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is having a second wave, as they call it, worse, they say, in some ways, in some countries, than the first. The number of people who died in Sweden yesterday was 7. The number of people who have died on the average for the last few months in Sweden is 2. Because Sweden, more than any other country, might have herd immunity. I cannot explain. I'm challenged, and it's— I always challenge myself. Well, what about South Korea? I can't— I don't know the answer to that. Maybe South Korea— the idea that South Korea locked down earlier is possible, but that means that nobody got it afterwards to spread it to many people, and I don't know how that happened. Do you? Right. So if we don't know—

It hasn't been an issue in Japan.

Yeah, Japan.

Asia has been—

Asia, that's right. Who knows? Who knows why?

Not just South Korea.

Not just South Korea, that is entirely accurate. But talking about Western civilization, another thing that you need to know talking about the West is you have to compare the United States not to individual countries, only two countries have more people than the US, India and China. What does Indonesia have? I don't think Indonesia has more than the US. So only 2 countries in the world. So saying, oh, the United States has more cases, more deaths than XYZ is irrelevant. What you have to do is compare the US to Europe. What is the population of Europe? You want to look that up? Is it about the same as the US? That's what I always assumed. Okay, roughly the same. So you look at European— no, no, no, that's not accurate. That's only Western Europe. People often don't include Eastern Europe. I'm including Eastern Europe. Incidentally, I'm supposed to give a speech in Hungary in a few weeks. I'm laughing because I have no idea what's going to happen. I can imagine a sort of nightmarish scenario of getting to Budapest and then being put on the first plane back to the United States, then coming back to the United States and having to be quarantined. All right, so in Philadelphia, the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Walter Wallace from City Journal in West Philadelphia and set off another round of mass looting, arson, and violence. Wallace, who had a long criminal history and evident mental problems, was confronted by two police officers who ordered him repeatedly to put down the knife that he was wielding. Wallace refused to drop the knife, charged the officers, and was shot multiple times. The shooting sparked looting and vandalism in and around West Philadelphia's 52nd Street corridor. Where the 18th District Police District is, where the 18th District Police District is located. Incidentally, I have very vivid memories of arriving to give a speech in Philadelphia on the night of the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series. And we could not travel directly to our hotel in downtown Philadelphia because of all the rioting that was taking place. So Philadelphia has a tradition of riots that are caused by all sorts of things, and the primary source is— has nothing to do with events. Events are excuses to riot. The people who riot are bored, aimless, and they have no conscience that you and I can relate to. They probably have no father. They certainly have no Ten Commandments. Just thought I'd throw that out. That police cars are now routinely burned is a crisis, a serious crisis in American life. The West Philadelphia riots accelerated into a fever pitch, resulting in injuries to 30 police officers and necessitating the hospitalization of 12 others. Officers managed to arrest 30 people as the riots spread throughout West Philadelphia, where ATMs were destroyed and businesses looted. Including a Rite Aid, several clothing stores, and a restaurant. Newsweek reported that over 1,000 people ransacked and looted stores like Walmart and Foot Locker in the Port Richmond section of the city. District Attorney Larry Krasner, uh, Larry Krasner is, uh, it's a bad human being. He seeks the destruction of Philadelphia. And he is the— nevertheless, the district attorney. He embodies my view of the left that I've had all of my life. The Achilles heel of the left is evil. They do not fight evil. Instead, they fight good. Those who do not fight evil will fight good. That's a takeoff on the Talmudic dictum that those who are nice to the cruel will be cruel to the nice. That is Larry Krasner's motto. I am nice to the cruel and I am cruel to the nice. But he was elected by you in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Police Chief Danielle Outlaw promised a full investigation into the looting. Krasner praised peaceful demonstrations but said nothing specific about the mayhem and violence. Mayor Jim Kenney, after a lengthy statement promising to investigate the police officers involved in the shooting, later added a much softer postscript directed at the rioters. Quote, vandalism and looting is not an acceptable face of First Amendment expression. That is one serious condemnation. I think these rioters, when they heard that, they went, you know, that's a very good point. No, I'm going to really have to ruminate on that. But he did not condemn the disorder or promise to stop it. On the second day of rioting, Outlaw— that's the police chief— Daniel Outlaw stated, I have directed the Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Unit to begin its investigation. While at the scene this evening, I heard and felt the anger of the community. Everyone involved will forever be impacted. I also plan to join the mayor in meeting with members of the community and members of Wallace's family. There you go. That's a statement of support of the rioters, is it not? Am I in any way distorting the message? Outlaw statement contained no mention of the community suffering the ill effects of smashed up businesses and boarded-up banks. The Inquirer— that's the Philadelphia Inquirer— declared that Wallace's killing was part of a, quote, 190 years of brutality against Black people in Philadelphia. There's your media for you, folks. President described the media as an enemy of this, of the state. Of the people. Sorry, that is right, correct. Enemy of the people. 1-800-PRAGER-776.

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We've been told for days now, for weeks now, that this is a Russian influence operation. It's not Hunter Biden's laptop, and this is another version of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. We now have the evidence. You have the story. The Senate, the— Bobulinski is out there. We have We have the FBI. We have DNI Ratcliffe saying there is no Russian aspect to any of this. John, what should your colleagues, your fellow media moguls and editors-in-chief be doing right now?

They should be going through the same emails I've been going through and that Peter Schweitzer has been going through and Matt Boyle has been going through and doing the reporting and finding out what went on in Joe Biden Inc. during the days he was vice president and the immediate afterwards. Remember, this story about China is more than just a family getting rich. So that should be the primary concern we have. The second is that it shows a judgment question. Donald Trump for 20 years has been arguing that China poses an enormous threat to America. Joe Biden was arguing he'd like to make China grow and it wasn't a threat to America. His family cashed in on it. Then in 2019 and 2020, when the coronavirus came along, he flipped around and came to Donald Trump's way of thinking. So which candidate do you want? You want the candidate who was right about China from the beginning or the one that changed tune only after he and his family made millions of dollars from China? I think that's the, that's the big question that'll be at the middle of this debate tonight.

You're talking about what they should be doing now.

What is—

what should they be doing with regards to what they said previously about the laptop, John?

They ought to correct the record. They ought to acknowledge that when they went with Adam Schiff's malarkey one more time— how many times has Adam Schiff misled the country the last few years? They should correct the record. They should say, we were wrong, we've been told otherwise. And then they should follow up on the journalism now that they know it's real material and inform the American public. Anything short of that is censorship to the detriment of the American public, the voting public.

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Wanna take you to two states, South Carolina and Kentucky. You know what Democrats are doing there in Senate races featuring Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Mitch McConnell in Kentucky? You know, I guess if you can't win on your own merits, you pull crap like this. A big Democratic political action committee is spending thousands and thousands of dollars promoting Constitution candidate Bill Bledsoe in South Carolina. They're calling him in the ads, and they're apparently saturating the airwaves right now. He's the only constitutional—

true conservative, rather, on the I'd like you to visit these last days before the election. You know how important this election is. I cannot overstate its importance. America is on the ballot, not Trump, not Biden. America. So there's a magnificent organization, KeepAmericaAmerica.com. It's, it's definitely not too late for you to go there and see what you can do. Whatever you can do in getting out the vote, you'll feel good that you did. Win or lose, you'll know you worked. KeepAmericaAmerica.com. The fantastic people in the Job Creators Network have made this website. Over 400,000 listeners have already gone. Well, that's great. I mean, not just to my show. All right, commit to just take one person to the polls or help someone complete a mail-in ballot. Do a little, do a lot. Do your part. Go to keepamericaamerica.com. Did you see, folks, the rules that Gavin Newsom has? The Gavin Newsom rules for Thanksgiving. We have a child with power as governor of California. God, is he empty. But he's, uh, what is it, better safe than sorry crowd. That's his motto. Health Uber Alles. I talked about this a decade before this lockdown. The California Department of Health latest guidelines for private gatherings. For this is restrictions for Thanksgiving. Here, ready? Now, what does it say mandatory? What does mandatory mean? I don't understand that. He just says something and it's a law? What if he says you may not chew gum? Stop chewing gum, Sean, it's mandatory. I just want you to know I will be violating every single mandate of the governor. I am announcing this publicly. He is free to arrest me and my family. It's the least I could do. Guys died on Normandy Beach for liberty, so the least I could do is have Thanksgiving dinner, right? It's not exactly storming Nazi troops on Omaha, correct? Omaha Beach. If you listen to the governor and suffer this Thanksgiving, then you have decided to suffer. All gatherings must be held outside. What are apartment dwellers supposed to do? This is great for the middle class and upper middle class. What are people who live in apartments supposed to do? They can't— that means they can't have Thanksgiving, correct? How do you have Thanksgiving outside if you're in an apartment? No, I'm asking a question. Do you have an answer? Okay. Well, no, no, this is not applicable to North Dakota.

This is—

North Dakota is blessed, I assume, with rational mandates. What if you live in a cold climate? In California, exactly. In Bishop, it was 30 degrees on Thanksgiving last year or a couple of years ago. Gatherings that include more than 3 households are prohibited. So let's see, at my Thanksgiving in my house, how many households do I have? Let's see, so my mother-in-law is one household, I'm one household, my wife's sister and husband and children, that's three households, and a number of friends of my stepson. So I have about six households. I have the representatives of 6 households and we will be eating inside as much as possible. Any food or beverages at outdoor gatherings must be in single-serve disposable containers. I thought disposable was a bad thing. Get it right, disposable is now perfecto. Remember, we was— I even spoke against it. California passed a law that you could not, uh, you should bring in a reusable bag, right? Don't get plastic bags. We don't want turtles to choke on plastic. So, uh, people started bringing them in, but it was pointed out, and I did on the show immediately, that's not healthy. These, these bags are just reused and reused and reused. You think everybody washes the bag when they get home? Of course not. Now all of a sudden disposable, which has always been the case, disposable has been healthier. If providing single-serve containers is not possible, food and beverages must be served by a person who washes or sanitizes their hands frequently and wears a face covering. Now that is one wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Here's some more. Attendees may go inside to use restrooms as long as the restrooms are frequently sanitized. Why are you laughing, Mr. Producer? You rarely laugh. No, in fact, the host sanitizes while you are there to maximize the health benefit. Gatherings should be 2 hours or less. 2 hours for Thanksgiving dinner. There's your hat, what's your hurry? That's right. The host should collect names of all attendees and contact information in case contact tracing is needed later. Eat outside. As the writer of the Daily Signal points out, whether you live in Palm Springs, where the high on Thanksgiving was 92 degrees 3 years ago, or Bishop, where the Thanksgiving high was 30 degrees last year, you must eat outside. Poor Californians, particularly minorities, suffer the most, living as many do in dense apartment complexes near homeless havens or in localized pollution zones. But rich Californians who spread banquets on their manicured lawns behind high fences suffer right along with them. No more than 3 households. If you and 2 siblings visit your folks for Thanksgiving, it's illegal. If you invite over your parents, in-laws, and an international student, it's illegal. If you celebrate Friendsgiving with 3 other singles, it's illegal. If your entire extended family self-quarantines before visiting elderly grandparents to safely soothe their loneliness, it's illegal. If you invite someone who's depressed and lonely but have already invited two other families, it is illegal. And the list continues. I will violate all of his rules. I have announced it on the radio. And, uh, if you, if you keep to his rules, in most cases, uh, it's depressing for those of us who love America, liberty, and Thanksgiving. Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental freedoms. That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom. They are on the front lines fighting pivotal lawsuits for Americans whose freedoms are threatened, and they do it for free. That's why we're asking you to be as generous as you can by giving today so that Alliance Defending Freedom can continue to fight these lawsuits and be ready when your rights are threatened too. Give your gift now by visiting adflegal.org/prager, and thank you for joining the fight for freedom.

