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00:00:28.420 We begin with Susan Rice and the media, right now.

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00:00:58.420 Hello America.

00:01:04.340 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:05.620 I want to start with Susan Rice.

00:01:09.060 Here's what Susan said.

00:01:10.800 I leaked nothing to nobody.

00:01:15.500 Now, aside from the double negative,

00:01:19.960 former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice

00:01:22.480 employs their leaking nothing to nobody.

00:01:25.900 Obviously, that means that you leaked something to everybody.

00:01:32.620 But, I digress.

00:01:34.820 Susan Rice, who once claimed that the deserter Bo Bergdahl served with honor and distinction,

00:01:42.420 is now vehemently denying any wrongdoing in this scandal of unmasking and leaking the names of Trump officials,

00:01:48.520 which we will get back to here in a second.

00:01:50.700 There is the unmasking, and then there is the, quote, what the media is calling, leaking the names.

00:01:57.260 It is a red herring because the media is lazy again.

00:02:01.280 Respected columnist, Eli Lake, citing anonymous U.S. officials familiar with the matter, end quote,

00:02:08.680 reported Monday that the National Security Advisor requested the identities of U.S. persons in the raw intelligence reports

00:02:15.780 on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign.

00:02:22.260 Now, she went on a media tour yesterday to where she could be surrounded by friends

00:02:27.920 who would let her go on the record without pushing her on any tough questions.

00:02:33.400 Here she is with Andrea Mitchell.

00:02:35.120 First of all, Andrea, to talk about the contents of a classified report,

00:02:40.640 to talk about the individuals on the foreign side who were the targets of the report itself,

00:02:47.380 or any Americans who may have been collected upon incidentally, is to disclose classified information.

00:02:53.340 I'm not going to do that.

00:02:54.600 And those people who are putting these stories out are doing just that.

00:02:58.700 Okay, so let's boil this down.

00:03:01.640 It's pretty clear the implication from her various statements on the scandal that she has given

00:03:05.860 is that in the normal process of the national security business,

00:03:09.700 she indeed did ask the NSA for the names of certain Americans that were involved with President Trump.

00:03:18.260 But her claim is she didn't leak those names.

00:03:23.000 Well, you don't have to when you unmask them.

00:03:26.040 It goes out to the mass.

00:03:28.380 Everybody who is on the list, everyone in government who got that,

00:03:33.620 gets the update with the unmasked names.

00:03:36.740 She also says she didn't seek them for political purposes.

00:03:41.020 Listen carefully.

00:03:41.860 Within that process, and within the context of the Trump campaign, the Trump transition,

00:03:46.900 did you seek the names of people involved in,

00:03:51.820 to unmask the names of people involved in the Trump transition, the Trump campaign,

00:03:55.840 people surrounding the president-elect,

00:03:58.940 in order to spy on them, in order to expose them?

00:04:02.100 Absolutely not for any political purposes to spy, expose anything.

00:04:06.040 Did you leak the name of Mike Flynn?

00:04:08.620 I leaked nothing to nobody.

00:04:10.480 I leaked nothing to nobody.

00:04:12.480 Again, we'll come back to that with Grammar Pat.

00:04:16.400 Now, maybe, maybe some can be forgiven for doubting the veracity of a woman 0.98

00:04:22.660 who looked us in the eye and flat out lied to us as the ambassador to the UN in 2012.

00:04:31.600 But based on the best information we have to date,

00:04:35.960 what our assessment is as of the present is, in fact, what it began spontaneously in Benghazi

00:04:43.020 as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo,

00:04:48.340 where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy

00:04:53.040 sparked by this hateful video.

00:04:55.580 Okay, so here's the problem.

00:04:58.900 She knew she was lying then.

00:05:01.020 Obama knew she was lying then.

00:05:03.160 Hillary Clinton knew she was lying then.

00:05:05.420 I contend the press knew she was lying then.

00:05:10.020 Media, you wonder why Donald Trump became president of the United States.

00:05:16.440 This is your example.

00:05:18.240 You're doing it again for anybody who thought possibly that you would have a backbone,

00:05:26.880 that you have learned something, that you've become enlightened.

00:05:30.660 You're doing it again.

00:05:33.660 You are taking a story and you are picking the winner.

00:05:37.520 You are picking the one you choose to believe.

00:05:42.280 She has no credibility.

00:05:44.520 Was she following orders last time?

00:05:48.240 Perhaps.

00:05:49.520 Is she following orders this time?

00:05:52.420 Perhaps.

00:05:54.120 It's your job to dissect this story and to show where the truth is

00:06:00.360 and how it's all being lumped together to make it appear as though she's telling the truth.

00:06:08.060 This is the problem.

00:06:09.380 With so much dishonesty in the government,

00:06:12.400 the credibility of those we have elected to serve us is completely shot.

00:06:16.460 And so what do we do?

00:06:19.160 We elect somebody like Donald Trump.

00:06:21.460 Not because of the credibility of the people in the government,

00:06:24.340 but because he told us the truth.

00:06:28.500 And this is the truth.

00:06:30.320 You can't believe the media.

00:06:33.140 They are in on the game.

00:06:35.300 And this Susan Rice story is proof positive.

00:06:39.560 Now, let's go to Pat, who's going to take us to the chalkboard.

00:06:46.480 And dig around this a little bit.

00:06:47.760 Yeah.

00:06:48.340 I leaked nothing to nobody.

00:06:50.620 Just show me how I leaked nothing to nobody works here, Pat.

00:06:54.760 All right.

00:06:55.200 Well, first of all, this is obviously negation, right? 0.86

00:06:59.120 Pat at the chalkboard teaching.

00:07:01.780 Negation.

00:07:03.400 Although she used a double negative.

00:07:07.780 Which, of course, leads to a positive statement.

00:07:12.500 As you know, two negative numbers multiplied together makes it a positive.

00:07:20.860 So if you leak nothing to nobody,

00:07:24.840 that does mean that you leaked something to everybody.

00:07:34.540 You're saying it was a true statement.

00:07:36.180 It was a true statement.

00:07:38.020 She obviously leaked something to everybody. 0.98

00:07:40.540 Now, if she was trying to say she didn't leak anything,

00:07:43.920 then you have to use the negative auxiliary,

00:07:48.400 I didn't leak anything.

00:07:55.180 Can you pronounce anything?

00:07:57.180 Or you could perhaps use the negative article,

00:08:01.300 I have not leaked anything.

00:08:09.020 To nobody?

00:08:09.920 No, to anyone.

00:08:11.560 To anyone.

00:08:12.800 Can you say I have not leaked nothing to nobody?

00:08:16.080 If it was a triple negative, she'd be okay, right?

00:08:18.340 If you say I have not leaked anything to anyone,

00:08:23.900 why isn't that a double positive?

00:08:27.000 Which would lead it to a double negative.

00:08:28.960 Because you've used the negative particle, not.

00:08:31.960 Which obviously means you haven't.

00:08:35.120 And also, if you multiply two positives together,

00:08:37.380 you don't get a negative, you get a positive.

00:08:39.460 How do we know math is right?

00:08:40.840 Have you checked with Common Core lately?

00:08:43.200 Fake math, fake news, it's all real.

00:08:45.720 Thank you, Pat.

00:08:46.520 We appreciate that.

00:08:47.640 For clearing that up.

00:08:48.960 For anybody who wanted to know exactly.

00:08:53.000 By the way, anybody who is making fun of Donald Trump in the media and how he speaks.

00:08:58.380 Right.

00:08:59.160 Is anybody going over this?

00:09:00.880 Is anybody saying, hey, Susan Rice,

00:09:03.360 I didn't leak nothing to nobody is probably not something at a cabinet level.

00:09:10.560 I didn't leak nothing to nobody would have been okay because it's a triple negative.

00:09:15.140 However, she said I leaked nothing to nobody, making it a double negative and making it incorrect.

00:09:20.160 I'm sorry.

00:09:20.660 Or actually correct because she actually did leak it.

00:09:23.020 Yes.

00:09:23.780 But she didn't leak it.

00:09:25.600 And here's how they're getting away with it.

00:09:27.280 May I erase your work on the chalkboard here?

00:09:31.040 Okay, so can anybody tell me what FISA means?

00:09:37.600 Foreign Intelligence Security Act?

00:09:42.140 Foreign Intelligence Security Act, right?

00:09:49.120 It's not Act, is it?

00:09:49.740 Is it Act?

00:09:50.320 Yeah, that's what it is.

00:09:51.120 And so what does it do?

00:09:52.860 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, sorry.

00:09:54.820 Surveillance.

00:09:56.820 Anybody know what it does?

00:09:59.320 Well, there's foreign intelligence that is surveilled with this act.

00:10:04.840 That's all you need to know.

00:10:06.440 That's all you need to know.

00:10:08.240 They are surveilling foreign intelligence.

00:10:12.160 Now, why are names masked in FISA?

00:10:15.740 So everything we're talking about here goes to a FISA court.

00:10:19.500 They're masked because if Americans are caught up in it, they don't want to suck Americans 0.95

00:10:27.100 into something that they're not guilty of.

00:10:30.240 So let's go back a bit.

00:10:32.000 How does the FISA court work?

00:10:34.400 What is the FISA court?

00:10:35.620 How is it supposed to work?

00:10:37.660 FISA court was developed because we found out in the 70s that the CIA was starting to spy

00:10:44.380 on things and we wanted to make sure that the CIA and the FBI and everybody was in their

00:10:51.220 proper roles.

00:10:52.980 But we we saw that the CIA was starting to use surveillance in foreign countries and we

00:11:00.680 were afraid we were going to use them here in America.

00:11:03.000 And so they put this wall up and this is the point of the FISA court.

00:11:08.500 We built a wall so no one could no CIA, no NSA could ever cross back into the United States.

00:11:19.540 And so what the CIA is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans.

00:11:23.640 Correct.

00:11:24.320 This all comes from the Nixon era and all this stuff was starting and you were starting to

00:11:29.620 spy on Americans.

00:11:30.440 So the FISA court was designed and the FISA court, you as the CIA, you have to come to

00:11:37.440 a FISA court and say, hey, we have a foreign intelligence that needs to be surveilled.

00:11:44.560 We need to listen to their phone calls.

00:11:47.340 Great.

00:11:47.720 Listen to their phone calls.

00:11:50.080 And we're listening to their phone calls as they're coming into the United States.

00:11:54.140 They are here in the United States and we need to listen to them.

00:11:58.600 Well, wait a minute.

00:11:59.640 If they're here in the United States, they're going to be talking to Americans.

00:12:02.860 Yes.

00:12:03.680 But what we'll do is when we issue the report, we will black out their name and we will put

00:12:10.700 U.S. citizen number one.

00:12:14.620 And so when the FISA court, when this FISA report came to Susan Rice's desk, it said, here's

00:12:26.560 the, you know, the Russian operative Igor Mololovsky, whatever his name is, spoke to U.S.

00:12:33.680 citizen number one.

00:12:35.260 Now, how do you unmask that?

00:12:37.480 You go to the NSA or the CIA and you say, can I know who, I need to know who this U.S. citizen is.

00:12:45.840 So how do you know who to go to, CIA, NSA?

00:12:48.920 How do you know who to go to?

00:12:51.840 I don't know.

00:12:52.820 Are you teaching us or asking us?

00:12:54.160 I'm asking you.

00:12:54.780 I'm teaching you too.

00:12:55.760 I'm asking you.

00:12:56.360 Do you know?

00:12:57.000 I know.

00:12:57.540 OK, so whoever you go to whoever issued this report, right now, the only people that have

00:13:04.200 the key to unmask are the people that issued the report.

00:13:09.340 So you go to the, let's say, the NSA and you say, guys, I see U.S. citizen number one.

00:13:17.180 I think I know who this is.

00:13:19.880 And there is something else going on that you're not privy to because everything's compartmentalized.

00:13:25.740 I need to see U.S. citizen number one and unmask U.S. citizen number one.

00:13:32.380 So I know their name because I think they're connected in this other thing that we have going on over here.

00:13:38.260 We have to make sure it's the same person.

00:13:41.180 Now, when they unmask it, who gets the unmasked report?

00:13:48.020 Person who asked for it, I would.

00:13:49.500 That's what I would think.

00:13:51.100 Nope.

00:13:51.900 So when they're saying, did you leak anything?

00:13:54.720 She didn't have to.

00:13:56.440 Those reports go out to all of, like, 20 people.

00:14:00.400 Those reports go out every day and they have unmasked.

00:14:04.300 If they are unmasked, they go out masked, then if somebody asks for them to be unmasked,

00:14:10.480 they're reissued and they go out to everyone with the unmasking.

00:14:15.640 So she didn't have to leak it.

00:14:18.080 She gave it to 20 to 100 different people.

00:14:22.340 And someone there leaked it.

00:14:23.920 Someone there leaked it.

00:14:25.660 So she started the process.

00:14:27.260 Right.

00:14:27.880 So the questions they should be asking.

00:14:30.060 She puts the blame, though, on the NSA because they're the ones who decide whether they'll

00:14:34.720 unmask or not.

00:14:36.640 So she's trying to say.

00:14:38.120 Right.

00:14:38.520 So let's play this out, Pat.

00:14:40.200 She's exactly right.

00:14:41.460 They do.

00:14:42.880 You play Susan Rice.

00:14:44.040 I'll play the NSA.

00:14:46.200 Hello, NSA. 0.99

00:14:48.100 I'd like to know who citizen number one is.

00:14:50.500 Why is your voice so low?

00:14:51.660 Yeah.

00:14:52.160 She's got a cold.

00:14:53.040 Okay.

00:14:54.000 Wow.

00:14:54.360 I hope you feel better, Susan.

00:14:55.780 You sound really bad.

00:14:57.200 You sound like that.

00:14:57.980 Yeah, I don't feel good right now.

00:14:59.340 Sound like that guy on the radio.

00:15:00.640 What's his name?

00:15:01.340 Oh, man.

00:15:02.180 Nobody knows.

00:15:02.920 Okay.

00:15:03.300 So anyway.

00:15:04.520 So, Susan, I can't I can't I can't just give you the name of that person.

00:15:10.220 You need to.

00:15:11.420 No, I've got I've got another investigation going on.

00:15:14.840 You have another investigation.

00:15:16.100 Can you tell me a little bit about I don't need to know about the investigation, but can

00:15:20.280 you give me a reason why you think that this name is important?

00:15:24.680 Well, it involves a Trump campaign and and are you doing something on the campaign and

00:15:30.000 the Russians?

00:15:30.660 Okay.

00:15:30.840 So you have something else going on?

00:15:32.640 Yes.

00:15:32.940 Okay, so you do need it.

00:15:34.860 I do need it.

00:15:35.680 Yes.

00:15:35.920 Okay, good.

