The Glenn Beck Program - 9⧸5⧸17

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00:00:11.100 Love. Courage. Truth.

00:00:15.100 Forty minutes is all you'll have.

00:00:17.980 That's how long it would take a nuclear missile to travel from North Korea to New York City.

00:00:23.540 And everybody you know who lives around you is dead.

00:00:27.980 A matter of seconds, lives are wiped out.

00:00:34.900 That's what happens if a hydrogen bomb would be dropped.

00:00:39.200 In Manhattan, thermal radiation would spread way past Yonkers in the north and as far south as Staten Island.

00:00:47.760 A huge portion of New York City, one of the greatest cities in the world, wiped off the map.

00:00:54.000 Same would happen with Los Angeles or Kansas City.

00:01:00.320 Over the weekend, North Korea claimed to have this capability.

00:01:07.400 As we were packing up our minivans and setting out on Labor Day weekend trips,

00:01:12.260 Kim Jong-un was taking selfies next to a miniaturized warhead.

00:01:18.440 There was a poster in the background.

00:01:20.420 It showed the warhead neatly inside the tip of an ICBM.

00:01:27.680 Then, a few hours later, an earthquake, 6.3 on the Richter scale, was felt as far away as China.

00:01:38.900 Windows rattled in buildings on the Chinese border.

00:01:41.860 It was not only North Korea's sixth nuclear test.

00:01:47.620 It was the most powerful and significant one so far.

00:01:53.400 The United Nations freaking out.

00:01:55.040 They don't know what to do.

00:01:55.900 The entire world has underestimated North Korea's nuclear program.

00:02:00.060 We just said, what was it, six months ago?

00:02:02.580 It'll be two years before they even have an ICBM.

00:02:05.840 They had one within a week.

00:02:07.340 Yeah, but they're never going to be able to tip it with a nuclear weapon.

00:02:09.940 They had that within two more weeks.

00:02:12.880 Now they have a hydrogen bomb.

00:02:16.220 H-bombs are entirely different.

00:02:19.420 The power of the bomb tested on Sunday far surpasses the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I believe, combined.

00:02:28.740 These are city killers.

00:02:33.000 And that is the power that the crazy man with a funny haircut now has.

00:02:39.940 So what do we do now?

00:02:46.880 Historically, a move like this has either brought our enemies to their knees or ignited an all-out war.

00:02:57.340 Because usually we respond with an embargo of some sort, like an oil embargo.

00:03:02.700 And this is what brought Kim Jong-un's father to the table back in the 90s.

00:03:06.200 But will it work for his son now that he has a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM?

00:03:10.920 Or could he react the way Japan reacted to us in World War II because it was an oil embargo on Japan from the United States that convinced Japan that they had to go to war and attack Pearl Harbor?

00:03:33.040 I don't know what the president did this weekend.

00:03:39.400 I know he was in Houston and he is dealing with all kinds of problems.

00:03:44.480 But I think all of us and those in the White House and the Pentagon, we might all be well served by going back and watching the movie War Games.

00:03:53.620 Do you remember, Joshua?

00:03:55.420 Shall we play a game?

00:03:59.160 This was Matthew Broderick playing a computer game, he thought, but it was a war game with the Pentagon.

00:04:09.260 Kim Jong-un and President Trump are locked in their own game right now.

00:04:13.480 Who is going to blink?

00:04:14.620 In War Games, we found out in that big, hollow room in the Pentagon, Joshua played all of the scenarios and then finally said,

00:04:28.480 The only winning move is not to play.

00:04:31.860 The only winning move is not to play.

00:04:38.080 The only problem with this is, that was a movie.

00:04:42.420 This isn't a game.

00:04:46.640 This is our life.

00:04:58.180 It's Tuesday, September 5th.

00:05:00.620 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:05:04.820 On the president's plate now, Hurricane Harvey.

00:05:09.060 $8 billion he needs from Congress.

00:05:12.900 He's got to get Congress to move the debt limit.

00:05:17.500 The investigations are continuing on Russia.

00:05:20.400 He now has Korea.

00:05:23.200 He has another thing he's dealing with, Keith Schiller, his former bodyguard.

00:05:29.060 He apparently is crushed by the departure of this man who's been by his side forever.

00:05:36.840 However, he's got a lot going on his plate.

00:05:40.180 And then we have Antifa.

00:05:42.260 Do we have an update on Antifa, what happened this weekend?

00:05:45.220 Well, the LA, California is now trying to classify them as a street gang, which is, the Berkeley mayor said Antifa is no different than a street gang.

00:05:56.280 However, I totally disagree with that.

00:05:58.740 And it's much, much worse than a street gang.

00:06:01.760 But yes, it's similar.

00:06:02.640 Have you noticed, though, that they're starting to turn?

00:06:04.340 Everybody is starting to turn on Antifa, which is a really good thing.

00:06:08.040 Well, not everybody is starting to turn.

00:06:09.680 They're starting.

00:06:10.540 They're slowly coming to this.

00:06:12.560 When you've lost Nancy Pelosi, though.

00:06:14.640 That is a big moment in your life.

00:06:16.480 You've lost a lot.

00:06:16.960 Let me share something with you.

00:06:20.660 Yesterday, we celebrated Labor Day.

00:06:25.160 And do we even know what we were really celebrating?

00:06:27.660 Do we even know that this came from Canada?

00:06:30.760 It's Marxist.

00:06:32.100 It was a union strike, riots, death.

00:06:36.100 And the very first time, we've heard this in every movie.

00:06:39.100 I mean, you know, I've watched Air Force One.

00:06:43.140 Mr. President, we cannot negotiate with terrorists.

00:06:46.960 Do you realize that this, that Labor Day, is our negotiation with terrorists?

00:06:56.060 That's the only reason why we have this?

00:07:00.520 In the late 1800s, Americans started to gravitate towards labor unions.

00:07:06.120 And we did it because everything in factories were horrible.

00:07:10.280 The factories and the mines, all of the things that were fueling the second industrial revolution.

00:07:15.860 Unions were needed because people were working 12-hour, 15-hour workdays, seven-day work weeks.

00:07:24.220 There was no compensation if you were hurt on the job.

00:07:27.720 You had low wages, no benefits, inadequate breaks.

00:07:31.820 They were filthy, dangerous workspaces.

00:07:35.320 You want to talk about a safe space?

00:07:37.160 I don't think there was any.

00:07:38.240 And the problem was, is America went through a change kind of exactly the way it's going through right now.

00:07:49.460 To where it's leaving a whole group of people behind because we haven't figured it out yet.

00:07:55.420 And so in the late 1800s, the industrial revolution was, was leaving a whole group of people behind.

00:08:04.120 And this is where Marxism, Marxist, socialist, the antiphaz of the world, this is their sweet spot.

00:08:13.520 Because there is a sense of basic unfairness.

00:08:16.600 And it's down at the bottom.

00:08:20.720 And that is the point that Marxists like to make.

00:08:24.420 Get the bottom to rise up.

00:08:27.480 They want to take the downtrodden.

00:08:30.760 And they want to turn them into revolutionaries.

00:08:33.660 Who will level the playing field by the redistribution of wealth.

00:08:37.640 It's the same story that was, that's happening today, was happening back in the 1800s.

00:08:42.600 So, the factory working conditions and the fact that some people were making a lot of money and some people were working seven days a week and they didn't have anything, gave Marxists a foot in the door.

00:08:56.460 And this is where a guy who most Americans have never even heard of, Paul, no, Peter J. Maguire.

00:09:05.140 This is where he comes in.

00:09:06.840 He was living in New York City.

00:09:08.620 He was an Irish Catholic from New York.

00:09:10.520 He was a devout Marxist.

00:09:13.560 Here is 1874.

00:09:16.260 He co-founds the Social Democratic Working Party of North America.

00:09:21.680 That's the first communist Marxist political party in the U.S.

00:09:26.000 He also found something that we all know because we still have it today.

00:09:32.840 He was the co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, the AFL.

00:09:37.640 AFL-CIO?

00:09:38.460 This became the most powerful union in the country.

00:09:42.620 And his goal, stated, was to convert and transform America to a socialist nation through labor unions.

00:09:52.500 So this is sweeping the entire West because of the Industrial Revolution.

00:09:57.960 And labor officials up in Toronto, Canada, invite this guy and say, you got to come up.

00:10:03.540 We have this labor festival that you're going to love.

00:10:05.640 And it's we've been doing it for 10 years now.

00:10:07.660 You guys have to do this.

00:10:09.120 And so McGuire goes up and he loves it.

00:10:12.580 He comes back and he's like, we have to have a parade.

00:10:15.900 Now, imagine you're a coal miner and you're like, you're going to have a what?

00:10:21.220 We've got to have a parade.

00:10:22.940 So he picks the day of the parade as September 5th.

