The Glenn Beck Program - 6⧸9⧸17 - Obama Still Trying To Convince The World(Shannon Joy⧸ Erick Stackelbeck and more join Mike)

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00:01:30.960 Congressman Louie Gohmert is going to be checking in in the third hour.

00:01:34.580 We're going to have a conversation about what's going on in D.C.

00:01:37.600 And why the GOP agenda is stalled and what we can do to get it going forward.

00:01:43.240 I've got some real interesting, strange stuff that came out of Nancy Pelosi's mouth this morning.

00:01:48.440 I know what you're saying.

00:01:49.340 Tell me something new.

00:01:51.600 So we'll get to that.

00:01:54.560 Typically on Fridays, Glenn welcomes Bill O'Reilly in the second hour.

00:01:59.620 Bill will be here one week from today.

00:02:02.340 Bill will be on with Glenn in his usual spot.

00:02:05.400 So Glenn's back on Monday, but I'm here for today.

00:02:09.360 And thanks for being here.

00:02:10.980 Yesterday, obviously a gigantic day in terms of media.

00:02:15.040 I don't know if it was a gigantic day in terms of us actually learning anything about Jim Comey or Donald Trump or just anything new.

00:02:26.300 To me, it seemed like I've seen this movie, haven't I?

00:02:29.940 Didn't we talk about all of this?

00:02:33.940 Yeah, I'm checking my watch.

00:02:35.960 It's like, was I abducted by aliens and then dropped back just after I had seen this before?

00:02:42.500 Okay, there were a couple of things in there.

00:02:44.580 A couple of important things.

00:02:45.960 But to help me understand what we saw yesterday and to discuss, is there obstruction of justice?

00:02:53.620 Was there possibly a leak that Jim Comey exposed?

00:03:00.180 Something that he himself did?

00:03:01.940 Is my friend, a lawyer, an author, Dr. Wendy Patrick.

00:03:06.820 She's a trial lawyer who's been on my radio show on the Blaze Radio Network on a weekly basis to discuss the politics.

00:03:14.360 You've seen her on the Fox channel.

00:03:16.380 You've seen her on CNN.

00:03:18.100 And we go way back.

00:03:19.920 But Wendy is joining us from California very early this morning to talk about yesterday and the Comey.

00:03:25.380 The Comey Fefe 2017.

00:03:28.120 Wendy Patrick, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:31.640 How are you?

00:03:32.620 Good.

00:03:32.980 Thanks, Mike, for having me.

00:03:34.140 You're laughing at Comey Fefe, right?

00:03:37.080 You've coined another one.

00:03:38.360 Leave it to you.

00:03:39.180 No, no, no.

00:03:39.780 I can't take credit for that.

00:03:41.220 I have a friend in the comedy world who is the guy that created that.

00:03:46.460 His name is George Wallace.

00:03:47.920 And he's a hilarious guy, an intolerable liberal, but he's very funny.

00:03:52.160 And he came up with Comey Fefe 2017.

00:03:54.960 Very nice.

00:03:55.700 George Wallace, I didn't steal your material.

00:03:58.300 I gave you full credit.

00:03:59.820 But yesterday, I sat and watched along with so many people as we wasted four hours, at least maybe six in some cases, with pre-show and post-show.

00:04:14.200 Aside from the possibility of the leak, and I want to get into that, did we learn anything really new yesterday?

00:04:22.440 Well, that's the question, Mike.

00:04:24.480 Did it live up to its blockbuster billing?

00:04:27.360 I mean, remember, we had testimony watch parties that were in various locations that started yesterday, coffee and popcorn in the morning as everybody got ready to do it.

00:04:34.900 But then when you're right, when he went through the testimony, I would suppose the one thing that I was very surprised about is the extent to which he was forthcoming about information beyond being simply a fact witness.

00:04:47.100 Remember, that's the way he was billed.

00:04:48.560 Just the facts, ma'am.

00:04:49.520 He's just going to say what happened and what he saw.

00:04:51.500 But he actually went so far as to discuss what his opinion was regarding the reason he was fired, regarding why the president cleared the room when the two of them had dinner together.

00:05:01.660 Boy, that sounded like a bad date, didn't it?

00:05:03.560 Called me over the midday and asked me to come.

00:05:05.820 I figured there would be other people there, but it was just the two of us.

00:05:09.380 But and even went so far as now he didn't reach any legal conclusion.

00:05:13.540 So he certainly didn't say that he thought there was obstruction of justice.

00:05:16.660 Obviously, it's not his place.

00:05:18.060 But he was more forthcoming with facts than anybody expected.

00:05:21.620 Mike, maybe I'm just comparing it to the testimony the day prior when none of the witnesses would say anything.

00:05:26.940 Right. Yeah, well, that's true.

00:05:28.360 Yeah, we got more than we expected.

00:05:31.060 But you're right.

00:05:31.700 In terms of what did we learn that was new, I would even argue the leaking wasn't necessarily

00:05:36.100 new because we already knew from the people that were speaking to the media that this was

00:05:41.520 information Comey had already shared with them.

00:05:44.140 Nobody doubted that.

00:05:45.280 I think we were just a little bit stunned to hear it.

00:05:47.420 So it's such a transparent manner from the former director himself.

00:05:50.660 Well, it surprised me, Wendy, that Jim Comey had admitted to taking the documents,

00:05:56.960 which we have not seen the complete documents, shown them to a law professor at Columbia and

00:06:03.920 instructed him, kind of like the same way he said the president told him, I hope you can

00:06:11.000 see your way to doing this.

00:06:12.600 It's almost as if he said the same kind of thing to his Columbia friend.

00:06:17.120 I hope you can get this to the media.

00:06:19.620 So while the liberal media's hair is on fire and they're parsing and redefining the word

00:06:25.300 hope as now an order, a mandate, I think Comey said the same thing in what he said there.

00:06:31.700 But that you bring up a real interesting point about emotions.

00:06:35.800 And by the way, we're talking to Dr. Wendy Patrick.

00:06:38.600 She is a trial lawyer, author, and somebody I respect her opinion on stuff like this.

00:06:44.060 When you're watching Comey yesterday and as you watch witnesses in court cases that you

00:06:51.420 have been involved in, did you sense he was guarded, lying, telling the truth, open?

00:06:58.620 Was there any kind of read on Comey and what he was given off body language wise?

00:07:04.200 Well, I got to tell you, Comey is either as honest as he is tall, right?

00:07:09.440 Six foot eight.

00:07:10.280 Or he is a master at body language because he appeared to be very honest.

00:07:15.580 I mean, he said he's not Captain Courageous.

00:07:17.140 He might be Captain Credibility.

00:07:19.280 And I think we're taking him at his word.

00:07:21.780 Everything he says, you may not agree with it.

00:07:24.400 Not you, Mike, but the public may not agree that it was proper, the leaking and the rest

00:07:29.840 of the things that he said that he did.

00:07:31.620 But he appears to really be a masterful witness.

00:07:35.440 And I know it's not his first rodeo.

00:07:36.700 He's comfortable in this setting.

00:07:37.900 Most of us wouldn't be.

00:07:38.680 He is.

00:07:39.480 But he was so forthcoming with his faults and his shortcomings.

00:07:43.620 And that, you know, when he says, oh, maybe I shouldn't have been, maybe I should have been

00:07:46.460 stronger.

00:07:46.820 I got to tell you, one of the senators really made a really great point this morning.

00:07:51.840 Why would the president have believed it was proper to clear the room?

00:07:56.060 The director himself, in his opening statement he released the day prior, said he had cleared

00:08:00.580 the room when he first met the president to confront him with a salacious dossier.

00:08:05.480 So, I mean, is it possible that he set the stage, the tone for future interactions?

00:08:10.720 And if so, at what point would the president have gotten, obviously, some notice that this

00:08:15.480 wasn't the way to do it.

00:08:16.460 Because Comey himself said, look, maybe I should have been stronger, but I didn't.

00:08:19.360 The bottom line is he really did come across as credible.

00:08:22.300 He even appeared to enjoy the opportunity.

00:08:25.820 It was in his eyes.

00:08:27.260 His eyes were bright.

00:08:28.380 He was smiling sometimes when he was describing things that most of us wouldn't think are happy

00:08:34.040 memories to be recounting.

00:08:35.820 But he did appear to be a credible witness.

00:08:38.300 See, this is a very interesting thing to make note of.

00:08:41.860 And Dr. Wendy, Patrick, is conservative.

00:08:46.760 I think that's fair to say.

00:08:48.400 So when Wendy says Comey appeared to be a credible witness, she's not playing any partisan games.

00:08:56.820 She's giving you her professional opinion.

00:08:58.760 And that's why I respect you in this arena, because you're looking at this with your lawyer

00:09:03.260 hat on and no other hat.

00:09:05.440 And I think that's that's fascinating that and I and I sense credibility in Comey.

00:09:10.980 I don't agree with a lot of the things he did.

00:09:13.840 And I also think you're right in your analysis of him as a credible witness, because why else

00:09:21.060 would he have told us that Loretta Lynch story about her saying, let's call it not let's not

00:09:27.880 call it an investigation.

00:09:28.980 Let's call it a matter, which I thought that was fascinating, too.

00:09:34.460 And is there any is there any legal implication from that revelation?

00:09:39.640 Well, it's a great question, Mike.

00:09:41.440 It's the same question as to whether or not I mean, it's Loretta Lynch did something similar

00:09:47.100 to what the president did.

00:09:48.420 They're a little bit different.

00:09:49.560 But Comey's in the same position. 0.99

00:09:50.800 What does he do with that information?

00:09:52.140 He knows it's wrong.

00:09:52.840 He knows it's improper.

00:09:53.640 But he sits on it and again, going to his credibility, he explained why he did that

00:09:59.640 almost in a fashion that perhaps he himself was second guessing the propriety of the omission.

00:10:05.560 In other words, the failure to tell anybody about it.

00:10:09.000 So it all cast doubt on this issue of intent to the kind of intent you would need to prove

00:10:14.820 obstruction of justice.

00:10:16.040 And that's really one of the biggest things that people are talking about, because you

00:10:19.100 need to prove intent.

00:10:19.960 And the way he described the president's actions falls short of what someone might need

00:10:25.400 moving forward to prove this was the president's intention.

00:10:28.000 Part of the rationale, and I know that the president's lawyer was all over this yesterday

00:10:32.260 in his rebuttal.

00:10:33.080 I didn't really think it was a rebuttal.

00:10:34.260 He could have gone much farther if he was actually going to rebut what Jim Comey said.

00:10:38.300 But, you know, the president used the same language the next day, saying that Michael Flynn

00:10:41.940 is a, quote, good guy.

00:10:43.440 It's the same language that you have the then director explaining he used that day.

00:10:48.680 So when you put that all together, it falls short of the type of intent you would need

00:10:53.680 to sustain an obstruction of justice charge.

00:10:57.480 Well, you can indict a ham sandwich, as you well know, and many ham sandwiches have been

00:11:02.580 indicted.

00:11:03.680 But not a sitting president.

00:11:04.760 But not a sitting president.

00:11:06.220 Removal proceedings, right.

00:11:07.140 Well, do you think, do you think then, well, where do we go from here?

00:11:11.120 Because I'm watching the Democrats all swarming to every television camera they can, saying

00:11:17.780 we now need a special investigation and outside counsel.

00:11:22.160 We have the special counsel, Mueller, looking into things right now.

00:11:26.500 But now every, and I've always said that that appointment was the open crack of the door

00:11:33.380 that now through all the Democrats are going to rush, and they're going to demand we need

00:11:38.740 a Watergate-style total outside investigation.

00:11:42.260 Is that where this is going to lead us?

00:11:44.440 Well, you know, no doubt, we already are hearing that this morning, as you point out.

00:11:48.220 Absolutely.

00:11:49.060 And the allegations surrounding some of the things that Comey said.

00:11:52.540 But here's the other thing on this credibility.

00:11:54.260 If he's a liar, why are we believing everything he said about how and why he leaked?

00:11:59.340 So it's like, that's a hard one to win.

00:12:02.120 Either he's telling the truth or he's telling the truth selectively.

00:12:05.420 But if it's the latter, why would he only tell the truth in matters that harm him?

00:12:10.320 So it's really, it's a tough analysis.

00:12:12.620 It's this type of analysis and argument I make every single time I talk to a jury.

00:12:16.560 If somebody's believable, they're believable.

00:12:18.420 You know, you don't really get to pick and choose.

00:12:20.660 Comey himself said that when he was asked, why should we believe you over the president?

00:12:25.220 He said, well, I would hope.

00:12:26.120 Again, he prefaced it with the self-effacing.

00:12:28.100 My mother told me not to say this, but you're going to have to look at all the surrounding

00:12:31.440 circumstances.

00:12:32.640 If a special counsel is appointed to do further investigation, that's one thing they're going

00:12:36.540 to be looking at as well.

00:12:37.840 But, you know, we don't just appoint special counsels for everything.

00:12:42.900 And, you know, Mueller can't be the counsel that investigates every single matter that needs

00:12:47.680 to be.

00:12:48.300 And he'd never get his job done.

