The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸18⧸18 - 'Miracles have happened' (Moshe Vardi joins Glenn)

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00:00:09.960 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.600 I'm in conflict today, and it is a conflict that I think every American should be struggling with.

00:00:23.240 Here it is. Yesterday, announcement from Apple.

00:00:27.760 It's almost hard to believe, but then again, it's hard to believe anything anymore.

00:00:33.380 Yesterday, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, confirmed that the technology giant is pledging to spend $350 billion in new U.S.-based investments over the next five years.

00:00:47.840 Some of that money they are just repatriating from overseas holdings and some from their U.S. reserves and expected income.

00:00:55.120 $350 billion investment in the United States over the next five years.

00:01:02.460 New manufacturing, R&D, new partnerships, new products, new stores, $350 billion.

00:01:08.980 Now, let me put that in context.

00:01:10.260 Sitting at 12.87 degrees latitude, 121.7 degrees longitude, sits a little island.

00:01:22.980 We know it as the nation of the Philippines.

00:01:26.500 It's a lovely nation.

00:01:28.200 It's filled with 100 million lovely people.

00:01:31.260 And last year, their GDP was $330 billion.

00:01:39.100 So what Apple is promised is to spend more than the entire economy of the Philippines.

00:01:52.100 That is astonishing.

00:01:55.100 It's also more than Israel at $340 billion.

00:02:00.340 It's more than Hong Kong, more than Malaysia, more than Denmark, more than South Africa, more than Colombia.

00:02:08.200 In fact, there are only 30 nations on Earth who will generate more in total GDP next year than Apple is going to invest in the United States of America.

00:02:18.740 Wow.

00:02:20.540 Let's put that into context.

00:02:22.540 And Apple isn't alone.

00:02:25.780 They're merely joining a growing chorus of companies who are now planning massive new investments in the United States,

00:02:33.120 building new manufacturing plants, new capital investments, new hires, call centers, technology teams, service departments.

00:02:42.880 What does that mean for us?

00:02:45.080 It means jobs.

00:02:46.940 It means new technology.

00:02:48.980 It means a booming economy.

00:02:51.040 It means growing communities.

00:02:53.620 Since November of 2016, 80 major U.S. corporations have announced plans to repatriate overseas monies back to the United States,

00:03:06.620 something that this program has been calling for and saying could happen and warns against because there's so much money overseas

00:03:14.840 that it could actually cause that it could actually cause us inflation if it comes pouring back fast.

00:03:20.960 But the Obama administration would have nothing to do with it.

00:03:25.260 It would pay dividends to investors.

00:03:27.620 It would build factories, it would build factories, buy new equipment, and hire people.

00:03:33.280 Across those 80 companies, we are now well over $1.3 trillion in new planned investment here in the United States of America.

00:03:42.900 And that doesn't count the tens of thousands of small business owners.

00:03:46.800 So, if you listened to my show last Friday, I was really upset.

00:03:53.960 The whole crap hole fiasco at the White House.

00:03:57.620 And I raged against our president.

00:04:00.160 I expressed great frustration about him.

00:04:04.640 So, here's my conflict.

00:04:09.880 Trump ran on a platform where he claimed to be a dealmaker.

00:04:16.720 Not in the way that I expected it to happen, but yeah.

00:04:21.740 When it comes to the economy, it looks like he is coming through.

00:04:27.980 When he said, I'm going to be good for Wall Street and Main Street, so far, he has proven true.

00:04:35.240 He said he would pass a tax plan.

00:04:37.760 Trillions of dollars would come from the U.S. from offshore tax havens.

00:04:42.080 Yep.

00:04:42.960 He said that companies would hire more, build more, pay employees bonuses.

00:04:47.640 The minimum wage you wouldn't have to worry about regulating because companies would start to raise that themselves.

00:04:54.180 Yep.

00:04:56.180 From Bezos to Musk to Cook to Diamond, we're now learning all of that is true.

00:05:01.960 It's all happening.

00:05:04.640 So, here's what we're left with.

00:05:08.740 We have a good Trump.

00:05:11.220 We have a good Trump and we have a not-so-good Trump.

00:05:14.740 We have a bad Trump.

00:05:15.400 The good Trump talks about getting things done and he gets things done.

00:05:22.780 He paints a vision of this is what's going to happen and we all know through common sense.

00:05:27.500 I shouldn't say that.

00:05:27.960 A lot of us know through common sense that's how the economy works and he somehow or another still, without the help of his own party, it's still happening.

00:05:38.880 Good.

00:05:40.120 Good.

00:05:40.680 And then we have the bad Trump, the one that gets really frustrated in discussions.

00:05:45.840 He makes verbal attacks.

00:05:47.740 He is insensitive.

00:05:49.780 It's unproductive.

00:05:50.800 And it's embarrassing.

00:05:55.600 So, what do we do?

00:05:58.800 Well, the man is who he is.

00:06:00.940 He's both of those things.

00:06:02.300 He's president of the United States and he does some things that I really admire and he does some things I'm really embarrassed by.

00:06:10.400 I guess what we have to do is stop believing the lie that we have to buy into everything anyone on our side does.

00:06:20.880 It's okay to say, you know what, I really disagree with him here, but look at this.

00:06:31.600 This way we're supposed to treat our leaders.

00:06:33.640 It's also the way we're supposed to treat one another.

00:06:39.040 And the evidence is really clear, at least when it comes to the economy.

00:06:45.280 Miracles have happened in the last 12 months.

00:06:50.880 It's Thursday, January 18th.

00:07:01.160 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:07:03.620 See, here's the problem.

00:07:05.880 The problem is everybody switches sides when you don't have to.

00:07:11.220 When you don't have to.

00:07:12.100 You just be consistent.

00:07:14.880 Just be consistent.

00:07:15.600 For instance, I thought it was okay to shut down the government against Obamacare because we believed in something.

00:07:26.480 The Democrats, of course, didn't think that was right.

00:07:30.000 They thought that was going to hurt a lot of people.

00:07:31.960 That people were going to starve.

00:07:34.300 They were going to lose their houses.

00:07:35.740 They wouldn't be able to get their medicine.

00:07:37.740 It's going to lose all credibility in the world because we're going to start defaulting on loans.

00:07:44.980 Do you remember this?

00:07:46.460 And what an evil guy Ted Cruz was, even though Ted Cruz didn't have the ability to shut it down.

00:07:53.840 It was the House, not the Senate.

00:07:55.180 But he was the most evil guy, and it was these reckless, insensitive, uncaring brutes that just took it upon themselves to hold all of America hostage.

00:08:10.720 Now, I didn't see it that way.

00:08:14.260 I thought it was a smart move, and the government doesn't actually shut down.

00:08:18.580 It only shuts down non-essential services and non-essential people, employees.

00:08:28.740 Well, my point of view is if you're non-essential, you should never get brought back on.

00:08:35.220 Okay, with an exception of the military, because I think everybody of the sergeants and everybody below, they don't get paid.

00:08:44.100 So you pass a bill so the military continues to still operate.

00:08:49.300 You make sure that, you know, if there's anything in the Department of Homeland Security, there's anything with medical, that that is taken care of.

00:08:56.420 But everything else, nope, you're non-essential.

00:08:59.660 Bye-bye.

00:09:02.860 Oh, my gosh.

00:09:05.220 If I said that, and I did, when Ted Cruz was standing up and saying, yeah, the government shutdown's not so bad, it's a pretty sweet place to be today.

00:09:16.100 Because I can be completely consistent.

00:09:19.100 Now, if you were a Democrat, oh, my.

00:09:24.060 What kind of, how exhausting is your life?

00:09:26.340 We went back and we've compiled what the Democrats said then and what they're saying now.

00:09:35.720 And when you hear what Chuck Schumer said then and what Chuck Schumer said now, holy cow, mental gymnastics.

00:09:44.460 This is the gold medal for mental gymnastics.

00:09:51.580 Listen.

00:09:51.920 And some Democrats are saying they will not vote to fund the government at the end of this week unless Republicans embrace a bipartisan solution for the so-called little dreamers.

00:10:02.540 But we still can't say with any certainty that a government shutdown will be avoided.

00:10:06.980 Senator Cruz may have landed in the record books with that long speech.

00:10:11.360 So I'm not leaving any American behind.

00:10:13.920 I'm not going to vote on something that isn't a part of this deal, a part of this package.

00:10:18.700 Even those who don't like Obamacare say it would be better for them to deal with this in the normal course legislation.

00:10:23.440 Are Democrats going to give up and agree to a short-term continuing resolution?

00:10:28.140 I and I think I speak for the vast majority of members of the Democratic caucus.

00:10:34.780 We're not going to desert these young people.

00:10:36.560 Here you have a handful of right-wing extremists who are trying to annul, do away with the election results of a year ago.

00:10:45.080 We are going to do what we want to do.

00:10:47.320 Are they willing to accept a spending deal without a fix to protect dreamers? 0.99

00:10:51.600 A few have already said their answer is no.

00:10:54.100 This shutdown is continuing to harm our country, our reputation.

00:10:59.600 It is a needless, manufactured, self-imposed wound.

00:11:04.980 Does that mean we're headed for a government shutdown?

00:11:07.320 What we have got to do, it seems to me, is to pass the dreamers' legislation.

00:11:12.360 It never occurred to me to bring down the United States government and cause pain for millions of workers because I can't get my weight.

00:11:19.500 Any bill that funds the government must also include a fix for DACA.

00:11:23.560 This is playing with fire.

00:11:24.860 We could do the same thing on immigration.

00:11:26.820 We believe strongly in immigration reform.

00:11:29.020 We could say we're shutting down the government.

00:11:30.960 We're not going to raise the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform.

00:11:34.240 It would be governmental chaos.

00:11:36.080 Before January 19th, in order to avert that partial government shutdown, but really what this is going to come down to is DACA and the issue of immigration.

00:11:43.360 At least Democrats are saying that they are united in their opposition.

00:11:47.520 If they have problems with that bill, we will be happy to sit down and talk to them about a reasonable approach to do it.

00:11:54.120 But we're not going to do it with a gun to the heads of the American people.

00:11:57.040 If they fail to include it in the continuing resolution, there are many of us who will be troubled by that and will take appropriate response.

00:12:03.960 For goodness sakes, this is irresponsible and it's reckless.

00:12:07.240 Why does this senator or the Tea Party Republicans think they can pick and choose the priorities of the American government?

00:12:14.240 Wow.

00:12:17.720 And the Russian judge gives them a 10.

00:12:23.200 That is, it's incomprehensible how those are the same people.

00:12:27.660 I mean, the Chuck Schumer one is the best one.

00:12:29.320 Yeah, he said, we could do this with immigration, but we wouldn't. 0.96

00:12:33.960 It would be reckless.

00:12:35.540 Uh, Chuck.

00:12:37.260 You're doing it right now.

00:12:38.780 He actually gave the hypothetical of what his future behavior would be and called it ridiculous and that he would never do it.

00:12:46.020 And then here he is doing it.

00:12:48.220 The Durbin one is really good as well in there.

00:12:50.560 I mean, that is just insanity.

00:12:51.720 All of them are good.

00:12:53.220 The Bernie Sanders.

00:12:54.200 How, you know, how these people can just hijack and, and, and what they're trying to do is trying to reverse the election from a year ago.

00:13:03.200 Hello.

00:13:05.480 It's amazing.

00:13:07.280 It really is.

00:13:08.540 And we'll have that posted, uh, at, uh, the blaze.com and we'll tweet it out.

00:13:13.140 We just finished it a few minutes ago and, and, uh, I'll get it to the blaze right away so you can see it.

00:13:17.800 Cause it's great.

00:13:18.760 You gotta, you have to send that everywhere.

00:13:21.800 Because when you look at it, you know what, Bowie, can we, can we have, just add one thing?

00:13:29.260 Then, now, then, now.

00:13:33.560 So the people who aren't really paying attention know this was then, this is now.

00:13:39.740 I mean, you know, look, these words just don't mean anything when they come out of these people's mouths.

00:13:44.920 They don't, they don't mean anything.

00:13:48.320 They, they don't even think.

00:13:50.080 It's so tiring.

00:13:51.320 It's not even an argument.

00:13:52.200 They're, they don't believe either side of it.

00:13:54.420 You know, I mean, I, is it like, look at what, like, Cruz back in 2013.

00:13:58.480 He wanted to defund, uh, uh, uh, Obamacare.

00:14:01.920 There was a bunch of things that, that were going down, uh, that road when he was doing that.

00:14:06.600 He believed he had leverage because of the government shutdown, because of the debt ceiling,

00:14:10.720 and he tried to get something done that he believed was important, right?

00:14:14.120 That was what he was doing in 2013.

00:14:16.380 That is what the Democrats are doing now.

00:14:19.080 Does that, that is understandable by both sides in both situations.

