On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by a very special guest to discuss the importance of the mid-terms and why the left sees them as a referendum on President Trump and his presidency. Glenn also talks about the latest in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and why he thinks the midterms are more important than ever.
00:07:01.680He threw a bone to out of the six people he made fun of.
00:07:06.920He said, just to show you that I'm fair, I'll do one on the other side in a race that was guaranteed to go the governor's way.
00:07:16.660He made fun of a guy with an eye patch because he lost his eye.
00:07:22.920I know, I know he lost his eye in the war or something.
00:07:26.580Yeah, it was a bomb blast during his deployment in Afghanistan.
00:07:31.420Meanwhile, also on Saturday, 39 year old Brent Taylor was killed in Afghanistan when a member of an Afghani security force opened fire at a U.S. base in Kabul.
00:07:42.000Taylor was serving them, serving there on his fourth deployment in the National Guard.
00:07:48.800He was the former mayor of North Ogden in Utah.
00:07:52.940He leaves behind a wife and seven children.
00:07:56.640Taylor said his life was oriented towards three loyalties, God, his family and his country.
00:08:03.340In his last Facebook post just last week, Taylor wrote, quote, as the U.S.A. gets ready for another election, I hope we all vote.
00:08:16.120I hope everybody back home exercises their precious right to vote and that whether Republicans or Democrats, no matter who wins, that we all remember that we have it far better as Americans than anybody else.
00:08:34.740And we have more as Americans that unite us than divides us because united we stand, divided we fall.
00:08:47.020Now, how can we possibly disagree with that?
00:08:51.720We're all talking about the things that divide us and the only things that matter that divide us are our values and our principles.
00:09:00.680And it's time to look at the big ones, the ones we used to find self-evident.
00:09:07.480We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable, unchangeable rights.
00:09:20.300And among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
00:09:25.280And then the amendments to the Constitution.
00:15:16.540All you have to do is call American Financing.
00:15:18.440The salary-based mortgage consultants can walk you through the options and will do what it takes to get your new loan closed in as little as 10 days.
00:17:33.320And they are doing everything they can to get every person out to vote.
00:17:38.500Well, take it upon your own shoulders tomorrow.
00:17:42.820If you don't have to work tomorrow, if you could take the day off, you should take the day off and go take people that, you know, start going through your your phone contacts.
00:19:04.680And everything's in play from the Democrats having both House and Senate to Republicans having both House and Senate.
00:19:12.180I mean, I read, I think it was in the New York Times today that it was, that the House has, I think it's 30 races that are within two or three points.
00:19:25.660Both of these sides, and the reason why you keep, people generally speaking, keep saying, hey, Democrats are going to win the House, Republicans are going to win the Senate.
00:19:34.640There's a structural advantage to both of these things.
00:19:37.740So, you know, the Senate, maybe we'll go through in a minute.
00:19:40.580The House, you were just talking about that with the 30 toss-up seats.
00:19:43.100So when they talk about safe seats, seats that are not expected to be competitive at all, in the House, the Democrats start with a lead of 183 to 137.
00:19:52.300So that is, that's before anything even gets competitive, that's where we are.
00:19:57.840If you take the ones that are just kind of competitive, but most likely are going to fall on either side, you get to 194, 166.
00:20:22.480The score, 210, 195, when you're talking about seats.
00:20:25.420And that leaves you what we were just talking about with the 30 seats competitive, which means that Democrats would have to win eight of the 30 toss-ups to take the House.
00:20:32.680That is going to be pretty easy to do if Republicans do not show up.
00:20:38.760But it also shows Republicans could win this.
00:23:51.380And I think that's, I think that's actually a great goal, but we're not preparing for it.
00:23:55.760We're thinking in two different directions.
00:23:58.340You know, we're thinking, hey, I'm going to bring the jobs back while somebody in Silicon Valley, in fact, their whole goal is 100% unemployment.
00:24:06.760We just have to decide if that's a good thing or not, not a good thing.
00:24:10.540Capitalism is, again, the invisible hand of the market, and that invisible hand will give you exactly what you want.
00:24:18.040So you have to be careful on what you want, what you're asking for.
00:24:22.560It could, you know, it can smother you or choke you to death, or it could lift people up.
00:24:28.380It just depends on what the society is.
00:24:31.900So that's why I was saying that we have to be a better society.
00:24:34.740We have to be a more informed society, and we have to be a part of all of these decisions that are going on.
