The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸10⧸18 - ‘Attentive, engaged and … left？’ (Chris Martenson & Leroy Chiao join Glenn)

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00:00:09.140 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.040 Don't count Steve Bannon out. And here's why.

00:00:21.460 Do you remember the days when talks of amnesty torpedoed Marco Rubio?

00:00:27.920 When low energy Jeb was destroyed by candidate Trump because he referred to illegal immigration and DACA as an act of love.

00:00:41.080 Well, those days were so five minutes ago.

00:00:44.500 Yesterday, in a rare glimpse in a meeting between the president and lawmakers, President Trump said DACA, quote, should be a bill of love.

00:00:56.660 This made Jeb Bush happy. Jeb was tweeting yesterday saying it's good to see him finally being reasonable.

00:01:07.100 Getting a fly on the wall view into these meetings isn't really normal.

00:01:11.760 So you have to wonder why were the cameras rolling yesterday?

00:01:15.600 Was it a mistake or was there something else going on here?

00:01:18.860 Here's what I believe.

00:01:20.940 The news of the day was dominated by Michael Wolff's book and questions over Trump's mental stability.

00:01:28.260 Anybody see any mental unstable president in that meeting?

00:01:32.800 Because I didn't.

00:01:34.080 He was uncharacteristically prepared, reserved, attentive, engaged.

00:01:41.220 And he was also very left.

00:01:45.980 Some have criticized the president's willingness and ability to reach across the aisle and compromise.

00:01:51.020 Boy, that wasn't the case yesterday.

00:01:53.480 It was it was actually hard to determine whether Trump favored the Democrats at the table or the Republicans.

00:01:58.640 When when Feinstein posed the question about the president's willingness to do a, quote, clean DACA bill now and security for the border later, Trump went into full agreeable mode.

00:02:14.740 It took the House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to remind President Trump that Feinstein didn't mention the wall or border security.

00:02:24.720 Now, he eventually made his intentions a little more clear, but it all kind of seemed like an afterthought for him.

00:02:32.940 In fact, he said at one point, you go ahead and put it all together and I don't care what it is.

00:02:37.760 I'll sign it.

00:02:39.860 He seemed to want to hurry everything along.

00:02:43.760 Didn't matter.

00:02:44.600 He said, quote, whether I like or agree with it, I will sign anything you put in front of me.

00:02:51.700 That's not a leader.

00:02:53.080 There's no leadership there.

00:02:54.720 But it seems like the leader had an ulterior purpose or motive for those that are pissed off on Twitter that Trump is considering DACA.

00:03:06.320 You might as well get used to it.

00:03:08.720 Trump knows it as well as everybody in the House and the Senate.

00:03:12.400 Without DACA, Trump and the Republicans have zero leverage to do anything with border security and immigration reform.

00:03:20.800 However, the master negotiator just gave them DACA yesterday.

00:03:29.560 DACA isn't going anywhere.

00:03:30.900 In fact, this thing almost seemed planned out before it even started.

00:03:39.460 So why keep rolling?

00:03:41.780 Why?

00:03:42.100 Why?

00:03:42.220 The real work on immigration has already happened and it's going to be finalized during a closed door session.

00:03:51.060 But Trump, the Democrats and the Republicans wanted their constituents to know something.

00:03:57.540 Feinstein wanted to project the appearance that DACA was their primary motivation.

00:04:02.140 McCarthy wanted Republicans to know that border security and immigration reform is a higher priority than anything like amnesty.

00:04:08.660 And Trump, he wanted to show everybody that he was mentally stable.

00:04:14.180 Kushner, Ivanka, coached him.

00:04:17.720 This is their influence because he is more than willing to reach across the aisle and cooperate.

00:04:24.500 He even suggested they bring back earmarks.

00:04:28.080 Quite honestly, after seeing it yesterday, you should rename Pennsylvania Avenue and it should be renamed Broadway because that theater was very good yesterday.

00:04:49.560 It's Wednesday, January 10th.

00:04:52.020 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:54.320 I'm not really sure, though.

00:04:55.300 It was better than Cats.

00:04:56.680 What did you think?

00:04:57.580 Let's do.

00:04:59.760 No, Cats was definitely superior.

00:05:01.760 No, it was actually pretty interesting to watch, I thought.

00:05:03.880 It was horrifying to watch.

00:05:05.900 Was it?

00:05:06.580 It was horrifying to watch.

00:05:08.000 But that's what everyone says Trump is like behind closed doors.

00:05:11.520 You hear that all the time.

00:05:12.660 He's a guy who's just affable and people like him and he kind of goes along with what people say.

00:05:17.260 And, you know, it's different than his sort of public speeches.

00:05:20.500 And that is how he appeared yesterday.

00:05:22.420 I mean, he said, he basically said, look.

00:05:26.680 Look, I'm not concerned about what you guys come up with.

00:05:29.600 He said, I believe my position is whatever you guys come up with.

00:05:33.780 So, I mean, that's a holy cow.

00:05:38.300 He doesn't.

00:05:38.740 You know, that's not what anybody elected.

00:05:40.460 That's not what anybody elected.

00:05:42.000 You did not elect somebody to say to Congress.

00:05:45.220 I'll sign whatever you guys I he said yesterday.

00:05:48.220 Quote, I trust you guys.

00:05:49.660 Well, the American people don't trust Congress, but we'll get into that later.

00:05:54.500 There was something that broke this morning at five o'clock that I that really concerned me that the Asian markets began to sell a lot of American stock and started getting out of anything American around five a.m.

00:06:12.980 This was caused by China.

00:06:15.860 China announced that they're they're thinking about getting out of U.S. treasuries.

00:06:21.940 Now, remember, they'll never do that because they need us so much.

00:06:27.660 And they're thinking about either slowing down on their buying or stopping the buying of U.S. treasuries.

00:06:37.960 That's the first step.

00:06:40.040 The next step is selling the U.S. treasuries.

00:06:43.900 There's nobody that can afford to buy all of our treasuries that we need except for China or our own central bank.

00:06:52.060 Like this is not going to be good if this indeed happens.

00:06:58.980 I wanted to get Chris Martinson on.

00:07:02.040 He is the co-founder and CEO of Peak Prosperity Prosperity and and find out what he thinks.

00:07:09.840 If I'm misreading this, if I am jumping to conclusions that this is really not a good thing.

00:07:15.140 Chris, welcome to the program.

00:07:17.300 Glenn, it's a real pleasure to be back with you today.

00:07:19.740 Thanks.

00:07:20.080 So am I reading this right?

00:07:23.280 Well, you absolutely are.

00:07:25.000 This comes at a very critical moment for the long dated U.S.

00:07:29.780 Treasury market, the 10 and 30 year market out there, because they've been bumping up against yields have been bumping up against a trend line that's been in place for 30 years.

00:07:39.520 We've had yields going down and they were right up against the upper channel.

00:07:44.060 They were ready to pop into territory that would bring out the bond bears, those things that are so scary.

00:07:48.800 To to to everybody in power, because once you start getting a sell off in long dated U.S.

00:07:56.560 paper, who knows?

00:07:57.260 It ties to everything.

00:07:58.400 Glenn, it just goes everywhere.

00:07:59.900 So China comes out and says exactly what you said.

00:08:02.260 Hey, we're thinking of slowing or stopping buying of treasuries.

00:08:06.540 And that's on top of the most recent U.S. tax plan, which is going to cause us to issue a bunch more treasuries in the near future.

00:08:13.960 So all of a sudden, the treasury market wakes up and says, hey, looks like there's more supply than we thought.

00:08:19.640 We're going to have to sell some of these things.

00:08:21.320 And indeed, we saw a very interesting move this morning in interest rates.

00:08:26.580 We're going to have to watch it carefully because, you know, my view, Glenn, this is we're in the everything bubble.

00:08:31.460 Everything's in a bubble.

00:08:32.560 Yeah, those are always just in search of a pin.

00:08:34.780 Is this the pin?

00:08:35.780 I don't know.

00:08:36.840 OK, so so, Chris, let me because I've just issued a bunch of of my forecasting or predictions for 2018.

00:08:46.540 And some of them are kind of far out there, but the one that I am looking at for the market and I'd love to hear your opinion on this.

00:08:58.060 I believe that the if the bond market begins to melt down and I'm not an expert, so you are.

00:09:04.700 So help me out.

00:09:05.500 The bond market begins to melt down like this.

00:09:08.200 You take your money out of bonds.

00:09:09.700 You're going to put it someplace.

00:09:10.940 The markets are going up.

00:09:12.520 The stock market is going up.

00:09:14.020 Historically speaking, before any huge bubble breaks, you'll have a time of euphoria, a 12 to 24 month period of euphoria where the stock market kind of feels like Bitcoin felt in November.

00:09:31.900 A melt up.

00:09:34.100 I believe that we are at the beginning of a melt up, that this rise to 25,000 is the beginning of a of a melt up.

00:09:43.220 And it's going to suck a lot of money into the stock market.

00:09:48.500 Do you think that's possible?

00:09:49.900 Probable?

00:09:51.680 It's possible.

00:09:53.080 And I'm going to back off on probable because of one thing.

00:09:58.360 The piece that's really coming to both the stock market and the bond market is the amount of leverage that's in there right now.

00:10:05.940 So leverage means people are borrowing.

00:10:09.040 You know, all these hedge funds out there, they're trying to earn their two and 20, these exorbitant fees.

00:10:12.940 What do you do?

00:10:13.520 People want the safety of bonds and they're getting 2% off of them.

00:10:17.220 What do you do?

00:10:17.920 Well, what you do is you borrow four times the amount of money you actually have.

00:10:21.740 And now you're suddenly getting 8% because four times two is eight.

00:10:24.920 So they're borrowed a lot of money.

00:10:27.880 And in the bond market, there's extraordinarily low liquidity, meaning I've watched trades sit on the tape for hours, sometimes days, when they used to sell in minutes.

00:10:40.420 And so there's not a lot of liquidity and there's a lot of leverage.

00:10:43.420 You put those two L's together, and what you find out is that when bonds start to sell off, they actually vacuum money from other parts of the market because you have to pay for the loss.

00:10:56.460 Yeah.

00:10:57.060 Got it.

00:10:57.480 And the stock market as well has the highest amount of margin debt, which is a form of leverage that's ever been seen on record, higher than we saw in 2000, higher than 2007.

00:11:08.140 So there's a lot of leverage out there, and this is the concern a lot of traders have, is that once you get an unwind started, how fast does it go?

00:11:16.740 Where does it go?

00:11:17.580 How do all the threads connect?

00:11:18.960 It's like with Lehman.

00:11:19.980 You don't really know until it happens just how many of those threads were interconnected.

00:11:26.360 That's the state of our market.

00:11:28.000 I know it's very complex.

00:11:29.520 I didn't mean to over...

00:11:30.300 So that's all right, Chris.

00:11:31.880 So help me out on this.

00:11:33.200 Last week, the president of China went out in front of all of his forces, and he said, prepare for war.

00:11:43.280 And it was kind of shocking language from him, but it didn't seem like they were being aggressive as much as, you know, hey, the world's changing and we have to prepare for war.

00:11:55.640 Is it possible that this is some sort of bluff with them, or do you believe they are really, truly considering getting out of our treasuries?

00:12:07.780 Well, the most important report that was ever released came out in June of last year, 2017, and it was released by the Beijing Petroleum University.

00:12:20.340 And the report said, hey, we've studied it intensively.

00:12:23.320 China is going to experience a peak in oil output in 2018.

00:12:27.880 That's from conventional, unconventional, all their shale.

00:12:30.440 They looked at everything and said, that's it.

00:12:31.820 And they looked at their own rising demand and said, oh, my goodness, we are going to have to import twice as much oil as we currently are within the next 12 years.

00:12:40.520 It puts them really at crossroads with the United States, who's also still a large importer and with a lot of Europe.

00:12:47.800 And we saw Saudi Arabia travel to Beijing shortly after that report was released, and they struck a bunch of deals.

00:12:54.380 There's a huge realignment going on around this.

00:12:56.860 Everything you hear about the United States military and the South China Sea, the Spratly Islands, the sandbars that the Chinese are building, those are there because there are oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea that they want.

00:13:09.900 That's the nature of this game that we have to look at, because China is full to the gills in their leadership with very serious people who've got great credentials, a lot of scientists, a lot of engineers, doctors, lawyers, very few lawyers.

00:13:23.680 And they understand that this next part of the game is going to be all about the Middle East.

00:13:30.240 It's very much about resources.

00:13:32.560 And that's where I think the war talk comes from.

00:13:35.760 When people talk about bonds, to break it down for the average person, the United States is basically selling its debt.

00:13:45.380 And those those time out.

00:13:49.520 And so you can buy a one year or a 10 year or a 30 year treasury and it times out.

00:13:55.420 Aren't we up?

00:13:57.500 Aren't there a lot of big bonds that are now up that we have to refinance?

00:14:03.100 There's a lot of that going on, and it's across the whole bond universe.

00:14:08.880 Remember, you know, the United States government issues debt.

00:14:11.600 So do corporations.

00:14:13.200 Households are in debt.

00:14:14.240 So you look at student loans, auto loans, subprime auto loans, mortgages, corporations making debt, triple A rated corporations, junk rated.

00:14:22.620 We've never seen this much debt either in the United States or the world.

00:14:27.520 So from 2007, this whole recovery, it's really been based on a lot of printing and the whole world's done it.

00:14:35.280 And so we're you know, the thing that scares me the most is that, again, we're looking for a pin.

00:14:40.400 It could be Europe.

00:14:41.460 You know, right now, here's the craziest statistic I know.

00:14:44.420 This is how badly central banks have messed everything up right now.

00:14:48.320 Two year treasury paper from the United States government has a higher yield than two year Greek debt.

00:14:55.140 That means somehow people are supposed to be valuing Greeks as being more credit worthy than the United States right now.

00:15:04.200 That's nuts.

00:15:05.080 That's not reality.

00:15:06.240 That's how badly distorted everything is.