00:12:49.780 Ten years from now, you and I would be here talking about this.

00:12:51.820 Well, I hope we are.

00:12:53.920 Just a personal aside.

00:12:55.740 We'll be talking about something else by then, Mike.

00:12:57.160 Okay, good.

00:12:58.100 Well, I guess it's a wait and see.

00:13:01.380 And you bring up a really good point because Mueller's his time is limited to get to an

00:13:06.940 issue.

00:13:07.460 And even if he moves quickly, he still has to set everything up, offices, get everybody

00:13:13.260 cleared through security.

00:13:14.640 It's probably going to be a good year before we actually hear anything out of Robert Mueller

00:13:19.680 in terms of a serious report, isn't it?

00:13:22.520 Or am I am I delaying that?

00:13:24.160 You're right on the money.

00:13:24.700 Mike, you're right on the money.

00:13:25.700 Because unlike the president, Mueller is not going to be live tweeting his investigative

00:13:30.000 findings as we go forward.

00:13:32.540 You know, that's funny.

00:13:33.320 Trump didn't tweet yesterday during the hearing, but his son sure did.

00:13:37.040 He sure did stir up a sweet tweet storm.

00:13:39.320 I wonder if the president had his phone.

00:13:41.800 Oh, that's a good point.

00:13:42.800 You know, you never know.

00:13:44.520 Come here, Don Jr.

00:13:45.640 Come here, Donnie.

00:13:46.420 I got something for you to say.

00:13:48.240 Well, yeah, but it didn't really seem like the president's voice on those tweets.

00:13:52.420 But yeah, so Mueller is going to necessarily be keeping everything private.

00:13:55.940 We're not going to be hearing anything.

00:13:57.460 But, you know, so it's going to be left up to the court of public opinion.

00:14:00.480 Talk about the worst place when it comes to getting to the truth.

00:14:04.680 Mueller's probably just shaking his head and rolling his eyes as he reads some of this going

00:14:08.040 by.

00:14:08.660 But yeah, it's going to be a good long time and it should be because there's no other

00:14:12.340 way to get to the bottom of some of the very important issues that have been raised.

00:14:15.180 Well, give us something to talk about.

00:14:17.040 Wendy Patrick, if you want to know more about my friend, Wendy Patrick, wendypatrickphd.com.

00:14:23.320 Thank you for this time this morning.

00:14:25.560 I know it's early on the left coast, but I always appreciate your insight, my friend.

00:14:30.120 Always a pleasure.

00:14:30.800 Thanks for having me, Mike.

00:14:31.600 Take care.

00:14:32.360 When we get back, I've got a couple of stories I need to address today.

00:14:35.940 Today, we talked about Pelosi.

00:14:38.580 She said some crazy stuff this morning.

00:14:40.900 And yesterday, I spent some time after the show.

00:14:43.840 I don't know if I can see this.

00:14:45.120 Which camera wants to see this?

00:14:46.740 Okay.

00:14:47.980 I stopped by the George Bush Center yesterday and saw the exhibit of the paintings that

00:14:55.800 George Bush has done to honor the wounded veterans.

00:14:59.940 It is stunning.

00:15:00.960 I'll share my thoughts on that with you and more when the Glenn Beck program returns.

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00:15:27.060 Welcome back to the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:29.120 Michael Pelka filling in for my buddy Glenn.

00:15:31.320 He'll be back on Monday.

00:15:32.920 If you're following him on Facebook, I'm laughing because I've known Glenn for so long.

00:15:40.900 So to read him on Facebook and look at the pictures and hear him talking about mending

00:15:46.900 fences and working the cattle and forgetting to cut the hay, I just want to give him a hard

00:15:52.340 time.

00:15:53.420 And I'm sure he'll give himself a hard time on Monday.

00:15:55.960 But great pictures.

00:15:57.320 Gosh, beautiful photos of the ranch.

00:16:00.380 And not that it's not beautiful here in Dallas.

00:16:03.700 It is.

00:16:04.940 But I appreciate the opportunity to be here.

00:16:07.220 Later in the program, I'm going to go after a little juxtaprogressivism.

00:16:14.580 And if you're not familiar with the term, it's sort of a technical term.

00:16:19.540 I think Doc Thompson created it to describe how the progressives will say one thing and

00:16:27.380 then mean something completely different or do something completely different.

00:16:32.540 And it's just everywhere.

00:16:34.200 It's also called hypocrisy if you don't want to use a 15,000-syllable word like juxtaprogressivism.

00:16:41.880 If you want to join the conversation, the phones are open, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

00:16:49.020 We'll talk about anything.

00:16:50.400 You can talk about the Comey hearings.

00:16:52.060 We can talk about the juxtaprogressives.

00:16:55.440 There are a couple other issues, strange stories that we have to talk about.

00:16:59.060 But I was hoping we'd get some time to talk about the Belmont Stakes, which are happening

00:17:04.500 in New York tomorrow.

00:17:06.780 Third leg of the Triple Crown.

00:17:08.640 We're not having a Triple Crown.

00:17:10.340 In fact, neither of the horses that won the Derby and the Pimlico are going to be running.

00:17:17.280 So it's just kind of a long race if you're a horse racing fan.

00:17:21.540 And today's the anniversary.

00:17:24.060 I think it was 1973 or 75, Secretariat won.

00:17:29.060 I have to go back and check that out.

00:17:30.680 Secretariat, a Triple Crown winner.

00:17:33.600 Early this morning, Nancy Pelosi showed up on Morning Joe. 1.00

00:17:40.060 Nancy Pelosi stopped by the MSNBC show. 0.95

00:17:44.000 She's obviously feeling really great.

00:17:46.920 And she's, after the Comey testimony, there's a lot of emboldened progressives out there who

00:17:54.380 are hitting every camera and microphone.

00:17:57.240 Schumer even showed up yesterday, which I had been asking, where the hell is Chuck Schumer?

00:18:02.180 But the curious thing to me was how Morning Joe introduced Nancy Pelosi.

00:18:08.360 And you want to talk about confidence or possibly overconfident?

00:18:12.540 Check this out.

00:18:13.280 All right, we have Speaker to be Nancy Pelosi with us.

00:18:20.460 Wait a minute, what?

00:18:22.800 Joe said Speaker to be Nancy Pelosi?

00:18:25.640 I think that's exactly what he said.

00:18:28.040 All right, we have Speaker to be Nancy Pelosi with us.

00:18:34.640 How are you doing this morning, Madam Speaker?

00:18:37.100 How are you doing?

00:18:38.120 The country is great.

00:18:39.460 It can withstand anything.

00:18:41.120 God is always with us.

00:18:42.280 God is always with us.

00:18:44.340 So I think we can survive.

00:18:47.100 Well, Nancy had some other things to say, and she even questioned the president's health.

00:18:54.840 She issued a really curious warning to the Trump family.

00:18:59.840 We'll get into it.

00:19:00.740 I'll play it for you.

00:19:01.660 We'll discuss after the break.

00:19:03.540 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:19:50.360 Some people don't.

00:19:51.880 I'm going to check in with Chris in Tennessee.

00:19:54.340 Good morning, Chris.

00:19:55.100 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:57.660 Thank you.

00:19:58.400 Hey, I was just wondering, how come no one ever talked about the $10 trillion Obama spent?

00:20:03.560 Like, where's that at?

00:20:04.880 Nobody ever wants to investigate that.

00:20:06.700 Nobody in the history of the world ever spent $10 trillion.

00:20:12.120 You bring up a great point.

00:20:15.180 And if nobody's understanding what Chris is talking about, you're probably new to the planet, or at least new to this program.

00:20:23.660 The Obama administration in eight years virtually doubled the nation's debt that we now owe $20 trillion.

00:20:33.360 It was like $9.9 trillion when he got into office.

00:20:37.260 And I think as his foot went out the door, it was approximately $19.99999999 trillion, and it crossed over $20.

00:20:47.120 So now we're well over $20 trillion in debt.

00:20:50.480 And nobody talks about that.

00:20:52.840 We printed money.

00:20:54.180 We monetized our debt.

00:20:55.800 We expanded, doubled the debt.

00:20:58.460 And Chris, that point you bring up, it's not just the fact that he spent $10 trillion of the money of the children and grandchildren,

00:21:06.040 that they're always so worried about.

00:21:08.880 You know, we always bring that up.

00:21:10.080 It's for the children that we have to send all our money to the climate people so India and China and Russia can keep polluting and catch up to us. 0.97

00:21:20.720 It's for the children.

00:21:22.340 But that money, that $10 trillion, which is so ridiculous, is going to be on the backs of the children and grandchildren in future generations. 0.82

00:21:33.800 And thank you, Democrats.

00:21:34.860 We must always remind them.

00:21:36.760 But, you know, we're not totally without blame.

00:21:39.540 There are a lot of Republicans who were complicit in adding to that debt.

00:21:44.080 So this goes back to my point yesterday about term limits and about getting rid of some of these people who are rhinos, 1.00

00:21:53.180 some of these people who have allowed it to happen.

00:21:55.780 Your state, oh, Chris is gone.

00:21:57.600 Good.

00:21:57.860 But that's fine.

00:21:59.060 I didn't want to change topics this quickly.

00:22:02.520 So, Chris, call back if you need to.

00:22:05.140 Checking in on the Twitter, my Twitter handle, at StuntBrain, all one word, S-T-U-N-T-B-R-A-I-N. 0.99

00:22:12.000 Toby says, you said Pimlico when you met Preakness.

00:22:15.700 Yes, the race is the Preakness.

00:22:17.580 It's at Pimlico, isn't it?

00:22:19.100 If I got that right.

00:22:20.500 So glad you're here.

00:22:21.600 We need to talk about Lord Buckethead later today.

00:22:25.120 And we will get to Lord Buckethead as well.

00:22:29.820 It's on par with one of the stranger political characters we've had in this country.

00:22:36.060 But more on that later.

00:22:38.060 Before we went away, I played for you a clip from Morning Joe this morning.

00:22:43.640 A very short clip where Joe Scarborough was introducing Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of

00:22:49.760 the House.

00:22:50.780 Unless, of course, you're Joe Scarborough.

00:22:53.080 Thank you, please.

00:22:54.200 All right.

00:22:54.560 We have Speaker to be Nancy Pelosi with us.

00:22:59.860 How are you doing this morning, Madam Speaker?

00:23:02.220 How are you doing?

00:23:03.240 The country is great.

00:23:04.580 It can withstand anything.

00:23:05.920 God is always with us, so I think we can survive.

00:23:12.060 So, interesting thing about Pelosi.

00:23:15.200 Listen to her speech patterns.

00:23:16.920 I know I may be a little obsessed with Nancy Pelosi and the things she says, but I'm a believer

00:23:23.400 that Botox has crept into her brain and gotten into the part of the brain that controls speech, 0.79

00:23:28.680 and sometimes it makes her frump for around.

00:23:30.880 But when she isn't ready to answer a question, she sometimes repeats the question back at

00:23:36.720 the person.

00:23:37.920 And she did that just now with Scarborough.

00:23:40.160 But she feels comfortable in this environment.

00:23:43.080 She feels comfortable at MSNBC.

00:23:45.280 It's kind of like a home court advantage.

00:23:48.160 It's kind of like sitting around the house of friends, because she's not going to get any

00:23:51.700 tough questions.

00:23:52.460 But Pelosi said some really weird stuff this morning.

00:23:56.880 She talked about Comey.

00:23:58.900 She went into what she believes is going to be enough of a push to get an independent investigation.

00:24:07.980 And ultimately, although she didn't say it this morning, at least not when I was listening,

00:24:12.540 ultimately, Pelosi and every Democrat is not going to rest until they get one of two things,

00:24:21.000 maybe both things.

00:24:22.340 They want Donald Trump's tax returns.

00:24:24.620 They're still not giving up on that.

00:24:26.660 They are not going to stop pushing Trump until we see his tax returns.

00:24:31.140 We really don't know who he's in bed with.

00:24:33.980 So they want those tax returns.

00:24:35.380 They're not giving up.

00:24:36.360 They'll get them now that he's in office, but just for the time that he's here.

00:24:41.020 So the past tax returns, still not happening.

00:24:45.440 And the other thing they want is his impeachment.

00:24:48.200 They want Trump out. 0.89

00:24:50.160 And again, I just think we need to remind these crazy, progressive people, if you get rid of 0.89

00:24:59.500 Trump, you don't get a do-over. 0.51

00:25:02.740 Not as not as Rosie O'Donnell wanted.

00:25:05.500 Remember, Rosie said, can't we just put John McCain in as temporary president?

00:25:10.060 And then we can have another election?

00:25:12.760 No, Nancy.

00:25:13.520 No, no, Rosie.

00:25:14.740 That's not how it works.

00:25:16.100 She actually wanted that.

00:25:17.660 But if you impeach Trump, you get President Pence.

00:25:24.020 Do you guys really want that?

00:25:25.880 Do you uber liberals really want that? 0.97

00:25:28.980 I don't think so.

00:25:30.100 So be careful what you wish for, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, and all the rest.

00:25:38.140 But Pelosi was talking about the president this morning with MSNBC, and she got into a

00:25:44.500 really strange area.

