The Supreme Court rules temporarily in favor of the administration's latest version of the travel ban, but it's not clear what that means for the rest of the country. Is it a Muslim ban, a Christian ban, an anti-Muslim ban, or something else entirely?
00:00:15.200Well, the U.S. Supreme Court has finally, definitely, possibly, maybe, temporarily, but for sure, greenlit the travel ban.
00:00:25.640So, are we ever going to get any finality on this?
00:00:28.440This version of the ban, the third, if anyone is still counting, was issued four months ago.
00:00:35.180It's currently facing ongoing opposition from two lower courts in two separate challenges.
00:00:41.720Those cases are going to be heard this week.
00:00:44.280So, the temporary win for the administration might end up being a short celebration, but we're not sure because they decided for sure, temporarily, kind of.
00:01:27.900I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the strategy table, you know, when I heard people start to, how are we going to spin the travel ban?
00:01:35.380Okay, guys, what do all these countries have in common?
00:01:39.000Uh, yeah, they all have a lot of sand.
00:12:11.720But can I just talk to the rest of America?
00:12:14.820May I talk to the FBI, those who work for the CIA or NSA, those who are working on investigations, and you that actually want a safe, stable democracy?
00:12:47.720Now, there is a 25-page unclassified report that has laid everything out in detail.
00:12:55.260Have you heard anybody talking about that?
00:12:57.500Is anybody talking about the 25-page unclassified report that is explaining exactly what Russia is doing?
00:13:05.520According to the CIA, FBI, and NSA, in this 25-page report, it says,
00:13:14.100Putin and the Russians have demonstrated a, quote, significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations, end quote.
00:15:49.240Then the Russians went a step further and they started using Fusion GPS and pushing the Steele dossier, which was paid for by the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the FBI.
00:16:06.580And that campaign, that whole thing, came from Russia.
00:16:27.420Oh, and there's one more thing that the Russians did during the last election that is verifiable and no one wants to talk about it.
00:16:34.280Not only did they use Russia today to bring propaganda in, they used third-party intermediaries, basic trolls, to give us all kinds of fake news.
00:16:53.280They went in, and this is, we know, the worst hack was in Illinois.
00:16:58.340And they hacked the state and local level election boards.
00:17:03.200What they were trying to do was they were trying to get to the, where the votes were counted, but it, they didn't do it because they were thinking, you know, they were, they were, um, um, uh, thinking like, uh, Russians, not Americans.
00:17:18.220So they, they targeted the wrong place.
00:17:21.940Actually, I think they targeted the state level and everything is counted at the local level.
00:17:26.340And they got into the state level and they broke it.
00:20:45.360We have to stop listening to the people who are telling us supposedly the truth because they're giving us a spin, an agenda that is is not true.
00:22:24.960And it's so it's basically an accounting trick.
00:22:26.940This is not something I'm a fan of, by the way.
00:22:28.840But if you look into 10 years from now, some of these tax rates, the tax payments will be higher.
00:22:37.960But everyone assumes that in seven years they will just, OK, well, the middle class is going to have their taxes go up and no one's going to want to vote for a middle class tax hike.
00:22:47.300So what will happen is they'll just continue those tax breaks.
00:23:31.240I mean, I'm just I the most logical thing I can come up with is that the GOP just thinks the poor has it so easy that they need to go out and work to pay more taxes.
00:23:45.380Is there in anyone's in anyone's imagination?
00:23:51.920Is there anyone that thinks even politically that's anything but insanity?
00:23:58.500It's obviously not something obviously is true.
00:24:26.060This is this is, by the way, a former Reagan policy advisor.
00:24:30.180OK, so I don't know if he has some sort of mental disorder that has made him forget or he's changed his mind on a bunch of things or whatever.
00:24:43.120And he also is unable now to figure out reality.
00:24:47.520But this is the kind of stuff that we have to stop on our side.
00:24:53.820We have to stop saying it about the left and the left has to stop saying it about us.
00:24:58.820And I have no I have no real hope or belief that anybody in the media is going to stop doing that.
