The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸24⧸18 - 'Sore Losers and Winners' (Scott Hamilton joins Glenn)

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00:00:27.020 So, the shutdown is effectively over because Democrats caved.

00:00:31.320 White House is taking a victory lap after Democrats in the Senate caved and voted to reopen the government.

00:00:36.420 They got a deal to make a deal, maybe.

00:00:39.880 Democrats, on Monday, after a three-day shutdown, have relented, accepted nearly all White House terms.

00:00:46.360 Guys, that's why the Democratic base is clearly worried that they are getting played.

00:00:50.600 Is this a good deal for Chuck Schumer?

00:00:52.540 No, it's a terrible deal.

00:00:54.040 It seemed like everybody was losing. It seemed like Democrats maybe lost this fight.

00:00:57.340 Democrats lost the shutdown war.

00:00:59.900 Democrats wanted a deal on DACA, but all they got was a promise.

00:01:03.780 They are getting their butts kicked.

00:01:06.340 Truth is, the Dems got spooked and the GOP got a boost.

00:01:09.760 The progressive groups are very unhappy.

00:01:12.180 But we know the DACA folks lost, Democrats lost.

00:01:15.040 The Democrats lost their leverage, at least in this next window, until the next shutdown.

00:01:18.620 Schumer's sellout. The perception is he got rolled and the left is not happy.

00:01:23.580 I'm just not totally sure what Democrats got here.

00:01:28.100 Why did they shut down the government in the first place?

00:01:30.780 There is some anger on the left that the Democrats, in their mind, may have caved on this shutdown.

00:01:36.200 We are outraged that millions of people went out into the streets in support of Dreamers and Senate Democrats chose to vote against Dreamers.

00:01:43.220 Leader Schumer, what one thing did he get, you know, from Republicans to justify shutting down the government in the first place?

00:01:50.300 They agreed to Democrats to fund the government through February 8th in exchange for a promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that they would have a debate and a vote on DACA.

00:02:00.380 In other words, for nothing.

00:02:01.300 People are saying Democrats caved and they surrendered.

00:02:03.360 A lot of your members say that Leader Schumer caved.

00:02:06.000 Did he?

00:02:06.720 Do you think Senator Chuck Schumer caved?

00:02:08.880 Did Senate Democrats cave?

00:02:10.500 Another Senate aide told NBC News, quote, we caved, we lost.

00:02:14.200 If Democrats don't want to fight, then let's find some people who will.

00:02:16.800 Is it fair to say that the shutdown, the government shutdown, backfired for Democrats?

00:02:22.420 In Washington, there are winners and losers.

00:02:25.300 Democrats wanted a DACA fix.

00:02:27.360 They didn't get it.

00:02:28.800 The Democrats lost.

00:02:34.800 It's Wednesday, January 24th.

00:02:37.620 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:43.240 I think.

00:02:46.800 I think you could take this as a comparison to Reagan.

00:02:54.720 I cannot remember a time in my life, except perhaps during the Reagan administration, that I heard reporting like that.

00:03:06.160 I can't think of a time.

00:03:09.260 It didn't happen under George H.W. Bush.

00:03:11.360 It didn't obviously happen under Clinton.

00:03:13.980 It didn't happen under George W. Bush.

00:03:18.000 Certainly didn't happen over Obama.

00:03:20.280 I've never heard reporting like that.

00:03:22.060 I've never heard.

00:03:23.700 They caved.

00:03:25.000 They blinked.

00:03:26.220 They didn't get anything.

00:03:27.900 They tried.

00:03:28.640 They failed.

00:03:30.100 In my lifetime, except for Reagan, it has always been.

00:03:34.380 Uh, they won.

00:03:37.280 And the Republicans caved.

00:03:39.280 And, right?

00:03:41.260 I don't think I've ever heard it any other way.

00:03:44.140 This is why America voted for Donald Trump.

00:03:49.660 The people who voted for Donald Trump, I think, I could be wrong, I think this is more satisfying in some ways than even Gorsuch.

00:03:59.180 Gorsuch, not more important, more satisfying.

00:04:04.320 Gorsuch was nice.

00:04:06.780 This has a visceral kind of feel to it.

00:04:15.920 Yes, I think that's true.

00:04:17.380 I don't know that that's a good instinct.

00:04:18.960 No, I'm not saying it is.

00:04:20.120 I'm saying it's reality.

00:04:21.840 Right.

00:04:22.060 Because then what did they get?

00:04:23.180 I mean, I think it's great to hear, right, that your side won for once.

00:04:26.740 I mean, it's great.

00:04:28.380 But, I mean, the other side of it is, it's, what, three weeks?

00:04:31.060 I mean, in three weeks, we're going to be right.

00:04:32.320 Yes, they won a very short-term battle that really, I mean, the fact that they didn't have to give up DACA is important if what you'd want at the end isn't DACA.

00:04:44.180 The problem is that it's going to be DACA.

00:04:46.360 Both sides are saying they want DACA.

00:04:48.640 So, the fact that they delayed DACA for a few weeks and delayed this battle for a few weeks is positive because, obviously, the government should function and everything.

00:04:58.620 I mean, we all understand that I would like the government to be cut to the levels of a shutdown, but not necessarily in that way.

00:05:04.140 But hear me out.

00:05:06.860 Tell me the time when the Democrats have, you know, oh, my gosh, these poor little children who are starving and don't have eyes, and the evil Republicans just want to take away donated eyes from these children.

00:05:23.760 How many times have you seen those ridiculous stories and the media pounce and try to flip absolutely everything upside down?

00:05:35.160 And it works.

00:05:36.880 It works every dime.

00:05:38.760 Yeah.

00:05:39.120 I mean, this time it didn't.

00:05:40.460 It seems like the Democrats are legitimately annoyed that they tried for something and could not win.

00:05:46.520 Yeah.

00:05:46.780 And the media is playing into that saying they're taking the side of, essentially, Elizabeth Warren, right?

00:05:52.580 They're taking the side of Bernie Sanders.

00:05:54.300 They didn't go far enough.

00:05:55.480 They didn't do it enough.

00:05:56.600 They lost.

00:05:58.020 And that's a revealing thing about the media and also a revealing thing about the party and where the power is going to go in the party.

00:06:04.120 Because, I mean, in a way, you could argue that Schumer, who's an insane leftist, is actually playing the role of a normal Democrat here.

00:06:13.840 He's not playing Bernie Sanders.

00:06:15.860 He's playing, hey, we'll give you some money for the wall and we'll try to get this big left-wing priority done of DACA.

00:06:23.140 Right.

00:06:23.340 What was it that they said about the Republicans of the Tea Parties that the radicals had taken over?

00:06:30.960 Yeah.

00:06:31.520 The media is cheering for the radicals here.

00:06:34.320 Exactly.

00:06:34.640 And that is where the Democrats are going to go.

00:06:38.120 If you are a Democrat, if you're a center of the country Democrat and you're not into Marxism and you love the country and everything else, you're about to lose your party.

00:06:49.620 I mean, you've lost your party already, but you still had some chance.

00:06:54.060 Because they're going to exterminate, politically speaking, the people like Chuck Schumer.

00:07:01.680 And Schumer is not like a moderate.

00:07:03.460 He's not a moderate.

00:07:04.320 He's a crazy leftist.

00:07:05.240 But in this particular case, he was the moderate.

00:07:09.120 It shows you how far left this party is going.

00:07:13.220 That's probably the biggest thing I take out of this.

00:07:15.260 Because, honestly, the win for Republicans here is what?

00:07:18.900 Let me have a...

00:07:19.580 No, no.

00:07:20.520 Again, I think this is an important development.

00:07:23.060 And it's something that you should be happy about if you're a Republican, right?

00:07:27.040 Because it takes away.

00:07:30.480 Democrats losing something like this is big.

00:07:32.880 The fact that they're going to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, generally speaking, is a positive development for your electoral future if you're a Republican.

00:07:40.560 I mean, running against a socialist, an admitted socialist, it should be nothing but a blessing to Republicans.

00:07:50.360 The other side of this, though, is we have to take it into account and put it in perspective here.

00:07:55.540 What you're talking about is they've pushed a big-time left-wing priority down the road for three weeks.

00:08:03.880 That's the win here, policy-wise.

00:08:07.180 I know.

00:08:07.580 However...

00:08:08.260 There's the visceral feeling.

00:08:09.720 Right.

00:08:10.000 Feelings are feelings.

00:08:11.140 Hang on just a second.

00:08:11.980 There is also the lesson that has been learned now by the left.

00:08:17.420 We may have overplayed our hand on this one.

00:08:19.980 It didn't work this time.

00:08:22.120 Right.

00:08:22.460 It always works.

00:08:23.960 I can't...

00:08:24.480 I literally cannot think of a time that that hasn't worked.

00:08:29.200 Can you?

00:08:30.400 Have you ever heard reporting like that?

00:08:32.380 The Democrats caved.

00:08:33.740 What did they get?

00:08:34.580 They got nothing.

00:08:35.360 That's always us.

00:08:36.680 Replace the word Democrat with Republican, and that's the only story I've ever heard from the press.

00:08:42.400 Right.

00:08:42.520 This time, they're saying it didn't work.

00:08:46.020 Well, they had every reason for it to work.

00:08:48.620 They had millions of people out on the streets over the weekend.

00:08:52.260 That's all they covered.

00:08:53.940 They had the dreamers and the poor little children and the immigrants.

00:08:59.140 They had that storyline.

00:09:01.580 They had all of the tools that always work, and yet they saw something in their research that said, fold.

00:09:11.220 That's important.

00:09:12.520 Well, two parts of this.

00:09:13.680 In polling, when you look at polling, what showed up there was that people, generally speaking, by the way, DACA is a relatively popular proposal.

00:09:22.820 And it's because people look at it and they say, ah, kids came across the border.

00:09:25.400 It's not their fault.

00:09:26.040 They should be able to stay.

00:09:27.220 Generally speaking, when you get it to the nuanced level of it, it's not very popular.

00:09:31.440 But on the top line, people like that proposal generally.

00:09:35.560 And it failed.

00:09:35.760 So that's why Democrats believe this would work.

00:09:39.100 What they found is when they asked the American people, hey, DACA or your government is shut down, they wanted the government open more than they wanted DACA.

00:09:50.480 And I don't think that they wanted the government open.

00:09:55.940 I think they were like, stop it.

00:09:58.280 Yeah.

00:09:58.660 They want it over with.

00:10:00.000 Shut up.

00:10:00.460 Shut up and stop it.

00:10:02.080 I think that's fair to say.

00:10:02.860 So, you know, I think it's good.

00:10:05.620 I mean, you know, it's something you can look at and say it's certainly not a bad thing for Republicans.

00:10:12.100 Let me say it this way.

00:10:13.940 It changes strategies.

00:10:17.920 It possibly, possibly may be the beginning of overplaying your hand.

00:10:25.840 And counting on the media and expecting that the media can pull everything off, it's a different world.

00:10:33.560 And I'll say this, too.

00:10:34.560 Part of this, we should actually give credit to the all-time enemy of the mainstream media.

00:10:42.160 Because many of them did report this as a Democrat shutdown, as a Democrat-caused shutdown.

00:10:47.960 Yes.

00:10:48.520 Many of them did report it as them, as we just played a large montage from the Washington Free Beacon of them saying that they lost afterwards.

00:10:58.560 I mean, this one was so obviously a Democrat shutdown, it was hard to ignore.

00:11:03.600 So I'm not going to give too much credit.

00:11:05.540 But the fact that they tried.

00:11:07.360 They tried.

00:11:07.860 Some of them did.

00:11:08.640 But the fact that the Democrats actually heard it from their own people is astounding.

00:11:14.140 It's astounding.

00:11:14.840 And I think a factor here.

00:11:15.920 I mean, it wasn't just right-wingers saying the Democrats shut down the government.

00:11:19.220 The mainstream media said it a lot as well.

00:11:22.180 And I think that influences them to give up, which is positive.

00:11:25.660 I think it is also a gauge of the temperature of the center of the country.

00:11:32.600 The average person wants this nonsense to stop.

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00:13:24.380 Glenn Beck Mercury.

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00:13:34.220 I'm not sure it's for the same reason, but there is something good that is starting to brew in Alabama.

00:13:45.020 Alabama, with some judges, are in open rebellion against the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.

00:13:55.440 And they don't want to issue marriage license.

00:13:58.600 So what are you going to do?

00:14:02.160 What's going to happen?

00:14:02.940 How do you solve this?

00:14:03.900 One senator, a Republican state senator, Greg Albritton, I think it's his name, is proposing to eliminate the license altogether.

00:14:16.760 He says, that way you don't have to endorse or not endorse.

00:14:21.560 Just why do we have a license?

00:14:24.080 Yes!

00:14:25.520 Yes!

00:14:26.960 Yes!

00:14:27.640 Thank you!

00:14:28.680 The only problem I have with that is approximately 80% of the value of my marriage I take from the state.

00:14:36.420 You too.

00:14:37.000 The fact that they approve.

00:14:37.640 Yours is only 80%?

00:14:39.060 Wow, you have a bad marriage.

00:14:40.020 Yeah, no, it's true.

00:14:40.760 I mean, the fact that the government says it's okay for me to be married and says, you know what, I recognize you guys have the same last name is so vitally important to me.

00:14:52.040 It really is.

00:14:52.520 And my life.