00:25:45.640 Listen to this.

00:25:46.260 Mark?

00:25:47.720 Besides telling the president not to tweet, if he came to you and said, I've got this problem

00:25:51.340 with Russia, all these investigations, I really do want to get back to the people's business,

00:25:54.560 what could he do?

00:25:55.500 What would you advise him to do?

00:25:56.520 What would I have advised him to do?

00:25:58.460 Go to sleep.

00:26:00.280 Interesting.

00:26:01.300 Nancy Pelosi said, I have advised him to do this.

00:26:06.960 Go to sleep.

00:26:08.680 That was a question from Mark Halperin, regular member of the Morning Joe crew.

00:26:13.100 Halperin asked, and he pressed on this.

00:26:15.560 The question continued.

00:26:16.760 First of all, we didn't invade Syria.

00:26:34.040 We sent 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles, 59 of which hit their targets.

00:26:39.260 We didn't invade Syria.

00:26:41.160 Careful of the Botox.

00:26:42.280 It's starting to freeze upstairs.

00:26:44.680 But she talks about this late night conversation.

00:26:47.380 So first of all, interesting to see that despite all the partisan politics and despite all the

00:26:53.140 accusations that Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing and doesn't know how politics

00:26:57.840 works.

00:26:58.540 Remember, Paul Ryan said that yesterday.

00:27:00.620 He's still learning the job.

00:27:02.280 He's still new here.

00:27:04.880 Trump knew enough to call the minority leader in the House of Representatives as he was

00:27:11.360 launching those missiles.

00:27:12.460 So we know he made that personal call to her late at night.

00:27:16.680 It continues.

00:27:18.180 The Syria invasion, not to go into the conversation, was late at night, like at midnight, well after

00:27:24.420 it was all finished.

00:27:25.900 He was going on and on.

00:27:26.980 I said, well, it was like midnight.

00:27:28.720 And I said, why don't you go to sleep?

00:27:29.920 I think that I think I don't think she told the president to go to sleep.

00:27:36.140 If you notice Nancy Pelosi's speech patterns, when she's really confident, she speaks like

00:27:40.440 this.

00:27:40.680 She's very forceful.

00:27:41.680 She's very strident. 1.00

00:27:42.960 She's confident in her phrasing.

00:27:44.520 And when she's stretching the truth, she's like this.

00:27:48.800 I told the president, you know, it was late at night.

00:27:50.500 He was talking to me.

00:27:51.160 I said, get some sleep.

00:27:52.320 And so she throws it away.

00:27:54.560 Listen to that little piece of that again, because she indicates.

00:27:58.480 I think she's trying to back up her story here, but I don't think that happened.

00:28:02.000 He was going on and on.

00:28:03.040 I said, well, it was like midnight.

00:28:04.800 I said, why don't you go to sleep?

00:28:06.000 I think that I think there's something not more sleep might be a solution for him.

00:28:14.080 But the thing is, people just just expand on that.

00:28:16.960 Pelosi tried to get into something there and she stopped herself.

00:28:21.740 She said, I think there's something.

00:28:25.380 And then she stops and says, more sleep might be beneficial to him.

00:28:29.300 Well, we all know more sleep might be beneficial to him.

00:28:32.740 And Scarborough went on to talk about how the fact that the president bounces around the

00:28:37.300 White House late at night.

00:28:39.080 Yeah, well, his family's not there.

00:28:40.740 Not yet anyway.

00:28:42.020 We'll get into that coming up.

00:28:43.740 That topic of the president bouncing around the White House and Nancy Pelosi claiming she

00:28:51.520 would tell him to get more sleep did not escape Mike Barnacle, aptly named guy.

00:28:59.420 Mike Barnacle, who asked a question about Pelosi's assessment of the president's health.

00:29:06.140 Last time I checked, was Nancy Pelosi a doctor? 0.94

00:29:09.160 No.

00:29:10.500 Did Nancy Pelosi hang out with the president all the time? 1.00

00:29:13.340 Does she witness him?

00:29:14.360 Is she out on the golf course with him?

00:29:16.500 No.

00:29:17.520 And yet she gave this really strange answer.

00:29:20.340 Moments ago, are you concerned about the president's health?

00:29:24.820 I think his family should be concerned about his health.

00:29:28.360 What?

00:29:29.380 What is that?

00:29:31.480 First of all, there's a pregnant pause there.

00:29:34.200 Barnacle asks the question and listen to the pregnant pause and then let's dive into this

00:29:39.600 answer.

00:29:40.200 Moments ago, are you concerned about the president's health?

00:29:43.340 I think his family should be concerned about his health.

00:29:48.660 But the fact is, is that this is hopefully not repairable.

00:29:53.860 He is the president of the United States.

00:29:56.120 Wait a minute.

00:29:57.440 Freudian slip, anybody?

00:29:58.620 They're talking about the testimony of Jim Comey.

00:30:02.860 They're talking about the things that Trump said.

00:30:06.180 And Pelosi said, I hope this is not repairable.

00:30:10.880 We're talking about the president of the United States.

00:30:14.920 She meant to say, I'm hoping this is not irreparable.

00:30:20.020 She actually, they stopped her and they're like, wait a minute.

00:30:22.740 What did you just say?

00:30:23.760 Even the morning Joe crew went, hold on a second, Nancy. 1.00

00:30:28.100 You mean you hope it is repairable?

00:30:30.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:31.960 It's not irreparable.

00:30:34.120 Irreparable.

00:30:34.680 Yes, exactly.

00:30:35.700 Well, maybe I was right.

00:30:36.760 I just don't want them to have that headline out there.

00:30:38.180 Maybe I was right.

00:30:39.340 Exactly.

00:30:40.060 You know what?

00:30:40.980 Hopefully it's not repairable and perhaps there is an impeachment.

00:30:44.220 No, no, no.

00:30:45.940 Everything is, look, I was on ethics for seven years.

00:30:49.040 You're only allowed to be six.

00:30:50.180 Hold on a second.

00:30:52.880 What did Nancy Pelosi just say?

00:30:55.300 You want to talk about irony of ironies?

00:30:58.700 She said, look, I was on ethics, meaning the ethics committee, for seven years.

00:31:03.960 You're only supposed to be on for six years, but I stayed another year.

00:31:08.840 So anybody notice the irony that the ethics committee, which has a six-year limit to it,

00:31:14.680 that Nancy violated that limit and she went to a seventh year? 0.99

00:31:18.640 Here, juxtaprogressivism, do as I say, not as I do.

00:31:24.600 Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.

00:31:26.420 Michael Pelka stepping aside on the Glenn Beck program.

00:31:29.680 When we come back, there's more.

00:31:31.620 There's more craziness.

00:31:32.980 There's more strangeness in the world.

00:31:34.980 And there's some fun stuff, too.

00:31:36.420 If you want to join the conversation, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-2325.

00:31:42.960 We'll be right back.

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00:31:54.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

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00:32:00.120 Glenn will be back in a week.

00:32:01.780 And so will Bill O'Reilly, if you're used to, Bill, being here at the second hour of the show on Fridays.

00:32:07.480 He took the two weeks off, too.

00:32:09.520 But he'll be back with Glenn.

00:32:10.820 And I also mentioned before the break that Melania Trump set to move to D.C. 1.00

00:32:15.980 And a lot of websites are making it a big deal.

00:32:18.560 Melania is moving to D.C., bringing Barron with her.

00:32:22.860 This was always the plan, you dolts.

00:32:25.920 This was always the deal.

00:32:28.740 Barron was going to finish the school year so they wouldn't disrupt the child's life.

00:32:33.240 What a great idea.

00:32:34.960 What a blessing these parents had the money to be able to do that.

00:32:39.420 And I'm sure he missed his dad being around.

00:32:42.320 But just can we not make everything into a federal case?

00:32:47.840 Anyway, let's check in on the phones.

00:32:50.340 A few of you checking in.

00:32:51.740 First of all, let's go to John on line four in Indiana.

00:32:55.440 John, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:58.020 You wanted to talk about Trump pardoning Flynn?

00:33:02.060 Yeah.

00:33:02.360 What do you think would happen?

00:33:03.500 I'm tired of listening to all this rhetoric and it's been drug out for almost a year.

00:33:08.060 I figure just be done with it.

00:33:10.520 Pardon him.

00:33:11.180 What are the Democrats going to do?

00:33:12.500 You're right.

00:33:13.380 And it would freak him out.

00:33:15.420 It's a good point.

00:33:16.440 I guess you weren't here yesterday.

00:33:17.980 We actually played a clip from a noted legal scholar, Alan Dershowitz, a liberal,

00:33:24.060 who said the president has the right to do that.

00:33:26.140 If he told Comey that evening at the dinner, I'm pardoning Flynn.

00:33:30.780 So you just you end all this.

00:33:32.460 It's within the president's powers to do so.

00:33:35.240 He could easily do it.

00:33:36.560 But, you know, there might be some political blowback.

00:33:39.380 We'll see if it happens.

00:33:40.620 Thanks a lot, John.

00:33:42.080 Alan in Maine.

00:33:43.600 How are you, sir?

00:33:44.440 Welcome to the show.

00:33:46.380 Hey, thank you so much.

00:33:47.460 Excuse me if I stumble and stutter because this audience is the best audience in the world.

00:33:51.400 I really I really truly believe that.

00:33:54.520 And I mean, I think we're all witnessing when Abraham Lincoln quoted Jesus in saying that a house divided against itself will not stand.

00:34:03.060 And I think we're all getting to get a taste of that right now.

00:34:05.680 I mean, it's just awful.

00:34:07.020 We're all just we're all falling in one of his webs right now, I think, especially the media.

00:34:10.960 I mean, we're all just following the Comey Bowl.

00:34:13.860 I mean, it just went on forever.

00:34:15.580 The rush-a-thon.

00:34:16.840 I mean, there's so many bad things that are going uncovered right now.

00:34:19.780 And it's just terrible.

00:34:20.680 And I just think these North Korean leaders, these bad guys in the world are just laughing at it because the true journalists right now, the true journalists need to come up.

00:34:29.820 They need to rise up from the bottom and start doing their job because some of us are so busy working.

00:34:34.500 We ain't got time.

00:34:35.480 We go home.

00:34:36.020 We follow the news.

00:34:36.640 And that's all we have to hang on to.

00:34:38.240 Alan, you're right.

00:34:38.920 And you bring up a really good point about the journalists.

00:34:41.440 But unless and until the journalists stop following the big money items, then they're going to keep reporting these things that draw the ratings.

00:34:51.260 And this is all about hype.

00:34:53.400 And you figured it out.

00:34:54.880 There are stories we need to cover.

00:34:56.380 We'll get into some of those stories because there are stories out there not getting the attention.

00:35:01.120 I'm also going to point out some more juxtaprogressivism around the corner.

00:35:05.320 We'll talk Common Core.

00:35:07.080 And Louie Gohmert joins us at the top of the third hour.

00:35:10.260 And I think we're going to get to Ricardo in Tennessee.

00:35:12.880 He's got a thought I didn't get to.

00:35:14.860 That's next on the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:36:42.760 Phones are open, 888-727-BECK.

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00:36:48.320 It's Friday where anything goes.

00:36:51.020 I have a few things I need to get to.

00:36:52.760 We're going to talk Common Core at the bottom of this hour with a friend of mine who knows a lot more about it than I do.

00:36:59.000 And she is helping lead the charge to try and stop Common Core.

00:37:03.380 And it's a bigger battle than we know.

00:37:05.400 We're also going to speak with Congressman Louie Gohmert from the 1st District in the state of Texas.

00:37:12.140 He's going to join us at the top of the next hour.

00:37:15.220 And we have myriad topics to get to.

00:37:17.840 So, I'm going to continue with the Comey thing.

00:37:22.300 But I think we have to go on again with the discussion of Nancy Pelosi.

00:37:27.060 Ricardo's in Tennessee.

00:37:28.860 You were listening last hour, Ricardo, when I played some of the craziness coming out of Pelosi's mouth.

00:37:34.360 Welcome to the show, sir.

00:37:36.720 Buenos dias, Mike.

00:37:37.740 Buenos dias.

00:37:38.360 Johnson City, Tennessee.

00:37:39.900 Oh, wow.

00:37:40.340 Doing great.

00:37:41.060 Isn't that some sort of triangle, some three-city group there?

00:37:44.760 You got it, man.

00:37:45.500 You are in the know.

00:37:46.820 It's Tri-Cities.

00:37:47.420 It's Kingsport, Johnson City, and, of course, Bristol, where we got the great racetrack.

00:37:52.100 Just a great area to live, no doubt about it.

00:37:54.040 Well, you know, I can't agree with you more.

00:37:56.960 And it's about the food for me.

00:37:59.160 The racing is one thing.

00:38:00.800 The people are the other. 0.55

00:38:02.300 But when you get to that part of Tennessee, there is some serious barbecue going on.

00:38:07.420 So, I'm...

00:38:07.960 Man, you better believe it.

00:38:09.200 You better believe it.

00:38:10.200 I will stop.

00:38:11.520 Even though I might not be supposed to be stopping, I will stop.

