The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸27⧸17 - Surround Yourself with Good People

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00:00:12.920 Glenn Beck.

00:00:13.720 Good morning, it's the Glenn Beck Program. Happy New Year from all of us here.

00:00:16.780 My name is Mike Broomhead. I'm in Phoenix, Arizona. My last day in for Glenn.

00:00:20.460 So let's get to it. Holiday spending, the numbers are in and record-setting spending this holiday season.

00:00:26.840 How did all of this happen? If you remember, the president, our former president, said,

00:00:31.540 thanks, Obama, while extolling all the virtues of what's been going on for the last 12 months.

00:00:36.260 Now, largely, Americans vote with their wallets.

00:00:39.320 So how does this play out in the coming election year that will begin January 1st?

00:00:44.560 We will be in the midterm election year.

00:00:46.560 If you listen to all of the pundits, the chances of Donald Trump becoming president were very, very small.

00:00:52.720 I believed it like everybody else did.

00:00:54.860 There was only one person on our radio show when we did our election night coverage that thought Donald Trump was going to win.

00:01:03.260 Everybody else thought it was going to be a walkover for Hillary Clinton, myself included. 1.00

00:01:07.800 And we bought into the hype.

00:01:09.580 And people kept saying there were these people that were afraid to say they were voting for Donald Trump

00:01:13.760 because of the backlash from the media and the backlash from a very vocal group of people turned out to be true.

00:01:18.940 People voting with their wallets.

00:01:21.080 There was an agenda set forward by this president in which he said he wanted to fix the economy.

00:01:27.160 America first.

00:01:28.200 Well, he was called a nationalist and he was called an isolationist and he was called a Nazi.

00:01:32.120 And this is how Hitler did things. 0.91

00:01:33.620 It was all about patriotism.

00:01:35.120 And so he's been compared to Hitler since day one.

00:01:37.660 Well, so is George W. Bush.

00:01:39.020 So was Reagan.

00:01:39.760 I mean, it's just kind of the mantra of people.

00:01:43.500 Now, the problem for the president, in my opinion, is the fight with the media that's been picked that he's not really shied away from.

00:01:51.880 Don't necessarily blame him, but his style is in your face.

00:01:55.540 He dragged the media with him through the primary process.

00:01:59.840 They were real numbers when you saw the amount of free press that was given to Donald Trump during the primary

00:02:07.120 because he was such a controversial figure.

00:02:09.640 He said so many things to and about the media, to and about his opponents on the dais during that, you know, that what was there, 37 Republican candidates

00:02:17.700 that he was able to get over a billion dollars worth of free coverage because of the way he handled the election cycle.

00:02:24.820 But now he's the president.

00:02:26.920 And the economy seems to be responding to his business ideas.

00:02:31.340 Now, America largely votes with their wallets, not the partisan politics that goes on in the primary,

00:02:36.580 but when it comes time for a general election, people vote with their wallet.

00:02:42.140 And if that's an indicator of the midterm elections, we keep hearing that the Republicans are in trouble in the House.

00:02:48.860 They have a very good reason to worry.

00:02:50.320 The numbers show this generic ballots show this happening and that happening.

00:02:54.560 Well, we'll see.

00:02:55.540 It's going to be a long year.

00:02:56.960 Holiday spending.

00:02:58.240 U.S. Department store stocks jump on holiday spending record.

00:03:01.920 Tuesday, MasterCard said shoppers spent over $800 billion during the season, more than ever before.

00:03:14.020 So the economy has been growing at a very slow pace over the last eight years.

00:03:18.660 We hit rock bottom, the end of the Bush presidency, the housing bubble that burst, people short selling and losing their homes.

00:03:25.080 The economy was down, the stock market crash, in comes President Obama, the stimulus spending that was supposed to fix things.

00:03:32.940 By the way, the agenda for President Trump moving forward into the next election year.

00:03:38.400 Mitch McConnell saying, and this is something we're going to get into, Mitch McConnell saying that the agenda for the Senate can't be to take up the benefits and take up what's going on in Washington, D.C.

00:03:50.740 and entitlement programs because the Senate Democrats aren't really going to go along with that.

00:03:55.860 So they're going to work on infrastructure.

00:03:58.320 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:03:59.800 Wasn't the stimulus package about shovel ready jobs and infrastructure?

00:04:03.840 Didn't we fix the highways and the bridges like eight years ago?

00:04:08.240 I'm just asking the question because we spent a trillion dollars in a stimulus package that I thought we're supposed to fix the infrastructure of the United States.

00:04:15.980 All we ever hear after that is the infrastructure is broken.

00:04:18.420 What happened in that trillion dollars?

00:04:20.740 But we know that the agenda for the president moving forward, he talks about a bipartisan infrastructure bill to bring some of the Democrats on board.

00:04:31.060 They're not going to want to do that.

00:04:32.660 It's an election year and they want to win back the House.

00:04:35.480 So I don't know if they're going to go along with anything.

00:04:37.880 But how are they spending is not a partisan issue, nor is the stock market.

00:04:42.400 The Dow, the Nasdaq, and the S&P, all of them up.

00:04:46.500 The Dow is going to add 5,000 points for the first time ever in a year, ever.

00:04:52.400 You can argue about politics and numbers a lot of times, but in the end, it doesn't matter.

00:04:57.900 The partisan Republicans and the partisan Democrats are going to vote that way.

00:05:01.620 The candidates that are able to talk to that large swath of people down the middle.

00:05:06.840 So here in Arizona, where I am, the answer is going to be for people that are trying to win their seat back or people that are trying to take seats from someone else.

00:05:15.200 Where do you stand on the economy?

00:05:17.300 Because in the end, that's where it's going to end up.

00:05:20.960 Where I live, the unemployment rate is down as low as I think it's ever been.

00:05:25.520 But nationally, holiday spending at $800 billion, higher than we've ever spent, more money than we've ever spent.

00:05:33.920 That's not a fluke.

00:05:35.520 Now, whether you give Donald Trump all of the credit for that, consumer confidence is very high.

00:05:41.300 When consumer confidence is very high, incumbents tend to win.

00:05:46.120 That's the way it's always been with a few anomalies here and there, but that is the way it usually is.

00:05:53.440 You will go with the status quo.

00:05:55.160 Why ruin a good thing?

00:05:56.860 Why fix something that ain't broke?

00:05:58.440 We can do all of the cliches we want to for the next three hours.

00:06:02.780 But MasterCard said we spent $800 billion.

00:06:05.820 The stock market is a nonpartisan indicator.

00:06:08.920 You are seeing business owners now.

00:06:12.800 They will begin to invest.

00:06:14.220 Now, especially in this next year, what's interesting about this is if you are going to see a huge jump in anything as far as spending and manufacturing, it will be in the next 12 months.

00:06:24.140 Because businesses taking advantage of the tax cuts to begin next year for them, being able to take advantage of the write-offs by purchases that they make, you will see that in the first 12 months of 2018.

00:06:35.120 Now, how it carries over into 2019 is another story, but if 2018 being an election year and we watch the stock market continue to climb, we see manufacturing numbers go up, we see unemployment numbers go down, wages going up for people.

00:06:49.880 How are people going to vote?

00:06:51.460 I mean, just based on that, the report said holiday sales in stores and online between November 1st and December 24th rose 4.9%, the fastest year-on-year pace of increase since 2011.

00:07:09.740 MasterCard, which tracks spending by combined sales activity in its payment network with estimates of cash and other payment forms, excludes automobile sales from its figures.

00:07:22.000 So retailers had their stocks tumble this year as they continue to lose sales to online stores like Amazon.

00:07:29.780 Shares in JCPenney rose 7.6% on Tuesday.

00:07:33.720 Kohl's 5.8%.

00:07:35.120 Macy's 5.1%.

00:07:36.740 Nordstrom's 2.8%.

00:07:37.740 Online sales rose 18.1% during the holiday season, but that's probably only 11% or 12% of total retail sales.

00:07:50.220 The bulk of sales are still very much in stores, according to people, and it was true.

00:07:58.840 So if sales are up, if stores are beginning to see their stocks go up again, and we know retailers are in trouble.

00:08:06.080 Well, the brick-and-mortar stores are in trouble per square foot, what they pay in rent compared to the people that go in when they buy online.

00:08:11.960 But if you went out holiday shopping, Christmas shopping, as I did, like everybody else did, you know that those stores were busy.

00:08:21.300 Jewelry stores backed up.

00:08:24.560 I mean, just crowded.

00:08:25.900 And you're seeing people buying gifts and spending more than they had before is an indicator of a good economy.

00:08:34.080 So if that's the case, which now it appears with this spending is the case, if the left wants to say that's all Obama, okay, they can do that.

00:08:47.160 It's not going to work with the average American family.

00:08:50.260 The average American will go with the status quo when things are going well.

00:08:53.580 That's how the voters vote.

00:08:54.960 The hard left and the hard right are already set in their ways.

00:08:57.720 If you're listening to this show, chances are you are someone that is invested and you vote in primaries and you watch candidates for a long time.

00:09:05.960 You don't jump in at the last minute.

00:09:07.460 You don't go with somebody that you feel votes like you.

00:09:10.720 You do your homework.

00:09:11.800 But you also are not the typical voter in a general election, which is why in primaries you see people sprint left and right depending on their party and sprint to the middle for a general because there is a huge swath of people that they have to speak to.

00:09:27.980 It's going to be easier for Republicans next year to speak to constituents and to speak to potential voters.

00:09:35.380 If you're a Republican, it's going to be a lot easier to go to them and say, look where the economy is going.

00:09:41.800 But the Democrats are going to have to hit this head on, and I'm going to explain to you how they're going to do that.

00:09:47.020 Bernie Sanders speaks, Krugman speaks, and it's as if they are living in a different planet from most of us.

00:09:55.040 So coming up at 720, we'll tell you how they feel about it and how they are crafting the argument.

00:10:01.160 Krugman says America's not dead yet, but the way he starts that op-ed piece would make you think he is living in an alternate universe.

00:10:08.280 So all that's coming up next.

00:10:09.480 My name is Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:10:15.520 Glenn Beck.

00:10:25.460 Glenn Beck.

00:10:28.280 Happy New Year.

00:10:29.180 Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck Program.

00:10:30.920 My name is Mike Broomhead.

00:10:31.740 I am in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:10:32.880 I'll be here the rest of the day, and then Doc Thompson comes up tomorrow.

00:10:35.920 So, and social media users, I'm going to tell you how you can reach out to me again.

00:10:40.260 I want to thank everybody for all of the outreach yesterday.

00:10:43.460 But let's get to Senator Sanders, what Bernie Sanders had to say.

00:10:47.580 Now, this was printed yesterday, and it's a CNN story.

00:10:52.560 New tax bill, a disaster for the American people.

00:10:55.120 So far, the economy disagrees with you, Senator.

00:10:58.060 And so the excuses that they make are hysterical.

00:11:03.760 Ten years from now, look what's going to happen.

00:11:06.100 You can fix it.

00:11:07.900 The Congress can fix that any time they want, which is why the door was left open.

00:11:12.100 We should have made those tax cuts permanent for the middle class. 0.87

00:11:15.060 Couldn't.

00:11:15.600 60 senators wouldn't get on board. 0.99

00:11:17.900 Weren't able to.

00:11:18.580 So they made the business tax cuts permanent with the simple majority, and they can make

00:11:24.840 the other tax cuts permanent when you get 60 votes from the senators.

00:11:28.200 This is not the last time this is going to happen.

00:11:30.700 This is why the Democrats desperately want to take back the House of Representatives, because

00:11:35.120 if the Republicans continue to control the House and the Senate, if they gain seats in

00:11:39.700 the Senate, which the suspicion is against all the other media attention you're hearing,

00:11:44.760 25 Democrats are up for re-election in this election cycle.

00:11:49.720 Do you think that all of those Democrats are going to retain their seats?

00:11:52.960 I don't.

00:11:54.180 So the Republicans can actually add seats in the United States Senate.

00:11:59.100 Now, there are a couple of things that are throwing monkey wrench into all of this, and

00:12:05.380 both of them are in the state of Arizona.

00:12:07.400 Jeff Flake has announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election, which means

00:12:13.200 there is no incumbent in one of the Senate seats in Arizona that's up for grabs.

00:12:18.080 So Jeff Flake's seat is up for grabs, which means it could be anyone's.

00:12:21.520 He has got a very formidable opponent on the Democrat side.

00:12:25.120 Her name is Kirsten Sinema.

00:12:26.280 She is a House member.

00:12:27.120 She was in the state legislature here for a long time.

00:12:29.680 She has really done a great job of crafting a reputation of being kind of a moderate Democrat

00:12:35.220 because she's in a very moderate district in the House here in Arizona. 0.96

00:12:39.400 But her track record when she was in the state legislature is very, very liberal, bordering

00:12:45.480 on communism, which that's not an insult, by the way.

00:12:48.300 It's an observation.

00:12:49.740 She is a single-payer supporter, I believe, and she's going to have to answer a lot of

00:12:53.960 those questions.

00:12:54.800 But she's going to be a very tough person to beat in a state that has been a red state 0.98

00:12:59.580 for a very long time because the other people coming forward, there is a veteran.

00:13:04.200 Her name is Martha McSally.

00:13:05.220 She is a House member.

00:13:06.520 She may be giving up her seat to run against Kirsten Sinema. 1.00

00:13:09.660 We are there as Dr. Kelly Ward is already in the race.

