The Glenn Beck Program - 5⧸18⧸17 - What President Trump should be doing right now! (Sen. Ben Sasse)

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00:00:08.160 Boy, are we living in the days where it is massive news story after massive news story.

00:00:17.580 Roger Eugene Ailes, president of Fox News, founder of Fox News,

00:00:26.200 CEO of the Fox Television Station Group, the consultant for Richard Nixon,

00:00:33.520 Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani's first mayoral campaign,

00:00:40.020 helped brief Donald Trump with the debate preparation,

00:00:45.280 and so much more has passed away.

00:00:50.700 The news broke about a half an hour ago, and I want to spend some time there.

00:01:00.440 Roger Ailes, right now.

00:01:03.980 I will make a stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand.

00:01:12.320 Because we are one. I will be my drum. I have made my choice.

00:01:18.620 We will overcome. Because we are one.

00:01:23.020 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:26.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:30.380 The statement has just been released by Elizabeth Ailes, Roger Ailes' wife.

00:01:36.380 I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, has passed away this morning.

00:01:42.100 Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son, Zachary, and a loyal friend to many.

00:01:47.340 He was a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity

00:01:51.360 to work hard, to rise, and to give back.

00:01:54.400 During a career that stretched over more than five decades,

00:01:58.040 his work in entertainment and politics and news affected the lives of many millions.

00:02:03.140 We mourn his death, and we celebrate his life.

00:02:07.040 Could this month be any more impactful?

00:02:14.640 Every day, it seems, there is something massive that is happening.

00:02:19.360 Roger Ailes and I had a very interesting relationship.

00:02:29.760 And I will tell you that I am torn,

00:02:36.400 as Roger Ailes is one of the biggest tutors in my life,

00:02:50.040 and one of the biggest disappointments in my life.

00:02:57.240 Roger was a tremendous performer and chameleon.

00:03:03.660 He could be whoever he needed to be at the time,

00:03:10.100 whoever he was around.

00:03:12.160 He was a brilliant, brilliant man.

00:03:16.760 And I truly believe, I could be wrong,

00:03:21.760 because he was such a great performer,

00:03:25.100 I truly believe I saw the best side of him.

00:03:27.940 In private conversations,

00:03:31.120 I really liked him.

00:03:33.860 The side of him that I saw,

00:03:36.680 I really liked.

00:03:38.860 The side of him that I saw come out

00:03:41.800 towards the end,

00:03:44.480 I despised.

00:03:46.660 And couldn't get away from fast enough.

00:03:48.800 He was a very dangerous man.

00:03:56.380 And I think he knew that.

00:03:58.700 I know he knew that.

00:04:00.360 But I think it bothered him.

00:04:03.000 I think Roger and I had a relationship

00:04:06.420 that honestly,

00:04:11.800 when I left Fox,

00:04:14.860 we had a gun to each other's head.

00:04:18.740 I'm the only one to have left Fox

00:04:21.180 with minimal damage.

00:04:23.760 As he said,

00:04:24.700 you're not leaving here.

00:04:25.520 Nobody leaves here.

00:04:26.740 I said, I am.

00:04:27.460 And because I had my own PR department,

00:04:33.540 because I had my own radio show

00:04:34.960 completely disconnected from him

00:04:36.620 and Fox,

00:04:38.540 because I kept my whole staff in my office

00:04:41.700 and not in their office,

00:04:44.140 we did some things right

00:04:46.120 that had never been done before.

00:04:47.560 And it really made Roger upset

00:04:52.940 because he couldn't get his thumb on me.

00:04:57.460 The one thing I learned at Fox early on,

00:05:02.620 and I thought early on

00:05:03.920 that it was a good thing,

00:05:06.180 I would say,

00:05:07.380 you know,

00:05:07.960 you have so many opportunities.

00:05:09.640 You know,

00:05:09.920 what about,

00:05:10.780 have you thought about doing X, Y, and Z?

00:05:12.620 And people would say,

00:05:13.700 oh no,

00:05:14.060 I could never leave here.

00:05:15.960 I could never leave Roger.

00:05:17.600 I owe him too much.

00:05:19.960 I always thought that was really nice

00:05:21.340 and loyalty

00:05:21.840 and he really could mentor you.

00:05:24.560 As I found out

00:05:26.040 within my first year,

00:05:28.200 I'm not sure that's exactly

00:05:29.860 what everybody meant.

00:05:31.620 I think Roger could,

00:05:33.260 would,

00:05:34.260 and did,

00:05:35.320 find out the dirt

00:05:36.860 on pretty much everybody

00:05:38.380 and then put his finger down on you

00:05:41.300 and he would control you.

00:05:44.780 One of the reasons

00:05:45.620 why I said no to him

00:05:47.160 three times

00:05:48.140 and I didn't want to go to work

00:05:50.800 at Fox News.

00:05:51.560 At the time,

00:05:52.040 we were talking about

00:05:52.800 doing something

00:05:53.680 and creating something

00:05:54.680 for HBO

00:05:55.320 and I wanted to get out of news

00:05:58.040 and Roger

00:06:00.540 had called several times

00:06:02.860 and finally met with me

00:06:05.460 in Rupert Murdoch's

00:06:07.900 dining room

00:06:09.400 and I said,

00:06:11.900 he said,

00:06:13.280 what is it

00:06:14.040 about the more money

00:06:15.700 and the bigger ratings

00:06:16.840 that we're offering you

00:06:17.860 that you don't seem

00:06:18.400 to be interested in?

00:06:19.280 And I said,

00:06:20.640 Roger,

00:06:20.960 you're very smart.

00:06:22.300 You're very smart.

00:06:23.460 But watching you,

00:06:25.040 I know what you do.

00:06:26.800 And I said,

00:06:27.700 you collect curiosities

00:06:30.320 and you put them

00:06:31.300 in a cabinet.

00:06:32.600 And I said,

00:06:33.480 right now,

00:06:34.120 I'm a curiosity.

00:06:35.920 And I said,

00:06:36.920 I'm,

00:06:37.840 I'm,

00:06:38.820 I would probably

00:06:40.140 do the same thing

00:06:41.220 if I were you.

00:06:42.220 Anybody who could,

00:06:43.500 anybody who could make a name

00:06:44.840 for themselves

00:06:45.520 outside of my empire,

00:06:48.780 if I had your money,

00:06:49.940 I probably would say,

00:06:51.080 you know what,

00:06:51.420 bring them in here 0.95

00:06:52.180 and then we'll just

00:06:53.200 set them on the shelf

00:06:54.060 and we can bring them out

00:06:55.020 when we need them.

00:06:55.640 I said,

00:06:55.860 I'm not going to be

00:06:56.460 kept in somebody's cabinet.

00:07:01.540 I remember,

00:07:02.540 I remember the first month

00:07:05.240 when I still really believed

00:07:07.180 that we were on the same team.

00:07:08.820 He had something called

00:07:14.420 the brain room.

00:07:15.260 We've never talked about this

00:07:16.480 before.

00:07:18.000 He had something called

00:07:18.860 the brain room.

00:07:20.700 And little did I know

00:07:22.800 what that brain room

00:07:23.600 was really for.

00:07:25.360 And he had talked about,

00:07:27.120 let me just,

00:07:28.120 let me put that

00:07:28.600 through the brain room.

00:07:29.980 And this is when

00:07:31.040 I saw the good side

00:07:32.720 of Roger Ailes.

00:07:33.460 I saw the patriot.

00:07:34.700 I saw the guy

00:07:35.600 who would use his resources

00:07:37.080 for good.

00:07:37.860 somebody who was

00:07:39.700 really a genius,

00:07:41.740 truly a genius.

00:07:44.280 And he would say,

00:07:46.060 let's put this

00:07:47.080 through the brain room.

00:07:48.280 And we were talking

00:07:48.980 about the border

00:07:49.620 and everything else.

00:07:51.400 And if you remember

00:07:52.100 one episode early on

00:07:53.240 at Fox,

00:07:53.900 I talked about the border.

00:07:55.800 And I said,

00:07:56.580 you know,

00:07:56.780 I made a promise

00:07:57.460 to these families

00:07:59.100 down at the border

00:07:59.860 that we would tell

00:08:00.520 your story.

00:08:02.440 I said,

00:08:03.100 I couldn't get the resources

00:08:04.340 at CNN.

00:08:06.140 I said,

00:08:06.820 but the resources

00:08:08.360 are here.

00:08:10.360 And the Calvary

00:08:11.600 is coming.

00:08:15.020 That never materialized

00:08:16.760 because it wasn't

00:08:19.660 in the agenda.

00:08:22.440 But the brain room

00:08:23.680 had helped me

00:08:24.420 on so many different things

00:08:25.920 because we were looking

00:08:26.900 at such complex figures.

00:08:28.720 And what the brain room

00:08:30.180 was,

00:08:31.420 former cops,

00:08:32.480 former investigators,

00:08:34.100 IT people,

00:08:36.000 you name it.

00:08:37.420 And what they did

00:08:39.020 was they would do research.

00:08:41.760 Now,

00:08:42.380 I thought they were

00:08:43.240 doing research

00:08:44.280 for all of us.

00:08:48.400 Roger had given me

00:08:49.820 access to an email

00:08:51.780 and said,

00:08:52.200 just send it to the brain room. 0.85

00:08:54.120 Okay,

00:08:54.800 I thought everybody

00:08:55.620 did that.

00:08:57.460 Well,

00:08:58.000 I also was somebody

00:08:59.120 who appreciates

00:09:00.840 when people

00:09:01.520 are doing hard work.

00:09:03.520 And so,

00:09:03.860 they had just done something,

00:09:05.080 I don't remember

00:09:05.500 what it was,

00:09:06.200 but they had tracked

00:09:06.920 down something for me.

00:09:08.920 And so,

00:09:09.500 I went into

00:09:10.400 my office

00:09:11.620 and I got a whole

00:09:12.460 bunch of swag.

00:09:13.780 I got a whole bunch

00:09:14.360 of Glenn Beck stuff

00:09:15.420 and,

00:09:16.100 you know,

00:09:16.460 books and t-shirts

00:09:17.800 and polos

00:09:18.980 and caps

00:09:19.560 and everything else.

00:09:20.260 and I just brought

00:09:21.900 boxes of stuff

00:09:23.140 to Fox that day

00:09:24.300 and I went down

00:09:25.100 into the basement

00:09:25.800 where somebody

00:09:26.780 had told me

00:09:27.220 where the brain room was

00:09:28.320 and it was just

00:09:29.700 down this one hallway

00:09:31.000 and it had a combination

00:09:32.760 lock on the door

00:09:33.820 and a peephole.

00:09:38.720 And I

00:09:39.480 knocked on the door

00:09:41.660 or rang the doorbell

00:09:42.580 and it opened

00:09:43.940 like a crack

00:09:45.200 and the guy inside

00:09:46.840 said,

00:09:48.260 hey Mr. Beck,

00:09:48.900 how can we help you?

00:09:51.320 And I said,

00:09:52.920 hey,

00:09:53.360 it was weird,

00:09:54.100 awkward.

00:09:54.880 Hey,

00:09:55.080 I just got a bunch

00:09:56.100 of stuff here

00:09:57.100 and I just wanted

00:09:58.560 to give it to you guys

00:09:59.360 and personally thank you

00:10:00.360 for all of your help.

00:10:01.680 And he's like,

00:10:02.360 um,

00:10:03.040 okay.

00:10:03.860 And he kind of looked

00:10:04.620 around behind him.

00:10:05.680 The door was still,

00:10:06.480 I couldn't see really

00:10:07.300 into the room.

00:10:08.480 The door was open

00:10:09.260 just a little crack

00:10:10.100 and he's like,

00:10:10.680 okay,

00:10:11.120 well,

00:10:11.500 you know what,

00:10:12.060 our boss just walked out.

00:10:14.780 I said,

00:10:16.220 I just want to just

00:10:16.880 shake everybody's hand

00:10:17.580 and thank them.

00:10:18.400 And he's like,

00:10:19.880 um,

00:10:21.140 okay,

00:10:22.100 quick, 0.77

00:10:22.400 come on in.

00:10:23.120 He opens up the door

00:10:24.160 and I bring the box

00:10:24.980 of stuff in

00:10:25.620 and I shake everybody's hand

00:10:27.340 and I see this

00:10:28.600 pretty impressive room

00:10:30.880 and,

00:10:32.260 um,

00:10:33.000 and a whole bunch

00:10:33.680 of people in there

00:10:34.260 and I'm like,

00:10:35.520 hey,

00:10:35.720 I just want to thank you guys

00:10:36.940 and so,

00:10:38.180 what is it you guys do here?

00:10:40.660 And they were like,

00:10:41.300 oh,

00:10:41.460 you know,

00:10:41.740 just,

00:10:42.040 you know,

00:10:42.340 just,

00:10:42.720 you know,

00:10:42.920 stuff like you.

00:10:44.200 And I'm like,

00:10:44.720 oh,

00:10:44.940 that's great.

00:10:45.500 Well,

00:10:45.680 thanks guys.

00:10:46.400 I leave.

00:10:47.940 That was the last time

00:10:49.140 I was allowed to even

00:10:50.240 discuss the brain room.

00:10:52.500 The brain room

00:10:53.400 was the private division

00:10:55.500 of Mr. Ailes.

00:10:58.900 So when people said,

00:11:00.540 I owe Roger too much,

00:11:02.540 I believe that to be true.

00:11:06.440 I'd like to check

00:11:07.380 with my attorneys

00:11:08.180 before I tell you

00:11:09.220 another reason

00:11:10.200 why I believe that,

00:11:11.820 uh,

00:11:12.220 but,

00:11:12.620 uh,

00:11:13.680 it was a scary place.

00:11:15.840 Roger was a very,

00:11:17.480 very powerful man.

00:11:20.200 There are reasons

00:11:21.400 that I have said,

00:11:23.820 uh,

00:11:24.640 very little

00:11:25.260 about leaving Fox

00:11:27.180 and it has only spilled out

00:11:29.040 in dribs and drabs.

00:11:30.800 He's a very powerful man

00:11:33.080 or was.

00:11:34.200 You did not

00:11:35.340 take on Roger Ailes.

00:11:37.160 When I left Fox,

00:11:38.500 we each had a gun

00:11:39.340 to each other's head.

00:11:40.320 I knew

00:11:40.900 because I had started,

00:11:42.440 uh,

00:11:43.420 the blaze

00:11:44.120 and I knew

00:11:44.740 that we had such,

00:11:45.780 uh,

00:11:46.420 power

00:11:46.800 and Roger knew

00:11:48.080 I was smart

00:11:49.240 and effective

00:11:49.920 and I also knew

00:11:51.760 his power

00:11:52.520 that we walked out

00:11:54.100 of the room

00:11:54.640 the last time

00:11:55.560 kind of smiling

00:11:56.380 with little finger guns

00:11:57.540 pointed at each other

00:11:58.640 figuratively

00:12:00.020 saying,

00:12:00.900 we're going to play nice

00:12:01.660 together,

00:12:02.100 right?

00:12:02.920 Right?

00:12:03.280 We're not going to,

00:12:03.960 we're not going to,

00:12:04.680 we're not going to hurt

00:12:05.200 each other,

00:12:05.780 right?

00:12:06.500 Because it would be bad

00:12:07.500 for the country

00:12:08.240 if we decide

00:12:09.820 to attack each other.

00:12:10.960 He knew

00:12:11.800 that he could

00:12:12.380 absolutely destroy me

00:12:14.460 but he also knew

00:12:16.280 I would put chinks 1.00

00:12:17.400 in the,

00:12:18.080 in the armor

00:12:18.980 at Fox,

00:12:20.020 uh,

00:12:21.080 if we wanted to.

00:12:22.900 I didn't think

00:12:23.880 it was the right thing

00:12:25.060 to do,

00:12:25.840 um,

00:12:27.780 because I thought

00:12:28.640 Fox did

00:12:29.280 good

00:12:30.580 and I knew

00:12:31.560 that

00:12:31.900 there's nobody else

00:12:33.500 and you start

00:12:33.960 taking Fox down,

00:12:34.960 there's nobody else

00:12:36.420 as we are now

00:12:37.400 seeing.

00:12:38.600 And they did

00:12:39.320 a few things

00:12:39.920 like,

00:12:40.340 uh,

00:12:41.760 insinuate

00:12:42.420 that you'd been

00:12:43.420 fired,

00:12:43.860 uh,

00:12:44.880 all of the things

00:12:45.800 that you,

00:12:46.120 all those things,

00:12:46.660 all the things

00:12:47.140 that you heard

00:12:48.260 about me,

00:12:49.200 um,

00:12:50.760 that were,

00:12:51.480 you know,

00:12:52.020 eh,

00:12:52.340 Glenn Beck was fired.

00:12:53.080 Those all came

00:12:53.900 from,

00:12:54.440 uh,

00:12:55.600 from Fox.

00:12:56.220 Fox.

00:12:56.600 But let's,

00:12:57.700 let's,

00:12:58.020 let's concentrate

00:12:58.580 on,

00:12:59.100 on Roger

00:12:59.600 on the good things

00:13:00.400 and the bad things.

00:13:01.820 Those were the bad things.

00:13:03.580 Roger could be 0.84

00:13:04.180 a very wicked man.

00:13:05.740 However,

00:13:07.060 he was

00:13:09.900 unbelievably likable

00:13:11.820 and

00:13:13.500 when I said

00:13:14.540 I think I saw

00:13:15.300 the real Roger Ailes,

00:13:17.620 I could be wrong.

00:13:22.280 But Roger and I

00:13:23.300 from the very beginning

00:13:24.380 had some things

00:13:26.120 in common.

00:13:27.820 He was an optimist

00:13:29.300 from Ohio.

00:13:30.100 He was a guy

00:13:31.780 who believed

00:13:32.620 in the American people

00:13:33.820 to an extent.

00:13:35.380 He,

00:13:35.740 he was a guy

00:13:37.240 who

00:13:38.160 I think

00:13:39.140 at one time

00:13:40.120 really

00:13:41.040 wanted

00:13:41.900 to do good.

00:13:43.660 And I think

00:13:44.640 he made his choice

00:13:45.880 maybe back

00:13:46.740 in the 70s

00:13:47.640 that

00:13:48.480 power

00:13:49.380 is important

00:13:51.420 and that

00:13:52.900 you have to make

00:13:53.880 compromises

00:13:54.680 for power.

00:13:56.420 And quite honestly,

00:13:57.820 I think

00:13:58.540 I think

00:14:01.860 it bothered him

00:14:02.780 to see me

00:14:04.820 not make compromises.

00:14:07.820 He tried

00:14:08.800 to get me

00:14:09.320 to compromise.

