The Glenn Beck Program - 9⧸28⧸17 - ＂Chaos is the name of the game＂ (Michael Malice, Scott Lincicome & Judge Ted Stewart join Glenn)

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00:00:15.500 Okay, so let's start here. Let's name the times in life when you need a tent.

00:00:21.080 Can we do that? I think when you're camping, you're a Boy Scout, maybe you need a tent.

00:00:26.280 Uh, maybe if you're getting married outside, you're having a big celebration or a party, or you're setting up a circus.

00:00:37.280 But that's about the only times that you need a tent.

00:00:41.460 The tent that was put up at Berkeley for the latest protest was totally different.

00:00:49.260 This tent is an empathy tent.

00:00:52.220 Oh, man. Doesn't that make you feel all warm inside? An empathy tent.

00:00:58.580 I love that. We should have those everywhere.

00:01:03.040 Now, in the empathy tent, it was designed to give opposing forces a safe space

00:01:10.280 to flesh out their political disagreements in a peaceful empathy tent.

00:01:15.560 Now, the right-wing group Patriot Prayer was speaking on campus.

00:01:24.840 And, you know, when you have a prayer group, you need an empathy tent.

00:01:31.040 You also probably need some armed guards around those people praying.

00:01:35.480 So, they were speaking, and the leftist group, unlike the prayer group, the leftist group,

00:01:43.100 called, By Any Means Necessary, and Antifa showed up.

00:01:49.800 What could possibly go wrong?

00:01:51.760 You've got a bunch of people praying, and people who follow the idea of, By Any Means Possible.

00:01:59.760 Good thing they had a tent there, because it wasn't long before the representatives from both sides were placed into the tent.

00:02:08.780 Guys, guys, guys. Come on, everybody into the tent. To talk it out.

00:02:14.280 Well, of course, in today's world, at Berkeley, talking turned to yelling, which turned to pushing, which turned to fighting.

00:02:22.140 Almost immediately, the brawling escalated to the point where the empathy tent toppled over.

00:02:27.940 Police officers had to rush to the scene.

00:02:32.020 Four people were arrested, including an activist, for, By Any Means Necessary.

00:02:38.040 What?

00:02:40.100 Yvonne has been arrested?

00:02:43.280 She wasn't using any means to get her point across, was she?

00:02:49.520 Yvonne has an interesting profession for an extreme left-wing activist.

00:02:53.660 She is a, oh, what do you call it, a middle school teacher.

00:02:59.800 Now, how confident do you feel in the future of our country, right?

00:03:03.640 She was arrested on suspicion of rioting, obstruction, and battery.

00:03:09.900 This is not Yvonne's first arrest, and this nonsense really didn't come cheap.

00:03:17.040 You don't get an empathy tent just any old place.

00:03:20.300 This protest comes after UC Berkeley preemptively spent $600,000 to ensure protests didn't turn violent when Ben Shapiro spoke on campus.

00:03:33.660 Over half a million dollars?

00:03:36.680 Think of how many empathy tents that money could buy.

00:03:39.300 We live in a world now where, apparently, people with different opinions can't talk to each other in a civil fashion at all.

00:03:48.340 We live in a world where it costs $600,000 to stop middle school teachers from becoming violent.

00:03:55.440 And even when you spend all that money, that doesn't work.

00:03:59.220 We live in a world where empathy tents exist.

00:04:04.340 Our inability to be considerate human beings is making our world a much more dangerous place.

00:04:15.240 So I came down here today to go to math discussion, and I see all this s***, and I have no idea what they're protesting, why they're protesting, or anything like that.

00:04:25.080 And if you look at them, it's ridiculous.

00:04:26.480 You've got a guy with purple hair with a f***ing lightsaber talking about Hitler.

00:04:31.240 Like, it's hard for me to take any of this seriously.

00:04:34.100 The only impact this has on me is that now I have more work to do last minute because I could not go to math class today.

00:04:40.800 Oh, wait a minute.

00:04:43.120 You had a guy with a lightsaber, and how was he dressed?

00:04:46.900 With the purple hair?

00:04:48.100 He was talking.

00:04:51.940 Berkeley has once again shown us it's not the bastion of education.

00:04:56.740 It's a circus.

00:04:59.440 Which, in the end, makes that tent appropriate, after all.

00:05:10.800 It's Thursday, September 28th.

00:05:17.260 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:05:21.340 Let's go to the circus that is the media.

00:05:25.320 There is an awesome clip that will make you feel all warm inside.

00:05:32.780 Let's all run to the empathy tent for Chuck Todd.

00:05:36.780 Listen to what Chuck Todd said about the U.S. Constitution.

00:05:40.800 Roy Moore, where the phrase Christian conservative doesn't even begin to describe him, could very well be your next U.S. senator.

00:05:49.220 Can we stop there?

00:05:49.860 If you don't understand just how...

00:05:51.340 What exactly does that mean?

00:05:54.920 Where the words Christian conservative doesn't even begin to describe him.

00:06:02.340 What does that mean?

00:06:04.080 That's interesting.

00:06:06.720 I think maybe he's trying to say...

00:06:09.720 What?

00:06:10.060 He's what?

00:06:11.220 He's super extra mega Doppler Christian-y? 0.97

00:06:14.860 Yeah.

00:06:15.420 Like, he's over-the-top Christian. 0.91

00:06:17.020 Maybe a little too Christian. 0.98

00:06:18.080 Listen to that.

00:06:18.980 Where Christian conservative doesn't even begin to describe him.

00:06:25.620 I guess that he's so extreme on that.

00:06:29.260 Uh-huh.

00:06:29.600 He's so far down that Christian road. 1.00

00:06:32.480 Oh, I know.

00:06:34.060 Like, you could say Christian... 0.97

00:06:35.080 Like, a Christian conservative, you could describe a lot of people that way, right?

00:06:37.860 That don't necessarily talk all the time about God, right?

00:06:41.800 They might have Christian values.

00:06:43.180 They might support generally socially conservative platforms or whatever.

00:06:46.940 Uh-huh.

00:06:47.320 Roy talks about it all the time.

00:06:49.320 Maybe too much.

00:06:50.280 Yes.

00:06:50.500 Maybe he's thinking about God too much.

00:06:53.120 Okay.

00:06:53.680 That's what he's saying.

00:06:54.700 Okay.

00:06:55.020 All right.

00:06:55.440 Okay.

00:06:55.960 So, go ahead.

00:06:57.360 Could very well be your next U.S. senator.

00:06:59.880 Mm-hmm.

00:07:00.420 If you don't understand just how freaked out some folks in the GOP and the White House are

00:07:04.780 about what that means, then you don't know Roy Moore.

00:07:07.760 First off, he doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution.

00:07:11.220 Stop! 1.00

00:07:12.960 Wow.

00:07:13.360 Did you know this?

00:07:14.180 I didn't know that.

00:07:15.140 Did you know this when you voted for him?

00:07:17.000 He didn't.

00:07:18.840 He doesn't.

00:07:19.840 He doesn't even believe in the Constitution.

00:07:23.220 It's a huge problem.

00:07:24.460 And it's a huge statement today to make.

00:07:26.980 I'm sure Chuck is going to back that up.

00:07:30.580 As it's written.

00:07:33.140 Our rights don't come from government.

00:07:34.700 They don't come from a bill of rights.

00:07:36.340 They come from Almighty God.

00:07:38.900 Now, that's just a taste of what are very fundamentalist views that have gotten him removed from office

00:07:44.680 twice as Alabama's chief justice.

00:07:47.000 Wait a minute.

00:07:47.840 Hold it just a second.

00:07:48.680 And I, that's just a taste.

00:07:52.080 No, that's a whole meal right there.

00:07:54.080 What he just said.

00:07:54.980 That's not a taste.

00:07:55.620 That's the whole thing.

00:07:57.240 That's breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snacks.

00:07:59.880 That's all of it.

00:08:00.860 I feel like we need to hear the whole thing again in context because that's an amazing moment.

00:08:04.700 Yeah, because I don't understand what he's saying.

00:08:06.680 He doesn't believe in the Constitution.

00:08:08.700 Instead, he believes this crazy idea that your rights don't come from government.

00:08:15.980 Roy Moore, where the phrase Christian conservative doesn't even begin to describe him, could very well be your next U.S. senator.

00:08:24.940 If you don't understand just how freaked out some folks in the GOP and the White House are about what that means, then you don't know Roy Moore.

00:08:32.680 First off, he doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution as it's written.

00:08:39.080 Our rights don't come from government.

00:08:40.740 They don't come from the Bill of Rights.

00:08:42.460 They come from Almighty God.

00:08:43.740 Now, that's just a taste of what are very fundamentalist views that have gotten him removed from office twice as Alabama's chief justice.

00:08:53.060 Okay, so Chuck.

00:08:57.180 Because you like Chuck.

00:08:58.740 I do.

00:08:59.180 I like Chuck.

00:08:59.640 You've been on the show many times.

00:09:01.240 I like Chuck.

00:09:01.760 I think he's a reasonable, nice guy.

00:09:06.660 And a smart guy.

00:09:08.080 Certainly an informed guy.

00:09:10.820 He is.

00:09:11.440 This is not.

00:09:13.740 Here's the problem with this.

00:09:15.780 Let's say.

00:09:18.560 I don't know.

00:09:19.560 Let's say Oliver Stone says something like this.

00:09:22.100 You're like, okay, it's Oliver Stone.

00:09:24.420 And, you know, he's a Marxist.

00:09:27.120 So, whatever.

00:09:28.800 Okay.

00:09:30.280 You hear somebody like, I don't know, you know, what's her name with the twerking? 1.00

00:09:38.720 What's her face?

00:09:39.160 Miley Cyrus.

00:09:39.620 Miley Cyrus.

00:09:40.280 You hear somebody like Miley Cyrus say something like this.

00:09:43.060 And you're like, it's Miley fricking Cyrus.

00:09:45.560 Of course.

00:09:47.040 You hear a college student say something like this.

00:09:50.720 And you're like, okay, that's concerning.

00:09:53.020 But they're not teaching anything in school anymore.

00:09:57.040 They have an empathy tent.

00:09:58.580 But when you hear the guy who hosts Meet the Press say this with such conviction, that's terrifying.

00:10:12.300 And to escalate it one further step, saying it with that conviction in a pre-written piece.

00:10:20.380 This is not him in a debate off the top of his head going down the wrong road.

00:10:24.660 So, wait.

00:10:24.800 You're not saying that there were writers, producers, all the way along that were reading that script, preparing this material, talking about it in meetings.

00:10:35.460 And no one said, ah, guys, we're 100% wrong on this.

00:10:41.600 It's not even close.

00:10:43.060 I just want to point out, it's not even close.

00:10:46.040 By saying these things, you're going to look like the biggest idiot on the planet because you've engaged in some sort of revisionist history.

00:10:56.120 But beyond that, it shows you completely misunderstand the entire American standard.

00:11:06.680 And maybe we should not assume everyone is familiar with this standard.

00:11:12.960 But your rights come from God.

00:11:16.140 Hold on just a second.

00:11:16.980 I need a moment.

00:11:17.760 Let me just, can I build an empathy tent in my head for just a second?

00:11:20.460 Let me just, just for a second.

00:11:22.960 I just.

00:11:26.120 It's nice.

00:11:28.640 It's, it's, it's not one of those cheap white vinyl tents.

00:11:33.440 This is a nice one with the little pointy thing, like, you know, and a little flag on top or something.

00:11:38.680 But not an American flag.

00:11:39.660 God forbid, not an American flag, but just like a little.

00:11:43.160 It's nice.

00:11:43.920 Okay.

00:11:44.720 It's air conditioned if you're hot.

00:11:46.380 It's cool if it's hot outside.

00:11:49.320 It's, it's, it's, it's, it's warm if it's cold outside.

00:11:52.120 And there's little throw pillows and maybe rugs.

00:11:57.140 Okay.

00:11:57.700 A place where you can just go and.

00:12:00.140 Do you feel calm enough now?

00:12:02.760 I do.

00:12:03.240 Okay.

00:12:03.560 So now Chuck, let's talk about this.

00:12:07.100 Where do your rights come from?

00:12:09.240 Does the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, is that the source of those rights?

00:12:21.760 Or does it say in the Constitution that there are more rights?

00:12:28.260 Yes, but these are just the big ones that we're going to concentrate on that the government must never violate.

00:12:39.560 It's a document of, let's say, negative liberties.

00:12:42.880 Is that how you'd?

00:12:43.900 Yes.

00:12:44.440 Is that how you'd phrase that?

00:12:45.200 In fact, in communist Russia, they had a charter of positive liberties, which said,

00:12:51.260 these are the things that the government must do.

00:12:54.860 Our Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, saying that these liberties are to never be violated.

00:13:06.320 The government can never do these things.

00:13:09.480 So if the government is, if the document, the Bill of Rights, the most game-changing document of all time,

00:13:23.300 if that is the printing press for rights, what made that document a game-changer?

00:13:33.220 Because I just want you to think this through.

00:13:35.340 Chuck and everybody, are we, could you give me some more of that Empathy Tent music just for a second?

00:13:39.380 Just in case anybody has slipped in, somebody new.

00:13:44.440 See, it's peaceful, it's warm, it's nice, it's comfortable.