00:14:25.700 You are a minority party.

00:14:27.380 You have no power to get these things done on your own.

00:14:30.800 So you use what little power you have, which is leverage, right, as a big deadline that

00:14:36.920 everyone needs, knows, needs to get done.

00:14:38.640 And you say, give me a couple of things and then I'll vote for you.

00:14:42.100 DACA is the thing that he went for.

00:14:43.620 They're going for here.

00:14:44.440 A big long-term goal of Democrats.

00:14:48.720 This is not a big Republican priority.

00:14:50.740 This is a big long-term goal of Democrats.

00:14:53.260 They are trying to get done at the very end here because it's the only way they have a

00:14:58.040 chance of getting anything done when the Republicans control the other side.

00:15:01.080 It's the exact same thing that Cruz was doing with the exception of at least Obamacare had

00:15:06.400 something to do with the budget.

00:15:08.280 Yes.

00:15:08.620 Like, this is just completely unconstitutional.

00:15:11.720 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:12.480 At least we thought at the time before, John.

00:15:14.240 I still believe.

00:15:15.160 I still do too, but.

00:15:16.360 But the point is, at least it was related in some way.

00:15:19.260 Yes.

00:15:19.540 To the budget.

00:15:20.160 It was about spending money.

00:15:21.360 This is, they just, the Democrats have wanted this for a long time.

00:15:24.620 And remember, they didn't even get it until the second term of Barack Obama.

00:15:29.440 They didn't even get it at the beginning of Barack Obama when they had it.

00:15:32.640 He wound up doing it in an unconstitutional way, as I believe.

00:15:36.560 And here they are demanding Republicans pass something that every Republican, including

00:15:42.140 the president, has argued is unconstitutional and should not happen.

00:15:45.960 And they're holding that over the heads of the Republicans on a government shutdown issue.

00:15:51.060 It's worse than what Cruz was doing in many ways.

00:15:53.880 And I have to tell you, if we give on this, we're worthless.

00:15:58.100 We're absolutely worthless.

00:16:00.100 Republicans do not blink.

00:16:02.820 I mean, are we for small government or not?

00:16:05.640 What part of non-essential services don't we understand?

00:16:12.560 Seriously.

00:16:13.900 Non-essential services.

00:16:18.140 I mean, you think, you know, these people are both the left and the right.

00:16:20.960 Oh, we couldn't cut.

00:16:21.960 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:22.720 Give me the budget for two weeks.

00:16:25.380 Give it to me.

00:16:26.540 There's not enough red ink for me to go through that thing.

00:16:30.540 How much could we cut?

00:16:32.100 A buttload.

00:16:33.480 We're broke.

00:16:34.120 We're beyond broke.

00:16:37.220 It's not going to hurt us to shut this government down for non-essential services.

00:16:42.680 Shut it down.

00:16:43.900 Shut it down.

00:16:45.240 You're going to fold?

00:16:47.900 Why?

00:16:48.900 Because the press is beating you up?

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00:18:28.640 You know, and the media wonders why it has no credibility.

00:18:36.860 Well, did you hear the cuts that we played a few minutes ago?

00:18:40.360 Have you seen those anyplace else?

00:18:42.240 Because they have that video available to them.

00:18:45.260 If we did, they certainly do in their archives.

00:18:49.420 And they don't find it important as a credible source to say, you know, Senator Schumer, here you are laying out this very scenario that you're doing now just a few years ago.

00:19:07.720 And you said it would be ridiculous to do that.

00:19:11.620 What was your how do you respond to that now, sir?

00:19:14.640 Right. And what would he do? He'd find some distinction between the two situations.

00:19:18.660 Of course, there are several. I mean, there's several minor distinctions between the issues.

00:19:22.980 But the point is that they didn't mean it then and he doesn't mean it now.

00:19:26.860 So the thing is with the media is it there are two kinds of sins.

00:19:32.440 There's the sin of commission. I was involved. I did it.

00:19:35.940 And then there's a sin of omission.

00:19:38.960 And many times the media is guilty of the second.

00:19:44.640 And why? Why would they be guilty of this?

00:19:47.620 You could make many arguments.

00:19:48.800 They don't like Donald Trump.

00:19:49.980 They don't like Republicans.

00:19:51.000 There's a million arguments to make.

00:19:52.240 I honestly think the real situation is to them.

00:19:55.580 They didn't want Obamacare to go away and they do want DACA.

00:19:59.880 Yes.

00:20:00.020 So they don't understand why anyone would make these things into parallels.

00:20:04.020 Because the thing that they want is happening this time.

00:20:06.700 And the thing they didn't want was happening last time.

00:20:08.300 And they believe they're so arrogant that they believe that anybody who believes differently than them is just uneducated.

00:20:15.620 That we need to educate them because this is the way it should be.

00:20:19.960 That's the problem with the media in a nutshell.

00:20:22.480 Glenn Beck. Mercury.

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00:20:30.020 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:38.280 You know, I want to continue on this with the press because it's for all of us to look at why does the press not have any credibility?

00:20:49.180 And why for half of the country do we not have any credibility?

00:20:54.760 Is it because we're playing musical chairs?

00:20:57.120 Is it because we fail to recognize the duplicity in ourselves?

00:21:03.280 And this started with the audio that we we played a few minutes ago and it's going to be available at the blaze.

00:21:09.200 We put together, you know, Schumer and Durbin and all of the people on the left saying this is outrageous that the Republicans would shut down the government for some special interest Tea Party crackpot idea.

00:21:24.120 They were just trying to overthrow the election that happened a year ago.

00:21:27.500 And then them today saying that they have to cut the clothes down the government because of DACA.

00:21:36.100 It's it's phenomenal.

00:21:38.060 Phenomenal.

00:21:38.660 And, you know, this is the type of time that you're supposed to look and reflect and understand that we have a country here and we know we are patriots.

00:21:48.520 Right.

00:21:48.800 We are the people who are working to make this this experiment into something that's it's real and important.

00:21:55.880 I and I think I have this you have this look on your face.

00:22:01.820 We've known each other too long.

00:22:03.400 Yeah, I don't know where you're going here.

00:22:05.180 I thought we were partners on on going about the press and we'll get to a lot of the stuff today.

00:22:11.520 But I think there was an important piece of audio that we've not played yet.

00:22:14.200 Probably the most important piece of audio that anyone in America can hear today.

00:22:20.040 This is when it's either about Alex Jones or me.

00:22:22.440 So I don't know what you're talking about.

00:22:24.820 Let's just hear about America.

00:22:26.300 A long time ago, there was another young, scrappy team in Philadelphia that was an underdog on its own turf.

00:22:34.280 And that team came to be known as the United States of America.

00:22:38.960 And the colonials heard the same noise.

00:22:42.180 Their defenses are too strong.

00:22:44.320 Their ground assault is too powerful.

00:22:46.980 Let them come.

00:22:47.920 Let them learn that one man defending his home is more powerful than 10 men invading it.

00:22:54.700 Let the Vikings ride this wave of being the country's new sweethearts.

00:22:58.240 I've heard it this week.

00:22:59.240 Without the Vikings, there'd be no one for America to root for. 0.90

00:23:02.140 Without the city of Philadelphia, there would be no America.

00:23:05.480 Let the Vikings have Grandma Millie. 1.00

00:23:07.480 She's 99 years old.

00:23:08.880 The Eagles have Uncle Sam.

00:23:10.360 He's 242.

00:23:11.660 This city and these Eagles know the two greatest chips on the American shoulder are taxation without representation and no respect despite domination.

00:23:22.100 Washington, Hamilton, Peterson, Roseman.

00:23:25.340 These colors don't run.

00:23:27.460 And on Sunday against that Eagles D, neither will the Vikings.

00:23:31.220 Don't tread on me.

00:23:32.420 And don't ever disrespect the womb of democracy.

00:23:34.880 Put your bets on Philadelphia, fly Eagles fly to Minnesota, and God bless America.

00:23:41.540 Underappreciated.

00:23:42.180 There we go.

00:23:42.700 You're about to get an ice ball to the head.

00:23:44.840 You really are.

00:23:46.580 I mean, you know, first of all, let's be honest.

00:23:51.620 God is against the Eagles.

00:23:53.560 I believe God is against the Eagles.

00:23:55.140 What are you talking about?

00:23:56.160 God's against the Eagles.

00:23:57.200 That's all there is to it.

00:23:58.300 That is not true.

00:23:59.100 It is true.

00:24:00.200 They threw an ice ball at Santa.

00:24:02.960 Oh, stop with that.

00:24:04.520 You know, that's the Santa's on God's errand.

00:24:08.200 First, there's a lot to say there.

00:24:10.580 Okay.

00:24:11.140 Yeah.

00:24:11.280 That Santa was was was was what was got an ice ball to the head.

00:24:17.180 We got several.

00:24:18.000 Yeah, but also was not really Santa.

00:24:20.600 He showed up.

00:24:21.520 He just threw it was not.

00:24:22.620 That was not actually Santa Claus kids.

00:24:24.400 That was just some guy.

00:24:25.820 Santa's last words were forgive them for they know not what they do.

00:24:29.560 And they are suffering that penalty.

00:24:32.320 Yeah, I'm telling you.

00:24:33.000 I hope that you're incorrect.

00:24:34.720 But just remember this this weekend when you think, hey, I'm going to Vikings.

00:24:39.120 That sounds pretty American.

00:24:40.240 No, it doesn't.

00:24:41.160 I am.

00:24:41.640 I am.

00:24:42.320 So I couldn't care.

00:24:44.320 I'm going to be watching and rooting for the Vikings this week.

00:24:48.420 I am.

00:24:48.940 I may begin a fast for the Vikings.

00:24:52.160 Yes.

00:24:53.120 You know, that would be something you would do.

00:24:55.080 Yes.

00:24:55.540 One win away from the Super Bowl.

00:24:57.020 Yes.

00:24:57.520 One win.

00:24:58.160 One win.

00:24:58.720 And one would actually be two.

00:25:01.160 I mean, you play in the Super Bowl, but there's a difference between playing in it and winning.

00:25:05.620 I said one win to get there.

00:25:06.920 Yeah.

00:25:07.080 And then when they're playing the Patriots, I'm going to reverse my American argument.

00:25:10.280 Right.

00:25:11.140 Yeah.

00:25:11.540 But that's a whole other story for another week.

00:25:13.920 All right.

00:25:14.520 So but thank you for that side for that side route.

00:25:17.120 OK, so could we could we go to, for instance, the back to the argument of the of the press?

00:25:26.000 Mm hmm.

00:25:27.000 They think that they are living in 1972.

00:25:30.780 Do you do you have you seen the post yet?

00:25:35.300 No, I haven't.

00:25:36.020 You've been talking about it.

00:25:36.820 You need to see the post.

00:25:37.800 I really want to.

00:25:38.600 And you said it was it was good.

00:25:39.800 I mean, I would assume it was it's nothing but a praise the media for being amazing type

00:25:44.500 of movie.

00:25:45.420 But no, it's actually I mean, if you really watch it, it actually excoriates the media.

00:25:53.320 But I don't think anybody in the movie or Hollywood or in the media will ever notice.

00:25:57.340 Really?

00:25:57.900 Yeah.

00:25:58.120 I mean, you know, the Pentagon Papers are about the scandal that really started under Truman

00:26:03.260 and went to Eisenhower, then Jack Kennedy and then Johnson.

00:26:05.940 And it was exposed under Nixon.

00:26:07.560 And it ties all of these presidents into a massive cover up.

00:26:13.040 And at one point in the post, Bill Bradley's character, he they can't even bring themselves

00:26:19.300 to say Jack Kennedy.

00:26:20.580 You know, they're like, that means Truman and and Eisenhower.

00:26:24.380 And and they all kind of get quiet.

00:26:27.120 And you're you know, I'm in the and John F.

00:26:29.980 Kennedy and spoiler alert.

00:26:32.860 Yeah.

00:26:32.960 They come back time to time where they're reflecting on their relationship.

00:26:37.380 They're very cozy relationship with John F.

00:26:40.260 Kennedy.

00:26:40.740 And at some point they say, you know what?

00:26:43.360 John F.

00:26:43.860 Kennedy was using us.

00:26:45.060 He invited us in and he made us his friends, not because he was friends.

00:26:50.060 He was a politician.

00:26:51.620 He was using us.

00:26:53.140 He knew if we were friends, he wouldn't we wouldn't expose him on X, Y and Z.

00:26:59.740 So that lesson is in there.

00:27:02.340 Is anybody, you know, anybody in the media going to get that?

00:27:05.700 No.

00:27:06.760 But at least it was in there.

00:27:08.800 Yeah, it was.

00:27:09.720 It was quite shocking that it was in there.

