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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time time lucking load. So Michael
very Show is on the air, looking.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
In the mic.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Week gotta feed in bed.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's you've the thing,
but I just gotta see.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm done, all right, will I'm mixing spots.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm beating a ready done. That's the true.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's neither drink nor drug and noo, I'm just done
all right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's a tad.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
No son still shining and close my eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Look biking every day. It is hard to put into words.
The importance of this moment is hard to fathom. Everything
that could have gone wrong that would have prevented us
(01:18):
from being at this moment. By the way, since a
number of you have emailed and asked, yes we are
live on you know it wasn't an option for you, remont,
don't get excited. Yes we are live on Martin Luther
King Junior Day. Yes we are live on Inauguration Day.
Yes we are live because that's what we do, and
(01:40):
we will be live all week long. For those of
you outside the greater Houston area, particularly outside of Texas,
there is a freeze in effect that has shut down
the schools. The public schools closed through Wednesday, right to
start back to school on Thursday. We have, for what
(02:04):
is for us, some pretty severe weather. And for those
of you listening in the Northeast or the north who
are thinking, well, you people are just overreacting, that may
be true. But you also have to realize that communities
that are not accustomed to what we would consider extreme
cool weather don't have the assets, don't have the infrastructure
(02:30):
in place to deal with those sorts of things. Besides,
it's supposed to snow in Houston, and that happens a
couple of times in my lifetime. And if you're a kid,
you've been waiting on a snow day forever. Give the
kids a snow day. They'll remember it for the rest
of their lives. For you folks that get snowfall every year,
(02:54):
whether you live in a ski town or just a
place that gets some snowfall, you can't understand what it's
like to wish you had snowfall this day. The Trump inauguration,
the culmination of the movement, the getting back up after
(03:15):
having been knocked down, not just for Donald Trump as
a nation, being shot in the head I must have
spent thirty minutes yesterday. I had some close up photos
that were sent to me by somebody in DC who
works in the government of Donald Trump's ear before and
(03:36):
after he was shot, and it mangled it pretty good.
You got to figure he has the best doctors repairing
it and rebuilding it, and it looks pretty clear. There's
some artificial elements to it to try to make it
look normal and not be a distraction. But that alone,
(03:57):
that alone, But that's only one of any number of things.
Three dozen criminal convictions, the raiding of his home in Florida,
dragging him to court in Atlanta, multiple cases Letitia James,
(04:19):
the Attorney General of the state of New York, and
fat Alvin in Manhattan, where the Department of Justice sent
their number three to be an assistant district attorney to
lead that case against him. You think of all the
things arrayed against him, and here we are, and here
(04:45):
we are. We made it to this moment. I will
assume you know, but on the odd chance you don't.
Joe Biden, on his way out the door last night,
issue the preemptive pardons for Mark Milly, Anthony Fauci, and
(05:06):
the January sixth Committee members. The thing he swore he
wouldn't do live on television he has now done, basically
admitting that the actions of those folks were criminal, which
they were. He was supposed to be the guy to
(05:28):
protect the norms because because Donald Trump would violate them,
and as Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt said, he is bulldozing
those norms with one foot out the door. But for now,
I focus on the good things. This is a glorious day.
(05:50):
This is a wonderful moment, not just for Donald Trump
in America as a nation and the world, but for
the people who worked so incredible hard to get him
in office, to culminate this movement, in this victory, to
take back our country, to defeat our enemies. This is
(06:13):
a victory so much bigger than I could have imagined
what was possible. It is truly a glorious moment, truly
an incredible moment to think we got here. How many
people The bummer about the inauguration needing to be moved
(06:37):
indoors was that so many people who can't afford a
ticket to one of the fancy of answer, those sorts
of things. This was their moment. But you know what,
that's going to be okay. Lord knows they've put up
with enough already. Lord knows they have had enough setbacks
(06:59):
and difficulty. They're going to figure this one out too.
I've heard from so many listeners who are in Washington,
d C. Reveling in this moment, and that's what it's about.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
This.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I have felt in elections past that it was a
great day for that family, for that person being sworn
in to be president. This feels like the nation one.
This feels like the world one. It feels like right
has been restored, Goodness is back. It's a glorious feeling.