00:13:48.060 That is nice.

00:13:48.720 Yeah.

00:13:49.480 Yeah.

00:13:49.780 There's somebody just like you in this tent.

00:13:51.860 Okay?

00:13:52.340 And then there's me.

00:13:53.320 But to concentrate on the person just like you for a second.

00:13:56.420 Okay.

00:13:56.860 We got it.

00:13:57.380 Thank you.

00:13:57.720 Thank you.

00:13:58.240 Now, what made the Constitution game-changing?

00:14:05.520 Because the world had had kings.

00:14:10.040 Kings that could just go and just scoop you up.

00:14:13.340 And it could scoop you up and the king could say, you know what?

00:14:16.460 I'm going to chop off his head. 0.83

00:14:17.780 Why?

00:14:18.400 I don't have to tell you why.

00:14:20.300 Wait, why?

00:14:21.040 Why don't you have to tell me why?

00:14:22.360 Could you answer that one?

00:14:24.280 Yeah, I'm the king.

00:14:26.500 Yeah, but I, but I, you're what?

00:14:29.180 I'm the king.

00:14:31.600 You're nothing.

00:14:32.280 Now, the reason why King Arthur was so great in that legend of King Arthur is because King Arthur thought, hey, I know better than you.

00:14:44.040 Let's just all be together.

00:14:45.720 That was a benevolent king.

00:14:49.480 You'll notice that King Arthur didn't exist.

00:14:53.960 Okay.

00:14:54.300 That's a legend.

00:14:55.640 He didn't, Camelot didn't exist.

00:14:57.920 It was an idea.

00:14:59.420 So the pilgrims came over and they said, you know what?

00:15:05.260 We only answer to God and God gives us certain rights.

00:15:11.200 And the government is instituted among men, by men, to protect those God-given rights.

00:15:20.780 Who gave them?

00:15:21.880 God.

00:15:22.160 Government?

00:15:22.740 No, God.

00:15:23.500 I know they will start with G.

00:15:25.400 And O.

00:15:26.300 Yes.

00:15:26.660 That's really confusing.

00:15:27.580 And so you can be, you know, because people have a very short attention span, G-O.

00:15:32.220 It could be government.

00:15:33.080 I don't know.

00:15:33.400 I didn't read the whole word.

00:15:34.260 Okay, so those were given by God, because if they're not given by God, then they have

00:15:42.060 to be given by man.

00:15:44.040 And when they're given by man, then a man, any man, left, right, upside down, doesn't matter,

00:15:50.380 any man can say, you know what?

00:15:52.180 No, I have that right.

00:15:53.440 You don't.

00:15:55.960 That's why the rights, you can call it God.

00:15:58.840 You can call it the universe.

00:16:00.380 You can call it just a really happy star, a happy place.

00:16:06.220 You could even say, for example, we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.

00:16:13.960 Something, you could phrase it that way, I guess.

00:16:16.160 I need an empathy tent to be able to hear that kind of language myself.

00:16:19.520 Is it stressing you out?

00:16:20.400 Yeah, it's stressing me out.

00:16:21.480 I feel, I don't feel uncomfortable.

00:16:23.440 I feel unsafe.

00:16:24.980 Oh my.

00:16:25.320 Okay, there's no difference between feeling uncomfortable with somebody's idea.

00:16:30.380 And feeling unsafe.

00:16:32.800 Let's see, having a conversation where somebody's saying something uncomfortable to me and being

00:16:37.960 raped or beaten.

00:16:40.100 No, that's the same.

00:16:41.120 I need a safe zone to hear your unsafe language, Stu. 1.00

00:16:46.080 So stop it.

00:16:46.800 You can call God whatever you want, but you have to understand that if you don't have a God, a higher source, other than man, giving rights to you, every single soul, then that means somebody can take those rights away.

00:17:11.340 That was the game-changing idea of America.

00:17:16.980 There was, there's no reason that this was revolutionary at its time.

00:17:20.920 There's no reason if the rights just came from government because they had always done that.

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00:19:01.640 I like to make these kind of announcements so I don't actually feel the full wrath of my wife while I'm standing there. 0.99

00:19:07.060 It gives her a couple of hours to cool down, but we've been asked to see if we could use my plane as a cargo plane for Puerto Rico to get supplies there.

00:19:21.840 And so we may be taking our vacation, sweetheart, in Puerto Rico.

00:19:24.940 But I just want to throw that out real quick.

00:19:27.760 The problem with this is, is the cargo, getting the cargo there is hard enough.

00:19:35.160 But then all of the cargo is being left at the airport.

00:19:39.880 And the reason why is because they can't find the truck drivers.

00:19:43.920 Truck drivers, there's no cell phones.

00:19:45.540 Nobody has a cell phone.

00:19:47.160 What about the trucks?

00:19:48.080 Where are the trucks?

00:19:49.480 And there's no fuel to put into the trucks.

00:19:51.960 So all of the cargo is starting to stack up at the airport.

00:19:56.620 We have Team Rubicon going in.

00:19:59.300 And we may just be airlifting people over there.

00:20:03.340 But we have Team Rubicon that is on the ground now doing an assessment on exactly what we can do to help.

00:20:10.360 This is kind of like a Marshall Plan kind of thing.

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00:20:25.580 Glenn Beck.

00:20:32.300 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:35.480 There's a lot going on with North Korea right now.

00:20:38.300 And we have Michael Malice, who actually went to North Korea.

00:20:42.340 He's the author of Dear Reader, the unauthorized autobiography of Kim Jong-il.

00:20:47.060 Also hosts the podcast, You're Welcome, which is up on Anthony Acumia's platform, which is pretty cool.

00:20:52.860 And Michael joins us now.

00:20:54.820 Michael, there are plant closings now from China in North Korea.

00:20:59.600 There's a new travel ban.

00:21:00.840 And there is also the warm beers on kind of this press junket now talking about what North Korea did to their son from Ohio.

00:21:17.380 Where are we headed?

00:21:19.580 Well, let's talk about the warm beers because the news has just changed in the last 12 hours.

00:21:24.560 The last time I was on this show, the point I had made is that North Korea, you know, in defiance of what we think, tends to keep their hostages safe because you want to return the hostage to get the ransom, right? 0.53

00:21:37.500 I don't want to be his parents went on air all these different shows and said he was severely tortured.

00:21:42.300 His teeth were rearranged by pliers, deaf and blind, just a horrific portrait.

00:21:48.640 However, as soon as, and I'm like, what, did I get it all wrong?

00:21:51.620 If I did get it wrong, you know, and with North Korea, you have to realize, to paraphrase an old line they used about Lillian Hellman,

00:21:58.400 everything they say is a lie, including and and the, every word they say.

00:22:02.100 So you really have to kind of reach in the lines.

00:22:05.520 The coroner came out and said the parents were not saying what they saw.

00:22:10.000 The coroner said on record his teeth were fine.

00:22:13.480 There were no evidence of broken bones or recently healed bones, and there were no evidence of torture.

00:22:18.760 They didn't do an autopsy.

00:22:19.880 They did an external examination.

00:22:21.540 So we have a discrepancy that I frankly don't know how to reconcile.

00:22:26.220 Why would, I mean, see, here's, here's my thought, Michael.

00:22:31.500 When I saw the warm beers on, I thought, okay, why is, why is this coming out now?

00:22:37.680 They've, he came home a while ago and I don't, I do not want to play into conspiracies,

00:22:43.640 but if you look at history, when people want to build a case for war, these are the kinds of things that happen.

00:22:51.820 Your government kind of pushes it out and, you know, you kind of massage the idea that, you know,

00:22:58.200 these are really bad people and we should go to war.

00:23:00.240 I'm not saying, I'm not saying that I, that I don't believe the warm beers.

00:23:04.340 I don't know.

00:23:05.300 But that was the first thought that came into my head.

00:23:09.020 But if the coroner is saying that's not true, what, what, what is happening?

00:23:15.480 And for the coroner, who's obviously a reputable person, there's a whole team.

00:23:21.420 And for them to say on the record, we're surprised the parents are saying this, this is at the very least, very odd.

00:23:28.240 However, in a sense, this is secondary.

00:23:31.240 This young man was murdered.

00:23:33.120 This young man was imprisoned.

00:23:35.220 This young man, according to North Korea, was sentenced to 15 years, hard labor for stealing a poster.

00:23:41.520 He was a hostage.

00:23:42.400 So when you have a nation that takes tourists, invited tourists who have a visa, if you have them grabbing people and holding them hostage,

00:23:52.320 this is not a regime that recognizes international law and decency.

00:23:56.620 And it's also a regime that does do this and much worse to their own people.

00:24:03.640 Oh, and North Korea has admitted that for decades they've been kidnapping Japanese citizens from Japan and people from South Korea and keeping them hostage for decades.

00:24:15.200 We think it's to teach people Japanese to train them to be spies. 1.00

00:24:18.380 So this has been going on for a very long time.

00:24:21.780 In fact, in 2001, when the Japanese prime minister visited Pyongyang and they were having talks, bilateral talks, in hopes of normalizing relationships,

00:24:30.980 at the time the dear leader, Kim Jong-il, admitted this and apologized, thinking that Japan would be like, oh, forget about it, it's not a big deal.

00:24:39.960 And the Japanese were gobsmacked.

00:24:42.460 They couldn't believe that Kim Jong-il was admitting to this in such a cavalier manner and thinking just an apology would kind of, you know, make it all go away.

00:24:52.380 Michael Malice is with us.

00:24:54.280 He's the author of Dear Reader.

00:24:55.740 He actually went over and spent time in North Korea and warns that they are a, you know, it's not what you think it is.

00:25:05.020 But can you take me to Donald Trump's speech in the UN back during the World War II when we were dealing with a crazy dictator named Hitler?

00:25:19.020 FDR did not call him names or anything else, but the Marx brothers and probably most famously Charlie Chaplin in something called the Great Dictator did mock him.

00:25:32.680 And the way to get under the skin of a dictator is to mock them.

00:25:37.400 They do not like that.

00:25:39.620 Donald Trump was told, apparently, by his advisors, do not mock him at the UN.

00:25:47.440 Don't call him names.

00:25:49.580 Donald Trump did.

00:25:51.960 Do you think that was effective for the president in this situation or not?

00:25:56.460 I can't think of anything smarter to do because their whole pretense in North Korea, and they refer to us always as a slur, the U.S. imperialists, their pretense is that we're quaking in our boots because of Kim Jong-un, just like we had been scared of his father and of his grandfather.

00:26:16.960 And I had met a refugee, and there was that movie that came out with James Franco and Seth Rogen, the interview a few years back, and she had said it would be great if North Koreans saw this movie, not because it's clever or funny, it wasn't, because they would see we are treating him as a laughing stock.

00:26:33.480 Now, this is someone whose grandfather allegedly could walk on water, literally, you know, they're taught these kind of miracles that go around these leaders.

00:26:42.500 So you have to imagine how those translators have to, there's a, there's a, there's a, when you're using syntax, you know, in North Korean, there's a form of language that only the leaders use.

00:26:55.420 It's an honorific.

00:26:56.380 You can't say his name by himself.

00:26:58.080 You have to say, Marshal Kim Jong-un or Dear Leader Kim Jong-il.

00:27:01.520 So for them to try to translate something so colloquial as Rocket Man, it would be like, you know, if you were a god, and I'm calling you Glenny, it's just, you can't even wrap your head around it.

00:27:13.980 Like, it's just a level of familiarity and disrespect.

00:27:17.280 But would the people in North Korea hear that?

00:27:21.480 Well, they wouldn't know what to do, because on the one hand, you want to say that, look, President Trump's a lunatic.

00:27:28.340 He's, you know, he's rattling his saber, he's being aggressive.

00:27:32.360 On the other hand, it would be very hard for them to even repeat that he's using such a vulgar language, vulgar in a broad sense, to refer the leader.

00:27:44.200 So on the one hand, oh my gosh, he's disrespected.

00:27:47.400 But let's suppose, let me use an extreme example.

00:27:50.120 If another country used a four-letter word in reference to President Trump, the media wouldn't know how to report it.

00:27:57.500 Would they censor the word?

00:27:58.920 Do you say it?

00:28:00.060 If you're saying it, it's just horrific.

00:28:02.460 So this is the quandary he forced North Korea to put themselves in, and this is him showing them, I'm not scared of you, and I don't think you're someone worthy of respect.

00:28:11.040 Talking to Michael Malice, Michael, there's a couple of interesting developments, one of which, one of the things we've been trying to do with North Korea is to get them to somehow have some pressure put on them from China.

00:28:24.040 China is now announcing that they're closing all North Korean-owned companies in their country.

00:28:32.000 Malaysia has a new travel ban with North Korea.

00:28:34.940 Are these things actually coming to fruition finally?

00:28:38.100 Yes, these are all wonderful, if small, developments, and we can see the consequences in this way.

00:28:46.280 I think it was last week or earlier this week, the North Korean foreign minister had said, this was reported as an escalation when it was a de-escalation.

00:28:56.100 He had said that President Trump has effectively declared war, and that if there's any bombers in North Korea, they're going to shoot them down, right?

00:29:04.620 Let's look what happened.

00:29:05.720 Back in July, they're saying, we are going to bomb Guam.