00:14:53.220 It really is.

00:14:53.980 And it makes it an honor to go ahead and pay, you know, the extra taxes.

00:15:00.960 Oh, the fee for the license.

00:15:02.400 I loved that.

00:15:03.280 I love all of that.

00:15:03.900 There was nothing more romantic than signing that government document acknowledging that we were married.

00:15:09.160 And that is what you look back on.

00:15:10.700 You don't look back at the pictures of the wedding or the honeymoon.

00:15:13.300 No.

00:15:13.460 You look back and say, wow, remember that time we went to that sterile office?

00:15:16.640 Can I tell you something?

00:15:17.980 You know, the government really encouraged me with the income tax.

00:15:22.480 You know, I wasn't thinking about getting married.

00:15:24.820 I didn't really love her that much.

00:15:26.460 But then when I saw, you know, if we legally get married, then we might get a break on our income tax.

00:15:34.920 And I thought to myself, okay, all right, that's a reason.

00:15:39.960 Every classic love story ends with a deduction in taxes.

00:15:44.980 Exactly right.

00:15:45.660 That's how it works.

00:15:46.320 Greg, that is the right idea.

00:15:49.940 Yes, we survived.

00:15:52.040 Abraham Lincoln didn't have one.

00:15:54.120 George Washington.

00:15:55.040 George Washington didn't have one.

00:15:56.700 If you want to get married, go get married.

00:16:01.040 Go get married.

00:16:02.120 Why is the state involved in this at all?

00:16:05.660 Well, it's, of course, an answer to that, which is to make sure black people don't marry white people, which is why marriage licenses started with progressives.

00:16:13.740 And defectives.

00:16:14.240 And defectives.

00:16:14.940 That's why we have to get a blood test, because the idea was make sure that no defectives marry each other.

00:16:20.920 It's one of those really weird things that has turned into, like, people take the marriage license as, like, a gift from the government.

00:16:28.420 Like, that's not what it is.

00:16:30.760 You frame that.

00:16:32.380 Some people frame their marriage license.

00:16:34.860 Why?

00:16:35.600 Why?

00:16:36.020 What does that have to do with anything?

00:16:37.880 I mean, it just shows how dependent on government we become.

00:16:40.580 When the father of our country was like, I don't need that.

00:16:44.200 Why would I need that?

00:16:45.100 It wasn't even a considered thing.

00:16:47.020 With George freaking Washington.

00:16:49.300 And then hundreds of years later, like, even hardcore conservatives are like, I absolutely must have that piece of paper.

00:16:55.420 Because that will make sure that we're really, really, really in love.

00:16:59.480 That means that will make it government recognized.

00:17:02.620 What an honor.

00:17:04.660 It's so crazy.

00:17:06.240 It is a weird thing.

00:17:06.940 Especially since it really did come from Reconstruction of, let's make sure none of our wives marry one of them black people.

00:17:14.980 Yeah.

00:17:15.260 There's charts.

00:17:16.100 You can go back in history and look at the charts where they say, like, it's okay to grant a license if a person is only one-third black.

00:17:24.220 You know, like, so there was an actual chart.

00:17:26.080 Can I tell you something?

00:17:27.100 We had the author on from, what was it, Yale, that talked about the Nuremberg race laws that came from us.

00:17:35.000 They ended up in Nazi Germany being one of the foundational principles of the Nazi party and how to regulate and separate race.

00:17:46.060 They looked at us and they said, well, they've gone really far.

00:17:50.840 But if they can do it, why can't we do it?

00:17:53.240 I mean, it's insane when you actually know the history of the marriage license, why it was put in place, why you have that blood test.

00:18:02.060 Greg, Alabama, you're on the right track.

00:18:06.140 Get the government out of it.

00:18:08.520 And we don't have to have this discussion anymore.

00:18:11.260 Your relationship with Greg is escalating quickly here.

00:18:13.980 I mean, Greg did say this.

00:18:17.620 He said, instead of a marriage license, the couple would just submit a form to a probate judge swearing that they're willing to get married, not already married, not related, and of legal age.

00:18:30.060 I mean, part of that is, you know, considering the fact that the government is involved, you can't break other laws.

00:18:35.520 One of the big arguments against what we're saying here, when you're getting the government out of marriage completely, and, you know, you'll hear even libertarians sometimes say it.

00:18:43.220 Well, it would be too much of a pain because we already have these laws that are based on that, and we have to unravel those.

00:18:50.980 How is a libertarian making that argument?

00:18:53.140 Every part of your philosophy has that qualifier to it.

00:18:56.880 Unravel what?

00:18:58.040 Like, well, you know, there's tax laws associated with it.

00:19:00.520 There's property laws.

00:19:02.240 All those things, though.

00:19:03.080 But if it's the right thing to do, you unravel those laws.

00:19:06.820 Right.

00:19:06.940 It was probably really difficult.

00:19:08.400 I mean, coming from the people who are like, well, I legalize heroin tomorrow.

00:19:12.600 Right, exactly.

00:19:13.440 There's some consequences to that.

00:19:15.340 Right.

00:19:15.720 And it was probably a complicated process to unravel the associated laws with slavery, too, but it was a good idea, so we did it.

00:19:24.200 I don't know.

00:19:25.440 I'm not putting them on the same platform, but it's a proof of concept here.

00:19:29.720 When something is right to do, you go ahead.

00:19:33.080 And that one was probably a little more tough.

00:19:35.140 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:19:36.940 It was a big deal at the time.

00:19:38.840 A little more tough there.

00:19:40.000 Yeah.

00:19:40.360 So it's an interesting thing because I think people love the culture debate so much around it, at least until recently.

00:19:48.900 Because recently the polling has turned around enough on it that it's not really as, you know, obviously even President Trump is not fighting the gay marriage issue anymore.

00:19:57.160 There's not really another side to it seemingly anymore except for it locally.

00:20:00.980 So, you know, I guess people just aren't, they don't have that culture debate to fall back on.

00:20:06.460 But I think a lot of it is that.

00:20:07.720 I just wish, you know, I wish we would have argued instead of gay marriage is wrong.

00:20:13.600 I just wish we would have argued the actual thing.

00:20:16.460 Do what you want to do.

00:20:18.240 I will do what I want to do.

00:20:19.780 The government has no place in my bedroom, in my home, between me and my wife, between me and my spouse, period.

00:20:27.860 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:36.720 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:39.180 Yesterday on television, we did a couple of things.

00:20:41.860 One, I started to lay out a concern that I have of the corruption of the Justice Department and the FBI.

00:20:50.760 And I want to take that and separate that from Donald Trump and from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama even.

00:20:57.860 I just, we must focus on what has happened to the Justice Department.

00:21:04.200 Are we getting the truth about Russia?

00:21:07.180 Are we able to even have an independent view?

00:21:12.600 They're losing.

00:21:14.400 They lost the IRS records of Lois Lerner.

00:21:18.880 They couldn't retrieve the Hillary Clinton emails.

00:21:21.880 I mean, the NSA has more servers and more computational power and memory than all of the companies in Silicon Valley combined.

00:21:34.200 That's pretty intense.

00:21:36.120 How come we can't put it to use?

00:21:37.720 Now they've lost the text messages from the FBI agents that appear to be colluding against Donald Trump.

00:21:47.080 That is treason if it would be true.

00:21:50.680 We don't know if it's true because the FBI lost a select number of text messages between these two between the time of the Donald Trump transition and the hiring of Mueller for a special independent counselor.

00:22:04.760 Wow, that's really, really tough to lose just that window of just those texts.

00:22:13.340 But can we call the phone company?

00:22:14.640 Because I think they can produce it, can't they?

00:22:16.260 I mean, isn't that what law enforcement always does?

00:22:18.620 Can't we get that through the phone company?

00:22:21.100 Can we not call the NSA and say, hey, we need this data.

00:22:25.860 Go look for this particular data.

00:22:28.320 They say they store everything, they just don't look at it.

00:22:31.900 Well, then good.

00:22:33.340 Look for this data.

00:22:35.280 And that seems to be what the president is hinting at today with his tweet about blaming Samsung for the missing messages.

00:22:41.320 He seems to be like, well, let's find a way to get that.

00:22:44.260 He's trying to get somebody from some other source to pick up these messages.

00:22:49.100 He's the president of the United States.

00:22:50.820 Order the NSA to go back in and look for him.

00:22:54.080 That's what you do.

00:22:54.860 But can you?

00:22:55.480 I mean, is that I mean, it's not supposed you could go to a FISA court and get the warrant.

00:23:01.320 You could get the warrant.

00:23:02.720 I mean, it certainly influenced that process.

00:23:05.060 Yeah.

00:23:05.500 This is important documentation for a very important investigation.

00:23:11.680 If there's not a reason for FISA, if there's not a court, you don't even have to have the secret court.

00:23:17.400 If there isn't a court that the president, this is this is possibly about treason and it could be about obstruction of justice on the other side.

00:23:28.680 Those are both pretty big deals.

00:23:30.780 If somebody can't go to the court and say, look, we might have treason in the FBI, we might have a president who is obstructing justice.

00:23:41.040 We need to know.

00:23:42.860 We need a warrant to go find these things.

00:23:46.720 If the if a judge won't issue that, then what good is all of that money that we have spent on the server farms that none of us want?

00:23:56.900 Well, Facebook isn't losing it.

00:23:59.720 We have more servers than Google and Facebook combined.

00:24:04.600 And plus everybody else in Silicon Valley.

00:24:07.760 Right.

00:24:08.160 I mean, they, of course, claim they don't have all that.

00:24:10.200 Yeah, of course.

00:24:10.820 They only have metadata.

00:24:12.200 They could see that a text was sent, but they can't see what was in it.

00:24:15.600 That's what they say.

00:24:16.800 I mean, I don't know that you believe that.

00:24:18.500 I don't believe that at all.

00:24:19.780 I don't believe that at all.

00:24:21.300 But here's the other thing.

00:24:22.560 And we have to be really, really careful on this.

00:24:26.180 Ron Johnson, who was a he was a Tea Party candidate, I believe.

00:24:30.640 Yeah, sure.

00:24:31.840 Senator in Wisconsin.

00:24:33.400 So Ron Johnson said something yesterday that is.

00:24:39.280 If true, really, really concerning.

00:24:44.460 If it is if if he doesn't know, I have a warning from history.

00:24:50.280 But but first, listen to what he said.

00:24:54.380 And that secret society, we have we have an informant that's talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off site.

00:25:01.700 There is there's so much smoke here.

00:25:03.200 There's so much suspicion.

00:25:04.420 Let's let's stop there.

00:25:05.280 A secret society, a secret meetings off site of the Justice Department.

00:25:09.500 Correct.

00:25:09.920 And you have an informant saying that.

00:25:12.200 Yes.

00:25:13.660 Is there anything more about that?

00:25:15.140 No, we have to dig into it.

00:25:16.340 That's that's this is not a distraction.

00:25:18.880 Again, this is this is bias, potentially corruption at the highest levels of the FBI that is now investigating.

00:25:25.380 OK, so the way he said yes makes me nervous.

00:25:30.220 I didn't feel the full conviction of his.

00:25:33.420 Yes.

00:25:34.220 Wait, you have an informant.

00:25:36.380 Yes.

00:25:36.900 I would like you to have more of a conviction on that.

00:25:41.960 We also don't know who that informant was.

00:25:45.580 Now, that is a serious charge and it needs to be examined.

00:25:53.060 But warning Republicans and everyone else, don't make the mistake of going off half cocked.

00:26:03.060 Don't talk about this until you you have something substantial.

00:26:11.620 And if I may, let's just remember how this worked last time.

00:26:17.620 Somebody said there was a secret society in our government.

00:26:22.480 In case in case you don't remember what I'm talking about in West Virginia, a senator stood up and said there are 200.

00:26:48.000 I have the names of 205 card carrying members of the Communist Party who work now at the U.S. Department of State.

00:27:00.220 Here's what happened.

00:27:01.520 I think we've got a much more serious situation now.

00:27:04.260 Communist infiltration of the CIA disturbs me beyond words.

00:27:08.260 Well, we haven't.

00:27:09.020 The members of the committee have not been advised.

00:27:11.220 And I do think that we have the names of the people.

00:27:15.820 I've discussed this matter with the members of the committee.

00:27:18.200 I've also discussed with the members of the committee the question of Communist infiltration of atomic and hydrogen bomb plants.

00:27:24.300 I felt that was, I think, even more important than this infiltration of...

00:27:28.820 May I...

00:27:29.820 May...

00:27:30.820 Just let me finish and do this one.

00:27:32.740 One point.

00:27:33.440 May I have from the files all the memos and...

00:27:36.960 Senator, may we not drop this.

00:27:39.080 We know he belongs to the lawyers' guilds.

00:27:40.820 And Mr. Cole nods his head at me.

00:27:44.520 I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cole.

00:27:47.940 No, sir.

00:27:48.360 I meant to do you no personal injury.

00:27:50.540 No.

00:27:51.120 And if I did, I beg your pardon.

00:27:54.780 Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.

00:27:58.620 You've done enough.

00:28:00.520 Have you no sense of decency, sir?

00:28:03.980 Senator, at long last, have you left no sense of decency?

00:28:09.780 I know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.

00:28:12.360 I'll say it hurts.

00:28:13.300 May I say, Mr. Chairman, as a point of personal privilege, I'd like to finish this.