00:25:15.980And stop saying, OK, yeah, that's probably what's happening because that's not what's happening.
00:25:21.780I think someone who worked in the Reagan administration would really understand that and that the left referred to tax cuts during that administration as the exact in the exact same way.
00:34:26.560Eventually, two of the three captors were killed, leaving the girls with a remaining captor who happened to be injured.
00:34:33.960The Nazarene Fund was alerted by the Yazidi Rescue Network that the women were there.
00:34:40.240We sponsored the rescue and returned them to their family.
00:34:44.200They are now receiving trauma care and are starting the long recovery from two years as a slave from ISIS in the Middle East.
00:34:53.600This is the kind of impact that you are having on Christians and Yazidis and religious minorities all around the world that are being taken, and they're being taken because of their faith.
00:35:08.500The Nazarene Fund concentrates against ISIS, but we have expanded that now, and soon we will be going into Northern Africa as well.
00:35:19.460You know, you can do a little hashtag, return our children, return our girls, but the hashtags don't work.
00:35:27.920We have a goal of $25 million in the next 12 months, and that will rescue hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of women and children who are being held as slaves.
00:35:42.660We also are going after the organ trafficking market in the Muslim world, and it's nasty.
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00:35:58.500You know, pledge an Abraham Lincoln, a $5 bill every month to the Nazarene Fund and become an abolitionist and help us break up this slave trade in the Middle East and all around the world.
00:36:12.780I think it's one of those things, too, that winds up falling a little bit out of our view because the battle against ISIS is going better, right?
00:36:28.700Like, we've improved our standing when it comes to the actual—they've lost territory and everything else, and it kind of feels, I think, to me and I think to a lot of people, because it's not in the news every day.
00:36:38.180We're not seeing the horror stories every day that this has stopped.
00:36:41.080So it's actually gotten—in some ways, it's gotten worse because now we've replaced ISIS with Iran, and the Iran brigade is now coming in, and they are actually advancing on the Yazidis and the Kurds.
00:36:56.880Where ISIS, we had them at bay with the Yazidis and the Kurds, now Iran is advancing.
00:37:04.900So it's a mess, and we feel we have about 18 months to do some real work to save these Christians in the Yazidis, and we sure could use your help.
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00:37:34.900After eight years of progressivism gone wild under President Obama, it is startling when something kind of actually conservative happens in the world.
00:37:51.620Yesterday, President Donald Trump was in Utah to sign proclamations that reduce the size of two national monuments, Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase Escalante.
00:38:05.320The monuments were created by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and keep in mind, all that Trump did yesterday was reduce the size of these monuments.
00:38:14.580He didn't abolish them altogether, and he certainly, much to my chagrin, did not give the land back to the states.
00:38:21.880However, Trump clearly hates the environment, and I think we all know that.
00:38:27.300At least that's the predictable mainstream media take on what he did yesterday.
00:39:25.180It's a kind of provision, and it's like crack for progressives.
00:39:30.660Bill Clinton and then especially Barack Obama went crazy during their presidency, scooping up ridiculous amounts of land for the federal government as national monuments.
00:39:40.480Obama declared more national monuments than any other president in history.
00:39:44.660Congress has only declared 30 monuments in the 111 years since the act.
00:39:50.820Barack Obama and Bill Clinton declared 41 monuments just between the two of them.
00:39:56.520Now, Trump is being criticized for his unprecedented use of presidential power.
00:40:02.120To undo the unprecedented use of presidential power by the last president that they didn't seem to have a problem with.
00:40:10.040He reduced the size of Bears Ears by 85 percent, the Grand Staircase by 50 percent.
00:40:19.120Nobody was nobody was talking about unprecedented use of presidential power to create 265 million acres of new national monuments.
00:40:31.040The left didn't care because they thought that was heroic.
00:40:35.260President Trump is not a conservative.
00:40:38.360This is not the action that I would have taken it, but it is a good step in the right direction.
00:40:46.880He should be applauded for the rare thing that it is a conservative principle actually put into practice.
00:40:56.040Local control of land usage makes sense.
00:40:59.280These federal lands belong to the state as the Supreme Court has ruled two times in history.