00:29:09.580 We've got four missiles ready.

00:29:10.960 In August, we're going to attack Guam.

00:29:12.980 Now, they're putting words in President Trump's mouth.

00:29:16.380 They are saying, you are declaring war.

00:29:19.220 We're the victims.

00:29:20.220 We're the good guys.

00:29:21.400 You're the bad guys.

00:29:22.960 There's a difference between, Stu, I'm going to go to your house and burn it down, and if you come to my house, I'm going to shoot you.

00:29:31.160 The second neighbor might be a crank.

00:29:33.000 I just won't go to his house.

00:29:34.060 The first one's the problem, and this has been how the rhetoric has changed.

00:29:38.600 It has been from, we are going to attack you, to if you come here, we will defend ourselves, which is definitely a retreat, even though the press treats it as an escalation.

00:29:48.800 So then what does that mean, Michael?

00:29:50.380 That's really good news.

00:29:51.440 What does that mean for the future?

00:29:54.260 What's coming our way?

00:29:55.280 One of the best things about how President Trump is dealing with North Korea, and this has also come out in the reports, most Americans don't know what to make of President Trump, right?

00:30:04.900 And if you're from another country, try to explain going from President Obama to President Trump, these two men, even forget their politics, just in terms of personalities and style, are as different as can be, and President Trump has no political background whatsoever to kind of read between the lines, right?

00:30:22.380 So North Korea doesn't know what to make of him, which in terms of negotiation is an extremely effective technique to have in your back pocket, because you don't know what this guy is capable of.

00:30:34.480 So you had better put all your money on diplomacy and negotiation, because if he turns out to be someone capable of pulling the trigger, North Korea has explicitly and repeatedly said they know it would be a disaster for them.

00:30:47.240 So if you were looking at the doomsday clock, and it's three minutes to midnight, the last time we talked, where do you put the hands?

00:30:56.260 I would put it to four, in my opinion, because again, if now, if you had all the UN voting against North Korea, if North Korea is appealing to the international community, if they're changing their tune, and are trying to be dignified and legalistic, this is someone who is saying, okay, we took a wrong term somewhere.

00:31:19.180 Michael, great news. Thank you so much.

00:31:21.060 You really need to read Michael Malice's book about North Korea, because it's not only really informative and all true, but really funny.

00:31:32.880 It's written as a first-person biography of Kim Jong-il, but all the facts in it are true, you know, where he says that he remembers the day he was born like it was yesterday, and he remembers every detail of the day of his birth.

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00:33:29.760 Glenn Beck.

00:33:35.240 Glenn Beck.

00:33:40.060 I want to thank you so much for listening to us.

00:33:43.220 I want to thank you so much for supporting us, not only today, but over the years.

00:33:47.280 We are in the midst of really doing some dynamic thinking on the future of the media in its entirety.

00:34:01.680 I don't think people really understand.

00:34:04.220 I took a bunch of people out into the hallway yesterday.

00:34:07.840 We have a big chalkboard.

00:34:08.860 I said, I just want you guys to help me think things through here.

00:34:14.740 I've been saying for a long time that the world is being changed, and all the way down to maps.

00:34:22.940 I said, we're going to wake up, and the maps are going to be changed, and the infrastructure is being changed.

00:34:27.580 And you can either be a part of that changing infrastructure and design it yourself, or you're going to find yourself working for somebody else, and you're just going to be in it.

00:34:39.960 And I was talking to some members of the staff yesterday about what's coming in the media, and I said, I want to take you to the Old West for a second.

00:34:53.100 If we look at the Wild West, somebody had just said this to me the other day.

00:35:01.040 It was maybe that Google ethicist who said, you know, it's the Wild West of the Internet is coming to an end.

00:35:09.260 And I think they're right.

00:35:12.400 The Wild West, what it was is you could go out and you could start a town, and these towns would pop up everywhere and just where people were congregating.

00:35:21.240 So it might be because it was natural beauty or there were resources or whatever.

00:35:25.820 But once the train started to be built, the states and the territories started to lobby, get the train to come to our town.

00:35:37.940 And if the train didn't come to your town, that town ended up usually a ghost town.

00:35:44.860 If your town was big enough and it was a city, the train would automatically come there.

00:35:51.240 If not, you had to coax the train to come to be able to give you a place.

00:35:59.580 Or if you were a place that had a lot of water or the coal or whatever they needed to keep the train going, the train would come to you.

00:36:08.440 The Wild West was over once the train system was put into place, because then it wasn't just anywhere.

00:36:20.920 The train kind of dictated the growth.

00:36:23.320 The tracks have been laid, and the tracks now have been laid over the last six or seven years.

00:36:30.080 They've been laid by Amazon, Google, Apple, Netflix, Hulu.

00:36:38.160 They've laid the tracks.

00:36:41.800 And even Hulu is kind of an outpost.

00:36:44.660 It's kind of an F-troupe, kind of way out in the middle of nowhere.

00:36:48.220 The train tracks have been laid.

00:36:52.160 And I'm sharing this with you because I don't think that conservative media is thinking this through.

00:37:01.420 And it's changed right now, in the last three months, there has been dynamic shifts, and the tracks are clearly being laid and are already laid.

00:37:16.400 And you can be your little outpost all you want, but I'm telling you, the tracks are already there.

00:37:22.740 How do we get people on that train, or near that train?

00:37:28.840 Glenn Beck.

00:37:46.320 Love.

00:37:47.940 Courage.

00:37:49.720 Truth.

00:37:50.960 Glenn Beck.

00:37:51.720 Yesterday, and on NBC, on Meet the Press Daily, Chuck Todd said this about Judge Roy Moore.

00:37:59.940 Roy Moore, where the phrase Christian conservative doesn't even begin to describe him, could very well be your next U.S. senator.

00:38:08.880 And if you don't understand just how freaked out some folks in the GOP and the White House are about what that means, then you don't know Roy Moore.

00:38:16.080 First off, he doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution as it's written.

00:38:21.720 Our rights don't come from government.

00:38:23.960 They don't come from a bill of rights.

00:38:25.740 They come from Almighty God.

00:38:28.220 Now, that's just a taste of what are very fundamentalist views that have gotten him removed from office twice as Alabama's chief justice.

00:38:36.260 So I want you to understand, first of all, this is from Meet the Press.

00:38:39.720 This is Chuck Todd.

00:38:40.700 This is not just something that he's just saying.

00:38:42.620 This has been something that has been written, put in a teleprompter.

00:38:45.620 Producers have read.

00:38:47.000 Writers have read.

00:38:47.940 Researchers have read.

00:38:49.020 And nobody thought to stop Chuck Todd from making a huge error.

00:38:55.140 Chuck, you're smarter than this.

00:38:57.180 I don't know how you've been misled, but you are completely wrong.

00:39:02.200 If our rights come from the government, our founders knew, then our rights could be taken away.

00:39:09.620 The entire Bill of Rights structure, the amendments to the Constitution are to say there are many rights out there that come from God.

00:39:19.840 There are many rights that people have.

00:39:22.000 And these are the rights that the government can never, ever violate.

00:39:29.420 That's the premise behind the Bill of Rights.

00:39:32.820 It's not saying that the government issues these rights.

00:39:36.680 It's saying these rights belong to the people and the government can never, ever, ever violate them.

00:39:43.880 Now, I don't know how this has become a religious fundamental kind of issue.

00:39:48.640 As you call somebody who holds those views, a religious fundamentalist who should be feared.

00:39:59.740 Let me share with you the audio of another, quote, I guess you would call, religious fundamentalist who explained these rights.

00:40:09.240 For I have sworn before you and Almighty God, the same solemn oath, our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.

00:40:22.180 And yet the same revolutionary beliefs, for which our forebears fought, are still at issue around the globe.

00:40:33.740 The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

00:40:41.520 It's Thursday, September 28th.

00:40:55.780 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:59.800 That was, by the way, John F. Kennedy for anybody who didn't.

00:41:03.720 No, I just thought I'd throw that in.

00:41:05.140 No, I just thought I'd throw that in.

00:41:35.140 But they have everything else.

00:41:37.700 Last Sunday, Hillary Clinton tweeted unsolicited advice to President Trump that he should send the USS Comfort.

00:41:45.560 Now, this is a Navy ship, a hospital ship.

00:41:48.220 She said, send it to Puerto Rico now.

00:41:49.760 These are American citizens.

00:41:51.460 She tweeted this helpfully.

00:41:53.320 Let's take her. 0.99

00:41:54.220 It's a nice gesture.

00:41:56.140 Turns out the Navy was already preparing to send the Comfort, and there are three other U.S. Navy ships already in Puerto Rico working on relief.

00:42:05.280 And 5,000 active-duty U.S. service members are on the ground right now.

00:42:10.680 13 Coast Guard ships are working to fix ports and launching search and rescue missions.

00:42:17.560 Hillary didn't have all of the facts when she pleaded for Trump to, quote, send the Comfort.

00:42:24.060 The Pentagon discussed sending the Comfort to Puerto Rico as early as last weekend, but decided against it because the damaged Puerto Rican ports were unable to accommodate the ship because it's so large and because Puerto Rican government requested help in getting the island's 60 hospitals operational instead of sending us a ship.

00:42:45.760 So, what did the Pentagon do?

00:42:48.840 Instead of sending the ship, which would have been a nice photo op, the Pentagon sent a fleet of Air Force jets with supplies, generators, and medical personnel to be able to do what the governor of Puerto Rico asked, and that is, please help us with our hospitals.

00:43:07.180 Hillary's tweet didn't mention any of these things.

00:43:09.540 The president's critics aren't interested in hearing about his actual relief efforts because his approval rating rose after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and they can't have that.

00:43:21.480 No, we must destroy him.

00:43:25.260 Priority number one for the left isn't helping Puerto Rico, and quite honestly.

00:43:30.740 Priority number one for the right, if this were Barack Obama, the same kind of grotesque political engine would have been churning out this kind of garbage about Barack Obama.

00:43:48.100 What they're trying to do is make America think that Donald Trump doesn't care about helping Puerto Rico.

00:43:53.100 It sounds like they've already got their main talking point all picked out.

00:43:58.960 This is going to turn to be Mr. Trump's Katrina.

00:44:05.880 President Trump brings a ton of criticism on himself all the time, but this is not one of these times.

00:44:13.240 He seems to be trying to help Puerto Rico and Democrats.

00:44:16.060 If they truly cared about Puerto Rico, we should probably put our partisan jerseys aside for a little while and see how we can help.

00:44:26.620 You can help, too.

00:44:39.120 Mercury1.org slash hurricane relief.

00:44:42.260 Mercury1 is doing all sorts of stuff to help in Puerto Rico.

00:44:44.960 I mean, that is just getting started.

00:44:47.840 It is a long-term disaster there.

00:44:50.800 And, you know, look, we can help with money and supplies, but that's only part of the solution.

00:44:54.500 Another part of the solution is getting the government out of the way from screwing Puerto Rico like they've been doing for a very long time with something called the Jones Act.

00:45:04.780 Most people don't know what the Jones Act even is, but it is this crazy law that forces ships to come to the United States before going to Puerto Rico.

00:45:16.900 So if any ship wants to come and deliver supplies from anywhere in the world, it first has to pull into Miami or someplace else and then to Puerto Rico.

00:45:26.640 Which makes absolutely no sense at all.

00:45:28.000 It makes no sense at all.

00:45:28.860 It's a protectionist measure that's been in there for a long time to protect the U.S. shipping industry, and it's really hurt Puerto Rico before the disaster and needs to be repealed.

00:45:39.060 Nobody knows more about this than Scott Lincecum.

00:45:41.000 He's from the Cato Institute, an international trade attorney, and really when it comes to trade, Scott's the man.

00:45:47.880 Scott, can you tell us what the Jones – what is the Jones Amendment?

00:45:53.520 Why did it – why did it first come into play?

00:45:56.260 Yeah, so the Jones Act is officially called the Merchant Marine Act of 1920.

00:46:01.040 It was originally implemented in during, you know, around the time of World War I, and the idea was to bolster American national security by ensuring a strong shipbuilding industry and a very strong merchant marine.

00:46:20.200 Now, again, that was in 1920, and essentially what the law does is it requires any shipping between U.S. ports, so say from Jacksonville, Port of Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, or from the Port of Houston up to the Northeast.

00:46:36.980 That must be done on vessels that are American-built, American-owned, American-flagged, and American-crewed.

00:46:46.620 That is crazy.

00:46:47.520 Right, right. So now this was – now it's about 100 years old now, and the – of course, the national security implications have changed quite a bit, I would think, since that time.

00:47:00.440 But we also have – now we have, you know, 100 years of evidence about what the Jones Act actually does.

00:47:06.580 And what we see is that it dramatically inflates the cost of shipping goods, particularly essentials like food and energy, between U.S. ports.

00:47:15.800 And these costs are, of course, ultimately passed on to U.S. consumers.

00:47:20.580 It also, quite ironically, disadvantages American farmers and manufacturers versus foreign imports, which don't have to come from, of course, foreign countries, on Jones Act vessels, which, of course, are more expensive than foreign vessels.

00:47:37.240 And then it actually harms the U.S. shipping industry.

