The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸31⧸18 - 'One of the Best Ever'？ (Jordan Peterson joins Glenn)

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00:00:20.100 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:27.040 Americans are dreamers, too.

00:00:30.000 This was one of the best speeches I have heard a president give in a long, long time.

00:00:39.580 Americans are dreamers, too.

00:00:41.780 One of the great lines and great moments from last night's State of the Union speech.

00:00:47.080 I believe this is the best and most powerful night of President Trump's political career.

00:00:52.360 Last night, he's the president that people have been waiting for.

00:00:58.020 And it was a bipartisan speech.

00:01:01.800 It's not every day that a political event can move you to tears.

00:01:05.320 And I absolutely hate.

00:01:07.360 And you know what?

00:01:08.020 We have little Sally Mucketfuck sitting up there and she did this. 0.98

00:01:10.880 And yay.

00:01:11.300 Last night had powerful moment after powerful moment after powerful moment.

00:01:19.040 Three times last night.

00:01:21.280 Rather than going to Hellfire and Brimstone, you know, and following the path of Steve Bannon,

00:01:27.380 the president breathed humanity into our political issues through three powerful stories.

00:01:35.240 A family that had lost two daughters to the MS-13 gang violence.

00:01:40.140 They stood while the president was telling their story and you could feel their pain.

00:01:46.440 The parents of Otto Warmbier, the guy that was taken in North Korea and brutally, brutally beaten.

00:01:56.940 Those parents stood sobbing while the entire building erupted in applause.

00:02:02.000 And a North Korean defector stood and triumphantly raised his crutches as the emotion swelled.

00:02:08.000 Last night was powerful.

00:02:10.800 Maybe the most effective thing to happen for Republicans, and it didn't have anything to do with what the president said,

00:02:19.760 was what the Democrats did.

00:02:23.580 The Democrats, this was not just a good night for the president.

00:02:28.240 And I believe a good night for the country.

00:02:31.440 This was a really bad night for the Democrats.

00:02:34.740 Did they not know that the entire country was watching them as they sat and refused to applaud even the entrance of Melania Trump

00:02:43.200 and applaud the things that 99% of the country can rally behind?

00:02:49.020 Nancy Pelosi, I don't know if she swallowed a tooth or what was going on, but my gosh, she wasn't happy. 1.00

00:02:57.880 The scowl was so intense.

00:03:00.480 I was afraid she was going to sprain her face.

00:03:02.480 I really did.

00:03:03.760 Wow.

00:03:05.580 They frowned.

00:03:06.980 They sat on their hands for things that I just don't understand.

00:03:13.700 How do you not stand for bonuses and rising wages for the first time for the middle and lower class?

00:03:23.180 Bonuses for employees.

00:03:24.720 They sat and scowled as everyone else stood for In God We Trust, the national anthem, Jerusalem, higher wages.

00:03:35.980 They sat.

00:03:37.740 It was unbelievable.

00:03:38.600 The Congressional Black Caucus remained seated when it was announced that the African-American unemployment number is at its lowest in history.

00:03:50.580 And these people sat and did nothing.

00:04:00.480 I mean, it seems like a big deal.

00:04:02.420 It seems like something you'd be happy about.

00:04:04.100 Many American Democrats care deeply about immigration issues.

00:04:09.440 Trump did something that no Republican or no conservative could ever survive.

00:04:17.340 He locked himself into the death chamber, strapped himself to a conservative electric chair, and turned on the juice.

00:04:26.200 He offered amnesty for 1.8 million illegal aliens.

00:04:32.740 He stated in the speech that triples what Obama was offering.

00:04:38.780 So what happened?

00:04:41.080 The Democrats sat on their hands.

00:04:45.860 This wasn't a big win?

00:04:47.660 This wasn't a big outreach?

00:04:49.660 Nancy Pelosi, I was now afraid it wasn't going to be a sprain.

00:04:54.700 She was going to break her face.

00:04:57.340 At one point, Luis Gutierrez stood up and stormed out of the room.

00:05:05.880 I think it's because people were chanting USA, USA, and that offended him.

00:05:11.260 A congressman is offended by USA, USA.

00:05:14.960 I don't know if they had to have special classes for the Democrats, some sort of a hold-me tank because the flag was behind the president the whole time.

00:05:28.900 They seem to not really, you know, they need to be coddled a little bit.

00:05:36.080 Here's the truth.

00:05:37.580 The Democrats aren't happy with Trump's amnesty because they're not the ones delivering it.

00:05:42.600 They don't care about these people.

00:05:45.680 They care about the votes.

00:05:47.760 They care about the divisiveness of the issue.

00:05:51.160 And I'm not just making this about Democrats.

00:05:52.920 There's many Republicans that do exactly the same thing.

00:05:56.200 They need this to be a political football.

00:06:00.620 They're concerned mainly about protecting their political racket.

00:06:05.500 Both sides do this, but last night I saw it.

00:06:07.820 I couldn't believe it.

00:06:08.760 If there was ever an opportunity to at least appear to be bipartisan, last night was it.

00:06:15.800 Willingly, wittingly or not, the Democrats showed the country who they really are.

00:06:21.900 And it is going to hurt them in the heartland.

00:06:27.020 So, Democrats, by all means, keep sitting down.

00:06:33.700 I have to tell you, I do not like the State of the Union.

00:06:51.160 I hate them.

00:06:53.180 I find them a colossal waste of time.

00:06:55.800 I cannot remember the last one that I watched all the way through that I wasn't paid to sit there and watch.

00:07:02.880 I don't even know.

00:07:06.100 I think the last one we did on television, I think I may have left early.

00:07:10.680 And I was being paid to sit there.

00:07:13.380 I just can't take them.

00:07:15.960 I hate all of the trappings.

00:07:17.840 I hate all of it.

00:07:20.020 And this one had all of the trappings that I hate.

00:07:23.400 You know, the long, you know, the long applause lines.

00:07:29.660 Mr. Speaker of the President of the United States.

00:07:31.620 Five minutes of applause.

00:07:32.880 Then the Speaker stands up.

00:07:34.380 I am proud to announce the President of the United States.

00:07:36.400 Five minutes of applause.

00:07:37.140 I got it.

00:07:38.780 Let the guy talk.

00:07:40.340 I hate long speeches.

00:07:43.920 I really, really have a hard time with speeches read on a teleprompter by somebody who can't read on a teleprompter.

00:07:52.440 With all of that being said, that was one of the best speeches I have seen a President give in a long time.

00:08:00.000 He was the best I've ever seen him.

00:08:04.640 He actually connected with much of what he was talking about emotionally, which I don't think I've ever seen before.

00:08:11.800 It was one of the best written speeches I have seen in a long time.

00:08:18.880 And it was true. 0.94

00:08:21.640 It was true. 0.75

00:08:22.640 It was true to the American values.

00:08:25.600 And I say that with a little bit of blindness today from staring directly into the...

00:08:37.100 How much did he recommend we spend?

00:08:39.560 Looks like about...

00:08:40.700 Don't look directly at it.

00:08:41.740 $2.7 trillion in news spending.

00:08:44.680 $2.7 trillion.

00:08:46.180 And amnesty.

00:08:47.820 Amnesty.

00:08:49.160 But citizenship, too, which is further than...

00:08:50.880 This is beyond the DACA debate now.

00:08:53.060 We're at amnesty.

00:08:53.980 We're at amnesty and path to citizenship.

00:08:58.120 And the Democrats didn't respond.

00:09:00.180 No, of course not.

00:09:00.380 No, they did respond.

00:09:01.320 They did respond.

00:09:02.740 Negatively, somehow.

00:09:03.880 Negatively.

00:09:04.260 They're getting more than they've ever had from anyone, including McCain and Graham and Jeb Bush and all of those people.

00:09:10.400 And I'm going to take on the big pharmaceutical companies and make drugs cheaper in the United States.

00:09:17.540 Not something that's conservative.

00:09:19.520 Nothing.

00:09:20.200 No, they don't care.

00:09:21.260 I mean, they're never going to...

00:09:22.180 And that's, of course, part of the ridiculousness of the event as a whole.

00:09:27.440 But again, you can't imagine that going better for Donald Trump than it did.

00:09:31.660 I have to tell you, you know, there were times that this is the first time that I have seen anger, outrage on a mass scale.

00:09:44.760 I mean, with Obama, there were a lot of people that were really, you know, you lie.

00:09:49.340 There were people that were really upset.

00:09:50.960 But not like this.

00:09:54.360 Not like this.

00:09:55.540 I have not...

00:09:56.920 When did you...

00:09:57.800 Have you ever heard of a congressman walking out of the speech?

00:10:00.600 No, I don't think I have.

00:10:01.960 I've never heard of that.

00:10:03.220 I don't know what...

00:10:03.980 I don't know what happened to the Congressional Black Caucus.

00:10:07.980 But holy cow. 1.00

00:10:09.940 I mean, their reaction was almost like you were sitting with, you know, the Black Panthers. 0.67

00:10:17.080 I mean, they were pissed.

00:10:18.560 They were pissed.

00:10:20.620 And it didn't matter.

00:10:21.800 How do you not stand for, I don't care who did it.

00:10:26.700 I don't even give the entirety of this economy at this point.

00:10:32.220 Donald Trump, do not base your success on the stock market.

00:10:37.240 Please, do not base your success.

00:10:41.320 No president can control that.

00:10:42.860 I know that.

00:10:44.000 And when it goes bad, if you have spent your whole first year and a half saying, look at

00:10:48.680 the stock market, look at the stock market, when it collapses, you're in trouble.

00:10:52.900 Don't do that.

00:10:54.040 But anyway, there's a lot of things that he did that have created jobs.

00:10:59.640 And it's not bogus jobs.

00:11:01.380 It's not like, and we're going to build a bridge.

00:11:03.360 Well, that's not a real job.

00:11:04.840 That's a job for right now until the bridge is done.

00:11:07.400 Once the government money dries up, it's over.

00:11:10.540 A real job is another, a third party that is actually a business that is building and

00:11:17.360 making something of value that will go on for a long time.

00:11:20.740 That's a real job.

00:11:22.040 The other is like a part-time job.

00:11:23.800 It's a, it's a temporary job.

00:11:26.000 This guy created jobs.

00:11:27.740 The unemployment rate for African-Americans is now at its lowest point in recorded history.

00:11:36.040 You got to clap for that.

00:11:41.000 How do you not clap for that?

00:11:41.580 I mean, I don't care who, again, like, I think you can, they'll, and they, many of the

00:11:45.780 organizations have made these points that, that this recovery started before Trump was

00:11:49.860 president and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:11:52.340 You can, you can use that if you want, you can make it.

00:11:55.100 So it's about your guy more than the other guy, but how do you not clap for the fact that

00:11:59.740 this has happened?

00:12:00.640 And it's a wonderful thing.

00:12:02.340 It's a wonderful thing.

00:12:03.200 No matter who's responsible for it, you want to, you can go on TV.

00:12:06.040 And you can make your arguments about how this is actually Obama's doing if you want,

00:12:09.860 but how do you not say in the end that the result is a positive?

00:12:15.800 It's a positive.

00:12:16.900 It's the best it's ever been.

00:12:18.460 And you're sitting on your hands because you don't like the president.

00:12:21.340 That's a, I mean, that's a bad look.

00:12:23.260 It's a bad look.

00:12:24.620 Really bad.

00:12:25.380 Really bad.

00:12:25.960 So, I mean, I think, I think it, they looked like extremists last night.

00:12:29.960 They really did.

00:12:30.820 Trump, please, Mr. President, please don't tweet for a few days.

00:12:37.960 Please lose the phone.

00:12:40.420 Somebody turn the electricity off in the White House.

00:12:43.480 Don't let him charge his phone.

00:12:45.020 Please don't tweet.

00:12:46.460 This was so good last night.

00:12:48.360 Please leave it alone.

00:12:49.640 It was very uniting.

00:12:50.700 People get so sensitive whenever there's a word of criticism of Donald Trump.

00:12:54.020 And I just don't, you know, that's not how I, he doesn't need you to, he doesn't need

00:12:57.680 you to, he is, he is, I mean, they used to call Ronald Reagan the Teflon president.

00:13:03.280 Yeah.

00:13:03.400 He can do whatever he wants.

00:13:04.160 He doesn't need your help to defend him.

00:13:06.720 It's okay.

00:13:07.420 He can, he can.

00:13:08.300 He's a big boy.

00:13:09.020 He's a big boy.

00:13:09.640 Absolutely.

00:13:10.640 Um, but it's interesting in that, like one of the criticisms of Trump is that, okay,

00:13:15.620 he's got policies.

00:13:16.560 Some of them are really good and some of them conservatives really like, uh, and I think

00:13:20.960 America wants to like Donald Trump.

00:13:22.920 There's something about him that America wants to like in that he's a businessman.

00:13:28.120 He kind of speaks, you know, a little bit more, uh, in a, in a way that's, that people

00:13:33.880 are familiar with talking to their friends.

00:13:35.400 Like there's something about that, that they like, but.

00:13:37.520 And, and the fact that they want to like him because, you know, look at what's happened

00:13:42.840 to the economy.

00:13:44.380 Look what's happened with ISIS.

00:13:45.680 There's a lot of good things that have happened and Americans don't want to dislike their president.

00:13:51.340 They don't.

00:13:51.780 I think that's true.

00:13:52.360 So the issue is if he's like that president last night, doesn't have a 37% approval rating.

00:13:59.660 That president, that president.

00:14:01.680 Again, with the same policies, the same person, but he acts like that all the time.

00:14:06.060 That, that guy has a 55% approval rating.

00:14:08.420 Uh, he may in a year from now, if things would continue to be, to grow and be good, like

00:14:12.920 it is now, he could have a 60%, 70% approval rating again.

00:14:17.820 Like, so there's a lot there to be positive about.

00:14:20.160 And I made, I made this point before, and I think it's important.