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The president Dennis Prager brought up the laptop and China, he made a couple of clear points. The moderator, who was generally very good, stepped on his punchlines, stepped on his— she muddied up those moments, and that to me was a pity.

Yes, and I completely agree with you that, I mean, Kristen Welker, who was the moderator, did a much better job in terms of allowing the discourse back and forth. I thought she was a lot more fair than Chris Wallace. Absolutely. But the one complaint that I had with her is the exact same thing that you pointed out, Eric, was that she did not want this laptop story to be discussed back and forth. And so every time that the president made a very clear point and was asking Joe Biden a question, she would say, oh, that's not— that's on topic. I want to stay on the race issue, or I want to stay on climate change, or, you know, we're not talking about that right now. And she would cut in and interrupt And I think there were some statistics where she interrupted the president about 41 times and Joe Biden only 8 times. And granted, you know, she allowed the back and forth, the 2-minute openings where their mics were muted, that, you know, that was fine. But it was very clear that she did not want any discourse about this laptop, which is so unfortunate because the American people need to understand what's going on here. I thought the president explained it incredibly well. And to have a moderator interject themselves like that is activism and it's absolutely inappropriate. And that's something that just clearly evidences that the mainstream media has a biased agenda and that they are trying to protect Joe Biden from this story. So you have to ask yourself why.

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This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China. And he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honor the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question his policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.

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Want to take you to two states, South Carolina and Kentucky. You know what Democrats are doing there? In Senate races featuring Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. You know, I guess if you can't win on your own merits, you pull crap like How important is this election?

It is.

The differences are so clear. May I, may I tell you what actually disturbs me the most among voters for the Democrats? It's the self-induced naivete of Biden is a moderate. I respect a Democrat who is a leftist, and I believe the left is a completely destructive force, completely. I respect, however, a leftist who votes for Biden more than a liberal who votes for Biden. The leftist is not lying to himself. The liberal is. That's the difference. Biden, oh, Biden's not Bernie Sanders. Biden enacts Bernie Sanders. He picked the most left-wing senator in the U.S. Senate as his running mate. And you are still thinking you're voting for a moderate? You're voting for a nothing. He's nothing. He stands for nothing. He's Chauncey Gardner. Joe Biden's real name is Chauncey Gardner. What was the name of that film, Being There? With who's the— who, the great actor? What was his name? Peter Sellers. Yeah, Chauncey Gardner was whatever was necessary to succeed. He would say whatever came out to ingratiate himself with those present, and he ended up running for office. Chauncey Gardner is Joe Biden. Joe Biden will say anything and do anything to get elected, and once elected, he will not— if he is elected, he will not be in office for 4 years. I don't even think that he will pass away, nor do I wish that upon him. But I do believe he will at some point just feel that he cannot sustain himself for whatever reason, and then Kamala Harris. But it doesn't matter if he's president for 4 years, if he's elected. When adults lie to themselves, you think, you truly do believe that there is less hope for humanity. And the truth is there is less hope for humanity. Now do you understand why I have an Ultimate Issues Hour on this program? Because the ultimate issue of human nature is the ultimate issue. The will of man's heart is towards evil from his youth. Genesis, what is it, 8:21. That's the big, that's the big issue you have to understand. That I tell young people who want bigger government, why do you want to give people that much power? Do you trust people with power? And they do. Leftists trust people with power because they think they will be the people in power. Why would you trust people with power? Oh, you believe in the goodness of human nature, that is why. The liberal who votes for Joe Biden is voting for the most anti-liberal presidency in American history. Ask Joe Biden The question is, to be race, to be colorblind, is that a beautiful thing to aspire to? That you see a person's heart and personality and mind and character rather than their color as determinative? Is that or is that not the ideal in human relations? Because the left has announced, because it lives in the world of Orwell, where 2 and 2 is 5. They have announced that colorblind is racist. Colorblind is the epitome of non-racism. Everything is backwards. The liberal who votes for Joe Biden is lying to himself, and it pains me to say that because I know good people who are lying to themselves. And you just have to accept it and move on. And, you know, if they're in your life, you don't— and you love them, just, you don't let them go. But it's a source of despair that when people you know and have respected lie to themselves like that. Oh, Joe Biden is a moderate who just wrote a spectacular piece on it's all going to be left-wing if he wins. The Wall Street Journal had one. I mean, it's, it's, it's not uncommon. ReliefFactor.com is a website I would like you to go to if you have any ongoing pain. Back, neck, leg, joint, and see how it has affected people. I have now— I now have added a question to my list of questions beginning with, why did God make the mosquito? Why would you not try the product for 3 weeks if you have a pain? $19.95 for 3 weeks. Relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384. Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.

I am feeling pretty emotional today. But I understand that none of this, nothing matters. None of the speculation, the analysis matters. You know what matters? Your decision to go vote and save this country. I, I don't like using overheated rhetoric, but it's all on the line right now. It's on the line as you vote. And if you voted for a political party that fails to condemn the decision to loot stores, to steal from stores because a man was shot in an encounter with police? I'll bet you've got buyer's remorse, don't you? Because you know the difference. We all know the difference between the two political ideologies. We know the difference between the two political parties. That's why you can't futz around and play games by, oh, I'm mad at Lindsey Graham over, uh, uh, uh, Obamagate, so I want the liberal Democrat to win in South Carolina. The reason they're playing games in South Carolina is because they desperately want Lindsey Graham to lose. And Lindsey Graham, believe me, South Carolina and the country is in a lot better shape with United States Senator Lindsey Graham than United States Senator Jamie Harrison. That's one of many examples throughout the country, example after example. You know something, it doesn't— we can go down a rabbit hole on a lot of this stuff. We can get distracted very easily.

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In this case, the Philadelphia police had body cams. In this case, the body cams apparently have been activated, although they have not been released, but other footage has been shown, apparently people filming what happened. Now, the shooting has sparked protests, some violent. Some 30 Philadelphia police officers injured yesterday, some gone to the hospital. Some looting has taken place. Apparently, the cop or cops involved were white, although it's difficult to tell from looking at the footage. And as I mentioned, the suspect 27-year-old black man has been killed. May I ask you a few questions here? Those of you who are out in the streets in Philadelphia— Philadelphia carries our show, we get a lot of calls from Philadelphia—

so Phil, please Phil, give us Hi everybody, one of the most important articles I have read this entire presidential campaign just came out today. Is China funding the phony Joe Biden campaign? By Karen McQuillan. She's great. American greatness. American greatness is great where it appears. I'm honored that they take my column every week. It's a very important website, for your information. So I have her on the phone. She is in the Tetons. Poor thing. God, I don't know how you handle it.

Dennis, it's a winter wonderland here. Sparkling snow, 30 degrees, which is warm, and I'm about to go kayaking once I get off the phone.

My heart, my heart goes out to you.

Thank you.

What else can I say? If you would have to follow the Gavin Newsom guidelines for Thanksgiving, you know, you would have to eat he would have to have it outdoors. And everybody loves sitting and having a meal in 30-degree weather.

Yes.

Or you could have it in your kayak. That way you're really distancing yourself from others. I think you should consider that. Thanksgiving dinner in your kayak.

Yes. Right.

Anyway.

The water carries voice as well.

Say the what? Say that again.

I said voice. Sound carries well over water.

Oh yes, oh, voice. Okay, not in water, that's clear. All right, you wrote this very, very significant piece. I mean, I am so taken with your article that I've asked you to come on immediately, and I thank you for doing so. It is very rare that I do this. You know, there's dark money, there's secret this. I tend to shy away from these things. However, the case you make and others make is so compelling. Why don't you briefly summarize your article?

So I'll tell you how I got to this. I've been very concerned about voter fraud, and I've been talking at length with some of the top litigators in the country who are trying to ensure that we have a fair election. So Christian Adams, John Pudner, Phil Kline, and each one was telling me that the amount of money on the Democrat side is something that we have never seen before. It's another order of existence. It's a tsunami of money. It's a mountain range of money. We know that they have billions from the usual suspects, you know, from Soros and Bloomberg and Zuckerberg. We know about that money, but from an online source, ActBlue, they have raised $3.5 billion— billion with a B— dollars in just the last 10 months. And they are claiming that all but half of this money is from unemployed people giving $5, $10, $20. It's not possible. There are only 4% unemployed people in the country. How can they be giving billions of dollars? Fundraising is not like that.

Go on, go on. Yep, this is critically important.

Go on.

So how does ActBlue work? Well, it turns out ActBlue has negotiated the deal with the banks where they don't have to do the usual verification of donors. So Anyone can buy a gift card. Anyone in the entire world can buy a gift card, put a phony name on it, send it in to ActBlue, and it passes through as a donation into our electoral politics, which is clearly a setup for people who don't want it to be known who they are and how much they're giving. And Christian Adams said to me, this is too much money for a secret American donor. This has— his instinct was that it's a state actor. And when he said that, of course, my mind immediately went to China because when Russia supposedly did their big disinformation campaign in 2016, they spent a whopping $200,000 on Facebook. This is $2 billion plus. Billion. And, and then I'm hearing peculiar stories from congressional candidates I'm talking to. I was just on the phone last night with Victoria Sparks, who is a CPA. She worked for Fortune 500 companies before running for Congress. She was saying the same thing to me, and then she said her opponent has more money than in the history of Indiana politics and has not had one single fundraiser. How is that possible?

So in a normal society, in a normal free society, or in America of, let's say, 20 years ago, what would be done to find out where ActBlue was getting billions of dollars from?

Well, I think, I think the FBI knows how to do this. They would, you know, verify the accounts and they have Would they have to be ordered to do so by the president?

What would animate them?

This is, this is another big question, Dennis. I mean, we've been coping with a corrupt CIA now for years, and they seem to ignore the president. What's your answer to that question?

Most of the time I don't have answers to questions I pose. That's why I posed that.

But it's an important question.

Yes, exactly. I mean, that this is not investigated and that 3 years of investigation over $200,000 allegedly given by Russians to corrupt the process in cahoots with the Trump campaign, that's done, but this isn't? $3.5 billion in 10 months? That is not coming from Tom Steyer.

Right.

That's right. Exactly. And you look at the Biden campaign, there is something so fishy about it when you just look at it with the emperor has no clothes eyes. The man gets 30 cars to come to a rally. Trump gets 30,000. Biden is going nowhere. He's doing no appearances. Basically, we're told Hillary lost because she didn't go to the Midwest. Biden isn't going anywhere. And he's— we're supposed to all think that this is a normal campaign? It's not.

That's very true. Please stay on. You do great work.