(07:40):
I am rarely speechless, but as I sit here and
contemplate the odds that we would arrive at this moment
and how great they were, that's powerful.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
It is really.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Power. This is the Michael Berry Show, Locked and loaded,
(08:26):
Locked it and loaded, getting loading. President Trump will be
inaugurated as the forty seventh president, having already been the
forty fifth president, just before noon Eastern time, just before
(08:53):
eleven hour time. As he told the crowd last night,
it is inauguration Eve rally in DC at New The
curtain closes on four long years of American decline. And
we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity,
and pride.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes for four long years
of American decline, and we begin a brand new day
of American strength and prosperity, dignity, and pride.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Bring it all back, once and for all.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
We're going to end the reign of a failed and
corrupt political establishment in Washington, a failed administration. We're not
going to take it anymore. We're going to stop the
invasion of our borders.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We're going to reclaim our wealth. We're going to.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Unlock the liquid go oh, that's right under our feet,
liquid God. We're going to bring back law and order
to our cities. We're going to restore patriotism to our schools,
get radical left woke ideologies the hell out of our
(10:21):
militarian out of our government, and we are going to
great America great again.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Ronald Reagan vanquished Jimmy Carter, and the hostages were released.
History repeats itself. Fifty two hostages were released from Iran
as he was sworn in. Jimmy Carter's vice president, Walter Mondale,
known as Fritz, which is why they were known as Grits,
and Fritz ran against Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four.
(10:56):
Things were going well in this country, and the Reagan
campaign ed rollins, actually who would end up well? The
Reagan campaign ran an ad that is history in its influence.
They called it Prouder, Stronger, Better, but it came to
be known for the first line of the ad, It's
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morning again in America. So it's often referred to as
mourning in America, and it reminds me a lot of
what's going on right now. It's morning again in America.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Today, more men and women who will go to work
than ever before in our country's history. With interest rates
at about half the record highs of nineteen eighty, nearly
two thousand families today will buy new homes lower than
at any time in the past four years. This afternoon,
sixty five hundred young men and will be married, and
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with inflation of less than half of what it was
just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence
to the future. It's morning again in America, and under
the leadership of President rag our country is prouder and
stronger and better. Why would we ever want to return
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to where we were less than four short years.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Ago, Joe Biden exits the White House with his historic
all time lows of any president. CNN's Harry Inton tells
the story.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
I dare say historically awful. What am I talking about here, Well,
job approval at the end of the first term. I'm
just looking amongst those who lost or didn't run for reelection.
You don't have to be a mathematical genius to see
which is the lowest number on your screen right now
in an average appall's my average. Joe Biden's at thirty
eight percent. He's actually lower than Donald Trump was at
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the end of his first termer. At the end of
his first term, everyone was saying Donald Trump's political career
is over. Joe Biden's approved rings even lower than Trump's
was by just a point. He's lower than Jimmy Carter,
who was at forty four percent by the end of
his presidency, not even close to George H. W. Bush,
who was at fifty six percent. Saw a nice rebound.
But the bottom line is this, Joe Biden came in
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to end the Donald Trump reign in this country right
end Donald Trump's political career, and all that's ended up
happening is Joe Biden has managed to end up at
a lower approval rating at the end of his first
term than any president on record.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Jessica, and how.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Are people reflecting on his entire presidency at this moment.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Yeah, So, if you think this approval rating number is bad,
take a look at this particular number. All right, a
good or great president at the end of their terms. Well,
Barack Obama fifty two percent of Americans thought he was
a good or great president at the end of his
presidency twenty seventeen. Donald Trump very much behind Barack Obama
at thirty six percent. But look at how low Joe
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Biden is. My goodness, gracious, you can't really get lower
than twenty five percent, and are polarized there because the
bottom line is there's going to be a bunch of
Democrats who would say that Biden was a good or
great president no matter what he did. But yet it's
only a quarter of the country who believes that Joe
Biden was a good or great president. It is the
lowest number since ap nork started tracking this back at
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the end of Barack Obama's second term. Bottom line is,
Joe Biden goes out a very unpopular man. At the
end of a fifty plus year political career, and.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Those polls were taken before he pardoned the January sixth.
Committee members markin Milli and Anthony Fauci last night discuss
that on Inauguration Day with Michael Arry Joe to be
part of your love.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
America First includes all Ericans, regardless of their race, their gender,
or their sexual orientation.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Why don't weliver range these United States? We're the one too.
Indeed in work. Let the rest of the world help
us frchange and let's rebuild.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
The Mary first, pH is ridges fun far who's left?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Who has been cursed? There's things to be down all
over the world, but let's rebuild them Mary.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Our message to Black Americans tonight is this, we want
you what we want for every American. Safe neighborhoods, good jobs,
clean streets, a country where you are judged based on
the content of your character, not the color of your
skin or your political beliefs.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Who's don't you and watching that? And who's in charge
of it all? God bless the army, got less our liberty.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Jet on the risk of it all? Give posision of
back and away. Freedom is stuck in the first let's.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Get out of wreck, get back on the track, and
let's rebuild and marry.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The first.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Our message to gay Americans tonight is this, You're free
to marry who you want, if you want, without the
government standing in your way on small But that doesn't
mean that boys get to compete with girls in girls' sports,
or you do genital mutilation and chemical castration.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I don't children, Why don't deliver right these United States?