00:24:40.880Well, at the end there, you did make us both, quote-unquote, think.
00:28:48.660He does a lot more than the Koch brothers, but we can't say we don't like George Soros' spending of money because we disagree with his policies.
00:43:19.940And this is the reason why you see all these pollsters are saying they think the Republicans are going to hold the Senate.
00:43:25.840Most of them think it's 80, 85 percent chance they will hold the Senate.
00:43:29.560Really, only a quote unquote blue wave type of election actually gets the Democrats to control.
00:43:34.640And the reason is there's massive structural advantages for Republicans in the Senate election.
00:43:39.840If without anyone being elected here, these are absolute locks, 42 Republicans, 23 Democrats.
00:43:46.620So we go into this election with Republicans having a 19 seat advantage in the Senate.
00:43:53.220It's just a matter of fleshing out the rest.
00:43:55.300Problem is a lot of these races are going to go to the Democrats that are undecided.
00:43:59.180So if you go at just things that look like pretty sure things, likely, you know, safe seats and likely seats, you get to about 46 Republicans and about 41 Democrats.
00:44:14.600So they're going to, you know, it's states like, you know, New York are going to go and Utah is going to go to Republicans.
00:44:23.240And then you get to the closer races in the middle there.
00:44:25.880You have a couple that look like they're leaning towards Democrats, coupled like they're leaning towards Republicans and then a bunch in the middle.
00:44:32.440So to get to 50, however, for Democrats, they not only have to win all their safe races and all their likely wins, they have to win their leaner races as well.
00:46:10.840And they could after that, everything's gravy, right?
00:46:13.120You're going into they could easily win five, six of these toss up races.
00:46:17.900And in that case, they're going to have a nice, hefty advantage to get things passed.
00:46:21.820Of course, doesn't mean that much unless you also hold the House.
00:46:25.840It's going to be hard to get things through.
00:46:27.660So the House has passed so many things that the Senate has just not acted on.
00:46:33.000The if if the House is lost to the Democrats, we need to be on the phone with the Senate on Wednesday saying pass those bills, pass the bills that we've been waiting and passed by the the House.
00:46:51.820Because you're not going to get any legislation through with the Democrats in control of the House.
00:46:58.520And God forbid the Democrats in control of Congress, which I mean in control of the Senate as well.
00:47:04.420I just don't think that's going to happen.
00:47:06.140That stuff should be in session on Christmas morning.
00:47:08.160Yeah, they should be still voting on stuff Christmas morning.
00:47:10.680They shouldn't take one day off until that new Congress arrives.
00:47:55.440That's I'm talking about what it usually is when a president who is very active, usually they lose the House and maybe the House and the Senate when you get to midterms.
00:48:10.120Because Americans just like to have the balance of power and the checks of balances.
00:48:15.060If this is close, that says a ton, not about Donald Trump, but about how ineffective and how out of touch with the American people, their own voters, how out of touch the Democrats really are.
00:48:31.580But all of this, all of this is just gobbledygook.
00:48:37.520Look, if you're not out voting tomorrow, you have to go out and vote.
00:48:43.120I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
00:49:04.840Look for those people in your office that vote like you do, think like you do, but are like, I don't know if I get them in the car with you tomorrow to vote.
00:49:22.940Make sure everybody on your contact list that can vote is voting.
00:49:28.880And if you have a single doubt tomorrow might be a good day to have a sick day and play taxi or Uber for everybody, you know, election by numbers on the Glenn Beck program.
00:50:03.160We have a huge list of people that are not just with the blaze, um, all across the, uh, conservative spectrum from wild, uh, you know, almost, uh, anarchist capitalists, uh, to, uh, uh, to, well, I think we have one Democrat on, but I, uh, he's Democrat in name only.
00:50:26.420Uh, and, uh, we're going to be covering the people who think like you and the people that, you know, and trust on tomorrow.
00:51:10.820Just, I warn you, if you do this, you're going to sign up for simply safe.
00:51:16.260You're going to buy this system, uh, but you're also going to be a little hacked on how much money you waste every single year.
00:51:24.340On the security companies that come in and have the wired service and the big contract.
00:51:29.260You're paying how much 30, 40, 50, 60 bucks a month for how many years?
00:51:34.200How many years are you paying for that?
00:51:36.260When you see what a really state of the art, fantastic wireless service, uh, costs to own it, you're going to see how much we've been all ripped off by the, some of these companies.