00:14:11.860 He,

00:14:12.340 I walked into

00:14:12.940 his office

00:14:13.420 one time

00:14:14.080 and

00:14:15.560 I had found

00:14:18.080 out that

00:14:18.640 his brain room

00:14:21.320 and a private

00:14:22.140 investigator

00:14:22.760 were doing

00:14:23.340 investigations

00:14:24.420 looking into

00:14:26.900 me

00:14:27.200 trying to

00:14:28.020 find a

00:14:28.480 thumb hold

00:14:29.620 and

00:14:31.040 it was right

00:14:31.900 after

00:14:32.240 restoring honor

00:14:33.140 and

00:14:34.740 and my

00:14:38.160 wife and I

00:14:38.700 who had already

00:14:39.340 had people

00:14:39.760 go through

00:14:40.080 our garbage

00:14:40.460 cans

00:14:40.840 laughed.

00:14:41.800 Go ahead.

00:14:42.380 I mean,

00:14:42.600 guys,

00:14:43.140 you can just

00:14:43.440 knock on the

00:14:43.940 door.

00:14:44.560 I mean,

00:14:44.740 we'll show you

00:14:45.360 everything you

00:14:45.860 need.

00:14:46.640 Want to see

00:14:46.960 our bills?

00:14:47.580 Want to see

00:14:48.080 prescription drug

00:14:49.700 bottles?

00:14:50.200 I'll show you

00:14:50.520 whatever you want.

00:14:51.380 I'm clean.

00:14:52.520 I'm open.

00:14:55.060 And

00:14:55.460 Roger called

00:14:56.640 me to his

00:14:57.040 office and

00:14:58.100 he said,

00:14:59.720 you know,

00:14:59.900 there's a lot

00:15:00.380 of people

00:15:00.920 that would

00:15:02.620 like to see

00:15:03.080 you fall.

00:15:04.460 And I said,

00:15:05.720 oh,

00:15:05.960 I know.

00:15:07.200 And he said,

00:15:08.000 and there are a lot

00:15:08.420 of people that are

00:15:09.060 doing investigations

00:15:09.940 on you.

00:15:11.080 And I looked at

00:15:11.940 him and I said,

00:15:13.100 I know.

00:15:15.760 And he

00:15:16.540 reached down

00:15:17.500 and he

00:15:17.940 put a stack

00:15:19.240 of probably

00:15:19.820 about a foot

00:15:20.800 tall

00:15:21.260 of files

00:15:23.080 on his

00:15:23.680 desk that

00:15:24.300 he had

00:15:24.560 pulled out

00:15:25.040 from his

00:15:25.560 credenza

00:15:26.040 behind him.

00:15:27.600 And he

00:15:28.180 put his

00:15:28.480 hand on

00:15:28.960 it.

00:15:32.380 People are

00:15:33.120 searching for

00:15:34.000 everything on

00:15:34.780 you.

00:15:35.480 Now,

00:15:35.760 I contend

00:15:36.480 there was

00:15:37.320 nothing but

00:15:37.900 blank paper

00:15:38.820 in that stack.

00:15:42.380 And I

00:15:43.780 had absolutely

00:15:44.740 no fear

00:15:45.360 because I

00:15:46.320 know who I

00:15:46.720 am.

00:15:47.560 And I

00:15:47.940 said,

00:15:48.680 I know.

00:15:49.420 Then he

00:15:51.780 made the

00:15:52.840 hair stand

00:15:53.520 up on

00:15:53.820 my neck.

00:15:55.660 As he

00:15:56.280 kind of

00:15:56.580 just petted

00:15:57.200 this stack,

00:15:58.100 he said,

00:15:59.160 you have

00:16:00.260 such a

00:16:00.640 good wife.

00:16:02.060 And I

00:16:02.720 said,

00:16:03.780 yes,

00:16:05.580 I do.

00:16:06.680 And I

00:16:07.140 moved up

00:16:08.320 in my

00:16:08.680 seat.

00:16:09.860 And he

00:16:10.520 said,

00:16:11.020 it's always

00:16:11.440 a shame

00:16:12.140 when a

00:16:12.640 man hurts

00:16:13.380 his wife.

00:16:15.080 And I

00:16:15.780 said,

00:16:16.600 yes,

00:16:17.040 it is.

00:16:17.940 And that's

00:16:18.360 why nothing

00:16:19.100 like that

00:16:19.880 has ever

00:16:21.100 happened.

00:16:22.920 And then we

00:16:23.620 went into a

00:16:24.260 stare down

00:16:24.660 for about

00:16:25.080 30 seconds.

00:16:26.940 And he

00:16:27.680 broke his

00:16:28.460 gaze.

00:16:29.400 He picked

00:16:29.720 up his

00:16:30.060 stack and

00:16:30.560 he said,

00:16:31.400 I know.

00:16:33.140 And he

00:16:33.400 put that

00:16:33.780 away and

00:16:34.420 he said,

00:16:35.180 I'm just

00:16:35.680 telling you

00:16:36.080 to be

00:16:36.340 careful.

00:16:39.620 If I

00:16:40.240 didn't know

00:16:40.680 who I

00:16:41.140 was,

00:16:42.820 it was,

00:16:44.860 it would

00:16:45.580 have destroyed.

00:16:46.160 If I

00:16:46.540 wasn't

00:16:46.920 clean,

00:16:48.160 it would

00:16:49.660 have

00:16:49.780 destroyed

00:16:50.180 me.

00:16:53.140 How can

00:16:54.260 a guy

00:16:54.740 say or

00:16:55.320 do things

00:16:55.720 like that

00:16:56.220 and then

00:16:56.820 have,

00:16:57.800 you still

00:16:58.120 have respect

00:16:58.680 for him?

00:17:00.680 Let me

00:17:01.420 tell you,

00:17:02.880 he was

00:17:04.500 diametrically

00:17:05.580 opposed to

00:17:06.280 himself and

00:17:07.080 I think

00:17:07.500 miserable in

00:17:08.880 some ways

00:17:09.500 when he

00:17:10.020 allowed himself

00:17:10.760 to reflect

00:17:11.300 on it.

00:17:12.800 Because let

00:17:13.600 me tell

00:17:13.880 you the

00:17:14.520 amazing

00:17:15.540 things

00:17:16.280 about

00:17:17.440 Roger

00:17:17.780 Ailes

00:17:18.060 and how

00:17:18.740 he's

00:17:19.040 affected

00:17:19.380 your

00:17:19.660 life

00:17:20.060 and you

00:17:21.440 didn't

00:17:21.680 even

00:17:21.880 know.

00:17:23.140 You're

00:17:23.640 listening to

00:17:24.160 the Glenn

00:17:24.540 Beck

00:17:24.780 program.

00:17:25.320 The Glenn

00:17:26.440 Beck

00:17:26.820 program.

00:17:27.940 I will

00:17:28.460 be my

00:17:29.320 drunk.

00:17:30.160 I have

00:17:30.680 made my

00:17:31.440 choice.

00:17:32.360 We will

00:17:32.880 overcome.

00:17:34.840 Because we

00:17:35.480 are one.

00:17:38.340 Mercury.

00:17:39.020 You're

00:17:42.300 listening to

00:17:42.880 the Glenn

00:17:43.280 Beck

00:17:43.520 program.

00:17:45.660 You know,

00:17:46.340 there were

00:17:46.540 two Roger

00:17:47.160 Ailes that

00:17:47.800 I knew.

00:17:49.860 And one

00:17:50.520 was the

00:17:50.960 guy who

00:17:51.300 sat behind

00:17:51.820 the desk

00:17:52.360 and was

00:17:53.100 the guy

00:17:53.520 who made

00:17:55.620 Mr.

00:17:56.880 Potter look

00:17:58.380 like a

00:17:59.360 Girl Scout.

00:18:01.080 Mr.

00:18:01.540 Potter from

00:18:01.920 It's a

00:18:02.160 Wonderful Life.

00:18:02.680 Yeah.

00:18:03.200 Just, I

00:18:03.600 mean, he

00:18:04.120 was a

00:18:05.000 dangerous

00:18:08.100 man.

00:18:10.240 There was

00:18:10.920 that guy

00:18:11.500 and then

00:18:12.220 there was

00:18:12.520 the guy

00:18:12.940 who would

00:18:13.480 say,

00:18:14.440 come on

00:18:15.700 over here

00:18:15.960 and sit

00:18:16.180 on the

00:18:16.400 couch.

00:18:17.440 After he

00:18:18.200 would do

00:18:18.540 something

00:18:18.860 like that

00:18:19.540 and he

00:18:21.140 would

00:18:21.620 realize

00:18:23.560 I

00:18:24.920 just

00:18:25.540 I didn't

00:18:27.300 win here.

00:18:28.740 He would

00:18:29.500 break.

00:18:30.860 And I

00:18:31.100 want to

00:18:31.320 tell you

00:18:31.620 the story

00:18:32.280 of how

00:18:34.100 I

00:18:34.300 really

00:18:34.680 first

00:18:35.060 saw

00:18:35.340 that

00:18:35.600 break

00:18:35.980 on

00:18:36.580 probably

00:18:36.900 one

00:18:37.080 of

00:18:37.140 the

00:18:37.240 most

00:18:37.420 important

00:18:37.820 days

00:18:38.120 of

00:18:38.260 my

00:19:04.100 time.

00:19:06.160 This is

00:19:06.740 the

00:19:06.900 Glenn Beck

00:19:07.500 program.

00:19:08.780 Roger

00:19:09.200 Ailes

00:19:10.940 dead at

00:19:13.000 77 years

00:19:14.320 old.

00:19:17.800 So many

00:19:18.800 stories I

00:19:19.300 could fill

00:19:19.620 the whole

00:19:20.080 day with

00:19:20.740 Roger Ailes

00:19:21.260 stories because

00:19:22.720 he affected

00:19:23.360 you in

00:19:24.220 ways that

00:19:24.820 you just

00:19:25.220 don't even

00:19:25.640 know.

00:19:26.620 He, you

00:19:27.500 know, in

00:19:28.360 his life he

00:19:29.260 produced a

00:19:29.860 Tony award

00:19:30.480 winning show.

00:19:31.260 he produced

00:19:32.760 or was

00:19:34.700 responsible for

00:19:35.800 giving birth

00:19:36.460 to sitcoms

00:19:39.100 and all

00:19:39.560 things that

00:19:40.080 you just

00:19:40.500 don't know.

00:19:42.220 You know,

00:19:42.520 he's 29

00:19:43.180 years old and

00:19:44.100 he's producing

00:19:44.680 the Mike

00:19:45.200 Douglas show.

00:19:46.080 The stuff

00:19:46.480 that he

00:19:46.920 taught

00:19:47.320 Reagan,

00:19:47.960 the stuff

00:19:48.280 that he

00:19:48.640 taught

00:19:49.860 unfortunately

00:19:51.540 Nixon,

00:19:52.720 the things

00:19:53.240 that he

00:19:53.500 taught me

00:19:54.260 are

00:19:54.680 remarkable,

00:19:56.140 just

00:19:56.540 remarkable.

00:19:57.260 But as I

00:20:00.880 said, there's

00:20:01.220 a double

00:20:01.820 edge to

00:20:02.400 him.

00:20:03.180 And a

00:20:06.520 story I

00:20:07.020 don't think

00:20:08.400 I've told

00:20:09.080 outside of

00:20:12.280 my inner

00:20:12.580 circle, it

00:20:13.300 was probably

00:20:13.960 the most

00:20:14.840 important day

00:20:16.320 of my

00:20:16.800 career.

00:20:19.220 And it

00:20:20.140 was the,

00:20:22.900 it began

00:20:24.240 the day

00:20:24.700 that Gabby

00:20:25.200 Giffords

00:20:25.540 was shot.

00:20:26.100 and you

00:20:26.580 have to

00:20:26.880 go back

00:20:27.420 in time

00:20:27.980 and think

00:20:29.300 about what

00:20:29.860 was happening

00:20:30.680 at the

00:20:31.340 time.

00:20:32.600 This was

00:20:33.360 at the

00:20:34.080 apex of,

00:20:35.880 you know,

00:20:38.440 the look,

00:20:38.920 they're trying

00:20:39.360 to, this

00:20:40.000 rhetoric is

00:20:40.620 going to get 0.96

00:20:40.940 people killed 0.99

00:20:41.620 and they're

00:20:41.920 trying to

00:20:42.260 start a

00:20:42.620 war and

00:20:43.140 they're yada

00:20:44.180 yada yada.

00:20:45.360 And everything

00:20:46.200 was being

00:20:46.760 blamed on

00:20:47.780 anybody who

00:20:49.020 said anything

00:20:49.620 about the

00:20:50.060 president.

00:20:51.020 And it

00:20:51.680 was me and

00:20:52.440 Sarah Palin

00:20:53.160 who were at

00:20:53.760 the point of

00:20:55.020 the spear.

00:20:56.100 and I

00:20:59.940 was sitting

00:21:00.300 in a

00:21:00.560 Broadway show

00:21:01.240 and about

00:21:02.220 halfway through

00:21:03.000 my security

00:21:04.020 came in and

00:21:04.860 passed their

00:21:05.520 phone down

00:21:06.120 the aisle.

00:21:06.580 It made

00:21:06.900 them very

00:21:07.220 popular.

00:21:07.860 Could you

00:21:08.220 pass this

00:21:08.740 to that

00:21:09.060 guy down

00:21:09.380 there?

00:21:09.840 They

00:21:10.300 passed

00:21:10.700 their

00:21:10.900 phone

00:21:11.140 to me

00:21:11.600 and on

00:21:13.100 it,

00:21:13.320 it just

00:21:13.840 had the

00:21:14.260 story,

00:21:15.460 Gabby

00:21:15.720 Giffords

00:21:16.100 shot in

00:21:17.460 the hospital.

00:21:19.200 And I

00:21:19.860 looked at

00:21:20.340 my wife

00:21:21.100 and I

00:21:22.780 said,

00:21:23.380 the whole

00:21:23.660 world's

00:21:23.980 about to

00:21:24.320 change.

00:21:25.060 At least

00:21:25.400 ours is.

00:21:27.420 That

00:21:27.980 Monday I

00:21:28.520 got a

00:21:28.760 call from

00:21:29.420 Roger Ailes.

00:21:31.900 I went

00:21:32.220 to my

00:21:32.520 office,

00:21:33.640 three o'clock

00:21:34.340 Thursday.

00:21:36.460 I'll never

00:21:36.880 forget this.

00:21:41.180 Joel

00:21:41.740 Cheatwood

00:21:42.100 came to

00:21:42.500 my office

00:21:42.960 who was

00:21:43.580 still working

00:21:45.000 for Fox

00:21:45.540 and he

00:21:45.840 said,

00:21:46.300 you're 1.00

00:21:47.200 dead. 1.00

00:21:48.380 You're 1.00

00:21:48.580 dead.

00:21:48.860 Roger was

00:21:50.040 trying to

00:21:50.340 get his

00:21:50.600 thumb on

00:21:51.060 me and

00:21:51.420 trying to

00:21:51.740 control me

00:21:52.480 and trying

00:21:53.920 to have

00:21:54.880 something and

00:21:55.620 he couldn't

00:21:56.100 find any

00:21:57.380 dirt on

00:21:57.900 me and 0.71

00:21:58.360 he needed

00:21:58.820 me to

00:21:59.320 owe him.

00:22:01.120 And he's

00:22:01.420 like,

00:22:01.760 you go in

00:22:02.340 there and

00:22:02.960 you're either

00:22:03.400 going to

00:22:03.660 have to

00:22:04.040 fold or

00:22:05.340 he's going

00:22:05.720 to fire

00:22:06.080 you and

00:22:06.480 your career

00:22:07.020 will be

00:22:07.360 over.

00:22:08.360 Because

00:22:08.800 they'll

00:22:09.460 fire you

00:22:10.380 but they'll

00:22:11.680 quietly say,

00:22:14.140 yeah,

00:22:14.380 well,

00:22:14.620 I think

00:22:15.000 Beck was

00:22:15.680 kind of

00:22:15.940 responsible

00:22:16.420 for the

00:22:16.920 Gabby

00:22:17.360 Giffords.

00:22:17.900 That rhetoric,

00:22:18.600 we can't

00:22:19.120 have that.

00:22:19.980 That would

00:22:20.360 have destroyed

00:22:20.860 me forever.

00:22:23.900 Literally,

00:22:24.940 I reached

00:22:28.100 out to

00:22:28.440 one very

00:22:28.900 powerful

00:22:29.360 friend who

00:22:30.900 had run

00:22:31.540 in these

00:22:32.000 circles before

00:22:32.800 and he

00:22:34.080 said,

00:22:35.440 you are

00:22:35.980 dealing with,

00:22:36.760 that's the

00:22:37.040 first time he

00:22:37.600 had said that

00:22:38.220 he really

00:22:38.840 knew Roger

00:22:39.500 really well

00:22:40.220 and had

00:22:42.440 experiences

00:22:42.960 with him

00:22:43.460 and said,

00:22:44.580 you are

00:22:44.800 running in

00:22:45.280 circles,

00:22:45.720 Glenn,

00:22:45.920 you have

00:22:46.260 no idea.

00:22:47.280 and then

00:22:48.720 he said

00:22:49.380 in the

00:22:49.880 middle of

00:22:50.180 the

00:22:50.300 conversation,

00:22:51.160 you're

00:22:51.360 having a

00:22:51.700 heart

00:22:51.880 attack,

00:22:52.260 aren't

00:22:52.420 you?

00:22:52.820 Are you

00:22:53.160 okay?

00:22:54.300 And I'm

00:22:54.520 like,

00:22:54.700 what the 0.54

00:22:54.900 hell are 0.99

00:22:55.080 you even 0.97

00:22:55.320 talking

00:22:55.620 about?

00:22:56.800 You need

00:22:58.220 to get

00:22:58.440 to a

00:22:58.680 hospital

00:22:59.040 right away.

00:23:01.140 And I

00:23:02.520 finally got

00:23:03.300 it.

00:23:03.480 What he

00:23:03.680 was saying

00:23:04.140 was,

00:23:05.660 don't tell

00:23:06.220 anybody,

00:23:07.200 but you

00:23:07.700 have to go

00:23:08.300 someplace for

00:23:09.340 medical

00:23:09.820 reasons.

00:23:10.420 because you

00:23:11.840 will not

00:23:12.760 survive this

00:23:13.900 conversation.

00:23:16.980 I thought

00:23:17.580 about it,

00:23:17.880 I went to

00:23:18.180 my wife and

00:23:18.640 I said,

00:23:18.880 we're living

00:23:19.140 in a 0.79

00:23:19.320 freaking 0.99

00:23:19.520 movie.

00:23:20.940 Do we

00:23:21.180 have passports

00:23:22.360 with other

00:23:22.800 names on

00:23:23.460 it?

00:23:23.640 Is it

00:23:23.760 some safety

00:23:24.320 deposit box

00:23:25.120 in Switzerland

00:23:25.640 too?

00:23:26.140 This is

00:23:26.580 crazy.

00:23:28.240 We decided,

00:23:29.140 no, I'm

00:23:29.380 not going

00:23:29.620 to do

00:23:29.820 that.

00:23:30.640 I'm going

00:23:31.100 to rely

00:23:32.100 on God

00:23:33.340 and I'm

00:23:34.820 going to

00:23:35.140 the meeting.

00:23:35.560 We

00:23:35.700 brainstormed,

00:23:36.420 brainstormed,

00:23:36.780 there was

00:23:36.980 no way

00:23:37.360 out.

