Glenn Beck announces his retirement from commentary in all media outlets. He talks about the GQ piece Keith Oberman wrote, and why he thinks the president is going to be impeached. Glenn also talks about why he doesn't want to do it anymore.
00:23:54.560And I've always said for years, you know, I've lived in this home on this street since 1973.
00:24:00.120So basically what has happened is I've outlived the neighbors because the people that were living here when I moved in have passed away or some of them have moved away.
00:24:11.380So the, the ones that complained moved in, uh, not even a year ago.
00:24:16.340I looked up the tax records and they moved in in February of 2016.
00:24:21.580So the first Christmas they experienced what I've got going on here, uh, caused them to complain to the city.
00:24:28.500But I've since learned from their immediate neighbors, uh, that they're the type that complain about everything I get.
00:24:35.420And they actually went so far as ask one of their neighbors to cut down a tree on their property because some of their leaves were blowing into their yard.
00:24:50.060Yeah, I do. I, I've, I've had those kinds of neighbors and you know, what, what solves that is if you, uh, just mysteriously find bamboo planted somewhere in their yard.
00:25:50.700You're not going to do it this year, but you say you are going to do it next year.
00:25:53.920The way it's shaping up right now, the city has backed off on the COCO being offered for donation.
00:26:02.380So they've backed off on that, um, due to back, you know, pushback from the neighborhood, from legal.
00:26:09.980Uh, basically I got representation from, because I have a, an individual who's been coming here for years and his children are little.
00:26:18.600Uh, and when he found out I wasn't going to do this anymore, uh, he got all up in arms and contacted a whole bunch of people that he knew that came to my, uh, to my support.
00:26:33.480And our own district six councilman, as soon as he heard about this, he went to the city and started working on my behalf to get this overturned.
00:26:44.560So as it looks right now, it looks pretty good that we'll, we'll probably do it again next year.
00:26:51.280So you're, you also started a GoFundMe page and you started that because you were, you were taking the profits.
00:27:00.480Of the hot cocoa and, you know, that allowed you to, to do this and put the lights up and buy new stuff, et cetera, et cetera.
00:27:08.000And the city won't let you do that because you don't have a license.
00:27:11.260So now you're trying to raise the, the money, uh, through GoFundMe.
00:28:06.020Because I'm, I'm, I'm looking at it and I, I can't, I mean, it looks like a legitimate fair.
00:28:13.060So, so did you, did you make all of that?
00:28:16.280No, over the, I've been collecting stuff for over 40 years and, um, you know, I think the window you have there, the combination, that's with the train.
00:28:25.760And yeah, it's actually my kitchen window and, uh, and everyone has done differently.
00:28:31.460I don't think I even sent you the one I could send you the one.
00:28:34.540There's like real fair, like the teacup, the, the, the, the, the teacup thing.
00:38:20.740All of this, all of this is debatable unless, unless you got your news from the media.
00:38:30.460The media seemed poised to make Puerto Rico into Trump's Katrina, disregarding the unique circumstances of Maria following so soon after Harvey and Irma.
00:38:41.360And, you know, the fact that Puerto Rico is a thousand miles off of the coast of Florida.
00:38:47.640It turns out that when the media couldn't get any traction on the Trump hates Puerto Rico storyline, they actually didn't care about Puerto Rico's hurricane struggles either.
00:38:59.120At least it's not as much as they cared about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
00:39:03.480Now, hats off to the Washington Post, who just published a story.
00:39:08.620Now, Washington Post does not like Donald Trump, but they published a story yesterday with the headline.
00:39:13.940The mainstream media didn't care about Puerto Rico until it became a Trump story.
00:39:20.600Researchers at the MIT Media Lab found that mainstream media did not cover Maria nearly as extensively as they covered Harvey and Irma.
00:39:30.820Their report found that coverage did not increase until Trump had a feud with the the mayor of San Juan.
00:39:38.860MIT found out that over eleven hundred news outlets produced stories about Harvey and Irma and only five hundred carried stories about Maria during the two week period before and after each hurricane hit.
00:39:54.360MIT even did a language analysis of all of the hurricane coverage from the mainstream media.
00:40:16.880The Maria stories featured far more political language, words like Congress, Senate, Democrats, Republicans, debt or tax, while the coverage of Harvey featured far more words like victim and family.
00:40:30.640The bottom line is the mainstream media claims President Trump doesn't care about Puerto Rico.
00:40:36.560But it's really clear the media didn't care that much either.
00:40:41.940This hypocrisy and moral high horse mentality from both sides has got to stop.
00:42:13.700And they're not telling the truth about it.