00:51:50.480And the monitoring for 24 seven is only 14 99 a month, $14 and 99 cents a month.
00:52:34.040There's, it's interesting talking about the blue wave election.
00:52:36.560Does this is really the, the, the thing you'd fear if you're a conservative or Republican, you want to pass some stuff.
00:52:42.820The blue wave is the only way they're losing the Senate.
00:52:45.860I mean, unless there's just not, unless things really go the Democrats way, they're not going to be able to pick up all these races.
00:52:52.640Is it, is it accurate to say, Stu, that here in Texas, that the numbers for the Democrats are pretty good and same in Florida.
00:53:03.980You know, we don't know, you know, how they voted, but the, the percentage of Republicans and Democrats, it's looking pretty good for Democrats.
00:53:11.300Is it not early voting is, is a, is interesting to look at is also can be very misleading.
00:53:28.960Uh, I think it was 2014, about 70 million total people voted.
00:53:33.800The last update I saw, and this was two days ago, where 33 million people have already voted.
00:53:40.300So we're basically at half of what the entire electorate was last time.
00:53:46.240There are some States where early voting has already passed the entire voting period from 2014.
00:53:52.640Well, I believe that there's probably some places in America where, uh, the voting has already passed the entire population.
00:54:00.040Uh, that's true too, uh, which is not supposed to happen at all.
00:54:04.480Uh, but that, so it's interesting to see how this is, is going about the message you said right before the break, which is, Hey, don't take anything for granted.
00:54:11.100You can't mean that more than in a place like Texas, uh, where, you know, you have a situation that the only way Beto is going, or excuse me, Robert Francis O'Rourke is going to beat Ted Cruz.
00:54:23.580Is if Republicans don't bother showing up.
00:54:47.500They think it's a long shot to win, but they are excited of even being close.
00:54:53.220And so many people in Texas think, well, my vote doesn't matter anyway, because we're always going to go, you know, we're always going to go red.
01:05:06.680And so we just put we filled it with pierogies.
01:05:10.660And I was I was kind of happy and yet kind of disturbed to find out that the two buckets of pierogies that we handed out to the crowd last night were completely eaten.
01:07:18.340I mean, they all may move to Canada, which would be a dream come true.
01:07:24.400I mean, they are they won't know how to deal with that.
01:07:28.660They've spent the last three years, really, but for sure the last two years doing everything they can to demonize the right to demonize the the president to demonize everything that is going on.
01:07:44.660And if I mean, if they were honest, they would know that they've already lost because this should be if those things were true about Donald Trump and America, this would be a runaway election for the Democrats.
01:08:01.080But the Democrats are so unhinged and things like Kavanaugh and Democratic Socialism, where they're saying, you know, capitalism is not going to be here forever.
01:08:15.300I mean, you think if they get this one wrong and again, they are to be fair, they're saying the Republicans are going to hold the Senate, too.
01:08:21.820So we don't know what part of the house.
01:08:24.540If they don't if they don't pick up the house, a rational person would look at what what their approach was and why it was it didn't work and stop doing the same thing and stop doing the same thing.
01:08:37.300And I don't think that they're capable of it.
01:08:38.800I don't think, you know, John Stewart, who, you know, I'm not a fan of, but John Stewart made a really interesting point.
01:08:43.580And I think it's true in that these fights between the media and the president, the media likes because to them, it elevates them to the level of the president.
01:08:53.800They get an ego boost because I'm taking on the president one on one.
01:08:57.740And so they keep they keep going back to this well of just fighting with him and trying to just, you know, argue these points and their complete life obsession with everything this person.
01:09:08.340And there is I will tell you there's something as somebody who is taken on by the Obama administration.
01:09:12.940And I mean, we knew they had we had their attention every day at five o'clock.
01:11:02.280And so they may not like Donald Trump because they may think he's a bully.
01:11:04.860But they see this dog pile that accuses him of everything and they don't like it.
01:11:13.680And it's driving, I think, more people to defend Donald Trump.
01:11:17.660We certainly saw a bump in the polls after Kavanaugh because of this, I think.
01:11:21.000You know, Kavanaugh, after the Kavanaugh thing happened.
01:11:23.180And remember, this is a point where the media was telling us, well, if Kavanaugh goes through like this, the American people are going to turn.
01:11:29.600They don't want they don't want some rapist going through to the Supreme Court.