We're the ones who need it the most. You think
I'm blind to smoke boys, It ain't no dope. I
make twenty eight fifty years coast coast.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You get ahead in the United States with your own
hard work, your own commitment, your own dedication, and that
you know what You are free to speak your mind
at every step of the way.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That is the American dream.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That is what we are running too, and that is
what we get when we said Donald Trump back.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
To the White House. Today, President Trump will become only
the second president ever to be elected to non consecutive terms.
The first was Grover Cleveland. It was our twenty second
and twenty fourth president, serving from eighteen eighty five to
eighteen eighty nine, and then being defeated by Benjamin Harrison,
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only to win again eighteen ninety three to eighteen ninety seven.
He was the first Democrat to win the White House
after the Civil War. There are so many historic elements
to this victory. It's incredible. We went to break on
the news that Joe Biden has the lowest presidential approval
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rating of any president as they leave office. And that
was before this will be clip number one, Room one.
That was before he pardoned Fauci and others. Biden, this
just came across.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Just issues new pardons for doctor Anthony found You can
call these preemptive partons doctor Anthony Fauci, retired four star
General Mark Milly. This just happened moments ago. It also
includes the members of Congress and staff who served on
the Select Committee, and the US Capitol and DC Metropolitan
Police officers who testified before the Select Committee. This as
(18:40):
Trump prepares to take the oath of office in just
a few hours. So it doesn't well, I guess, yeah, yeah, commit, Look,
but what does this say. Mark Milly, who is champer
of the Joint Chiefs Staff under both Biden and Trump.
You know that what he's done in the past, You
know that he was calling China trying to try to
putting down President Drum.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
I mean, what are they afraid that Pete Heads is
going to see when he goes to the Fifth Department
and look at the fouls and data. There's been no
talk of going after Anthony Fauci h Y. It may
have been some senators, but the President himself has not
said he wants to pross.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, and here's the absolutely right and here's the thing.
You pardon somebody who's been convicted, right, they have been charged.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
This is this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
It will be interesting to read the exact language. And
because it just broke, we haven't seen it yet. But
remember when Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father, the
language was extraordinary because it essentially we know some things
happened during certain time periods, but this was a ten
year window. Anything he did during those ten years was
essentially it was to get out a free jail card.
(19:51):
Get out of jail free card. So it'll be interesting
to see the language, you know, the perimeters of what
time we're talking about and what he talks about, what
he has pardoned them from.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Brother, was it on that list four and a half hours.
I know that's going to get done. Yeah. Supreme Court
precedent is very clear that accepting a pardon is an
admission of guilt, which will mean that these individuals will
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not have Fifth Amendment privilege. The Fifth Amendment, of course,
is your right against self incrimination. If called to the stand,
you are not required to admit you committed a crime.
You can plead the Fifth or take the Fifth. You
(20:51):
will often hear it said on the advice of counsel,
I will plead the Fifth Amendment against self incrimination that
should I speak, I might potentially incriminate myself, and I
have a constitutional privilege, constitutional right that I do not
have to answer questions that would incriminate me. Now, you
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can take my Fifth Amendment pleading as an admission of guilt.
But in the case where you accept a presidential pardon,
you are admitting guilt. Supreme Court's been clear on this,
and therefore, when Fauci and Millie and Liz Cheney are
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dragged before Congress, they cannot take the Fifth if they're
dragged into any other court in any other case against
any number of other people. What he'd like to do
is issue a blanket pardon for anyone who could be
prosecuted related to anything he's ever been involved with, but
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lacks the specifice. These the biggies, the most disgusting of
them all. They saved for the last so they could
drop them as he's walking out the door, and hopefully
you wouldn't notice because you'd be in such a good
mood focused on Donald Trump's presidency. If they are subpoened
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and they lie, they can be charged for perjury. This
does not mean that you can never be charged for
a crime for the rest of your life. If they
are subpoened, they have to appear, and if at that
point they lie, then it's on. Then they're in trouble
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all over again for perjury. And in so many cases,
it's not the underlying crime that hangs someone up. It's
lying about it, it's covering it up. It's the perjury
that occurs. And these individuals will be dragged back. I
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feel certain of that because our appetite for justice has
not been sated. This pardon the lack. I think most people,
rather than like me, I want Faulcy punish. I think
most people just want to know what the hell happened. Now,
once they knew what the hell happened, I wanted to punish,
(23:25):
but I don't think we're just going to forgive and forget.
Too many people died as a result of his actions.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Michael Berry's not.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
God streak. During the twenty twenty election, they were throwing
everything they had at Trump. Remember you had George Floyd
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and cops are bad, government is bad Black people. You've
got to vote Democrat. They're all out to get you.