00:28:16.820 Senator, I think it hurts you, too, sir.

00:28:18.840 I'd like to finish this.

00:28:21.320 So, that was McCarthy.

00:28:23.260 McCarthy, if you've ever read the book Blackmailed by History, it lays out a pretty good case.

00:28:30.380 McCarthy was right.

00:28:31.620 He was the wrong messenger.

00:28:33.640 He was, but he was also set up.

00:28:37.460 He was just not the right guy to deliver.

00:28:43.040 Read the book.

00:28:45.060 It is...

00:28:45.600 Blacklisted by history?

00:28:46.640 Blacklisted by history.

00:28:47.860 It is really well documented.

00:28:49.420 And it's one of those things that, you know, I always thought McCarthy was, you know, lying.

00:28:56.040 Or a bad guy.

00:28:57.960 No.

00:28:58.960 No.

00:28:59.300 That's different than the Committee on American Hearings.

00:29:02.760 What he was talking about was the government infiltration of communists.

00:29:07.540 And we know this to be true now.

00:29:10.000 We know this to be true.

00:29:11.760 We know this...

00:29:13.420 We know...

00:29:14.540 I'm trying to remember who was the guy that...

00:29:16.420 For so long was accused to be a communist.

00:29:21.880 And the media stood up for him.

00:29:23.500 And then the 80s, it was exposed.

00:29:25.800 In the 90s, it was exposed because we got all the intelligence from the...

00:29:30.220 What was it?

00:29:30.560 The Verona Project in Russia.

00:29:32.500 And it was exposed that, yes, absolutely he was.

00:29:36.880 Oops.

00:29:37.620 Yeah.

00:29:38.120 And the media reported on it.

00:29:39.400 But then they whitewash it and they still go back to, well, he wasn't really a communist.

00:29:44.160 Yeah, he was, according to the Verona Project.

00:29:45.880 According to the Russians, yes, he was.

00:29:48.460 So we know that there was that government infiltration.

00:29:51.760 There may be and there may not be.

00:29:53.840 I hope to God there's not.

00:29:56.120 But there may be a group of people who think that they're above the law in the FBI, in the

00:30:02.600 Justice Department, that want to make sure that they have, you know, an insurance program

00:30:09.320 because they don't think that Donald Trump is good, they don't agree with him, they think

00:30:14.380 he's dangerous, and so they will take him out.

00:30:17.600 Now, that's what the initial emails or the initial tweets allude to.

00:30:25.540 But there's no evidence of that, but it alludes to that.

00:30:29.740 Plus, you now have Ron Johnson saying there's somebody else that is offering testimony that

00:30:36.220 they were having, somebody was having secret meetings.

00:30:39.540 Well, this is good if there's something there.

00:30:43.940 I believe there are people in the government, and I don't think it's a star chamber or anything

00:30:50.880 else.

00:30:51.280 I just think there are people who are, look at the State Department.

00:30:55.880 They think they know better, and they're just going to do it their way.

00:31:00.520 That's not the way our system is supposed to work.

00:31:04.200 We need to get to the root of it and the truth of it without hysteria, name-calling, or wild

00:31:12.720 accusations that will, in the end, hurt the entire investigation.

00:31:18.300 And this is something you've talked about for a long time, going back at least to George

00:31:23.640 W. Bush, but also even during Obama.

00:31:25.680 There's the idea that there's these people that are in the government that don't leave.

00:31:30.620 George Bush told me this.

00:31:32.320 Yeah, because you met with him in the Oval Office.

00:31:35.600 He said, it doesn't matter.

00:31:37.560 I was concerned on the day I met was the day that Barack Obama said he just flyed fighter

00:31:42.760 jets over into Pakistan, and he bombed them without their permission.

00:31:45.640 You can't do that to an ally.

00:31:48.000 And I was in the Oval Office on that day, and I said to George Bush, this is concerning.

00:31:52.600 He said, don't worry.

00:31:53.520 It doesn't matter who sits in this chair, because they'll get here, and they will be

00:31:59.480 advised, and they will see the options, and the president's hands are pretty much tied.

00:32:05.220 What?

00:32:06.180 Now, he thought that that was comforting.

00:32:08.360 It was not comforting.

00:32:11.300 That kind of stuff we have to know about.

00:32:15.100 Are there people now in the Justice Department?

00:32:17.720 And, you know, the press isn't even looking at this.

00:32:22.320 Where is your credibility?

00:32:24.540 Where is your curiosity?

00:32:28.100 You don't think the FBI could go wrong?

00:32:32.640 You don't think the Justice Department?

00:32:35.680 Where is all of your liberal tendencies to worry about a giant state?

00:32:40.660 These organizations are filled with these things called people, human beings, who tend to have

00:32:46.280 some of them are really good, and some of them aren't.

00:32:49.360 And the same thing that happens with the police, with everything.

00:32:53.000 There are, at times, people who don't do the right thing, and you need to find out who they

00:32:57.360 are, and you need to correct the situation.

00:32:58.920 And just like the police, the vast majority are good.

00:33:03.580 A few bad apples, and it's all destroyed.

00:33:06.820 Tonight at 5 o'clock, we are going to be delving into a couple of things.

00:33:19.820 One, the Russia investigation, but this one is on Uranium One.

00:33:24.220 We've done a chalkboard series.

00:33:25.760 It's a four-day series.

00:33:26.720 Today, day number three.

00:33:27.880 Today is really interesting.

00:33:29.660 Today gets into the Clinton coincidence.

00:33:32.540 The money that was exchanged from Russia, and in particular, Bill Clinton, and the amazing

00:33:42.060 coincidences that happened all around that time.

00:33:45.380 Who was giving that money to the Clinton Foundation?

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00:35:36.740 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:35:46.420 Glenn Beck.

00:35:49.600 Excited to have Scott Hamilton on.

00:35:53.280 Scott Hamilton, he is an Olympic gold medalist.

00:35:57.160 He is the guy who does all of the Olympics for figure skating.

00:36:03.720 He is also the author of Finish First, Winning Changes Everything.

00:36:08.060 He's also a cancer survivor, which is really important.

00:36:10.520 He has an amazing story on his life and how he became a figure skater.

00:36:17.000 More importantly, when you read his book, it takes all of us to task.

00:36:22.900 It takes all of us.

00:36:24.080 I'll give you some of these after the top of the hour break when he joins us.

00:36:29.420 But I've got some bad news for you, he writes.

00:36:32.160 You were not born a winner.

00:36:33.940 You may have been told somewhere along the way that you were.

00:36:36.680 Maybe your parents said you were number one no matter what you did.

00:36:40.020 But winning is about accessing all of your innate human potential.

00:36:43.660 You cannot be born a winner, but you can become one.

00:36:47.540 Check your entitlement at the door.

00:36:49.360 Stop shielding people in this way from losing.

00:36:55.440 This should be a very empowering hour and very interesting.

00:37:00.340 I also want to talk to him about Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan.

00:37:07.120 I mean, Tanya Harding is going through this little, you know, oh, look, it's Tanya Harding.

00:37:12.000 How about Nancy Kerrigan?

00:37:14.500 We'll talk to Scott Hamilton, Olympic gold medalist and author of Finished First, when we come back.

00:37:21.220 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:37:43.860 Love. Courage. Truth.

00:37:49.260 Glenn Beck.

00:37:50.720 Scott Hamilton is probably the most recognized male figure skating star in the world.

00:37:55.760 He is a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

00:38:01.620 He's the guy that you watch every Olympics that gets very, very excited.

00:38:06.560 He is the author of the book Finish First, Winning Changes Everything.

00:38:11.520 And I don't know of a guest that I have had on that I have such a wide range of topics that I want to talk about.

00:38:18.840 I guess I've been around too long, right?

00:38:20.940 No, you're just you've led a fascinating life.

00:38:23.280 And I if we have time, I want to get into how you got into skating because your childhood is fascinating.

00:38:29.600 But I want to start with the meat.

00:38:33.620 It is not a book that I expected.

00:38:36.560 I wasn't expecting the hard punches and, you know, in a nice way.

00:38:42.460 But you are taking on our trophy culture.

00:38:46.100 You are taking on our culture of, hey, hey, there's no losers.

00:38:50.920 We're all winners.

00:38:52.180 Yeah.

00:38:52.460 No, we're not yet.

00:38:53.660 You know, we're all you know, it's just it's not a forced march.

00:38:57.520 You know, like life isn't this, you know, harsh, horrible thing.

00:38:59.860 And it's also not like this, you know, cozy thing where we can just lay on a hill and just

00:39:03.540 breathe in and breathe out until the last one we take.

00:39:06.220 Right.

00:39:06.640 It's about, you know, having a purpose and opportunity to really live our lives fully.

00:39:11.860 And I'm seeing, you know, sort of this this whole generation kind of sort of sleeping through

00:39:18.700 it somewhat.

00:39:19.520 And, you know, this was really meant to be just a wake up call and a little bit of I'm

00:39:26.320 here to cheer you on here is an argument for and a guide to being better than you've

00:39:32.400 ever been and winning, winning in life, winning in your purpose, winning in your taking

00:39:38.480 your talents to, you know, places unknown and to really live your lives fully and joyfully.

00:39:44.460 And and it's not an easy road, but it's also one that I've lived and I've seen it on, you

00:39:51.240 know, from many different angles.

00:39:52.960 And so we just when coming up with this book, it was just sort of like, my goodness, we sat

00:39:57.760 in a room, there's a bunch of us and we're just sort of like, and what about this?

00:40:01.020 And what about this?

00:40:01.840 And what about this?

00:40:02.680 And the excitement was just unbelievable to kind of like, we've got to narrow this down.

00:40:07.760 We've got to keep the message really on point.

00:40:09.760 And we've got to make sure that we hit all the different angles of what this journey

00:40:15.200 is and what it means.

00:40:16.460 And it really is a an invitation to anyone that wants to make their, you know, really

00:40:20.700 live their lives with purpose and, you know, who they are legitimately.

00:40:25.280 So I'm a recovering alcoholic and I've made more mistakes than I've I've who hasn't made

00:40:31.440 a mountain of mistakes.

00:40:32.360 I know, and but I, I actually, I am not, well, I'm, I'm positive.

00:40:39.240 I wouldn't be the man that I am without the mistakes and without the failures in my life.

00:40:45.400 I get stronger.

00:40:46.460 We're living in a society now that wants to stop all failure, all pain.

00:40:51.560 Can you be, could you be who you are without your childhood illness, without, uh, without

00:40:58.440 your cancer, without your mother's cancer?

00:41:00.480 I mean, you wouldn't be the same guy.

00:41:02.840 The greatest single ingredient in success and in living a joyful life is failure.

00:41:09.600 And it's all about that again.

00:41:10.960 The greatest single ingredient in a joyful and productive life is failure.

00:41:15.120 You have to have it.

00:41:16.260 You have to have failure.

00:41:17.680 You've got to look at it differently than it being this horrible, nasty, evil villain.

00:41:22.640 That's, you know, it is something to be processed and, and, and understood not to be feared.

00:41:28.640 It's, it's about, you know, I, Hey, my first nationals, and this was like, after not making

00:41:33.480 it to nationals, I mean, all these years, all this coming up and failing figure tests

00:41:37.200 and failing, you know, and doing all this, you know, my first nationals, um, I skated

00:41:42.900 in front of 17,500 people.

00:41:45.200 I grew up in a very small town.

00:41:46.960 I even trained in a smaller one.

00:41:48.700 That was more people than I'd ever seen in my life, but they were all in one place.

00:41:52.220 And I fell five times and came in dead last.

00:41:56.080 And, you know, I could have just gone, okay, well, you know, this isn't for me.

00:41:59.120 I'm never going to put myself through that before, but I, I kind of like cried for a

00:42:02.300 week.

00:42:02.500 And then I realized I made a better stuff than this.

00:42:05.000 I'm going to go back.

00:42:05.720 And the next year I'm going to be better.

00:42:07.680 Well, I wasn't, well, then I'm going to go back next time and I'm going to be a little

00:42:12.900 bit better.

00:42:13.400 And I was maybe a little bit, but it wasn't, you know, it's, it's this roller coaster of failure

00:42:18.440 after failure, after failure.

00:42:19.600 And what I did was I didn't allow them to so much defeat me or talk me out of anything.

00:42:24.240 I just really wanted to learn from them.

00:42:26.360 And I was like, okay, why did I do that?

00:42:28.540 Why, why did I fail in on the biggest stage that I could skate on?

00:42:32.560 I wasn't prepared.

00:42:34.040 I wasn't, I wasn't ready yet.

00:42:36.320 I wasn't.

00:42:36.980 So it wasn't that I was going to look at that failure as an end all be all.

00:42:39.960 Most of the guys that were winning at that level, that was their destination.

00:42:44.120 They were done after that.

00:42:45.400 You know, I, I felt like there was, you know, skating saved my life.

00:42:50.380 Skating gave me an identity and a purpose.

00:42:52.480 And so I owed it to skating to kind of see it through.

00:42:56.060 And, um, so this whole journey of processing failure, like it's the chapter eight is ditch

00:43:02.080 fear and, and, and, um, embrace failure.

00:43:04.740 And it's a whole different look at failure.

00:43:07.300 Looking back on the 36 years that I was really active in skating, I, I calculate that I fell

00:43:13.180 41,600 times.

00:43:15.200 Holy cow.