00:13:12.760 Kelly Ward is an adamant Trump supporter, former state legislator.

00:13:16.520 She's been in the race.

00:13:17.340 She's been the only Republican in a race for a long time.

00:13:20.740 Polling numbers showed her beating Jeff Flake very soundly in a primary, part of the reason

00:13:24.740 why I believe Senator Flake stepped away.

00:13:26.380 And so that's a monkey wrench there.

00:13:30.320 But what about the future of John McCain in the Senate?

00:13:32.800 And now I am a friend of Senator McCain.

00:13:35.600 I respect Senator McCain.

00:13:36.780 A lot of people very upset with me about that that are far right. 0.82

00:13:40.500 I will tell you this.

00:13:41.360 I don't agree with Senator McCain on things politically many times, but he has treated

00:13:45.360 me with respect.

00:13:46.520 He has been very kind to me.

00:13:48.200 He is a friend.

00:13:49.320 And I think the world personally of John McCain, I'm never going to back away from that.

00:13:53.860 Um, I know him personally and as a man, as a human being, he has been very, very good

00:13:59.380 to me.

00:14:00.180 So I'm not wishing anything ill on him.

00:14:02.860 I'm not wishing that he would retire or leave office, but if he can't perform his job, if

00:14:07.140 he decides he has to leave, that would be two seats open, depending on when that happens.

00:14:11.800 If he were to keep his seat through the end of May, then the governor, after the end of

00:14:17.820 May, if it happened June or later, that John McCain decided he could no longer continue.

00:14:21.620 And I'm not predicting any of this is going to happen, then our governor would appoint

00:14:25.700 a replacement for that seat, which would be another Republican would be appointed to

00:14:30.540 that seat until the next general election, which wouldn't be this November.

00:14:35.120 It would be too soon.

00:14:36.200 It would be two years later.

00:14:38.100 There would be an election held then.

00:14:39.680 So somebody would sit in that seat for two years.

00:14:42.060 They would have to run for another two years because John McCain seat is not up for four

00:14:47.240 years.

00:14:47.700 Hope that makes sense to all of you.

00:14:48.980 If John McCain, for some reason, were to resign his seat before the end of May, then there

00:14:55.140 would be two Senate seats up for grabs in the state of Arizona.

00:14:58.400 Both seats would be available this November or John McCain finishes out his term.

00:15:04.260 Those are kind of the options in the monkey wrench in there.

00:15:06.340 But nobody believes, or at least I don't believe that the Democrats are going to win all 25 of

00:15:11.560 the seats that they have up for grabs.

00:15:13.160 Just doesn't make sense that they are.

00:15:14.700 So the mantra from the left is going to be, this is horrible.

00:15:20.120 You may be seeing results in your paycheck right now, but I'm telling you, it's coming.

00:15:24.700 The tsunami is coming.

00:15:26.040 And if you, if we don't get the Democrats in power to fix the impending tsunami, you're

00:15:30.700 in big trouble.

00:15:31.780 Bernie Sanders, look at all the people that are going to lose health insurance.

00:15:35.660 No, they're not.

00:15:37.060 Because of the end of the mandate, which means you're not forced to buy it.

00:15:41.280 People will choose to not buy it.

00:15:44.260 They didn't lose their insurance.

00:15:45.980 They opt out.

00:15:48.780 There are so many people that have an opportunity to buy health insurance through their employer.

00:15:52.800 When you're young, when you're 10 feet tall and bulletproof as a 23, 24, 25 year old single,

00:15:59.080 especially man, no kids, you're not married.

00:16:02.720 You're 10 feet tall and bulletproof.

00:16:04.400 I'm not spending money on health insurance.

00:16:06.140 What do I need health insurance for?

00:16:07.540 That's what it's offered through your employer.

00:16:09.480 Does that mean you don't have health insurance?

00:16:11.960 Yes, it does.

00:16:13.960 So Bernie Sanders takes those numbers of people that are not going to buy Obamacare through

00:16:17.820 the exchanges when they're not forced to with the mandates and says they're losing their

00:16:22.300 health insurance.

00:16:24.020 It's all a part of the mantra to tell you how bad it's going to be because they can no longer

00:16:28.320 tell you how bad it is because it's not.

00:16:32.100 Stock market setting records, your 401k climbing at an alarming rate, housing prices up over 6% the

00:16:39.460 first year of the presidency.

00:16:40.900 Now, whether he gets all the credit for that or not, the American people vote the status

00:16:45.460 quo when things are going well.

00:16:47.760 So Bernie Sanders says this is a disaster for the American people.

00:16:51.520 He told that to Wolf Blitzer.

00:16:52.960 I think the Republicans will rue the day.

00:16:55.360 He said this the day it was passed.

00:16:57.820 They may be celebrating today, but I have a feeling that next November they won't be celebrating

00:17:02.240 quite as much.

00:17:03.060 All right, well, we'll see if that happens.

00:17:07.120 So Paul Krugman, with what I believe is a view, it's like he's living on another planet.

00:17:14.320 Paul Krugman, most of us came into 2017 expecting the worst, and in many ways, the worst is what

00:17:21.680 we got.

00:17:23.060 Did we?

00:17:24.940 Okay.

00:17:26.260 Donald Trump has been every bit as horrible as one might have expected.

00:17:29.380 He continues day after day to prove himself utterly unfit for office, morally and intellectually,

00:17:34.760 and the Republican Party, including so-called moderates, turns out, if anything, to be even

00:17:40.480 worse than one might have expected.

00:17:42.380 At this point, it's evidently composed entirely of cynical, willing to sell out every principle

00:17:49.440 and every shred of their own dignity as long as their donors get big tax cuts.

00:17:57.260 There you have it.

00:17:58.400 It's all about the rich versus poor, class warfare.

00:18:01.740 It's us versus them. 0.99

00:18:03.280 The Democrats win with us versus them.

00:18:05.760 It's white versus black, man versus women, rich versus poor, gay versus straight. 0.93

00:18:12.800 It's always segmented society.

00:18:15.760 They have the gay voters.

00:18:17.780 They have the black voters.

00:18:18.900 They have the women voters. 1.00

00:18:20.000 They have the poor voters.

00:18:21.440 They have everybody segmented in society.

00:18:24.080 And that's how they divide and conquer.

00:18:29.100 That's been their plan forever.

00:18:30.880 Well, this year is going to be more of the haves and the have-nots than ever before.

00:18:35.900 They will point out to you big corporate tax cuts.

00:18:38.320 They will point out to you salaries and the rich getting richer.

00:18:42.200 They'll point out the stock market and the rich get richer.

00:18:44.880 Well, the fact of the matter is you do too.

00:18:46.940 So, IRA, 401k, looking to retire someday, helps you.

00:18:53.160 Helps you a lot.

00:18:56.740 Coming up, just after the bottom of the hour, we will talk about the UN because the president said,

00:19:03.540 you don't want to vote with us when it comes to Israel.

00:19:05.260 That's fine.

00:19:06.960 How much do we actually pay of the UN's budget, the United States?

00:19:10.560 What do we pay of the UN's budget?

00:19:12.080 And what did Nikki Haley do with the budget? 0.97

00:19:17.000 Cuts.

00:19:17.500 It's a great story.

00:19:18.740 7.35, that's what we talk about.

00:19:20.560 Stick around.

00:19:24.060 Glenn Beck.

00:19:33.740 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:36.940 All right, fact check.

00:19:38.240 Former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka said that the U.S. pays over 20% of the UN budget.

00:19:45.900 When factoring the military side, we pay almost a third at 28%.

00:19:51.340 The verdict on the fact check, absolutely true. 0.74

00:19:55.840 The U.S. must pay 22% of the UN budget for 2016 to 2018.

00:20:00.520 They contribute an even higher share with some of the agencies within the UN.

00:20:05.300 Why is this important?

00:20:06.300 Well, we all understand why it's important.

00:20:08.240 We understand that the UN and how some of the workings of the UN are sheer idiocy.

00:20:17.460 The UN determines the required contribution levels each state.

00:20:21.420 It's based on a bunch of factors like national income and debt.

00:20:24.900 The U.S. paid 22% of the UN's $5.4 billion budget for 2016 and 2017.

00:20:34.060 They allocated $1.2 billion toward the budget during these years.

00:20:39.000 It's the maximum contribution allowed.

00:20:42.360 U.S. funding of the UN operations is under scrutiny after 128 member states voted to condemn

00:20:47.600 the decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

00:20:51.660 By the way, let's talk about that decision.

00:20:55.640 I'm sure it's been mentioned on this network before, but if not, let's clear something up.

00:21:00.840 The Democrats are outraged about something that they agree with.

00:21:04.940 Let's be very clear about this.

00:21:07.020 The last four Democratic platforms all stated that Jerusalem must be recognized as the capital

00:21:20.660 of Israel.

00:21:21.680 It's in every party platform for the last four platforms, every single one of them.

00:21:26.780 So go back and look.

00:21:29.340 Is that 16 years?

00:21:31.860 Go back and look.

00:21:33.380 The Democrats have been pounding this drum.

00:21:35.840 The largest bipartisan political action committee or PAC in the entire country is AIPAC, the American

00:21:44.200 Israeli political action committee.

00:21:46.280 It is truly a bipartisan organization.

00:21:49.060 The Arizona AIPAC luncheon I've been to a number of times, and you see a cross-section of some very, very

00:21:56.600 prominent Republicans and Democrats enthusiastically there supporting Israel.

00:22:01.720 This is not a partisan issue.

00:22:03.780 All of a sudden, Donald Trump decides to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel officially by

00:22:10.620 moving our embassy there.

00:22:12.400 Well, he's not doing anything that hasn't been proclaimed by the Republicans and the Democrats

00:22:16.140 for the better part of two decades, and all of a sudden now the Democrats say he's going to start

00:22:22.660 World War III, the violence in the streets, the uprising.

00:22:26.140 Even the New York Times had to admit that didn't happen.

00:22:29.980 As a matter of fact, now about 10 nations are considering doing the exact same thing.

00:22:34.060 Guatemala says it's going to.

00:22:36.180 Now, Guatemala is not exactly a superpower, but you are seeing other nations saying exactly the

00:22:42.160 same thing, that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel.

00:22:45.460 And incidentally, if you talk to the people that go to Israel on a regular basis, that know

00:22:51.660 the nation, when anybody, when the Palestinians come into Jerusalem, they shop, they're welcomed,

00:23:01.300 they're safe.

00:23:03.180 When an Israeli goes to Gaza, not so much. 0.91

00:23:08.240 Golda Meir, some of my favorite quotes are from Golda Meir.

00:23:11.080 And a couple of them should tell you the mindset of the Israelis versus the mindset of the Palestinians 0.77

00:23:20.580 that would fight.

00:23:22.700 And Golda Meir said of the Palestinians that we, the PLO specifically, but was said of the

00:23:28.780 Palestinians, we can forgive you for killing our grandchildren. 1.00

00:23:32.500 We cannot forgive you for forcing us to kill yours.

00:23:39.040 Also quoted as saying, if the Palestinians would put down their weapons, there would be peace.

00:23:47.340 If the Israelis were to put down their weapons, there would be no Israel. 0.97

00:23:51.540 And there's a lot of truth in both of those statements.

00:23:53.780 The U.S. has been and continues to be the strongest ally to Israel.

00:24:00.820 They continue to be our strongest ally in the region.

00:24:04.080 And the president of the United States has decided to do what both parties have put in their platforms

00:24:08.920 now for years and make it official.

00:24:11.500 So when you say something, words without deeds, right?

00:24:17.180 Words without deeds are dead.

00:24:21.040 And the president decides we're going to do it and the world is furious.

00:24:26.500 Okay, let them be.

00:24:28.860 So in response, Nikki Haley called the resolution disrespectful because the U.S. pays more than any other country.

00:24:36.240 When we make generous contributions to the U.N., we also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected.

00:24:45.060 Nikki Haley has announced a $285 million cut to the U.N. budget.

00:24:53.620 And the crowd goes wild.

00:24:57.240 So there you have it.

00:24:58.680 The United Nations has agreed on a 2018-2019 budget that includes steep reductions in spending.

00:25:04.060 The upcoming biennial U.N. budget will drop by $285 million or about 5% from the 2016-2017 level.

00:25:12.480 Haley says it's a big step in the right direction.

00:25:14.860 The inefficiency and overspending in the United Nations are well known.

00:25:18.340 We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.

00:25:27.460 Feels good, doesn't it?

00:25:29.560 I mean, it does to me.

00:25:30.480 I mean, the United Nations, didn't they put a rant on their Human Rights Committee?

00:25:36.320 I mean, really, I mean, let's be honest about some of the things the United Nations.

00:25:40.700 I'm not saying you throw the entire organization overboard.

00:25:43.400 There's a lot of Americans who believe get us out of the U.N., but I'm not even saying that.

00:25:49.740 But we're seeing now how some of these things are changing.

00:25:53.080 A lot of people are not fans of how the president does things.

00:25:56.080 And he comes across as a bull in the China shop a lot of times.

00:26:01.220 But what do you say about NATO?

00:26:02.720 We're out.

00:26:03.420 We're getting out of NATO.

00:26:05.640 Looks like it's running a lot more smoothly.

00:26:07.900 NAFTA.

00:26:08.540 Getting out of NAFTA.