00:15:08.640 When things are that badly distorted, you have to be worried about what happens when reality comes back.

00:15:14.280 People begin to value everything in what I think in a more fair, more realistic way.

00:15:19.120 You're going to see some sell offs that are going to be really painful.

00:15:22.740 Chris Martinson, thank you so much.

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00:17:26.640 I have to disagree with Chris on one thing, and that is on this meltdown or melt up.

00:17:33.420 And it could be just my wishful thinking, but I don't think so.

00:17:37.940 Usually, I am the guy who's like, it's all going to crash today.

00:17:41.340 Get out.

00:17:42.080 Everybody save your lives.

00:17:43.280 There's not enough light bulbs on the ship.

00:17:45.260 This time, I've changed my opinion because I've done some research on history, and everybody knew, anybody who was smart in 1928, you knew a crash was coming.

00:18:01.680 You knew this isn't real.

00:18:04.560 The whole thing is just not real.

00:18:06.880 And yet, over 18 or 24 months, beginning in 1928, the stock market just went through the roof, and it sucked up everybody's cash.

00:18:19.980 It is, I believe there's going to come a period here soon where it will begin to feel, the stock market will begin to feel like Bitcoin did.

00:18:31.600 When that feeling is going on, run for your life.

00:18:38.000 I just, I feel, and now China not buying bonds, that might change things.

00:18:43.280 I don't know.

00:18:44.220 But I just think that people are going to start pouring their money into the stock market, and it's going to, it will break everybody in the end.

00:18:53.020 It's, it's not real now.

00:18:56.920 There's no reason for the stock market to go up.

00:18:59.720 Well, that President Trump is, no, no, they priced that in at the election.

00:19:04.700 They priced that in.

00:19:07.320 And so, I just feel that the next 24 months, you're going to see a melt-up within the next 24 months.

00:19:17.200 It could, I think we're in it now.

00:19:19.460 I think this 20,000 to 25,000 on the Dow is the beginning of it.

00:19:25.560 And it's, I kind of feel like, you know how you talk to people about, you know, the end times, and they're like, and once this happens, it's seven years.

00:19:36.800 You can count on it.

00:19:38.020 It's seven years.

00:19:39.600 I kind of feel that way about the melt-up.

00:19:43.320 I think we could see the stock market go as high as 50.

00:19:48.020 I, I, I think in my, my forecast for 2018, I said, I think that the Dow will be at 20, at 30,000.

00:19:58.820 But I, I think it go, I think it could go a lot higher than that.

00:20:02.540 Um, and it's, it's going to be exuberant.

00:20:09.240 You'll make money for a very short period of time.

00:20:12.180 Then hold on to your pants because you'll be selling your pants, uh, shortly thereafter.

00:20:20.180 Back in a minute.

00:20:22.140 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:32.540 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:37.100 So yesterday I had the sound off and I was watching the press conference for a few minutes and I thought to myself, boy, he really looks presidential here.

00:20:48.880 He looks in control.

00:20:49.920 This is really good.

00:20:51.320 Oh, he's talking about DACA and he's talking about the border.

00:20:54.280 Turn it up.

00:20:55.800 Then I started listening to the president and I did not recognize him.

00:21:01.080 He is, he suddenly yesterday became the guy I've been expecting the whole time.

00:21:09.960 I want you to listen to what he said about comprehensive immigration reform.

00:21:19.060 Listen, my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with.

00:21:23.540 I am very much reliant on the people in this room.

00:21:26.660 I know most of the people on both sides.

00:21:28.440 I have a lot of respect for the people on both sides and my, what I approve is going to be very much reliant on what the people in this room come to me with.

00:21:37.880 I have great confidence in the people.

00:21:39.820 If they come to me with things that I'm not in love with, I'm going to do it because I respect them.

00:21:44.240 I'm trying to remember the time that anybody who voted for the president said, I want you to go to Washington and trust the members of Congress on both sides.

00:21:58.200 I don't remember a single voter saying on either side, we trust Congress.

00:22:07.280 We believe the members of Congress will do the right thing.

00:22:11.620 I certainly don't remember anyone on the right saying, even if the members of Congress on immigration, on comprehensive immigration reform, if they come to you, Mr. President, and you don't like it, I want you to trust them over us.

00:22:34.080 I don't remember, I don't recall that.

00:22:38.440 Now, here's the question.

00:22:41.720 Donald Trump said at one point he could walk out on Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and his supporters will not say a word.

00:22:51.220 Well, he didn't shoot somebody.

00:22:54.820 He shot you.

00:22:58.140 When you have Fox News turning on President Trump over this yesterday, that's saying something.

00:23:05.640 He went and he shot you.

00:23:08.980 He said, I'll take the heat for it.

00:23:10.960 Well, who is he going to get heat from?

00:23:12.860 You.

00:23:14.180 You.

00:23:15.400 You have been arguing.

00:23:17.340 You have been defending.

00:23:18.340 You have said this is the number one thing that you want.

00:23:22.240 He won on immigration.

00:23:27.720 And now I'll give you DACA.

00:23:31.680 Without anything, we got to get that done first.

00:23:34.420 Let's get DACA.

00:23:35.460 When was that?

00:23:38.380 Because I remember everybody saying they were against DACA 100%.

00:23:43.180 It was the litmus test of whether you were an amnesty guy or not.

00:23:46.300 You're right.

00:23:46.640 You are for DACA.

00:23:47.860 You're out.

00:23:48.380 Now, some people, I believe, said, OK, I'm not for DACA and I don't want DACA.

00:23:55.580 But if that's the chip we have to put down on the table to get the fence and everything else done, well, you get that done first and then we'll talk about it.

00:24:05.800 Now, if I would have said that, which I did, if I would have said that during the election, you'd hang me, which you did.

00:24:17.000 You're a sellout.

00:24:19.120 What's wrong with you?

00:24:20.520 They'll never come through with that.

00:24:22.660 They'll never do it.

00:24:24.160 Well, wait a minute.

00:24:24.740 I said, let's get security first.

00:24:29.280 Yeah, but they'll never do it.

00:24:30.740 And those people don't.

00:24:31.860 OK, all right.

00:24:33.660 He yesterday sat at the table.

00:24:35.620 Do you have do you have him saying about DACA?

00:24:39.020 Do we have that audio?

00:24:40.440 We have a bunch of clips on that, but I don't know which one you're talking about.

00:24:42.820 I'm talking about the one where he he said, yeah, we'll do that.

00:24:45.380 We'll do that first.

00:24:47.220 Yeah, he did kind of back off of that after the meeting and say, oh, well, we got to have a wall.

00:24:52.000 He did later on, you know, they tried to clarify that through.

00:24:56.140 I mean, it was clear a couple of times that he wasn't exactly sure of the lines of debate

00:25:00.240 where he would say, you know, I think it was Feinstein who said, hey, we want to clean DACA bill.

00:25:06.820 She said, what would you say if we have people who are suffering?

00:25:12.700 What would you say if we could just get DACA done now and then we come back to the border

00:25:18.640 and the wall and the security, but we really need to get this done first?

00:25:23.260 He said, I'm totally fine with that.

00:25:25.280 I agree with you.

00:25:26.540 And she said, wait a minute.

00:25:27.880 You agree we could do that?

00:25:29.840 Yes, we should do DACA first, but then we need to do, you know, the border.

00:25:35.380 He just that's what Tucker Carlson's whole monologue yesterday, which was shocking.

00:25:40.680 His old monologue was on.

00:25:42.440 Wait a minute.

00:25:43.520 That's the only chip you have.

00:25:46.420 Right.

00:25:46.860 And then later on, he backed off on that.

00:25:48.980 He his his their claim was basically like he didn't understand what the term clean bill meant.

00:25:54.200 I mean, you know what?

00:25:55.240 You know what?

00:25:55.780 I'm then he should not be president of the United States.

00:25:58.800 We are in the we are in the middle of the most important negotiation of what people voted for.

00:26:07.400 This is what he ran on.

00:26:10.420 You don't understand clean bill.

00:26:12.980 Well, you've been president for a year now.

00:26:14.980 Their answer was his clean bill is a trade between security and DACA when we all know that that's not.

00:26:22.760 I mean, usually what they mean by clean bill.

00:26:24.440 This is very common parlance of Washington, which is the one thing we're talking about.

00:26:29.820 Let's just get that done and not put anything else to complicate it.

00:26:32.200 Right.

00:26:32.600 So that was what Feinstein was asking about.

00:26:35.200 And and, you know, Trump said yes to it, but then did later on back off.

00:26:39.640 So what did he what was the excuse for earmarks?

00:26:45.220 Listen to this on what he said about earmarks.

00:26:48.260 Our system lends itself to not getting things done.

00:26:51.000 And I hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system, how there was a great friendliness when you had earmarks.

00:26:58.380 But of course, they had other problems with earmarks.

00:27:00.860 But maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks.

00:27:05.280 Because this system.

00:27:07.740 This system.

00:27:08.460 Listen to this.

00:27:09.180 He was not happy when they laughed at him.

00:27:10.520 He was not pleased.

00:27:12.780 And I'm there with you because this sense of this system really lends itself to not getting along.

00:27:19.800 It lends itself to hostility and anger.

00:27:22.740 And they hate the Republicans and they hate the Democrats.

00:27:25.740 And, you know, in the old days of earmarks, you can say what you want about certain presidents and others where they all talk about they went out to dinner at night and they all got along and they passed bills.

00:27:36.020 That was an earmark system.

00:27:37.760 And maybe we should think about it.

00:27:39.700 And we have to put better controls because it got a little bit.

00:27:42.160 Stop.

00:27:42.780 So here's the guy who said, I'm going to clean out the swamp because everybody's doing deals.

00:27:48.940 And we said, he's the deal maker.

00:27:53.420 He's the guy who's been paying both sides, mainly Democrats because he lived in New York.

00:28:00.860 He pays them off to get done what he wants to get done.

00:28:04.500 He's going to clean up the swamp.

00:28:07.000 Aren't we against earmarks or are we for earmarks now?

00:28:11.040 And the reason why those deals were done at meetings when you could trade earmarks was them, politicians taking taxpayer dollars and paying each other off with them.

00:28:21.040 Yeah.

00:28:21.480 So that's how those deals got done.

00:28:22.880 That's not a good bribery.

00:28:24.580 That's the swamp.

00:28:25.940 That is exactly the swamp.

00:28:28.800 That's a fascinating one.

00:28:29.920 And look at let's look at this.

00:28:31.200 This is Trump yesterday talking about the immigration bill again and talking about how it's a bill of love.

00:28:36.040 But I feel having the Democrats in with us is absolutely vital because this should be a bipartisan bill.

00:28:45.260 This should be a bill of love.

00:28:47.380 Truly, it should be a bill of love.

00:28:49.280 And we can do that.

00:28:50.060 But it also has to be a bill where we're able to secure our border.

00:28:55.780 Drugs are pouring into our country at a record pace.

00:28:59.000 A lot of people are coming in that we can't have.

00:29:01.320 We've greatly stiffened, as you know, and fewer people are trying to come in.

00:29:05.860 But we have tremendous numbers of people and drugs pouring into our country.

00:29:11.000 So in order to secure it, we need a wall.

00:29:14.660 We need closing enforcement.

00:29:17.060 We have to close enforcement loopholes.

00:29:19.000 And then, so remember Bill of Love.

00:29:22.420 Then remember Jeb Bush from 2014.

00:29:28.240 Yes, they broke the law.

00:29:29.960 But it's not a felony.

00:29:32.700 It's kind of the, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's an act of love.

00:29:37.520 Remember that?

00:29:38.540 That was one of the things that sunk Jeb Bush's campaign.

00:29:43.000 And again, we did a show, Glenn, if you remember back, I don't know, it was like sometime in 2016,

00:29:47.680 where we had people who were Trump supporters call up and say, what's the one thing that would shake you from this guy?

00:29:55.000 Now, I think he, we've talked about a lot of good things Trump has accomplished in the first year.

00:29:59.460 And there's a list of them.

00:30:00.300 But the one thing that was the overwhelming majority of people who called was if he starts flaking out on the border.

00:30:09.120 I mean, these things are, I don't remember Jeb Bush ever saying he wanted to also bring back the earmark system to get it done.

00:30:17.720 I mean, he's going further than any of that stuff.

00:30:20.420 Marco Rubio wasn't saying this stuff.

00:30:22.260 And he said comprehensive immigration reform, which is the thing that, that sunk Bush with people.

00:30:27.880 That was the devil.

00:30:28.460 George W. Bush, Rubio, Lindsey Graham, all those people.

00:30:32.940 He said that Ted Cruz was part of the immigration, which he wasn't.

00:30:37.780 Which he wasn't.

00:30:38.400 But still, that was the accusation.

00:30:40.340 Yes.

00:30:41.120 Against Cruz, that one of the things that hammered him in the campaign about.

00:30:45.140 And here he is doing the exact same stuff.

00:30:48.460 I mean, I, this is what I, you know, I expected.

00:30:51.740 So this is not shake me at all.

00:30:54.280 I mean, honestly, still, as a guy who was not a big Trump supporter coming into this, I'm still, he's outdoing my expectations.

00:31:02.080 Yeah.

00:31:02.340 So I'm happy.

00:31:03.180 This is the guy I expected.

00:31:04.060 But this is exactly the stuff that I was worried about.

00:31:07.760 And many people in the audience that were Trump supporters were worried about.

00:31:12.140 Does this shake you or do you just take it?

00:31:14.340 And because I think you can look at this and take the totality of it and say, OK, it's been OK.

00:31:18.140 I want to I want to hear from you, because this is what we asked.

00:31:21.920 We did a show on it, a whole show.

00:31:24.280 I just want to hear what will it take and universal immigration if he gets shaky on immigration and the border, DACA, all of that.

00:31:35.740 That was the thing.

00:31:38.000 Are you still there?

00:31:39.920 And does it matter?

00:31:43.680 I will tell you, you're seeing a new Donald Trump, and I think you're going to I think this is the Donald Trump that is going to stay because this is the Donald Trump that heard in the last 48 hours.