00:43:15.560 You're Jerry Lewis.

00:43:17.680 False.

00:43:18.920 Nice lady.

00:43:20.020 Hey.

00:43:21.000 No, so, um, you get up 41,600 times and things don't quite take on the same identity when

00:43:28.160 you get knocked down in life, whether it be cancer or other life threatening illness or

00:43:33.540 failed relationships or whatever they are, you learn how to be more resilient.

00:43:38.140 And then in that resilient, there's hope for a better day.

00:43:42.300 And so in this, we just really wanted to highlight failure is like, I'll speak to, um, corporations

00:43:47.620 and everyone in that audience is extremely successful.

00:43:51.240 How many people in this room have failed?

00:43:54.160 100% of them will raise their hand and yet they're high levels of success.

00:43:59.300 So as a culture, we cannot vilify failure.

00:44:03.060 We have to embrace it.

00:44:04.360 Um, I, I wanted to, this was something that I, I kind of put on the cut list cause I have

00:44:09.960 very little time with you, but I think it might relate to this and to be interested in

00:44:14.480 here.

00:44:15.200 Um, I was curious and you don't have to answer this part cause we don't want to waste time,

00:44:19.360 but I was curious on how the Olympics have changed since the cold war.

00:44:23.720 And, but in, in that, um, is the, the idea that during the cold war and now with China,

00:44:31.720 these children are taken from their parents and they are all the time there.

00:44:37.640 This is what they live for.

00:44:39.520 And yet we're not only competitive, we win.

00:44:43.560 Why?

00:44:44.120 It's, it's to celebrate excellence.

00:44:48.680 It's to celebrate.

00:44:49.740 I mean, why do, why do, why do people that are choosing to do it and are not taken from

00:44:55.760 their parents, not starting at four and then drilled into it?

00:44:58.480 How can we even be competitive?

00:45:00.540 And how is it that we actually are more than competitive?

00:45:03.720 We win against that kind of training.

00:45:06.920 I think you do things for the right reasons and you do things, if you do things because

00:45:10.400 you want to, it's, it takes on a much greater identity than if you're doing things because

00:45:15.740 you have to, you know what I mean?

00:45:18.080 If it's an opportunity, if it's, if it's this brass ring that you're working towards, that's

00:45:22.540 one thing.

00:45:22.880 But if it's a forced march, it takes on a different identity and, and both can be extremely successful.

00:45:27.860 You know, if you're forced to do something every day and somebody's cracking the wick,

00:45:30.280 you're probably going to advance.

00:45:31.680 You're probably going to be pretty good.

00:45:32.760 You're probably going to be fine.

00:45:34.120 But the one that sees this as a, is this really wonderful opportunity, Evgeny Puschenko said

00:45:39.440 something, a great Russian skater, you know, medaled at three Olympics, you know, uh, anchored

00:45:44.060 the Russian team in the last Olympics, this incredible guy with tons of longevity.

00:45:48.080 He sat down with me one time and I go, what makes you tick?

00:45:51.900 And he just said, Americans wake up every morning with a belly of warm milk.

00:45:57.900 I'm hungry.

00:45:59.220 Oh, that's great.

00:46:00.240 Because his life was tragic.

00:46:02.060 I mean, just, I mean, it was just a nightmare, his early life, his formative years.

00:46:06.720 And it just, it chiseled him.

00:46:08.660 Like it was amazing just to see this guy and it was all ambition.

00:46:12.840 It was all about going after this thing.

00:46:15.300 And, and he just felt like he'd always beat Americans because they were entitled and spoiled.

00:46:20.180 And then an American beat him straight up.

00:46:23.560 And he was like, I, I can't process this.

00:46:26.220 This doesn't make any sense to me, but it goes back to, you know, we have an opportunity.

00:46:31.320 We have this, um, you know, we all have unique abilities.

00:46:35.100 We all have our own set of, of, uh, qualities and it's leveraging those for living our lives

00:46:42.380 joyfully.

00:46:42.800 So speak to the parents that, uh, and, and even to the helicopter parents in government that

00:46:50.620 want to swoop in and make all problems just go away for banks or whatever.

00:46:56.340 Speak to the parents who, um, uh, that are thinking that they're, are, are trying to do the right

00:47:07.320 thing by saying you're special.

00:47:09.020 You're great.

00:47:10.360 That was a great performance.

00:47:11.960 We love our children unconditionally.

00:47:13.860 I, you know, I had a moment the other day and, um, it's my son, my youngest loves hockey.

00:47:19.180 He's just so in love with hockey.

00:47:20.560 Loves the predators.

00:47:21.360 He loves going to the games.

00:47:22.300 He watches NHL channel every morning, wet breakfast, you know, he's consumed with hockey,

00:47:26.880 but he, he hasn't been able to go to the rink every single day.

00:47:29.880 Like a lot of his friends who are on that travel team thing.

00:47:32.800 And, you know, he's still learning and it, and when he loses, it kills him.

00:47:37.800 It just, it destroys him that he knows he wants to be better and he knows it.

00:47:42.720 And it's just, how do we get him there more?

00:47:44.900 And I just said that he goes, it's on me, buddy.

00:47:47.400 So much of it's on me that I know you have the passion.

00:47:49.980 I know you, but we need to give you more time.

00:47:52.940 We need to develop you more.

00:47:54.760 And I tell him all the time, I go, Max, what's the greatest strength?

00:47:58.040 And he goes, a lack of weakness.

00:47:59.800 And I go, it's true.

00:48:00.740 If we can chip away at our weaknesses, we're going to be stronger, more resilient than we

00:48:04.460 ever thought we could.

00:48:05.740 But it's, it's the process of doing all these things that we need to spend time doing it.

00:48:11.440 We need to have those times of practice.

00:48:13.000 And I told him, I go, today's failure, Max, isn't on you.

00:48:15.620 It's on me because I need to get you to the rink more often.

00:48:17.900 And I need to give you better instruction.

00:48:23.660 Talking to Scott Hamilton, author, finish first.

00:48:26.420 Winning changes everything.

00:48:28.040 More in a moment.

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00:49:39.080 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:49:49.500 Glenn Beck.

00:49:50.500 We're with Scott Hamilton, you know, U.S.

00:49:56.200 Olympic Hall of Fame, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame member and a cancer survivor, has

00:50:03.140 a fascinating story.

00:50:04.600 Can you quickly give us the reason why you skate?

00:50:09.140 I love this.

00:50:10.800 You just kind of like, give your parents a break.

00:50:14.380 A morning off.

00:50:15.260 Exactly.

00:50:15.640 So, what happened was I was in and out of hospitals for four years with an undiagnosed

00:50:19.500 illness and it was stunning my growth and development.

00:50:22.580 So, I was really a very...

00:50:23.500 Still don't know what it was.

00:50:24.600 We kind of know what it was now because they didn't have the technology back then to find

00:50:28.240 it.

00:50:28.820 So, this brain tumor that was diagnosed in 2004, I was born with it.

00:50:32.360 But for whatever reason, those years that I skated, it stopped doing its mischief.

00:50:36.720 It just didn't do its mischief.

00:50:38.880 And then I retired from skating and then months later, all of a sudden, I have a brain tumor.

00:50:44.840 What's your perspective on that?

00:50:46.180 Well, they didn't have the technology to find it back then.

00:50:48.500 It wasn't on anybody's radar.

00:50:49.640 They just thought I had some sort of gastrointestinal disease.

00:50:52.020 So, they were looking in the wrong place.

00:50:53.900 So, to give my parents a morning off after this four years, they basically, the doctor

00:50:57.520 at the Boston Children's Hospital said, go home, live a normal life.

00:51:01.800 You know, and our doctor at home said, my parents, you're burnt out.

00:51:05.840 You need a morning just to recharge your batteries and just do something for you.

00:51:09.280 And so, they sent me to this brand new skating rink at Bowling Green State University where

00:51:13.360 I had 150 kids every morning for four hours in classes.

00:51:17.120 And it was awesome because I was with Well Kids for really the first time doing something

00:51:21.360 like that.

00:51:22.400 And after a few weeks, I realized that I was skating as well as the Well Kids.

00:51:26.560 And then after a few more weeks, I realized I was skating as well as the best athletes

00:51:30.300 in my grade.

00:51:30.980 And let me tell you, self-esteem.

00:51:34.260 Because you were small.

00:51:35.740 I was undersized.

00:51:36.860 I had a tube coming out of my nose where I was fed these supplements because I wouldn't

00:51:40.660 drink them.

00:51:41.360 So, the compromise was they were going to put a tube through my nose, down my esophagus,

00:51:45.320 and they're going to feed it to me that way.

00:51:45.900 You chose that instead of that.

00:51:47.400 No, because, you know, now it's flavor of the month is grape or bubblegum.

00:51:51.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:51:51.220 Flavor of the month then was chalk.

00:51:53.100 That was it.

00:51:54.360 So, yeah, I was different.

00:51:56.420 I knew I was different.

00:51:57.440 I was smaller.

00:51:58.260 I was underdeveloped.

00:51:59.260 And every muscle I ever developed was done on the ice.

00:52:03.640 So, I didn't have any extra baggage.

00:52:05.600 I didn't have anything I didn't need.

00:52:08.080 And my body was really more fine-tuned to skate than it was to do anything else.

00:52:12.380 It's, again, taking something that people would think is a tragedy and turning it into

00:52:17.040 something that's uniquely new.

00:52:17.380 It's been a recurring theme.

00:52:19.080 Yeah.

00:52:19.380 It's been a recurring theme.

00:52:20.660 And it's given me a way.

00:52:21.840 People go, why are you so disgustingly optimistic?

00:52:24.200 And it's like, well, you see, all these really, really kind of tragically bad things happened

00:52:28.540 to me.

00:52:28.980 And then, like, out of that, something kind of great happened.

00:52:31.740 So, I was, you know, I was an unwanted child.

00:52:33.860 And I was adopted by great parents.

00:52:35.680 Then I got sick.

00:52:36.620 And I found skating.

00:52:37.500 And I got well.

00:52:38.240 And I lost a whole bunch of times.

00:52:40.060 And it was awful.

00:52:40.840 And it was terrible.

00:52:41.520 And it was horrible.

00:52:42.520 And then I found a way to kind of work that out.

00:52:45.440 And over time, become more successful.

00:52:48.840 And, you know, then I lost my mom.

00:52:50.380 And that was devastating.

00:52:51.420 And then I decided I wanted to be the person that she would be proud of.

00:52:54.780 And so, I just cleaned up my act.

00:52:56.240 And I started getting to work.

00:52:57.340 And I made a mountain of mistakes.

00:52:59.940 But over time, I was able to figure out a way that, you know, if I do this thing correctly,

00:53:05.540 and if I do it as well as I can do it, I'm going to put myself in a position for good

00:53:10.780 things to happen.

00:53:11.500 And that's kind of where the whole book came out of, is that idea that so many of us,

00:53:16.360 you know, have these things that we want to do, but we fear failure, or we feel critics,

00:53:20.620 or we fear all these things around us.

00:53:23.420 And we know that our lives would be better if we just pursued these wonderful things that

00:53:28.380 come from showing up every day and doing the work and making easy choices.

00:53:33.560 I celebrate this one thing.

00:53:35.140 And it's really a horrible thing.

00:53:36.180 And please don't judge me on this, you know, okay.

00:53:38.320 But I talk about, and it was about the choice thing, there was a skater back in my day who

00:53:43.860 was 100,000 times more talented than me.

00:53:47.620 He did things that I never saw before, and easily without even, he was so naturally gifted.

00:53:53.520 And one morning, there was this kind of rumor going around, and I heard that he fell in love

00:53:57.760 with smoking pot.

00:53:58.580 And it was the greatest morning of my life, because I realized, he'll never beat me.

00:54:05.640 He'll never beat me.

00:54:07.080 Because it was an easy decision that was made that put him in a deficit position.

00:54:12.900 So now it's like, he'll never beat me.

00:54:15.720 I'm so excited.

00:54:16.540 Does he know that story?

00:54:19.120 No.

00:54:20.020 No.

00:54:20.180 It was just part of a broader set of issues where he's no longer with us.

00:54:25.120 Oh, my gosh.

00:54:26.160 It was just, you know.

00:54:27.640 And you think he was the greatest skater that you, at least.

00:54:30.460 Most naturally talented and gifted skater I'd ever seen in my life.

00:54:33.260 And I really liked him as a person.

00:54:35.140 Wow.

00:54:35.540 When I turned pro and I started becoming a producer and things, he would be the first guy

00:54:39.420 I want to hire, because he was so amazing to watch.

00:54:43.960 He just, he was just like, you'd just watch him and you'd relax and you'd be captivated.

00:54:47.920 But in the whole idea of competition and the whole idea of trying to find your place and

00:54:53.280 the whole idea of going for those smaller victories that kind of build up to these bigger

00:54:58.600 victories, then when those bigger victories happen, the world opens up to us and other

00:55:02.220 things are available to us that we never imagined.

00:55:05.080 I look back on that and I go, he chose his path and it was the path that he needed to choose.

00:55:11.300 But it wasn't the path that I would have chosen.

00:55:14.560 It wasn't the path that I wanted to be on.

00:55:16.120 And so I don't judge him at all, but it was, it opened the door for me to be more successful.

00:55:24.080 Talking to Scott Hamilton, he's the author of the book Finish First, Winning Changes Everything.