Plus you had COVID and Fauci was in on all that.
That's why he kept flip flopping his advice. They had
to figure out what to do so that we could
suspend all of the election integrity measures so that they
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would be in a position that they could cheat. Trump
was very, very popular, The economy was booming, the world
was relatively safe. America's place in the world was hadn't
been so high in a long time. Our economy was
on fire. People were happy. So they had to do
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a lot of things to win the election, including cheap
In order to cheat, they needed to shut down a
lot of the election conventions that were designed to ensure
safe elections so that they could cheat. It was all
part of a bigger place. Well. One of the things
(25:04):
that came out as part of the issue that Biden
was taking bribes from foreign governments, including the Ukrainians, which
is why they impeached Trump the first time, because he
had discovered it, which is why we kept giving Ukraine
all that money. And then they funneled it back to
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the Bidens through Hunter, who they put on a board
of Barisma, which was the state government run oil company. Well,
Hunter Biden had left not one, but it turns out
two laptops at the computer repair center, and those laptops
(25:46):
had on them information that was incriminating and undisputable. Is
it indisputable or you say undisputable indisputable, it's not disputable. Yes,
that information was handed over to the government, which chose
(26:12):
not to use it. Fortunately, that computer store owner knew
he had a ticking time Bob on his hands, so
he replicated, duplicated everything that was on that computer, and
he ended up handing it over to some other folks,
and it ended up through Rudy Gilani and some other folks.
But the New York Post started covering it. This was
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enough to swing the election. This was the proof we
needed the Bidens were taking money. Hunter was a straw man,
a bagman, a mule for bribe money. But wait, he
thought through that again. You go back to the experts,
never questioning experts. The experts say, the clot shot won't
(26:56):
kill you. It's great. The experts say that the cops
are all bad and George Floyd's a great guy. The
experts say that election was absolutely fair and you have
nothing to worry about. The experts say that January sixth
was an insurrection and it was a threat to democracy
and Trump can never be allowed to run again. The
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experts say, so, these are the people of integrity, These
are the people with credentials. You, you common peasant, You
don't know any better. You shouldn't even be questioning who
are you? You maga weirdo zelots. So what did they do?
They had fifty one intelligence officials. This was by partisan
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Republicans and Democrats from the Bush administration, from the Obama administration,
and they came forward and they said that computer is
not legitimate. That's not Hunter Biden's, that's the Russians interfering
in our election to get Donald Trump re elected because
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the Russians love him so much. Fifty one people signed
that that wasn't legitimate information on Hunter Biden's computer. How
would they know. They didn't look at the computer, they
didn't review it. They didn't need to. They were willing
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to put whatever credibility they had with the public based
on their titles. Most people weren't. Most of them weren't known.
But there were a few skull Kroft, a few that
were names. It was, oh man, he was a big deal.
He wasn't a bushet mystery.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Wow, he was.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
He was a big deal. He wouldn't lie. And if
we got fifty one of them, I mean, if it
was one guy, you might say, well they paid him all,
but fifty one of them. These are intelligence officials. These
are the people. These are the guys. They got badges.
These people know things. They go into a room that
you're not even allowed to go, you're not even allowed
to know about. These are the people. Oh Man, these guys.
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And there they were, and it was covered on the
front page of New York Times. Fifty one intelligence experts said, no, no,
this was lies. Well, it turns out later the computers
were in fact. Once the government decided to start prosecuting
Joe Biden, what's that Trump is walking up to Biden
(29:30):
right now? Is he speaking just the live news. Okay,
we'll go to we'll go to it coming up, But
listen to John Ratcliffe saying Trump is going to suspend
the security clearances of those fifty one intelligence officials. This
is not going to stop.
Speaker 11 (29:48):
In twenty twenty, when a chairman of an intelligence committee
misrepresented that a laptop owned by then candidate Biden's son
was somehow a Russian intelligence operation, and fifty one former
intelligence officials use the imprimiture of of ic authority to
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go along with that, I stood in the breach. I
stood alone and told the American people the truth about that.
So I think my record in terms of speaking truth
to power and defending the intelligence community and.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
It's and it's good work, is very clear. And what
I can assure you.
Speaker 11 (30:32):
Is those types of instances, if I'm in that position
as CIA director and have to do that again, as
uncomfortable as that can be to be accused, you know,
the truth will ultimately defend itself, and I think that
that intelligence will as well.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
US has left with your name, Thank you, and good night,
It's that time time time time lucking load. So Michael
very Show is on the air, looking.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
In the mic.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Week gotta feed in bed.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's you've the thing,
but I just gotta see.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I'm done, all right, will I'm mixing spots.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm beating a ready done. That's the true.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's neither drink nor drug and noo, I'm just done
all right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's a tad.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
No son still shining and close my eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's hard times in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Look biking every day. It is hard to put into words.