00:38:15.180 And you always stop and you ask a local, look, I'm starving like a garbage man on a hot day.

00:38:20.320 Where can I get some serious barbecue?

00:38:22.700 And they will tell you.

00:38:23.700 They will send you there.

00:38:24.600 So, I'm glad you're here.

00:38:26.060 And now I'm salivating thinking about barbecue.

00:38:28.920 What's on your mind this morning?

00:38:31.120 Well, you know, two things real quick.

00:38:33.860 I understand my people in Westport, Connecticut tell me that Comey's mom is actually a Trump supporter

00:38:39.100 and has kicked him out of the basement.

00:38:41.020 So, it just keeps getting worse for him.

00:38:43.300 If that were only true.

00:38:45.460 If that were only true.

00:38:46.860 No doubt.

00:38:47.460 But, you know, on a serious note, you know what I...

00:38:49.860 One of the things I took out of this testimony was that Congress knew about this for at least a month or two months

00:38:56.080 if Trump wasn't under investigation.

00:38:58.320 Right.

00:38:58.500 That blew me away.

00:39:00.480 You know, that tells me Schumer, Waters, Pelosi, McCain, they all need to resign

00:39:05.280 for lying to the American public and pushing this forward.

00:39:08.780 And, you know, speaking of lying to the American public, I was watching House of Cards on, you know, Netflix.

00:39:13.920 And CNN actually does the news reporting on that TV show.

00:39:18.540 And I noticed that their TV show reporting is actually more accurate than their actual live broadcast.

00:39:23.920 So, that was pretty interesting.

00:39:25.160 And thanks for letting me in, Mike.

00:39:26.120 You're doing a great job.

00:39:26.960 Adios.

00:39:27.180 Thank you, Ricardo.

00:39:28.800 Appreciate it.

00:39:30.080 Tony in Colorado brings up a really interesting point.

00:39:34.020 Hello, Tony.

00:39:34.640 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:39:36.680 Hey, Mike.

00:39:37.160 Thanks for your time this morning.

00:39:39.060 Joe and Mika on the news show could have had a couple more questions.

00:39:43.000 I'd be curious to know, you know, like, look at her taxes and also her family's net value or overall worth.

00:39:50.160 Also, I know she's one of the biggest flyers in Congress because the flights from the East Coast to the West Coast over the last 10 years.

00:39:59.460 If we could get records of that, because I think they take private jets, especially when she was Speaker of the House, like they were talking about.

00:40:05.340 And just, you know, the expense to, you know, Joe Schmuck, me, the working guy.

00:40:09.120 All those bills, all those expenses, you know, all the drinks on the plane and the food, we seem to get stuck with the tab.

00:40:15.880 And so if she wants to see Trump's taxes, you know, maybe we should take a look at hers. 0.95

00:40:20.460 Well, I would love to do that.

00:40:21.780 I think if you want to point that finger and then realize there's three pointing back at you, you should live by the same rules you want the president to live by.

00:40:31.100 You bring up a really interesting point, Tony, talking about Nancy Pelosi's net worth.

00:40:35.960 There are stories over the years about Pelosi guiding sweetheart real estate deals to members of her family, be it her husband or children.

00:40:47.160 And I've never seen those fully vetted.

00:40:49.900 So that might be something I hope one of the investigative reporters out there will latch on to.

00:40:55.300 All of these people in Congress who end up getting rich because of it.

00:40:59.060 Do you remember the story that members of Congress used to be able to legally act on insider information?

00:41:08.140 If they knew that a company was going to go public or there was going to be a product that came out, you and I couldn't trade on that information.

00:41:16.660 Martha Stewart went to jail for that information. 1.00

00:41:19.840 But Congress was able to actually do it without any of the same penalties that we would face.

00:41:25.640 And when we found out about that, we went, hold on, timeout.

00:41:29.680 No, you guys have to follow the same laws.

00:41:32.740 Well, they they did write a law that changed that.

00:41:37.300 And then after I think it was about two years, there was a secret, quiet vote that happened as everybody was leaving town on a Friday to overturn it.

00:41:48.860 And apparently they can do it again.

00:41:50.760 So until Congress lives by the same rules, the same laws, the same regulations that they want us to live by, I don't think they have any room to tell us what to do, which is, again, part of my term limits.

00:42:05.120 Smaller government.

00:42:06.100 Get the money out of politics.

00:42:07.340 But thank you, Tony.

00:42:08.360 I appreciate you being there.

00:42:10.040 And please help Colorado get back to being a red state. 0.95

00:42:13.140 I'm tired of it being a purple state.

00:42:15.680 It's a little irritating.

00:42:16.740 Irritating and speaking of irritating, Barack Obama.

00:42:21.120 Can can we get into this?

00:42:23.000 I think I have time to dive into this.

00:42:25.380 Barack Obama was famous during his his years in the White House for being a champion of of of the middle class and the little guy.

00:42:36.840 And and saying that those big, evil, rich people, the people that are part of the Wall Street cabal, the people that make those millions of dollars, they've made too much money.

00:42:50.560 Well, Barack Obama seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth.

00:42:55.020 He was in Canada.

00:42:57.940 Two days ago, three days ago, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce gathering.

00:43:03.180 They had six thousand people in the audience and they had the former president come out and they hired him to speak, reportedly, reportedly earning four hundred thousand dollars to address this crowd.

00:43:15.680 Now, it's a lot of money, certainly a lot of money.

00:43:19.640 I think all of us would like to say, I'm going to take a job that pays me four hundred thousand dollars a year.

00:43:25.460 As a matter of fact, the president's last job paid four hundred thousand dollars a year.

00:43:30.080 Plus, he got all that security.

00:43:32.360 Most of his travel was paid for.

00:43:34.900 Apparently, you pay for your food, though, when you live in the White House, which is really weird.

00:43:38.640 So Obama was given, reportedly, a four hundred thousand dollar fee to address the Chamber of Commerce in Montreal, Canada.

00:43:48.880 What do you get for four hundred thousand dollars?

00:43:51.860 Well, in the case of Barack Obama, you get two scoops of juxtaprogressivism.

00:43:57.220 You get two scoops of bashing Donald Trump.

00:44:00.720 You get an additional scoop of slamming America.

00:44:04.860 Now, I started thinking about this.

00:44:06.620 I'm getting a little tired of this guy, first of all, trying to overshadow the president of the United States.

00:44:17.320 He's been tracking him since Donald Trump went on his world tour when Trump went to Saudi Arabia, which, again, by the way, Nancy Pelosi still has a problem with that.

00:44:28.240 She's looking into it.

00:44:29.800 She's looking into it.

00:44:32.060 She wants to know why he went there first.

00:44:33.560 But the president goes to Saudi Arabia.

00:44:36.000 Then he goes to Rome.

00:44:37.060 Who else happens to be in Italy at the same time, the exact same day?

00:44:41.700 Barack and Michelle Obama wandering around Italy, getting the paparazzi to follow him around.

00:44:47.260 Gee, you think you're trying to still act like you're the president?

00:44:51.580 And then Donald Trump travels to Brussels, where he's going to meet with Angela Merkel, and he's going to address the NATO gathering.

00:45:02.680 It was a commissioning and a ceremony honoring NATO and the alliance.

00:45:08.100 And yes, Article 5, attack one, you attack all of us. 0.96

00:45:12.640 So Trump is getting ready to stand next to Angela Merkel in Brussels.

00:45:18.860 Three hours earlier, Obama is with Merkel at the Brandenburg gates with 80,000 people in front of him.

00:45:29.200 So Obama managed to find a way to get on the same schedule as the president was, with the same world leaders.

00:45:40.260 And then three hours later, Trump is there.

00:45:42.580 You really aren't doing this on purpose, sir?

00:45:46.340 And then the president finds himself with Prince Harry for a photo op as Donald Trump is meeting with the G7 people.

00:45:54.500 You just can't let it go, can you?

00:45:56.820 And in each appearance, Obama seems to mention some little sort of slam that's going to attack Trump and also contradict what we're doing here.

00:46:10.980 So it's no surprise that when he goes to France and is paid a reported $400,000, that he would again take some shots, not only at Donald Trump, but at America.

00:46:22.020 This was one clip from the president's speech in France.

00:46:27.860 I'm shaking my head that he's getting away with all this.

00:46:31.440 So the challenges of our time, whether it's economic inequality, climate change, terrorism, mass migration, these are real challenges.

00:46:41.700 The world is more prosperous than ever before.

00:46:47.800 But alongside that prosperity, we've also seen a rise in inequality and wage stagnation across many advanced economies,

00:46:55.980 leaving too many workers and communities fearful of diminishing prospects, not just for themselves, but more importantly, for their children.

00:47:03.660 So the guy who's making $400,000 to give a speech in Canada is talking about income inequality.

00:47:12.720 The guy who was probably flown on a private jet, because I'm pretty sure that when you reach the level of ex-president,

00:47:19.840 just the way Bill Clinton and the way the former Secretary of State, damn near President Hillary Clinton, are giving speeches,

00:47:26.800 they usually get not only their fee, but they also get their transportation and accommodations paid for,

00:47:32.860 which usually means a private jet and the presidential suite in whatever city they're in or the best room in town.

00:47:39.440 So Obama gets up there and in pretty much the opening two minutes says there's a problem in the world with income inequality.

00:47:46.420 I'm making $400,000 to be here, but we got a problem with income inequality.

00:47:51.000 And it's been going on for a while, it's been drifting this way, never mind the fact that I was the leader of the free world,

00:47:57.660 the most powerful guy in the world for the last eight years, never mind that.

00:48:03.280 He continued.

00:48:06.300 Now part of the reason that there's been so much uncertainty is we went through an enormous crisis just as I was coming into office.

00:48:15.760 But consider what we've done over the past decade.

00:48:18.520 Canada, the United States, and like-minded nations.

00:48:25.180 We wrestled the global economy from the brink of a depression and put the world back on the path to recovery.

00:48:31.080 So he showed up and the world was a mess.

00:48:34.840 And thanks to the all-powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing Barack Obama,

00:48:39.980 we fixed it and we put the world back on a path to global recovery.

00:48:45.940 Maddening, right?

00:48:47.020 Yeah, but there's more.

00:48:49.480 We helped stop Ebola in West Africa, saving countless lives.

00:48:53.020 We rallied the world around new sustainable development goals, including our goal to end extreme poverty.

00:48:59.860 In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change.

00:49:05.640 An agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership,

00:49:09.320 will still give our children a fighting chance.

00:49:11.640 There it is.

00:49:12.600 There it is.

00:49:13.180 There it is.

00:49:14.340 He put in a slap to the Trump administration while also playing the children card.

00:49:20.860 Even in the temporary absence of leadership from America, we will still get the job done.

00:49:29.460 There's more from this juxtaprogressive president, the guy who was paid $400,000 for this speech, reportedly. 0.97

00:49:38.160 And wait till you hear how much it works out to per minute, because it's pretty damn ridiculous. 0.88

00:49:42.160 I'll share that with you next when the Glenn Beck Program returns.

00:49:46.040 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:49:50.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:49:58.080 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:50:00.140 Mike Opelka sitting in today.

00:50:02.600 Glenn will be back tomorrow.

00:50:04.160 After this show on the Blaze Radio Network, I will be continuing the six-hour Opelka-thon, the pure Opelka-thon, with my own radio show.

00:50:14.040 So you're welcome to join as well, if you're having a good time.

00:50:18.180 Before we went away, we were talking about the juxtaprogressivism of Barack Hussein Obama.

00:50:25.080 And as I went to break, my phone here just pings, and I get a message from home.

00:50:34.300 And it's very disturbing.

00:50:36.400 We live in the state of Delaware.

00:50:38.560 It's a very blue state, but family reasons have us there, taking care of moms and dads in their later years.

00:50:46.840 But I just got this in.

00:50:48.400 Newsflash, really depressing.

00:50:49.940 It might be enough to cause a move.

00:50:52.460 The state legislature in Delaware has just pushed through Barack Obama Day, where they want August 4th, the president's birthday, to be Barack Obama Day.

00:51:08.460 It got through the Senate, and now it heads to the state house.

00:51:14.280 Do we get a day off?

00:51:16.840 Would that be a day off, Delaware?

00:51:18.640 If that happens, we have to have a serious discussion about relocating.

00:51:24.740 Dear God.

00:51:26.100 Barack Obama Day.

00:51:27.200 The state's only $500 million in the red, and they got opioid addiction problems.

00:51:34.140 They have gun death problems.

00:51:35.760 So you know what?

00:51:37.180 I guess it is kind of a Barack Obama state now.

00:51:39.900 It's kind of like Chicago's become.

00:51:41.620 Gunshots, murders, and opioid addiction.

00:51:46.260 Perfect.

00:51:46.740 Why don't we just call the state Obama?

00:51:51.080 Maddening.

00:51:51.560 Back to Barack Obama in Montreal, where he gave a speech, reportedly earning him $400,000 for 30 minutes.

00:52:02.300 Do the math.

00:52:03.360 It's about $7,700 a minute.

00:52:06.000 Did you make $707,000 last week, last month?

