Does the First Amendment protect hate speech? Is it even a constitutional right at all? Glenn Beck breaks it down and explains why it's not. He also explains why we need to stop mocking each other and start trying to have actual conversations.
00:00:46.660In hopes that some of these students may be listening, the correct answer is, unfortunately, yes, the First Amendment does protect what society deems hate speech.
00:01:20.600If there is a speaker on campus that students consider offensive, 51% said it's okay for the student group to shout over the audience, shout over the speaker so the audience can't hear him.
00:04:43.740And actually, I don't think that's actually what...
00:04:45.680I don't think that's what the guy who he came up with a theory of September 23rd is actually even saying.
00:04:52.920Jason is our head researcher, and this has been going on as a joke between all of us until yesterday because I said, you know what, Jason, would you just do the research and tell me exactly what people who believe this, the organizers, what they actually believe.
00:05:12.060Do they believe that we're going through some sort of a portal or a threshold that we're crossing a point that is pointed out in the book of Revelation?
00:05:21.900Or are they saying the end of the world is coming?
00:05:24.640I got to say, I did not want to look into this when we first brought this up.
00:05:28.740I was hoping that maybe you'd forget about it.
00:06:13.140If you remember him, he was the guy that put up all the advertisements on the trains and the subways in New York City saying it was like May 21st.
00:06:31.320So you know, the guy who actually is the brain behind this, the, what is he, a numerologist, the guy who's actually behind it, what's his name, David Mead?
00:06:43.400And he is going to be joining us in about a half an hour.
00:06:46.240And he is going to explain, because I don't think that I've heard, I've heard several versions and let's go through what you found out in your research.
00:07:02.420Three, the most reasonable I've heard is this is a sign.
00:07:07.180And it, it appears to be the sign in the book of Revelation that, that the times are coming, that this is, this is the time that it's starting.
00:07:16.840And that one, I kind of could buy into.
00:07:19.500I'm not saying that I do, but I could at least say, well, that's worth looking into.
00:07:24.120Well, I, I wasn't giving it any credit at all, just hearing it on the surface.
00:07:27.760But when I watched that documentary, I was like, okay, maybe crap.
00:07:33.780This is the story of every 9-11 conspiracy theorist right here.
00:07:37.140At first, I thought it was Islamic extreasonism, but then I saw loose change on YouTube.
00:07:42.080Well, it's like, as, so as a Christian, you can see how this hysteria is building because the way, so the theory is, if you read Revelations 12, like actually, if you're at your Bible right now, flip the Revelation 12 and just see, see this really quick.
00:07:58.020Because in Revelation 12, it talks about a great sign in heaven.
00:08:01.940It talks about that a woman will be clothed in the sun and that the moon will be at her feet and in her womb or on her head will be a crown of 12 stars.
00:08:13.520And then she will be appearing, she'll be in labor.
00:08:17.160She will be with child and she will be in labor.
00:08:18.960And it will be a labor, it will be a boy, right?
00:08:24.060So you're, so you, you obviously have to see this as something that is, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, there's not going to be a woman up in the sky.
00:16:56.420And they have reinvented their mattress with the new amazing wave.
00:17:01.340I will tell you, I got this two weeks ago and I put it on because I had to get rid of a mattress that we have our Casper mattress up at the ranch.
00:17:10.940And I had a Tempur-Pedic mattress that I can't tell you how much it cost me.
00:21:00.460He says his book was based on hard science with some Bible prophecy thrown in.
00:21:05.020He said I was raised Catholic and I believe in the book of Revelation.
00:21:07.880It was taught in Sunday schools when I was growing up, and it is still taught in Sunday schools around the nation and the world.
00:21:15.720He says that the media here in America, and you're going to find this hard to believe, has distorted what he has said is coming on Saturday.
00:21:25.780September 23rd is the date, and we welcome David to the program.
00:21:34.360So I have met several kinds of people, people who are claiming that you are saying that the end of the world is on Saturday and that we should all prepare.