00:26:09.520 And everybody screams, you can't get out of NAFTA.

00:26:11.040 It's going to be terrible.

00:26:11.720 You can't.

00:26:12.500 So somebody sat the president down and said, you know, there are a bunch of things in the North American free trade agreement that can be fixed.

00:26:19.460 And if we sit down and talk about them instead of getting out of NAFTA, and the president, all right, let's talk.

00:26:25.100 And both the Canadian and the Mexican leaders said, let's sit down and talk.

00:26:30.620 Let's talk about a NAFTA that's good for all three nations, that makes all three nations work together when they do things like tariffs and when they do things so that we're not fighting amongst ourselves in this tariff war.

00:26:42.740 That a unified North America is a great trading partner.

00:26:46.940 So I'm not saying everything the president's touching is turning to gold.

00:26:54.360 I'm saying there's some method to the madness sometimes.

00:26:58.360 If the U.N. is going to pass a resolution where it's denounced by so many nations, where some of our friends sided with us and some of our friends just abstained from voting, and then America says, okay, that's fine, then we're going to cut back.

00:27:14.540 The generosity is not going to be there.

00:27:17.840 They have a right to vote the way they want to vote.

00:27:20.320 Absolutely, without a doubt.

00:27:21.920 And the Americans have a right to take their toys and go home. 0.94

00:27:25.860 And there's something to be said for that.

00:27:30.540 Now, a lot of people think it's horrible.

00:27:31.980 I don't at all.

00:27:34.040 Now, they should do some things with the budgets, the United States budgets for the different departments of our government when they're putting this together because the same principle applies.

00:27:41.480 Because the redundancy and the waste in the American budget and all of the federal agencies that are tied to it, we could wipe out 10% of just about every department of the government's budget.

00:27:54.920 And just get rid of redundancy and waste and not change one ounce of service provided by any one of them.

00:28:01.160 If there was just some strict oversight.

00:28:05.120 So, Nikki Haley making this announcement.

00:28:11.280 So, we will remember when, this is what the president said, we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations.

00:28:20.500 Well, Haley said this on behalf of the president.

00:28:22.100 And we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more, to use our influence or for their benefit.

00:28:30.440 The final budget cut exceeds the $200 million reduction targeted for the budget.

00:28:36.380 Haley says the U.S. will look for other areas in which it can make additional cuts.

00:28:39.940 While we are pleased with the results of this year's budget negotiations, you can be sure we will continue to look at ways to increase the U.N.'s efficiency while protecting our interests.

00:28:49.820 Once again, America first. 0.96

00:28:53.680 What you think of that?

00:28:57.020 Coming up, the NFL cancels their Sunday night game.

00:29:01.760 Doesn't sound like a big deal, but let's talk about what's happening with the National Football League.

00:29:05.780 Is this really a byproduct of what the fans are saying is a slap in their face with the kneeling for the National Anthem?

00:29:12.900 Or is it just retribution because people don't want sports used for a political platform?

00:29:18.280 All that coming up before we close out this hour.

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00:29:43.020 I'll be back to talk NFL.

00:29:44.660 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:29:45.920 Glenn Beck.

00:29:59.740 Glenn Beck.

00:30:02.560 Hey, thanks for being here this morning.

00:30:04.040 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:05.000 My name is Mike Broomhead in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:30:06.680 In this morning, my final day this year in for the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:10.560 So thank you for spending part of your day with me.

00:30:12.800 The NFL has canceled their final Sunday night football game for a number of reasons.

00:30:16.680 Part of it because it's New Year's Eve, one of the lowest TV days of the year.

00:30:20.760 But there's no doubt that the NFL numbers are down.

00:30:24.040 So the reason for this is up in the air for a lot of people.

00:30:26.860 And it's not for me.

00:30:28.080 Now, I side with the people that say kneeling is disrespectful and sends the wrong message.

00:30:33.900 I also believe burning the flag sends the wrong message.

00:30:37.120 But I will say this.

00:30:38.420 There's a First Amendment right to express yourself.

00:30:41.220 The First Amendment is there to protect controversial speech.

00:30:45.960 I don't like it.

00:30:47.160 I hate it.

00:30:47.760 I think it's a wrong thing to do many, many times.

00:30:50.280 But I also believe that you have a right to do these things.

00:30:54.160 Unless, of course, you're an employee and your bosses say you represent us.

00:30:58.640 There is a long precedent set that employers look at people.

00:31:02.240 There was a woman in the D.C. area that was on her bicycle and the president's motorcade

00:31:07.120 drove by and she decided the best way to salute the president was to give him the finger.

00:31:12.840 Well, then she took that that picture and she posted it, made it a Facebook profile picture.

00:31:18.120 Private picture.

00:31:20.740 The employer was a defense contractor.

00:31:23.080 Bad for business.

00:31:24.280 You're out.

00:31:25.520 Long precedent.

00:31:26.300 My company, you know, I have a public profile on Facebook, the Mike Broomhead Show, and I have a private.

00:31:33.880 But I can't do things on my private page that would make my employer look bad.

00:31:40.120 They'll get rid of me.

00:31:41.580 The NFL has the ability to step in and stop this.

00:31:44.680 For whatever reason, they've decided not to, which is why there is a bit of a backlash.

00:31:49.300 That coupled along with a great college football season that's going on right now.

00:31:53.600 Now, I am unashamedly a Miami Hurricanes fan.

00:31:58.140 Have been my entire life growing up in Southwest Florida.

00:32:01.500 And Miami, college football is more interesting when the U is back.

00:32:05.240 The turnover chain and all the other stuff that goes with it.

00:32:07.860 So, there is now an option for people to go back and watch really good quality football,

00:32:12.960 if you're a football fan, and exciting games with some of the best teams in the country.

00:32:17.580 I mean, you look at the top teams right now and how they're playing and what they're doing.

00:32:21.200 And the teams that deserve to be there, you know, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma,

00:32:27.160 this is going to be a great playoff.

00:32:29.480 So, there's a number of reasons why the numbers could be down for the NFL.

00:32:33.920 But there's no doubt that the political stance taken by players has hurt them.

00:32:38.760 People talk about unintended consequences all the time.

00:32:42.020 If I say something that insults somebody, that may not have been my intent.

00:32:48.440 But once I know I've insulted that person, political correctness dictates that I alter

00:32:54.020 my behavior because the unintended consequence of my actions or my words offended or hurt somebody's

00:32:59.480 feelings.

00:33:01.560 Well, I don't believe these NFL players, when they took a knee, many of them, meant to insult

00:33:06.400 the police officers in the stadiums that are protecting them or the men and women who have

00:33:12.080 defended the country as veterans that show up at NFL games wearing the jersey of the team

00:33:18.680 they love and a hat from the branch of the service they served.

00:33:23.340 I don't think they meant to hurt those people's feelings.

00:33:27.100 But for many of them, they did.

00:33:29.200 And instead of saying, we've got a message we want to get out, and A, this isn't helping

00:33:36.420 get our message out, and B, we never meant to offend people.

00:33:40.520 Instead, many of them, going strong, not going to alter it.

00:33:44.120 Well, people are walking away.

00:33:45.640 For me, it's about the controversy.

00:33:48.940 You see, I do this for a living, and I love it.

00:33:52.600 I love what I do.

00:33:55.380 But sports is an escape for me.

00:33:57.020 You know, at the high school level, when my brother and his buddies played high school

00:34:03.020 football, and I was involved in the coaching staff in a very small way, I coached Pop Warner

00:34:07.460 football.

00:34:08.500 It was about the development of young men.

00:34:11.420 It was about learning to win with grace and lose with dignity, about getting kicked in the

00:34:18.140 stomach with a disappointing loss, and having, you know, tears on the sidelines and days to

00:34:23.880 get over it.

00:34:24.500 But years later, realize nothing bad really happened.

00:34:29.980 It was a high school football game.

00:34:34.060 And that's the way sports is for people.

00:34:37.440 It's an escape.

00:34:39.900 Well, I don't want to go to my escape and be faced with politics.

00:34:44.160 I don't want to argue with somebody else in the stands next to me whether or not NFL players

00:34:49.420 should or shouldn't kneel.

00:34:50.620 I don't want to talk about police brutality.

00:34:52.980 I don't want to talk about hands up, don't shoot. 0.97

00:34:57.100 I want to watch football.

00:35:00.120 And there's a backlash.

00:35:01.340 The NFL, we used to print money.

00:35:03.040 It had so much of it.

00:35:05.240 Now they're seeing a bit of a backlash.

00:35:07.300 NBA ratings up over Christmas.

00:35:09.220 NFL ratings down.

00:35:10.660 Now they're canceling the final Sunday night football game of the year.

00:35:14.860 Indicator.

00:35:15.500 They better straighten up their act in the offseason.

00:35:17.400 I just think that's what they need to do.

00:35:19.280 Once again, we'll talk about the holiday spending.

00:35:20.960 Exactly how much of it was there?

00:35:23.060 How good was it for the U.S. economy?

00:35:25.000 What does it say going into the election year?

00:35:26.940 That, and we'll talk about the increase in homicide rates in America.

00:35:29.880 Glenn Beck.

00:35:38.700 Love.

00:35:40.280 Courage.

00:35:41.600 Truth.

00:35:42.820 Glenn Beck.

00:35:44.940 Hi, my name is Mike Broomhead.

00:35:46.100 In for Glenn today.

00:35:47.360 Thanks for joining the show, being a part of it.

00:35:49.680 My name is Mike Broomhead again from Phoenix, Arizona.

00:35:52.380 Wishing you a Merry Christmas.

00:35:53.480 Happy New Year.

00:35:54.260 Hope you got big plans.

00:35:55.280 Hope it's been a great holiday season.

00:35:56.600 The holiday spending numbers are in, coupled with the growth we've seen over the last year.

00:36:00.760 Things are looking good in the momentum of the economy going into 2018.

00:36:04.960 The question, this is what is so funny about this, is the question now politically is, who does it benefit?

00:36:12.520 And it's so funny that we look at the world that way.

00:36:15.860 We have seen sluggish growth for the last eight years.

00:36:20.760 The policies are just different.

00:36:23.200 And it's okay to like them.

00:36:24.940 I think they were wrong for America.

00:36:27.220 There are many people that disagreed with me because Barack Obama was elected twice.

00:36:32.660 But the economic growth wasn't there.

00:36:34.720 And a lot of it has to do with expertise and focus.

00:36:37.560 Barack Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America.

00:36:40.140 And I believe that's what his agenda was to do.

00:36:41.940 And that's exactly what he tried to do.

00:36:44.980 Economically, it did not work the way they had hoped.

00:36:49.420 They were warned about Obamacare and how bad it was going to be for America.

00:36:52.860 They were warned that it would not work the way they wanted to do it.

00:36:57.560 And it didn't.

00:36:58.540 It was an abysmal failure.

00:37:01.100 And there's no way around those numbers.

00:37:04.500 You can talk about people that have health insurance that didn't.

00:37:07.000 And those numbers may be accurate. 0.84

00:37:09.220 Not worth the expense.

00:37:10.860 There's a better way of doing things.

00:37:12.520 There always is.

00:37:13.440 And instead of listening, they just went full steam ahead.

00:37:21.200 Immigration, the border policies of the Obama administration against what a lot of Americans believed.

00:37:27.760 But he was elected twice.

00:37:29.300 He was my president.

00:37:30.380 I never said he wasn't.

00:37:31.420 But now we're seeing, after those eight years, the president, the former president, giving speech, making a statement about the economy, and talked about the growth and what was happening.

00:37:40.860 And then said, thanks, Obama, as if he put the wheels in motion and got this thing spinning, and Donald Trump is reaping the benefits of Barack Obama's work.

00:37:55.600 People on the left are going to try to say it.

00:37:57.400 People on the left are going to try to believe it.

00:37:59.540 But the American people are not going to buy it.

00:38:02.320 Donald Trump is a businessman.

00:38:03.800 Love him or hate him, that's what he is.

00:38:05.680 And he said the way to fuel the economy is to give people back more of their own money.

00:38:12.380 Don't for a minute think it was the white nationalists and the Nazis that elected Donald Trump.

00:38:16.620 That's not who elected Donald Trump.

00:38:19.080 Donald Trump won swing states by small margins, but states that people thought he had no business or no possibility of winning.

00:38:26.780 How?

00:38:27.700 He went into those swing states, and he said to those people, those working class families, many of them Democrats,

00:38:33.200 206 counties, he said, we are going to lower the taxes and the regulation on your bosses.

00:38:41.480 So those manufacturing jobs that pay between $20 and $30 an hour are going to remain here.

00:38:48.560 Your bosses will repatriate dollars.

00:38:51.220 They won't take your manufacturing jobs to other countries.

00:38:55.340 They'll expand the existing manufacturing outfits that they have here. 0.56

00:39:00.120 And we're going to keep people like you working in your jobs.

00:39:03.200 In the meantime, Hillary Clinton was told, don't even come to West Virginia. 0.97

00:39:09.580 Why?

00:39:10.600 Because she told the American people, we're going to put the coal industry out of business. 0.89

00:39:14.720 Then we're going to come in with government programs, and we're going to retrain the coal miners that have worked for generations in those coal mines to doing different jobs. 0.58

00:39:23.260 We're not going to forget about you, West Virginia.

00:39:25.300 We're going to turn your lives upside down.

00:39:27.260 We're going to get rid of the coal industry.