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What is so shocking, and this is what the questions have to be asked to Wray and the CIA, it's obviously an open known fact. It's open, it's openly known in China that the Bidens were open for business. They were open to being in business with the Chinese Communist Party and that Hunter had problems not just with drugs, he had problems with sex. I mean, the thing on this hard drive that's so shocking is really the depravity. The open drug use and really crack cocaine, which, as you know, his father wrote the law that really puts, you know, essentially African-American men who don't use the high-end drug of cocaine, which is the drug of the elite, but use crack, would put them in jail for much, much longer. His son is open about this. His son's been open about using this throughout the world and clearly has a, has a drug problem and also has a sex problem. I mean, this thing, he's putting all this stuff, he's keeping it on the internet. He's very proud of this. Those are access points for foreign intelligence services to get you, capture you, blackmail you. And so the Biden family, through financial corruption, through being exposed financially to basically taking all of the financing money from the Chinese Communist Party, have essentially made themselves open to capture by the Chinese Communist Party. And that's what happened. I think now people have to go back and ask tough questions. What was the relationship they had prior to Joe Biden negotiating in the pivot to Asia, the deal that the United States signed in the Rose Garden with President Xi and President Obama on cybersecurity, on militarization in the South China Sea. It's legendary how bad that deal was. It's legendary how bad it failed. It's legendary how President Trump had to come and made it a campaign issue, a campaign issue that I will tell you pierced the blue wall. The blue wall. We pierced the blue wall not on immigration and the wall at the southern border. It was important. We pierced the blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and almost Michigan because of manufacturing jobs and trade with China. That's how bad it got.

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The president brought up the laptop and China. He made a couple of clear points. The moderator, who was generally very good, stepped on his punchlines. Stepped on his— she muddied up those moments. And that to me was, it was a pity.

Yes.

Uh, we have placed Karen McQuillan's piece from American Greatness, which is about as alarming a piece as I have ever read. Is China funding the phony Joe Biden campaign? And if you find the headline a bit, uh, even excessive, then you have to answer the question, how have they raised billions, billions of dollars? You know, Karen, my producer, was just in South Carolina filming Nikki Haley for some videos for Prager University. And—

Oh, great.

Thank you. And he told her, she told him, She doesn't understand how Lindsey Graham's opponent in South Carolina has so much money.

Exactly. You're hearing that from every candidate across America. We've never had this kind of money in American politics before.

That's right. By the way, when they really want— remember, they arrested Dinesh D'Souza because he gave $20,000.

Wow.

That's the politicization of the FBI.

Yes. That's just— we don't have equal justice anymore in America.

No, there's no— if you riot on behalf of a left-wing cause, you destroy, you loot, you burn police cars, you injure police in many of these cities, it's irrelevant. What you do is you're sent home to do it the next night.

Yes.

You know, get refreshed, get some rest. And destroying more property the next day.

So, well, you know, Dennis, I really do believe we're, we're not in the realm of normal American politics anymore. We are fighting against the hard left, and they play dirty, and they play to win, and they corrupt people. Most of what they do is behind the scenes, and it's— and we're like naive prey. You know, when they first reintroduced the wolves to Yellowstone, they just decimated the elk herd because the elk had not seen a wolf for generations, and they just stood there and watched as the wolves came up and tore them to pieces. And there's a way that this is happening to the American public, and especially to Democrats who— there are a lot of Democrats who are moderate, they really are liberal, they used to be for free speech and all our constitutional freedoms. They've just been propagandized and bowled over by this corrupt media. And then, you know, the amount of money in politics can buy an awful lot of ads. It— they can buy an election, and I think they're trying to.

Well, let's talk again soon. Enjoy your kayaking. I envy you.

Thank you.

Best sense. And keep writing because you're a real asset to this country.

Oh, Dennis, I love you. You're wonderful. Big hug.

Thank you so much.

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I want to take you to two states, South Carolina and Kentucky. You know what Democrats are doing there in Senate races featuring Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Mitch McConnell in Kentucky? You know, I guess if you can't win on your own merits, you pull crap like this. A big Democratic political action committee is spending thousands and thousands of dollars promoting Constitution candidate Bill Bledsoe in South Carolina. They're calling him in the ads, and they're apparently saturating the airwaves right now. He's the only constitutional— true conservative, rather— on the ballot. Only problem is He dropped out in early October. He's not running anymore, and he endorsed Lindsey Graham. But because he's technically going to still be on the ballot, the Democrats now are trying to fool South Carolinians into believing that there is a conservative, a more conservative alternative to Lindsey Graham, because they're trying to get Jamie Harrison, the liberal Democrat, elected. That's all they're doing. They're doing the exact same thing in Kentucky. They're trying to siphon off votes from Mitch McConnell. A liberal super PAC is spending thousands of dollars pushing a libertarian named Brad Barron. Um, the ad calls Barron a better choice for U.S. Senate who believes in freedom, liberty, and individual rights. Again, same thing. This guy's on the ballot, not viable, but since the ballots have been printed, that's what they're doing.

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There are more Black Latin players playing in the major leagues than American-born Black players, something that was told to Mookie Betts following a victory, and Betts was unaware of it. The person speaking is a former baseball player named Harold Reynolds.

Well, Mook, you know, when you get to the World Series, everything's magnified, and one of the things everybody's talking about across the country You're the only African-American player in the World Series. So when did you learn that, and what are your thoughts when you think about that?

Now think about that. You know, you're the only African-American in the World Series. What were your— what did you find out about that? What were your thoughts about that? What the hell kind of question is that? Is somebody putting a gun to the head of Black people and telling them not to go into baseball? What is this, 1947, uh, and Jackie Robinson had to come to the major leagues and endure racism? Or are people voluntarily deciding maybe they want to go to other sports? Is there any evidence whatsoever that somehow Black people are being denied an opportunity to play baseball? There are all sorts of programs for baseball in the inner city. Programs have been going on for decades. For whatever reason, a lot of Black boys do not like to play baseball. I don't know. So that's Mookie Betts' problem?

You're the only African-American player in the world, sir.

People are talking about that across the country. Really? Everybody in America talking about it across the country.

So when did you learn that and what are your thoughts when you think about that? Uh, learned it just now.

Ah, learn it just now. Everybody's talking about it. Hey, what are you talking about?

When did you learn?

Oh, learn it just now, bro.

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Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. So if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. President Trump is referring to the widely shared clip of Joe Biden threatening to fire a prosecutor because they were looking into his son's business dealings. Play cut 25.

I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting $1 billion.

I said, you're not getting the billion.

I'm going to be leaving here. And I think it was, what, 6 hours?

I look, I said, I'm leaving in 6 hours.

If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.

Well, son of a bitch, got fired.

And they put in place someone who was solid.

And throughout the entire impeachment investigation process, Americans found that Hunter Biden was working for the Burisma Ukrainian energy company Burisma for $83,000 a month. Now, Americans know that he had no experience in that sector at all whatsoever. So that was where we stopped the story. But Senator Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley last month released a Senate report investigating the money flows from foreign governments to Hunter Biden. So here's where Hunter Biden makes his money, and with it, Joe Biden. A $3.5 million wire from the mayor of Moscow's wife, a $100,000 spending account with a Chinese businessman, $1.4 million from his time on the board of Burisma, and $4.7 million in consulting fees from a Chinese Communist Party-linked company, and a $5 million forgivable unsecured loan not reported to the IRS from the Chinese Communist Party. And this was largely ignored from the activist media. But then Hunter Biden gave us a gift. He gave us his laptop. He said, please take it. I don't want my dad to be president. Please.

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So he's raising the question of how is it possible that this—

I hear you singing, everybody. It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. Hey, what happened to the camera here? It's at a very strange angle. It's different than normal. And it's very big, very big day is coming up next week. So we need the happy, happy, happy hour. Yes, we do. We need the happy, happy. Ladies and gentlemen, the happy make the world better. The unhappy make it worse. It's one of the mottos of the Happiness Hour, second hour of my show every Friday. If you don't get all 3 hours, your station doesn't have all 3, you can't listen to all 3, you would like to hear them again, PragerTopia.com. Just know about that. Download it anytime you want, and it's commercial-free. Also, you can hear live as it streams at DennisPrager.com anytime on the show, during the show, you can hear it live. So I think I have important things to say. If you didn't think that, you wouldn't be listening. So I commend those two things to you. For live, DennisPrager.com. To download and listen anytime without commercials, PragerTopia.com. The Happiness Hour is a very important hour because the happy do make the world better. The unhappy make it worse. It has never been, should never been as obvious as it is in America today. The unhappy don't like the happy. That's a general rule. It's not true for every unhappy person, but the angry, let's put it, I'll be more specific, the angry don't like the non-angry. That's— is that fair to say? I'm angry, why are you happy? Makes me angry that you're not depressed and angry and bitter like I am. That's why you have to carry on with your happiness. It's a potent weapon. So I am going to talk about the current situation, and I need to hear from you. This is one of those cases where you provide the content more than I do. I will react, but the normal is I speak, you react. Sometimes you speak, I react. This is in the latter category. We are now entering incredibly, immorally, irrationally— we are now entering the 8th month of many people locked down. I have not been locked down since the first week. From the beginning, I have been with friends I've had a house full of people almost at all times. So there has been no impact. I have flown, I have given speeches. Now there's been a huge impact on speaking, obviously. There are no serious audiences to speak of. But otherwise, I have led a completely normal life, and I totally have advocated that you do as well. Now, if you have a comorbidity, a pre-existing condition that renders your immune system weak, that's perhaps a different story, though I, I, at a given point, people do ask, if the quality of my life is to be this reduced, I will take the risk. I, I would say that if I had a pre-existing condition, I mean, I am a senior citizen, there you go, right? That, that alone should render me a little frightened. I have the president's attitude completely. President is about to address a rally in Minnesota of thousands, tens of thousands. The governor of Minnesota has announced that you can't have more than, what, 200 people? 250? Oh, okay. I love when they come up with these numbers because 300, that's really dangerous. 250, well, you can live with that. Well, Joe Biden does obey these rules. He has 11. And the— I was thinking about the people who attend these rallies. These people have made the following decision: I am prepared to risk getting COVID in order to state my support for liberty in this country, which is equivalent to supporting the president, or any Republican for that matter. I hate to bring politics into the Happiness Hour, but I would be deceptive, I would be false to the realities if I didn't in this case. I'm sorry, I really am, because I don't like to bring politics into the Happiness Hour. But we have freedom on the ballot, and what these people are saying is what I would say. I would go to a presidential rally. I would. I'll be speaking at a rally in Beverly Hills tomorrow and on this weekend. I believe that that's confirmed. So I'm 99% sure. And I, I've interacted with people in March. I— was it March or April? I, I spoke at a rally at April at City Hall in Los Angeles for the, the human destruct— destroying rules of Eric Garcetti and Gavin Newsom. People who do not have any of the consequences of the destruction they, they bring about. Isn't that something? Gavin Newsom gets the same salary. Gavin Newsom has his beautiful home. The people they destroy are the poor and the middle class with their laws, which means nothing to them. I truly believe that. I truly believe they don't give a damn about the person who has lost his restaurant. So they make these rules, and the people going to the rally in Minnesota have said, I am prepared to risk getting COVID because in 99.95 instances, I'll be fine if I get it. That's pretty— and they may not get it. See if the Los Angeles Dodgers all get it because the player went out. Now here's the happiness question. How has this all affected you or persons you know? But for all I know, some of you were happier, might, might have had a great time at home, you know, reconnected with your, with your partner. Spouse, significant other, whatever term you wish to use. But what about people you know? Kids have been deprived of friends. That's a biggie. There are scared parents who have not allowed their kid to interact with any other kid. The great— greater part of a year, even though kids aren't dying from this. Oh, but I read there was a kid who died in, uh, in Iowa. Please, your kid is far more likely to die in a car crash than from COVID 1-800-PRAGER-776-877-243-7776. Fear is the enemy of happiness. God says to man in the Bible, more than any other thing, 'Al tira'—do not be afraid. The people who are afraid here are truly in bad shape, I would think. I do not know how you stay at home except for supermarkets for 8 months. I don't know, I don't know how you do it. It's obviously not solitary confinement, but it isn't far from solitary confinement, something known to drive people, most people, crazy. How are your children? Handling it if they really obeyed this stuff. They're getting a big kick out of, uh, $40,000 a year of Zoom sessions for their college. I, I mean, I, I find it remarkable that parents are paying that amount of money. You should hire me, Zoom me in. And for free, you could send your kid to Prager University. They'll turn out a lot better in most cases. 1-800-PRAGER-776.