00:23:37.580 I get

00:23:39.520 to the

00:23:39.760 meeting and

00:23:40.440 I'm praying

00:23:40.960 for that

00:23:41.300 three-block

00:23:41.880 walk from

00:23:42.500 my office

00:23:42.980 to his

00:23:43.640 and I'm

00:23:44.560 praying,

00:23:45.000 Lord,

00:23:46.180 I got

00:23:47.040 nothing.

00:23:47.960 I have

00:23:48.840 absolutely

00:23:49.620 nothing.

00:23:50.280 I am

00:23:50.800 walking into

00:23:51.520 the lion's

00:23:52.120 den and

00:23:53.640 I got

00:23:54.300 nothing.

00:23:55.180 It's in

00:23:55.460 your hands.

00:23:57.280 I wait

00:23:58.120 in his

00:23:58.880 waiting room.

00:23:59.740 I nervously

00:24:00.520 am thumbing

00:24:02.200 the newspaper

00:24:03.560 of the day

00:24:04.100 which was

00:24:04.440 all about

00:24:04.900 Gabby

00:24:05.180 Giffords.

00:24:05.560 and he

00:24:08.260 calls me

00:24:08.780 in and

00:24:11.420 usually he

00:24:11.940 would say

00:24:12.200 young man

00:24:12.940 and he

00:24:13.360 would hug

00:24:13.700 me or he

00:24:14.200 would give

00:24:14.600 me a

00:24:15.240 firm

00:24:16.260 handshake.

00:24:16.760 This time

00:24:17.120 Mr.

00:24:17.680 Beck and

00:24:19.060 he shook

00:24:19.380 my hand

00:24:19.980 and he

00:24:20.600 sat behind

00:24:21.040 his desk

00:24:21.620 and I

00:24:21.900 sat down

00:24:22.380 and he

00:24:23.660 said as

00:24:26.800 he leans

00:24:27.200 back we

00:24:28.120 need to

00:24:28.940 have a

00:24:29.460 talk.

00:24:30.840 Countries

00:24:31.340 at a

00:24:31.620 crossroads.

00:24:33.520 And I

00:24:34.120 said you

00:24:34.460 know what

00:24:34.720 Roger?

00:24:35.560 Can I

00:24:36.160 say something

00:24:36.520 before we

00:24:36.960 start?

00:24:37.720 I had

00:24:38.040 not planned

00:24:38.580 this.

00:24:39.520 The moment

00:24:40.360 I crossed

00:24:41.360 the threshold

00:24:42.180 of his

00:24:42.640 office I

00:24:43.340 was filled

00:24:44.600 with compassion

00:24:46.780 for this

00:24:47.420 man.

00:24:48.900 It was

00:24:49.300 unbelievable.

00:24:49.820 It almost

00:24:50.140 made me cry.

00:24:51.320 I saw him

00:24:52.180 for this

00:24:52.680 man who

00:24:53.560 had done

00:24:53.980 so much

00:24:54.460 good in

00:24:54.900 his life

00:24:55.440 and yet

00:24:56.300 had fallen

00:24:57.080 into such

00:24:57.940 darkness

00:24:59.060 happiness

00:24:59.180 and was

00:25:00.780 battling

00:25:01.500 and was

00:25:03.120 battling

00:25:03.620 now at

00:25:04.280 the end

00:25:04.580 of his

00:25:04.860 life

00:25:05.260 his own

00:25:05.920 accomplishments.

00:25:07.000 Who was

00:25:07.500 he?

00:25:07.800 How was he

00:25:08.520 going to be

00:25:08.860 remembered?

00:25:10.400 What had

00:25:11.020 he done?

00:25:12.060 What was

00:25:12.380 good?

00:25:12.840 What was

00:25:13.140 bad?

00:25:14.140 And I

00:25:14.600 was just

00:25:15.220 filled with

00:25:16.040 compassion.

00:25:17.440 I couldn't

00:25:17.880 believe it.

00:25:19.100 And I

00:25:19.440 sat down

00:25:20.140 and I

00:25:20.520 said before

00:25:21.180 you start

00:25:21.620 can I

00:25:21.920 say

00:25:22.060 something?

00:25:23.080 He said

00:25:23.720 yes.

00:25:24.140 And I

00:25:24.320 said

00:25:24.640 as I

00:25:26.280 walk into

00:25:26.640 this office

00:25:27.300 I realize

00:25:28.340 that in

00:25:28.800 many ways

00:25:29.420 you helped

00:25:30.840 provide my

00:25:31.720 freedom.

00:25:32.860 He said

00:25:33.100 what are you

00:25:33.300 talking about?

00:25:34.780 I said

00:25:35.360 I know

00:25:35.580 the stories

00:25:36.020 about you

00:25:36.460 and Ronald

00:25:36.820 Reagan.

00:25:37.280 I know

00:25:37.600 what you

00:25:38.060 did for

00:25:38.840 Ronald Reagan

00:25:39.340 and if it

00:25:40.120 wasn't for

00:25:40.560 you and

00:25:41.060 your advice

00:25:41.620 we may

00:25:42.060 not have

00:25:42.360 had

00:25:42.560 Ronald

00:25:42.840 Reagan.

00:25:44.940 We may

00:25:45.580 not have

00:25:45.900 had George

00:25:46.460 H.W.

00:25:47.140 Bush

00:25:47.400 in the

00:25:49.340 way we

00:25:49.780 had George

00:25:50.300 H.W.

00:25:50.800 Bush

00:25:51.060 because

00:25:52.340 you

00:25:52.660 started

00:25:53.060 Fox

00:25:53.520 News

00:25:53.920 imagine

00:25:54.940 an

00:25:55.240 America

00:25:55.740 without

00:25:56.240 Fox

00:25:56.800 News

00:25:57.080 after

00:25:57.400 9-11.

00:25:58.420 How

00:25:58.580 fast

00:25:59.200 would we

00:25:59.580 have

00:25:59.760 gone

00:26:00.140 to

00:26:00.440 the

00:26:00.720 it's

00:26:01.220 our

00:26:01.580 fault

00:26:02.100 America?

00:26:04.260 How

00:26:04.520 many

00:26:04.780 things

00:26:05.240 have

00:26:05.440 you

00:26:05.660 taken

00:26:06.060 a

00:26:06.260 stand

00:26:06.520 or

00:26:06.720 because

00:26:07.080 of

00:26:07.780 you

00:26:08.120 somebody

00:26:08.960 had

00:26:09.280 taken

00:26:09.580 a

00:26:09.800 stand?