00:39:28.580 But then we're going to come in and train you for another job.

00:39:33.980 She was told, don't even bother coming to West Virginia.

00:39:37.260 So the American people believe Donald Trump, 206 counties that twice voted for Barack Obama, voted for Donald Trump.

00:39:46.480 And all of a sudden, they're racist.

00:39:48.200 They voted for Obama twice.

00:39:50.240 Now they're racist.

00:39:52.800 So don't believe that for a moment.

00:39:54.400 So the entire first year was all disappointments.

00:39:59.280 Can't get health care done.

00:40:00.300 Can't get health care reform done.

00:40:01.700 Can't get health insurance reform done.

00:40:03.520 Well, that's because Republicans were dumb enough to put deadlines on themselves.

00:40:08.980 Then they got a tax bill passed.

00:40:12.060 Holiday spending has set a record.

00:40:13.980 According to MasterCard, the American people, between November 1st and December 24th, spent $800 billion, $800 billion, the highest spending in history, up 4.9% year over year, the biggest since 2011.

00:40:36.200 So you look at those increases, you look at the stock market, 5,000 points up in one year for the first time ever, and you ask yourself, how in this day and age, when you go into an election year, is the momentum not on the side of the Republicans?

00:40:56.060 And I'll tell you how.

00:40:56.980 Because if you watch or listen to the traditional media, they will tell you either this is a flash in the pan, this is an anomaly, or this is something that is going to get the rich richer, and it's going to crash down upon the middle class any day.

00:41:11.940 That's the mantra from the left.

00:41:16.540 Bernie Sanders says this is the worst thing ever for the American people, because 10 years from now, this is what's going to happen with taxes.

00:41:24.560 10 years from now, it's five sessions of Congress.

00:41:32.840 You mean the two-year term of a member of the House of Representatives, they aren't able to fix whatever the impending doom you say is possible?

00:41:40.760 Well, that's why the Republicans have to be out.

00:41:42.660 That's why we have to have Democrats in charge. 1.00

00:41:45.100 It's going to be the mantra.

00:41:48.500 So what they are going to do is they are going to pull the Wizard of Oz trick on you.

00:41:53.000 Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

00:41:56.900 Pay no attention to what your wallet is doing.

00:41:59.960 Don't look at your 401k.

00:42:01.280 I know right now your 401k is up.

00:42:03.420 Oh, by the way, if you own a home, average home prices are up over 6% first year for the Trump presidency.

00:42:13.260 I'm not calling this person.

00:42:15.760 I'm not saying Donald Trump is the savior of the world.

00:42:18.140 I have, I mentioned yesterday, I have become a Trump defender because the traditional media won't give him credit for anything.

00:42:26.820 Again, CNN with the headlines.

00:42:29.900 Tax plan gets passed.

00:42:31.200 Many Americans still skeptical.

00:42:34.220 Donald Trump gets two scoops of ice cream on his, for dessert.

00:42:37.460 Everybody else only gets one.

00:42:39.120 These are actual CNN headlines.

00:42:40.880 And I've got a full list of even more.

00:42:44.620 The Melania Trump thing.

00:42:45.700 If you didn't see that, Newsweek said Melania Trump orders 200-year-old tree cut down at the White House. 1.00

00:42:55.440 You know what really happened?

00:42:57.160 There was a tree that is being completely supported by outside means.

00:43:03.340 This tree is dead standing.

00:43:05.040 It's a danger and it's a hazard, said the arborists that have been taking care of it and propping it up falsely for years.

00:43:13.100 And it finally needs to come down before it just crumbles down and hurts somebody.

00:43:19.120 But Newsweek reports Melania Trump orders 200-year-old tree to be okay.

00:43:28.340 What's next?

00:43:29.980 Donald Trump kicked a baby today.

00:43:32.880 You just never know.

00:43:35.040 So I've become a defender.

00:43:37.140 But the numbers speak for themselves.

00:43:40.180 And the American people will respond accordingly.

00:43:42.700 I'm not calling it a walkover for Republicans.

00:43:45.080 The Republicans are known for snatching feet out of the jaws of victory over and over again.

00:43:50.140 The Republicans a lot of times can't get out of their own way.

00:43:53.160 There is a tax plan in place that is going to save real people real money.

00:43:57.700 And they couldn't sell it to the American people.

00:44:00.340 The Republican Party could lose money owning a bar in Vegas.

00:44:03.520 I mean, it's just, it's why they can't get out of their own way sometimes.

00:44:08.000 Their PR department doesn't defend anything because they won't defend anything.

00:44:12.780 They won't dare defend wealthy people in America.

00:44:17.860 They won't dare defend the business owners by name or say, you know, you're right.

00:44:22.640 Those wealthy business owners are getting a big tax cut.

00:44:25.300 We are cutting taxes on businesses.

00:44:27.020 You know why?

00:44:28.060 So they can pay you more.

00:44:29.420 I traveled around the valley here in Phoenix, Arizona.

00:44:33.960 I traveled with the vice president and our governor one day and watched them talk with

00:44:37.840 small business owners about what would happen if this tax plan were to pass.

00:44:41.580 This was months ago.

00:44:43.320 And every small business owner had a different story.

00:44:45.780 One was a dentist.

00:44:46.860 He said, I'm not going to expand my business, but I'm going to pay my employees more.

00:44:50.800 He said, because, you know, the insurance companies dictate reimbursements and the costs

00:44:55.220 continue to go up.

00:44:56.160 So the window of what I can pay employees continues to shrink.

00:45:00.480 So this tax cut will allow me to pay my employees what they deserve.

00:45:05.720 Another couple owned a garage and they had 12 mechanics or 12 bays where they did car repairs.

00:45:10.980 He said, we can buy tools and equipment.

00:45:13.220 His wife said, we used to provide health insurance coverage for our employees, but because of the

00:45:17.000 cost of Obamacare and the increased cost in health insurance, we weren't able to anymore.

00:45:20.740 This tax cut will help us with that benefit package for our employees.

00:45:26.160 A furniture refurbishment company, his husband and wife, one employee said, we turn work

00:45:31.920 away because we don't have the employees to do the work.

00:45:34.900 If we have this tax cut, we can expand the size of our building.

00:45:37.920 We're already looking at a piece of property and we can stop having just one overworked employee.

00:45:42.840 We can hire more people.

00:45:44.580 Then we can grow and do more work.

00:45:47.600 They all had a different story.

00:45:49.940 There was another insurance agent who owned a bunch of restaurants.

00:45:52.440 Same story, reinvest in that business, pay my employees more, show them.

00:45:58.280 I appreciate them.

00:45:59.300 Major corporations in America mandating now a $15 an hour minimum wage for their own company,

00:46:04.820 not some falsely inflated nonsense.

00:46:09.720 Bonuses going out to employees.

00:46:11.420 It's going to be hard for the Democrats to stem the tide of what's going to look good for people

00:46:17.400 next year.

00:46:17.960 That's all I'm saying is what you're hearing from the media is that the Democrats are going

00:46:21.200 to be in a walkover and take over the house.

00:46:22.940 This is not the easy walkover they had hoped for, especially between now and June when people

00:46:28.340 see their taxes go down, their wallets get fatter, people spending jobs, increases in pay.

00:46:33.660 Coming up at 820, switch gears just a little bit.

00:46:41.080 There is an increase in the homicide rate in America.

00:46:44.760 One third of that increase, one neighborhood in Chicago.

00:46:49.020 So we'll talk about that.

00:46:50.820 We'll talk about the differences in laws, gun laws and otherwise, and how it affects the

00:46:56.600 entire nation.

00:46:57.560 That comes up at 820.

00:46:58.540 Again, my name is Mike Broomhead, and this, of course, is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:47:03.660 Glenn Beck.

00:47:12.160 Glenn Beck.

00:47:14.260 All right, cause and effect.

00:47:15.620 Sometimes the numbers don't tell the whole story.

00:47:17.680 Sometimes they tell you more than you want to know.

00:47:19.780 Chicago, Illinois.

00:47:21.680 The United States saw a 9% increase, roughly 9% increase in homicides in 2016.

00:47:27.980 More than one third of that increase came from the neighborhoods in Chicago, where just one

00:47:35.940 third of residents live.

00:47:38.480 Chicago and Baltimore have seen violence rise to or near 1990s levels in the past two years,

00:47:44.720 where other cities have seen a drop.

00:47:48.020 Los Angeles.

00:47:49.040 Dramatic drop in violence.

00:47:50.280 Areas with 30% of the metropolis population are responsible for one quarter of the 13% drop

00:47:56.100 in the nation's murder rate.

00:47:58.500 The nation's capital has seen a decrease of murders.

00:48:02.080 The Wall Street Journal analysis show that there have been taking place in sections of Chicago

00:48:07.460 or Baltimore where poverty has worsened, as well as areas with less police presence

00:48:12.460 than in the past.

00:48:13.820 George Mason University, criminologist research, cited that the Wall Street Journal's authors

00:48:19.420 showed that about 1% of the city streets produce 25% of the crime.

00:48:23.860 5% of the streets produce half of the crime.

00:48:27.900 A couple of things going on here.

00:48:29.500 Number one, people are talking about the assault on the FBI by our president.

00:48:35.380 Well, I don't know if it's on the entire agency, but we know that at least one person at the

00:48:39.400 FBI was so biased he couldn't keep his mouth shut during the Mueller investigation.

00:48:43.300 into collusion and investigating Hillary Clinton.

00:48:47.120 Not even to go down that road, but the media is saying that it is a horrible thing that

00:48:52.800 Donald Trump would say such things.

00:48:56.920 President Obama, Eric Holder, the anti-police sentiment that seemed to permeate that administration.

00:49:03.520 You look at the lack of respect for police officers that has permeated our society over

00:49:07.720 the last few years.

00:49:08.740 Every cop, a good cop, nobody thinks that.

00:49:15.180 As a vocation, it's an honorable calling.

00:49:20.160 There is no higher calling, I believe, than those that would protect their community.

00:49:25.560 And I have got, I am unashamedly pro-law enforcement.

00:49:32.120 I will call out a bad cop at a moment's notice.

00:49:34.480 We've seen the video evidence of a police officer shooting a suspect in the back and then moving

00:49:38.720 evidence so that he could try to get himself out of what he had just done in murdering another

00:49:43.000 human being while wearing a badge.

00:49:44.580 That cop should be punished to a greater extent because of the power of that badge.

00:49:49.840 And most cops would tell you that.

00:49:53.200 But there is no doubt that what we saw, Michael Brown, hands up, don't shoot, Ferguson, Missouri,

00:50:02.600 was a lie.

00:50:04.520 Hands up, don't shoot was a lie.

00:50:06.440 And it's a shame that Michael Brown lost his life.

00:50:11.820 I mean that sincerely.

00:50:14.120 18 years old.

00:50:15.920 I want you to think about what you were at 18.

00:50:19.000 I know what I was at 18.

00:50:21.100 I was different at 28, 38, and 48.

00:50:24.760 Fortunately for me, I had those years to turn things around and be different.

00:50:32.140 Michael Brown made a horrible choice in attacking a police officer, not once, but twice.

00:50:36.160 And he lost his life because of it.

00:50:38.840 Eric Holder went to Ferguson, Missouri himself, and he met with protest groups.

00:50:43.900 And he said, I know how you feel.

00:50:46.020 I've been racially profiled.

00:50:47.620 I've been pulled over.

00:50:49.020 My brother and I were stopped running for a movie in Washington, D.C., and I was already

00:50:52.480 an attorney.

00:50:53.400 But because we were black and running down the street, the police stopped us.

00:50:57.780 I don't ever mind being known as an activist attorney general.

00:51:01.500 Those are words from Eric Holder.

00:51:03.020 So part of the issue is an anti-police sentiment, a disrespect for authority, number one.

00:51:10.980 Number two is a complete lack of respect for human life.

00:51:17.020 Now, I live in a state where the gun laws are as lenient as possible.

00:51:21.900 In the state of Arizona, if you legally own a handgun, you can conceal it without a permit.

00:51:29.020 Now, I maintain a concealed carry permit.

00:51:31.260 I like the reciprocity.

00:51:32.360 I like the level of commitment it takes to hold that permit, proficiency.

00:51:42.160 But here in Arizona, you can conceal a weapon if you legally own it.

00:51:46.780 And there were many of those that thought when the law was changed to that, that there'd be

00:51:50.560 blood in the streets.

00:51:51.320 And I'm here to tell you, this is a safe place to live.

00:51:53.640 We have our issues like any other city does, but it is a safe place to live.

00:52:00.000 Chicago has some of the most strict gun laws in the country.

00:52:03.020 So does D.C.

00:52:05.200 Baltimore as well, I believe.

00:52:07.760 And yet some of the highest gun crime rates.

00:52:11.000 Once again, it's not the tool they use.

00:52:13.460 It's the lack of character and the violent nature of the person wielding the weapon, whether

00:52:21.180 they're behind the wheel of a car with a knife, a sword in their hand, a blow torch or a rifle

00:52:28.400 or a 22 pistol.

00:52:30.600 It is the character of the person wielding the weapon.

00:52:38.400 But if Chicago, Illinois is adding a third of the increase in homicides out of a couple

00:52:43.260 of neighborhoods in Chicago, who's at fault here?

00:52:46.900 Well, poverty is at fault.

00:52:48.300 No, it's not.

00:52:51.560 I grew up in those neighborhoods.