00:55:30.000 It is a really inspiring book, but it's also a little bit of a woodshed book.

00:55:35.860 Time to take yourself to the woodshed and say, you know, stop it.

00:55:39.580 You can make it.

00:55:40.860 Well, and it's also that for some people, but for others, it's like, oh, this is the way I can.

00:55:47.220 Yeah.

00:55:47.580 This is, this is a path.

00:55:48.940 This is, and these are my, my pain points and these are my fears.

00:55:52.280 And now we're answering those.

00:55:53.640 It's like, yes, I'm ready to go.

00:55:55.240 I only have two minutes left.

00:55:56.580 I'm sorry.

00:55:56.980 I have to, no, no, no.

00:55:58.740 I have to ask you about Tonya Harding and the movie.

00:56:02.400 Can I go anywhere?

00:56:03.660 I know.

00:56:04.180 I'm sorry.

00:56:04.800 I'm sorry to do that.

00:56:05.760 No, no, no.

00:56:05.820 It's all right.

00:56:06.520 You know, I, I mean, I feel bad for Nancy Kerrigan, first of all.

00:56:11.020 Well, we, we, and Nancy and I, you know, are good friends and I see her all the time.

00:56:17.740 And, and, you know, she's just a great mom.

00:56:20.400 And, you know, she was so classy.

00:56:22.560 She was beautiful, but she was also like, you know how Mark McCormack from IMG said, if

00:56:27.400 you want to know somebody, something about it, somebody take them out in the golf course.

00:56:30.580 She was the most aggressive in your face golfer I've ever played with in my life.

00:56:35.440 And I loved it.

00:56:36.280 I, you know, she was so fun, always fun to be around, always fun to hang out with, always,

00:56:40.920 you know, kind of, she, she just sat with a force of, you know, I just this force of

00:56:45.480 nature, this amazing competitor and everything else.

00:56:49.240 And, and the way that all transpired in 94 was massively unfair.

00:56:55.600 It put her into a position that none of us should ever have to be in.

00:56:59.240 And, and, you know, you know, I'm all about redemption.

00:57:02.440 I'm all about forgiveness, but, you know, a big part of redemption is to come forward

00:57:07.240 and to admit that there are things that, you know, you know, I, I'm not a hundred percent

00:57:13.920 sure that Tanya has ever really done that.

00:57:16.960 You know, she's kind of had, she's not coming at her, this her moment in the spotlight and

00:57:21.360 she's not really looking any better.

00:57:23.960 Well, and again, I, I don't want to judge people.

00:57:27.160 I, I was around Tanya a lot, the lady that saved my skating life and career that, you

00:57:32.500 know, my parents went broke keeping me in skating.

00:57:35.180 And, um, she sponsored Tanya as well, but Tanya didn't understand the gift.

00:57:39.660 Tanya bit every hand that ever fed her.

00:57:41.560 Tanya the name of the, uh, the name of the book is finished first.

00:57:46.200 Uh, the author is, uh, Scott Hamilton.

00:57:48.800 It has been great to have you.

00:57:49.960 Well, it's great to be here.

00:57:51.240 You have, you win for the coolest studio and the coolest space of all time.

00:57:54.700 This is awesome.

00:57:58.520 Glenn Beck.

00:58:00.480 Mercury.

00:58:06.100 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:07.840 So NBC, uh, has been given rare access inside of North Korea.

00:58:13.980 Um, so we've got American news cameras finally able to show the truth, uh, about what life

00:58:21.460 is like inside this, this hermit kingdom.

00:58:23.800 And wow, uh, look what they've exposed so far.

00:58:28.900 This is the bunny slope at a very modern ski resort here in North Korea.

00:58:34.940 We have been treated, uh, with respect here.

00:58:37.360 So many impressions.

00:58:38.680 One is that how colorful a city it is.

00:58:41.380 You can see the buildings, so many hues of green and yellow and red.

00:58:45.180 One of the early impressions I've had here is how hardy the North Korean people are.

00:58:52.000 Wow.

00:58:53.740 Wow.

00:58:54.520 Wow.

00:58:54.840 You got a modern ski resort.

00:58:56.560 You have colorful buildings and the people are hardy.

00:58:59.540 Now I'm hoping that NBC is going to go further.

00:59:04.520 And that's only, they're only saying those things because they have a gun to their head.

00:59:09.980 I mean, where's the journalism, uh, there you're the, you're, uh, you know what?

00:59:15.760 I am the only person from the West that's been allowed to, uh, to stand in front of these

00:59:20.580 buildings.

00:59:21.500 Uh, you know, you, you might want to mention that you're only allowed to go where your guards

00:59:26.100 will allow you to go.

00:59:27.340 Um, you know, anything that might point out, uh, the, uh, the oppressive nature of the state

00:59:37.260 instead of regurgitating all of the state's narrative.

00:59:41.560 NBC, I don't even know what you're doing.

00:59:44.140 I mean, why go and report on anything at all?

00:59:45.840 If you can't tell the truth, why go there?

00:59:48.840 At what point does your work become propaganda for a ruthless dictator?

00:59:55.460 Now I'm, I'm, I'm counting on NBC having some sort of a follow-up, but then why would

01:00:03.880 you go in the first place?

01:00:05.160 Because you'll never go again.

01:00:07.920 I don't understand what you were trying to, what you've traded for this rare access because

01:00:14.860 you've traded your credibility.

01:00:16.000 What did you get out of it?

01:00:17.540 Doing a standup in North Korea, it had to sound cool, you know, especially when the

01:00:22.940 state department just last week said, do not go to North Korea.

01:00:26.840 And if you do make sure your will and your estate is in order.

01:00:32.700 So I guess maybe it would be cool, but we, would we have done this before?

01:00:39.440 I mean, if NBC was terrified of offending Kim Jong-un by doing their actual job, why didn't

01:00:44.500 they, you know, just stand Lester Holt in front of a green screen with some cool looking B-roll

01:00:49.340 and say, yep, this is the ski slope that was probably built by slaves?

01:00:53.800 I mean, why not?

01:00:58.640 In 1944, there was a guy named Kurt Geron.

01:01:01.700 He was, he was probably one of the most famous movie actors of Germany before the war.

01:01:10.400 He was Jewish.

01:01:12.000 And his story is long and intense.

01:01:16.380 And we have, we've, we've covered it on his story on the blaze TV.

01:01:22.160 And if you get a chance, watch it, download, uh, you know, watch it on demand.

01:01:26.540 Now the story of Kurt Geron, um, it is truly remarkable, but here's a guy who in the end,

01:01:35.160 um, compromised and was commissioned by the Nazis to make a film taking a concentration camp

01:01:44.800 and turning that concentration camp into a Jewish paradise.

01:01:50.080 Um, and the movie is out and you should watch it.

01:01:53.540 You can watch it on YouTube.

01:01:54.420 And it's, it's terrifying when you know the truth.

01:01:57.780 The movie is called The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews.

01:02:01.640 And it showed the Jews laughing and playing and enjoying life.

01:02:05.800 But when the cameras weren't rolling, they were all being tortured.

01:02:09.280 Um, they were murdered.

01:02:10.760 In fact, everybody in that film was dead within a month in the ovens of Auschwitz and the gas

01:02:17.020 chambers of Auschwitz.

01:02:18.300 Every single person.

01:02:23.240 You don't go to the town of Auschwitz and say, you know, look at this beautiful little town.

01:02:29.620 Look how colorful it is.

01:02:31.680 When you know that there are concentration camps down the street, NBC news, you are dangerously

01:02:40.580 close to Garron's movie.

01:02:43.280 Evil exists when good men do nothing.

01:02:46.540 What did you get out of that?

01:02:50.160 That you can show to the world.

01:02:52.460 This is what this regime is like.

01:02:55.580 Showing the colorful buildings and the sturdiness and stockiness of the people.

01:03:00.340 My gosh, they're well built.

01:03:02.160 It's because they're so well fed.

01:03:05.360 Showing their colorful buildings does nothing.

01:03:09.820 Those buildings were built by slaves.

01:03:13.080 Darkness reigns when people, and especially the media, fail to speak up.

01:03:18.420 I think what you mean to say is democracy dies in darkness.

01:03:29.060 I think maybe.

01:03:31.140 Yeah.

01:03:31.460 Something like that.

01:03:32.260 You should write that down.

01:03:33.140 Look, if there's a gun pointed to your head, I'll excuse your crappy reporting until you

01:03:37.580 get home.

01:03:38.160 But you're right.

01:03:38.720 There needs to be some sort of follow up on this.

01:03:41.280 No, there needs to be a discrediting of this.

01:03:43.700 And I don't see how that's a win for NBC.

01:03:46.120 Yeah.

01:03:46.300 What's the point of going over there?

01:03:48.520 It, you know, it's hard to understand, especially because it's, it's kind of put into this context

01:03:53.080 of the Olympics.

01:03:53.660 And, you know, we were just talking to Scott Hamilton, who was in, and he, you know, won

01:03:58.020 a gold medal in Sarajevo in 1984, in the middle of the Cold War.

01:04:03.460 You know, that same sort of tension seems to, you know, be, at least be discussed when it,

01:04:08.440 when it talks about North and South Korea right now, though they've had some bizarre,

01:04:12.560 you know, coming together on the Olympics.

01:04:14.880 But it's like a.

01:04:15.820 Really bizarre.

01:04:16.440 Yeah.

01:04:16.640 I don't know why.

01:04:17.500 But to go over to North Korea and talk about their colorful buildings and their sturdy

01:04:22.740 people is.

01:04:24.080 Do you remember the Cold War?

01:04:26.060 Yeah.

01:04:26.400 I mean, I mean, obviously remember it ending in Rocky IV, which was really.

01:04:29.440 Okay.

01:04:29.760 That wasn't.

01:04:30.380 No, that wasn't real.

01:04:31.380 But, you know, I remember during the Olympics and maybe this is foggy memory or, you know,

01:04:42.120 revisionism, but I don't think it is.

01:04:43.860 I seem to remember before we would go over, if we would ever go to, you know, Sarajevo,

01:04:52.800 if we'd ever go to some place that was, you know, ruthless and we'd ever discuss the Soviet

01:05:01.800 Union or any of those countries, it was always, always, this is a brutal place.

01:05:09.540 We're only allowed to show you the things that we can show you.

01:05:14.040 This is what they tell us.

01:05:15.600 They tell us that these buildings being so colorful are, you know, one of the pride and

01:05:21.400 joy of the people who they also tell us are very stocky.

01:05:24.920 That is the way you can do that.

01:05:27.360 When he says, I was really struck by the hardiness of the people.

01:05:31.980 The hardiness of the people?

01:05:33.780 I don't know what that is.

01:05:34.900 What the hell is that?

01:05:36.080 And that is, that sounds like something a propaganda minister would give you to infer

01:05:42.080 that you are, you're full, you're, you're well fed, you're hardy.

01:05:45.940 Yeah, exactly.

01:05:46.800 I mean, if you listen to, there are times in the report where he says, Lester Holt says

01:05:51.600 something like, you know, we're going to a very modern ski resort and this is a place

01:05:55.100 the, you know, the regime really wanted to make sure that we saw.

01:05:58.840 He says something like that.

01:05:59.620 And it's like, well, okay, he's kind of hinting there, right?

01:06:01.580 Like he understands that this is part of a propaganda mission.

01:06:05.060 And anytime you go on a trip like that, you, you should expect some of that.

01:06:10.880 And it doesn't mean you don't necessarily take the trip.

01:06:13.940 I mean, you know, we, we, we've had some discussions about Syria, Syria and, and, and

01:06:21.000 going to Syria and interviewing.

01:06:23.700 Yeah.

01:06:24.260 We've been asked by the Assad regime, how many times to go over and, and interview Assad.

01:06:32.400 And we have had, um, real discussions on that.

01:06:37.100 We knew that if we go over when we're there, we'd only be able to see what he wanted us

01:06:42.880 to see.

01:06:43.280 And we'd only be able to say the things that we, that he would be okay with and we can

01:06:47.720 push him maybe a little, but it's Assad.

01:06:50.580 Right.

01:06:51.040 And we've turned it down because we haven't felt comfortable doing the, the bidding, even

01:06:58.120 though we think we would have been able to have a perspective and a look at, uh, what's

01:07:03.720 happening in Syria that would be different than anybody else on talk radio.

01:07:07.780 We decided against it because of that one show or two shows that would have come from

01:07:14.160 Syria.

01:07:14.740 We didn't want to carry that regime's water at all.

01:07:17.840 Right.

01:07:18.260 And, uh, you know, you wouldn't do it if you had to, you know, uh, you never agree

01:07:25.200 to, to carry someone's water like that.

01:07:27.260 Obviously the point that are, you know, the only reason to do it is to go over there and

01:07:30.400 get whatever you can and say, this is what we think is really happening.

01:07:33.620 Here's what we saw.

01:07:34.440 Here's, you know, what they wanted us to see.

01:07:36.620 And you have to be honest with that.

01:07:37.800 And we'll see if NBC can kind of do that on the other side of this trip.

01:07:41.440 Um, but that's, that's an important, it's an important part of it.

01:07:45.880 If you come back and you have, if you come back and you have hidden camera stuff that

01:07:49.920 shows you stuff, if you have even first person, but there's no way it's like we talked about

01:07:56.260 with Assad.

