The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸22⧸18 - 'A Collection of Sheep to the Media' ( Jan Lewan joins Glenn)

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00:00:10.880 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:17.620 That was a beautiful weekend, wasn't it? No, seriously, no, it was a beautiful weekend.

00:00:23.200 If you had a chance to go out with your family and, you know, attend any of these marches,

00:00:27.660 you heard the C word, you heard the F word, the P word, the S word, the D word.

00:00:32.540 I could play some of it, but the FCC would fine me if I even showed you some of the signs

00:00:39.460 that were brandished at the women's marches across the country this weekend, but you get the picture.

00:00:47.300 Have you tried to even watch a TV show with your kids? I mean, anything off network?

00:00:52.040 I mean, who knew the odd couple was on again? I had no idea.

00:00:55.860 Matthew Perry, I guess, has done the third season of the odd couple.

00:00:58.900 It's been, who knew? Did you know that, Stu?

00:01:02.800 I remember it starting.

00:01:04.360 No, I didn't even hear that it started.

00:01:06.840 But anyway, what's going on? And I'm like, okay, finally a show we can watch with the kids.

00:01:10.480 No, nope, nope, nope, nope.

00:01:13.160 The A word is all over it.

00:01:15.320 Thank you. Thank you.

00:01:16.400 I, you know, if you went to the marches with your daughters, and I know I'm speaking outside of this audience,

00:01:25.360 but the vulgarity, the disgusting display of the women's marches across the country was appalling for so many reasons.

00:01:33.660 The worst was how many moms expose their children to such rage and hatred.

00:01:39.620 Kids have no idea what's going on.

00:01:42.800 Kids have no idea.

00:01:45.380 You're teaching them that this is who we are.

00:01:49.880 I don't think parents know what's going on, quite honestly.

00:01:53.460 Just for a second, think about what you're teaching your daughters.

00:01:56.100 What was the message at the women's march?

00:01:59.220 Something between, I hate Trump, and stay away from our genitalia.

00:02:04.380 I think. I don't know.

00:02:06.900 That's not really productive.

00:02:08.300 What do you have for?

00:02:14.440 If those who attended the women's march really cared about women's rights,

00:02:19.220 perhaps they would have spent a few minutes, just a few minutes, considering the march of life.

00:02:29.460 The message was clear.

00:02:31.160 The message was noble.

00:02:32.960 Let more women be born.

00:02:35.680 The march for lifers are literally trying to save the lives of millions of women.

00:02:43.640 The women's marchers are marching to complain about Donald Trump.

00:02:49.440 They are being used.

00:02:50.500 Millions of women are being used for the next election.

00:02:53.900 That's it.

00:02:56.820 Save women.

00:02:58.680 Let women be born.

00:03:05.660 Complain about Donald Trump.

00:03:06.980 You tell me, which one's more heroic?

00:03:12.940 Which one?

00:03:14.240 Which one do you want your children to hear?

00:03:17.720 It's Monday, January 22nd.

00:03:26.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:30.280 I don't know the last time my blood pressure was this high.

00:03:33.460 It's not going to be a healthy day for me.

00:03:35.760 I've noticed that the pre-show meeting today was, I would say, on edge, perhaps, would be the description.

00:03:43.260 You know what?

00:03:48.580 Today.

00:03:50.240 Now, tomorrow, I hope to feel differently.

00:03:53.400 But today, and all through the weekend,

00:03:55.640 I am so tired of the media.

00:04:02.260 I am so tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt.

00:04:08.840 Of looking towards and looking for the better angels among us.

00:04:14.860 Because I don't see them.

00:04:16.300 There are so many important things going on.

00:04:26.280 Did you hear about the FBI this weekend?

00:04:29.180 If you heard about the FBI this weekend, you probably weren't watching the news.

00:04:32.860 You were probably reading it from a right-wing news site.

00:04:37.900 Because, God forbid, anyone on the left actually reports the news that the FBI looks to be totally corrupt.

00:04:51.480 Now, this coming from a guy who thinks there is something to be found with the Russia investigation on both sides.

00:04:59.220 But when I read what the FBI agent, who changed the language of the decision on Hillary Clinton,

00:05:12.060 what he was texting back and forth to his girlfriend, his lover,

00:05:17.360 what he was saying to her about Donald Trump,

00:05:21.580 we already know that they needed an insurance policy.

00:05:24.620 We already have that text.

00:05:25.940 The text that came out this weekend and the fact that the FBI deleted 9,000 text messages between them

00:05:35.620 is disturbing at best.

00:05:38.480 But is the media on that?

00:05:40.000 No.

00:05:40.460 No, no, no, of course not.

00:05:41.580 No.

00:05:42.100 No, no, no.

00:05:42.940 I am a fan and a supporter of Jake Tapper.

00:05:47.780 I am a fan.

00:05:48.840 I'm probably the only one on the right that is left as a fan and a supporter of Jake Tapper.

00:05:55.940 What was Jake Tapper talking about this weekend with all of the things that are going on?

00:06:01.620 CNN correspondent with Jake Tapper, Tom Foreman, noted that during a governmental shutdown in 2013,

00:06:20.540 NASA was unable to monitor, quote, a potentially dangerous asteroid for more than two weeks.

00:06:26.780 A big one, by the way, is expected to brush by Earth on February 4th.

00:06:33.220 Okay, let me just let me just tell you this.

00:06:37.620 You call us fear mongering?

00:06:40.340 You call us fear mongers?

00:06:42.620 You say that we stir the population up?

00:06:46.280 You're talking about an asteroid that might hit the Earth February 4th?

00:06:52.100 First of all, it's not going to hit the Earth February 4th.

00:06:55.420 And second, if it does hit the Earth, we're not going to know about it in advance anyway.

00:07:02.060 All the government, they could all be working on it full time.

00:07:05.940 They're not going to tell us.

00:07:07.040 How many times have we ever read or seen?

00:07:09.320 Somebody always says, can't tell the people.

00:07:11.140 They'll just panic.

00:07:11.840 You're going to know that an asteroid is going to hit the Earth as the asteroid hits the Earth.

00:07:19.800 But we've made it for quite some time without a life-killing asteroid hitting us.

00:07:28.260 The last time, let's think back, was, oh, yeah, that's right, the dinosaurs.

00:07:33.080 And we're not even sure if that was an asteroid, but we're pretty sure it was an asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs.

00:07:42.140 Okay, I think we're going to be okay in the next two weeks, Jake.

00:07:46.480 I think we're going to be okay.

00:07:47.940 I don't think we need to worry about those Earth-killing asteroids during this shutdown.

00:07:54.720 I will say the Eagles are in the Super Bowl, so if they're leading in the fourth quarter, an asteroid probably will hit the planet.

00:08:03.080 Congratulations, by the way, we thought about you all night.

00:08:05.420 Thank you.

00:08:06.580 That's why it's hard for me to be upset today, as upset as you are.

00:08:10.100 I hope the government could melt to the ground right now, and I don't care.

00:08:12.800 You know what?

00:08:13.480 I just, I just, what is happening to us?

00:08:21.800 What is happening to us?

00:08:25.520 Our entire culture is going away.

00:08:30.660 Our entire culture, and the media, okay, this is what really set me off.

00:08:36.640 Are you familiar with the Scotty Vest people?

00:08:39.440 Yeah.

00:08:39.780 Okay.

00:08:40.120 Oh, yeah.

00:08:40.500 Yeah, remember, they were a big advertiser of ours.

00:08:43.340 Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Scotty Vest.

00:08:45.540 Yeah, right.

00:08:46.400 Who are they, who are they, who do they target, Stu, so to speak?

00:08:49.260 Uh, I mean, my, I mean, if they advertise on this network, right?

00:08:55.740 They're, yeah, yeah, right, yeah.

00:08:56.980 Right, like, it's, it's, it's a vest that, if I remember correctly, has, like, lots of

00:09:01.040 cool pockets, and places to store firearms, and, you know, they, that's a big part of their

00:09:06.860 advertising campaign.

00:09:07.680 Yeah, so, did you know, last week, that, uh, Scotty Vest, uh, what's his name, Jordan

00:09:14.600 Scott, or whatever his name is, um, he, he, he felt comfortable enough to go out on Facebook

00:09:23.720 and say, you know what, uh, I see people up at the ski lifts wearing my vest, and they'll

00:09:31.100 say, where did you hear about us?

00:09:32.480 And they'll say, Fox News, and I just laugh, I tell them, you know, I only advertise on

00:09:38.220 Fox News, because you guys, the audience is so gullible and stupid, you'd buy anything.

00:09:44.840 Really?

00:09:46.580 Really?

00:09:49.220 Really?

00:09:50.020 Wow.

00:09:51.280 Really?

00:09:53.360 Now, I tried to do my homework, because I didn't want to just retweet that, I mean, it

00:10:00.300 happened last week, I didn't want to just retweet that.

00:10:02.480 Tweet that the first time I saw it, so let's look into it.

00:10:06.400 Is it true?

00:10:07.180 Because he removed it from Facebook.

00:10:09.940 So all you have is the word of somebody, and you can mock up Facebook.

00:10:14.300 Sure.

00:10:14.640 Okay.

00:10:16.280 Can I find any credible source?

00:10:18.560 Can I find any source on the left that would have no reason to print that other than,

00:10:26.840 it's big news?

00:10:28.880 Yeah, no.

00:10:29.520 No, they didn't even print it.

00:10:31.380 They didn't even print it.

00:10:34.180 Didn't cover it as a story.

00:10:36.420 Well, is that because it's not real?

00:10:37.680 Oh, no, it's absolutely real.

00:10:39.300 You go to scottyvest.com or whatever the hell their website is, and they've commented on it.

00:10:46.660 Okay, so the duplicity here, and this is really what set me off.

00:10:59.700 Listen to me carefully, media.

00:11:01.420 You want to know why Donald Trump won?

00:11:05.140 That's a prime example.

00:11:06.940 Right there.

00:11:08.580 A prime example.

00:11:09.800 Did you read about the family with the 13 kids that had been chained into the basement that they found last week?

00:11:21.100 Did you see the update on it over the weekend?

00:11:24.260 Where they were, where the children talked about the torture, the mental torture that this couple did.

00:11:33.980 And what they would do is, if the kids were really, really hungry, now remember, the 29-year-old female left her confinement at 87 pounds.

00:11:45.580 So they were always hungry.

00:11:48.240 So mom and dad would go out, and they would get a pumpkin pie and an apple pie.

00:11:52.460 And they would put it just out of reach of the children.

00:11:58.740 You want some pie, kids?

00:12:00.260 Mmm, this is so good.

00:12:02.280 And they would never give them any of the pie.

00:12:05.280 But they would leave it there so they could see it, so they could smell it, but they could never eat it.

00:12:12.180 And they mocked them.

00:12:15.540 I contend that that's what the GOP has done to middle America.

00:12:20.640 That's what the media has done to middle America.

00:12:23.640 That's what politicians, what Hollywood, and everybody else, like Scottie Vest, has done to middle America.

00:12:30.940 And I'm sick of it.

00:12:32.380 I am sick of it.

00:12:35.000 I tolerate you.

00:12:37.240 I tolerate the people.

00:12:39.700 And I even make friends.

00:12:41.540 And I have friends with people on the left.

00:12:44.280 I respect them.

00:12:46.260 I don't mock them.

00:12:48.240 I even defend them.

00:12:50.640 Even though I don't understand them, I try to understand.

00:13:00.420 Now, there was a time that I was absolutely certain they were morons.

00:13:05.740 There was a time that I was absolutely certain that they are anti-American liars.

00:13:12.260 And I'm talking about, you know, the people who disagree with me.

00:13:17.340 I'm not talking about the actual liars.

00:13:19.720 But I have tried to look at everybody, at where they are.

00:13:31.340 What has happened in their life?

00:13:34.120 What is their upbringing?

00:13:35.200 What is their education?

00:13:36.200 And I've tried to understand them.

00:13:40.340 And I've tried to accept them for where they are.

00:13:43.160 Can we get anybody on the other side that will do the same?

00:13:49.620 Or are you just bilking the middle of America?

00:13:53.440 Are you just using us for your ratings and for your money?

00:13:58.160 Because that's all you're doing to us.

00:13:59.900 You're marketing us.

00:14:01.340 We're a collection of sheep to you.

00:14:05.060 And you don't care if we're slaughtered or not.

00:14:10.020 We're not even people to you.

00:14:13.500 We're just a bunch of rubes that will buy your products.

00:14:17.740 We're just a bunch of rubes that will be your fan.

00:14:21.260 We're just a bunch of rubes that will watch your television show.

00:14:24.880 We'll vote for you.

00:14:26.600 As you promise us, oh, you want that?

00:14:29.540 Oh, I want that too.

00:14:30.820 My gosh, wouldn't that be great?

00:14:32.620 I'm going to give you, yeah, I'll tell you what, we're going to repeal Obamacare.

00:14:37.340 In fact, I'm going to go out and get that right now.

00:14:39.420 And I'm going to set it just like that pie, just out of reach.

00:14:43.600 And then when I have the power, I'll remind you that you're in chains.

00:14:47.900 And then I'll just mock you.

00:14:52.720 I, for one, am done.

00:14:58.800 Actually, let me rephrase.

00:15:01.860 I'm done with those kinds of people.

00:15:06.160 I'm just done with the game.

00:15:09.840 I'm not going to, I'm not going to play your game or accept your game.

00:15:15.940 Not, oh, oh, wait, wait, I'll be like the all-important left.