00:27:11.940 Um, but if you you look at it, uh, and you see the post at one point, the New York Times

00:27:18.600 is shut down from releasing the Pentagon Papers and and they have a decision to make at the

00:27:24.980 Washington Post.

00:27:26.100 Are we going to publish?

00:27:27.780 Well, if we publish, we could go to jail.

00:27:31.060 Publish them.

00:27:32.400 All right.

00:27:33.420 And their friends are involved.

00:27:36.400 Publish them anyway.

00:27:37.760 It's the right thing to do.

00:27:39.580 The government is out of control.

00:27:41.040 So they publish them.

00:27:43.560 But you'll see in this, there is the communication was so different.

00:27:49.100 I believe the press still thinks that it's 1972, that if it's not in the New York Times,

00:27:55.780 it didn't happen.

00:27:56.800 It's not in the Washington Post.

00:27:58.060 Didn't happen.

00:27:59.040 It's not in the mainstream media.

00:28:00.020 Didn't happen.

00:28:01.400 They're stuck in 1972.

00:28:03.280 When the Times is shut down on this, there's nowhere, there's nowhere they can publish these

00:28:09.060 unless a paper puts them out.

00:28:11.340 Now you have the internet.

00:28:13.000 Yeah.

00:28:13.240 I mean, I think, I think yesterday was the 20 year anniversary of Drudge posting the

00:28:18.980 Monica Lewinsky link. 0.98

00:28:20.480 I think that 20 years ago, that was 1998, January 17th, Drudge Report first broke the news of

00:28:27.620 President Bill Clinton's sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

00:28:29.020 That changed everything.

00:28:30.800 And that was, again, if you remember, Newsweek that was sitting on that and now is basically

00:28:36.160 not even an entity anymore.

00:28:37.660 I mean, it's sold for $1 and it's now just doing trash online, basically.

00:28:42.760 It's another, you know, tabloid.

00:28:44.400 But at that time, Newsweek had this story.

00:28:46.840 They killed it.

00:28:48.240 And many other news sources also had the story and killed it because various reasons.

00:28:56.100 But I mean, a big part of it was, you know.

00:28:59.340 Friendly.

00:28:59.980 Yeah.

00:29:00.460 Yep.

00:29:01.000 It was friendly.

00:29:01.940 Yeah.

00:29:02.340 And look, you know, the Drudge Report did that, changed the way that news comes out.

00:29:07.900 We've gone through 20 years of this and the media still acts as if they can hold these

00:29:11.660 secrets.

00:29:11.820 So here's the biggest thing that we can do is we can take the audio from the people in

00:29:18.120 the media and on the media that are telling you things that are not true.

00:29:24.640 For instance, we just did that with the government shutdown.

00:29:27.500 This is something from the Washington Free Beacon that they did on trickle down economics.

00:29:33.660 When I was when I was growing up with with Ronald Reagan, you know, you heard all the bashing

00:29:39.480 of trickle down economics and you never really had anything to point to other than everybody

00:29:43.980 had jobs that it worked.

00:29:47.580 Well, we sure have that now.

00:29:49.700 The media is not going to embarrass the people who say trickle down economics doesn't work

00:29:56.600 because they need that theory to be discredited.

00:30:00.180 But you need to know the truth.

00:30:02.840 And so now you have the ability to see these videos and pass them everywhere, make them viral

00:30:11.140 because it's proof they were wrong.

00:30:13.260 For instance, here's the evidence on trickle down economics.

00:30:16.500 It feels like you're relying on this tax cut of the corporations, of the wealthy to trickle

00:30:22.640 down.

00:30:23.060 Southwest and American Airlines both announcing they're going to give a thousand dollar bonuses

00:30:26.560 to employees following the tax overhaul.

00:30:28.840 Wage increases don't follow tax cuts like this.

00:30:31.300 So the world's largest retailer giving its U.S. employees a bonus, a wage increase and expanded

00:30:37.280 maternity and parental leave.

00:30:39.660 So you're creating a huge tax cut.

00:30:42.280 Right.

00:30:42.500 And you might not get wage growth.

00:30:44.020 Capital One Financial, which just confirmed to CNBC that they will raise the minimum wage

00:30:49.720 for all U.S.-based employees at Capital One to $15 per hour.

00:30:53.960 And anybody who thinks that this corporate tax cut is going to trickle down to lift wages

00:31:00.400 has a staggering ignorance of how public companies function.

00:31:04.280 Wells Fargo said it would raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour.

00:31:07.980 That the day we cut the corporate tax rate, you know, wages are going to suddenly jump

00:31:12.620 up when there's absolutely no historical evidence whatsoever that this will happen.

00:31:17.880 Boeing announced $300 million in investments for corporate giving and workplace improvements.

00:31:22.760 I'll ask you plainly, are you living in a fantasy world?

00:31:25.440 AT&T announced that it will invest a billion dollars in the U.S. in 2018.

00:31:30.800 Also for 200,000 workers, it will provide them a $1,000 bonus.

00:31:36.600 That is, how do I say this nicely, absolute nonsense.

00:31:40.140 There are no examples anywhere of companies distributing their tax savings to their workers.

00:31:45.480 Sinclair Broadcasting and Kansas City Southern are, among others, committing to bonuses.

00:31:50.360 Generally speaking, when companies get tax cuts, they keep them for themselves and distribute

00:31:54.660 them to the shareholders.

00:31:56.140 BB&T pledging to give out bonuses of $1,200 for almost 75% of its workforce.

00:32:02.040 Who says that giving corporations more money will make them raise wages?

00:32:06.140 It's also raising its minimum wage from $12 to $15 an hour.

00:32:11.300 Will they actually increase wages?

00:32:13.260 Will employees actually see the benefits of a corporate tax cut?

00:32:16.060 None of them will raise a hand because that's simply not true.

00:32:18.340 Bank of America says it's planning to shell out $1,000 bonuses to nearly 150,000 of its

00:32:24.280 employees.

00:32:24.880 This is a clear cut for the top and it's a hope and a wish for anyone else.

00:32:28.920 The CEO announced the company would award special $1,000 bonuses to more than 100,000 eligible

00:32:34.020 frontline and non-executive employees.

00:32:36.280 The crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic.

00:32:46.660 By the way, I'd like to add the announcement yesterday of a $350 billion investment hiring new

00:32:56.040 employees, building new stores, building new campuses from Apple.

00:33:02.140 It seems like trickle-down economics might actually, seems like there might actually be much more

00:33:10.660 than a shred of evidence that tax cuts work.

00:33:15.640 It's up to us now to be the guardians of that truth and spread it.

00:33:21.580 You'll find it on my Twitter page and also Facebook, glennbeck.com and The Blaze.

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00:34:58.260 Glenn Beck.

00:35:00.100 Mercury.

00:35:09.140 Glenn Beck.

00:35:10.060 So we haven't talked about Bitcoin in a while.

00:35:17.380 Can, can, can, can, can, are we, are we broke yet again?

00:35:20.780 We were multi-millionaires there for a while.

00:35:23.820 Multi-billionaires, actually.

00:35:24.520 And now we're in debt and all is destroyed.

00:35:27.140 Well, sadly, I read an article the other day that the Winklevoss twins are now ex-billionaires.

00:35:31.660 Not the Winklevoss.

00:35:32.660 The Winklevoss twins were billionaires and now they're ex-billionaires.

00:35:35.640 I didn't even, I wasn't alerted to the Winklevoss fortune.

00:35:40.420 Well, you know, they had a lot of money.

00:35:42.020 Of course, they sued Zuckerberg for Facebook, right?

00:35:45.140 Those are the guys that had hired Zuckerberg to code Facebook, to code something just like

00:35:49.720 Facebook.

00:35:50.160 And then he just did his own thing at that time.

00:35:52.080 Which is a very strange move by Zuckerberg.

00:35:54.020 But anyway, he got a bunch, they got a bunch of money.

00:35:56.000 A lot of it went into Bitcoin.

00:35:57.180 They became billionaires.

00:35:58.420 And now they're ex-billionaires.

00:35:59.880 But I think they might be back to the billionaire category today because it's back up to almost

00:36:03.640 12,000.

00:36:05.580 Can you give me the chart?

00:36:07.060 Because here's the thing that people don't understand about Bitcoin.

00:36:09.460 I mean, it is a wild white knuckle ride.

00:36:12.540 It has been.

00:36:13.160 Yeah.

00:36:13.600 And it might go to, I mean, as we said from the beginning, might go to zero.

00:36:16.920 Don't think so.

00:36:18.640 But I put my money in for a long term.

00:36:22.780 So yeah, here it is.

00:36:24.840 So starting late 2015, it started with a 37% drop in 2015, then 136% rise, then a 34%

00:36:32.820 drop, then a 76% rise, then a 29% drop, then a 219% rise, then a 38% drop, then 166% rise,

00:36:42.900 then a 40% drop, then this most recent 556% rise, and now a 43% drop.

00:36:50.180 So, I mean, first of all, you'll take that pattern.

00:36:54.720 I'll take that pattern.

00:36:55.500 It goes up every time.

00:36:56.620 It goes up and then it goes down.

00:36:57.920 Yeah.

00:36:58.040 But these drops are not what normal investors are used to.

00:37:00.520 You don't get 40% drops very often.

00:37:02.360 But you also don't get 500% increases very often.

00:37:04.400 That is the trade-off.

00:37:05.340 It is a good one so far.

00:37:06.460 Yeah.

00:37:06.620 We'll see what happens.

00:37:06.740 Yeah, so far.

00:37:07.820 We'll see.

00:37:15.780 Glenn.

00:37:16.620 Back.

00:37:17.780 Mercury.

00:37:20.180 Love.

00:37:28.140 Courage.

00:37:29.740 Truth.

00:37:31.500 Glenn.

00:37:32.540 Back.

00:37:33.360 Who's standing up for free speech?

00:37:35.080 Is anyone doing it?

00:37:36.820 Because it's on trial again in the Supreme Court.

00:37:39.540 And this time, it's related to abortion.

00:37:42.640 And the stakes couldn't be higher.

00:37:45.260 The case is the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates,

00:37:50.180 versus Bacara.

00:37:52.340 Bacara is California Attorney General.

00:37:55.960 It's about a new law in California that requires pro-life pregnancy centers

00:38:01.100 to post signs in prominent places to inform women that California offers low-cost or, in some cases, free abortions.

00:38:10.360 The signs must include a phone number for abortion clinics.

00:38:16.140 Okay, couldn't disagree more because I believe abortion is murder, but, you want to be fair, does this law require the abortion clinics to talk about the pro-life clinics and provide phone numbers?

00:38:31.100 California can do all of the abortion clinic advertising it wants, but it is forcing those who are firmly against abortion to promote the abortion industry.

00:38:44.620 Not only is California clearly violating free speech, it is aggressively endorsing the murder of unborn children over efforts to protect them.

00:38:55.840 It's like a marriage counselor forced to post advertisements for hitmen.

00:39:07.360 You know, that way, you know, that clients should know that there's a cheaper way out than divorce.

00:39:13.080 If you crack open this legal door, imagine all of the other insane positions that the governments could force us to start endorsing.

00:39:24.540 Should churches be forced to post things in the church that say there is no God?

00:39:30.240 This, make no mistake, is the fairness doctrine in your life.

00:39:39.400 Imagine mandatory signs inside your church promoting atheism, except the atheist gatherings would not be required to promote your religion.

00:39:51.400 226 years after the passage of the First Amendment, you'd think our understanding of free speech would be secure, but it is not.

00:40:00.240 The freedom of speech part still is not clear to most people, I contend, on both sides of the aisle, but certainly not in California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:40:11.820 They're only interested in protecting speech that they approve.

00:40:15.860 And not only are they protecting it, they're forcing people who disagree with their position to endorse it.

00:40:22.880 This is tyranny.

00:40:24.520 This is telling people who are trying to save Jews in World War II that they have to post anti-Jewish propaganda.

00:40:36.120 They're saving lives.

00:40:37.740 They don't believe that the Jews are inhuman.

00:40:40.360 The people who run these non-profit pro-life pregnancy centers are humble, loving, caring, genuine, hardworking, and they believe it's life.

00:40:53.900 Their mission is to help women and save lives.

00:40:57.740 They're the unsung heroes on the front line of an American holocaust. 0.58

00:41:02.960 The 21st century Oscar Schindler saving people from being murdered.

00:41:09.620 Apparently, these pro-life pregnancy centers are a little too good at saving lives because the government is going out of its way to persecute these people and impose their crazy notion that the baby growing inside of you is actual human life with inherent value that deserves protection.

00:41:33.620 The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is already, of course, California, yeah, that's right, they got to do that.

00:41:43.900 The decision should be a brainer for the Supreme Court.

00:41:49.440 But unfortunately, I can't count on anything being sane.

00:41:54.940 Pray that the Supreme Court goes the right way on this.

00:42:03.620 It's Thursday, January 18th.