00:10:28.940 And the reason why is because he felt it fell halfway between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

00:10:37.980 I didn't even know this part of the story.

00:10:42.760 So the parade was a hit.

00:10:44.860 30,000 plus marchers skipped the work for the day in New York.

00:10:50.060 They listen to speeches.

00:10:51.800 The last thing I want to do on my day off is go listen to a bunch of speeches.

00:10:54.560 But they listen to a bunch of speeches about eight hour work days and, you know, how Marxism is going to heal the world, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:11:02.000 And then they have a big parade in New York City.

00:11:04.040 It becomes huge and it becomes an annual event and it catches on all around the country.

00:11:10.080 And the labor unions now are using this and saying all laborers matter.

00:11:17.740 All labor lives matter.

00:11:20.520 Well, except if you're black or you're Asian or you're Irish, then we can't we don't accept you into the AFL.

00:11:27.520 But other than that, all laborers matter.

00:11:32.180 Did I forget to tell you the Marxist that started labor unions before you build a statue?

00:11:37.700 We should probably tear it down because he was a wild racist.

00:11:40.920 Five years go by.

00:11:46.160 Labor Day is now an official holiday in 30 states.

00:11:51.500 But they can't get the United States government to declare it a holiday because of that point.

00:11:55.880 We're not declaring holidays as a federal government.

00:11:58.820 States can do whatever you want.

00:11:59.780 It's 1894, and there is a strike done by the AFL that is huge, and it changes the way America looks at September 5th.

00:12:13.820 It was in Pullman, Illinois.

00:12:15.720 Now, if you've ever heard the name Pullman before, it might be because, you know, George Pullman, you know, Pullman, Illinois, most likely, you know it because of the Pullman train car.

00:12:31.240 I don't think I could tell you what a Pullman train car was other than it was the best train car made, and I think it was a sleeping car.

00:12:44.480 Well, who's who's got the money to stay in those sleeping cars?

00:12:48.660 Oh, my gosh, it's the wealthy people.

00:12:50.560 So, 1894, the economy tanks, and things get really bad, and Pullman, who is this capitalist who actually has a, from what I understand, has a pretty good relationship with his people because he's done kind of what the Cadbury people did, you know, the chocolate people over in England.

00:13:12.860 And that is, they saw that Marxism was not the answer, but they also saw that there were problems, and so Cadbury went and they built themselves a town, and they put doctors in the town, and everybody who worked there could live in the town.

00:13:25.100 Well, Pullman does kind of the same thing, except his heart's not really in it.

00:13:31.100 So, when the economy collapses, he has to lay off hundreds of people.

00:13:35.900 And then anybody who remained, he had to lower their wages, but he also was their landlord, and the landlord side of him was like, I don't care what happened at your job, that doesn't affect me.

00:13:52.000 And so he didn't lower the rent for any of the company houses.

00:13:56.180 This is what opened the door for the Marxists to come in.

00:14:00.300 The evil capitalists can't get away with that.

00:14:03.020 They had to shut him down.

00:14:06.940 So the workers went on strike, and all of the sympathetic railroad workers around the country joined in, and then, just like it does in Berkeley, just like it happens every single time, a Marxist-socialist rally turns violent, turns violent, and rioting sets in.

00:14:26.860 They burn hundreds of these rail cars.

00:14:30.040 The unrest cripples the railroad industry, shuts down the railroad, shuts down the delivery of the U.S. mail, and one of the worst, Grover Cleveland, gets involved.

00:14:47.020 He's president at the time, and he decides he's going to send in 12,000 troops into Chicago to break the strike.

00:14:54.180 How does that work out?

00:14:58.360 Just like you would imagine.

00:15:01.440 The troops and strikers, they start to exchange fire.

00:15:05.220 Two strikers are killed.

00:15:07.380 Now, why doesn't President Cleveland have people on his side?

00:15:12.600 Because there was a problem.

00:15:14.640 People were hungry.

00:15:16.240 People weren't looking at reason anymore, and they were seeing people get rich while they were being screwed.

00:15:22.320 It's the only reason why the labor unions were necessary, because there was a need for somebody to stand up.

00:15:31.780 President Cleveland is, this is not a good response, and he's now in crisis, and it's also a midterm election year, and the Democrats don't want to lose.

00:15:45.880 So, what does Cleveland do?

00:15:51.100 As he's getting ready to pull the troops out, he holds negotiations, and Congress rams through a bill to make Labor Day a federal holiday.

00:16:02.120 We negotiated with the terrorists.

00:16:05.780 We said, if you pull out, we'll not only help you with Pullman, but we'll also make Labor Day a national holiday.

00:16:14.220 Of course, we don't negotiate with terrorists, so we're going to wait a whole six days after the strike was broken, and then we'll do it.

00:16:24.520 But those are two, they're completely unrelated.

00:16:28.960 The Marxist terrorists had torched the railways.

00:16:33.160 The trains across the country had stopped.

00:16:36.380 And the president delivered his first gift.

00:16:40.420 What we celebrated yesterday was a Canadian idea copied in America by the Marxist founder of the American Socialist Party

00:16:53.580 and the AFL.

00:16:56.980 It was made a federal holiday by a Congress and president trying just to save face and win votes in an election year.

00:17:04.160 And it was the very first of countless bones that the Democratic Party would throw to labor unions over the next century.

00:17:15.660 By the way, Peter J. Maguire, the Marxist, racist, anti-immigrant co-founder of the American Socialist Party, AFL.

00:17:27.080 In 1901, it ended for him the way it usually ends for these guys, either in a violent death or going to jail.

00:17:38.340 In 1901, he was arrested for embezzling union funds, stealing from the workers.

00:17:47.800 Because I guess, for some people, socialism, it moves too slowly in the redistribution of wealth.

00:18:12.920 North Korea, what does the president do on North Korea?

00:18:17.800 We come back with that next.

00:18:37.360 Shall we play a game?

00:18:39.880 No, really, no.

00:18:42.060 I don't want to play a game.

00:18:43.220 I don't know if you heard Nikki Haley's speech at the UN.

00:18:51.440 Did you read it, Stu?

00:18:53.440 Yeah.

00:18:54.040 It's a little terrifying.

00:18:55.920 Yeah.

00:18:57.400 I mean, do you have a problem with what she said?

00:19:01.160 No, I actually agree with everything she said.

00:19:03.300 Yeah.

00:19:03.640 It's just a little terrifying.

00:19:05.540 It's like one of those things where we're doing that thing where we just escalate our language and the way we say things.

00:19:13.380 That's our way of attacking.

00:19:14.920 But it's not going to last long.

00:19:16.400 You can't just escalate the language.

00:19:19.460 I don't know.

00:19:20.460 Look at the global warming people do it.

00:19:22.480 Like, they say, like, oh, you know what?

00:19:23.600 500 years from now, we are in serious trouble.

00:19:25.480 You know what?

00:19:25.780 It's 100 years.

00:19:26.460 We are now currently on fire.

00:19:28.740 Like, that is, you just constantly kind of up it, and maybe that works.

00:19:32.000 I think we are currently on fire.

00:19:34.040 The problem is, is there's going to come a time when you're going to say, okay, so now what?

00:19:39.440 Because we've already said, oh, well, you know what?

00:19:41.700 We're going to come out.

00:19:42.480 And somebody is going to say, oh, well, Mr. President, you're going to lose all credibility if we don't do something.

00:19:49.300 No, I just, I think we should just quiet.

00:19:54.500 But it's worked really well so far, the quietness.

00:19:57.780 It's worked incredibly well.

00:19:59.600 The time to do that was then.

00:20:03.340 Not now.

00:20:03.560 Before 2006, when they actually came up with nuclear weapons.

00:20:06.840 Yes.

00:20:06.940 That would have been good timing.

00:20:07.780 Yes.

00:20:08.120 Where were you?

00:20:09.200 I'm saying that back then.

00:20:10.760 I was saying that back then.

00:20:12.880 I don't know if you, you were there.

00:20:15.020 So I do know you were, you remember that.

00:20:17.420 I was there.

00:20:17.920 You know, they keep, they put themselves in this little box, though, right?

00:20:21.840 They keep escalating the language, keep saying they are not going to kick the, we have kicked

00:20:26.180 the can down the road long enough.

00:20:27.460 There is no more road left, is what Nikki Haley said.

00:20:30.140 She says that they are begging for war, which they may very well be, but.

00:20:35.800 I'm not going to give it to them.

00:20:36.980 I don't want, I mean.

00:20:37.680 Sometimes I walk past people who are begging for things on the street and I just don't give

00:20:41.100 it to them.

00:20:42.040 I'm like, oh, you're the total wuss who does that every time.

00:20:44.740 I've been, I've walked down too many streets with you.

00:20:46.940 I've walked down too many streets to know that you don't walk by beggars without giving

00:20:50.840 them money and you don't walk by hot dog stands.