01:12:18.040The one that testified that said, hey, you know, I mean, even the press is now coming up and saying, you know, they're saying now about the Avenatti accuser.
01:12:24.780Oh, no one, no one ever believed that.
01:12:27.300Then why did you report it over and over again?
01:12:28.760Why were you reporting it all the time and acting like it was true at the time?
01:12:48.540I mean, the votes tomorrow are really important.
01:12:51.080If you think your race is locked up because you've seen a double-digit poll where your person is leading, you can't take it that way because it's not that environment.
01:12:58.280And these races are going to be close.
01:13:19.580As e-commerce continues its explosive growth, so do phishing scams.
01:13:25.420Recent report says the last year there has been a 297% increase in the number of fake retail websites designed to phish for customers' credentials.
01:13:39.880The cyber criminals use your IP address, and then they get your credit card, and they use it as a shipping address from each of them from a different country, and they pull off these phishing scams.
01:13:53.540And you need somebody to find out, how can I stop it?
01:15:11.760Everybody demands an apology every time someone makes a joke or says something stupid.
01:15:16.100I love that a guy, it would be so easy a couple of days before an election for this guy to try to take advantage of this situation and say, I can't believe my, you know, and play it up.
01:15:42.620We haven't talked about him at all, but this, I just love the idea that he's not playing the victim card.
01:15:47.440All right, so he's going to be on in just a few minutes.
01:15:49.720Also, tomorrow, if you can take the day off tomorrow from work and go through your contact list and call people that you know should be voting but might make an excuse and take them to the polls.
01:19:17.860But I would like him and Saturday Night Live to recognize something, which is that veterans across the country probably don't feel as though their wounds they received in battle.
01:19:29.280should be the subject of a bad punchline for a bad joke.
01:19:32.940And here's the real atrocity of all this.
01:20:05.880So every single one of my Navy SEAL friends wrote to me and said, you have to take this on.
01:20:11.760And I went and I watched it and it, it, you know, it just wasn't funny to make fun of somebody who lost and to take it so flippantly say, I don't know, he lost his eye in a war or whatever.
01:20:22.800Um, I just don't think it's, it's funny to, to do that, um, on either side.
01:20:29.220Um, however, what I was really impressed with is the way you responded.
01:20:35.360How, how come you responded this way when you had every reason to have righteous indignation and use this for your political gain?
01:20:45.300Well, you know, I, I, I, I simply responded the way I actually felt, which was a little exasperated by the whole thing.
01:20:56.540Um, a little annoyed because I have been, I have been watching these shows like, uh, Saturday Night Live and a lot of the late shows really deteriorate into, into simply political platforms as opposed to good comedy.
01:21:09.640And, uh, so you mentioned your seal friends, you know, uh, seals have pretty thick skin, right.
01:21:16.540And we like to make fun of each other.
01:21:18.080And, um, but, but there's always been sort of a lot of the conversation I always had with my friends.
01:21:50.640I have to think about, I do have to think about all the veterans who are disfigured from war and now feel like they're fair game for just, you know, warring laughter from the crowd.
01:22:01.760I thought that was, I thought that was a little strange.
01:22:04.260And I think a lot of us veterans are just looking at that and thinking, well, why is that funny?
01:22:09.440You know, we, we, we, we truly, we just don't, don't see the joke and it just, just be funny, be funny, do your job and be funny.
01:22:17.520It's supposed to be an art, you know, but they're not.
01:22:20.760And that's, that's the real tragedy here.
01:22:22.260I will tell you that I have a lot of veteran fans who, to make others feel comfortable, make fun of their lost limb or whatever, and they go out of their way.
01:22:34.300And it's usually very funny when they're making fun of it.
01:22:38.340And so it's not a lack of a sense of humor on it.
01:22:41.320It's just an appropriate sense of humor on it.
01:22:45.120And, you know, for instance, we always say in our family, you know, we wreck each other hard and it's a sign of love in our family, but we don't wreck people that we don't know.
01:22:56.420It's not like you're coming into our house and we just start wrecking you.
01:22:59.760You have to be kind of part of the family and, and, uh, be loved if we're going to wreck you in that sort of a way.
01:23:07.380Cause we know you'd wreck us just as hard for whatever it is we've got going on in our life.
01:23:13.180Well, I think there's a basic social etiquette that kind of keeps our country together.
01:23:17.540And, you know, we're, we're, we're seeing that fraying quite a bit, that, that social fabric and, and, and, and basic manners and basic etiquette.