00:26:12.360 I

00:26:13.140 want to

00:26:13.440 thank

00:26:13.760 you

00:26:14.080 for

00:26:15.800 giving

00:26:16.120 me

00:26:16.460 a

00:26:16.660 chance

00:26:17.060 to

00:26:17.980 raise

00:26:18.240 children

00:26:18.720 in

00:26:19.060 America

00:26:19.580 that

00:26:20.520 they

00:26:21.160 can

00:26:21.360 kind

00:26:21.800 of

00:26:21.960 understand

00:26:22.520 I

00:26:25.180 come

00:26:25.440 out

00:26:25.700 with

00:26:25.940 this

00:26:26.180 it

00:26:26.340 just

00:26:26.540 pours

00:26:27.040 out

00:26:27.200 of

00:26:27.340 me

00:26:27.540 it's

00:26:27.920 honest

00:26:28.300 it's

00:26:28.680 genuine

00:26:29.120 I'm

00:26:29.380 really

00:26:29.720 feeling

00:26:30.120 it

00:26:30.380 and I

00:26:31.340 look at

00:26:31.720 him

00:26:31.900 and he's

00:26:32.280 crying

00:26:32.640 and he

00:26:34.960 said

00:26:35.280 you really

00:26:36.680 mean that

00:26:37.220 don't you

00:26:37.660 and I

00:26:37.980 said

00:26:38.180 I

00:26:38.380 thought

00:26:38.580 to

00:26:38.700 myself

00:26:38.980 strangely

00:26:39.620 yes

00:26:40.920 and I

00:26:42.540 said

00:26:42.720 yeah

00:26:42.900 I

00:26:43.060 do

00:26:43.400 he

00:26:48.000 gets

00:26:48.180 up from

00:26:48.460 his

00:26:48.600 chair

00:26:48.760 and he

00:26:48.920 says

00:26:49.080 come

00:26:49.580 here

00:26:49.740 and we

00:26:50.660 sit

00:26:50.900 in his

00:26:51.180 couch

00:26:51.520 we

00:26:53.460 talk

00:26:53.820 about

00:26:54.140 just

00:26:54.420 the

00:26:54.640 world

00:26:55.000 and how

00:26:55.580 crazy

00:26:56.080 the

00:26:56.300 world

00:26:56.520 is

00:26:56.860 we

00:26:57.840 talk

00:26:58.040 for

00:26:58.180 45

00:26:58.620 minutes

00:26:58.980 until

00:26:59.240 he

00:26:59.400 says

00:26:59.620 you

00:26:59.760 got

00:26:59.880 a

00:27:00.000 show

00:27:00.140 to

00:27:00.260 do

00:27:00.400 go

00:27:00.580 downstairs

00:27:00.980 I

00:27:02.700 leave

00:27:03.040 his

00:27:03.220 office

00:27:03.600 before

00:27:04.600 the

00:27:04.960 door

00:27:05.200 closes

00:27:05.680 he's

00:27:06.160 back

00:27:06.400 behind

00:27:06.700 his

00:27:06.900 desk

00:27:07.260 and I

00:27:07.920 hear

00:27:08.180 him

00:27:08.420 say

00:27:08.760 get

00:27:09.900 effing

00:27:10.280 Palin

00:27:10.740 on the

00:27:11.060 phone

00:27:11.380 what

00:27:14.520 happened

00:27:14.980 what

00:27:15.400 I don't

00:27:15.800 have

00:27:16.020 any

00:27:16.220 idea

00:27:16.680 but

00:27:19.480 to

00:27:20.540 me

00:27:21.060 this

00:27:22.500 is

00:27:22.820 the

00:27:23.200 Roger

00:27:23.920 Ailes

00:27:24.500 he

00:27:27.240 that

00:27:27.600 died

00:27:28.820 today

00:27:29.260 a

00:27:30.860 guy

00:27:31.160 who

00:27:31.420 was

00:27:31.620 examining

00:27:32.240 his

00:27:32.780 life

00:27:33.360 saying

00:27:34.560 I

00:27:38.060 didn't

00:27:38.660 mean

00:27:38.940 to be

00:27:39.180 a

00:27:39.300 bad

00:27:39.500 guy

00:27:39.700 I

00:27:40.640 don't

00:27:40.780 want

00:27:40.980 to

00:27:41.060 be

00:27:41.140 a

00:27:41.240 bad

00:27:41.360 guy

00:27:41.460 I

00:27:41.600 started

00:27:41.960 out

00:27:42.160 trying

00:27:42.380 to

00:27:42.480 be

00:27:42.560 a

00:27:42.700 good

00:27:42.860 guy

00:27:43.260 I

00:27:44.860 wanted

00:27:45.080 to

00:27:45.260 do

00:27:45.380 the

00:27:45.560 right

00:27:45.760 thing

00:27:46.120 and

00:27:47.100 somehow

00:27:47.360 or

00:27:47.540 another

00:27:47.680 got

00:27:47.940 lost

00:27:48.420 and

00:27:48.700 tangled

00:27:49.100 up

00:27:49.460 in

00:27:49.760 all

00:27:51.120 kinds

00:27:51.540 of

00:27:51.700 stuff

00:27:52.040 I

00:27:54.420 found

00:27:54.760 him

00:27:55.060 an

00:27:55.340 inspiring

00:27:56.340 guy

00:27:56.880 in

00:27:58.420 more

00:27:58.680 than

00:27:58.860 one

00:27:59.060 way

00:27:59.420 inspiring

00:28:00.800 because

00:28:01.400 the

00:28:02.120 things

00:28:02.580 that

00:28:02.780 he

00:28:02.960 knew

00:28:03.260 the

00:28:03.480 things

00:28:03.960 that

00:28:04.180 he

00:28:04.400 had

00:28:04.660 done

00:28:05.000 in

00:28:05.160 his

00:28:05.400 life

00:28:05.820 you

00:28:06.840 know

00:28:06.880 I

00:28:06.980 was

00:28:07.100 at

00:28:07.220 his

00:28:07.380 house

00:28:07.720 and

00:28:08.540 in

00:28:10.980 his

00:28:11.200 library

00:28:11.660 this

00:28:11.940 amazing

00:28:12.840 library

00:28:13.440 with

00:28:13.780 artifacts

00:28:14.800 and

00:28:15.340 things

00:28:15.680 that

00:28:15.880 he

00:28:16.620 collected

00:28:17.260 not

00:28:18.280 like

00:28:18.600 I

00:28:18.740 went

00:28:18.960 to

00:28:19.100 an

00:28:19.240 auction

00:28:19.460 and

00:28:19.740 bought

00:28:20.000 it

00:28:20.220 I

00:28:20.900 was

00:28:21.180 there

00:28:21.840 and

00:28:24.400 the

00:28:25.460 door

00:28:25.840 to

00:28:26.020 his

00:28:26.220 library

00:28:26.780 was

00:28:27.540 this

00:28:27.740 solid

00:28:28.040 wood

00:28:28.300 door

00:28:28.580 and

00:28:29.020 he

00:28:29.320 went

00:28:29.580 in

00:28:29.900 and

00:28:30.240 we

00:28:30.460 were

00:28:30.580 going

00:28:30.680 to

00:28:30.700 have

00:28:30.800 a

00:28:30.920 talk

00:28:31.160 and

00:28:31.260 he

00:28:31.380 closed

00:28:31.720 the

00:28:31.920 door

00:28:32.140 and

00:28:33.720 as

00:28:35.180 I'm

00:28:35.400 walking

00:28:35.720 out

00:28:35.960 after

00:28:36.180 this

00:28:36.460 meeting

00:28:36.880 with

00:28:37.080 him

00:28:37.180 I

00:28:37.260 don't

00:28:37.380 even

00:28:37.500 remember

00:28:37.740 what

00:28:37.900 it

00:28:38.040 was

00:28:38.460 we

00:28:38.660 were

00:28:38.760 just

00:28:38.940 talking

00:28:39.580 and

00:28:39.860 I

00:28:40.660 get

00:28:41.320 up

00:28:41.620 and

00:28:41.780 he's

00:28:42.140 taking

00:28:42.340 a

00:28:42.460 phone

00:28:42.600 call

00:28:42.800 or

00:28:42.920 something

00:28:43.160 and

00:28:43.400 I

00:28:43.520 get

00:28:43.640 up

00:28:43.740 and

00:28:43.820 I

00:28:43.880 start

00:28:44.100 walking

00:28:44.400 towards

00:28:44.700 the

00:28:44.900 door

00:28:45.120 and

00:28:46.180 I

00:28:47.100 see

00:28:47.480 this

00:28:47.800 picture

00:28:48.260 this 0.97

00:28:48.480 black

00:28:48.860 and

00:28:57.540 office

00:28:57.960 and

00:28:59.380 he

00:28:59.660 is

00:29:00.180 there's

00:29:00.900 a

00:29:01.040 camera

00:29:01.520 beside

00:29:03.300 him

00:29:03.800 and

00:29:04.380 he

00:29:04.540 is

00:29:04.740 pointing

00:29:05.180 down

00:29:06.100 to

00:29:07.080 the

00:29:07.400 left

00:29:07.800 and

00:29:09.520 he

00:29:10.260 hangs

00:29:10.560 up

00:29:10.720 the

00:29:10.880 phone

00:29:11.120 or

00:29:11.300 whatever

00:29:11.660 and

00:29:12.080 I

00:29:12.240 said

00:29:12.540 now

00:29:13.480 this

00:29:13.640 is

00:29:13.780 behind

00:29:14.140 a

00:29:14.360 door

00:29:14.560 the

00:29:14.760 door

00:29:14.940 is

00:29:15.060 usually

00:29:15.320 open

00:29:15.680 and

00:29:17.100 I

00:29:17.220 said

00:29:17.620 Roger

00:29:18.500 what

00:29:18.680 is

00:29:18.800 this

00:29:18.980 picture

00:29:19.300 and

00:29:20.160 he

00:29:20.300 said

00:29:20.640 oh

00:29:21.680 that's

00:29:22.100 that was

00:29:23.500 the first

00:29:23.800 split

00:29:24.420 screen

00:29:24.780 and

00:29:26.320 I

00:29:26.440 said

00:29:26.780 what

00:29:27.620 and

00:29:28.740 he

00:29:28.860 said

00:29:29.100 somebody

00:29:29.460 had

00:29:29.640 to

00:29:29.740 come

00:29:29.880 up

00:29:30.020 with

00:29:30.120 a

00:29:30.240 split

00:29:30.500 screen

00:29:30.760 you

00:29:30.900 know

00:29:30.980 we

00:29:31.100 didn't

00:29:31.300 always

00:29:31.740 have

00:29:32.060 split

00:29:32.440 screen

00:29:32.880 and

00:29:33.700 I'm

00:29:33.800 like

00:29:33.900 don't

00:29:34.040 talk

00:29:34.220 down

00:29:34.380 to

00:29:34.460 me

00:29:34.620 and

00:29:36.120 I

00:29:36.800 said

00:29:37.060 what

00:29:37.240 was

00:29:37.480 it

00:29:37.600 and

00:29:37.700 he

00:29:37.820 said

00:29:38.240 we

00:29:39.660 were

00:29:39.780 in

00:29:39.880 the

00:29:40.000 Oval

00:29:40.200 office

00:29:40.580 it

00:29:41.640 was 0.97

00:29:41.760 Dick

00:29:42.000 Nixon

00:29:42.300 and

00:29:43.760 I

00:29:43.920 said

00:29:44.420 we

00:29:45.760 should

00:29:46.020 come

00:29:46.240 up

00:29:46.400 with

00:29:46.520 a

00:29:46.640 way

00:29:46.920 to

00:29:47.180 where

00:29:47.560 Dick

00:29:48.720 can 0.99

00:29:49.680 talk

00:29:50.360 to

00:29:51.300 Neil

00:29:52.020 Armstrong

00:29:52.420 but

00:29:53.540 we

00:29:53.720 should

00:29:53.920 split

00:29:54.360 the

00:29:54.560 screen

00:29:54.960 so

00:29:55.620 when

00:29:55.900 Neil

00:29:56.280 is

00:29:56.960 on

00:29:57.260 the

00:29:57.440 moon

00:29:57.780 he's

00:29:59.000 in

00:29:59.120 one

00:29:59.360 box

00:29:59.760 and

00:30:00.780 the

00:30:01.100 president

00:30:01.500 is

00:30:01.780 in

00:30:01.960 the

00:30:02.060 other

00:30:02.240 box

00:30:02.660 this

00:30:03.560 is

00:30:03.660 revolutionary

00:30:04.160 thinking

00:30:04.720 at the

00:30:05.020 time

00:30:05.340 and

00:30:06.620 he

00:30:06.780 said

00:30:07.020 but

00:30:07.160 when

00:30:07.300 we

00:30:07.440 put

00:30:07.620 it

00:30:07.760 together

00:30:08.200 you

00:30:08.840 know

00:30:09.020 Neil

00:30:09.500 is

00:30:09.960 on

00:30:10.520 the

00:30:10.660 moon

00:30:10.960 we

00:30:12.440 don't

00:30:12.620 know

00:30:12.800 which

00:30:13.020 way

00:30:13.260 he's

00:30:13.620 going

00:30:13.800 to

00:30:13.900 be

00:30:14.040 facing

00:30:14.520 or

00:30:14.840 turning

00:30:15.180 or

00:30:15.380 anything

00:30:15.580 else

00:30:15.940 and

00:30:16.580 I

00:30:16.720 don't

00:30:17.040 know

00:30:17.320 which

00:30:17.620 side

00:30:18.080 of

00:30:18.280 the

00:30:18.440 screen

00:30:18.840 the

00:30:19.120 box

00:30:19.580 of

00:30:19.780 the

00:30:19.920 president

00:30:20.300 is

00:30:20.580 going

00:30:20.720 to

00:30:20.780 be

00:30:20.880 on

00:30:21.140 he

00:30:22.140 said

00:30:22.360 so

00:30:22.580 we

00:30:22.760 set

00:30:23.060 up

00:30:23.200 three

00:30:23.480 TVs

00:30:24.100 one

00:30:24.900 that

00:30:25.060 I

00:30:25.220 could

00:30:25.400 see

00:30:25.700 and

00:30:26.440 two

00:30:26.840 one

00:30:27.260 on

00:30:27.580 one

00:30:27.880 side

00:30:28.160 of

00:30:28.340 the

00:30:28.580 resolute

00:30:29.140 desk

00:30:29.460 and

00:30:29.640 one

00:30:29.820 on

00:30:29.920 the

00:30:30.040 other

00:30:30.220 side

00:30:30.440 of

00:30:30.520 the

00:30:30.620 resolute

00:30:30.980 desk

00:30:31.320 and

00:30:32.200 I

00:30:32.320 said

00:30:32.500 to

00:30:32.620 the

00:30:32.740 president

00:30:33.100 look

00:30:33.820 at

00:30:33.980 me

00:30:34.300 as

00:30:35.340 soon

00:30:35.740 as

00:30:35.960 you

00:30:36.120 go

00:30:36.380 on

00:30:36.820 and

00:30:37.240 you

00:30:37.420 say

00:30:37.840 Neil

00:30:38.420 they're

00:30:39.640 going

00:30:39.780 to

00:30:39.880 go

00:30:40.040 to

00:30:40.180 this

00:30:40.380 new

00:30:40.620 split

00:30:40.960 screen

00:30:41.420 when

00:30:42.960 when

00:30:43.840 I

00:30:44.020 see

00:30:44.420 which

00:30:44.700 side

00:30:45.100 of

00:30:45.260 the

00:30:45.460 television

00:30:50.720 you

00:30:50.860 look

00:30:51.400 at

00:30:51.760 that

00:30:52.180 television

00:30:52.820 because

00:30:53.300 it

00:30:53.520 will

00:30:53.680 look

00:30:54.080 like

00:30:54.420 you're

00:30:54.700 looking

00:30:55.160 at

00:30:55.520 Neil

00:30:55.980 in

00:30:56.500 the

00:30:56.660 picture

00:30:56.980 so

00:30:58.680 he

00:30:58.880 said

00:30:59.100 that's

00:30:59.420 the

00:30:59.600 moment

00:30:59.980 where

00:31:00.340 I'm

00:31:00.760 looking

00:31:01.040 at

00:31:01.220 the

00:31:01.360 television

00:31:01.720 seeing

00:31:02.080 Neil

00:31:02.320 Armstrong

00:31:02.660 on

00:31:03.040 the

00:31:03.160 moon

00:31:03.460 and

00:31:04.140 I

00:31:04.300 point

00:31:04.680 to

00:31:04.840 the

00:31:04.960 president

00:31:05.360 that

00:31:05.920 one

00:31:06.200 this

00:31:08.980 is

00:31:09.160 the

00:31:09.300 kind

00:31:09.580 of

00:31:09.760 stuff

00:31:10.160 that

00:31:10.480 was

00:31:11.660 just

00:31:11.820 kind

00:31:12.020 of

00:31:12.080 like

00:31:12.260 hanging

00:31:12.640 around

00:31:13.120 him

00:31:13.460 the

00:31:15.160 kind

00:31:15.460 of

00:31:15.600 life

00:31:15.840 that

00:31:16.020 you're

00:31:17.160 not

00:31:17.240 going

00:31:17.340 to

00:31:17.400 find

00:31:17.580 on

00:31:17.740 Wikipedia

00:31:18.340 you're

00:31:19.740 not

00:31:19.860 going

00:31:19.980 to

00:31:20.060 find

00:31:20.320 and

00:31:20.520 if

00:31:20.640 you

00:31:20.720 go

00:31:20.820 to

00:31:20.920 Wikipedia

00:31:21.220 today

00:31:21.660 all

00:31:21.900 you're

00:31:22.060 going

00:31:22.140 to

00:31:22.160 see

00:31:22.280 is

00:31:22.380 the

00:31:22.480 bad

00:31:22.680 stuff

00:31:23.020 if

00:31:24.820 we

00:31:24.940 have

00:31:25.080 time

00:31:25.380 today

00:31:25.660 I'd

00:31:26.100 like

00:31:26.240 to

00:31:26.380 talk

00:31:26.560 about

00:31:26.740 a

00:31:26.840 couple

00:31:27.020 of

00:31:27.200 the

00:31:27.400 good

00:31:28.300 things

00:31:28.840 the

00:31:29.440 Ronald

00:31:30.220 Reagan

00:31:30.640 things

00:31:31.300 the

00:31:31.600 things

00:31:33.080 in

00:31:33.260 the

00:31:33.400 1960s

00:31:34.480 the

00:31:34.780 hardest

00:31:37.260 job

00:31:38.260 interview

00:31:38.720 if

00:31:40.080 you're

00:31:40.380 a

00:31:40.540 millennial

00:31:41.080 and

00:31:42.280 you

00:31:42.460 think

00:31:42.820 you

00:31:42.980 just

00:31:43.420 get

00:31:43.860 these

00:31:44.260 jobs

00:31:44.820 no

00:31:46.940 you

00:31:47.140 don't

00:31:47.640 let

00:31:49.200 me

00:31:49.400 tell

00:31:49.700 you

00:31:49.900 about

00:31:50.260 the

00:31:50.700 hardest

00:31:51.220 job

00:31:51.760 interview

00:31:52.220 I've

00:31:53.500 ever

00:31:53.740 had

00:31:54.180 and

00:31:55.140 everyone

00:31:55.560 I've

00:31:55.860 ever

00:31:56.040 told

00:31:56.700 this

00:31:57.000 story

00:31:57.320 to

00:31:57.660 they

00:31:58.260 all

00:31:58.480 said

00:31:58.820 good

00:32:00.500 lord

00:32:01.420 that

00:32:03.060 was

00:32:03.400 the

00:32:03.880 first

00:32:04.220 five

00:32:04.720 minutes

00:32:05.280 I'm

00:32:05.860 like

00:32:06.000 uh-huh

00:32:06.600 Roger

00:32:13.200 Ailes

00:32:13.640 dead

00:32:14.880 at

00:32:15.080 77

00:32:15.540 today

00:32:16.300 by

00:32:17.680 the

00:32:17.800 way

00:32:18.040 Ben

00:32:18.640 Sass

00:32:19.160 is

00:32:19.520 going

00:32:19.700 to

00:32:19.740 be

00:32:19.840 with

00:32:20.060 us

00:32:20.420 he's

00:32:21.300 joining

00:32:21.560 us

00:32:21.940 in

00:32:22.340 hour

00:32:22.680 number

00:32:22.920 three

00:32:23.400 to

00:32:24.140 talk

00:32:24.420 about

00:32:24.720 the

00:32:24.940 news

00:32:25.220 of

00:32:25.400 the

00:32:25.520 day

00:32:25.700 because

00:32:26.000 there

00:32:26.440 is

00:32:26.900 more

00:32:27.160 news

00:32:27.500 of

00:32:27.660 the

00:32:27.780 day

00:32:28.020 Robert

00:32:28.740 Mueller

00:32:29.060 is

00:32:29.460 special

00:32:29.820 counsel

00:32:30.240 now

00:32:30.580 he

00:32:31.440 is

00:32:32.000 going

00:32:33.180 to be

00:32:33.400 looking

00:32:33.640 into

00:32:34.100 the

00:32:34.480 Russia

00:32:34.960 connections

00:32:35.780 there's

00:32:37.580 some

00:32:37.880 new

00:32:38.480 news

00:32:38.860 breaking

00:32:39.220 that

00:32:39.580 the

00:32:39.800 Trump

00:32:40.080 campaign

00:32:40.640 had

00:32:41.020 at

00:32:41.320 least

00:32:41.600 18

00:32:42.380 undisclosed

00:32:43.060 contacts

00:32:43.660 with

00:32:43.980 Russia

00:32:45.300 Chelsea

00:32:46.280 Manning

00:32:46.820 is

00:32:47.900 now

00:32:48.240 back

00:32:48.620 in

00:32:48.800 the

00:32:48.920 world

00:32:49.280 how

00:32:50.420 does

00:32:50.640 everybody

00:32:50.960 feel

00:32:51.440 about

00:32:51.820 that

00:32:52.180 and

00:32:52.500 Bill

00:32:52.720 Cosby

00:32:53.280 gave

00:32:54.280 his

00:32:54.500 first

00:32:54.860 interview

00:32:55.340 in

00:32:55.740 two

00:32:56.100 years

00:32:56.680 what

00:32:58.860 happened

00:32:59.400 to

00:32:59.780 the

00:33:00.100 Bill

00:33:00.440 Cosby

00:33:00.980 pull

00:33:01.280 yourself

00:33:01.700 up

00:33:01.920 by

00:33:02.080 the

00:33:02.220 bootstraps

00:33:02.880 take

00:33:03.660 responsibility

00:33:04.340 for

00:33:04.740 your

00:33:04.920 life

00:33:05.300 that

00:33:06.580 man

00:33:07.020 is

00:33:08.020 long

00:33:08.380 gone

00:33:09.080 this

00:33:10.780 is

00:33:11.280 the

00:33:12.760 Glenn

00:33:13.160 Beck

00:33:13.500 program

00:33:14.240 mercury

00:33:16.200 this

00:33:19.640 is

00:33:19.920 the

00:33:20.060 Glenn

00:33:20.320 Beck

00:33:20.580 program

00:33:21.100 just

00:33:22.640 watching

00:33:23.140 little

00:33:23.420 Dana

00:33:25.660 Lash

00:33:26.120 on TV

00:33:27.560 commenting

00:33:28.000 about

00:33:28.360 this

00:33:29.260 the

00:33:29.960 new

00:33:30.420 special

00:33:30.780 counsel

00:33:31.240 mistake

00:33:32.840 good

00:33:33.760 what

00:33:34.760 do

00:33:34.880 you

00:33:34.960 think

00:33:35.200 of

00:33:35.360 this

00:33:35.700 Robert

00:33:36.540 Mueller

00:33:36.880 being

00:33:37.280 named

00:33:38.600 special

00:33:39.040 counsel

00:33:39.460 so now

00:33:39.920 there's

00:33:40.120 a

00:33:40.300 special

00:33:40.960 investigator

00:33:41.560 it's

00:33:42.820 amazing

00:33:43.180 that we

00:33:43.520 went

00:33:43.720 through

00:33:43.900 eight

00:33:44.180 years

00:33:44.460 and

00:33:44.680 didn't

00:33:44.940 have

00:33:45.200 one

00:33:45.440 with

00:33:45.820 all

00:33:46.200 of

00:33:46.360 the

00:33:46.460 things

00:33:46.780 that

00:33:46.980 could

00:33:47.160 have

00:33:47.260 happened

00:33:47.600 yeah

00:33:48.000 with

00:33:48.340 the

00:33:48.480 republicans

00:33:49.340 in

00:33:49.680 charge

00:33:50.480 they

00:33:51.460 never

00:33:51.960 appointed

00:33:52.520 a

00:33:52.720 special

00:33:52.940 with

00:33:53.220 the

00:33:53.480 IRS 0.92

00:33:54.040 they

00:33:54.780 never

00:33:55.000 appointed

00:33:55.280 Gazi 0.84

00:33:55.700 right

00:33:56.460 but the

00:33:56.900 republicans

00:33:57.740 fast and

00:33:58.440 furious

00:33:58.760 do this

00:33:59.520 and I'm

00:34:00.060 quite

00:34:00.380 honestly

00:34:00.720 fast and

00:34:03.220 furious

00:34:03.540 we know

00:34:04.020 he lied

00:34:04.580 yeah

00:34:04.840 incredible

00:34:06.000 and guns

00:34:07.400 were used

00:34:08.180 in terrorist

00:34:09.080 hits

00:34:11.080 now

00:34:11.920 we've got

00:34:12.960 a special

00:34:13.600 prosecutor

00:34:14.080 and see

00:34:14.520 this is

00:34:14.840 the problem

00:34:15.380 we are

00:34:17.020 letting

00:34:17.440 that

00:34:18.140 dictate

00:34:19.140 what should