00:15:19.660 Hashtag, not another dime.

00:15:22.980 Not another moment.

00:15:24.160 But I wanted to rephrase because I don't mean that, well, I mean that literally.

00:15:34.480 I don't mean that I'm done right now because I have a lot more to say today.

00:15:41.420 So, for those of you watching CNN, and you know that that asteroid could hit us by February 4th.

00:16:04.760 Good heavens, we're all going to die.

00:16:07.620 Let me now scaremonger you into being prepared.

00:16:14.060 Isn't that right?

00:16:14.800 Isn't that what they told us?

00:16:15.960 That we only tell you to be prepared because we're trying to scare you that everything is going to come undone.

00:16:22.740 I don't think I've ever told you about an asteroid coming to hit us by February 4th.

00:16:31.360 This society is breaking down.

00:16:34.060 The center will not hold unless people start to come together quickly.

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00:17:31.760 Glenn Beck.

00:17:33.620 Mercury.

00:17:41.000 Glenn Beck.

00:17:41.920 I mean, I don't know why and how the media can be this blind.

00:17:51.260 They really don't know.

00:17:54.000 Well, how is Donald Trump elected?

00:17:56.800 We've done some real soul searching.

00:17:58.700 Because everyone is mocking the center of the country.

00:18:05.760 They've mocked and used and lied to us for God knows how long.

00:18:15.440 And this is the first guy to stand up who says, I'm with them.

00:18:21.080 In a way that his punch matters.

00:18:25.160 You know, remember, Mitt Romney was the worst guy on the planet.

00:18:30.320 My gosh.

00:18:31.340 Mitt Romney, he's got files of women.

00:18:34.600 You couldn't have had an easier go than Mitt Romney.

00:18:39.160 Mitt Romney wasn't really a conservative.

00:18:42.820 You couldn't have had an easier go.

00:18:44.800 But you made him into the devil himself.

00:18:48.860 When you knew and we knew he wasn't.

00:18:53.500 Okay.

00:18:55.160 So what happens?

00:18:56.700 It just gets worse and worse and worse until a fighter stands up.

00:19:02.700 Until somebody stands up and says, oh, I'm with them.

00:19:08.200 The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:19:12.840 That's why they're loyal to him.

00:19:15.540 You can't see that.

00:19:17.020 America is loyal, 35% loyal to him because they're tired of being punched in the face.

00:19:26.560 They're tired of being taken for granted.

00:19:29.240 They're tired of not counting.

00:19:31.780 They're tired of being called a racist.

00:19:40.320 They're tired of being called a hater, a bigot.

00:19:45.380 They're tired of being called a stupid Christian.

00:19:49.520 They're tired of it.

00:19:50.560 Most of all, they're tired of being used.

00:19:57.260 They're just tired of it.

00:19:58.160 You can only use people for so long.

00:20:08.020 Once people wake up to the fact that, oh my gosh, you've been using me.

00:20:13.960 You've been mocking me behind my back all this time.

00:20:18.820 And then I took it because I thought we were friends.

00:20:22.880 Holy cow.

00:20:23.920 Glenn Beck.

00:20:25.620 Mercury.

00:20:26.220 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:38.760 I do not mean to inflict him on you just to rile you up.

00:20:45.140 I want to, I'm sorry to inflict him on you because I think a point needs to be made to the media.

00:20:53.840 This is Rob Reiner at the Women's March this weekend.

00:20:59.500 We were all here a year ago for many different reasons.

00:21:06.520 But one of the unifying reasons was we were scared.

00:21:12.500 We were scared of who was going to enter the White House.

00:21:17.820 A year has gone by and he has corroborated every one of our fears.

00:21:28.920 And we cannot whitewash this anymore.

00:21:33.820 We have a racist in the White House.

00:21:38.240 We have a sexist in the White House.

00:21:46.300 We have a pathological liar in the White House.

00:21:52.120 And he is tearing away at the fabric of our democracy.

00:21:59.500 And when we all came together last time, we had the power.

00:22:08.560 And it's the women.

00:22:09.900 Okay, stop.

00:22:11.400 I, okay.

00:22:12.420 Do you remember, do you remember 828?

00:22:20.340 Do you remember going to Washington?

00:22:23.480 Do you remember this time?

00:22:25.800 And do you remember that, uh, they, the media was looking for signs.

00:22:33.400 They were looking for anything.

00:22:34.980 They wanted, they needed a sign that said, Barack Obama is a Marxist.

00:22:42.620 They needed it.

00:22:47.400 Barack Obama is a liar.

00:22:50.760 We want our government back.

00:22:52.800 Because that was proof that you were, you were out of your, out of control, nuts.

00:23:00.120 You were a revolutionary, you were anti-government, and you were a racist.

00:23:08.720 They're just fear-mongering.

00:23:12.160 And what happened?

00:23:14.380 We gathered, and the press didn't even notice.

00:23:19.840 They still tried to make it about something else.

00:23:23.220 Not once, not once, did they say, wow, maybe there's something else happening here.

00:23:32.840 Maybe this is about something bigger than just Barack Obama.

00:23:38.660 Nope.

00:23:40.300 Nope.

00:23:41.380 They could not do it.

00:23:43.480 Imagine had I given that exact speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

00:23:52.780 Imagine if I said half of those things on that day.

00:23:57.440 What would have happened to me?

00:24:04.500 They are so certain that they are right.

00:24:08.560 They lack all self-reflection.

00:24:15.800 I'm going to give you a little montage here.

00:24:19.240 Because I learned a lesson.

00:24:21.640 You cannot think out loud.

00:24:25.360 You can't, you can't question, you can't look at somebody's record of life.

00:24:30.920 You can't look at their words.

00:24:32.880 Well, that's just the way white people will do you.

00:24:34.760 You can't look at their books.

00:24:36.320 Well, my grandmother had it bred into her to fear black people.

00:24:41.860 You can't look at the record of where they went to church.

00:24:44.700 Jeremiah Wright.

00:24:48.080 And you can't look at what they're doing.

00:24:50.740 The police acted stupidly.

00:24:53.200 And say, you know what?

00:24:54.400 I think this guy has a problem with race.

00:24:57.860 You can't do that.

00:24:59.120 You're a racist.

00:25:00.300 If you ask, is the president racist?

00:25:02.980 Does the president have some racist tendencies?

00:25:06.840 Is the president misinformed?

00:25:10.020 Is the president out of step with regular America?

00:25:16.160 Oh my gosh, what's regular America?

00:25:17.860 How dare you?

00:25:18.560 You mean white America, don't you?

00:25:19.700 You're a racist.

00:25:21.280 That's exactly what happened.

00:25:23.560 God forbid you do that.

00:25:25.140 Or is it suddenly okay?

00:25:27.680 I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people.

00:25:31.720 I'm saying he has a problem.

00:25:33.600 He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist.

00:25:37.080 Glenn Beck in the news.

00:25:38.140 How is it possible that this guy can sit on national television and call the president of the United States a racist?

00:25:43.620 This president sees everything through a racial prism and may even have his own racist beliefs.

00:25:49.120 I wish we would just stop this.

00:25:51.520 Glenn Beck and people like that need to stop this.

00:25:54.080 The notion that Donald Trump reinforces his animus, his racially driven animus, his racism, that he demonstrates it over and over again from the Oval Office.

00:26:02.100 This is, you know, throwing out the R word, the racist word, and some other words are conversation stoppers.

00:26:07.480 We're never going to get past the point where the Glenn Beck's of the world will just hurl that out at people.

00:26:13.100 What more do we need to see or hear from this racist man?

00:26:17.080 Not only is he racist, he is an embarrassment.

00:26:20.440 These are the birthers.

00:26:22.020 This is the narrative that they want the man to fail.

00:26:24.760 And now they're labeling, hey, he's a racist.

00:26:26.600 But it doesn't make what he said any less ignorant or any less racist.

00:26:30.440 Not racial, not racially charged racist.

00:26:33.260 As long as Glenn Beck is out there calling the president a racist or anyone else a racist, we're never going to get past this point of constantly reacting to racial flare-ups.

00:26:43.040 Do you think President Trump is a racist?

00:26:45.220 I think he is a racist.

00:26:46.520 I see it with both Glenn Beck and with Rush Limbaugh.

00:26:50.420 These guys with really suspect racial feelings and perceptions are projecting their own hate and their own divisiveness.

00:26:57.960 And it's the same sentiment, Chris.

00:26:59.340 And it's something that virtually everyone recognized right away.

00:27:02.340 It's such a blunt object of racism.

00:27:06.280 When you say racism, it's a big charge.

00:27:10.120 I find it awful.

00:27:12.240 I think you have to be very careful with it.

00:27:13.920 And then secondly, there's the racial angle.

00:27:15.320 I don't think there's any getting away from the color of people from Norway as opposed to people coming from Haiti, Africa.

00:27:20.900 I think a lot of that is simple grandstanding, making outrageous statements, provocateur.

00:27:27.060 I refuse to show any moral courage when it comes to standing up to the racist comments made by the president of the United States.

00:27:34.840 I can't even believe it, first of all.

00:27:36.460 Glenn Beck owes the president an apology.

00:27:38.560 He owes the American people an apology.

00:27:40.200 We take this additional, very clear racist thing.

00:27:44.160 He's an evil man.

00:27:45.040 This is an insult to our democracy, our way of life.

00:27:47.600 We have to start calling things what they are.

00:27:49.980 We have to stop asking if this person is a racist because the evidence is there.

00:27:54.580 He is.

00:27:54.860 I hate giving someone who says something like that any more attention.

00:27:58.720 Outrageous is one way of putting it.

00:28:00.400 I would say irresponsible.

00:28:01.760 If you put Haiti next to Norway, it's done.

00:28:03.960 He said it's a black and white issue, the way the president laid it out yesterday.

00:28:06.820 If someone on the left had called George Bush a racist on TV, would we be throwing our hands up?

00:28:12.340 Would we be so outraged?

00:28:13.340 Yes.

00:28:13.460 Would we demand an apology?

00:28:14.840 We would?

00:28:15.140 I would.

00:28:15.680 Really?

00:28:16.200 Yeah, I would.

00:28:17.140 Sure.

00:28:17.480 Yes.

00:28:17.680 SimpliSafe, home security.

00:28:34.040 I've worked with SimpliSafe since they've had 10 employees.

00:28:38.500 I have watched them transform into the fastest growing home security company in the nation.

00:28:44.240 They now protect over 2 million people.

00:28:47.680 I love their story.

00:28:52.500 It's just a group of people who set out to say, this is wrong.

00:28:56.480 It doesn't have to be this hard.

00:28:58.300 My gosh.

00:28:59.980 Life doesn't have to be this hard.

00:29:03.760 That's kind of what they're doing.

00:29:05.180 It doesn't have to be this hard.

00:29:06.200 It doesn't have to be so complex.

00:29:07.880 You don't have to have contracts with everything.

00:29:09.920 You don't have to wire everything.

00:29:11.920 They have completely redesigned their system now.

00:29:15.520 They have added new safeguards to protect against power outages, downed Wi-Fi, cut landlines, even bats and hammers.

00:29:24.160 I want to bring one of these in and just beat it with a bat and a hammer.

00:29:27.280 They have done everything they can to make this the safest, practically invisible, most powerful sensor so you and your family stay safe.

00:29:43.340 Everything is so small and so compact and darn near invisible that you won't notice.

00:29:51.280 But I don't think the guys trying to break in will notice until it's too late.

00:29:55.760 What's remarkable to me is SimpliSafe has added so much and come so far.

00:30:03.580 You are going to love it.

00:30:06.060 But it's still the same fair and honest price.

00:30:10.080 It's about $15 a month, $14.99 a month.

00:30:13.260 There's no contract.

00:30:14.740 It's smaller.

00:30:15.620 It's faster.

00:30:16.400 It's stronger than anything they've ever built before.

00:30:19.120 Supply is limited.

00:30:20.080 Go right now to SimpliSafeBeck.com to order.

00:30:23.860 That's SimpliSafeBeck.com.

00:30:27.940 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:30:36.000 It's such a strange thing that we do.

00:30:38.020 We spend so much time looking on the Internet to try to make sure we get the best values.

00:30:41.920 You know, if you've got a vacuum cleaner you're buying, you're looking at one site.

00:30:44.460 Oh, it's $20 cheaper on that other site.

00:30:46.400 If you've got a $100 thing, you're trying to make sure you can get it for $80.

00:30:49.380 And all that stuff's important.

00:30:50.580 It's important to look for good values.

00:30:52.280 But then when it comes down to the biggest investment that we have, your home, buying

00:30:57.800 or selling a home, what do we do?

00:30:59.780 A lot of times we kind of just like trust that friend of a friend of a friend who you kind

00:31:04.160 of know or met once at a party and seemed mildly enjoyable when you were standing in

00:31:08.320 front of the guacamole.

00:31:09.200 But I mean, I don't know.

00:31:10.820 Is that a good reason to give them your business?

00:31:12.640 When you're talking about selling a house?

00:31:14.680 Selling a house is not mindless.

00:31:17.140 It's not just putting up a house sign in front of the doors and a couple of open house signs

00:31:22.000 anymore.

00:31:22.360 That's not what it is.

00:31:23.860 It's a tough environment.

00:31:25.020 It's a tough market.

00:31:26.320 And, you know, if you want to sell your home, you need to go with someone who's been screened,

00:31:30.160 who you know is a really good agent.