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President Trump was impeached by Democrats for, quote, withholding military aid to Ukraine until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened an investigation into the Biden family for corruption. This was all conjecture by Democrats with no substantial proof at all whatsoever. It was all written by a bad screenplay writer, Adam Schiff. Nothing that they thought was there was actually there. This is after the Mueller investigation completely and totally backfired and they were left with nothing. The whistleblower, Shmierig Shmirella, came up with the transcript and said, this is worthy of investigation. Vindman, all these guys came up and testified. Let's play cut 24. Remember when we had to read a fake call transcript because the real Trump calls— the Trump call transcript was actually not a big deal? Play cut 24. So you better listen good.

I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent. Understand? Lots of it on this and on that. I'm going to put you in touch with people, not just any people. I'm going to put you in touch with Attorney General of the United States my Attorney General, Bill Barr. He's got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him. And I'm going to put you in touch with Rudy. You're going to love him. Trust me. You know what I'm asking. And so I'm only going to say this a few more times in a few more ways. Trump never said anything. Call me again.

I'll call you when you've done what I asked.

It's enough of that guy. Trump never said any of that. It's as real as Pulp Fiction. Okay. It might as well be a Quentin Tarantino film.

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To say that when you say that your son's laptop, which now we know, we have various levels of proof and evidence that it is the laptop, that the emails are real. At this point, in other words, last night, to say it's Russian disinformation, it is just a level of desperation for him to say this that I have to say, doesn't it just admit he has no answer, there can be no answer, and he is going to stick to this lie cynically believing enough Americans will believe it to vote for him, and he doesn't have to answer the question because the media will not press him on it.

Yeah, that's absolutely true, Eric. And isn't it shocking that a presidential candidate will stand there and say that instead of saying the truth, taking responsibility, and actually answering the question directly? And even if he wants to excuse away fact or try to put some kind of, you know, context that couches it a little bit better, I mean, but just to blatantly flat out lie. And it's a knowing lie. It's something that is just so shocking. And you see, and I think that where you went to the media is absolutely part of the problem here because the media refuses to hold Joe Biden accountable. They are complicit in this because he is, of course, their preferred candidate. They are trying so hard, the media and big tech, to push Joe Biden over the line because they are all in this together and they want globalism. That's really the goal here is that they want to obfuscate American sovereignty. They don't want your and my rights, individual rights to be protected.

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This fact, I would have much preferred the Biden Did you hear me having a discussion with you on it?

So Joe Biden has not denied meeting with you in Los Angeles, correct? Correct. I got to figure out your thing here technically.

And then finally, which is known to everyone, this button goes down.

Watergate shouldn't be brought up.

We cover it at the Nixon Library and you're Belinda. Everybody knows.

We'll figure it out. Dennis Prager here with the Happiness Hour.

Sure that the principal does not get— and with the consequences. The subject is how has the lockdown affected you or decision, people in your life, ability means in terms of happiness, principal knows, but you can't find a paper trail. Tony Bobulinski and Tucker Carlson. And do you know people—

what I'm describing, I am told about Joe Biden knew about people whose kids have not played with kids in 7 months.

I'm thinking about the Biden family, like, how are they doing this? And I know Joe decided not to lie.

They think that they're doing a service to their child.

Brand in the future, aren't they taking political—

Putting the COVID line aside, everybody would acknowledge that any parent who's deprived their child of play and other children for 7 months would be convicted of child abuse. So what a parent has to say in this instance is COVID is a greater threat than the child abuse.

With me asking out of concern, that's what you have to say.

You have to, in life, mature people, you know, future presidential campaign at risk. Um, you know, all right, everybody, let's— we have here decreased, decreased, not hurt my happiness, increased my happiness, increased my happiness. We don't have all the subjects up yet. That's fascinating. Which is— which makes sense. So while I go to decreased happiness or increase, let's go to an increase first. Amanda in Kingsburg, California. Where is Kingsburg?

It's 30 minutes south of Fresno in the Central Valley, the breadbasket of the world.

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What do you or your family do for a living?

Uh, I'm a stay-at-home mom. My husband passed away a year ago. I have relatives who are in real estate. State.

What is so shocking— this is what the questions have to be asked— CIA, it's obviously an open, known fact. It's open, it's openly known in China that the Bidens were open for business. They were open to being in business with the Chinese Communist Party. And that Hunter had problems not just with drugs, had problems with sex. I mean, the thing on this hard drive that's so shocking of my life is really the depravity, the open drug years and really crack cocaine, which is, you know, his father wrote the law that really puts, you know, essentially African-American men who don't use the high-end drug of cocaine, which is the drug of the elite, but use crack, would put him in jail for much, much longer. His son is open about this. His son's been open about using this throughout the world. And that clearly hasn't been so rare.

It also has a sex problem.

I mean, this thing, he's reporting all this stuff, speaking on the internet. Those are access points. So the Biden family, through financial corruption, really, I mean, through being exposed financially, basically taking all of the financing from the Chinese Communist Party, have essentially made themselves open to capture by the Chinese Communist Party. And that's what happened. I think now people have to go back and ask tough questions. What was the relationship they had prior to Joe Biden negotiating in the pivot to Asia, my boy. The deal that the United States signed in the Rose Garden with President Xi and President Obama on cybersecurity, on militarization of South China Sea— it's legendary how bad that deal was. It's legendary how bad it failed. It's legendary how President Trump had to come and made it a campaign issue, a campaign issue that I will tell you pierced the blue wall.

What's the blue wall?

We pierced the blue wall not on immigration in the wall at the southern border.

It was important.

We pierced the blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and almost Michigan because of manufacturing jobs, trade, China. That's how bad it got.

And my boys and I face every day and say, what's the most we can do? And we're going to be proud of how we acted during this time. And let's do our best and accomplish the most.

And we've even started a —fight for our fundamental freedoms, which is why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom.

They are on the front lines, fighting for Americans whose freedoms are threatened.

My sons are in 4-H and FFA, so they have tons of projects with their camp buddies. But it's not just that. I'm not happy about the political situation, but I'm thrilled with how our kids are —children at our house and school.

We invited a new boy to town to come and learn with other 7th grade boys in our dining room because he would have been completely isolated on his room, not knowing any of the faces that he saw on the screen.

So we're really happy with how we've dealt with it.

Will you be following your governor's dictates on his punchlines, stepped on his— she muddied up those moments.

And that's— I don't believe he's a pity. Yes, and I completely agree with you that Kristen Wilker, who's the moderator, did a much better job in terms of allowing the discourse back and forth. I thought she was a lot more fair than Chris Wallace. But the one complaint that I had with her is the —exact same thing that you pointed out, Eric, was that she did not want this laptop story to be discussed back and forth. And so every time that the president made very clear arguments asking Joe Biden a question, she would say, oh, that's not— that's on topic. I want to stay on the race issue, or I want to stay on climate change, or, you know, we're not talking about that right now. And she would cut in and interrupt. And I think there were some statistics where she interrupted the president about 41 times and Joe Biden only 8 times. And granted, she allowed the back and forth, the 2-minute openings where their mics were muted. That was fine. But it was very clear that she did not want any discourse about this laptop, which is so unfortunate because the American people need to understand what's going on here.

I thought the president explained it incredibly well.

And to have a moderator interject themselves like that is Activism, and it's absolutely inappropriate. And that's something that is clearly evidenced that mainstream media has a biased agenda and that they are trying to protect Joe Biden.

When the authorities are acting wrong.

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Otherwise, the idea that a Christian has to obey authorities who ask you to This is your—

rational or not, 2020 election is now just days away. I think it makes my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republicans. There are a lot of nuances to it.

Our pastor says as long as we're able to worship in some form, we could have done it online. We did church at home on the computer, and now it's in the parking lot outside of our church building. But as the weather changes, I mean, we had one Sunday where we smoke was so bad from the wildfires in our mountains that they canceled the survey, and we all stayed at home and did it online.

As the weather changes, though, I will be out in public more.

But there's been political conflict and people who won't go, you know, with, uh, you know, without any consequences. Anyway, listen, uh, I'm going to get straight to talking.

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What is so shocking, and this is what the questions have to be asked to Ray and the CIA, it's obviously an open known fact. It's open, it's openly known in China. That the Bidens were open for business. They were open to being in business with the Chinese Communist Party, and that Hunter had problems not just with drugs, he had problems with sex. I mean, the thing on this hard drive that's so shocking is really the depravity, the open drug use, and really crack cocaine, which, as you know, his father wrote the law that really puts, you know, essentially African American men who don't use the high-end drug of cocaine, which is the the drug of the elite, but use crack, it would put him in jail for much, much longer. His son is open about this. His son's been open about using this throughout the world, and clearly has a, has a drug problem, and also has a sex problem. I mean, this thing, he's putting all this stuff, he's keeping it on the internet. He's very proud of this. Those are access points for foreign intelligence services to get you, capture you, blackmail you. And so the Biden family, through financial corruption, through being exposed financially to basically taking all of the financing money from the Chinese Communist Party, have essentially made themselves open to capture by the Chinese Communist Party. And that's what happened. I think now people have to go back and ask tough questions. What was the relationship they had prior to Joe Biden negotiating in the pivot to Asia, the deal that the United States signed in the Rose Garden with President Xi and President Obama on cybersecurity, on militarization of the South China Sea. It's legendary how bad that deal was. It's legendary how bad it failed. It's legendary how President Trump had to come and made it a campaign issue, a campaign issue that I will tell you pierced the blue wall, the blue wall. We pierced the blue wall not on immigration and the wall at the southern border. It was important. We pierced the blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and almost Michigan because of manufacturing jobs trade with China. That's how bad it got. Keep up with what's trending.

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The president brought up the laptop and China. He made a couple of clear points. The moderator, who was generally very good, stepped on his punchlines, stepped on his— she muddied up those moments. And that to me was a Pity.

Yes, and I completely agree with you that Kristen Welker, who is the moderator, did a much better job in terms of allowing the discourse back and forth. I thought she was a lot more fair than Chris Wallace. Absolutely. But the one complaint that I had with her is the exact same thing that you pointed out, Eric, was that she did not want this laptop story to be discussed back and forth. And so every time that the president made a very clear point and was asking Joe Biden a question, she would he would say, oh, that's not, that's on topic. I want to stay on the race issue, or I want to stay on climate change, or, you know, we're not talking about that right now. And she would cut in and interrupt. And I think there were some statistics where she interrupted the president about 41 times and Joe Biden only 8 times.