00:34:20.120 that's

00:34:20.480 such a

00:34:20.920 low

00:34:21.360 standard

00:34:21.980 oh yeah

00:34:23.080 well

00:34:23.380 Obama

00:34:24.020 yeah

00:34:25.080 that's a

00:34:25.400 pretty low

00:34:26.080 standard

00:34:26.660 that we

00:34:27.960 should not

00:34:28.400 be aiming

00:34:28.920 for or

00:34:29.600 using as

00:34:30.280 an excuse

00:34:31.120 this is

00:34:33.720 the

00:34:34.420 Glenn

00:34:34.820 Beck

00:34:35.340 program

00:34:36.140 mercury

00:34:37.540 the blaze

00:34:52.780 radio

00:34:53.140 network

00:34:53.740 on demand

00:34:59.600 roger

00:35:00.960 rails

00:35:01.260 the former

00:35:02.060 president

00:35:02.460 of

00:35:02.980 fox

00:35:03.960 news

00:35:04.420 has

00:35:05.040 passed

00:35:05.340 away

00:35:05.700 died

00:35:06.400 at home

00:35:07.140 77

00:35:07.780 years

00:35:08.380 old

00:35:08.760 we

00:35:10.040 spent

00:35:11.000 the last

00:35:11.580 hour

00:35:11.860 talking

00:35:12.920 about

00:35:13.240 him

00:35:13.460 we may

00:35:14.420 spend a

00:35:15.020 few more

00:35:15.320 minutes

00:35:15.640 later on

00:35:16.340 today

00:35:16.720 also

00:35:17.360 bill

00:35:17.600 cosby

00:35:18.060 gives

00:35:18.480 his first

00:35:19.000 interview

00:35:19.400 in more

00:35:19.780 than

00:35:19.980 two

00:35:20.360 years

00:35:20.900 what

00:35:22.880 is

00:35:23.940 his

00:35:24.420 excuse

00:35:25.460 well

00:35:26.280 I don't

00:35:26.640 I mean

00:35:27.260 I don't

00:35:28.120 know what

00:35:28.380 happened to

00:35:28.820 the old

00:35:29.240 bill

00:35:29.880 cosby

00:35:30.440 but

00:35:31.560 he hasn't

00:35:33.000 been seen

00:35:33.460 around for

00:35:34.220 a while

00:35:34.760 at least

00:35:35.140 in this

00:35:35.520 interview

00:35:35.900 and

00:35:37.180 the

00:35:37.760 trump

00:35:38.600 campaign

00:35:39.200 and special

00:35:39.880 prosecution

00:35:40.580 their

00:35:42.460 whispers

00:35:42.960 now

00:35:43.380 with

00:35:43.740 republicans

00:35:44.820 they are

00:35:45.260 now

00:35:45.540 starting to

00:35:46.200 talk

00:35:46.540 about

00:35:46.960 president

00:35:47.500 pence

00:35:48.180 the stock

00:35:50.900 market

00:35:51.340 took a

00:35:52.360 nosedive

00:35:53.440 yesterday

00:35:54.020 because

00:35:55.020 the stock

00:35:55.940 market

00:35:56.380 priced in

00:35:57.660 all of

00:35:58.560 tax cuts

00:35:59.480 reform

00:36:00.100 everything else

00:36:00.940 they believe

00:36:02.340 this agenda

00:36:03.580 is now

00:36:04.300 over

00:36:04.820 so

00:36:06.220 where do

00:36:07.340 we go

00:36:07.820 what do

00:36:08.220 we do

00:36:08.740 I'd really

00:36:10.440 like to hear

00:36:11.060 from you

00:36:11.580 the number

00:36:11.940 is

00:36:12.140 888-727-BECK

00:36:14.160 888-727-BECK

00:36:16.400 I want to

00:36:17.000 take your

00:36:17.380 phone calls

00:36:18.020 I want to

00:36:18.720 hear what

00:36:19.340 you're

00:36:19.640 feeling

00:36:20.140 about

00:36:21.800 where we

00:36:23.380 go

00:36:23.880 if you

00:36:24.800 had

00:36:24.980 if you

00:36:25.620 had

00:36:26.060 the

00:36:26.380 president's

00:36:27.060 ear

00:36:27.360 what would

00:36:28.980 you be

00:36:29.280 saying

00:36:29.780 to him

00:36:30.460 right now

00:36:31.360 what's

00:36:32.120 your advice

00:36:32.860 to make

00:36:33.420 this go

00:36:33.900 away

00:36:34.260 what's

00:36:35.020 the best

00:36:35.500 course

00:36:35.840 of action

00:36:36.440 888-727-BECK

00:36:39.440 we want

00:36:40.340 you on

00:36:40.600 the phone

00:36:41.000 right now

00:36:41.900 the fusion

00:37:01.320 of entertainment

00:37:02.360 and enlightenment

00:37:03.580 this is

00:37:05.100 the Glenn

00:37:05.960 Beck

00:37:06.980 program

00:37:08.200 Cosmo

00:37:11.080 has a story

00:37:12.760 today

00:37:13.280 about

00:37:14.020 Cassandra

00:37:14.560 Fairbanks

00:37:15.160 she's a

00:37:15.720 Twitter star

00:37:16.600 and about

00:37:18.300 how Donald

00:37:18.880 Trump is

00:37:19.360 now becoming

00:37:20.100 punk

00:37:20.640 he is a

00:37:22.280 punk rock

00:37:22.960 hero

00:37:23.320 she is

00:37:24.100 far left

00:37:25.100 anarchist

00:37:27.040 you know

00:37:28.120 pro-choice

00:37:29.200 you know

00:37:29.820 all that

00:37:30.260 stuff

00:37:30.540 far left

00:37:31.920 she's a

00:37:32.660 huge fan

00:37:33.480 now

00:37:33.800 of Donald

00:37:34.300 Trump

00:37:34.600 and when

00:37:36.120 asked why

00:37:36.820 because

00:37:38.100 he's

00:37:38.560 counterculture

00:37:39.240 he

00:37:40.000 everybody

00:37:40.560 hates him

00:37:41.240 and he 0.98

00:37:42.580 is

00:37:42.980 he's

00:37:44.220 becoming

00:37:44.860 this

00:37:45.580 according to

00:37:46.040 Cosmo

00:37:46.580 punk rock

00:37:47.920 at the

00:37:50.440 same

00:37:50.800 time

00:37:51.280 the

00:37:52.960 Republicans

00:37:53.700 are

00:37:55.400 starting

00:37:55.800 to say

00:37:56.560 President

00:37:57.040 Pence

00:37:57.560 what is

00:38:01.100 this

00:38:01.780 going to

00:38:02.680 do

00:38:02.940 to the

00:38:03.300 country

00:38:03.620 just

00:38:05.680 having

00:38:06.020 this

00:38:06.300 conversation

00:38:07.160 is going

00:38:07.940 to tear

00:38:08.320 us

00:38:08.580 apart

00:38:09.160 well the

00:38:10.740 good thing

00:38:11.060 is it's

00:38:11.340 only been

00:38:11.680 what

00:38:11.900 120

00:38:12.760 days

00:38:13.240 since he

00:38:14.360 took office

00:38:14.780 don't worry

00:38:15.480 about it

00:38:15.840 they're

00:38:15.980 non-stop

00:38:16.580 can you

00:38:16.940 imagine

00:38:17.160 relentless

00:38:18.080 against him

00:38:20.400 and you

00:38:20.860 know what

00:38:21.200 the press

00:38:22.260 has zero

00:38:24.720 credibility

00:38:25.420 you know

00:38:26.920 the reason

00:38:27.840 why Donald

00:38:28.500 Trump was

00:38:28.900 right

00:38:29.120 I could

00:38:29.380 walk across

00:38:29.920 the street

00:38:30.180 and 5th

00:38:30.500 Avenue

00:38:30.680 and shoot 1.00

00:38:31.000 somebody 0.99

00:38:31.400 and nobody's

00:38:32.140 going to

00:38:32.340 care

00:38:32.540 the reason

00:38:33.300 why is

00:38:33.680 because

00:38:34.020 you don't

00:38:35.400 believe the

00:38:36.180 press reports

00:38:36.960 they have

00:38:38.500 no credibility

00:38:39.240 I mean

00:38:40.380 the one thing

00:38:41.140 and this is

00:38:41.540 not an

00:38:42.160 excuse

00:38:42.720 but it is

00:38:44.080 true

00:38:44.660 are you

00:38:46.860 kidding me

00:38:47.560 for eight

00:38:49.100 years

00:38:49.720 the IRS

00:38:51.460 the people

00:38:53.900 around the

00:38:54.800 president

00:38:55.120 that lied

00:38:56.460 that destroyed

00:38:58.260 the evidence

00:38:59.180 on their

00:38:59.640 hard drive

00:39:00.800 are you

00:39:02.120 kidding me

00:39:02.840 the attorney

00:39:04.560 general that

00:39:05.420 was running

00:39:06.180 guns

00:39:07.280 that were

00:39:08.560 used in

00:39:09.480 France in a 0.56

00:39:10.380 terrorist attack

00:39:11.400 and you did

00:39:12.300 nothing

00:39:13.040 zip

00:39:14.240 zero

00:39:15.100 and so

00:39:17.320 the right

00:39:18.740 is blind

00:39:20.340 with rage

00:39:21.880 and quite

00:39:23.060 honestly

00:39:23.540 righteous

00:39:25.100 rage

00:39:26.040 are you

00:39:28.280 kidding

00:39:29.260 me

00:39:29.860 how we

00:39:33.100 get past

00:39:33.740 that

00:39:34.220 because I

00:39:35.180 even do

00:39:35.700 it

00:39:35.920 I'm sitting

00:39:37.160 here I

00:39:37.420 can't watch

00:39:37.880 television

00:39:38.300 I can't

00:39:39.000 watch it

00:39:39.340 I can't

00:39:40.680 watch it

00:39:41.140 because

00:39:42.340 there's no

00:39:43.580 self-awareness

00:39:44.600 there there's

00:39:45.080 nobody there's

00:39:45.840 no one saying

00:39:46.740 on the left

00:39:48.920 in the news

00:39:49.840 organizations

00:39:50.600 wait a minute

00:39:51.460 wait a minute

00:39:51.820 guys

00:39:52.240 we should

00:39:53.580 examine

00:39:54.000 ourself

00:39:54.520 here

00:39:54.780 you know

00:39:55.480 why

00:39:55.960 I mean I

00:39:56.700 saw some

00:39:57.080 story in

00:39:57.880 I don't

00:39:58.320 know New

00:39:58.620 York Times

00:39:59.080 when will

00:39:59.860 Republicans

00:40:00.580 and the

00:40:01.060 right

00:40:01.420 wake up

00:40:02.220 well never

00:40:03.660 as long as

00:40:04.320 you're the

00:40:04.660 alarm clock

00:40:05.360 never

00:40:06.300 never

00:40:10.020 we have

00:40:11.840 we have

00:40:12.360 we don't

00:40:13.080 hit the

00:40:13.460 snooze

00:40:13.980 button

00:40:14.320 we pull

00:40:15.200 the cord

00:40:15.700 out of

00:40:16.020 the wall

00:40:16.480 and throw

00:40:17.200 it on

00:40:17.460 the sidewalk

00:40:18.240 we don't

00:40:20.140 want you

00:40:21.000 we don't

00:40:21.820 trust you

00:40:22.740 really

00:40:24.340 you got to

00:40:25.220 get up

00:40:25.540 right now

00:40:26.000 you got to

00:40:26.520 get up

00:40:26.820 right now

00:40:27.340 you got to

00:40:27.760 get up

00:40:28.020 right now

00:40:28.460 for the

00:40:28.760 last eight

00:40:29.280 years you've

00:40:29.780 been like

00:40:30.020 I don't

00:40:30.380 know if

00:40:30.620 I'm gonna

00:40:30.860 go off

00:40:31.340 or not

00:40:31.760 I don't

00:40:32.320 know

00:40:32.760 that time's

00:40:34.560 not really

00:40:35.080 that important

00:40:35.680 to me

00:40:36.160 I don't

00:40:37.240 really care

00:40:37.740 and now

00:40:38.700 you got to

00:40:39.180 get up

00:40:39.520 I'm here

00:40:39.980 I'm your

00:40:40.300 dependable

00:40:40.760 alarm clock

00:40:41.420 excuse me

00:40:42.500 no you're

00:40:43.120 not

00:40:43.480 and that was

00:40:44.860 Trump's

00:40:45.360 argument in

00:40:46.020 his Twitter

00:40:46.380 today

00:40:46.760 which he said

00:40:48.780 in his speech

00:40:49.540 yesterday

00:40:49.920 he doesn't

00:40:50.440 necessarily

00:40:50.980 help himself

00:40:51.880 he said

00:40:52.800 with all the

00:40:53.580 illegal acts

00:40:54.120 that took

00:40:54.440 place in the

00:40:54.900 Clinton campaign

00:40:55.480 and Obama

00:40:55.860 administration

00:40:56.260 there was

00:40:56.800 never a

00:40:57.260 special counsel

00:40:58.120 appointed

00:40:58.920 and he's

00:41:00.160 right

00:41:00.720 and he's

00:41:01.580 right

00:41:01.980 well there was

00:41:02.620 for Clinton

00:41:03.040 yes there was

00:41:04.300 I think he

00:41:04.780 meant

00:41:05.000 I think

00:41:06.040 he meant

00:41:06.420 Hillary 0.96

00:41:06.860 so here's

00:41:09.060 the problem

00:41:10.340 that doesn't

00:41:12.580 make what

00:41:13.940 he's done

00:41:14.940 right

00:41:15.600 it just

00:41:16.660 makes us

00:41:17.560 almost blind

00:41:18.960 to everything

00:41:20.500 else

00:41:21.200 because

00:41:22.580 the messenger

00:41:23.920 don't shoot

00:41:25.660 the messenger

00:41:26.180 are you kidding

00:41:27.120 me

00:41:27.500 the messenger

00:41:29.100 betrayed the

00:41:29.820 constitution

00:41:30.340 for the last

00:41:31.260 eight years

00:41:31.780 the messenger

00:41:32.580 should be

00:41:33.120 in jail

00:41:33.860 you know

00:41:35.420 what I mean

00:41:35.860 are you

00:41:37.040 kidding me

00:41:37.980 this is what

00:41:38.860 Trump said

00:41:39.600 in his

00:41:39.900 commencement speech

00:41:40.520 I think it

00:41:40.860 was to the

00:41:41.300 Coast Guard

00:41:41.860 Academy

00:41:42.220 yesterday

00:41:43.100 now I want

00:41:43.980 to take

00:41:44.320 this opportunity

00:41:45.200 to give you

00:41:46.240 some advice

00:41:46.980 over the course

00:41:47.800 of your life

00:41:48.540 you will find

00:41:49.500 that things

00:41:50.020 are not always

00:41:50.660 fair

00:41:51.060 look at the

00:41:52.140 way I've been

00:41:52.700 treated lately

00:41:53.480 especially by

00:41:56.960 the media

00:41:57.520 no politician

00:42:00.360 in history

00:42:01.220 and I say

00:42:03.100 this with

00:42:03.720 great

00:42:04.660 surety

00:42:05.920 has been

00:42:07.020 treated worse

00:42:07.940 or more

00:42:09.240 unfairly

00:42:10.000 yeah I'm not

00:42:10.700 sure

00:42:10.820 that's not

00:42:11.420 true

00:42:11.760 that's not

00:42:12.260 true

00:42:12.700 Abraham

00:42:14.020 Lincoln

00:42:15.280 the country

00:42:17.900 hated him

00:42:20.000 hated him

00:42:21.340 and he didn't

00:42:22.560 realize how much

00:42:23.520 he was hated

00:42:24.100 until he was

00:42:25.120 actually in a

00:42:25.960 carriage

00:42:26.500 in disguise

00:42:27.640 he went to

00:42:29.120 go give a

00:42:29.540 speech he was

00:42:29.960 on his way

00:42:30.420 to the

00:42:30.840 White House

00:42:31.400 for the

00:42:32.120 first inaugural

00:42:32.800 first inauguration

00:42:35.900 and they have

00:42:38.020 him in Baltimore

00:42:38.580 where he's

00:42:38.980 supposed to

00:42:39.320 give a speech

00:42:39.980 he gives the

00:42:41.020 speech and

00:42:41.560 everything's

00:42:41.920 polite and

00:42:42.920 then they

00:42:43.860 wrap a

00:42:44.680 shawl around

00:42:45.380 him take

00:42:45.920 his hat off

00:42:46.740 and say

00:42:47.340 we need to

00:42:48.520 go out this

00:42:49.260 door but I

00:42:49.880 need you to

00:42:50.280 crouch down

00:42:50.940 you're way

00:42:51.420 too tall

00:42:51.980 so they put

00:42:53.380 another kind

00:42:54.000 of hat on

00:42:54.540 him put a

00:42:55.380 shawl around

00:42:56.020 him he

00:42:56.740 crouched down

00:42:57.520 like he was

00:42:58.060 old and he

00:42:59.480 gets out

00:43:00.160 and he's

00:43:00.640 walking amongst

00:43:01.420 the people

00:43:02.060 and then in

00:43:02.700 the carriage

00:43:03.240 and he's

00:43:04.280 hearing everybody

00:43:05.200 saying that

00:43:06.000 Lincoln

00:43:07.000 that Lincoln

00:43:08.940 what a bad

00:43:09.940 dude that

00:43:10.560 Lincoln can

00:43:11.000 you believe

00:43:11.420 he's president 1.00

00:43:12.160 that moron 1.00

00:43:14.140 he's going to 1.00

00:43:15.600 be the president

00:43:16.440 and he realizes

00:43:18.420 holy cow

00:43:20.500 this country is

00:43:22.420 completely divided

00:43:24.060 it's until that

00:43:25.840 moment he knows

00:43:27.460 there's trouble

00:43:28.140 but he doesn't

00:43:29.480 know how

00:43:30.760 deep the

00:43:31.660 hatred is

00:43:32.600 running until

00:43:33.340 that moment

00:43:34.060 so please

00:43:35.800 don't try to

00:43:36.400 tell me that

00:43:36.860 you know you're

00:43:37.700 having a harder

00:43:38.100 time than

00:43:38.580 Abraham Lincoln

00:43:39.960 and you don't

00:43:40.460 have to go

00:43:40.800 back 150

00:43:41.500 years you can

00:43:42.320 go back 10

00:43:43.400 years how much

00:43:44.400 did the press

00:43:45.240 hate George

00:43:46.580 W. Bush

00:43:47.360 that's I mean

00:43:48.880 it was it was

00:43:49.800 continual

00:43:50.440 oh my gosh

00:43:51.600 selected not

00:43:52.320 elected yeah

00:43:53.140 and it didn't

00:43:54.420 stop during the

00:43:55.140 last eight years

00:43:55.800 of Obama

00:43:56.180 how badly did

00:43:57.260 they hate

00:43:57.900 Ronald Reagan

00:43:58.660 a lot yeah

00:43:59.640 right and we

00:44:00.280 forget that

00:44:00.680 sometimes because

00:44:01.200 now they praise

00:44:01.840 him right and

00:44:03.340 quite honestly

00:44:04.160 let's be fair

00:44:05.660 let's go back in

00:44:06.700 the last eight

00:44:07.340 years how much

00:44:08.880 did Barack Obama

00:44:09.920 now I happen to

00:44:10.600 believe some of

00:44:11.140 it was very

00:44:11.580 righteous but 0.99

00:44:12.580 how much crap 1.00

00:44:14.220 did we give 1.00

00:44:15.440 Barack Obama

00:44:16.280 he was the

00:44:17.500 first time that

00:44:18.840 that I know

00:44:19.700 of where we

00:44:21.360 were we dead

00:44:22.160 there was a

00:44:22.920 whole industry

00:44:24.840 it's the first

00:44:26.020 time the

00:44:27.240 the Republicans

00:44:27.980 the Democrats

00:44:28.800 ever had to

00:44:30.020 face any real

00:44:30.820 scrutiny from

00:44:32.220 anyone in the

00:44:33.100 press because

00:44:33.740 there was a

00:44:34.520 new arm of

00:44:35.140 the press

00:44:35.720 anyway

00:44:37.860 even though

00:44:41.760 let's say

00:44:42.400 he's right

00:44:42.980 that doesn't

00:44:45.860 excuse and

00:44:47.540 what we have

00:44:48.360 to do is

00:44:49.040 by saying

00:44:50.900 well look

00:44:52.360 what happened

00:44:53.160 with Barack

00:44:54.420 Obama

00:44:54.820 is that what

00:44:57.120 we want to

00:44:57.740 be our

00:44:58.040 standard

00:44:58.800 hey

00:45:00.900 Obama did

00:45:02.760 worse

00:45:03.240 yeah

00:45:04.500 yeah he

00:45:05.640 did but

00:45:06.320 I'd like you

00:45:06.840 not to even 0.71

00:45:07.480 be around

00:45:08.300 that room

00:45:09.440 Obama set

00:45:10.640 up a tent

00:45:11.460 office a

00:45:12.540 couch

00:45:13.020 hell he had

00:45:14.360 a bed in

00:45:15.020 there for a

00:45:15.620 while

00:45:15.960 I don't

00:45:17.460 want to

00:45:17.720 live in

00:45:18.000 that room

00:45:18.600 I want

00:45:19.320 our

00:45:19.600 president

00:45:20.040 to be

00:45:20.440 clean

00:45:20.900 I want

00:45:21.360 our

00:45:21.560 president

00:45:22.020 to not

00:45:23.480 be near

00:45:24.200 any kind

00:45:25.300 of that

00:45:25.540 now I

00:45:26.160 honestly do

00:45:26.980 not think

00:45:27.820 that there

00:45:28.340 is some

00:45:28.760 sort of

00:45:29.280 you know

00:45:30.140 cabal

00:45:30.980 with Russia

00:45:31.760 I'm not

00:45:33.420 afraid of

00:45:33.900 this special

00:45:34.360 prosecutor

00:45:34.960 because I

00:45:36.880 don't think

00:45:37.380 now they

00:45:37.780 may find

00:45:38.360 I do

00:45:38.760 believe they

00:45:39.220 will find

00:45:39.680 people around

00:45:40.560 Trump

00:45:40.960 but people

00:45:42.660 around Trump

00:45:43.360 is not

00:45:43.880 Donald Trump

00:45:44.520 I don't

00:45:46.980 think they're

00:45:47.320 going to find

00:45:47.700 anything on

00:45:48.220 this when

00:45:48.820 it comes to

00:45:49.360 Comey I

00:45:50.400 think they

00:45:50.860 are I

00:45:51.840 think the

00:45:52.180 president has

00:45:52.760 shot himself

00:45:53.500 in the foot

00:45:54.120 over and

00:45:54.840 over and

00:45:55.200 over again

00:45:55.920 because he

00:45:56.880 doesn't have

00:45:57.800 common sense

00:45:59.260 he's not

00:46:01.380 using common

00:46:02.160 sense when

00:46:03.080 you're you

00:46:04.040 know when

00:46:04.420 you're a

00:46:04.840 target you

00:46:05.980 turn to

00:46:07.080 the side

00:46:07.700 you make

00:46:09.740 yourself thinner

00:46:10.920 not bigger

00:46:12.600 and he

00:46:14.040 takes the

00:46:14.620 opportunity

00:46:15.120 always to

00:46:16.520 puff himself

00:46:17.700 up and

00:46:18.440 say look

00:46:19.380 at me look

00:46:20.060 what a big

00:46:20.420 target I

00:46:20.960 am stop

00:46:21.640 it Mr.