00:15:37.480 You don't just call them and say, hey, I need a name unmasked that those are masked as

00:15:45.080 a wall.

00:15:46.480 It is incumbent upon the the agency that issued the report to then say, why do you need it?

00:15:56.240 Now, as national security advisor, as the head of the president's national security,

00:16:02.260 she has more clout than anyone else.

00:16:06.120 But it is her case.

00:16:08.860 She cannot blame anyone else for saying, wow, they just released it.

00:16:13.440 No, they released it to you because you are the president's national security advisor.

00:16:20.520 You are the top of the pyramid and you made the case.

00:16:24.040 If you say I have another case that you're not aware of, they will unmask it because you're

00:16:31.680 the top of the pyramid.

00:16:32.620 The only one higher is the president.

00:16:34.560 Based on her interviews, she kind of walks this line that, yeah, I did unmask something,

00:16:45.020 but it wasn't for political purposes and I wasn't going after the Trump campaign.

00:16:48.520 If it should be, then what were you working on to ask for it to be unmasked?

00:16:53.960 Which, she would say, national security, classified.

00:16:57.280 Correct.

00:16:58.520 Correct, she will.

00:17:00.500 So, then the next question is, so, was that name, the name connected with something else?

00:17:10.580 National security.

00:17:11.620 Well, you have an American's, you have an American's life at stake here.

00:17:17.100 Yeah.

00:17:17.400 Their whole, the reason for the FISA wall. 0.93

00:17:21.080 You've just destroyed their life.

00:17:23.740 I think you have a responsibility to repair it and speak frankly.

00:17:28.760 You're listening.

00:17:30.000 You're listening.

00:17:31.400 To the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:35.580 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:39.460 Mercury.

00:17:41.620 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:45.600 So glad that you've tuned in.

00:17:47.020 I'm, I'm so, I'm so disheartened by the press on this.

00:17:55.860 So disheartened by the press.

00:17:58.320 Except, isn't this kind of what you expect though?

00:18:00.860 I mean, this is what they do, right?

00:18:02.520 Hang on just a second.

00:18:03.720 I cannot go on because I know this is for radio, but Jeffy's got a big glob of glaze on his.

00:18:10.340 He's got 40 calories of icing on his friggin' lips.

00:18:13.820 40?

00:18:14.800 Lucky to have 40.

00:18:16.840 Somebody just brought us donuts from the Doc Thompson show.

00:18:20.740 Had one?

00:18:21.720 Delicious.

00:18:22.520 Delicious.

00:18:23.480 Okay.

00:18:23.860 So, anyway.

00:18:25.120 But this is what they do.

00:18:26.180 I mean, it's like the Geico commercials.

00:18:28.040 That's what they do.

00:18:29.000 I know, but wait a minute.

00:18:30.620 This is what, this is, this is what they've said that they're honestly searching for.

00:18:36.120 And they're not.

00:18:37.740 They're not.

00:18:38.240 Come on, Pat.

00:18:38.780 You've been begging for years for somebody to wake up on the other side, on the mainstream media.

00:18:45.040 Okay, so tell me about Mark Duplass yesterday.

00:18:46.700 No one has.

00:18:47.220 Tell me about Mark Duplass yesterday.

00:18:49.020 He's great.

00:18:49.480 What about him?

00:18:50.220 He's not in the media.

00:18:51.580 Yeah.

00:18:52.360 But I mean, remember, he's in Hollywood.

00:18:53.980 Yeah, he's in Hollywood.

00:18:55.380 They kind of keep trying to break, you know, blame the Susan Rice story on the Breitbart crowd.

00:18:59.140 I heard that a lot on CNN today.

00:19:00.700 But it's like, Eli Lake from Bloomberg is not the Breitbart crowd.

00:19:04.980 Or crowd, excuse me.

00:19:06.540 You know, these are major news sources that did report this.

00:19:10.400 So this is not some crazy conspiracy theory.

00:19:12.380 I mean, this actually looks like Trump maybe had something.

00:19:16.040 No, wait.

00:19:16.760 Let's go there.

00:19:17.440 That's a separate issue.

00:19:18.480 Separate issue.

00:19:19.280 Yes.

00:19:19.580 Go there next.

00:19:21.720 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:23.980 I'm going to explain this Susan Rice story and the Russia story and what the media is

00:19:37.300 not telling you because they are only in for the quick hit.

00:19:42.080 And honestly, I think they're only in it for the ratings.

00:19:45.160 Nobody's in it for the truth.

00:19:47.060 Nobody's in it because they're actually intellectually curious.

00:19:50.200 Nobody's in it because they have any intellectual honesty.

00:19:52.720 They are in it for the ratings.

00:19:55.780 And I defy, I defy any media.

00:19:59.840 Go ahead.

00:20:00.800 Bring it on, baby.

00:20:02.020 Bring it on.

00:20:02.820 Show me how this is wrong.

00:20:06.040 You won't show it to your audience.

00:20:08.760 And so what's happening is the American people are conflating stories together because they're

00:20:15.120 picking sides because they know the media will not tell the truth.

00:20:20.720 And so it's, am I for Trump?

00:20:24.380 Which most people, many people do not want to be for.

00:20:28.840 They don't feel comfortable being in his world of half facts and mostly untruths.

00:20:36.080 But they think you're just as bad.

00:20:39.240 And they're sick of it.

00:20:41.300 So they'd rather live in that world, which is pretty cartoonish because they're like,

00:20:45.560 yeah, he's a cartoon.

00:20:46.600 Nobody pays attention to him.

00:20:48.080 Instead of you trying to convince everybody you're not a cartoon.

00:20:53.980 You want to convince people that you're not a cartoon media.

00:20:57.980 Here's exactly what you do.

00:21:00.000 You show that it's not one story.

00:21:04.420 There are three branches to this story.

00:21:07.460 And they're very clear.

00:21:09.960 The first branch is Russia tampered with the election.

00:21:13.880 The second branch is Obama spied on Trump.

00:21:17.540 And the third branch is Trump advocates are tied to Putin and Russia.

00:21:22.760 Those are three separate stories.

00:21:26.340 And everybody is conflating them as one.

00:21:30.060 What is it?

00:21:31.880 The media is allowing, because it serves their purposes as well,

00:21:36.980 they're saying we're talking about the tree of Russia.

00:21:39.460 No, we're not.

00:21:42.960 We're not talking about the tree of Russia.

00:21:45.060 We are talking about the tree of truth.

00:21:50.740 What is the truth of these three stories?

00:21:55.000 First, Russia tampered with the election.

00:21:58.420 Well, there's a lot of smoke there.

00:22:00.040 And there is some fire there.

00:22:01.780 We know they have employed trolls.

00:22:04.380 We know they have troll farms.

00:22:06.300 We know that they have done this to other countries.

00:22:09.740 So, yes, most likely they're doing it to us.

00:22:14.100 We have their own statements from the people around Putin.

00:22:17.540 That, yes, they engage in those kinds of things.

00:22:20.420 We also have WikiLeaks.

00:22:23.200 Is that a hard tie?

00:22:26.920 No, but it's a pretty strong tie.

00:22:30.320 Now, the question on this one, did it affect the election?

00:22:35.420 And this is where it becomes political.

00:22:37.000 The answer to that is no.

00:22:40.700 It didn't lose the election for Hillary Clinton. 0.51

00:22:45.640 Hillary Clinton lost the election.

00:22:48.800 My dead dog could have won against Hillary Clinton because it wasn't that she was running with her running mate that has less credibility than Hillary Clinton had. 1.00

00:23:04.700 And who was her running mate?

00:23:06.700 You, the media.

00:23:09.600 Why?

00:23:11.500 Because you allowed people like Susan Rice to get away with the lie that she knew she was telling on Benghazi.

00:23:20.500 Well, you told us there's nothing to Benghazi.

00:23:22.880 Oh, yeah, there's a lot to Benghazi.

00:23:24.340 There's a lot to Benghazi.

00:23:26.840 And it revolves around Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and an election.

00:23:32.940 Having that come out before the election would have, oh, my gosh, it's almost like what we're looking for on the first branch of this tree of truth.

00:23:45.300 Did it affect the election?

00:23:47.660 Yes, and so they colluded, and you excused, so it wouldn't affect the election of 2012.

00:23:58.060 Same exact damn story, not surprisingly, with the same people involved.

00:24:07.980 The media, the White House, and Susan Rice.

00:24:13.160 A Susan Rice.

00:24:16.460 Next branch.

00:24:18.220 The next branch is Obama spied on Trump.

00:24:21.740 No, he didn't.

00:24:23.800 He didn't spy on Trump.

00:24:26.840 Wire-tap the Trump Tower.

00:24:28.700 No, there's no evidence that he wire-tapped Trump Tower.

00:24:33.460 Well, they have recordings of Flynn.

00:24:35.720 Yes, because that goes to the third branch, which we'll get to here in a second.

00:24:40.220 Second, did they have surveillance going on with Trump's team?

00:24:47.080 Yes.

00:24:48.740 But not that he was just spying on Donald Trump for political purposes.

00:24:54.280 Now, here's where it gets muddy.

00:24:56.960 Susan Rice.

00:24:58.560 She unmasked the names of the Trump people.

00:25:02.580 Now, why would she do that? 1.00

00:25:03.940 Not to affect an election, because the election was already over.

00:25:08.060 Why would she do that? 1.00

00:25:08.960 Here's an explanation that Susan Rice could give that I would appreciate, and I would even say,

00:25:18.260 she's got to pay for the price of this, but I applaud her for doing it.

00:25:23.020 Susan Rice could say, I release those and unmask those names because I knew,

00:25:29.180 as soon as the Trump administration would come in, they would destroy that evidence that they were colluding or involved and had ties to Russia.

00:25:40.280 And I needed people to know that they had ties to Russia.

00:25:44.240 So, yes, I unmasked the names.

00:25:46.820 But the time to do that was about three weeks ago.

00:25:50.860 The time to do that is when you did it, actually.

00:25:53.340 But instead, you've lied about it.

00:25:58.920 You said first you had nothing to do with it.

00:26:01.380 Now, suddenly, yes, I did unmask it, but I didn't leak.

00:26:04.840 Well, you're lying again.

00:26:06.240 Because you know there is no leak.

00:26:08.020 It doesn't matter.

00:26:09.100 Leak.

00:26:09.360 Once you unmask them, the names are out.

00:26:11.180 The third story is the Trump advocates tied to Putin and Russia.

00:26:18.820 The two places where there is real smoke is Russia tampered with the election.

00:26:28.760 And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.

00:26:32.300 And it has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.

00:26:38.300 It's not Republican or Democrat.

00:26:39.880 That we have to answer.

00:26:42.580 And we already know the answer.

00:26:43.980 The answer is yes.

00:26:45.060 We have to answer so we can stop it from happening in the future.

00:26:49.420 But that's not a story that anybody cares about.

00:26:52.100 Why?

00:26:52.380 Because they're not intellectually curious about anything that actually saves the republic.

00:26:58.360 Anything that adds credibility to our institutions.

00:27:02.160 What they care about is tearing down the credibility of whoever it is they're against.

00:27:07.900 And that goes on both sides.

00:27:12.000 Obama spied on Trump.

00:27:14.100 No, no.

00:27:15.400 But now we have to find out about Susan Rice.

00:27:19.360 But the media will not pursue it because they're not intellectually honest.

00:27:23.680 So two strikes.

00:27:25.360 Two strikes against the republic because of intellectual dishonesty and laziness.

00:27:31.100 The third one is Trump advocates tied to Putin's Russia.

00:27:36.200 That was absolutely true.

00:27:38.740 We know that one as much as we know the first one.

00:27:42.340 They tampered with the election.

00:27:43.980 And it didn't affect the outcome.

00:27:46.940 But we know that.

00:27:48.420 We also know Trump advocates are tied to Putin in Russia.

00:27:51.520 And how do we know?

00:27:52.580 One, we have recordings of Flynn.

00:27:54.980 Two, Manafort.

00:27:59.080 We have Ukrainian officials and documents that showed that Manafort was paid $12 million, what was it, a year?

00:28:07.700 And it was never reported.

00:28:10.860 He never claimed it.

00:28:12.720 Same thing with Flynn.

00:28:14.240 He was paid.

00:28:15.300 He never claimed it.

00:28:16.780 Why?

00:28:17.100 So we know that they are tied directly to Russia.

00:28:21.100 And they both tried to hide it.

00:28:24.020 Now, did they tamper with the election?

00:28:26.780 Is this tied to the first one?

00:28:29.240 Well, because we can't believe Manafort or Flynn on this,

00:28:33.360 we've got to now take them and say,

00:28:35.860 well, I don't know if I believe your story.

00:28:37.820 Which is exactly the same thing that the media, if they were honest, would be saying about Susan Rice.

00:28:43.880 Because you lied to me the first time, I'm a fool to believe you the second time.

00:28:51.940 Paul Manafort and Flynn, you lied to us the first time.

00:28:56.220 I no longer take your word to mean anything.

00:29:00.520 So yes, there is a chance you were involved in shuttling information.

00:29:05.480 But I have no evidence of that at this point.

00:29:07.840 But we need to look into it.

00:29:10.040 Did they tamper with the election?

00:29:11.540 Well, Roger Stone and WikiLeaks, he has said they're close.

00:29:17.420 We know that WikiLeaks and Russia, we know that they're close.

00:29:22.120 Do we have any evidence?

00:29:23.660 No.

00:29:24.840 So here's what we have.

00:29:26.360 First story, Russia tampered with election.

00:29:28.780 No effect on the final vote, but we need to look into how they did it, why they did it,

00:29:33.380 so we can shore up the institution of our vote.

00:29:37.440 Two, Obama spied on Trump.

00:29:39.920 No, he didn't.

00:29:40.620 They were looking in Trump advocates, and they were looking for, did Russia tamper with

00:29:44.720 the election?

00:29:45.420 The only story there is Susan Rice.

00:29:48.580 Why did she unmask the names?

00:29:52.220 Why did she do that? 1.00

00:29:54.900 This, to me, is more of a story about the FISA courts, and more of a story about the Patriot

00:30:02.740 Act than anything else.

00:30:04.480 You are now letting political operatives unmask.

00:30:09.280 Explain it, Susan Rice.

00:30:11.180 But she won't, because the press won't push her.

00:30:14.640 And the third one is Trump advocates are tied to Putin and Russia.

00:30:18.280 That is absolutely, that's on fire.

00:30:20.200 There's no smoke there.

00:30:21.340 That's on, that's a, that's a ten alarm fire.

00:30:24.260 We know that to be true.

00:30:28.320 The depth of it, we don't know.

00:30:32.220 Three stories.

00:30:33.860 Not one.

00:30:34.820 Three.