00:52:53.700 I've seen that criminal element.

00:52:55.320 I grew up in those neighborhoods.

00:52:56.340 My mother never let us equate poverty with bad, poor with dirty, rat hole apartments.

00:53:06.280 My mom always cleaned the place, vacuumed, spotless. 0.99

00:53:12.940 And the fact of the matter is that it's a lack of respect for any human life whatsoever.

00:53:20.740 Those numbers are staggering.

00:53:22.460 They should break our hearts that there is a generation of young men and women that are 1.00

00:53:29.380 going to be lost in Chicago.

00:53:30.880 Maybe not all dead, but definitely lost.

00:53:34.100 When standing behind a gun is the answer to a problem.

00:53:40.640 It's a shame.

00:53:44.320 People have children.

00:53:45.920 They're past those morals or lack of them onto their children. 0.94

00:53:49.580 I want you to think about that number.

00:53:55.200 One third of the increases in the number of homicides in 2016, a third can be attributed

00:54:01.220 to some Chicago neighborhoods.

00:54:06.500 You know, the answer is not an easy solution.

00:54:09.800 But if someone wants to look at the guns as the problem, you can disarm a lot of people

00:54:15.200 and you're not going to change what they do in Chicago if this is the mindset of the people

00:54:19.320 in those neighborhoods.

00:54:21.960 I think it's something to be to really consider.

00:54:25.460 Mitch McConnell and his agenda, what he says the agenda of the United States Senate will be

00:54:29.860 next year.

00:54:31.080 A lot different than what Paul Ryan said.

00:54:33.320 A lot different than Paul Ryan's.

00:54:35.480 Is Mitch McConnell setting himself up for failure in the United States Senate?

00:54:39.020 And if so, will somebody get to him and change his mind?

00:54:43.220 That's coming up.

00:54:43.760 And before we get out of here, we'll talk about ISIS and just how far they've fallen as well.

00:54:48.200 Stick around.

00:54:53.060 Glenn Beck.

00:54:59.820 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:55:01.500 You know that Mitch McConnell has kind of broken off.

00:55:05.760 Paul Ryan saying that entitlement reform is going to be next on the agenda in the House

00:55:09.880 of Representatives.

00:55:10.640 They're going to work on the entitlement programs.

00:55:13.060 One of the things that's not happened with this new tax reform bill is we haven't seen a

00:55:17.240 lot about tax cuts.

00:55:18.680 I've maintained, I continue to maintain, will continue to maintain forever and ever and ever

00:55:23.280 that we do not have an income problem in the United States Treasury.

00:55:26.440 We have set records almost every single year of the Obama presidency for dollars into the

00:55:31.500 United States Treasury.

00:55:32.880 I'm not making those numbers up.

00:55:35.940 We have spent at over a trillion dollars in deficits every single year of that presidency.

00:55:43.400 Deficits continue.

00:55:44.400 No doubt about it.

00:55:45.380 They are still deficit spending right now.

00:55:48.620 Can't lay that at the feet of anybody.

00:55:50.560 Republicans control it all.

00:55:52.740 When do we start seeing spending cuts?

00:55:55.100 Well, Mitch McConnell says that in the Senate, the Democrats aren't going to go along with an

00:55:59.460 entitlement reform.

00:56:00.320 It's just not going to happen.

00:56:01.500 So, um, they're going to look at infrastructure.

00:56:05.700 The president wants a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

00:56:08.760 Well, I have a couple of questions about infrastructure.

00:56:11.260 I thought we fixed that with the stimulus package, the shovel ready programs that drove me out of

00:56:18.120 my mind.

00:56:19.840 And here's the difference.

00:56:21.140 If, if you remember, um, president Bush and corporations that were too big to fail.

00:56:27.420 And a lot of people said, let them fail.

00:56:29.240 What do you mean too big to fail?

00:56:30.340 Let them fail.

00:56:31.480 Somebody will fill the gap.

00:56:32.560 No, no, no.

00:56:32.820 We can't do that.

00:56:34.620 If propping those businesses up with billions and billions and, you know, trillion dollars

00:56:39.340 of your tax money was the way to go.

00:56:42.660 And those businesses use that money in the wrong way.

00:56:49.380 The American people would be outraged and should be.

00:56:52.600 I'll give you an example of the difference between the two.

00:56:55.380 With the stimulus package with president Obama and the idea of fixing infrastructure in the

00:57:00.640 United States, highways expanding, and then road signs up that said, Hey, listen, this

00:57:04.080 is your stimulus dollars at work.

00:57:05.540 We're expanding this freeway.

00:57:06.620 We're doing this.

00:57:07.760 That is not a permanent solution.

00:57:09.640 That is a temporary job.

00:57:11.920 So what you've done is you fix some infrastructure and I'm getting to the point of the infrastructure

00:57:16.880 in just a moment.

00:57:18.240 The difference would be something that is a continuing revenue generator.

00:57:22.020 So for a private business that was propped up by the stimulus package of George W.

00:57:29.460 Bush, for them to take that money and remodel the corporate bathrooms and say, Hey, listen,

00:57:34.040 we hired, you know, we hired a contractor.

00:57:36.180 We hired a bunch of subcontractors and, you know, we spent 65 or $80,000 remodeling the

00:57:42.100 bathrooms, which is a ridiculously low number for an executive restroom.

00:57:46.060 But we spent a few hundred thousand dollars remodeling the restrooms of the stimulus money.

00:57:50.600 So we employed probably 10 people throughout that process to get that thing done.

00:57:55.100 Maybe a dozen people were, you know, for six months fixing up those corporate restrooms. 1.00

00:57:59.380 But at the end of that six months, the money's gone.

00:58:01.760 So are those jobs as opposed to using that money to make sure that whatever it is that

00:58:07.680 they do at that place, they're doing better and hiring more people in permanent jobs so

00:58:13.640 that that money is an investment that continues to grow as opposed to just a nice bathroom for

00:58:18.660 people to visit a few times a day?

00:58:21.020 Well, the shovel ready projects of a stimulus package did exactly the same thing under Barack

00:58:25.460 Obama.

00:58:26.000 We're going to fix the roads.

00:58:27.200 We're going to do this.

00:58:27.880 We're going to put some things in.

00:58:29.300 How did they create jobs that carried on? 0.90

00:58:32.720 They didn't.

00:58:35.220 But what we did, according to the stimulus package, from what I saw was infrastructure.

00:58:40.440 It was going to kill two birds with one stone.

00:58:44.000 That's why we had to go into so much debt.

00:58:46.040 If you remember, we've got to fix this George W.

00:58:48.960 Bush economy.

00:58:49.680 We've got to get Americans working again.

00:58:51.920 So instead of putting people on the public dole, we're going to kill two birds with one

00:58:55.960 stone.

00:58:56.540 We're going to hire people to fix the infrastructure because we know the infrastructure is crumbling

00:59:02.580 in America.

00:59:04.160 That's what we were told.

00:59:06.840 Now we need another infrastructure bill.

00:59:09.680 So I'm a little skeptical to begin with.

00:59:11.560 But I'm also a little skeptical of Mitch McConnell's reasoning here.

00:59:16.400 He said at an event last week, he would not expect to see the Senate tackle entitlement reform

00:59:25.920 next year.

00:59:27.520 He said, I think the Democrats will not be interested in entitlement reform.

00:59:30.980 So I would not expect to see that on the agenda.

00:59:34.060 He's worried about the Democrats killing these bills.

00:59:40.160 Now, there's going to be some that can and there's going to be some that can't.

00:59:43.820 But as the leader in the United States Senate, you're supposed to be able to set the agenda

00:59:48.100 and then rally people around the agenda.

00:59:51.140 Can you get full Republican support?

00:59:52.920 You should be able to.

00:59:54.880 Can you get some Democrats to support it?

00:59:57.020 You should be able to.

00:59:58.460 And some of the states that are moderate, some of those swing states and moderate states,

01:00:02.140 absolutely, you should be able to.

01:00:06.180 But what we've done is created a system where no one is told no in America.

01:00:10.380 It used to be that the Republicans and the Democrats and whoever had power got to set

01:00:14.260 the committee chair people and the agenda.

01:00:17.040 But in the end, there was a negotiation process where they realized we have a small amount of

01:00:21.320 money between us.

01:00:22.640 And what we're going to do is fight for the deal breakers.

01:00:25.040 And we're going to hope that if we're in the minority, that we are able to get some of

01:00:29.100 what we want, get as much of what we want as we can.

01:00:33.320 And what we've created is a society where no one is told no.

01:00:37.440 The budgets continue, continuing resolutions, no oversight of the money.

01:00:42.720 The agencies are fully funded and then some, and then they spend their budget so that they

01:00:46.540 get more next year.

01:00:47.760 And we see huge waste.

01:00:50.420 Talked yesterday about a clown school in Argentina.

01:00:54.320 And it wasn't a joke.

01:00:59.220 So what are we doing to rein in spending?

01:01:03.960 I mean, unless, of course, you're someone that doesn't believe that we have an income,

01:01:07.900 you know, that we don't have an income problem.

01:01:10.900 The example I've used many times on my show in Phoenix, and I'll use it again now, is a

01:01:16.460 superstar like Elton John.

01:01:18.340 And this isn't to make fun of Elton John.

01:01:20.240 This is a simple fact.

01:01:21.780 Elton John went bankrupt.

01:01:22.880 So did Michael Jackson.

01:01:24.900 Anybody think that either one of those two people had an income problem?

01:01:28.900 Of course they didn't.

01:01:30.540 Elton John still makes a huge income.

01:01:32.300 His music still sells millions and millions of copies.

01:01:35.700 It's still played on radio stations across the country, across the world.

01:01:40.840 He still sells out concert arenas and gets paid large sums of money to perform.

01:01:46.720 What Elton John did is what the American government does.

01:01:49.520 He spent beyond his incredible income.

01:01:52.660 He even admitted to that, you know, 80, 90, $100,000 barbecues on the weekend at his house,

01:02:00.580 lavish parties all the time, all over the world, properties everywhere.

01:02:04.160 What he was able to do was rein in the spending, live reasonably within his means, which for most of us would be a dream anyway.

01:02:14.920 And the income kept coming because he is a talented, wealthy individual.

01:02:22.800 Well, America is a talented, wealthy nation, entrepreneurs, highly qualified people, forward thinking, leading the world.

01:02:33.960 Now, they're saying by 2032, I saw a story that said China is going to overtake the American economy.

01:02:39.340 Whether that's true or not, we don't know.

01:02:40.920 But just to give you an idea, what are we, you know, how much smaller are we than the billions of people that are in China?

01:02:47.820 We're about a third of the size of the Chinese population.

01:02:51.180 And yet our economy leads the world.

01:02:53.220 And I believe we'll continue to lead the world.

01:02:58.800 We are talented, highly, you know, the country has got a very huge income.

01:03:07.160 What we've done is decided we are not going to tell anybody no when we're going to spend outside of our means.

01:03:12.460 The Republicans, when they have control, are terrified about entitlement reform.

01:03:18.820 There you go, balancing the budget again on the backs of the poor.

01:03:21.700 No, we're balancing the budget.

01:03:26.440 Well, you gave tax cuts to the rich, and now you're going to balance that off by cutting entitlement to the poor.

01:03:32.620 All right.

01:03:33.440 If that's the way you want to see it, that's the way you should see it.

01:03:37.680 Look at your cell phone bill.

01:03:39.520 Everyone should look at their cell phone bill once in a while and take a look at the taxes and fees that are attached to your phone bills.

01:03:46.020 And it all has to do with free cell phones for people and programs, and that's what we've turned into.

01:03:54.360 I railed on the estate tax the other day.

01:03:56.780 I think it's ghoulish.

01:03:58.060 I don't care if it's only on the mega wealthy in this country.

01:04:00.700 We're stealing from the dead.

01:04:02.200 We have gone to such lengths because we cannot keep up with the amount of money we've allowed our government to spend.

01:04:09.420 America does not have a spending problem or an income problem.

01:04:14.320 It has a spending problem.

01:04:16.000 And Mitch McConnell says he's not going to take up entitlement reform because the Democrats won't want to.

01:04:21.260 I think Mitch McConnell needs to learn how to fight.

01:04:23.640 I think Mitch McConnell should be up at the podium saying the Democrats do not want to talk about entitlement reform while we continue to spend at billions and billions, almost trillions of dollars in deficit still.

01:04:36.100 They don't want to talk about getting rid of the abuse and the inefficiency that goes on within these systems.

01:04:44.120 The Democrats want to keep spending at deficit level.

01:04:46.920 Instead of fighting that way, Mitch McConnell says, ah, the Democrats aren't going to want to do it, so we're going to have to go to something else.

01:04:53.640 I don't think that's the right way to be in leadership.

01:04:58.140 Don't know Mitch McConnell.

01:04:59.600 Never met him.

01:05:00.620 Not a personal axe to grind.

01:05:02.140 Not calling the guy Satan incarnate.

01:05:04.100 I'm just saying he doesn't sound to me like he's much of an effective leader right now if he's already saying we're not going to do this next year because the Democrats don't want to.

01:05:11.760 You are the leader of the United States Senate.

01:05:13.780 It's your job to rally your people, rally your caucus, and whatever you have to do to drag some of the others with you, you need to do it.

01:05:26.340 Some good news.