The importance of this moment is hard to fathom. Everything
that could have gone wrong that would have prevented us
(01:18):
from being at this moment. By the way, since a
number of you have emailed and asked, yes we are
live on you know it wasn't an option for you, remont,
don't get excited. Yes we are live on Martin Luther
King Junior Day. Yes we are live on Inauguration Day.
Yes we are live because that's what we do, and
(01:40):
we will be live all week long. For those of
you outside the greater Houston area, particularly outside of Texas,
there is a freeze in effect that has shut down
the schools. The public schools closed through Wednesday, right to
start back to school on Thursday. We have, for what
(02:04):
is for us, some pretty severe weather. And for those
of you listening in the Northeast or the north who
are thinking, well, you people are just overreacting, that may
be true. But you also have to realize that communities
that are not accustomed to what we would consider extreme
cool weather don't have the assets, don't have the infrastructure
(02:30):
in place to deal with those sorts of things. Besides,
it's supposed to snow in Houston, and that happens a
couple of times in my lifetime. And if you're a kid,
you've been waiting on a snow day forever. Give the
kids a snow day. They'll remember it for the rest
of their lives. For you folks that get snowfall every year,
(02:54):
whether you live in a ski town or just a
place that gets some snowfall, you can't understand what it's
like to wish you had snowfall this day. The Trump inauguration,
the culmination of the movement, the getting back up after
(03:15):
having been knocked down, not just for Donald Trump as
a nation, being shot in the head I must have
spent thirty minutes yesterday. I had some close up photos
that were sent to me by somebody in DC who
works in the government of Donald Trump's ear before and
(03:36):
after he was shot, and it mangled it pretty good.
You got to figure he has the best doctors repairing
it and rebuilding it, and it looks pretty clear. There's
some artificial elements to it to try to make it
look normal and not be a distraction. But that alone,
(03:57):
that alone, But that's only one of any number of things.
Three dozen criminal convictions, the raiding of his home in Florida,
dragging him to court in Atlanta, multiple cases Letitia James,
(04:19):
the Attorney General of the state of New York, and
fat Alvin in Manhattan, where the Department of Justice sent
their number three to be an assistant district attorney to
lead that case against him. You think of all the
things arrayed against him, and here we are, and here
(04:45):
we are. We made it to this moment. I will
assume you know, but on the odd chance you don't.
Joe Biden, on his way out the door last night,
issue the preemptive pardons for Mark Milly, Anthony Fauci, and
(05:06):
the January sixth Committee members. The thing he swore he
wouldn't do live on television he has now done, basically
admitting that the actions of those folks were criminal, which
they were. He was supposed to be the guy to
(05:28):
protect the norms because because Donald Trump would violate them,
and as Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt said, he is bulldozing
those norms with one foot out the door. But for now,
I focus on the good things. This is a glorious day.
(05:50):
This is a wonderful moment, not just for Donald Trump
in America as a nation and the world, but for
the people who worked so incredible hard to get him
in office, to culminate this movement, in this victory, to
take back our country, to defeat our enemies. This is
(06:13):
a victory so much bigger than I could have imagined
what was possible. It is truly a glorious moment, truly
an incredible moment to think we got here. How many
people The bummer about the inauguration needing to be moved
(06:37):
indoors was that so many people who can't afford a
ticket to one of the fancy of answer, those sorts
of things. This was their moment. But you know what,
that's going to be okay. Lord knows they've put up
with enough already. Lord knows they have had enough setbacks
(06:59):
and difficulty. They're going to figure this one out too.
I've heard from so many listeners who are in Washington,
d C. Reveling in this moment, and that's what it's about.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
This.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I have felt in elections past that it was a
great day for that family, for that person being sworn
in to be president. This feels like the nation one.
This feels like the world one. It feels like right
has been restored, Goodness is back. It's a glorious feeling.
(07:40):
I am rarely speechless, but as I sit here and
contemplate the odds that we would arrive at this moment
and how great they were, that's powerful.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
It is really.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Power. This is the Michael Berry Show, Locked and loaded,
(08:26):
Locked it and loaded, getting loading. President Trump will be
inaugurated as the forty seventh president, having already been the
forty fifth president, just before noon Eastern time, just before
(08:53):
eleven hour time. As he told the crowd last night,
it is inauguration Eve rally in DC at New The
curtain closes on four long years of American decline. And
we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity,
and pride.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes for four long years
of American decline, and we begin a brand new day
of American strength and prosperity, dignity, and pride.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Bring it all back, once and for all.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
We're going to end the reign of a failed and
corrupt political establishment in Washington, a failed administration. We're not
going to take it anymore. We're going to stop the
invasion of our borders.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
We're going to reclaim our wealth. We're going to.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Unlock the liquid go oh, that's right under our feet,
liquid God. We're going to bring back law and order
to our cities. We're going to restore patriotism to our schools,
get radical left woke ideologies the hell out of our
(10:21):
militarian out of our government, and we are going to
great America great again.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Ronald Reagan vanquished Jimmy Carter, and the hostages were released.