01:23:25.700And this is, this is just an example of that.
01:23:28.340Um, can I, can I play, can I play devil's advocate on that?
01:23:31.860What would you say to the, the people at CNN, that, uh, at CNN or SNL that might respond and say, oh, really it's etiquette?
01:23:42.500Oh, I was actually, that was actually where I was going with this point.
01:23:45.680Um, that, that, that is the counter argument constantly.
01:23:49.220Um, and I'm seeing it all over Twitter.
01:23:51.380Uh, I, I'm, I'm seeing that coming from the left.
01:23:54.060They say, oh, well, Trump in my response to that is what on earth does Trump have to do with a conversation between Saturday night live and myself?
01:24:05.000You know, I mean, it's just, it's wholly inappropriate.
01:41:10.760His Marxist revolutionary friends in a pact with Venezuela and Cuba, all documented.
01:41:21.540They they were holding together because they were trying to build kind of the United States of South America under a Marxist kind of dictate a dictatorial rule.
01:41:32.760When he left, that meant the end of that compact between them.
01:42:48.400I do believe that the vice president is a pretty credible source to say that, especially when you can back up all of the other facts around.
01:43:02.180I believe it to be, but it doesn't mean that it's true.
01:43:05.800It means that it's a pretty good bet because we do know and we have sources on the ground that people are buying these buses, paying those buses and paying many of the people to get on to those buses.
01:43:21.700And the people that are doing that is this Marxist revolutionary group.
01:43:31.100People also say that I said that Soros is providing the money.
01:43:35.640No, he provided some of the money that were funding the two main groups that were doing the migrant caravan in April.
01:43:46.580There is no evidence that Soros is involved in this at all.
01:43:50.400However, as Stu pointed out earlier on the show, Soros in an op ed said himself that he was going to put half a billion dollars into migrant campaigns.
01:44:05.500It seems, again, like a logical jump that he will be involved in some way or another at some point.
01:44:14.380But there's no evidence that he's involved in this now.
01:44:22.160If you've ever taken a course in international studies, relations or politics, you would know that there are more reputable sources of information than Mike Pence's version of a conversation with the president of Honduras.
01:44:34.840And I just told you that there are multiple places to show you what's happening in Honduras and who who is behind the migrant caravan in Honduras.
01:44:52.480You'd also recognize that it's impossible to be simultaneously be an objective and unbiased observer and believe wholesale that the president of Venezuela has set aside the funds necessary to attack the United States by funding a migrant caravan or calling on the allies to do so.
01:45:11.520OK, it is not outrageous to think that when you understand, I don't know if you took international studies or relations or politics personally, degrees don't mean anything to me.
01:45:25.100I know a lot of idiots that have degrees.
01:45:30.660If you'd like to talk down to self-educated people, well, that's a different issue.
01:45:35.080But I do I do have a lot of experience in international studies, relations and politics, but I appreciate your degree if you have one.
01:45:45.120But if you do indeed have one, you know that Venezuela, the current president, blames the United States for all of this troubles, blames the United States for trying to kill him recently.
01:45:57.340It is not unheard of for someone like that to fund operations against the United States.
01:46:08.300He said the word of a person working for a president whose statements are false more than two thirds of the time.
01:46:17.000Politi fact isn't something you should form your opinion on on a subject and far less.
01:46:27.860It's not like they're looking at all of the statements made by a person and saying they're two thirds false.
01:46:31.840They select the ones that are controversial or the ones that they think they can disprove of Republican candidates most likely.
01:46:38.120That's just a dumb way of looking at it.
01:46:39.640Anyone again, it's the same accusation.
01:46:41.620But I'm not going to argue that this president is is the the pillar of virtue and truth.
01:46:47.160You can't come out and it doesn't matter.
01:46:48.860No, but you can't come out and say, hey, you need to take your journalistic credibility seriously and then say, by the way, the way you should judge this is political.
01:47:13.120I'm asking you how to describe this group of people that are coming under the flag of Honduras, many of them with stated ill intent towards the United States.
01:47:27.140A lot of them just hapless, useful idiots, good people, decent people who are being paid and promised you're going to have a better life in America.
01:48:43.580That is the line that tells me everything I need to know and almost made it so I didn't respond to you because you're not an honest broker.
01:48:54.340If you've listened to this program and you don't think that I try to get it right,
01:48:59.340if you don't think that I have some integrity, you're not an honest broker.