00:20:52.640 Those two things are clear.

00:20:53.820 I think this time I'm going to walk by them.

00:20:56.080 I think this time I'm going to walk by.

00:20:58.460 Here's what she says.

00:21:00.420 I must say enough is enough.

00:21:02.860 We've taken the incremental approach and despite all of the best intentions, it hasn't worked.

00:21:08.380 Members of this council will no doubt urge negotiations and return to talks.

00:21:13.200 But as I have just outlined, we have engaged in numerous direct and multilateral talks with

00:21:19.080 North Korea and time after time, they haven't worked.

00:21:21.860 His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war.

00:21:27.980 War is something the United States never wants.

00:21:32.040 We don't want it now, but our country's patience is not unlimited.

00:21:37.580 Now, when it comes to nuclear war, I think I'm really patient.

00:21:43.200 I think I'm really patient.

00:21:44.680 I have very little self-control in my life, but I think I'm pretty patient on that one.

00:21:47.860 This is like, want another hot dog?

00:21:50.660 Yeah.

00:21:51.480 One nuclear war?

00:21:52.420 No, I'm going to wait on that one.

00:21:53.820 I'm going to wait.

00:21:54.760 I might go swimming.

00:21:56.040 So I don't want to swim with an ICBM in my tummy.

00:22:00.060 The she says, the idea, as some have suggested, a so-called freeze for freeze is insulting.

00:22:07.520 When a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an ICBM pointed at you, you don't take steps

00:22:12.680 to lower your guard.

00:22:14.040 No one would do that.

00:22:15.540 We certainly won't.

00:22:17.200 The time has come to exhaust all diplomatic means to the end of this crisis.

00:22:21.060 And that means quickly enacting the strongest possible measures here in the UN Security Council.

00:22:27.280 Only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy.

00:22:32.000 We've kicked the can down the road long enough, and there's no more road left.

00:22:36.580 The crisis goes well beyond the UN.

00:22:39.040 The United States will look at every country that does business with North Korea as a country

00:22:42.980 that is giving aid to their reckless and dangerous nuclear intentions.

00:22:46.560 And what we do on North Korea will have a real impact on how other outlaw nations who

00:22:51.620 seek nuclear weapons choose to conduct themselves in the future.

00:22:55.800 The stakes couldn't be higher.

00:22:57.200 The urgency is now.

00:22:59.160 24 years of half measures and failed talks is enough.

00:23:03.940 I agree with absolutely every word she said.

00:23:06.780 And she's been really solid so far.

00:23:09.900 And this is not at all, despite what the media wants to make it into, a Trump problem.

00:23:13.680 This is something Trump is trying to clean up, that the last two presidents have screwed up.

00:23:17.320 The last four presidents.

00:23:19.000 I mean, yeah, they got nuclear weapons in 2006.

00:23:21.440 But yeah, go back to Clinton easily.

00:23:22.600 Yeah.

00:23:23.420 And I mean, I've been saying this.

00:23:25.420 You've been with me the whole time.

00:23:26.720 How long we've been together?

00:23:27.640 Almost 20 years.

00:23:28.540 I've been saying this the whole time.

00:23:29.940 One of these days, Iran and North Korea are going to cross a line, and it will be too late,

00:23:35.920 and all of your options will be deadly.

00:23:38.540 And you won't be able to move.

00:23:39.940 Now is the time to move.

00:23:41.620 Eh, they decided not to.

00:23:43.640 We decided to talk.

00:23:45.900 So now what do you do?

00:23:47.180 So now you're advocating talk.

00:23:49.600 Well, no.

00:23:50.280 Now I'm advocating you give, we pour money into nuclear shields.

00:23:58.500 We make sure that all of our allies have a nuclear shield, the best we can come up with.

00:24:05.200 You want it, Japan?

00:24:06.780 We're not going to pay for it.

00:24:08.500 You want it?

00:24:09.400 You pay for it.

00:24:10.460 We'll ship it over.

00:24:12.580 And everybody put, you know, I've seen Star Trek.

00:24:15.720 Shields up.

00:24:16.440 It works.

00:24:18.140 You put the shields up, and you, because you cannot strike them first.

00:24:23.940 You can't strike first.

00:24:27.680 We, didn't we have this argument?

00:24:29.020 I mean, I.

00:24:29.580 He is definitely trying to goad us into striking first.

00:24:32.200 Of course he is.

00:24:32.720 I mean, it seems like.

00:24:33.760 Because it will not go our way.

00:24:35.140 Because then everyone will side with them, and it's the only way they can win.

00:24:39.600 The oppressor hitting the oppressed.

00:24:42.180 That's exactly what they're going to say.

00:24:45.000 And it will sweep the world, and we'll be the bad guy, and we'll be standing around going,

00:24:49.960 wait, guys, but wait, don't you understand?

00:24:51.920 No, the world doesn't ever understand.

00:24:55.660 Shields up.

00:24:56.360 Shh.

00:24:58.680 Quiet.

00:24:59.900 The discussion on, I think it was CNN earlier today, talking about what our options are.

00:25:04.980 They came up with two.

00:25:06.460 And I think you'll be picked from these and be really happy.

00:25:08.820 One was we go to China and make them cut off their oil supply.

00:25:15.580 Right?

00:25:15.820 You mentioned the oil embargo earlier.

00:25:17.720 The idea that they would not get any fuel.

00:25:19.680 They get something like 95% of their fuel from China.

00:25:22.720 So we go to China and make them do it.

00:25:24.640 No indication that China would participate in this whatsoever.

00:25:28.960 No, China is not going to participate.

00:25:30.420 China is in trouble themselves economically.

00:25:32.700 Yeah, and not to mention, the response to that seems to be right now,

00:25:36.680 well, we'll stop trading with China, which is not something that is realistic.

00:25:40.200 Really?

00:25:40.460 Hang on just a second.

00:25:41.500 Tell me how that works.

00:25:42.960 Tell me how that works at your local Walmart.

00:25:45.220 Well, and not to mention, I mean, how many exporters from the United States

00:25:48.800 export incredible amounts to China?

00:25:51.460 Remember, they're the number two exporter in the world.

00:25:53.680 Only China's ahead of us.

00:25:55.300 So you do that, you put multiple millions of people in the United States

00:25:59.340 out of work with that deal, which is a terrible idea.

00:26:02.380 Hang on just a second.

00:26:03.240 It reminds me of something I heard somebody say once.

00:26:06.120 Oh, if you don't act now, you'll be out of options and all of them will suck.

00:26:09.760 I'm sorry.

00:26:10.160 Go ahead.

00:26:10.500 Right.

00:26:11.060 So we could do that, which there's no reason to believe they would participate.

00:26:16.100 No, in fact, you have history teaching you that this is the people don't understand this.

00:26:24.240 World War One in many ways, or sorry, World War Two in many ways was set up by us.

00:26:29.880 It wasn't caused by us, but it was set up by us because we made England choose.

00:26:36.360 We told them to sink their Navy so they had no strength against the Germans, and then we appeased.

00:26:45.280 We humiliated Germany.

00:26:46.700 We did.

00:26:47.300 We humiliated Germany.

00:26:48.740 We did not try to be fair in the negotiations at all.

00:26:55.180 Screw the Germans.

00:26:57.200 We let the passion rule our day.

00:26:59.700 We took away the Navy, and then we said, by the way, England, you have to choose.

00:27:06.540 It's either the United States or it is Japan.

00:27:10.280 Well, they chose us because we had all the gold and the power.

00:27:13.380 And that humiliated, and they even said at the time, don't make us choose, that we'll humiliate the Japanese, and they're all about honor.

00:27:23.140 And then we put an oil embargo on Japan, and Japan looked at that as an act of war, and so what did they do?

00:27:29.600 December 7th, 1941.

00:27:31.180 I'm not saying that we weren't justified or that we caused them to bomb Pearl Harbor, but we set the conditions.

00:27:38.300 That's what's happening now.

00:27:39.860 Let's not set these conditions.

00:27:43.380 Yeah, no, I mean, this is a great way to think about it.

00:27:45.860 I will say we've known about this for a long time.

00:27:48.740 Well, you're right.

00:27:49.060 We haven't dealt with it.

00:27:49.720 You keep bringing up that you've been talking about this for a long time.

00:27:52.220 We really learned about this, I think, first in 1987 in Superman IV, The Quest for Peace, where they, I mean, we knew nuclear man was a threat.

00:28:00.160 We knew it.

00:28:00.880 Did we act on it?

00:28:01.820 No, we did nothing.

00:28:02.800 We sat back and we waited, and, you know, Christopher Reeve tried to warn us.

00:28:07.900 What was, I'd like to, I mean, I have a feeling Christopher Reeve's solution is better than the second solution from CNN, but what was the second possibility from CNN?

00:28:18.100 I guess if you want to ignore the history, that's fine.