00:42:13.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:42:19.220 You know, the big March for Life is happening this weekend, isn't it?

00:42:23.640 Yeah.

00:42:23.960 Is it happening this weekend?

00:42:24.960 Can you check it out?

00:42:25.640 Is it this weekend or next weekend?

00:42:27.040 I think it's this weekend.

00:42:27.800 You know, I've never, I've never been, I've took my family to the first, a first local march for this.

00:42:34.140 I've never been that guy.

00:42:36.540 But, you know, I'm going to call my wife.

00:42:39.700 Maybe, maybe we go up to this this weekend.

00:42:42.040 It's tomorrow.

00:42:43.060 It's tomorrow.

00:42:44.400 What time?

00:42:46.180 I don't know.

00:42:47.080 I'm going to look that up as we are, as we're talking.

00:42:50.300 Yeah, I just, I mean, I just, my family, you know, the kids have to be involved in these things.

00:43:00.260 You know, we're so about sheltering our kids.

00:43:03.220 No, they have to know.

00:43:07.260 Somebody asked me the other day, what's the best thing you can teach your kids?

00:43:11.560 What's the most important thing?

00:43:13.060 How to listen to the spirit.

00:43:19.600 I think that's it.

00:43:21.840 Everything else, they're going to be able to find on YouTube.

00:43:24.460 They're going to be able to Google.

00:43:25.860 They'll be able to access through the Internet.

00:43:27.860 You'll, you, you, you, you don't need the knowledge.

00:43:32.580 You know, there's this, the idea of a Jeopardy! champion.

00:43:36.520 How useless is that?

00:43:38.940 Compared to what it used to be?

00:43:40.420 Man, I'd like to be around that guy because he's a walking encyclopedia.

00:43:44.000 Well, I got one in my pocket.

00:43:45.720 You know what I mean?

00:43:46.840 Yeah.

00:43:47.160 So everything that you can, everything that you, you could be taught or need to know,

00:43:54.420 you can find it on your own.

00:43:57.300 What we don't have is we, we, we haven't strengthened the, the ethics of what it means to be a human.

00:44:06.680 We can't decide what it means to be alive.

00:44:09.580 We, we, we are not strengthening that internal compass, that, that, that idea of right and wrong.

00:44:19.680 That's really the only thing you should be worried about with your kids because they're going to be able to access everything else.

00:44:26.780 They have to have an internal compass of what is right and wrong.

00:44:30.420 They have to be able to have that sense of listening, you know, to the spirit or listening to themselves to where, where they can say, you know what?

00:44:39.220 This doesn't feel right.

00:44:40.640 I'm not, this is not going in the right direction.

00:44:43.240 I don't know.

00:44:44.080 I can't define it.

00:44:45.220 That's good.

00:44:46.780 That's good.

00:44:47.600 And we are dismissing that and we are replacing it with, you know, degrees and, and, uh, and knowledge from schools.

00:44:57.960 I think schools are going to end up, mark my words in 10 years, you will, it will be, um, unless you're going to be a doctor or something like that.

00:45:10.840 It is schools like we have them now are going to be disabling.

00:45:19.440 They are going to be something that, that, that really smart companies say, ah, yeah, she wouldn't have done that because it's going to make you think in the box. 1.00

00:45:32.140 You don't want to think in the box anymore.

00:45:36.360 So when is it starts tomorrow?

00:45:37.820 Yeah, tomorrow looks like 1 p.m. is about the time it begins.

00:45:42.460 Uh, and it's been going on since 1974.

00:45:46.500 Um, in 2013, there's 644,000 people, uh, or excuse me, over 650,000 people were believed to attend.

00:45:55.620 I'm just looking at some of the, uh, uh, the numbers and they're, you know, obviously huge.

00:45:59.840 It's become the first year, I think it was 20,000 and now it's, uh, over six, 600,000 as of a couple of years ago.

00:46:06.300 And President Trump is speaking the first time the president is speaking.

00:46:09.900 Yeah.

00:46:10.060 I mean, it's, it looks like, uh, Reagan and Bush had spoken like remotely through via telephone.

00:46:16.780 Um, and then it looks like Trump is going to be the first one, I guess, by video that's going to be doing it.

00:46:20.960 Um, but it's certainly a positive to give more attention to this event, uh, really important.

00:46:26.360 And, you know, I mean, again, we've said this before, but it's like, you could really go every other issue that we talk to a talk about on the show.

00:46:32.820 You can argue pales in comparison that if, if the conservative movement achieved only one thing in its entire existence and we're getting rid of this process, this, uh, making abortion legal and these hundreds of thousands and millions of children that are not here, that should be here.

00:46:49.720 If that's the only thing it ever accomplishes, it's an incredible movement.

00:46:53.180 Even if we lose every, if tax rates go to 80%, it's still worth it because, because it, you know, how concerned I am on tech, this solves much of that problem.

00:47:06.380 I'm, I'm, I'm worried about the growing intrusion of government.

00:47:12.320 This solves that problem because if you see the individual baby as an individual with rights that must be protected, no one has a right to take away its life.

00:47:27.340 No one has a right to do that.

00:47:28.880 It is an individual.

00:47:30.560 You start to say, wait, okay, hang on just a second.

00:47:34.280 Uh, what?

00:47:36.380 Why can I take away your rights elsewhere?

00:47:38.620 Why can I force you here, here, and here?

00:47:42.260 Um, what is life?

00:47:44.960 Uh, do we have a right to snuff out life?

00:47:47.860 Do we have a right to prioritize?

00:47:50.440 No, you're not, your life is no longer worth living.

00:47:52.880 No, we don't.

00:47:54.100 We don't.

00:47:55.840 You know, humanity many, many times has made a decision to look at some group of what everyone knows as a person.

00:48:05.180 And make arguments denying that it is a person.

00:48:10.140 It's happened over and over and over and over and over again.

00:48:12.260 This is the only one we don't look back at at horror with horror at yet.

00:48:17.800 Yet.

00:48:18.360 And it will happen.

00:48:19.360 At some point, we'll all, there will be so, there will be a society in the future that looks back and says, oh my God, they, they made what argument?

00:48:27.360 That you could just kill all these kids?

00:48:29.340 That's insanity.

00:48:30.880 Just like we look back at slavery in that way.

00:48:33.900 Just like we look back at Nazi Germany in that way.

00:48:36.920 That people actually made arguments.

00:48:38.700 And it was, things were legal.

00:48:40.240 And all of that went on.

00:48:41.720 And that will, at some point, in a very glorious future that I really, really hope occurs and believe will occur, we will look back at that in that way, finally.

00:48:52.200 But right now, we all, you know, the people, people don't even think about it.

00:48:55.460 I mean, it's legal.

00:48:56.500 It's, it's become this cultural war issue.

00:48:59.260 It's become this thing that people don't, it's just politics.

00:49:02.360 It's red team versus blue team.

00:49:04.300 It's got to get out of that dynamic.

00:49:06.440 And technology's helped that a lot, a long way, I think.

00:49:08.800 You know, with things like the ultrasound and the 3D ultrasound.

00:49:11.620 And, you know, at some point, the denial that this is a person becomes so insanely ridiculous, hopefully people stop doing it.

00:49:21.660 I don't know when that happens.

00:49:23.460 You know, it seems, you know, a lot of rational people, a lot of people who are, make a lot of sense on a lot of different issues.

00:49:29.220 A lot of people that I like, a lot of people who I can hang out with and have dinner with and have great conversations with, look at that issue in a way that I can't fathom a human being would look at it.

00:49:39.600 So here's the problem that I have with most of those people, because a lot of those people will say, look, I don't want the government, the ones I respect, I don't want the government regulating what I can and cannot do to my own body.

00:49:52.060 You're looking at kind of the libertarian approach to this.

00:49:54.420 Yes, yes.

00:49:55.220 Which is the minority, by the way, we should point out.

00:49:57.400 What?

00:49:57.600 It's the minority of people who actually make that argument.

00:50:00.640 Yes, but it's the only logical one that even has any ground with me.

00:50:05.320 It doesn't, because I have to protect everyone's right.

00:50:10.300 And so you're now making decisions for two.

00:50:13.120 You know, you're eating for two.

00:50:15.420 You're caring.

00:50:17.600 You are the protector of a child now inside of you.

00:50:22.240 And if you won't be, I have to be.

00:50:24.600 So that's the only one.

00:50:27.140 But I will tell you.

00:50:29.260 The ones who are, you know, that make this about, you know, there's too many children.

00:50:34.260 No, there's not.

00:50:35.280 No, there's no, there's not.

00:50:36.400 No, no, there's not.

00:50:37.480 Look at the weight for children.

00:50:39.820 If you want to adopt.

00:50:41.060 Look for look at the weight.

00:50:42.640 There's not too many children.

00:50:44.280 There's nobody will take care of them.

00:50:45.680 Yes.

00:50:45.960 Yes, there are.

00:50:46.540 Yes, there are.

00:50:48.140 The second argument always is about, well, it's the woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:50:56.180 And they'll never go and look at the baby.

00:51:00.500 They have to try to make that into something else.

00:51:04.460 Well, it's not really a baby.

00:51:07.080 Yes.

00:51:07.860 Yes, it is.

00:51:09.480 Yes, it is.

00:51:10.460 I mean, it's not an octopus.

00:51:12.280 It's not a cancer growth.

00:51:13.740 It's a baby.

00:51:14.840 It's one of those things we all know.

00:51:18.900 And to participate in the other side of that argument, you have to deny something that you absolutely know is true.

00:51:26.420 And the most, to be honest, most people don't go to that place.

00:51:29.880 They go to the place that you were in many, many years ago when you were pro-choice, which is, number one, I kind of want the option if something goes wrong.

00:51:38.500 Right.

00:51:39.320 And number two, I don't want to think about it.

00:51:41.320 It's really uncomfortable and I don't want to deal with it.

00:51:43.280 And I want to think about it.

00:51:44.040 It's legal.

00:51:44.900 You know what?

00:51:45.620 It's one of those issues.

00:51:46.800 Let's just not talk about it.

00:51:48.240 And I think that's where a lot of people are.

00:51:50.500 But you know what?

00:51:51.180 If we were honest with each other, for those people who say it's not a baby, it does have significant ramifications all around.

00:52:01.520 And if you wanted to say, OK, it's legal, we would not be talking about posting, hey, have your baby and give it away.

00:52:11.080 We wouldn't have to post those things.

00:52:14.500 What we would be posting, if we were honest, is the pictures of the baby, the pictures of abortion.

00:52:23.960 Nobody wants to look at that.

00:52:25.500 Now, we post doing do we not or is it Canada that posts on cigarettes?

00:52:32.140 It's Canada.

00:52:33.140 They post the black lung.

00:52:35.520 They post the pictures of the disease.

00:52:38.420 Nobody's having a problem looking at that because they know it's just an organ and it's bloody and it's ugly.

00:52:43.780 And, oh, yeah, that's the result of that.

00:52:45.840 Why do they post those pictures?

00:52:47.100 Because they know it stops people from smoking.

00:52:50.240 That's an organ.

00:52:51.180 Well, this is just a lump of tissue.

00:52:55.260 Why are you not allowed to see it?

00:52:57.460 Because it's not.

00:52:59.200 It's a baby.

00:53:01.160 It's a baby.

00:53:02.620 And they know it.

00:53:03.720 The scary thing is just the the amount of the amount of delusion that you have to accept and live in to be strongly, you know, hey, cut them up, get them out.

00:53:22.720 Let's sell the let's sell the baby parts. 1.00

00:53:25.960 You're a monster.

00:53:26.840 You really you really are a monster if you've thought about it.

00:53:31.340 I think a lot of people do what you just said.

00:53:35.460 They don't want to think about it.

00:53:36.800 And so they just blindly go along.

00:53:53.600 So there are a lot of people that were were writing to me and saying, why do you still do commercials for gold?

00:54:00.940 A bit of Bitcoin.

00:54:02.700 I thought you were all for Bitcoin.

00:54:04.160 I am.

00:54:04.900 I am for Bitcoin.

00:54:06.120 I still am for Bitcoin, even though it's gone down about, what, 45 percent.

00:54:10.500 I I still am.

00:54:12.820 That's a bet.

00:54:14.360 That's a wager.

00:54:15.480 That's going into the casino.

00:54:17.760 That's like maybe this could happen.

00:54:20.840 Gold is not that for me.

00:54:22.900 I buy it as an insurance policy, something that I know will be there, something that I know is going to take me through the worst of times.

00:54:32.760 Gold line has just been purchased by a really huge company, and they they finished the year with a blowout sale.

00:54:39.480 This company is the largest precious metal dealers in the country.

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00:54:49.000 They have a kickoff sale going on right now.

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00:56:12.120 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:56:18.280 Glenn Beck.