00:14:23.000 If he stopped the tweeting, 0% of his base would go away.

00:14:27.480 The only thing you'd have is upside of people who don't like that stuff.

00:14:32.080 And I, I use tweeting as a more generality of, of, I mean, there's no problem with him

00:14:36.000 actually using Twitter.

00:14:37.100 It's just a matter of the outliers, right?

00:14:39.240 Like the things that he gets that, that create the controversies, his, all the 38%, they're 1.00

00:14:44.860 all staying.

00:14:45.700 If he stops doing that, they all like him for other, for all these, for a million reasons.

00:14:49.720 And he's done a, a, a relatively good job with the economy, with ISIS, for sure. 0.65

00:14:55.000 There's like a lot of things you can praise.

00:14:56.860 It just, you wonder why he doesn't learn.

00:14:59.960 Cause every time he does this, and he did it last year too, he had a good speech in the

00:15:03.840 state of the union slot last year too.

00:15:06.240 And two days later it was over.

00:15:08.620 And you know, I think if he keeps this vibe going, the, the, the 2018 election, 2020 is

00:15:15.740 going to be easy.

00:15:17.240 It's just a matter of maintaining it.

00:15:18.900 It's being consistent.

00:15:19.720 I know.

00:15:19.960 And I don't know that he could do that.

00:15:21.140 If he has the discipline to do what he did last night and last night, it huge win for

00:15:26.240 him.

00:15:26.440 Yes.

00:15:26.840 Did you see the polling on it?

00:15:28.220 No.

00:15:28.780 75% of people who watched the speech approved of it, including 43% of Democrats.

00:15:36.620 It was, there was, look, and I like this, uh, uh, about people.

00:15:42.240 I don't want to agree with somebody I listened to or I don't, I don't think that's reasonable.

00:15:47.460 There's something wrong if I am agreeing with somebody all the time on everything and they

00:15:52.960 never surprise me.

00:15:54.580 You're like, Oh wow.

00:15:55.700 I never looked at it that way.

00:15:57.520 Hmm.

00:15:58.080 You're right or you're wrong, but that's really an interesting take and consistent with you.

00:16:02.500 I like that.

00:16:03.620 Okay.

00:16:04.460 Um, I like the fact that we have a president that could make me feel good and the other

00:16:11.740 side feel good.

00:16:12.880 I don't mean the Marxist side, you know, just the, the, the, the average Democrat feel

00:16:17.640 good.

00:16:17.900 I want that.

00:16:18.980 Right.

00:16:19.400 We never got that from Obama.

00:16:21.340 Obama never threw us a bone ever.

00:16:24.660 It was all about get in the back seat.

00:16:27.320 You've been driving.

00:16:28.220 We're not going to let you drive.

00:16:29.680 We're not going to let you have much to say.

00:16:31.420 You've been saying stuff for a while and you got us in the ditch.

00:16:34.100 That was, it was abusive the way this president treated or the way the last president treated

00:16:41.220 the half of the country.

00:16:43.240 It was abusive.

00:16:45.660 Last night, this president did something I've never seen before.

00:16:51.520 He, he should have now because he's the amazing Donald Trump that doesn't ever seem to piss

00:16:58.540 anybody off on his, on his own side.

00:17:00.360 He offered things to the Democrats.

00:17:03.460 No conservative would ever, ever offer.

00:17:06.720 Amazing.

00:17:07.000 Amazing.

00:17:07.840 And he, because he's Donald Trump, you could actually get the conservatives to go along

00:17:14.300 with it.

00:17:15.500 And the Democrats don't want to do it.

00:17:18.420 Thank God.

00:17:18.980 They still complain and push back because that, that's the best chance for him to say no.

00:17:23.200 Holy cow. 0.89

00:17:24.960 Remarkable.

00:17:26.820 Remarkable.

00:17:27.420 Well, today is a day for those of you who keep track.

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00:19:18.080 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:19:26.300 Glenn Beck.

00:19:27.240 Do you think last night, do you think last night that there was Steve Bannon sitting

00:19:36.540 someplace in an almost empty kind of, you know, sleazy bar?

00:19:42.020 So, so far, yes.

00:19:42.780 I think the answer is yes.

00:19:43.840 With a, with a, with a bottle of whiskey, half drunk.

00:19:47.600 Just looking up at the TV going, what the hell is you need me?

00:19:53.920 Last night, it was, it was everything that the Steve Bannon speech, uh, you know, wasn't.

00:20:03.640 It didn't have any of the creepy, you know, kind of stuff that Steve Bannon was pushing

00:20:09.220 for in all of the speeches.

00:20:10.540 And this is what happens when you don't try to go to the alt-right.

00:20:17.980 What happens when you just, when you just say, look, these are principles.

00:20:22.220 We did these things.

00:20:23.220 Here's how they worked out.

00:20:24.600 And now let's be uniting.

00:20:27.040 Holy cow. 0.89

00:20:27.620 That was definitely not Bannon that part.

00:20:31.060 We'll get to that next.

00:20:32.320 Glenn Beck.

00:20:34.360 Mercury.

00:20:40.540 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:44.440 So in the bar of my mind, and believe me, there's always a bar in my mind.

00:20:49.820 In the bar room of my mind last night, there were only two customers and they were sitting

00:20:53.880 on opposite ends of the bar.

00:20:55.380 One end of the bar was Steve Bannon.

00:20:58.040 Watching this unbelievable performance of the president last night going, I could have

00:21:02.040 met somebody.

00:21:03.600 I, I, I was there.

00:21:06.000 What happened?

00:21:07.000 And the, he's got a half drunk bottle of whiskey in front of him and he's just replaying every

00:21:14.780 moment of the last year in his head.

00:21:17.900 The far end of the bar on the other end is another man with a half drunk bottle of Zima

00:21:24.740 and it's Barack Obama going, what?

00:21:28.600 I, I want to obey rules of engagement are completely reversed.

00:21:35.420 And I, I mean, all of these things, I, I thought for sure an executive order was the law.

00:21:46.420 He thought he'd be president forever.

00:21:48.120 Yeah.

00:21:48.580 And no, no.

00:21:49.300 If you look at many of, of his great accomplishments were all through executive order.

00:21:55.960 They've been reversed.

00:21:57.240 And there are air quotes around great accomplishments, by the way.

00:21:59.800 Yeah.

00:21:59.980 I know.

00:22:00.280 But, but let me just say this, Republicans, president, Mr. President, please learn this

00:22:06.620 lesson.

00:22:07.460 You cannot rule through edict.

00:22:09.740 The next president that comes in is just going to reverse your stuff.

00:22:14.080 It's got to be passed.

00:22:16.020 It's got to go through Congress because then you don't change it.

00:22:19.980 Yeah.

00:22:20.440 And, and that is the tax reform.

00:22:22.620 You know, that's, that's not an edict, but just a lot of the things that he has done

00:22:28.020 have been, you know, presidential edicts.

00:22:30.560 Those change.

00:22:31.640 Yeah.

00:22:32.040 He's been, uh, his, the best part of his presidency has been his executive policy, which is great

00:22:37.400 except for the fact that the next guy can reverse it.

00:22:39.280 I mean, and the next Congress can reverse a law too.

00:22:41.820 However, uh, much more difficult to accomplish.

00:22:44.360 I believe he's also appointed more local, I mean, uh, uh, federal judges, um, and district

00:22:49.560 judges than any other president in history.

00:22:52.120 Right.

00:22:52.480 And that's, you know, that's lasting his, uh, many of his appointments.

00:22:55.620 I mean, it's funny because we know over the, over the time where he was from a candidate

00:23:00.340 to, to president, there's been obviously different aspects that I've had a problem with, uh, of

00:23:05.800 his presidency and of his run.

00:23:07.760 But a lot of that was tied to Steve Bannon though.

00:23:09.940 I mean, the Bannon elements of this presidency have always been very disturbing to me and he's

00:23:15.420 gone, you know, Flynn's gone.

00:23:17.640 A lot of the guys that we were talking about thinking there were the worst appointments were

00:23:21.460 gone.

00:23:21.860 I love Scott Pruitt.

00:23:23.300 I love, uh, Mick Mulvaney.

00:23:25.160 I love Mattis.

00:23:26.820 I love Kelly.

00:23:27.900 How is Mick Mulvaney dealing with a $1.7 trillion stimulus package?

00:23:35.120 Yeah.

00:23:35.360 And that was so, and that's part of the spending.

00:23:37.280 I mean, again, I think you go through the, the first part of this is looking at that speech

00:23:42.140 and saying, how was it?

00:23:44.000 You know what I mean?

00:23:44.300 Like, look at it as, as a, as a, as a moment in time, how was it?

00:23:47.700 And I don't think you could possibly expect that to go better than it did that.

00:23:52.820 I mean, that is, no, it was, it was now it was interesting because you watched it.

00:23:56.900 I listened to it.

00:23:57.840 Um, and as someone who just listened to it and didn't see the visuals, Nixon won, Nixon

00:24:02.900 did win.

00:24:03.420 No, I, um, but I, uh, I thought it was really well done.

00:24:08.840 He seemingly, that Trump, I think is the, is the better.

00:24:12.780 It's a little bit boring.

00:24:13.800 You tweeted about this a little bit last night.

00:24:15.360 You know, he's not like saying the wild things.

00:24:17.420 It's not necessarily as fun, but it is, it's a little bit more boring presidential, but that's

00:24:23.200 good.

00:24:23.480 I think that's good.

00:24:24.200 Yeah.

00:24:24.360 He's better.

00:24:24.940 No, I was conflicted all night.

00:24:26.220 I was conflicted all night.

00:24:27.440 It was like, um, well, I should say at the very beginning of the speech, when he first

00:24:30.960 started in and everything, and he was on teleprompter, you know, kind of doing that.

00:24:34.260 He was almost like delivering it at the beginning, like Clint Eastwood with a, with a squinty eye

00:24:38.340 and you're like, what is happening here?

00:24:39.860 Um, but, uh, uh, you know, when he's on teleprompter and the speech is, you know, just a usual

00:24:44.760 speech, it's, it's boring.

00:24:46.800 You want him off the teleprompter because then it's at least entertaining.

00:24:49.960 Right.

00:24:50.300 Um, however, this speech was so well written.

00:24:53.480 I, I lasted the entire speech.

00:24:55.940 I watched every word of this speech.

00:24:57.660 I can't remember the last time I did that.

00:24:59.600 But if you kind of break it, the speech into three types of content, right?

00:25:04.140 There's one, uh, Trump essentially taking credit for the good things he's done, right?

00:25:10.200 Every president does this.

00:25:11.380 You brag about the stuff you've done.

00:25:12.960 Every single president does it every time.

00:25:14.940 That's part one.

00:25:15.920 Part two.

00:25:16.800 Let me show you, uh, let me give you that color of it, right?

00:25:19.480 Here is this person who had this happen to them.

00:25:21.700 Here's this person who escaped North Korea.

00:25:24.340 Here's this person whose child was tragically murdered.

00:25:27.520 Here's this person who got a new job and is now a welder.

00:25:30.160 All those things, kind of that, the color of the event.

00:25:32.700 Here is, here's an illustration of the things I believe are important.

00:25:37.720 Uh, and then the third would be new policy proposals.

00:25:40.400 What are the things he wants to do in the future?

00:25:42.380 Which is the part of this, by the way, that is, uh, required by the constitution, right?

00:25:46.400 The state of the union, uh, says from time to time, we'll give updates on things that

00:25:49.920 they believe are going to be priorities.

00:25:51.580 What is the state of we're doing and what, what should we do in the future?

00:25:54.340 So you break that up into the three parts.

00:25:56.960 The first two parts were home runs, him talking about the things that he has done.

00:26:03.500 I thought he was great on that and didn't do the typical real over exaggeration of it.

00:26:09.840 There were a couple of claims that you could have problems with, but generally speaking,

00:26:12.960 like biggest tax cut in history.

00:26:14.160 It wasn't the biggest tax cut.

00:26:15.180 They believe it's the 12th, uh, biggest tax cut in history, but it's still, it's still

00:26:18.840 at the tax cut.

00:26:19.480 Why do that?

00:26:20.300 I had the biggest crowd ever.

00:26:21.740 Don't stop it.

00:26:22.580 It was fine.

00:26:23.420 Everything was fine.

00:26:24.060 Right.

00:26:24.340 This was really good.

00:26:25.400 He didn't do much of that though.

00:26:26.960 You know, like a lot of the stuff was like, you know, people were saying, well, we've had

00:26:30.340 great job creation and they have had great job creation and people will point out, well,

00:26:35.280 the, you know, the last five years of Obama, um, had higher numbers, which is true technically,

00:26:42.140 but each job to add to the economy as you get closer to full employment is more difficult.

00:26:47.120 So I think there's a real argument to be made that, you know, he, this is, his economic

00:26:51.420 accomplishments have been really good.

00:26:52.640 The tax, the, the, the, the, the stock market being high.

00:26:55.260 Well, it's risky to, to stake your entire claim on that, which I don't think he did,

00:26:59.180 but I mean, that can be problematic longterm, but I mean, it's true.

00:27:03.700 It is at the highest it's been right.

00:27:05.260 So him taking credit for the stuff he's done, I thought worked out really well.

00:27:08.840 His illustration, uh, you know, where he's taking people from the crowd and pointing

00:27:13.440 out what they've done.

00:27:14.480 Usually I hate those things always.

00:27:16.120 Cause there's, they're very pandering and stuff.

00:27:18.100 I thought he did a great job with that.

00:27:19.740 It's probably one of the best I've ever seen.

00:27:21.240 You need to listen to it.

00:27:22.780 You need to watch those scenes.

00:27:24.460 They were so powerful.

00:27:27.220 They were so powerful.