00:31:31.580 And realestateagentsitrust.com is the place to go to get this information.

00:31:36.440 Realestateagentsitrust.com is a network of over 1,200 agents from all over America that

00:31:40.120 Glenn Beck and his team himself have gone through and screened because Glenn and Tanya had problems

00:31:46.040 selling one of their houses.

00:31:47.060 And they wanted to make this process easier for everyone who listens to the show.

00:31:52.380 And that's what these agents do.

00:31:53.320 They listen to the show too.

00:31:54.280 If you need to sell a house fast and for the most money, if you're looking to buy, go to

00:31:58.740 realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:32:01.340 realestateagentsitrust.com will get you the best agent in your area.

00:32:04.080 It's realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:32:08.300 Glenn Beck.

00:32:12.060 Investigators in both the House and the Senate were stunned Friday afternoon after receiving

00:32:16.800 a batch of newly released texts between the FBI officials, Peter, how do you say his name?

00:32:23.000 William Sturzok and Lisa Page.

00:32:26.800 These two were.

00:32:28.720 I'll never get used to the Lisa Page thing, which, by the way, is the air name of my wife

00:32:32.660 who's on radio, except P-A-I-G-E.

00:32:36.120 But every time the story comes up, Lisa Page, everyone texts my wife and it's not my wife.

00:32:41.900 My wife, as far as I know, did not have an affair with an FBI agent.

00:32:45.860 I'd like to know that if that's accurate.

00:32:48.260 But as far as I know.

00:32:48.740 It would make it a lot easier for a name.

00:32:49.940 I mean, if you're having an affair with a woman, the same name is your wife.

00:32:53.420 Right.

00:32:53.620 I mean, it would be at least it would give me a little bit of attention.

00:32:57.760 So in the newly released texts, they discuss Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination,

00:33:02.920 which they said would create pressure on the FBI to quickly finish up the Hillary Clinton

00:33:08.440 email investigation known inside the bureau as the midterm exam or M-Y-E.

00:33:16.280 Holy crap.

00:33:17.440 One of them, a page is texting.

00:33:20.000 And it wasn't that.

00:33:21.280 But Cruz just dropped out of the race.

00:33:23.940 What?

00:33:24.720 You heard it right, my friend.

00:33:27.220 I saw Trump won.

00:33:28.660 Figured it would be a bit.

00:33:30.080 Now the pressure really starts to finish M-Y-E.

00:33:33.540 It sure does.

00:33:34.660 Trump simply cannot be president.

00:33:38.480 Now, we know that they they said that they had a meeting at the FBI that talked about that,

00:33:46.180 that Trump couldn't be the president.

00:33:47.740 And they had to have some sort of insurance.

00:33:51.520 Well, what insurance is that?

00:33:53.120 Well, the FBI accidentally deleted 9000 texts.

00:34:00.240 They, you know, gosh, we didn't know that we should have saved all that stuff.

00:34:03.260 Do you ever have that where you sometimes, you know, if you're falling asleep while you're

00:34:06.280 working on something and your head kind of falls down on the keyboard and it lands on

00:34:09.600 the delete button all and then the time, right.

00:34:12.200 And then you delete, let's say, 9000 files.

00:34:14.320 It happens to me if it's happened, if it's happened once to me, it's it's well, it's happened

00:34:19.340 once that doesn't happen, but it seems to happen because the last time we had deleted

00:34:26.100 files was Hillary Clinton.

00:34:28.740 And then the time before that was the investigation into the IRS.

00:34:33.500 They seem to lose a lot of files, but only when people on the Democratic side are under

00:34:40.540 investigation.

00:34:42.740 Yeah, because they're looking into our stuff all the time.

00:34:45.380 Oh, yeah.

00:34:45.940 No, they got us.

00:34:46.960 They haven't lost a text that you've written.

00:34:49.440 No, not one.

00:34:53.660 It's pretty it's pretty embarrassing.

00:34:56.080 Look, there's a line here, right?

00:34:57.980 Just because someone says if an FBI agent in a private conversation says something negative

00:35:02.460 about the president, that is not a reason that they can't be an FBI agent.

00:35:06.600 You know, if 50 percent of the country has been saying negative things about Donald Trump.

00:35:10.280 So, you know, you can't just say that we can only have investigations on Donald Trump.

00:35:15.320 By his supporters.

00:35:17.180 I mean, that's just as ridiculous.

00:35:19.400 But there is a line here that seems to have been crossed.

00:35:22.800 It's not about just opposing the president or thinking his policies are bad.

00:35:26.440 It's about mapping out strategies to undermine him if he were to win.

00:35:32.300 That's a big difference, right?

00:35:34.100 It's not just like treason.

00:35:36.380 I can't define it any other way than treason.

00:35:41.060 You are working to thwart the president of the United States, whom you think is bad.

00:35:47.840 That's treason.

00:35:49.580 Especially if you're a sworn duty on the other side of that.

00:35:53.800 I mean, again, finding the you know, if you believe someone's committed a crime, you have

00:35:58.540 to look at these things and we have to look at all of this in context.

00:36:01.060 You know, if it's just an offhanded comment he's making to his what I guess was a fling.

00:36:07.480 You know, that's one thing.

00:36:09.400 And you can say that doesn't necessarily mean they went ahead with an insurance policy.

00:36:13.980 Right.

00:36:14.160 We don't know that.

00:36:14.880 We need to know that.

00:36:16.400 But do you trust?

00:36:17.420 I don't trust the judgment of someone who's going to say that.

00:36:20.540 But I don't trust the FBI.

00:36:22.120 One investor.

00:36:23.100 One investigator was asked about this on Friday.

00:36:25.740 They said, quote, very suspicious.

00:36:28.280 It's hard to believe when asked to rate his trust of the FBI on a scale of one to ten.

00:36:34.420 He quickly answered zero.

00:36:38.920 Now.

00:36:39.480 I don't know if we should have zero trust in the FBI, but this is not helping.

00:36:47.560 How can we trust the FBI?

00:36:50.020 How can we trust the Justice Department?

00:36:52.900 If you are if you are losing things, I mean, look, I don't I don't buy into tonight at five

00:37:02.520 o'clock.

00:37:02.860 We're back at the chalkboard and I'm going to give you four days of what Gazprom is, what

00:37:11.140 this what this charge is against Hillary Clinton with with uranium one, uranium one and uranium

00:37:21.940 one.

00:37:22.500 They dismiss.

00:37:23.020 Everybody dismisses.

00:37:24.020 No, you should not dismiss it.

00:37:26.080 Just like you shouldn't dismiss what is going on with the investigation of Donald Trump.

00:37:30.860 Is there anything there?

00:37:32.060 I don't know.

00:37:33.060 I don't know.

00:37:34.780 But we should have an independent and fair investigation so we all know the truth.

00:37:43.340 If you look at uranium one and you see the sequence of events, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:37:50.680 Now, they they've just made indictments on this.

00:37:53.320 But the left again keeps saying, well, there is nothing there.

00:37:56.640 Really?

00:37:57.600 Would you just watch the chalkboard with me tonight?

00:37:59.820 Can can I get people on the right or on the left to watch the chalkboard and you tell me

00:38:05.600 and watch you with an open mind?

00:38:07.400 I'm not I'm not making any accusations that aren't proven, that aren't documented.

00:38:15.040 I am laying out a sequence of events that is extraordinarily difficult to explain in any way that is innocent.

00:38:25.000 Now, that doesn't mean that anyone is guilty because more information needs to be found out or released.

00:38:36.400 But there is a mountain of evidence that the FBI has that they have hidden and they have sequestered.

00:38:45.960 So no one even in Congress could look at it.

00:38:50.120 You need to watch this series.

00:38:52.500 Uranium One.

00:38:54.360 Tonight, only on the Blaze TV.

00:38:57.200 Blaze.com slash TV.

00:38:59.580 Subscribe and we'll see you tonight at five o'clock.

00:39:01.740 Glenn.

00:39:02.440 Back.

00:39:03.420 Mercury.

00:39:03.980 Mercury.

00:39:12.420 Love.

00:39:14.340 Courage.

00:39:14.840 Truth.

00:39:17.680 Glenn.

00:39:18.740 Back.

00:39:20.500 I'm sure right now, you know, you're listening to this from inside the safety and security of your own government shutdown bomb shelter.

00:39:31.320 This is not a test.

00:39:32.780 The government is shut down panic unless you're in your your government shutdown shelter.

00:39:38.720 For those of you that did manage to venture out this weekend to your horror.

00:39:44.580 I salute your bravery.

00:39:45.980 I do.

00:39:46.300 I don't know how you did it.

00:39:48.500 The shutdown now is entering its third day.

00:39:51.840 The Senate has a procedural vote at noon today that could fund the government temporarily until February 8th.

00:39:58.360 But I wouldn't hold out too much hope.

00:40:00.640 The end is near.

00:40:01.660 Don't crack the lid on your bomb shelter just yet.

00:40:05.460 We'll we'll notify you if the government actually does go back to work.

00:40:09.840 The rumor is the relationship between the White House and Chuck Schumer is at an all time low.

00:40:15.480 Huh.

00:40:16.000 Trump met with Schumer on Friday.

00:40:19.000 Trump wanted the wall.

00:40:20.320 Schumer wanted amnesty.

00:40:21.340 You can imagine how that conversation conversation went.

00:40:24.420 Not well.

00:40:26.140 This entire thing is ridiculous.

00:40:29.440 The government is going to eventually get funded.

00:40:32.040 Nobody's going to die.

00:40:33.140 No asteroids are going to hit the earth.

00:40:35.280 But until that happens, we're going to be forced to watch grown men and women act like children, argue for things that, you know, they know they probably don't have any chance of actually getting.

00:40:48.940 Will the wall be funded from coast to coast?

00:40:52.420 Now, anything is possible, but I doubt it.

00:40:54.780 Will DACA become law?

00:40:56.240 Well, let's not forget that Obama had to write an executive order specifically because he knew both parties wouldn't be able to successfully vote on it.

00:41:06.480 So one side will eventually blink.

00:41:10.140 The question is, which one?

00:41:13.020 It's usually us.

00:41:14.580 If this stretches through the week, we're going to get dangerously close to this affecting our men and women in uniform.

00:41:20.880 Military families cannot miss a paycheck.

00:41:24.200 We're, you know, we are ready.

00:41:26.780 They're not getting rich.

00:41:29.520 I really think the people in the military should make what Congress makes and what and what the military makes is should be the paycheck for Congress.

00:41:38.420 Our soldiers are risking their lives in combat zones, and now they have to worry about paying their bills back home.

00:41:45.480 Both sides are to blame here.

00:41:47.020 Both sides are using military families as pawns to argue for the highly improbable.

00:41:54.200 You'd think that military families would be off limits in this power play between overgrown children, but they're more than willing to play that card.

00:42:02.140 Both sides.

00:42:02.640 One Democrat actually tried.

00:42:04.480 Here's Senator Claire McCaskill on the Senate floor pleading for an amendment to keep the paychecks going to the military.

00:42:11.440 I want to make sure that tonight we send a very clear signal that we don't want one moment to pass, with there being any uncertainty of any soldier anywhere in the world, that they will be paid for the valiant work they do on behalf of our national security.

00:42:30.520 Unbelievable.

00:42:31.400 That's a Democrat, by the way, and you'd think the Republicans would jump at it and take it, but here's Mitch McConnell's response.

00:42:37.540 Is there objection?

00:42:39.180 Mr. President, I'm reserving the right to object.

00:42:40.780 We passed similar legislation during the government shutdown back in 2013.

00:42:45.860 My hope is that we can restore funding for the entire government before this becomes necessary.

00:42:52.600 I'm going to object for tonight, but we'll discuss again tomorrow.

00:42:56.000 Therefore, I object.

00:42:56.920 And he put his head back under his shell.

00:42:58.540 The turtle has spoken.

00:42:59.460 Both sides are to blame here, and neither one seems to really care about the military.

00:43:05.120 I, for one, just would like to end this stupidity.

00:43:08.820 Get back to doing whatever it is you guys do.

00:43:12.660 Or not, really.

00:43:15.080 I'm not that worried that you're not doing anything.

00:43:19.800 You know, you have those super cool lunches at the Capitol Grill or whatever.

00:43:24.040 I'll pay for your lunch.

00:43:25.680 Just leave the rest of us alone, will you?

00:43:27.280 Your arrogance and stupidity has severe consequences, and this country is already paying those consequences.

00:43:43.040 It's Monday, January 22nd.

00:43:45.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:50.820 All the world is but a stage.

00:43:54.020 And didn't it feel like that?

00:43:55.280 I mean, when you're watching the news, doesn't it feel like that?

00:43:58.820 When you're watching this government shutdown nonsense, and everybody is so upset about it, and you're like, I don't really care.

00:44:05.420 Well, if it wasn't a fictional play, we would have died from the government shutdown.

00:44:10.400 However, that death would have only followed a death from the tax plan and global warming and any number of other things they've told us we're going to die of in the past couple of years.

00:44:26.640 You know what's amazing to me is constant threat of death, because there's a way to get rich off of it.

00:44:36.140 There's a way to get power off of it.

00:44:37.960 However, we are facing the greatest crisis, possible crisis, and the greatest utopian breakthrough in the history of time.

00:44:48.660 At least known time.

00:44:52.280 Maybe this has happened on other planets.

00:44:54.260 Maybe this has already happened to us, and we're all living in the matrix.

00:44:57.600 Eagles Super Bowl victory?