00:31:57.020 Dad, listen to me.

00:32:02.440 You've you've gone with Bannon, you've tried all that, and it's good for your base, but that's not going to get anything done.

00:32:10.520 You want to win.

00:32:12.180 You've got to start coming together.

00:32:15.060 Bring them all together.

00:32:16.680 Make them like you.

00:32:17.660 Dad, that's what you do.

00:32:19.000 Make them like you.

00:32:19.960 Bring them together.

00:32:21.260 Let's just move.

00:32:22.240 You know, I know, Dad, what your your supporters say, but this is really about love.

00:32:29.380 This is really about love.

00:32:31.500 I will say this, too.

00:32:32.440 One of the things that we know about Trump is he really likes positive media, and he got a lot of it out of that meeting yesterday.

00:32:38.960 I mean, CNN was fawning over him for hours.

00:32:44.280 The New York Times was fawning over this.

00:32:47.740 Bloomberg said, Democrats, take this deal right now.

00:32:52.180 Take it up.

00:32:53.220 Take it.

00:32:54.140 They loved it.

00:32:55.140 They loved it.

00:32:56.080 They love this Trump.

00:32:57.300 And, you know, he does respond to that sort of stuff.

00:33:00.960 Yes, he does.

00:33:01.760 So it'll be interesting to see.

00:33:03.720 I am.

00:33:05.220 This could be another one or two day thing, right?

00:33:07.980 He comes out.

00:33:08.540 He has this speech.

00:33:09.500 And it's no big deal.

00:33:10.560 You never know.

00:33:10.820 It's theater.

00:33:11.220 And it's over.

00:33:11.920 So, I mean, you don't want to overstate it.

00:33:13.660 But this is the type of stuff that the audience of Trump supporters, because there's a lot of people in the audience that were not big supporters and voted sort of, you know, with their nose plugged on Trump.

00:33:23.300 But the people who are real supporters, this is the issue they laid their supporters out on.

00:33:26.520 And if the supporters don't push back on him, if he doesn't get the negative response from his supporters, he will just go.

00:33:35.180 He'll go.

00:33:36.180 And you will be left in the dustbin of history.

00:33:39.860 Because as he stated, he does not have an opinion on this.

00:33:42.600 He said, my opinion is what you guys come up with.

00:33:46.920 Congress.

00:33:47.700 Congress.

00:33:48.160 So whatever you come up with.

00:33:49.360 Not even Congress.

00:33:50.340 Not even Congress.

00:33:51.460 The worst of the worst of Congress.

00:33:54.080 All the people who are the flag bearers for the people we don't trust.

00:33:58.940 That's who is at that table.

00:34:00.680 And if you've earned loyalty points from Donald Trump over this time, this is the time to use them.

00:34:04.760 Yep.

00:34:05.180 You know, make sure you spend them now.

00:34:06.700 Yep.

00:34:07.020 Because he needs to be influenced to say, hey, these things aren't the policies that we got, we elected you for.

00:34:13.840 This is not what we wanted.

00:34:15.180 And he needs to hear that from you in the next couple of days.

00:34:17.280 888-727-BECK.

00:34:18.760 Want to hear, have you changed?

00:34:20.280 Do you accept it?

00:34:22.720 Is this part of a John Roberts?

00:34:25.400 This is what he's really doing on health care?

00:34:28.800 What is this?

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00:34:41.060 Do burglars give up because, you know, some houses have security systems?

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00:35:42.820 Let me go to Travis in Georgia.

00:35:59.380 You voted for Donald Trump.

00:36:00.620 How do you feel today, Travis?

00:36:02.480 I'm very upset.

00:36:03.620 Very angry.

00:36:04.620 I feel like I've been taken for granted.

00:36:06.560 It seemed like he just dismissed all of his supporters yesterday.

00:36:10.520 And I'm genuinely just very upset about it.

00:36:13.180 And I'm tired of defending him.

00:36:15.280 You know, it's just every day is just something else.

00:36:17.660 And when he was talking about, you know, comprehensive immigration reform is going to be phase two.

00:36:22.900 And we'll start on that day two.

00:36:24.860 Are you kidding me?

00:36:25.780 You know, I'm just, I'm tired of trying to defend this.

00:36:30.860 Yeah.

00:36:31.320 I can, you know, I thought of that last night that here are all these people who, I don't think, there are some people who are just blind supporters.

00:36:39.680 There are others who are like, give the guy a chance.

00:36:42.940 And, man, I don't like, I'm embarrassed by this or I don't like this, but give him a chance.

00:36:48.180 And when he, I think he just slapped people across the face yesterday.

00:36:53.060 I feel bad for those people who have been out defending him and have really wrestled with defending him.

00:37:00.320 But you believed.

00:37:01.800 And, you know, maybe this is only one day.

00:37:03.720 He changes, you know, with the wind.

00:37:05.860 So maybe this is just one day.

00:37:08.420 Travis, keep your chin up, brother.

00:37:10.660 Thank you so much for your call.

00:37:11.940 Take more calls.

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00:37:19.740 Also, on tonight's television program, we're going to talk a little bit about the economy and what is coming in the economic world.

00:37:29.360 Some of my predictions and how I got there tonight at 5 o'clock.

00:37:34.060 Glenn Beck.

00:37:34.980 Mercury.

00:37:42.480 Love.

00:37:44.060 Courage.

00:37:45.780 Truth.

00:37:47.540 Glenn.

00:37:48.620 Back.

00:37:48.960 When I was in high school, we were all supposed to read The Great Gatsby.

00:37:51.720 Everybody had to read The Great Gatsby.

00:37:53.740 And I think we were supposed to get some anti-capitalist thing out of it.

00:37:56.620 But what I got out of it was, here's this guy who was shunned for who he was.

00:38:02.320 He wasn't good enough for the woman that he loved.

00:38:04.680 And so he went out and he created a new identity for himself.

00:38:08.340 He didn't go about his, you know, transformation in the most upstanding and moral ways.

00:38:13.140 But he did succeed in becoming a self-made millionaire and he did it for the woman that he loved.

00:38:18.640 As I reflect on the news of Steve Bannon's firing from Breitbart yesterday, I can't help but see a Gatsby-like figure constantly reinventing himself.

00:38:30.060 Bannon was born to an Irish working class family in Virginia.

00:38:33.220 He had nothing.

00:38:34.160 He worked at a junkyard for pennies.

00:38:36.060 He was, he always wanted more for his life.

00:38:40.800 He became an officer in the Navy, worked at the Pentagon in the 80s.

00:38:43.920 He went into investment banking.

00:38:45.700 He went to Harvard Business School, became Goldman Sachs guy.

00:38:49.220 After banking, he decided he wanted to go into the movies and he became a screenwriter and a producer.

00:38:53.540 And his film credentials ultimately led to a relationship with Andrew Breitbart.

00:38:58.500 When Andrew died, Bannon saw an opportunity to create a new chapter in his book and he pushed his way into Breitbart News and he used that as a tool to wedge himself into the White House.

00:39:13.580 But he needed to court the Trump administration, so he turned Breitbart into a site that became an embarrassing propaganda outlet.

00:39:21.320 And it worked.

00:39:22.660 He was named Trump's chief strategist.

00:39:25.180 But it wasn't long because Steve has never really created anything himself.

00:39:31.820 He has always ridden the, the, the coattails of someone else.

00:39:37.740 And he's also a dangerous guy.

00:39:40.420 So it didn't take long before he fell out of the White House's good graces.

00:39:43.400 He started to brag that he was the brains behind the president.

00:39:46.580 Then he got involved in this book and he got involved in this book because he has a inflated sense of influence.

00:39:53.220 And inflated sense of self and he was kicked to the curb and he was back at Breitbart.

00:39:59.140 And yesterday, he ushered in more of the same dangerous alt-right commentary and yellow journalism as before.

00:40:08.580 And after his campaign with Roy Moore, Breitbart News, the board fired him for good yesterday.

00:40:17.500 So today, the good news is there's a new beginning for Breitbart.

00:40:21.140 Maybe Andrew Breitbart's vision and what he was starting to create will actually come true now.

00:40:29.100 With Bannon gone, they have a chance to restore their dignity and return to some sort of reputable reporting.

00:40:35.020 Let's hope that they take that direction.

00:40:38.400 As for Steve Bannon, he is going to be standing on a dock looking across the lake at the light that is calling for him.

00:40:49.980 Let's just hope that in the end, the Steve Bannon story doesn't end with Bannon or us floating in a pool.

00:40:58.720 It's Wednesday, January 10th.

00:41:09.380 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:11.860 So I really want to hear your opinion on what happened yesterday.

00:41:15.560 And I want to play just the quick audio clips just to remind you where we are.

00:41:20.840 Donald Trump had a had live shots of him in the cabinet room talking to all the members of Congress or the leadership of Congress about DACA and the border.

00:41:35.620 And and here's what he said about what he's willing to sign.

00:41:39.660 My positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with.

00:41:44.160 I am very much reliant on the people in this room.

00:41:46.900 I know most of the people on both sides.

00:41:48.800 I have a lot of respect for the people on both sides.

00:41:51.440 And my what I approve is going to be very much reliant on what the people in this room come to me with.

00:41:57.980 I have great confidence in the people.

00:42:00.040 If they come to me with things that I'm not in love with, I'm going to do it because I respect them.

00:42:04.400 OK, there's also the the Trump bill of love, which has been a big discussion point today.

00:42:12.080 Here it is.

00:42:13.000 But I feel having the Democrats in with us is absolutely vital because it should be a bipartisan bill.

00:42:19.820 It should be a bill of love.

00:42:22.040 Truly, it should be a bill of love.

00:42:23.840 And we can do that.

00:42:24.720 OK, but it also has to be.

00:42:26.800 And the reason why that one's important is because if you remember from the primary, that's the Jeb Bush thing from 2014 on immigration.

00:42:32.880 Yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony.

00:42:37.260 It's kind of it's it's a it's a it's a it's an act of love.

00:42:42.040 There's also the his comments on earmarks, which were making the rounds yesterday.

00:42:47.940 We've discussed today.

00:42:48.860 Listen, our system lends itself to not getting things done.

00:42:52.520 And I hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system, how there was a great friendliness when you had earmarks.

00:42:59.120 But of course, they had other problems with earmarks.

00:43:01.500 But maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks, because this system, this system.

00:43:09.880 He goes on and he's dead serious about it.

00:43:12.400 Yeah.

00:43:12.600 And then there's there's one more.

00:43:14.280 Yeah.

00:43:14.640 When he so he knows that there's pushback potentially coming from his base, his base.

00:43:20.840 And this audience and anyone who's conservative on the border, he realizes that he knows that that could be coming.

00:43:28.100 And here is his prescription and his his hall pass to Democrats and people who are more amnesty prone on the right about how they can deal with this.

00:43:38.100 I don't care.

00:43:39.280 I don't care.

00:43:39.780 I'll take all the heat you want to give me and I'll take the heat off both the Democrats and the Republicans.

00:43:45.580 So he'll take the heat.

00:43:47.000 He's willing to deal with.

00:43:48.440 He's willing to die in a sword, basically, for this DACA deal.

00:43:53.000 It's an interesting perspective from the president.

00:43:56.620 I mean, it's not exactly what he was saying during the campaign.

00:44:00.300 No, that's not anything like what he was saying.

00:44:02.920 But I want to hear if if you have been there fighting for him the whole time, standing up for him.

00:44:08.880 We asked this audience, what, 18 months ago, what would it take?

00:44:14.580 And the answer was universal.

00:44:16.700 If he starts to weasel on the border and and DACA and all of that.

00:44:23.760 Is this weaseling?

00:44:24.960 How do you feel today?

00:44:25.900 Josh, South Carolina.

00:44:27.340 Welcome to the program.

00:44:28.760 Hey, man.

00:44:29.540 How are you doing?

00:44:30.020 Good, good, good.

00:44:31.840 So, you know, I think I think in this case, he's really playing three sides of the fence.

00:44:36.160 I don't think he's getting enough credit for what he's actually doing out there.

00:44:41.240 You know what he's going out there.

00:44:42.520 He's trying to bring all these people together.

00:44:44.360 He's playing the media for stupid.

00:44:47.620 And now they've gone back and gone against pretty much everything they've said and praised him yesterday on what he's doing.

00:44:55.280 And I honestly don't think he's just going to give them DACA.

00:44:57.700 He's dangling it in front of their face, making them think that, you know, he's going to give it to them.

00:45:02.660 But at the same time, he's probably going to come out there and be like, look, we have to get both of these things done at the same exact time.

00:45:07.840 If it doesn't work that way, it's just not going to work that way.

00:45:09.840 Well, that's not what he said yesterday.

00:45:11.680 So you think that he's that's a strategy for him?

00:45:17.580 Yeah.

00:45:17.800 And you know what?

00:45:18.620 That's it kind of rings.

00:45:20.300 It rings true in his whole, you know, coming forward with anything, really.

00:45:25.840 When he comes out to the media and says something, does he actually do what he's going to say?

00:45:28.980 Has he done that this entire time?

00:45:30.380 But yet, where are we now?

00:45:31.480 Well, you know, I'm a business owner.

00:45:33.800 I own a plumbing business out of South Carolina, and everything has gotten much better.

00:45:38.260 People are flooding to red states.

00:45:40.400 The economy is getting crazy.

00:45:42.300 I just went over how much I'm paying this year in taxes with my bookie and my accountants and things like that.

00:45:49.340 And it's just everything is getting really it's getting done.

00:45:52.900 I think he's doing a lot of good things.

00:45:54.480 I think there's some things like health care that need to get done.

00:45:57.000 And if something like DACA goes through before we get some kind of immigration, you know, a wall deal or something of that nature, then he's going ass backwards, in my opinion.

00:46:09.120 And if he doesn't, if he goes and actually gets these things done and includes the DACA deal, I'm OK with that to a degree.

00:46:18.820 I don't think any of us are OK with DACA in general.

00:46:21.360 But like you said, it's pretty much the only chip he's got.