00:47:43.020 So we see that the very industry that the Jones Act is designed to protect, is designed to bolster, has actually been severely degraded over the last several decades.

00:47:53.660 And, in fact, has been found to be – Jones Act vessels have been found to be less safe than vessels that are flagged – that are foreign flagged.

00:48:03.440 Unbelievable. Okay, so let's start here.

00:48:07.020 Yesterday, when we were talking about this on the air, the government was still deciding what they were going to do, if they were going to repeal this or suspend this for the time.

00:48:15.480 And we were talking about this morning.

00:48:17.500 They did suspend that, right?

00:48:19.220 They did say this –

00:48:21.620 So this morning, we found out that the president has issued a 10-day waiver, which is permitted under the Jones Act.

00:48:30.060 So essentially, Puerto Rico, for the next 10 days, can – shipments to Puerto Rico can be on any type of vessel, regardless of the ownership or the flag or whatever.

00:48:40.760 Well, that's good, because I feel like this is a 10-day problem, the whole Puerto Rico, all the power being gone.

00:48:46.640 About 10 days should do it.

00:48:47.460 Yeah, I think 10 days will wrap it all up.

00:48:48.880 They won't even have the ports – they won't even have the ports open in 10 days.

00:48:53.860 Exactly.

00:48:54.220 And so, you know, what we found – so studies have actually looked at the economic harms that the Jones Act causes specifically to Puerto Rico.

00:49:03.020 One study found it costs Puerto Rico over $500 million per year.

00:49:07.780 It could get up to a billion dollars a year, depending on the year.

00:49:12.220 The New York Fed found pretty significant harms in terms of inflated shipping costs.

00:49:17.320 Others have found the same.

00:49:18.480 Now, I will defend the Trump administration in one sense, and that is that we're really in need of a legislative cure, not an executive cure.

00:49:26.860 Because the law ties the executive's hands, requiring them to couch any sort of waiver in terms of national defense.

00:49:38.040 Now, you can make, of course, a national defense argument here.

00:49:41.380 There's a military base in Puerto Rico.

00:49:43.680 Of course, it is, you know, an American territory.

00:49:46.780 These are American citizens and so forth.

00:49:48.840 But the fact is that the executive branch can't actually consider any of these cost arguments.

00:49:54.740 So the fact is they can't say, at least publicly, look, this is just imposing ridiculous, unnecessary costs on suffering Puerto Ricans.

00:50:05.020 They just – they can't say that.

00:50:07.120 Instead, they have to make this kind of, you know, circular or circuitous national defense argument.

00:50:13.060 Just because of the way the law is written.

00:50:14.720 Exactly, because the law – it was actually – the law was actually tightened up, believe it or not, in 2009 by our wonderful Congress to – essentially, DHS has to not only couch its decision in terms of national defense,

00:50:31.180 but it actually has to get a ruling with respect to sufficient port capacity and sufficient fleet, U.S. fleet capacity.

00:50:40.860 So they, again, cannot consider –

00:50:43.700 What the hell is – wait, wait, hang on just a second.

00:50:45.780 Scott, why did the DHS under Obama want this?

00:50:52.620 What possible – what were they looking for?

00:50:57.160 Were they afraid that some ship would come in with a nuke?

00:51:00.060 I'm being serious.

00:51:01.560 What were they afraid of?

00:51:03.300 Well, they're – I don't think they're – well, they were afraid of the revolt by the U.S. shipping industry and the unions, I think.

00:51:11.880 I mean, the fact is, you know, President Trump, to his credit yesterday, admitted that the pressure against waiver was coming from the U.S. shipping industry,

00:51:20.020 which is highly mobilized and very effective.

00:51:22.780 And they've been able to keep this protectionism in place for 100 years.

00:51:25.700 They're doing a pretty good job at playing defense.

00:51:28.980 And, you know, the reality is that this is classic protectionist politics.

00:51:37.640 You know, you have concentrated benefits delivered indirectly to the American shipping industry and those unions.

00:51:45.000 And you have these diffuse costs that American consumers typically don't pay attention to,

00:51:50.080 even consumers in Hawaii or Puerto Rico or Alaska who face disproportionate harms.

00:51:55.920 So the only time we see this type of protectionism actually go away or be reformed is when you have an intense spotlight on the issue

00:52:08.020 and, of course, a very sympathetic victim.

00:52:11.060 And in this case, that's exactly what we have.

00:52:13.340 The spotlight was turned on and the cockroaches scurried away.

00:52:17.340 And again, this is – as you said, it's been around since 1920.

00:52:19.920 This is not a Trump thing.

00:52:20.840 I think Trump has done what he can do here.

00:52:23.640 But what is more important here is a full repeal of it forever.

00:52:27.020 It's not just a 10-day waiver.

00:52:28.560 It needs to go away forever.

00:52:30.160 Tell me if you have the – if these numbers are the same that you have seen.

00:52:33.420 We have less than a minute.

00:52:34.180 Scott, real quick.

00:52:36.120 $17 billion in the last 20 years.

00:52:38.960 That is his cost for Puerto Rico.

00:52:40.800 A car – think of this.

00:52:42.080 This is not Greenwich, Connecticut.

00:52:43.100 Puerto Rico does not have these high incomes.

00:52:45.220 A car costs $6,000 more in the mainland.

00:52:47.600 It costs twice as much to ship to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory,

00:52:51.500 than it does to Jamaica, another country.

00:52:53.960 It makes absolutely no sense.

00:52:56.180 That's exactly right.

00:52:57.280 And then, you know, even consumers on the mainland suffer.

00:53:00.020 You know, one study showed that we pay an extra $0.10 to $0.15 per gallon of gas

00:53:04.760 because the Jones Act forces crude oil producers in Texas

00:53:11.120 to actually ship fuel to – or oil to Canada to be refined

00:53:15.500 instead of Northeastern refiners because it's so much cheaper to do so

00:53:19.600 because they can avoid Jones Act.

00:53:20.540 Unbelievable.

00:53:21.760 Thank you so much, Scott.

00:53:23.080 I appreciate it.

00:53:24.680 If you want to learn more about this, please do.

00:53:30.660 Scott is really the guy to go to with the Cato Institute,

00:53:33.480 but we have to alert our congressmen and our senators.

00:53:37.960 This has got to stop.

00:53:39.980 Scott Lincecum is from the Cato Institute as well as an international trade attorney.

00:53:50.700 You can follow him on Twitter at Scott Lincecum.

00:53:53.820 We all hear the stories in the news.

00:53:55.620 Good guy uses a gun to protect his family from the criminals,

00:53:58.520 and he's the one arrested.

00:54:01.220 And actually, you know, I hate to say that, you know,

00:54:02.960 we hear about these stories in the news.

00:54:04.560 We don't.

00:54:05.220 You don't.

00:54:05.720 The reason why is because the press does not want to show the good guy with a gun winning.

00:54:15.840 So you rarely hear about stories where the good guy has actually taken down the burglar.

00:54:21.240 You just rarely hear them.

00:54:23.680 You do hear them when it's in a place in the country where that person is arrested

00:54:29.340 and they are in big trouble.

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00:54:38.060 thought he was ready for anything.

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00:54:57.040 He was.

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00:56:13.860 Glenn Beck.

00:56:19.240 Glenn Beck.

00:56:21.700 Ed in Texas on the Jones Act.

00:56:24.680 Hello, Ed.

00:56:25.180 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:56:27.340 Good morning, Glenn.

00:56:28.560 Good to speak with you.

00:56:30.020 Thank you, sir.

00:56:31.240 Thank you for all you've done so far, for all of the hurricane victims and all that.

00:56:36.220 Thank you.

00:56:36.580 I wanted to call in because your discussions on the Jones Act needs to be looked into a lot closer,

00:56:44.980 a little bit more homework in that the Jones Act is the act that actually granted the citizenship,

00:56:50.820 the US citizenship to those born on the island, passed to date.

00:56:56.000 I think it's, I can't remember the date, Glenn, but it's the actual act that does give us the citizenship.

00:57:01.760 So a full repeal of that act is, is, is right.

00:57:04.940 But I think it's actually the merchant.

00:57:07.400 Yeah, it's not that you're right.

00:57:08.980 It's we, that's a misstatement.

00:57:10.320 It's not the full repeal of that.

00:57:11.480 It is a merchant marine part of that.

00:57:13.320 That affects shipping is what we're talking about.

00:57:15.000 You're right.

00:57:15.540 Ed, you're, you're technically right.

00:57:16.980 And we're sorry that we, we misstated that.

00:57:20.300 And thanks for clearing that up.

00:57:21.640 But it, it is the merchant marine part of the Jones Act.

00:57:25.300 And I think we can all agree when I was down in, I was down in Puerto Rico a year ago, I think two years ago.

00:57:32.140 And the poverty is just outrageous.

00:57:34.840 And part of it is because they can't dig themselves out of, they get a lot of good things from America,

00:57:42.160 but they also get a lot of bad things.

00:57:43.880 For instance, unions, you know, they, they can't, they can't create enough jobs because of all of the restrictions we put on them.

00:57:54.320 They're already an island.

00:57:55.880 We have to start removing a lot of these restrictions to help the people of Puerto Rico back.

00:58:10.000 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:11.760 So Donald Trump and the Republicans are looking for a win because I don't think people are sick of winning yet.

00:58:20.120 And we have now to, tomorrow is the last day for the Obamacare repeal.

00:58:25.080 It's not going to happen.

00:58:26.320 Donald Trump yesterday came out and said, don't worry, we have the votes to do it next year.

00:58:30.160 I doubt that is true.

00:58:31.740 Why, why wait a year?

00:58:34.860 But so that is, that's off the table.

00:58:38.120 Now we are now looking at a tax plan.

00:58:41.760 And can we get this done?

00:58:43.320 I was a little underwhelmed by what the tax plan was, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

00:58:49.080 If we could even get this passed, we are negotiating.

00:58:53.560 It's weird because he's good at negotiating with Kim Jong-un.

00:58:57.160 He just calls him and says, I don't care who you are, little short rocket man.

00:59:00.800 And, and it is enough to get people to quake in their boots and get things done with his strategy with the Democrats has been radically different.

00:59:11.560 And he's starting at a place that I wouldn't be happy with if we ended there.

00:59:16.260 But at least it would be a step in the right direction.

00:59:18.780 Here are the details of the plan.

00:59:20.240 So there is a lot of good in there and it's important to note.

00:59:22.900 It is, this is not one of those situations where you're like, I don't know, is this even better than Obamacare?

00:59:26.980 No, this is a absolute improvement to our tax system.

00:59:30.120 So wait, so wait, let me, let me rephrase this.

00:59:31.800 So I, so I make myself clear.

00:59:33.120 What I don't like about this is if it ends here, let's just say they magically get up and Chucky Schumer says, I love this.

00:59:43.780 We could have done, but we could do better than this.

00:59:46.080 We can do better than this.

00:59:47.420 However, should we pursue this with all of our might?

00:59:51.720 Yes, but I'm concerned that the margins are so small in some areas that by the time you negotiate, it's, it's marginal.

01:00:00.680 It's not nominal, but it's marginal.

01:00:02.260 Yeah, if it started somewhere else and ended here, I wouldn't be thrilled, but I would be, okay, we got something there.

01:00:08.120 It's the fact that we're starting here does make me nervous.

01:00:10.420 And so there are some good things in the plan.

01:00:12.760 There are some bad and scary things.

01:00:14.780 The good things, the corporate tax drops significantly.

01:00:17.940 We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

01:00:19.780 It drops in this plan to 20%.

01:00:22.100 Should be lower than that.

01:00:23.440 Should be 10 to 50.

01:00:24.620 You want to change the world?

01:00:26.420 You want to really dominate and have jobs come here.

01:00:29.740 Change the corporate rate to 10%.

01:00:33.020 Yeah.

01:00:33.660 And so, and Trump won it, I think, 15.

01:00:36.560 So he was trying to get it to 15 in the campaign.

01:00:39.100 They're starting here with 20.

01:00:41.300 Why?

01:00:41.660 Now, 20 is what you would call competitive, a competitive rate.

01:00:46.280 Yes.

01:00:46.620 With the rest of the world.

01:00:48.100 The average, I think, is 22.5 in the industrialized world.

01:00:51.060 So it's slightly less than that.

01:00:52.320 But that's a good improvement.

01:00:53.440 I mean, a big one.

01:00:54.400 And you shouldn't just dismiss it.

01:00:56.100 It's also good for small businesses who will.

01:00:57.840 If it ends at 20.

01:00:59.560 If it ends at 20.

01:01:00.120 I'm taking this plan as if this is what you got.

01:01:02.220 Right.

01:01:02.580 Right.

01:01:02.820 So you want to compete with the world.

01:01:04.780 We have other costs.

01:01:07.100 We have unions.

01:01:08.220 We have regulation.

01:01:09.520 So we have other costs.

01:01:10.780 You want to compete.

01:01:11.740 You have to come in lower than the rest of the world because their workers are going 0.65

01:01:18.620 to have health care, everything else.

01:01:20.300 It's just you want to be dramatically lower.

01:01:24.260 Yeah.

01:01:24.480 And I agree with that.

01:01:25.440 To push back a little bit on that point, though, I think people want to do business in

01:01:28.960 the United States.