00:44:59.180 It could only be done by computer simulation.

00:45:02.380 So.

00:45:03.180 Feels that way sometimes.

00:45:04.460 Yes.

00:45:04.940 Over 50, 60 years or so.

00:45:06.800 So there are so many things that actually matter.

00:45:09.260 Venezuela.

00:45:10.320 Have you even heard Venezuela in the news, really?

00:45:12.740 Very few.

00:45:13.580 I mean, we've covered it many times.

00:45:16.140 But yes, we've, you know, that has been completely undercover, especially from the idea that this was a socialist utopia not too long ago.

00:45:24.020 Yeah.

00:45:24.200 That we were all supposed to look to for guidance for our real future.

00:45:28.200 Where's Sean Penn now?

00:45:29.800 Yeah.

00:45:29.940 Is he down helping?

00:45:31.520 On the night of January 9th, for example, a hungry mob took 30 minutes to pick clean a grocery store in the eastern city.

00:45:38.060 By the time the owner arrived, he had opened five months at the store.

00:45:43.820 He had opened five months earlier.

00:45:45.100 The looters had hauled everything away from cold cuts to ketchup to the cash register.

00:45:49.620 It just makes me want to cry.

00:45:52.680 The people now are saying we either loot or we die of hunger.

00:45:57.320 There are food shortages, fuel shortages.

00:46:01.560 During the first 10 days of January, the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict recorded 107 episodes of looting and several deaths in 19 of Venezuela's 23 states.

00:46:17.220 But the figures don't capture the level of desperation.

00:46:20.280 Where's the media on this?

00:46:22.200 You know, we're so constantly we so worry about ourselves.

00:46:25.440 Where are we with with people with actual issues?

00:46:28.920 Well, this disproves a giant narrative, though, for the media.

00:46:34.160 Again, this is this.

00:46:35.500 Yeah, if they had their way, if the left had their way, they would institute many, not every, but many of the policies that Venezuela implemented that led them to this crisis.

00:46:46.820 And they are getting the results that were predicted and have shown to be evident every time those policies are enacted.

00:46:53.620 So why would you focus on it?

00:46:56.700 It doesn't help.

00:46:57.560 Try this on for size.

00:47:00.320 Anybody see the news this weekend?

00:47:02.560 Now, I want you to think about this statement.

00:47:04.980 Now, it came from the Google CEO.

00:47:09.220 Here is the statement.

00:47:11.880 Google is a leader in AI development.

00:47:15.760 As with fire, humanity needs to embrace AI for its benefits, but also understand its downsize.

00:47:25.860 History shows you that countries that pull back don't do well with change.

00:47:31.040 You have to embrace the change.

00:47:33.380 AI will have a bigger impact than the discovery of fire.

00:47:39.160 AI will have a bigger impact than the discovery of fire.

00:47:49.120 I was writing in today.

00:47:55.580 And I'm reading a book called Life 3.0.

00:48:00.020 And I'm listening to it on Audible.

00:48:06.780 And I just want to roll this by you.

00:48:12.280 See, why is it we're not paying attention to this at all?

00:48:16.380 When I left Puerto Rico, I did so convinced that the conversation we had there about the future of AI needs to continue because it's the most important conversation of our time.

00:48:30.820 The AI conversation is important in terms of both urgency and impact.

00:48:37.080 In comparison with climate change, which might wreak havoc in 50 to 200 years, many experts expect AI to have greater impact within decades and to potentially give us technology for mitigating climate change.

00:48:52.360 In comparison with wars, terrorism, unemployment, poverty, migration, and social justice issues, the rise of AI will have great, greater impact, will have greater impact than wars, social justice, climate change in mere decades, like two.

00:49:18.160 And remember, too, when they're talking about climate change, this isn't coming from a right wing publication that's saying climate change won't be a big deal.

00:49:27.560 They're saying it is going to be a big deal.

00:49:29.040 In fact, this is going to be a bigger deal.

00:49:30.500 In fact, I went to go find that.

00:49:32.420 I had to play that for you because I went to go find that in the book.

00:49:35.100 Not in the book.

00:49:37.300 It's so weird.

00:49:38.620 Yeah, it's edited out of the book.

00:49:41.360 He's talking about, you know, when I left Puerto Rico, you know, I what he's talking about is this meeting in Puerto Rico that all of the top scientists that were all supposed to, you know, respect and revere and adore and take for whatever they say is God's honest truth.

00:49:59.960 And they had the biggest scientists in the world on AI and they, you know, brought together for the first time people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and the people who are gung ho on AI and don't think it's ever going to be a problem.

00:50:16.740 And they had a three day conference.

00:50:19.140 No press was invited there.

00:50:20.920 I don't know, 300 scientists there from all over the world.

00:50:24.680 And they had this conversation and decided that this is the most important thing that could could hit us.

00:50:32.960 And they signed a document saying, well, the world really needs to understand this.

00:50:39.420 This was in 2013.

00:50:42.180 It's now 2017.

00:50:44.420 Nobody's talking about it.

00:50:45.720 And that's OK.

00:50:47.040 That's OK.

00:50:47.620 I think people just think that this is some far away, you know, the sci fi thing.

00:50:52.760 But Venezuela is not.

00:50:56.960 And what are we covering?

00:50:58.700 What are we talking about?

00:50:59.880 What are we doing in our own life?

00:51:05.120 My son said to me this weekend, I don't understand why you have to.

00:51:11.120 I'm diagramming sentences.

00:51:12.500 So how do I have to diagram sentences?

00:51:13.700 Well, you have to diagram sentences because at some point you are going to have to write letters or emails to somebody.

00:51:19.840 No, dad, I'm probably not.

00:51:21.280 I'll just be able to speak.

00:51:22.280 I know, I know, I know.

00:51:25.720 Why do we have to study our scriptures all the time?

00:51:27.820 Study our scriptures all the time.

00:51:29.020 I don't understand the point.

00:51:29.900 Let me give you the point, son.

00:51:33.300 The New Testament and the Old Testament.

00:51:37.920 You don't have to believe them.

00:51:40.720 Don't believe them.

00:51:41.880 Go away and say, I'm just reading this as history or allegory stories.

00:51:47.180 But that's the basic fundamental of human civilization for the West.

00:51:53.820 Every time we go off of those, we enter dark ages.

00:51:57.380 Every time we go too strongly into them and have certitude that we know and so we're going to rid the world of all those people who are doing wrong, we go into the dark ages.

00:52:07.880 This is the basic fundamental building block of society.

00:52:14.520 How do we behave?

00:52:16.040 How do we love each other?

00:52:17.680 How do we forgive each other?

00:52:21.640 490 times I'm supposed to forgive you.

00:52:24.440 What does that mean?

00:52:26.120 Really?

00:52:27.080 490 times.

00:52:28.880 Got to forgive people 490 times.

00:52:31.660 You know what that means?

00:52:33.060 You lost count by then.

00:52:35.340 Nobody's like, I'm up.

00:52:36.420 I'm up to 381 times accepting his apology.

00:52:43.260 You're not counting.

00:52:49.800 We are losing the very fundamentals of being even able to communicate with each other.

00:52:57.920 We are in the communication age.

00:53:02.460 The information age.

00:53:04.760 And yet we are not communicating with each other.

00:53:07.240 Our communication has gotten worse.

00:53:09.680 We're in the information age.

00:53:11.760 We don't know more.

00:53:13.260 We know less.

00:53:14.200 As I was working with my son last night on Kepler, he said, I don't know the answer to that, Dad.

00:53:24.400 And I said, you don't have to know the answer anymore.

00:53:26.760 You don't have to know.

00:53:28.920 You have to know how to find the answer.

00:53:33.380 That's it.

00:53:34.040 We're not any more intelligent.

00:53:38.460 We're not any more well-read.

00:53:40.340 We have access literally to everything.

00:53:44.540 Last night, I looked up a book that had been banned and then destroyed.

00:53:49.360 Very few copies exist.

00:53:51.460 It's on Kepler.

00:53:52.380 It's called Kepler's Dreams.

00:53:54.640 I had never even heard of it.

00:53:55.880 It was the first sci-fi book ever written, like in 1609.

00:54:01.580 And it's about a guy who travels to the moon.

00:54:05.300 That had never even been thought of before.

00:54:08.920 Within two minutes, I was reading it.

00:54:11.500 I downloaded it.

00:54:14.160 To work with my son on Kepler would have taken us weeks in a library when I was a kid.

00:54:20.740 But we're not doing our homework.

00:54:24.660 We see something on Twitter, we just repost it.

00:54:27.280 We don't even read the whole story, let alone check out, see if it's right.

00:54:32.340 And the media, the guardians, they won't even watch their own damn movie.

00:54:36.960 Watch the post.

00:54:38.160 Watch the post.

00:54:38.840 What's the point of the post?

00:54:40.520 Both political parties will use you.

00:54:44.040 So you shouldn't be beholden to either side.

00:54:47.860 You should never trust the government.

00:54:51.520 Even your friends in the government.

00:54:54.720 But they don't watch it.

00:54:56.620 They don't learn from history.

00:54:59.140 Nobody does.

00:55:00.820 If we're going to survive, you need to start prioritizing.

00:55:05.180 What matters most?

00:55:08.020 And what problems should be at the front of the stove?

00:55:11.300 And what problems can we just set back for a while?

00:55:13.680 So a few weeks ago, my son-in-law and my daughter got a new Casper bed.

00:55:38.580 And they had a bed and my daughter has a bad back.

00:55:45.360 And it was just killing her, especially with two kids.

00:55:49.240 And so she said, Dad, I've got to get a mattress.

00:55:51.440 I said, try a Casper.

00:55:52.500 Because if you don't like it, you just send it back.

00:55:54.400 Because I had purchased a bed about a year or so before.

00:55:59.180 And it wasn't a Casper.

00:56:00.620 And I tried it out at the store.

00:56:02.860 And I loved it at the store.

00:56:04.440 And I hated it every second of it once I got it home.

00:56:09.600 So we bought a Casper.

00:56:11.320 And we loved it.

00:56:12.560 So I told my daughter, get a Casper.

00:56:14.040 Try it out.

00:56:14.840 So she did.

00:56:15.440 We were just talking last night.

00:56:17.420 Because we were talking about her health and everything else.

00:56:22.180 And I said, so how's your back doing?

00:56:23.400 How do you like the mattress?

00:56:24.360 And she said, her and her husband.

00:56:25.820 We love it.

00:56:26.920 Why?

00:56:27.900 Why?

00:56:28.700 You want it back?

00:56:30.120 Because it was the one that when we had Casper give us a wave, I gave my son and daughter the Casper that we had just got.

00:56:44.200 I said, no, you can keep it.

00:56:45.720 I just want to know if you like it.

00:56:48.420 We love it.

00:56:49.500 We love it.

00:56:50.520 My wife and I love our Casper.

00:56:52.340 We have the wave.

00:56:53.440 They have the regular one.

00:56:54.480 You can check out the difference.

00:56:56.400 All you have to do is just go to Casper.com.

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00:57:29.200 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:57:41.180 Glenn Beck.

00:57:42.160 You seen the new movie Polka King on Netflix yet?

00:57:45.040 Look, it's Jack Black, right?

00:57:46.220 Yeah, right.

00:57:46.780 It's based on a true story.

00:57:48.360 We have the actual Polka King on coming up in about a half an hour.

00:57:52.240 He has a fascinating story of a guy who left communism to come here and then it all went

00:57:57.300 wrong.

00:57:58.740 Really interesting guy.

00:58:00.480 We have him coming up.

00:58:01.440 Also, Jordan Peterson is an incredibly astute professor.

00:58:05.780 I want to play an exchange with him on television up in Canada.

00:58:09.660 And you tell me.

00:58:10.600 I mean, we're living in a parallel universe that's coming up.

00:58:12.860 I, uh, you've been talking a lot about kind of how our society is, it's on, on, sometimes

00:58:18.340 unrecognizable.

00:58:19.460 Yeah.

00:58:19.780 What, what are we doing?

00:58:20.880 What, what has happened to our society?

00:58:22.700 I want to read you a sentence from a news story I came across this weekend and you tell

00:58:28.840 me how this is a sensible society.

00:58:31.180 If we have not gone to a place where you can't recognize the world, wait until you hear the

00:58:35.780 Jordan Peterson stuff.

00:58:36.800 Cause it's right where I'm going.

00:58:37.900 All right, go ahead.

00:58:40.060 Paddington two.

00:58:41.320 Oh, dear God.

00:58:45.040 Paddington two, which came in sixth place this weekend, made $8 million.

00:58:51.580 Though the family sequel about the bear from Peru became rotten tomatoes, best reviewed

00:58:59.880 movie ever this past week.

00:59:04.080 The best reviewed movie ever in the history of film is Paddington two, not even Paddington.

00:59:19.580 It's Paddington two.

00:59:21.540 It's worse.

00:59:22.000 Makes me want to go see it now.

00:59:27.160 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:59:34.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:59:48.640 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if, if an alien came down and was fully engaged

00:59:56.880 in truth and logic and would sit down with us or our reporters or whoever, and would have

01:00:03.080 a conversation and every once in a while, the alien would just look at us like, is it

01:00:12.200 just me?

01:00:13.100 You're not knowing you're not, you're not following here.

01:00:15.680 And the alien would not be able to figure out our circular thought.

01:00:21.040 I contend that is professor Jordan Peterson.