01:05:27.480 If you remember that, well, as President Obama said, the JV squad called ISIS and how they ran roughshod over the top of the Iraqis and took over a big chunk of that country.

01:05:37.740 They controlled the Syrian border, the entire border between Syria and Iraq.

01:05:41.640 Well, there's news about ISIS and what they've lost just from the rules of engagement changes that were made when President Trump took office.

01:05:50.040 So that comes up here in just a few moments, and we'll talk more about holiday spending.

01:05:54.380 And, of course, we can't go through this day without talking about the Trump dossier and CNN.

01:05:58.460 So all that's still coming up on the show.

01:06:00.100 I'm Mike Broomhead, and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:06:06.000 Glenn Beck.

01:06:14.200 Glenn Beck.

01:06:15.160 You know, politics and the military clash a lot of times as well.

01:06:21.280 Ask a Vietnam veteran about that.

01:06:23.100 And what I mean by that is I've always believed that in leadership, one of the best things to do is surround yourself with people that are great at what they do and then let them do what they're great at.

01:06:32.860 Ronald Reagan was terrific at this.

01:06:35.240 I heard of all from all people.

01:06:36.700 I got to be honest with you.

01:06:37.700 Senator John McCain was talking to me very early in the Trump presidency and said that this is the best cabinet he's seen assembled in years and years and years and that the men and women that the president had surrounded himself with were excellent people.

01:06:54.480 And you look at the foreign policy, and I thought foreign policy was going to be a very weak point for President Trump at a time when the country needed somebody that was strong in international policy and foreign policy because of the mess that was made during the Obama presidency.

01:07:10.000 And, you know, I'm not – I mean, I am a registered Republican, but I'm not a hater.

01:07:14.420 I don't hate Democrats.

01:07:16.240 I'm not just looking to bash Democrats at every turn.

01:07:19.280 The foreign policy of the Obama administration was abysmal.

01:07:22.580 The fact that John Kerry was our secretary of state should make us all hang our head in shame or laugh hysterically, maybe both.

01:07:33.180 If you remember in response, I believe it was the Charlie Hebdo murders that happened in Paris.

01:07:39.600 If you remember, it was a week and a half before the Americans responded, and the French are our oldest ally.

01:07:46.000 And in response, I remember like it was yesterday.

01:07:51.200 I was doing my show, my morning show, and we were out at a home show here.

01:07:56.300 So we were out in the middle of a home show, and my producer said to me, have you seen this video?

01:08:04.320 And I said, no.

01:08:05.520 And I watched it, and I thought it was a Saturday Night Live skit.

01:08:10.180 I thought it was a parody.

01:08:11.140 I said, that cannot be real.

01:08:13.600 He said, oh, it's real.

01:08:15.540 The American official response to the tragic murders in Paris was John Kerry, our secretary of state, took James Taylor to Paris to sing,

01:08:32.380 you've got a friend to the French people.

01:08:34.660 Do you remember, I mean, right now you're embarrassed as an American and laughing because you probably had forgotten about that.

01:08:44.440 That was our foreign policy.

01:08:47.620 The Iranians at every turn shouted death to America throughout the process of the nuclear deal. 0.99

01:08:53.480 The Ayatollah was speaking in public, and the crowd began to chant death to America in Farsi.

01:08:59.440 He responded, yes, of course, death to America.

01:09:02.220 One of the military leaders, one of the generals from the Iranian army said, it doesn't matter what deal is ever struck, the Americans will always be our enemy.

01:09:14.740 I believe there are 200 members of the Iranian parliament were voting, and during the vote, members of their parliament were shouting death to America in which this anti-American bill passed 199 to 1.

01:09:30.880 And I imagine the one vote in our favor, that guy probably was never seen again.

01:09:35.940 So at every level of the Iranian government, they shouted death to America while John Kerry and the president of the United States negotiated behind the scenes to make sure that Hezbollah could sell drugs in America and weren't punished for it.

01:09:51.700 We now know that's true as well.

01:09:53.820 It's also the president that called ISIS the JV squad, if you remember.

01:10:01.480 The JV squad then that took over the entire Syrian-Iraqi border, major portions of the nation of Iraq.

01:10:08.260 ISIS has lost 98% of the territory it once held, with half of that terror group's so-called caliphate having been recaptured since President Trump took office less than a year ago.

01:10:19.140 The massive gains come after years of erroneous rules, or onerous rules.

01:10:27.660 The micromanagement by the Obama administration, the rules of engagement under Obama administrations were onerous.

01:10:33.480 I mean, what we were doing, have individual target determinations being conducted by the White House.

01:10:39.120 Surround yourself with good people, and then let them do what they're good at.

01:10:43.060 That's what they've done, and they unleashed the American military, and we're winning.

01:10:49.720 Talk about holiday spending, the Trump dossier, all that coming up in the next hour.

01:10:54.800 Stick around.

01:10:58.360 Glenn Beck.

01:11:04.800 Love.

01:11:06.380 Courage.

01:11:07.860 Truth.

01:11:09.100 Glenn Beck.

01:11:09.840 Happy New Year.

01:11:10.620 Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck Program.

01:11:12.260 My name is Mike Broomhead.

01:11:13.280 I'm in Phoenix, Arizona.

01:11:14.380 Last day in for Glenn.

01:11:15.640 Doc Thompson will be in, I believe, the next couple of days.

01:11:19.040 So let's talk about, first of all, political motivation, because we're going to get into the holiday spending numbers, which should be good news for everybody in America.

01:11:26.960 But it's bad news for some people, and I'm surprised at this.

01:11:31.280 Is there always room for improvement?

01:11:32.660 There always is.

01:11:33.220 It's one of the great things about our country, is that as great as we've been, we find new ways to improve.

01:11:39.840 And taking inventory.

01:11:41.400 As a matter of fact, let me start there.

01:11:45.100 We have valid conversations in this country about things that are issues that should always be discussed here.

01:11:51.700 I have a great privilege where I live to speak to high school students across, you know, this part of Arizona.

01:11:58.240 And I go a few times a year.

01:12:01.360 And speaking to social studies departments, government classes, that kind of thing.

01:12:05.920 And I don't give a speech.

01:12:08.340 I would rather get questions from high school students.

01:12:10.900 And as much as we talk about public education and there's a problem in our schools and the dumbing down of America, I will tell you that the classrooms that I go into, actually the more assemblies that I go into, you know the kids ask the same questions we ask.

01:12:27.100 They're concerned about the same things we're concerned about.

01:12:29.200 And there are some real issues that are out there to be discussed.

01:12:33.340 There's always room for improvement.

01:12:34.760 And your issue, your problem is a real problem for you, whatever that is.

01:12:40.280 We talk about wage inequality.

01:12:41.840 We talk about civil rights.

01:12:43.520 We talk about race relations.

01:12:44.960 We talk about the LGBT community.

01:12:46.760 All of these things that happen in America.

01:12:49.060 And they're valid conversations.

01:12:50.720 But I think maybe for just a moment at this time of year, before we talk about the money side of things right now, let's take some inventory.

01:12:59.640 We still lead the world.

01:13:01.860 Do you realize that we argue in this country about wage inequality?

01:13:05.680 And we should.

01:13:06.520 I have two girls that I love with all of my heart.

01:13:13.040 And I want those two young women to realize that if they want to accomplish something, they should feel like they're able to.

01:13:20.720 That their gender should not impede their success as long as they are physically, intellectually able to do that job.

01:13:29.020 And it's kind of an American principle.

01:13:31.300 It's a great time, I think, to be a woman in America.

01:13:36.300 I mean, the Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken stuff aside.

01:13:42.500 But you mirror that with the rest of the world.

01:13:44.680 You know in Saudi Arabia what the big changes are this past year in 2017?

01:13:48.660 In 2017, the Saudis have allowed women to drive cars.

01:13:53.620 I want you to think about, you know, an industrialized country.

01:13:57.920 Now, obviously, living under religious law and a lot of things that happen there.

01:14:01.700 But think of the differences there in the conversations and how many decades behind rights they are when just now women are able to drive. 0.99

01:14:12.400 There are still many countries that we would do business with that women are more property than they are individuals. 1.00

01:14:20.420 Look how far we've come in leading the world in that regard.

01:14:23.960 I'm not saying we don't have a long way to go.

01:14:26.000 I'm not saying that there aren't real issues that should be discussed.

01:14:29.120 But for a moment, let's at least recognize where we are and who we are.

01:14:33.140 The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was at a U.N. assembly and decided to go and speak to a university in New York City while he was here.

01:14:46.420 And during the speech, he told these university students that there are no gay people in Iran.

01:14:52.240 To which the student body laughed out loud at him.

01:14:57.120 And he was indignant and said there aren't.

01:14:59.560 The truth of the matter is, there obviously are, but they're in hiding or they are put to death.

01:15:10.380 Does that mean we don't have a ways to go or improvements that can be made in the relations between the gay and straight communities and the way people treat each other in this country?

01:15:20.080 No, it doesn't mean that at all.

01:15:21.860 I'm saying for a moment, why not take inventory on how we lead the world in many ways?

01:15:29.560 Poverty, the poor in America, real problem, real issue.

01:15:37.980 I talked with a man from, I believe he was from Ethiopia.

01:15:43.240 He crossed into another country and was homeless there for seven years, waiting for his visa to come through to come to America and get on a pathway to citizenship.

01:15:56.620 And he was homeless for seven years, left his family behind.

01:16:00.600 And he must have said, God bless America, 15 times in the short cab ride from the hotel in Vegas to the airport.

01:16:09.320 And talking about American politics, he laughed and said, you know, you guys argue and fight and call each other names.

01:16:16.580 We shoot each other in my country.

01:16:19.160 And being homeless there, it's not like being homeless here.

01:16:22.120 You go days without a meal there, no shelter.

01:16:29.140 The way we are in America leads the world in many ways.

01:16:33.380 We should always be looking to improve.

01:16:36.500 But why not at least acknowledge a little bit of what we do and how we do it here?

01:16:43.380 Because now looking for a moment at what happened over the holidays, MasterCard said Americans spent about $800 billion for the holidays.

01:16:56.700 Record spending.

01:16:59.380 4.9% growth year over year.

01:17:02.160 Biggest jump since 2011.

01:17:05.120 Consumer confidence is very high.

01:17:06.840 Stock market setting records.

01:17:08.180 Your 401k, my 401k, IRAs going up, getting stronger.

01:17:13.660 American business is getting stronger because they're going to have more of their money back.

01:17:17.780 And yet, the Bernie Sanders of the world, the Paul Krugmans of the world, the Nancy Pelosi's of the world are all saying, this is death to America.

01:17:25.680 This is doom and gloom.

01:17:26.640 This is going to be horrible.

01:17:28.520 Why?

01:17:30.220 Politics.

01:17:31.600 There's always got to be a villain in politics, right?

01:17:33.820 There's got to be somebody that the government has to defend you against.

01:17:38.900 It's the old argument of setting up the straw man and then they're going to knock it down.

01:17:47.520 I talked about immigration and the man I met who left his son when he was two years old and didn't see his son again until he was 17 years old.

01:17:55.860 Now he's a citizen.

01:17:56.980 His children are citizen.

01:17:57.940 He had a daughter that was born here.

01:17:59.840 He owns a home outside of Las Vegas.

01:18:02.820 He told me all this in the cab ride.

01:18:05.080 God bless America.

01:18:06.220 Legal immigrant.

01:18:08.820 Immigration in this country, illegal immigration. 0.93

01:18:10.720 Remember, we are deporting people and separating families. 0.99

01:18:14.440 Legal immigration separates families. 0.91

01:18:15.980 This man didn't see his son for 15 years, nor his wife.

01:18:22.880 And he just talked about what a great wife he had, that for all of those years, she would raise his son and take care of his children until he could bring her here.

01:18:31.360 And she did.

01:18:33.300 And after he went through the process of becoming a citizen of this country and was able to bring his family here, now they are all citizens and he has an American-born daughter.

01:18:40.740 And he just kept saying over and over again, God bless America.

01:18:45.760 So on the immigration argument, what do we tell those legal immigrants?

01:18:49.760 What do you tell a man that spent seven years homeless waiting for a visa and 15 years without seeing his family, that now we're going to take people that have snuck across the border and we're going to make them the same, give them the same standing he has?

01:19:03.900 What do you say to the Cubans that got on fishing boats and got on shrimp boats that crossed and went into Freedom Town and spent weeks there going through the screening process to become citizens of this country the right way and to do things the legal way?

01:19:20.800 What do you say to those immigrants when you tell them that a family that sneaks across the border now is demanding in-state tuition and full standing as American citizens?

01:19:29.620 What do you say to them?

01:19:30.620 To the people that bared the expense?

01:19:38.200 What do you say to the people that bore the expense of all of that?

01:19:44.020 But we have the argument and it's always us against them.

01:19:46.960 And in this case, all of the dreamers in this country are good upstanding people that no fault of their own that I feel for them.

01:19:55.500 I think the dreamers deserve protection under American laws, but there's a price to be paid and there's a price to be paid because the people that did it legally paid a price.

01:20:09.080 It's always been my dream to bring my family to America.

01:20:12.160 So I did it illegally, but I did it.

01:20:13.960 And now I want free.

01:20:15.020 I want the same standing as the people that did it the right way.

01:20:18.760 That's not fair.

01:20:23.100 We're a nation that's supposed to be fair.

01:20:25.640 And yet the Democratic Party now is setting up the straw man.