00:46:23.720 And if he doesn't play that chip, then I think he's going to lose a lot of people.

00:46:26.700 So it's basically let's wait and see.

00:46:28.460 Right.

00:46:28.640 I mean, overall, you're happy so far.

00:46:30.460 But if he starts doing these things, you're not going to be happy.

00:46:32.300 But he hasn't done them yet.

00:46:33.520 And Trump says a lot of things he doesn't do.

00:46:35.100 So we should wait until it's actually happening.

00:46:36.960 Good point.

00:46:37.440 Thanks, Josh.

00:46:38.240 No, go ahead.

00:46:39.740 He says a lot of things.

00:46:41.120 I know.

00:46:41.640 I know.

00:46:42.200 That's what we said last hour.

00:46:43.780 We were really pissed yesterday.

00:46:45.220 We're still pissed today.

00:46:47.180 However, I mean, he I've been happy before.

00:46:50.420 And then he'll tweet something and you just don't know.

00:46:53.720 Let's wait until we we see what he has.

00:46:56.020 This is echoed on Twitter.

00:46:56.880 People are tweeting at World of Stu at Glenn Beck.

00:46:59.300 George writes, remember the Trump meeting with Chuck and Nancy?

00:47:02.300 They came out smiling.

00:47:03.440 That lasted a day.

00:47:04.880 So will this Mike?

00:47:06.160 It's a legitimate.

00:47:07.300 I think it is.

00:47:08.200 It could easily happen.

00:47:09.180 If he feels the heat from his supporters.

00:47:12.540 Yep.

00:47:12.800 You got it.

00:47:13.280 If the base does not rise up and say, don't do this.

00:47:16.420 I don't think that will happen.

00:47:17.760 But that's what they did when the Chuck and Nancy stuff happened.

00:47:19.800 And he bailed on it the next day.

00:47:22.160 Mike, go ahead.

00:47:24.460 As a 28 year old from New York, I already feel like my voice has no consequence whatsoever.

00:47:31.920 But if he does the things that he said he was going to do yesterday, he's going to inflate

00:47:36.320 the swamp.

00:47:37.460 If he gives away his only only leverage, DACA, he's never going to get a wall built.

00:47:42.620 It's never going to happen.

00:47:44.440 The Democrats always stand fast.

00:47:46.280 If they don't work together, they get their agenda done.

00:47:50.200 They don't care about anybody's agenda, but their own.

00:47:53.500 And yesterday, I think Donald Trump finally showed his true colors.

00:47:56.660 I mean, he was a Democrat his whole life until his, what, 70s?

00:47:59.980 And then he's a conservative.

00:48:02.160 You voted for him.

00:48:04.300 Unfortunately, I did.

00:48:05.300 Because Ted Cruz was gone by the time New York got to vote in the primaries.

00:48:11.720 And then I wasn't going to vote for Hillary Clinton, that's for sure.

00:48:13.780 So why do you say your voice doesn't count?

00:48:17.680 You already feel that way.

00:48:20.300 Oh, it's New York.

00:48:21.680 I mean, Governor Cuomo only has to win Westchester County South, and he wins every re-election.

00:48:29.080 I mean, if you're a conservative in a blue state, as heavily blue as New York, California,

00:48:33.800 I mean, you're irrelevant for the most part.

00:48:36.640 And if we squander this opportunity, we already squandered an opportunity to elect a great Reagan-esque candidate in Ted Cruz with an impeccable conservative record.

00:48:46.520 If we squander the opportunity to have a Republican in the White House, majority in the Senate, and in the House,

00:48:53.760 what hope do we have of ever telling the American people, oh, elect us.

00:48:57.260 We're going to get stuff done.

00:48:58.340 We never get stuff done, ever.

00:49:00.220 Yeah.

00:49:00.360 Mike, thank you so much.

00:49:02.760 Let me go to Eric in Florida, first-time Trump voter.

00:49:05.520 How do you feel today?

00:49:08.140 A little upset.

00:49:10.080 I'd have to disagree with Joshua, how he thinks, as Ben Shapiro calls it, Trump's playing 4D mag-a-maga chess.

00:49:18.600 I don't think that he's out here doing anything special.

00:49:23.460 So he's saying those things to the Democrats, and I honestly feel like if they give him something crappy, he's just signing.

00:49:30.100 He's like, look, guys, I did immigration.

00:49:32.240 You know, like, I'm just pretty upset.

00:49:35.300 I kind of feel like Ann Coulter does every day, tweeting about the wall.

00:49:39.340 Yeah.

00:49:39.620 Yeah, Ann is not happy with the developments of this presidency.

00:49:43.480 Well, she hasn't been happy for a long time, has she?

00:49:46.920 I mean, she saw this coming too late, but she hasn't been happy for a long time.

00:49:52.760 Yeah, I mean, she wrote a book called In Trump We Trust, which, if you might notice the phrasing there, replaces God with Trump.

00:50:00.400 Yeah.

00:50:02.160 But then it's the way she kind of treated it leading up to the election, but she's definitely turned and reconsidered here.

00:50:08.240 And that's because that's a really important issue to her, right?

00:50:10.220 The border was a real thing.

00:50:11.580 She supposedly wrote a good chunk of the initial border policy that Trump released during the campaign, and obviously he has not particularly followed that so far.

00:50:22.360 But that, again, to the point of some of the people who are calling in, is this just Trump saying things?

00:50:30.080 I mean, it may just be that.

00:50:31.960 And if it is, then, you know, I guess you don't worry.

00:50:35.220 We'll see.

00:50:35.400 I will say that the one thing that is really interesting about this to me is, again, showing how terrible of an idea it was for Democrats to react to Trump the way they did.

00:50:45.700 If they had approached him like this from the beginning, they would have been able to get tons of stuff done with a Republican president and not have to deal with any of the downside of it.

00:50:56.420 Instead, they just treated him as if he was Satan slash Hitler from day one, and that caused him to kind of push back and just get into a fight with them.

00:51:06.460 He's got plenty of room.

00:51:07.660 They've got plenty of room to negotiate with this guy, as he showed yesterday.

00:51:10.240 Let's go to Chase in California.

00:51:11.800 Hello, Chase.

00:51:14.260 Hey, good morning, Glenn.

00:51:15.760 How are you?

00:51:16.260 Very good.

00:51:16.720 You voted for Donald Trump.

00:51:18.200 How do you feel today?

00:51:19.080 Yeah, well, I've kind of been in this position before where I'm feeling a little uneasy, and then he always goes out and does something that, you know, brings me back to his side, where it's like, oh, yeah, that's my guy.

00:51:33.560 You know, he's just playing those fools.

00:51:35.480 You know, he's just playing them.

00:51:36.920 And you kind of hinted at that in your opening monologue that, you know, it was a Broadway show.

00:51:42.460 So I kind of feel like some of yesterday was kind of just, it wasn't for us, necessarily, his supporters.

00:51:51.200 It was for others.

00:51:53.040 Now, and I will say that if it leads to the end of chain migration, the lottery, and a border wall, I'm okay with granting citizenship to the DACA people who don't have, you know, criminal records.

00:52:11.480 Go ahead.

00:52:12.840 Good.

00:52:13.400 But it's got to be part of a broader reform.

00:52:18.280 Would you say maybe a comprehensive reform is maybe the way you'd want to phrase that?

00:52:23.420 Would that be the right way to say it?

00:52:25.820 Yeah.

00:52:26.240 Okay.

00:52:26.440 Yeah.

00:52:26.800 A clean bill of comprehensive reform.

00:52:31.180 Okay.

00:52:31.740 All right.

00:52:32.460 Thank you.

00:52:33.000 Thank you so much.

00:52:33.940 Per se.

00:52:34.400 Thank you, Chase.

00:52:35.720 But I feel the same way.

00:52:37.300 Look, I just want the border secure.

00:52:40.140 I want it secure.

00:52:41.120 Remember, if we, and this is not popular, and I don't like doing it, but if we have to give the people who are here citizenship, it's not a good thing.

00:52:53.100 I don't like it, but if that border is secure, I will trade, but I want the border secure first, and I don't think that's going to happen.

00:53:04.280 That's the amnesty position from Rubio and Bush and Graham, and I mean, that's been controversial in the past.

00:53:14.600 So, you know, he said, you know, he said, this is theater.

00:53:17.500 I just, I just want to, I just want to give you this.

00:53:20.240 This is theater.

00:53:20.900 He's just, he's just playing.

00:53:23.440 This is Edgar Allan Poe.

00:53:24.920 Lo, it is Galanite, within the lonesome latter years, an angel throng, bewinged, belight, in veils, and drowned in tears.

00:53:34.960 They sit in a theater to see a play of hopes and fears, while the orchestra breathes fitfully the music of the spheres.

00:53:42.320 Mimes, in the form of God on high, mutter and mumble low, and hither and thither fly, mere puppets, they, who come and go,

00:53:53.280 at bidding of vast formless things that shift the scenery to and fro, flapping from out their condor wings, invisible woe.

00:54:03.920 That motley drama, oh be sure, it shall not be forgot, with its phantom chased forevermore by a crowd,

00:54:10.660 listen to this, by a crowd that sees it not, through the circle that ever returneth to the very self-same spot,

00:54:19.940 and much of madness, and more of sin, and horror, the soul of the plot.

00:54:27.020 Okay, so let's just have this right.

00:54:29.080 So something's going on, we're watching a show, it's a play, something is moving everything,

00:54:38.400 and everybody is watching it, and it keeps coming back to the same thing over and over again.

00:54:47.480 But see amid the mimic rout, a crawling shape intrude, a blood-red thing that writhes from out the scenic solitude,

00:54:57.220 it writhes, it writhes with mortal pangs, the mimes become its food,

00:55:02.900 and seraphs sob at vermin fangs in human gore imbued.

00:55:07.720 So now something has come in, and now it's just gory.

00:55:10.600 What the hell is happening?

00:55:12.100 What is this?

00:55:13.100 Out, out are the lights, out all, and over each quivering form, the curtain, a funeral, Paul,

00:55:22.620 comes down with a rush of a storm, while the angels, all pallid and wan, uprising, unveiling a firm.

00:55:29.760 The play is the tragedy man, and the hero is the conqueror worm.

00:55:40.340 Meaning, yeah, you're all watching a play.

00:55:43.560 It's you being eaten.

00:55:45.860 That's how it ends.

00:55:47.100 I don't know if you saw this, before Christmas, the head of FEMA, Brock Long, told the news media,

00:55:57.120 he wants everybody to understand three fundamental truths.

00:56:01.020 That FEMA is broke, the system is broken, and the new normal means that Americans cannot rely on the federal government

00:56:08.820 when disaster strikes, you have to take care of yourself.

00:56:12.160 Now, they said that right before Christmas, so, you know, that's the time that everybody's thinking about this.

00:56:17.400 You know, you say that right before Christmas, because you know it'll get into the headlines at Christmastime.

00:56:23.240 This is an emission of failure, and it has to be a wake-up call.

00:56:27.200 Today, at 5 o'clock this morning, the markets over in Asia took a nosedive, and it was all American stocks,

00:56:35.980 because China said, you know what, we're thinking about stopping buying U.S. Treasuries.

00:56:42.480 Remember all the people who lied to you and said, oh, no, they'll never stop, they need us.

00:56:46.400 No, I said, at some point, they're going to stop.

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00:57:12.160 Glenn Beck.

00:57:14.280 Mercury.

00:57:22.860 Glenn Beck.

00:57:24.080 China made a really big move this morning at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, saying that they may either slow down or stop buying U.S. Treasuries.

00:57:36.300 That put the markets in a tailspin over in Asia and Europe at 5 a.m.

00:57:41.560 There's a lot going on with China, militarily, economically, and in space.

00:57:47.620 We'll talk about that for a few minutes when we come back.

00:57:50.300 Glenn Beck.

00:57:54.840 Mercury.

00:58:07.760 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:10.200 Welcome to the program.

00:58:11.400 Today, at 5 o'clock, we're going to get into some of my economic forecasting for 2018.

00:58:21.200 Some of the, I hate to use this word, predictions, but because they're not really predictions.

00:58:25.540 They're a look at things.

00:58:28.020 And some of them are a little hopeful.

00:58:29.920 Some of them are a little not so hopeful.

00:58:31.500 But just looking at the where the world is going and what does it possibly mean?

00:58:38.900 One of them today that we're talking about on the show and what, about a half an hour, Stu, is I believe that China is going to land a rover on the dark side of the moon.

00:58:50.780 And it's not really much of a prediction.

00:58:53.960 They're going to claim this as a science mission, which it is.

00:58:59.360 However, this is really strategic for us.

00:59:04.560 If they're going to use a, they'll put a satellite up in halo orbit over the far side.

00:59:10.340 And that will be able to control and communicate with their lunar lander and their rover.

00:59:17.400 That is the first time that they've done anything like that.

00:59:20.560 That's a really big deal.

00:59:22.620 And I worry that this is a first step in controlling the space between the moon and the earth.

00:59:32.180 It's called cislunar space.

00:59:33.800 And it's strategic and really, really important.

00:59:37.540 And you kind of really don't want anybody to control that area of space because it seems like an advantageous position to have.

00:59:46.800 It's a good place.

00:59:47.220 It's kind of like a Death Star position, if you will.

00:59:50.240 If you had the big laser, that's where you'd put it.

00:59:55.240 And by the way, today, I think, online at glenbeck.com is your predictions for 2018 when it comes to foreign affairs.

01:00:02.840 This is one of them.

01:00:03.800 However, a lot of that goes into what's going on in the Middle East, goes on to what's going on with immigration.

01:00:09.320 It goes to the treatment of non-Muslims in the Middle East, kind of what we've talked about with the Nazarene Fund, socialist countries and their economies.

01:00:20.800 It's all up there.

01:00:21.760 And what we're doing is you go to glenbeck.com.

01:00:24.360 You can read through them.

01:00:25.320 And then you upvote the ones you think are going to come true.

01:00:27.280 And at the end of the day, we get to kind of see which ones you think Glenn is sane on and which ones do you think he's insane on.