00:21:45.640I have met people who say it is a good shot that, what do you call it, the rapture is happening on Saturday or that Jesus is coming back.
00:21:54.720I want to know what you're saying, because this is your theory.
00:39:33.900The fact that at first glance, nearly half of Americans say they would support a single-payer system means that conservatives or libertarians, constitutionalists, have not done their job.
00:39:45.960We haven't done the hard work of educating people, and every time we do, we're speaking a language that they're just not hearing.
00:39:52.760It's not working, what we're doing, because when this happens, and people aren't seeing the pitfalls of a one-size-fits-all health care system, the American idea is gone.
00:40:08.820But if you look deeper in the polling, you find a lesson for the way forward.
00:40:14.620And there is actually a poll from earlier this summer that found a clear majority, 55%, to be exact, supported a single-payer system.
00:40:22.520But that poll also found that once people were educated about the reality of single-payer, higher taxes, giving up their employer-sponsored plans, and a government-run plan, opposition goes up to 61%.
00:40:36.860So once they're educated, 61% oppose the single-payer once they really know what it means.
00:41:18.060So the lesson we take from this is it is our full-time job to find out different ways of presenting the truth, not our truth, the truth, and let people be educated and decide for themselves.
00:41:40.740Do you remember during the Tea Party movement at its height where the IRS started playing games with people's information?
00:42:04.980And imagine if, during the Tea Party days, if you had gone to the 9-12 project and you had just searched, or you had gone to a Tea Party website and you had just searched, and you had maybe posted.
00:42:21.540And then some people go out and they start to do something violent.
00:42:25.440Should the government be able to have the names, the IP addresses, and the search history of everyone who went to that website?
00:42:37.420This is what's being debated right now.
00:42:40.360But it's being debated not with a 9-12 project or a Tea Party project.
00:42:45.240It's something that would make a lot of people on the right happy, I guess.
00:42:51.880That was the group that disrupted the inauguration of Donald Trump.
00:42:58.540Now the government has arrested 200 people under felony rioting.
00:43:04.100But the government wants the IP addresses, the emails, and the history of anyone who engaged with these people through the website Disrupt J-20.
00:45:01.140You know, I think that the way you introduced this, where you said to people who might have identified with one group and against the other,
00:46:33.860I don't have a problem if they look at everything.
00:46:36.520You know, the law has made a distinction, right, between things that are public, things that are private and personal, you know, in your house
00:46:50.960and things that are sort of intermediate, like a business record, right?
00:46:55.500So a cop can go up to a dry cleaner and say, you know, with a certain amount of subpoena power, did so-and-so dry clean a suit at this date?
00:47:09.760A much higher standard applies to going into your house and looking in the pockets of your suit, right?
00:47:17.420The business record was seen as something that's not quite public but not a secret.
00:47:23.200The problem is, as you say, we're now putting our secrets, things you might not even keep in your desk drawer,
00:47:30.060you might keep in your Gmail account or in your, you know, online files or are in the photographs that you don't even know have been backed up to somebody's server.
00:47:39.520And so at a minimum, I think the policy issue is, should we treat the cloud extensions of our life with the same protections that we treat things in our homes, in our personal privacy?
00:47:57.920That's a question that I don't think law enforcement wants to ask because they like it this way.
00:48:04.760But I think it's a good discussion to have.
00:48:07.560And it's a tough thing, Saul, because if there is an attack, if there is some crime, people are going to want it solved.
00:48:15.120They're going to want the law enforcement to have these tools at their disposal.
00:48:19.480And they're always going, it's always going to be more powerful to say, this person could have been saved, their life could have been saved.
00:48:29.120And I don't know that, you know, the story of, well, the government searched too much through my Gmail is going to convince people the other way.
00:48:36.940How do you get people kind of across that line and to understand that it's really a bigger issue than that?
00:48:42.380Because this is everything you've ever thought.
00:48:44.300They can prove in lawsuits, things that you made in jokes.
00:48:47.660They can tie to whatever they're accusing you of now.