00:42:15.920Their latest accusation here on the tax bill is that everyone paying under $30,000 will get a tax increase and everyone over that will get a tax cut.
00:42:25.740Now, I don't know how I mean, you look at the breakdowns of it and it doesn't seem to make sense on its surface.
00:42:34.220The New York Times did, I think, a much more thorough analysis.
00:42:38.740And again, we don't know exactly what's going to be in this latest bill because it's not fully hammered out yet.
00:42:46.320But basically what the New York Times is saying is if you take the standard deduction, and we won't get into any more nerdy tax talk than this, but if you take the standard deduction, you're almost definitely going to get a tax cut.
00:42:57.440If you itemize and you're in the middle class, you have a chance it could be 50-50 whether you get a tax cut or a tax increase.
00:43:04.460Now, we've said this many times on the air.
00:45:06.600If you're a person who likes smaller government, who wants tax cuts, we believe the tax cuts should be for everyone.
00:45:13.220And the difference between us and Democrats, I mean, of course, they want many of them...
00:45:17.400They all want it raised on wealthy people.
00:45:19.240And some of them want it raised on everybody.
00:45:21.100But there's a general agreement that if we can cut taxes for people who are in the middle class and who are at lower income levels, that's a really good thing.
00:45:31.040Like, there's pretty broad agreement across the aisle on that one, you'd think.
00:45:37.260So, I mean, I don't know how you can have a system that raises taxes on anyone.
00:45:43.520I think a lot of it has to do with this idea that they have to be revenue neutral.
00:45:48.000Republicans have bought into this idea that, well, what we're going to do is we're going to change things around.
00:45:54.180But don't worry, we'll still bring in the same amount of money or pretty close to it.
00:45:58.520And that's the wrong instinct to start with.
00:46:04.080Or does it mean that we're not going to put on more debt?
00:46:09.500Theoretically, because the way this is scored and the way that the reconciliation project package is put together is they can add up to $1.5 trillion of debt over 10 years.
00:46:22.700Now, that is, you know, again, that's because, as you point out, there's no spending cuts built into this, really.
00:46:30.200This is, I mean, there's, you know, there are certain things that act sort of as spending cuts and revenue offsets.
00:46:35.340But, I mean, in reality, when it comes down to it is they've bought into this idea that they have to go, please, people like the CBO, and say the exact same amount of money comes in.
00:46:52.060There's going to be a lot less revenue coming in.
00:46:55.160And what we're going to do as appropriate and sophisticated adults is also cut spending.
00:47:02.860We're going to do both of those things.
00:47:04.000That should be the goal, and it is not.
00:47:07.340It is why the best president of the 20th century was not Ronald Reagan, in my opinion, was not JFK, certainly wasn't FDR.
00:47:16.580It was Coolidge, because the first thing that Coolidge did was he cut the size of government by 50%, and then the next year he cut it, I believe, by another 50%.
00:47:28.060I mean, he cut everything to the bone.
00:50:13.100Diplomats sound the alarm as they are pushed out in droves.
00:50:16.560Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the White House on Monday, he made no secret of his belief that the State Department is a bloated bureaucracy.
00:50:23.800And they talk about how all of these people that worked in the State Department are just very, very nervous about our country, blah, blah, blah, because they're all being fired.
00:50:32.340In a letter to Mr. Tillerson last week, the New York Times reports, Democratic members of the House Foreign Relations Committee, citing what they said was an exodus of more than 100 senior foreign service officers from the State Department since January, expressed concern about what appears to be the internal hollowing out of our senior diplomatic ranks.
00:50:51.380Mr. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has made no secret of his belief that the State Department is a bloated bureaucracy and that he regards much of the day to day diplomacy that lower level officials conduct is unproductive.
00:51:05.740Even before Mr. Tillerson was confirmed, his staff fired six of the State Department's top career diplomats.
00:51:13.440In the following months, Mr. Tillerson launched a reorganization that he said will be the most important thing he will do and that he has hired two consulting companies to lead the effort.
00:51:22.800Since he decided before even arriving at the State Department to slash its budget by 31 percent, many in the department have always seen the reorganization as a smokescreen for draconian cuts.
00:51:34.180Mr. Tillerson has frozen most of the hiring and recently offered a $25,000 buyout in hopes of pushing 2,000 career diplomats and civil servants out by 2018.
00:51:49.520He goes on to say that, you know, that they fired all of these people.
00:51:53.960They've gone from 31 to 19 three-star generals, 369 remaining now out of the 431 minister and counselors, 14 have indicated they're going to leave soon.