01:00:34.020 And we're going to get to some of those coming up and also the economic predictions at 5 o'clock, only on the Blaze TV.

01:00:40.520 Leroy Chow, he's an astronaut.

01:00:44.160 He's an astronaut with NASA.

01:00:47.800 He was the commander of the international space.

01:00:51.520 Was he the Leroy, you're here, aren't you?

01:00:56.660 I should probably ask you.

01:00:57.880 International Space Station.

01:00:59.320 The Space Station.

01:01:00.160 And aren't you the guy who went and you have piloted Russian and Chinese or just Russian vehicles?

01:01:09.640 Oh, no.

01:01:10.060 I'm an American.

01:01:10.920 I was born in the U.S.

01:01:12.240 And I flew three space shuttle missions before traveling to the International Space Station as a co-pilot aboard a Russian spacecraft.

01:01:20.100 That was it.

01:01:20.240 And I was the commander of the station for six and a half months during Expedition 10.

01:01:24.260 So you haven't really accomplished much in your life is what you're saying.

01:01:26.820 When are you going to do something with yourself?

01:01:28.960 Leroy, I just have to, just on a personal side, what is it like to come back to Earth and look up and go,

01:01:36.660 I'm never going to go back there.

01:01:38.620 And it was the coolest thing ever.

01:01:40.940 Well, you know, it's kind of funny.

01:01:43.600 I mean, when I got selected to be an astronaut, I never imagined the day would come when I would decide to leave NASA.

01:01:49.840 But, you know, during my first two weeks at NASA, there was a going away party for one of the senior guys.

01:01:55.940 And I overheard somebody talking to him and talking to another guy and said,

01:01:59.860 Well, how do you know when it's time to leave?

01:02:01.740 And he said, You know, when it's time, you'll know.

01:02:03.640 And I remembered that.

01:02:05.120 And 15 years later, sure enough, you know, I was getting ready to go fly to the International Space Station or actually just gotten back.

01:02:13.380 And the chief asked me if I would stay for another shuttle mission.

01:02:16.380 And I thought about it for about 30 seconds and I turned him down.

01:02:19.740 And I kind of surprised myself.

01:02:20.800 But I'd done everything that I could do and could hope for in a flying career.

01:02:25.080 You know, I'd flown space shuttle missions.

01:02:27.040 I'd done spacewalks to help build the space station.

01:02:29.340 Wow.

01:02:29.540 You know, but I'd expand the station and done all that stuff.

01:02:33.520 And it was just time to go do something else.

01:02:35.500 Is there anything that the average person can compare to walking out into space the first time?

01:02:44.500 No, it is, you know, even the sixth time, it's a bit of a surreal experience.

01:02:49.960 You're actually in a spacesuit, which you can think of as a personal spacecraft.

01:02:53.440 You know, it's got all the life support system and everything.

01:02:55.480 But you're all alone.

01:02:56.560 You know, there's nobody else that can help you except for your partner who's out there with you.

01:03:00.320 But, you know, it's kind of a weird feeling the very first time looking back through the shuttle windows

01:03:05.900 and waving to my buddies inside who are about three feet away.

01:03:08.740 But, you know, something happened.

01:03:10.760 We were out there alone and, you know, it was kind of up to us to save ourselves.

01:03:14.640 But, you know, it's okay because we're well trained and everything works well.

01:03:20.460 And, you know, certainly there's risk, but you know what to do.

01:03:23.060 So, and, you know, we were able to get our jobs done.

01:03:26.560 But it is kind of a weird thing, you know.

01:03:28.900 Yeah, I bet it is.

01:03:29.880 I bet it is.

01:03:30.840 I wanted to ask you about the Chinese shot of the, what is it, the Chang'e?

01:03:39.220 Chang'e, yeah.

01:03:40.020 Can you explain, going on the other side of the moon, it'll be the first time, really, that we can hear deep sky or radio without all of the static from Earth, right?

01:03:58.380 Well, not really because you still have to relay through that relay satellite, right?

01:04:05.820 So, you know, the fact that they're going to the far side of the moon is unique.

01:04:10.660 Nobody has landed a probe over there, not for any particular reason, except that, you know, you have to have a relay satellite in order to communicate with it.

01:04:18.960 So they've got to first put that relay satellite in that halo orbit so that you can relay messages from the far side of the moon back to the ground stations on the Earth.

01:04:27.360 But it's going to be interesting to see if there's any difference between what we've found on our scientific probes on the side that we can see versus the far side.

01:04:39.840 Why all of a sudden, and I think it's a great thing, I mean, I'm excited with, you know, with what Elon Musk is doing and everything else, but why all of a sudden do we have this race, it seems, to go up into space again?

01:04:53.060 Well, you know, you're right.

01:04:54.300 The commercial side has been the very exciting wild card.

01:04:57.460 I mean, NASA has been going along.

01:04:58.940 We've done the shuttle program, station program, and we're kind of plotting along with exploration, although there's been no serious or no significant, I should say, or farther advancing political and financial commitment to that.

01:05:13.980 There's been a lot of talk, and we are developing the new vehicles, but it's Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, SpaceX and Blue Origin.

01:05:20.900 And here are two guys who are visionaries and who are willing to commit their resources, their personal and influential resources, to go ahead and do exploration.

01:05:32.340 You know, that's never been done before by commercial companies.

01:05:36.220 You know, where's the profit in colonizing Mars, as Elon Musk wants to do, or in the case of Jeff Bezos, he wants to build infrastructure in low-Earth orbit and out into cislunar space.

01:05:46.080 So, you know, he's kind of doing, sounds like kind of a field of dreams thing, you know, build it and they'll come.

01:05:51.300 But it would be difficult to get, like, a Boeing or a Lockheed.

01:05:54.340 There's no way their shareholders or their boards would let them go do these things.

01:05:58.640 But these guys, they're out there, and they're serious.

01:06:03.020 They're building rockets.

01:06:03.960 They're launching rockets.

01:06:05.100 And it's pretty exciting.

01:06:07.120 They're pushing exploration.

01:06:08.580 For the first time, we've got commercial companies pushing exploration.

01:06:11.840 How realistic?

01:06:13.140 I've read that Helium-3 is, the moon is rich with Helium-3.

01:06:18.420 And if you had a fusion system that you could, if you could fill the space shuttle with Helium-3 and it would run, it would be enough power for the United States for a year.

01:06:33.320 Is there any way to transfer this or use this?

01:06:36.040 Well, Helium-3, I mean, Helium-3 is present on the moon, but it's in the soil in the parts per billion concentrations.

01:06:46.340 So that is, you know, for every gram of Helium-3 that you might harvest, it'd be a billion grams of regolith, you know, lunar soil that you'd have to go through and find a way to separate this stuff out.

01:06:58.780 So it's theoretically possible.

01:07:00.660 You could certainly, theoretically possible, to separate the Helium-3 and store it and bring it back to Earth.

01:07:06.480 But the other part of the problem is we don't have a fusion reactor.

01:07:09.740 You know, we've been 20 years from a fusion reactor since the 1950s, right?

01:07:13.640 And so, you know, we need to invent a fusion reactor that is practical and actually works before we talk about bringing Helium-3 back from the moon.

01:07:23.260 But people that, you know, have used Helium-3 as a justification for going back to the moon, and to me that's nice, but there are a lot more practical reasons to go.

01:07:33.880 If we're going to go to Mars, the moon is the perfect place to prove your equipment, to train your crews, to get some experience before sending all that stuff to Mars, because the moon is pretty close.

01:07:44.920 It's only three days away.

01:07:46.360 If there's an issue, you can get your crew back.

01:07:48.020 Mars, on the other hand, the closest approach is, you know, on the average, about six months away.

01:07:52.380 As we saw with Matt Damon recently.

01:07:54.660 Yeah, right.

01:07:56.560 That guy, man, he was...

01:07:58.020 He's had a tough time.

01:07:58.940 Many journeys have turned out poorly for Matt Damon.

01:08:01.300 It's sad.

01:08:01.860 I know.

01:08:03.220 Leroy, when you hear the size of the rocket that Elon Musk is building, he says it's going to be 40 stories tall and can fit a 747 inside of the bay.

01:08:17.020 When you see, and I know this is Hollywood, but when you see these movies and we are developing eventually some sort of interplanetary, you know, vehicles, they're enormous.

01:08:31.180 Do we build those in space on the moon or do we launch them?

01:08:36.780 You know, there are different ways to look at this.

01:08:39.580 So Elon Musk did announce these huge rockets that he wants to build, and that's to support his vision of colonizing Mars.

01:08:46.060 And so he's envisioning building spacecraft that can take 100 or more passengers to go, you know, start to colonize Mars.

01:08:54.300 So there are two schools of thought.

01:08:55.900 Either you launch it all at once, and, you know, you've got to have a huge rocket to do that,

01:09:00.440 or you build gas stations in, say, low Earth orbit or in orbit around the moon, and then you launch kind of an empty vehicle out there and then fuel it up to go, right?

01:09:11.460 So there are pluses and minuses to each approach, but what Elon is talking about is building a huge rocket, much bigger than the Saturn V.

01:09:18.600 In fact, in the 1950s, 1960s, the United States, it was called the Nova rocket.

01:09:24.980 You know, they had these ideas where they were going to build these similarly huge rockets to do interplanetary exploration.

01:09:30.860 So there's certainly something to that.

01:09:33.080 There's some history to it.

01:09:34.740 You know, the thing with Elon Musk that I've learned is that he may not make the exact date that he projects,

01:09:40.540 but by and large, he's able to get things done.

01:09:43.360 And you look at the successes of SpaceX, with Falcon 9, and with Tesla, it's pretty impressive.

01:09:48.480 So if Elon Musk called you and said, hey, I want you to come and colonize Mars, and you could take your family, would you do it?

01:09:57.080 Nah, you know what?

01:09:58.000 I would love to go explore Mars, but I have no interest in living there.

01:10:01.400 Life is much better here on the Earth.

01:10:03.420 Even from low Earth orbit, you know, it's great to go out there and have the adventure, but I'm going to come back here.

01:10:09.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:10:10.280 Leroy, thank you so much.

01:10:11.280 I appreciate it.

01:10:11.920 Leroy, yeah, Leroy Chow, an astronaut extraordinaire, and something that the early astronauts did not have the opportunity to do,

01:10:21.640 and that's go back into space over and over and over again.

01:10:32.200 Leroy is at LeroyChow.com, C-H-I-A-O, also at AstroDude on Twitter, just a solid Twitter name.

01:10:40.320 I don't know if that's it.

01:10:42.540 I mean, when you've been in space, maybe you're not that amazed by your Twitter name, but I kind of am.

01:10:47.480 I remember I had dinner or a lunch with, oh, shoot, second man on the moon.

01:10:54.980 Buzz Aldrin.

01:10:55.320 Buzz Aldrin.

01:10:55.900 And I'll never forget the feeling.

01:10:58.620 I was overwhelmed by the feeling of that was the greatest moment of his life, and he can't move past it.

01:11:05.180 How could you?

01:11:05.780 I mean, you know, it would be strange to be able to put that in perspective.

01:11:09.460 Yeah.

01:11:10.020 And you only got one back then.

01:11:11.780 Like, he, you know, he'd go three times and like, yeah, I've done it.

01:11:15.480 You know, he had one shot.

01:11:17.160 That was it.

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01:13:06.200 Sheila is in Florida, and she voted for Donald Trump, and we're kind of taking a temperature of the audience today.

01:13:14.720 How do you feel about what happened yesterday with Donald Trump and DACA and the border and saying, you know, it doesn't matter.

01:13:21.680 I trust the people in Congress.

01:13:23.220 You bring it to me, both Democrats and Republicans, and I will sign it even if I disagree with it, and I'll take the heat for it.

01:13:30.560 Sheila, how do you feel?

01:13:31.360 Well, actually, it's Lisa, but hello.

01:13:34.160 Oh, hi, Lisa.

01:13:34.920 Glenn, I've listened to you since way before 9-1-1, and I've just been such a fan, and I've just been fascinated by everything that you have done and accomplished.

01:13:44.580 So congratulations on everything.

01:13:47.380 But, yeah, I was a reluctant Trump voter.

01:13:51.220 My husband was a fan.

01:13:52.480 I was a Ted Cruz person.

01:13:55.140 Yesterday, I was fascinated by what was going on.

01:13:59.340 I thought that the theater of bringing the press into that meeting was brilliant.

01:14:04.620 I mean, he took the focus on that Michael Wolff book completely off the table.

01:14:09.380 He shut down everybody that was saying that he's, you know, mentally deranged and he's a narcissistic baby, the whole bit.

01:14:18.100 He came across as such a negotiator and such a calm, cool, collected person.

01:14:24.100 I am hoping, beyond hope, that what he's doing is at least getting the Democrats to the table because he's right.

01:14:31.680 Everybody is so polarized.

01:14:33.080 Nobody can have a conversation about anything.

01:14:35.420 Everybody's back in their corner.

01:14:36.780 They want what they want.

01:14:37.920 I agree with you, Sheila, and that is good.

01:14:42.820 How will you feel if what he said yesterday is how he does it, which I'll give you DACA, and we can do that first?

01:14:51.860 I'm going to be pretty deflated.

01:14:53.620 What?

01:14:54.360 Yeah.

01:14:55.000 I'll be pretty deflated about it.

01:14:56.580 Yeah.

01:14:57.320 Because I don't trust the Democrats would actually give us the wall after they have what they have.

01:15:04.240 But we'll watch.

01:15:05.040 Thank you, Lisa.

01:15:05.760 Appreciate it.

01:15:06.420 God bless.

01:15:06.860 Glenn Beck.

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01:16:23.960 Well, water parks are a growing trend on university campuses.

01:16:30.680 On public university campuses.

01:16:33.120 Gives a whole new feeling to the name of the Lazy Rivers, doesn't it?

01:16:42.800 Campus.

01:16:44.040 Let the irony of a lazy river on a college campus sink in for a moment.

01:16:49.640 Because this is what higher education has come to.

