an obstacle, maybe just more education.
Well, the Catholic Church doesn't allow you to get married unless you've gone through a course.
A premarital course.
I think that's a brilliant idea.
I know a lot of rabbis have adopted the Catholic approach, and I agree with them, too.
I'm sure pastors have done similarly, but I don't know that for a fact.
But in secular life, that can't happen.
But those who want a clergyman to officiate at their wedding...
I often will have to go through a premarital course, and I think that's a good thing.
By the way, I have never said it's too easy to divorce, nor do I believe that most people do divorce too easily.
I just want to make that clear.
It may have well been a subject that came up, but it is not my position.
Of all, I know a lot of people who've divorced, as every one of you does, I am sure, and I don't know one who divorced too easily.
Most people go through hell.
When they divorce, and most people try desperately to stay together.
Not all, but most.
I put Hollywood aside.
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I want to talk to you about where we are in the culture and in the nation right now.
So talk to us.
What are you thinking?
As you know, I reaffirm my faith in Jesus Christ when I was going through this crucible of being tortured in a politically motivated prosecution by Robert Mueller.
Now, I know you missed this, Eric, along with everybody else in the country, but at midnight on Election Day, the busiest news day of the year, The Department of Justice released the last unredacted sections of the Mueller report regarding Roger J. Stone Jr. And you know what they said?
They never had any factual evidence whatsoever against me regarding the Russians, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, stolen emails, John Podesta, nothing.
They had nothing.
Now, who releases something at midnight?
So in other words, the big media outlets, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the people who posted headlines blaring that I was a Russian agent, none of them cover this moment.
It gets covered by The Guardian, and it gets covered by BuzzFeed, only because BuzzFeed brought the lawsuit.
Which required the Justice Department to finally unredact this information.
To take it to modern day terms, yes, I was in Washington.
I spoke on January 5th.
I actually never left my hotel room at all on January 6th.
I wasn't on the Ellipse.
I didn't march to the Capitol.
I wasn't at the Capitol.
I was as horrified as every American to see acts of violence there.
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And here's an exchange between Poppy Harlow, who's one of their hosts, and Douglas Brinkley, who is a left-wing historian.
Listen to this.
When they explain why the trial is necessary, even though everybody knows what the outcome is going to be.
Explain what you mean when you say that the importance of this, even if there is another acquittal, is creating a historical record for the future.
It's absolutely everything.
I've been reminding people at the end of World War II in 1945, when Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, went to the death camps, the Holocaust camps of Europe, all the dead.
Okay.
He says, I've been reminding people that Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander at the end of the Second World War, went to the death camps, and now when you hear a historian start out by talking about Nazis and death camps, you know it's not going to end well.
Immediately.
The first thing he did was write a letter to General George Marshall.
That said, don't document everything.
We need film footage.
We need photographs.
I want everything covered because people will claim it's a hoax and a conspiracy.
You hear this?
The reason we need to have the trial system...
Let me summarize your calls.
Do not, please do not, please, please, please, please do not hang up.
If you hang up, I lose your question or your point.
Alright, so let's see here.
Craig in Southfield, Michigan, because your father did not call you enough, how does that impact you?
It's a great topic for a show.
I have to do that.
As I raised earlier, It did not impact me, to be honest.
I did not expect him to call me, and he didn't.
My father was a great man, and he was not, shall we say, a gushing father.
And I'd rather have a great model.
Who isn't particularly emotional in his relationship to his child than a really loving father who is not a good model.
I have modeled myself, I've tried to, after his character, not his emotional life vis-a-vis his children.
It's an interesting question, what is most important from a parent?
That's how I get topics often, is from you folks.
All right, let's see what else here.
Les in Jacksonville, Florida, has gratitude for what he's doing, which is playing music.
Well, if you're getting to play music with others now, you can thank your great Governor DeSantis, because that's pretty rare in America today.
J.R. in Columbus says, I have a lot of wisdom that I give to his family.
Thank you, J.R. That is exactly why I broadcast, and I write, and I have PragerU, and I have fireside chats, and I do books and articles.
I, and that's right, and thank you, and go around speaking around the world.
So, you should know, From a very early age, I ached to gain wisdom.
And I knew from a very early age the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
And that at college and graduate school, I got knowledge but no wisdom.
My task was to figure out why there was no wisdom.
And I did figure it out.
And that is...
No God, no Bible, no wisdom.
Name me a secular institution that imparts wisdom.
Your college, your graduate school, your kids' high school.
I wish you a wonderful weekend.
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