00:30:36.120 But the media won't tell you that.

00:30:38.360 Because the media only wants to discredit Trump.

00:30:42.060 And Trump only wants to discredit the media.

00:30:45.520 When in reality, they're doing a fine job.

00:30:48.640 Both sides on their own.

00:30:52.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:56.000 Mercury.

00:30:59.940 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:05.280 Welcome to the program.

00:31:06.740 Stu would like to take umbrage with part of what I laid out on the tree of truth here.

00:31:14.180 Well, sort of.

00:31:15.640 I mean, I just think it's important to point out that everything you said is based on the information we have now.

00:31:21.540 Correct.

00:31:21.700 There's multiple investigations going on.

00:31:23.860 And we may very well find out that one of these, one of the branches on your little tree are, wind up, there's a significant new information we found out in this investigation that changes these assumptions.

00:31:36.920 But that is where we are right now.

00:31:39.880 Correct.

00:31:40.060 And I would give you, for instance, Russia tampered with the election.

00:31:44.760 There's stuff that we're going to find out on that that I think will tie WikiLeaks to Russia.

00:31:50.640 I mean, if you really wanted to do an investigation, let's really do an investigation on what Trump is doing.

00:31:55.800 He's doing it, or what Putin is doing.

00:31:57.700 He's doing it all over the world.

00:31:59.980 He's tampering with elections all over the world.

00:32:03.400 Trump advocates tied to Russia and Putin.

00:32:05.440 There's more to come on that.

00:32:06.600 What I'm saying is Obama spied on Trump.

00:32:09.860 That is something, let's be honest, that I think Donald Trump just blurted out and now they're retroactively trying to make things fit.

00:32:17.560 But it's not hard because I don't believe that Barack Obama said, I want you to use some black ops and go and spy on the Trump campaign.

00:32:27.500 What they did most likely is there is fire on the first branch.

00:32:31.800 Russia is tampering with the election.

00:32:33.760 Fire on the second branch.

00:32:35.240 These guys are tied to Putin.

00:32:37.580 Get the NSA, get all those guys to legitimately do a search and brief us on it.

00:32:45.500 And then if we want to or if we can, there's no evidence at this point that they used that during the election.

00:32:52.720 The Susan Rice stuff came out just before he was inaugurated.

00:32:56.960 Yeah, and that's a couple of things I've seen people who are on the right getting in trouble with on Facebook battles and such.

00:33:05.540 So if you're in one of these, watch these two areas.

00:33:07.680 One is exactly that.

00:33:09.540 Oh, well, Susan Rice was trying to turn over the election. 1.00

00:33:11.460 Well, this happened after he was elected in about a week before he was inaugurated.

00:33:14.400 Right.

00:33:14.620 So it has nothing to do with whether Trump was going to get elected or not.

00:33:17.340 But the case seems to be from the people on the left who are defending Susan Rice is she wanted to, as you kind of pointed out, hold on to this information because they thought Trump would destroy it.

00:33:28.840 And I have no problem.

00:33:29.780 Well, I mean, I have no problem with that.

00:33:31.200 It's still wrong and she should still go to jail. 1.00

00:33:34.360 She should be held accountable.

00:33:35.540 But at least it would be a righteous jail thing.

00:33:39.020 It's like I feel about Snowden.

00:33:41.260 Yeah.

00:33:41.840 If Snowden would have stood and come and face the music and said, look, I'll go to jail.

00:33:46.860 I'm fine to go to jail.

00:33:48.600 I wanted this information out.

00:33:51.040 Then I don't have a hard time saying he's a hero.

00:33:53.960 Yeah.

00:33:54.420 Susan Rice, you need to admit it.

00:33:57.160 If that's what you did, then you know what?

00:33:59.600 You're a patriot for laying down and saying I was afraid this was going to.

00:34:03.780 I'm not agreeing with it.

00:34:05.000 I'm not saying this is what you should do.

00:34:06.500 I'm just saying at least that was an attempt by her in her mind at a patriotic duty.

00:34:15.100 I'm trying to protect the republic because I think the president is going to lose all this information.

00:34:23.180 That's all there is.

00:34:25.320 I wish the media would explore.

00:34:28.640 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:34:32.300 Mercury.

00:34:36.500 This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.

00:34:53.020 Is anybody in the press going to take on Noam Chomsky, predicting Trump is going to stage a terror attack to bolster support?

00:35:00.320 I think we should.

00:35:02.340 Yeah.

00:35:02.600 I think we should.

00:35:03.140 And I think we will, as soon as we get past this huge revelation that Pat was simply stunned by.

00:35:14.240 I cannot believe he was stunned by this.

00:35:17.500 Barry Manilow is officially gay.

00:35:21.840 Wow.

00:35:22.980 I did.

00:35:23.580 Pat actually said, seriously?

00:35:26.260 I know.

00:35:26.740 You were kind of hoping.

00:35:27.880 Well, I mean, he said it in his career and never said it until today.

00:35:30.580 Right.

00:35:31.280 He's never confirmed that.

00:35:32.900 He's never confirmed it.

00:35:34.120 There were suspicions by some.

00:35:35.460 All right.

00:35:36.280 So why didn't he?

00:35:37.420 This is the story.

00:35:38.300 To me, this was the story.

00:35:39.600 Not that he was gay.

00:35:40.500 It was like, of course he was gay. 0.99

00:35:42.520 Everybody knew he was gay.

00:35:43.860 No.

00:35:44.300 Nobody cared he was gay. 0.97

00:35:45.260 That's not true.

00:35:46.920 I don't think everybody knew before.

00:35:48.640 No, he dated a female, I think.

00:35:50.940 Ah.

00:35:52.180 Plus, he sang about females nonstop.

00:35:54.140 Nonstop.

00:35:54.860 Yeah, well, okay.

00:35:56.540 This goes to why did he stay in the closet for so long?

00:36:00.140 Hear his shocking, surprising answer.

00:36:04.120 Begins right now.

00:36:05.060 I will make you stand.

00:36:08.640 I will raise my voice.

00:36:10.900 I will hold your hand.

00:36:13.340 Because we are one.

00:36:15.140 I will beat my drum.

00:36:17.380 I have made my choice.

00:36:19.640 We will overcome.

00:36:21.940 Because we are one.

00:36:23.660 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:36:27.620 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:36:32.180 Yeah, well, okay.

00:36:34.360 Welcome to the program.

00:36:35.420 So glad you're here.

00:36:37.260 I just have to, I wasn't even going to mention this on the air,

00:36:39.880 but Pat was stunned by it.

00:36:42.620 And just gave me the response.

00:36:44.320 I just couldn't.

00:36:44.900 I don't know if I wasn't flabbergasted,

00:36:47.200 but I was mildly surprised.

00:36:49.580 Mildly surprised.

00:36:51.240 Because he's never said.

00:36:53.220 He's never admitted that.

00:36:54.420 Okay, so now let's think about why would Barry Manilow never say.

00:36:58.500 Well, he says it in the article.

00:36:59.980 I know.

00:37:00.620 Don't read the article.

00:37:02.580 Let's just noodle it here for a second.

00:37:05.300 Why would we read the article?

00:37:07.300 I mean, how crazy.

00:37:08.680 Because you can noodle this one through.

00:37:11.020 This is why I was not surprised Barry Manilow was gay. 1.00

00:37:15.840 Why?

00:37:16.800 Okay.

00:37:17.320 He thought it would hurt his career.

00:37:18.840 Correct.

00:37:19.440 Yeah.

00:37:19.780 He's writing love songs.

00:37:21.320 Fans would be disappointed.

00:37:22.300 Right.

00:37:22.600 He thought, you know, who were his fans?

00:37:24.500 When I was growing up, the joke was, it was only fat, lonely chicks, right? 1.00

00:37:30.140 That liked Barry Manilow.

00:37:31.060 And then it was me, too.

00:37:32.560 And then.

00:37:33.000 Okay?

00:37:33.780 Liked Barry Manilow.

00:37:35.040 And it was like, oh, yeah, you're a fat, lonely chick. 1.00

00:37:37.700 Mm-hmm.

00:37:38.060 And that's, and that's, and that's who they said that, you know.

00:37:41.880 Their money spends just as good as everybody else's.

00:37:44.200 But, but, but, so, if you are appealing to women, and you're singing love songs, lonely love songs to women.

00:37:53.120 Mandy.

00:37:54.340 You know, Mandy.

00:37:55.800 The first three letters are man.

00:37:57.320 And he wasn't married to a female.

00:38:02.320 That should have been the clue.

00:38:03.340 That should have been the clue.

00:38:04.420 I know.

00:38:04.440 That should have been the clue.

00:38:05.200 That should have been.

00:38:05.580 No.

00:38:05.860 And he was married for a couple years to a female.

00:38:07.680 But he was married to a woman.

00:38:09.780 Right.

00:38:09.800 A woman.

00:38:10.320 It was practically a girl. 0.95

00:38:11.740 I think they were married right out of high school.

00:38:13.440 It was his high school sweetheart.

00:38:15.560 Fine.

00:38:16.060 Fine.

00:38:16.360 Fine.

00:38:16.620 Fine.

00:38:16.780 Fine.

00:38:17.000 Fine.

00:38:17.100 Fine.

00:38:17.220 But.

00:38:17.240 Okay.

00:38:17.660 So there were, there were telltale signs that he might not be gay.

00:38:22.240 Maybe not gay. 0.79

00:38:23.980 Right?

00:38:25.480 Right?

00:38:25.800 And again, what is your evidence that he was?

00:38:29.000 Your evidence is.

00:38:29.620 It's very man.

00:38:30.440 It's very man.

00:38:31.220 Which is nothing.

00:38:31.980 What does that mean?

00:38:32.440 Your evidence is nothing.

00:38:33.100 What does that mean?

00:38:33.780 I mean, you know.

00:38:34.340 Your evidence is you think you can tell by looking at him.

00:38:36.700 Air supply is not sappy songs.

00:38:38.760 They're not gay.

00:38:39.540 Right.

00:38:40.100 I mean, you know, you happen to be.

00:38:41.740 Are you sure about that?

00:38:43.260 Air supply.

00:38:43.980 I never paid attention.

00:38:44.840 I definitely either, but are we sure about that air supply?

00:38:47.560 I don't know.

00:38:48.560 I don't know.

00:38:49.320 Yeah.

00:38:49.420 Not everyone who's saying sappy songs is gay.

00:38:50.900 I mean, not that I had a problem with it.

00:38:54.240 He was just never.

00:38:55.200 I feel like you had a problem with it.

00:38:56.360 He was never with a woman.

00:38:58.720 He was always alone.

00:39:00.040 It's not normal for somebody to be alone their whole life.

00:39:04.400 It's just not normal.

00:39:06.300 It's interesting that he's.

00:39:07.760 That's not necessarily true.

00:39:08.500 He's been with this guy for 40 years.

00:39:10.540 Yeah.

00:39:10.960 40 years.

00:39:11.860 And didn't.

00:39:12.300 And got married.

00:39:13.040 How sad is this?

00:39:13.840 And got married.

00:39:14.260 Got married in 2014.

00:39:16.360 Yeah.

00:39:17.240 I mean, how sad is that?

00:39:18.920 Kept it quiet.

00:39:20.800 He said he's private.

00:39:22.120 And always has to be happy.

00:39:23.280 I mean, I don't think it's sad at all.

00:39:24.980 I think it's encouraging.

00:39:25.960 Nothing wrong with that.

00:39:26.460 The fact that he can go through his personal life and get married and no one, you know,

00:39:31.060 he gets to tell it on his own terms.

00:39:32.460 That's positive.

00:39:33.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:39:33.480 But to think that you had to keep something quiet.

00:39:36.500 Well, you know, that depends.

00:39:38.320 Like, obviously, I'm sure there was a point in his life if he was with this person for 40 years

00:39:41.900 that that probably was his motivation.

00:39:43.980 However, maybe, you know, I didn't want to deal with this.

00:39:46.740 Right.

00:39:47.160 Right.

00:39:47.420 I mean, why am I?

00:39:48.460 Maybe he just wanted his relationship to himself.

00:39:50.460 That's encouraging from a celebrity.

00:39:52.920 I'd like to see a lot less of the relationships from celebrities.

00:39:55.220 I don't care about your marriage.

00:39:56.240 It's a lot like, and I, Tanya and I had this conversation.

00:40:01.340 Who is the power country couple that they're liberal?

00:40:05.820 Tim McGraw.

00:40:06.920 And Faith Hill.

00:40:07.460 And Faith Hill.

00:40:08.560 So Tanya said to me on Monday, I was only half listening.

00:40:13.740 And so I probably have this wrong, but she said something about Faith Hill looking, you

00:40:20.480 know, dressed up, all hot.

00:40:23.900 She was on the CMAs this weekend, maybe.

00:40:25.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:26.040 And she was dressed in something that Tanya's comment was, did you see how she was dressed? 0.94

00:40:31.780 And I'm like, no.

00:40:32.740 Why?

00:40:33.120 Can you show me pictures?

00:40:34.920 You'll read that article.

00:40:35.920 Yeah, and she said, she said, come on, you're, you're country, you're a country artist.

00:40:42.980 And so they're just, they're, they're just going mainstream, you know, lefty, you know,

00:40:53.660 not every country star addresses, you know, I mean, that's not a girl goes through 18 different

00:40:59.120 It changes every show.

00:41:00.360 My point is, I point, my point is, I think that she gets more crap because she's going,

00:41:09.180 she's left.

00:41:11.120 Where country stars, if I'm a country star and I don't really like the, you know, the

00:41:18.020 values of the center of the country, I'm more in line with the people on the, in Hollywood,

00:41:24.960 I'm not saying that.

00:41:26.240 I mean, if I'm a country star, you're, you know, that's not a popular place to be.

00:41:33.380 She's coming out and saying it.

00:41:36.460 It's like being in Hollywood and saying you're a conservative, you know, you're in Hollywood,

00:41:42.040 your whole career.

00:41:42.720 I'm not saying it.

00:41:43.540 Just shut up. 1.00

00:41:45.320 Keep your mouth closed.

00:41:46.240 That's what people do.

00:41:48.540 It happens to conservatives in Hollywood.

00:41:50.800 It happens in every, and it's sad, just like Barry Manilow.

00:41:53.780 It's sad that he had to.

00:41:55.900 Now, if he's a private person and he didn't want to, that's fine.

00:41:58.680 But if he thought it would just destroy his career and he couldn't, and he wanted to,

00:42:03.380 I don't know if he wanted to, but if he wanted to, it's sad.

00:42:06.680 It's sad that somebody has to work in Hollywood and have to keep their political point of view

00:42:11.980 quiet.

00:42:12.620 That's sad.

00:42:13.460 That's part of who you are.