And granted, Well, this is the Happiness Hour, and I would like to remind you about Pure Talk very quickly. Are you ready? $20 a month to have phone service with unlimited text and unlimited talk. $20 a month. Oh, I didn't mention 2 gigabytes of data. I thought it was so inexpensive, or if I may use the term cheap, I actually got a phone signed up and it's terrific. How you do it? Pound 250 and say Dennis Prager. Pound 250 and say Dennis Prager. And then you get all the info you want. The Happiness Hour question this week is, how has the lockdown affected you and/or loved ones. Howard in Skokie, Illinois.

Hi there. How are you, Dennis? I spoke to you earlier in the week, um, about the restaurant. But anyway, now talking about happiness, um, there's no question over the last 8-9 months I've tried to maintain the normal lifestyle, going to see my 14 grandkids that happen to live near me. But as far as, uh, decreasing my happiness. It's, it's really profound. First of all, I have two grandchildren in Israel who— and children who I have not been able to see. They're not able to come here. Um, and all the Zoom in the world isn't going to help that. There's the fact that every day in the morning I go to the same business I've had for 10 years, and because of the governor's lockdown again, the second time, there's nobody in the restaurant. I'm sitting here now looking at a lunchtime where where we have nobody in the restaurant. So you can go and maintain all your natural routines that you've done, but there are certain things that are out of your control. So you can go here and say, I'm trying to maintain the happiness, or for example, going to see my grandchildren and seeing that their school again has been canceled or the class is canceled and seeing grandchildren are sitting in front of a screen and have no idea what to do for 5 hours. So these are the, these are the things unfortunately that I'm seeing. You're—

that's right, that's why I posed the question. My heart goes out to you. I, I, I'm— Sweden is not having another lockdown. Sweden has never had a lockdown. 7 people died in Sweden in the great second wave that is happening in Europe. I check on Sweden more than any other country. Has Sweden achieved herd immunity by never locking down is the great epidemiological, moral, scientific question. All right, let's see here. Norm in Las Vegas, hello.

Hello, Dennis. How you doing today? I'm well, thank you. Dude, I can't tell you how honored this is. I started listening to talk radio, you know, back in the '80s when I was in the Navy, and I migrated to you because not only did you say a lot of the things that I believe in, but you made me a better person. So for that, I thank you. That's very kind.

Thank you. I'm glad.

Well, uh, I tell you, I'm, uh, You know, I'm obviously concerned about the virus, and I'm equal— I'm out more, way more concerned about what's happening to our country. But personally, I can honestly say this whole thing has made me a happier and more grateful person. How so? Well, I tell you what, a funny story. Uh, my wife and I, we moved to Vegas back about 1 year ago. We moved into a 55-plus community. And, uh, we wanted to get to know the neighbors. And, uh, when the lockdown happened, all of our facilities closed up. So I ended up taking a page out of your playbook and I started having fireside chats with the neighbors just to get to know them.

And they came over, they came over, or you did it by Zoom?

You know, my wife, yeah, my wife and I, we invite one couple or two couples over. And, uh, you know, it's— we were socially distant and stuff, what we would say is— my wife was a flight attendant, and so she had prepackaged snacks, and we said, "Well, we're not wearing masks. If you want to, you can." And it was kind of funny when we first started having these fireside chats. My wife and I at the end of the night said— we'd kind of say, "Well, that was fun, but I'm not sure we want to really hang out with these people." And the kicker came when we put a Trump sign in our front yard, and I can't tell you how many people started coming out of the woodwork.

It was beautiful. Oh, that's fascinating.

It is amazing what happened. I mean, I'd have people just walk by when I was out doing the yard work saying, hey, nice sign. And I go, wow, really? You mean that? And they're like, oh yeah. And that is so powerful.

I gotta let you go, unfortunately. That— I did not know what the end of the story would be because Nevada is a swing state. Maybe this portends things for next Tuesday.

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Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. So if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. President Trump is referring to the widely shared clip of Joe Biden threatening to fire a prosecutor because they were looking into his son's business dealings. Play cut 25.

I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting $1 billion. I said, you're not getting $1 billion. I'm going to be leaving here. I think it was, what, 6 hours? I look at I'm leaving in 6 hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch, got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid.

And throughout the entire impeachment investigation process, Americans found that Hunter Biden was working for the Burisma Ukrainian energy company Burisma for $83,000 a month. Now, Americans know that he had no experience in that sector at all whatsoever. So that was where we stopped the story. But Senator Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley last month released a Senate report investigating the money flows from foreign governments to Hunter Biden. So here's where Hunter Biden makes his money, and with it, Joe Biden. A $3.5 million wire from the mayor of Moscow's wife. $100,000 spending account with a Chinese businessman, $1.4 million from his time on the board of Burisma, and $4.7 million in consulting fees from a Chinese Communist Party-linked company, and a $5 million forgivable unsecured loan not reported to the IRS from the Chinese Communist Party. And this was largely ignored from the activist media. But then Hunter Biden gave us a gift. He gave us his laptop. He said, please take it. I don't want my dad to be president.

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So he's raising the question of how is it possible that this individual, Joe Biden, couldn't be blackmailed by the Chinese given everything that his son and the rest of the Biden clan were doing. And let me break some news here as well. I got a phone call yesterday morning from a 22-year veteran of the US Navy who was asked to provide a reference for Hunter Biden when he was permitted to have a direct commission to the US Navy Reserves. This individual refused, but he found out that this individual, Hunter Biden, when he was given a direct commission into a slot that he had zero qualifications for as a public affairs officer, was not only given an age waiver, Steve, when he filled out his SF-86 clearance form that you have done, I have done many times, Hunter Biden admitted to being a drug user in the 7 years prior to filling out the SF-86 to become a naval officer. Steve Bannon. Hunter Biden was given a waiver for drug use when he was direct commissioned into the U.S. Navy. Talk to us about the national security compromises of both Hunter Biden and his father, given everything we all know now in the open source domain. So listen, this is not—

this story has never been about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden is just an instrument to get to the father. If you look at the way the syndicate works and what their apparatus— everything is about monetizing access to Joe Biden. So that's the railhead. The railhead of all value creation is Joe Biden either being head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, him being Vice President of the United States, or now him running for President of the United States and having obviously very good polls, right? So the whole thing is to monetize Biden's access to Biden.

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Uh, how has the lockdown affect the happiness of you and those you know? Uh, we have had some, uh, some good reports. I've, I've asked the question not knowing what the answer would be, uh, and so far it's quite mixed. Okay, Mark in Newberry, South Carolina. Hello.

Hey, how you doing, Dennis?

I'm well, thank you.

All right, well, I'm, uh, yeah, South Carolina, but originally from Boston. Boston strong. And I'm fortunate to live here in South Carolina where it's not as bad as far How's the lockdowns going? My child is 10. She is now very fortunate to go back to school 4 days a week versus the 2 days home, 3 days online. And I'll tell you what, that's a relief for her and obviously for us. You know, so it's affecting, I guess you could say, negative and positive. I work for— I'm an essential worker. I transport patients, cancer, dialysis. You name it. So now at work we have glass between us and the passengers. We have to wear masks. And one of the highlights of the job and for the patients is being able to talk to them, you know, have the conversation. Some of these folks are isolated.

They're seniors. They don't have anybody.

And now it's like you need prison phone to talk through the glass, you know, which we're not having. So there is no conversation anymore.

Anybody.

It's like, you know, kind of sad. Um, well, I'll tell you a positive thing. I'll let you go. You want to hear a good thing on Happy Day? Happy Hour? Go on, I'm listening. What I did to cheer myself up recently, but tiny bit political, I put on a MAGA hat, I put on a Martin Luther King shirt, and I went into Walmart and made a point to go around to Black Americans, to New Deal Mexican, and I had this non-political conversations of something pleasant, and it was very receptive, and nobody judged me for doing that.

Yeah, well, you live in South Carolina. Try it in LA.

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Portland. Anyway, I appreciate it. Feeling, you know, of I'll tell you really where, uh, what I think about a lot in regard to, with regard to the lockdown, that people in hospitals, because this call triggered this, people in hospitals can't get visitors. People dying can't have loved ones with them. People in nursing homes have not had a visit in 8 months. That's sick. Why don't you take a vote with these people? What you see, that's what liberty is about. It is about taking responsibility. So why can't you— now you'll say, well, the person visiting the sick person might have COVID, and even just walking through the floor, on the floor where the room of the person you're visiting is located, is dangerous. Well, that doesn't— that strike any of you as a tacit admission that masks are worthless? You can't have it both ways. You can't visit somebody you love in a hospital hospital, even wearing a mask, but you must wear the mask that is useless if you visit somebody in a hospital. We're drowning in nonsense, in destructive nonsense. I was in a hospital for, what was it, 1 or 2 nights that not a single human being other than a doctor or a nurse came into my room. It's fine. I mean, it's two nights, it's irrelevant. I was asleep much of the time anyway. I had, uh, I fell on my back playing pickleball. A little stupid saying it, but that's what happened. And anyway, I was out and I'm fine, but I, I had it for two days. The thought of having it for months months no one can visit me? I'll take my, I'll take my risk with COVID over that. There are two things in life: there's quality of life and there's length of life. Length of life is LOL. Just thought I'd throw that in. Okay, everybody. Janet in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Hi. Hi, Dennis.

Thank you for taking my call. Um, my biggest concern about this is how it's affecting children. I have a 7-year-old niece who I took her shopping on Saturday for the first time, and, uh, she went into the store. She left her mask in the car, and the look of fear on her face when she realized that— oh my God, it just hit me like a brick. She should not be having to worry about that.

That's right, of course not. When I was her age, we went under our desks in school in a nuclear attack, uh, well, what would be the word? Not tryout, but, uh, enactment. I really remember that. We would go in case of a nuclear attack you go under your desk. I was 7, and I thought, you're kidding. Safety drill, fine. Nuclear, but new nuclear attack safety drill. This was not a safety drill over a fire. And I remember at 7 thinking, this desk is going to protect me if the Russians drop a bomb? We'll be back.

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President Trump was impeached by Democrats for, quote, withholding military aid to Ukraine until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened an investigation into the Biden family for corruption. This was all conjecture by Democrats with no substantial proof at all whatsoever. It was all written by a bad screenplay writer, Adam Schiff. Nothing that they thought was there was actually there. This is after the Mueller investigation completely and totally backfired. And they were left with nothing. The whistleblower, Shmieruch Schmierella, came up with the transcript and said, this is worthy of investigation. Vindman, all these guys came up and testified. Let's play cut 24. Remember when we had to read a fake call transcript because the real Trump calls— the Trump call transcript was actually not a big deal? Play cut 24. So you better listen good.

I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent. Understand, lots of it. On this and on that. I'm going to put you in touch with people, and not just any people. I'm going to put you in touch with Attorney General of the United States, my Attorney General, Bill Barr. He's got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him. And I'm going to put you in touch with Rudy. You're going to love him. Trust me. You know what I'm asking. And so I'm only going to say this a few more times in a few more ways. Trump never said anything. Call me again. I'll call you when you've done what I asked.

It's enough of that guy. Trump. Trump never said any of that. It's as real as Pulp Fiction, okay? It might as well be a Quentin Tarantino film.

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To say that when you say that your son's laptop, which now we know we have various levels of proof and evidence that it is the laptop, that the, that the, uh, the emails are real at this point. In other words, last night, to say It's Russian disinformation. It is just a level of desperation for him to say this that I have to say, doesn't it just admit he has no answer, there can be no answer, and he is going to stick to this lie cynically believing enough Americans will believe it to vote for him and he doesn't have to answer the question because the media will not press him on it.