01:07:56.840 There's no way we are going, because we are going to be with them the whole time.

01:08:02.260 You know, if you read anything about Hitler, there would be streets, you know, he would

01:08:06.420 go into towns in Poland or wherever, and it would be just desolation.

01:08:10.540 It'd be horrible, but the street he was on had flowers and cheers and, and flags and

01:08:17.440 everything else.

01:08:18.300 Well, that's what you're going to see when you go over there because they are in total

01:08:21.760 control.

01:08:22.880 So do you do it?

01:08:24.880 And if so, why, what do you get in return?

01:08:28.900 What, what does humanity get from making North Korea look like, oh, well, it's, it's not

01:08:36.160 so bad.

01:08:36.980 I mean, it's got a ski resort and look at the buildings are pretty colorful.

01:08:39.760 It's like Miami.

01:08:46.160 The sad thing that I suspect is what humanity is going to get at it, out of it is access

01:08:51.900 for NBC during the Olympics.

01:08:53.920 They're going to get some, and that's not a worthwhile cause to do such a thing.

01:08:57.980 I mean, we saw that with, uh, you know, Michael Moore did this in his movie with Cuba where

01:09:02.120 he glorified them and tried to make his points that way.

01:09:05.200 That's not, that's not a, that's not a trade you want to make, you know, Venezuela.

01:09:09.680 Look at how many people in Hollywood went and did propaganda for Hugo Chavez.

01:09:16.340 And look, if you could find it in the mainstream media or from anybody in Hollywood, look at

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01:11:29.840 Now, before we, uh, before we finish this hour, we started this hour with Scott Hamilton.

01:11:35.460 Uh, you know, the Olympic gold medalist, uh, skater, the, you know, the commentator during

01:11:40.780 the Olympics, the guy who just, he makes skating so much fun to watch.

01:11:46.180 Um, uh, but he's written a new book called Finish First, uh, winning, winning challenge,

01:11:51.780 uh, changes everything.

01:11:52.600 And in it, it's, it's really, it's, uh, I mean, it's a, it's a woodshed book.

01:11:58.380 It's a, something that in a nice way says, stop it.

01:12:02.040 Not everybody is, uh, uh, a winner.

01:12:04.920 You, by having that attitude, you most likely are going to end up being a loser.

01:12:09.840 Uh, and, but everybody has that potential inside of them.

01:12:13.660 You just have to find it and fulfill your purpose.

01:12:16.440 Um, it's, um, it's really, uh, really good, um, and a great message.

01:12:22.420 Um, but I, I, I'm just talking personally here.

01:12:26.760 I was, I've always heard he was a nice guy, but I was, uh, very few times do you meet people

01:12:34.380 who really look you in the eye, who, who are assessing you.

01:12:41.060 You know what I mean?

01:12:42.700 It's, it's a weird, you know, kind of a communicate.

01:12:44.940 Okay.

01:12:45.020 You know, when somebody is looking you in the eye and they're assessing and they're, they're

01:12:51.540 speaking to you, you know, he's just very sincere and really nice guy, really nice guy.

01:12:58.140 Yeah.

01:12:58.300 I think, you know, you hear his personal story.

01:13:00.660 I think that's the type of thing that makes you into that person.

01:13:03.420 Yeah.

01:13:03.720 You know, I mean, that's a, you have a lot of struggles and a lot of real challenges and

01:13:08.540 a lot of personal revelations.

01:13:10.640 And, you know, maybe you, you take the world a little bit more seriously and look for things

01:13:15.860 that are more real.

01:13:16.960 Yeah.

01:13:17.580 And, and, but it's hard to do without guile or, you know, uh, bitterness or self pity.

01:13:25.420 And he didn't have any of that.

01:13:26.900 Didn't have any of that in him.

01:13:28.700 No, it certainly doesn't seem like it.

01:13:30.200 Yeah.

01:13:30.380 The other thing that struck me and I love to hear your comment on, he's really short.

01:13:38.300 It's true.

01:13:39.280 And, uh, he mentioned that, uh, himself.

01:13:42.380 Yeah.

01:13:42.680 Um, that's probably really good for a figure skating.

01:13:46.040 Yeah.

01:13:46.160 Well, he said, I mean, that was, you know, it was due to an illness when he was a kid,

01:13:49.100 but he is, he is a, he's a diminutive, uh, figure.

01:13:54.520 I mean, I know it's just, but he's so, because you don't, at least with me, when you, when

01:14:02.160 you're talking to him and when you look him in the eye, his size does not matter.

01:14:08.140 You know, he's, he's an, in a nice way, he's an intimidating guy and it has nothing to do

01:14:16.200 with size.

01:14:16.740 As I say, height, don't measure heart, Glenn.

01:14:20.060 Okay.

01:14:20.520 I've never heard that before.

01:14:21.840 Yeah.

01:14:22.240 I have.

01:14:22.980 Because that's, I'm six, three.

01:14:24.300 So maybe that's what mothers tell short kids like you, what do they tell you about

01:14:30.640 waist size?

01:14:31.400 They mentioned that measures, uh, yeah, that I can sit on you and crush you.

01:14:36.880 See, that's hurtful.

01:14:38.180 I know we all make mistakes and mine was not sitting on you and crushing you many years

01:14:43.380 ago.

01:14:45.160 Back in a second with a, uh, look, uh, at uranium one and the, the FBI scandal.

01:14:53.300 Scandal with the Clintons.

01:14:54.640 Scandal with the Clintons.

01:14:58.640 Glenn.

01:14:59.980 Back.

01:15:00.840 Mercury.

01:15:01.560 I, you know, I don't care, uh, rats flying butt about, uh, the Oscars.

01:15:27.800 Uh, I don't know anybody who does.

01:15:30.300 Um, it is, uh, you know, it's Hollywood.

01:15:34.140 However, this is, this is kind of interesting to point out here.

01:15:40.600 Yesterday, they, uh, released the nominations and a movie called call me by your name is,

01:15:48.780 was nominated for best picture.

01:15:50.040 Now, this is, I think the most hypocritical, uh, nomination I've ever seen from Hollywood.

01:15:56.260 And that is quite a fee.

01:15:58.780 It deserves an Oscar for their hypocrisy.

01:16:03.320 If you haven't heard of this movie, you're probably in good company.

01:16:06.940 Most of America hasn't heard of it.

01:16:08.420 I, I saw a trailer for it, uh, before the Winston Churchill, uh, movie.

01:16:13.620 Uh, here's what it is.

01:16:17.020 Call me by your name is a, a new fashion, romantic weepy about a 17 year old boy who is seduced

01:16:24.740 by and has a sexual relationship with an older man who is spending time with, uh, in the summer

01:16:31.780 with the boy's family.

01:16:33.420 Now, I, this started to unfold in front of me on the screen and I'm like, oh, oh, uh, okay.

01:16:43.040 Um, hmm.

01:16:44.380 Several issues with this.

01:16:46.680 Critics, you know, contractually, uh, obliged to, you know, love this movie.

01:16:51.700 They've, they're obligated to say, oh, this is quote ravishing filmmaking and piercing wisdom.

01:16:57.060 Right.

01:16:57.760 Huffington Post says the actors who play the lovers, some of the richest chemistry I've ever

01:17:01.320 witnessed in a movie.

01:17:02.260 It's sublime.

01:17:03.460 Anybody uses the word sublime or not?

01:17:05.360 My friend Esquire says the, uh, movie has some of the most emotional moments in film

01:17:10.720 history.

01:17:12.120 Two problems here.

01:17:13.380 Uh, first the plot, it is romanticizing what would qualify as statutory rape in the U S.

01:17:21.880 Oh, but it's set in Italy and things are so open-minded in Italy.

01:17:25.060 Oh, okay.

01:17:26.020 All right.

01:17:26.540 Okay.

01:17:27.040 Wait a minute.

01:17:27.720 Uh, Kevin Spacey was, what did he?

01:17:29.960 No, he was just having sex with the American kids and none of the Italian kids.

01:17:35.560 Okay.

01:17:35.860 I got the difference here.

01:17:37.180 I got it.

01:17:37.680 I got it.

01:17:38.700 Just a few months with the, you know, into the hashtag me too movement, you know, and

01:17:45.060 the, everybody's wearing a black dress and oh my gosh, I'm just so, I'm so for this.

01:17:49.560 Uh, you know, Roy Moore is such a monster and, and Kevin Spacey, he's a monster.

01:17:56.880 And now you're celebrating a movie about an older man who's seducing a teenage boy.

01:18:05.160 I mean, didn't you just delete Kevin Spacey from, I think, I don't even know if he is even

01:18:11.320 alive anymore.

01:18:12.880 He's just been deleted.

01:18:14.260 Kevin Spacey.

01:18:14.820 Who's Kevin Spacey?

01:18:15.380 Yeah.

01:18:15.460 I've never heard of Kevin Spacey.

01:18:17.820 We can generalize about the Hollywood community here because the entire academy votes for

01:18:24.940 best picture.

01:18:25.740 So it's not just a small community.

01:18:27.660 This is the academy voting to, uh, to excuse and endorse a movie about sex between an adult

01:18:34.620 and a teenager.

01:18:35.600 Why don't we do the Roy Moore story?

01:18:38.180 Why don't we do that one?

01:18:39.920 Oh, I remember, right?

01:18:41.160 Because we have a problem with that.

01:18:42.740 Why don't we do the Kevin Spacey story?

01:18:44.340 Oh, I, gosh, I remember, uh, because we're against that.

01:18:49.780 As a business community, I don't get it.

01:18:53.680 As a cultural force in this country, Hollywood, you have zero credibility and you're going into

01:19:00.760 the negative scale.

01:19:01.840 I mean, I'm going to have to put you on the Kelvin scale here soon because I don't know

01:19:06.120 how much colder you can get.

01:19:08.740 How do you type your hashtag?

01:19:11.720 How do you wear your black protest dress and then nominate the Kevin Spacey story for best

01:19:18.560 picture?

01:19:19.140 How do you do that?

01:19:21.200 Here's the thing, Hollywood.

01:19:22.900 Um, you know, maybe you don't, maybe you misunderstand this phrase.

01:19:26.480 People always say you can't have your cake and eat it too.

01:19:29.020 I prefer to always say it this way.

01:19:32.880 You can't eat your cake and have it too.

01:19:37.340 You can't have both of them.

01:19:39.380 If the hashtag me too and hashtag time's up, really, if that's more than a slogan or a fad

01:19:46.420 to you, then you actually have to, uh, put it, you know, into action.

01:19:52.160 Apologies, changes, they don't mean anything without action.

01:19:56.620 Who you choose to work with, your story content, the movies you nominate for awards.

01:20:06.060 Right now, I don't see time's up.

01:20:08.840 Right now, all I see is hashtag hypocrisy.

01:20:12.040 It's Wednesday, January 24th.

01:20:22.460 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:20:24.420 Tonight at five o'clock on the Blaze TV, we're going to be talking, um, uh, about the uranium

01:20:30.440 one scandal.

01:20:31.940 And this is, this is all tied in to everything that is happening with the FBI.

01:20:37.080 And it really, last night, it, you started to see how the FBI was involved in this.

01:20:43.000 And tonight you're going to see the amazing coincidence of all of the uranium one Russians

01:20:50.160 suddenly giving huge donations to the Clinton foundation.

01:20:54.420 It is amazing.

01:20:57.480 Look, we all make charitable donations.

01:21:00.020 Sometimes there's tax deductions that you're looking for.

01:21:03.180 You know, it's a wonderful charity.

01:21:05.040 There's great things all around the world.

01:21:07.060 It could, it's just a coincidence.

01:21:09.260 Yeah.

01:21:10.700 Last night we, uh, we went in, do we have any clips from last night?

01:21:14.360 Yeah.

01:21:14.820 Last night we went into the, what the FBI, just the beginning of what the FBI had on these

01:21:22.840 Russians and the, and the role that they were playing in bribing our politicians.

01:21:28.540 Soon as Clinton gets involved, it all kind of goes awry and nobody pays attention.

01:21:33.060 But the FBI had been working for years on this scandal.

01:21:39.280 The $5 million was padded to include the kickback payments for, um, McCarran and several

01:21:46.660 other Rosatom executives back in Moscow.

01:21:49.600 So they would get the $5 million contract without competing bids from other companies, pocket

01:21:56.440 the 4.75 million, do the trucking job, and the executives would get the remaining.

01:22:03.400 It all went to McCarran and his buddies.

01:22:07.540 Well, what they would do is they would take that extra money.

01:22:11.640 It was dirty money.

01:22:13.020 Now they had to clean it up.

01:22:15.740 So they took that money and they laundered it in banks all around the globe so the Russians

01:22:23.480 could properly launder the money.

01:22:26.640 Once the money is clean, well, McCarran and his buddies would get all the money they needed.

01:22:34.240 These were American companies making illegal deals with Russia for the handling of nuclear

01:22:41.940 material.

01:22:42.920 In the old days, that was called treason.

01:22:46.620 That would put you in jail.

01:22:49.980 But in the Obama years, it was just called pressing the reset button.

01:22:55.040 That was from last night's chalkboard.

01:22:58.400 And you can watch it on demand now if you're a subscriber at theblaze.com slash TV.

01:23:03.480 Tonight, we go into Russia.