00:42:14.600 It's sad that if you work in Nashville and you, you're a lefty, it's sad.

00:42:21.240 It's just the way it is.

00:42:24.260 Yeah.

00:42:24.700 I mean, it depends on what, you know, again, I don't think it's sad when I don't know their

00:42:28.420 views, largely because I don't care.

00:42:31.900 And it's not why I go to them.

00:42:33.340 That was part of the, that's, that's humility.

00:42:37.540 To me, that's humility.

00:42:38.760 I like that.

00:42:39.480 I do too.

00:42:39.900 You know, I like the person who says, you know what?

00:42:42.220 And we've, we've, we've talked to them before.

00:42:44.720 When you come on and you're in Hollywood and you're an actor and you say, you know what?

00:42:47.680 I know no one cares what I, what I think.

00:42:49.860 And, you know, I'm not going to berate you with my political opinions.

00:42:53.780 I think that's a positive, right?

00:42:55.540 It makes me like those people more, whether they're conservative or liberal.

00:42:59.160 I'd rather have them just, you know, do their thing.

00:43:04.080 Well, only because I can't see past you.

00:43:07.000 Like I could be the greatest actor in the world.

00:43:08.960 I would be horrible on screen because you would not see past me.

00:43:15.200 It would always be me.

00:43:16.820 And, you know, not to be repetitive, but I made this point before, but it's like, I accept it more out of musicians.

00:43:22.160 For a musician, I actually kind of am going to them for their view on the world in a weird way.

00:43:26.600 Like it might just be relationships or it might be, you know, I mean, you know, you too has a clear political standpoint in their, in their music, right?

00:43:35.080 Particularly their earlier stuff.

00:43:36.600 And it's like, well, you're going, part of that, part of why you are interested in them is because of those opinions.

00:43:41.760 That's why I like news.

00:43:42.200 Right, exactly.

00:43:42.940 Like they have, they say interesting things.

00:43:44.520 And why I don't like Pearl Jam.

00:43:44.760 Yeah, because they say interesting things about stuff, you know, that's, that affects the world.

00:43:49.960 Part of that, not with every artist, but part of that is why you go to them.

00:43:53.560 You know, with actors, that's not at all why you ever go to them.

00:43:56.360 For instance, I like Muse because of their political views.

00:44:01.040 But their music is all political.

00:44:04.000 If I started hearing Adele, who I also really like, if I started hearing Adele talk about politics, I'm not going to Adele for politics.

00:44:11.940 I'm going to her for relationship.

00:44:14.060 And, you know, her music is all about that.

00:44:16.400 I'm not going to you for, I don't want to hear your political view.

00:44:19.660 You're, you're, when you go to a musician, you're largely interested in their perspective on the world.

00:44:25.640 If they're writing songs, like, I don't know if the person who's saying, you know, call me baby is, you know, you're necessarily getting in from them.

00:44:31.360 I mean, there's obviously pop stars.

00:44:32.940 There's some you don't really care.

00:44:34.480 But, I mean, there's still some perspective, whether it's, you know, a female empowerment or, you know, how to, you know, relationships or whatever it is.

00:44:40.920 If they're, you're, you're looking at their perspective of the world.

00:44:43.000 If they're intelligent, like Lady Gaga.

00:44:46.680 Seriously.

00:44:47.340 No, I know.

00:44:48.480 She's very intelligent.

00:44:49.920 I just, you just, it says her name's Lady Gaga. 0.95

00:44:52.220 It's hard to take that seriously.

00:44:53.780 I know, but she's extraordinarily intelligent.

00:44:56.740 Very intelligent.

00:44:57.460 Highly trained, classically trained musician.

00:44:59.600 She's, she's really genius at what she does. 0.99

00:45:04.240 So, yeah, I can accept it from her because I know she's a deep thinker.

00:45:09.680 I'm not necessarily looking for deep thinking from most people in either Hollywood or the music scene.

00:45:17.700 Particularly, but you're never, this is the important part is, you're never going, you never want it from Hollywood.

00:45:23.920 What you're getting from Hollywood, you might get it from a director.

00:45:26.800 You might get it from a producer.

00:45:28.720 An actor is, you never want their political opinion because their political opinion actually gets in the way.

00:45:35.980 Them being a real person to you gets in the way of what they're doing.

00:45:40.000 True.

00:45:40.540 And that's, that's a huge difference.

00:45:43.140 I mean, any other form.

00:45:44.500 Yeah, and when a guy sings love songs about women. 0.99

00:45:47.320 Yeah.

00:45:48.060 It, it probably being gay gets in the way of that a little bit.

00:45:50.620 Oh yeah, it does.

00:45:51.240 I mean, if you're being honest, it's not, it's not that it was wrong for him to.

00:45:54.620 No, it wouldn't have, it's just.

00:45:56.300 It wouldn't have rung true.

00:45:57.560 It weirds out, yes.

00:45:58.680 It's like you're faking.

00:45:59.340 It wouldn't have rung true.

00:45:59.860 Same with George Michael, and he admitted, he wrote songs about girls because he was afraid at the beginning, and it was in a, it was, it was not sincere.

00:46:07.860 And when he did come out, it was weird.

00:46:11.780 Yeah.

00:46:12.200 It was weird to hear him sing songs about.

00:46:14.200 Although most people suspected with him too, even before.

00:46:18.040 And their evidence was, I don't know, it's George Michael.

00:46:21.460 George Michael.

00:46:21.840 That was their evidence too.

00:46:23.300 Come on.

00:46:23.860 And by the way, in both cases, they were correct.

00:46:25.660 Same thing with Elton John, but look at Elton John.

00:46:29.120 Bernie Toppin wrote the lyrics.

00:46:30.980 Yeah.

00:46:31.380 And so, I don't really care what Elton was doing with his time off stage.

00:46:37.120 I mean, Bernie Toppin's lyrics were so great.

00:46:39.640 Elton John's music was so great.

00:46:41.360 I wasn't, I wasn't looking to Elton John as some genius philosopher.

00:46:49.040 Yeah.

00:46:49.740 Plus, Elton John's another one who married a girl at one point.

00:46:53.660 So, it's confusing.

00:46:56.940 It's complicated.

00:46:57.620 It's a complicated world.

00:46:58.460 It's complicated.

00:46:58.880 It's a complicated world.

00:47:00.020 Life is messy, Pat.

00:47:01.080 It is.

00:47:01.560 Life is messy.

00:47:02.460 And then you die.

00:47:04.040 So, it's a happy story.

00:47:07.020 Oh, that's the happy ending to the story.

00:47:08.980 Yeah, right.

00:47:09.880 It's the beginning parts that really suck.

00:47:12.520 You guys hear, do you hear what NBC Lester Holt said about North Korea?

00:47:16.800 Jeffy did.

00:47:17.580 Because Jeffy is the king of the Lester Holt family.

00:47:19.940 For some weird reason, Jeffy's obsessed with Lester Holt.

00:47:23.560 I mean, Lester Holt is one of the finest news.

00:47:24.840 Okay, so did you hear what the, you know, you had the North Korean dictator on?

00:47:29.360 Kim Jong-un?

00:47:30.260 No, no, no.

00:47:30.640 Not dictator.

00:47:31.340 Defector.

00:47:31.800 Sorry.

00:47:32.140 Oh, okay.

00:47:32.620 Yes.

00:47:33.260 Did you see the defector?

00:47:34.880 Yes.

00:47:35.340 What did the defector say?

00:47:36.320 He said that Kim Jong-un is serious.

00:47:39.680 He's crazy and he'll do it.

00:47:41.200 He'll nuke us.

00:47:42.480 He will use nuclear weapons. 0.72

00:47:44.320 I believe him.

00:47:45.000 I talked to a guy who is very high up in the CIA just recently, last week, and he said,

00:47:50.980 I said, what do we do?

00:47:52.760 And he said, we're quite frankly out of options.

00:47:55.300 Now, he just left, like, I don't know, last summer.

00:47:58.880 And he said, I think we're out of options, Glenn.

00:48:01.280 He said, we all believe.

00:48:02.740 They're talking for a strike.

00:48:03.720 Yes, they are.

00:48:04.260 I know.

00:48:04.540 I mean, our secretary.

00:48:05.200 The Trump administration, and they should be.

00:48:06.940 Absolutely.

00:48:07.300 You've got somebody threatening us with EMPs and nuclear weapons and saying that he's going

00:48:11.520 to launch against Hawaii, you've got to take that seriously and maybe eliminate that threat.

00:48:16.720 So here's what was said on NBC with Lester Holt.

00:48:20.120 He's a desperate dictator and the world should be ready.

00:48:23.380 Yeah.

00:48:24.440 Yeah.

00:48:25.200 And did you hear the statements from the administration yesterday?

00:48:29.240 First Rex Tillerson's statement on North Korea after they launched their most recent

00:48:32.800 missile.

00:48:33.520 This is the entire statement.

00:48:34.640 North Korea has launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile.

00:48:38.120 The United States has spoken enough about North Korea.

00:48:40.400 We have no further comment.

00:48:42.120 That's really scary.

00:48:43.140 Yeah.

00:48:43.360 And then this is a senior White House official told reporters Tuesday night in a briefing with

00:48:48.580 reporters, the clock has now run out.

00:48:52.080 All options are on the table.

00:48:53.640 Well, yeah.

00:48:53.920 Trump said if China doesn't take care of these guys and get them under control, we will. 0.54

00:48:58.640 We will.

00:48:59.420 Okay.

00:48:59.680 So here's, may I give you an ad for Goldline?

00:49:04.540 What does that mean for your dollar?

00:49:08.280 Yeah, it's scary.

00:49:09.120 What does that mean to the economy?

00:49:14.400 We may.

00:49:15.580 And honestly, I sat in that meeting and I said, what do we do?

00:49:19.000 And this guy looked at me and said, there's a possibility we do first strike.

00:49:23.640 And I said, nukes?

00:49:27.400 He said, I wouldn't recommend it.

00:49:30.580 I don't think so.

00:49:31.640 He said, but I don't know.

00:49:33.520 He said, there is talk now about using tactical nukes on North Korea and shut him down.

00:49:41.860 No, you wouldn't.

00:49:42.340 You wouldn't have to use nuclear weapons to take out his nuclear weapons, right?

00:49:45.860 To get into the real hardened places, you would.

00:49:50.180 Use tactical nukes.

00:49:51.340 They burrow themselves down.

00:49:52.780 Yeah, they've got conventional weapons that do that, too.

00:49:55.480 But they now have solid fuel, too, so it's harder to detect these launches.

00:50:00.500 I mean, there's all sorts of different.

00:50:01.540 And we're not even talking about, by the way, Syria, who is in the middle of launching chemical weapon attacks on our own people right now.

00:50:08.260 Which John Kerry said.

00:50:09.700 Do you remember the tweet?

00:50:10.660 I found it this morning.

00:50:11.980 He tweeted, the last 8% of all the Syrian chemical weapons.

00:50:17.920 They were just used on their people, so now they're gone.

00:50:21.740 They're all gone.

00:50:22.880 Good job to the UN and the United Nations.

00:50:24.940 I've got to say, job well done by us.

00:50:27.500 Right.

00:50:28.300 Horrible, horrible.

00:50:32.160 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:50:36.060 Yeah, Kerry.

00:50:37.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:50:42.600 The best marketing move in cola history since the invention of New Coke.

00:50:51.000 That's what I claim the live for now moments with Kendall Jenner is.

00:50:58.920 Have you seen this ad?

00:51:00.940 No.

00:51:01.320 Oh, it's brilliant.

00:51:03.780 Really?

00:51:04.320 No, it's brilliant.

00:51:05.300 It is the marketing move, the best marketing move since the invention of New Coke.

00:51:11.600 And we'll give you that coming up in just a few minutes.

00:51:14.680 We also have more on...

00:51:19.120 Moron is the right word, Glenn. 0.80

00:51:21.860 Moron is exactly the right word. 1.00

00:51:23.800 We have moron North Korea and moron the Syrian gas canisters that John Kerry got rid of. 0.92

00:51:34.180 Well, if you remember correctly, this is what I said back in 2013.

00:51:37.740 Is there anything at this point that his government could do or offer that would stop an attack?

00:51:43.460 Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. 0.91

00:51:53.040 Turn it over.

00:51:53.840 All of it.

00:51:54.320 All of it.

00:51:55.320 Without delay.

00:51:57.140 And allow a full and total accounting for that.

00:52:01.240 Right.

00:52:01.440 But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously.

00:52:05.540 Well, obviously, then it was done in 2014.

00:52:08.540 With respect to Syria, we struck a deal where we got 100% of the chemical weapons out.

00:52:14.480 Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

00:52:16.060 And then they used some of those same weapons against their own population.

00:52:20.540 No, we got rid of those weapons.

00:52:22.780 These are all new weapons.

00:52:24.460 Somebody breathed bad breath and killed a lot of people.

00:52:27.280 That's what happened.

00:52:28.300 Air pollution.

00:52:29.360 We were claiming air pollution killed those people.

00:52:31.840 Global warming.

00:52:32.700 Global warming.

00:52:33.520 Well, that's what caused the Syrian conflict.

00:52:35.880 I know that.

00:52:36.640 I actually do say that.

00:52:37.680 That's another Susan Rice deal. 1.00

00:52:40.060 That it was begun by climate change.

00:52:43.140 I mean, it's just...

00:52:44.660 The madness just doesn't stop.

00:52:46.120 In case you missed it, it is dozens dead, hundreds injured from this latest chemical attack.

00:52:51.900 Up with weapons that they already got rid of, according to John Kerry and Barack Obama.

00:52:56.800 100%.

00:52:57.280 100%.

00:52:58.000 100% God.

00:53:00.100 God, in a fashion reminiscent of Gingrich Conway that destroyed those weapons.

00:53:05.500 So, you don't understand the plight of the Syrian people and the drought that happened right before this.

00:53:11.520 Oh, that's right.

00:53:12.240 Yeah, we don't.

00:53:12.920 There's never been a drought before.

00:53:14.720 No, never.

00:53:15.260 Only this man-caused drought that's happening.

00:53:18.180 Not in the Middle East, there was never a drought.

00:53:20.160 No, never.

00:53:20.520 No.

00:53:20.920 So, there was this drought and...

00:53:23.240 Well, there was the seven years of drought and famine in Egypt spoken of by the Bible, but I'm sure that's allegorical.

00:53:28.780 Not like this allegorical.

00:53:29.720 This is ridiculous.

00:53:30.680 It is allegorical.

00:53:31.600 Let's just dismiss the Bible and everything in it. 0.86

00:53:33.260 It's allegorical.

00:53:33.340 Don't even worry about that.

00:53:34.220 So, it wasn't...

00:53:35.240 It's more poetry than anything else, the Bible.