00:52:29.180A lot of people because deep state has been this term that has been thrown around as just this sort of generic defense of Trump every time something goes wrong.
00:52:40.140And so, you know, we were looking at that and because there are there have been in history, there are around the world real legitimate deep state situations that are similar to what is accused.
00:53:01.980It's not it's not necessarily people like trying to thwart Republicans.
00:53:08.040It's this long standing group of people who have been in the same jobs for a million years.
00:53:14.060And this goes back to your meeting with George W. Bush.
00:53:17.040So, I mean, if you think it's about Trump, this goes back to what you talked about with George W. Bush when you met him and he was still in the Oval Office.
00:53:23.500And he told you basically like there's not really no matter who wins the next election, a lot of the stuff isn't going to change because the same people are in the same positions and there's really no choice.
00:53:33.860You're not given a choice to change direction as much as you'd think.
00:53:37.420And that's why a lot of times you have people who are elected.
00:53:40.400Bush is one of them who you kind of thought maybe he'll change things and you don't really get that change.
00:53:45.640So the fact that the State Department might be gutted, gutted in many ways.
00:53:51.580Done in the 1950s, you know, that doesn't mean every one of these people who are leaving or bad people or anything like that.
00:54:17.240Look, what I can't I can't get my arms around is is how millennials will embrace big government when everything in their life shows that that system doesn't work.
00:56:32.080You know, there's so many examples of it.
00:56:33.940One of the most, I don't know, random ones that I always come back to is the car seat situation.
00:56:39.140As a kid, a parent with two smaller kids, why am I buying, you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars of car seats for my car?
00:56:48.500I understand that kids sitting in the back seat, you know, there was there's issues with the seat belts and the way they fit because they're made for adults.
00:57:06.180It's definitely a better place for him to be.
00:57:08.040And the reason is because those seat belts are designed for adults.
00:57:11.200Now, you're telling me that a car company could not come up with a better solution than an additional seat that you have to strap in in this weird way that's impossible to remove.
00:57:20.880Because governments have locked in laws that car seats are mandatory.
00:57:24.340So to change that, if if if a car company was to put in an adjustable seat belt, right, that would just fit children, a clearly doable solution.
00:57:36.400It would car would come in an operational format.
00:57:38.840You wouldn't have to go to Toys R Us or Babies R Us and buy car seats and replace them with bigger sizes and adjustable and strapping those things in, which is the bane of every parent's existence.
00:57:50.840But they can't do it because they'd have to overturn 50 state laws to get it done.
01:00:13.320It is only out of what is left after they are paid that the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter can be provided and the comforts of homes secure.
01:00:25.280One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
01:01:42.040But even when you're talking about nude pictures and glitter makeup, I feel like you kind of get, oh, wow, whatever he's saying right now is fairly substantial.
01:03:13.420code section 491 paragraph a whoever being 18 years of age or or over.
01:03:22.380Not lawfully authorized makes issues or passes any coin card token or device in metal or its compounds intended to be used as money or any other currency.
01:03:38.680Not legal tender in the United States to procure anything of value or the use or enjoyment of any property or service from any automatic merchandise.
01:03:55.540This is so old parking meter or other lawful receptacles depositories shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year or both.
01:04:09.480Now, do you remember do you remember the guy in 2007 that did the Liberty coin?
01:04:32.680How when when this starts to make a serious dent, look what they're doing to gold.
01:04:38.540OK, they have found ways to keep people out of gold by doing.
01:04:44.280I don't even remember what it's called, but the the reverse treasuries.
01:04:51.520So they started the reverse treasury where I can't remember exactly how it works, but they started in the 1980s after gold went through the roof.
01:05:00.400People start to panic about the currency.
01:05:10.520So if it goes to gold, if it was going to go to gold, it'll incentivize people just stay with the treasury and just buy it into this treasury.
01:05:18.320So they've done all kinds of tricks to keep the price of gold suppressed so people don't freak out.
01:06:04.400I mean, I don't know, obviously, exactly what the reasoning is, but this would also every loyalty card, every, you know, there's a million different things that that would outlaw outlaw.
01:06:17.780If you read that specifically, loyalty card is a loyalty card.
01:06:46.040At what point is the pain in any one country so high from Bitcoin that they say we can't allow it?
01:06:54.720And this is one of the arguments that people who love Bitcoin bring brings up because people will say, well, what if what if the government cracks down on it?
01:07:01.940And they will say correctly that there's no way to stop it.
01:07:05.540There's no way to unless you shut the entire Internet off.
01:07:09.120There's no way to stop these currencies from spreading and being used, which is true.