Yeah, that's absolutely true, Eric. And isn't it shocking that a presidential candidate will say stand there and say that instead of saying the truth, taking responsibility, and actually answering the question directly. And even if he wants to excuse away fact or try to put some kind of context that couches it a little bit better, I mean, but All right, all.

So interesting. I don't know if you're representative of the country at large, I just don't know, but the number of calls that your happiness has increased during the lockdown is is not what I expected. I expected 60-40 that happiness has decreased, and I got about 70-30 it's increased. That's the happiness hour, maybe the happy listen or call. Maybe the depressed aren't even picking up a phone. I still think that it's, I don't even think, I am certain that it has increased unhappiness in tens of millions of people. I mean, we know, we know that a very significant number of people have taken to alcohol or drugs. We know that there's been more suicide, there's been more spousal and child abuse. I mean, all the indicators of How could you not? I mean, you lose your business or just even being home all day. However, I'm happy to know that for some of you it has not been that case. Beverly in Dallas, hello.

Hello. Hi, Beverly. Hi, I was calling. It has not decreased our happiness because we get out, but My dad, who passed away the end of May, was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for 7 years, and he was held in solitary confinement for 42 months, the longest of any POW. And what they're doing to the people here in this country is just the same as torture. And if we hadn't started to get him out, he would have declined. He passed at the end of May, and we were able to have a huge graveside service even against the rules, but it was all outside. Um, but what they're doing to this country is bad. That's right, that's right.

That's what I think. That is exactly what I think. The only thing more troubling to me is that so many Americans have taken it without protest. My friends, it's the happiness hour, and it's a final week of asking you to help the Alliance Defending Freedom. I can tie the two together. You'll have a happier America the more funds they get to have lawyers to defend religious freedom and other freedoms, and you will be happier because you gave to a good cause. During the break now, please go to the banner to adf@dennisprager.com and now call in on any subject under the sun. Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental freedoms. That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom. They are on the front lines fighting pivotal lawsuits for Americans whose freedoms are threatened, and they do it for free. That's why we're asking you to be as generous as you can by giving today so that Alliance Defending Freedom can continue to fight these lawsuits and be ready when your rights are threatened too. Give your gift now by visiting adflegal.org/prager, and thank you for joining the fight for freedom.

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The president brought up the laptop and China. He made a couple of clear points. The moderator, who was generally very good, stepped on his punchlines, stepped on his— she muddied up those moments, and that to me was, it was a pity.

Yes, and I completely agree with you that, I mean, Kristen Welker, who was the moderator, did a much better job in terms of allowing the discourse back and forth. I thought she was a lot more fair than Chris Wallace. Absolutely. But the one complaint that I had with her is the exact same thing that you pointed out, Eric, was that she did not want this laptop story to be discussed back and forth. And so every time that the president made a very clear point and was asking Joe Biden a question, she would say, oh, that's that's not, that's on topic. I want to stay on the race issue, or I want to stay on climate change, or, you know, we're not talking about that right now. And she would cut in and interrupt. And I think there were some statistics where she interrupted the president about 41 times and Joe Biden only 8 times. And granted, you know, she allowed the back and forth, the 2-minute openings where their mics were muted, that, you know, that was fine. But it was very clear that she did not want any discourse about this laptop, which is so unfortunate because the American people need to understand what's going on here. I thought the president explained it incredibly well. And to have a moderator interject themselves like that is activism and it's absolutely inappropriate. And that's something that just clearly evidences that the mainstream media has a biased agenda and that they are trying to protect Joe Biden from this story. So you have to ask yourself, Why?

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I want to take you to two states, South Carolina and Kentucky. You know what Democrats are doing there, um, in Senate races featuring Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Mitch McConnell in Kentucky? You know, I guess if you can't win on your own merits, you pull crap like this. Um, a big Democratic political action committee is spending thousands and thousands of dollars promoting Constitution candidate Bill Bledsoe in South Carolina. They're calling him in the ads, and they're apparently saturating the airwaves right now. He's the only constitutional— true conservative, rather— on the ballot. Only problem is he dropped out in early October. He's not running anymore, and he endorsed Lindsey Graham. But because he's technically going to still be on the ballot The Democrats now are trying to fool South Carolinians into believing that there is a conservative, a more conservative alternative to Lindsey Graham because they're trying to get Jaime Harrison, the liberal Democrat, elected. That's all they're doing. They're doing the exact same thing in Kentucky. They're trying to siphon off votes from Mitch McConnell. A liberal super PAC is spending thousands of dollars pushing a libertarian named Brad Barron. The ad calls Barron a better choice for U.S. Senate who believes in freedom, liberty, and individual rights. Again, same thing. This guy's on the ballot, not viable, but since the ballots have been printed, that's what they're doing.

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There are more Black Latin players playing in the major leagues than American-born Black players, something that was told to Mookie Betts following a victory, and Betts was unaware of it. The person speaking is a former baseball player named Harold Reynolds.

Well, Mook, you know, when you get to the World Series, everything's magnified. And one of the things everybody's talking about across the country, you're the only African-American player in the World Series. So when did you learn that, and what are your thoughts when you think about that?

Now think about that. You know, you're the only African-American in the World Series. What were your— what did you find out about that? What were your thoughts about that? What the hell kind of question is that? Is somebody putting a gun to the head of Black people and telling them not to go into baseball? What is this? 1947, uh, and Jackie Robinson had to come to the major leagues and endure racism? Or are people voluntarily deciding maybe they want to go to other sports? Is there any evidence whatsoever that somehow Black people are being denied an opportunity to play baseball? There are all sorts of programs for baseball in the inner city. Programs have been going on for decades. For whatever reason, a lot of Black boys do not like to play baseball. I don't know. So that's Mookie Betts' problem?

You're the only African-American player in the world.

People are talking about that across the country. Really?

Club from the Mole is Dutch for hit in the head with the windmill. Yeah, yeah, a lot of our world leaders have been hit in the head with a windmill. All right everybody, welcome to the show. Dennis Prager here. Third Hour Fridays is whatever is on your mind about you, about me, about life, about death, about fountain pens, audio equipment, photography equipment, cigars. And enjoy. Music is a beautiful gift of God. Yep, see the way I look at it. No evolutionary explanation. You know how many people like to explain everything by one thing? The whole Marxist world explains everything through economics. And then there's the, the newest one is explain everything is explained by evolution. Really? How is the fact that I cry listening to Beethoven's 7th How is that evolutionarily explainable? Or get happy listening to Frank Sinatra. What neurological service is that performed? All right, anyway, to the show and to whatever is on your minds, or singularly on your mind. There is so much to share with you, it is mind-boggling. It really is. Here's an amazing piece, and then I'll take your calls from Breitbart, which the left loathes, but it's actually a terrific website. Fans view NBA as an overt political thing, not a sport. A new survey finds that the National Basketball Association is now seeing more like a political organization pushing the Black Lives Matter agenda, with most saying they no longer think of the league as a sport. Survey conducted by RealityCheck Insights and discussed recently in an interview with Outkick finds that fans think of the NBA as a political organization that sometimes plays basketball. Good one, eh? That goes under the heading, as you all know, the left destroys everything it touches. In this case, the NBA. By the way, I got an interesting story for you, personal and non-personal. Some of you may recall that many, many schools, many schools maybe 1,000, I don't know. But there are teachers with liberal teachers and conservative teachers, not left-wing teachers, who want kids to be exposed to conservative thought, not just left-wing thought. So they will suggest a, or even show a Prager University video, 5 minutes. So at Maumee High School, Outside of Toledo, they did that as an extra credit thing. Watch a 5-minute video and then discuss it from PragerU. One woman took her child out of class, and that was enough for More Me to stop the practice. So we've decided to take a full-page ad out in the Toledo Blade. The major newspaper of the area with my article of this week. It just publishes my column on what the high school did to one 5-minute conservative video. And I, I don't— I'm not picking on the high school because to their credit they even allowed it to begin with. But I think people need to know the stifling of dissent that is characteristic. Indeed, it is in the DNA of the left and how people are cowed into submission. My fireside chat, which I do every week, you can easily see it at PragerU YouTube, and it's very widely viewed. Before I take questions, mostly from young people, I offer some comments, and it was this week, it is on courage. People have to stop being cowed by the left and have to start expressing themselves politely but firmly. And if you are let off somebody's Facebook page, that tells you something about that somebody, doesn't it? If I had— if I, I, I can't have— I mean, I have a Facebook page, but it's public. I mean, I can't have my own because it would be overloaded. But if I had my own private You know, just like everybody else, a page. And somebody I loved posted a pro-Biden column. I wouldn't get rid of the person out of my life. They would just post a pro-Biden column. That's fine. But we're not as afraid of their ideas as they are of ours because we're not persuaded and they are afraid. Look at what happened at this school. The fear of 5 minutes. They— the 200 alumni signed a petition against showing PragerU videos at Maumee High School outside of Toledo. 200 alumni. They fear that 5 minutes of non-left-wing thought can undo 4 years of left-wing thought. And so it was extra credit, and they're right. That's the point. They're right. It takes 5 minutes to undo the superficiality. Everything they learn from the left is superficial intellectually and morally, so it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to expose it. All right, let me take your calls here. Uh, all right, Heidi in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Hello.

Hi Dennis, thank you for taking my call. Um, I just heard this morning on my radio that Iowa is closing hundreds of polling precincts Tuesday due to COVID outbreak. Which is now going to confuse voters as to where they're supposed to go. Um, I, I, it just baffles my mind. I didn't think it would happen in a place like—

Iowa has a Democratic governor?

No, uh, she's Republican. She's been really great through all of this, so this is why I'm baffled.

Oh, I gotta look into that. Thank you for telling me that. That is baffling. See, we have lost the ability to tell people, you do what you want. It is much more dangerous to drive a motorcycle than a car. You say drive a motorcycle, was that the word used? That's what I thought. But you don't say ride a car. Why do you drive a car and ride a motorcycle? It's a terror. I won't even repeat his answer, folks. It is so incoherent that if you drive one, you drive the other. You don't ride a car. Ah, you ride a horse like you ride a motorcycle. Well, you don't drive a horse. Okay, all right, this is not conducive to a riveting show. I fully acknowledge that danger. Be that as it may, we allow people to ride motorcycles, correct? Correct. Even though it's much more dangerous than riding a car. By the way, riding is accurate because you could be riding in a car and die. But nevertheless, it's much more dangerous. We allow people to do what is dangerous. In a free society, that's what happens. You think you'll die if you go to vote? Do you really believe that? Do you, do you, do you know the data? People say they follow science. It is one of the biggest frauds of our lifetime. The better they're educated, the less they follow science, the more they follow fear. Okay, I'm gonna have to look that up. Uh, right, next. Uh, wow, look at that. Good stuff. All right, Randy, Thousand Oaks, California. Hello there.

Hi, Dennis, how you doing? All right, thank you. Hey, uh, I'll make this as quick as I can. When I turned 18 in 1972, my dad was self-employed with a business and he went into the VA to get a hernia operation, and they never turned the oxygen on. They came back, he was purple. They put him in a machine that flipped him for 3 and a half weeks.

He was— All right, hold on a minute. Back in a moment.