00:41:10.440Federal government just will not give it back.
00:41:37.160Today's a pretty important day in the court system.
00:41:41.080Today is the day that Jack Phillips goes to the Supreme Court.
00:41:46.680He is the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop, and he refused to custom design a cake to help celebrate a gay wedding.
00:41:55.600And as a Christian, he says, I can't advance the message of gay weddings and gay unions because it's it's wrong, according to my religious belief.
00:42:08.920But he said, I'll send you I'll sell you cupcakes.
00:42:17.420So he has no problem serving gay people.
00:42:21.060In fact, going another step, he has refused to make cakes for several people that weren't gay because he said, I don't agree with the message that you want to put on the cake.
00:42:53.560But we have somebody on the phone that might know David French.
00:42:57.860And David, I won't start with the bazoomba clause in the Constitution.
00:43:02.960But you wrote a great article and you said that you are you're going crazy by the way this is being misrepresented.
00:43:12.540And Jennifer Finney Boylan is really the head of the snake on this one from The New York Times.
00:43:19.880Yeah, it's a remarkable it's the most misrepresented Supreme Court case I've ever encountered.
00:43:27.940And here's how it's being misrepresented.
00:43:29.700Essentially, what people are saying is this this cake designers decision not to design a cake that advances that advances a point of view that he objects to is the same as segregated lunch counters.
00:43:42.440It's the same as refuting, refusing medical treatment to LGBT people.
00:43:47.660I mean, the parade of horribles that you're that you see spun out from this case is absolutely unbelievable.
00:43:54.740Explain if you hit the nail on the head.
00:43:57.080Explain to me why this isn't the lunch counter of the 1950s.
00:44:04.120He doesn't discriminate on the basis of identity.
00:44:07.900What he does is he decides not to advance certain messages that he agrees with.
00:44:12.720So if you're black, white, gay, straight, male, female and walk into his bakery, you're going to be served.
00:44:19.280There's it is you're going to be served regardless of your identity, regardless of your membership in a protected class.
00:44:26.580But if you ask him to use his artistic talent to design a cake or any other thing that sends a message that he disagrees with, like in some of these cases, it was like a Halloween message.
00:45:04.820Phillips certainly makes nice looking cakes, but I'm not sure I'd call them artistic expressions, at least not the same senses, say, Joyce's Ulysses.
00:45:15.100That argument demands that the court get into the business of defining art itself, a door that justices open at their own peril.
00:45:23.120It's a well manicured lawn, a form of art by this definite by this definition.
00:45:27.960How about lean corned beef sandwiches?
00:45:30.560Would they not be art if the court rules to protect icing and buttercream?
00:45:34.500You know, that is so unbelievably absurd.
00:45:39.420Here's what she is intentionally avoiding.
00:45:42.100The actual cake that this the gay couple settled on to celebrate their wedding was a rainbow cake.
00:45:48.960Now, are you going to tell me that that doesn't send a very clear message that a well manicured lawn doesn't send or a corned beef sandwich doesn't send?
00:45:58.380She's acting as if the court has to decide the very definition of art itself when all the court has to decide is in this case, was he being asked to engage in artistic expression?
00:46:09.180And this goes to something George will sadly and mistakenly wrote just the other day.
00:46:14.320He said he made much the same point that this isn't art.
00:47:03.640I mean, all you have to see, all you have to do to know that it's art is like do a Google image or Google image search for beautiful wedding cakes and you'll see amazing things.
00:47:13.640So you feel like people are being intentionally obtuse here.
00:47:17.780Everybody knows when one of the centerpieces of an entire wedding reception is the cake.
00:47:23.960It is one of the most talked about elements of the entire of the entire reception.
00:47:29.480Yeah, nobody wants it to taste badly, but they're talking about it because of the way it looks, the way it expresses a view of the ceremony, the way it expresses the personality of the couple.
00:47:43.760And so, again, this is the most misrepresented case I've seen.
00:47:48.500They misrepresent the nature of what Jack Phillips did and they misrepresent the nature of his work.
00:47:53.220Is this about art or is this about advancing a message?