00:56:24.620 I, you know, I was on Imus this morning in New York, and I just, I think we have to put him on death watch because he was incredibly nice.

00:56:35.200 I even tried to pick a fight with him, and he just kept going back to, you know, I think you are one of, you've done more good than most people, and you're very, very smart.

00:56:48.720 And I'm like, oh my gosh, he is.

00:56:50.960 Yeah, I think, I mean, he's about to flatline this afternoon.

00:56:54.020 So, we're starting the Don Imus death watch, and it's, this will be funny until, you know, he dies, and then it'll be true.

00:57:04.900 However, that is the time he would find it most funny.

00:57:07.800 Most funny.

00:57:08.300 So, yeah.

00:57:09.000 I mean, I would love, I barely know Don, but I would love to give the eulogy at Don's funeral.

00:57:14.420 And if they don't let me, we might just have a Don Imus funeral on the air because he's got to go out in the way that he lived his life.

00:57:23.260 Yeah.

00:57:24.060 Which is, which will be uncomfortable at the time, but that's, I think that's what we have to do.

00:57:31.240 Long-term legendary, short-term uncomfortable.

00:57:33.840 Yeah.

00:57:35.140 That's the way he lived his life.

00:57:38.840 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:57:44.420 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:54.620 You know, yesterday we had a guest on who was talking about that we are at a, we're at a place that I don't, I don't, that people don't talk about, but they feel.

00:58:07.100 We all know that we're at this, we're, we're, it's something, something's happened.

00:58:11.360 Something is going on.

00:58:12.560 Something is coming.

00:58:14.420 Um, I remember Condoleezza Rice talking about it, uh, when I was at Headline News and I, I, I found it fascinating that she would use this language.

00:58:23.580 Um, and she said, these are the birth pangs of the things to come.

00:58:27.060 And, you know, that sounds a little biblical.

00:58:30.140 And, uh, even if it's not biblical, you, you look at that language and say, well, birth pangs of the things to come.

00:58:37.140 That means you're going to have pain and then it'll go away for a while.

00:58:40.640 And then you'll have pain and it'll go away for a while.

00:58:42.520 And then it'll get faster and faster and more intense.

00:58:45.000 And in the end, you're giving birth to something.

00:58:48.920 And I have, I have wondered since then, what is it we're giving birth to?

00:58:53.480 Um, and I'm not sure anybody has asked that question.

00:58:56.780 I think, I think we are so, um, focused on the game of politics, on the game of life.

00:59:06.660 And, and I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't put the average American in this.

00:59:11.880 Well, maybe I, I don't know.

00:59:13.300 I don't know.

00:59:14.020 You know, I don't know a lot anymore.

00:59:19.200 And I actually think that's a good thing, but, um, I think the average American feels it

00:59:27.000 and they don't know what it is.

00:59:29.220 And for anybody who is thinking, um, they're puzzled by what's going on because we,

00:59:36.660 we see, we are completely disconnecting from common sense.

00:59:41.900 We're disconnecting from everything that is, that is real.

00:59:44.840 I mean, what does it mean to be a man anymore?

00:59:48.900 A gentleman.

00:59:50.040 Do gentlemen exist?

00:59:52.240 Is that a thing?

00:59:53.060 Have we decided that gentlemen don't exist anymore?

00:59:56.760 No, there's a really great club.

00:59:58.460 It's called the Gentleman's Club.

00:59:59.820 We go to all the time.

01:00:01.080 No, seriously.

01:00:02.300 Do they exist anymore still?

01:00:04.040 I don't know.

01:00:04.480 I think all the things that built a gentleman are kind of looked down on by society now,

01:00:09.200 right?

01:00:10.580 What are those things that are, that a gentleman does?

01:00:12.980 Because we're told that men are just worthless.

01:00:15.900 We're told that, you know, men are all creeps.

01:00:18.980 Um, we're now in the strangest turn of events.

01:00:24.060 This me too movement has turned from empowering women quickly to, I'm helpless.

01:00:33.840 I am.

01:00:34.380 I'm a little China doll that I don't have any power to say no.

01:00:39.320 I don't even know my own mind.

01:00:41.000 I, I, I, I might be engaging in something, but later I can feel bad and you should have

01:00:47.360 stopped me.

01:00:49.060 What?

01:00:50.720 What?

01:00:52.880 To, to, you know, empower, to chart your own course.

01:00:57.340 And then once you get right to that point, the movement becomes, but you're really not

01:01:04.020 in charge.

01:01:05.800 You really, you don't, you're not capable of it.

01:01:08.540 I don't even understand it.

01:01:10.120 It's such a weird turn of events because you're right.

01:01:12.180 It's a czar.

01:01:13.060 It's, it's taking the agency away from women for their rights to be able to do the things 1.00

01:01:17.240 they should be.

01:01:17.880 They should be able to say, you know, no, and this is not even to the level of Harvey

01:01:23.020 Weinstein, which is obviously everyone knows that, but even at the level of Aziz Ansari

01:01:28.000 or anybody else, if at any moment during an encounter, you express the idea that, no,

01:01:33.640 I would not like to continue.

01:01:34.920 It should end right there.

01:01:36.500 Yep.

01:01:36.960 And that is absolutely a part of this and, and should be a hundred percent acknowledged

01:01:42.580 by everybody.

01:01:43.220 But the idea that you have to read the mind of the other person when they are sending

01:01:50.860 signals that they do want to continue for much of the time, you, you have to be able

01:01:56.880 to say, you have to be able to say, no, you have to be able to say it.

01:01:59.580 I think Ben Shapiro had a piece of audio that we had today.

01:02:02.440 Let's play, let's play Ben Shapiro on, on this.

01:02:06.260 There were some nonverbal cues that were given, including getting completely naked in his

01:02:09.380 apartment and then performing sex acts multiple times on him. 1.00

01:02:11.920 That if I were Aziz Ansari, I would be thinking that's a pretty solid nonverbal cue that you

01:02:16.400 might be into things like just, just, I mean, I have a hard time believing that she really

01:02:20.860 expects Aziz Ansari or that anyone from me to expects men to be mind readers.

01:02:24.200 Is it the job of men to now decide when women are capable of consent?

01:02:27.860 I thought the entire purpose of the feminist movement was to say that women are supposed 1.00

01:02:31.260 to be the mistresses of their own consent, that it's not up to a man to say, listen,

01:02:34.140 I don't think it's possible for you to give consent right now.

01:02:36.280 I don't think this sex is in your best interest and I don't think that we ought to be doing 1.00

01:02:39.680 this.

01:02:41.940 That was the whole point of the sexual liberation, right?

01:02:45.240 That women could control this destiny and should control their own destiny and make their 1.00

01:02:48.900 own decisions on these matters.

01:02:50.760 And now we're at the point where we now want guys to make the decisions for the women so 1.00

01:02:57.620 that they can, you know, Louis CK.

01:02:59.320 To protect them.

01:03:00.160 Louis CK had the same, a similar situation.

01:03:02.780 You know, again, there's some details that are always a little bit in doubt on these

01:03:06.260 things, but his, his point was that he basically would pull his stuff out and do all sorts of

01:03:11.500 stuff to himself in front of women.

01:03:13.460 But he'd ask first.

01:03:14.720 And if they said yes, he would do it.

01:03:17.020 Now, the, the pushback on that is because he was a powerful comedian, he should have known

01:03:24.700 and they were comedians and they were comedians.

01:03:26.620 He should have known that they couldn't say no because they admired him for his standup

01:03:33.720 comedy.

01:03:34.840 So he shouldn't have done those things, not because it's gross, which of course it is, but

01:03:39.080 beyond that, he shouldn't have done those things because he should have known they weren't

01:03:42.880 capable women, weren't capable of saying no to sex acts because he was so funny. 0.87

01:03:50.120 And that's the feminist argument. 1.00

01:03:52.660 Yeah.

01:03:53.320 Listen to this.

01:03:53.940 So Ashley Banfield went on HLN and she said, uh, you know, this is ridiculous.

01:04:01.100 He had no power over you.

01:04:03.640 You left the apartment and then came back and did it again.

01:04:07.960 So what your date didn't work out the way you wanted it to.

01:04:12.400 You had the power.

01:04:14.500 You already left.

01:04:17.180 So she's getting pushback from this babe.net reporter. 1.00

01:04:22.900 Um, listen to this.

01:04:25.660 Um, uh, the way your colleague, Ashley Banfield, someone I'm certain no one under the age of

01:04:33.380 45 has ever heard of, by the way, by the way, I'm a 41 and I have heard of her.

01:04:38.320 So that is an unfortunately not true.

01:04:40.220 Ripped into my source directly was one of the lowest, most despicable things I've ever

01:04:44.300 seen in my entire life.

01:04:45.280 Shame on her. 0.99

01:04:46.320 Shame on headline news.

01:04:48.140 Ashley should have talked to me. 0.93

01:04:50.520 She could have talked to me or my editor of my publication, but instead she targeted

01:04:54.900 a 23 year old woman in one of the most vulnerable moments of her life, someone she has never

01:04:59.220 even met before just for a little attention.

01:05:02.480 Well, I hope the ratings were worth it.

01:05:04.460 I hope the 500 retweets on the single news write up made that burgundy lipstick, bad highlight,

01:05:10.180 second wave.

01:05:10.880 Feminist has been really feel relevant for a little while.

01:05:15.520 She discussed me.

01:05:17.220 I hope when she has more distance from the moment, she has enough conscience left to feel

01:05:21.100 remotely ashamed.

01:05:23.080 I doubt it, but still must be nice to piggyback off the fact that another woman was brave enough

01:05:28.580 to speak up and add another dimension to the societal conversation about sexual assault.

01:05:35.700 She was not assaulted.

01:05:37.240 No, and that's the new fallback position of the people who are from the Me Too movement

01:05:41.500 because they're saying, well, we never said we wanted Aziz Ansari fired.

01:05:44.600 We're just saying that we don't like the way that went down.

01:05:47.080 Oh, of course, because for some reason, we crazily got the idea that this was about getting

01:05:54.060 every person in one of these stories fired only because, you know, the history of it is

01:05:59.280 every person who gets mentioned in one of these stories gets fired.

01:06:01.700 So somehow we magically converted this into a story where you seem to be trying to get

01:06:07.760 Aziz Ansari and his career ruined.

01:06:10.100 Somehow that's our fault now.

01:06:12.520 That's our fault.

01:06:13.640 This is a new fact.

01:06:14.920 Now that half the people who watch this story have said, wait a minute, this is ridiculous.

01:06:19.220 It's going over the line.

01:06:20.020 Even people who are complete supporters of this movement.

01:06:22.560 Now that they're saying this story has gone on the line, they're like, what are you talking

01:06:26.480 about?

01:06:26.920 We never said we wanted this man fired.

01:06:28.860 What?

01:06:29.120 How?

01:06:30.080 Where did you get that idea from?

01:06:32.120 Only some are.

01:06:32.920 The real revolutionaries are still pushing it.

01:06:35.700 Yeah.

01:06:35.900 They're still pushing for the silencing of people like Ashley Banfield and anybody who stands

01:06:41.260 up.

01:06:41.940 The real story here is that there is a revolution going on, a real revolution, but it is like

01:06:49.820 the French Revolution.

01:06:50.920 It will purge itself of all of those that have always thought of themselves as revolutionaries.

01:06:59.840 I'm on your side.

01:07:01.520 You're not going far enough.

01:07:04.240 And you'll be burned at the stake too.

01:07:06.520 It's what happens.

01:07:07.620 It's what happened in France.

01:07:08.760 What happened in France is now happening here.

01:07:11.540 And it's happening with the left.

01:07:13.000 And if you on the left don't understand, they're going to come for you.

01:07:18.700 They're coming for you.

01:07:20.400 I do love the, you know, we have to do the end of this though, because the end of this

01:07:23.720 email to Ashley Banfield or to headline news at CNN.

01:07:26.920 I would never go on your network.

01:07:29.980 I would never even watch your network.

01:07:31.920 No woman my age would ever watch your network.

01:07:34.200 I will remember this for the rest of my career.

01:07:36.320 I'm 22 and so far not too shabby.

01:07:40.200 And I will laugh the day you fold.

01:07:42.760 Okay.

01:07:44.120 You're 22 and not too shabby.

01:07:46.620 Look, I don't mean to question your opinion of yourself, which is incredibly high, but you're

01:07:55.920 22 and the one thing that anyone has ever heard that you've done is an article in a publication

01:08:04.960 that no one had ever heard of before last week and has been roundly mocked by the supporters

01:08:10.500 of the movement you were trying to influence.

01:08:14.000 Not to mention, I'm mildly certain that babe.net will fold before CNN does.

01:08:22.840 I am out on a limb on that one.

01:08:24.940 Yeah, I think that's way...

01:08:26.940 And here's the thing.