01:23:07.840 One-fifth of U.S. uranium resources, with the permission of the U.S. government, even though

01:23:15.480 we knew they were engaged in, I'm quoting the FBI, illegal schemes and bribery, we allowed

01:23:24.480 them to take one-fifth of our enriched uranium.

01:23:31.620 And this enriched the Russians and it enriched people like the Clintons.

01:23:37.460 And tonight, we'll show you the Clinton connection.

01:23:41.220 There is a good story that, well, they never talked to anybody.

01:23:46.560 They never did anything.

01:23:47.960 No, no, they didn't.

01:23:50.360 They sure didn't do anything.

01:23:54.880 And neither did the FBI.

01:23:58.260 Something is really wrong.

01:24:01.700 And it's wrong on this Uranium One scandal.

01:24:06.480 It is wrong with the Trump scandal.

01:24:09.720 I mean, if Trump did something wrong with the Russians, I want to know about it.

01:24:16.600 If Trump did something wrong to obstruct justice, I want to know about it.

01:24:20.340 If Clinton did something wrong, I want to know about it.

01:24:23.600 And I want them both held to exactly the same standard.

01:24:28.700 But I think what's really happening here is the FBI.

01:24:32.780 There is something wrong in the Justice Department.

01:24:35.860 Let me just go through what everybody in the press seems to be ignoring here.

01:24:43.740 On, you know, the two lovebirds, we lost their text messages.

01:24:50.680 And the media wants to minimize this.

01:24:52.960 Let me just lay out the facts.

01:24:55.700 Mark Meadows did this in a Twitter thread.

01:24:58.280 Let me just let me lay out the facts here for you.

01:25:01.940 The key figure, Peter Strzok, he's the FBI.

01:25:05.900 He is the former deputy of counterintelligence at the FBI.

01:25:10.700 So he's the deputy of counterintelligence.

01:25:13.800 He's the guy that's responsible into looking into things like Russia.

01:25:19.140 He's the guy who ran the 2016 Clinton investigation.

01:25:25.640 So he is the man who was looking into that.

01:25:30.020 He interviewed key witnesses, including Cheryl Mills, Uma Abedin, and Hillary Clinton.

01:25:38.920 Strzok.

01:25:39.800 Remember that.

01:25:40.600 Now we have these anti-Trump texts in 2016 from Peter Strzok, the same guy.

01:25:49.640 And he's talking about having some sort of, quote, insurance policy in case Trump gets elected.

01:25:56.500 We have the text from Strzok and his woman that he was having an illicit affair with.

01:26:02.820 Somebody who, was it Strzok's wife or was it Lisa Page's husband that worked at Fusion GPS?

01:26:12.520 There's the connection there.

01:26:14.500 Anyway, Strzok and Lisa Page, in their text messages, say we can't take the risk that Trump will win the presidency.

01:26:22.680 Just that by itself is a huge red flag.

01:26:26.900 But there's more.

01:26:28.120 We now have text between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, both FBI agents, directly talking about the pressure to finish the Hillary Clinton investigation.

01:26:39.240 A text which occurred right after Donald Trump became the GOP nominee or the presumptive GOP nominee.

01:26:47.240 We have a text.

01:26:48.260 It's from May 4th, 2016, where Peter Strzok writes his lover and says, who's also FBI, high level.

01:26:55.380 Now the pressure really starts to finish M-Y-E.

01:27:00.660 What is M-Y-E?

01:27:02.020 M-Y-E is midterm exam.

01:27:04.340 That was the code name for the Clinton investigation.

01:27:08.240 He's mid-year exam.

01:27:09.600 He's the guy who's doing it.

01:27:13.220 He's viscerally anti-Trump.

01:27:16.600 He wants an insurance policy.

01:27:18.320 When Trump gets the nomination, he says, we need some sort of insurance policy.

01:27:24.640 Boy, now the pressure is really on for me to finish this.

01:27:28.660 Okay.

01:27:30.120 Bad, right?

01:27:31.960 But now it really gets worse.

01:27:34.440 Peter Strzok, deputy of FBI counterintelligence, lead Clinton investigator, who's blasting Trump in a text message, talking about the need to end the Clinton investigation, right after he knew that Hillary would be running against Trump, who he says we need an insurance policy to make sure he doesn't get in.

01:27:57.360 Now, let's complete the circle here with FBI Director Comey.

01:28:05.600 Remember Comey's exoneration letter of Hillary Clinton?

01:28:09.360 The letter from 2016, the way Comey wrote it, Hillary Clinton was grossly negligent.

01:28:17.700 But it was mysteriously changed to extremely careless.

01:28:23.100 The question is, why?

01:28:25.080 Maybe the better question is, what difference does it make?

01:28:31.860 Gross negligence, under the reasonable person standard in the law, is a crime.

01:28:40.060 Extreme carelessness is not.

01:28:43.420 So the change makes one crime, one just, I was just sloppy.

01:28:48.740 Had Director Comey called Hillary grossly negligent in his letter, he would have been saying she committed a crime.

01:28:59.720 But it was changed.

01:29:02.520 Let's go back to Peter Strzok.

01:29:04.360 Now think about how important this is.

01:29:22.180 A text from Peter Strzok, talking about the pressure to end the Clinton investigation, then within 48 hours, within 48 hours, he changes the Comey letter from criminal charges to carelessness.

01:29:41.740 I don't know about you, but that doesn't seem right.

01:29:48.480 There is something wrong here.

01:29:50.420 If this was a white and black issue, my gosh, this would be the front page everywhere.

01:29:58.980 If this was a male versus female gender equality thing, we'd be hearing nothing about it.

01:30:05.440 But because it has been made into partisan politics, we're all willing just to overlook it.

01:30:12.020 We're willing to look at the Hillary problem.

01:30:15.860 The left is willing to look at the Trump problem.

01:30:19.780 Who's left looking at the FBI and Russia problem?

01:30:24.340 Because that's what this is really all about.

01:30:28.360 This is not about party politics.

01:30:33.900 Now, you do have to add a couple of things.

01:30:39.240 There's a couple of other questions.

01:30:42.160 The dossier, the Carter Page FISA application, which they still will not produce for Congress.

01:30:49.720 The five months of mysteriously missing Page and Strzok texts.

01:30:54.880 The FBI communicating with Fusion GPS.

01:30:58.380 And the DNC hired Christopher Steele.

01:31:02.160 There is at least a significant...

01:31:06.320 You know what?

01:31:06.640 When's the last time that you watched all the president's men?

01:31:11.160 When's the last time you even researched Watergate?

01:31:15.280 I watched it with my daughter Mary this weekend.

01:31:18.080 And we sat down and we watched Watergate.

01:31:21.660 And these reporters didn't even know what they had.

01:31:25.760 It wasn't until the very end when Deep Throat is standing there in the garage going,

01:31:30.060 You don't even know.

01:31:32.420 You have no idea what this is about.

01:31:35.580 It's about the money.

01:31:38.180 It's about that lawyer in California.

01:31:40.040 No, it's not.

01:31:41.420 The entire government is involved in this.

01:31:44.800 It's the FBI.

01:31:46.260 It's the CIA.

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01:32:00.120 Where are these good journalists today?

01:32:04.380 I feel like, I mean, deja vu.

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01:32:26.000 will use these same kind of unconstitutional things and you ain't going to like it.

01:32:32.760 You have got to clean up the Justice Department and the FBI because someday the shoe could be on the other foot and you're not going to like it.

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01:34:18.620 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:34:20.920 Welcome to it.

01:34:21.760 Glad you're here.

01:34:22.300 Just looking at some of the tweets and the email that has come in, Carol Roa says, hope this indictment puts the Clintons away for life.

01:34:33.740 They've gotten away with too many crimes.

01:34:34.920 She's talking about the chalkboard series.

01:34:37.300 Steve Waters, always fascinating watching you put the pieces together and sharing, Glenn.

01:34:41.680 This is where you do your best work.

01:34:43.940 Gail wrote and said, I love your chalkboard explanations.

01:34:47.400 You explain things the blind can't see.

01:34:49.320 It is such a clear...

01:34:51.420 That's everything.

01:34:53.140 By definition, a blind person can't see anything.

01:34:56.240 So explaining things that the blind people can't see is just explaining a thing.

01:35:00.520 Yeah.

01:35:00.800 Thank you.

01:35:03.820 I love a ruining things.

01:35:05.660 Really important point.

01:35:06.860 Yes, it was.

01:35:07.620 Really important point.

01:35:08.520 Well, I mean, that's what...

01:35:09.880 You explain things the blind don't see.

01:35:14.520 That's all things.

01:35:15.740 By definition, a blind person is not seeing anything.

01:35:18.540 So Sue writes in and she says, our entire government is out of control and the entire media is silent.

01:35:27.580 How is it that not one person, let alone hundreds, aren't in prison in our government right now?

01:35:34.980 I don't know.

01:35:36.720 But I'll have to ask the blind man or maybe the deaf man.

01:35:41.060 Because I can also put things in words that the deaf just cannot hear.

01:35:45.400 But that's all things, Glenn.

01:35:46.820 The deaf person can't see.

01:35:48.020 Let's not get...

01:35:49.100 We'll break that down further later on on the program.

01:35:51.460 Yeah, I'll get a chalkboard on that.

01:35:52.460 So are you buying into the Secret Society and the FBI and all that?

01:35:55.740 Did you hear Ron Johnson?

01:35:57.960 No.

01:35:58.320 Okay, listen.

01:35:59.360 Sarah, please play the cut of Ron Johnson.

01:36:02.720 Senator Ron Johnson.

01:36:03.960 Again, that Secret Society, we have an informant that's talking about a group that were holding secret meetings off-site.

01:36:11.440 There's so much smoke here.

01:36:12.840 There's so much suspicion.

01:36:13.960 Let's stop there.

01:36:14.880 A secret society, secret meetings off-site of the Justice Department.

01:36:19.000 Correct.

01:36:19.620 And you have an informant saying that?

01:36:21.700 Yes.

01:36:22.820 Wow.

01:36:23.260 Is there anything more about that?

01:36:24.660 No.

01:36:25.060 We have to dig into it.

01:36:25.880 This is not a distraction.

01:36:28.600 Again, this is bias, potentially corruption at the highest levels of the FBI that is now investigating.

01:36:35.180 Again, are we talking about a Moose Lodge meeting with a little bowling action going on?

01:36:40.140 Or, you know, is it skull and bones, Yale Society type stuff?

01:36:44.780 It doesn't even have to be that.

01:36:45.080 It just has to be.

01:36:46.020 I don't know.

01:36:46.120 It has to be people that are following the idea that was expressed in those text messages.

01:36:55.580 We need an insurance policy.

01:36:57.300 How do we stop this guy from being president?

01:36:59.860 Yeah.

01:37:00.340 And if they had a society to do that, that is huge.

01:37:04.240 I mean, I don't think they printed up cards or, you know, had a logo made.

01:37:08.300 But if there was a group of people.

01:37:09.760 Well, what kind of self-respecting secret society wouldn't have at least a logo?

01:37:13.580 Come on.

01:37:13.940 Yeah, you got to have a logo.

01:37:14.560 You got to have a logo.

01:37:15.180 That's a government.

01:37:16.060 A government.

01:37:17.240 The secret society.

01:37:19.280 Actually, they would have one design that would have cost the taxpayers $100 million.

01:37:23.940 But anyway, so we have that.

01:37:26.880 There's also some interesting news from Joe Biden, who is, by the way, we're joined by

01:37:31.800 Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed on The Blaze in about 22 minutes from now.

01:37:38.560 Joe Biden seems to be coming out at Lunch Bucket Joe.

01:37:43.200 Yeah.

01:37:43.880 And just talking common sense.

01:37:46.240 He's clearing out the legacy a little bit.

01:37:47.960 Yeah.

01:37:48.240 For that 2020 run.

01:37:49.320 Yeah.

01:37:49.620 He's planning.

01:37:50.540 Making sure that you know that the things that you didn't like about the Obama administration.

01:37:55.280 He was against.

01:37:56.100 He was against those things.

01:37:57.340 So you're aware.

01:37:58.420 Oh, boy.

01:37:58.640 Just so you're aware.

01:37:59.580 We're talking about middle class Joe, right?

01:38:01.260 Middle class Joe.

01:38:01.880 Oh, yeah.

01:38:02.160 Lunch Bucket Joe.

01:38:02.920 Yeah.

01:38:03.060 Yeah.

01:38:03.380 Yeah.

01:38:03.520 Yeah.

01:38:03.840 Yeah.

01:38:03.900 Yeah.

01:38:03.920 Yeah.

01:38:03.960 Yeah.

01:38:04.020 Yeah.

01:38:04.040 Yeah.

01:38:04.060 Yeah.

01:38:04.100 Yeah.

01:38:04.120 Yeah.

01:38:04.140 Yeah.

01:38:04.160 Yeah.

01:38:04.220 Yeah.

01:38:04.440 Yeah.

01:38:04.740 Yeah.

01:38:04.820 Yeah.

01:38:04.940 Yeah.

01:38:05.020 Yeah.

01:38:05.040 Yeah.

01:38:05.060 Everybody calls him middle class.

01:38:06.720 Shoeless Joe.

01:38:07.660 You know, I'm just like you, Joe, is what I like to call him.

01:38:10.860 That is one of the most revealing things about a politician I think I've ever seen in

01:38:14.900 my entire life.

01:38:15.640 When you've never heard anybody but him call himself something.