00:27:29.300 Great job with those. 0.81

00:27:30.320 The people, Warmbeer's, uh, family, um, even the guy from North Korea, when he stood up

00:27:36.380 with the crutches, uh, and the, uh, the two families that lost their, their daughters

00:27:41.160 to MS-13, the pain on their faces was, it was heart-wrenching.

00:27:48.480 It was just, it was, it was a masterpiece of emotion.

00:27:53.000 It really was.

00:27:53.580 And that's important.

00:27:54.740 It's one of the, those two things are the reason why I believe he had.

00:28:00.320 75% approval of the speech.

00:28:02.380 I think it was 97% among Republicans and 43% of Democrats, which is insanely high, especially

00:28:09.420 for a guy who is as generally speaking, as divisive as, as Trump is.

00:28:14.920 I mean, you know, if you like him, you love him.

00:28:17.020 And if you don't like him, you really don't like him.

00:28:19.440 So Democrats don't usually cheer anything that he's done.

00:28:22.760 Uh, so the connecting with the emotion, giving a positive picture of America, absolute home

00:28:28.580 runs.

00:28:28.820 The, the, the policy, uh, prescriptions are important and we can, I think, lose sight

00:28:35.060 of the fact, uh, that he made a lot of proposals last night.

00:28:38.920 Some of them were good, but I mean, let me give you four quick things from that speech

00:28:43.440 last night.

00:28:44.360 One, $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending.

00:28:47.600 Crazy.

00:28:48.000 Now, remember, this is now literally double what Obama wanted for infrastructure.

00:28:52.920 Infrastructure and got, and got, and we complained about like crazy.

00:28:56.700 This is, he's now doubled it.

00:28:58.160 And he said, by the way, we should point out not 1.5 trillion, but at least was his quote,

00:29:03.940 at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending.

00:29:07.680 That is a big freaking deal.

00:29:10.060 And we can't ignore it as conservatives.

00:29:11.900 As you pointed out, I don't know how Mick Mulvaney gets through it.

00:29:14.500 Having to pitch for that proposal because he was one of the biggest voices against that

00:29:19.540 sort of spending under Obama.

00:29:20.940 I know you went, look, he's, he's not the president.

00:29:23.200 He's got to support the policies of his boss.

00:29:25.300 And I understand that, but that's gotta be difficult for him because he is a real budget

00:29:28.660 hawk.

00:29:29.060 So that's one, $1.5 trillion, the family leave, uh, act.

00:29:34.040 He again wants to bring free, uh, paid family leave to, uh, he's, he's, there's several proposals

00:29:40.660 here.

00:29:41.280 Um, but it's talking, you're talking about people, you know, maternity leave and, and leave

00:29:45.260 for sickness and all of these other things.

00:29:47.040 They all, they're all feel really good, feel good policies, cost of fortune.

00:29:50.560 Uh, the estimates are up to $700 billion, uh, for these programs.

00:29:55.020 Um, again, stimulus was 787 billion.

00:29:58.740 So this is another, this could be, they've, it depends on what parts of that he enacts,

00:30:03.020 but the cost is usually between a hundred billion and $700 billion.

00:30:06.000 So we don't know the exact cost of that because he could trim it.

00:30:09.980 We're up to $2 trillion, maybe two to two, two to 2.2, uh, give or, give or take.

00:30:16.500 Uh, and then, uh, another $500 billion of, uh, ending a sequester, which he made a big

00:30:22.260 point of that gets you to about $2.7 trillion.

00:30:25.440 And that gives you no economic impact whatsoever.

00:30:31.080 I'm not factoring in any cost at all to giving citizenship to 2 million illegal immigrants.

00:30:37.660 Uh, there's so I'm saying no cost to that at all.

00:30:40.400 And we're at well over $2 trillion, maybe as high as 2.7.

00:30:44.540 And that is with him giving his low estimate because he said at least $1.5 trillion in

00:30:50.140 infrastructure.

00:30:50.460 So it could be even more than that.

00:30:51.880 We've heard estimates at least as high as $1.7 trillion for that.

00:30:55.460 So, you know, you have to step back from, I liked the speech.

00:30:59.340 I thought it was great.

00:31:00.080 It was as good as, as I could possibly ever imagine a Donald Trump speech going.

00:31:04.080 I couldn't even imagine that.

00:31:04.860 It was overwhelmingly well received by the American people.

00:31:08.500 Our job as I think conservatives is to say to, uh, Donald Trump, hey, look, you know,

00:31:14.960 this part's great.

00:31:15.900 This part's great.

00:31:16.540 This part's great.

00:31:17.580 Spending another $3 trillion is not an ideal path.

00:31:22.260 Beyond not an ideal path.

00:31:23.880 I don't think it's a sustainable path.

00:31:25.200 So it's interesting.

00:31:25.780 You said the, the three, the three areas of his speech were what?

00:31:32.800 Were bragging, which by the way, I think you, that is a hundred percent.

00:31:37.220 It's not a Trump thing.

00:31:38.100 That is every president takes time to say, this is what we've accomplished in the last

00:31:41.320 year.

00:31:41.600 It has to be part of that speech.

00:31:42.980 So that I call it bragging, but that's part one bragging.

00:31:45.280 Yeah.

00:31:45.360 Got it.

00:31:45.740 Part two, the color, the emotional, uh, way of, of illustrating these stories.

00:31:51.000 We're bringing out people from North Korea, et cetera.

00:31:53.020 Yeah.

00:31:53.200 And then third policy prescriptions, where are we going, going forward?

00:31:55.820 So here's what I, I thought it was in three parts too.

00:31:58.340 And I wrote them down when you said yours, I wrote my three parts and I thought we were

00:32:02.260 going to agree and that we didn't part one, who we are.

00:32:07.220 He didn't really brag about all of his, he, he wasn't saying I was making America great.

00:32:12.560 He said the American people have been unleashed and they made America great.

00:32:16.720 And here are some of the stories that have happened.

00:32:19.660 Okay.

00:32:20.220 So the first part I think was the color and, uh, and who, just who we are.

00:32:26.040 This is who we are.

00:32:27.160 It was a statement of, we believe in God.

00:32:30.220 We believe in the flag.

00:32:31.940 We, you know, we have these principles, who we are.

00:32:34.380 I'd put that in the color, the color category.

00:32:36.040 Yeah, I know.

00:32:36.440 I'm combining those and, and making that who we are.

00:32:39.440 The second one is surprise.

00:32:43.160 Look what I'm willing to give you to the Democrats surprise.

00:32:48.620 Cause he kept looking over.

00:32:49.900 You didn't see this, but he kept looking over to the Democrats and like, what are you not,

00:32:53.800 well, how are you not applauding on that?

00:32:55.200 How, how, I mean, it was amazing.

00:32:58.840 Um, and it was genuine.

00:33:00.780 He was genuinely shocked.

00:33:02.500 What I'm getting, we're talking prescription drugs here and you're sitting on your hands.

00:33:08.260 So surprise, here's what I'm willing to give you is part two.

00:33:11.880 And the third part that we haven't talked about, and I'm going to spend some time on tonight

00:33:15.260 is war.

00:33:17.100 I don't know if anybody else felt this and it may just be because I remember the cold war

00:33:22.240 and I remember the evil empire speech.

00:33:25.220 I remember, uh, what it felt like the buildup to a war like that war.

00:33:33.320 I said to my, I said to my daughter yesterday, she was sitting there and I said, oh, good

00:33:38.400 God, this, this feels like we're going to war.

00:33:41.960 And she said, dad, we're already at war.

00:33:45.240 And I said, not like that.

00:33:49.260 This war is different.

00:33:50.620 And we're going to explain that tonight.

00:33:52.740 But there was a definite undertow there that I'm hoping is all posturing.

00:33:58.400 Um, but it, it, it, it, it was concerning last night.

00:34:02.380 And we're going to talk a little bit about that.

00:34:03.860 And I'm going to go zero in on two of those stories that he told last night that were stories

00:34:10.460 that every American should hear.

00:34:11.820 They were so powerful.

00:34:14.220 The two girls that were lost by MS-13, a research team has been looking into that and finding

00:34:19.360 that story and all the details.

00:34:20.620 We're going to tell all of, we're going to tell a couple of those stories that he told

00:34:23.480 last night that are really powerful.

00:34:26.520 Um, that for some reason, the democratic, uh, leadership did not connect with, uh, and

00:34:34.240 unfortunately for them, almost 50% of their base did connect with it.

00:34:38.580 And, uh, that's going to be bad for them because you had a really good Trump last night and

00:34:44.220 a really good, here's who we are message.

00:34:46.840 We're going to cover all that tonight at five o'clock only on the blaze.com slash TV.

00:34:52.440 If you're not a subscriber, make sure you join us now.

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00:36:29.620 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:36:37.280 Glenn Beck.

00:36:38.860 We're going to spend a full hour with Jordan Peterson coming up in just a few minutes.

00:36:45.320 Jordan Peterson is this amazing professor from Canada.

00:36:50.260 So well-spoken, so clear on what is right and wrong.

00:36:57.860 Not a bomb thrower.

00:37:00.140 The great thing is he's Canadian.

00:37:01.700 I've not heard him talk about politics.

00:37:03.500 Um, and he's talking about, uh, the rules for life.

00:37:07.860 There are simple rules for life.

00:37:09.280 He says there's 12 of them.

00:37:10.620 He's got a new book out, the 12 rules for life, an antidote to chaos.

00:37:15.780 Maybe I like him so much because we think so much alike.

00:37:19.200 If you don't know who he is, you're going to love him.

00:37:21.520 If you do know who he is, a full hour with him.

00:37:25.800 Jordan Peterson, next.

00:37:33.500 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:37:51.720 Love.

00:37:53.380 Courage.

00:37:55.060 Truth.

00:37:56.700 Glenn Beck.

00:37:58.320 I got a quick general tip for life.

00:38:01.180 I think it's universal.

00:38:02.120 Don't make a list of Jewish enemies or any other list of, uh, enemies based on, you know,

00:38:07.660 ethnic background.

00:38:08.600 Just a bad idea.

00:38:09.380 It never really works out well.

00:38:11.080 Yesterday, former congressional candidate, uh, Paul Nalen, the guy who lost overwhelmingly

00:38:16.540 to Paul Ryan in the 2016 Wisconsin Republican primary blamed Jews for attacking his America

00:38:22.880 first positions.

00:38:24.300 He used Twitter to post a spreadsheet of the names, including, you know, whether the person

00:38:28.660 is a Jew or not really very, uh, no, it's classic. 1.00

00:38:32.120 He claims to have received 81 personal attacks on Twitter in the last month.

00:38:37.220 Wow.

00:38:37.740 Only 81.

00:38:39.380 I mean, whoa.

00:38:41.340 Uh, of those 81 Twitter attackers, he said, he said 74 are Jewish, which can only mean one

00:38:47.440 thing.

00:38:47.780 You know, of course, say with me, uh, vast Jewish conspiracy. 0.97

00:38:52.560 Conspiracy.

00:38:52.760 Right.

00:38:53.040 To ruin the popularity that Nalen thinks he has.

00:38:57.020 It could also be that, um, Nalen just hates Jews.

00:39:01.740 By the way, his research pretty much sucks as it turns out several people on his list weren't

00:39:05.780 actually Jewish, which, uh, huh.

00:39:08.200 Who would have thunk it?

00:39:08.660 You know, maybe, maybe Mr. Nalen hasn't gotten the calipers out and measured people's heads.

00:39:13.300 So that could be, he also posted charts with photos of people who work at CNN, NBC, New

00:39:18.940 York times, NPR, Fox news, complete with stars of David on their photo to point out the Jews.

00:39:24.000 He said that, uh, Twitter made him delete those photos.

00:39:29.840 He's trying to portray himself as a victim of censorship and oppression.

00:39:33.500 Look, I believe in the freedom of speech.

00:39:36.660 You could say what you want.

00:39:37.680 Even this kind of speech is, um, abhorrent.

00:39:41.680 There's always been people like Nalen and there always will be. 1.00

00:39:44.820 The difference now is they have this megaphone of social media.

00:39:48.340 So the question is why engage with a guy like this?

00:39:51.140 He's spewing hate people, you know, just can't take it and they want to fight back, but you're

00:39:57.000 never going to win the, are you not going to change his mind pointing out that he sounds,

00:40:02.060 you know, kind of like a 1930s Nazi isn't going to suddenly make Nalen say, well, you know

00:40:08.380 what?

00:40:08.580 I kind of do sound like a Nazi. 0.56

00:40:10.820 Oh, I didn't even know about that.

00:40:12.160 I should reevaluate my belief in Jews. 0.99

00:40:15.500 This guy's a flame out.

00:40:17.200 He's a flame out politician.

00:40:18.780 He is grasping for anything to help him keep afloat as he aims for Ryan's house seat again

00:40:23.340 this year.

00:40:24.140 You have to keep an eye on people like this, especially when organizations like Breitbart gave

00:40:30.400 him his own column for a while.

00:40:33.640 Don't help him trend on Twitter.

00:40:36.200 He's a former darling of Steve Bannon and Breitbart.

00:40:39.540 He is part of the whole psycho alt-right white nationalist fringe that guys like Bannon have

00:40:45.480 been trying to bring under the wing of the Republican Party.

00:40:48.000 These guys are crackpots.

00:40:49.460 They're dangerous.

00:40:50.200 But the left would love America to think that those crackpots are part of mainstream conservative

00:40:57.480 thought.

00:40:58.140 They're not conservatives and Republicans.

00:41:02.800 You can't run fast enough from people like Paul Nalen and the alt-right.

00:41:15.600 It's Wednesday, January 31st.

00:41:18.460 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:41:20.620 You've been listening to this program.

00:41:22.260 About in, I think, maybe 2005, 2006, I started doing my research on the 12th Imam, which is

00:41:31.640 this crazy end-of-times theology of some people who live in the Middle East, specifically Iran.

00:41:42.060 And it's scary.

00:41:44.840 They're very dangerous.