01:16:54.340 From a student perspective, awesome.

01:16:57.600 I mean, who doesn't want the lazy river at their school in a splash park?

01:17:01.500 Of course, it's going to be a selling point for, you know, all the male high school seniors who, you know, decide where to spend all of their parents' money.

01:17:10.360 Colleges don't have to put anything else in the brochure but the pictures of the hot girls at the water park.

01:17:16.120 Now, for anyone who actually cares about the future of our great nation, the question is, uh, why?

01:17:23.500 Who is the genius that said, you know, what would really motivate our students and set them apart in the academic world and also for hiring, uh, is, uh, you know, to give them a lazy river on campus?

01:17:39.940 Who said this?

01:17:41.360 We're now even removing our students' need for creative problem solving when it comes to recreation and procrastination.

01:17:51.100 No, I don't know.

01:17:52.340 What am I going to do?

01:17:53.260 Don't worry.

01:17:53.980 The water park is right here.

01:17:55.920 Don't waste the brain cells on trying to figure out how you can screw off.

01:17:59.940 Many of these water park colleges are public universities, originally built on the, on the premise that educated citizens are a, are a vital piece to a democratic society.

01:18:14.580 But now college administrations and trustees are, are way more concerned with building their university brand than maintaining any kind of public trust.

01:18:24.720 So they're turning colleges into an all-inclusive resort.

01:18:30.320 Auburn university's water park has a giant paw print shaped hot tub.

01:18:36.580 Oh, it can accommodate 45 students.

01:18:39.820 Gee, there's nothing going to be gone going on in the water park that maybe shouldn't be going on.

01:18:45.860 Right.

01:18:46.860 And I'm sure everybody's going to have their homework done.

01:18:49.540 The lazy river at Louisiana state university spells out LSU.

01:18:54.000 Texas tech has a water park.

01:18:58.020 It has wifi.

01:18:58.940 I mean, you got to stay connected when you're in the water park, the indoor water park at the university of Missouri features a grotto modeled after the one at the playboy mansion.

01:19:09.820 Isn't that great?

01:19:11.600 Booker T Washington would be so proud.

01:19:14.560 Most of these projects are paid for by raising the student activity fees on top of the regular tuition, tuition and fees at a public four-year college has grown 60% since George Bush was in office.

01:19:35.860 Not the first one, the second one, which begs the question of Bernie Sanders and the Democrats, how on earth are you supposed to make college free, especially with the lazy river?

01:19:54.100 And how do you get anybody to go to college without the water park?

01:20:05.200 It's Wednesday, January 10th.

01:20:07.720 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:20:10.500 I noticed in your predictions, you didn't call that one water park psychologist.

01:20:13.600 No, in fact, but it does make it easier to on my so-called predictions.

01:20:19.040 I can just change it to we're all doomed.

01:20:22.460 How's that prediction?

01:20:23.800 Yeah, that's that's that one's still probably there.

01:20:26.840 There's a certain strain of we're all doomed running through many of these.

01:20:30.640 Not all, though.

01:20:31.580 No, no, no, not necessarily all of them.

01:20:34.600 Today, we're looking at the predictions and I want to make this really clear.

01:20:38.360 I've never made predictions before I have.

01:20:42.800 Well, wait a minute.

01:20:43.760 No, I'm not gonna let you get away with that.

01:20:45.140 You've definitely made a zillion predictions before a zillion of them.

01:20:49.040 You've never made annual like start of the year.

01:20:51.500 Yeah, I've never made it like this.

01:20:52.640 When I say something, it's usually because I just feel it in my bones.

01:20:56.180 You know, the caliphate is coming.

01:20:57.900 I just knew that it was coming.

01:21:00.880 I've never sat down, you know, during the holiday and said, OK, why do I?

01:21:04.400 This is not a prediction.

01:21:05.160 This is more of a forecast.

01:21:06.600 How's that?

01:21:07.340 Right.

01:21:07.520 Like this is you can't schedule the type of predictions you usually make.

01:21:11.140 Yes.

01:21:11.420 Right.

01:21:11.660 Like it comes with a lot of thought.

01:21:13.460 It comes with inspiration.

01:21:14.760 It comes with all sorts of different things.

01:21:16.140 More inspiration than thought.

01:21:17.680 This came with a lot of thought.

01:21:19.720 Right.

01:21:19.960 And no general inspiration at all.

01:21:23.020 And so you can go to Glenn Beck dot com.

01:21:25.160 And yesterday was politics.

01:21:27.360 Today is foreign affairs.

01:21:29.120 The predictions for 2018 that you've decided just to come out.

01:21:32.340 And if you're a sports like talk fan, a sports radio fan, you kind of recognize this almost as

01:21:37.340 bold takes like it's you're kind of like going out on a limb a little bit.

01:21:42.060 This is not you just saying somebody saying, you know what?

01:21:45.580 Put your money here.

01:21:46.900 Right.

01:21:47.500 This is me saying, you know what?

01:21:49.520 I could see this happening in the next 12 months.

01:21:52.360 Yes.

01:21:52.880 Yeah.

01:21:53.120 It's interesting to see what you have predicted.

01:21:55.320 And it's interesting to see how the audience has sort of reacted to it.

01:22:00.080 OK, so are the foreign affairs are those up?

01:22:02.900 Yeah, they're up to vote for now.

01:22:04.100 So the idea is you vote for it if you think it's going to come true.

01:22:06.600 So so should we start at the least what the audience has said is the least?

01:22:11.120 Are there enough votes there yet?

01:22:12.400 Yeah.

01:22:12.680 Well, I mean, obviously, yesterday was the day we did the politics one.

01:22:15.620 OK, I will tell you that that poll showed the least likely thing to happen as Hillary Clinton

01:22:20.980 and Uma Abedin will be charged with crimes.

01:22:23.260 Right.

01:22:23.660 Well, I did say you did.

01:22:25.080 I did say just going at a million dollars is more likely to happen on that one.

01:22:30.960 But and you kind of go through like the most likely political was the freedom movement will

01:22:36.820 experience somewhat of a renaissance, both U.S. and globally.

01:22:39.080 I don't know if that's wishful thinking, but 23 percent of people said that was the most

01:22:43.300 tomorrow.

01:22:43.780 Can we get to that?

01:22:45.960 What's happening with Trump and what I what I talked to you about earlier this morning

01:22:49.900 about Cass Sunstein?

01:22:51.280 Would you write that down so we talk about that tomorrow?

01:22:53.540 Cass Sunstein.

01:22:54.120 Yep.

01:22:54.580 Because that's that is it is really kind of like the freedom movement is going to have

01:22:59.520 a resurgence.

01:23:00.520 Yes, that is.

01:23:02.040 Are you agreeing with that because it makes you feel good or because it's really happening?

01:23:09.600 Right.

01:23:10.160 You know, because I mean, it is one of those things that we like.

01:23:12.540 We tend to believe the things that we like.

01:23:14.080 We like.

01:23:14.720 Right.

01:23:15.020 And it's there's this new study out from London that's really fascinating.

01:23:18.460 It is.

01:23:18.820 We'll get to that tomorrow.

01:23:19.660 The votes are very early.

01:23:20.660 We just posted this at Glenn Beck dot com.

01:23:22.280 But I can give them to you in that order if you want.

01:23:23.780 Sure.

01:23:23.900 You want to start with the least likely?

01:23:24.980 Yeah.

01:23:25.340 Least likely.

01:23:25.720 Least likely.

01:23:26.320 As part of the larger Brexit and other independence movements in Europe, the EU will seek and

01:23:30.460 likely enter into a broad free trade agreement.

01:23:33.480 Participating nations will include the US, Canada and the UK, as well as other Western

01:23:37.440 aligned powers globally, including Japan and South Korea.

01:23:40.420 This will be done by EU leaders to try to stave off independence movements in Spain, Italy

01:23:44.060 and other EU member countries.

01:23:46.080 That one could just be that they care the least about that one.

01:23:49.380 Yeah, it could be.

01:23:50.080 It could be.

01:23:50.680 It's a trade prediction.

01:23:51.440 It's an EU prediction.

01:23:52.720 And what it is, is because I do think that we are so close to collapse and this there

01:23:59.860 is this freedom movement that is going on.

01:24:02.360 And you look at the countries like Italy, it's not in good shape.

01:24:08.540 It's really not in good shape.

01:24:10.660 And there's going to be people like Germany going, get them out of the EU.

01:24:15.660 I don't want to pay for Italy, too.

01:24:17.960 We're already paying for Greece.

01:24:19.360 I'm not paying for Italy, too.

01:24:20.740 And so there's going to be this movement inside to get out of the EU.

01:24:25.120 And there's going to be a movement from both the countries saying, I want my freedom to

01:24:30.900 make my own deals.

01:24:32.100 And then there's also going to be the ones that are saying, I want them out.

01:24:37.000 And so I think that they're going to try to play this game to where they can say, you

01:24:42.120 can, you know, go ahead, make some make some deals here and there.

01:24:46.020 This is way out on a limb.

01:24:47.520 There's another reason why they think it's the least likely thing to happen out of your

01:24:50.480 predictions, because you're including the U.S. in a free trade agreement, which is essentially

01:24:55.380 what Trump ran against.

01:24:56.420 It would be surprising to see him enter that type of agreement.

01:24:58.940 We'll see.

01:24:59.560 We'll see.

01:24:59.940 We'll see.

01:25:00.280 All right.

01:25:00.760 Six.

01:25:01.940 Sixth place.

01:25:02.940 China will land a rover on the dark side of the moon.

01:25:05.280 I'm telling you that's going to happen.

01:25:07.420 People do not believe you.

01:25:08.620 Apparently it's going to have at least early on.

01:25:10.400 Yeah.

01:25:10.500 We just talked to a NASA expert who said it's possible.

01:25:13.360 Yeah.

01:25:14.000 So China is going to land a rover on the dark side of the moon.

01:25:17.320 This is going to be claimed as a scientific mission.

01:25:20.740 I don't think the astronaut believed me on what I was talking about.

01:25:24.740 But I think that he said this is this is exactly what would happen if they do it, that they're

01:25:30.280 going to have to launch a satellite in orbit over the moon.

01:25:33.860 And that satellite will be able to transmit all of the information from the dark side of

01:25:41.120 the moon back to Earth, because you can't get a you know, you can't get a radio signal

01:25:44.320 or a satellite signal on the dark side of the moon because the moon's in the way.

01:25:48.300 So it'll be the first time that somebody has put a satellite, you know, over the moon and

01:25:55.880 communicate back and go to the dark side of the moon.

01:25:59.480 I believe that they are doing this, as I say here, that they say this is a scientific mission,

01:26:03.780 which it will be.

01:26:04.580 But it is also their first step in controlling cislunar space, which is critical to national

01:26:10.600 security.

01:26:12.020 So that's number six.

01:26:13.320 It is number six.

01:26:14.380 And I think part of the reason why that's low is obviously Pink Floyd already predicted

01:26:17.340 it.

01:26:17.540 OK, so that's another part.

01:26:19.460 Number five, the return of the 12th imam will be used by the leaders of Iran in a desperate

01:26:23.860 attempt to hold on to and consolidate power.

01:26:25.940 This audience doesn't believe that.

01:26:28.440 I'm surprised.

01:26:29.080 I mean, it's very early.

01:26:30.100 These votes just started being cast.

01:26:31.580 Yeah, you know, we're going to give you the day.

01:26:33.040 We're going to review the, you know, your votes tomorrow on this.

01:26:35.820 But I mean, they just started being cast.

01:26:37.380 OK, so so let me give you let me give you this.

01:26:39.160 This is not your I think maybe they may be saying, well, the 12th imam is going to return.

01:26:42.640 I'm not saying that.

01:26:43.280 No, you're saying they're going to claim it.

01:26:44.840 They're already saying that the 12th imam is back and walking among them.

01:26:51.160 They're already saying that.

01:26:53.080 OK, so what I'm saying is I'm not saying you're going to see or meet the 12th imam or that

01:27:00.360 he's even real.

01:27:01.240 What I'm saying is to quell the mob, they're going to appeal to the uber religious and they're

01:27:09.660 going to say the 12th is mom is here.

01:27:11.560 They're going to use him in any way possible in a desperate attempt to hold on and to consolidate

01:27:16.540 power.

01:27:17.480 They will begin to prepare for to prepare the religious fanatics for a bloody and bloodthirsty

01:27:24.760 war, which will in time engulf the entire Middle East.

01:27:28.600 And it will mainly happen between Turkey and Iran at first that those are the two competing

01:27:35.840 powers combined in an ongoing conflict against Saudi Arabia and a wider Arab League.

01:27:42.040 Iran will be considerably weakened internally while dealing with these internal conflicts

01:27:47.760 in 2018, reducing their overall influence regionally and globally and look for an attempt to start

01:27:54.060 a new Arab Spring the week of the first day of spring in Iran, because it is also the

01:28:01.940 Persian New Year.

01:28:03.620 That could be a big one.

01:28:04.300 I mean, any unrest there can turn into a lot more.

01:28:07.920 The third biggest one is one we actually got a preview of during our Christmas party during

01:28:12.680 a speech you made at the Christmas party.

01:28:15.380 It's such a holiday.

01:28:16.720 Yeah.

01:28:16.920 I mean, when you're thinking, you know, stockings, you've got people roasting chestnuts, doing

01:28:21.780 Christmas carols, and then obviously you throw in the organ harvesting, which is kind of

01:28:26.740 related.

01:28:27.700 Number three is persecution of Christians, gays, non-Muslim, religious minorities, and those

01:28:32.600 Muslims, not deemed Muslim enough, will reach new lows for humanity in the Middle East, including

01:28:37.040 potentially the harvesting of organs, which again, if that doesn't make you want Christmas

01:28:43.480 candy cane, I don't know what does.

01:28:46.140 So here's the rest of this.

01:28:48.720 Turkey will continue to turn towards religious fascism and will continue to make hard turns

01:28:54.320 towards Sharia law.

01:28:55.960 They're going to continue to march toward a new caliphate or a new Ottoman Empire.