01:00:23.640 I want you to listen to this, this, this audio of, of him on the BBC, where, where he has

01:00:32.160 stirred up a hornet's nest because he was talking about gender equality, et cetera, et

01:00:38.780 cetera.

01:00:39.040 But I want you to listen to how calm, how rational and how clear he is.

01:00:45.340 And then listen to the reporter who doesn't seem to get it at all.

01:00:54.960 This is what it would sound like if an alien beamed down on a TV set today.

01:01:03.060 Jordan Peterson, you've said that men need to quote, grow the hell up.

01:01:07.180 Tell me why.

01:01:07.680 Well, because there's nothing uglier than an old infant.

01:01:13.080 There's nothing good about it.

01:01:14.520 People who don't grow up don't find the sort of meaning in their life that sustains them

01:01:19.820 through difficult times.

01:01:21.000 And they are certain to encounter difficult times.

01:01:23.380 And they're left bitter and resentful and without purpose and adrift and hostile and resentful

01:01:30.320 and vengeful and arrogant and deceitful and of no use to themselves and of no use to anyone

01:01:35.800 else and no partner for a woman.

01:01:38.400 And there's nothing in it that's good.

01:01:40.400 So you say, I mean, that sounds pretty bad.

01:01:42.200 You're saying there's a crisis of masculinity.

01:01:44.180 I mean, what do you do about it?

01:01:45.160 You tell, you help people understand why it's necessary and important for them to grow

01:01:53.880 up and adopt responsibility.

01:01:55.360 Why that isn't a shake your finger and get your act together sort of thing.

01:01:59.780 Why it's more like, why it's more like a delineation of the kind of destiny that makes

01:02:06.200 life worth living.

01:02:07.080 I've been telling young men, but it's not, I wasn't specifically aiming this message at

01:02:11.260 young men to begin with.

01:02:12.360 It just kind of turned out that way.

01:02:13.980 And it's mostly, you admit, it's mostly men listening.

01:02:16.460 I mean, 90% of your audience is a male, right?

01:02:18.360 Well, it's about 80% on YouTube, which is a, YouTube is a male domain primarily.

01:02:23.880 So it's hard to tell how much of it is because YouTube is male and how much of it is because

01:02:27.660 of what I'm saying.

01:02:29.040 But what I've been telling young men is that there's an actual reason why they need to

01:02:36.420 grow up, which is that they have something to offer, you know, that people have within

01:02:42.100 them this capacity to set the world straight and that's necessary to manifest in the world.

01:02:47.560 And that also doing so is where you find the meaning that sustains you in life.

01:02:53.220 So what's gone wrong then?

01:02:55.280 Oh God, all sorts of things have gone wrong.

01:02:57.740 I think that, I don't think that young men are, hear words of encouragement, some of them

01:03:04.620 never in their entire lives, as far as I can tell.

01:03:06.900 That's what they tell me.

01:03:07.920 And the fact that the words that I've been speaking, the YouTube lectures that I've done

01:03:12.680 and put online, for example, have had such a dramatic impact is an indication that young

01:03:18.340 men are starving for this sort of message.

01:03:20.080 Because like, why in the world would they have to derive it from a lecture on YouTube?

01:03:24.740 Now, they're not being taught that they, that it's important to develop yourself.

01:03:29.560 But does it, does it bother you that your audience is predominantly male?

01:03:34.680 Does that, isn't, isn't that a bit divisive?

01:03:37.240 No, I don't think so.

01:03:38.320 I mean, stop, stop, stop, stop.

01:03:40.220 I just want to go over, I always want to go over what he just said, what he just said,

01:03:44.660 that there are many men who are not growing up, they are not taking responsibility for

01:03:52.100 their life, and that will give their life no meaning.

01:03:54.260 They will become bitter, resentful, vengeful, deceitful, and alone.

01:03:58.600 That's a ticking time bomb.

01:04:00.460 Okay, so what does he say?

01:04:03.160 Don't shake your finger at them.

01:04:04.840 Show them that they need to be responsible because they can make their own life worth living.

01:04:10.840 All positive.

01:04:11.840 There's an incentive.

01:04:12.760 There's an incentive.

01:04:13.480 It's not just doing it out of, out of charity.

01:04:15.680 You're doing it because it actually is good for you as well.

01:04:18.160 We don't want you to be vengeful, resentful, deceitful, and alone.

01:04:22.700 We want you to have meaning in your life.

01:04:25.960 And it's, it's that you have value, but nobody's ever said that to you, as he says, no, they're

01:04:33.020 not encouraged.

01:04:33.740 Nobody is.

01:04:34.140 And they're, and they're coming to him in droves because they're starving for the message.

01:04:41.140 Listen to the message.

01:04:41.920 I'm starving for the message.

01:04:43.480 That I need to grow up.

01:04:44.860 That I need to be responsible.

01:04:46.580 That I need to take control of my own life.

01:04:48.700 That I can't be a kid for the rest of my life.

01:04:52.020 They're starving for that message.

01:04:54.120 And she says, well, isn't that a bit divisive?

01:04:58.080 What part of that is divisive?

01:05:00.120 We're trying to build a better citizen.

01:05:03.560 We're trying to build a better spouse.

01:05:05.740 We're trying to build a better man.

01:05:07.860 Isn't that divisive?

01:05:09.320 No, they're starving for that.

01:05:11.720 Women are getting that message everywhere.

01:05:13.760 You can do anything.

01:05:14.380 You could be anything.

01:05:15.340 Men are no longer getting that message.

01:05:17.740 They need to hear that message as well.

01:05:20.400 We have overcorrected.

01:05:21.820 That's not, it's not divisive.

01:05:25.200 That's encouraging.

01:05:26.540 That men want to be better.

01:05:29.540 Listen.

01:05:31.060 No, I don't think so.

01:05:32.160 I mean, it's no more divisive than the fact that YouTube is primarily male and Tumblr is primarily female.

01:05:37.200 That's pretty divisive, isn't it?

01:05:38.480 But Tumblr is primarily female.

01:05:40.840 But you're just saying that's the way it is.

01:05:42.560 Well, I'm not saying anything.

01:05:44.660 It's just an observation that that's the way it is.

01:05:47.420 There's plenty of women that are watching my lectures and doing my talks and buying my books.

01:05:51.620 It's just that the majority of them happen to be men.

01:05:55.140 What's in it for the women, though?

01:05:57.620 Well, what sort of partner do you want?

01:05:59.880 Do you want an overgrown child?

01:06:01.920 Or do you want someone to contend with that's going to help you and that you can rely on?

01:06:05.640 Women have some sort of duty to sort of help fix the crisis of masculinity.

01:06:09.280 Which depends on what they want.

01:06:10.920 That's not what he was saying at all.

01:06:13.760 She's just itching for a fight.

01:06:15.960 Yeah.

01:06:16.740 So she says, why would women be interested in a message about bettering men?

01:06:24.500 And his answer is, well, I mean, what kind of partner do they want?

01:06:27.260 Do you want someone who's responsible and it can be an equal?

01:06:29.700 Or do you want someone who's, you know?

01:06:31.520 A kid.

01:06:31.900 A kid.

01:06:32.240 Oh, so women have a responsibility to make men better?

01:06:36.660 That is not what the setup question was.

01:06:40.140 What his answer was.

01:06:41.500 Nowhere in there was that even hinted at.

01:06:43.520 In fact, he's saying he's giving this message.

01:06:47.560 He's giving it.

01:06:48.800 You're bashing him for giving the message.

01:06:51.340 And then you're interpreting that you are not.

01:06:54.600 You're going to burden me with having to give that message.

01:06:57.220 I have to give.

01:06:58.180 No, I'm giving the message right now.

01:07:01.080 And men are starving for it.

01:07:02.900 And the only reason the topic was brought up was because of her question.

01:07:06.820 She asked it.

01:07:08.560 He answered it.

01:07:09.580 And then she asked.

01:07:10.720 She acts shocked that he would bring it up.

01:07:13.240 Well, he brought it up because you asked him the question.

01:07:16.620 Continue.

01:07:17.660 The women, though.

01:07:19.520 Well, what sort of partner do you want?

01:07:21.840 Do you want an overgrown child?

01:07:23.820 Or do you want someone to contend with that's going to help you?

01:07:26.760 So you're saying women have some sort of duty to sort of help fix the crisis of masculinity?

01:07:31.460 Well, it depends on what they want.

01:07:33.760 Do men have a responsibility?

01:07:34.920 It's exactly how I laid it out.

01:07:37.340 Like, women want, deeply want men who are competent and powerful.

01:07:43.340 And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others.

01:07:52.040 That's not power.

01:07:53.420 That's just corruption.

01:07:55.100 Power is competence.

01:07:57.040 And why in the world would you not want a competent partner?

01:08:00.020 Well, I know why, actually.

01:08:01.680 You can't dominate a competent partner.

01:08:04.260 So if you want domination...

01:08:04.960 Women want to dominate.

01:08:06.420 Is that what you're saying?

01:08:07.060 No, I'd say women who have had their relationships impaired with...

01:08:10.880 Impaired.

01:08:11.980 Their relationships with men impaired and who are afraid of such relationships will settle

01:08:17.020 for a weak partner because they can dominate them.

01:08:19.780 But it's a suboptimal solution.

01:08:21.440 Do you think that's what a lot of women are doing?

01:08:23.000 I think there's a substantial minority of women who do that.

01:08:27.500 And I think it's very bad for them.

01:08:29.340 They're very unhappy.

01:08:30.480 It's very bad for their partners.

01:08:32.080 Although their partners get the advantage of not having to take any responsibility.

01:08:36.000 But what gives you the right to say that?

01:08:37.400 I mean, maybe that's how women want their relationships, those women.

01:08:40.300 I mean, you're making these vast generalizations.

01:08:42.420 Oh, God.

01:08:42.880 I'm a clinical psychologist.

01:08:44.740 You're saying you've done your research and women are unhappy dominating men.

01:08:50.140 I didn't say they were unhappy dominating men.

01:08:52.060 I said it was a bad long-term solution.

01:08:54.080 Okay, you said it was making them miserable.

01:08:55.920 Yes, it is.

01:08:56.640 And it depends on the time frame.

01:08:57.840 I mean, there can be...

01:08:58.660 There's intense pleasure in momentary domination.

01:09:01.360 That's why people do it all the time.

01:09:03.040 But it's no formula for a long-term, successful long-term relationship.

01:09:06.700 That's reciprocal, right?

01:09:08.080 Any long-term relationship is reciprocal, virtually by definition.

01:09:13.140 So...

01:09:13.660 Let me put a quote to you from the book.

01:09:15.660 Sure.

01:09:16.160 Where you say there are whole disciplines in universities forthrightly hostile towards men.

01:09:20.500 These are the areas of study dominated by the post-modern stroke neo-Marxist claim that Western culture, in particular, is an oppressive structure created by white men to dominate and exclude women.

01:09:33.340 But then I want to put to you...

01:09:34.140 Minorities, too, dominate and exclude women.

01:09:35.600 Okay, sure.

01:09:36.620 But I want to put to you that here in the UK, for example, let's take that as an example, the gender pay gap stands at just over 90%.

01:09:42.440 This is agonizing.

01:09:43.060 You've got women at the BBC recently saying that the broadcaster is illegally paying them less than men to do the same job.

01:09:50.520 You've got only seven women running the top FTSE 100 companies.

01:09:55.340 Yeah.

01:09:55.840 So it seems to a lot of women that they're still being dominated and excluded, to quote your words back to you.

01:10:01.760 It does seem that way, but multivariate analysis of the pay gap indicates that it doesn't exist.

01:10:06.820 But that's just not true, is it?

01:10:08.900 I mean, that 9% pay gap, that's a gap between median hourly earnings between men and women.

01:10:14.280 That exists.

01:10:15.320 Yeah, but there's multiple reasons for that.

01:10:17.180 One of them is gender, but it's not the only reason.

01:10:19.540 Like, if you're a social scientist, worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

01:10:25.060 Like, you say, well, women in aggregate are paid less than men.

01:10:28.480 Okay, well, then we break it down by age.

01:10:30.340 We break it down by occupation.

01:10:32.280 We break it down by interest.

01:10:33.600 We break it down by personality.

01:10:34.880 But you're saying, basically, it doesn't matter if women aren't getting to the top,

01:10:38.500 because that's what's skewing that gender.

01:10:39.940 That's not what he's saying.

01:10:40.660 Oh, that's exactly.

01:10:41.540 Great summary there of what he said.

01:10:43.660 Basically, what you're saying is it doesn't matter if women are getting to the top.

01:10:46.980 Well, I mean, what he's saying, this is such a fascinating point,

01:10:51.240 because she is doing a very detailed, throw crap against the wall and see what sticks sort of fight here.

01:11:00.100 You know, she hits him earlier for giving vast generalizations,

01:11:03.820 and then her next point is if you take all women and all men and divide their income,

01:11:11.200 it comes out to be 9% higher for men.

01:11:15.020 Wouldn't that be a...

01:11:15.540 Isn't it, I don't know, a mass generalization?

01:11:18.640 The exact thing you were just criticizing him about?

01:11:22.300 And of course, like, just because there's a difference between the two doesn't mean that it's bad.

01:11:26.960 Right?

01:11:27.700 Like, I mean, it's...

01:11:29.660 And we've talked about the pay gap over and over again.

01:11:31.900 He is correct in his analysis of it,

01:11:34.500 in that when you break it down by age and you break it down by experience level...

01:11:38.220 Several factors.