00:53:38.240 That's what it is.

00:53:39.540 Really?

00:53:40.180 Yeah.

00:53:40.360 More poetry.

00:53:42.740 More on North Korea.

00:53:45.780 Yes.

00:53:46.400 Morons.

00:53:47.080 All.

00:53:47.620 No, no.

00:53:48.660 All these people.

00:53:49.660 We have more things to tell you about North Korea and Syria and what we're headed toward when we come back.

00:54:02.820 Oh, yeah, we do.

00:54:03.800 We are one.

00:54:11.400 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:54:14.560 Mercury.

00:54:18.540 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:54:21.200 All right.

00:54:21.920 We want to bring you into episode number two of our serial on a man who I think is one of the greatest presidents to ever live.

00:54:29.000 He was definitely the greatest president of the 20th century, Calvin Coolidge.

00:54:36.920 The year was 1920.

00:54:39.040 The United States of America was on the brink of becoming something radically different than its founding.

00:54:44.920 In fact, the transition was well underway thanks to the racist Woodrow Wilson.

00:54:50.960 From 1791, when the Bill of Rights was ratified, until around 1900, the nation was a constitutional democratic republic.

00:54:59.380 It was unparalleled in human history.

00:55:01.900 For the very first time ever, a nation had an actual balance of power between three branches of government so that no one man could undermine the liberty that Americans cherished.

00:55:13.740 Then came this tidal wave of progressivism, a philosophy very much similar to Marxism.

00:55:20.400 All of the influences from Germany and the University of Berlin were starting to come into the United States.

00:55:28.200 And it all happened without a call to arms.

00:55:31.700 The idea was that progress would come slowly but steadily until the principles championed by Marx and Engels became ingrained in society.

00:55:42.180 This progressive idea, or as I like to call it, disease, actually started with the Republicans, Theodore Roosevelt.

00:55:50.200 Initially, he was a trusted, fairly conservative Republican who had been poisoned with this philosophy, as had European-influenced Woodrow Wilson.

00:55:59.140 The eight years that Wilson served as president, whether Americans really knew it or not, had brought the nation to the brink of crisis and fundamental change in the way America was governed.

00:56:11.060 By 1920, the balance of power was really no longer there.

00:56:15.680 Too much power was in the hands of the president and a huge, oppressive government.

00:56:22.580 Marxist economic principles and war accomplished much of what Wilson had set out to do.

00:56:28.460 So, the year 1920, the nation had a clear, stark choice.

00:56:33.680 Now, even though progressivism had infiltrated both the Democratic and Republican parties,

00:56:47.840 there were two men in the GOP who didn't appreciate the direction in which the country was headed.

00:56:53.360 One was a U.S. senator.

00:56:55.120 His name was Warren G. Harding.

00:56:56.940 And the other was the rising star in the party from Massachusetts, the governor, Calvin Coolidge.

00:57:03.680 Who had just taken on the AFL and the powerful president of the AFL, Samuel Gompers.

00:57:11.200 And won.

00:57:13.220 Author and historian David Petruzza sets the scene leading to the 1920 GOP National Convention.

00:57:19.100 Taking a strong stand against organized labor even then will crush and ruin and end his political career.

00:57:27.140 He writes back to Gompers that no one has any right to strike against the public safety anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

00:57:35.560 And these words resonate with the American public and cause a boomlet, a favorite son candidacy of his for his presidency.

00:57:46.660 Coolidge didn't receive the nomination.

00:57:48.660 But the delegates refused to let the elites keep him completely off the ticket.

00:57:53.580 He is not nominated in 1920, but something very remarkable happens at that convention.

00:58:00.040 It's supposedly a boss-run convention, but the delegates stampede and nominate him for the vice presidency.

00:58:07.540 And when Warren Harding dies in August 1923, Calvin Coolidge, who has spent a life preparing for higher and higher public office without lusting after it,

00:58:20.660 of waiting for the American people or the people of Massachusetts to turn to him when they are ready and he is ready.

00:58:28.360 He becomes president of the United States.

00:58:31.060 Senator Harding won the nomination, and he and Coolidge won the general in the largest landslide in a contested election up until that time in all of American history.

00:58:42.940 Harding-Coolidge took just over 60 percent of the popular vote and swept to victory with a 404-127 electoral votes over the Democratic ticket.

00:58:54.540 The nation had resoundingly rejected the further erosion of constitutional principles,

00:59:01.320 and the two men were thrust into office, and they were about to face a massive crisis that they had inherited from the Wilson administration.

00:59:09.860 The United States had lost over 53,000 men in World War I, and the economy was in ruins.

00:59:17.580 Amity Schlaes explains what it was like for the veterans that Coolidge welcomed home to Massachusetts as their governor.

00:59:24.240 I want to imagine a governor of a state that has a coast.

00:59:28.780 That's Massachusetts.

00:59:29.800 So the ships come back with the men.

00:59:32.520 The ships go out with the men.

00:59:34.180 The men who come back are missing one leg.

00:59:37.700 About one-third of them have some kind of problem.

00:59:41.460 Some have dire problems.

00:59:43.380 And in this period, there were no antibiotics.

00:59:46.820 So if your leg was rotting, it continued to rot.

00:59:49.700 You might have a rotting leg your entire life.

00:59:52.100 And the only question would be, when is that leg amputated?

00:59:55.120 So these men come back very angry.

00:59:59.220 They come back from World War I very angry. 0.95

01:00:01.540 We've won, but it cost us a lot, debt.

01:00:06.080 Unprecedented debt for the United States.

01:00:08.020 And a lot of them are hurt, and a lot of them don't have jobs.

01:00:10.680 The interaction with troops returning from the Great War helped solidify Coolidge's anti-war sentiments.

01:00:17.640 It's Coolidge's job as governor of the state to receive them, actually to go out in a boat in Boston Harbor and say,

01:00:24.020 welcome to Massachusetts, dear troops, who are coming home.

01:00:26.740 And he saw they had lice and wounds and might never recover totally.

01:00:31.500 So, you know, anyone who saw World War I up close was grossed out by war forever.

01:00:35.980 And Coolidge did see it up close.

01:00:39.680 In addition to the shock of returning troops, the nation was developing other serious problems.

01:00:45.880 The inflation rate in 1919 was well over 20 percent.

01:00:50.700 Then deflation kicked in.

01:00:53.320 Prices dropped by 18 percent for retail and down by 36.8 wholesale,

01:00:59.060 more than any single year during the Great Depression.

01:01:02.240 In fact, the Great Depression isn't so great.

01:01:04.680 This was a greater and deeper depression.

01:01:08.840 Three million American troops returned home from war, and they were all looking for work.

01:01:13.480 And the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 11.7 percent.

01:01:18.700 It's not just me saying that this was worse.

01:01:22.140 Many economists maintain that all of the conditions existed for the 1920 Depression to be far, far worse than the Great Depression that began in 1929.

01:01:31.100 The difference was Coolidge and Harding.

01:01:35.820 The policies of those two is what saved the country.

01:01:39.720 The first thing they did was cut spending from $18.5 billion to $6.4 billion.

01:01:47.700 That was a 65 percent cut in the federal budget.

01:01:51.760 Can you imagine 65 percent in a year?

01:01:54.640 Just to remind you, in today's environment, it has proven impossible to cut spending by 1 percent.

01:02:03.560 The next fiscal year, 1922, they cut spending again to $3.3 billion.

01:02:10.300 What?

01:02:10.480 That's a 50 percent cut the next year.

01:02:15.380 Next, they cut taxes to free up more money for Americans to spend and spark the economy.

01:02:20.080 The highest tax rate was slashed from 73 percent to 24 percent and spark the economy.

01:02:28.140 It did.

01:02:29.100 By 1923, unemployment plummeted from 11.7 to 2.4.

01:02:38.320 At times during the Wilson administration, unemployment neared 20 percent.

01:02:42.260 Under Coolidge, the average rate was 3.3.

01:02:46.060 But what came first, let's remember, the cutting of spending.

01:02:50.660 Harding and Vice President Coolidge had taken the nation from a deep, deep depression into the most prosperous decade in American history.

01:03:00.460 And what was the result?

01:03:02.760 Well, Harding and Vice President Coolidge had taken the nation from a deep, deep depression to the most prosperous decade in American history.

01:03:12.300 It's called the Roaring Twenties.

01:03:15.140 Now you know the reason.

01:03:16.380 Even with all that he had done as Vice President to help pull the nation out of the Depression, it was a very different time in America.

01:03:25.100 His residence as the Vice President was actually in the Willard Hotel.

01:03:29.380 And one night, a fire broke out in the local hotel and it had to be evacuated.

01:03:34.100 When the threat was over, Coolidge headed back inside.

01:03:37.960 But a marshal tried to stop him from returning to his suite.

01:03:41.080 He looked at the officer and said, I'm the Vice President.

01:03:43.880 The marshal asked, Vice President of what?

01:03:49.920 To which Coolidge said, the Vice President of the United States.

01:03:54.860 During the hot summer of 1923, President Harding decided to take a massive trip around the country to speak to people.

01:04:02.940 Maybe he should introduce himself.

01:04:05.240 He would travel 15,000 miles all around the nation and was the very first president to ever visit Alaska.

01:04:11.220 But along the way, Harding fell ill and his doctors assumed that he was just fatigued and had developed a virus.

01:04:19.480 And by the time he arrived in San Francisco, California, he was actually beginning to improve a little.

01:04:24.260 But then on August 2nd, 1923, at 7.30 p.m., President Warren Harding, resting in his bed, suddenly slumped over from a heart attack and was gone.

01:04:36.060 While Harding was traveling around the country, Coolidge had gone to Vermont to visit his family.

01:04:42.580 And unlike the homes that the president stay in today, the Coolidge family had no electricity, nor did they have any phone service.

01:04:50.960 Thus, the Vice President of the United States couldn't be reached.

01:04:55.480 So a messenger was dispatched out to the house.

01:04:58.440 It was very late when he arrived, so Coolidge had to be awakened.

01:05:03.440 He dressed.

01:05:04.360 Then he went downstairs to greet the throngs of reporters and officials who had by now descended on the house.

01:05:10.940 At 2.47 a.m. in the morning, by the light of a kerosene lamp, a stunned and humbled Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President of the United States of America.

01:05:23.160 He was sworn in by his father, who was a notary and a justice of the peace.

01:05:30.500 Calvin Coolidge was now the 30th President of the United States.

01:05:35.340 And at 3 o'clock in the morning, his first act of President was to promptly go back to bed.

01:05:42.480 Next time, a deep look at the Coolidge presidency and how this president, supposed to Woodrow Wilson, felt about the Klan. 0.58

01:05:54.660 Tomorrow on the Glenn Beck Program, in Chapter 3 of our Serial on Calvin Coolidge, you'll learn how Coolidge assumed the Oval Office.

01:06:02.600 Listen live or online at glennbeck.com slash serials.

01:06:06.220 I love this serial.

01:06:08.600 I love this serial.

01:06:09.900 Calvin Coolidge is the forgotten president, and he should be everybody's favorite of the 20th century.

01:06:17.280 I mean, when you hear tomorrow and the next day and you realize who this guy really was and that he shunned the power that was thrust upon him.

01:06:26.520 Oh, big time.

01:06:27.220 It's almost unthinkable today because nobody does this.

01:06:31.960 Nobody's like that.

01:06:33.480 And when Harding died, he left Coolidge with all kinds of scandals.

01:06:37.880 Did Harding...

01:06:39.900 Has Harding gotten the shaft here?

01:06:42.460 No, because he was corrupt.

01:06:45.100 Well, he cuts spending, as you pointed out, 65%.

01:06:47.280 Yes.

01:06:47.740 And we're doing that in the Coolidge context.

01:06:49.480 But, I mean, that was Harding who was president.

01:06:51.000 Yes.

01:06:51.380 It was his policy.

01:06:52.920 And, you know, obviously Coolidge shared it.

01:06:54.900 But it was Harding's policy.

01:06:56.800 However, Harding had...

01:06:59.440 He left Coolidge with some ridiculous issues.

01:07:02.620 Yes, he did.

01:07:03.440 And Coolidge took...

01:07:04.220 What were his credit?

01:07:05.180 And then on top of that, Harding didn't want Coolidge, right?

01:07:08.420 I mean, the convention thrust Coolidge on Harding.

01:07:10.700 He said, you're going to take Calvin.

01:07:13.340 Yeah.

01:07:13.720 We like you, Hart Warren, but Calvin's going with you.

01:07:16.960 Probably because they sensed that maybe Calvin was clean and Harding was not.

01:07:22.240 And clean is an understatement.

01:07:23.800 It's really cool, too.

01:07:25.340 He's sworn in by a notary public.

01:07:28.520 His dad.

01:07:29.560 Not a Supreme Court justice.

01:07:31.460 His father, the notary public.

01:07:33.740 That's great.

01:07:34.440 At 2.47 in the morning by kerosene lamp.

01:07:37.980 That's great.

01:07:39.000 Do you remember all the scandal about Barack Obama not being sworn in twice and having

01:07:44.840 him be sworn in the office?

01:07:46.160 There were no pictures.

01:07:47.680 This guy's sworn in by his dad.

01:07:49.960 Right.

01:07:51.200 In a house with no electricity.

01:07:53.120 Unbelievable.

01:07:54.060 And it might be shocking, too, if you haven't been listening to this, because we keep throwing

01:07:57.920 this out there, like he was the 20th century's best president.

01:08:00.500 And for conservatives, a lot of people, wait, Ronald Reagan.

01:08:03.220 No, this is Ronald Reagan's hero.

01:08:04.540 Yeah.

01:08:04.700 First of all, it was Ronald Reagan's favorite president.

01:08:06.660 Yeah.

01:08:06.960 But secondly, I mean, I think we've all come away from this looking not only as Coolidge

01:08:12.440 as potentially the best president of the 20th century, but maybe the best president we've

01:08:16.060 ever had.

01:08:16.720 No kidding.

01:08:17.360 And the reason for that would be definitely in the modern area.

01:08:20.840 His only peer, I think, is George Washington.

01:08:22.220 Yeah.

01:08:22.560 I mean, that's incredible.

01:08:23.500 Think about that statement.

01:08:24.500 I mean.

01:08:24.780 Abraham Lincoln.

01:08:26.120 And Lincoln.

01:08:26.620 Because there obviously were times of turmoil that the country felt, you know, with Washington

01:08:33.140 and obviously Lincoln as well.

01:08:35.560 But, you know, in the current sense, it's hard to relate to the Civil War, you know?

01:08:41.440 Yeah.

01:08:41.560 No, this is getting easier.

01:08:43.060 You know, but, you know, it's hard to relate to that.

01:08:44.700 This is like, this is a guy cutting the budget by 65%.

01:08:48.060 The first year.