00:41:45.560 As I did my research on it, the goal to hasten the return of the promised one is to wash the

00:41:53.100 world in blood and create chaos.

00:41:56.320 And I said in 2006, and I've been saying it ever since, run from chaos.

00:42:03.280 Put order in your life.

00:42:05.700 The world is going to start moving towards chaos.

00:42:08.720 This is what Russia and Alexander Dugan is also pushing, is his chaos theory.

00:42:15.820 Chaos is the work of darkness.

00:42:19.280 For, I don't know how long, people have been saying, you've got to get Jordan Peterson on.

00:42:23.640 He's the greatest guy in the history of the world.

00:42:26.540 And we're like, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll get to him.

00:42:27.880 We'll get to him.

00:42:28.240 We'll get to him.

00:42:28.540 Then finally, we sat down and we watched him.

00:42:31.760 And we understand why everybody was saying, you've got to have him on.

00:42:35.380 He's just written a new book, The 12 Rules of Life, an antidote to chaos.

00:42:41.580 Welcome to the program, Jordan Peterson.

00:42:44.160 How are you, sir?

00:42:46.060 I'm good.

00:42:46.800 How are you doing?

00:42:48.240 I'm good.

00:42:50.140 If I may describe your book this way, tell me if I'm wrong.

00:42:53.500 Um, people right now feel this chaos and they feel they're overwhelmed and they feel like

00:43:00.220 everything they do or have done doesn't make any difference.

00:43:03.120 And so they're starting to unplug and they're starting to throw up their hands and get frustrated

00:43:07.640 and angry.

00:43:08.880 You are saying that, no, no, no, forget about the big picture.

00:43:13.500 Do these 12 little pretty simple things and you'll change the world.

00:43:18.940 At least change your life.

00:43:20.420 Yeah, well, that's a good place to start and you won't do any harm either.

00:43:25.220 So, you know, first do no harm.

00:43:27.600 Right.

00:43:27.860 The physicians have it.

00:43:30.340 So, um, first of all, let me just give the, uh, or have you give your credentials?

00:43:34.320 You, um, uh, are a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology, uh, and you have

00:43:41.780 really been found in kind of a worldwide sensation on, on YouTube.

00:43:46.120 Uh, and you're really, go ahead.

00:43:48.200 Oh no, that's so far, so far you've got it right.

00:43:51.720 Yeah.

00:43:51.860 I've been a practicing clinical psychologist for about 20 years.

00:43:54.720 I've spent tens of thousands of hours talking to people about their deepest problems.

00:44:00.400 And I've worked as a business consultant and, uh, and I've helped entrepreneurs.

00:44:06.420 I've helped companies find entrepreneurs to help run them.

00:44:09.820 And, um, I've done all sorts of things.

00:44:12.700 I want to go through, I want to go through the, uh, book and we have some time with you

00:44:15.920 today.

00:44:16.160 So I want to go through the book.

00:44:17.120 We can't go through all 12, but I'm, I'm just going to give you, uh, the, the advice

00:44:22.380 and then you tell me exactly what it means and how to apply it.

00:44:25.600 Uh, rule number two, treat yourself like someone you're responsible for helping.

00:44:30.140 Um, yeah, well, people are hard on themselves.

00:44:35.280 You know, everybody's aware of their own flaws and faults and inadequacies and failures to

00:44:42.100 live up to even their own ideals.

00:44:44.160 And we're also painfully aware that we do things purposefully wrong from time to time, just out

00:44:49.860 of spite and, and a desire to produce misery.

00:44:53.160 And because of that, we don't feel as positively predisposed towards ourselves as we might.

00:44:59.580 And so we don't take care of ourselves very well.

00:45:01.740 And it's deeper than that.

00:45:03.300 Even we, we kind of have contempt for ourselves because we're fragile and mortal and, and,

00:45:09.720 and, and subject to the tragic conditions of life.

00:45:13.200 And we're not exactly sure.

00:45:15.040 I would say that we deserve the best or that we deserve to be taken care of properly.

00:45:20.340 People will often treat their animals better than they treat themselves.

00:45:24.260 And that's not good.

00:45:25.940 It's not good.

00:45:26.720 You have to detach yourself from yourself a little bit and understand that you deserve to

00:45:32.720 be cared for like at a, at a, at a level of basic decency, just like any other living

00:45:39.380 creature, let's say it, you should want the best for yourself.

00:45:42.560 I've always been fascinated by the human race because we are, we really are self-hating

00:45:49.760 egomaniacs.

00:45:51.200 We, um, we build ourself up into these all powerful, but as individuals, we, we also have

00:46:00.260 this self, uh, loathing.

00:46:02.500 How do you, so, so it doesn't sound like people have a hard time of it.

00:46:07.040 You know, I mean, we're the only creatures that are self-conscious and we're aware of

00:46:11.260 the fragility of life and on our own flaws.

00:46:13.840 And so because of that, it's very difficult for us to regard ourselves properly.

00:46:19.240 And, and so chapter two, uh, rule two, treat yourself as if you're someone that you should

00:46:25.720 take care of, um, is, is a description of why it is a deep description of why it is that

00:46:31.720 people have doubts about their own being.

00:46:33.500 And then also what you should do in the face of that, I mean, the fact that we're faced with

00:46:39.640 our own mortality constantly and with the human proclivity for evil means that we have a very

00:46:44.880 large burden to bear, but we're also capable of doing that.

00:46:47.900 And you should regard yourself positively as someone who's able to face the tragedy and

00:46:53.940 malevolence of existence and still move forward.

00:46:57.400 And sometimes move forward with great nobility and grace.

00:47:01.120 I mean, people can operate under horrendous conditions and do so well, admirably.

00:47:08.080 And, and that's something really remarkable.

00:47:09.840 And so chapter two, rule two is about asking people to treat themselves with some respect and

00:47:18.000 see what might happen as a consequence.

00:47:20.500 Do you think that, uh, I just read a study this morning that shows depression rates of, uh,

00:47:26.580 teenagers are up for, I think 48% suicide is up 24% since 2010.

00:47:34.260 And the study showed that it coincided with the use of a, uh, a smartphone, um, uh, you

00:47:42.080 know, and all of the social media.

00:47:44.060 Do you think this is, uh, helping us because we're, we're one of your other rules.

00:47:49.920 Let me see which one it is, uh, here rule four, compare yourself to who you were yesterday

00:47:53.720 and not who someone else is today.

00:47:55.220 Do you think some of this is coming from, we're not good enough because we don't, we

00:48:01.020 don't have the life that we think everybody else has based on their bogus Facebook page?

00:48:07.020 Well, I, I think there's a couple of things going on there.

00:48:10.480 It we're undergoing sequential technological revolutions and it's not easy to keep up.

00:48:16.100 And so I think we don't know what to do with all the magical technological devices that are

00:48:22.200 being thrown our way.

00:48:23.340 It's a very, very steep learning curve and social media, all the major social media outlets,

00:48:29.500 Twitter and YouTube and Instagram and so forth.

00:48:32.440 They all have their advantages and their pitfalls.

00:48:34.500 They're quite addictive and they do throw you out into a massive realm and allow you to compare

00:48:40.340 yourself to the, well, to the Facebook version of everyone else.

00:48:44.180 And that definitely is rough.

00:48:46.660 I mean, you don't, and you pointed out rule four, compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

00:48:52.860 not to who someone else is today.

00:48:54.500 That's, that's a good maxim to live by because no one else is really like you in any, any

00:49:01.440 deep sense.

00:49:02.180 I mean, obviously people have their similarities, but the conditions of your life truly are unique

00:49:06.540 and what the way to, to, you need an ideal to pursue, compare myself to other people to

00:49:14.760 establish that ideal, but you don't really, you have to figure out who you are and then try

00:49:18.980 to be better than that.

00:49:20.020 And that's something you can always do too.

00:49:21.740 And one of the things I tried to do in that rule is outline why that's good enough.

00:49:26.720 Like you can make incremental changes over who you are right now.

00:49:31.300 And those incremental changes will compound and transform you across time.

00:49:35.680 It's a really, really powerful way of looking at the world.

00:49:38.380 And it stops you from being bitter and resentful.

00:49:41.380 I mean, part of the problem is, is when you look at someone who you think is doing better

00:49:45.260 than you, I mean, look, perhaps they are, we don't want to be naive about it.

00:49:49.420 You don't know everything about their life.

00:49:51.160 You know, if you're admiring a celebrity and you think, well, I'd love to have a life

00:49:55.740 like that.

00:49:56.720 You, you see the celebrity as a very low resolution hero.

00:50:01.000 You don't know the details of their life.

00:50:03.160 You have no idea how they're doing across 10 or 11 dimensions of comparison that the dimensions

00:50:08.840 that are important.

00:50:10.140 It's better to think about who you are now to take stock of your flaws and your virtues

00:50:15.480 and to move forward from that foundation.

00:50:19.480 It's, it's a, that way you can have an ideal.

00:50:22.000 I'm going to be better than I am.

00:50:23.540 And you don't have to be bitter and, and resentful because you're not who you think someone else

00:50:28.260 is.

00:50:29.200 So maybe the social media feeds that, you know.

00:50:32.600 I'm a 22 year recovering alcoholic and, um, I discovered something about myself that I,

00:50:39.600 I wonder if it isn't true about most people.

00:50:42.220 When I first started my journey into figuring out really who I was late in life in my thirties,

00:50:48.180 um, I, uh, uh, I, I stopped and I really didn't, it wasn't a real conscience, a conscious, uh,

00:50:58.800 stop in some ways.

00:51:01.020 Um, and then I, I was motivated to continue to look deep inside of me.

00:51:06.240 And I realized at that time, the reason why I think I was afraid, and I don't know if this

00:51:10.800 trans, uh, you know, transfers to other people, but, uh, I was afraid cause I was afraid there 1.00

00:51:16.000 was nothing really of value inside of me.

00:51:18.940 Yeah, right.

00:51:19.420 Well, that's it.

00:51:20.120 That, and that is people's deepest fears that there's, that really there's nothing valuable

00:51:25.080 about people.

00:51:26.880 And I, I truly believe that is deeply, deeply wrong.

00:51:30.880 Like one of the things I've tried to do in 12 rules for life is to take a very stark

00:51:36.280 appraisal of human existence.

00:51:39.200 Like I do believe that our lives are fundamentally tragic.

00:51:43.020 You know, we, we grow old, we get sick, we die.

00:51:46.000 We lose the people we love all of that.

00:51:48.100 We're, we're finite creatures, you know, and there is real malevolence and evil in the

00:51:53.440 world.

00:51:53.660 And not only in the hearts of other people, but definitely in our own hearts.

00:51:57.880 And so the conditions of existence are very dire in some sense, tragedy and evil.

00:52:03.500 But I do believe that there are ways of living in the world that enable us to transcend that.

00:52:08.840 And that the old idea that we each have a light inside of us that if turned on will illuminate

00:52:14.760 the world, I believe that to be true.

00:52:16.900 I think that, that human spirit is more powerful than death and evil.

00:52:21.720 And that if you live a truthful life, and if you live a life that's oriented towards the

00:52:27.100 highest good, that you can withstand the burden of being and you can discover within yourself

00:52:32.400 something that's, well, that's that spark of divinity that unites you with God.

00:52:37.180 Back with more from Jordan Peterson here in just a moment.

00:52:46.700 He's at Jordan B.

00:52:48.520 Peterson on Twitter.

00:52:49.440 The book is called 12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos.

00:52:52.880 We may have been a little esoteric here.

00:52:55.740 If you don't know who Jordan Peterson is, he is so right in where people live right now.

00:53:02.960 I fear I'm doing him a disservice.

00:53:06.320 He is, he's controversial right now because he's saying the things that we all know are

00:53:12.320 true, but have not been said for a long time.

00:53:15.420 What it takes to be a man.

00:53:16.840 And many of his followers on, on YouTube are young men.

00:53:22.780 They're starving to hear what does it mean to be a man?

00:53:26.620 More in a second.

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00:53:47.140 With Valentine's Day, I'm in this really comfortable space with my wife where, um, it has real meaning

00:53:53.100 and, um, I can get my wife nothing, God forbid that, I get her a card.

00:53:59.480 Um, and I always, I always get her flowers and I never really liked to send flowers, uh,

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00:55:10.100 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:55:16.300 Glenn Beck.

00:55:20.880 We covered the, uh, presidential, uh, speech last hour, and we will continue here in about,

00:55:27.400 uh, 34 minutes, uh, with some more analysis on what happened in Washington last night.

00:55:31.940 It was, it was absolutely amazing, but we're joined now, uh, by Jordan Peterson.

00:55:35.820 He's got a new book that is out today.

00:55:37.540 It's called 12 Rules for Life, an Antidote to Chaos.

00:55:41.320 Um, Jordan, I have been, I've been watching you now for a few months and, uh, I saw, you

00:55:46.820 know, something that you just did on the BBC where the presenter was, was after you from

00:55:51.760 the beginning.

00:55:52.260 There wasn't an honest question I didn't feel, uh, from the get-go.

00:55:56.460 She was trying, it was almost like every question was like, come on, fight with me.

00:56:01.780 What is it that you're saying that is making so many people just angry?

00:56:09.180 Because I don't see it.

00:56:11.420 Well, I'm calling out the identity politics types on the left and, and in a really, in a

00:56:17.940 really blunt way, you know?

00:56:19.580 And so they're not very happy about that.

00:56:21.860 But you're doing it, but you're doing it with facts.

00:56:23.980 You're doing it with, with ease and gentleness and kindness.

00:56:28.120 That's worse.

00:56:28.880 I know.

00:56:29.460 That's worse.

00:56:29.900 I know.

00:56:30.540 Because, you know, what, if the, the, the radical leftists have to paint everybody who opposes

00:56:36.860 them as some kind of supervillain, because if they don't, if the person who opposes them

00:56:41.960 isn't unreasonable, then they're reasonable.