00:47:59.100Well, it's a well, in this case, it's it's it's both.
00:48:03.160It's about using your artistic ability to advance a message and whether or not the state can force you as an artist to use your artistic ability to specifically advance a message.
00:48:15.040And that would run counter to generations of First Amendment case law generations that say you cannot be compelled to advance a message that you disagree with.
00:48:26.380So most Americans, as you point out, most Americans, if a white customer came in and said, I want a Confederate flag clan cake.
00:48:39.680If if that was an African-American baker, we would all say he doesn't have to make that man.
00:49:10.900This is this is this is that you can't compare these two.
00:49:15.020Well, yeah, you know, I mean, even when the specific art doesn't send a very specific message.
00:49:21.660Now, think of remember when Melania and Ivanka Trump were getting ready for the inaugural ball and all these designers said, I don't want to lend my artistic ability to design dresses for Melania and Ivanka.
00:49:35.060They don't have to use their artistic talents to support a political family they disagree with, even though Melania and Ivanka are women and women are protected class and public accommodation statutes.
00:49:47.120So, you know, this time and again, you can come up with these counterfactuals and time and again, people on the left go, oh, well, that's different.
00:50:08.100She was born a woman and women disproportionately wear dresses.
00:50:10.920So, you know, or a person who wants a confederate filet cake is disproportionately white.
00:50:16.740It's the same logic that they're using to try to claim their sexual orientation discrimination here.
00:50:21.940They say, well, it's a disproportionately gay people would want a same sex wedding cake.
00:50:26.220So, therefore, it's discrimination on the basis of status, which is false.
00:50:31.160So should I mean, just just to make this point, should Melania or someone sue those?
00:50:38.820I guess she'd be the only one withstanding sue those people to make the point that you don't have to make a dress for me.
00:50:47.560If you don't want to, you're an artist.
00:50:49.560You don't have to make that dress for me.
00:50:51.100Well, you know, I do think if this decision turns out against Jack Phillips, people will start to do that, that you will start to see these kinds of lawsuits popping up around the country where, say, for example, conservatives will then try to force progressives to advance their point of view.
00:51:09.100And then, you know, we're going to get into this mess where we've seen this happen before.
00:51:14.860And what ends up happening when it's a particularly important sexual revolution issue to the court, often they'll carve out these distortions in the First Amendment.
00:51:23.520They did one for a long time, and it became known as the abortion distortion, where if you were protesting abortion, magically you would end up with fewer free speech rights than virtually anybody else.
00:51:33.680What we're seeing in the clash between sexual liberty and free speech is all too often courts are carving out specific exceptions and specific and special rules to help advance sexual liberty at the expense of First Amendment freedoms.
00:51:48.600Talking to David French. David, I'm fascinated by this use of kind of a classic left-wing thing to say, which is that the courts can't define art.
00:51:56.680They've been saying that forever, but it's always used the other way when something that might not be art, it's always used to include everything is art.
00:52:05.540And in this one case, they can't find any art in a beautiful wedding cake.
00:52:09.600A mason jar with piss and a crucifix is art, but this cake is not.
00:52:13.840But this cake is not. Isn't that a complete reverse of the way they usually use that argument?
00:52:17.300Oh, absolutely. For generations, there have been progressive lawyers arguing to expand the definition of protected speech under in the First Amendment, and many times doing so rightfully, many times doing so in ways that have advanced all of our liberties.
00:52:32.940But now, all of a sudden, this thing that is obviously, to any person, any objective, reasonable observer is an artistic expression.
00:53:12.460Well, you know, if Kennedy holds to some of the language that he wrote in the Obergefell decision, then I think Jack Phillips will win.
00:53:20.620I mean, in the Obergefell decision, Kennedy acknowledged that there are deep differences, religious differences in particular, about the definition of marriage, and that the Obergefell decision was not designed to force anyone to profess agreement with a definition of a marriage that differs from the courts.
00:53:39.280It differs from the Obergefell opinion.
00:53:42.500And in that circumstance, if Kennedy holds to that logic and holds to that reasoning and also holds to his own history of First Amendment jurisprudence, then Jack Phillips should win.