01:01:29.960 If you have a choice and everything is equal cost, people will go to the United States 0.99

01:01:34.420 because we have a lot of sort of institutional advantages when it comes to business.

01:01:39.940 We we we still do things better than the rest of the world.

01:01:43.480 We do.

01:01:43.860 The issue is we've been so uncompetitive for such a long time with these tax rates.

01:01:48.660 This at least moves us into a competitive position.

01:01:51.740 It's a real positive.

01:01:52.860 I would say that you are also now moving into a world that is beginning to be convinced at

01:01:59.660 the highest levels that America's best days are behind her, whether it's true or not,

01:02:04.880 doesn't matter.

01:02:05.680 Perception is reality that America's the days are our best days are behind.

01:02:09.940 And that the United States could go unstable.

01:02:13.380 If you add instability, if you add protest and riots on our streets and instability at

01:02:20.160 all, where an army needs to be called up to to quash things, people do not want to work

01:02:26.300 in the United States.

01:02:27.300 They'll be looking for someplace else.

01:02:29.000 Yeah.

01:02:29.240 And that's always a risk.

01:02:30.500 Yes.

01:02:30.740 On the individual rates.

01:02:33.000 So one of the big things that I've already heard, we talked about this yesterday briefly,

01:02:37.420 but I've already heard left wing commentators make this point, which is you are the way it

01:02:43.820 works is it simplifies seven different brackets into three.

01:02:47.940 The lowest bracket in the old plan was 10%.

01:02:51.540 The lowest bracket in the new plan is 12%.

01:02:55.200 So obviously to anyone who's just looking at this at a surface, my gosh, they're raising

01:03:00.920 taxes on the poor.

01:03:02.380 They've raised taxes on the poor and they've cut taxes for the rich.

01:03:05.320 It's the talking point already.

01:03:06.640 So when you actually look at this, it's not true at all.

01:03:11.280 It is not going to affect basically anyone in that way.

01:03:15.640 It is going to, because what they're doing is they're raising the standard deduction.

01:03:20.500 They're doubling it in this plan.

01:03:22.620 Again, you're when you're getting, you're getting into the weeds when you start talking

01:03:24.940 about this, but basically if you take the standard deduction, you're not, you're not

01:03:27.660 going to be paying taxes on the entire first bracket.

01:03:31.100 So your first bracket rate will really be zero.

01:03:32.780 So, um, but the way that it's worded is going to easily allow people to claim they're raising

01:03:39.220 taxes on the poor.

01:03:40.220 This is, these are the way that, and this is some of this, it's not all clear here.

01:03:43.560 It's not all wins, uh, for as far as lower rates.

01:03:47.100 Listen to this.

01:03:47.880 The 10% rate goes to 12 and the 15% rate that currently is out there also goes to 12%.

01:03:53.400 So slight cut for the second bracket and a slight raise for the bottom one. 0.86

01:03:57.220 But the standard deduction is going to knock a lot of that out for most people anyway.

01:04:00.540 When it gets a little higher, it's interesting.

01:04:01.900 The 25% bracket that currently exists stays the same, it goes to 25.

01:04:06.120 The 28% bracket, you're talking about people making about a hundred thousand dollars a year

01:04:09.840 now, those people go from 28 to 25.

01:04:12.380 So a slight decrease.

01:04:14.120 Now the people who, now we're up to, let's say $200,000.

01:04:17.420 Those people, their rate actually goes up.

01:04:20.360 That bracket goes from 33 to 35.

01:04:23.240 The current 35% bracket stays the same, does not go down 35 to 35.

01:04:28.940 And those are people making about $400,000.

01:04:30.700 And in the very top bracket, um, it goes from 39.6 to 35.

01:04:36.180 This is getting all the publicity, um, because this is their way to say that rich people are

01:04:41.060 getting the tax break.

01:04:42.040 Now it's interesting because your whole way up there really that to get that tax break,

01:04:46.240 you're going to have to make a lot of money.

01:04:47.880 Um, and even then you're not really going to get it cause they're going to take away a lot

01:04:51.280 of these deductions.

01:04:51.940 However, there is a planet X in this plan.

01:04:56.540 Does it have a fiery tail? 0.60

01:04:58.020 It does have a fiery tail.

01:04:59.180 You remember planet X?

01:05:00.080 It was going to destroy the country on September 23rd.

01:05:02.440 And that's not what he said, but yes.

01:05:04.300 No, it was going to destroy the world.

01:05:05.560 Right.

01:05:05.880 Because a big planet was going to come by and we hadn't seen it yet.

01:05:08.640 Got it.

01:05:08.900 And it's this unnamed planet.

01:05:10.320 We might think we know the planets, but no, there's a planet X, right?

01:05:14.240 What's the planet X here?

01:05:15.500 You might think, you know, the brackets because there's three brackets.

01:05:18.980 However, written into this plan, in the plan, is a fourth bracket.

01:05:26.500 Now the fourth bracket.

01:05:27.840 Wait, do I want to open the fourth bracket?

01:05:30.220 It's bracket X.

01:05:31.740 I'm having an okay day.

01:05:33.460 I'm not having a great day, but I'm having an okay day.

01:05:36.440 Oh yes.

01:05:36.940 You're going to love this one because bracket X is a bracket that can be instituted in

01:05:42.360 negotiations above the top rate.

01:05:46.500 So right now the top rate is 35%.

01:05:49.180 But with bracket X, the top rate could be anything higher than 35%.

01:05:54.920 So what they may, what they're, this is actually very similar to what Steve Bannon was floating

01:06:02.140 out there before he left, which is take a number for wealthy people and make that the

01:06:08.520 kind of billboard number, make that higher.

01:06:11.480 So raising it from 39.6 into the forties and maybe the fifties, jack that thing through

01:06:16.920 the ceiling.

01:06:17.280 So you can say, oh, well, you know what?

01:06:19.080 We're not, we're looking, we're making a million dollars.

01:06:22.700 We're going to make it 60%.

01:06:24.100 Yeah.

01:06:24.920 And so they're going to jack those people up to some ridiculous rate.

01:06:29.300 And that is, so that is in the plan as a possibility.

01:06:32.580 It's not a concrete in the plan, but it's there.

01:06:35.740 You know who did this?

01:06:37.060 Who?

01:06:38.000 Come on.

01:06:38.640 Come on.

01:06:41.160 Satan.

01:06:42.520 Close.

01:06:44.240 Wilson.

01:06:45.640 This is exactly what Wilson and FDR did. 0.82

01:06:51.620 Woodrow Wilson's in hell right now.

01:06:53.280 He is.

01:06:53.900 That's why I said he's close.

01:06:55.080 He may have actually been Satan.

01:06:56.820 He is president of hell currently.

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01:08:39.500 Glenn Beck.

01:08:43.140 You know, everybody, everybody has an opinion.

01:08:50.220 And I don't think anybody's opinion is more valuable than anybody else's.

01:09:02.820 I've been doing this for 40 years, and it still is remarkable to me that people care about

01:09:10.160 my opinion because I barely do, and as I get older, the more I realize, yeah, it's just another guy's opinion.

01:09:21.360 And now, now that everybody has Facebook and Twitter and you're a publisher,

01:09:29.140 you realize the power that each of us have now?

01:09:37.680 Just 10 years ago, if you wanted your voice to be heard, you really had to do something.

01:09:44.320 I mean, you really had to, you had to go through and network and get jobs and get on the air and

01:09:51.780 then make that a success.

01:09:53.400 And yeah, you wanted to publish a book.

01:09:55.760 You'd have to go to Simon & Schuster or something like that.

01:09:58.180 You'd have to go to these crazy, I mean, it's crazy.

01:10:01.200 You should go to these meetings with me, crazy meetings in these gigantic New York boardrooms.

01:10:06.140 You don't have to do any of that now.

01:10:07.700 And so while we have, we have made all of that meaningless, all those hoops that you had to jump through,

01:10:18.920 we have found so many people with different opinions now that nobody, they wouldn't have been able to have a voice.

01:10:26.660 And it's really good.

01:10:28.160 But everybody has an opinion and, and so it devalues, or no, it puts into perspective

01:10:39.400 how much somebody's opinion is worth, no more than somebody else.

01:10:47.380 What is worthwhile is perspective because that's hard to find.

01:10:59.580 That takes a lifetime.

01:11:03.460 And sometimes it takes just standing in another place.

01:11:07.380 Everybody can view an event one way, but there might be Zapruder.

01:11:11.200 There might be somebody who's standing in another location with another angle and they capture something that nobody else saw.

01:11:22.860 That's perspective.

01:11:28.840 I think that's what we should all be seeking.

01:11:33.560 Not more opinions.

01:11:35.000 I read a, uh, I read an article, uh, I read an article from somebody who's really important to the conservative movement.

01:11:54.500 Here's the, here's the, here's the title.

01:11:57.220 As I lay literally dying, politics doesn't matter.

01:12:05.000 I write this with multiple blood clots currently in my lungs.

01:12:11.020 By the end of the day, I'm tired and out of breath.

01:12:14.660 My chest is tight.

01:12:17.220 Thankfully, this go around is not fatal.

01:12:19.300 But a year ago, I was rushed to an ICU with my blood oxygen level steadily declining, but below a hundred, but below 90%.

01:12:26.440 And my lungs were slowly suffocating me.

01:12:28.980 And as nurses were sticking needles in my arms and pumping me full of fluids,

01:12:32.600 doctors were calling my wife to tell her that they thought I had lung cancer.

01:12:39.620 I have to tell you that American politics really doesn't matter when you have kids and you're dying.

01:12:48.880 You begin to seriously ask yourself,

01:12:51.180 what do you want your kids to know if you're gone?

01:12:54.200 If I would have died, my kids would have learned everything about me from Google.

01:13:01.560 They would only know what people who hate me think about me.

01:13:08.360 I was far more worried about my kids' relationship with God and their mother than about politics or the political fight of the day.

01:13:15.020 American politics today is such a small ball gutter politics.

01:13:20.160 It's the stakes are so small that the fights are all that matters.

01:13:26.920 I don't want my kids to have any part of that.

01:13:30.020 Yes, there are fights that do matter.

01:13:32.920 But there are many more fights you think matter than actually do.

01:13:37.660 Having very nearly died, my priorities have taken more than a small shift in the last year.

01:13:45.400 I'd rather be preaching than blogging.

01:13:48.520 My faith is way more important to me.

01:13:50.980 My kids' faith is way more important to me than my own faith.

01:13:55.160 They're the priority.

01:14:00.700 That's perspective.

01:14:02.460 I would pray for you and for me that we can find that perspective that Eric Erickson found

01:14:13.980 without getting the diagnosis that he had received.

01:14:32.460 Glenn Beck.

01:14:47.980 So you're doing some business travel.

01:14:50.920 We've all done it.

01:14:52.120 And you've all dealt with the ridiculous nonsense that's associated with it.

01:14:56.560 You know, there's the picture I saw on Twitter where someone had put their bare feet in between

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01:15:07.720 That is, I'd go crazy.

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01:15:55.180 Glenn Beck.

01:15:56.100 Two things happening in the world right now.

01:15:58.080 One is create chaos.

01:16:00.440 We've been watching this for 15 years.

01:16:03.180 I've been warning you that our enemies are going to do everything they can to create chaos.

01:16:08.040 Chaos is, if you believe in the Mahdi, the only way the Mahdi returns, you wash the world 0.87

01:16:12.600 in blood and create chaos.

01:16:15.040 That's number one.

01:16:16.720 Russia's doing it. 0.85

01:16:17.800 Some in the Middle East are doing it.

01:16:19.040 And quite honestly, some people here in the United States are doing it.

01:16:21.500 The second thing that is happening is divide and conquer.

01:16:24.400 You've got to divide America.

01:16:26.680 A house divided against itself cannot stand.

01:16:29.580 And it's happening right now under our nose.

01:16:31.680 And many of us are participating in it without even realizing it.

01:16:35.420 Chaos is the name of the game.

01:16:37.140 And we're falling for it over and over and over again.

01:16:40.940 Now listen to this story.

01:16:42.140 Facebook revealed this month that Russia purchased $100,000 worth of political ads during the

01:16:48.440 2016 campaign.

01:16:49.960 Now, this is the way it's been reported.

01:16:53.060 And you'd think all of these were pro-Trump, but they weren't.

01:16:57.640 Yesterday, the details emerged.

01:17:00.060 And it's a funny thing when you start looking at the details, how it completely changes a story.

01:17:07.180 What was it that Russia was actually doing?

01:17:09.680 Who were they actually supporting?

01:17:11.380 The answer is everyone and no one.

01:17:18.260 Anything that would stir up chaos and anything that would divide, they were for.

01:17:24.820 In 2015, Russian Facebook ads had supported and condemned Black Lives Matter.

01:17:33.520 Now, listen to this.

01:17:35.480 Some of the ads were pro-Muslim and pro-immigration.

01:17:39.200 The very next day, those same groups would post negative Muslim ads and anti-immigration rhetoric.

01:17:48.800 They didn't care.

01:17:50.280 Trump, Russia, Hillary, the right, the left, they're playing all sides.

01:17:59.360 What we're doing now is we're separating ourselves.