00:52:11.860 If you made it for the month, that'd be about taking home about $100,000 a year.

00:52:17.120 The president made that for every minute he talked.

00:52:22.040 And we know he got his expenses.

00:52:23.920 But this was another bit of weird statements that came out of Obama's mouth.

00:52:32.000 Of course, slamming not only the president and America, but shaming us, basically, internationally.

00:52:39.800 But there are obvious differences.

00:52:41.500 In America, we see more of the corrosive influence of money in our politics.

00:52:47.680 Wait, what?

00:52:48.360 What?

00:52:49.960 We see more of the corrosive influence of money in our politics.

00:52:55.200 We just finished an election where your side, sir, spent about 50 million times more than the other side.

00:53:04.920 And we know there's a lot of money in politics, and that is a thing that we need to address, a huge thing we need to address.

00:53:10.380 But I'll let him continue.

00:53:12.020 The entrenched partisanship, the low voting rates, in part because of a patchwork of laws that makes it harder to vote,

00:53:20.640 these are all flaws in our democracy that have to be addressed.

00:53:24.320 Correct me if I'm wrong, but we eliminated the poll taxes and the Jim Crow laws, 0.99

00:53:29.040 and we've eliminated intelligence tests.

00:53:32.320 Voting is pretty damn easy.

00:53:34.520 As a matter of fact, California wants illegals to vote.

00:53:37.880 So it's not the problem.

00:53:39.820 And early voting makes it so that you can vote whether or not you're working that day up to,

00:53:46.100 I think it's two months ahead of time in some states.

00:53:49.560 So it's not tough to vote in America, sir.

00:53:52.600 You're wrong, so stop spreading lies around the world.

00:53:56.360 The president also continued, and boy, oh boy, this one got to me.

00:54:01.520 If our citizens' expectations are not met, and they believe they have no control over the decisions

00:54:06.860 that are made by distant bureaucrats or dysfunctional government, then they will try anything.

00:54:14.720 Gee, they will try anything.

00:54:17.260 What could you be talking about if citizens are disenfranchised and aren't happy?

00:54:21.640 They will try anything.

00:54:23.100 What are you talking about, sir?

00:54:24.980 And they'll turn to populists or nationalists or even authoritarian movements.

00:54:33.440 Oh, I see what you're doing.

00:54:37.060 To populists and nationalists or even authoritarian movements.

00:54:41.300 It's unbelievable that this guy would go to another country, insult America, insult the president

00:54:50.600 of the United States, and get paid $400,000 to do so. 0.98

00:54:57.340 It's disgusting.

00:54:59.800 I've got to take a break.

00:55:01.060 When we come back, let's get a little education on education.

00:55:04.220 What's happening with Common Core?

00:55:06.260 I've got an expert who will help us next on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:55:11.300 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:55:30.160 Mike Opelka hosting.

00:55:32.340 I also have a show on the Blaze Radio Network called PuroPelka, so I'm hosting that too.

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00:55:56.700 I'm trying to keep an eye on all the news that's popping on the Blaze, but it's going so fast,

00:56:01.200 I can't get it all to you right away, because we have other issues to talk about.

00:56:06.200 About four years ago, I became aware of what Common Core was, the Common Core curriculum,

00:56:14.400 and how, in the height of the financial crisis, the federal government swooped in with this idea

00:56:22.660 to take over the education system on a local level.

00:56:27.560 To come in and tell all of those counties and cities that were having budget crunches,

00:56:34.820 especially in their education budget, because of the huge financial crisis we were in,

00:56:40.720 that we have money for you, but we want you to do something for us.

00:56:48.620 And we want to introduce this wonderful thing called Common Core,

00:56:53.760 and the Common Core standards, that they're only going to help the children.

00:56:58.520 They're only going to make it better for everybody.

00:57:01.120 And anytime somebody comes to you and gives you money, and then says,

00:57:06.140 you have to implement these programs, and it's just going to make everything better.

00:57:11.200 I'm suspicious, because anytime something's going to make my life better,

00:57:15.040 I usually have to pay for it.

00:57:17.460 I usually have to purchase it.

00:57:19.700 And I have to make, it's incumbent upon me to make an educated purchase.

00:57:24.060 As a consumer, I like to know, well, what else could I have purchased?

00:57:27.840 And is there something with a better value?

00:57:30.440 Not the case with Common Core.

00:57:32.020 It was rammed down the throats of all the states that were in financial trouble.

00:57:36.600 So that would just be 50 out of 50.

00:57:39.700 And when we woke up and went, hang on a second, this Common Core thing is not good.

00:57:46.480 It's changing the way our kids are taught.

00:57:49.480 It's changing the way our kids are tested, which is kind of like constantly.

00:57:54.120 It's taking control of the education process out of the hands of the teachers.

00:57:59.220 And we started fighting back.

00:58:00.800 But Common Core, like Obamacare, has deep tentacles that have gotten inside of our educational system.

00:58:09.240 And it's not just easy to go in and go, all right, no more Common Core.

00:58:13.800 And despite the fact that Donald Trump made that a campaign promise,

00:58:17.480 that he was going to get rid of Common Core, I don't know how realistic that is.

00:58:22.540 In order to understand it and to try and also realize that there's more going on in the world

00:58:29.280 than the Jim Comey testimony, we've brought in a friend of mine who is also a radio person

00:58:35.960 in upstate New York, but she's a warrior on Common Core. 0.56

00:58:40.220 Her name is Shannon Joy, and she's joining us this morning on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:44.680 Hello, my friend.

00:58:45.400 How are you?

00:58:45.940 Well, hello, Michael Pelka.

00:58:48.580 How are you?

00:58:49.180 Thank you so much for having me.

00:58:50.780 You're welcome.

00:58:51.680 Happy to have you here.

00:58:53.180 I think I got this set up on Common Core right, didn't I?

00:58:58.040 You absolutely did.

00:58:59.320 And then I'm going to take it one step further for you and for your audience.

00:59:02.700 Okay.

00:59:03.040 What was once a voluntary, seemingly, quote-unquote, voluntary grant program,

00:59:09.220 the Race to the Top program put in place by the Obama administration,

00:59:13.780 you know, that was the initial mechanism that brought Common Core into every school district

00:59:19.600 in the United States of America.

00:59:21.240 But it was the Republicans, led by Lamar Alexander and a Republican-led Senate

00:59:26.520 and House of Representatives, that passed the ESSA Act.

00:59:31.340 It was the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015.

00:59:35.660 That legislation, which was pitched to the American people and conservatives as a solution

00:59:40.400 to Common Core, was indeed the exact opposite.

00:59:44.480 It codified into law that voluntary grant program that was put in place by Obama.

00:59:51.180 So not only do we still have Common Core in nearly every single school district in the

00:59:57.840 United States of America today, it is even more deeply entrenched.

01:00:02.940 In addition, Mike, what your audience might not know is that through my research and through,

01:00:09.040 you know, all of the research we've done over the years, I have not been able to find a single

01:00:13.880 charter school in the United States of America, not a single one, that isn't fully and totally

01:00:20.140 aligned with the Common Core.

01:00:21.800 The way that you know if your school, your charter, or your private, or your public is

01:00:26.660 aligned with the Common Core is simply by the testing.

01:00:30.600 So for parents out there, if you want to know if your school is aligned, what you have to

01:00:33.740 do is figure out if they're taking the federally aligned Common Core test.

01:00:37.220 You'll see the branding all over the test, and you'll see the Common Core insignia, the

01:00:42.060 trademark logo all over as well.

01:00:44.280 If your school is administering those exams, those tests, they are aligned with the Common Core,

01:00:49.800 and I have yet to find a single charter.

01:00:52.100 So Republicans now are putting forth a false solution.

01:00:55.640 They're coming out, you know, Donald Trump, Betsy DeVos, some of our favorite conservative

01:01:00.340 Republicans, I don't know if they quite understand the nuance of this, but they're pitching to

01:01:05.480 conservatives the idea of school choice vouchers and charters as a solution when that is not

01:01:11.400 the case.

01:01:12.080 In every piece of legislation in every state, including Texas, which voted it down just recently

01:01:17.480 because of this, every voucher program, every choice program requires that the user of that

01:01:24.080 voucher or that choice education institution must be aligned with the federal standards.

01:01:31.360 Those standards are Common Core.

01:01:33.120 So not only is it in our public schools, it's in our charters, and the Republicans are fixing

01:01:37.680 to get it everywhere else.

01:01:39.440 Shannon, you bring up a real scary reality that this thing has, as I said, it has more

01:01:47.620 tentacles and deep roots.

01:01:49.500 But I want to ask you how we fight it.

01:01:51.960 But I also want to ask what parents can do when they realize that their kid's in a Common 0.82

01:02:00.380 Core program, even if they put them in a charter school.

01:02:03.220 And what does a parent say to an administrator, a school superintendent, who says to them,

01:02:10.880 hey, what's wrong with having standards?

01:02:13.360 These are standards that apply to all the kids around the country.

01:02:16.800 What's your big problem with Common Core?

01:02:19.220 Because I think we need to arm parents with information.

01:02:22.220 If they're willing to go into battle against Common Core, we need to give them the ammunition.

01:02:28.860 So what are the one or two things you, as a parent, can say when you're up there questioning

01:02:34.880 these folks on Common Core?

01:02:38.280 Well, first of all, the issue is in standards.

01:02:41.640 And that's one of the red herrings that the education planners on the right and the left

01:02:48.180 will use to distract people.

01:02:49.580 Because no one wants their kid to be a snowflake, right?

01:02:51.700 Right.

01:02:52.220 Every parent wants kids to have high standards.

01:02:55.840 Every parent wants a school to have high standards.

01:02:57.960 That's obvious.

01:02:59.940 The question isn't the standards, it's the curriculum.

01:03:02.960 And what the standards do, because of the testing and the evaluation, is drive the curriculum.

01:03:09.100 So what you have, in a sense, you know, the next generation science standards are essentially

01:03:13.960 global warming and climate change sustainability curriculum.

01:03:18.460 You have politics injected into the schools through the curriculums that they must put in

01:03:22.640 place in order for the kids to achieve on the tests that are supposed to judge the standards.

01:03:27.380 So that's a red herring.

01:03:29.740 It's a false choice.

01:03:30.600 It has nothing to do with standards.

01:03:32.220 It has everything to do with the curriculum.

01:03:33.720 For example, the social studies curriculums, many of them that are Common Core aligned,

01:03:38.840 are teaching children to be global citizens and are shaping their attitudes, behaviors, and

01:03:44.900 beliefs, right?

01:03:45.620 So they're indoctrinating children into collectivism, globalism, socialism, and they're doing it

01:03:51.420 in the guise of standards in a curriculum.

01:03:54.080 So that's number one.

01:03:55.220 What parents can do, every parent that is listening to my voice today, if you are in a charter,

01:03:59.660 a private, a public, today you can make the commitment to refuse to allow your child to

01:04:05.740 take the Common Core exams.

01:04:07.700 The assessments and the tests, any of those exams, that is the carrot and the stick.

01:04:12.260 That is how the federal government and the state government gets your school district and

01:04:16.120 your teachers to implement those false standards.

01:04:19.880 If parents across this nation refuse to allow their children to be guinea pigs, to be tested

01:04:25.020 incessantly by the federal government and education bureaucrats, Common Core will be gone

01:04:30.000 tomorrow.

01:04:31.140 That's as easy as it is.

01:04:32.480 You have to take away the testing.

01:04:34.400 Then you have some work that we need to do on our federal officials, senators.

01:04:39.780 I'm telling you, Mike Opelka, we don't have a single friend in the Senate, not one friend

01:04:44.100 in the Senate or in the House of Representatives that understands the nuance and the tentacles

01:04:49.680 of Common Core.

01:04:50.680 They are putting forth what they think are solutions, which is the school choice and the voucher.

01:04:54.960 Those are false solutions.

01:04:56.240 What was once a great idea has now been hijacked by progressives, and it is only going to further

01:05:00.980 entrench the federal government, not only into public schools, but also into

01:05:04.380 charters.

01:05:05.020 Here's the other dirty little secret.

01:05:06.380 There's a reason that the unions, Randy Weingarten and Betsy DeVos, are so buddy-buddy, so chummy. 0.98

01:05:11.580 All over the United States of America, they're going on, you know, speaking tours and listening

01:05:15.040 tours.

01:05:15.720 That is because I believe, eventually, as they move to close down public schools and turn

01:05:21.200 them into charter schools, what you're going to see happen is those charters are going to

01:05:24.700 begin to unionize.

01:05:25.560 It's going to happen very fast.

01:05:27.280 And we're going to have the exact same problem that we have with the public schools, except

01:05:30.160 one difference.

01:05:31.020 Charter schools do not have a board of education, a democratically elected local board of education.

01:05:37.440 They have a board of supervisors that appoints a parent as a liaison.

01:05:42.740 So what is, you're going to have our charter schools all over the country that are directly

01:05:46.540 tethered to the federal government.

01:05:47.920 They are not controlled locally in any way, shape, or form.

01:05:51.440 And we will have even less of a voice than we do now with our current public education system.

01:05:56.480 That's how important this is, this charter and choice battle.