01:07:14.320If you own, for instance, right now, if you own money and you've put it into a foreign bank and you haven't declared that money as being in that foreign bank, you can go to prison here in the United States.
01:07:28.500So the government can say it's illegal for all Americans to own it.
01:07:36.340I mean, like I while I like the concept of it, if it's illegal in the United States, I'm not going to deal with it.
01:07:41.620You know, that's not you know, there are certain libertarians who might say, well, you know, they have no right to enforce these things and we'll go to other countries and we'll do what we have to do.
01:07:50.660The average person is going to bail on this stuff if that stuff occurs and places like Coinbase, which is the biggest exchange of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the United States.
01:08:02.420If they're not allowed to operate right, like they'll probably go overseas and continue their business and they'll still get business, but it makes it a lot more difficult.
01:08:10.420It happened with and this is something that was is much more questionable legally, which was online gambling.
01:08:16.720And there were big companies were doing online poker and stuff and they started in the United States and they wound up having to move to other countries.
01:08:23.580And it wasn't until the U.S. government issued what I believe a ridiculous edict to that.
01:08:30.760These companies had to stop and you had to you could you were now no longer allowed to send them money.
01:08:35.940And there was a lot of different regulations they put on and it basically killed the industry for regular people.
01:08:49.920But it's going to kick out the average person who doesn't want to deal with legal hassles, who doesn't want to break the law, who doesn't want to be on the wrong side of it.
01:11:09.160If you're only credit monitoring, I mean, it used to be that you could monitor credit like this.
01:11:15.340If you some you bought something in Brussels and then 20 minutes later, you know, you bought something in Atlanta,
01:11:23.540that would be a flag and somebody would say, hey, it looks like stolen identity or credit.
01:11:28.480Well, that's not the way it works now.
01:11:30.760I mean, some people are just doing that, but that that that that doesn't help you.
01:11:36.300Now, with with systems like LifeLock, they have this proprietary technology.
01:11:41.420They do things like how long has it taken you to put in your password?
01:11:46.360All these different things that they are monitoring, you know, where did you if you were on one site where you and you got to this site to buy it?
01:11:55.680Is that fit into the pattern of what sites you're normally on?
01:11:59.440I mean, it's crazy stuff now that can be done to make sure that it's you and nobody is stealing your identity.
01:12:06.140And if somebody does, they're there to fix it.
01:12:09.380They have a U.S.-based identity restoration specialist that will work to fix it.
01:13:08.700A hundred years ago, American women were jailed, beaten, tortured, force-fed, all because they believed they had the right to vote.
01:13:15.680A hundred years later, we can factually demonstrate that American women are the most educated, liberated, empowered, and powerful women in all of human history.
01:13:23.640And yet, a hundred years later, we wake up daily to new revelations of sexual harassment and abuse visited on women and girls by powerful, successful, admired men in all walks of American life.
01:13:36.560Politicians, executives, coaches, athletes, artists, moguls, and the men of cloth.
01:13:41.200In every case, women bravely stepped forward.
01:15:28.620That was what was written on a sign outside of the home of the FCC chairman over Thanksgiving weekend.
01:15:36.780He he should have been home with his family, the chairman of the FCC, enjoying the holiday, just enjoying it.
01:15:45.300But instead, he was subjected to protesters with apparently nothing better to do than stand outside of his home with harassing signs and send pizzas to his door every hour, which actually sounds pretty good.
01:15:56.980I mean, I just I just I just want to point that part out.
01:16:03.700But who does this on a Thanksgiving weekend?
01:16:06.780Apparently, people who are insanely mad that the chairman of the FCC sent an order to terminate most of the net neutrality regulations set in place by the former FCC commissioner.
01:16:18.620Attacking attacking attacking, attacking a family is not activism.
01:16:53.520Enforcing net neutrality does the exact opposite of what the proponents claim.
01:17:00.160It results in an Internet where a handful of large corporations have access to peering agreements with the fast lane and the rest of us are subject to far fewer options.
01:17:12.520So here's some free advice before, you know, you go out and protest somebody before harassing a family.
01:17:20.260You should know something about the subject that you're protesting, you know, consider staying inside and researching the topic and having an intelligent conversation over Turkey with your family and friends.
01:17:33.540But if you ever find yourself in this situation and you want to send free pizza to a home, you can send it to my house.
01:17:41.680You know, most families don't impact people over multiple generations.
01:18:11.680As much as this family has impacted our world in one and two generations, Steve and Jackie Green join us.