00:46:22.100 President

00:46:22.400 please we

00:46:24.140 would like

00:46:24.740 to get some

00:46:25.320 things done

00:46:26.120 please on

00:46:28.380 that note

00:46:28.780 for a moment

00:46:29.280 is it I

00:46:31.360 haven't heard

00:46:31.620 anybody entertain

00:46:32.320 this possibility

00:46:32.980 so it's probably

00:46:33.600 completely unrealistic

00:46:34.560 but if the

00:46:35.220 goal was to

00:46:36.260 actually get

00:46:36.900 things done

00:46:37.520 is there an

00:46:39.400 opportunity for

00:46:40.900 Republicans in

00:46:42.120 Congress to

00:46:43.580 start doing

00:46:44.720 things to

00:46:45.840 actually advance

00:46:46.720 the agenda

00:46:47.380 while the

00:46:48.180 media is

00:46:48.660 completely focused

00:46:49.460 on these

00:46:49.780 scandals because

00:46:50.760 all Trump has

00:46:51.520 to do is sign

00:46:52.280 them yes and

00:46:53.700 and it's like you

00:46:54.340 have all these

00:46:54.960 this you have this

00:46:55.540 opportunity where

00:46:56.180 the media is not

00:46:57.180 going to be

00:46:57.940 constantly focused

00:46:59.140 on every little

00:46:59.860 piece of your

00:47:00.340 health care plan

00:47:01.280 yes get that 0.99

00:47:02.700 crap done while 0.99

00:47:03.500 they're all looking 1.00

00:47:04.040 at Russia you 0.51

00:47:05.440 what do you always

00:47:06.240 used to say about

00:47:06.760 Obama watch the

00:47:07.720 other hand use

00:47:09.140 your other hand

00:47:09.940 get some of

00:47:10.960 these things done

00:47:11.820 now while they're

00:47:12.700 all focused on

00:47:13.400 the drama of

00:47:14.800 the problem is

00:47:15.780 the Republicans

00:47:16.600 don't have they

00:47:19.280 don't have a

00:47:19.880 leader there they

00:47:20.820 don't have an

00:47:21.400 agenda they don't

00:47:22.760 agree on an

00:47:23.540 agenda I mean

00:47:25.660 you know now the

00:47:27.200 reason why stock

00:47:28.240 market went down

00:47:29.100 and it took a

00:47:29.800 beating yesterday

00:47:30.820 and we're not

00:47:32.540 done with the

00:47:33.140 correction we may

00:47:33.840 be done this week

00:47:34.560 we're not done with

00:47:35.280 this correction

00:47:35.980 remember what

00:47:38.080 did what did

00:47:38.440 it go up

00:47:38.780 3,000 4,000

00:47:40.060 points 3,000

00:47:41.220 points after he

00:47:41.860 was elected we

00:47:43.360 you know over

00:47:44.060 this period of

00:47:44.800 time they just

00:47:46.100 baked in okay

00:47:47.380 health care reform

00:47:48.420 is going to

00:47:48.940 happen tax cuts

00:47:50.340 are going to

00:47:50.960 happen regulations

00:47:52.540 are going to be

00:47:53.120 reduced well that

00:47:54.320 all began to fall

00:47:55.060 apart yesterday

00:47:55.880 because people are

00:47:57.940 now starting to

00:47:58.800 say there is

00:48:00.080 impeachment coming

00:48:01.200 don't even look

00:48:02.780 at the stock

00:48:03.300 market don't even

00:48:04.120 look at anything

00:48:04.820 with this special

00:48:06.440 prosecution going

00:48:08.040 on what are our

00:48:10.440 enemies going to

00:48:12.180 do around the

00:48:13.020 world we're no

00:48:13.800 longer able to

00:48:14.760 focus on North

00:48:15.800 Korea we're no 1.00

00:48:16.840 longer able to

00:48:17.620 focus on what

00:48:18.920 new things Putin

00:48:20.460 is doing what

00:48:21.880 about ISIS what

00:48:24.040 is going to

00:48:24.700 happen on the

00:48:25.380 world stage because

00:48:27.040 of this did did

00:48:29.240 this effect and I

00:48:30.160 don't think it did

00:48:30.800 but did this effect

00:48:31.920 Donald Trump

00:48:32.960 yesterday coming out

00:48:33.960 and saying we're

00:48:35.080 not moving the

00:48:35.620 embassy that's a

00:48:40.520 blow to Israel 0.90

00:48:42.580 that's a real

00:48:43.520 blow that's a big

00:48:45.700 big disappointment

00:48:48.440 and a breaking of

00:48:49.860 a promise a big

00:48:50.680 one now I think

00:48:53.300 when he said that

00:48:54.620 I thought there's

00:48:55.380 no way he's going

00:48:55.880 to do that there's

00:48:56.600 no way he's going

00:48:57.140 to do that because

00:48:58.340 that takes balls of

00:49:00.540 steel I mean that

00:49:02.820 is a dangerous

00:49:04.040 thing to do and

00:49:05.680 you better be

00:49:06.780 really buttoned up

00:49:08.480 to do that so I

00:49:10.980 didn't think he'd

00:49:11.480 do it because no

00:49:11.980 president ever has

00:49:13.160 they all say that

00:49:13.920 and they never do

00:49:14.600 it okay whatever

00:49:15.640 it's like I'm going

00:49:16.580 to admit that

00:49:17.260 Turkey actually

00:49:18.160 killed some 0.99

00:49:18.840 Christians no they 1.00

00:49:21.520 never do it

00:49:22.380 never do it okay

00:49:23.100 State Department is

00:49:24.200 way too powerful

00:49:25.200 however if anybody

00:49:27.820 was going to do

00:49:28.460 it this is the

00:49:28.960 argument that I

00:49:29.600 kept hearing it'd

00:49:30.640 be Donald Trump

00:49:31.500 right because he's

00:49:32.140 just going to do

00:49:32.620 what's right and

00:49:33.380 blah blah blah blah

00:49:34.060 blah well he

00:49:35.440 didn't did did it

00:49:38.120 did he not do it

00:49:38.820 because the generals

00:49:39.640 all said don't do

00:49:40.880 that or did he not

00:49:43.540 do it because he

00:49:45.380 doesn't have the

00:49:46.220 clout anymore to do

00:49:48.180 that I mean I agree

00:49:50.280 with Stu if you're

00:49:51.920 going to do this

00:49:52.960 now's the time to

00:49:54.560 pile it on because

00:49:55.660 I mean if if this

00:49:56.900 isn't about Donald

00:49:57.900 Trump and it's

00:49:58.920 about actually moving

00:50:00.080 these things forward

00:50:00.860 Trump has a real

00:50:02.180 opportunity here to

00:50:03.240 say and let's just

00:50:04.060 say like he's

00:50:04.680 completely innocent of

00:50:05.540 all of these charges

00:50:06.560 what a great

00:50:07.980 opportunity however

00:50:09.220 to distract the

00:50:11.000 media the thing

00:50:12.160 that he's supposedly

00:50:12.880 so great at

00:50:13.720 distract the media

00:50:14.740 let him take the

00:50:16.200 political arrows for

00:50:17.700 a while and protect

00:50:19.440 the Congress to push

00:50:20.960 these things through

00:50:21.880 and then all he's

00:50:22.700 got to do is bring

00:50:23.320 his pen but you

00:50:24.480 know what I

00:50:25.160 don't think he'll

00:50:25.880 do it because he

00:50:26.960 watches too much

00:50:27.700 television he cares

00:50:30.400 about what was be is

00:50:31.900 being written and

00:50:32.660 said about him and

00:50:33.740 the president cannot

00:50:35.300 care about that I

00:50:36.640 agree but it

00:50:37.900 doesn't necessarily

00:50:38.920 mean that Trump

00:50:40.780 has to do much the

00:50:42.780 Congress however has 0.99

00:50:44.240 to get their ass in 0.98

00:50:45.020 gear and start moving 0.98

00:50:46.980 these things through

00:50:47.880 now no one's going

00:50:49.740 to be focused on

00:50:51.260 your on the bill no

00:50:53.420 one's going to be

00:50:54.040 focused on that right

00:50:54.840 now you have an

00:50:55.320 opportunity that

00:50:56.420 everyone wants to

00:50:57.220 talk about Donald

00:50:57.800 Trump 24 hours a

00:50:58.760 day do your job

00:51:00.020 separately and let

00:51:00.880 him sign the bill

00:51:01.540 I want to talk to

00:51:16.020 you today if I have

00:51:17.240 time if not on the

00:51:19.020 blaze TV tonight I

00:51:19.940 have a chalkboard on

00:51:21.060 Flynn Flynn is

00:51:22.960 getting a lot of

00:51:23.620 heat now because he

00:51:24.760 you know he stood

00:51:26.180 with Turkey on on an

00:51:28.280 idea to arm the

00:51:29.180 Kurds okay the way 1.00

00:51:31.420 the media is spinning

00:51:32.420 this is completely

00:51:33.700 wrong and Flynn was

00:51:36.780 right to do it now

00:51:39.380 you've heard from me

00:51:40.320 over and over again

00:51:41.200 why aren't we

00:51:42.260 supporting the Kurds

00:51:43.320 why aren't we

00:51:44.100 arming the Kurds well

00:51:45.940 there's a really good

00:51:47.180 reason not to have

00:51:49.500 anything to do with

00:51:50.920 the Syrian Kurds

00:51:52.060 mainly they're not the

00:51:55.580 same people they

00:51:56.620 don't even have the

00:51:57.560 same language as the

00:51:59.720 Iraqi Kurds you want 0.99

00:52:02.060 to arm Kurds arm the

00:52:04.400 Iraqi Kurds the Syrian 0.97

00:52:07.240 Kurds are Marxist 0.99

00:52:09.720 Leninists they are also 0.99

00:52:12.480 a designated terror

00:52:14.080 group why would we

00:52:16.600 arm yet another

00:52:18.200 terrorist organization

00:52:19.900 it's insane I don't

00:52:22.920 know who comes up

00:52:23.980 with these plans but

00:52:25.760 if anybody says that

00:52:27.000 Flynn was taking

00:52:27.860 money from Turkey and

00:52:29.340 that's why no no for

00:52:32.140 months before this

00:52:33.400 decision he had not

00:52:34.540 been taking money from

00:52:36.100 Turkey he had already 0.99

00:52:37.580 disclosed that he had

00:52:39.040 been taking money from

00:52:40.160 Turkey but on this

00:52:41.400 particular case he

00:52:42.460 even if he was he's

00:52:43.920 absolutely right but

00:52:47.520 you won't learn that

00:52:48.040 from the media I'll

00:52:48.920 show you in a chalkboard

00:52:49.900 tonight five o'clock

00:52:51.100 your phone call is next

00:52:53.780 the Glenn Beck program

00:53:02.120 the Glenn Beck program all

00:53:10.380 right taking your phone

00:53:11.380 calls I want to I want to

00:53:12.260 hear from you what are

00:53:13.460 you thinking about what is

00:53:15.020 happening and if you had a

00:53:18.020 chance to whisper into the

00:53:19.500 ear of Donald Trump what

00:53:20.800 would you tell him to do

00:53:22.180 Trish welcome to the Glenn

00:53:24.260 Beck program I would tell

00:53:25.920 him first of all he's got to

00:53:27.100 grow up yeah they're not

00:53:28.560 fair guess what you're in the

00:53:30.480 human race it's not fair it 1.00

00:53:32.240 stinks what they're doing to

00:53:33.500 you but tough luck put on the

00:53:35.860 big boy boots and get to it

00:53:38.180 all right these Nancy boys in 1.00

00:53:40.140 the media these friggin idiots 1.00

00:53:42.080 and yes sorry gay people it's 1.00

00:53:43.640 not meant to offend you that's 0.98

00:53:44.980 just what they are they're a

00:53:46.420 bunch of Nancy boys get to it

00:53:48.880 you don't give more power to the

00:53:51.120 devil the devil is evil that's

00:53:53.540 what the media are just dismiss

00:53:55.940 them you've got to do certain

00:53:57.600 accountability fine I'm all for

00:53:59.780 that for transparency but enough

00:54:02.480 ignore them they are the toe jam

00:54:05.040 all right just ignore them and as

00:54:07.760 far as these Republicans by the way

00:54:09.460 I haven't it's nice to have Joe

00:54:11.740 Pesci's mother on

00:54:12.620 you're getting that really strong

00:54:14.920 Idaho accent

00:54:15.880 okay and the Bronx is coming out

00:54:20.000 all right

00:54:20.560 these Republicans are akin to what

00:54:24.380 used to be called Democrats they are

00:54:26.240 not Republicans and trust me I'm not

00:54:28.360 really a Republican I only go with

00:54:30.400 them because they are the lesser of

00:54:31.920 the devil that's the only thing

00:54:33.940 about them but and while I never

00:54:36.040 thought Trump was going to be the

00:54:37.700 great savorous I was a Ted Cruz

00:54:40.620 person but he was the lesser choice

00:54:43.460 because I could never vote for the

00:54:44.920 devil in address all right but they

00:54:47.440 have to get with it all right and the

00:54:50.900 first thing he should work on is

00:54:53.000 term limits for all these creeps that

00:54:55.940 have sold this nation I will tell you

00:54:58.240 that I will tell Trish I love your

00:55:00.380 attitude I love your spirit I will

00:55:02.300 tell you there's not a chance in hell

00:55:04.140 you're getting term limits through now

00:55:05.880 but thank you so much for calling let's

00:55:08.320 go to Tim in Illinois oh Tim

00:55:10.720 hi Glenn thank you very much okay

00:55:13.920 this is the number one I have to get

00:55:16.920 over this last call she was amazing

00:55:18.400 but bottom line is you know we talked

00:55:22.800 about the stock market to begin with in

00:55:25.360 the program and the problem is it's

00:55:28.960 undermining authority if we're waiting

00:55:31.620 for either party to pick a leader they're

00:55:33.480 never going to pick a leader because

00:55:35.180 they want to be leaders they don't want

00:55:36.480 leaders they want to be in there

00:55:37.520 forever term limits is something I had a

00:55:39.620 miracle I hope happens number one

00:55:41.240 number two if the media continues and

00:55:45.240 I'm sorry my man I've been listening to

00:55:46.820 you for 10 years you've got to take some

00:55:48.980 responsibility for this if the media

00:55:51.000 continues to talk to him to go down to

00:55:54.700 the the worst instant where Bob Beckel

00:55:58.580 called him a punk last night on the five

00:56:00.540 on lock if they continue to do this they

00:56:03.760 are the reason for the crash that stock

00:56:05.200 market okay hang on just a second I want

00:56:08.300 to go back wait wait I want to come

00:56:09.340 back to him I want to know what do I

00:56:11.560 need to take responsibility for because

00:56:13.100 I'm more than happy to do that you can't

00:56:15.880 it's called undermining any authority

00:56:17.600 all right get behind the guy who was 0.98

00:56:20.140 elected by a lot of people for the

00:56:21.900 authority

00:56:22.360 oh wait hang on just a second hang on

00:56:25.020 just a second wait wait hang on just a

00:56:26.720 second just because I am behind his

00:56:30.180 authority as president of the United

00:56:31.720 States I've made that very clear and I

00:56:34.320 have supported him when he when he did the

00:56:36.820 policies that I thought it is very

00:56:39.460 un-american not to question we didn't

00:56:41.900 elect a king so we question the the

00:56:46.000 actions we don't question the office I've

00:56:49.140 I do not question the office and I

00:56:51.360 certainly do not question that he is the

00:56:53.960 legitimate president I have said to the

00:56:56.160 press get over it and also Donald Trump

00:56:59.100 needs to get over that the election is

00:57:01.780 over he's the president now act like the

00:57:04.680 president and the criticism that I really

00:57:07.060 like here's what Stu said earlier where

00:57:08.440 he's got two hands he should be doing

00:57:09.840 something on one side while continuing

00:57:12.240 what he's doing on the other because

00:57:14.140 attacking the press and doing what the

00:57:16.540 people want him to do I held my nose when

00:57:18.900 I voted for him I'm becoming more and

00:57:21.360 more of a fan of this guy I mean that's

00:57:24.240 all to it because the the politics the

00:57:26.740 devil she was right previous callers all

00:57:28.840 over the place in this undermining

00:57:30.680 authority I was a union president a

00:57:32.500 youth minister and I I saw in both of

00:57:35.220 these instances and things totally

00:57:38.060 collapse when that happened Tim thank you

00:57:40.600 thank you for your call you're exactly

00:57:42.420 right it is chaos what what is happening

00:57:46.240 is the promotion of chaos and and I'm

00:57:51.240 sorry but Donald Trump is an agent of

00:57:54.020 chaos as well he likes that because of the

00:57:57.360 because of the the the ratings and the

00:58:00.680 the the what do you call it the the

00:58:03.660 reality show part of Donald Trump what

00:58:07.280 Donald Trump needs to do is focus right

00:58:09.780 now let the storm go and build all

00:58:13.540 around him it doesn't matter focus stop

00:58:16.740 responding to the press and every single

00:58:20.540 thing they say focus focus on your

00:58:24.840 agenda and do that but I I will tell you

00:58:28.900 I think what he'll do is he is going to

00:58:32.520 start paying back he did that with with

00:58:35.900 with Comey I hope you don't have tapes

00:58:39.080 well I happen to have notes don't try to

00:58:42.760 pay back in kind how much do you want to

00:58:46.400 make a bet he's going to suggest we now

00:58:48.840 start to go after Hillary or we now start 0.66

00:58:51.160 to have a special investigator on I think

00:58:53.660 he pays back in kind he punches back

00:58:56.720 twice as hard stop punching back they

00:59:01.000 will look like bullies don't bully back

00:59:05.400 be the president we were talking earlier

00:59:09.600 this morning about the vitriol from from 1.00

00:59:13.780 the left-leaning media is so ridiculous 0.98

00:59:16.800 and so relentless that it's pushing us to 0.99

00:59:19.380 be bigger Trump supporters you know

00:59:21.860 that's that's what happens when when

00:59:23.640 you're attacking a guy so much and it to

00:59:26.400 the point of it being unreasonable then

00:59:29.260 even some of the people who maybe weren't

00:59:31.320 his biggest fans start to become fans I

00:59:34.740 mean I was driven to yeah look what

00:59:37.340 happened with Donald Trump with Barack

00:59:38.900 Obama mm-hmm the more we said and we

00:59:41.940 didn't say this but the more we said oh

00:59:44.300 birth certificate the higher his ratings

00:59:47.260 went yeah with those who were on the 0.88

00:59:49.280 fringe they were like a shut up and that 0.79

00:59:53.160 can happen with this but not with him 1.00

00:59:56.460 making stupid mistakes stop zip your mouth 1.00

01:00:02.440 focus be presidential rise above it and 1.00

01:00:07.640 you might be right I don't know I mean I

01:00:09.560 don't have tons of faith in that but I

01:00:11.300 always think that the best sort of

01:00:12.460 observations are the ones that that come

01:00:14.400 from like recognizing a reality that

01:00:17.960 might not be so obvious now capitalism

01:00:19.860 is the best example of that like every

01:00:21.580 king from the beginning of time try to

01:00:23.560 force all sorts of different things from

01:00:26.180 the top down and and our founders were

01:00:28.440 smart enough to realize wait a minute

01:00:29.780 people are gonna pursue their own

01:00:31.820 rational self-interest and if we set up

01:00:34.280 rules that actually accentuates that

01:00:36.440 process it's better it may very well be

01:00:39.240 that what Republicans need to realize is

01:00:41.280 this is just reality this is what he's

01:00:43.560 there to do he's president United States

01:00:45.100 not to pass of anything about a wall

01:00:47.180 because he likes this he likes to fight

01:00:49.720 he likes to get in these battles he likes

01:00:51.880 to go back and forth and instead of

01:00:53.680 trying to constantly you know stop him

01:00:56.060 from doing that realize maybe that it's

01:00:59.060 just providing you an incredible

01:01:00.680 distraction to do actual work is it is is

01:01:04.340 one of the best strategies I've heard

01:01:06.320 because I don't hear a lot of good

01:01:09.700 strategies but but the for the

01:01:12.880 Republicans just to push things through

01:01:15.300 and to not be dragged into this I I I would

01:01:20.900 hope that Donald Trump is enough of a

01:01:23.460 strategist that he can take it on the

01:01:27.740 chin for a while and be quiet he just

01:01:31.460 can't add to this it's getting too

01:01:34.560 serious he can't just add to this if he

01:01:39.040 does he's done there's just not going to

01:01:42.040 be a way out of it because he just keeps

01:01:44.460 throwing things in and you're like oh

01:01:46.000 what why why would you say that that's

01:01:49.840 not going to help you that's going to

01:01:51.480 make you look this way and so it's just

01:01:54.300 going to get out of control because the

01:01:56.460 the media Hollywood everything they

01:01:59.700 despise him they despise him and

01:02:04.940 that's hard enough we knew that going

01:02:08.920 in though we knew this was going to

01:02:11.480 happen now he said he would change as

01:02:15.800 president don't worry I'm not going to

01:02:18.200 be this guy all the time well but you

01:02:20.780 are so so please mr. president fulfill

01:02:24.400 that promise and don't be that guy

01:02:26.700 don't make this any worse and on top of 1.00

01:02:31.980 that Republicans get off your ass and 1.00

01:02:34.660 use this distraction quickly too I mean 1.00

01:02:38.240 you can blame the media all you want

01:02:39.660 for his not being able to pass things

01:02:41.400 he brought they brought both the