01:18:03.980 We're saying, you're just trying to make this about Hillary Clinton.

01:18:06.580 You're just trying to make this about Donald Trump.

01:18:08.880 No, no, no.

01:18:11.480 It's about chaos and divide and conquer.

01:18:16.660 You think the Russians actually cared who became the president of the United States?

01:18:20.280 I mean, in terms of heads of state, the president of the United States is one of the weakest authority figures in the world.

01:18:26.260 The founding fathers made sure that was possible and it was on purpose.

01:18:31.920 The Russians know this.

01:18:33.520 They're not afraid of the president.

01:18:35.320 They're afraid of the American people.

01:18:38.020 The American people.

01:18:39.280 You know, out of all of the Russian plans of invasion of the United States during the Cold War, there was only one place that was not a part of a plan.

01:18:51.040 All of the plans.

01:18:52.020 We can come over the polar cap.

01:18:54.700 We can bomb them first.

01:18:55.960 We can come, you know, through the oceans.

01:18:57.840 How are we going to do it?

01:18:59.760 There's only one place that they said we're not going there.

01:19:02.840 And that is Texas.

01:19:04.880 Why?

01:19:06.080 Because they knew Texans were united.

01:19:09.040 Texans also were armed.

01:19:10.460 And they knew Texans would fight to the last man because they were united.

01:19:18.080 So the Russians are doing nothing other than dividing us, regardless of who becomes president. 0.99

01:19:24.900 Now, this goes a lot deeper than just the election.

01:19:29.620 As early as last week, Russian intelligence were using the NFL take a knee controversy to continue their chaos campaign.

01:19:38.960 Senator Lankford of Oklahoma said in a hearing yesterday that the Russians were talking, taking both sides of the argument and talking out of both sides of their mouth.

01:19:49.140 They are they've taken to social media and they are taking a knee and linking arms, standing up for the veterans.

01:20:01.520 And make sure you take a knee and stand against Trump.

01:20:05.400 Make sure you take a knee and stand against a racist America.

01:20:09.120 All they're doing is inflaming the divisiveness.

01:20:13.120 They need us to be pitted against each other.

01:20:16.440 We're being played like a fiddle.

01:20:19.140 And while the collusion narrative continues in the media, a foreign intelligence service is actively trying to split us apart.

01:20:30.420 The Russians have been doing this for decades, but never on the scale like this because they've never had technology has opened up an entirely new era in espionage.

01:20:43.980 And the scary part is this is only the beginning.

01:20:47.400 And we're already being duped.

01:20:50.520 Look how easy it has been to turn us against one another.

01:20:55.480 Imagine what they'll be able to do to us in the next two to five years if we don't wake up.

01:21:05.140 Don't add fuel to the fire.

01:21:07.640 Everyone I know hates the way Facebook and Twitter, you know, people are talking on Twitter and Facebook.

01:21:15.440 Everybody I know.

01:21:17.340 And the the most noble say that's why I don't use it anymore.

01:21:22.780 OK, well, that's one way to go.

01:21:25.200 But nature abhors a vacuum.

01:21:27.300 Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

01:21:35.380 You can't just go silent anymore.

01:21:37.360 Your silence is aiding and abetting.

01:21:46.580 You need to pump positive out in the world, no matter how hard they come at you, no matter what they say to you, no matter how many times you've been torn apart.

01:21:56.400 You say good, simple, true things that are peaceful, that are kind, that are servant in their nature.

01:22:07.080 And I promise you, if you do that, you will heal the nation.

01:22:16.520 But you have to find and follow the great masters of healing.

01:22:24.220 Because right now, chaos is the name of the game.

01:22:29.940 And it only works if we're all dead asleep.

01:22:37.080 It's Thursday, September 28th.

01:22:48.540 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:53.440 I want to introduce you to a friend of mine.

01:22:55.080 And he's actually a guy who is a New York Times bestselling author, The Miracle of Freedom, The Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World, which is a fantastic book.

01:23:07.080 Ted Stewart is that author.

01:23:10.720 He was a U.S. District Court judge appointed by Bill Clinton.

01:23:16.200 He was, you know, a chief of staff to the Utah governor, executive director of the State Department of Natural Resources, blah, blah, blah.

01:23:24.420 And just a really, really smart guy and concerned about the direction of our country and has put together a book, Supreme Power, the seven pivotal Supreme Court decisions that had a major impact on America.

01:23:40.680 And I want to talk to him about that.

01:23:42.260 But, Ted, I actually actually want to start here.

01:23:45.380 This is something that Chuck Todd on Meet the Press said yesterday.

01:23:48.980 And maybe you can can help educate everybody on where he went wrong.

01:23:53.820 Listen to this audio.

01:23:54.740 Roy Moore, where the phrase Christian conservative doesn't even begin to describe him, could very well be your next U.S. senator.

01:24:03.760 And if you don't understand just how freaked out some folks in the GOP and the White House are about what that means, then you don't know Roy Moore.

01:24:11.240 First off, he doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution as it's written.

01:24:17.080 Our rights don't come from government.

01:24:18.900 They don't come from a bill of rights.

01:24:20.620 They come from Almighty God.

01:24:21.900 Now, that's just a taste of what are very fundamentalist views that have gotten him removed from office twice as Alabama's chief justice.

01:24:31.240 Ted, I believe that almost everyone would have to be removed from office up until maybe 20 years ago, with the exception of maybe FDR and Woodrow Wilson, if that were not true.

01:24:44.320 Can you explain to the American people where rights come from and why it's important?

01:24:48.580 Well, I don't have to give my opinion on that because we can rely on the language of those who created this government, the Constitution of the United States,

01:25:00.600 as motivated by the Declaration of Independence, where it is stated with absolute clarity that rights come from God.

01:25:09.020 The role of government is to protect those rights.

01:25:13.020 In order for government to operate, we have to surrender a certain amount of our rights to that government for the protection of the bulk of the rights.

01:25:23.120 And whenever government takes from the people more rights than we have voluntarily surrendered, that is tyranny.

01:25:30.020 That is the foundation of our government.

01:25:32.480 That was what the Constitution was intended to put into place and to protect.

01:25:38.240 So, Ted, you and I know this, and you know that you cannot separate the Constitution from the Declaration of Independence,

01:25:47.360 but the progressives will teach and have taught, I think even Chuck Todd, that the Declaration of Independence has nothing to do.

01:25:55.980 It's just a document.

01:25:57.060 That's all that is.

01:25:57.880 The Constitution is the only founding document that means anything, and it doesn't clearly state that as clearly as it does in the Declaration of Independence.

01:26:09.440 I cannot cite specifically to the Supreme Court decisions, but there have been, during the 230-year history of our country,

01:26:19.500 at least one, if not more, Supreme Court decisions have stated that, in fact, the Declaration of Independence is part of the founding documents

01:26:29.060 that the court must consider when it is interpreting the Constitution itself.

01:26:33.380 So, you write this book about the pivotal Supreme Court decisions that really have changed everything.

01:26:42.140 And as I read through it, you know, you would never think that the hours of a bakery would actually take you to abortion.

01:26:51.640 But that's exactly what happened.

01:26:54.040 Can you explain that?

01:26:55.540 Because that's, I think, one of the seven, I don't remember which one it was, but I think it's Lochner v. New York, if I look at it,

01:27:03.780 that says, you know, this is about a bakery and baker's hours, and we get an abortion out of that. 1.00

01:27:10.840 It was a 1905 case.

01:27:12.600 The issue was whether or not a New York statute that limited the hours that bakers could require their employees to work.

01:27:18.560 It was challenged, and the Supreme Court struck it down.

01:27:22.740 And in doing so, they said that there is a liberty interest, the right to contract.

01:27:28.420 That meant that an employee could, because of that liberty interest,

01:27:32.800 contract with an employer to work as many hours as that employee wanted.

01:27:38.020 It was not a big issue for very long, because subsequently the Supreme Court changed its position.

01:27:44.640 But what it did is it created a power in the courts to define what liberty means under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.

01:27:55.340 And that ability to determine what the word means, basically removing it to a large extent from our elected officials,

01:28:04.580 subsequently became the basis for Roe v. Wade restricting the right of states to limit abortions.

01:28:13.660 Most recently, the case of Oberfell v. Hodges.

01:28:17.800 And in that latter-mentioned case, the dissenters specifically said,

01:28:23.060 you guys are just playing this Lochner game.

01:28:25.580 You're resurrecting, again, this theory that courts by themselves get to define what liberty is.

01:28:33.100 And, you know, that is fine as long as what they're trying to do,

01:28:36.480 they meaning the Supreme Court, are trying to discern what the founders meant by liberty

01:28:41.200 or what those who wrote the 14th Amendment after the Civil War meant by liberty.

01:28:45.660 But in the case of Oberfell, specifically,

01:28:48.960 they came up with their own idea of what liberty was and imposed it upon the American people.

01:28:56.720 You know, in that Oberfell decision, there was a very telling dissent by Justice Scalia,

01:29:02.160 and it was really the thing that motivated me in the end to write this book.

01:29:06.640 And Justice Scalia said this, he said, and I'm paraphrasing,

01:29:09.840 he said, I don't much care about the marriage laws of the United States.

01:29:14.080 I don't care what the respective states do with marriage. 1.00

01:29:17.020 But then he went on to say, but I do care about who rules over me.

01:29:20.800 And then he said, this decision today tells me that the ruler of myself and 320 million Americans

01:29:27.920 are five lawyers on the Supreme Court.

01:29:30.840 And I think that very stark statement by Justice Scalia more or less got me to say,

01:29:37.700 you know, do the American people understand the extent to which the Supreme Court has shaped America?

01:29:42.740 Do they understand that the America that we live in today has been decided by many factors,

01:29:47.760 but the Supreme Court has played a key role?

01:29:49.520 And most importantly, are they comfortable with the role that the Supreme Court?

01:29:54.920 So, Ted, you know, not too many people know this.

01:29:57.720 The Supreme Court was, I mean, you know, it's an equal branch of the government,

01:30:01.180 but it didn't even have a place to meet.

01:30:02.860 It met in the basement of the Capitol for a long time.

01:30:06.440 That's where the Supreme Court was.

01:30:07.880 It didn't have this huge building.

01:30:09.160 That was FDR that kind of elevated this.

01:30:11.760 They've been fighting and trying to, since 1803, as you point out in your book,

01:30:15.940 fighting for their place and saying, no, no, no,

01:30:17.740 we are the arbiters of what's constitutional and what's unconstitutional.

01:30:23.040 We've gotten to a place so far where what they say is God and it rules over all of us.

01:30:29.460 Is there a way to reverse it?

01:30:31.700 Well, I think the only way we reverse that is to reverse those who are appointed to the judiciary at every level,

01:30:38.920 but in particular the nine members of the Supreme Court, we, you know,

01:30:43.860 I point out one of the little stories I tell in the book is about how the only justice to ever come from the state of Utah

01:30:51.220 was a man named George Sutherland.

01:30:53.780 He was appointed by President Harding in 1922.

01:30:57.360 His nomination was sent to the Congress the same day.

01:31:00.580 He was confirmed the same day.

01:31:01.860 Sutherland was not even in the country, and he was made aware of his appointment and confirmation by a letter from the president,

01:31:10.120 almost as an aside.

01:31:11.820 And the reason why that is important is it tells you that in 1922,

01:31:14.880 Supreme Court justice appointments were not that big of a deal because the Supreme Court itself

01:31:20.200 had not interposed itself in the ways that it has since in shaping America.

01:31:25.520 In contrast to that, with the fight over Justice Gorsuch, where I understand that literally millions of dollars were spent

01:31:31.840 for and against him in certain states trying to get the senators to either vote to confirm him or not to.

01:31:38.560 That, I think, is great evidence of how much power the Supreme Court has assumed

01:31:43.160 and has given to it, if you will, by the nature of our congressional and presidential actions today.

01:31:55.520 Judge Ted Stewart, the name of the book is Supreme Power,

01:31:59.640 Seven Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America.

01:32:03.320 If you've never read a book by Ted, you need to.

01:32:07.960 Really, really good.

01:32:09.160 Very, very clear.

01:32:10.420 And this book is a great place to start and say,

01:32:13.300 what the hell happened?

01:32:14.800 How did we get here?

01:32:16.960 And what is the way back?

01:32:18.260 Thanks, Ted.

01:32:19.200 Thank you, Glenn.

01:32:19.920 Thank you, Glenn.

01:32:25.520 The Seven Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America is the name of the book.

01:32:33.240 It's Judge Ted Stewart.

01:32:34.840 One of them is Wicker v. Filburn, which we didn't get into,

01:32:37.660 but that's something that affects every one of us every single day.

01:32:40.780 Every day.

01:32:41.940 You'll be amazed.

01:32:42.820 When you read this book, you'll be amazed at it.

01:32:44.580 You're like, holy cow, it started with that?

01:32:48.140 You really will.

01:32:49.200 It's amazing how this is going to start.

01:32:51.000 Supreme Power is the name of the book.

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01:34:30.820 Glenn Beck.

01:34:35.320 Glenn Beck.

01:34:36.440 So when you get to the end of your life,

01:34:38.520 how many of us will be able to say,

01:34:40.960 I made a difference?

01:34:42.060 And I don't mean in one other person's life

01:34:45.300 because you just never know.