00:56:44.920 And that means that reasonable people can critique the radical left.

00:56:48.440 And I am a reasonable person.

00:56:51.060 And that makes me more threatening rather than less.

00:56:55.420 And I mean, I believe that the radical leftists have pretty much destroyed the humanities.

00:57:00.160 And that's a terrible thing because they're at the core of the university.

00:57:04.180 And I also believe in, there was an article in the Boston Globe just this last week, making

00:57:08.900 exactly the same case, that the corruption of the humanities is now spreading out into the

00:57:14.940 broader public, into corporations and so forth, often through the back door of human resources.

00:57:20.280 And I'm pointing all this out, the pathological legislation that's been passed in camp, for

00:57:25.120 example, requiring compelled speech that result in the inquisition of a teaching assistant

00:57:31.420 at Wilfrid Laurier University.

00:57:33.080 And yeah, and people aren't very happy with me as a consequence, because I'm describing

00:57:39.300 what's going on and also why it's wrong.

00:57:42.680 It's really wrong for us to degenerate back into tribalism.

00:57:47.980 So I want to go into that.

00:57:51.000 We have to take a quick break.

00:57:52.080 And I want to go into that.

00:57:53.800 Why it's wrong.

00:57:55.040 We are in several tribes and we're all really doing it.

00:58:00.280 Why is it wrong?

00:58:01.360 And how do we change that in our own life?

00:58:04.740 Glenn Beck.

00:58:06.540 Mercury.

00:58:10.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:12.380 Whether he knows it or not, there is a movement, a global movement that is building underneath

00:58:17.320 Dr. Jordan Peterson.

00:58:19.860 He's a Canadian.

00:58:21.240 He is now sweeping the world on YouTube.

00:58:23.660 A lot of young people are really listening to him and following him.

00:58:28.700 And he is articulating universal principles that haven't been articulated this way in a long

00:58:34.560 time.

00:58:35.500 In his new book, 12 Rules for Life, he says things like this.

00:58:38.540 Confront the chaos of being, take aim against the sea of troubles, specify your destination

00:58:44.320 and chart your course, admit what you want, tell those around you who you are, narrow

00:58:49.940 and gaze attentively and move forward forthrightly.

00:58:54.640 We were talking about before the break, something that, and this was a kind of reminded me of

00:59:00.600 a recent article about a sort of an alt-right conspiracy gathering in New York City.

00:59:05.240 And a bunch of reporters went to it and they started asking, trying to fish around for

00:59:09.580 what their ideology was.

00:59:11.040 And one of them said this, we're not ideological, we're tribal.

00:59:15.580 We don't care about the politics as much as we care about pissing people off and trolling

00:59:19.120 and shaking things up.

00:59:20.900 Doctor, before we went to the break, you mentioned the way we are starting to degenerate into tribalism.

00:59:27.040 I think people now are starting to look at tribalism as a positive.

00:59:30.200 Why isn't it?

00:59:30.840 Well, people, when they lose their unifying purpose, they degenerate into tribalism.

00:59:37.320 You saw that happening, for example, in Yugoslavia when the wall fell and the Soviet Empire collapsed.

00:59:44.080 People degenerate back into their tribal groups.

00:59:47.080 Now, look, when you move from being a child to being an adult, you have to pass through a 0.59

00:59:54.060 period of time where your primary affiliation is to the group.

00:59:57.240 That's what happens when you're a teenager and a young adult.

01:00:00.720 You have to become socialized.

01:00:02.660 You have to take your place as a member of a group.

01:00:05.780 But that isn't where your development should end.

01:00:08.060 You should then transcend the group and become an individual.

01:00:11.440 And then you're part of the force that establishes and renews the group as well as just being

01:00:17.360 part of the group.

01:00:18.220 And it's that transcendent identity as an individual that enables different groups to live together

01:00:25.740 on the same territory peacefully because I can come out of my group as a forthright and

01:00:30.560 honest individual and you can come out of your group the same way and we can communicate

01:00:34.920 and negotiate and we can figure out how to cooperate and compete peacefully and to trade

01:00:40.520 and all of that without degenerating into tribal murderousness.

01:00:44.240 Now, what's happening in our culture is that the radical left is attempting to establish

01:00:49.660 a narrative.

01:00:51.080 And you say this globally.

01:00:52.900 You're not just talking about the United States.

01:00:54.260 Yes.

01:00:55.040 No, no, no.

01:00:55.860 This is happening all over the world, but particularly in the West.

01:00:59.340 And it's everywhere.

01:01:01.000 And the radical left narrative is that there's no superordinate narrative.

01:01:05.520 There's nothing that really unites us.

01:01:07.200 The world is a landscape of competing power interests and those power interests.

01:01:14.120 We lost you.

01:01:15.260 Hang on.

01:01:15.700 Those power interests.

01:01:16.800 Are you there?

01:01:19.240 Can you hear me?

01:01:20.140 Yeah, I can hear you now.

01:01:21.060 We just lost you.

01:01:21.720 You said those power interests are.

01:01:24.420 They're based on ethnicity or race or gender.

01:01:27.380 They're these essential elements that no one can change and that the entire world is just

01:01:33.280 a battleground of power between those competing groups and that some of them oppress the others.

01:01:42.600 The right wing looks at that, the radical right, and says, OK, if the world is nothing

01:01:48.180 but a battleground between power groups, then I'm going to pick my power group, whatever it

01:01:53.460 happens to be, and I'm going to win.

01:01:55.520 And so they both end up playing this extraordinarily dangerous group identity game, and there's

01:02:03.520 nothing at the end of that except catastrophe.

01:02:07.280 So can I ask you this question?

01:02:10.460 And I ask you this as a Canadian, because that way you're not getting into politics.

01:02:16.400 As an outsider, we've lost our national identity, and we don't know who we are anymore.

01:02:23.620 As an outsider looking in, what is the identity that all Americans could and should unite

01:02:31.620 around?

01:02:31.940 Who are we?

01:02:33.260 Well, it's the old American dream.

01:02:35.240 It's that America is a place where people judge on their confidence and are able to compete.

01:02:41.280 Doctor, I don't know if you've moved into another room or something, but we're losing you, and

01:02:47.860 we could barely understand you.

01:02:51.000 Oh, so let's try this.

01:02:52.520 Is that I don't know what's wrong with the connections?

01:02:56.140 Now you're gone again.

01:02:58.700 Can you hear me now?

01:02:59.620 Do you have?

01:03:00.340 I can hear you perfectly well.

01:03:02.560 All right, so go ahead, and I'll tell you if we drop out.

01:03:05.340 I'll try one more time.

01:03:06.120 Well, okay, so, well, the United States is a beacon to the world, as far as I'm concerned.

01:03:10.980 Life is a beacon of the world.

01:03:15.620 We're going to have to stop and see if we can get a new connection with you.

01:03:19.760 We're going to call you right back and see if we can get a new connection.

01:03:23.040 We're going to take a quick break.

01:03:24.380 Yeah, it's unfortunate.

01:03:24.880 And come back with Dr. Jordan Peterson.

01:03:29.440 Canadian phone systems.

01:03:32.420 Blame the Canadians. 1.00

01:03:33.720 Typical Glenn.

01:03:34.940 Jordan Peterson is the author of 12 Rules for Life.

01:03:37.700 We're going to have him back in just a second.

01:03:39.160 It's an antidote to chaos, which a clear cell phone connection is also a little chaotic.

01:03:45.000 It's helpful.

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01:04:00.620 Do you have one?

01:04:01.480 I do.

01:04:01.780 Because it does seem like this is the exact point.

01:04:03.900 Yes, please.

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01:04:58.660 Glenn Beck.

01:05:00.480 Mercury.

01:05:04.780 Glenn Beck.

01:05:05.900 We're talking to Dr. Jordan Peterson from Canada.

01:05:11.780 He is a new favorite of mine and really, I mean, just so clear in his thinking.

01:05:17.800 He has a huge global following that has been building for a while.

01:05:23.120 And a lot of them are young males.

01:05:25.640 And he is not spoon feeding them stuff.

01:05:28.640 You know, the average person in the media or, you know, in universities would say, you know, oh, that's what they want to hear.

01:05:36.560 And you've got to coddle them.

01:05:37.700 He doesn't coddle them.

01:05:38.580 He tells them, grow up, be a man.

01:05:40.340 What does that mean, Jordan, to when you're talking to these guys?

01:05:45.940 What is it they're starving for?

01:05:48.740 Well, they're starving for the idea that their life has purpose, a recognition of the idea that their life has purpose.

01:05:55.660 And so I tell them, well, there's things to do out there in the world.

01:05:59.500 You know, there's chaos to confront.

01:06:01.300 And there's order to establish and revivify.

01:06:04.500 And there's suffering to ameliorate.

01:06:07.240 And there's evil to constrain.

01:06:09.680 And that the world is a lesser place if you don't take your place in it.

01:06:13.580 And that the consequences of that are dire.

01:06:16.740 You have an important destiny.

01:06:19.800 You know, I tell them that they're made in the image of God, like the old stories say.

01:06:23.940 And that they have something beneficial.

01:06:28.200 God, every time I talk about this, it breaks me up.

01:06:31.440 That they have something beneficial that they have to bring into the world.

01:06:35.560 It's that that stops the world from degenerating into hell.

01:06:39.680 And that it truly is important for you to get out of bed in the morning and to face the world honestly.

01:06:46.960 And to set your family straight.

01:06:48.980 And to work for your community.

01:06:50.620 And to aim at something great in the world.

01:06:53.940 This is vital.

01:06:55.960 Without that, everyone suffers stupidly and miserably.

01:07:01.580 And why bother with that?

01:07:03.720 Like you can't just hide in the basement and shirk your responsibilities.

01:07:07.960 It makes you miserable and bitter.

01:07:10.300 And even murderous.

01:07:11.920 It's not a pathway to take.

01:07:13.500 It's just good to stand up and take on the burden of the world.

01:07:18.960 And to pick up your damn cross and walk up the hill. 0.96

01:07:23.500 You need to do that.

01:07:24.840 It's important.

01:07:25.940 It truly is important.

01:07:28.220 And that people aren't one dot and one speck among 7 billion.

01:07:32.720 We're all networked together.

01:07:33.820 We're all in this together.

01:07:34.740 And we could do something remarkable together if we aimed high and spoke the truth.

01:07:41.800 That's not the right way to live.

01:07:43.460 Some of your prescriptions are pretty tough for this, though.

01:07:46.040 And looking at, you know, rule 6 is one that pops out to me.

01:07:49.820 Because this is something I've found over and over again that people absolutely despise doing with themselves.

01:07:58.680 Which is set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

01:08:02.440 That is something that people don't want to do.

01:08:04.720 It's very difficult to do.

01:08:06.340 How do you make them do it?

01:08:09.280 Well, I think what you do is what I tried to do in that chapter is that chapter is about kids who shot up the Columbine High School.

01:08:16.780 And about a mass murderer named Carl Panzram.

01:08:19.600 And I try to describe in detail the motivations for doing such things.

01:08:23.980 And people who do such things have very powerful motivations for doing them.

01:08:27.980 They're very angry about the conditions of existence.

01:08:31.080 The tragedy that constitutes existence.

01:08:33.620 And they get bitter and resentful.

01:08:35.500 And then they want revenge.

01:08:37.520 And they're willing to take it.

01:08:39.000 Well, they're willing to take revenge on the most innocent.

01:08:41.700 I mean, that's what the guy who shot up their school in Connecticut did.

01:08:44.820 He went and shot kids.

01:08:46.420 Like, well, how the hell do you get into a situation like that?

01:08:49.860 And you brood on the horrors of existence.

01:08:53.020 And you get resentful for your part in the tragedy.

01:08:57.160 And there's no excuse for that.

01:08:58.840 I mean, life is very, very difficult.

01:09:00.380 There's no doubt about that.

01:09:01.820 And unfair things happen.

01:09:03.620 But to retreat and to become resentful and bitter is only to multiply the problem.

01:09:09.840 And so Chapter 6 is an injunction.

01:09:11.940 It's an anti-activist injunction, I would say, to some degree.

01:09:15.460 Like, for the last 50 years, we've encouraged young people to go out there and stop the people who are doing bad things from doing them.

01:09:25.380 And I just think that's a counterproductive way of living in the world.

01:09:28.800 It's like you should stop the bad things that you're doing and you should straighten up your life.

01:09:34.720 And then you should straighten up your family's life and then your community's life.

01:09:38.740 And then everything will be straight and proper.

01:09:41.660 And that's all to the good.

01:09:44.440 Then maybe we won't degenerate back into that brutal tribalism that characterized the 21st century and wipe ourselves out.

01:09:51.360 So I'm sitting here.

01:09:54.580 I have found these things myself over the last few years and to be true.

01:09:59.420 And people will say, well, you can't surrender and retreat and you can't just let it go by.

01:10:04.760 And you're like, no, I'm not letting it go by.

01:10:07.040 I'm not surrendering.

01:10:08.080 I'm just not playing that game because it gets us nowhere.

01:10:12.840 And I can make an impact in my own home and in my own life.

01:10:17.840 And that changes things.

01:10:20.280 It's not trivial either.

01:10:21.920 Like, you know, it's not that easy to set your family in order.

01:10:25.320 And if you do that, you'll learn something deep.

01:10:28.140 You know, if you can make peace with your brothers and your sisters,

01:10:31.180 and if you can make peace with your parents and your past,

01:10:34.460 and you can make your own house peaceful and productive,

01:10:37.100 then you've learned some deep psychological and practical truth.

01:10:41.200 And then when you go out into the world and attempt to do things,

01:10:44.020 you're going to be first on a very solid footing because you'll have lots of support

01:10:48.000 and you won't be tortured by a never-ending stream of domestic hell and idiocy.

01:10:54.100 And you'll be ready to do things in the world that are appropriate and proper.