History repeats itself. Fifty two hostages were released from Iran
as he was sworn in. Jimmy Carter's vice president, Walter Mondale,
known as Fritz, which is why they were known as Grits,
and Fritz ran against Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four.
(10:56):
Things were going well in this country, and the Reagan
campaign ed rollins, actually who would end up well? The
Reagan campaign ran an ad that is history in its influence.
They called it Prouder, Stronger, Better, but it came to
be known for the first line of the ad, It's
(11:19):
morning again in America. So it's often referred to as
mourning in America, and it reminds me a lot of
what's going on right now. It's morning again in America.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Today, more men and women who will go to work
than ever before in our country's history. With interest rates
at about half the record highs of nineteen eighty, nearly
two thousand families today will buy new homes lower than
at any time in the past four years. This afternoon,
sixty five hundred young men and will be married, and
(11:56):
with inflation of less than half of what it was
just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence
to the future. It's morning again in America, and under
the leadership of President rag our country is prouder and
stronger and better. Why would we ever want to return
(12:18):
to where we were less than four short years.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Ago, Joe Biden exits the White House with his historic
all time lows of any president. CNN's Harry Inton tells
the story.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
I dare say historically awful. What am I talking about here, Well,
job approval at the end of the first term. I'm
just looking amongst those who lost or didn't run for reelection.
You don't have to be a mathematical genius to see
which is the lowest number on your screen right now
in an average appall's my average. Joe Biden's at thirty
eight percent. He's actually lower than Donald Trump was at
(12:58):
the end of his first termer. At the end of
his first term, everyone was saying Donald Trump's political career
is over. Joe Biden's approved rings even lower than Trump's
was by just a point. He's lower than Jimmy Carter,
who was at forty four percent by the end of
his presidency, not even close to George H. W. Bush,
who was at fifty six percent. Saw a nice rebound.
But the bottom line is this, Joe Biden came in
(13:21):
to end the Donald Trump reign in this country right
end Donald Trump's political career, and all that's ended up
happening is Joe Biden has managed to end up at
a lower approval rating at the end of his first
term than any president on record.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Jessica, and how.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Are people reflecting on his entire presidency at this moment.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Yeah, So, if you think this approval rating number is bad,
take a look at this particular number. All right, a
good or great president at the end of their terms. Well,
Barack Obama fifty two percent of Americans thought he was
a good or great president at the end of his
presidency twenty seventeen. Donald Trump very much behind Barack Obama
at thirty six percent. But look at how low Joe
(14:03):
Biden is. My goodness, gracious, you can't really get lower
than twenty five percent, and are polarized there because the
bottom line is there's going to be a bunch of
Democrats who would say that Biden was a good or
great president no matter what he did. But yet it's
only a quarter of the country who believes that Joe
Biden was a good or great president. It is the
lowest number since ap nork started tracking this back at
(14:24):
the end of Barack Obama's second term. Bottom line is,
Joe Biden goes out a very unpopular man. At the
end of a fifty plus year political career, and.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Those polls were taken before he pardoned the January sixth.
Committee members markin Milli and Anthony Fauci last night discuss
that on Inauguration Day with Michael Arry Joe to be
part of your love.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
America First includes all Ericans, regardless of their race, their gender,
or their sexual orientation.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Why don't weliver range these United States? We're the one too.
Indeed in work. Let the rest of the world help
us frchange and let's rebuild.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
The Mary first, pH is ridges fun far who's left?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Who has been cursed? There's things to be down all
over the world, but let's rebuild them Mary.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Our message to Black Americans tonight is this, we want
you what we want for every American. Safe neighborhoods, good jobs,
clean streets, a country where you are judged based on
the content of your character, not the color of your
skin or your political beliefs.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Who's don't you and watching that? And who's in charge
of it all? God bless the army, got less our liberty.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Jet on the risk of it all? Give posision of
back and away. Freedom is stuck in the first let's.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Get out of wreck, get back on the track, and
let's rebuild and marry.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The first.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Our message to gay Americans tonight is this, You're free
to marry who you want, if you want, without the
government standing in your way on small But that doesn't
mean that boys get to compete with girls in girls' sports,
or you do genital mutilation and chemical castration.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I don't children, Why don't deliver right these United States?