01:34:47.360 But I mean, you've changed a culture.

01:34:49.500 I don't think there's a lot of people

01:34:50.900 that can say that.

01:34:52.140 Hugh Hefner died at 91

01:34:53.980 and good or bad,

01:34:57.600 he changed our culture.

01:34:59.400 No kidding.

01:35:00.160 He published The Playboy Philosophy in 1962.

01:35:05.420 That's when it started.

01:35:06.840 25 installments.

01:35:07.800 The cause is abortion rights. 0.89

01:35:10.180 Certainly,

01:35:11.240 you can't even oppose that

01:35:13.300 in the Democratic Party.

01:35:14.100 Those cut off your funding.

01:35:17.600 Decriminalization of marijuana.

01:35:19.740 And of course,

01:35:20.640 the repeal of 19th century sex laws.

01:35:23.380 All of those.

01:35:25.180 Except for the sex laws one. 0.98

01:35:28.180 I mean,

01:35:28.480 you just never convinced me

01:35:29.540 that that is a healthy thing.

01:35:31.920 But instead,

01:35:32.640 you know,

01:35:32.940 the,

01:35:33.200 the,

01:35:34.240 instead,

01:35:34.780 everything but the sex laws

01:35:35.900 really has been repealed.

01:35:39.020 I mean,

01:35:39.480 those are,

01:35:40.100 but I mean,

01:35:40.580 what do you mean?

01:35:41.460 Which laws are you talking about?

01:35:42.400 I mean,

01:35:42.620 I think that would just.

01:35:44.040 Prostitution.

01:35:45.220 Okay.

01:35:45.680 Yeah.

01:35:45.960 We're moving on.

01:35:47.120 Yeah.

01:35:47.460 We're moving on.

01:35:48.160 That's happened in,

01:35:48.660 you know,

01:35:49.220 one state.

01:35:49.680 One state.

01:35:50.300 But,

01:35:50.900 but the,

01:35:51.560 the marijuana thing is.

01:35:53.080 Marijuana things basically happen.

01:35:54.240 But I mean,

01:35:54.460 it's the loosening of the standards

01:35:56.800 when it comes to sexuality.

01:35:58.280 Yeah.

01:35:58.560 I mean,

01:35:58.880 and it's all one man.

01:36:00.920 Glenn Beck.

01:36:09.200 I would too.

01:36:10.420 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:36:13.280 Yeah.

01:36:13.740 You know,

01:36:14.160 there's a couple of things

01:36:14.800 that we have to,

01:36:15.280 we have to address here.

01:36:17.060 Pat has just joined us.

01:36:18.340 Getting ready for Pat Gray.

01:36:19.980 Hi,

01:36:20.240 Pat.

01:36:20.920 Hi.

01:36:21.600 Hi,

01:36:21.840 Stu.

01:36:22.380 Good to see you today.

01:36:23.320 You as well.

01:36:24.500 You as well.

01:36:25.080 Eh,

01:36:25.300 it's okay to see you.

01:36:26.360 Okay.

01:36:26.820 Not necessarily good.

01:36:28.140 Not necessarily good.

01:36:28.980 But not bad.

01:36:29.720 I don't mean that in a bad way.

01:36:30.800 It's just,

01:36:31.180 it's just okay to see you.

01:36:32.780 How could you take that in a bad way?

01:36:34.500 Exactly right.

01:36:35.600 So,

01:36:35.920 Pat's getting ready to do his program.

01:36:37.700 Mediaful follows this one.

01:36:39.200 We want to talk to him about a couple of things,

01:36:41.160 but,

01:36:41.440 you know,

01:36:42.900 we were just looking at,

01:36:43.600 we're just in the break.

01:36:44.260 We were talking about the new tax plan.

01:36:45.980 Isn't it great?

01:36:46.900 Yeah,

01:36:47.120 it's great.

01:36:47.480 And,

01:36:47.860 you know,

01:36:48.160 watching MSNBC up here,

01:36:49.560 and it talks about,

01:36:50.640 you know,

01:36:52.400 the top tax payers,

01:36:55.380 they're going to,

01:36:55.900 they're going to get,

01:36:56.940 they're going to get benefits out of this.

01:36:58.780 Well,

01:36:58.840 it's 2% of the population.

01:37:02.240 Why,

01:37:02.720 why did,

01:37:03.560 yeah,

01:37:03.780 sorry,

01:37:04.040 0.2% of the population.

01:37:06.200 Why is this such a big deal?

01:37:07.780 And can I,

01:37:09.180 is there any place,

01:37:12.000 do progressives and socialists need to have every place on earth?

01:37:18.740 Well,

01:37:19.060 yeah.

01:37:20.700 I don't know why,

01:37:21.540 but they do.

01:37:22.760 I mean,

01:37:23.180 you have Canada,

01:37:24.900 you have the rest of the world,

01:37:26.320 and it's not working.

01:37:28.460 Can we just have one place?

01:37:30.040 Just one.

01:37:30.900 Just one.

01:37:31.240 I'll take a state,

01:37:32.180 Texas.

01:37:32.760 Just leave us alone. 0.76

01:37:35.140 Yeah.

01:37:35.800 Why can't we have that?

01:37:37.300 Giant man-made islands off the coast in international waters.

01:37:40.560 It's the only solution.

01:37:41.740 I will live there.

01:37:42.520 And then that'll get screwed up in a few years too,

01:37:44.460 but then you can always put another one up.

01:37:46.020 Yeah,

01:37:46.180 once you get one up,

01:37:47.060 then you're like,

01:37:47.420 I'm building my own platform.

01:37:49.440 Everyone will just have their own island in the middle of the water,

01:37:51.740 and we'll all be happy.

01:37:52.900 Surely.

01:37:53.360 It'll work out perfectly.

01:37:55.260 That's.

01:37:55.760 Yeah.

01:37:56.320 I'm willing to do it.

01:37:57.380 I mean,

01:37:57.540 it wouldn't probably be good for the,

01:37:58.700 I'm willing to try.

01:37:59.700 I'm willing to try.

01:38:01.020 Is there no place where free men can just be free?

01:38:06.560 If,

01:38:06.960 if this were different,

01:38:07.760 if there was yet another space just over the horizon,

01:38:13.320 and we're like,

01:38:13.880 I don't know,

01:38:14.320 sea monsters could eat you and you might fall off the face of the earth.

01:38:18.840 But I hear there's this great place where you can just go and be yourself.

01:38:22.600 I'm willing to try.

01:38:23.740 I would.

01:38:24.240 At this point,

01:38:24.880 I would.

01:38:25.420 I really would.

01:38:26.140 I'd be like,

01:38:26.440 okay,

01:38:26.600 let's go.

01:38:27.180 Let's take our chances with the sea monsters.

01:38:28.920 I really would.

01:38:30.140 Let's go.

01:38:31.420 Mars.

01:38:32.500 You know,

01:38:32.800 I don't know if you saw what Elon Musk is talking about.

01:38:36.140 Have you seen his Mars rocket?

01:38:41.720 I don't know if I've seen a picture of it.

01:38:43.680 You would know it if you saw it.

01:38:45.300 I saw an interview with him and I'm like,

01:38:46.760 wait,

01:38:47.080 wait,

01:38:47.420 wait,

01:38:47.980 that's your Mars rocket.

01:38:49.820 It is 40 stories tall.

01:38:53.140 It can fit a fully loaded with passengers,

01:38:58.440 all the cargo,

01:39:00.140 all the luggage,

01:39:02.180 a 747 inside its cargo hold.

01:39:08.140 Okay.

01:39:09.880 It's outrageous how big this thing is.

01:39:13.900 And so I'm,

01:39:14.880 I'm,

01:39:15.160 and I'm thinking to myself,

01:39:16.120 that's crazy.

01:39:17.960 That's not going to,

01:39:19.040 how is it?

01:39:19.640 It's like it's,

01:39:22.160 I can't even remember how the,

01:39:23.560 the thrust on this thing.

01:39:25.320 It's crazy.

01:39:26.300 The thrust to get this up.

01:39:28.060 And I'm listening to it and I'm thinking that's never going to happen.

01:39:31.140 And he said,

01:39:32.480 the interviewer said,

01:39:33.640 okay,

01:39:34.140 so your timeline is 10 years.

01:39:35.680 And he said,

01:39:36.080 yeah,

01:39:37.140 I mean,

01:39:37.580 that's what we say.

01:39:38.960 And I'm thinking,

01:39:39.700 you know,

01:39:40.020 it's probably 15,

01:39:40.900 20 years.

01:39:41.260 And he said,

01:39:41.740 but internally we're a little more aggressive.

01:39:43.540 We'd like to do it in five.

01:39:45.920 Holy cow. 0.89

01:39:47.020 Wow.

01:39:47.480 But I'm thinking,

01:39:48.240 you know,

01:39:48.400 he's talking about a million people in 10 years on Mars in 10 years,

01:39:53.320 in 10 years,

01:39:54.120 putting a million people on Mars.

01:39:55.860 No way.

01:39:56.500 That's what I think too.

01:39:57.640 But you know what?

01:39:58.680 Don't count him out.

01:39:59.580 I don't know.

01:40:00.360 Although I will say the thrust needed to lift that thing off the earth will wipe out every emission that he supposedly saved from the entire project.

01:40:09.200 Yeah.

01:40:09.420 I don't think he cares at that point.

01:40:10.700 He's all like,

01:40:11.260 see you later suckers. 0.98

01:40:14.020 You know,

01:40:14.500 when you see a million people up in Mars,

01:40:16.160 I might,

01:40:17.060 I might consider that.

01:40:18.260 And a lot of people would like you to do it.

01:40:19.920 I know.

01:40:21.180 Including a couple in this room.

01:40:22.640 If I'm not saying that.

01:40:23.540 All right.

01:40:23.680 I think this is turning ugly on me.

01:40:25.260 So let's go right over to Pat and find out what's on his mind today.

01:40:28.600 A little depressed today.

01:40:30.300 Oh my gosh.

01:40:30.960 Hugh Hefner.

01:40:31.440 We lost him.

01:40:32.080 Oh boy.

01:40:32.600 We lost him.

01:40:33.120 Oh boy.

01:40:33.900 Did he just break it to us like that?

01:40:35.500 Well,

01:40:35.860 he's sick.

01:40:36.460 He doesn't feel good at all.

01:40:37.480 He's dead.

01:40:38.040 Oh my.

01:40:38.860 Okay.

01:40:39.300 Good.

01:40:39.540 Thank you for taking me all the way through that.

01:40:41.080 Yeah.

01:40:41.200 91.

01:40:43.200 And I love the Twitter love for him.

01:40:47.940 All of all of these celebrities and,

01:40:51.120 and fans telling him what an uncompromising force he was.

01:40:56.320 Rest in peace.

01:40:57.320 He was.

01:40:57.980 He was.

01:40:58.240 Your legacy and soul shall live on forever.

01:41:03.120 And some would say in a never ending burning lake of fire,

01:41:06.260 but.

01:41:06.800 Some would say that.

01:41:07.900 It will go.

01:41:08.780 I'm not his judge,

01:41:10.220 but I'm just saying he's going to burn in the fires of hell.

01:41:14.420 You know,

01:41:15.120 he got generations of men hooked on porn.

01:41:18.200 What a legacy.

01:41:19.620 You know,

01:41:20.020 it leads to sexual dysfunction,

01:41:22.140 marital problems.

01:41:22.880 He probably contributed pretty well to the divorce rate in this country.

01:41:26.400 Sure he did.

01:41:26.760 I bet he did.

01:41:27.580 I'm sure he did.

01:41:27.940 He paid women to have sex with him and live with him. 0.96

01:41:30.160 He exploited and objectified women.

01:41:32.180 And by the way,

01:41:32.660 where's the women's groups on that?

01:41:34.620 Nobody's saying this guy wasn't a good guy.

01:41:37.280 You know why?

01:41:37.820 You know why they didn't?

01:41:38.940 Because he,

01:41:39.620 one of the first things he did is said,

01:41:41.220 I'm going to take on abortion. 0.86

01:41:43.080 I believe in free abortions. 0.81

01:41:45.100 Of course he does.

01:41:46.260 That way.

01:41:46.720 Of course he does.

01:41:48.320 That way.

01:41:49.340 Wipe out his whole net worth if he had to pay for them.

01:41:51.740 But,

01:41:52.200 but also that way he got,

01:41:53.960 you know,

01:41:54.240 all the women's groups that they're real. 0.83

01:41:56.700 They don't care about women. 0.98

01:41:57.520 They care about,

01:41:58.120 they care about their agenda agenda,

01:42:00.640 their leftist agenda.

01:42:01.760 Yeah.

01:42:01.880 There is no way that guy didn't contribute greatly to the moral breakdown of this country.

01:42:05.800 I don't think.

01:42:07.000 So we were just talking about this,

01:42:08.300 Pat.

01:42:08.880 I don't know of somebody,

01:42:11.080 you know,

01:42:11.320 when we all die,

01:42:12.580 you know,

01:42:14.240 very few of us,

01:42:15.460 people are going to say they made an impact.

01:42:18.420 You made an impact.

01:42:19.680 Yeah.

01:42:20.060 Really rare that somebody's dies and you say that person changed a culture.