01:08:48.900 And then another 50.

01:08:50.240 Yeah.

01:08:50.400 He's coming soon.

01:08:51.560 Another 50.

01:08:52.540 And then the third year, about 40%.

01:08:54.840 It's incredible.

01:08:55.880 Yeah.

01:08:56.120 Oh, yeah.

01:08:56.680 We'll find out in later serials how people enjoyed coming to meet with him and ask him

01:09:01.860 for things.

01:09:02.720 Because he wasn't favorable to the word yes.

01:09:06.240 No.

01:09:06.500 He was not.

01:09:07.300 Hey.

01:09:07.440 You know, we can't cut 1% from our deficit, our budget anymore.

01:09:11.580 We can't cut 1%.

01:09:12.840 But wait.

01:09:13.120 Seriously, we can't cut 1%.

01:09:14.680 Here's the thing.

01:09:15.440 Here's where Ronald Reagan got it wrong.

01:09:18.140 What did Calvin Coolidge do?

01:09:19.740 He spent two years cutting before he lowered taxes.

01:09:23.300 Yeah.

01:09:23.700 He cut taxes where it's 77%.

01:09:26.140 He cut spending twice before he cut taxes.

01:09:30.800 This is.

01:09:32.820 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:09:36.240 Mercury.

01:09:37.440 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, back.

01:09:41.460 This is.

01:09:42.460 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:09:43.660 What's really amazing is the conspiracy theorists that are out.

01:09:48.960 For instance, Noam Chomsky predicting that Trump is going to stage a terror attack to bolster

01:09:55.040 his support.

01:09:55.940 We should play that coming up here.

01:09:57.000 Yeah, we will.

01:09:57.760 And also Elizabeth Warren on Gorsuch saying it's crazy to confirm him because these investigations,

01:10:04.960 we should wait until Trump is out of office to confirm anybody.

01:10:08.640 Right.

01:10:09.140 Wow.

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01:10:29.400 This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.

01:10:31.940 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:10:37.120 A lot to talk about this hour.

01:10:38.400 We're just kind of narrowing it down.

01:10:40.380 We want to talk about, in a focus group, half Trump supporters now say they support a single

01:10:47.860 payer health care system.

01:10:49.140 Oh, my gosh.

01:10:51.100 My head's going to explode.

01:10:52.880 Also, Noam Chomsky.

01:10:54.860 Where is where is anybody saying that he's a wild conspiracy theorist now claiming that

01:11:01.520 Trump is going to stage a terror attack to bolster support?

01:11:05.700 Will you hear anyone take on Noam Chomsky?

01:11:09.900 No.

01:11:10.300 Outside of this program or programs on the right?

01:11:12.280 No.

01:11:12.880 You absolutely won't hear that.

01:11:14.620 And Stu has a story from Alec Baldwin that he swears is relative.

01:11:20.460 I find it hard to believe.

01:11:22.820 Relevant.

01:11:23.680 Relevant.

01:11:24.520 Yeah.

01:11:24.860 I find it hard to believe that Alec Baldwin is relevant.

01:11:29.280 We begin there right now.

01:11:30.500 Thank you.

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01:11:52.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:12:01.500 Just so you know who Noam Chomsky is, Noam Chomsky is a guy that has done documentaries

01:12:09.860 for PBS.

01:12:10.960 Oh, he's a hero of the left.

01:12:12.300 Hero of the left.

01:12:13.260 Big time thinker.

01:12:14.560 Yeah.

01:12:15.000 He's communist.

01:12:16.020 Yeah.

01:12:16.280 He's a guy, of course, we're not going to, nobody's going to take on Noam Chomsky.

01:12:21.660 Noam Chomsky.

01:12:22.520 He's a great guy.

01:12:23.860 Don't we all love him?

01:12:25.680 No.

01:12:26.260 I would say no.

01:12:27.000 You would say no on that?

01:12:29.100 Yeah.

01:12:29.200 And so nobody will take him on.

01:12:33.660 We need to.

01:12:35.080 How is it they're not calling him a conspiracy theorist?

01:12:38.800 Here's the latest from Noam Chomsky.

01:12:41.320 Sooner or later, this con game is not going to work.

01:12:45.480 People will understand he's not bringing back jobs.

01:12:49.900 Right.

01:12:50.040 He's not going to recreate the partly illusory, partly real picture of what life was like in

01:12:58.240 the past with manufacturing jobs and the functioning society and get ahead and so on and so forth.

01:13:06.180 He's not going to create that.

01:13:07.760 But what happens at that point?

01:13:09.920 Something has to be done to maintain control.

01:13:14.480 The obvious technique is scapegoating.

01:13:17.160 So blame it on immigrants, on Muslims, on somebody.

01:13:22.980 But that can only go so far.

01:13:25.040 The next step would be, as I said, an alleged terrorist attack, which is quite easy. 0.66

01:13:33.560 So if I just...

01:13:34.600 That's absolutely unbelievable.

01:13:35.900 ...say outrageous things in a very quiet tone.

01:13:38.660 No, let me just say this.

01:13:42.800 He's right.

01:13:44.060 He just doesn't necessarily have it right about this president like I didn't have it right

01:13:50.300 about the last president.

01:13:52.140 I said these same things about, look, you want to play this out in your head.

01:13:56.300 If there's a collapse, what happens?

01:13:59.260 Well, the most logical thing from history would show that you need to control this, this, and

01:14:04.400 this.

01:14:05.000 Okay?

01:14:05.240 That's what we did at Fox.

01:14:07.660 So our facts were not wrong at Fox.

01:14:11.740 His facts here are not necessarily wrong.

01:14:15.200 When things begin to collapse, what are they going to do?

01:14:21.640 He happens to believe the worst of Donald Trump.

01:14:24.380 I happen to believe the worst of Barack Obama.

01:14:27.460 And so if you believe the worst, yeah, that could be because that historically is what happens.

01:14:33.640 But can we have that conversation?

01:14:36.560 No, we can't.

01:14:37.700 We certainly cannot.

01:14:39.160 I don't know if it's what historically happens in the United States of America.

01:14:42.960 No, not in the United States.

01:14:44.920 Presidents are not doing terrorist attacks.

01:14:47.460 But historically, we had not had a Marxist revolutionary as president.

01:14:51.220 Yeah.

01:14:51.440 And we haven't had a crazy billionaire.

01:14:54.180 That's why I called it an alleged terrorist attack.

01:14:57.480 But this is the stuff of Alex Jones.

01:15:01.980 It is.

01:15:02.560 Only Alex Jones is so far up Donald Trump's rectal cavity that...

01:15:09.100 He has a brown belt.

01:15:10.020 Yeah.

01:15:10.380 Interestingly enough, they both made those accusations against Republican presidents.

01:15:13.660 Right.

01:15:14.100 What does that tell you about Alex Jones?

01:15:16.300 Isn't that fascinating?

01:15:17.280 That hardcore conservative he is.

01:15:19.220 Yeah.

01:15:19.340 Which, by the way, we have to play his audio today.

01:15:20.900 That's the highlight of my day.

01:15:22.080 The new Alex Jones audio is the best thing.

01:15:25.940 And why we haven't talked about it and we're on hour three, I have no idea.

01:15:29.540 It's the only thing we should talk about today.

01:15:31.100 So wait, so wait, so wait.

01:15:32.540 So I'm not sure if we're saying the same thing, Pat.

01:15:34.820 Do you think we're agreeing with each other?

01:15:38.260 With Noam Chomsky?

01:15:39.480 Yeah, I think so.

01:15:41.060 Because I believe that...

01:15:44.340 You don't believe Trump would do something like that, right?

01:15:49.060 You don't believe Trump...

01:15:50.780 I do not believe...

01:15:52.960 I don't think he'll fake a terrorist attack.

01:15:59.660 Do I believe that people like Steve Bannon wouldn't take advantage of every...

01:16:08.920 I don't think anybody would plan a terrorist attack.

01:16:11.580 That's what I was saying about this Alex Jones audio.

01:16:13.500 It's fantastic and we need them.

01:16:15.380 It's so good.

01:16:16.620 No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:16:17.660 So Alec Baldwin, he was in The Marrying Man...

01:16:21.340 Stop for a second.

01:16:21.940 Stop for a second.

01:16:22.680 I know you're trying to stop me from a freight train, but I think this is important.

01:16:26.620 I like what you're saying about Alex Jones.

01:16:29.380 Right.

01:16:29.900 Alec Baldwin.

01:16:30.840 There's a great Aaron Hernandez story we can talk about.

01:16:33.020 Stop for a second.

01:16:33.520 Stop.

01:16:33.840 Just like I don't think FDR planned or knew about Pearl Harbor.

01:16:41.420 I don't think George Bush, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump would plan anything or would knowingly let it happen.

01:16:51.380 We should say half of Democrats believed George Bush did that.

01:16:54.720 Correct.

01:16:55.140 Half.

01:16:55.340 I don't, and I don't believe Barack Obama would do that.

01:16:58.560 However, do I believe that there are radicals in the White House, just like there were radicals in the White House last time, that will use anything to their advantage?

01:17:09.320 You saw this last president use every single shooting as a way...

01:17:14.160 Never let a crisis go to waste.

01:17:15.200 Never let a crisis go to waste.

01:17:16.540 Are there people in this White House that will use it and push?

01:17:23.220 You bet.

01:17:24.540 Would, would, let's use a real example.

01:17:27.280 Will Donald Trump strike North Korea because it will be good for the headlines? 0.93

01:17:33.540 Absolutely not.

01:17:35.260 I don't believe that.

01:17:36.600 And I don't believe that anyone in the White House would do that.

01:17:40.520 Will they use that to their advantage?

01:17:45.200 You bet they will.

01:17:46.700 Well, to give you the ultimate example, I mean...

01:17:48.380 But that's different than what Chomsky is saying.

01:17:50.260 Yeah, he's saying he would launch one, right?

01:17:52.260 Yeah.

01:17:52.700 Yeah, okay.

01:17:53.340 Yes.

01:17:53.660 So that's a difference.

01:17:54.540 Yes.

01:17:54.880 The Hitler Ascent is the new sort of biography on Hitler that came out last year.

01:18:00.780 And in it, they basically say the most likely thing with the Reichstag fire...

01:18:08.200 Was that Hitler did it? 0.94

01:18:09.520 Was not that Hitler did it. 0.91

01:18:11.080 Was that it actually was not done by Hitler, but Hitler didn't care who did it. 0.82

01:18:15.820 He blamed it on the communists anyway.

01:18:17.140 I believe that 100%.

01:18:18.280 But that's amazing to me.

01:18:19.680 Honestly, going into that read, I thought it was Hitler did it to take power and control.

01:18:26.040 See, that's weird because I've never thought it mattered.

01:18:28.180 It didn't matter.

01:18:28.700 Well, it didn't matter to Hitler. 0.81

01:18:29.780 Right.

01:18:30.360 It doesn't matter.

01:18:32.140 In that kind of a regime, they will use whatever comes their way.

01:18:36.900 I mean, you know, when the Reichstag was burning, Hitler said, our foes are done now.

01:18:44.100 We will never have a problem ever again with doing what we need to do.

01:18:48.460 They didn't care.

01:18:49.260 Right.

01:18:49.540 And I think that's the same way.

01:18:51.780 You can't tell me that you don't think that there have been those political operatives on both sides that have looked at the news of the day and said that.

01:19:00.900 And, of course, Benghazi, who didn't say that about Benghazi on the right?

01:19:07.420 Oh, well, they're toast now.

01:19:09.040 They are toast now because we're going to make sure.

01:19:12.200 Tragedy.

01:19:14.040 But you take advantage of what is on the ground.

01:19:18.780 Yeah.

01:19:19.040 I mean, and, you know, this this happens so much in our society.

01:19:22.100 I mean, like, you know, this is the thing with Syria right now was a great example of it. 0.95

01:19:25.300 Both sides are trying to make their political points based on the, you know, asphyxiated children.

01:19:31.880 And I think that's I think that's what people are sick of.

01:19:34.180 Yeah, it really sucks.

01:19:35.500 I mean, I understand how it's applicable and I understand how that is always the motivation to always bring it back to the president.

01:19:41.660 How many times have you posted a tweet about some charity you're working with and every response is, well, you should have thought of that before you voted for Hillary, which you didn't do.

01:19:50.000 I mean, it's like our lives get so governed by who is in this one freaking job.

01:19:57.640 And it's like, I, you know, I we're bigger than this.

01:20:00.460 You refuse to let that happen.

01:20:02.040 I mean, you're every every person out there should refuse to let that happen.

01:20:05.820 I mean, it's certainly politics are a big part of our life.

01:20:07.640 And that's why we spend a decent amount of time talking about it.

01:20:09.600 But you can't be obsessed about it.

01:20:10.940 You can't be obsessed with it all the time.

01:20:12.160 Not everything goes back to this all the time.

01:20:14.880 Well, especially the way it's being played to where it's black and white, like this Russia thing.

01:20:20.000 But Susan Rice and the right, I'm sorry, Susan Rice, the left and the media are wrong.

01:20:27.400 But so is Donald Trump and many of his advisors.

01:20:32.100 They're both wrong on on on this story.

01:20:35.700 It's not black or white.

01:20:37.580 It's not like these are the good guys.

01:20:39.160 These are the bad guys.

01:20:40.480 They're arguing two separate things.

01:20:44.900 They're they're they're arguing now about Susan Rice.

01:20:50.520 And they're made it.

01:20:51.640 They've made it about the weakest case, which is Donald Trump said that Obama was spying on the White House.

01:20:58.840 That's the that's the weakest part of this.

01:21:01.780 Well, I mean, and probably the most offensive part of it, in my opinion, is accusing Alex Jones of being a Russian foreign agent, which he is not.

01:21:10.520 And he wants you to know he is not.

01:21:13.240 He's a little upset about a little a tad upset, a little upset.

01:21:16.300 Because does he does he say excuse me at the end?

01:21:18.540 Of course, he does.

01:21:19.900 Because whenever he gets he ever has an outburst, he always says, excuse me, I'm sorry.

01:21:24.480 Excuse me.

01:21:24.700 I'm sorry.

01:21:25.680 Let me say this right now.

01:21:26.900 Let me tell.

01:21:27.800 I'm not against gay people.

01:21:29.600 But I love them.

01:21:30.660 They're great folks.

01:21:31.440 Oh, no.

01:21:31.940 But Schiff looks like the archetype archetypal sucker with those little deer in the headlight eyes and all his stuff.

01:21:39.880 And there's something about this fairy hopping around, bossing everybody around, trying to intimidate people like me and you. 0.93

01:21:45.860 I want to tell Congressman Schiff and all the rest of them, hey, listen, ****hole, quit saying Roger and I.