01:08:29.360 She's 22, right?

01:08:30.720 Yeah.

01:08:31.240 She works for that website that nobody's ever even heard of.

01:08:34.280 The one if you type .com, you get a porn site.

01:08:36.400 Right.

01:08:36.740 Yeah, that one.

01:08:37.580 Okay.

01:08:39.620 Without looking, tell me her name, first name, last name, anything about her.

01:08:46.960 Sarah?

01:08:48.120 Heather? 0.99

01:08:48.920 I have no...

01:08:52.160 Cadence?

01:08:52.640 I have no idea.

01:08:55.940 So, yeah.

01:08:58.020 Shabby.

01:09:00.120 Shabby.

01:09:00.560 A tad.

01:09:01.560 Shabby.

01:09:02.220 Look!

01:09:03.640 I mean...

01:09:04.160 Hey, shabby chic!

01:09:05.820 Okay?

01:09:06.860 She could be forgiven to think that this would have worked, right?

01:09:10.320 I mean, she could be...

01:09:11.500 You're in that world and every single accusation is resulting in some big career explosion for

01:09:17.960 the person who wrote it.

01:09:18.720 Not gonna happen for you.

01:09:19.460 But, I mean, I don't think it is because, I mean, you look at this.

01:09:22.640 This is not just right-wingers who are pushing back.

01:09:25.020 Actually, Banfield is not a conservative.

01:09:27.000 No.

01:09:28.420 No.

01:09:29.380 Neither is the author of Handmaidensdale.

01:09:33.680 No!

01:09:34.100 I mean, she's an icon.

01:09:37.560 A feminist... 1.00

01:09:38.240 But again, this is the thing.

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01:11:24.520 Mercury.

01:11:24.920 Glenn Beck.

01:11:40.020 And I found this really interesting.

01:11:42.460 Last night on television, we did something, and maybe we'll get into it next hour.

01:11:47.320 We showed you a poll of Democrats funded by the Democrats, at least a local Democrat, who

01:11:59.060 wanted to show the national Democrats, you're way out of step.

01:12:02.920 You've got to stop.

01:12:04.880 And you really have to see this, because it shows that the elites in Washington, the Democrats

01:12:12.060 are going through their own Tea Party movement right now.

01:12:14.520 They're done with it.

01:12:16.440 And nobody's listening to them.

01:12:18.520 And they don't have any place to go, because we look so extreme on the right.

01:12:24.180 So they're kind of stuck.

01:12:26.100 It's fascinating.

01:12:27.820 There's another poll out, Oprah 2020.

01:12:31.140 Remember how everybody on the left said, oh, she's got to run.

01:12:35.560 She's got to run.

01:12:39.100 No, apparently not.

01:12:41.680 A new poll out shows that she's only within two points of beating Donald Trump.

01:12:48.660 Well, she is beating Donald Trump by two points.

01:12:50.760 But yeah, she's beating with two point margin. 1.00

01:12:53.420 It's two points.

01:12:54.320 That can be changed quickly.

01:12:56.480 I mean, any poll they've taken this early could change, but that one is a lot tighter

01:12:59.900 than you'd expect.

01:13:00.980 It should be.

01:13:01.760 If she's the dream candidate, it should be.

01:13:04.320 Yeah, she should be up by 20.

01:13:05.760 Right.

01:13:06.480 But the but the polling shows that middle American Democrats are saying, no, I you know, no,

01:13:14.300 I like her, but she's not the president.

01:13:17.400 And I think the left loves her because it's another Obama term.

01:13:24.540 You know, it's just it would be it would be it would be the same stuff from Obama.

01:13:29.020 And if you remember, Oprah used to be a lot more popular.

01:13:34.080 But the minute she started talking about politics, you know, she she went to Jeremiah Wright's

01:13:39.520 church for years, too.

01:13:40.880 Now she got out, but she went to Jeremiah's Wright's church.

01:13:45.460 She has a very different philosophy on religion.

01:13:51.080 And OK, that's cool.

01:13:53.120 Totally cool.

01:13:53.800 But not necessarily in step with Democrats in the center of the country.

01:13:59.100 Did they test Oprah's new slogan that she's testing for the campaign?

01:14:03.520 No, no.

01:14:04.580 I am.

01:14:04.940 You do know what her slogan is, right?

01:14:06.840 No.

01:14:07.460 Oh, my JJ is painting.

01:14:09.860 That was not that.

01:14:11.400 And that was a weird.

01:14:12.420 No, that's not going to fall into that again.

01:14:15.340 My JJ is.

01:14:16.260 I just thought that was.

01:14:17.240 Yeah, no.

01:14:18.360 I mean, you know, it's you know, it's amazing.

01:14:20.140 The poll shows who's more popular.

01:14:23.200 This is what Democrats.

01:14:24.380 Who do they want more than Oprah Winfrey? 1.00

01:14:27.640 Number one.

01:14:30.240 Joe Biden.

01:14:31.120 Oh, they love Joe.

01:14:31.960 How do that?

01:14:33.840 I just I don't understand that one.

01:14:36.260 I mean, I can understand a lot of candidates that I don't agree with Joe Biden.

01:14:40.460 I don't understand it.

01:14:42.640 You're like, oh, man, if Joe would come out, he's my guy.

01:14:48.740 Glenn Beck.

01:14:50.300 Mercury.

01:14:59.560 Love.

01:15:00.980 Courage.

01:15:02.520 Truth.

01:15:04.240 Glenn Beck.

01:15:05.920 OK, remember the scene where where Tom Cruise is kind of hanging over, you know, in that

01:15:11.780 white room and he's got to catch that one bead of sweat before it falls down and the

01:15:16.900 sweat falls and he catches it and it's really, really loud.

01:15:20.560 What was he after?

01:15:22.280 He was after the knock list, right?

01:15:25.180 Plot line in almost every spy movie.

01:15:27.280 The knock list is out.

01:15:29.440 The good guys have to catch the bad guy before the names and locations of the undercover

01:15:34.420 operatives of the CIA and all the good guys are killed.

01:15:39.640 And in the movies, we always get the knock list back.

01:15:43.360 I mean, it's not a problem.

01:15:44.520 The good guys always win.

01:15:45.900 Except that's the movies.

01:15:48.000 This is real life.

01:15:49.180 And I wonder why we're not really focused on this.

01:15:52.060 A former CIA officer was arrested on Monday and charged with unlawfully possessing the national

01:15:58.560 defense information, the knock list.

01:16:01.060 He was caught red handed with two notebooks containing the names of CIA assets in the locations

01:16:07.440 of covert facilities in China.

01:16:09.800 And what was he doing?

01:16:11.360 He was carrying the knock list, but he was expected.

01:16:15.080 He's suspected of much, much worse.

01:16:17.880 The New York Times reported last year that there was a real problem in the CIA.

01:16:22.440 They were losing agents in China at an alarming rate.

01:16:26.620 Since 2010, the Chinese government has all but completely destroyed our spying operation

01:16:32.880 in the mainland.

01:16:34.080 The CIA had a mole.

01:16:36.560 They knew it.

01:16:37.760 All the evidence pointed directly to the man that was arrested this week.

01:16:42.380 The damage done to the CIA in China is catastrophic.

01:16:47.040 But even worse, the amount of lives that were lost.

01:16:52.040 All in all, he's responsible for the deaths or imprisonment of 20 American agents.

01:16:57.780 Say what you want about Snowden.

01:16:59.640 And I'm not a fan of Snowden.

01:17:01.760 He's a he's a traitor enjoying the protection of Vladimir Putin.

01:17:06.080 But nobody got killed.

01:17:08.700 Has anybody else noticed that if you went back, if let's just say Doc Brown and Marty McFly

01:17:18.240 were real and we could travel back to the year 1985 and we could look at the news headlines

01:17:24.600 us, we'd see a world that really hasn't changed all that much.

01:17:29.720 I mean, granted, the music's a lot worse and the clothes are a lot better, but they'd

01:17:35.460 probably assume the Cold War is still raging.

01:17:40.340 Despite Cindy Lauper and neon shorts, the world of 1985, a scary place.

01:17:46.420 Aldrich Ames was the CIA agent selling secrets to the Soviets because of him.

01:17:52.100 Multiple multiple CIA agents were killed.

01:17:56.420 Korean Airlines flight 007 had been shot down two years prior.

01:18:01.140 Nuclear tensions were at their highest.

01:18:03.120 Both sides looked like we were willing to press the button.

01:18:07.340 Has anything really changed?

01:18:09.780 It's been 33 years.

01:18:12.000 Have we learned nothing?

01:18:14.140 Three decades and life is just as cheap now, if not cheaper than it was then.

01:18:20.720 The difference between then and today is that with our technology, we can betray, kill and

01:18:27.000 threaten each other a lot faster.

01:18:29.600 The bad guy, in this case, eventually caught, but the human toll he inflicted makes this story

01:18:36.800 ultimately a tragedy.

01:18:39.620 Likewise, the redundant cycle that we are in and seem to always be in should tell us something

01:18:47.460 about ourselves.

01:18:48.900 How do we break it, both as individuals and as a nation?

01:18:52.780 We can navigate the ship anywhere we want to go, but we can't navigate the ship following

01:19:03.840 pure self or national interest every time.

01:19:06.580 Principles and values have to be our true north.

01:19:09.440 If we don't make a course correction, I have a feeling that without looking at what technology

01:19:19.400 is going to bring upon our heads, if you take that out, we definitely are in for another

01:19:26.300 three decades of nothing but the same.

01:19:29.400 It's Thursday, January 18th.

01:19:42.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:19:46.140 This week, we have really kind of featured technology an awful lot.

01:19:52.440 And it is something that I'm very, very interested in, and I'm concerned that we really need to

01:19:59.460 wake up to what is on the horizon.

01:20:03.340 And I mean, the near future life is going to change.

01:20:06.660 And that means it's going to change the way you do your job.

01:20:09.420 It's going to change the way we interact with each other.

01:20:11.680 It's going to change the way you send your kids to school.

01:20:14.820 Where do you send them to school?

01:20:16.320 What education should they have for the future?

01:20:22.200 And are there going to be the jobs that we have now?

01:20:28.300 And I am quite honestly concerned that because I know politicians, they never take responsibility

01:20:34.440 for anything.

01:20:35.760 They're all talking about, we're going to bring the jobs back.

01:20:38.520 We're going to bring these jobs back.

01:20:39.860 We're going to bring high-paying jobs back.

01:20:41.600 No, you're really, you're actually not because those high-paying jobs, you know, are not going

01:20:46.820 to exist because of robotics and eventually AI.

01:20:51.440 So what happens when we have very high unemployment roles because of robotics all around the world?

01:21:00.300 I don't think the politicians are going to say, well, that's just the way it is.

01:21:03.380 So we have to find new things.

01:21:04.540 They're going to point to Silicon Valley and anybody making robots and say it's them.

01:21:09.580 When people figure this out and there's no lack of, there's a lack of leadership and an absence

01:21:17.800 of real knowledge and forethought, we could be in real trouble and especially those in Silicon

01:21:25.740 Valley.

01:21:26.480 I wanted to bring on, he's a professor at Rice University, Moshe Vardy, and he is a George

01:21:36.300 Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering.

01:21:40.260 He's also the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University

01:21:45.260 in Houston, a co-author of more than 500 different papers as well as two books.

01:21:49.380 And he made a prediction about the coming year that I read right after the 1st of January,

01:21:58.380 where he said, this is the year of comeuppance for Silicon Valley.

01:22:02.580 Welcome to the program, Moshe.

01:22:03.660 How are you?

01:22:04.720 I'm very well.

01:22:05.640 It's good to be with you.

01:22:06.640 Good.

01:22:07.040 Tell me what you meant, a year of comeuppance for Silicon Valley.

01:22:11.960 Well, I mean, if you think of the image of Silicon Valley in the past, let's say, you

01:22:17.460 know, 25, 30 years, it was viewed as just a font of innovation, economic growth.

01:22:23.320 And now suddenly things are changing.

01:22:25.220 Suddenly now we are feeling that Silicon Valley is producing new technology, which has profound

01:22:31.720 impact on our lives.

01:22:33.560 And the goal there is just basically what is Silicon Valley about?

01:22:37.380 It's about innovation and profits.

01:22:40.380 But how does it impact our lives?

01:22:42.660 And we have seen now, we are hearing now, for example, about Facebook and fake news.

01:22:46.560 We are seeing greater and greater impact on our lives.

01:22:50.700 And will the political world let Silicon Valley just keep doing what it's doing without some

01:22:57.380 kind of rethinking the rules of the game?

01:22:59.540 I think we are seeing a shift just between last year and this year.

01:23:04.660 I mean, we're hearing the Apple investors are concerned about the Apple iPhone, how they're

01:23:09.000 affecting children and teenagers.