00:48:51.200There's a real big consequence of this.
00:49:49.740And so you don't want people to be able to come in and assemble parts of your life, even if you don't have something to hide, which we all do.
00:49:58.700Even if you don't have something to hide, when somebody has all of your information, they can assemble it in very nefarious ways, should they choose.
00:50:07.840Yes, so they can find, you know, inadvertent things or, you know, misleading things.
00:50:15.440And we also have a general, you know, standard here that cops need to know what they're looking for.
00:50:23.240And they can't use a search for one thing as a way to just fish around to see, you know, there must be something this guy did wrong.
00:50:31.720And, right, so if, you know, and what you described is absolutely true, what they're going to do in this case, right, because there's a, is, there's supposedly a compromise the courts are imposing, but I think it has the risk that you're pointing out,
00:50:47.660which is the, the government is going to go search through a bunch of emails among people who are involved in this, you know, disrupt website for certain terms, bombs or violence or riot or whatever they want.
00:51:00.800And then they get to read those emails.
00:51:04.140Those are emails by people who they didn't suspect and may not.
00:51:07.500In fact, they may have used the word riot in a completely different context.
00:51:11.620And suddenly the emails are read and somebody might notice something else and it can be used by, you know, the government to harass dissenters or do all kinds of bad things.
00:51:23.800So I want to go, you know, what Sue said.
00:51:26.840If I was searching every email that was sent by anybody in the world in the two weeks before 9-11 and maybe I could figure out who did something that, you know, or, and I searched for keywords.
00:51:40.060You know, you might have prevented something really bad, but is that a price you're willing to pay to let the government go on fishing?
00:51:52.840I was, I had a conversation with Eric Schmidt from Google and he said, and he's, he said this publicly a few times that I don't remember the year, but I think it was like 2025 or something like that.
00:52:06.340He said, people's lives will be so open and so destroyed by what they have put out online, just haphazardly or not even thinking that they'll actually have to change their name by the time they're, you know, 25 years old.
00:52:22.040Um, I don't think people understand the world is changing and how dramatically things are going to change.
00:52:30.940I think, you know, I, I have teenage daughters and basically my advice to them is be careful about secrets.
00:52:39.600You can have some, but you shouldn't have very many.
00:52:42.960You should, you know, think about them carefully and preserve them and you should make them only analog, right?
00:52:49.420Once you make it digital, it's not a secret.
00:52:52.780And that's a change for all of us because everything is digital.
00:52:57.880And how do you, that's what a world this is, man.
00:53:01.080This is going to be tough, especially when you're in that age, you're, you know, you're 15, 16 years old.
00:53:06.960You're not thinking generationally, right?
00:53:09.080You're just thinking about, you know, today, stop being paranoid and all of that.
00:53:12.820Saul, when you look at the world and you see that we have on both sides, we have, uh, we have nationalists and populists and we have, uh, anarchists.
00:53:25.700And as the world goes into trouble, usually people become desperate and they look for a strong man.
00:53:32.640Are you, are you optimistic that we, we make this transition, uh, with our, with our, our souls and ourselves intact?
00:53:45.660Um, I want to be, I, I think that, you know, we're, we're thinking of the fourth amendment and you see the fourth amendment becomes a reaction against an overreach, right?
00:53:57.520So we may well have to get to a point when we realize what are the consequences of the government being able to do everything that it can do private companies, right?
00:54:10.760There was a, um, story about how Uber's internal systems were so lax that anybody in the company could go pull up where anybody was, uh, you know, any Uber user was where their cab was at any given point.
00:54:25.620So as, as you know, what we're going to need to have is to say, all right, this digital information is so pervasive that we're going to need to come up with some very clear, strong rules that say, this is possible, but it's not okay.
00:54:44.440And we're going to need to say that as a society, instead of nibbling away at the edges and saying this analogy for the rule we made about postal envelopes still applies to your Gmail.
00:54:57.880And I don't know what it's going to take, you know, the, the system, you know, does come up with some compromises here and there, but I don't think it's enough to take stock of the completely new world we're in.