01:21:52.400 And I've never used cussing in 22 years, but the gloves are on.

01:21:55.500 He's pretty good at it for having not used it in 22 years.

01:22:00.040 It's coming pretty natural like.

01:22:02.140 Oh, he's just getting rolling.

01:22:03.820 He's just getting rolling.

01:22:04.900 He's saying this is about him and Roger Stone.

01:22:07.440 Yeah, Roger Stone is on the show with him.

01:22:09.380 Yeah.

01:22:09.760 That's a great.

01:22:10.620 That's that's that's a mixture of for disaster.

01:22:14.120 Oh, man.

01:22:14.260 Oh, yes, it is.

01:22:15.220 Listen, you son of a ****.

01:22:16.900 What the **** is your problem?

01:22:18.480 You want to sit here and say that I'm a **** damn **** Russian?

01:22:22.280 You get in my face with that.

01:22:23.440 I'll beat your ****. 0.64

01:22:24.340 You son of a ****.

01:22:25.620 You piece of ****.

01:22:26.840 Keep in mind, he hasn't sworn in 22 years.

01:22:28.720 He's never.

01:22:29.180 These words are all unfamiliar to him.

01:22:31.000 He's never used them before.

01:22:32.340 He almost can't remember what they were, how they sound.

01:22:35.480 You **** damn ****. 0.99

01:22:36.500 Listen, **** head.

01:22:37.820 You **** crossed the line.

01:22:39.760 Get that through your **** damn **** head.

01:22:42.520 Stop pushing your ****. 0.94

01:22:43.620 You're the people that have **** this country over and gang raped the **** out of it and 0.56

01:22:47.280 lost an election.

01:22:48.180 So stop shooting your mouth off, claiming I'm the enemy.

01:22:51.000 You got that?

01:22:51.560 You **** damn son of a ****. 0.99

01:22:52.800 Fill your hand.

01:22:53.600 I'm sorry, but I'm done.

01:22:54.840 You start calling me a foreign agent.

01:22:56.620 Those are **** fighting words.

01:22:57.820 Excuse me.

01:22:59.580 Of course.

01:23:00.620 Of course.

01:23:01.040 And we should point out, by the way, that those bleeps were added later.

01:23:07.220 On the air.

01:23:08.220 They were full frontal, man.

01:23:09.120 They went full frontal.

01:23:10.020 Every one of those words said.

01:23:11.580 Yeah.

01:23:12.080 And I, you know, there's this rumor that he has actual radio affiliates.

01:23:17.280 No, he doesn't.

01:23:17.900 I don't know.

01:23:18.500 We can't.

01:23:18.540 Swearing like that.

01:23:19.100 I've heard this a hundred times.

01:23:20.420 I've never heard him on a radio station, but I don't know if he said this on a show.

01:23:25.020 I don't, you know.

01:23:25.620 That would be about a $38 million fine right there.

01:23:28.380 That's every station he was on, the license is gone if that actually aired.

01:23:32.280 I mean, a number of years ago, when he kept saying that he had radio stations, or at least

01:23:36.340 people did, Alex Jones people, I couldn't find one.

01:23:40.520 I mean, it was still the website.

01:23:42.280 I mean, I don't know.

01:23:42.920 Maybe it exists.

01:23:43.680 I don't know.

01:23:44.060 People would know.

01:23:44.700 But if that aired, I mean, I guess maybe the Trump administration wouldn't go after

01:23:48.740 him for FCC violations.

01:23:50.740 That's crazy.

01:23:51.500 But that guy is unhinged.

01:23:53.360 He's crazy.

01:23:54.140 He's deeply troubled.

01:23:56.720 Deeply troubled at the very best.

01:23:58.780 I mean, what?

01:23:59.320 Now, I would also argue, I mean, I really hope he's not deeply troubled because he is

01:24:03.660 the most hilarious part of our society for me right now.

01:24:06.460 Like, it's the only thing I get enjoyment out of is listening to Alex Jones go crazy.

01:24:10.680 He's so nuts all the time.

01:24:14.260 And I believe the only explanation for it is his male vitality formula.

01:24:18.420 So, I understand.

01:24:19.280 Testosterone.

01:24:20.580 Plus, I had a steak last night.

01:24:22.260 I've been eating jalapenos this morning.

01:24:24.620 He's Scott.

01:24:26.560 Love it.

01:24:28.740 Let me check out my shirt real quick.

01:24:30.460 I'll show you my pecs.

01:24:31.680 I'm not bragging.

01:24:32.500 I'm just saying they're huge.

01:24:33.580 He takes his shirt off.

01:24:34.740 He rips his shirt off in moments like that.

01:24:36.600 It's like road rage.

01:24:37.840 Roid rage.

01:24:38.640 It's like Hulk.

01:24:40.000 He rips his shirts off in moments like that.

01:24:42.500 And then, usually, he ends up talking about jalapenos.

01:24:45.700 Sorry, I just had some jalapenos.

01:24:48.100 Wow, I don't know what kind of jalapenos you have, but you should stop having them. 1.00

01:24:52.060 And the worst thing is, like, his business, according to multiple reports, is essentially him selling, schlocking shady supplements that he owns the company for.

01:25:01.240 Like, he makes them.

01:25:02.060 And that's his whole business.

01:25:02.960 He gets people in there.

01:25:03.920 They all believe his shady supplement stuff.

01:25:05.620 And he sells the two of them.

01:25:07.320 But yet, at the same time, he is not in shape at all.

01:25:12.420 And in addition to that, he claims to be 43 years old and looks 70.

01:25:17.760 I mean, legitimately looks at least late 50s.

01:25:21.280 He looks older than Jeffy.

01:25:21.300 He looks literally older than Jeffy.

01:25:23.440 He looks almost identical to Jeffy.

01:25:25.180 And Jeffy is, you know, I mean, he looks good for 94, which he is.

01:25:28.660 But, I mean, let's just put it this way.

01:25:30.160 Jeffy is almost 100% supplements.

01:25:33.400 Yes.

01:25:34.040 Oh, there's no question about that.

01:25:35.260 Yeah.

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01:25:51.040 So, Stu says that we're going to be fascinated by Alec Baldwin's new book.

01:25:56.520 And I think he might be actually kind of accurate.

01:26:00.700 I mean, you know.

01:26:01.880 There's a lot of things about Alec Baldwin that.

01:26:04.880 Or Alec.

01:26:05.820 Or, yeah, Alec.

01:26:07.340 Whatever.

01:26:08.440 I like to.

01:26:08.840 His friends call him Alex.

01:26:10.880 There's a lot of stuff about Alex that I would love to hear his explanation on.

01:26:18.740 For instance.

01:26:19.420 Well, you're lucky.

01:26:20.520 He's got a new book coming out.

01:26:22.220 So, luckily for you, you're going to be able to hear them if you choose to purchase his book.

01:26:25.960 Well, I'm not going to purchase it.

01:26:27.180 But if it's laying around someplace, I'll pick it up.

01:26:29.900 You know, if it's like in a doctor's office and Us Weekly is not there and the golf magazine is not there and there's not like a vomit bag to read or something about psoriasis or venereal disease to read.

01:26:46.320 Then I might read it.

01:26:48.200 I might.

01:26:48.920 I might read it.

01:26:49.600 Wow.

01:26:50.000 That's a high.

01:26:50.560 That's high praise.

01:26:51.280 Yeah.

01:26:51.500 For the Alec Baldwin book.

01:26:52.620 Yeah.

01:26:52.800 So, he was pissed about losing the gig for The Hunt for Red October.

01:26:58.880 He had that gig for Jack Ryan in that series.

01:27:01.980 And then they came up with the sequel, Patriot Games, which he lost to Harrison Ford.

01:27:07.500 And I guess they had asked Ford if he was aware that Paramount was still negotiating with Baldwin when Harrison Ford took the job.

01:27:14.340 Ford's reply, according to this executive, was F him.

01:27:18.460 So, people have been telling Alec Baldwin to F off for quite a long time.

01:27:21.560 So, notice, by the way, for Alec Jones, we didn't just say the word.

01:27:25.160 Yeah.

01:27:25.380 How does he get, how does he have a career?

01:27:28.220 Because everything I've ever heard about him is he's absolutely unlikable.

01:27:32.960 Yeah.

01:27:34.240 Yeah, but his.

01:27:34.660 I mean, he's good and everything, but he's not great.

01:27:37.360 But some of his movies have been, you said he didn't get Hunt for Red October.

01:27:42.060 Yeah, he got Hunt for Red October.

01:27:43.020 But he didn't get the series.

01:27:44.820 Because he was trying to get more money out of it.

01:27:46.320 Right.

01:27:46.540 He ran into, he writes in the book, Harrison Ford in person is a little man.

01:27:51.560 Short, scrawny, and wiry, whose soft voice sounds as if it's coming from behind a door.

01:27:58.540 By the way, Baldwin is shorter than Harrison Ford, just for the record.

01:28:02.900 Wow.

01:28:04.100 He also said.

01:28:05.180 It's really weird.

01:28:06.100 It is.

01:28:06.920 Baldwin recalled hosting SNL when Whitney Houston was the musical guest, approaching her backstage after her dress rehearsal.

01:28:11.800 And he said to her, you truly are the most talented singer out there today.

01:28:15.960 I said, a bit starstruck.

01:28:17.640 She paused and says, I know, baby.

01:28:20.420 Then walked on.

01:28:21.780 You're the most talented.

01:28:22.900 I know, baby.

01:28:23.980 Pretty good.

01:28:24.880 Jeffrey Katzenberg.

01:28:26.640 When he was, so Baldwin's in The Marrying Man, 1991.

01:28:30.620 Katzenberg tried to put him in his place by telling him that actors were employees and expected to do their jobs and create as little trouble as possible.

01:28:37.060 Which I love.

01:28:38.180 He said, I can get the guard at the gate to play your role.

01:28:41.240 It makes no difference to me.

01:28:42.500 The film itself is the star.

01:28:44.320 Wow.

01:28:44.860 Wow.

01:28:45.440 It makes me like Jeffrey Katzenberg.

01:28:47.160 It does.

01:28:47.560 Playing a role in Knotts Landing.

01:28:51.180 He overdosed on cocaine.

01:28:54.040 Went to work.

01:28:54.880 Never spoke with anyone about what happened.

01:28:56.500 And the girl who drove to the hospital said, are you okay?

01:28:59.780 As if I had poison ivy.

01:29:01.000 He eventually got out of that.

01:29:02.460 And he also apologized for the voicemail he left his daughter.

01:29:06.780 Yeah.

01:29:06.980 That's the one I really want to hear.

01:29:08.480 Yeah.

01:29:09.000 We'll get to that when we come back.

01:29:17.560 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:29:34.760 Lives that have been ruined.

01:29:36.360 We're going to go to the story about the New England Patriot who, you know, a case can be made.

01:29:41.880 He did not commit a double murder.

01:29:45.560 Everyone just assumes that he did.

01:29:48.380 We'll get to that here in just a second.

01:29:50.800 Another life that has been ruined.

01:29:53.120 Alec Baldwin.

01:29:54.180 By him.

01:29:56.760 Some people think he's innocent of wrecking his life.

01:30:00.300 And I point to the evidence of the phone call that he made to his 11-year-old daughter.

01:30:07.180 You have insulted me.

01:30:08.900 You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being.

01:30:13.720 I don't give a damn that you're 12 years old or 11 years old or that you're a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned.

01:30:24.960 So you better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me.

01:30:28.580 So I'm going to let you know just how I feel about what a real little pig you really are. 1.00

01:30:34.000 Now, you don't unhear those.

01:30:36.560 But you also, at the same time, eventually think, why did my mom release that?

01:30:43.580 Oh, yeah.

01:30:44.560 I mean, because they were in the middle of a nasty divorce. 1.00

01:30:46.660 Right.

01:30:47.180 I mean...

01:30:48.100 Because that really makes it now...

01:30:49.640 Because now we're playing it, you know, 10 years later.

01:30:53.260 Right?

01:30:53.540 Like, that's the consequence of that.

01:30:55.820 And he talks about it in his book.

01:30:57.240 Says, my relationship with Ireland, who's the daughter, has healed. 0.99

01:31:01.000 But just as something that has been broken is never quite the same, the fragile years of childhood that are battered by high-conflict divorce are irreversibly affected.

01:31:10.180 The worst thing that one could do is put a child in the middle of those battles, and that's what I did.

01:31:14.060 And I am reminded of it, and I'm sorry for it every day.

01:31:17.220 Good for him.

01:31:18.100 Back on his medication.

01:31:19.620 Yeah, at least for the moment.

01:31:21.560 You know, it's hard, because you never believe Alec Baldwin.

01:31:24.120 I just reflexively don't believe him.

01:31:25.960 But, I mean, you know, you make a horrible mistake like that.

01:31:27.640 He just seems like a bad guy.

01:31:28.220 He does, but, you know, I guess he's trying to make amends anyway.

01:31:33.600 I mean, this is what we see in Hollywood, though.

01:31:35.820 Like Shia LaBeouf.

01:31:37.040 Remember him?

01:31:37.640 The guy who was, he was in Transformers and all those stupid movies.

01:31:41.320 But he also was in the video where he was screaming at Trump supporters in the face.

01:31:46.200 And then he flew a flag.

01:31:48.840 Yeah, that's a fantastic story.

01:31:50.740 I love this story.

01:31:51.560 He flew a flag, and it's not going to be taken down until the end of the Trump administration.

01:31:56.480 We've hidden this flag.

01:31:57.780 It's flying someplace, and it'll never be taken down.

01:32:01.400 Secret location.

01:32:02.880 Unfortunately, people on the Internet just looked at the weather, looked at the star placement, and pinpointed it.

01:32:09.620 The trails from the...

01:32:11.960 Chemtrails.

01:32:12.520 Chemtrails.

01:32:13.140 That's right.

01:32:13.440 The first clue that got him to the right location, to the general vicinity.

01:32:17.280 And then they sent one of their people who lived in the area where they thought it was around beeping their horn so they could wait until they heard it.

01:32:24.080 Unbelievable.

01:32:24.680 They heard it over the Internet and found the flag.

01:32:26.260 So then he moved the flag to overseas.

01:32:28.820 So because that way, it's the only place that would be safe for the flag.

01:32:32.300 So he can't find any place in America somehow to hide this stupid flag, which, of course, is ridiculous anyway.

01:32:38.920 And the flag says, like, you will not intimidate us or something like that.

01:32:42.180 Or we will not be divided.

01:32:43.480 We will not be divided.

01:32:44.240 That was what he was screaming in the ear of the white supremacist Trump fan.

01:32:48.560 And this guy was a white supremacist.

01:32:49.800 As he seemed to be dividing people by screaming like a lunatic right in the face of that guy.