01:20:28.800 We've got to protect the dreamers.

01:20:30.100 We have to protect the dreamers from the Republicans.

01:20:31.800 And the Republicans are shrugging their shoulders right now and they're saying, we've been working with the White House since the president said you have six months to fix DACA.

01:20:41.900 Legislatively, the way it should have been done in the first place, instead of by executive order, I'm repealing this executive order.

01:20:47.020 They have until March.

01:20:48.520 And every Republican in the Congress has shrugged their shoulders and said, I don't know what they're talking about.

01:20:52.780 We've been working on this with the White House.

01:20:54.360 We're working on it.

01:20:55.700 No, no, no.

01:20:56.020 We've got to protect the dreamers.

01:20:57.360 Why?

01:20:57.920 Election year.

01:20:58.520 So next year during the election cycle, when something is done for the dreamers, Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi can call it a victory for Democrats because without them, the dreamers wouldn't have had the protection and the Republicans would have done to them what they did to the poor people by giving the rich tax cuts.

01:21:16.440 American politics can be dirty and it's a shame.

01:21:18.920 It happens on both sides of the aisle, but it's a shame.

01:21:21.020 I'm blown away by the way we're fooled by the soundbites of people in American politics.

01:21:33.420 Have a long memory.

01:21:37.500 It's helpful.

01:21:38.360 The anti-Trump sentiment that permeates our society has gone to some very big lengths, very, very, you know, it's from the two scoops of ice cream to other things.

01:21:51.760 At 920, the obsession that CNN has with the Trump dossier and there is still one CNN reporter reporting that the Republicans paid for the dossier and it is erroneous.

01:22:05.560 It's it's harmful.

01:22:07.020 So we're going to talk about some of this and Melania Trump being maligned for having a tree cut down at the White House.

01:22:13.400 I mean, it sounds silly, but it's just one more level of how they're demonizing the sitting president and the first lady of the United States.

01:22:21.320 So all that coming up at 920 a little bit later on.

01:22:24.140 I want you to meet an author of a book, the Social Justice Warriors Handbook, which is a tongue in cheek look at the politically correct in our world.

01:22:31.540 We'll do that before we get out of here as well.

01:22:33.000 My name is Mike Broomhead and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:37.020 You know, the the obsession with the Trump dossier and what's happened from the left, it's a great question.

01:22:54.120 We've talked about this investigation.

01:22:55.540 And depending on where you are politically, again, we are picking sides.

01:23:00.280 And to be honest with you, this is one area where I haven't picked sides.

01:23:03.860 And what I mean by that is I've maintained from the very beginning because I was not all in as a Trump supporter.

01:23:10.400 Now, if you've listened to the show the last couple of days, it probably sounds like I've been wearing a make America great again hat since day one.

01:23:17.060 Not the truth.

01:23:17.800 Trump was not my first choice in the primary, not by a long shot.

01:23:20.660 Not at all.

01:23:21.420 He's the president.

01:23:22.060 Now I want it to be successful.

01:23:23.800 I've been turned into a Trump defender in the interest of truth.

01:23:27.520 And what I mean by that is we hear nothing of truth from CNN or MSNBC or largely any of the publication news publications out there.

01:23:36.680 It's jaded.

01:23:37.560 It's anti Trump.

01:23:38.640 And it's it's actually kind of silly and a little bit insulting to anybody who can see.

01:23:44.560 But I have maintained from the beginning that if the president's campaign on any level colluded with the Russians to change our election, the American people have a right to know if the laws were broken, someone should pay.

01:23:56.040 Even if laws weren't broken, the voters have a right to know in the next election cycle if the president colluded with a foreign government to change the election.

01:24:04.240 So from the beginning, I was in favor of an investigation.

01:24:09.120 Clear the air.

01:24:09.820 Let's hear what they have to say.

01:24:12.480 But if you look what this investigation has turned into.

01:24:16.000 It's pretty clear that it has been slanted because the lead investigator or one of them, Peter, Peter Strzok is his name.

01:24:24.380 Was as anti Trump of person as you could have chosen for anything.

01:24:29.380 And everybody has an opinion.

01:24:33.340 Law enforcement officers have opinions.

01:24:37.020 You have to be able to maintain.

01:24:40.760 Some kind of neutrality.

01:24:43.460 In your decision making.

01:24:45.960 A detective will tell you two things are most important about being a detective.

01:24:50.420 Number one is go where the evidence takes you.

01:24:55.060 Don't take the evidence where you want it to go.

01:24:57.280 Go where the evidence takes you.

01:24:59.420 And secondly, it's not what you know.

01:25:01.840 It's what you can prove.

01:25:04.920 Frustrating to a police officer or detective on any level.

01:25:08.160 A lot of things they feel like they know it's what they can prove.

01:25:12.960 Peter Strzok sending messages with a colleague.

01:25:16.800 Talking about what a horrible person Trump is.

01:25:19.240 This while he was investigating Hillary Clinton for the email scandal.

01:25:26.360 Now, at the risk of insulting someone who knows better, I'm going to explain something to you.

01:25:32.460 Hillary Clinton broke the law. 0.63

01:25:34.660 There's no doubt that Hillary Clinton broke the law.

01:25:39.600 There is a room in every secure building.

01:25:42.080 Top secret documents are kept there.

01:25:43.760 That room is called the skiff.

01:25:45.060 Anybody that's ever been with a security clearance knows that there's a room called the skiff.

01:25:51.480 Top secret, top level documents, confidential documents are kept in that room.

01:25:55.720 If there are documents in that room for you to read, they will send you an email that says you have documents in the skiff.

01:26:01.460 If you leave all of your electronic recording devices, your cell phone, everything else stays outside of that room.

01:26:07.080 You sign into that room.

01:26:08.380 You read the documents that are assigned to you.

01:26:10.880 You don't remove those documents.

01:26:12.440 You don't take photographs.

01:26:14.680 You leave the room.

01:26:15.660 You sign out.

01:26:16.220 You go away.

01:26:16.800 If you remove a document from that room, it doesn't matter where you go with it.

01:26:20.880 It doesn't matter if you put it in your pocket, rip it up, flush it down the toilet.

01:26:23.440 It doesn't matter what happens.

01:26:25.260 Removing a document from that room is against the law.

01:26:29.400 So in the world we live in, I'm 50 years old, the world we've all grown up in, that makes perfect sense.

01:26:35.500 If Hillary Clinton had gone into the skiff, taken a document from that room and walked to her desk and set it on her desk, put it in a drawer, put it in her purse, it didn't matter.

01:26:46.300 It's against the law.

01:26:48.160 She did that digitally. 0.91

01:26:50.940 She took documents on a private server that she owned and set up and transmitted and received those documents amongst the people close to her.

01:27:01.840 She broke the law.

01:27:02.780 But in correspondence, this guy, Peter Strzok, is talking with this girl that says to him, maybe you are where you are to stop or to protect America from this menace, meaning Donald Trump and the possibility of him being elected president.

01:27:17.720 He responds that there are many ways that he can protect his nation and hope and doesn't know if it would help.

01:27:24.660 This is when he is supposed to have an unbiased investigation into the Hillary Clinton scandal in the emails.

01:27:29.740 He was also the guy assigned to interviewing Michael Flynn.

01:27:35.680 Somebody tell me this is an unbiased investigation in the eyes of anybody that's reasonable.

01:27:40.200 So the obsession with the dossier that got this all started, one CNN reporter claims, now this is in a story that just yesterday, Evan Perez told the network viewers on Tuesday, yesterday, that the anti-Trump Republicans first funded the infamous Trump dossier.

01:28:04.700 Not true.

01:28:06.100 Not true.

01:28:06.860 They had the organization that was hired that ended up getting the dossier done with information, opposition research.

01:28:17.900 Well, once Trump became the nominee, there was no need for any Republicans to need the information.

01:28:26.240 So this company went to the Democrats and said, we've got it.

01:28:30.060 Do you want it?

01:28:30.700 The DNC said yes.

01:28:33.200 The Clinton campaign said yes.

01:28:35.640 So they took that information.

01:28:37.680 The law firm that represented both the DNC and the Clinton campaign, they commissioned the dossier to be done.

01:28:47.000 That dossier was then created, and now the real questions are, was that dossier used as evidence in a FISA court to get a FISA order to surveil the Trump campaign?

01:29:01.900 Because the dossier has been debunked.

01:29:06.300 There are accusations in that dossier against Donald Trump that his lawyers produced evidence.

01:29:12.400 He wasn't even in the country when those accusations were made.

01:29:17.000 So if the dossier has been debunked and CNN is still trotting it out there, A, is factual, and B, someone on their network claims that the Republicans paid for the dossier.

01:29:30.640 Anyway, you tell me how the American people are getting an unbiased view of the news and the information they need to know so they can decipher for themselves.

01:29:42.100 Again, the Melania Trump story makes me laugh of what they've done to Melania Trump, as dumb as it sounds.

01:29:47.740 Put out a tweet saying that Melania Trump ordered a tree to be removed that's 200 years old from the White House grounds.

01:29:56.680 And they reported back and said, no, the tree's been falling down for years.

01:30:00.600 It's being completely held up by unnatural means.

01:30:03.720 It's being supported.

01:30:06.420 And it's falling apart, and it's a hazard.

01:30:10.040 Just silly.

01:30:11.260 I want you to meet an author.

01:30:12.280 Her name is Lisa DePasquale, the Social Justice Warriors Handbook. 0.90

01:30:16.900 Stick around.

01:30:19.420 Glenn Beck.

01:30:29.720 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:32.640 Hey, thanks for being here with us.

01:30:34.000 My name is Mike Broomhead.

01:30:34.840 I'm heading for Glenn for just a little while longer.

01:30:37.280 Thanks for being a part of the show.

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01:31:01.240 You know, I can only give you my perspective on things.

01:31:03.580 That's the only way I've ever been able to do any of this.

01:31:05.640 I come from a working class family.

01:31:07.080 My uncles were teamsters.

01:31:08.780 I was born in Northeast Ohio, but grew up in Florida.

01:31:11.380 So I say I'm from Florida because I don't remember much about Ohio, but I still have cousins all over the Midwest.

01:31:17.080 And so there is a work ethic there.

01:31:18.940 My uncles were teamsters.

01:31:20.140 They were working class Democrats when I was a little kid.

01:31:22.800 I've got no ill will towards the Democratic Party or people that believe in the ideology of the Democratic Party.

01:31:28.980 Where I have a problem is the people on the far left that believe that because I'll give you an example.

01:31:33.960 Because I am a Second Amendment advocate that somehow I don't care about dead kids at Sandy Hook Elementary.

01:31:40.620 And I will tell you this just in regard to that one story.

01:31:47.780 I was doing afternoons at KFYI.

01:31:50.140 I do morning drive at KFYI, which is stationed in Phoenix, Arizona now.

01:31:53.540 I was doing afternoon drive then.

01:31:55.360 And I was in our newsroom doing show prep when the story of the Sandy Hook shooting first came out and that there were fatalities at an elementary school.

01:32:05.340 And as the day progressed, we learned and saw that number go up.

01:32:09.920 And then we found out that it was an entire classroom full of first graders that had been gunned down.

01:32:16.840 And I, for the first time, probably in my life, but definitely in my career, was speechless.

01:32:23.620 I was so sick to my stomach that one of the people I reached out to was Glenn Beck.

01:32:33.460 And I said, how do you make sense of this?

01:32:36.360 I have a three-hour show.

01:32:37.480 How do I go on the air for three hours and talk reasonably about a young man who murders his mother at point-blank range and then guns down an entire classroom full of first graders?

01:32:51.040 So for anyone to categorize me as someone who doesn't care about dead children because I'm a Second Amendment advocate is probably the most insulting thing that's ever been said to or about me.

01:33:10.300 I can, there's something in religion, in ministry, that anybody that's ever gone through a seminary will tell you is called apologetics.

01:33:22.640 And apologetics is being able to defend your faith.

01:33:25.900 It's not just about being able to tell somebody what you believe, but describe why you believe it.

01:33:31.040 And it's important for anybody, if you attend a church or, you know, your church's doctrine, to explain why you believe what you believe.

01:33:37.600 But it's that way with anything.

01:33:40.280 So I have a defense of my Second Amendment stance.

01:33:43.400 I am able to defend why I believe what I believe and why I don't think making it more difficult for me to get a firearm makes us a less safe or makes us a more safe country.

01:33:53.300 As a matter of fact, it's the other way around.

01:33:54.820 And how I can maintain my strong stance on the Second Amendment and my right to keep and bear arms and have it still be consistent with wanting to end the mass shootings all over this country.

01:34:09.080 And yet, for the people on the far left, the fact that I am pro-Second Amendment means I don't care about dead children.

01:34:19.620 That's where my problem lies.

01:34:22.000 That because I'm in favor of tax cuts for the rich, the middle class, the working class, whatever you want to call anybody.

01:34:29.980 I am in favor of anybody getting more of their own money back.

01:34:33.680 That somehow I don't care about the working poor in America.

01:34:37.740 Most of my life, I was the working poor in America.

01:34:40.260 So what's defeating that political argument, this definitive you-are-what-I-say-you-are mentality that has driven me and makes me really happy to do this for a living.

01:34:55.640 I was asked a little less than a year ago to write a book, which really shocked me because I figured if I ever wrote a book, it would come with a box of crayons.