00:54:11.780You can go to at Glenn Beck or at World of Stew to get it.
00:54:15.160Your mortgage rate depends on a whole bunch of things.
00:54:17.920Global economy, the loan you choose, how many points you pay, a whole bunch of variables go into this.
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00:55:12.660When they sell that instrument from the bank, the bank says, hey, thank you very much.
00:58:03.580You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:58:06.280So, today's a big day in the court system.
00:58:09.580Today, the courts are hearing a plea to be able to sue the President of the United States.
00:58:17.620The woman who was a contestant on The Apprentice, who absolutely loved Donald Trump.
00:58:26.600He, according to her, he asked her to join him in his hotel room when he was in town at the Beverly Hills Peninsula, I believe it was.
00:58:36.640And she went and they were supposed to have a conversation and he made sexual moves towards her and I believe said, you don't want me as an enemy.
00:59:05.540Just because of the Monica Lewinsky story, I don't think that's going to hold any water.
00:59:09.700If that does, that means he's going to have to testify and go on record about what happened there, which is how it all began to fall apart for Bill Clinton.
00:59:22.180But we'll see. Personally, I think that is the way this is going to that's what's going to lead next year.
00:59:28.540I think is is that Russia alone, I don't think is going to be the only tact from the the left.
00:59:37.320Now, we have Austin Peterson on because there's another case.
01:00:33.260We'll see what happens with the Supreme Court.
01:00:35.240I wanted to get a libertarian on because I wanted to get somebody who I know agrees with gay marriage and would agree that you don't have to make a wedding cake.
01:00:46.800To make the case here of why this is right to be able to have the freedom on both sides.
01:00:55.060Austin Peterson, welcome to the program.
01:00:59.780You know, I wanted you on as you wrote back when we asked you, you wrote back and you said, I have to say, it's a hell of a time being a secular constitutional conservative running as a Republican and defending religious freedom for people who think I'm some sort of spawn of Satan myself.
01:01:17.220But as Glenn Beck told me in our interview last year, the only time defending liberty matters is when you defend the liberty of someone who disagrees with you.
01:01:31.640I mean, you encapsulated it all right there.
01:01:33.580I mean, the thing is, is that I think that he should make the cake, but I would never force him to do so.
01:01:38.660But the thing is, is that we're talking about religious liberty and gay marriage when in reality, the heart of this argument is the issue of private property.
01:01:47.100The question is, should any business have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason?
01:01:52.360Well, they should, but that's not the world that we live in.
01:01:55.040And now we have, even the best laid plans of mice and men can go wrong because what we've done is we've created these protected classes and everyone who is 40 years of age and older is protected class.
01:02:09.100But if you're a white male 40 years of age or under, well, you're out of luck.
01:02:12.700So I think that the problem is, is that now we're going to get into the question of whether or not the gay marriage question is under threat.
01:02:19.860I think it's not. Justice Kennedy is going to be, I think, the crux of this and the decision is going to come down to him.
01:02:25.820He did vote for Obergefell, but he's also found an expansive definition of free speech and religious liberty, which I think this clearly falls under.
01:02:33.720No one should be forced to cake, should forced to bake the cake.
01:02:36.380And that's why I asked Gary Johnson last year, should you force a Jewish baker to bake a cake for a Nazi wedding?
01:02:42.000Well, of course, nobody believed that except for Governor Gary Johnson, for some reason.
01:02:45.920I mean, even Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders didn't believe that because most people don't understand where these laws came from.
01:02:52.320And that's the real problem is the sort of historical illiteracy that we have in the United States.
01:02:56.860Can you just can you touch on that? Where did this law come from?
01:03:00.380Absolutely. Well, in the 1960s, we had a stain of racism and Jim Crow.
01:03:05.220Local governments were cracking down on blacks and the federal government had to step in and say, according to the 14th Amendment and according to the Constitution,
01:03:13.080you cannot abridge the privileges and immunities of certain classes of people.
01:03:17.080The Interstate Commerce Clause was used to say that people who are of color should be able to stay at hotels.