00:28:21.120 Yeah, they would sabotage.

00:28:23.080 We go in undercover.

00:28:24.720 We sabotage their infrastructure, their energy infrastructure, including with potential cyber attacks, which, of course, as we're currently trying to make the case to the world that you should not use cyber attacks to attack energy infrastructure because we're afraid of it happening to us.

00:28:41.380 We would potentially do that there, which is a theoretical possibility, however, very difficult to do and sends an incredibly odd message to the rest of the world as we're trying to enforce this.

00:28:54.660 It sends the message that cyber warfare can be done, should be done, and is fair.

00:29:05.740 It's, honestly, it is the first to unleash a chemical weapon or a nuclear weapon.

00:29:14.360 The weapon of the future is cyber.

00:29:17.380 However, shut down the power plants, the power grids, shut all of it down, and you win.

00:29:27.320 I mean, look, it's already happening, obviously, though, right?

00:29:29.260 We're doing what other countries are doing.

00:29:31.020 We're not doing it outwardly.

00:29:32.180 We did it in Iran earlier.

00:29:35.360 But you're right.

00:29:36.220 Nobody's saying it.

00:29:37.960 And I think the bigger question is if we could even do it, if we could do it.

00:29:43.040 It's not like we could just walk down, you know, send a bunch of people into downtown Pyongyang and pull this off.

00:29:49.120 It's a closed society.

00:29:50.160 It's difficult.

00:29:51.840 By the way, there are 38,000 long-term Japanese residents and another 19,000 tourists and short-term travelers in South Korea.

00:30:02.240 After the test that happened on Sunday, the largest ever underground nuclear test for North Korea,

00:30:08.460 the Japanese government began to draft a plan to get all of its citizens out of South Korea.

00:30:21.500 We've never, ever needed cooler heads.

00:30:26.580 We've never, ever needed prayer and decency and common sense more than we need it now.

00:30:38.460 We've never, ever needed prayer and decency and common sense more than we need it now.

00:31:08.440 And the things that I saw are just incomprehensible, incomprehensible.

00:31:15.660 Imagine, imagine leaving your house like you did today and you come back two days later because you were going to work

00:31:27.200 and then it started raining and you knew it was going to be bad, but you're going to be back

00:31:33.520 and it's not going to affect you and you're at work and they tell you, you should go home and get your stuff.

00:31:42.320 You're on your way home and you can't even get to your neighborhood.

00:31:45.560 Now you come back a week later and everything you own is destroyed.

00:31:56.360 I walk into this neighborhood and we're going to just go to work and what's called muck out these houses.

00:32:04.200 The houses you cannot describe, television does not do this justice because you need smell-o-vision.

00:32:12.980 It is the smell of spoiled food, of sewage, of river bottoms, and mold.

00:32:25.020 And it's, you get near a house and that's all you smell.

00:32:31.300 And house after house after house, we went into this one lady's house and she was, she was a single mom.

00:32:38.120 She had a couple of kids.

00:32:40.140 She had just gotten back into her house that morning.

00:32:44.020 When we arrived, there were very few people in the streets.

00:32:46.700 It was early, very few people in the streets.

00:32:48.880 We just went into her house.

00:32:50.780 I didn't even know she was the homeowner for a while.

00:32:54.260 You know, nobody's introducing themselves.

00:32:56.700 They just see some, somebody mucking out a house or an empty house.

00:33:00.680 And you go in with whatever tools you have.

00:33:03.160 You bring a sledgehammer, you bring a shovel, you bring a crowbar, and you just start taking the walls down.

00:33:09.220 And you move all of the furniture out into the lawn.

00:33:13.300 You then just pile things up outside and you start taking the walls down.

00:33:18.880 Imagine, that's what it's like.

00:33:23.840 And it's going to be like that for a while in Houston.

00:33:27.720 Some people are up to seven days away from the waters even receding enough for them to get back to their house.

00:33:35.320 These people need help and we'll tell you how you can get involved hands-on next hour.

00:33:42.820 Mercury.

00:33:48.880 Love.

00:34:02.480 Courage.

00:34:03.880 Truth.

00:34:05.040 DACA is wrong.

00:34:08.020 Coming into this country through illegal means is wrong.

00:34:13.660 Period.

00:34:14.800 Full stop.

00:34:15.560 Both of those things are wrong.

00:34:20.060 That has to be said before we begin any other conversation.

00:34:25.160 Let's start with DACA.

00:34:28.180 No president should ever be able to legislate from the Oval Office.

00:34:32.460 Period.

00:34:32.800 And we have to have rule of law.

00:34:40.800 So, we should not be allowing people to come into our country.

00:34:44.960 But this requires an adult conversation.

00:34:50.020 What do you do with the people who are already here?

00:34:53.620 You know, this is such a ridiculous conversation because we should be having the conversation of what do we do to stop new people from coming in?

00:35:03.060 Then, let's have the conversation of what do we do with the people who are already here.

00:35:09.280 Let me ask you this.

00:35:11.660 Should children, should sons pay for the sins of the father?

00:35:16.740 No.

00:35:19.900 Our Judeo-Christian values say no.

00:35:23.300 However, wait a minute.

00:35:27.020 Yes.

00:35:28.220 I mean, no, but yes.

00:35:30.400 Right?

00:35:30.840 I mean, because if they don't pay for the sins of their father, then everybody's just going to continue to come here.

00:35:37.180 And then we just have to accept that the children stay because they don't pay for the sins.

00:35:44.180 It's impossible.

00:35:47.660 What are we supposed to do?

00:35:52.060 The argument is keep it, end it, keep it, end it.

00:35:55.680 Racist.

00:35:56.160 No, I'm not.

00:35:56.820 Yes, you are.

00:35:57.480 No, I'm not.

00:35:58.080 Racist.

00:35:58.660 Keep it, end it.

00:36:00.720 It's ridiculous.

00:36:02.820 It's like we have a bunch of first graders running our country.

00:36:07.860 Nobody is addressing the real issue.

00:36:12.160 And here they are.

00:36:14.880 Immigration is broken.

00:36:18.640 Our laws mean nothing.

00:36:22.880 And the president, not this one, but the last one and the one before, they all think they can just make up laws and legislate from the Oval Office.

00:36:34.580 DACA is unconstitutional.

00:36:39.460 The power to make laws belongs to Congress, not the president.

00:36:44.380 Ending DACA is the right thing to do.

00:36:47.740 But it's not the entirety of the conversation.

00:36:54.880 The conversation that we have to have is what do we do to stop new people from coming in?

00:37:01.980 And what do we do with the people who are already here?

00:37:06.760 The president needs to use DACA as a bargaining chip.

00:37:11.380 Once he says, I'm ending DACA, then the media just starts their circus of, look at the racist and these cute little children that are being hurt by this racist president.

00:37:23.180 And then we get nowhere.

00:37:24.440 This is a problem that doesn't require.

00:37:30.440 This is a problem that demands a permanent solution.

00:37:34.860 It's time for Congress to act.

00:37:40.680 And we need adults.

00:37:43.600 How do we move forward on this issue?

00:37:46.820 How we do it will tell us an awful lot about the kind of country that we all want to be.

00:37:53.820 But hear this.

00:37:55.940 It starts first with two simple ideas.

00:38:00.300 One, DACA is wrong.

00:38:05.500 Two, so is illegal immigration.

00:38:16.360 Welcome to the program.

00:38:17.880 We're so glad that you're here today.

00:38:20.460 We've got a couple of things for you that we want to talk about.

00:38:24.820 First of all, the president's next 30 days are really, really ugly.

00:38:30.300 With everything that is happening in North Korea.

00:38:33.640 I don't know if you saw with North Korea, South Korean intelligence reporting this morning that North Korea is preparing for another missile launch, likely an ICBM and pointing the missile at the West Coast of the United States.

00:38:51.080 It will take 30 minutes to reach L.A. from North Korea.

00:38:56.840 That's not good.

00:38:59.520 That means that we will have 30 minutes to see the launch, project the trajectory, call the president.

00:39:12.020 What do we do?

00:39:13.480 Try to knock it out of the sky.

00:39:15.680 Decide, do we launch back?

00:39:22.020 What do we launch?

00:39:24.580 All before there's a splashdown in the water.

00:39:29.640 We shoot it or a hydrogen bomb goes off in Los Angeles.

00:39:34.880 That's not the way I want to start my day.

00:39:40.680 I don't know about you, but I don't know why people even become president.

00:39:44.640 I don't know why anybody would run for president.

00:39:47.200 Every day, they wake you up in the middle of the night.

00:39:49.740 Mr. President, Mr. President, there may be a hydrogen bomb coming our way.

00:39:56.580 Sorry to wake you up, sir, but I don't want to wake up that way every day.

00:39:59.940 Hopefully, they don't whisper things like that to the president.

