RADIOJanuary 24, 2024

Don't give a DIME to the GOP until they admit who tried to BRIBE Kari Lake

Audio has leaked of a conversation between Kari Lake and Arizona GOP chairman Jeff DeWit that makes Glenn furious. Glenn demands that the RNC come clean about who “back east” tried to bribe Lake to hold off on her Senate run: “Call and write [the GOP] and say, NOT A DIME to any candidate…unless you clean house on this.”

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GLENN: Now, I want to start with something that I don't think if we were a liberal show. MSNBC, we would be doing this.

But I think conservatives are different.

I think I -- at least I do. I want to know all the bad things that are happening in my own party. Because I believe my own party. Even though it's not my party.

People on my side, if you will, some of them are corrupt.

And I don't have an answer for who did this. But I want you to just ask yourself the MOM formula.

And I'll tell you what the MOM formula is after you listen to this.

It was last year, at CPAC. Kari Lake made a pretty bold statement, and she said, someone in the G.O.P. in the back east G.O.P., tried to bribe me to keep me from running for Senate.

Now, a lot of people can say those things. But do you have the evidence?

Yes. She does. And it was released yesterday.

I want you to hear this -- which was taped, I believe by her.

And it is the voice of the Republican -- head of the Republican Party in Arizona.

Listen.

VOICE: Is there a number at which?

VOICE: I can be bought? That's what it's about.

VOICE: For a couple of years. Getting back to what you were talking about.

VOICE: No. No. 10 million, 20 million, thirty -- no. No. No. A billion? No. This is not about money. This is about our country.

I think it's disturbing that they would even -- that anybody would think this is...

VOICE: I -- to be fair, even me, even me. I'll say this.

I want fresh (inaudible) right now, for the reason, that I've never seen anyone -- I can't even think of a single person in a federal race, who lost, randomly lost. I can't think of it.

If you can think of it, let me know.

VOICE: I'm not going to let these people who hate our (bleep) country, tell me not to run. You should call them and tell them to get behind me.

So what's going on? What is -- I'm assuming this is our friend.

VOICE: Oh, this is -- this is -- this is back east.

They are -- they're very powerful people. They want to keep you out. But they're willing to put their money where their mouth is, in a good way. So this conversation never happened.

VOICE: This is crazy, though. They should want me. I'm a great candidate. People love me. These people are corrupt.

VOICE: Well, maybe you're right.

VOICE: They are right -- they corrupt.

VOICE: Don't go -- this -- if you say no, which is fine, it's your choice. Don't tell people.

VOICE: They're going to have to try to have me murdered.

VOICE: If that stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff. The cartels are operating in 50 states right now. So...

VOICE: So what's going on? Who is it? What --

VOICE: Let me just tell you real quick, let's just say there are people calling around, saying, gosh, look, you can't -- everybody -- if you say no, don't say, I got offered that. Don't talk.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: Because then we lose our ability to get things done in the future.

GLENN: Jeez.

VOICE: Here's my problem. Rather than just say, let's work with her, she's a great candidate -- because they don't own me, and it pisses me off.

VOICE: Yeah, it's not about ownership.

VOICE: It's about control.

VOICE: I don't know if it's about control. It's about being on the team. Like I said --

VOICE: They want to be on the team?

VOICE: They want you to be on their team.

VOICE: But if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't do that. So what do they want? What do they want me to do?

VOICE: I can tell you what I can offer you. But I said -- talking -- so the ask of me was, it's confident.

So the ask I got today, back east was: Is there any companies out there, something, that can put her on the payroll, give her, to keep her out?

And I said, well, what do you want to do?

Whatever we need to do.

VOICE: This is about defeating Trump.

And I think that's a bad, bad thing for our country.

DeSantis is not America first. This is about the final deathblow to Trump, and I don't think that's good for our country.

VOICE: I mean, I love Trump.

VOICE: It's not good for our country, Jeff.

VOICE: It's not.

But at the same time, I don't know that -- I think what it really comes down to for a lot of people, it's not really about control or agenda. It's just about the ability to raise money to win.

you know, If you really want to know -- absolutely. And even on their end, what makes them the most money.

VOICE: I know. All these new attendants don't -- want their payday, and I don't want to make a deal with these kind of people. This is a hill worth dying on. I'm not -- if they're going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I'm not letting them do that. I owe it to the people of Arizona, to carry their torch and their voice.

VOICE: Or don't go away. Pause.

VOICE: This is -- the battle is right now, Jeff.

VOICE: Pause. Wait for your caucus.

VOICE: No. The battle is right now. The battle is right now, and we don't have time to pause on the battlefield.