00:55:24.280Uh, he is a former reporter for the New York times and technology and now runs the media paradox labs in New York city.
00:55:30.700We really want to make this a home for you every day of meaningful conversations, um, conversations with people that you may disagree with, um, but issues of the day that I think actually matter.
00:55:43.420What matters most, and then let's have meaningful conversations.
00:55:50.540Education is key when you're a gun owner, the U S concealed carry association agrees, and they want to help you with your concealed carry and family defense guide.
00:56:01.080You're going to learn how to defend, uh, or I'm sorry, how to detect attackers before they see you.
00:56:06.940I can't believe we live in a world where I should have a booklet in my home, where I can teach this to my kids, especially if they're college age, how to survive a mass attack.
00:56:19.020My gosh, what kind of world do we live in?
00:56:21.960What are the safest and most dangerous places to sit in restaurants or in concerts?
00:56:26.700How to responsibly own and store a gun.
00:56:30.180There's a whole bunch of stuff in there and it is all really important.
00:56:33.440It's 164 pages and it comes with a bonus audio version.
00:59:05.540So last night I, um, I, uh, I think I saw this in the daily wire and I read the daily wire every day and, um, and they had a story about Lawrence O'Donnell and it was, you've got to click on this.
01:00:15.000And I want you to hear the hammering that you can hear in his studio as he's on the air.
01:00:23.080So he's finishing up, uh, an on-air interview and then the camera goes off and he does lose it.
01:00:29.180But I have to tell you, I'm no fan of Lawrence O'Donnell at all, but I think I might've lost it a little bit more than this with the hammering.
01:01:36.380In his earpiece, he's hearing, there's a Labor Day sale going on.
01:01:39.940Every time he goes to a sot is sound on tape.
01:01:44.420So every time they throw to something that is like, you know, George Bush saying something, he's hearing, not George Bush, he's hearing, and there's a Labor Day sale going on.
01:01:55.160Imagine having a conversation and trying to just like act like nothing's going on with some woman talking about a Labor Day sale in your ear.
01:02:25.000He's like, hey, by the way, where's the, anybody notice that?
01:02:29.240You know, you would be a little, I'm trying to do a professional program here.
01:02:33.440I do find this to be interesting coming from the person who would continually lead tours through the studio while Pat and Stu was going on.
01:04:58.680That works out really well when they say that too.
01:05:00.400Well, when I went to, I was in WNBC in 1984, I think, and I had never seen anything like it.
01:05:08.080I was a disc jockey and, uh, I would go and I would take the record out of the sleeve and I would put it on the turntable and I would cue the song up.
01:05:17.420And then I would push the button for it to start.
01:05:20.340And then I would turn on my microphone and I would say something went to WNBC.
01:05:26.060No, because in the 1950s, they had all of these people that were, you know, live musicians on radio.
01:05:33.740And when radio said, we're just going to play music, all those live musicians got together in their unions and said, no, you're not.
01:05:43.440And they boycotted the stations and picketed and it was horrible.
01:05:47.440So they said, okay, all right, what we're going to do is because music is with musicians, the musicians union can take the record, take it out of the sleeve and then hand it to the engineer.
01:06:02.960And the engineer will put it on the turntable, lift up the needle, cue it and push the button.
01:06:10.800The disc jockey can't do anything but turn on his own microphone and point for the, the, the union member to start the record.
01:06:22.980And then when the record is over, the musicians union, after the technical union takes the needle off the record, he can lift it up off the turntable, put it back.
01:06:32.340It took three or four people to do a disc jockey's job.
01:07:13.720And this is kind of a behind the scenes.
01:07:17.540And in the episode last night, I talked about the future of the media and in particular you and how we're trying to serve you.
01:07:29.300I would urge anyone who is in the media, anyone who is is thinking about doing anything in the media to watch last night's episode.
01:07:42.800If you have ever thought about subscribing to the blaze or you were once a subscriber, I want you to see last night's episode.