01:03:23.680People of color should be allowed to sit at lunch counters.
01:03:26.060And in the context of that time, it absolutely makes sense why the Civil Rights Act was passed.
01:03:30.420But now, because of the Title II section of that definition, Title II stated that businesses are not private.
01:03:37.020Businesses are public and you are not allowed to discriminate.
01:03:40.060So now we have these discrimination laws that are being used for the reverse of what they were intended.
01:03:45.360Right. And the discrimination laws. Yeah, good.
01:03:47.920But they're not but they're not consistent.
01:03:49.560I don't know if you remember the coffee shop owner in Seattle that kicked the anti-abortion people out of his coffee shop.
01:03:59.200They weren't handing out flyers or anything.
01:04:01.260Somebody came in and had a flyer that they had and said, hey, you know, these are the guys who are passing out these anti-abortion flyers.
01:04:10.120The guy wigged on them, called them all sorts of names.
01:04:14.260And they said, we're not passing it out.
01:04:49.100And, of course, the problem with defending liberty has always been that you end up defending scum or miscreants or the people like, you know, cigarette smokers who want to smoke inside bars and things like that.
01:05:00.540So, you know, unfortunately, you have to stop creeping tyranny in its crib before it can grow and metastise to what it's become.
01:05:07.940And again, no secret that the left hates Christians.
01:05:12.360And they will do anything they can to use the law to go and oppress those groups that they despise.
01:05:17.840But, unfortunately, it will get used against them.
01:05:20.740It will come back and bite them in the butt.
01:05:22.380So I think that if we were to look at the true liberty position and say that anyone should have the right to refuse service, that doesn't mean that we condone it.
01:05:55.280Well, I think that the Christians will get fed up and they will turn around and they will claim discrimination against them.
01:06:00.880And there will be court cases where they were, you know, where a gay a gay baker doesn't want to bake the cake for the Christian wedding and then they'll get sued and they'll come back.
01:06:09.380And unless the court finds in favor of freedom now, which they absolutely should, the Department of Justice, the Trump administration have issued plenty of court briefs.
01:06:18.880Many of the more libertarian law legal institutes, I believe, Institute for Justice as well, has filed legal briefs, funded the court briefs.
01:06:25.560So this is the chance now to turn the tide against statism.
01:06:29.420And it's not to say that discrimination isn't good.
01:06:31.980We don't have to condone discrimination.
01:06:34.840I don't think you should discriminate, but you should have the right to discriminate.
01:06:38.420Because the problem is, is that everybody thinks that we should force people to be good.
01:06:43.520Government's job is to force people to be good.
01:06:45.200But I think that the role of government is to make us free, not to make us into better people.
01:06:56.160And frankly, I mean, right now in Missouri, where I'm running for the Senate, these people, these Missouri voters are waking up to this.
01:07:01.940And I think that we're going to get a change.
01:07:03.340I think the court will find in our favor.
01:07:05.640It's really an amazing thing to watch, Austin.
01:07:07.320I'm talking to Austin Peterson, who is running for Senate in Missouri.
01:07:10.100The New York Times talked about trying to give this wide definition of art, as if being a baker is not art.
01:07:18.900Because this situation, and it's a little bit different than some previous cases where people were arguing more on the basis of religious freedom.
01:07:25.960Really here, this case seems to be more argued on the basis of, can you compel an artist to advance a message that they don't like?
01:07:33.040And we've had these situations with photographers, for example, that I don't know how you would deny would be art.
01:07:39.820But they still seem to push back against this.
01:07:42.600One of the examples the New York Times uses is, is a well-manicured lawn a form of art by this definition?
01:07:49.440And they're trying to ridicule the idea that a cake could possibly be art.
01:07:52.660But if you ever watch a sporting event, like the All-Star Game in Major League Baseball, they'll carve in, you know, symbols, artistic symbols into the lawn as they do this.
01:08:09.520If you were Mexican heritage, and you were in San Francisco, and the owner of the lawn said, I want you to cut in, build the wall in an artistic way, which side would the progressives argue for?