01:10:59.740 You'll have practice.

01:11:00.980 It's not like setting your house in order is trivial.

01:11:03.800 It's very difficult.

01:11:04.740 You admit that there is evil in the world, and it is profound.

01:11:10.800 And I think that's...

01:11:11.340 That's one of the most self-evident things about the world.

01:11:14.340 I know.

01:11:16.440 And people will hear this because I've heard this from people.

01:11:21.300 Glenn, there's evil and it has to be stopped.

01:11:23.960 Yes, it does.

01:11:24.820 And you're, you know, it's just a retreat from evil because that's just not going to stop.

01:11:32.080 Can you connect the dot to the chaos in our own life and then the evil that is out?

01:11:40.920 Look to yourself first.

01:11:42.700 That's the thing is that the best place to begin the process of constraining evil is in your own heart.

01:11:49.720 Like, you know, I've studied totalitarian brutality for 30 years.

01:11:55.280 And one of the things that I taught my students, well, since the early 1990s, is that if they were...

01:12:03.060 If each of them was placed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, there's an overwhelming probability that they would be Nazis.

01:12:10.620 Like, everybody thinks, no, I'd be Schindler rescuing the Jews. 0.89

01:12:14.920 I'd be the Dutch family that hid Anne Frank. 0.95

01:12:17.900 It's like, no, you wouldn't.

01:12:19.560 No.

01:12:20.380 That's not true.

01:12:22.040 You'd be on the side of the majority, just like you are now in all probability.

01:12:26.360 And if the temptation was put in front of you to do the terrible things that were offered to the people who did the terrible things the Nazis and the communists did,

01:12:35.000 then it's really probable that you would do those.

01:12:37.680 And it's also really probable that you're doing such things already on a smaller scale.

01:12:43.660 You're torturing the people that you love.

01:12:46.100 You're betraying your friends.

01:12:48.100 You're not working up to your potential at work.

01:12:52.180 There's all sorts of things that you're doing in your life that are small examples of the things that get out of control in tyrannical societies.

01:12:59.720 Lots of people are tyrants in their own little domain.

01:13:02.940 Or they're tyrants to themselves.

01:13:04.960 I'm sure that you...

01:13:05.960 That needs to be stopped.

01:13:07.240 I'm sure that you have read the book Ordinary Men on how men in Poland, they did with compassion at first, and they turned into monsters.

01:13:20.280 It's a slow, gradual thing that you just don't see.

01:13:23.900 Oh, that's a great and terrible book, Ordinary Men.

01:13:28.200 Yeah, it's one of the ones that's...

01:13:29.580 I have a reading list on my website, and that's one of the books that's on the reading list,

01:13:34.420 because that is a great example of how you move to perdition one step at a time,

01:13:39.740 and how perfectly ordinary people can be trained, even against their own will in some sense,

01:13:45.200 against their own better instincts to become, well, committers of atrocity.

01:13:49.440 When I read history, I don't read it as an innocent bystander.

01:13:55.760 I read history as a perpetrator, and that's the right way to read history. 0.97

01:14:00.760 We have a list of books to read as well, and it's quite long, but move this to the top of your list.

01:14:09.900 Twelve Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos.

01:14:13.200 Move this up on your list of things to do or watch.

01:14:18.220 Jordan Peterson on YouTube.

01:14:20.840 He is so well-spoken, so well-thought-out, and a voice of common sense that you just don't hear very often anymore.

01:14:31.720 Dr. Peterson, thank you so much.

01:14:33.440 I appreciate it, and we'll talk again.

01:14:34.840 God bless.

01:14:36.460 Thanks very much for the invitation.

01:14:38.440 It was good talking with you.

01:14:39.640 Good talking to you.

01:14:40.240 Jordan Peterson, again, the name of the book, 12 Rules for Life.

01:14:45.200 All right, we go back to the Capitol and the president's speech last night.

01:14:50.100 Next.

01:15:02.240 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:15:10.240 White, wealthy, and privileged.

01:15:29.240 Oh my gosh, run!

01:15:30.880 Last night, the Democrats chose somebody to deliver the Democratic response that really kind of shows how out of touch they really are.

01:15:43.220 If you're going after white, wealthy, and privileged, you don't pick a Kennedy to deliver the message.

01:15:49.840 Democrats continue to claim that they are the party of diversity and the poor, but last night, the grandson of Robert Kennedy was handpicked, of course, by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

01:16:03.440 Two white, wealthy, and privileged people desperately clinging to the glory days of the Democratic Party.

01:16:09.760 So blinded by their perception of the past that they refused to address the Kennedy family history.

01:16:15.760 Which, just I would like to point out, does include a history of deception, infidelity, sexual misconduct, oh, and murder.

01:16:25.340 Leaving a woman on the floorboard of a car, you know, to die because you didn't want to get caught having sex with her. 0.98

01:16:32.500 I mean, Me Too.

01:16:34.820 Hashtag Me Too.

01:16:36.520 Good heavens.

01:16:37.840 How do you put a Kennedy on the pedestal during the Me Too movement?

01:16:44.400 Does nobody remember this?

01:16:46.740 Does anyone remember he left her to die to cover it all up?

01:16:50.700 That's what happened.

01:16:52.380 And his family helped him cover it up.

01:16:56.020 Mary Jo Kopechny was the former secretary of Joe Kennedy's grandfather.

01:17:01.200 Let me say that again.

01:17:02.120 Again, the secretary of the guy last night that they picked, the secretary of the grandfather, I'm sorry, Joe, I'm sorry, let's get this right.

01:17:14.060 Mary Jo Kopechny was the secretary of the grandfather that they had on last night.

01:17:19.920 That's nuts.

01:17:22.500 And it's not like after that, the Kennedy's like went, oh, you know what?

01:17:27.100 Boy, we've been a bad family.

01:17:29.060 Maybe we should clean up our act.

01:17:30.260 They continue.

01:17:33.180 Democrats.

01:17:34.560 Ah, if I may quote Nancy Pelosi, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

01:17:41.900 It was so much cooler when she said it.

01:17:44.600 If Trump's election didn't send a clear message that the American people are done with political dynasties, I don't know what will.

01:17:52.600 Nancy, Chuck, there's so much here to learn from.

01:17:56.120 But one is stop digging up the Kennedys.

01:18:07.220 It's Wednesday, January 31st.

01:18:09.980 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:18:11.740 So, I just, I, we assigned this out.

01:18:16.540 We assigned this out.

01:18:17.900 We assigned the.

01:18:19.120 Full disclosure here.

01:18:19.780 Yeah.

01:18:20.160 To watch Joe Kennedy last night.

01:18:23.240 Did you notice, like, something wrong with his.

01:18:26.660 Maybe it was just the way the lights were on him.

01:18:30.040 I don't know.

01:18:30.520 Yeah.

01:18:30.800 Anyway.

01:18:31.900 So, Joe Kennedy last night delivered the address.

01:18:35.980 And it, you know, it did.

01:18:37.940 I don't think anybody was watching by that time.

01:18:40.540 And here to talk about it, the man we assigned is Jeff Fisher.

01:18:43.800 Hello, Jeffy.

01:18:44.840 How are you?

01:18:45.660 I'm fine.

01:18:46.440 Thank you.

01:18:46.860 And, you know, hey, this country from textiles to robots is a place that knows how to make great things.

01:18:52.400 I mean, he told us that.

01:18:53.860 And, you know, we believe that.

01:18:55.620 It's amazing to have someone actually watch the, watch this and not have to actually deal with viewing it myself.

01:19:05.780 Because I did not, I did not want to hear any of the content of it.

01:19:08.740 But I kind of.

01:19:09.320 I kind of figured it would be like, oh, textiles.

01:19:11.700 I'm kind of disappointed because of, you know, because it was, you know, Kennedy.

01:19:17.980 And was he at least any good at it, Jeffy?

01:19:21.040 I, look, it would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos, Glenn.

01:19:25.680 A partisan politics.

01:19:27.600 But for them.

01:19:28.820 Yeah.

01:19:29.760 Dignity isn't something you're born with.

01:19:32.160 But something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size.

01:19:38.780 Wow.

01:19:39.400 Because the Democrats have never played any identity politics when it comes to celebrity.

01:19:44.060 They didn't have the first celebrity president or anything.

01:19:47.000 That's not how they promoted Barack Obama with his giant rallies or anything like that.

01:19:50.900 And now this is all new.

01:19:52.660 This is only, only Donald Trump, a brand new thing for Republicans.

01:19:56.620 So what else did he, what else do you talk about?

01:19:58.700 Look, they're turning American life into a zero sum game, Glenn, where in order to win, another must lose.

01:20:04.800 Where we can guarantee America's safety if we slash our safety net.

01:20:09.660 Coal miners or single moms. 1.00

01:20:11.460 You know, can I just ask a question?

01:20:13.620 Is it like Jeffy even watched this or is he just quoting everything?

01:20:18.080 It does sort of feel like potentially Jeffy.

01:20:23.060 Well, he certainly is.

01:20:24.600 He definitely, he definitely, I think he's, I can say this.

01:20:27.580 Yeah.

01:20:27.800 He definitely saw the video of it.

01:20:30.260 I'm sensing from, as, as we talked to him, I'm getting, he definitely saw the video.

01:20:34.160 So I didn't see the video of it.

01:20:35.180 So, uh, well, look, well, I mean, I, we choose an economy strong enough to boast record stock

01:20:41.100 prices and brave enough to admit the top CEOs making 300 times the average worker is not

01:20:46.600 right.

01:20:47.200 Glenn.

01:20:47.520 Right.

01:20:48.040 You know that.

01:20:48.680 Right.

01:20:49.240 And I'd just like to say to all the dreamers, let me be clear in the camera.

01:20:53.120 When you say that, will you just like to say to all this, this camera, this camera here.

01:20:56.860 Yeah.

01:20:57.140 I'd like to just say to all the dreamers.

01:20:59.940 Oh, he did not.

01:21:02.920 No, he did not.

01:21:04.500 No, he did not.

01:21:05.200 Oh, you want to talk about pandering.

01:21:07.080 He did.

01:21:07.540 He did not.

01:21:08.820 He actually went to, so you're saying he, this is amazing.

01:21:12.160 He actually went into, broke into the Spanish, uh, to pander even more to the dreamers, which 0.94

01:21:17.120 again, we already found out in the Trump part of the speech that saying that Americans can

01:21:21.420 be dreamers too, was incredibly offensive.

01:21:24.140 And now apparently, uh, so offensive, uh, that they had to pan double pander to the, uh,

01:21:30.520 the Hispanic audience, uh, by actually breaking into, I, I, I just don't like, I, I do have 0.99

01:21:35.760 to, I do have to point, I do have to point out that last night, I mean, I, I, I saw a little

01:21:42.920 bit of it this morning.

01:21:43.660 I didn't watch the whole thing, but, uh, it was like, it was like Joe Kennedy had a chapstick

01:21:49.320 accident.

01:21:50.500 Did you notice that Jeffy?

01:21:52.240 Do you think people?

01:21:53.240 No, I don't think anybody noticed.

01:21:54.380 I think everybody heard the words that he said about proudly marching together.

01:21:58.620 Uh-huh.

01:21:59.540 Thousands deep in the streets of Vegas, Philadelphia, Nashville.

01:22:03.000 Right.

01:22:03.380 I think they all heard that they paid.

01:22:05.300 I mean, looks that's, you're not supposed to pay attention.

01:22:08.280 Well, I didn't, I used to, when people quote Joe Kennedy's words, they tend to have, they

01:22:14.180 tend to have a little bit, uh, uh, of a, of a, I don't know if I would call it an accident,

01:22:19.700 um, but they seem to have an issue with chapstick when they quote his word.

01:22:23.820 Jeffy, did you, did you, did you see any of that?

01:22:26.140 I did not.

01:22:26.840 I mean, uh, look, politicians, politicians can be cheered for the promises they make.

01:22:31.740 Our country will be judged by the promises.

01:22:34.360 Okay.

01:22:34.940 All right.

01:22:35.260 Jeffy, thank you so much.

01:22:36.280 It's been great to have you on.

01:22:37.480 If you build a wall, we'll tear it down.

01:22:40.120 All right.

01:22:41.240 Thank you.

01:22:41.740 I'll say this.

01:22:42.020 I wouldn't normally recommend people view a Jeffy segment, uh, instead of just listening.

01:22:48.500 But this is, uh, yeah.

01:22:50.760 Thank you for the update.

01:22:52.060 I appreciate that.

01:22:52.440 You're welcome.

01:22:52.660 I'm happy to do it.

01:22:53.300 Very good.

01:22:53.840 Thank you, Joe Kennedy.

01:22:54.780 Now, if you think that you, uh, may have missed, uh, some of that, uh, we just gave you

01:22:59.220 the, uh, the information, uh, so we've fulfilled our obligation here.

01:23:02.640 Uh, but there might've been a little mocking going on visually, uh, visually a little bit

01:23:08.880 of mocking and, uh, you look great though, Jeffy, you look great.

01:23:14.880 So seriously, the chapstick thing, what happened?

01:23:17.720 It just started spreading all over his face until it was like in clumps.

01:23:22.280 It seemed to get actually worse.

01:23:24.080 It did.

01:23:24.620 It did.

01:23:25.680 I mean, at first I thought, is he like drooling?

01:23:27.800 Is it spittle?

01:23:28.760 What did it?

01:23:29.180 No one heard a word he said.

01:23:30.700 No.

01:23:31.280 The entire country just.

01:23:34.340 That is what, that is what happens when something, because this happened once to Ted Cruz.

01:23:38.640 You remember this during one of the debates, he had a little bit of spittle on his lip and

01:23:42.600 he was having a great debate at the time and then a little white spittle and that was

01:23:47.220 it.

01:23:47.540 Yeah.

01:23:47.760 You can't remember what was his name?