00:40:03.100 Shouldn't they actually speak that in full voice?

00:40:05.100 Well, I don't know.

00:40:05.840 I think I would rather have somebody come in and just ease me into it.

00:40:09.660 Mr. President, it's going to be a great day, maybe a little cloudy, and there's a hydrogen

00:40:15.060 bomb that may be on our way.

00:40:18.700 That's terrible.

00:40:20.120 Yeah, it's going to be a great day.

00:40:21.400 It's Tuesday, so you've got Monday behind you already.

00:40:23.680 So it's a short week, and it might even be shorter because they just launched, and we

00:40:29.020 might all be vaporized.

00:40:30.180 You should get to the shelter, Mr. President.

00:40:32.320 Maybe they can just kind of work it into his natural sound sleep machine, where you have

00:40:36.780 the waves crashing on the shoreline, and then every once in a while, it's just kind of a

00:40:40.280 reminder that there could be a hydrogen bomb coming at any moment.

00:40:42.320 North Korea could launch.

00:40:45.080 Think of what they did with Japan.

00:40:47.920 They fired a missile not near Japan, over it.

00:40:51.600 They fired the missile so that Japan would essentially see it cross above their airspace,

00:40:58.620 but still above their mainland.

00:41:01.040 Think of if that thing starts coming towards us, we're going to have to at some point judge

00:41:06.780 whether it decides to splash down 30, 50, 70 miles off our coast, or if it's going to

00:41:12.720 land on a city.

00:41:13.680 We have to try to figure out whether it's going to be containing a real device, or if it's just

00:41:19.460 a test of a missile to see if they could get it over here, it really is, anything can

00:41:25.120 go, anything can go wrong with that.

00:41:27.640 By the way, if you think our president has it bad,

00:41:30.940 and you think our president, we think, um, uh, we think our president is, oh, Barack Obama.

00:41:45.380 He was almost a dictator.

00:41:48.400 Uh, Donald Trump.

00:41:49.800 He's going to be, he's going to be Hitler, you know, may I just show you something that

00:41:56.060 I read as I was reading about North Korea and what we're going to do with North Korea

00:41:59.520 and who's on the other side and it's Vladimir Putin and everything else.

00:42:03.100 I came across a story about the woman who is suspected to be dating Vladimir Putin.

00:42:12.280 Suspected to be dating Vladimir Putin.

00:42:18.420 What do you mean suspected?

00:42:21.660 Uh, nobody knows.

00:42:24.000 Uh, she's, she was in Italy recently and she was wearing a wedding band.

00:42:28.880 Now she's not just suspected as of dating him.

00:42:35.100 Um, she is suspected to be his wife and they suspect they have two children, but there is

00:42:47.680 no official world word.

00:42:50.040 Nobody has any pictures.

00:42:52.600 Nobody has any idea.

00:42:54.760 They don't know if he has two children.

00:42:56.920 He doesn't have two children.

00:42:58.300 He's also expected.

00:42:59.260 Uh, they suspect that he has two children with her, that they did get married.

00:43:05.100 In some sort of ceremony.

00:43:06.960 Uh, and, uh, he's also got a girlfriend on the side, but nobody knows any of it.

00:43:13.720 Well, he's killed all the journalists that would report it.

00:43:16.080 Right.

00:43:16.580 That's a good, right.

00:43:17.420 It's one way to control the gossip.

00:43:18.760 I'll say that.

00:43:19.700 It does.

00:43:20.500 It's effective.

00:43:21.080 When you start to think, boy, we are in real trouble, man, look how we are.

00:43:24.660 No, no, no, it's better than that.

00:43:27.780 It's much better than that.

00:43:29.000 You know where there's no difference between us and Russia.

00:43:32.000 Yeah.

00:43:32.340 Yeah, there is.

00:43:33.200 Yeah, there is.

00:43:34.160 Because we see your wife and we can do stupid things like say, why was she wearing shoes?

00:43:40.940 Uh, you know, at the hurricane, why was she wearing?

00:43:43.200 We can say that.

00:43:44.260 We can see that she was wearing shoes.

00:43:47.120 I don't know.

00:43:48.020 I got.

00:43:48.580 So the difference between our societies is that we see.

00:43:52.100 One's run by a killer and one's not.

00:43:54.340 Well, that and the fact that we know an awful lot about the relationships of our celebrities here.

00:43:59.300 And there we don't, which actually seems like they're winning that battle.

00:44:02.980 That's actually the right side of that argument.

00:44:05.000 I would rather know less about who's dating who and who's breaking up with who.

00:44:08.760 It would be nice if, you know, I don't need to know.

00:44:11.400 Do you know, do you need to know anything about Melania or Michelle Obama?

00:44:15.660 I think we would be a lot better off if we just didn't know about these guys.

00:44:18.520 Yeah, that job.

00:44:20.160 And Melania is doing it right, I think.

00:44:21.940 I think so, too.

00:44:22.580 Because she doesn't, she's not getting involved in all this.

00:44:24.680 She's just, you know, like, again, it's not to say that if you're still a person, you get to do these things.

00:44:30.260 We, but instead have turned that into an unelected government role where, like, the first lady is not, you know, married to the president, but is some sort of government figure that opens programs and advocates for things and tries to make giant health care solutions.

00:44:48.460 And all of the, you know, to me, that's the wrong direction.

00:44:51.780 And it was, it was the first, we had a female president for a while.

00:44:56.280 It was Edith Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's wife, when he became incapacitated.

00:45:01.000 Nobody knew she was, she was signing all of the, all of the orders and everything else.

00:45:05.060 She was running the country for a while.

00:45:07.000 And then the next one that, that did it was Eleanor Roosevelt.

00:45:10.480 And she was very involved.

00:45:13.180 And then we had Hillary Clinton and then Michelle Obama.

00:45:17.120 It always seems to be the progressives that, you know, hey, we're getting a great deal.

00:45:21.000 You're getting two for one.

00:45:22.000 No, I barely want the one.

00:45:25.000 So I don't think I need to double down on that order.

00:45:27.780 I think I'm okay.

00:45:30.520 It makes sense, though.

00:45:32.380 I mean, Nancy Reagan was very involved in, in drug, you know, advocating.

00:45:37.160 No, but there's a difference.

00:45:38.020 There's, there's a, there's a difference between policy and I want to help kids read.

00:45:43.640 I think that's good.

00:45:45.380 I'd like to see our first lady, you know, involved in stuff like, hey, I want to help kids read.

00:45:49.920 That's good.

00:45:50.400 I want to make sure kids don't, uh, you know, do drugs.

00:45:53.360 Okay.

00:45:53.720 I'm cool with that.

00:45:55.260 I'm even cool with, I want to make sure that kids have a healthy lunch, just not as a program.

00:46:02.820 Maybe it's, maybe it's, maybe it's just me.

00:46:05.200 I'll tell you what happened in Houston and how you can get involved.

00:46:21.660 Also, how come Donald Trump seems to shoot the hostages when he can use them as a bargaining chip?

00:46:30.940 It's a great story, a story in the Politico that I thought was worth raising because I think he isn't shooting the hostages in the DACA argument.

00:46:40.980 We'll get into that here in just a second.

00:46:45.940 Mercury.

00:46:46.340 By the way, we do have to look back at DACA for a second and see how far and how fast we've gone.

00:46:58.500 Remember 2014-ish, the standard for whether you were conservative on immigration or you were an amnesty guy was the DREAM Act.

00:47:08.700 That is what everyone, when Orrin Hatch came out for it, everyone was crushing Orrin Hatch for supporting the DREAM Act.

00:47:14.520 It showed he was an amnesty guy.

00:47:17.100 Then Obama gets in and he essentially tries to pass the DREAM Act, which would allow children of illegal immigrants that have been here pretty much their whole lives or came as a child, and it would give them essentially amnesty.

00:47:32.640 And Obama tried to pass that and had no success because the GOP didn't, wouldn't allow it.

00:47:38.920 Because if you pass the DREAM Act, you were for amnesty.

00:47:42.540 So then Obama just does it.

00:47:44.460 He decides to just pull the trigger and just say, you know what, screw you guys, I'm just going to do this on my own.

00:47:49.400 It's DACA.

00:47:50.340 And there are elements that are a little bit different, but essentially what he did was the DREAM Act by himself.

00:47:56.580 Of course, everybody on the right is infuriated about that development.

00:48:01.200 That is not something that we're for.

00:48:03.340 So we get very angry.

00:48:06.000 We say we're going to run someone who's going to get rid of this unconstitutional issue, DACA.

00:48:10.500 And we elect Donald Trump, who runs primarily on a, or at least largely on a border hawk strategy, right?

00:48:19.360 We all know about the wall.

00:48:20.480 We all know about his intent to get rid of DACA.

00:48:25.000 So he gets into office and doesn't do it right away.