01:23:11.540 I think there is a change that I'm sensing and just in the sensibility between viewing

01:23:16.940 Silicon Valley as just a sort of innovation, economic growth and technology that may have

01:23:22.020 adverse impact on our lives.

01:23:23.300 You know, it's interesting, Moshi, that there's a lot of people in Silicon Valley, not the

01:23:28.800 majority, but there's a lot of people in Silicon Valley that are starting to become disenfranchised

01:23:33.280 with it themselves.

01:23:34.260 They're starting to move their families out of there because they, too, are beginning to

01:23:39.800 see a disturbing trend of nobody asking, should we do it?

01:23:44.700 Just we can do it.

01:23:46.760 So let's.

01:23:48.000 And it's bothering them.

01:23:49.140 Well, we're hearing some regrets from some of the founders of Facebook are not expressing

01:23:55.180 regret, but what have we, what have we, what have we wrought?

01:23:59.360 What have we launched?

01:24:00.660 Are we, who is in charge of this technology?

01:24:03.040 So, Moshi, what is, help me, you know, when people think of robots, you know, they immediately

01:24:11.880 go back to, you know, old style robots.

01:24:14.400 And when you think of AI going out of control, you think of the Terminator, but that stuff,

01:24:19.800 while it may or may not come, we're going to have robotics are going to be a big part

01:24:27.160 of our life by 2030.

01:24:28.740 They're from the numbers.

01:24:30.340 I've seen a thousand robots, and that includes Roomba for every person on the planet by 2030,

01:24:37.240 2035, and a great loss of jobs because robots will be able to do it better.

01:24:48.500 What, how do, how do we bridge that gap?

01:24:50.880 How do we start navigating towards meaning in our life?

01:24:56.940 Well, I mean, one is that, you've put together several questions that I'm going to try to

01:25:01.760 unbundle a little bit.

01:25:02.780 One is that predicting the future is actually very difficult, and we really don't know what

01:25:08.120 the world will be like in, in 20 years, just as if you go back about 20 years ago, the

01:25:13.120 internet pretty much is about 20 years old.

01:25:15.600 So, who could have, who could have predicted in 19, you know, in 1998, what the world will

01:25:20.340 be like today, just 20 years into the future.

01:25:23.560 But the best way to, to look at, to predict the future is to look at the past.

01:25:28.140 And when you look at automation, there has been one sector of the economy that already

01:25:32.480 has undergone major automation, and this is manufacturing.

01:25:36.960 So, there is this myth that manufacturing in the U.S. has just gone down the drain because

01:25:41.400 of, because of trade deals.

01:25:43.060 But when you look at the facts, manufacturing in terms of output, how much are we producing?

01:25:48.020 It's at an all-time high.

01:25:50.320 The U.S. is a manufacturing giant.

01:25:51.900 Only China is bigger than the U.S. as manufacturing.

01:25:54.320 And so, we are, in terms of volume, we're at an all-time high.

01:25:59.240 How are we doing in terms of manufacturing employment?

01:26:02.180 You, you go back to generation, 25% of the workforce was in manufacturing.

01:26:08.220 Now, it's about 8%.

01:26:09.600 Just, just over the last 20 years, we have lost about 8 million jobs in manufacturing.

01:26:17.460 Now, the traditional thinking was, well, no problem.

01:26:21.540 These people will find other jobs.

01:26:24.040 It turns out that, that this kind of, this manufacturing was a very sweet spot in the

01:26:28.380 economy in the following sense.

01:26:30.180 You got paid, you got a good wage in manufacturing.

01:26:32.940 You got paid $20 to $30 an hour.

01:26:35.500 And in terms of education, you need the high school education.

01:26:38.760 You can finish high school and walk to the manufacturing floor and start, start there

01:26:43.940 as an intern and make yourself to a full-fledged manufacturing employee.

01:26:48.640 And these jobs have disappeared over the past 30 years.

01:26:52.700 And when we want to see what has been the impact, we can go to small towns that has one

01:26:56.960 factory.

01:26:57.580 And the factory, it either moved away or has automated.

01:27:01.220 And we see huge adverse impact on these towns.

01:27:03.680 And we want to understand politically what's happened in the United States.

01:27:06.020 We cannot ignore what happened to manufacturing in the, in the, in the Midwest.

01:27:12.380 You're now moving into the possibility of wholly automating trucking.

01:27:21.160 That's a, that'll be a huge impact.

01:27:23.460 So if you look, you mentioned before, you talked about, but life today versus the weight

01:27:27.680 for 30 years ago, and you said, hasn't changed much.

01:27:30.520 And actually it's true.

01:27:31.440 If you look today, you, you go and take a walk in downtown any city.

01:27:35.280 And how is it different than, than 30 years ago?

01:27:38.180 Well, the styles have changed and everybody, people walk like zombies, holding some device

01:27:42.680 in their hand.

01:27:43.720 But other than that, it doesn't look that different.

01:27:46.800 You know, you can go to Cuba where it's going back 50 years in a time machine.

01:27:51.520 And it, yeah, it looks dated, but it doesn't look dramatically different.

01:27:55.620 In 30 years, our cities will be dramatically different because our city has been shaped by the 0.92

01:28:00.780 automobile.

01:28:01.200 And the automation of driving is going to be the biggest technological revolution that

01:28:06.500 any one of us have seen in our lifetime.

01:28:09.520 How do the cities change?

01:28:11.300 Well, because the city has been developed.

01:28:13.100 I mean, look, just look at the difference between New York City and, uh, I live in Houston.

01:28:17.260 Houston is a, is an automobile city.

01:28:19.040 It's huge.

01:28:19.540 It's a sprawl.

01:28:20.640 It's enabled by the automobile.

01:28:22.220 You know, we spend, just think of how, uh, what part of the real estate is dedicated

01:28:27.100 to cars, either driving or parking.

01:28:29.960 Huge part of the, of the area is just for automobiles.

01:28:33.640 And so the, the, the automated, automated vehicle or people, some probably call it driverless

01:28:39.060 or autonomous.

01:28:40.420 The automated vehicle will change, you know, transportation is such a big thing in our life.

01:28:46.140 You know, you look in history, we had transportation revolution, invention of the wheel, the domestication

01:28:51.200 of the horse, the steam locomotive, the Ford Model T, each one launched a revolution and

01:28:56.460 changed the fabric of our life in a dramatic way.

01:28:59.040 The city of today looks very different than the city of a hundred years ago because of

01:29:02.560 the automobile.

01:29:04.240 And so the automation of driving will be a huge shift.

01:29:08.100 It will be a wonderful thing for humanity because we kill 1.25 million people every year

01:29:13.100 around the planet with car crashes.

01:29:15.900 And 95% of all of car crashes are caused by human drivers.

01:29:20.320 So we actually are terrible drivers.

01:29:23.780 And so this is a fantastic technology, right?

01:29:26.880 If you save, I have a technology that will save a million people per year.

01:29:30.420 The answer should be bring it on.

01:29:32.780 And I really think this is a wonderful technology.

01:29:35.620 But we have about 4 million taxi and truck driver in the United States, just in the United

01:29:41.640 States alone.

01:29:42.260 And if you look at other jobs that mostly the driving is a major component, like postal delivery

01:29:50.320 workers, now we're talking about 10, 15 million jobs.

01:29:55.920 And if you think of all the industries that are basically living around this, all the motels

01:30:02.480 and restaurants along the highways.

01:30:04.520 So the automation of driving will be a big, big, big F dot dot dot thing.

01:30:10.200 Okay?

01:30:10.460 That will be a huge thing.

01:30:11.940 It will have huge benefit to society, but it will come with elimination of millions of

01:30:17.260 millions of working class jobs.

01:30:19.860 And we are not having a serious conversation about how is our society going to cope with

01:30:24.360 it.

01:30:24.560 I would love to continue this conversation with you in the future, Moshi.

01:30:31.140 I know we have to cut you loose, but I really appreciate it.

01:30:35.500 This is the problem that I think we must talk about.

01:30:42.460 And that is, this is all good stuff.

01:30:44.640 If we think about it in advance and we plan in advance.

01:30:49.500 Moshi Vardy, thank you so much.

01:30:51.600 Computer science professor of Rice University.

01:30:53.580 My pleasure.

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01:32:37.560 Glenn Beck.

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01:32:47.860 Glenn Beck.

01:32:48.780 You know, part of me, I just can't wait until we're all, you know, told what to do by computers because people don't make sense.

01:32:54.780 My wife today is in the city.

01:32:56.680 She's in court right now because they assessed my house.

01:33:00.040 I have four acres of land.

01:33:01.940 And they said, well, you know, people around you have a house on an acre of land.

01:33:07.380 So you could build three other houses on your.

01:33:11.660 And you're like, no, what?

01:33:14.640 No.

01:33:14.820 Wait, so they're saying basically that you could theoretically divide your land.

01:33:19.180 They're charging me the price for taxes as if I had three other houses on my property.

01:33:27.620 Well, you know, Glenn, if you go to Co-op City in New York, they build, you know, thousands of people live on one tiny piece of land.

01:33:34.420 It's craziness.

01:33:35.760 It's craziness.

01:33:37.120 Right.

01:33:37.180 And it's like, what?

01:33:40.800 I mean, the city, the local city has just gone crazy with taxes.

01:33:47.060 I can't imagine, you know, if we ever have a crash.

01:33:50.160 I mean, they build these schools and these firehouses that are palaces better than anything in a private sector could build.

01:33:58.540 And you're like, dude, isn't that nice?

01:34:01.800 Yeah.

01:34:03.060 You paid for it.

01:34:04.620 Yeah.

01:34:05.060 You did the story last week, the week before, about how now universities, public universities, public, are building water parks at the colleges with taxpayer dollars.

01:34:17.400 Lazy rivers so that the students can float around and think about math.

01:34:22.780 I don't know what they would do.

01:34:23.980 I have to tell you, if I went to a college and I saw a lazy river and my, because I know Rafe would be like, hey, I'm going here.

01:34:30.920 No, you're not.

01:34:31.520 No.

01:34:31.660 No, you're not.

01:34:32.860 We do not need to encourage college students to be more lazy.

01:34:35.520 Yeah.

01:34:35.740 And it's and, you know, if it's Harvard or if it's Columbia, which is a private university.

01:34:40.640 OK, sucker, pay for it all you want.

01:34:42.760 Yeah.

01:34:42.940 I mean, no, these are public universities.

01:34:47.420 Incomprehensible that that a public university.

01:34:49.180 And I couldn't believe the number of them that had it.

01:34:52.440 Yeah.

01:34:52.980 I mean, they're all over the country.

01:34:54.300 I thought, OK, who's building?

01:34:56.200 Everybody is.

01:34:57.840 I mean, look, water parks are awesome.

01:34:59.300 I'm not going to deny that, but I don't think taxpayers should be paying for them ever, ever.

01:35:04.520 I mean, I thought I was going out on a limb and unpopular by saying we shouldn't build football stadiums.

01:35:09.500 How about no water parks at public universities?

01:35:13.820 Glenn Beck.

01:35:15.620 Mercury.

01:35:26.060 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:35:27.820 Are you you or anybody in your family concerned about a governmental shutdown over the weekend?

01:35:34.680 Because I'm not all that concerned about it.

01:35:37.420 No, I mean, unless you're unless you're military.

01:35:40.280 I mean, essential services in military and everything else are going to be taken care of.

01:35:44.520 But some people do get there.

01:35:46.380 You know, they don't they're not going to get their paycheck.

01:35:48.020 They'll get it in a couple of weeks.

01:35:49.580 But, you know, for families who are living paycheck to paycheck, that's that's that part.

01:35:53.360 Hard.

01:35:53.940 Certainly concerns both of us.

01:35:55.240 Right. And the the last shutdown, it was delayed.

01:35:58.500 And of course, they did retroactively pay.

01:36:01.060 The fact that they retroactively paid pretty much everybody that was out of work.

01:36:04.500 So you got basically two weeks off unpaid, then got four weeks of pay on your next paycheck.

01:36:09.860 Yeah, which is kind of I mean, you know, it's a weird situation.

01:36:13.960 But I mean, they keep saying this.

01:36:15.160 They say this every time there's a shutdown that non-essential employees will not be showing up.

01:36:20.220 And, you know, look, a non-essential employee should not be an employee.

01:36:23.140 Non-essential employee should never show up.

01:36:26.360 You're supposed to employ people who are essential.

01:36:28.640 If I were at a company and it was having layoffs or it was struggling and they decided that they were haggling over the budget and they said non-essential employees are not coming in.

01:36:42.220 We don't want them to come in.

01:36:43.400 But these are the essential employees.

01:36:47.040 I think I go find another job.

01:36:48.720 Yeah, I think I'd be like, you know, I don't think this is real stable.

01:36:52.640 But the United States government is, you know, it's like quantum mechanics.