01:06:01.560 This is why in Texas, that bill was killed just a couple months ago, Mike.

01:06:06.260 It was not by liberals.

01:06:07.620 It was not by Democrats in Texas.

01:06:09.000 It was by homeschool moms and dads and grandparents who saw the false choice, the false charter,

01:06:15.020 the false voucher plan for what it truly was.

01:06:18.080 Well, Shannon, I'm glad you brought up Texas, because Texas was the first thing that caught

01:06:23.460 my eye with their C-Scope program, which only changed its name.

01:06:27.680 And now we're seeing Common Core is really just changing its name.

01:06:32.860 But it's also sliding into or has slid into the charter school system and completely infected

01:06:41.820 that system.

01:06:42.660 I could dive into this and tear this apart all day long.

01:06:47.620 And I'm not a guy with kids.

01:06:49.180 I'm just a guy who cares about the country.

01:06:52.140 What Shannon has pointed out here is that Common Core is not just about the testing.

01:06:57.740 It's about what they're testing the kids for in knowledge.

01:07:01.940 And they have preloaded this agenda, this global citizen agenda, this global climate change agenda,

01:07:09.200 this everybody's got to be fair agenda.

01:07:12.680 It's the snowflake agenda that's been preloaded into the system that they will test them to

01:07:19.540 see if they know this.

01:07:21.160 Shannon, I've got just about a minute left.

01:07:23.560 In that minute, you used to have a site that you told me about where people can go to find

01:07:28.200 out the testing in their area and where parents can find out how to opt out for their kids

01:07:35.360 on these kind of tests.

01:07:36.700 Where do they go?

01:07:38.440 Sure, Mike.

01:07:39.240 So parents can go, one of my favorite resources, I'm going to give your audience a couple

01:07:42.460 resources.

01:07:43.160 One of the best is truthinamericaneducation.com.

01:07:46.280 Okay.

01:07:46.700 That gives you all the up-to-date information on Common Core.

01:07:49.380 Also, Jane Robbins of American Principles Project, she is a fantastic voice on this.

01:07:55.980 Neil McCluskey from the Cato Institute is wonderful.

01:07:59.660 And Duke Pesta.

01:08:00.660 So if you Google any one of those, follow them on Twitter, follow them on Facebook.

01:08:04.980 You can get up-to-date on what is happening with Common Core.

01:08:07.640 But for every parent in America, you can refuse to take these Common Core exams.

01:08:13.120 We just finished them up this year.

01:08:14.560 But let me tell you, next year, you're going to have to take them again.

01:08:16.700 They're probably going to change the name of the Common Core.

01:08:19.640 Look out for next generation standards or something like that.

01:08:23.340 They're going to completely rebrand the Common Core to try to hide what they're doing.

01:08:28.240 That's going to happen next year.

01:08:29.140 But I can assure you all, the curriculum, the standards, the evaluations, the testing, it's all exactly the same.

01:08:34.940 Thank you, my friend.

01:08:35.920 Her name is Shannon Joy.

01:08:37.160 You can follow her on Twitter at ShannonJoyRadio.

01:08:40.460 She knows this stuff inside out, and it's vital information.

01:08:44.620 Have a great rest of your day.

01:08:45.840 Thanks for being here.

01:08:46.780 Thanks, Mike.

01:08:49.440 I've got to step aside.

01:08:50.660 This just makes me furious.

01:08:52.020 Why would you be?

01:08:52.500 You can't abdicate your children's education.

01:08:55.860 And trust me, homeschoolers, homeschool parents, they're coming for you this year.

01:09:01.200 That's the next target to get you out of business and bring those kids back into the fold. 1.00

01:09:07.280 We'll be right back.

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01:09:22.820 Welcome back to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:09:24.860 Michael Pelka in for Glenn Beck.

01:09:26.880 And we talked earlier about the fact that Bill O'Reilly is usually here on Fridays in the second hour,

01:09:33.240 and he will be here next Friday with Glenn.

01:09:35.720 But I also just got a buzz in my ear that said Bill will be joining Glenn on Tuesday as well.

01:09:42.540 So you get a bonus O'Reilly next week, hour three, on Tuesday.

01:09:48.500 So you get a little O'Reilly on Tuesday and then more O'Reilly on Friday.

01:09:53.620 So good for you.

01:09:55.380 The word schadenfreude, one of my favorite words in the whole wide world.

01:09:59.340 It is the word that the Germans gave us that means the joy we feel at the misfortune of others.

01:10:07.420 And yesterday, as Jim Comey was testifying, CNN was required to basically issue a correction and an apology.

01:10:17.080 CNN had gone to press with a piece from Gloria Borger saying that Comey was expected to refute Donald Trump.

01:10:27.080 In other words, the claims that Trump had made that Comey had actually told him he wasn't under investigation three times.

01:10:35.000 And so Gloria Borger went with this, and it was live on CNN.com.

01:10:40.760 And as we all know from Comey's own remarks, that wasn't true.

01:10:47.460 CNN had to issue a correction, an apology, and a healthy dose of schadenfreude to people like me.

01:10:55.460 I love that.

01:10:56.660 When we get back, Louie Gohmert, the congressman from the 1st District in the great state of Texas,

01:11:02.380 will join us on the Glenn Beck program.

01:11:05.000 Come on back.

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01:11:43.500 I will raise my voice.

01:11:45.560 I will hold your hand.

01:11:48.160 Because we are one.

01:11:49.960 I will be my drum.

01:11:52.240 I have made my choice.

01:11:54.500 We will overcome.

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01:12:02.480 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:12:06.260 It is the Glenn Beck program.

01:12:09.060 Glenn returns Monday from his vacation.

01:12:12.500 And you really do need to follow him on Facebook and see what he's been up to.

01:12:16.460 You know, he's branding cattle and chopping down trees.

01:12:19.680 And no, he's not.

01:12:21.760 But he is enjoying his time away and hiking.

01:12:25.640 I'm sure he's doing some of that.

01:12:27.020 I don't want him to get mad at me.

01:12:28.620 But all the talk about bailing hay and I, come on, Glenn.

01:12:34.700 I better stop digging or I'm going to get in deep trouble.

01:12:38.160 Joining me this morning, one of the guys who I just, I love hearing from him because he's

01:12:45.200 common sense extraordinaire.

01:12:47.440 And it's government without the glitz and it's government without the hype and the hyperbole.

01:12:54.820 It's the guy who represents the first district in the state of Texas, Louie Gohmert.

01:12:59.520 Hello, Congressman.

01:13:00.460 How are you, sir?

01:13:01.160 Hey, Mike.

01:13:01.600 It's so good to be with you.

01:13:02.900 Thank you.

01:13:03.660 Doing all right as far as I know.

01:13:05.040 But we were supposed to be in session today.

01:13:09.680 That was the plan until Tuesday.

01:13:12.960 And it causes me a little bit of concern because we have not passed any kind of repeal, not even

01:13:21.420 partial repeal of Obamacare.

01:13:24.320 We have not done the tax reform that we've promised.

01:13:28.320 And I keep hearing people from the Senate say on one day it may be, well, we're not sure

01:13:34.780 we're going to get to it this summer or it may be toward the end of the year.

01:13:41.660 Well, I know what toward the end of the year means.

01:13:44.260 It means we're not going to get it done this year.

01:13:47.220 And I told the president last Sunday that it's starting to feel here like my first term

01:13:55.300 government office in 2005, when we came in with so much excitement, we were going to reform

01:14:04.100 the government.

01:14:05.140 We were going to have a total overhaul of taxes.

01:14:10.580 We were going to shore up Social Security so it would be there for future generations.

01:14:15.360 And what happened?

01:14:17.660 Well, speaker and the majority leader in 2006, that is, they weren't that thrilled.

01:14:25.920 But for 2005, we were told, well, we'll try to get to it by May.

01:14:31.480 Okay, didn't get to it by May, maybe by into August.

01:14:35.400 Then, well, you know, we got the fall.

01:14:37.440 Well, the fall is tough to get things done because there are a lot of weeks we're not

01:14:42.360 here.

01:14:43.580 Have Thanksgiving and you're into Christmas.

01:14:46.200 And we didn't get any of it done.

01:14:48.560 And then in January of 06, we have our annual planning meeting.

01:14:54.560 We were told, oh, now it's an even numbered year.

01:14:57.500 That means congressional elections.

01:14:59.640 That means we can't do any of the big things that we promised we would do.

01:15:04.700 So, well, it looks like we'll wait till January of 07.

01:15:08.520 Well, I was a freshman.

01:15:09.660 I got up and I said, if you really think there's any chance we could lose the majority this year,

01:15:15.920 then it has to be when we do the big stuff we promised.

01:15:20.280 Let's do the tax reform.

01:15:21.840 Let's shore up Social Security.

01:15:23.540 Let's reform the government.

01:15:25.260 But that was a minority position within the majority.

01:15:28.720 And we fooled around and we didn't get anything done.

01:15:32.080 It was tragic.

01:15:32.840 And I'm telling you, it kind of feels like that right now.

01:15:37.200 And I think you agree, this is our chance.

01:15:41.820 We have got to get the big stuff we promised done this year.

01:15:46.040 So I'm concerned when we cancel Friday's events today, it also means that all anybody wants

01:15:54.180 to talk about today is Comey.

01:15:56.320 And our leadership had to know that the day after the most overhyped event since Y2K, that

01:16:05.240 we needed to help change the message back to our agenda, not the media's agenda.

01:16:11.380 But instead, we took a hike today.

01:16:14.920 We're not in session.

01:16:16.320 Well, Congressman, you bring up a really important point.

01:16:19.920 And it's a strategic point that I think is lost on a lot of people.

01:16:23.580 We heard this morning Nancy Pelosi was introduced on MSNBC as the future Speaker of the House.

01:16:31.980 So they said that to her.

01:16:33.560 That's how they brought her in.

01:16:34.540 So they're looking at 2018 as a wave election.

01:16:37.800 They're looking at changing the landscape.

01:16:39.780 And obviously, there's still a lot of time and anything could happen.

01:16:43.520 But what you're saying, I wish leadership would hold on to and say, yes, do what you can do now.

01:16:50.940 Because if you do get swept out, you'll have done nothing.

01:16:54.820 And at least you'll have made some changes.

01:16:58.380 Exactly.

01:16:59.040 How come they don't see this?

01:17:01.360 I don't know.

01:17:02.420 But it's pretty clear to some of us that, you know, I believe God gave us another chance.

01:17:09.360 There's mercy and grace.

01:17:10.760 He's given us another chance.

01:17:12.440 But that's it.

01:17:13.540 It's a chance.

01:17:14.740 We have to use the gifts with which we've been blessed.

01:17:18.660 And we're not really using them.

01:17:21.120 So I appreciate your voice being raised and Glenn's voice being raised in trying to push Congress into doing the things we promised.

01:17:30.740 It's it's not that foreign of a concept doing what we promised.

01:17:36.200 I mean, it shouldn't be a foreign concept.

01:17:38.440 Well, you you talked with the president on Sunday and you know, I don't know if it was face to face or if you had some phone call.

01:17:45.500 He called me.

01:17:46.720 OK, I was on Fox News and then he called me an hour later.

01:17:50.120 I was driving from Dallas back to Tyler and it said unknown.

01:17:55.620 And I don't like to answer unknown calls.

01:17:59.440 But last time it was unknown, it was the president.

01:18:02.620 So I went ahead and answered and it was the this is the White House operator.

01:18:08.880 Will you hold for the president?

01:18:10.440 Well, OK.

01:18:11.220 Yeah.

01:18:11.860 OK, sure.

01:18:13.220 And he came right on.

01:18:14.520 So.

01:18:15.120 Well, now in those conversations, the president has said we're we're moving ahead on tax reform.

01:18:19.840 We're going to get the health care done.

01:18:22.080 But you're saying there really isn't any movement.

01:18:24.860 What what can we as citizens do?

01:18:26.940 Is there I'm short of calling and hollering at people.

01:18:30.380 Is there anything?

01:18:31.600 That's a good thing to do, though.

01:18:33.200 OK.

01:18:33.540 Yeah, I guess so.

01:18:34.380 But the president, the president really does want to get this stuff done.

01:18:37.960 He really wants to to meet our agenda.

01:18:40.400 He is not, you know, all into the weeds about how exactly it's got to be worded, but he's

01:18:48.780 counting on us keeping our word because he's a business guy.

01:18:54.080 He's not used to, you know, coming into a group where everybody has made these big promises

01:19:00.680 and the people in charge have made the promises, but they're not all that enthused about keeping

01:19:09.360 their promises.

01:19:10.780 I'm sure the president, as a businessman, is a little shocked at how few days Congress

01:19:15.140 actually spends doing the thing that we hired him to do.

01:19:18.400 And instead of holding some of these hearings, which, yes, they're important, but a few of

01:19:22.960 them are starting to feel meaningless, Congressman.

01:19:25.060 Well, and some of the hearings are meaningless.

01:19:27.840 We need to treat some of these important subjects like some of the bigger hearings of the 70s, where

01:19:38.660 some of them, you know, the way the hearings are broken down when we're doing investigations,

01:19:46.460 each House member gets five minutes, one Republican, one Democrat.