00:48:28.060 And then there's a, you get a little nervous there because DACA is one of those issues where it is somewhat unfair.

00:48:33.640 If you're, if you're a person who came here, your dad dragged you across the border when you were two years old and he was breaking the law, but you didn't know what you were doing.

00:48:41.700 And now you've lived here your whole life, you're 24, and you might find out even at 20 that you're illegal.

00:48:47.980 You might not even have known the entire time.

00:48:50.320 And now they want to drag you back across the border to a country you don't even ever remember living in.

00:48:54.400 It's a real heart, you know, it's a, it grabs your heart.

00:48:57.460 Okay.

00:48:57.740 So this is an issue that's very difficult for people to deal with in politics, but think of how far this has gone.

00:49:04.520 Now, the border hawk president that was elected is giving the Congress six months to essentially pass the DREAM Act.

00:49:14.320 They are saying, you know what, you need to do this or I'm going to get rid of DACA, which seemingly is a threat that the New York Times is saying.

00:49:23.400 Trump doesn't want to get rid of DACA.

00:49:24.760 He doesn't like the politics of it.

00:49:26.020 He doesn't want to actually do it.

00:49:27.340 He wants Congress to kind of take it away from him.

00:49:29.720 He's advocating that the GOP-controlled Congress pass the DREAM Act.

00:49:34.820 So we've gone from 2014, where anyone supporting the DREAM Act meant you were an amnesty guy, to 2017, where the border hawk president is advocating the GOP Congress pass the DREAM Act.

00:49:47.660 That's happened in three years.

00:49:50.360 I don't understand the problem.

00:49:51.760 We move really far, really fast.

00:49:54.900 And we all play the game of defending that position as if nothing's changed.

00:50:09.820 We're all sitting here defending the position of the GOP and everything else as if really, truly, nothing has changed within us and our party and our position.

00:50:27.440 It's totally different.

00:50:29.200 It's totally different.

00:50:30.600 Isn't this the same thing as Obamacare?

00:50:33.100 Repeal, replace, repeal, replace.

00:50:34.480 When you have control of it, how about this?

00:50:36.920 We slide it back 1% and then not be able to pass that.

00:50:40.240 How about that option?

00:50:41.100 Yes.

00:50:41.440 That is where we are.

00:50:42.600 Yes.

00:50:42.960 They promised so much over this time.

00:50:45.760 And, you know, a lot of us bought it.

00:50:47.040 I have to say that I bought parts of it.

00:50:49.220 I really thought that they wanted to repeal Obamacare, at least a lot of the people there.

00:50:54.340 And in reality, when it comes down to it, they didn't.

00:50:56.620 They keep saying, well, it failed by one vote.

00:51:00.140 And they'll put that all on John McCain.

00:51:01.660 And John McCain deserves a lot of blame for a lot of things.

00:51:04.120 But the bottom line was they weren't passing something there.

00:51:06.740 They were passing something to advance to a conversation in which there was no way they were going to repeal Obamacare.

00:51:13.900 In fact, even the right side of that argument, the conservative side of that argument, was the House plan, which we all complained didn't repeal Obamacare.

00:51:22.820 We'll try this on for size.

00:51:24.720 Congress has to vote on raising the debt ceiling.

00:51:29.240 When were we for that?

00:51:32.320 The max amount the government can borrow is the debt ceiling, and it has to be raised, or so they tell us, or the government is going to shut down.

00:51:44.140 No, no, no.

00:51:47.220 You just have to make cuts.

00:51:48.820 The whole government doesn't shut down.

00:51:50.340 It's like, it's honestly, this is the way to understand the debt ceiling is to understand your own finances.

00:51:59.060 We have to raise our credit limit.

00:52:02.320 Or we could sell our car and buy a cheaper one.

00:52:07.300 Or we could get a second job.

00:52:09.900 Or we could move out of this house into a smaller one.

00:52:14.020 Or we could cancel cable.

00:52:18.340 And we could cancel the satellite.

00:52:21.440 And we could cancel.

00:52:22.560 My gosh, you wouldn't cancel the play subscription.

00:52:25.800 You can cancel things.

00:52:29.600 That's the way real life works.

00:52:31.320 You don't just say, oh my gosh, you know what?

00:52:35.640 We have to raise our debt ceiling.

00:52:37.800 We have to borrow more money or our family is going to be destroyed.

00:52:43.660 And yet, it's the GOP that is now making this argument.

00:52:48.820 And the president said he wasn't going to move on this unless they passed immigration reform.

00:52:56.920 And gave him money for border security.

00:52:59.740 And now he's backing off because of Hurricane Harvey.

00:53:04.960 We go there next.

00:53:06.200 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:53:34.380 The one thing that I've learned in the last two years is I need to listen more.

00:53:41.980 People really feel invisible right now.

00:53:48.460 And there is no place where that is more apparent than in Houston.

00:53:53.380 I saw people who had lost absolutely everything.

00:54:03.580 I went with MercuryOne.org.

00:54:05.540 And we just went to muck out some houses, but also help bring some publicity to these local charities that are doing things and some of these national charities and to see how we can help and to give them, you know, some exposure on the blaze and on my Facebook page.

00:54:24.780 But as I'm working side by side with these people in Houston, I heard over and over, I'm sorry, but the numbness is wearing off.

00:54:40.720 You can't relate to what is happening there unless you're on the ground.

00:54:52.720 Every single home in these flood areas, the walls and everything inside has to be taken out and scrapped.

00:55:01.960 It's garbage.

00:55:02.560 You have to take the house to the studs quickly within a matter of hours.

00:55:11.240 You lose everything.

00:55:13.820 Standing in somebody's lawn with pictures of their children and the babies and.

00:55:20.920 I walk into one house towards the end of the day and I'm going to meet with Team Rubicon, this amazing group of veterans.

00:55:28.900 And I go over to this house.

00:55:34.540 It's a modest house, maybe 1500 square feet, maybe.

00:55:39.980 These people don't have much, but they live a full life.

00:55:44.180 It's a nice neighborhood.

00:55:47.700 It's a grandfather, grandmother, daughter and her son, four people living in this house.

00:55:54.640 And they went to bed the night the flood started.

00:55:59.960 And they knew they were going to get a lot of rain, but they didn't expect to be flooded.

00:56:03.320 And in the middle of the night, grandma gets up out of bed and she swings her legs over the bed and she is knee deep in water.

00:56:11.580 There's no electricity.

00:56:14.060 Because everything has been blown.

00:56:16.960 And they don't know what to do.

00:56:19.080 And she screams, everybody up, everybody up, get up, get up, get up.

00:56:23.620 Her daughter goes to the kitchen where the refrigerator is floating.

00:56:30.640 It's dark, so she can't see anything.

00:56:32.940 And the refrigerator with the floodwaters are coming in.

00:56:36.720 It's such making such an impact that it pins her up against the island in the kitchen.

00:56:43.000 So she is jammed between the refrigerator and the island.

00:56:46.800 When I meet her a few days later, her back and the back of her legs are all just bruised.

00:56:55.300 She's screaming, help, help, help.

00:56:56.980 Nobody can see her.

00:56:57.920 It's chaos in the house.

00:56:59.180 Imagine.

00:57:03.940 The grandfather comes out.

00:57:05.340 He's probably 67, 70, maybe.

00:57:07.880 He's an old Navy veteran, a great guy.

00:57:10.500 He pulls the refrigerator off.

00:57:13.300 They get out.

00:57:15.100 Now, when I saw them, it was their first day back in the house.

00:57:20.240 And strangers were in the house.

00:57:23.080 Team Rubicon.

00:57:24.400 Just trying to muck it out and trying to salvage what can be salvaged and take the walls down.

00:57:30.860 It's what's happening to every single house on the block.

00:57:34.500 And I walk in and he is standing in the back.

00:57:38.340 And I can see him.

00:57:39.400 He's just broken.

00:57:43.700 And he's trying to be strong for the family.

00:57:46.880 And I walk into the kitchen.

00:57:50.220 And she recognizes me.

00:57:53.240 And he's out in the back porch.

00:57:55.700 And I can see him through the window.

00:57:57.280 He's just standing by the barbecue.

00:58:00.480 And he's just lost.

00:58:01.740 And I come in.

00:58:06.300 And they said, we.

00:58:09.260 I said, where are you staying?

00:58:11.880 He said, we're right now.

00:58:13.780 He says, we're staying at the Hilton.

00:58:17.140 And I said, are you okay with money on that?

00:58:24.700 And the tears just immediately well up.

00:58:27.960 And I can see how broken this man is.

00:58:31.280 He says, I don't know.

00:58:32.480 I don't even know how much it is yet.

00:58:34.140 Their systems were down.

00:58:35.180 But I've heard that it's $150 a night.

00:58:38.800 And we don't have that.

00:58:44.800 Houston needs your help in a couple of ways.