01:11:39.120 ...and education levels and choice of career paths and all of these other things,

01:11:43.440 what you find out is there is basically no pay gap whatsoever.

01:11:46.640 There's also something else.

01:11:49.040 And Niall Ferguson has written a book, I think it's called The Square and the Tower.

01:11:54.540 And he's talking about networks.

01:11:58.000 And he says one of the reasons why women are not, you know,

01:12:01.020 dominant at the upper end of the spectrum is because they don't have the network.

01:12:06.880 Men have a network that has been going forever and ever.

01:12:10.460 And quite honestly, some of the stuff that is happening now is actually hurting the women making a network.

01:12:17.360 Because guys are starting to say, I don't try, I don't, I can't, I don't know.

01:12:21.520 I don't know what I should do.

01:12:23.000 I...

01:12:23.280 And so they're not coming into the net.

01:12:26.080 They're not coming into the network.

01:12:27.860 If you don't have a network, think about this, conservatives.

01:12:31.520 If you don't have a network, you miss power and opportunity.

01:12:37.080 I mean, look at, what's his name, Sank, what's his face from the Young Turks.

01:12:44.620 Did you hear this?

01:12:46.680 So, you know, everybody, every single source on the right is hate mongering and can't be trusted.

01:12:53.880 But the Young Turks, which we have to find some stuff that the Young Turks have said,

01:12:58.720 the Young Turks get $20 million in funding, 20 million bucks for this crazy group of people.

01:13:06.160 Do you know that Dan Rather just signed to do the evening news for the Young Turks website?

01:13:15.180 Dan frickin' Rather?

01:13:19.440 Now, A, it tells us exactly what we need to know about Dan Rather.

01:13:23.320 And he confirms everything that you ever suspected.

01:13:26.520 But Dan Rather joins the Young Turks this weekend.

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01:16:55.240 The presenter on the BBC with Professor Jordan Peterson kind of shows that it's almost impossible to have an honest conversation with somebody, with the media.

01:17:14.580 And it doesn't get much better here in the United States, as you know.

01:17:18.500 So here is Jim Acosta.

01:17:21.840 He was questioning the White House about this, about why they call it the Schumer shutdown.

01:17:29.560 Listen to this.

01:17:30.500 How can it be the Schumer shutdown when Republicans control the White House, the House, and the Senate?

01:17:35.760 Come on, you know the answer to that as well as anybody.

01:17:37.480 I mean, I have to laugh when people say that.

01:17:39.480 Oh, we control the House, the Senate, the White House.

01:17:41.200 Why can't you get this done?

01:17:42.100 You know as well as anybody that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass an appropriations bill, right?

01:17:47.440 You know that.

01:17:48.060 I know that.

01:17:48.500 Okay, so if you only have 51 votes in the Senate, then you have to have Democrat support in order to keep the government, to fund the government.

01:17:55.640 So that's the answer to your question.

01:17:56.920 Yeah, you shouldn't challenge Mulvaney on stuff like this.

01:17:58.920 No, of course he's smart for you.

01:18:00.420 And, you know, Jim, if you would like, because they have control, they can pass it with 51 votes.

01:18:06.720 Except you wouldn't like that, would you?

01:18:08.940 You wouldn't like the nuclear option.

01:18:12.100 Here is a story that the left will print, but not really focus on for very long.

01:18:38.220 Great Britain's government health care system is falling apart.

01:18:42.100 Now, that's not a conservative talking point.

01:18:44.240 That is from the New York Times when they reported on it.

01:18:47.360 The headline was British National Health Service in crisis.

01:18:51.260 The head of Britain's National Health Service warned that the system is overwhelmed.

01:18:56.220 What a surprise.

01:18:57.200 Who could have seen this coming?

01:18:58.800 Last year, he requested four billion pounds in additional funding.

01:19:04.260 He only got 1.6 billion.

01:19:05.940 He also oversaw a time where 10,000 nurses quit.

01:19:11.880 Now, the crazy thing about the New York Times report is that all of the things that conservatives criticize about socialized medicine, all of the reasons we say it's a bad idea.

01:19:20.160 It's unsustainable.

01:19:21.360 It will not work are actually happening.

01:19:24.760 And here's the crazier part.

01:19:26.420 The New York Times wrote about it.

01:19:28.880 It's the kind of worst case scenario stuff that the left makes fun of the right for talking about.

01:19:34.540 For example, quote, hospital hallways jammed with beds of frail and elderly patients waiting to be admitted.

01:19:42.020 Outpatient appointments canceled because there aren't enough doctors to meet demand.

01:19:46.340 Patients waiting over 12 hours in emergency rooms before receiving care.

01:19:50.780 Undergraduate medical students being asked to volunteer to help ease the crush of payment patients.

01:19:56.180 Two weeks ago, hospitals were ordered to postpone all non-urgent surgeries until the end of the month.

01:20:02.480 Many British hospitals are also declared black alerts, meaning they cannot meet patient demand.

01:20:10.360 On Twitter, British doctors described their overcrowded hospitals as third world conditions, forcing them to practice battlefield medicine.

01:20:20.440 The NHS director warned that the patient waiting list will grow to 5 million people by 2021.

01:20:26.960 That's the highest number ever.

01:20:28.240 If this if this were if this were not in the New York Times, no one on the left would believe it.

01:20:36.640 You wouldn't believe it if I said it.

01:20:37.980 In fact, I have said it was coming for a long time.

01:20:41.740 A British construction worker learned the news from the latest rounds of thousands of postponed surgeries.

01:20:46.940 He said, if I receive a notification, it'll be the third time my operation is postponed.

01:20:51.760 This is a disgrace.

01:20:53.820 We injure ourselves while working to pay our taxes and the government just leaves us to suffer.

01:20:59.580 Are you listening, America?

01:21:01.320 Are you really listening?

01:21:04.120 If you are still interested in that Bernie Sanders government health care plan, maybe you need a lesson in critical thinking.

01:21:13.860 It's Monday, January 22nd.

01:21:23.260 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:21:25.720 So Netflix has a new movie out with Jack Black.

01:21:28.200 It's called the Polka King.

01:21:29.460 And the Polka King is an actual guy.

01:21:32.620 And I started looking into him and I thought, we have to talk to this guy.

01:21:36.280 His name is Jan Lawan and he is from Poland.

01:21:43.220 He was born in Nazi controlled Poland and grew up under the Soviet Union, came over here, wanted to make it big, fell into a Ponzi scheme.

01:21:54.960 I should say he started a Ponzi scheme and others fell into it.

01:21:59.020 He lived the high life, met the Pope, Pope John, Pope John Paul, the second, had real notoriety in the polka world.

01:22:10.160 His music was nominated for a Grammy and then he went to jail where he was stabbed in prison.

01:22:16.240 He is out now and has a whole lifetime of interesting stories.

01:22:24.120 Welcome, Juan Lawan.

01:22:25.960 How are you, sir?

01:22:27.400 Fine.

01:22:28.080 How are you?

01:22:29.020 Very, very good.

01:22:30.540 So let's start with, when did you come over here in the United States and what was life like back in Poland for you?

01:22:39.060 Well, when you live in the communist regime, the life is terrifying every day.

01:22:47.220 You couldn't trust nobody and you're living always with the fear that you're going to be punished for anything.

01:22:56.080 So life in the communist, so life in the communist is definitely a very negative, very depressing life.

01:23:06.260 And when did you come over here?

01:23:06.880 And when did you come over here?

01:23:08.020 At what time period?

01:23:09.360 To the United States, I arrived in the 80s.

01:23:14.060 In 1980, actually, early I was coming for the performing, for the ethnic festivals.

01:23:21.860 I was living in Canada first, and they were bringing me here to the States time to time.

01:23:31.860 And then in the 80s, I came here permanently.

01:23:35.720 So you came under, at the height of the Cold War with Ronald Reagan, which must have been...

01:23:42.420 Yep, exactly, yes.

01:23:45.340 And how do you remember those days as somebody from Poland?

01:23:50.580 The Reagan years and the Pope John Paul and Margaret Thatcher years.

01:23:58.200 That was the turning point in Poland.

01:24:04.260 And finally, the oppositions start growing, including solidarity movements with Lech Wałęsa.

01:24:15.840 And that gave power to oppositions to succeed.

01:24:26.100 And actually, thanks to Lech Wałęsa, they succeed eventually to get back freedom in Poland.

01:24:35.400 And of course, they were behind 50 years.

01:24:38.300 So, you know, we didn't have a proper education.

01:24:42.560 You have to belong to the Communist Party, your parents.

01:24:47.180 Then you'll be assigned to the better school.

01:24:50.800 You can learn English.

01:24:52.840 In my case, my parents did not want nothing to do with the Communists.

01:24:58.600 So they not only lost the job, but I was learning Russian instead of English.

01:25:05.280 So you come over here, you move to Pennsylvania, and you become the Polka King.

01:25:13.560 Tell me...

01:25:14.280 Well, okay, the Polka King, you know, it came along.

01:25:20.760 Because I guess your question is how I went to that.

01:25:25.880 I learned that nostalgia to Poland for the people who came here after the Second War.

01:25:35.600 And many of them cannot go back to Poland during the Communist regime.

01:25:41.220 Many cases they will find out in jail since they didn't come back to Poland after the Second War.

01:25:49.080 So that was the tear, and they were all just there for me, because I started learning English a little bit, but I was speaking Polish.

01:26:02.860 And then due to my education in Poland in the theatrical school and this, I wasn't ready for that kind of entertainment with the Polkas and this.

01:26:14.600 And I found that when I turned the Polish folk music to Polkas, I gained lots of viewers.

01:26:27.020 I mean, my concerts hall and festivals, they were full to their last seat because they loved that broken English, Polish, you know.

01:26:40.800 Right.

01:26:40.900 And that's the way it goes.

01:26:43.160 So you, in the movie with Jack Black, you appear to be a wide-eyed, I love America and I'm going to make it big.

01:26:54.040 And it seems as though you don't really know what you're doing is wrong until later.

01:27:01.500 But you started a Ponzi scheme.

01:27:05.160 Yes.

01:27:06.820 Tell me about it, and did you know that it was wrong at first?

01:27:09.760 No, not at all.

01:27:11.860 I went with my accountant for the legal advice, and I was advised that everything is fine.

01:27:20.600 A couple of days later, we went again.

01:27:22.240 Everything is fine.

01:27:23.980 Go ahead.

01:27:25.300 I wasn't told I have to register.

01:27:28.100 That was the wrong thing on the beginning.

01:27:32.620 So I feel free to advertise.

01:27:37.280 This is perfect.

01:27:38.380 That's, again, how am I going to build the empire?

01:27:42.320 Right.

01:27:42.640 And what were you selling people?

01:27:46.840 Well, you create the promissory note, which I offered them, 12%.

01:27:52.880 And that was very easy for me on the beginning to pay that, because in Poland, that time, everything was penny.

01:28:01.840 And in America, you sold for tens of dollars.

01:28:05.260 So I created the gift shop.

01:28:07.140 When you create the gift shop, you have to have money to buy these gifts, which I didn't have nothing.

01:28:14.260 So people who travel with me to Poland, they saw on their own eyes, oh, my gosh, that doll costs 25 cents here.

01:28:23.720 And in America, I pay $20.

01:28:26.780 Yes, Jan, you should buy Poland.

01:28:29.500 You should get everything to America, and you're going to get rich, and we're going to get rich.

01:28:35.960 Sure, I go for it.

01:28:38.720 And that's called start.

01:28:41.060 Of course, later on, I learned I'm doing illegal things.

01:28:46.340 That it's illegal.

01:28:47.540 Well, I already have huge merchandise, the silver, amber, dolls, and everything, just to sell that.

01:28:57.900 I wasn't able to sell when the accident came over, when the 9-11 came over, and all things fell in parts.

01:29:06.780 My two musicians get killed.

01:29:08.540 My son was suffering with terrible things.

01:29:11.280 We all were suffering.

01:29:12.380 So even though I was told, don't do it, I would keep doing, because when you drown, you will catch anything.

01:29:20.800 So I did wrong, knowing that I'm doing it wrong, and I paid a high price for that.

01:29:26.020 Yeah, you went to prison for how long?

01:29:29.320 Almost six years.

01:29:30.980 And you were stabbed in prison.

01:29:34.160 Yes, because I should never finalize in such a terrible prison in Smyrna.

01:29:44.780 That's just for people who commit violence, terrible violence.

01:29:51.460 Most of them, they were killers.

01:29:52.980 And somebody like me, with an accent, with lots to be designed, with a conversation, they thought, well, he is such a soft, you know, this guy, this guy is here for something, what we call child, which I have nothing to do with that.

01:30:16.980 And they get angry.

01:30:18.600 But that's what they say in media.

01:30:20.580 My opinion on that is different.

01:30:23.700 Something went wrong.

01:30:26.340 Somehow, somebody did the job.

01:30:30.120 And the guy who really cut my neck left and right, he got 25 years on the top of his life sentence.

01:30:39.800 So make no difference for him.

01:30:42.060 And why he did that, I still don't know.

01:30:45.080 I was very nice to him.

01:30:46.580 I bought him coffee in commissary and everything and keep conversation.

01:30:51.480 And somehow, you know, he got me when I was sleeping.

01:30:56.260 When you can't trust a killer, who can you trust?

01:30:59.460 Thank you.

01:30:59.960 So, Jan, now you're out.

01:31:05.160 Jack Black is playing you in a movie.

01:31:08.280 What does the future hold for you?

01:31:10.260 And what's your attitude about being here?