01:29:01.180 The Kurds are going to be the biggest target.

01:29:03.600 What will come out of the next few years is going to resemble the Germans and the Poles in

01:29:10.200 the Ottomans, the Germans with the Poles or the Ottomans in the 1918 genocide.

01:29:17.120 I think you're going to see genocide with the Kurds and also the Christians and everybody

01:29:25.800 else is going to be ugly.

01:29:26.900 Now, a lot of these predictions you've gone on a limb on this one, I cannot give you credit

01:29:30.000 for cultural clashes between immigrants and natives will cause a backlash from the public

01:29:34.820 across Western Europe.

01:29:35.860 I mean, isn't that already happening?

01:29:39.600 Yeah.

01:29:40.120 You think it's going to get worse?

01:29:41.240 Yes, it's going to get worse because listen to the rest of it.

01:29:43.720 Even though Russia and Putin's meddling in the elections and the affairs of other Western

01:29:48.240 countries will be made more clear, the press and the governments of the world will ignore

01:29:52.980 this until it's too late.

01:29:54.900 Yeah.

01:29:55.060 I mean, that was one of the interesting things of the Fusion GPS transcripts that were released

01:29:58.500 recently.

01:29:58.860 I mean, both sides are just protecting their political argument with the questions.

01:30:05.920 None of them are taking the Russian threat seriously.

01:30:08.020 And like we've said over and over, this is not about Donald Trump.

01:30:09.920 It's not about Hillary Clinton.

01:30:11.220 It's about Russia and what they're trying to accomplish.

01:30:14.120 And the questioning to the Fusion GPS representatives was much less about that and much more about,

01:30:19.580 well, don't you mean that Donald Trump's innocent?

01:30:22.120 Don't you mean that Hillary Clinton didn't do anything wrong?

01:30:23.960 And it's like, well, that is a part that we're all fascinated by, I guess, but really of

01:30:30.240 limited value when you compare it to what Russia is attempting around the world and here.

01:30:35.400 So the same thing is going on.

01:30:37.000 We're just not paying attention to the right stories.

01:30:39.920 Yesterday, I had one of the big movers and shakers in Silicon Valley came into the office

01:30:46.520 and met with me yesterday for about two hours.

01:30:48.620 We had a fascinating conversation.

01:30:50.220 I eventually begged, can we tape this fascinating conversation?

01:30:57.540 And it basically was on that kind of topic.

01:31:00.980 People are not aware of what is really happening and what's really important.

01:31:09.340 What's right around the corner, how things are going to dramatically change and no one is

01:31:15.680 really talking about it.

01:31:16.820 And we'll get into that because we have some tech things, too.

01:31:21.960 But that's the same thing.

01:31:23.280 Nobody's talking about the real issue.

01:31:25.380 And the real issue is, what the hell is Russia doing?

01:31:29.100 We have more predictions coming up, but the number one overall prediction that the audience

01:31:41.660 so far has voted for from Foreign Affairs of 2018, you can get the list at glenbeck.com.

01:31:48.080 And you can see the ones from yesterday, which was about politics.

01:31:51.840 And you can get the entire list if you just sign up to the email newsletter and they'll send

01:31:54.980 you the whole thing, which is kind of cool.

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01:33:59.020 All right.

01:34:00.480 The forecast.

01:34:02.180 I've never done this before where I take and look at foreign affairs, the economy, high tech, health, everything else, and then break it up and then come up.

01:34:11.660 I came up with 40 different things that I think could happen this year.

01:34:15.300 And it's really kind of more of a sport than anything else.

01:34:17.900 But if you would like to vote on which ones you think are likely and unlikely, you can do that at Glenn Beck.com.

01:34:24.920 Just look for my predictions for 2018.

01:34:27.560 Foreign affairs is today.

01:34:29.040 We're covering some because of something that happened in China.

01:34:31.500 We're kind of going to cover the economy today at five o'clock on the Glenn Beck program.

01:34:36.480 Yeah.

01:34:36.660 You have.

01:34:37.320 So there's a bunch of ways you can get this.

01:34:39.180 Go to Glenn Beck.com and vote.

01:34:40.220 Right now, the number one, and this is going to change for me, but number one is Turkey will continue to turn towards religious fascism and will continue to make hard turns towards Sharia law.

01:34:50.060 That's a scary possibility because there are real power there.

01:34:53.780 This is not just some small group doing something that we don't like.

01:34:58.740 This is a big, powerful pseudo ally of us over the past few years.

01:35:04.000 They've been part of the hope of the Middle East at times, and that seems to be fading away.

01:35:08.060 Yeah, they're not.

01:35:10.120 They're not an ally.

01:35:11.420 They're not an ally.

01:35:12.600 But increasingly, right?

01:35:14.140 I mean, like, if you would have said this 10 years ago, you might have been much more optimistic about the future of Turkey.

01:35:19.760 Yes.

01:35:20.140 The past few years.

01:35:21.260 I've never thought that they belonged in NATO, but I was.

01:35:23.840 Yeah.

01:35:24.200 I was hopeful because of the way their constitution was set up.

01:35:28.520 And they were helpful early in the war on terror in some ways.

01:35:31.160 I mean, it hasn't been complete, but it does seem like they're taking a turn towards the entire world.

01:35:37.360 Is going to take a turn towards the dark side.

01:35:39.380 And when you see these connected with the economic forecast, you will understand why.

01:35:49.100 You'll see that the economic forecast is going to be dicey.

01:35:56.380 I mean, it's weird because as tonight I'll talk about it at five o'clock.

01:35:59.280 I believe we are going to go into a melt up, which could take, you know, 24 months.

01:36:05.080 I think we're already in the beginning of it.

01:36:06.840 Dow 25,000.

01:36:08.120 I think we're at the beginning of it.

01:36:09.640 And I think we are going to see we could see the Dow at 50,000 in two years.

01:36:14.140 I think I, I think I put on my prediction that Dow 30,000 by the end of 2018.

01:36:21.780 I think it could be higher than that myself.

01:36:23.840 I think it could be 35, but that'll be part of the melt up.

01:36:27.120 And it'll be really critical that you understand that.

01:36:30.740 And we'll talk about that tonight.

01:36:31.820 Five o'clock only on the blaze.

01:36:33.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:36:45.580 Can you guys keep it down?

01:36:46.620 I'm trying to watch, I'm trying to watch my new favorite show on Netflix.

01:36:50.420 By the way, have you seen the marvelous Miss Maisel?

01:36:54.380 No, but it won a Golden Globe.

01:36:55.660 Two.

01:36:56.160 And you were the only person I've ever heard mention it.

01:36:58.180 It is fantastic.

01:36:59.580 It is hysterical.

01:37:00.720 It is so well done.

01:37:01.960 Really?

01:37:02.240 It's one of my favorite shows.

01:37:04.180 Yeah.

01:37:04.820 Really.

01:37:05.180 I had never heard of it until they won the Golden Globe the other night.

01:37:08.240 It's really good.

01:37:08.900 I've been talking about it.

01:37:09.780 Well, I've been telling you guys for about a year.

01:37:11.980 That's a great show.

01:37:12.620 It's a great show.

01:37:13.120 Yeah.

01:37:13.360 That's, that's, that's, this is how he's ignoring you for about a year.

01:37:15.780 A year.

01:37:15.920 A year.

01:37:16.220 A year.

01:37:16.840 A year.

01:37:16.960 A year.

01:37:17.160 A year.

01:37:17.340 A year.

01:37:17.500 Yeah.

01:37:17.820 That's how things happen with Glenn is like, he'll mention something a few times and

01:37:21.220 I'll ignore him.

01:37:22.160 And then eventually someone else with credibility will mention it.

01:37:24.440 Yeah, I know.

01:37:24.900 And then you'll be like, oh, that's great.

01:37:26.340 Hey, wow.

01:37:26.740 Can you guys keep it down?

01:37:27.740 Because I'm trying to watch my, my new favorite, my new favorite show, which is W1A.

01:37:36.000 I've never heard of that.

01:37:37.120 Never heard of that.

01:37:37.380 So I'm going to ignore it for now.

01:37:38.840 I know.

01:37:39.380 Until it wins.

01:37:40.140 It will win something.

01:37:41.480 And then you'll be like, oh, this W1A thing.

01:37:43.680 This is.

01:37:44.520 Do you watch anything without an English accent?

01:37:47.180 Yeah.

01:37:47.740 Yeah.

01:37:48.180 Yeah.

01:37:48.320 It's illegal in your home, I thought.

01:37:50.040 No, no, no, no.

01:37:52.440 But W1A is, I can't believe it's from the BBC and I can't believe they actually made it

01:37:59.820 because it's mocking the BBC.

01:38:03.760 And I mean, hard mockery.

01:38:07.420 And it shows these television and news people just being total frauds that they are, that

01:38:15.720 no one really is saying anything.

01:38:17.820 It's the, it's, it's probably double the script, double the lines, you know, word count than

01:38:24.740 any other show I've seen.

01:38:27.120 It's like an Aaron Sorkin sort of pacing.

01:38:29.680 Yeah.

01:38:29.840 Really fast.

01:38:30.760 And you realize, yeah.

01:38:32.840 And you realize you get to the end of scenes and you're like, they didn't say anything to

01:38:37.940 each other.

01:38:38.640 I mean, you know how Seinfeld was a show about nothing.

01:38:41.200 This one is showing how people in business are so full of crap that they all just placate

01:38:49.380 each other and nothing is ever done.

01:38:52.600 It's really funny.

01:38:53.920 W1A.

01:38:54.920 Sounds good.

01:38:55.340 Okay.

01:38:55.980 So, Pat.

01:38:56.700 Yes.

01:38:57.120 I only am watching these things because, whoo, I, uh, watching, you know, uh, the news.

01:39:04.600 Because watching reality.

01:39:05.460 Yeah.

01:39:06.000 Drives out of your mind.

01:39:06.820 Yes.

01:39:07.520 Yes.

01:39:08.160 Mm-hmm.

01:39:08.540 Your thoughts, uh, on, uh, Donald Trump and his, uh, and the show yesterday.

01:39:13.320 It was a darker day yesterday.

01:39:15.120 Uh, I, you know, I've been so complimentary, I think, of Trump lately, um, that when I was

01:39:21.940 filling in for you on the show last week, somebody called and accused me of completely

01:39:26.300 flipping on him and his character.

01:39:28.460 And my point was, you know, I haven't been talking about his character.

01:39:31.700 I've been talking about his accomplishments, which are pretty impressive in the first year.

01:39:36.940 When you, when you take into account the Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, and the EPA regulations

01:39:42.120 he's gotten rid of, and the Paris Accord he got us out of, as well as the TPP treaty, you

01:39:47.360 know, he gave land back to states like Utah.

01:39:50.320 He, he has overseen huge gains, uh, against ISIS.

01:39:56.740 That war is almost won, uh, declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, which I never expected.

01:40:03.540 There's a collection here.

01:40:04.420 Most of it is on the executive side, right?

01:40:06.620 Like all the stuff that he can just do.

01:40:08.200 Yes.

01:40:08.600 Um, but that's still, well, all he can cut the size of government.

01:40:11.520 He's gotten rid of a lot of government jobs.

01:40:13.420 You know, Nikki Haley has been one of the best UN representatives of all time.

01:40:17.500 We've had, we have opened up drilling in Anwar.

01:40:20.380 We have taxes down.

01:40:22.260 No individual mandate.

01:40:24.200 Yes.

01:40:24.940 Uh, part of the tax plan.

01:40:26.040 Some really good things.

01:40:26.860 There's been some good things.

01:40:27.740 And then yesterday.

01:40:28.700 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:40:29.940 But what, but I think what you were trying to say there was that has nothing to do with

01:40:35.020 the danger and the trouble that he has caused.

01:40:37.980 And the things that we warned about during the campaign.

01:40:40.860 The, the, the divide and the hatred and the back and forth, the baby stuff, the Twitter

01:40:46.100 stuff, the Twitter stuff.

01:40:47.740 Stay, and we've all begged him, stay off Twitter, please stop it by all that's holy.

01:40:52.940 Honestly, an interesting thought experiment for people who like Trump is if he stopped

01:40:58.600 tweeting today, if he stopped tweeting today, would any person who is a supporter of Donald

01:41:04.400 Trump abandon him?

01:41:06.260 No.

01:41:06.700 Would there be one person?

01:41:08.540 Absolutely not.

01:41:09.280 It's all upside, all upside with him stopping that because there's a lot of people like,

01:41:14.340 you know, I had the same sort of thought at one point where I was like, oh, this,

01:41:16.820 this and this was, you know, it's really good.

01:41:18.200 And then the next day he's tweeting about how he's like a genius.

01:41:20.600 And I'm like, that's just so ridiculous.

01:41:22.780 I can't, it's so hard to connect with him.

01:41:25.220 Embarrassing to be able to sit down with people and say, hey, he's really accomplished some

01:41:30.300 good stuff because they can't, the average person cannot get past a very stable genius.

01:41:37.720 Shut up.

01:41:38.780 Just stop it.

01:41:39.920 I don't think you're a stable genius.

01:41:41.340 You don't need to say it.

01:41:42.220 Don't say that.

01:41:42.760 I've never met a very stable genius who had to point out he was a very stable genius.

01:41:46.760 Very stable genius.

01:41:47.460 You don't, you don't do that.

01:41:48.780 So for instance, have I ever said it?

01:41:50.840 No, no.

01:41:51.280 And you are one as we know, as we've covered.

01:41:53.720 And I've never tweeted it.

01:41:55.820 So disregard that very stable genius thing that I just said.

01:41:59.580 Apparently is completely wrong.

01:42:00.960 And one of the worst I've ever seen happened the other day when he tweeted out about the

01:42:04.840 Michael Wolf book.

01:42:05.940 Now I know he was hacked off.

01:42:07.380 He was really upset, but this stuff just, you can't do it as president.

01:42:12.080 But Michael Wolf is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring

01:42:17.160 and untruthful book.