01:42:25.240 He did.

01:42:25.960 He did.

01:42:26.340 He changed a culture.

01:42:27.520 I can't think of anybody who has led to more bad stuff in our culture.

01:42:33.280 Seriously.

01:42:33.800 In my lifetime than Hugh Hefner.

01:42:35.600 We went from a society that couldn't show a married couple in bed together to naked women in magazines all over the place. 1.00

01:42:45.840 To billboards that can show everything to,

01:42:48.760 well,

01:42:49.580 to where we are now.

01:42:50.740 And we went there pretty quickly after Playboy debuted.

01:42:54.020 And really outside of the L McPherson issue,

01:42:56.020 it's hard to point to real positives.

01:42:58.420 I mean,

01:42:59.120 now the,

01:43:00.140 I think we all would admit.

01:43:02.180 No,

01:43:02.420 he got some things right.

01:43:03.860 He got some things right.

01:43:05.420 He got some things right.

01:43:06.560 I want to.

01:43:07.420 Nobody's saying he featured ugly women. 1.00

01:43:09.720 I don't think anybody's saying.

01:43:10.760 In fact,

01:43:11.080 I would have liked to have heard that conversation between he and St.

01:43:13.660 Peter on the other side.

01:43:14.700 Oh,

01:43:14.860 that would have been interesting.

01:43:15.360 Okay.

01:43:15.700 So it says here that you lived your life in your jammies and took pictures of naked women your whole life.

01:43:22.860 Hugh,

01:43:23.100 you've already experienced heaven on earth.

01:43:25.100 We got something else in mind for you now.

01:43:30.660 Do you think he,

01:43:31.540 do you think he ever got to a point to where he was like,

01:43:35.500 man,

01:43:35.740 I wear pajamas every day.

01:43:37.780 I just want to take the day off and just,

01:43:41.260 I want to spend the day in a suit.

01:43:42.840 You'd have to,

01:43:46.260 I guess.

01:43:46.820 You'd want tight fitting clothes.

01:43:49.100 I'm tired of just always having to wear the pajamas.

01:43:52.420 Way too comfortable.

01:43:53.580 Oh,

01:43:53.820 I just want to wear a tie.

01:43:55.620 The coverage was interesting too,

01:43:57.160 because they had,

01:43:57.800 first of all,

01:43:58.120 he was buried next to Marilyn Monroe,

01:44:00.020 which is a kind of interesting twist to this.

01:44:02.720 Yeah,

01:44:03.060 it is.

01:44:03.440 But the,

01:44:04.380 you know,

01:44:04.600 all the news,

01:44:05.660 he's a big celebrity.

01:44:06.520 People know who he is.

01:44:07.580 So they're doing this,

01:44:08.620 this big,

01:44:09.520 you know,

01:44:10.560 Hey,

01:44:10.860 let's,

01:44:11.380 this is what,

01:44:11.960 of course,

01:44:12.200 every news broadcast does now.

01:44:13.500 It's like,

01:44:13.820 Oh,

01:44:14.340 hello,

01:44:14.600 someone,

01:44:15.160 you know,

01:44:15.440 has died over the night.

01:44:16.840 We have really nothing to say about it.

01:44:18.440 So let's feature tweets from other people.

01:44:20.540 You might know,

01:44:21.420 like,

01:44:22.020 for example,

01:44:22.680 and they'll just cycle through like mediocre celebrities saying like Hugh Hefner's soul is what you will live on forever.

01:44:30.160 So they did this and they're cycling through the typical celebrities that we're mentioning and people who are his contemporaries that are somehow still alive.

01:44:37.160 And then they get to,

01:44:38.480 um,

01:44:39.020 uh,

01:44:39.820 Jesse Jackson.

01:44:42.160 Now listen to this.

01:44:43.140 This is great.

01:44:43.900 Listen to this.

01:44:44.840 Jesse Jackson goes,

01:44:46.280 Hugh Hefner,

01:44:47.700 a man,

01:44:48.480 I don't have the exact quotes.

01:44:49.620 I'm,

01:44:49.720 I'm paraphrasing.

01:44:50.680 Hugh Hefner,

01:44:51.000 a man who stood up and fought tough battles for civil rights.

01:44:56.420 He will always be remembered.

01:44:59.100 Aren't you a reverend?

01:45:00.680 A reverend is remembering Hugh Hefner like that.

01:45:05.960 Now,

01:45:06.160 he did fight for that.

01:45:08.060 The answer to that is,

01:45:09.440 no,

01:45:09.980 he's not a reverend.

01:45:12.020 No,

01:45:12.220 he's,

01:45:12.420 yeah,

01:45:12.520 and that's the thing.

01:45:13.100 He's just,

01:45:13.660 no,

01:45:13.980 he's not.

01:45:15.360 You know anybody in his congregation?

01:45:17.480 I don't either.

01:45:18.620 I don't.

01:45:19.080 No.

01:45:19.800 No.

01:45:19.980 No.

01:45:20.140 Pat Gray Unleashed coming up on the Blaze Radio and Television Networks.

01:45:29.740 Listen every day and subscribe on iTunes to the podcast.

01:45:34.060 It's really great.

01:45:34.980 And by the way,

01:45:35.740 Doc Thompson starts the day at,

01:45:38.240 what,

01:45:39.040 5 a.m.

01:45:39.720 Central Time every day.

01:45:41.760 And he's great.

01:45:43.220 So you can watch it and listen to it.

01:45:45.200 Blaze Radio.

01:45:46.320 Start your day with us and my program.

01:45:49.640 And then Pat after that.

01:45:51.460 143 million Americans.

01:45:53.440 That is the number that is affected by the Equifax breach.

01:45:57.660 Have you checked your credit card status?

01:46:00.380 Have you checked your credit status at all?

01:46:02.520 Were you a part of this Equifax hacking?

01:46:06.820 These hackers now have the information to identify the identity thieves want and need to impersonate you.

01:46:13.420 They have your name.

01:46:14.740 They have your social security number.

01:46:16.020 They have your birth date.

01:46:16.800 They have your addresses.

01:46:18.340 Now, with that, they can destroy your life.

01:46:23.720 They can open credit cards.

01:46:26.060 They can take out loans.

01:46:27.280 They can apply for mortgages in your name.

01:46:30.540 So what do you do?

01:46:31.700 I mean, it's Equifax.

01:46:32.940 For the love of Pete, it's Equifax.

01:46:36.280 Well, you put LifeLock on.

01:46:38.320 And you make sure that you...

01:46:39.480 I remember...

01:46:41.440 Wasn't it LifeLock where the CEO came out originally and put his social security number on buses?

01:46:47.740 Remember that?

01:46:48.420 Yeah, I think so.

01:46:49.400 And he was like, that's my social security number.

01:46:51.040 And nobody's going to...

01:46:51.760 They can't do that now.

01:46:53.360 I mean, you just can't do that anymore.

01:46:56.640 Nobody can guarantee that nobody's going to get into anything.

01:47:00.060 Nobody can monitor everything that's happening.

01:47:02.700 The world has changed.

01:47:04.620 But you have to just take steps to minimize the possibility of it and then make sure it's put together afterwards.

01:47:09.920 Correct.

01:47:10.120 God forbid if something happens.

01:47:11.780 And LifeLock does that.

01:47:12.760 I remember when he was doing that, I remember thinking, nobody's trying to steal my identity.

01:47:18.020 Oh, my gosh.

01:47:19.640 Now they are.

01:47:20.600 And it is a global epidemic.

01:47:23.820 If you don't think Russians aren't sitting there in their Hugh Hefner underpants and hacking in, that's where a lot of this is coming from. 1.00

01:47:32.320 If there is a problem, a U.S.-based identity restoration specialist is going to work to fix it.

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01:47:58.980 Glenn Beck.

01:48:03.900 Glenn Beck.

01:48:04.960 Welcome back to the program.

01:48:14.860 There's a couple of things that I want to make sure that you know about.

01:48:18.140 Puerto Rico, the hurricane victims are having a hard time getting help, and that's for a few reasons.

01:48:26.400 The ports are all down, so getting ships there, it is why we didn't send the USS Comfort right away, because the ports could not take.

01:48:36.560 This is the Puerto Rican governor said, please don't send it.

01:48:39.260 The ports can't take it, and so we haven't sent it.

01:48:43.440 I think it's on its way, but it's not there yet.

01:48:45.880 They're still trying to work on all of the ports, which is stopping supplies from coming in.

01:48:50.660 Also, the USS Comfort was not there because the governor of Puerto Rico said, could you help us please fix the hospitals first?

01:48:58.320 So that's what we're trying to do is get the hospitals up and running.

01:49:01.320 I know Team Rubicon and Mercury One are trying.

01:49:04.400 They already have one team on the ground there, but we're trying to get more on the ground.

01:49:08.940 The problem is we think we can get supplies there.

01:49:14.360 We think we can pull that off.

01:49:17.060 But the real problem is how do you get them from the airport?

01:49:20.380 The supplies are coming off of these containers that are on these giant cargo planes.

01:49:27.100 They're coming off, but they're just sitting there now at the airport because there's no fuel for any trucks.

01:49:31.840 They can't find the truck drivers because there's no cell service.

01:49:34.580 They can't organize anything yet.

01:49:36.960 This is going to take kind of a Marshall Plan airlift to get this thing done.

01:49:41.880 And we've had so many natural disasters lately, taking the focus off of a few of the really important things going on.

01:49:47.580 The opioid crisis is something we've talked about a little bit, and it's a huge crisis in the country.

01:49:53.820 Vice did an article about the secret lives of functioning heroin users, and they had some interesting perspective.

01:49:59.820 Functioning heroin.

01:50:00.740 Apparently they're still trying to work.

01:50:02.440 But one of the things is that the economic situation has really played into this and had people, you know, it's worse and worse because of the economic situation.

01:50:14.680 This is what Vice writes.

01:50:16.040 Ed Murray has helped create Seattle's economic troubles.

01:50:19.040 He resigned as the city's mayor a couple weeks ago because he sexually abused five young men and boys.

01:50:24.520 In 2014, Seattle's Progressive City Council voted to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour over a period of years.

01:50:32.040 The left rejoiced.

01:50:33.140 Murray had run on a platform calling for the raise.

01:50:36.440 Three years later, things haven't worked out the way the central planners wanted.

01:50:41.300 When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour,

01:50:46.220 they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers, reported the Washington Post.

01:50:50.100 Yet, according to a major new study that could force economists to reassess past research on the issue,

01:50:56.880 the hike has had the opposite effect.

01:50:59.460 Of course.

01:51:00.080 Of course.

01:51:00.960 Some employers have not been able to afford the increased minimums.

01:51:03.520 They've cut their payrolls, putting off new hiring, reducing hours, or letting their workers go, the study found.

01:51:08.480 Did the Seattle Council members pause?

01:51:11.200 No.

01:51:12.300 The heroes of the people are unstoppable.

01:51:14.700 Seattle City Council voted unanimously to create a new income tax on high earners.

01:51:20.260 It's going to drive those people out.

01:51:22.140 Amazing.

01:51:22.640 The measure requires residents making more than $250,000 annually,

01:51:26.680 or couples making over $500,000 to pay an extra 2.25% tax on incomes above these levels.

01:51:33.340 It was initially voted down, but they're going to try to push it through.

01:51:36.680 I will tell you, the only things that are saving Seattle, Microsoft, Amazon, and Costco.

01:51:45.160 Those three businesses.

01:51:47.400 Microsoft, Amazon, and Costco.

01:51:48.760 No Starbucks?

01:51:49.900 Doesn't Starbucks get credit for something?

01:51:51.200 Yeah, I'm going to guess Starbucks.

01:51:52.280 I'll throw that in.

01:51:52.680 Maybe.

01:51:52.960 I don't know how many people they employ in Seattle, but, I mean, in an actual headquarters sort of way.

01:51:57.920 Right, right, sure.

01:51:58.540 But they're changing, you know, Amazon and Apple, and to some degree, Costco, changing, really, truly changing everything.

01:52:07.300 And how long can you afford?

01:52:11.860 Because this is only going to get worse.

01:52:13.880 This is what progressives do.

01:52:15.520 They start on one thing, and then that doesn't work.

01:52:18.220 So then they have to change another thing, and then that doesn't work.

01:52:21.120 And then they have to change another thing.

01:52:22.600 And they impoverish everyone all along the way.

01:52:26.780 So it's where California is, and it just becomes unlivable, and people become wards of the state.

01:52:36.240 They can't get out.

01:52:37.580 They can't afford to get out, and you're trapped there.

01:52:40.660 And before that happens, usually companies leave.

01:52:43.820 Now, because, you know, Microsoft and I would imagine Amazon are so progressive that, you know, they're going to do everything they can.

01:52:55.540 But at some point, you leave because you can't afford business there.

01:53:00.780 And then what happens?

01:53:05.140 Glenn Beck.

01:53:13.820 Glenn Beck.

01:53:39.140 Glenn Beck.

01:53:39.200 Glenn Beck.

01:53:41.440 That was right.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 28, 2017

9⧸28⧸17 - ＂Chaos is the name of the game＂ (Michael Malice, Scott Lincicome & Judge Ted Stewart join Glenn)

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