01:23:49.840 Uh, Bobby, Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal.

01:23:52.840 He had a drink of water.

01:23:54.480 That was Marco Rubio.

01:23:55.880 Yeah.

01:23:55.980 That was Marco Rubio.

01:23:57.000 Right.

01:23:57.220 Jindal was sweating and stumbling and oh man.

01:24:00.100 Yeah, that's right.

01:24:00.660 That was right.

01:24:01.300 Not that I've minimized the Bobby Jindal.

01:24:05.420 Thank you, Jeffy.

01:24:06.240 I appreciate it.

01:24:06.920 Hey, by the way, what'd you think of this?

01:24:08.020 Did you watch this?

01:24:08.680 I did.

01:24:09.360 What'd you think?

01:24:10.000 I thought it was pretty darn good.

01:24:11.740 Yeah.

01:24:11.920 You know, he pulled it off.

01:24:13.600 He stayed strong, focused through it.

01:24:15.360 You know, he slowed down a little bit.

01:24:16.600 I thought that was the best speech I've ever heard him give.

01:24:19.840 You know, one person called last night.

01:24:21.460 We were broadcasting it on Blaze Radio Network and they reminded us that it was, you know,

01:24:25.740 pretty humble for Trump.

01:24:27.040 Yeah.

01:24:27.160 There wasn't a lot of eyes.

01:24:28.280 It was all about the country.

01:24:29.520 It was all about us.

01:24:30.280 I mean, it was pretty strong.

01:24:31.020 He hit exactly the right tone.

01:24:33.920 And if you're, you know, they're, look, if you're for a job, I mean, the African caucus, 1.00

01:24:38.900 the African-American caucus gave him no credit.

01:24:42.160 They look like radicals.

01:24:44.160 The other Democrats of the other caucuses gave him nothing.

01:24:46.640 It was terrible.

01:24:48.120 Yeah.

01:24:48.420 I'm not saying I'm having a difficult time taking you seriously right now, but there's

01:24:52.360 a little, there's a small part of me that's having, I don't know.

01:24:55.460 It's really funny because I can talk to him like this.

01:24:57.920 I've never taken him seriously.

01:24:59.880 So I, it doesn't change.

01:25:01.760 Wait.

01:25:02.000 Thanks.

01:25:03.000 Thanks, Jeffy.

01:25:03.680 I appreciate it.

01:25:04.300 It was awesome.

01:25:10.600 Sorry.

01:25:13.180 Yeah, that was, he goes all in on that stuff, man.

01:25:19.540 Jeffy's the man.

01:25:20.820 We have about six inches of Vaseline on his face now.

01:25:26.840 Very similar to Joe Kennedy.

01:25:28.460 Oil prices are going up from the amount of Vaseline used in the last few minutes.

01:25:34.000 That's when we got, we got to put that on Facebook and Twitter today.

01:25:37.580 You'll need to, you'll need to see that one.

01:25:39.020 We also have a bunch of audio we need to get to at some point from the actual speech.

01:25:43.100 Let's go through some of it.

01:25:44.100 Now, tonight at five o'clock, we are going to go, go through a few things.

01:25:47.740 One, were you, did, am I alone in the way I felt?

01:25:54.460 I mean, don't get me wrong.

01:25:55.540 I loved this speech.

01:25:57.960 I was, I was blown away by it.

01:26:01.540 I thought it was the best speech he's ever given.

01:26:03.380 I think it's one of the best speeches politically I've heard in a long time.

01:26:07.840 He, he hit Barack Obama.

01:26:11.720 I think Barack Obama will feel like he hit him in the face for 45 minutes, but I don't,

01:26:17.160 that wasn't his, his intent.

01:26:19.200 It was just the opposite of Barack Obama.

01:26:22.440 It's so much more effective than, you know, calling Barack Obama a name or saying he was

01:26:27.280 a disaster.

01:26:27.560 There was nothing of that.

01:26:28.560 It was just, it was just the repudiation of everything he did.

01:26:33.000 And it was, it was amazingly satisfying.

01:26:36.640 He got into spending, which is, you know, over $2 trillion of spending, which I am absolutely

01:26:44.280 not for.

01:26:45.280 However, uh, what was amazing to me was the Democrats, they were given everything they

01:26:51.660 say they want.

01:26:52.660 I mean, the only thing he didn't say was, and you know what?

01:26:54.760 Free universal education.

01:26:56.480 I mean, it was, and they wouldn't have clapped for that.

01:26:58.520 And they wouldn't have clapped.

01:26:59.440 Nope.

01:26:59.540 It made them look so radical.

01:27:02.780 I think to the average person, 46% of Democrats thought this was a really good speech approved

01:27:09.620 of it.

01:27:10.020 Yeah.

01:27:10.160 40, 43, I believe it was, but that's incredibly high for something like this for Trump, especially

01:27:15.260 Oh my God.

01:27:16.280 97% of Republicans, but the overall was 75% approval for a speech like that is incredibly

01:27:21.620 high.

01:27:21.960 That's big for this guy.

01:27:23.040 That's huge.

01:27:23.980 It's really big for anybody though.

01:27:25.320 I mean, even, even the highly praised by the media, Barack Obama speeches didn't have

01:27:29.900 75% approval ratings typically.

01:27:31.940 So I really liked the speech all the way through.

01:27:34.680 Um, I liked the way he handled it and I can, I can praise him not for the policies, but for

01:27:41.120 what he was trying to do and reaching out to the left, but they want to know part of

01:27:45.640 it.

01:27:45.740 It was, it was remarkable, but am I the only one?

01:27:49.040 Cause I haven't heard anybody else say this today.

01:27:51.680 I was really freaked out by the war thing.

01:27:54.160 Yeah.

01:27:54.640 You, you, you brought that up and I know you were going to go over this today at 5 PM,

01:27:58.520 really dissecting it because it's kind of like new war and classic war.

01:28:03.580 You don't want classic war coming back.

01:28:06.100 Like new Coke, classic Coke.

01:28:08.300 Yeah.

01:28:09.180 Yeah.

01:28:09.500 Let's stay with the new war and I'm going to compare cause this is not the same.

01:28:13.940 This is not what people my age have lived through.

01:28:17.320 If we go to war with North Korea, it'll probably be much more like world war two. 0.84

01:28:23.240 Don't want to do it.

01:28:25.240 Uh, and it's really concerning.

01:28:26.840 You didn't pick up with that vibe.

01:28:28.160 You know, I mean, I, I was not surprised to see him hit North Korea. 0.61

01:28:31.340 Obviously it's been a big topic.

01:28:32.580 He, and it was right after the ISIS, uh, section section.

01:28:36.260 So it felt like there was a natural flow to it.

01:28:38.420 But I mean, you know, if you think about it, I didn't pick it up at the time, but as you

01:28:42.380 laid out the case, and I know you're going to do that again at five tonight on the blaze.

01:28:45.980 Um, not only did he focus on it, he used a very, I think, precise language.

01:28:53.240 Precise.

01:28:53.760 Uh, and then he illustrated it emotionally with multiple guests to show you how bad North

01:29:00.000 Korea really is. 0.90

01:29:01.000 I mean, it's one thing to, to, um, uh, to do the, uh, the guy on the crutches.

01:29:08.420 Because that was, that was emotional and it was really powerful.

01:29:11.880 And if you're my age, it reminds you of the cold war.

01:29:14.940 And he was sending a message to the people who lived through the cold war.

01:29:19.200 This hasn't stopped.

01:29:20.640 This evil is still here.

01:29:22.700 Uh, and then with the, the family of, you know, the warm beer family, whose son went

01:29:28.500 over, was, was arrested on a stupid charge of taking something off of a bulletin board

01:29:34.780 that he wanted to keep as a souvenir.

01:29:36.500 They charged him as an enemy of the state.

01:29:38.980 They tortured him for a year, dumped his body over here in the United States.

01:29:44.120 And he died a few days later.

01:29:45.500 That one, quite honestly, that's, that's, that is act of war stuff.

01:29:51.060 Yeah.

01:29:51.620 And the way it was presented last night was, look, here's the evil and here's what they

01:29:56.340 did to us.

01:29:57.280 It was, it was, I'm hoping that it is posturing for North Korea, but it is also historically

01:30:05.700 speaking, that feels like laying the foundation of we're going for these guys.

01:30:10.940 We're going for war. 0.61

01:30:12.060 You felt like it was a case, like an axis of evil type of case, right?

01:30:15.180 Like he's laying out.

01:30:16.240 Yeah.

01:30:16.520 Not even an axis of evil.

01:30:17.600 I, I, this was, this was, uh, this is an evil empire.

01:30:22.560 It was, it was Reagan's, uh, evil empire speech, which I support and I support what Donald Trump

01:30:28.460 did.

01:30:28.980 You know, I've always said, I want a president with a twitchy eye, which means I want somebody

01:30:34.560 that the, the, the, the, the, the foes don't know this guy could do it.

01:30:39.360 And the problem is Donald Trump has like two twitchy eyes and like a, and a twitchy leg.

01:30:45.380 I think he has restless leg syndrome too.

01:30:47.380 So nobody knows exactly what he's going to do.

01:30:50.040 So it makes me a little nervous if he's just doing this to scare North Korea, which is the 0.99

01:30:55.400 case I'm going to lay out tonight.

01:30:57.320 Um, that that's good.

01:30:59.180 And he's, he does that really well, but there is also a chance that we are preparing for

01:31:05.540 war.

01:31:05.880 And I'm going to also lay out the case tonight.

01:31:07.740 That is a, that is an entirely different thing than the wars we have seen in the last

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01:33:01.340 Have you read anywhere about the congressman that walked out on the speech last night?

01:33:07.000 I mean, do you remember the hoopla around Joe Wilson when he said, you lie?

01:33:13.780 And as it turns out, a couple of years later, it's true. 0.99

01:33:17.760 He did lie.

01:33:19.500 But you remember how you don't do, you don't treat the president of the United States this way.

01:33:23.900 How about the first lady? 1.00

01:33:25.260 Did anybody notice that the Democrats sat on their hands for the first lady? 1.00

01:33:31.620 I mean, it's not like, you know, and you shouldn't do this with anyone.

01:33:37.300 But, I mean, Hillary Clinton, you could say, became partisan because she got involved in

01:33:41.900 health care and everything else.

01:33:44.080 Melania Trump is an innocent bystander here. 0.88

01:33:47.780 I don't think she wanted to.

01:33:50.040 She didn't aspire to be first lady. 0.92

01:33:52.320 She's the first lady. 1.00

01:33:53.420 Can you treat her with respect?

01:33:54.740 You can't even applaud her?

01:33:56.960 That's really just despicable.

01:34:01.700 The Democrats last night, at least in my view, blew it, if I may quote the president, bigly.

01:34:13.440 Last night, if you were a Democrat and you heard the first part of the speech, and I don't

01:34:19.360 mean like a crazy, you know, I, you know, I'm out in the street marching every, I just mean

01:34:23.800 a regular person, you know, you're just, you don't vote for the Republicans, but, you know.

01:34:29.900 And you heard that Donald Trump last night, who sounded reasoned and reasonable.

01:34:36.320 You may not have liked the first 45 minutes, because maybe you're politics.

01:34:41.440 But when he started in on the gravy train of, hey, I've got four pillars on, on reform for

01:34:50.740 our borders.

01:34:51.200 And the first one is DACA and a path to citizenship, not securing the border, path to citizenship.

01:34:59.160 And beyond DACA.

01:34:59.980 I mean, that's, remember, DACA is not path, is not a path to citizenship.

01:35:03.340 It's just legal status.

01:35:04.660 This is actually going beyond DACA.

01:35:06.660 When, when, when you heard that, when you heard that there was the, the, the lowest

01:35:11.700 unemployment rating for the, uh, for African Americans and the camera went on the black

01:35:18.060 caucus and they all were sitting on their hands, you, you realized these guys are not

01:35:26.240 in touch with me at all.

01:35:27.620 They're, they're, these are radicals.

01:35:30.740 Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer keep going.

01:35:33.660 You are destroying middle American Democrats.

01:35:37.000 Glenn Beck.

01:35:38.820 Mercury.

01:35:42.740 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:35:44.600 If I had access to the Oval Office today, I would walk in and say, Mr. President, you

01:35:50.000 know exactly who I am and how I feel about you.

01:35:54.040 Wow.

01:35:55.420 That was one of the best speeches I think a president has given in a long time.

01:36:00.540 I'd like to work with you on the teleprompter thing just a little bit.

01:36:02.660 And I really want to kiss the feet of the writer of this.

01:36:06.020 It was really good.

01:36:07.380 It connected.

01:36:09.540 70% of it is something that I've waited to hear for a long time.

01:36:13.860 And it was delivered well for him.

01:36:16.300 30%

01:36:17.440 The first pillar is a path to citizenship.

01:36:23.080 Not the, not, not the border security.

01:36:26.120 I want you to hear what he said last night in case you missed it.

01:36:31.140 The first pillar of our framework generously offers a path to citizenship for 1.8 million

01:36:40.740 illegal immigrants who were brought here by their parents at a young age.

01:36:45.460 That covers almost three times more people than the previous administration covered.

01:36:54.500 Under our plan, those who meet education and work requirements and show good moral character

01:37:01.180 will be able to become full citizens of the United States over a 12-year period.

01:37:06.240 The second pillar fully secures the border.

01:37:10.100 That means building a great wall on the southern border.

01:37:13.600 And it means hiring more heroes like CJ to keep our communities safe.

01:37:19.600 Crucially, our plan closes the terrible loopholes exploited by criminals and terrorists to enter

01:37:25.800 our country, and it finally ends the horrible and dangerous practice of catch and release.

01:37:34.280 The third pillar ends the visa lottery, a program that randomly hands out green cards

01:37:41.520 without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of American people.

01:37:47.480 It's time to begin moving toward a merit-based immigration system.