01:36:56.240 It just it just operates with, you know, with with different laws.

01:37:00.780 Yeah, it does.

01:37:01.600 I mean, I don't know.

01:37:02.500 Usually they come up with some way of patching this together and doing a short term thing.

01:37:10.180 The calculus will come from whether, you know, Democrats believe that they can win this in the press.

01:37:17.140 Will the people believe that it's their fault?

01:37:18.940 The exact will they believe the exact opposite argument that they made in 2013?

01:37:22.840 Here's something that we we produced and available at the blaze dot com and Glenn Beck dot com.

01:37:29.140 And we'll tweet it out on Facebook.

01:37:30.560 But you have to share this with your friends.

01:37:33.320 This is the left.

01:37:37.820 Talking about you'll hear each of these people first, they'll talk about, you know, this is a you know, this is an outrage what Ted Cruz is doing.

01:37:46.240 Then the same person doing what Ted Cruz supposedly did and shut down the government, you'll hear that they are on both sides of the issue, especially Chuck Schumer is quite eye opening.

01:38:02.840 Listen, and some Democrats are saying they will not vote to fund the government at the end of this week unless Republicans embrace a bipartisan solution for the so-called little.

01:38:13.340 Dreamers. We still can't say with any certainty that a government shutdown will be avoided. 0.99

01:38:18.800 Senator Cruz may have landed in the record books with that long speech.

01:38:22.840 So I'm not leaving any American behind.

01:38:25.500 I'm not going to vote on something that isn't a part of this deal when a part of this package.

01:38:30.300 Even those who don't like Obamacare say it would be better for them to deal with this in the normal course legislation.

01:38:34.840 Democrats going to give up and agree to a short term continuing resolution.

01:38:39.700 I and I, I think I speak for the vast majority of members of the Democratic caucus.

01:38:46.320 We're not going to desert these young people.

01:38:48.100 Here you have a handful of right wing extremists who are trying to annul, do away with the election results of a year ago.

01:38:56.660 We are going to do what we want to do.

01:38:58.900 Are they willing to accept a spending deal without a fix to protect dreamers? 0.99

01:39:03.160 A few have already said their answer is no.

01:39:05.680 This shutdown is continuing to harm our country, our reputation.

01:39:11.160 It is a needless, manufactured, self-imposed wound.

01:39:16.560 Does that mean we're headed for a government shutdown?

01:39:18.880 What we have got to do, it seems to me, is to pass the dreamers legislation.

01:39:23.920 It never occurred to me to bring down the United States government and cause pain for millions of workers because I can't get my weight.

01:39:31.060 Any bill that funds the government must also include a fix for DACA.

01:39:35.200 This is playing with fire.

01:39:36.440 We could do the same thing on immigration.

01:39:38.380 We could, we believe strongly in immigration reform.

01:39:40.580 We could say we're shutting down the government.

01:39:42.540 We're not going to raise the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform.

01:39:45.800 It would be governmental chaos.

01:39:47.640 Before January 19th in order to avert that partial government shutdown.

01:39:51.060 But really what this is going to come down to is DACA and the issue of immigration.

01:39:54.920 At least Democrats are saying that they're united in their opposition.

01:39:59.080 If they have problems with that bill, we will be happy to sit down and talk to them about a reasonable approach to do it.

01:40:05.680 But we're not going to do it with a gun to the heads of the American people.

01:40:08.620 If they fail to include it in the continuing resolution, there are many of us who will be troubled by that and will take appropriate response.

01:40:15.500 For goodness sakes, this is irresponsible and it's reckless.

01:40:18.820 Why does this senator or the Tea Party Republicans think they can pick and choose the priorities of the American government?

01:40:25.400 Unbelievable.

01:40:29.420 And so here's the good news.

01:40:31.680 You know, we say we don't trust the press and we don't trust the press because they won't show you stuff like that.

01:40:38.500 They're not going to hold any of those guys responsible.

01:40:41.200 They're not going to treat this exactly the same way they treated the Tea Party.

01:40:45.380 They won't do it.

01:40:46.380 They called that reckless, irresponsible, radical, dangerous, revolutionary, anti-government.

01:40:55.060 Remember all of that?

01:40:55.940 They will not in the press use any of those words because they don't they don't agree this time.

01:41:05.160 They think that DACA needs to be passed so you can continue to hope and pray that the media is going to change.

01:41:11.920 But until people start doing like this, what we've done and others have done this so effectively recently and we share them and retweet them and put them everywhere, the media is not going to change.

01:41:25.200 They'll continue to be effective until you start to show their hypocrisy.

01:41:29.780 This isn't necessarily about Congress.

01:41:33.120 This is really about the media.

01:41:35.880 The media, the media poured fuel on that fire against the Tea Party and the media is pouring fuel on the fire against the Republicans, except they have to take the opposite position to do it both times.

01:41:53.020 Yeah, I mean, can you imagine if what just happened with that montage happened to you at your job?

01:42:03.620 If you worked at a restaurant and there was a video of you saying we must go all vegetarian and then the next two years later saying all we must serve only meat and then you said we can never serve soda again and then the next day it's all about soda and you have every.

01:42:22.520 And it wasn't because of market conditions.

01:42:24.260 No, you you are trying to convince everybody that you have always been pro meat, pro soda, pro water and pro vegetarian.

01:42:32.720 It would be completely irresponsible for us to open on Saturdays.

01:42:36.500 We must open on Saturdays.

01:42:38.920 Can you imagine?

01:42:39.980 Wouldn't you rethink your entire life if you saw that video and you were in Congress?

01:42:44.560 I mean, if you had any care about your word and your honor, wouldn't you just sit back and say, oh, my gosh, what am I doing with myself?

01:42:55.380 Why am I doing?

01:42:56.320 No, you wouldn't do that unless there was an outcry against it.

01:43:02.460 So you don't see, you know, we produce this and it goes viral.

01:43:08.480 It doesn't go to Dick Durbin.

01:43:11.520 Dick Durbin looks at that and goes, ah, it's Glenn.

01:43:13.980 Another right winger.

01:43:15.120 Another right winger.

01:43:16.280 Until the media says, I don't have a horse in that.

01:43:21.440 I have truth.

01:43:23.160 And they're dropping the ball each time they say, you know, apple, apples and oranges.

01:43:30.060 Is this an apple?

01:43:31.420 Everybody's trying to tell you it's an orange.

01:43:34.020 It's an apple.

01:43:35.200 We tell the truth.

01:43:36.320 No, you don't.

01:43:37.060 No, you don't.

01:43:37.360 Where are you on this?

01:43:39.660 Where are you on this?

01:43:40.520 Because I can guarantee you I can go back and we should do this.

01:43:44.220 Let's do this today.

01:43:45.180 I can go back to CNN and MSNBC and I can get them saying the calling the Republicans radicals, revolutionaries, you know, obstructionists.

01:43:58.380 They just want they just want to see people fail all that stuff.

01:44:02.360 I can get them saying it when they held the line last time under Obama.

01:44:07.860 And now that they're on the opposite end, I can see them saying that.

01:44:11.740 And you know what?

01:44:12.480 Nobody in Congress has it has any credibility on the right.

01:44:18.940 If you're not saying, hey, we did this, you know.

01:44:23.120 Yeah.

01:44:23.700 And this is we did this.

01:44:24.760 And we think this is an effective tool if the people are uninformed.

01:44:31.860 But we stand for this principle.

01:44:34.440 We are not going to be pushed around.

01:44:37.140 Yeah.

01:44:37.580 And to be clear, I I think you're right.

01:44:41.320 Every time there's an argument about hypocrisy, if you're arguing the other side is a hypocrite, what you need to do is pause before you make that argument and think about whether you are on the opposite side of both of those issues, too.

01:44:51.880 Because if you were the one saying that, of course, it's absolutely has to be the right thing to do to try to shut down the government or or use this as leverage to get something you think is important.

01:45:02.600 If you're thinking that in 2013, you should understand what the Democrats are doing now.

01:45:06.620 That is what I do.

01:45:07.560 I agree with it.

01:45:09.020 And I do think this is an effective thing.

01:45:11.640 And I do think they have a right to do it.

01:45:13.860 That's fine.

01:45:14.420 However, the difference here, why it would be much more full throated last time is I believed that universal health care was unconstitutional.

01:45:28.040 It was unconstitutional.

01:45:29.960 Right.

01:45:30.300 But I mean, they would make the same dumb argument about their point.

01:45:34.140 I mean, look, you could always find.

01:45:36.100 No, no, no.

01:45:36.940 DACA is also unconstitutional.

01:45:39.620 Right.

01:45:39.740 But they'll say that, you know, you know, they'll come up with their they'll come up with the same thing.

01:45:44.160 And that was you don't care about people.

01:45:45.900 Yeah.

01:45:46.240 I care both times about the Constitution.

01:45:48.780 And look, there are differences in these cases.

01:45:50.900 There's minor differences between what happened with, you know, 2013 with the government shutdown and what's happening now.

01:45:56.780 But the bottom line is, if you're a minority party member and you have no power in the government and you want to get this deal done, you're, of course, going to use whatever leverage you have.

01:46:06.540 Of course, the Democrats are going to try this.

01:46:08.360 Now, the Republicans can just do it, but they have their own problems staying united and figuring those things out.

01:46:15.360 So I don't blame the Democrats for trying this, especially after the the president and many Republican politicians have told them that to them, to Republicans, DACA, which we all called unconstitutional when the president did it, is a high priority that must get done.

01:46:34.580 So with that as a as a baseline, I understand why they think they can try this and it may work.

01:46:42.220 Usually they find a way around these things.

01:46:44.260 But if there's a government shutdown for a short time, as long as the military is taken care of, it's not the worst thing in the world.

01:46:50.580 Honestly, it's happened many, many times in our history.

01:46:52.720 I made these arguments back in 2013 and 2014, and the same thing applies here.

01:46:58.860 The military must be taken care of.

01:47:01.160 And there are parts of these shutdowns that can affect real people in certain ways.

01:47:05.440 But the vast majority of it is, as they call them, non-essential employees doing things that they can get away with not doing for a few weeks.

01:47:14.400 I just wish these arguments on the budget were actually about the budget.

01:47:19.360 Yeah.

01:47:19.960 And this has nothing to do with the budget.

01:47:21.120 I wish it was like, we can't come.

01:47:22.700 They want to spend X.

01:47:24.040 We want to spend Z.

01:47:25.880 And we disagree.

01:47:27.080 And we can't get to a budget.

01:47:28.560 I wish all the budget showdowns had anything to do with the budget.

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01:49:38.560 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:49:41.000 Glenn Beck.

01:49:53.820 So you want to talk about a hero.

01:49:56.560 You want to talk about one of the best appointments by the Trump administration.

01:50:02.780 You have to hear what, what is the stupid agency called?

01:50:07.500 The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau.

01:50:09.920 So this is, this is, you know, the Elizabeth Warren, you know, genius idea.

01:50:16.280 Tell me about the budget here, Stu.

01:50:18.060 Well, Mick Mulvaney, who we're big fans of, he started running this in a controversial way.

01:50:22.240 If you remember the old Obama appointee wanted to stay and they tried to sue and it didn't work.

01:50:26.300 So Mulvaney took over the organization and he writes in Section 107A1 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act.

01:50:35.540 It requires the Board of Governors to request a quarterly sum determined by the director to be reasonably necessary to carry out the authorities of the Bureau.

01:50:44.480 Okay.

01:50:44.680 So he has to make them, hey, I need this much money to do business for the next three months.

01:50:49.380 This letter, from Mick Mulvaney, this letter is to inform you that for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, the Bureau is requesting zero dollars.

01:50:59.580 Mick, I love you.

01:51:02.700 He's awesome.

01:51:03.780 The reason for this is straightforward.

01:51:05.160 I am informed that the projected second quarter expenses are approximately 145 million.

01:51:09.920 During my review of the financial condition of the Bureau, I learned that as the beginning of the fiscal year, the Bureau had a balance of 177 million dollars just hanging around, basically.

01:51:20.640 He writes,

01:51:50.640 Will serve to reduce the federal deficit by the amount that the Bureau might have requested under different leadership.

01:51:58.520 While the approximately 145 million dollars may not make much of a dent in the deficit, the men and women of the Bureau are proud to do their part to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars.

01:52:08.100 Thank you.

01:52:08.660 Mick Mulvaney.

01:52:09.460 Thank you.

01:52:10.160 Awesome.

01:52:10.600 Thank you.

01:52:11.380 Thank you.

01:52:12.620 That is the kind of person that we want in Washington, D.C.

01:52:16.620 He is zeroed up.

01:52:24.080 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:52:26.500 Mercury.

01:52:38.620 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 18, 2018

1⧸18⧸18 - 'Miracles have happened' (Moshe Vardi joins Glenn)

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