01:07:52.520You can see all this week what we've been doing behind the scenes this summer and it'll show you the direction we're going and what we're trying to do.
01:08:01.180And we really need your help because it's radically different and we're not going to get it right for for several months.
01:08:09.580But we've just started this journey and I thought it was really important to share with you because it's going to happen in your business as well.
01:08:18.820Yeah, I mean, the best way to handle all this stuff is to just be upfront and transparent about it, right?
01:08:24.900I mean, when you're going through it, I think instead of trying to act as if you have everything solved and you know everything about everything,
01:08:31.280if you're just kind of honest about where you want to go and the things you're going to try and then when they suck, you move on to something else.
01:08:40.300You admit that, hey, that one didn't work.
01:10:00.300By the way, you can subscribe to The Blaze at theblaze.com slash TV.
01:10:09.580And I can tell you, as executive producer of this particular program, I can promise you this.
01:10:13.860Every single night, we are going to hire someone from the Carpenters Union to hammer somewhere in the studio to make Glenn look insane until he loses his mind on the air.
01:10:22.080Because that is what people want to watch.
01:10:24.040And eventually, we're going to get it to happen.
01:10:58.620The Federal Reserve has announced yesterday that next month it's going to start shrinking its portfolio of bonds that it acquired after the 2008 crash.
01:11:09.380What that means is they bought up all this junk.
01:13:18.560And it's basically how all of the libraries, all of the books, all the records were being destroyed all over after the fall of the Roman Empire.
01:14:21.720But you should look into it because it's phenomenal.
01:14:24.280So he is living down, I don't know, some English place and and he's actually sold into slavery.
01:14:33.260He's up in a in a, you know, as a as a shepherd and they come and Ireland was really bad with slavery, really bad.
01:14:42.400And he was taken, taken on a slave ship and dumped over into Ireland.
01:14:47.000And he was a guy who didn't really have any, you know, God didn't follow anything.
01:14:53.000And he's he's thrown into this place where he's a shepherd and no one can talk to slaves.
01:14:59.080And he is alone with the sheep and he prays all day long and he's meditating and he's trying to remember the things that he heard about Christianity and everything else.
01:15:12.340And he has this deep spiritual awakening with God and he's praying that he can be released.
01:15:21.120So in the middle of the night, he says, I think, an angel or he heard a voice and it said, get up, get out right now.
01:15:27.160So he leaves, he he escapes, he goes back home and then he hears another voice saying, go back and don't don't rid it of snakes, go back and free the slaves.
01:18:08.120But for some reason, the State Department is having a hard time with this.
01:18:13.160Yesterday, they announced that they are opposing the Iraqi Kurd independence referendum, which is happening on Monday and could put the entire Middle East even in more chaos.
01:18:27.420It puts us in alignment with the three countries that I just mentioned that are not our allies or our friends, Turkey, Iran and Iraq, three countries that at very best do not share our values.
01:18:43.700We have so wronged the Kurds for so long.
01:18:47.260And it's I mean, it shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
01:18:49.680But one of the only countries to step forward and support Kurdish independence is Israel.
01:19:02.700Because they know exactly what it's like to stand all by yourself.
01:19:07.120They know what it's like to be a minority in this area and have the entire region want to see you fail and to see all of you wiped off the face of the earth.
01:19:17.200Why is it so hard for the United States to recognize and support those who actually deserve our support?
01:19:27.100This is the reason why our foreign policy is so hard to figure out.
01:19:30.560This is the reason why people hate us over in the middle.
01:19:35.780Because we help those who don't share our values.
01:19:43.340And then we don't stand up for those who do share our values.
01:19:47.200The only way we're going to ever start to win back some of the respect to win back our honor and integrity is to have some honor and integrity.
01:20:00.820It's wrong that we don't support the Kurdish independence in Iraq.
01:20:05.320It is wrong and we are on the wrong side.
01:20:26.880So yesterday, the Federal Reserve moved to dismantle a pillar of crisis-era support for the world's biggest economy and stuck with its forecast to raise interest rates again.