01:09:42.480People like Ben Shapiro have told people to support me, the true conservatives.
01:09:45.680And what's strange is, is that even though I tried to run against them last year, a lot of the Trumpers like me, too.
01:09:50.700But I think they kind of like me because I tell it like it is.
01:09:53.940And even when I disagree with them on certain issues like the wall, perhaps, or maybe the troops urged in Afghanistan recently with the president,
01:10:00.900I do agree with them on most of the issues, and they do like me.
01:10:04.220I mean, the president said some nice things about my opponent the other day,
01:10:07.560but then the Trumpers started calling into the radio show and saying, hey, Austin's our guy.
01:10:11.220And I was like, okay, well, this is going to get interesting.
01:14:02.700Maybe telling the story and talking about that struggle is the deal.
01:14:07.660Maybe that's why he was there in those three places.
01:14:10.060I would like to hear his perspective on it because I'm sure he's done a little bit of thinking about what his life is supposed to mean after going through three terrorist attacks.
01:14:19.740I mean, I didn't, I think I heard this story, you know, when it first came out, I heard, oh, this guy has been, but I don't think I've, I've heard the story told where he is.
01:14:30.180He's, he's at the bombing of, of Boston and then he's in Paris and he's involved in that one.
01:14:38.220And then in Brussels, he's standing there and he's blown up and burned up.
01:14:42.660You'd be like, oh, imagine being his parents.
01:14:48.100It's gotta be a incredible thing to go through.
01:14:53.920He's going to be on with us here in a second.
01:14:55.540It's actually a new book called left standing Billy Hall Hallowell's good friend of ours and formerly with the blaze is one of the co-writers back.
01:15:08.760If you have blue apron, you, we've got a choice of a bunch of different menu items that would come to you.
01:15:13.620Beef medallions and brown butter caper sauce, a seared chicken and mashed potatoes, basil pesto and broccoli pasta, which looks amazing.
01:15:21.740Vegetable lo mein, Thai curry chicken.
01:15:24.200All of these things are coming to you if you're on blue apron, which is kind of amazing because they send all these ingredients to your house.
01:15:31.840You're like, I can't, they might, I might be able to make them, but it's not going to look like that.
01:15:35.300It actually does look like that because they walk you through step by step how to make these things taste and look as delicious as they do in the pictures.
01:15:42.160It's really incredible and it's easy to do even if you have this kitchen talent of me, which is basically zero.
01:16:49.640These are just some of the ways the former U.S. Representative Corrine Brown used the funds from her charity, One Door for Education.
01:16:59.240The $800,000 that was donated to the charity under the pretense that it would be used for scholarships was actually used, you know, for Beyonce concerts and stuff.
01:17:10.440Of the $800,000, only two scholarships were ever awarded.
01:17:15.700And they added up to, let me see, carry the one, $1,200.
01:17:33.500During the sentencing, the federal judge called Brown's actions especially shameless.
01:17:40.600He continued, said this was a crime born out of entitlement and greed, committed to ensure a lifestyle that was beyond her means.
01:17:50.100Think of the good that Corrine Brown could have done with that money instead of throwing lavish birthday parties with $800 cakes or gone shopping.
01:17:59.200Think of the children she could have helped.
01:18:02.260Now her legacy is one of avarice, greed, and unnecessary Beyonce concerts.
01:18:09.200A legacy that is far worse than even Ebenezer Scrooge.
01:18:56.040What got our attention is Mason Wells is a guy that happened to be at the Boston bombing, the Paris terrorist attack, and was significantly injured in the Brussels attack.
01:19:13.480I don't know of anybody else that, I mean, besides people who might have been involved, were at all three locations.
01:19:23.040And I can't imagine what it must feel like and how many times you must say, why me?
01:19:31.700There's a new book out, authored by Mason and a good friend of the program, Billy Hollowell, called Left Standing, and it's about his faith and what he has gone through.
01:19:46.300Yeah, thank you so much for having me, Glenn.
01:19:47.720So, you know, we were talking about this, and, you know, it's one of the reasons why we wanted just to have you on the phone and not here at the studio.