01:42:18.060 He used sloppy Steve Bannon who cried when he got fired and begged for his job.

01:42:24.520 Now sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone.

01:42:29.560 I can't go with you there.

01:42:32.180 I can't.

01:42:32.500 Well, when he's beating up on Bannon, I don't mind it that much.

01:42:35.060 But I am, I'm with Pat.

01:42:36.340 I want to beat on Bannon.

01:42:38.400 I do too, but not as the president.

01:42:40.860 Right.

01:42:41.260 Not like that.

01:42:42.220 Yeah.

01:42:42.420 I mean, look, not like that.

01:42:43.400 People always say, you know, that he needs to have that to be able to push back and fight

01:42:46.360 back.

01:42:46.620 And I think that's a legitimate use of Twitter when you're fighting back.

01:42:49.440 It's just the way he does it.

01:42:50.520 It's hard to, I mean, he's been better on policy than I expected.

01:42:53.720 And we said that a hundred times in the air.

01:42:55.720 I mean, that's, that's.

01:42:56.680 Until yesterday, a lot better.

01:42:58.040 Yeah.

01:42:58.140 Yesterday was a big day.

01:42:59.140 Yesterday's a bad day, a really bad day for him.

01:43:01.320 And I just, I'm afraid he showed his true colors yesterday because we said all along,

01:43:08.080 the guy's, he's not conservative.

01:43:10.020 When has he ever been conservative on even the border, which was supposedly his strongest

01:43:15.040 issue?

01:43:15.600 I heard somebody on the way in today describe him as the best conservative immigration guy

01:43:21.980 in the history of the country.

01:43:24.140 I'm like, no, he's not.

01:43:27.160 I mean, off of DACA, the DACA day, you're saying that?

01:43:30.060 Yeah.

01:43:30.240 Well, that's why he was disappointed today, because he thought that until now.

01:43:35.160 So no, wait, wait.

01:43:36.500 He's talked a good game.

01:43:38.160 He's talked a good game.

01:43:39.040 But he's also talked for longer in the opposite way.

01:43:42.940 Right.

01:43:43.460 So who you had to pay attention to who he is.

01:43:47.020 I don't know.

01:43:47.940 I mean, my wife and I were watching this last night and she just said, wait, he is asking

01:43:52.540 for the wall, but he's just talking about how cheap it's going to be.

01:43:55.860 I thought it was free.

01:43:57.760 I thought Mexico was going to pay for it.

01:43:59.600 You know, she brought that back.

01:44:00.940 Yeah.

01:44:01.220 And not only that, but he's backtracked on building a wall across the entire border, which

01:44:07.180 was the thing.

01:44:07.860 Initially, he was going to build the big, beautiful wall with a big, beautiful door so illegal

01:44:12.020 people can come through it.

01:44:13.660 But illegals would be kept out.

01:44:15.660 Well, that's not what they're even talking about anymore.

01:44:17.860 Now they're talking about a wall system.

01:44:20.120 Um, yeah, they're saying the same things that Democrats have always said.

01:44:24.580 There's places you can't build a wall or a fence there.

01:44:27.580 The terrain is too ragged.

01:44:29.400 We don't need it in certain places.

01:44:31.320 You can use sensors.

01:44:32.280 But I agree with that.

01:44:32.920 I, I'm, I'm, it's problematic because you, I mean, if you really wanted to, you could secure

01:44:40.160 that border.

01:44:40.900 And I don't think that's what we're talking about now.

01:44:42.920 Um, I just, I, I think, I think they've, uh, I think they've changed their mind on it

01:44:47.980 or, or now they're, they're, they're really showing who they've been all along.

01:44:52.380 Yeah.

01:44:52.520 And we, uh, famously said that we would eat our underwear, Pat, if he built, if he built

01:44:56.620 90% of the wall.

01:44:57.840 90%.

01:44:58.040 And there's no, there's no danger of that at all.

01:45:00.620 There's no chance.

01:45:00.900 They're not even saying they're going to do it.

01:45:01.700 Well, this is why we got, we got 5% of the fencing from under Obama.

01:45:05.880 5%.

01:45:06.720 Well, that's not even close to what you need to do.

01:45:09.480 Of the 2000 miles, you probably need at least 1200 miles.

01:45:12.920 I would agree with that.

01:45:13.740 1200.

01:45:14.180 I would agree with that.

01:45:14.980 Yeah.

01:45:15.460 Now, are we going to get 1200 miles of wall?

01:45:17.000 No way.

01:45:17.340 No way.

01:45:17.720 No way.

01:45:18.640 No.

01:45:19.140 No way.

01:45:19.760 It's just not going to happen.

01:45:20.240 We maybe get another 5%.

01:45:21.400 And now they're using the term comprehensive immigration reform, which is amnesty.

01:45:26.460 And we've all been opposed to that for forever.

01:45:29.940 And the DACA and the Dreamers thing, which is also the same thing.

01:45:32.840 During the campaign, he said, they've got to go.

01:45:34.940 Even when pushed by Chuck Todd, he's like, no, well, you're going to separate families.

01:45:39.300 No, they can stay together if they want to.

01:45:41.320 Well, it's just not here.

01:45:42.560 Right.

01:45:42.740 But there's no right for everybody in the world to live here.

01:45:45.500 I don't know if you're aware of that.

01:45:46.860 There's no right for every citizen of this planet to be here.

01:45:50.780 One fascinating thing about the immigration debate that I've never really understood is

01:45:54.580 I think it's the only legal issue, the only crime committed in which we give more leniency to people who have done it longer.

01:46:04.300 If you came here 20 years ago and you've been here for 20 years breaking the law, then we can't do anything to you.

01:46:09.440 But if you just came across the border, we'll push you back.

01:46:12.040 It's like, well, they've done it for a longer period of time.

01:46:15.420 They've broken the law.

01:46:16.440 If you are stealing money from your company for a really long period of time as opposed to a really short period of time.

01:46:21.160 I don't want to stop you now.

01:46:22.120 No, you've been doing it.

01:46:22.880 You're used to that money now.

01:46:24.700 He's used to that lifestyle.

01:46:26.940 We don't do that anywhere else.

01:46:28.040 We've been stealing from Glenn for 15 years.

01:46:30.300 He doesn't want us to stop now.

01:46:32.780 It's ridiculous.

01:46:33.960 No, I feel bad.

01:46:34.800 My family might starve if I stop stealing from him.

01:46:37.540 I feel bad.

01:46:38.680 Pat has been embezzling since 1994.

01:46:41.880 We can't.

01:46:43.000 But I can't.

01:46:44.060 I can't stop that now.

01:46:44.880 His children expect it now.

01:46:47.240 They depend on it.

01:46:48.360 Are you going to send me to jail and separate my family?

01:46:51.040 His children aren't going to be able to go to school if he's not embezzling from me.

01:46:57.620 That's exactly what it is.

01:46:59.140 So what do you think is going to happen?

01:47:01.500 Because we took a poll of the audience today and we just listened to him, watched Twitter

01:47:06.060 and took a lot of phone calls and it's split.

01:47:11.340 And it is split.

01:47:13.700 And I would say probably leaning towards, no, no, no.

01:47:16.840 This is a John Roberts game.

01:47:18.820 He is just negotiating.

01:47:20.520 This is what's happening.

01:47:21.680 He's just negotiating.

01:47:22.220 Heaven help us.

01:47:23.140 Oh, how I wish that was it.

01:47:26.380 No, that's not what's happening.

01:47:28.340 Do you know what he said?

01:47:30.360 You guys decide.

01:47:31.500 And I'll sign whatever you decide.

01:47:33.340 That's the most honest thing.

01:47:34.380 Is that a game?

01:47:34.940 That's the most honest thing he's ever said.

01:47:36.360 But we've said that.

01:47:37.220 Bring me whatever it is.

01:47:38.520 Yeah, the Republicans should learn that.

01:47:39.420 We've said that to the Republicans.

01:47:40.720 He'll sign it.

01:47:41.860 Just send it to him.

01:47:43.300 Obamacare repeal.

01:47:44.120 He'll sign anything you give to him because he wants that win of Obamacare repeal.

01:47:49.260 You should look at that as a positive.

01:47:50.760 Tax reform.

01:47:51.620 Why didn't you go bold?

01:47:52.580 He wants that win.

01:47:53.200 Why not?

01:47:53.680 You could have passed a 10% flat tax if you want to sign it.

01:47:56.720 But he's not that he's not like, you know, one of these presidents is going to push back

01:48:01.060 on those details.

01:48:01.740 He he just wanted the tax plan passed.

01:48:04.820 Can you please sign anything?

01:48:06.420 Sarah, please play the cut where he is talking to the leaders of Congress and saying, I trust

01:48:12.120 you.

01:48:12.720 My positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with.

01:48:17.000 I am very much reliant on the people in this room.

01:48:20.100 I know most of the people on both sides.

01:48:22.140 I have a lot of respect for the people on both sides.

01:48:24.880 And my what I approve is going to be very much reliant on what the people in this room

01:48:30.080 come to me with.

01:48:31.280 I have great confidence in the people.

01:48:33.240 If they come to me with things that I'm not in love with, I'm going to do it because

01:48:36.800 I respect them.

01:48:38.100 What?

01:48:38.640 That's agonizing to me.

01:48:39.800 I've never agonized.

01:48:40.820 That should be horrifying, really, to both sides, to both sides.

01:48:46.140 Wait a minute.

01:48:47.060 I don't trust Congress.

01:48:50.140 None of us trust Congress.

01:48:51.940 None of us.

01:48:52.800 Neither side trust Congress.

01:48:54.640 Right.

01:48:55.220 And then he went on to say, and by the way, you guys should put earmarks back in.

01:48:59.080 What?

01:48:59.900 That's the swamp.

01:49:01.100 You're saying, bring me.

01:49:02.900 I will sign even if I disagree with it.

01:49:05.160 He went on later to say, I will I will take the heat for it.

01:49:09.860 So he'll run cover for Congress.

01:49:13.600 Just send it to me.

01:49:15.020 And by the way, you should add earmarks into it.

01:49:18.340 Good God.

01:49:19.260 What?

01:49:19.760 Yeah.

01:49:20.180 It was a bad day yesterday.

01:49:21.460 Yeah.

01:49:21.680 Bad day.

01:49:22.580 Yeah.

01:49:22.840 Does he turn around?

01:49:25.020 No.

01:49:26.220 You think he makes a deal?

01:49:28.020 You think this is a deal?

01:49:28.900 I think this is the deal.

01:49:30.120 Yeah.

01:49:30.340 Yeah.

01:49:30.780 And bringing Democrats in, which he thought was critical, I think is a disaster.

01:49:35.660 Why?

01:49:36.360 Why bring them in?

01:49:37.220 We've got the majority and the White House.

01:49:39.300 Why?

01:49:39.780 They wouldn't do it with us.

01:49:40.920 And anything they're going to come up with is not going to be good.

01:49:43.680 Sorry.

01:49:43.960 I got no confidence in that.

01:49:44.540 We already have those guys.

01:49:45.640 We have Mitch McConnell there.

01:49:47.260 I know.

01:49:47.640 We already have that point of view.

01:49:49.540 Right.

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01:49:58.560 Once again, Pat was going to bring up the soda tax story.

01:50:01.240 I've been trying to slip into the news all week.

01:50:03.460 Let's do that.

01:50:04.160 Let me come back.

01:50:04.880 Let me take a quick break.

01:50:05.780 Okay.

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01:51:18.480 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:51:31.780 Glenn Beck.

01:51:35.540 Welcome to the program.

01:51:36.660 Very glad you're here today.

01:51:39.540 Let's talk about the new soda tax in Seattle.

01:51:43.160 I love this, and I love what Costco has done.

01:51:46.260 Let me praise Costco for a minute.

01:51:48.000 The story's up on TheBlaze.com, and you need to check it out.

01:51:50.480 You need to see the pictures of this.

01:51:52.240 But they basically have, instead of just putting up the price, like, for example, 36 cans of Dr. Pepper are now $17.55.

01:52:01.360 That's crazy.

01:52:01.920 At Costco.

01:52:02.580 Now, that's a pretty high price for Costco, right?

01:52:04.700 Well, normally, you say, wow, Costco's raping its customers.

01:52:08.640 What are they doing?

01:52:09.860 Well, when you look at what Costco has done with their labels, they've now pointed out exactly what's going on.

01:52:14.880 They are selling the soda for $9.99.

01:52:16.580 But the Seattle tax is adding $7.56, and then other, you know, different things, you know, add up to $17.55.

01:52:26.120 Gatorade, $15.99 is what Costco wants to sell it for, but the tax adds $10.34.

01:52:32.140 What's that?

01:52:32.520 67% to the price, which brings the total cost to $26.33.

01:52:37.360 This hasn't worked anywhere.

01:52:39.040 No.

01:52:39.520 Anywhere?

01:52:40.160 No.

01:52:40.900 It's chasing businesses.

01:52:42.300 It's chasing jobs.

01:52:43.660 It's hurting the average person.

01:52:46.080 And isn't it always repealed?

01:52:47.860 Has it ever lasted very long anywhere?

01:52:50.580 It's still lasting in some of these cities, but it's just been a disaster.

01:52:53.240 Yeah.

01:52:54.080 It was $1.75 per ounce on sugary drinks under the auspices that is going to stop obesity, which is never proved to do.

01:53:04.240 So now your restaurants are getting hit yet again, yet again.

01:53:11.640 The price of going out to dinner in Seattle, if you have a soda, you have a cocktail through the roof.

01:53:20.280 Plus, you have to have, what is it, a $15 minimum wage at the restaurants in Seattle.

01:53:27.560 The restaurants, food service, if you're a food provider in Seattle, you're dying.

01:53:33.580 You're dying.

01:53:34.840 How do you keep your doors open?

01:53:37.860 Progressivism at its best.

01:53:42.900 Glenn.

01:53:44.120 Beck.

01:53:45.020 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 10, 2018

1⧸10⧸18 - ‘Attentive, engaged and … left？’ (Chris Martenson & Leroy Chiao join Glenn)

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