01:38:19.000 And then that's what he uses all the time.

01:38:21.660 You know, people call me middle class Joe.

01:38:23.700 And they went back.

01:38:24.460 I've never heard anybody call you that.

01:38:25.640 Right.

01:38:25.900 They actually went back in the archives to find the first person who to call him middle

01:38:29.700 class Joe.

01:38:30.140 And it was Joe Biden.

01:38:31.580 It was him calling himself that.

01:38:33.440 It's so good.

01:38:34.360 It's just so good.

01:38:35.320 He's amazing.

01:38:36.220 Anyway, here's cut one, Joe Biden.

01:38:38.960 Went up and Mitch McConnell, who I get on with well and a smart guy.

01:38:43.100 Mitch McConnell wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment that we would say,

01:38:49.140 essentially, Russia is doing this.

01:38:51.480 Stop.

01:38:52.980 Bipartisan.

01:38:53.460 So it couldn't be used as a weapon against the Democratic nominee of a president trying

01:38:59.380 to use the intelligence community, which now at the time people would say, no, when

01:39:04.320 we are eternally having these discussions, say, no one would do that.

01:39:07.180 Well, look what the hell they've done.

01:39:09.500 The constant attack is on the intelligence community.

01:39:12.360 It was a political organization run by, you know, Barack Obama for it to take on as political

01:39:19.580 enemies.

01:39:20.600 Now, you know, as a friend of mine in Scranton say, who would have thunk it?

01:39:23.560 But it was done.

01:39:25.020 And so there was this constant tightrope as being walked here as to what would we do?

01:39:30.440 So the second big play was we went in and said, OK, look, here's all the data.

01:39:35.100 And Brennan and the company came up and said, here's what we know.

01:39:39.300 Why don't we put out a bipartisan warning to Russia?

01:39:44.140 Hands off, man, or there's going to be a problem.

01:39:47.340 Democrat and Republicans, well, they would have no party.

01:39:49.920 They have no part of it.

01:39:51.580 That, to me, hanging around that body up there for a longer than any of you were around doing

01:39:58.060 it meant to me that this was the die had been cast here.

01:40:01.860 This was all about the political play.

01:40:05.580 So what you're supposed to get out of that is people were critical of the Obama administration

01:40:11.620 for not coming out and talking about Russia during the campaign.

01:40:14.900 Right.

01:40:15.100 And Joe wanted to.

01:40:16.840 It just wasn't.

01:40:17.680 And so did Barack.

01:40:18.160 And so did Barack.

01:40:18.980 Yeah.

01:40:19.360 It was just what, you know, it was a fault of the Republicans.

01:40:22.260 What you should take out of that is it's an amazing admission of cowardice.

01:40:27.660 He's saying they thought that they should come out and say something about Russia.

01:40:31.860 But because they couldn't get political cover from Mitch McConnell, they decided to let

01:40:36.820 our electoral process just hang out there in the wind and not warn anyone about it because

01:40:42.360 it might look bad for them.

01:40:44.060 As a president, that's your job.

01:40:46.720 You're supposed to be able to risk the political pushback and come out and say the thing that's

01:40:51.900 tough to say that's good for the country.

01:40:54.140 So I think he's trying to get away with one there, and I don't think it works at all.

01:40:57.660 Did it work on you, Pat?

01:40:58.880 Not really.

01:40:59.560 No.

01:40:59.920 I love the fact that he said it at the Council of Foreign Relations.

01:41:03.040 I did, too.

01:41:03.500 I love that.

01:41:04.400 I love it.

01:41:04.700 If you watch it on the Blaze TV.

01:41:06.340 Unbelievable.

01:41:06.840 You're seeing him, you know, in this talk of secret societies.

01:41:10.200 He said he said that's CFR.

01:41:13.120 Jeez.

01:41:13.940 It's not the best image there.

01:41:16.420 No.

01:41:16.840 Can we play Biden on Libya as well?

01:41:19.080 Here's another one.

01:41:19.740 Now, look, you know what happened with Libya.

01:41:21.700 Barack Obama went in there.

01:41:22.860 But he wants you to know that was not Lunch Bucket Joe.

01:41:27.400 No.

01:41:27.520 That was not Middle Class Joe.

01:41:29.260 No, not Middle Class Joe.

01:41:30.580 Or Lunch Bucket.

01:41:31.600 Or Shoeless.

01:41:32.960 Or Scranton Joe.

01:41:33.480 He's just like you, Joe.

01:41:35.160 Okay.

01:41:35.840 Okay.

01:41:36.480 Here's Biden on Libya.

01:41:37.440 There will be a lot written about Libya and why some one of us thought it was a tragic

01:41:43.700 mistake, the policy we undertook.

01:41:45.620 No, I'm serious.

01:41:47.580 It's now public.

01:41:48.780 But it was, I think it, I think, I don't think that's the total cause, but it added to the

01:41:55.240 perception on the part of Moscow as to what our intentions were.

01:41:58.940 I mean, that's why some one of us thought it was a mistake.

01:42:05.120 I mean, that is, he really wants to be president.

01:42:08.020 He's clearing the territory for the run, isn't he?

01:42:10.940 Yeah.

01:42:11.140 Well, but I mean, that's what you would expect from, I make $45,000 a year on a sliding scale.

01:42:17.600 That's probably the top I make now.

01:42:19.760 And I've always been right just below you or people like you, Joe.

01:42:25.580 You're talking about Middle Class Joe?

01:42:26.640 Yes.

01:42:26.940 Okay.

01:42:27.380 All right.

01:42:27.720 I thought so.

01:42:29.280 Yeah, it's a tragedy.

01:42:30.380 It was really a tragedy that he was, he's not already our president because you know,

01:42:35.620 if he ran, people would have understood that he's from Scranton, he's got a lunch bucket

01:42:39.780 and he's middle class and, and, and that's, that's, that's a path to victory.

01:42:43.200 It would have gone a long way.

01:42:44.080 It would have, yeah.

01:42:45.580 Yeah, but he's white and a male.

01:42:47.920 I don't like white people.

01:42:49.100 I'll say that.

01:42:50.000 I do not like them.

01:42:50.900 None of us do.

01:42:51.740 I do not like them.

01:42:52.600 There's too much privilege.

01:42:54.900 And, uh.

01:42:55.940 I check my privilege at the door.

01:42:57.120 Too much hatred.

01:42:57.760 I check my privilege at the door.

01:42:59.440 Mm-hmm.

01:42:59.940 Every day.

01:43:00.780 Somebody come, I come in and somebody says, privilege please.

01:43:03.980 And I say, it's outside.

01:43:05.820 And yet your skin came with you.

01:43:07.560 So, well, I'm trying hard.

01:43:10.960 Okay.

01:43:11.340 I'm trying hard.

01:43:12.460 Uh, Pat, I also wanted to get your reaction to the tragedy in Alabama.

01:43:16.080 Uh, obviously a really sad situation there.

01:43:18.480 Uh, you know, Montgomery, um, they had the candlelight vigil last night.

01:43:24.200 Uh, really sad as they said goodbye to the Taco Bell that burned down last week.

01:43:30.020 I mourned along with them.

01:43:31.660 You did.

01:43:32.100 I did.

01:43:32.460 You did.

01:43:32.800 It's really, it's really tragic.

01:43:34.280 Uh, uh, it started out apparently as a joke until more than a hundred people showed up.

01:43:40.680 That would have been us too.

01:43:42.140 We would have been there.

01:43:42.860 We would have led that thing.

01:43:44.220 As a Taco Bell burns down, they have a candlelight vigil to, to quote, talk about the, stand together

01:43:50.560 in the loss of our beloved Taco Bell and to share their memories of Taco Bell.

01:43:55.320 Oh my gosh.

01:43:57.000 Oh my gosh.

01:43:58.040 The owners are overwhelmed by the displays of support and it is unclear what caused the

01:44:02.240 fire, but they do plan to rebuild, which is good because we are only days away.

01:44:06.520 In fact, tomorrow, I believe is the day.

01:44:09.860 Is this the French fries thing?

01:44:11.120 The Taco Bell French fries are debuted with nacho cheese dipping sauce.

01:44:15.380 Right.

01:44:15.640 And also loaded with all sorts of, you know, uh, bel grande type toppings on top of the

01:44:22.060 fries.

01:44:22.420 These are the kind of things that are going to allow me to ignore the secret society at

01:44:26.280 the FBI turns you around a little bit, doesn't it?

01:44:29.480 Yeah.

01:44:30.020 Have you guys seen the story about the guy who actually worked in this building for years?

01:44:36.540 Every, we're from the Mercury studios in Las Colinas, Texas used to be the old Paramount

01:44:42.480 studios.

01:44:43.140 Um, and every episode of Barney was filmed here.

01:44:48.720 Yes, do knows.

01:44:50.020 Yeah.

01:44:50.200 Have you heard the latest on what the guy who did Barney, so to speak, uh, every episode

01:44:58.060 of Barney, the guy inside the costume, have you heard what his, uh, new, his new gig is?

01:45:03.120 No.

01:45:04.520 Look, everyone has to, you don't just die when your main career ends.

01:45:08.840 You got to move on to something else, something important, something maybe you've dreamed about

01:45:12.460 doing your whole life.

01:45:13.560 Yes.

01:45:14.540 He, uh, he, he is offering a full session of, uh, uh, uh, tantra massage, uh, and, and

01:45:23.000 some spiritual healing.

01:45:24.640 Uh, it lasts three to four hours, costs $350, female clients only.

01:45:29.980 Uh, and, uh, and he, he gives you a ritual bath.

01:45:34.900 A ritual bath?

01:45:36.380 A ritual bath.

01:45:36.600 You're going to have a ritual bath.

01:45:37.460 You have to go to the website.

01:45:38.900 You have to go to the website.

01:45:40.400 It is hysterical.

01:45:42.800 Dude, he's Jeffy's computer though.

01:45:44.340 He is dead serious.

01:45:46.160 Chakra, uh, uh, chakra balancing.

01:45:48.500 A second chakra?

01:45:49.360 Is this an outdoor situation?

01:45:50.700 No, no, no.

01:45:50.880 He's, he's going to balance those chakras for you.

01:45:52.620 And, uh, also cosmic mind blowing orgasms.

01:45:56.880 It is a tantric sex business.

01:45:59.400 The Barney guy.

01:46:01.400 Wow.

01:46:01.800 And I'm not going to tell you what it is, but, uh, you can figure it out.

01:46:04.760 He says, when the lingam and the yanni meet, there's a certain energy that takes place that the hands on the body cannot create.

01:46:14.760 Um, he says.

01:46:15.740 That's stupendous.

01:46:19.780 You have to read, because he talks about.

01:46:22.120 Wow.

01:46:22.520 The, the, the, uh, energy flow that he was, uh, trying to channel, uh, channel through Barney the whole time.

01:46:29.620 This guy is, I mean, he is, he's basically running a prostitution thing, but he worked with an attorney to figure out how do I not go to jail for prostitution?

01:46:41.580 And, uh, he's come up with it and he's dead serious.

01:46:47.960 I'd like to know how many clients he's going to get through the door.

01:46:52.080 Like zero.

01:46:53.980 I mean, this is for women, right?

01:46:55.600 No, he says.

01:46:56.720 Women aren't going there.

01:46:58.060 He says.

01:46:58.480 This would be my guess.

01:46:59.880 He says it's spiritually draining for him and he can only take on seven clients a week.

01:47:05.360 More on the inner workings of tantric sex and its industry with Pat Gray Unleashed today.

01:47:18.740 Uh, at Pat Unleashed on Twitter.

01:47:21.020 And you can get it on theblaze.com slash TV or theblaze.com slash radio.

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01:49:34.920 Today, part three of our look into the FBI, Russia, and the Clintons on Uranium One.

01:49:44.760 Today, we get to the Clinton coincidence, which is pretty jaw-dropping.

01:49:49.880 You don't want to miss it tonight at 5 o'clock.

01:49:51.780 Also, we're going to start the program with a quick explanation of one of the things that I have been looking for with the economy,

01:49:59.980 and that is velocity of money.

01:50:02.380 That's what causes inflation.

01:50:03.840 We have been priming the pump, and these – not the tax cuts, but the repatriation cuts, the billions and billions of dollars that has been laying offshore that now is coming flooding back into the country because Trump gave 15 percent tax cut.

01:50:25.280 It's really good and really good for many, many people.

01:50:29.560 However, is this going to kick off the velocity that could cause real problems because the Fed primed the pump with about $7 trillion in bogus money?

01:50:41.560 We'll get into that and look at the numbers right at the top of the show at 5 o'clock, and then the chalkboard on the Clintons, the FBI, and Russia.

01:50:51.420 You need to watch it tonight.

01:50:53.320 So you're saying perhaps printing trillions of dollars of money out of thin air is not the best policy?

01:50:57.760 No.

01:50:58.100 This time it's different.

01:50:59.340 Oh, this time it's going to be different?

01:51:00.240 Oh, good.

01:51:00.660 This time it's different.

01:51:01.500 Because I was worried, but then if it's going to be different –

01:51:03.420 No, every other time it has failed and gone horribly awry.

01:51:06.440 Oh.

01:51:06.900 This time, it's different.

01:51:08.280 Oh, good.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 24, 2018

1⧸24⧸18 - 'Sore Losers and Winners' (Scott Hamilton joins Glenn)

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