01:35:07.460 And there is a woman named Lisa DePasquale, who is an author, and she's written a book called Social Justice Warriors Handbook.

01:35:16.960 And she was tasked with helping me do this.

01:35:19.800 So I want you to meet Lisa.

01:35:21.660 Lisa, are you there?

01:35:23.140 Yes.

01:35:23.840 Hey, how are you?

01:35:24.620 All right.

01:35:25.140 I'm doing well.

01:35:26.080 Let's talk about, first of all, tell me about your book, because reading your book is a lot of, there really is a lot in there that really did make me LOL.

01:35:34.000 I laughed out loud at a lot of the things you've written.

01:35:35.860 Tell me about the principle of the book.

01:35:38.260 Yeah, I mean, I definitely want listeners to know that it is a parody of Social Justice Warriors, but it's all true. 1.00

01:35:45.920 I mean, this is the way they think.

01:35:47.720 They are really this outraged about, you know, little things like, you know, the song Baby It's Cold Outside and, you know, anything that you can think of.

01:35:58.180 And that's because, you know, once you start to monetize outrage, you can find it under a rock.

01:36:02.920 And it's a fun read because you'll see a lot of truth in it.

01:36:06.320 But I think it also, like you were talking about before, really shows what, you know, the left's playbook is.

01:36:13.080 And that's just rather than coming up with ideas, it's just being like perpetually outraged.

01:36:17.940 Every family has this in it somewhere, whether it's one person or the majority or whatever.

01:36:23.440 There is a political argument that's going to happen during the holidays that's going to involve probably a little bit of wine at dinner and it's going to deteriorate into a fight.

01:36:32.040 This book is actually a way to kind of disarm that in a way because it's a funny look at the at the social justice warriors.

01:36:39.820 Yeah, I mean, and there's so much material there, you know, obviously to laugh at.

01:36:45.740 And that's why I wanted to just present it in a different way, because, you know, I don't want to be angry all the time.

01:36:51.420 I'm sure you don't want to be angry all the time.

01:36:53.120 Um, and I think the best way to disarm that side and to, um, you know, get new people on, you know, thinking about these issues is to show them like, look, this is what they actually, you know, believe.

01:37:06.000 It's funny.

01:37:07.460 It is funny.

01:37:08.220 And then to categorize it in a humorous way, if someone's got a sense of humor, at least they're going to be able to see the humor in it.

01:37:12.840 So you were asked, and I mean, I think it's because I asked you if you would write this with me when we were asked to write it, because obviously I'm not an author.

01:37:21.340 You figured that out very quickly and working with me, but, um, well, really, but working with you has been a lot of fun on this book.

01:37:28.140 And the name of the book is, if you're going to be dumb, you better be tough and a perfect title for a book that I would write.

01:37:35.900 So you tell me, what was it?

01:37:38.600 Tell me about the process of working with me.

01:37:40.580 How did you like the process?

01:37:42.840 Um, no, it was interesting because, you know, I listened to your show and I listened, obviously, whenever you fill in for Glenn and, you know, you know, I would get mad at you when you would start to tell stories that are in the book, um, because there's a lot of like really good stuff in there.

01:37:57.080 And I get mad at you if, if you talk about it on the radio or if you talk on the radio, a story that I didn't put in the book.

01:38:03.760 So it was always, you know, adding, adding, adding, because that's where a lot of the really good stories are.

01:38:10.000 It's not with, you know, someone who's famous that you already know everything about or that already presents, you know, some PR version of themselves.

01:38:17.220 Um, you know, the real stories are, you know, in everyday people and that's what, what you are.

01:38:21.660 It's, it's interesting because I didn't want to write anything autobiographical.

01:38:25.680 I think that that's where nobody want to read my, that part of the story, but the lessons I've learned from the people that I care about the most and hopefully that comes across.

01:38:33.580 I think you've done a very good job of putting the nonsense that we did for hours of talking into, into a, you know, what is a fairly short book, but I, I appreciate the hard work that you've done on it.

01:38:43.740 And, uh, and I got to tell you, Lisa is a brilliant writer. 0.76

01:38:47.220 She's written more than one book.

01:38:48.520 The social justice warriors handbook is a really funny book.

01:38:51.780 If you want to get a great gift for somebody, if you forgot somebody on your Christmas list, where can they get your book?

01:38:56.400 Cause mine's not coming out until May.

01:38:57.680 Yeah, that, um, they can get the social justice warrior handbook on Amazon.

01:39:01.800 They can get, uh, my new novel that just came out in November called I wish I might.

01:39:06.340 If you're like frustrated with women's magazines and women's media, it's a novel and it's sort of, it's like the handbook in that it talks about those issues, but like in a more fun way.

01:39:16.660 It's not like a preachy book about women's media.

01:39:19.320 Uh, you know, it's just like a fun romance novel and that's also on Amazon and, you know, just follow me on Twitter at Lisa DEP.

01:39:26.160 Lisa DEP on Twitter.

01:39:28.740 She's a great follow there as well. 1.00

01:39:30.080 She likes to rile people up. 1.00

01:39:31.420 So I appreciate you coming on for a few minutes, Lisa.

01:39:33.960 Thanks for having me.

01:39:35.580 All right.

01:39:35.860 Thanks.

01:39:36.120 That's Lisa DePasquale.

01:39:37.160 You can follow her on Twitter.

01:39:38.040 Lisa DEP on Twitter.

01:39:40.000 Um, again, um, I'm never thought that I would write, but I wanted to thank the people that have been most influential.

01:39:46.120 Glenn is thanked in the book.

01:39:47.100 I have an entire chapter about Glenn Beck in there and how he's helped me in many ways.

01:39:50.720 Uh, my background's obviously not in broadcasting.

01:39:52.800 If you listened over the last couple of days, you'll probably figure out pretty quickly.

01:39:56.160 I'm not a professional broadcaster, but I have had very good people influence me in my life.

01:40:02.560 And my grandfather was my biggest influence in my life.

01:40:05.620 My grandfather was the male role model to me.

01:40:08.980 And he died when I was nine years old.

01:40:11.640 And I can tell you stories.

01:40:12.960 That was, that was 41 years ago.

01:40:16.280 I can tell you stories about my grandfather.

01:40:19.440 Like they were yesterday when I was at the Republican national convention.

01:40:22.780 It was the first time I had been in Cleveland, Ohio since 1979.

01:40:26.580 I had not been in Ohio since I was a very young boy.

01:40:29.880 And, um, I hadn't been there since.

01:40:32.240 And I GPS put it on the, in the car and I drove to my old neighborhood.

01:40:36.920 I remembered my old address.

01:40:38.580 Didn't remember my grandparents' house.

01:40:40.240 Didn't my best friend across the street.

01:40:41.800 Didn't remember his house.

01:40:42.980 I had to call my mom to get the address to find out where these people lived.

01:40:46.620 And driving through that neighborhood, um, I remember driving down one street and all of

01:40:52.200 a sudden it all came flooding back to me because there were memories of my grandfather.

01:40:55.540 And I drove down the street and I said, there's the lake my grandfather taught me to fish in.

01:41:00.140 And all the memories were tied to him.

01:41:03.660 And now I've got four grandsons and I see the future in those four boys.

01:41:09.340 And I wonder 40 years from now, will they remember stories about me, any stories about me?

01:41:19.500 Can I be a piece of influence in their lives that they have been in mine?

01:41:24.860 And also all these issues we talk about on when I'm on for Glenn or I'm doing my show in Phoenix,

01:41:30.580 they all have a face.

01:41:32.240 Now you want to talk about $20 trillion in debt.

01:41:35.380 My oldest grandson is six and a half, less than 20 years.

01:41:39.920 He's going to be in the workforce in some capacity or another.

01:41:45.180 What are we turning the keys, you know, over to?

01:41:50.300 And that to me is a big concern.

01:41:53.880 Tucker Carlson did something hysterical.

01:41:55.840 He talked about the 100 racist things of 2017.

01:41:59.020 So we've got kind of a top 10 list and some things before I close it out here.

01:42:02.760 Again, if you want to follow Lisa DePasquale on Twitter,

01:42:05.160 she is Lisa DEP on Twitter.

01:42:07.920 Great follow.

01:42:08.600 You can find her social justice warriors handbook as well.

01:42:11.520 And we'll talk about my social media coming up here in a few moments.

01:42:14.940 I'm Mike Broomhead.

01:42:16.020 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:42:20.260 Glenn Beck.

01:42:33.340 Glenn Beck.

01:42:35.160 All right.

01:42:35.580 Thanks for being here.

01:42:36.240 It's the Glenn Beck program.

01:42:37.200 I'm Mike Broomhead in Phoenix, Arizona here for a few more moments.

01:42:40.840 You know, to have a sense of humor about some of the things out there, it's necessary.

01:42:46.860 So much on college campuses, so much in our high schools.

01:42:49.720 But to be honest with you, I've seen reality.

01:42:52.140 The reality is that kids are pretty bright, that not everybody on a college campus is beside

01:42:56.420 themselves with idiocy.

01:42:58.160 But what's funny about it is it's that small minority that seems to be speaking for everyone

01:43:04.260 else.

01:43:04.760 Well, it makes sense.

01:43:05.680 We have a 24-hour news cycle right now where everything has to be breaking news.

01:43:09.080 They're not going to put somebody on a college campus on that says, you know, I really do

01:43:13.000 wonder about what's going on in our country sometimes.

01:43:15.020 And I really hope for the best.

01:43:16.320 And I try to vote my conscience.

01:43:17.520 No, they're going to put the person on with the, you know, four different color hair that 0.98

01:43:22.840 looks like they're faceful and, you know, fell into a tackle box that gets on and talks

01:43:27.180 about social justice and nonsense.

01:43:31.040 So Tucker Carlson took a pretty funny look at a hundred different racist things of 2017.

01:43:37.460 And they really are hysterical.

01:43:41.900 The tamarisk trees in Palm Springs, California.

01:43:45.120 If you're a golfer and, or like me, someone who thinks they're a golfer, you realize that

01:43:52.060 when they line a fairway with these trees, it's as much about protecting the houses and

01:43:57.040 the things on the other side of those trees as anything else, because I have the ability

01:44:00.840 to hit the ball really far in the wrong direction.

01:44:04.320 So they line the fairways with these trees.

01:44:07.160 Well, they call the trees racist because this is a golf course and we know only white people

01:44:11.880 golf.

01:44:12.240 And it's a classic black neighborhood on the other side of the trees. 1.00

01:44:15.420 So to shield the white people from seeing this blight. 0.83

01:44:20.180 Oh yeah.

01:44:20.920 So that was one of the big racist things of 2017, which when you look at how it works is

01:44:26.780 pretty funny.

01:44:28.440 Um, they talk about the ice cream truck song being racist.

01:44:32.280 Um, credit scores are classically racist.

01:44:37.120 White people have good credit.

01:44:38.420 Non-white people don't. 0.99

01:44:39.840 And, um, car insurance, uh, crime statistics, and the list goes on and on and on.

01:44:46.540 But what it does and what Tucker did in this, and I'm, he, he's growing on me more and more,

01:44:51.540 by the way, I actually, I'm a fan of Tucker Carlson.

01:44:54.540 And what it's pointing out is once again, one more thing compounded on how we can be

01:45:04.460 against each other.

01:45:06.580 Here in Arizona, we had SB 1070, which is probably the only Senate bill I'll ever remember the

01:45:11.180 number two ever.

01:45:12.000 And SB 1070 was our immigration law change here years ago, largely held up by the Supreme

01:45:17.580 Court.

01:45:17.920 Parts of it were defeated through the federal courts.

01:45:21.400 And what the intent of SB 1070 was to do was to give law enforcement in Arizona, one law

01:45:27.580 in which to, um, go by so that you weren't, you know, the sanctuary cities weren't going

01:45:32.600 to happen and that you weren't going to go from one jurisdiction to the other with immigration

01:45:36.380 laws being enforced differently.

01:45:38.060 But what it turned into was a political battle.

01:45:40.200 And if you would listen to people, you would have thought that in Arizona, we had race

01:45:43.480 wars in the street, that we were standing on opposite sides of the street and throwing

01:45:46.980 rocks at each other.

01:45:48.180 And it's just not the case.

01:45:49.900 This is a wonderful place to live.

01:45:52.500 And like most communities in this country, we have our differences.

01:45:55.380 Like most people's people in this country, we have our differences with others, but we

01:45:59.820 just want people to be able to coexist.

01:46:02.480 You clean up your backyard.

01:46:04.120 I'll clean up my backyard.

01:46:06.100 I want to thank all of you for joining the show.

01:46:08.280 Again, I'm at Broomhead show on Twitter.

01:46:10.400 The Mike Broomhead show fan page on Facebook or Mike Broomhead, all one word on Instagram,

01:46:14.400 if you'd like to follow me.

01:46:15.880 Um, it's been a pleasure as always to be on Glenn.

01:46:17.740 I love the audience for Glenn Beck.

01:46:19.520 Thanks for the interaction.

01:46:20.700 Have a blessed and very happy, safe new year and happy 2018.

01:46:25.780 Thanks again, everyone for having me be a part of your show.

01:46:28.840 God bless.

01:46:31.660 Glenn Beck.

01:46:32.720 God bless.

01:46:37.120 God bless.

01:46:45.240 God bless.

01:46:55.000 God bless.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 27, 2017

12⧸27⧸17 - Surround Yourself with Good People

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