01:31:13.600 Yeah, well, before I go further, let me just say that I believe me, I'm very sorry for people who get cut in my situation, who lost the money.

01:31:26.220 I will do everything possible to supply my restitution as much as I can, since I am faithful for that.

01:31:36.660 But I never thought that movie is going to change my life.

01:31:43.400 Jack Black told me that.

01:31:44.840 We were talking for six months every night for two hours on the FaceTime.

01:31:49.040 And he learned from the day I was born, you know, how they got everything so perfect in the movie, I still don't know.

01:31:57.820 I did send them some of my writing, what I was doing through these years in prison.

01:32:06.440 They learned from that.

01:32:07.640 But I think Jack Black was a great influence to the script writers, Maya and Wally, that they did so perfect, because I don't think, maybe it's 10% Hollywood, you know, that is.

01:32:25.080 But now the movie gave me opportunity.

01:32:28.780 I have right now in thousands of very nice comments, of course, the negatives as well.

01:32:35.320 But next to, I should say, well, if they're writing to me, they're probably just writing positive way.

01:32:42.820 But the point is that they're asking me right now to do the concerts.

01:32:47.580 And I'm willing to do that.

01:32:49.560 And my music director, Steve Kaminsky, who actually saved the music in the movie, we have in the movie, we have top notch arrangements for big band polka.

01:33:01.280 It's not like regular dancing, small thing.

01:33:04.520 OK, I don't know.

01:33:05.720 Did you saw the movie?

01:33:06.940 I have not yet.

01:33:07.600 I've seen several clips of it, but I have not seen them.

01:33:09.980 I wish you will see them.

01:33:12.240 I will.

01:33:12.720 I will.

01:33:13.060 I will watch it.

01:33:13.900 So that is my cameraman, John Cotterba, from writing video.

01:33:19.780 He supplied them with all of the footage, which he traveled with me all the time.

01:33:26.120 You're going to see that in the movie.

01:33:27.920 They did everything.

01:33:29.040 I mean, my gosh, fantastic.

01:33:31.760 I hope I'm going to generate, because I don't need money anymore.

01:33:35.700 I want to give to people who suffer over that.

01:33:39.440 And I'm so sorry.

01:33:40.880 Believe me, I am sick of that.

01:33:43.240 So Jan Lawan, Jan Lawan, it's a pleasure to talk to you.

01:33:48.080 And I'm sorry I didn't watch the movie.

01:33:49.380 I had plans to watch it with my family this weekend, and something came up, so we didn't watch it.

01:33:53.480 But I'm anxious to see it.

01:33:56.520 You have led a very interesting life, and I wish you all the best, sir.

01:34:01.820 God bless.

01:34:02.440 Thank you.

01:34:03.020 Thank you very much for your time.

01:34:04.520 So to review, guy comes over from Poland.

01:34:13.480 He's a polka king.

01:34:15.180 He starts up a Polish gift store.

01:34:18.680 He gets people to invest in the store by promising them 12% and 20% returns.

01:34:24.240 That apparently is illegal, but he's too far in the hole to pay the money back, so he has to continue the illegal activity.

01:34:32.220 He goes to prison over it, and then he gets stabbed in prison in the neck.

01:34:36.180 More than stabbed.

01:34:37.000 He has throat cut.

01:34:38.560 Throat cut in prison.

01:34:39.780 And then his life, you know, right now, the story so far, and I'm not to say that there's not a lot more to this, but right now it ends in a Jack Black movie that just started a game out on Netflix.

01:34:51.400 It's perfect, and it should be a Jack Black movie.

01:34:55.080 It is.

01:34:55.820 We live in a parallel universe, man.

01:34:58.820 I really want to see it.

01:34:59.720 The movie's called The Polka King.

01:35:01.420 There's not only a Jack Black movie, but also a documentary that are both on Netflix now, if you're interested in the story.

01:35:06.800 Yeah, I saw parts of the documentary.

01:35:08.380 He's a fascinating guy.

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01:36:33.380 Glenn Beck.

01:36:35.240 Mercury.

01:36:43.620 Glenn Beck.

01:36:46.320 So I got right on Facebook when the NFL alerted me that it was, you know, going to be the Vikings and the Patriots.

01:36:54.140 Oh, did they?

01:36:55.140 You didn't know that?

01:36:56.100 No, I must have missed that update.

01:36:57.320 Oh, really?

01:36:57.420 Yeah.

01:36:57.980 Oh, Facebook.

01:36:58.780 The NFL accidentally released an ad, call for your Super Bowl tickets now available, Patriots-Vikings.

01:37:07.240 Huh.

01:37:07.740 And it didn't turn out that way.

01:37:09.200 It did not.

01:37:09.940 It did not turn out that way.

01:37:10.880 Thankfully.

01:37:11.460 No offense, of course, to the Minnesota Vikings fans who had a great season.

01:37:15.000 But the fact that the Eagles are going to the Super Bowl this year should prove that we are in a parallel universe.

01:37:20.680 It may.

01:37:20.980 Hey, it's, you know, it's such a pleasant surprise with all the kind of craziness that's been going on.

01:37:25.240 Again, as a big Eagles fan, this is something we take seriously when there's opportunities.

01:37:28.340 Even as an Eagles fan, there's not a chance in hell that they're going to win against the Patriots.

01:37:32.860 I mean, I'm not even a sports fan, let alone a football fan, and even I know that.

01:37:38.920 Well, you hold out hope.

01:37:40.140 I would say they're definitely the underdogs going in.

01:37:42.700 Sure.

01:37:43.100 Sure.

01:37:43.360 And I'm not one of those Eagles fans that's, there's a lot of people who are overly confident

01:37:48.660 and maybe, like, talk trash.

01:37:51.000 I do not do such things.

01:37:52.200 I've been around for too long.

01:37:54.680 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:37:56.060 Philadelphia fans might be talking trash?

01:37:58.220 Apparently.

01:37:58.860 You know, some full beer cans will be thrown from time to time.

01:38:01.900 Some greased poles climbed.

01:38:03.700 I'm just saying, they're not done paying for attacking, you know, I mean, the Lord's Emissary.

01:38:09.600 With this.

01:38:09.980 You know, Santa.

01:38:11.260 You don't, you just don't put a.

01:38:12.960 I mean.

01:38:13.720 You just don't put an ice ball to Santa's head.

01:38:16.220 You just don't.

01:38:16.960 I believe it showed their love.

01:38:17.860 He was on the Lord's work.

01:38:19.420 It showed their love of Santa Claus because it wasn't actually Santa Claus.

01:38:22.560 They were upset the real one didn't show.

01:38:24.200 And that's why they got an ice ball to the head.

01:38:26.000 Well, we'll see how things work out.

01:38:36.160 Glenn.

01:38:37.020 Back.

01:38:38.160 Mercury.

01:38:42.960 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:49.420 So we brought Pat Gray in for Pat Gray Unleashed.

01:38:53.400 And Pat's excited about the government shutdown.

01:38:57.560 And I'm personally excited about the asteroid that CNN says that the government is not going

01:39:02.300 to be able to track.

01:39:03.080 Well, thanks to Donald Trump, we're probably going to die within the next few days.

01:39:07.220 You know, can I tell you something?

01:39:08.120 Can't track it without the money.

01:39:09.540 Right?

01:39:10.040 No, no, no.

01:39:11.180 And you know that the government, if an asteroid were going to hit the planet, you know the

01:39:16.400 government would tell us.

01:39:17.080 No, that's not an essential function of the government to make sure nothing hits the planet.

01:39:22.960 Why would you burn yourself with that?

01:39:25.180 Yeah, mail is much more important.

01:39:26.600 Oh, way more.

01:39:27.340 Yeah, yeah.

01:39:28.020 Way more.

01:39:28.580 So we can't.

01:39:30.480 I'm actually rooting for the asteroid myself.

01:39:33.880 Well, it's going to be a near miss, like 2.6 million miles.

01:39:37.180 Holy cow.

01:39:37.940 Shoo.

01:39:38.520 That close.

01:39:39.220 Wow.

01:39:39.420 Just a.

01:39:39.820 That close.

01:39:40.760 Close enough to warm up the paint.

01:39:42.420 Wow.

01:39:42.900 Well, with the government shutdown, though, we don't know if it's going to be 2.5 or 2.7

01:39:46.480 million miles.

01:39:47.040 We'll never know.

01:39:47.760 We'll never know.

01:39:48.360 Well, we'll know probably after.

01:39:50.120 But we won't know until after.

01:39:51.800 Can you imagine if there was danger and they're like, nope, sorry, we just, there's no money.

01:39:56.260 I can't look at it.

01:39:57.960 I can't even look in the telescope.

01:39:59.840 That's how broke we are right now.

01:40:02.080 And there's no one.

01:40:03.140 There's no one that's like, you know what?

01:40:04.760 I'm going to do this one for free.

01:40:07.580 You know what?

01:40:08.460 It might wipe all of us.

01:40:10.600 Yeah.

01:40:11.000 It'll wipe all life out on planet Earth.

01:40:13.780 I'm going to do this one.

01:40:14.900 You know what?

01:40:16.260 Just don't.

01:40:16.860 You don't have to charge me overtime.

01:40:17.820 I'm just going to sit here and do it.

01:40:19.480 And we go through this every single time.

01:40:21.320 And there's been 19.

01:40:23.220 19 shutdowns since 1976.

01:40:25.540 Was it?

01:40:26.020 Oh, my gosh.

01:40:26.440 So we've been through this over and over and over again.

01:40:28.920 And every time, you know, all the essential things that have to happen.

01:40:32.620 Happen.

01:40:33.040 Happen.

01:40:33.480 Happen.

01:40:34.000 People get their social security.

01:40:35.980 We get the mail, even though I don't want it.

01:40:38.880 Veterans get their pay.

01:40:40.200 They, you know, if it was so easy to take care of things over the weekend that people were

01:40:46.520 upset for the troops because they weren't initially, they weren't going to get the NFL broadcasts

01:40:50.920 overseas.

01:40:51.660 Which is a fascinating development.

01:40:52.740 They fixed that in about five minutes.

01:40:54.180 Yeah.

01:40:54.300 They fixed it in about five minutes.

01:40:55.460 So I guess that's an essential.

01:40:56.640 It is an essential function of the government.

01:40:58.840 I love, obviously, that our troops were able to listen to the games.

01:41:01.520 And I'm fully in support of that.

01:41:02.980 But we've been told for, what, the entire year that the country is boycotting these games

01:41:07.140 because they're not patriotic enough.

01:41:08.700 And now we must.

01:41:10.020 It's an essential function of the government to get our troops access to these NFL games.

01:41:14.260 You're not supposed to think about that.

01:41:15.320 And it really shows you, I mean, it really shows you how desperate everybody is for a

01:41:19.300 crisis.

01:41:20.780 Asteroids.

01:41:21.920 That would be an essential thing that the government should do to make sure that the

01:41:27.360 earth isn't destroyed during this time.

01:41:30.000 Right.

01:41:30.560 And then they compare asteroids and people, children are going to starve to death, but they

01:41:37.340 sure went into action for the NFL to get the truth.

01:41:40.360 I mean, that shows.

01:41:41.680 Immediately.

01:41:41.920 Yeah, that shows what essential really is.

01:41:45.520 Yeah, it does.

01:41:46.560 It does.

01:41:47.140 And now they're saying that we may be completely in the dark for the State of the Union address

01:41:51.800 at the Capitol building.

01:41:52.960 Oh, wouldn't that be great?

01:41:53.940 I would love that.

01:41:55.820 Yes.

01:41:56.360 To the State of the Union by candlelight.

01:41:58.420 That would be the greatest thing of all time.

01:42:00.180 And not televised.

01:42:01.500 Don't televise it.

01:42:02.820 Oh, it would be so great.

01:42:03.560 It wasn't supposed to be.

01:42:04.560 I mean, obviously, it wasn't supposed to be televised at the beginning because they had

01:42:06.920 a problem with no televisions.

01:42:08.380 There's always a letter.

01:42:09.240 But yeah, it was supposed to be a letter.

01:42:10.220 It's just an update on how we're doing.

01:42:11.720 That's all it's supposed to be.

01:42:13.000 It's not supposed to be the spectacle.

01:42:14.300 It would be great if they backed off of that and just, you know what?

01:42:16.680 I'm not doing this anymore.

01:42:17.680 Screw you guys.

01:42:18.260 I'm going home.

01:42:19.060 That's what I want.

01:42:20.080 I think you should do it whether the government shut down or not.

01:42:22.620 Me too.

01:42:22.920 I mean, I have to tell you something.

01:42:25.020 I am.

01:42:25.480 I'm rooting for the government shutdown and the asteroid.

01:42:30.900 Now, not the asteroid.

01:42:32.100 If we can keep the government from doing anything, you know, then I'm good.

01:42:36.200 Then I want to live.

01:42:37.220 But if this is, we are in such an upside down world that, you know, at times you just look

01:42:44.840 at everything and you're like, there's nothing that makes sense anymore.

01:42:49.980 And it's not surprising anymore, is it?

01:42:51.760 That depending on what party you're in, you take the opposite side that you took last

01:42:57.100 time.

01:42:57.440 Yeah.

01:42:57.660 No matter what.

01:42:58.140 Both parties do the exact same thing every time one of these shutdowns happen.

01:43:02.580 It's not a big deal.

01:43:03.860 It is a big deal.

01:43:05.360 It's earth shattering.