01:19:51.620 You cannot do an effective questioning, cross-examination in five minutes.

01:19:59.060 I've questioned thousands of people in my role as a litigator and as a judge.

01:20:06.620 You can't have an effective questioning when you break up the questioning between different

01:20:13.540 people every five minutes.

01:20:15.040 So if you recall the Watergate hearings, the members got to ask questions, but they also

01:20:27.360 had the House counsel that would do a lot of the questioning.

01:20:32.860 And it wasn't limited to five minutes and then flip back to the other side.

01:20:37.660 You've got to be able to set up your questions in order to drill down and really push to get

01:20:45.160 the truth out.

01:20:46.440 Well, I wish those rules could be changed.

01:20:48.700 I have one more suggestion I would offer humbly to those of you in Washington.

01:20:53.440 All of these hearings need to be held standing up because the bloviating would stop the first

01:20:59.120 three minutes.

01:21:00.060 Slow it down.

01:21:00.460 Yeah.

01:21:00.840 And no more.

01:21:01.720 Thank you for your extended service to that.

01:21:04.420 You know, there's a lot of butt kissing going on before we ever get to a question.

01:21:08.980 So I'm just saying.

01:21:10.400 Yeah, that's right.

01:21:11.460 We only have five minutes and often two minutes of that is spent thanking them for their long

01:21:16.960 service and for their faithfulness and whatnot.

01:21:20.000 And I try to skip all that because sometimes it's not true.

01:21:23.200 They haven't been faithful in their service, but that's me.

01:21:27.380 Great point.

01:21:28.040 But listen, let me let me say, no, don't misunderstand.

01:21:33.720 We are in session enough days in the year to get everything done that we promised to get

01:21:40.200 done.

01:21:40.660 OK, we are in session enough.

01:21:43.000 And like I said of the Texas legislature, you know, when we're in session, no man or his

01:21:48.140 property is safe.

01:21:50.080 Every day we pass new laws that we're in session every day.

01:21:54.480 OK, now they may not pass the Senate, but in the House, we're passing new things every

01:22:00.640 day.

01:22:01.320 And some of them do encroach on Americans' rights and liberties.

01:22:07.980 You can't keep passing new bills every day and not have some of them encroach on people's

01:22:13.840 liberties.

01:22:14.820 So I'm not I'd be in favor in fewer days in session if we made those very productive days.

01:22:24.800 So 20 hour day for me here in D.C. is not uncommon.

01:22:30.220 But when you look at how long we're in session and what we actually get done in our hearings,

01:22:38.120 I mean, every hearing usually is in conflict with another hearing.

01:22:43.020 So most people have conflicting hearings at every hearing they're in.

01:22:47.980 That needs to be worked out like it is in most state legislatures where you can be at your

01:22:54.260 hearing and not have to run back and forth.

01:22:56.840 I wish there's a lot of things we could do more effectively here, but we don't seem to

01:23:02.460 be that interested in reform of our own body.

01:23:05.880 I'll tell you another good thing that that should be done.

01:23:11.160 There are so many overlapping, duplicating forms of public assistance.

01:23:19.220 And the way the Democrats have structured Congress, they have all these different programs in

01:23:26.020 completely different budgets, different subcommittees.

01:23:29.740 And so if you try to take out one of the completely duplicative programs, then you get accused

01:23:40.200 of being a hater, hating seniors, hating women, hating children, hating puppies, whatever it

01:23:45.520 is.

01:23:45.800 When a good example is with federal programs charged with getting people to and from appointments.

01:23:55.820 Dan Webster, great brother in Christ, just a good man.

01:24:01.180 He was the Speaker of the House in Florida years ago.

01:24:07.040 Transportation is one of his pets.

01:24:09.380 So he decided he was going to find out how many federal programs we have that are charged

01:24:18.000 with getting people to and from different events.

01:24:21.980 And he told me recently, I'm pretty sure I've found them all.

01:24:26.680 It's possible there's one or two more, but there's 82 that I've found.

01:24:31.460 Most of them have white 20 seat vans.

01:24:35.980 Most of them sit vacant, dormant much of the time.

01:24:40.100 And when they do take somebody, it's usually an average of three passengers.

01:24:45.300 Well, if you try to take out one of those 82 federal programs, again, you get beat up.

01:24:51.460 You're a hater.

01:24:52.580 You hate women, seniors, kids, whatever it is.

01:24:55.780 If we had all of the different forms of public assistance under one subcommittee, then as Republicans, as conservatives, we can say, no, we don't hate any of those.

01:25:10.740 In fact, by combining these 82 programs, we can cut out the massive amount of waste.

01:25:17.820 We can provide even more services to more people, but we do it by getting rid of duplication.

01:25:27.400 But if everybody can see we don't need 82 programs, we win that fight.

01:25:33.580 But when we fight on one at a time in different subcommittee battles, we don't win.

01:25:40.520 We're looked at as being haters.

01:25:42.880 Louie Gohmert, I want to know why aren't you the Speaker of the House?

01:25:47.900 Why isn't this common sense leading the House?

01:25:51.840 I will pray for that every day, sir.

01:25:54.960 I know you probably don't want it, but I would love it.

01:25:59.880 When I announced that I was running for Speaker in January of 2015,

01:26:04.940 I knew that that act would make so many angry who had promised their constituents,

01:26:12.860 oh, yeah, I'd vote for anybody but Boehner.

01:26:15.140 I hear you.

01:26:15.860 But there's no use throwing my vote away.

01:26:18.900 If nobody announces, I'm going to go ahead and vote for Boehner because otherwise I'd throw my vote.

01:26:23.900 But I'm telling you, if somebody announces, I'm going to vote for them.

01:26:27.860 The goal was to get to 29 votes.

01:26:31.520 That meant it would throw it to a second ballot and even a third, fourth, and up to nine like it did in 1922

01:26:38.660 until we got the rest of the conference to agree on a compromise candidate.

01:26:44.280 I think I'd make a great speaker, but I knew going in that just by announcing,

01:26:49.960 I would engender so much anger and hatred from some of our Republican members.

01:26:55.820 They'd never elect me to anything.

01:26:58.020 So that's where I am now.

01:26:59.520 It almost worked.

01:27:01.780 We got 24.

01:27:03.320 But because we got as close as we did, the die was cast.

01:27:08.980 Boehner was not going to serve out two years.

01:27:11.780 So I was offering myself as a sacrificial lamb, and you know what happens to sacrificial lambs.

01:27:19.660 I do.

01:27:20.280 I do all too well.

01:27:21.420 Thank you for jumping in on a last-minute notice here.

01:27:25.040 I appreciate you so much.

01:27:26.520 It's great to talk to you.

01:27:27.700 Thank you for understanding with such clarity.

01:27:30.340 Well, it's only from the common sense, straight talk approach, Congressman.

01:27:35.960 Thank you, sir.

01:27:36.320 Well, that's where we need to be.

01:27:37.700 Thanks so much for you.

01:27:38.620 Have a great weekend.

01:27:39.700 Michael Pelka stepping aside.

01:27:41.160 We'll be back with more of the Glenn Beck Program.

01:27:43.480 Welcome back to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:28:10.440 Michael Pelka here.

01:28:11.700 Steve in Indiana wanted to chime in.

01:28:15.480 Steve, welcome to the program.

01:28:18.080 Thank you, Mr. Stuntbrain.

01:28:19.660 I just wanted to put out there that, oh, by the way, love you when you fill in for Glenn.

01:28:24.700 I miss hearing you.

01:28:25.900 Thank you.

01:28:26.560 Since Obamacare was passed, I believe the Democrats have been swept out of office and lost nearly 1,000 seats.

01:28:36.700 And I'm afraid if we don't follow through with the repeal as promised, Republicans are headed for a sound defeat in the upcoming elections.

01:28:45.620 I'm just worried about that.

01:28:47.020 Well, Steve, you bring up a really good point.

01:28:49.620 And the fact is, when you think about those 1,000 seats, they encompass House, Senate in terms of the national positions.

01:28:56.780 There are governorships.

01:28:57.780 There are state positions.

01:28:59.480 There are all kinds of seats that were lost to Democrats.

01:29:02.220 And that was from the pendulum swinging so far left under the Pelosi and Harry Reid control with Obama in the White House.

01:29:11.600 And there is great concern.

01:29:13.380 So I hope the lawmakers will pay attention that there is an undercurrent right now that's not happy, that's not pleased,

01:29:21.600 because they elected the Republicans to lead the nation based on the promises that were made.

01:29:29.200 And if they don't fulfill those promises, we know what happens.

01:29:33.100 We know how this election thing works out.

01:29:35.720 So I appreciate you for chiming in and reminding all of us that we need to remind our congressmen and our senators and our local reps.

01:29:44.840 You've got to do what you promise or you'll pay the price.

01:29:47.580 Thank you, sir.

01:29:49.380 Have a great weekend.

01:29:51.560 Yesterday, after this show and after my other radio show, I visited the George Bush Center on the SMU campus in Dallas.

01:30:04.120 And I have to tell you, I had a religious experience of one kind.

01:30:08.360 And I witnessed the paintings that the former President Bush has executed that honor the wounded warriors.

01:30:16.340 He has 90 plus paintings in this museum that's attached to the Bush Center.

01:30:22.800 Now, the Bush Center itself is a remarkable record of what the president did during his his time in office.

01:30:30.180 And you can actually go and sit in the George Bush Oval Office and get your picture taken.

01:30:35.400 Yes, I did it.

01:30:36.680 But I spent more time checking out this exhibit of the wounded warriors.

01:30:42.900 It's powerful.

01:30:44.160 It it it'll make you cry.

01:30:47.300 But I think you need to check it out.

01:30:49.040 Visit the Bush Center dot org.

01:30:51.720 See it for yourself.

01:30:52.800 If you're local, go there.

01:30:55.000 We'll be right back.

01:31:02.300 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:31:06.760 Mercury.

01:31:10.540 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:31:12.500 Welcome back to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:31:15.780 Michael Pelka sitting in for Glenn.

01:31:17.780 We'll wrap up here and continue our discussion today on the Blaze Radio Network as well on my program, Puro Pelka.

01:31:26.360 But you're welcome to join the conversation for the next half hour.

01:31:29.940 888-727-BECK.

01:31:35.220 I hope I did not shortchange the George Bush Center.

01:31:40.020 I was talking a little bit and I I wanted to make mention of George Bush's own words here when he talks about these paintings.

01:31:49.900 And he writes in the book, I painted these men and women as a way to honor their service to the country and to show my respect for their sacrifice and courage.

01:32:01.180 And I hope to draw attention to the challenges some face when they come home and transition into civilian life and the need for our country to better address them.

01:32:12.260 You have to see this exhibit, you have to see this exhibit, you can see it online or you can actually go there.

01:32:17.540 One of the docents came up to me yesterday and said, can I ask, are you from out of town?

01:32:24.180 Yes.

01:32:25.080 Are you in town to work?

01:32:26.580 I said, yes.

01:32:28.280 She said, you know how many people we get in your demo, mostly men who come here to have a moment in this exhibit?

01:32:37.900 I said, well, these are these are guys we understand fought for us to be able to be free and do what we do.

01:32:46.420 And then I looked around and the exhibit was populated mostly with men, probably in the 40 to 60 age range, just by themselves doing the same thing I was doing.

01:33:00.920 So check it out at BushCenter.org.

01:33:03.080 I'm happy one of my one of my former Blaze colleagues is joining me on the phone right now, especially with the fact that we haven't covered the topics that he covers enough, because we've all been busy with Comey Fafi 2017.

01:33:19.320 Eric Stackelbeck is joining us.

01:33:21.580 You know, Eric, maybe from the early days of the Blaze and the Blaze TV back when it was GB TV.

01:33:27.740 Eric was around, but now he's over at TBN and the director of Christians United for Israel's Watchmen Project.

01:33:35.700 Eric, welcome back to the program.

01:33:37.580 We miss you here.

01:33:39.020 Mike, great to be with you.

01:33:40.200 Always great to catch up with you guys again.

01:33:42.460 Well, you know, it's it's your it's your old home.

01:33:45.780 So it's one of those places that if you have to go there, we have to let you in.

01:33:50.400 Those are the rules.

01:33:52.180 I don't have to pay.

01:33:53.380 It's free.

01:33:54.040 That's good.

01:33:54.760 That's true.

01:33:55.260 You should follow Eric on Twitter because he's posting things that the mainstream news seems to forget about and avoid.

01:34:03.840 And, you know, for people that don't know about the Watchmen program that's on Friday nights, new episodes on Friday nights at 1030.

01:34:12.000 What's the elevator pitch to explain it to us?

01:34:16.060 Yeah, you know, the Watchmen is based four times a year.

01:34:19.160 Mike, we're in Israel.

01:34:20.220 We're on the ground.

01:34:21.180 The elevator pitch really is the on the ground perspective from the Middle East, from the heart of it all that you're not getting here in the mainstream media.

01:34:28.900 We're showing you the truth of what's going on in the Middle East.