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to say that when you say that your son's laptop, which now we know, we have various levels of proof and evidence that it is the laptop, that the emails are real, at this point, in other words, last night, to say it's Russian disinformation, it is just a level of desperation for him to say this that I have to say, doesn't it just admit He has no answer. There can be no answer. And he is going to stick to this lie, cynically believing enough Americans will believe it to vote for him. And he doesn't have to answer the question because the media will not press him on it.

Yeah, that's absolutely true, Eric. And isn't it shocking that a presidential candidate will stand there and say that instead of saying the truth, taking responsibility, and actually answering the question directly? And even if he wants to excuse away fact or try to put some kind of, you know, context that couches it a little bit better. I mean, but just to blatantly flat out lie, and it's a knowing lie. It's something that is just so shocking. And you see, and I think that where you went to the media is absolutely part of the problem here because the media refuses to hold Joe Biden accountable. They are complicit in this because he is of of course their preferred candidate. They are trying so hard, the media and big tech, to push Joe Biden over the line because they are all in this together and they want globalism. That's really the goal here is that they want to obfuscate American sovereignty. They don't want your and my rights, individual rights, to be protected.

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I would have much preferred the Biden family go on record and define these facts for the American people and the globe versus me sitting here having a discussion with you on it.

So Joe Biden has not denied meeting with you in Los Angeles, correct?

Correct. Correct, he says. Now you're about to hear a term, plausible deniability, which is known to everyone who knows the history of Watergate. I'm the president of the Nixon Foundation. We cover it at the Nixon Library. And you're Belinda. Everybody knows plausible deniability is a term that is used in government to make sure that the principal does not get spattered with the consequences of anything that gets done following his or her decision. Plausible deniability means The principal knows, but you can't find a paper trail. Tony Bobulinski and Tucker Carlson are talking here about the Biden family's plausible deniability that Joe Biden knew about the China connection. Cut 27.

And I'm thinking about the Biden family, like, how are they doing this? I know Joe decided not to run in 2016, but what if he ran in the future? Aren't they taking political risk? Or headline risk. And I remember looking at Jim Biden and saying, how are you guys getting away with this? Like, aren't you concerned? And he sort of looked at me and he laughed a little bit and said, plausible deniability. He said that out loud? Yes, he said it directly to me, one-on-one in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel after about an hour and a half, 2-hour meeting with me asking out of concern How are you guys doing this? Aren't you concerned that you're going to put your brother's future presidential campaign at risk? The Chinese—

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Ladies and gentlemen, Dennis Prager here. All right, let me finish with my last— is he still on, my last caller? Yeah, Randy in Thousand Oaks. Okay, so tell me the point that you called in on because we don't have a lot of time. Go ahead, Randy.

Okay, Dennis, so my dad, he was 6'1", 220, came out in a wheelchair shaking like a leaf, and I was stuck with a business to run to support our family. And I found you on Religion Online, and your wisdom throughout the decades, uh, has been incredible. Uh, launched me to a true success, uh, within the business world, and I owe you such a great gratitude. I'm— I, I just— words alone cannot express how thankful I am for you because you shaped my life from a young man. Wow.

Well, I, I'm very moved. Uh, this will sound corny, and I always debate whether to note it, but As one caller said, Dennis Prager, my name for you is Mr. Transparent. So here you go, here's some more to add to my transparency. I've been blessed in many ways. One of them is that I had a very deep sense of purpose from teenage years. I wrote, and I still have that diary I wrote when I was 16. What I want to do in life, and I wrote, I want to influence people to the good. And that's it. Now, doing— influencing people to the good entails a lot of fighting. I didn't realize it then. It's not just promoting good, it's also fighting bad. I was 16. I didn't realize it. I was living in a blessedly free country. All right, and let's go on here. Doug in Lakewood, New Jersey. Hi. Doug in Lakewood, New Jersey, are you there?

Yes, I'm there. Hello, do you hear me? Yes, I do. Yeah, I'm sorry about that, I just put it on mute by mistake. It's okay. Um, I wanted to know, um, what do you recommend that people do just in case the worst happens and, uh, Biden gets in? Do you think we should move to Sweden or something where we won't be locked up forever?

Well, we talk about this a lot in my family, and I tell you, my, my, uh, I know exactly what I'll do if the Democrats, because Biden's irrelevant, if the left wins, the worst case scenario is the Senate and the presidency, then America will be fundamentally transformed. The forces of health, I don't mean physical health, of moral health, will be on the defensive. So I tell you what I will do. I will continue to fight. I'm not going to move to Sweden, is not a silly question. And I think America is worth fighting for. I'll tell you this, if the Democrats win presidency and Senate, having already conquered universities, high schools, elementary schools, all the mainstream media, sports, having conquered everything with their anti-American bad ideas, bad values, then the biggest, one of the biggest, one of the many big prices will be that America will no longer be, and this would be the first in its history, if the left takes over this country, It will no longer be the last best hope on earth, as Abraham Lincoln described America. It will be another left-wing, corrupt, freedom-suppressing country. That's all it will be. It can resume being the last best hope on earth, but that would take a defeat of the left. It might be that there would be such a destruction of the institutions and of the economy that they would lose badly in the next election. That could be. But having every lever of power and influence, that becomes tougher and tougher. What I will advocate is not leaving America for Sweden. But leaving American institutions for free institutions. And the first one is to get your kid out of school and homeschool your child, or send your child to a good school, of which there are very few, usually religious, but not all religious, sometimes a charter school. There will be a— what will happen and should happen is a self-removal of those of us who still have America's values, its trinity, In God We Trust, E Pluribus Unum, and Liberty as our fundamental values. We should, should there be a left-wing takeover, We should be, we should in fact remove ourselves and into healthy, loving, wise institutions. And that's where you, I agree with the moving, but the moving is within America. Okay. We'll see what happens, obviously. Thank you, Doug in Lakewood, New Jersey. John in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Hello, Dennis. You know I love you, but I vociferously disagree with your blanket statement that masks are worthless. In fact, I would have to go so far as to say it was smacked in the head with a windmill, clubbed in the mulling, and And it might be one of the silliest things you've ever said and one of the most dangerous. How would you feel if you woke up from anesthesia during surgery and noticed that none of the operating room personnel were wearing masks? Now, I know you're gonna say that that's completely not the same thing as you wearing a mask infecting them and keeping you from getting infected by them.

Well, the reason it's not the same thing is 'cause it's surgical masks.

I understand that, and this is— one of the key things that you don't understand about masks is that there are N95 masks, there are surgical masks, and then there are covering masks. And you also have to cover your eyes. That's one of the reasons that masks quote-unquote don't work, because eyes have mucous membranes in them and people get infected through the eye again. Nobody— you never mentioned that.

You're right. So why doesn't that argue in my favor.

Well, it— you're saying that masks are worthless. They— there are studies that show that masks are anywhere from 7% effective to 97% effective, right? Depending on how you wear them, right?

I'll keep you on. Okay, so don't go away.

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I would have much preferred the Biden family go on record and define these facts for the American people and the globe versus me sitting here having a discussion with you on it.

So Joe Biden has not denied meeting with you in Los Angeles, correct?

Correct, he says.

Now you're about to hear a term, plausible deniability, which is known to everyone who knows the history of Watergate. I'm the president of Nixon Foundation. We cover it at the Nixon Library. And you're Belinda. Everybody knows plausible deniability is a term that is used in government to make sure that the principal does not get spattered with the consequences of anything that gets done following his or her decision. Plausible deniability means The principal knows, but you can't find a paper trail. Tony Bobulinski and Tucker Carlson are talking here about the Biden family's plausible deniability that Joe Biden knew about the China connection. Cut 27.

And I'm thinking about the Biden family, like, how are they doing this? I know Joe decided not to run in 2016, but what if he ran in the future? Aren't they taking political risk? Or headline risk. And I remember looking at Jim Biden and saying, how are you guys getting away with this? Like, aren't you concerned? And he sort of looked at me and he laughed a little bit and said, plausible deniability. He said that out loud? Yes, he said it directly to me, one-on-one in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel after about an hour and a half, 2-hour meeting with me asking out of concern, How are you guys doing this? Aren't you concerned that you're going to put your brother's future presidential campaign at risk? The Chinese.

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What is so shocking, and this is what the questions have to be asked to Wray and the CIA, it's obviously an open, known fact. It's open, it's openly known in China that the Bidens were open for business. They were open to being in business with the Chinese Communist Party and that Hunter had problems not just with drugs, he had problems with sex. I mean, the thing on this hard drive that's so shocking is really the depravity, the open drug use and really crack cocaine. Which is, you know, his father wrote the law that really puts, you know, essentially African-American men who don't use the high-end drug of cocaine, which is the drug of the elite, but use crack, would put them in jail for much, much longer. His son is open about this. His son's been open about using this throughout the world and clearly has a drug problem and also has a sex problem. I mean, this thing, he's putting all this stuff, he's keeping it on the internet. He's very proud of this. Those are access points for foreign intelligence services to get you, capture you, blackmail you. And so the Biden family, through financial corruption, through being exposed financially to basically taking all of the financing money from the Chinese Communist Party, have essentially made themselves open to capture by the Chinese Communist Party. And that's what happened. I think now people have to go back and ask tough questions. What was the relationship they had Prior to Joe Biden negotiating in the pivot to Asia, the deal that the United States signed in the Rose Garden with President Xi and President Obama on cybersecurity, on militarization in the South China Sea, it's legendary how bad that deal was. It's legendary how bad it failed. It's legendary how President Trump had to come and made it a campaign issue, a campaign issue that I will tell you pierced the blue wall. The blue wall. We pierced the blue wall not on immigration and the wall at the southern border. It was important. Important. We pierced the blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and almost Michigan because of manufacturing jobs and trade with China. That's how bad it had got.

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Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental All right everybody, I have a caller on who likes me and thinks I've lost my mind on the masks issue. So let me go back to you, uh, in— where are you? Is he still on? Yeah, wait, did he leave? Yeah, no, he's there. John. Okay, John in South Carolina.

There you are. Greenwood. John in Greenwood. John in Greenwood, South Carolina. Here, here's, here's cutting to the chase on this, Dennis, and this is my concern turn in the timeframe that we have. If 537 votes decided the 2000 election, what will 2,300— excuse me, 230,000 deaths have on the next election? And I believe strongly that if we had worn masks properly, and I mean the N95 masks that— who was it, Dr. Lapico, that you talked to yesterday? The N95 masks that filter out 95% of the particles. If we had had those on hand, known how to wear them properly, worn them properly, and complied with, with proper medical practice, we would have put this virus to bed back in March, and we never would have needed the lockdown. Now you need to understand, I'm never locked down, and the reason that I've never locked down is because I go out wearing masks and I follow proper procedure as to a general viral infection.