01:43:06.280 It's it'll be a few days and all essential things are still going to happen.

01:43:11.000 And then they just switch sides the next time.

01:43:13.240 I would still be pissed if the veterans from World War Two could not go to the memorial.

01:43:19.200 I'd still be pissed.

01:43:20.040 Yeah.

01:43:20.560 Even though the Republicans were doing it.

01:43:22.100 But how many Republicans would be pissed?

01:43:25.220 Hopefully all of them.

01:43:26.740 Hopefully all of them.

01:43:27.800 Hopefully.

01:43:28.060 But that's not how it works.

01:43:29.120 I know.

01:43:29.700 I know.

01:43:30.100 It just doesn't work that way.

01:43:31.160 Just ignore it.

01:43:31.660 Can we do an Overton window moment here for a second, though?

01:43:34.520 You remember the book Glenn wrote, Overton window, that which if you don't remember

01:43:39.180 this, it was a theory by a think tank that basically said, like, we, you know, the window

01:43:43.880 of available policy options that we look at gets moved by the debate.

01:43:48.300 So, you know, we are constantly fighting within that window.

01:43:51.900 Both parties are picking something.

01:43:54.000 But sometimes the entire window just moves to the left or moves to the right.

01:43:57.580 Somebody, somebody, a powerful force will come and they will move it all.

01:44:01.600 For instance, we would have never done the Patriot Act.

01:44:03.960 Never.

01:44:05.180 9-11 moved the window.

01:44:07.820 And so all of a sudden we were talking about fascism and it was so far down that way that

01:44:14.360 we were happy with the Patriot Act, you know what I mean, where we would never have accepted

01:44:18.040 that before.

01:44:19.020 And this is happening here with this, with this debate on the shutdown.

01:44:21.660 The shutdown is currently happening because both sides, the left and the right are arguing

01:44:27.500 which one wants to enact DACA more.

01:44:31.840 This is a policy that, that is new to this country as of 2014.

01:44:37.900 In fact, we would, what we're talking about, if this goes away, is going back to the policy

01:44:42.460 of the first five years of the Obama administration.

01:44:47.240 And we are both, both sides are sitting here arguing, no, there's absolutely no solution

01:44:53.380 that does not give amnesty to these people.

01:44:56.000 And by the way, there's no one arguing.

01:44:57.700 Amnesty was, amnesty was the thing that everybody's called a racist for.

01:45:02.200 If you voted for Donald Trump, you were a racist because you didn't want amnesty.

01:45:07.060 Now amnesty is definitely on the table and nobody's saying anything about that.

01:45:11.800 They're arguing, they're arguing how fast that amnesty is going to happen.

01:45:16.280 Is it going to happen tomorrow or today?

01:45:18.720 And not only is it for the dreamers, but the latest proposal is their parents too.

01:45:23.340 So the parents who brought them and are responsible for this illegal activity, they're also going

01:45:28.360 to be granted amnesty.

01:45:29.840 It's incredible.

01:45:30.460 You've gone from the 3.2 million dreamers to who knows, five, six, six million illegal

01:45:36.280 aliens.

01:45:36.720 And remember the dream, the dreamers act happened in the second term of the Obama administration.

01:45:41.420 Did it not?

01:45:42.280 Well, DACA.

01:45:42.880 Yeah.

01:45:43.040 DACA is a little bit different than the dreamers, but they're lumped in together often.

01:45:45.940 Yeah.

01:45:46.180 And that was, that was an executive order because he couldn't get it passed.

01:45:50.580 Right.

01:45:51.260 And now we're both sides are falling over each other to say how in favor of passing that thing

01:45:58.620 that they couldn't get passed during Obama, how in favor they are.

01:46:02.200 We want this to happen more than the other side.

01:46:05.300 Both sides are saying that this is something that Obama couldn't get done because the Republicans

01:46:10.460 fought against it.

01:46:11.460 They cared about stopping illegal immigration.

01:46:14.800 Now, of course, there's a nuanced discussion to go on about, you know, these people who

01:46:19.900 were brought here as children and are now older.

01:46:22.620 And maybe if they have no, it wasn't their fault.

01:46:24.980 Obviously, they came here.

01:46:26.120 Their parents brought them.

01:46:27.320 They didn't know.

01:46:28.220 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:46:29.260 We know all the nuance because that's all they ever talk about.

01:46:31.760 But that was never the position of the conservatives.

01:46:34.040 It used to be the litmus test against you as a candidate if you were a Republican.

01:46:38.460 If you remember right, just two years ago, if you would have said on this or any other

01:46:44.800 talk radio program, listen, after the border is secure, I don't mind if we talk about amnesty

01:46:56.140 for those that are here.

01:46:57.800 Oh, my gosh.

01:46:59.300 It was your last day on the air.

01:47:02.420 It's why Marco Rubio was tossed to the side.

01:47:05.900 It's why John McCain to a large degree.

01:47:08.040 Yeah, that was one of his big problems as he supported that.

01:47:10.540 Orrin Hatch was another big one on the Dreamers bill and people turned on him like crazy.

01:47:16.140 I mean, and I think rightfully so in many ways.

01:47:19.980 And now it's the policy of the party.

01:47:21.840 Yeah.

01:47:22.460 From the top down.

01:47:23.540 It's actually we're accusing the Democrats of not being pro DACA enough.

01:47:28.300 Okay, so hang on just a second.

01:47:29.500 Hang on just a second.

01:47:30.340 So what's happened here?

01:47:31.540 Is this a complete reversal of everything that conservatives believed about the rule

01:47:38.060 of law?

01:47:38.660 Or is this just a fulfillment of what we really perhaps believed after border security?

01:47:48.960 And we're just now Trump just now just assuming that Trump's going to get the border done.

01:47:56.360 So in other words, like I was I'm for, you know, talking about amnesty.

01:48:02.620 Yeah.

01:48:02.820 Talking about secure the border after no one else comes through.

01:48:06.760 Right.

01:48:07.000 And once it's secure, then I'm willing to look and say, look, let's let's talk about the people

01:48:11.240 here and sort through people.

01:48:13.800 I'm willing to do that.

01:48:15.720 Always have been.

01:48:17.560 However, not until security.

01:48:20.260 So do we have we just accepted that Donald Trump is going to get that border security done?

01:48:25.000 It's already done.

01:48:26.000 So why not just talk about it?

01:48:28.000 Well, I think indications are the opposite of that.

01:48:31.020 I think they've backed off getting that done.

01:48:33.140 They're they're not really they're not concerned about the wall as much anymore because he just

01:48:37.780 wants a significant portion, whatever that means.

01:48:39.960 Yeah.

01:48:40.120 I mean, it doesn't have to be built everywhere.

01:48:41.860 Even the administration themselves are saying that they they are they've given a lot of ground

01:48:45.720 to Democrats because right now they're trying to tell everyone that they're working towards

01:48:49.880 a common goal.

01:48:50.700 So they've admitted that they've given a lot of ground.

01:48:52.840 Let me play the average Trump voter, I think, that says, look, I I didn't expect an entire

01:48:59.860 wall.

01:49:01.040 It's unreasonable to think that.

01:49:02.480 It was fun to think that it was.

01:49:04.600 Yeah.

01:49:04.740 You didn't say that during the campaign, however, I know that.

01:49:07.000 But but let's give people benefit of the doubt.

01:49:09.740 It was fun to say that.

01:49:10.940 And it was great.

01:49:12.120 I all I wanted was a secure border.

01:49:14.300 I don't care how you get it done.

01:49:16.520 Yeah.

01:49:16.800 So the so people are just saying, look, border crossings are down, what, 60 percent border

01:49:22.700 crossings are down.

01:49:23.940 We are enforcing the law.

01:49:25.580 Things are changing.

01:49:26.960 You know, I don't care.

01:49:29.020 I mean, is that what's happening?

01:49:30.820 I don't know.

01:49:31.380 Probably to a certain extent.

01:49:33.280 And, you know, the fight gets old after a while and we lose interest in it.

01:49:36.540 And it's just I don't want to hear any about it anymore.

01:49:39.000 It's like the email scandal.

01:49:40.020 It was like with Hillary.

01:49:41.480 They keep bringing that up.

01:49:42.420 And I'm I'm almost done with that.

01:49:44.300 I mean, are you are you sick and tired of hearing about the Hillary emails?

01:49:48.280 It's the emails.

01:49:49.880 Yes.

01:49:50.340 That we're doing tonight.

01:49:51.840 We're doing a four part series.

01:49:53.740 Tonight's part one on uranium one.

01:49:57.100 I'm telling you.

01:49:58.140 That's the part, though, that it hasn't really been covered.

01:50:00.660 No, that is.

01:50:01.420 And there is something really wrong.

01:50:02.980 When you see we're covering the uranium one Hillary Clinton scandal tonight for four nights, only on the blaze TV, five o'clock.

01:50:09.180 Don't miss the show.

01:50:09.780 It's blackboard.

01:50:10.340 And I'm telling you, there is something really wrong there.

01:50:13.980 And you tie that together with what the FBI did this weekend.

01:50:18.620 We found out on Friday they just they just, you know, oops, accidentally deleted nine thousand tweets from this FBI guy who is having an affair talking about Trump in, you know, integral into the investigation.

01:50:34.860 There's something wrong with the FBI.

01:50:36.640 Despicable.

01:50:37.220 It is.

01:50:38.040 And there's something very wrong.

01:50:39.620 And and as I made in my prediction, nothing will come about nothing will come of this because both sides are in too deep with Russia and it involves our Justice Department, our FBI.

01:50:53.020 I would bet my life on it.

01:50:54.520 And they're both in too deep.

01:50:56.640 And so they're just going to back away and say, OK, well, here's some bad stuff, but not bad enough for anybody to really worry about.

01:51:05.260 I don't you think?

01:51:06.640 Yeah, I do.

01:51:07.700 Yeah.

01:51:08.180 We're never going to get the truth on Russia and it's bad.

01:51:11.000 And you know what?

01:51:11.840 Well, we never got the truth on Benghazi either.

01:51:13.700 So that was the same thing.

01:51:15.220 It felt after a while.

01:51:16.420 It was like, all right, I don't know.

01:51:18.100 We said Benghazi.

01:51:19.040 How many times nothing's happening?

01:51:21.020 You know, I mean, it just felt like it wasn't.

01:51:22.820 I mean, even made it into a really good movie and people didn't pay attention to it.

01:51:26.440 Did you see what Twitter did?

01:51:28.500 And they about 700,000 people got a notice from Twitter this weekend that said, hey, in our records, we're just trying to make sure that, you know, people know that Russia is doing things.

01:51:40.300 And you have retweeted some things from Russian bots.

01:51:45.820 Did you see that?

01:51:46.420 I didn't.

01:51:46.940 OK.

01:51:47.100 So they came out with this.

01:51:49.420 They just they sent it to let me see if I can find it.

01:51:51.820 700 or 677,000 people, Americans who were caught up in this and they just retweeted something that was fake from Russia.

01:52:02.260 And it's now been, you know, tied to a Russian bot.

01:52:05.560 If you look at the at the comments from conservatives on this, you were doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin and you were doing it not with a troll, with a bot.

01:52:18.400 OK, now I would assume that the left who also was doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin and tweeting stuff on Black Lives Matter.

01:52:29.280 I'm assuming they got notifications as well.

01:52:33.100 They better have.

01:52:34.380 I haven't seen that anywhere, but they better have.

01:52:37.740 And both sides ought to stop saying stuff about Twitter in this particular case and start saying, holy crap.

01:52:46.440 I forwarded things from thank you, Twitter.

01:52:50.100 Thank you for letting me know that this was a Russian bot.

01:52:53.520 I'd like to know.

01:52:54.780 I don't care whose side you're on.

01:52:56.360 I'd like to know if Vladimir Putin is trying to influence my thinking.

01:53:00.620 I think that's a service, but that's not what you're hearing from at least the right that I saw over the weekend.

01:53:08.720 And it was deafening from the left.

01:53:11.360 I don't even know if the left was even informed.

01:53:13.420 I don't understand why this isn't the goal of all of this.

01:53:20.520 You know, we were talking, too, about the, you know, the releasing of the memo, right, that that's supposed to come out.

01:53:25.580 And this Russia investigation is supposed to be about finding out what the hell Russia is trying to do to influence our elections and other things.

01:53:31.180 And it's never about that.

01:53:32.900 I mean, this whole release the memo thing.

01:53:34.740 I have I want to hear it.

01:53:35.880 I want to know what's in there.

01:53:36.860 I obviously am interested.

01:53:38.420 I don't know who we're asking to to release.

01:53:41.540 I don't know who Republicans are asking.

01:53:42.820 I don't know that it's going to compromise.

01:53:44.380 Yeah, I don't want it.

01:53:45.460 If it's going to if it's going to compromise.

01:53:47.620 We all want to see what it is, but I don't want the prosecution compromise.

01:53:50.880 But that's what I'm talking about is the theater around it.

01:53:52.960 Right.

01:53:53.200 Like there's a legitimate reason not to release this stuff because you don't want it to you don't want to make it into a situation where you're just scoring political points and you're going to screw up an investigation because there could be something real there that we can actually get something where maybe someone's prosecuted or who knows.

01:54:07.540 So there's a reason to maybe not release it.

01:54:10.280 But the point is, if they wanted it released, it's their own side that could release it.

01:54:15.080 Yeah.

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1⧸22⧸18 - 'A Collection of Sheep to the Media' ( Jan Lewan joins Glenn)

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