01:34:31.520 We're based in Jerusalem for a good chunk of the year and also in D.C.

01:34:35.740 And we're bringing not only the hot stories about the security threats, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Iran, that affect not only Israel, but America, affect everyone in our country.

01:34:46.040 Not only that, a lot of the encouraging, uplifting stories that are happening right now in the Holy Land that people aren't hearing about.

01:34:53.440 So we're having a lot of fun.

01:34:54.360 Well, I like the fact that there's uplifting information mixed in with the scary stuff because we need a little bit of that.

01:35:01.040 But speaking of scary stuff, Eric, I'm following you today and I'm happy you are available because I said, I got to talk to Eric about this.

01:35:08.680 You tweeted less than an hour ago, arrest of two Hezbollah operatives on U.S. soil, on U.S. soil.

01:35:18.980 What's going on?

01:35:20.800 Mike, big deal here.

01:35:22.460 You know, a lot of people, as you mentioned, the lead in, everyone's focused on James Comey, obviously.

01:35:26.320 But this is a huge deal to my mind because I believe that Hezbollah is really the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. 0.84

01:35:34.260 And they're not just a terror group.

01:35:35.920 This is a terrorist paramilitary, well-trained, well-funded by Iran. 0.95

01:35:40.940 And look, two Hezbollah operatives, as you said, right here on U.S. soil.

01:35:44.840 The one based in Dearborn, Michigan, which has the largest Arab population in the United States, Dearborn, just outside of Detroit, and another man arrested in the Bronx, New York.

01:35:55.360 And, Mike, what they wanted to do, they were allegedly scouting out terror targets right here on U.S. soil.

01:36:02.860 The one Hezbollah operative was scouting out JFK International Airport in New York.

01:36:08.260 Another had paid a trip to Panama, was looking at the Panama Canal, and looking at U.S. and Israeli targets there.

01:36:16.320 So, look, this is, to me, this is a step up in what Hezbollah is doing. 1.00

01:36:21.420 We know they're embroiled in the Syrian civil war.

01:36:24.200 Hezbollah is a major presence there.

01:36:25.800 We know they're perched on Israel's northern border with some 150,000.

01:36:31.240 Imagine that. Rockets and missiles aimed at every inch of Israel.

01:36:35.300 But, yes, this shows that Hezbollah also has a presence right here on American soil.

01:36:41.340 And, Mike, one quick note.

01:36:42.840 People need to remember that Hezbollah has more American blood on its hands than any other terrorist organization other than Al-Qaeda.

01:36:51.420 Besides Al-Qaeda, it's Hezbollah that's killed more Americans than any other terrorist group.

01:36:56.560 Look no further than the 1983 Marine barracks bombings in Beirut.

01:37:01.480 243 U.S. Marines killed.

01:37:03.640 Absolutely.

01:37:04.640 Eric Stackelback is joining us.

01:37:07.780 Jeez, I got a chill when you said the Bronx man associated with Hezbollah picked up scouting JFK. 0.97

01:37:17.560 And I looked at it, and I thought, you know, somebody's going to say you're just a bunch of anti-Muslim conspiracy nuts.

01:37:24.120 Well, the story's in the New York Times, people. 0.99

01:37:26.820 The New York freaking Times. 0.70

01:37:28.880 It's not conspiracy. 0.96

01:37:30.440 This is the real deal.

01:37:32.160 We have been fortunate, fortunate not to have the kind of attacks that the European community has had over the last couple of weeks.

01:37:41.320 Although, you know, you can look at Orlando, you can look at San Bernardino, you can look at Ohio, you can look at all of the small attacks and say, oh, we're lucky it hasn't spread any further.

01:37:54.020 But if someone's looking at the Panama Canal and someone's looking at JFK, guess what they're doing, people?

01:38:00.220 They're looking at transportation.

01:38:02.220 They're looking at shutting down significant commercial transportation, which is what the Panama Canal would do if it were attacked.

01:38:09.560 And JFK, can you imagine a bigger trophy than to attack an airport with the initials JFK?

01:38:18.440 I'm a little nervous, Eric.

01:38:20.440 I'm a little nervous today.

01:38:21.580 I know, I'm ruining your weekend.

01:38:24.080 No, in all seriousness, Mike, people need to remember here that Hezbollah is, what makes them so dangerous is that they are funded, supported, armed, and trained by Iran. 0.95

01:38:38.800 Thank you.

01:38:39.380 They have a state actor.

01:38:42.040 They have a state, a powerful country behind them.

01:38:44.620 That's a big deal.

01:38:45.800 Hezbollah was created by Iran to this day, funded, armed, as I said. 0.75

01:38:50.580 And look, this shows you the true face of the Iranian regime right now. 0.73

01:38:54.460 Under the Obama administration, you probably would have not heard much about these arrests, and they would have kind of poo-pooed it and tried to ignore it.

01:39:02.020 But we hope, we're hoping that it's a new day now with a new administration that's taking a tougher line against Iran. 0.98

01:39:08.820 And I think the big picture here, Mike, is that, yes, ISIS, serious threat, absolutely, they're here.

01:39:14.780 The barbarians are here, make no mistake about it, in Western Europe and in the U.S. to a lesser degree, but they're here. 0.50

01:39:19.920 Well, I have to say a quick moment of thank God that the men and women of our intelligence divisions, all the different intelligence groups and our first responders are tracking these people.

01:39:34.480 And unlike we saw in London, where they knew about them but did nothing, we're at least watching and apprehending and hopefully continue to prevent.

01:39:44.440 Eric, before I let you out of here, you and I talked about this earlier in another place.

01:39:49.500 What's your take on whether or not we will get the embassy, the American embassy in Israel, moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?

01:39:58.760 Mike, great question.

01:39:59.880 I think it will eventually be moved, hopefully sooner rather than later.

01:40:03.980 I and many others were disappointed when the embassy was not moved last month.

01:40:08.900 I think right now that President Trump is giving a shot at, number one, he's seeing if peace is possible between Israel and the Palestinians.

01:40:16.300 Number two, I think that King Abdullah from Jordan, the visit he paid to the White House in February, had a big effect.

01:40:22.600 What President Trump wants to do right now is kind of put together an Arab NATO, I guess you could call it, with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Gulf states, Egypt, aligned alongside Israel against Iran and ISIS.

01:40:35.680 Will that work?

01:40:36.820 Hopefully that works.

01:40:37.860 In terms of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, I think the president's going to be in for a rude awakening,

01:40:42.080 because the Palestinians have shown no desire at all for peace or to even recognize Israel's right to exist.

01:40:48.200 So he signed a six-month waiver to not move the embassy yet, but that was a campaign promise he made, and he made time and time again.

01:40:55.380 So I'm sure that the pro-Israel community here in the states and the Israeli government will really be holding him to that.

01:41:01.480 I think he will eventually move it.

01:41:03.020 Well, the Christians, the evangelicals, as well as I would hope American Jews would support this, and then we'll see what happens.

01:41:11.520 Tonight, 10.30 on TBN, Eric has The Watchman, and you have to watch The Watchman.

01:41:19.360 Thank you, my friend.

01:41:20.280 Hope to see you in person soon.

01:41:22.420 I'd love to, Mike.

01:41:23.380 Thanks again.

01:41:23.860 Great catching up with you.

01:41:24.680 Take care.

01:41:25.080 Take care.

01:41:25.680 He's one of the good ones, Eric Stackelbeck.

01:41:27.540 Follow him on Twitter.

01:41:28.520 It's a good, and it's Friday, so we should be sharing follows.

01:41:32.440 And you know what else we should do?

01:41:33.660 We'll take a break.

01:41:34.440 We'll come back.

01:41:35.100 We'll say bye-bye to The Glenn Beck Program.

01:41:38.640 We'll be right back.

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01:41:55.640 Welcome back to The Glenn Beck Program.

01:41:57.660 I'm Michael Pelka wrapping up my two days here hosting for my buddy Glenn Beck.

01:42:02.500 Thank you for being a part of this.

01:42:04.160 Thank you to those of you who chimed in on Twitter, those of you who called in.

01:42:08.900 I appreciate you.

01:42:09.860 A special thanks to Louie Gohmert.

01:42:11.960 We asked Louie this morning to join us, and he did, and to Eric Stackelbeck, and to Dr.

01:42:17.480 Wendy Patrick, and to our friend Shannon Joy.

01:42:20.220 All great contributors to the show today.

01:42:23.300 Those of you watching on The Blaze TV may have noticed there's a bullhorn next to me, and

01:42:29.580 those of you listening on radio can hear it this way.

01:42:34.120 Somebody wrote in and said, is that the bullhorn George Bush used at Ground Zero?

01:42:39.320 No.

01:42:40.500 But that bullhorn is at the exhibit at the Bush Center.

01:42:44.180 So when you go there, you'll see that among the other stuff.

01:42:47.960 A couple of bits and pieces that I wanted to share with you before we get out of here.

01:42:53.460 This one's on Glenn Beck.

01:42:55.000 It's a cross posting from our friends at Faithwire and our former Blaze faith editor, Billy Halliwell.

01:43:02.260 It's a story about the high school football coach who was fired when he prayed at the 50-yard line.

01:43:08.700 Do you remember this story?

01:43:09.660 It's a former high school coach.

01:43:13.360 Like I said, he was fired.

01:43:15.020 He's Joe Kennedy, former coach at Bremerton School District in Bremerton, Washington.

01:43:21.500 He's suing the district in a closely watched religious case because this is about religious liberty.

01:43:29.660 He claims his First Amendment rights were violated when he was punished because after the game,

01:43:35.980 he prayed at the 50-yard line.

01:43:38.260 Lost his job.

01:43:40.480 He didn't tell everybody else to come out and pray.

01:43:42.920 He prayed.

01:43:44.160 But this one will be in court on Monday.

01:43:46.960 So stay tuned.

01:43:48.220 Stay vigilant.

01:43:49.220 You have to be keeping an eye on these cases.

01:43:53.140 This one, I think the coach absolutely has a great shot to win this one.

01:43:58.860 The other ones, the ones about the cakes and stuff, you know, it's really hard because communities have squishy regulations

01:44:06.080 when it comes to whether or not you're going to make a cake and that's a religious statement.

01:44:09.900 But a man walking across a football field after the game, kneeling down, saying a few prayers of thanks.

01:44:18.740 I'm sorry.

01:44:19.640 That's a personal expression.

01:44:21.300 And you can't stop that.

01:44:23.480 The free speech zone in this country starts at the Atlantic Ocean and it ends somewhere in the Pacific with those little islands that we call Hawaii.

01:44:31.960 So, no, you shouldn't be doing this.

01:44:34.820 And President Trump, who spoke at the Faith and Freedom Conference and talked about protecting religious liberty as long as he's in office,

01:44:43.380 I hope he's keeping an eye on this one, too.

01:44:46.460 And speaking of religious liberty, there's another story.

01:44:50.900 This one's on the blaze.

01:44:52.260 The last one's on GlennBeck.com, and you should check that one out.

01:44:55.300 GlennBeck.com has the story of the coach.

01:44:57.260 A main high school has issued what they're calling, and I'm using air quotes radio, sports hijabs to Muslim athletes.

01:45:08.000 When I first read this headline, I was like, wait a minute, that's giving preferential treatment to one religion over the other.

01:45:15.240 And so often we find schools that would not allow a prayer group to happen, and yet then they would have Muslim prayer rugs or whatever they had.

01:45:25.760 And I thought that's a contradiction.

01:45:27.720 As I read the story about Deering High School and giving the female Muslim athletes the option to wear a sports hijab,

01:45:36.480 I was calmed down when I learned that it was actually two of the athletes from the school, two women athletes who said, you know what?

01:45:44.760 We're going to take it on ourselves to raise the money to buy the hijabs for the women. 1.00

01:45:50.680 Now that's a private choice by a private individual, in this case two young ladies, who said, we would like more women to participate in sports, so we're going to help them. 0.98

01:46:02.600 They can wear the hijab on their heads, and it will fulfill their religious requirements, and then they'll still be allowed to be active in sports.

01:46:12.560 So good for you, two female athletes, taking it upon yourselves to privately fund these hijabs for the other young ladies. 1.00

01:46:21.460 I applaud you for this.

01:46:23.080 It isn't the school using taxpayer money, it's private citizens.

01:46:27.560 Two very interesting slices of the religious pie.

01:46:31.100 Again, I want to thank you for letting me host your radio program, Glenn, your TV program.

01:46:39.020 I'll be on the Blaze Radio Network immediately following this show, and you can join me.

01:46:45.620 Noon Eastern to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.

01:46:49.540 Thanks again.

01:46:50.480 We'll be back whenever Glenn takes a break.

01:46:54.060 I'll try and weasel my way in.

01:46:55.800 Testudo, my friends.

01:46:57.180 Testudo.

01:46:57.700 Testudo.

01:47:01.100 Testudo.

01:47:02.100 Testudo.

01:47:04.100 Testudo.

01:47:05.100 Testudo.

01:47:06.100 Testudo.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 09, 2017

6⧸9⧸17 - Obama Still Trying To Convince The World(Shannon Joy⧸ Erick Stackelbeck and more join Mike)

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