00:58:46.800 First of all, if you can donate anything, please go to mercuryone.org.

00:58:56.680 We have several partners on the ground.

00:58:58.500 And we are doing our best to make sure the money goes right to where it needs to go.

00:59:04.460 To the best partners.

00:59:06.820 I'm going to introduce you to one of them here in a second.

00:59:09.620 But the second is they need volunteers.

00:59:12.480 I mean, for several weeks, they're going to need people that are just mucking these houses out.

00:59:16.280 And just looking at strangers in the eye and saying, you're okay.

00:59:24.240 Because in America, we have a problem with listening and seeing.

00:59:30.880 The people in Houston need to know that they are heard and seen.

00:59:46.280 One of our partners on the ground in Houston is this great organization called Team Rubicon.

00:59:53.000 Jake Wood is the CEO.

00:59:55.000 He served four years in the United States Marine Corps.

00:59:58.020 Deployed in Iraq in 7 and 08.

01:00:02.040 He was sniper school, top of his class.

01:00:05.120 And now he is organizing veterans to come and do exactly what I'm talking about.

01:00:11.200 And you were there, Jake, at that house.

01:00:15.200 How were they towards the end of the afternoon and evening?

01:00:19.480 Did they ever come kind of back to a place to where just not despair?

01:00:28.380 Well, Glenn, thank you for having me.

01:00:32.340 And thank you for the support you've provided Team Rubicon over the years with Mercury 1.

01:00:37.940 I was sitting there and I was listening to the story that you just recounted about when you came to that home and met with Jim, the grandfather.

01:00:46.600 I would say that, unfortunately, that family is still suffering from a bit of shell shock.

01:00:52.100 I think in the initial days after the storm and after the flood, they were still a little bit numb, as you said.

01:01:01.360 They could kind of walk around and not really process the enormous emotional event that they had just experienced.

01:01:09.960 But, you know, over the last couple of days, it was clear that things were really started, that the adrenaline was starting to dissipate, that the walls, you know, the walls within them were coming down a little bit.

01:01:23.000 And, you know, they got a long road ahead.

01:01:25.540 When you go, Jake, to these houses, and television does not do it justice, when you walk down the street and everything that somebody, that was their life, from their clothes to their underpants to their diplomas to literally family photo albums,

01:01:47.040 all just wrecked and piled up on the street next to their washer and dryer and refrigerator and whatever, you realize there's nothing left and how big the job is because you have to go in and take down the walls and dry that place out.

01:02:07.180 Take out all of the walls, the carpets, everything in there before it's a deadly situation.

01:02:13.560 Yeah, it is.

01:02:16.860 It's really shocking to see just how destructive water is.

01:02:22.320 I mean, yesterday, I had, you know, myself a very emotional experience.

01:02:28.600 I went in and was able to go and help the mother of one of the Marines I served with who took its own life a few years ago.

01:02:36.140 And, you know, we prioritized her home.

01:02:39.700 I mean, we went in there, and really, we were only able to save a handful of things.

01:02:44.620 And among them, thank God, were the flag that his, you know, his coffin was draped in and the medals that she had put in a shadow box.

01:02:55.400 But, you know, those, everything else she can replace.

01:02:58.400 You know, those are the things that would have broken her apart for the rest of her life had they been destroyed in that event.

01:03:07.260 So when we were out on the lawn and you guys took a break and we had just come from another house where we were working all day and we stood there and I said, this is just going to go on and on and on.

01:03:23.680 And just looking at the enormity of it, and you said, we have 48,000 veterans that are part of Team Rubicon, and we need to get them on planes to come down to Houston.

01:03:36.540 Can you tell me, A, what you need, and then let's talk about American Airlines and what they've done?

01:03:42.600 Well, sure, absolutely.

01:03:45.100 Yeah, as an organization, we've got nearly now 60,000 volunteers across the country.

01:03:49.800 I mean, the ranks are just swelling.

01:03:52.000 These are men and women that, you know, have served our country before, that have been trained by taxpayer dollars, that have service as part of their DNA.

01:04:05.300 And they want to come down and they want to help their fellow Americans in Houston.

01:04:08.480 Obviously, we're going to be mobilizing every Texan that we have in our ranks to help them help themselves.

01:04:15.060 But this is an immense event where we have to bring in people from all across the country.

01:04:20.580 So we're doing just that.

01:04:22.420 We're looking to charter aircraft in 10 major American cities.

01:04:26.300 We're looking for an airline partner.

01:04:28.160 We're having great conversations with American Airlines.

01:04:31.160 I think that they may be willing to step up here and help us.

01:04:37.240 And we're really looking forward to that conversation.

01:04:39.920 And, you know, I think it'd be an incredible story to tell how, you know, an American corporation used what it does best to help us help others.

01:04:50.560 Well, I will tell you this.

01:04:51.660 You know, when we got on the plane to come back home to Dallas, we were talking about it.

01:04:57.380 And fuel for those planes is a fortune.

01:05:01.360 And no one company can afford all of it.

01:05:04.520 And if they're supplying the planes and the pilots and everything else, Mercury One would like to try to help and defray some of the cost of the fuel.

01:05:13.280 If they're chartering, maybe we can help pick up for the fuel.

01:05:17.360 If one of the airlines would do, you know, what they do, we'll try to raise the money for the fuel.

01:05:22.580 And then you guys get all of the veterans and get them on these planes.

01:05:27.640 So do you send out alert?

01:05:30.340 Can somebody, if you're just a vet and you want to help, what do you have to do?

01:05:38.120 Yeah, so you can go to our website, TeamRubiconUSA.org.

01:05:42.300 That's TeamRubiconUSA.org.

01:05:45.560 There you can sign up and register as a volunteer.

01:05:47.820 We've been sending out mobilization notices across our entire volunteer base for the last seven days.

01:05:54.980 You know, again, this is an event that is stretching us out of our seams.

01:05:58.980 We need all hands on deck.

01:06:00.520 We need everybody we can get.

01:06:02.840 And so, you know, any help that people can provide to drive resources, whether that's time, whether that's their talent, whether that's their treasure, we can take it.

01:06:12.220 I am really impressed, and we're so happy to be one of your sponsors with Team Rubicon.

01:06:18.760 You have 48,000 veteran volunteers around the country.

01:06:24.060 This is your 200th service project, if you will, or a disaster.

01:06:30.840 Rank this out of all the disasters.

01:06:32.900 You guys have been with Katrina.

01:06:34.140 You were at Sandy.

01:06:35.000 You've been in Haiti.

01:06:37.520 Rank this.

01:06:39.220 You know, I think the earthquake in Haiti was probably the single worst devastation I've ever seen.

01:06:48.100 And, you know, 200,000 people died in the first week and a half of that event.

01:06:52.320 But as far as it goes on American soil, this is the most widespread indiscriminate damage and devastation we've ever seen.

01:07:03.480 And this is a major event.

01:07:05.500 The long-tail effort that will be required to recover from this, you know, in the next 18 to 24 months is going to be, I think, unparalleled.

01:07:17.520 It remains to be seen.

01:07:18.700 We still don't even know the extent of the damage for how it compares to Katrina.

01:07:22.900 But make no mistake, there's a ton of work in the next two years.

01:07:27.720 And 10 years from now, there will be communities that still are not the same because of heart.

01:07:34.060 Thanks, Jake.

01:07:38.780 That was Jake Wood, CEO of Team Rubicon.

01:07:41.600 You can follow him on Twitter at JakeWoodTR.

01:07:44.740 Jake and Team Rubicon are trying to deploy 1,500 volunteers to Houston right now.

01:07:49.360 Get involved.

01:07:49.860 Go to TeamRubiconUSA.org or make a donation.

01:07:53.640 MercuryOne.org.

01:07:54.760 So, Harvey has dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana.

01:08:03.160 We won't know the full extent of Harvey's toll on the economy for some time.

01:08:08.760 By the way, is anyone else following Irma?

01:08:12.580 It looks worse in some ways.

01:08:14.560 I mean, it looks like it's going to hit as a Category 5.

01:08:17.160 Did you hear that they are now thinking that this may be the first Category 6 of all time?

01:08:24.120 I didn't know there was a Category 6.

01:08:25.200 There is not one.

01:08:26.320 They're saying now that they have to upgrade.

01:08:28.540 It's going to be stronger than what a Category 5 is.

01:08:32.020 And they may be inventing a new category for this one.

01:08:36.600 I read they're saying some parts of Puerto Rico will be out of power for up to six months, they think, with this storm.

01:08:42.700 So, that's just if it hits Puerto Rico.

01:08:46.620 Imagine if this hits Florida or comes back into the Gulf.

01:08:52.000 This economy is already going to take a hit.

01:08:54.900 And I was talking to somebody Sunday night, went over to their house, and we were talking about the events of, you know, the times in which we live.