We're the ones who need it the most. You think
I'm blind to smoke boys, It ain't no dope. I
make twenty eight fifty years coast coast.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You get ahead in the United States with your own
hard work, your own commitment, your own dedication, and that
you know what You are free to speak your mind
at every step of the way.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That is the American dream.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That is what we are running too, and that is
what we get when we said Donald Trump back.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
To the White House. Today, President Trump will become only
the second president ever to be elected to non consecutive terms.
The first was Grover Cleveland. It was our twenty second
and twenty fourth president, serving from eighteen eighty five to
eighteen eighty nine, and then being defeated by Benjamin Harrison,
(17:42):
only to win again eighteen ninety three to eighteen ninety seven.
He was the first Democrat to win the White House
after the Civil War. There are so many historic elements
to this victory. It's incredible. We went to break on
the news that Joe Biden has the lowest presidential approval
(18:04):
rating of any president as they leave office. And that
was before this will be clip number one, Room one.
That was before he pardoned Fauci and others. Biden, this
just came across.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Just issues new pardons for doctor Anthony found You can
call these preemptive partons doctor Anthony Fauci, retired four star
General Mark Milly. This just happened moments ago. It also
includes the members of Congress and staff who served on
the Select Committee, and the US Capitol and DC Metropolitan
Police officers who testified before the Select Committee. This as
(18:40):
Trump prepares to take the oath of office in just
a few hours. So it doesn't well, I guess, yeah, yeah, commit, Look,
but what does this say. Mark Milly, who is champer
of the Joint Chiefs Staff under both Biden and Trump.
You know that what he's done in the past, You
know that he was calling China trying to try to
putting down President Drum.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
I mean, what are they afraid that Pete Heads is
going to see when he goes to the Fifth Department
and look at the fouls and data. There's been no
talk of going after Anthony Fauci h Y. It may
have been some senators, but the President himself has not
said he wants to pross.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, and here's the absolutely right and here's the thing.
You pardon somebody who's been convicted, right, they have been charged.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
This is this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
It will be interesting to read the exact language. And
because it just broke, we haven't seen it yet. But
remember when Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father, the
language was extraordinary because it essentially we know some things
happened during certain time periods, but this was a ten
year window. Anything he did during those ten years was
essentially it was to get out a free jail card.
(19:51):
Get out of jail free card. So it'll be interesting
to see the language, you know, the perimeters of what
time we're talking about and what he talks about, what
he has pardoned them from.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Brother, was it on that list four and a half hours.
I know that's going to get done. Yeah. Supreme Court
precedent is very clear that accepting a pardon is an
admission of guilt, which will mean that these individuals will
(20:28):
not have Fifth Amendment privilege. The Fifth Amendment, of course,
is your right against self incrimination. If called to the stand,
you are not required to admit you committed a crime.
You can plead the Fifth or take the Fifth. You
(20:51):
will often hear it said on the advice of counsel,
I will plead the Fifth Amendment against self incrimination that
should I speak, I might potentially incriminate myself, and I
have a constitutional privilege, constitutional right that I do not
have to answer questions that would incriminate me. Now, you
(21:13):
can take my Fifth Amendment pleading as an admission of guilt.
But in the case where you accept a presidential pardon,
you are admitting guilt. Supreme Court's been clear on this,
and therefore, when Fauci and Millie and Liz Cheney are
(21:35):
dragged before Congress, they cannot take the Fifth if they're
dragged into any other court in any other case against
any number of other people. What he'd like to do
is issue a blanket pardon for anyone who could be
prosecuted related to anything he's ever been involved with, but
(21:59):
lacks the specifice. These the biggies, the most disgusting of
them all. They saved for the last so they could
drop them as he's walking out the door, and hopefully
you wouldn't notice because you'd be in such a good
mood focused on Donald Trump's presidency. If they are subpoened
(22:23):
and they lie, they can be charged for perjury. This
does not mean that you can never be charged for
a crime for the rest of your life. If they
are subpoened, they have to appear, and if at that
point they lie, then it's on. Then they're in trouble
(22:44):
all over again for perjury. And in so many cases,
it's not the underlying crime that hangs someone up. It's
lying about it, it's covering it up. It's the perjury
that occurs. And these individuals will be dragged back. I
(23:04):
feel certain of that because our appetite for justice has
not been sated. This pardon the lack. I think most people,
rather than like me, I want Faulcy punish. I think
most people just want to know what the hell happened. Now,
once they knew what the hell happened, I wanted to punish,
(23:25):
but I don't think we're just going to forgive and forget.