VOICE: You're not -- you can't scratch this. It's not for you.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: And they're sitting around. So it's just -- it's a backscratching club. That's all DC is. It's a big backscratching club.

You're no -- you scratch somebody's back -- and you have already made it known, if you get there, you aren't scratching his back. I will scratch people's back. You know, I've been on the outs for a lot of the time. I will scratch people's back, you know. Where are we in two years, if they steal the election again?

VOICE: Listen to what you're saying. Why don't we do something about it? So that we, the people, can pick our --

VOICE: What can we do?

VOICE: I'm not willing to accept that. Then I'm going to be the biggest (bleep) in these people's (bleep) -- I'm running. And I will be the biggest pain in their (bleep).

VOICE: I'm willing to tell them.

VOICE: And they're going to have to kill me to stop me.

GLENN: That is incredible, and incredibly slimy. The name of the guy who is making this offer is the chair of the Arizona Republican Party.

I've talked to some legal experts, they're not sure if this is illegal.

You're not sure if this is illegal? You're offering someone a bribe.

If it's not illegal, it should be illegal!

Some very powerful people want you to step aside.

Some very powerful people do not want you in.

Now, what can they give you to step aside.

Nothing. Money. Jobs. Nothing!
No. We're not -- we're not trying to stop you. Pause. Just a pause. This is in our own party!

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GLENN: Ten-second station ID.
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Okay. So let's ask the mom question of this. Because who is responsible?

He says, it's the power is back east. Some people back east. Now, I think I know who he is talking about.

Because I have heard through the grapevine, for the last few years, about this kind of stuff, not this blatant. But this kind of stuff happening.

Because somebody has a big, huge treasure chest.

Now, the MOM question is motive, opportunity, and means.

Let's ask MOM: Who has the motive to stop Kari Lake from going into the Senate? Who has the opportunity to do it? And who has a giant Senate chest, that has used it in, hmm, I think ways that the average Republican would not be very proud of?

And we have seen this treasure chest used against Republicans, who are the only choice in some states.

Who has the means? Check. I'm thinking of someone. The opportunity? Check again.

And the motive? Giant check.

Now, I have absolutely -- I don't know who you came up with, but I have no idea if that's true.

That's why I don't want to say a name. Because I don't know. But we damn well better find out. Every single person in this audience should be calling the G.O.P. national headquarters today, and saying, what the hell is this?

I'm sorry. I won't accept that you can't find -- for some reason, we had somebody leak a SCOTUS decision!

Put our Supreme Court justice's lives at risk, and somehow or another, they couldn't -- they couldn't get that one or the two people that had access to it.

They couldn't figure out, who it was.

You've got like two to four people, maximum, that had that!

You can't figure it out. Huh!

I'm so sick and tired of this.

Every single person that writes a check, to any G.O.P. person, you should not fund the G.O.P. until this is exposed and cleaned up.

This is corruption, at the highest levels. No. No.

This is -- this is -- what did he say?

This isn't about control.

This is about ownership.

STU: I thought he said, it wasn't about ownership. It was about winning the election.

GLENN: No.

He said it's about ownership. And it's about being on the team. It's about being able to raise money.

Okay.

She said, it was power and control. He said, it's just ownership. They want you on the team. So, in other words. They want to own you.

That's the problem in Washington.

And I'm sorry. We cannot say, we're the good guys, if this stuff is happening in our own party.

This is the kind of stuff, that we all say we're against.

Are we against it in our own party?

Because I am.

I'm pretty sure you are too.

Did you hear how slimy that guy was.

It's not me. It's not me. I mean, I'm just the messenger. I'm just saying. I got a call from -- you know what happens when I get a call from back east, first of all, my gosh. Was Lucy right about, you know, that Christmas is run by the syndicate back east? My gosh. So I got a call from back east. You know what I do with that call? I'm not doing that. Do your own dirty business. Click.

But, see, he has ambitions. He wants to go higher. He wants to be one of the bigwigs, that he can call out west some day and say, look, here's what I want you to do.

Shame on you, Jeff DeWit. Shame on you! Do you have -- do you have no pride? Do you have no love of country, of decency? Do you not know what ethics are? I suggest you start looking them up, Jeff.

Because you're so far away from ethical, it's shocking. This is what Donald Trump is fighting.

And let me tell you: This is exactly the kind of stuff that Nikki Haley allowed to happen, in her own camp.

She knew really bad organizations, and funds that fund the Democratic Party in all kinds of ways. Went to her. And said, look, we'll fund you.

And she said yes!

This is not good, by any stretch of the imagination.

And each of us should be -- in fact, can you get the number to the national headquarters, of the G.O.P., so people can call and write today?

Because you should call and write. And say, not another time, to any candidate.

None!

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.