01:02:42.600 callers brought up term limits therefore

01:02:44.640 on the first day of my term in office

01:02:47.820 first priority propose a constitutional

01:02:51.320 amendment to impose term limits on all

01:02:53.700 members of Congress you know that

01:02:56.160 didn't it wasn't it's not a long

01:02:57.760 series of scandals that stopped that

01:02:59.320 that was the thing he promised he

01:03:00.620 would do I know but here's the

01:03:02.140 problem if he proposes that he will

01:03:05.660 only have people like Mike Lee and the

01:03:07.980 Freedom Caucus he will lose all support

01:03:11.620 of agenda and everything else from but

01:03:13.780 if he wasn't going to do it he

01:03:14.920 shouldn't have said it I agree but I'm

01:03:17.540 saying now he could have done it and

01:03:20.100 used his bully pulpit I think and I

01:03:22.820 think there's still a chance if he

01:03:24.400 understood discipline that he could

01:03:26.540 still come in and plow through a lot of

01:03:29.280 this and if he is indeed clean which I

01:03:32.200 actually believe he is he's just making

01:03:36.320 himself look guilty but if he is clean

01:03:40.240 which I believe he is and he's he can

01:03:43.720 plow through this if he's disciplined but

01:03:46.660 he's not going to have any support in

01:03:50.060 Congress or too little to actually get

01:03:52.800 any of his bills passed if that's what

01:03:55.540 he says he's going to do at this point

01:03:57.100 if he would have done it on day one it

01:03:59.720 would have been another thing that

01:04:01.000 people would have hung their hat on

01:04:02.260 right now they're hanging their hat on

01:04:03.860 hey he did the Supreme Court and that's

01:04:06.340 a big one he needed a few more of these

01:04:10.560 and he needed to put them up now his

01:04:15.440 ideas for Trump care I don't know what's

01:04:19.140 going to happen I don't know what the

01:04:20.780 agenda how is he going to get taxes done

01:04:22.820 he's got to reconnect with the people 1.00

01:04:26.860 he's got to stop making stupid mistakes 1.00

01:04:30.800 Roger Ailes died last night 77 years old 1.00

01:04:36.800 I just thought of something he taught

01:04:38.580 me he called me into his office and he

01:04:43.020 said Glenn you you you have to stop

01:04:51.320 being a shooting star or a solar flare

01:04:53.920 and recognize that you need to be a son

01:04:58.140 and I said you're gonna have to break

01:05:03.000 that down to me because I don't

01:05:04.360 understand what you're talking about

01:05:05.600 and he said solar flares are part of

01:05:10.560 life solar flares happen all the time and

01:05:14.720 if science is looking up and they're

01:05:17.000 seeing solar flares they're regular

01:05:20.740 they're part of the pattern but if they

01:05:23.640 start to see solar flares over and over

01:05:25.900 and over and over again and they just

01:05:28.120 keep happening and they're gaining speed

01:05:30.340 that's when science says the Sun may be

01:05:33.500 unstable he said you're making good

01:05:36.920 points you're saying things but you're

01:05:39.520 moving at such a high rate of speed that

01:05:43.080 you say this then you say that then you

01:05:45.500 say that then you say that and all of

01:05:47.420 those are pretty hard for people to get

01:05:49.600 their arms around all of these are solar

01:05:52.640 flares you look unstable the show looks

01:05:57.520 unstable because you're taking too many

01:06:00.640 chances and too many you're pushing spikes

01:06:03.700 out too far every day and I said well I'm

01:06:08.320 just here for a short period of time I'm

01:06:10.140 just gonna do this anyway for a short

01:06:11.460 period of time I had a different

01:06:13.120 philosophy as it turns out he was right

01:06:15.620 he was right that's what's happening

01:06:19.360 with Donald Trump there's too many of

01:06:22.700 these things and so the average person

01:06:25.760 becomes uncomfortable because it looks

01:06:28.640 unstable now we're gonna harden into

01:06:31.700 positions because that's what that's

01:06:34.160 what happened with Barack Obama they

01:06:35.960 hardened into positions where they would

01:06:38.160 not listen do you see what he's doing

01:06:41.780 with the IRS do you want the IRS to be

01:06:45.280 used as a weapon or do you see what he

01:06:48.680 just did he's running guns with the

01:06:51.440 Attorney General they wouldn't listen

01:06:55.900 because they had been pushed into a

01:06:59.000 place of complete defense that's gonna

01:07:03.580 happen to us but unfortunately I think

01:07:06.940 because this guy has the press with him

01:07:09.320 you're going to be the minority again and

01:07:13.900 it's not gonna go well for us unless he

01:07:17.900 stops being a shooting star or a series of

01:07:22.320 solar flares he's got to look stable did

01:07:27.300 anybody hear that they're talking now

01:07:28.640 about there are people in Washington

01:07:31.220 that are talking about can we use what

01:07:33.280 is it the 28th amendment which 25th

01:07:35.540 amendment that he's not fit to be

01:07:38.140 president holy cow he's 120 days into it

01:07:42.300 needs to back down be the president that

01:07:49.280 we recognize you don't have to be you

01:07:51.860 don't have to propose the same policies

01:07:53.420 but act like the president this is the

01:07:58.720 Glenn Beck program mercury

01:08:03.860 triple-a-727 back there is a there's

01:08:11.160 some interesting pictures so with our

01:08:12.860 next guest Senator Ben Sash Ben sasset

01:08:16.100 are going around the internet right now

01:08:17.480 and in his own words he just tweeted

01:08:21.200 this out it looks like Chuck Schumer and

01:08:23.040 I are smoking reefer out back behind a

01:08:26.060 wedding and it does it does it's

01:08:30.620 trending quite wildly and we'll talk to

01:08:33.660 him about what the name of his reefer and

01:08:36.280 dealer is Senator Ben sass joins us here

01:08:39.880 in just a moment the blaze radio network on

01:09:01.880 blaze radio network on demand

01:09:07.100 u.s senator from the state of nebraska ben

01:09:13.700 sass is is in the bullpen ready to come

01:09:19.820 out and I'm not sure he's in any shape to

01:09:22.100 come out based on these pictures that are

01:09:24.300 now trending on Twitter of him and Chuck

01:09:27.320 Schumer and John McCain where where

01:09:32.460 honestly their hair is messed up and he's

01:09:34.500 sitting in shorts sure he might say this

01:09:38.580 story he's gonna spin is I was just coming

01:09:41.020 out of the Senate gym and these guys were

01:09:43.360 walking by but he looks like as he himself

01:09:47.380 pointed out he and Chuck Schumer are behind

01:09:50.380 the back of some wedding getting high

01:09:52.780 smoking reefer I'm just saying Ben sass

01:09:56.240 with the truth about these stories which

01:10:00.140 we have to these pictures which we have

01:10:01.620 to get to what's happening in Washington

01:10:03.620 where we go here and he has also written

01:10:06.460 an incredible book called the vanishing

01:10:09.540 American adult something that I can highly

01:10:13.540 recommend that every adult every parent

01:10:18.060 should read this book Ben sass the senator

01:10:21.500 from nebraska on the topic of the day

01:10:25.660 chaos right now

01:10:27.920 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment

01:10:49.520 this is the Glenn Beck program senator Ben sass we would we'd like to treat you with respect and then we saw the pictures of you in the red shorts and you know what it is it's reminiscent of remember the book that Arlen Spector wrote where he talked about the Senate bathhouse

01:11:09.120 yeah that's right John Thune was naked in the hot tub yeah we made tender love for

01:11:17.040 I don't think you wrote that but Ben sass welcome to the program sir I am here just to be your straight

01:11:24.400 man wow uh what uh what uh unfortunate timing for you to be on this program after these pictures are trending now yeah I think my phone's breaking up but it's been good I've enjoyed it

01:11:38.720 thanks for the interview not a problem do you stand by I mean I'm sure you stand by the red

01:11:44.960 shorts but how about the little pencil legs wow

01:11:48.560 too soon I'm sorry okay all right I'm just happy I'm not wearing umbrows 0.96

01:11:55.840 I would have been in 1992 garb yeah so well you know we'll come back in about 20 minutes it won't be too soon

01:12:02.800 um uh I want to talk to you about your book the vanishing american adult which I think you are

01:12:07.840 you are spot on on so much I would we were kicking around that we believe that there should be a

01:12:15.920 constitutional amendment that uh makes it illegal for any senator to write a book um because they usually

01:12:22.480 don't have anything to say and I mean who the hell do you think you are writing a book

01:12:26.000 I am I am if the book has a little bit of substance I uh I'm ashamed I apologize all right

01:12:32.640 okay all right next time okay um I do want to get to the book but can we can we start with

01:12:38.080 the news of the day and the storm that is happening in washington dc can you tell us the weather pattern

01:12:47.520 yeah there's weather and there's climate right uh so let's talk about weather as you want to but

01:12:52.240 let's be sure we also then back up and put it in the context of climate because the chaos here

01:12:57.920 isn't just the last uh four months it isn't just the last 18 months it's not just this presidential

01:13:03.440 cycle it's that for a heck of a long time we've forgotten to do basic civics and when you don't do

01:13:08.400 basic civics you lose that sense of what politics are for because I'm of the one cheer for politics

01:13:14.800 school zero cheers doesn't work the world's broken and so you need a framework for liberty you need

01:13:19.600 security we need spies we need to protect sources and methods we need to have clarity about when

01:13:24.480 and what foreign uh interventions we do and don't do and what allies we support and not but you don't

01:13:30.480 want washington to be the center of the world and five of the seven richest counties in america are now

01:13:35.120 here that's because we've not been doing civics and so there's a drift toward government filling that

01:13:39.200 vacuum um what is the uh the forecast for any of the president's uh...

01:13:49.920 initiatives going through tax cuts health care uh the border uh with all of the wall on the wall i

01:13:57.520 mean what if is any of it going to come is it happening i really uh hope i obviously overwhelmingly

01:14:05.680 hope and um and partly believe some of it will still happen there will be some movement on an agenda

01:14:12.560 but the reality is there's just not much of a decision making process in the white house right now with a

01:14:18.320 really big carve out which is on the national security side uh general mcmaster is a really

01:14:24.080 good pick by the president and he's doing a really good job the president has named a bunch of

01:14:28.320 exceptional people uh on the foreign policy and national security space so mattis is arguably the

01:14:33.840 most impressive person at the pentagon in a half a century for example and those folks are working

01:14:39.360 together trying to develop a strategy you know the president's planning to still leave town tomorrow

01:14:43.520 night and go to the middle east and his idea about trying to foster and facilitate more arab sunni

01:14:49.520 cooperation as a counter force against you know the last administration's willingness to let iran

01:14:55.840 expand its fear of influence lots of things happening there that are important and worth deliberating

01:15:00.000 about the problem is on the domestic policy and the economic policy side there's really not any

01:15:05.040 decision making process inside the white house so you just have kitty soccer he's just that's exactly

01:15:10.720 right he has he has really done a great job on on um um on the the um security side especially with

01:15:22.320 with foreign policy in the pentagon i think i think mcmaster um tremendous tremendous however

01:15:30.160 where are the republicans i mean you have the greatest cover going on right now i mean barack

01:15:37.920 obama used to try to overwhelm the system and have the news cycle going out of control so you couldn't

01:15:44.480 pay attention to anything you didn't know what to watch and i used to say on fox all the time watch the

01:15:49.520 other hand well there is no other hand here can anyone in congress actually start to put together some

01:15:56.880 proposals that the president only has to sign um so here let's distinguish between what should happen

01:16:04.480 and what is really possible because one of the places where i've changed in the two and a half years

01:16:09.680 i've been here is i still believe that what should happen is the legislature as the article one branch

01:16:15.920 should be the place where policy deliberation and initiative happen right but now descriptively the

01:16:21.200 reality is since the rise of television since the late 40s early 50s when television became

01:16:26.720 the main way that we communicate together and now let's call it television let's call it um

01:16:31.600 moving imagery as opposed to print based culture right an image based culture so now the rise of

01:16:37.280 digital media descriptively you've really never had any big things happen in washington the last

01:16:42.560 six or seven decades if the president wasn't using the bully pulpit to focus attention on one issue

01:16:48.800 and right now obviously for lots of reasons um this white house doesn't have any kind of clarity

01:16:54.400 about policy initiatives and so they kind of bounce around from thing to thing that that doesn't

01:16:59.360 exonerate the congress the congress has a nine percent approval rating and to quote my wife that

01:17:03.280 seems insanely too high um so the congress is not doing its work but neither of these two political

01:17:09.600 parties have had clarity of an agenda for the american people for you know a decade two decades and so

01:17:15.840 right now both parties main job they think is to flit about doing hot take to hot take and mainly

01:17:21.680 saying that the other people are even worse than we are that's different than casting a vision you

01:17:26.240 get back in but the particular vision we should talk about but as a descriptive matter we should admit

01:17:31.280 that absent a bully pulpit from the white house to guide a domestic economic policy agenda it's not

01:17:36.720 very likely that it'll go forward why is that though i i i don't i i mean you guys can come up with

01:17:42.720 the rules you guys can pass the laws you guys can do i mean and it's not that hard it's not that hard

01:17:47.440 cut the spending you know i mean it's not that hard but we had seven but but spending is really

01:17:54.480 mostly about entitlements now and the public doesn't seem to want us to focus on entitlements

01:18:00.240 we still should and i would gladly lose right i've run for one thing once in my life politics are not

01:18:06.080 the center of my uh life or identity i would gladly try to have a big conversation about actually being

01:18:11.840 honest with the american people about entitlements most people here have zero desire to do that i thought

01:18:16.800 until the last presidential cycle only the democrats were indifferent to whether or not

01:18:20.960 we bankrupted our children but now when you had 17 republican candidates for president and 15 of the

01:18:26.960 17 started the election cycle saying we need to tell the truth about entitlements only two didn't

01:18:32.160 and it seems like the public didn't really care there isn't enough domestic discretionary spending that

01:18:37.760 can possibly make a difference to move the needle i'll give you one stat when kennedy was president

01:18:43.120 52 of our federal spending was national security one percent was health entitlements today 71 of our

01:18:51.600 spending is five entitlement programs and the remaining 29 of all federal spending is half and half defense

01:18:57.920 and non-defense discretionary spending well i think we under invest in defense i can make a bunch of

01:19:03.440 cases about why i believe that the 14 and a half percent that's non-defense discretionary you just can't

01:19:09.440 solve the problems of bankrupting our kids there even if you took all of it away the problem is in

01:19:14.560 entitlements and there's no political will or courage here to tackle that but hang on just a second is there

01:19:20.640 enough political forget about the courage and the uh is can you muster up enough will to um to get a

01:19:29.280 consensus on something because with this swirling around the press is so busy feeding in the bloody

01:19:39.200 water that i think you guys could get almost anything through at this point

01:19:45.520 so let's talk about uh obamacare entitlements as an example about why uh so many republicans don't

01:19:51.920 seem to actually want to repeal and replace obamacare we then all start technical stuff about

01:19:57.200 why it takes 60 votes to do most things in the senate we only have 52 senators to do reconciliation

01:20:01.280 which is only a subset but for a minute just bracket all that substantively there are 50 republicans

01:20:06.720 we have the vice president so we need 50 of the 52 of us to do anything at all and then you could

01:20:10.960 use my expense as the tiebreaker you'd need 50 of 52 of us to agree what's wrong in american health

01:20:16.720 care i have very well formulated views you can argue with me but i have a clear sense of what i think is

01:20:22.480 wrong in american health care and no obamacare exacerbated lots of problems it isn't the case that

01:20:28.240 the problems of american health care just began eight years ago the american health care system had

01:20:32.560 unsustainable you know premium growth of two and a half times inflationary growth annually for year

01:20:37.440 on year on year on year why is it that we never get higher quality lower cost care in american health

01:20:42.720 care there's a technical business case and policy argument for why that is i didn't know before i got

01:20:48.800 here that most republicans don't really understand that or want to fix that you have republicans who

01:20:55.600 really think the worst part of obamacare is the cadillac tax that's insane it's a tiny tiny little

01:21:01.520 piece of the program and you can debate the merits of whether or not a tax on employer-sponsored

01:21:05.520 insurance that equalized the individual market is good or bad policy but it's a tiny part of what

01:21:10.640 the story is in obamacare and we seemingly have republicans who have so little clarity about a

01:21:15.600 vision for a system of health care where you have an insurance policy that's portable across job and

01:21:21.120 geographic change for american families which is what we need in american health care more and more

01:21:25.920 jobs are going to get shorter and shorter and most of the uninsurance in american life is from

01:21:30.080 people changing jobs so then from health status so ben when when does somebody like you and a

01:21:36.800 group of you even if it's three or five when does a group of you say basically what the republicans said

01:21:45.600 in the 1850s neither party is serious i'm not going to play this game anymore and in a very short period

01:21:54.240 of time without social media what started is about 20 people elected the president in 1860

01:22:03.520 when what is a tipping point because i hear this from republicans all the time and you're seeing the

01:22:09.760 number of people who are saying i'm not having anything to do with the republican party i'm not

01:22:13.600 having anything to do with the democratic party there is a large growing number of people who are sick of

01:22:18.960 both of them when is it that you guys are going to just come out and say i can't do it anymore

01:22:24.800 because it's all lies well said so let's unpack it a little bit i'm third or fourth most conservative

01:22:31.840 guy in the senate by voting record but i'm not very partisan and that i'm very unimpressed with both of

01:22:37.440 these parties so i have thought of my calling and my approach to this job has been that i think of

01:22:42.960 myself as functionally an independent who caucuses with the republicans and so i there you know when

01:22:49.440 you have republican versus democratic fights on the things that we're voting on now i'm not just

01:22:54.800 republican i'm you know at the at the conservative end of the republican continuum so i am republican