01:20:38.720Hurricane Harvey, Irma, and Maria have devastated many communities, inflicting severe hardship, said the Federal Open Market Committee.
01:20:46.500But the storm-related disruptions and rebuilding will affect economic activity in the near term.
01:20:54.740But past experience suggests that the storms are unlikely to materially alter the course of the national economy over the medium term.
01:21:01.280And that is why we are going to shrink our $4.5 trillion balance sheet.
01:21:07.440But most people don't even know what I'm even talking about.
01:21:14.440And I really thought with the storms, and especially with what's happening in Puerto Rico, we might want to check in and see what the Fed is doing.
01:21:23.780Yeah, if that made your head hurt like it did mine, we needed someone who actually really understands this stuff.
01:21:28.680Danielle DiMartino Booth is the author of FedUp, an insider's take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for America.
01:21:34.740So, Danielle, tell me what this means and what this is going to do.
01:21:41.780Well, look, the Federal Reserve, in my personal opinion, didn't have any business blowing up their balance sheet and buying securities to the tune of $4.5 trillion in the first place.
01:21:54.200So I'll be happy to see natural price discovery go back into the hands of people who should determine the prices.
01:22:01.320That's one of the tenets of capitalism.
01:22:04.620But they've got the hurricanes all wrong.
01:22:28.000They're the ones who called it quantitative easing, so I'm not quite sure why they refused to use the opposite term, quantitative tightening, unless they just want to keep us in the dark.
01:24:33.680Kentucky, they have just, they're trying to deal with a run on the pensions because people are like, I don't think I'm going to get my pension.
01:25:20.240And they're about to elect, I think, a Democratic governor who's going to make the situation worse.
01:25:27.020And this will end up costing taxpayers a ton of money because nobody will have the means outside of the federal authorities to bail out these states when the time comes.
01:26:06.540I don't know if I want to drink any of that.
01:26:10.240Look, I mean, the coincidence, if you will, is that the New York Federal Reserve tracks economic growth on a real-time basis.
01:26:23.060And because of the hurricane's impact on economic growth, because the auto industry is in an outright recession,
01:26:30.300they've had to take down their estimates for the remainder of the year.
01:26:33.760And it looks like the U.S. economy is going to grow at 1.8% for all of 2017, which is, oh, by the way, where it's grown for the past decade or so.
01:26:46.040So I'm not sure where she's getting her information.
01:26:48.980But you ask the average walking Joe, and they're not going to tell you that we're just booming and going.
01:26:53.640So tell me about the auto, because you've been looking at auto loan default, because that's a huge bubble,
01:26:58.840as well as I think we're in another housing, a smaller housing bubble, and we're also in a bubble of college loans.
01:27:05.800But tell me about the autos, because I've seen recently that the number of autos that are sitting around waiting to be sold as the new ones are coming offline is quite dramatic.
01:27:20.020Oh, look, Ford announced yesterday that it's going to be putting on hold five of its factories because it's sitting on too much inventory.
01:27:28.500You know, there was a lot of excitement, if you will, that there were going to be at least a half a million cars destroyed because of these hurricanes.
01:27:36.440But car sales are already down 3% year over year, even if you absorb a lot of that inventory that's sitting out there in order to replace the vehicles,
01:27:45.100which I think of that commercial on TV, they're probably going to get three quarters if they're lucky of the car's value.
01:27:53.120But even if it was a whole half million new cars, best case scenario, sales would still be down year over year, and production is still in a recession.
01:28:04.840Danielle, thank you very much. Thanks for the warning.
01:28:11.480Danielle DiMartino Booth, she runs an economic consulting firm called Money Strong.
01:28:16.600Also, you can get her on Twitter at DiMartino Booth or at DiMartino Booth.com.
01:28:23.120And by the way, the summary of that was it was not good news.
01:28:26.760I just wanted to, in case it was a little complicated, the situation, not good news.
01:28:33.640So it's weird she's talking about the auto sales, and I'm looking for a new car.