01:37:51.440 One that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute to our society,

01:37:58.160 and who will love and respect our country.

01:38:02.180 The fourth and final pillar protects the nuclear family by ending chain migration. 0.87

01:38:10.200 Okay.

01:38:11.600 So you notice his eyes went right over to the left when he said citizenship.

01:38:19.700 That was a surprise for them.

01:38:21.680 That should have taken them.

01:38:23.280 They should have stood up.

01:38:24.980 If their principle really was trying to get this passed, they should have stood up and cheered

01:38:32.960 because no other Republican would have ever suggested that, that has the support of the right.

01:38:44.180 Can you imagine?

01:38:45.320 Imagine if Ted Cruz would have said that, Marco Rubio.

01:38:48.080 Imagine what talk radio would be saying today.

01:38:53.240 Imagine that.

01:38:54.540 We don't have to imagine it.

01:38:55.520 They did say those things.

01:38:56.940 Right.

01:38:57.240 So now, today, you have a president who is still being supported.

01:39:02.100 You have your little gift in exchange for what we want.

01:39:07.740 Nobody's ever suggested this before, and you sat on your hands?

01:39:13.060 Unbelievable.

01:39:14.400 Pat Gray is joining us.

01:39:15.380 They sat on their hands for, we need to put America first.

01:39:19.300 They didn't clap.

01:39:20.860 They didn't get up.

01:39:21.600 They didn't do anything.

01:39:22.460 I want to put America first from now on.

01:39:25.160 And they're like, oh, I don't want America first.

01:39:27.640 I can't go along with anything more than 33rd.

01:39:31.720 America first.

01:39:32.800 No.

01:39:34.080 We've worked hard in getting us, you know, 24th in math.

01:39:37.880 How can you not applaud for America first?

01:39:42.460 What is the downside of that?

01:39:45.100 It looked really bad.

01:39:45.940 It's actually your responsibility, right, as a representative to treat.

01:39:50.060 I mean, you know, there's a little bit of connotation with that phrase going back historically.

01:39:54.700 I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

01:39:57.580 I shouldn't.

01:39:58.280 They don't deserve it.

01:39:59.300 It's not what I think the majority were thinking.

01:40:02.060 But I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on America first. 0.87

01:40:07.360 But it falls apart quickly.

01:40:09.280 Yeah, I'm not going to.

01:40:10.000 Because look at what they mean.

01:40:11.800 You gave them the path to citizenship, which you've been yelling about for years and years and years.

01:40:16.740 Yeah.

01:40:17.060 Yeah.

01:40:17.300 Didn't like that either.

01:40:19.000 Well, what is it you want?

01:40:20.880 They didn't stand as a black caucus did not even clap when he said.

01:40:27.360 Low unemployment for blacks.

01:40:28.580 The lowest in recorded history.

01:40:32.760 Yeah.

01:40:33.400 That is quite an accomplishment.

01:40:35.380 I don't care who made it.

01:40:37.220 That's good news.

01:40:39.260 Not to them.

01:40:40.040 I know.

01:40:40.620 It was remarkable.

01:40:42.260 Principles is a great thing to focus on here because you're right.

01:40:45.180 If their principle was to actually help out people who are on DACA, help out dreamers, help out people who want to become citizens.

01:40:52.960 I mean, go back in history.

01:40:54.620 What have Republicans been beaten up on and lost their potential politically for?

01:41:01.480 Much less than this.

01:41:02.780 Oh, yeah.

01:41:03.280 You know, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, John McCain.

01:41:08.640 None of them suggested what Trump suggested last night.

01:41:11.560 If Jeb Bush would have won the presidency, A, it would have been even a weirder parallel universe.

01:41:17.240 But if he would have won the presidency, let me tell you this, man.

01:41:21.040 If he gave that part of that speech at the State of the Union last night, if it was Jeb Bush, oh, my gosh, it would be an.

01:41:30.100 I mean, there might be riots in the streets with Republicans.

01:41:35.040 And this is why it's so clear they don't care about these immigrants at all. 0.94

01:41:40.360 The left does not care about them.

01:41:42.840 If they cared about them, they could take advantage of this.

01:41:45.540 Trump is giving a, I think, a legitimate attempt at saying, look, I understand you guys want this done.

01:41:52.740 I want the border wall done.

01:41:54.600 I want a couple of changes to tighten up the immigration system.

01:41:57.260 I will give.

01:41:58.180 He's saying, I will give you your side of this.

01:42:02.100 I'll just give it to you.

01:42:03.320 You give us our side.

01:42:04.380 And you give us at least part of what we want.

01:42:06.540 Yeah.

01:42:07.120 And they won't even engage.

01:42:09.360 And here's what's amazing.

01:42:12.360 The strategic error in that was remarkable.

01:42:16.920 Just remarkable.

01:42:18.360 Think of the power they would have had if they would have gone on.

01:42:21.140 This speech has a 70% approval rating.

01:42:23.700 75, yeah.

01:42:24.320 75.

01:42:24.620 If they would have got up last night on just the first one, just the first one, you don't have to stand up for all three pillars, just the first one.

01:42:33.500 And then bid on today and say, well, I have a problem with the second, third, and fourth pillar, but we can get that at the negotiating table.

01:42:41.360 It was great of the president to give us this.

01:42:44.820 You then at least have the illusion of fairness and I'm willing to work together.

01:42:51.140 You want to talk about a do-nothing Congress.

01:42:55.100 This is a sit-on-your-hands Congress.

01:42:57.780 This is a I'm-not-even-showing-up Congress.

01:43:00.800 Pat, how do you balance the two sides of this speech, which if you define it this way, one presentation, positive vision of America, a lot of legitimate accomplishments, some real success and results, and balance that against some policy prescriptions for the future, including $2 trillion and mass amnesty and citizenship and family leave care and infrastructure?

01:43:27.680 And, I mean, do you just take this as a positive moment of the presidency or do you worry about what he's suggesting?

01:43:35.860 No, I'm worried about what he's suggesting.

01:43:38.080 This has been the problem with this president from the beginning is, you know, he's not a true conservative.

01:43:43.920 So during the first year, we were actually pleasantly surprised that most of his policies seemed to be the things he got done were pretty much conservative.

01:43:51.340 But now, in year two, he's starting to show you the rest of his agenda, which includes all the things you mentioned.

01:43:59.040 And that's what we were afraid of in the beginning.

01:44:00.740 And that's why I wasn't a huge Trump supporter from the start.

01:44:05.300 But for Democrats not to come along on this, they could have big wins right now.

01:44:10.700 They could have huge wins.

01:44:12.680 They are so hurting them.

01:44:13.740 He is like-minded with them on many issues.

01:44:17.860 And for them to just discount all of that because of their sheer, unadulterated hatred for the man, really bad politically, I think.

01:44:25.900 I have a percolating theory here on the best way to get conservative things out of the Trump White House.

01:44:31.900 And I don't know that I necessarily have proved this out yet, but I think there's a theory here.

01:44:35.840 There's something here, which is part one, Donald Trump suggests something liberal.

01:44:41.520 This is how you get conservative stuff out of the White House.

01:44:43.180 Part one, Donald Trump announces he wants to do something that's liberal.

01:44:48.780 Part two, the Democrats, being the awful human beings that they are in most cases that are in Congress, no matter what he said, even if it's something really liberal that they're supposed to like, they treat him like he's Hitler.

01:44:59.580 Yeah.

01:45:00.140 And so in response from being treated like he was Hitler, he gets so pissed off, he goes the opposite direction and gets something really conservative done.

01:45:07.860 That could actually happen.

01:45:09.100 I mean, it's not an implied—it's happened, I feel like, with some of these things.

01:45:12.680 Where there's been this trial balloon of something liberal.

01:45:16.300 Liberals react like maniacs.

01:45:19.760 And then on the other side, he's like, you know what?

01:45:20.820 You're not getting any of that.

01:45:21.840 In fact, we're going 20 steps the other direction.

01:45:23.680 Yeah.

01:45:24.360 I thought it was an important moment when his eyes shifted.

01:45:28.840 His eyes shifted over to the left and—or his right, and he looked over at the Democrats, and he looked on the word path to citizenship.

01:45:42.860 Yes.

01:45:43.360 Yeah.

01:45:43.660 Path to citizenship.

01:45:44.820 He—they might have expected, I'll give you DACA.

01:45:48.400 And he looked over like, try this one on for size.

01:45:52.240 I'm giving a path to citizenship.

01:45:54.800 And he looked over to that.

01:45:55.820 He sure did.

01:45:56.180 That was a—I would—I believe that Donald Trump is the kind of guy who—he does not offer candy and flowers very often.

01:46:07.540 He is a stick guy, not a sugar guy.

01:46:10.500 He offered sugar last night, and they rejected him and, quite honestly, acted wildly inappropriate on the things they should have loved.

01:46:22.720 He usually doesn't go for sugar a second time.

01:46:25.460 He usually goes for a stick.

01:46:27.400 And honestly, Democrats, you are blowing it because you could, A, get these things.

01:46:32.320 I know.

01:46:32.660 Good.

01:46:32.880 You could, A, get these things, and, B, you could look like you're working together.

01:46:38.460 You are going to go down as a party that is out of step with about 40% of your base.

01:46:47.800 You know, they keep saying, well, you know, Donald Trump only has 37% of support of, you know, the country.

01:46:53.800 Well, how much—what is the support with conservatives?

01:46:57.140 About 70?

01:46:58.860 Yeah, 70 or 80.

01:46:59.780 Okay, 70 or 80.

01:47:00.840 So Donald Trump is out of step with about 20% of conservatives.

01:47:04.200 43% last night said that was a really good speech of Democrats.

01:47:11.120 You are out of step with more of your base than he is out of step with.

01:47:18.740 That's pretty remarkable.

01:47:21.140 You better wake up because the Democrat in the middle of the country doesn't hate God, doesn't hate the country, you know, is not for all of this, you know, 93 gender crap. 0.97

01:47:31.960 They're not there.

01:47:33.400 That's not who they are, and they're not going there.

01:47:36.020 And then the Democrats have the nerve to trot out a Kennedy for the rebuttal.

01:47:40.240 Oh, my gosh.

01:47:41.340 A Kennedy whose grandson—

01:47:44.980 The grandson of—

01:47:47.320 The secretary of his grandfather was Mary Jo Kopechny.

01:47:52.960 So it was weird that we had Chapstick Aquidic last night.

01:47:57.740 I call police—

01:48:02.920 That is the line of the day.

01:48:04.780 I call police right away.

01:48:06.100 I didn't wait 10 hours.

01:48:07.320 He's drowning in Chapstick.

01:48:08.960 Please, help him.

01:48:10.760 Help him now.

01:48:12.660 Thank you, Pat.

01:48:13.840 Don't forget these cookies, Pat, because I'll eat all of them, please.

01:48:16.640 I mean, I'll eat this one, too.

01:48:17.760 But Pat Gray is coming up on Pat Gray Unleashed on the Blaze Radio and TV networks.

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01:50:19.680 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:50:29.940 Yeah.

01:50:31.060 Glenn Beck.

01:50:32.600 A couple things, one more important than the other.

01:50:35.840 A, the audacity of Melania Trump to wear white in January last night.

01:50:41.360 How dare.

01:50:42.300 Where's the coverage on this?

01:50:43.480 Where's the coverage on this?

01:50:44.580 I mean, Vanity Fair's got to get on this. 0.91

01:50:46.360 Somebody's got to get on this quickly.

01:50:48.020 But there is some bad news today.

01:50:51.480 A GOP retreat was happening.

01:50:53.880 Yeah.

01:50:54.120 And all of the representatives got onto a train.

01:50:57.780 Not all of them, but many of them got onto a train.

01:51:00.260 The train struck a garbage truck.

01:51:02.920 No word on why the garbage truck was there, how that accident happened, but several people

01:51:08.180 were hurt.

01:51:08.680 No official word on injuries yet, though it seems like there's several representatives that

01:51:13.080 were on the train that have tweeted they're okay, you know, but there are some injuries.

01:51:17.180 It does look like the truck did not make out well in that battle, which tends to happen

01:51:21.080 in a train versus truck battle.

01:51:23.040 The train usually wins.

01:51:24.500 Yeah.

01:51:24.820 Yeah.

01:51:25.080 There are some pictures of the truck and there is a lot of garbage all over the place.

01:51:28.780 And not a lot of truck.

01:51:30.060 Yeah.

01:51:30.260 Not a lot of truck.

01:51:31.240 So is there any clue as to why the garbage truck is?

01:51:39.400 I mean, is there a possibility that, I mean, there's something other than just a truck

01:51:44.860 made a big mistake?

01:51:45.740 Nothing I've seen suggested yet.

01:51:49.240 You know, I mean, it doesn't seem like it was anything, although it's obviously, you

01:51:53.040 know, something you want to look into whenever any of these things happen, but it doesn't

01:51:56.240 seem to be anything so far, at least, that would lead you to believe anything other than

01:51:59.620 a bad accident.

01:52:00.980 And they're treating, apparently, the driver of the truck.

01:52:03.800 He lived?

01:52:04.820 Well, I don't know.

01:52:06.280 I mean, you treat them in hope that maybe he's still alive at some level.

01:52:10.840 Well, you're not treating them if they're dead.

01:52:13.080 Yeah, but you are going to do everything you can, right?

01:52:14.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:52:15.200 And also, I will say, it's probably a representative's word from 100 yards away, so they're not going

01:52:18.900 to know the fact, but still, it's a...

01:52:21.500 Prayers for everybody.

01:52:22.260 Yeah, geez.

01:52:22.600 And their families.

01:52:23.900 Scary.

01:52:24.440 It's scary, especially with the, you know, last year of GOP.

01:52:28.080 That's why I thought of it.

01:52:28.940 I mean, I wouldn't have thought of that, you know, before the shooting last year over the

01:52:33.640 summer.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 31, 2018

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