Very good. It's okay. So let me respond with a few quick things because of, as you point out, the time factor. I have read this to, uh, you, my listeners, on a number of occasions. I will do it again. May 21st, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine, considered the most prestigious journal of medicine in America, by— as written by a bunch of MDs. We know that wearing a mask outside healthcare facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to COVID-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic COVID-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes, and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes. The chance of catching COVID-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic. A mask will not provide— will not protect providers caring for a patient with active COVID-19 if it's not accompanied by meticulous hand hygiene, eye protection— I protect— so clearly would have to wear goggles, gloves, and a gown. A mask alone will not prevent healthcare workers with early COVID-19 from contaminating their hands and spreading the virus to patients and colleagues. Focusing on universal masking alone may paradoxically lead to more transmission of COVID-19 if it diverts attention from implementing more fundamental infection control measures. These doctors were brought to task, and so they wrote: an addendum after it was published. We understand that some people are citing our perspective article, uh, as supporting— as support for discrediting widespread masking. Of course it does. I just read to you that it does. In truth, the intent of our article was to push for more masking, not less. And then they, they, they go on to even negate that. Look, they were put under pressure. Doctors are no more courageous than anybody else. That's the, the evidence is minimal. And yes, an N95 mask, everybody wearing it with goggles, I guess we, we would have much less spread. Meanwhile, I just want you all to know, if anybody requests me to wear a mask indoors, I do. Okay, just want you to know. But I am angered beyond words at the lunacy of asking 3-year-olds getting on airplanes to wear masks. I mean, that, that is an example to me, folks. If you saw what I just saw you would commend me for not cracking up. Sean walked in and tripped over the lamp, the light stand, and caught himself at a 45-degree angle with the floor. And yet I did not laugh. I am proud of myself. All right, so if I My view is, given that these are not N95 masks and people are not wearing goggles, it is more in the realm of superstition and feel good about oneself. I am saving lives and saving my own life. Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be very curious to see how many Los Angeles Dodgers die as a result of— what was the player's name? Justin Turner, their star. Uh, you know, celebrating with them without a mask while COVID positive. So let's see. I mean, somebody should be hospitalized and maybe somebody should die if this mask stuff is so important. Guy had COVID-19, celebrating with his fellow players, and condemned universally. All right, relief factor, is that correct? ReliefFactor.com. You will thank me. I get thank you letters, people out of pain. Go to ReliefFactor.com or call 800-500-8384. Try it for 3 weeks for just $19.95 because they say you'll know within 3 weeks if it works.

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What is so shocking, and this is what the questions have to be asked to Ray and the CIA, it's obviously an open known fact. It's open, it's openly known in China that the Bidens were open for business. They were open to being in business with the Chinese Communist Party. And that Hunter had problems not just with drugs, had problems with sex. I mean, the thing on this hard drive that's so shocking is really the depravity, the open drug use, and really crack cocaine, which, as you know, his father wrote the law that really puts, you know, essentially African American men who don't use the high-end drug of cocaine, which is the drug of the elite, but use crack, would put them in jail for much, much longer. His son is open about this. His son's been open about using this throughout the world and clearly has a, has a drug problem and also has a sex problem. I mean, this thing, he's recording all this stuff, he's keeping it on the internet. He's very proud of this. Those are access points for foreign intelligence services to get you, capture you, blackmail you. And so the Biden family, through financial corruption, through being exposed financially, to basically taking all of the financing money from the Chinese Communist Party have essentially made themselves open to capture by the Chinese Communist Party. And that's what happened. I think now people have to go back and ask tough questions. What was the relationship they had prior to Joe Biden negotiating in the pivot to Asia, the deal that the United States signed in the Rose Garden with President Xi and President Obama on cybersecurity, on militarization of the South China Sea, It's legendary how bad that deal was. It's legendary how bad it failed. It's legendary how President Trump had to come and made it a campaign issue, a campaign issue that I will tell you pierced the blue wall. The blue wall. We pierced the blue wall not on immigration and the wall at the southern border. It was important. We pierced the blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and almost Michigan because of manufacturing jobs trade China. That's how bad it got.

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The president brought up the laptop and China. He made a couple of clear points. The moderator, who was generally very good, stepped on his punchlines, stepped on his— she muddied up those moments, and that to me was a pity.

Yes, and I completely agree with you that Kristen Welker, who was the moderator, did a much better job in terms of allowing, uh, the, the discourse back and forth. I thought she was a lot more—

Press the button. Am I being broadcast? Yes, this is serious stuff. Look at that, no difference. As if the button never— look at that, it's not working. All right everybody, Dennis Prager here. It's also from the CDC, by the way. Disposable medical masks, also known as surgical masks, are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids. There is limited evidence for their effectiveness—this is surgical masks—in preventing influenza virus transmission, either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza. All right, just want you to know that. That's the CDC's review of 14 randomized trials. So maybe it's not so silly when I say that they're useless. They're useful if you are going to sneeze in somebody's face and you have it on. I fully agree, probably is useful. How many people sneeze in people's faces? Mature people ask, what is the price paid? The price paid for the masks is enormous. It's a feel-good thing. That's all it is. Oh, I'm saving lives and I'm saving my own life. That's why the condemnation of Justin Turner, the Dodger baseball player, So let's see, folks, if it's all that helpful. And there he is, couldn't be closer, hugging his buddies, and he was just declared positive with COVID-19. Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, another left-wing sportswriter, said he marred the World Series. Is that sick? I mean, is that sick? I'm not even a Dodger fan. I don't— I Sports has alienated me this year. So I didn't care who won, to be honest. And, you know, I live in LA. I was a Kings fan for many years, but that's in hockey. But anyway, it doesn't matter. I just want you to know I'm not saying this— I'm only telling you this because I'm not saying this because I'm pro-Dodger. I'm pro-common sense and decency. To say that the World Series was marred because the guy with COVID hugged his fellow players— let's see what happens. What if nothing happens? You think Bill Plasky will say, "Hmm, I made a mistake"? They never make a mistake. Do you know one leftist who has ever said, "I'm sorry"? I don't. 25 years ago I wrote that. Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry. You call people racists who aren't racist. You ever apologize? Of course not. All right, everybody. Uh, Jacob in North Arlington, New Jersey. Hi. Hi, who are you today, Dennis?

I'm a big fan of you.

Thank you for that. How old are you?

I'm 18 years old. I'm from New Jersey. I'm currently enrolled at Texas A&M University. Um, so I have a question. I mean, I'm, I'm a big Trump supporter, by the way, but, uh, why should young people my age, um, young voters, why should we vote red or vote Trump?

Well, it depends on what you value. If you value liberty, there's no question, because the left suppresses liberty, uh, everywhere it gains power. There is no exception to that since 1917 when Lenin took over Russia. There is no exception. Liberals love freedom and conservatives love freedom. And the left loves power. So if you're 18, I have to ask you, do you believe that free speech is important? If you do, you can't vote for the Democrats. No, no, no, it's just a fact. It's not an opinion. It depends what you value. If you value being taken care of by the government, you should vote Democrat. If you value liberty, you should vote Republican.

Mhm, mhm. I totally agree. I definitely totally agree. I think a lot of people my age now, they're very, uh, I guess they misconstrue everything that the Democrats and, you know, the left says and all the false promises and everything.

Well, that's all they hear. Yeah, unless they watch a PragerU video. I mean, not just us, or listen to talk radio. I mean, but, but, but yes, listen to you I hope you join Prager Force. You sound like the perfect candidate, just to meet all the terrific young conservative women who are members. If I were his age, I'd have joined Prager Force if I were liberal. Okay, I thank you. And, uh, let's go to Will in Houston. Hello, Will of Houston.

Houston, Texas.

Will, I think, uh, yeah, something went awry there. Okay, I think he hung up just as I was about to talk. Pierre in Glendale, California. Hello, Mr.

Prager. Yes, sir. What a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me on. And I was calling regarding the, uh, ride a motorcycle, ride a car comment that you made, which, uh, brightened my morning because I do myself ride a motorcycle. Right. So, um, go ahead. We ride a motorcycle as we ride a horse, right? No, no, you already touched upon—

yes, the horse that I work with told me that. I mean, the, uh, I'm sorry, the, the engineer that I work with told me about that. Yes. Right on.

As opposed to driving in a car. But anyway, inherent risk, yes, it is far more dangerous, as we know, to ride a motorcycle. So that's what us who choose to wear a mask or not, we are assuming the risk and the responsibility. How many people out there will say that my riding motorcycle provides a risk to them, meaning that they're in inherent danger, in inherent danger, pardon me. By riding a motorcycle.

Well, yeah, of course people will say, ah, but you have to wear a mask so that you don't kill others. This is the secondhand smoke argument.

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Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. So if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. President Trump is referring to the widely shared clip of Joe Biden threatening to fire a prosecutor because they were looking into his son's business dealings. Play cut 25.

I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting $1 billion.

I said, you're not getting $1 billion. I'm going to be leaving here.

I think it was, what, 6 hours?

I look, I said, I'm leaving in 6 hours.

If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch got fired and they put in place someone who was solid.

And throughout the entire impeachment investigation process, Americans found that Hunter Biden was working for the Burisma Ukrainian energy company Burisma for $83,000 a month. Now, Americans know that he had no experience in that sector at all whatsoever. So that was where we stopped the story. But Senator Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley last month released a Senate report investigating the money flows from foreign governments to Hunter Biden. So here's where Hunter Biden makes his money and with it, Joe Biden. A $3.5 million wire from the mayor of Moscow's wife, a $100,000 spending account with a Chinese businessman, $1.4 million from his time on the board of Burisma, and $4.7 million in consulting fees from a Chinese Communist Party-linked company, and a $5 million forgivable unsecured loan not reported to the IRS from the Chinese Communist Party. And this was largely ignored from the activist media. But then Hunter Biden gave us a gift. He gave us his laptop. He said, please take it. I don't want my dad to be president.

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Next with Sebastian Burke. So he's raising the question of how is it possible that this individual, Joe Biden, couldn't be blackmailed by the Chinese given everything that his son and the rest of the Biden clan were doing. And let me break some news here as well. I got a phone call yesterday morning from a 22-year veteran of the US Navy who was asked to provide a reference for Hunter Biden when he was permitted to have a direct commission to the U.S. Navy Reserves. This individual refused, but he found out that this individual, Hunter Biden, when he was given a direct commission into a slot that he had zero qualifications for as a public affairs officer, was not only given an age waiver, Steve, when he filled out his SF The, the thing that brought to my attention, they, I'm just speaking in light of what I ended the last segment with.

A lot of you have probably wondered why have I talked about secondhand smoke so much in condemning what I call the lie of how dangerous it is. I, I have an ability to see things, to see little things and extrapolate big things. Obviously, if you don't agree with me, you don't think I have that ability. But if you do respect what I have to say, I want you to know that it emanates from that, and it's sort of a gift because it, it comes to me pretty naturally. Sort of like people who can memorize music. I can't. I play, I play an instrument, but I can't memorize music. I don't have that talent. We all have different talents. The secondhand smoke thing, I realized, was a lie, and I knew why it was developed. Telling people the risks of their dying if they smoke cigarettes was not effective, or not nearly as effective as the anti-cigarettes people wanted it to be. And I, I think the cigarettes are dangerous, just for the record. I agree with that. So they came up with something else. Forget about yourself, you're killing others if you smoke. And that was effective. That's what did it. And then I realized science was being compromised by idealism. They were so sure of the rectitude of their battle against cigarettes. That they could lie about secondhand smoke because it was effective. 50,000 Americans die of secondhand smoke? Like I'm a zebra. But that's what they tell you. How many people have, uh, listed on the side of secondhand smoke? Well, that's what they're doing with masks. Uh, so yes. You are saving others' lives if you wear a mask. But what if everybody that you're around when you don't have the mask is in their 20s and early 30s and healthy like baseball players? Maybe the risk is infinitesimally small that they will be actually hurt by it. That's important. This is the last day of our appeal, I believe, for this magnificent organization, Alliance Defending Freedom. Please take the time now. It's the top of my dennisprager.com page. Click on it and donate. You will help this beloved country of ours if you do. Have a wonderful weekend.