01:18:23.240They're the founding family of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
01:18:26.720And the author of this dangerous book, how the Bible shaped our world and while it's why it still matters today.
01:18:38.440So I was just in a hobby lobby over the weekend and we were talking as a family.
01:18:46.480And one of my older children was there and we were talking about the Museum of the Bible and they and she said, how did this all begin, dad?
01:18:57.620How did how did this how did this happen?
01:19:00.420And I said, well, I know Hobby Lobby started with, you know, frames in a garage and the family just kind of grew up in it.
01:19:08.620But Steve and Jackie, how did the Bible part of it start?
01:19:15.400Well, for me, it started at home before Hobby Lobby ever started.
01:19:20.000My parents grew up in a Christian home.
01:19:22.260My grandfather was a minister himself.
01:20:07.300I can't remember the name of it, but it was about J.
01:20:09.820Paul Getty and his family and how the money just destroyed them.
01:20:16.200What is it that keeps your family on the track?
01:20:22.000Well, I think, first of all, I would just say, you know, God helps us to to realize and remember that everything we have, we've given to him and he gave to us and we just give it back to him.
01:20:37.680But and there's great joy in and realizing that, you know, we don't really have all the ownership, that it really belongs to to God.
01:20:44.340And so being a family of faith, thankfully, we we have a family that everyone has embraced their own faith and embraces the teachings of the Bible for themselves.
01:20:56.500And I think that's paramount in where we are today.
01:20:59.400Have you do you think you could have done you?
01:21:02.120Do you guys think you could have accomplished just as a family?
01:21:05.340I don't even mean business just as a family.
01:21:07.440Do you guys think you could have accomplished what you've accomplished if you lived in New York City?
01:22:15.220The survey showed it would be best attended in D.C., which which really makes sense because that's the hub of museums in our country for museum goers go.
01:22:24.500And so we just feel like that God knew best that this facility that we acquired was a great location, just two blocks from one of the most attended museums in our country.
01:22:38.400And that it was the right place for us to be.
01:22:43.280Some kind of chided us thinking that, you know, our intent is to impact politics.
01:22:48.800And, of course, I'm sitting here thinking, well, who isn't in this town to impact politics?
01:22:53.380And what would be wrong if that was our motive?
01:22:56.420But it was it was really because this is where it'd be best attended.
01:23:00.700A lot of visitors here are international.
01:23:05.900And we just think that our legislators ought to know the foundation of our nation and its biblical roots.
01:23:14.020And hopefully they they would come in and impact them as well.
01:23:18.400Are you surprised at the number of people in Washington that they really have no clue as to our real heritage?
01:23:28.120Yeah, you know, I think that that is a sad commentary, not just here, but in our nation is the lack of understanding of the biblical influence.
01:23:41.080The Bible had on our founders and how that it shaped our nation, our freedoms, our economy, our government.
01:24:58.280Good Samaritan, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth and so forth.
01:25:01.060So even they recognize to be educated within our world, you need to know this book because it's had such an impact.
01:25:10.280And that's one of the reasons why we have taken the position in the museum of not espousing our faith.
01:25:15.760We're just teaching the facts of the book because we are interested in having a curriculum to educate students in our schools about the Bible in a non-sectarian way,
01:25:26.980not espousing faith, just teaching the facts of this book, because we agree with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins that it ought to be part of our educational system.
01:25:36.420The name of the book that you guys have just put out is This Dangerous Book, and I look at what's happening in the Middle East.
01:25:48.120People won't recognize that the group of people that are probably rivaling the first century that are under attack now more than anybody else are Christians, and it is for that dangerous book.
01:26:08.020They seem to—I know you guys travel all over the world.
01:26:13.620The people that I have met in the Middle East have a very different view of their responsibility as a Christian to that book and to those words and to their faith than I think most Americans do.
01:26:27.680Yeah, in our nation, it is just easy, and I think that as a society starts down a path of persecuting Christians,
01:26:40.900it really separates those that are serious about their faith and those that are just pretending.
01:26:46.620And it's easy to pretend to have a faith and attend church from time to time,
01:26:52.180but there are parts of our world where it's a life-and-death situation if a person wants to follow the principles of this book.
01:27:00.520And part of why we call it This Dangerous Book, we talk about those in the past that have given their life because of their love for this book.
01:31:25.160And it's, I mean, what they have done, you know, just literally from building frames in their garage in the 1970s to expanding Hobby Lobby to taking on the government and the Supreme Court on we're not offering abortion in our health care plan.
01:31:52.940Yeah, it's interesting because you see, here's a family, and you've talked to them more than, you know, than I have just in brief interviews.