Too many people died as a result of his actions.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Michael Berry's not.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
God streak. During the twenty twenty election, they were throwing
everything they had at Trump. Remember you had George Floyd
(23:57):
and cops are bad, government is bad Black people. You've
got to vote Democrat. They're all out to get you.
Plus you had COVID and Fauci was in on all that.
That's why he kept flip flopping his advice. They had
to figure out what to do so that we could
suspend all of the election integrity measures so that they
(24:21):
would be in a position that they could cheat. Trump
was very, very popular, The economy was booming, the world
was relatively safe. America's place in the world was hadn't
been so high in a long time. Our economy was
on fire. People were happy. So they had to do
(24:42):
a lot of things to win the election, including cheap
In order to cheat, they needed to shut down a
lot of the election conventions that were designed to ensure
safe elections so that they could cheat. It was all
part of a bigger place. Well. One of the things
(25:04):
that came out as part of the issue that Biden
was taking bribes from foreign governments, including the Ukrainians, which
is why they impeached Trump the first time, because he
had discovered it, which is why we kept giving Ukraine
all that money. And then they funneled it back to
(25:26):
the Bidens through Hunter, who they put on a board
of Barisma, which was the state government run oil company. Well,
Hunter Biden had left not one, but it turns out
two laptops at the computer repair center, and those laptops
(25:46):
had on them information that was incriminating and undisputable. Is
it indisputable or you say undisputable indisputable, it's not disputable. Yes,
that information was handed over to the government, which chose
(26:12):
not to use it. Fortunately, that computer store owner knew
he had a ticking time Bob on his hands, so
he replicated, duplicated everything that was on that computer, and
he ended up handing it over to some other folks,
and it ended up through Rudy Gilani and some other folks.
But the New York Post started covering it. This was
(26:35):
enough to swing the election. This was the proof we
needed the Bidens were taking money. Hunter was a straw man,
a bagman, a mule for bribe money. But wait, he
thought through that again. You go back to the experts,
never questioning experts. The experts say, the clot shot won't
(26:56):
kill you. It's great. The experts say that the cops
are all bad and George Floyd's a great guy. The
experts say that election was absolutely fair and you have
nothing to worry about. The experts say that January sixth
was an insurrection and it was a threat to democracy
and Trump can never be allowed to run again. The
(27:16):
experts say, so, these are the people of integrity, These
are the people with credentials. You, you common peasant, You
don't know any better. You shouldn't even be questioning who
are you? You maga weirdo zelots. So what did they do?
They had fifty one intelligence officials. This was by partisan
(27:40):
Republicans and Democrats from the Bush administration, from the Obama administration,
and they came forward and they said that computer is
not legitimate. That's not Hunter Biden's, that's the Russians interfering
in our election to get Donald Trump re elected because
(28:03):
the Russians love him so much. Fifty one people signed
that that wasn't legitimate information on Hunter Biden's computer. How
would they know. They didn't look at the computer, they
didn't review it. They didn't need to. They were willing
(28:27):
to put whatever credibility they had with the public based
on their titles. Most people weren't. Most of them weren't known.
But there were a few skull Kroft, a few that
were names. It was, oh man, he was a big deal.
He wasn't a bushet mystery.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Wow, he was.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
He was a big deal. He wouldn't lie. And if
we got fifty one of them, I mean, if it
was one guy, you might say, well they paid him all,
but fifty one of them. These are intelligence officials. These
are the people. These are the guys. They got badges.
These people know things. They go into a room that
you're not even allowed to go, you're not even allowed
to know about. These are the people. Oh Man, these guys.
(29:05):
And there they were, and it was covered on the
front page of New York Times. Fifty one intelligence experts said, no, no,
this was lies. Well, it turns out later the computers
were in fact. Once the government decided to start prosecuting
Joe Biden, what's that Trump is walking up to Biden
(29:30):
right now? Is he speaking just the live news. Okay,
we'll go to we'll go to it coming up, But
listen to John Ratcliffe saying Trump is going to suspend
the security clearances of those fifty one intelligence officials. This
is not going to stop.
Speaker 11 (29:48):
In twenty twenty, when a chairman of an intelligence committee
misrepresented that a laptop owned by then candidate Biden's son
was somehow a Russian intelligence operation, and fifty one former
intelligence officials use the imprimiture of of ic authority to
(30:12):
go along with that, I stood in the breach. I
stood alone and told the American people the truth about that.
So I think my record in terms of speaking truth
to power and defending the intelligence community and.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
It's and it's good work, is very clear. And what
I can assure you.
Speaker 11 (30:32):
Is those types of instances, if I'm in that position
as CIA director and have to do that again, as
uncomfortable as that can be to be accused, you know,
the truth will ultimately defend itself, and I think that
that intelligence will as well.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
US has left with your name, Thank you, and good night,
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