01:32:55.960 He will not divide us.

01:32:57.400 He will not divide us.

01:32:58.140 And to the point of blowing out his vocal cords.

01:32:59.980 So I saw this story about Shia LaBeouf and his new movie, Man Down.

01:33:06.000 And the way I read it was, Man Down, a war thriller with Shia LaBeouf, grossed seven million pounds in the UK when it premiered.

01:33:13.300 However, then I reread that sentence.

01:33:14.980 This is what the sentence actually says.

01:33:16.840 Man Down, a war thriller with Shia LaBeouf, grossed just seven pounds.

01:33:21.520 Eight dollars and seventy cents when it premiered in a single UK theater over the weekend, according to Comscore.

01:33:27.120 And only one ticket?

01:33:29.620 That is the equivalent of selling a single ticket.

01:33:33.320 Because they say it's seven pounds, twenty-one, whatever.

01:33:36.880 How the hell did they do it in the UK?

01:33:38.140 Quit, quit, quit, quit, whatever.

01:33:40.720 Squid.

01:33:41.320 Pretty, pretty bad.

01:33:42.240 So, I mean, sales have room to grow in the United Kingdom.

01:33:45.580 He'll be like, we increased our sales by one hundred percent because me and my friend went.

01:33:50.460 Well, when the word of mouth spreads.

01:33:52.580 Yeah.

01:33:53.060 It could, it could.

01:33:54.560 When Tom tells Bill, if he can get to Bill.

01:33:56.460 He can bring in twenty bucks.

01:33:57.700 Yeah.

01:33:58.040 He can get to Bill.

01:33:59.060 Bill, Bill might bring his whole family.

01:34:01.380 Interestingly, they actually think that might be the case.

01:34:04.840 This is how the story ends.

01:34:06.340 All the attention about the small grosses may have a side benefit. 0.97

01:34:08.900 It could raise attention for the low profile project.

01:34:11.960 There could be a silver lining to those seven pounds.

01:34:14.180 What, what, what, what, what is the project that he decided to spend his time on?

01:34:18.460 It's a thriller.

01:34:20.000 This is, this is the write-up of the Shia LaBeouf career arc right now.

01:34:24.700 After scoring, soaring in big studio blockbusters such as Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, one of the worst movies of all time.

01:34:31.780 I added to this last part.

01:34:33.380 LaBeouf has focused on more indie projects with mixed success.

01:34:37.940 He did earn strong reviews for last year's American Honey.

01:34:40.700 You guys all saw that, right?

01:34:42.180 Not even heard of it.

01:34:43.280 No, me neither.

01:34:43.600 You like to see movies every weekend.

01:34:45.680 That was the highlight, by the way, of his recent career path.

01:34:48.080 So that was where he got the high reviews.

01:34:50.140 Other works such as The Company You Keep and Charlie Countryman have barely registered with critics or audiences.

01:34:58.500 Instead, the media has focused on LaBeouf's off-screen behavior such as several alcohol-related arrests, performance art that recently saw the actor participate in the art installation protesting Donald Trump's presidency.

01:35:10.080 So things aren't going too well there.

01:35:11.280 No, not too well.

01:35:13.540 I guess he'd rather be him than Aaron Hernandez, who we do think is probably going to be convicted of all these crimes.

01:35:17.800 But listen, because this is the guy you're talking about.

01:35:20.100 Former New England Patriot tight end.

01:35:22.780 He is charged with double murder.

01:35:24.620 They think he may be related in multiple gang-related murders.

01:35:28.780 He was actually on a trajectory in the NFL like Gronkowski was.

01:35:34.700 Yeah, superstar potentially.

01:35:37.020 So listen to this.

01:35:38.100 This is from Yahoo Sports.

01:35:39.960 It's not some crazy, you know, conspiracy blog.

01:35:44.100 The prosecution's entire case in the case against Aaron Hernandez is that he got into an altercation at a bar and someone spilled a drink on him.

01:35:55.600 He was so enraged by this drink being spilled on him that he went two hours later and murdered two people and shot another one in the face.

01:36:03.520 Okay, that's the case.

01:36:05.660 However, the first defense witness was Antoine Salvador, who may have just ripped apart the prosecution's entire motive.

01:36:14.520 He is a psychology doctoral student and testified Monday that he met Hernandez at the lounge that night in 2012.

01:36:20.740 He said he was with Hernandez for seven to ten minutes and that at no point did he see someone spill a drink or Hernandez appear angry.

01:36:28.640 Now, of course, seven to ten minutes, you're not going to see the whole story, right?

01:36:33.040 He asked for a photo.

01:36:34.540 The guy, Hernandez, politely declined and then eventually relented.

01:36:37.980 The time here is important, however, in that surveillance video shows that Hernandez was inside the club for only nine minutes, meaning Salvador's testimony puts the two together nearly the entire time.

01:36:50.900 The two then reengaged outside the club for a few minutes where Salvador thanked him for the photo.

01:36:55.200 No problem.

01:36:55.780 Have a good night, said Hernandez.

01:36:57.680 With a witness testimony expected to conclude this week, it's reasonable to ask if the prosecution has overcome its burden to proving Hernandez guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

01:37:06.680 Now, here's some points on that.

01:37:08.980 There is no forensic evidence directly linking Hernandez to the shooting.

01:37:13.700 One witness to the murders initially told police the shooter looks like a female with cornrows. 0.80

01:37:18.680 The only eyewitness fingering Hernandez as the gunman is Alexander Bradley, an acknowledged drug dealer who admits having a bone to pick with Hernandez.

01:37:27.840 The defense revealed Bradley, who's testified Hernandez shot him in the face to shut him up about the double murders,

01:37:32.600 deleted a text message that stated he didn't know for sure who shot him in the face, which is something you typically remember.

01:37:38.820 I don't know if that's.

01:37:40.240 So anyway, I mean, it's kind of interesting in that this is one everyone thinks was an open and shut case.

01:37:45.020 This guy's definitely going to prison.

01:37:46.200 And now the defense actually seems to have somewhat of a case.

01:37:50.480 And we've seen so many of these stories recently.

01:37:52.280 We had John Ziegler on about the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

01:37:55.760 We've seen many historical figures that have been reviled that have turned out to be later in life or after death.

01:38:03.720 We sort of had their reputation rejuvenated.

01:38:06.600 O.J. Simpson.

01:38:07.420 I'm sorry, I don't.

01:38:11.660 We both were on that.

01:38:13.780 I mean, I think everybody in the audience is thinking, where is the real killer?

01:38:18.820 Right.

01:38:19.060 Still out on a golf course.

01:38:20.580 This poor guy's rotten in jail.

01:38:22.440 Well, and he's in jail because he promised to go look on every golf course in America.

01:38:27.400 It was a serial killer.

01:38:29.260 Hopefully when he gets out, I think they're in talks to have a reality show.

01:38:33.060 So maybe he'll start looking again.

01:38:35.240 That is the latest rumor on O.J., by the way.

01:38:37.060 Yeah.

01:38:37.420 That he's going to come out.

01:38:38.100 That he might actually be released finally this year.

01:38:40.060 He's been in jail.

01:38:41.360 It's time to let O.J. get out.

01:38:43.200 Just a really sad story.

01:38:44.420 Is it 10 years, 15 years for trying to get his memorabilia back?

01:38:48.700 That's enough.

01:38:49.300 He held people at gunpoint.

01:38:50.960 Yes, but come on.

01:38:51.780 He could have been in jail for a year.

01:38:53.200 It's not like he's killed people.

01:38:54.560 Well, he also did that, but he was not charged with that.

01:38:56.620 He was found innocent of that charge.

01:38:58.780 Thank you.

01:38:59.380 Yeah, he did it.

01:39:00.740 But, in fact, he wrote a book, If I Did It, which is totally different than actually doing it.

01:39:06.500 Yes.

01:39:07.060 Thank you for acknowledging that.

01:39:09.560 But the point is, to Pat's point here, you don't get additional penalties for a crime

01:39:15.960 you commit because they think you...

01:39:17.760 But that's exactly what they did.

01:39:19.460 That's exactly what happened here.

01:39:20.500 That's exactly what happened.

01:39:21.100 They maxed out this penalty on this crime.

01:39:23.020 To make him pay for what they perceived as an injustice before.

01:39:26.620 That's what they did.

01:39:27.920 They put him in prison for a really long time for this.

01:39:30.280 And it's hard to root against that.

01:39:32.360 It is.

01:39:32.840 But it is the justice system supposed to operate.

01:39:35.660 Oh, really?

01:39:36.340 That's wrong.

01:39:37.420 Innocent.

01:39:38.460 Right?

01:39:38.980 Innocent of what?

01:39:39.460 He was proven innocent in a court of law.

01:39:41.200 Well, he was...

01:39:41.720 Or at least not guilty.

01:39:42.920 He was found not guilty.

01:39:44.940 Not guilty.

01:39:45.080 Yes.

01:39:45.320 That's a difference.

01:39:45.880 In a court of law.

01:39:46.760 Considerably.

01:39:47.840 However, it is...

01:39:49.560 He did go through a court of law.

01:39:50.420 Now, he did lose the civil trial.

01:39:53.480 And you should not be put in jail on another crime and punished for the crime that you

01:40:00.600 were proved innocent of.

01:40:01.620 That's not our legal system.

01:40:02.680 Right.

01:40:02.960 It's double jeopardy.

01:40:04.460 No, no, no.

01:40:05.220 But I'm saying, if they put him in jail for the stealing of the memorabilia extra long

01:40:10.280 because he didn't pay his time, I think that's wrong.

01:40:14.220 However, I think it's quite clear that they did that.

01:40:16.400 Now, he didn't just steal his memorabilia.

01:40:18.900 He held people at gunpoint because he believed they stole their memorabilia.

01:40:22.840 Which, it's not even clear that they did.

01:40:25.580 It doesn't...

01:40:26.000 You know, so...

01:40:26.940 And not to mention, a lot of the stuff that he grabbed was stuff he wasn't supposed to

01:40:30.340 have.

01:40:30.920 Don't start bogging down things with facts.

01:40:32.680 We're talking about O.J. Simpson.

01:40:34.220 What was it he was supposed to have?

01:40:35.460 A knife?

01:40:36.080 An ice cream cone?

01:40:37.860 Bruno Magni shoes?

01:40:39.000 Thank you.

01:40:39.640 Magni shoes?

01:40:40.620 I mean...

01:40:41.320 No, he was...

01:40:42.740 Extra small Donald Trump gloves?

01:40:44.540 Well, according to that documentary, which won the Oscar from ESPN this past...

01:40:48.080 That's the 30 for 30.

01:40:49.540 He went...

01:40:50.260 When he was supposed to be selling off a lot of his possessions, maybe some of them didn't

01:40:55.180 make it to the auction.

01:40:57.140 And he may have acquired some of his things because he was supposed to sell all of his

01:41:02.740 stuff to pay off the bill from the civil trial.

01:41:04.740 And maybe he didn't get to everything.

01:41:06.320 The Goldmans, according to the documentary, got not one penny from him.

01:41:12.400 They won a settlement of $34 million, I think.

01:41:15.620 $34 million.

01:41:16.640 So far, he's paid a grand total of $0.

01:41:19.800 Well, how can he pay his in jail?

01:41:20.960 Zero.

01:41:21.640 Now?

01:41:22.340 Now.

01:41:22.900 In jail, he was trying to pay him.

01:41:24.100 That's why he was trying to get his stuff back to get some money.

01:41:27.200 Poor guy.

01:41:28.580 He was racing home to get a checkbook and to get a pen.

01:41:32.440 And these guys came in and one of them said, would you hold this gun to my head?

01:41:38.280 And he said, what for?

01:41:40.040 And he said, because I have some of your memorabilia.

01:41:42.860 And he said, I don't care about any of that stuff.

01:41:45.360 I need to get a check for Nick Holes' family.

01:41:50.920 And that's when things got dicey.

01:41:52.600 And then the police come in and he's holding the gun and he's black.

01:41:56.300 So what do you think they're going to do?

01:41:57.720 So bad.

01:41:58.780 I don't think any of that is accurate.

01:42:00.920 What a racist.

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01:42:13.840 Well, one of the guys that I have warned against since the beginning,

01:42:17.720 I've warned about Manafort, Flynn, and Bannon.

01:42:22.420 Trump has fired Manafort.

01:42:24.180 Then Trump fired Flynn.

01:42:25.760 And now Trump has fired Bannon, at least from the National Security Council.

01:42:30.340 He's removed him from that.

01:42:31.880 And we haven't seen the reasoning yet.

01:42:33.260 I'm sure maybe he was busy.

01:42:34.780 Maybe he needed to spend more time with his family.

01:42:37.140 Maybe he was taking up croquet and learning it.

01:42:39.860 And, you know.

01:42:41.000 That's a big move because Trump fought hard to put him on.

01:42:44.400 He took a lot of heat to put him on that Security Council.

01:42:47.680 Now he's gone for some reason.

01:42:49.980 That's a big move.

01:42:51.780 Any word on why?

01:42:53.040 This story has just broken up.

01:42:54.340 We're just saying that it was just a shake-up.

01:42:56.080 Yeah, there's already a reorganization going on, apparently, within the administration.

01:43:02.000 And, you know, these things do happen for presidents.

01:43:04.380 But it's pretty quick for this to happen.

01:43:06.520 I mean, the Flynn thing happened like an hour after he got inaugurated, I think.

01:43:10.420 And his family is moving in.

01:43:12.720 So, I mean, we have a royal family now.

01:43:15.100 And I am much more comfortable, quite honestly, with the family than I am with Flynn and Bannon and Manafort.

01:43:25.920 No doubt about it.

01:43:26.920 I don't think the Trump family wants to, you know, see America burn down to the ground and reset after a giant failure.

01:43:35.580 I don't think any of them think that way, where Bannon does.

01:43:39.100 And so, I don't know what we're getting with the family, other than a royal family.

01:43:46.160 But, and I love people who say that, you know, the press is, you know, nobody is causing this.

01:43:53.680 Trump is firing all these people.

01:43:56.060 He's walking in and saying, the world famous, you're fired.

01:43:58.840 Yeah, everyone keeps saying, well, the media is going after him.

01:44:01.060 Well, I mean, Donald Trump keeps firing these people that the media goes after.

01:44:04.820 So, either he's folding to the media or he agrees with the media.

01:44:07.960 Yeah, one of the two.

01:44:09.180 And sometimes he's been leading the media.

01:44:11.020 Yeah.

01:44:11.280 He led it on Manafort.

01:44:12.260 He did.

01:44:12.700 He led it on Manafort.

01:44:24.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:44:29.060 Mercury.

01:44:37.960 This will be somewhere across the country.

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The Glenn Beck Program - April 05, 2017

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