01:23:00.560 when the choice is republican versus democrat but what i'm really for is limited government i'm for

01:23:06.720 families and mediating institutions and markets and i'm for the future in that we should be talking

01:23:12.560 about the challenges of 10 and 15 and 20 years from now before they're fully upon us with the

01:23:18.160 way cyber is going to remake warfare for example and so i am trying to have a conversation that is

01:23:24.400 okay fine on the continuum of stuff in my mind i'm sort of uh i have three levels of this the bottom

01:23:30.880 level is right to left continuum on small policy then one layer above that is right to left continuum

01:23:37.440 on the bigger policies that we know how to think about right now but there's not a lot of political

01:23:41.840 courage or will that stuff like entitlement reform what would a portable health care system really

01:23:46.720 look like but then above that there's another tier which is the most important one which is basic

01:23:52.640 civics education and what are we trying to do as a people in america because america is the most

01:23:59.120 exceptional nation in the history of the world because we believe in the dignity of 320 million americans

01:24:04.560 we believe in the dignity of seven billion people that god gives rights to by nature and government

01:24:09.040 is a shared project to secure those rights and we need to pass on that understanding of a republic and

01:24:14.240 right now we've allowed our foundations to erode for so long that we don't have a shared american

01:24:19.760 narrative so a bunch of people you know sort of reduced down to tribe and and when you're lonely at

01:24:25.200 home which is a lot of what's happening in america right now as we hollow out these local institutions

01:24:30.560 people are projecting more onto politics these two parties aren't worthy of projecting your grand grand hopes and 0.68

01:24:37.120 dreams on parties are tools and these tools are pretty spent and exhausted so i'll stop here but

01:24:42.560 to your point glenn i do think these two parties are going to be disrupted and disintermediated that

01:24:47.920 doesn't mean i'm for a mushy middle between these two no no for a conservatism that goes beyond this

01:24:53.760 present moment of constant short-termist kiddie soccer i will tell you just what i heard was one of

01:25:00.000 the most stirring and exciting things i've heard from from any leader in a long time um ben is going to

01:25:06.160 continue to be with a senator ben sass he's written basically what you just heard

01:25:11.680 is what he's talking about here a bigger picture the vanishing american adult our coming of age crisis

01:25:17.920 and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance that's the name of his book um you know a lot

01:25:22.960 of books i'll read mike lee books because they're they're deep on the constitution uh but it's just like

01:25:31.120 okay i got it this is an important book especially if you're a parent ben sass the the vanishing

01:25:36.880 american adult it's available in bookstores everywhere back with ben sass here in just a minute

01:25:44.320 the glenn beck program mercury

01:25:51.760 this is the glenn beck program sign up for the newsletter and get all the info you need to know

01:25:56.560 at glenn beck dot com hey uh senator ben sass is with us uh ben i just want to just off the top of

01:26:02.480 my head um i'm just thinking about the different states does the does nebraska have a rule about

01:26:09.840 running for senate and let's say uh president at the same time

01:26:20.080 yeah the only thing i've ever looked at is uh noxious weed control board and husker

01:26:24.560 offensive coordinator so you're talking to the wrong guy we should check you should check into

01:26:29.680 that because you're you're up for uh reelection in 2020 and uh that's the same year there's a

01:26:36.320 presidential election hmm yeah i'm not i'm not not great with math i don't know about that

01:26:44.000 i was i was told there would be no math all right well yeah they're also we were told there

01:26:48.960 wouldn't be any embarrassing pictures of you and chuck schumer too so is it still too soon

01:26:54.480 i think that i think that's why i've been photoshopped i think you should move on

01:26:59.680 uh the vanishing uh since we've been on the phone though somebody handed me a photoshop version of it

01:27:04.720 that has schumer with a huge joint in his hand in the photo now we should we should doubt the

01:27:10.400 veracity of all these photos i mean you do look like cheech and chong sitting there you really do 0.98

01:27:16.160 what was the uh open up man it's me dave well what was going on there in those pictures ben uh

01:27:23.520 what are we talking about so i uh i work out uh early in the morning and then i sneak outside the

01:27:29.600 gym and uh start out the day talking to my kids on the phone and i do some radio and so i was i was

01:27:35.520 sitting outside the russell building where our gym is uh getting ready to do some radio and cotton came 0.99

01:27:41.120 up and he and i were talking some national security stuff okay so what i so what i heard here i hate to

01:27:45.520 interrupt you you are sitting senator but what we heard here is he starts his day smoking pot with

01:27:50.160 chuck schumer every day back in a minute ben sass

01:27:54.240 you're listening to the glenn beck program mercury

01:28:04.880 the glenn beck program there's truly so much in this new book by senator ben sass

01:28:12.000 that has nothing to do with politics has everything about restoring america the the the problems

01:28:18.880 really stem from within our own homes no matter who you are no matter how big you think you are or

01:28:26.880 how you know much of you're a united states senator the most important work you will ever do will be

01:28:32.880 with inside the walls of your home and he has not just a this is not just a screed against what's

01:28:41.360 happening this is an actual plan to help restore it the vanishing american adult our coming of age crisis 0.55

01:28:47.520 and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance um ben i i don't even know where to start on this book

01:28:54.240 i i i want to start on one of the no let's start with you defining the problem and then i want to

01:28:59.760 start with one of one of the solutions in the book that i i am personally going to do with my family i

01:29:05.280 think it is such a great idea start with what the problem is thanks so i think a lot of our kids are

01:29:12.320 caught in a state of perpetual adolescence and that's not good for them and it's not good for

01:29:17.200 uh our communities and it's not good for the republic but the book is not the vanishing american

01:29:21.760 adult is not a blame-laying book it's two-thirds as you said glenn constructive project what do we do

01:29:27.760 about it how do we make this better um but if we were going to lay some blame we're not laying it

01:29:31.840 really directly at the feet of teens and 20-somethings this is not an anti-millennial book it is more

01:29:36.640 about parents and grandparents we haven't done a good job of recognizing that this new category of

01:29:41.920 perpetual adolescence that's drifted in has let us sort of start to think of adolescence as a

01:29:47.200 destination as opposed to a means to an end childhood is a glorious part of life it's supposed to be

01:29:53.040 protected our kids innocence is supposed to be guarded and then adulthood you get to pursue the

01:29:57.760 good the true and the beautiful and the heights of human achievement and loving your neighbor and

01:30:01.040 building the new app that's going to change the world adolescence is that transitional state between

01:30:05.920 the two and it's it's not an eternal idea it's only a couple thousand years old that we've had this

01:30:10.400 idea that you hit puberty you get to biological adulthood and you don't have to be totally an

01:30:15.200 independent adult yet and that's a pretty special thing except if you act like adolescence is a

01:30:20.800 destination and right now it's really hard to tell 10 and 15 and 20 year olds apart that's not good

01:30:26.720 i will tell you it's sometimes hard to tell parents apart from the 15 year old

01:30:32.640 yeah i mean we we have started to think of life as different consumption opportunities we are the

01:30:40.400 richest people uh at the richest time and place in all of human history of course there are some

01:30:44.960 bumps uh over the course of the last seven eight nine years but this is a couple decades in the making

01:30:49.760 problem and it's going to last for you know half a century in the future we are largely unable to feel

01:30:56.400 in our belly the distinction between production and consumption and that's new across time and

01:31:02.400 space explain the difference explain the difference so when you work when you're needed when you're

01:31:07.840 producing something when you're serving your neighbor you do something that's for the benefit

01:31:12.640 of somebody else consumption is a different kind of a thing and lots of consumption is great right

01:31:17.440 i mean there are all sorts of things that when we consume a fine meal it is recreating it revivifies

01:31:24.160 us to go back and serve again but we're not satisfied in life if we just consume more and more stuff

01:31:30.000 and right now we're having a kind of pop cultural sense that we're drifting toward a world where

01:31:34.400 more and more cotton candy may be good for us we all know that's not true there's a two and a

01:31:38.960 seven minute dopamine hit that feels good to take more cotton candy but two and seven hours later let

01:31:44.720 alone two and seven years later i never look back and say oh that was great i'm glad i did that

01:31:49.680 and right now our kids are not developing a work ethic in any sort of intentional way and it's our fault that

01:31:55.920 we're not celebrating scar tissue so let's go celebrating scar tissue this is the kind of stuff

01:32:02.480 that is in this book that you please go out and and buy this book um it is just that is worth the

01:32:12.320 price of it celebrating scar tissue what do you mean by that ben well scar tissue is the foundation of

01:32:19.200 future character right at our house when we get stitches we throw a little party uh because if we get

01:32:24.400 stitches and it didn't come with a spinal injury that's going to have permanent you know problems

01:32:28.720 for us we think we got away with something my wife and i use the frame and i want to be clear we're not

01:32:33.840 setting our family up as a model in this we stumble and fall every day um we are sinners but we have a

01:32:40.080 shared theory of what we're trying to accomplish as parents and we want to get our kids toward an

01:32:45.440 independent adulthood and so melissa and i use this idea that a huge part of parenting kids from 8 to 10 to 12

01:32:52.000 to 14 to 16 is about training wheel removal exercises how can we help them get from a place

01:32:58.160 where they need our protective uh they need our protection where they're still dependent to get

01:33:03.680 them to a place where they're independent so they can live a life of gratitude to god by serving their

01:33:07.520 neighbor and doing something productive i am a no training wheels guy when i teach my kids to bike

01:33:12.560 i'm i'm sort of a freak about this i've trained my three kids and a lot of neighbor kids i like teaching

01:33:16.960 kids how to ride a bike but we don't do training wheels in our house at the time we bubble wrap them

01:33:21.360 because i'm critical of bubble wrapping in this book but we're going to teach them how to ride a

01:33:24.800 bike we wrap them in all their snow gear right they got ski pants and a big winter coat on we put a hat

01:33:30.640 on them and i put the bike no training wheels on a slightly declining hill and i run behind them and i

01:33:36.560 bat them i'm straddling the back wheel and i bat them shoulder to shoulder to shoulder trying to

01:33:41.440 let them finally catch their balance and when they do it's like a two-hour learning process and all

01:33:46.320 of a sudden they catch their balance a few times and it's glorious like there's this moment and now

01:33:50.320 they can ride a bike and and the goal of teaching your kid to ride a bike is not for them to have

01:33:54.640 training wheels forever it's for them to ride next to you and smell the flowers and have a great workout

01:33:59.920 and so much of parenting should be about figuring out how can we take off the training wheels let's

01:34:05.120 protect them as we're taking them off but the goal is to get them to independence

01:34:08.800 ben i've talked to you several times and i've always been impressed by you um but um this is

01:34:19.600 remarkable stuff um and uh you and your family are going to be added to my family's nightly prayers

01:34:26.240 um you have a lot to a lot to teach um can we uh jump to a part in the book where you're talking about

01:34:33.200 the five-foot shelf yeah yeah i um the book is structured one third is a cultural crit stage

01:34:41.440 setting where did this perpetual adolescence come from then the last two-thirds is let's think of

01:34:45.760 five things we could do to help our kids um realize what it means to be an independent adult because it's

01:34:51.360 not just progressing through grades in school that's one of the problems is that we've started to think

01:34:56.320 that what growing up is about is about checking these markers of just grade progression and mostly school

01:35:02.320 which is really important is a tool it's a means to an end but we want them to get to these certain

01:35:06.960 ends so i friend the book around the vanishing american adult is built around developing a work

01:35:11.440 ethic it's about learning to limit consumption distinguish among different kinds of consumption

01:35:16.320 and especially know the difference between need and want don't assume that everything you might feel

01:35:21.120 a yearning for an appetite for that you might want that doesn't make it necessarily a need

01:35:26.720 how do you learn how to travel how do you build intergenerational relationships and to your

01:35:31.920 point glenn how do we learn to be a truly literate people not functionally literate not can you can you

01:35:37.520 read a passage if you sit down to do it but how can you build appetites where you want to be a reader

01:35:43.280 because our republic is premised on the idea of deliberation the ability to be dispassionate and to

01:35:50.880 reflect on other ideas to persuade or to be persuaded not to be in a safe space but to actually encounter

01:35:57.200 hard and different ideas and so we built this this idea so it's related to some canon fights but it's

01:36:02.160 not really about a one-size-fits-all canon for america um would it be fun to have that discussion

01:36:07.280 too but it is how do i teach my kids to get to a place where they've got a shelf of books that they

01:36:13.520 want to read that they've started to read that they want to go back to again how do we get them to

01:36:18.240 love both quantity and quality as they actually become appetitive readers so but you know for

01:36:24.960 instance the founding documents how do you get your kids to want to read those well for one thing you

01:36:32.160 let them understand that there were big debates right we sometimes read these documents and it

01:36:37.360 feels like they're scripture handed down from heaven and everything about them can start to feel boring

01:36:44.160 because it's just eternal truth where there was no dispute and so one of the things we do again

01:36:49.040 distinguishing quantity and quality we want them to be addicted to quality we want them to be formed

01:36:54.800 and shaped by a certain set of books i sort of made up the idea that the average width of a book is

01:36:59.840 about an inch and so we call it a five-foot shelf because we want to put 60 books on it we want our

01:37:04.240 kids to have a six foot of a 60 book five-foot shelf um that when they leave home they've already

01:37:10.160 started through these books and these are books they want to go back to well it's fine for us to use

01:37:15.440 quantity as a pathway into quality when my kids were seven and eight and nine and starting to read we just

01:37:21.440 want them to read more more more and so we let them read stuff that felt a little bit cotton candy

01:37:26.480 ish and then once they were developing a real appetite and a desire to read then we'd start

01:37:31.200 substituting in a little bit more vegetables for some of the ice cream so let me let me go through

01:37:36.400 some of the books that you say are on your shelf and it's different for everybody you c.s lewis

01:37:40.480 martin luther martin luther king all understandable um you put george orwell carl marx and money ball

01:37:47.280 yeah why uh well so first what i tried to do was i wouldn't let there be more than five books uh in

01:37:55.120 any uh particular category so first i thought about genres my wife and i got out a bunch of index cards

01:38:01.440 and we started looking at our shelf and pulling down books that we would say this is so important

01:38:06.720 that even if i think i disagree with big pieces of it so uh marx as an example or rousseau's emile

01:38:14.000 which is sort of one of the most interesting books ever written on child rearing but written

01:38:17.600 by an absolutely despicable person jean-jacques rousseau you know abandoned his own kids at an

01:38:23.200 orphanage so he could have more time to write and then he had the hubris to write a book about how

01:38:26.960 you'd raise kids um so there there are people that i strongly disagree with but i wanted the criteria to

01:38:33.040 be this is a book so important that i would want to read it more than twice in my life and i would

01:38:38.080 want to spend 20 bucks to buy it to give to other people i love and care about because i'd like to frame

01:38:42.880 a debate with them well we'd keep coming back to some of these ideas so we've got index cards out

01:38:48.080 sort of naming a bunch of our books we started building stacks as we name categories like you

01:38:53.280 know sort of fundamental theology or american history or founding documents or markets or american

01:39:02.800 literature in each of these we would only let there be five books you had to max out at that so i was

01:39:08.320 trying to get to 12 categories of five or fewer books and i just randomly realized that i had a

01:39:13.680 prison lit category prison literature um from mandela uh to uh the apostle paul uh to martin luther

01:39:21.680 there's a whole bunch of really into martin luther king a whole bunch of really interesting stuff

01:39:25.520 that's been written when people were in prison and so we just sort of organically uh built a list it

01:39:30.320 took weeks and months of haggling at my house as we came up with the list and our list is totally

01:39:35.760 imperfect and when people read it they're going to want to scream my goodness what's wrong with you

01:39:40.800 man there's no poetry category in your list you're a broken uh intellect and when people want to start 0.71

01:39:47.760 arguing about the boundaries of our list then i think we've succeeded because the vanishing american

01:39:52.240 adult is not saying i know the one way to parent it's that lots of american parents are worried that

01:39:58.560 we're not parenting well and we don't have a deliberative context to talk with our friends and neighbors

01:40:03.360 about it and the purpose of the vanishing american adult is to bring people together

01:40:07.520 into conversation where we argue about this because we're all going to do a better job if we're more

01:40:11.760 intentional about our parenting so ben you were supposed to come in today you were going to be

01:40:15.840 with us but you had a vote that you had to be back for um and i wanted to pay you offered to come

01:40:21.120 in and you know sit with me at five o'clock in the morning to to do an hour on television um and uh

01:40:26.640 i said no to that because what i'd really like to do is see if there's a time where you and your

01:40:32.000 wife can come in um and just talk about this i i think i think this is it is exactly where my head

01:40:41.280 is right now that we are in a culture of absolute chaos because we don't know what's true anymore

01:40:49.600 and everything is up for grabs and we have to find our way to putting things back together for our kids

01:40:59.520 enough for them to be able to then wrestle with some of these new ideas that are causing chaos

01:41:06.960 um can i invite you and your wife to come in together would she ever say yes to that i like

01:41:13.280 it a lot in general she doesn't like to do media but for you on this topic i think there's a chance i

01:41:18.240 could twist her arm and persuade her to do it so let's talk more about that off offline okay one of the

01:41:23.760 things that you said there that i want to completely underscore is the word virtue you didn't use it but

01:41:29.200 you were speaking about it um when people hear virtue right now that we all get a squeamishness oh

01:41:34.400 that sounds like a highly moralistic tone actually the root of virtue is from the latin word for

01:41:40.880 strength and a huge part of what america presupposes is that when we go through hard times we individuals and

01:41:48.720 we families and we local communities are actually tough enough to navigate lots of these problems

01:41:54.400 and right now we have a kind of national drift toward a belief that we're all so fragile that

01:41:59.680 a these problems probably can't be solved and if they can be solved they better be solved by some

01:42:03.840 strong man who's yeah i work for your political leader i can fix everything that is not an american

01:42:09.760 idea and the truth is these young people these teens and 20 somethings are going to have to be more

01:42:16.000 resilient they're the hero generation than anybody before because nobody we've never had a time when

01:42:22.080 40 and 45 and 50 year olds regularly lost their jobs because of technological change and that's the

01:42:27.920 world that our young people are going to enter we need them to be tough it's because we love them that

01:42:32.240 you want them to be gritty not because you're trying to harm them but because you want them to be able

01:42:36.320 to navigate this world and love the good the true and the beautiful and serve their neighbor ben sass the

01:42:41.520 vanishing american adult our coming of age crisis and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance you're

01:42:46.720 going to be hearing a lot of that on this program um uh please go out and buy this book now this is

01:42:53.920 one that every single american who wants to solve the problems and are tired of looking at the problem

01:42:58.720 in washington need to put their nose in this book for a while it will uh spur you into some action

01:43:04.320 ben sass the vanishing american adult we'll talk to you again soon ben thank you so much great to be with

01:43:09.600 you bet senator from uh uh nebraska you're listening to the glenn beck program

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01:43:29.440 welcome back america again the name of the book is ben sass the vanishing american adult

01:43:33.680 uh pen jillette joins me tonight at five o'clock with an awesome interview unlike anything else i've

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