01:09:09.180 And he said to me, it just feels different.

01:09:15.100 Something has changed.

01:09:16.680 Yeah, it has.

01:09:17.800 The world has changed.

01:09:19.100 And I think we're headed for real trouble.

01:09:21.240 Mercury.

01:09:40.640 I have to tell you, we have nuclear weapons possibly headed our way.

01:09:46.540 We have the cleanup from Harvey.

01:09:49.480 Washington is a mess.

01:09:50.620 And Irma coming in.

01:09:53.580 And yet, I'm surprisingly okay.

01:09:58.020 This should be interesting.

01:10:00.740 We're going to show you something really positive.

01:10:04.320 And a way for you to roll up your sleeves and change somebody's life that fast.

01:10:11.060 In just a minute.

01:10:12.360 Mercury.

01:10:25.760 Love.

01:10:27.320 Courage.

01:10:28.820 Truth.

01:10:29.700 Scavengers are now stealing from flood victims in Houston.

01:10:33.560 We have seen the absolute best of humanity during the rescue phase of Hurricane Harvey.

01:10:40.820 Saturday, I saw signs of the worst.

01:10:45.560 I saw scammers.

01:10:47.180 I saw a sign in one neighborhood that said, looters beware.

01:10:51.880 This is Texas.

01:10:52.920 Scumbags are starting to rear their head, as they always do.

01:10:59.280 It's really an unreal idea.

01:11:02.820 People returning to their ravaged homes, sifting through what's left of their life, putting things out in the yard to dry and then have somebody come by and steal from them.

01:11:13.500 This is really rare in Houston compared to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, but it's still early.

01:11:21.460 It's a reminder of how much still hangs in the balance for Southeast Texas.

01:11:27.980 On Sunday, the mayor of Houston said, I'm encouraging people, get up and let's get going.

01:11:35.920 This is the kind of can-do American attitude that really lives.

01:11:41.100 It's the reason why I moved to Texas.

01:11:42.600 I told you when things get tough, we need to be surrounded by the people who kind of feel the same way you do.

01:11:48.560 Just get up and do it.

01:11:50.840 The Washington Post ran a story with the headline, Texans do it ourselves rescue effort defines Hurricane Harvey.

01:11:59.020 This has been a big part of the story, if not the biggest part of the story so far.

01:12:03.760 The Texan resilience and independence, neighbors having each other's back.

01:12:09.980 Now, can this last through the rebuilding effort?

01:12:15.440 Because the damage is now between $150 and $180 billion.

01:12:20.660 The question is, can a state with no income tax be a model for a different kind of recovery effort?

01:12:28.100 Do you remember all of the FEMA debit card abuses and swindles after Hurricane Katrina?

01:12:46.140 I'm sure Texas is going to have its share of it.

01:12:49.780 But federal dumps of money is not the efficient solution.

01:12:55.780 Besides, I don't know if you know this, FEMA is still $25 billion in debt from Hurricane Katrina and Sandy.

01:13:03.600 $25 billion in debt.

01:13:06.160 The federal government can't afford this.

01:13:10.780 What do we do?

01:13:11.500 Print more money?

01:13:13.620 I think this is the perfect opportunity for the governor of Texas and President Trump, the businessman,

01:13:23.940 to outline a different path for rebuilding, for more private donations and less federal aid.

01:13:32.500 Trump was in the real estate business.

01:13:35.460 He was in the construction businesses.

01:13:36.980 Anybody can figure this out.

01:13:38.100 This is his wheelhouse.

01:13:40.020 And this is an opportunity for President Trump to lead and make his mark.

01:13:46.860 Lead and become a unique and find a better way to lead as a president.

01:13:54.140 And find a responsible rebuilding, a pathway to a new and better tomorrow in Houston.

01:14:11.200 It's Tuesday, September 5th.

01:14:13.960 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:14:15.880 So you're 21 years old and you think you're invincible.

01:14:20.240 I remember being 21 years old and thinking, never going to die.

01:14:23.240 Now every day you get up and you're like, it could be today.

01:14:26.500 You're young, you're healthy, you have your whole life in front of you.

01:14:30.400 And that is what Katie thought.

01:14:32.320 She had no idea that anything was wrong with her until she went in for a routine ultrasound with her second child, Willow.

01:14:42.160 And during the ultrasound, it was discovered that Katie had cervical cancer.

01:14:47.660 And the doctor said, you have to abort your child.

01:14:50.800 You're going to die.

01:14:53.960 Child's going to die.

01:14:55.980 She said, I won't abort my child.

01:14:59.480 She had to start treatment right away.

01:15:01.840 And the answer was, no, I'm not going to kill my child.

01:15:06.780 She was determined to meet the angel that she says saved her life.

01:15:16.260 If it hadn't been for Willow, she would have never known she had cancer.

01:15:21.900 Katie carried Willow to term and the doctors were able to remove the cancer.

01:15:27.780 Katie was ecstatic.

01:15:28.920 She was cancer free and mom to a beautiful baby girl.

01:15:32.800 And then trouble set in.

01:15:36.780 Willow stopped eating a couple of months in.

01:15:39.980 The little girl was rushed to the hospital, stayed there for most of her first year.

01:15:44.600 She dealt with pneumonia and heart failure and respiratory failure as one thing after another.

01:15:50.080 Weeks and weeks of testing.

01:15:51.480 And finally, she was diagnosed with a rare terminal condition called inclusive cell disease, which inhibits growth and breathing and heart function, digestion, everything.

01:16:05.220 There were only 72 confirmed cases in the world.

01:16:08.160 And despite her ailments, Willow was finally released from the hospital just in time for her first birthday.

01:16:16.540 And Katie was excited to finally have Willow home where she could give her the support and love she needed most.

01:16:26.100 While preparing for her birthday, Katie encountered another blow.

01:16:32.060 She became the victim of domestic violence and found herself now a single mother of two young children.

01:16:38.520 The reason why I'm telling you this story is because there is a remarkable person inside mom.

01:16:47.660 Because Katie hasn't lost hope.

01:16:49.040 She is now doing her best to provide for her son and Willow all on her own.

01:16:55.380 And she says, I am not going to let Willow down.

01:16:59.000 Because Willow saved my life.

01:17:01.000 And now she vows to save Willow's life.

01:17:04.360 Katie joins us now.

01:17:06.800 Hi, Katie.

01:17:07.380 How are you?

01:17:08.600 Hi, thank you.

01:17:09.780 I'm good.

01:17:10.340 You?

01:17:11.360 I'm good.

01:17:12.660 This is a remarkable story.

01:17:16.140 Thank you.

01:17:16.760 How is Willow?

01:17:19.700 She's doing great.

01:17:21.100 She's still snoozing right now.

01:17:23.160 She loves her sleep and loves to sleep in.

01:17:26.840 And she spent, in her first year, she spent all but 12 days in the hospital?

01:17:34.020 From November 18th of 2016, or sorry, January 16th to November 10th of 2016, all but 12 days

01:17:47.120 was spent between our tiny hospital back in Montana and Seattle Children's Hospital.

01:17:53.860 So, Katie, what do you say to people who will make the case, and I'm sure they've made it

01:17:59.600 to you, they'll make the case that, see, you know, you would have been better off, she

01:18:05.300 would have been better off had she never been born.

01:18:07.560 You know, I can imagine people have even said, you know, God intended her to, I mean, you

01:18:13.600 were supposed to do that.

01:18:14.960 That's what that, that's why she's suffering from all of this, even though you didn't know.

01:18:19.660 What do you, how do you respond to that?

01:18:20.980 We've gotten a lot of it and stuff, especially with the articles going around, there's always

01:18:27.000 those people who are like, oh, well, why bring a child into the world knowing you have cancer,

01:18:32.980 that your cancer is going to affect them, or knowing that something is wrong with your

01:18:37.180 baby, and so on and so forth.

01:18:39.720 And I take it as an educational moment, because one, my cancer did not affect Willow in any

01:18:45.760 way, shape, or form.

01:18:46.460 Cervical cancer has no way to affect an unborn child.

01:18:52.620 Also, cervical cancer cannot, cannot cause a genetic mutation, which is what Willow has.

01:18:59.640 And with eye cell being so, so, so rare, obviously most people in the world are not aware of it,

01:19:06.000 and most doctors do not even know of its existence.

01:19:09.140 There is no way to test for it in the womb, unless, say, I had another child.

01:19:15.240 Now we know Willow's exact DNA mutation.

01:19:19.280 We would be able to check to see if that child also has that exact DNA mutation.

01:19:24.840 But when it's your first go around with a child that you've never had, you know, you didn't

01:19:29.880 have a previous eye cell child, you're kind of in the blind of all of it.

01:19:35.260 Willow was extensively monitored.

01:19:37.520 She was very healthy.

01:19:39.100 She developed totally normal and stuff.

01:19:42.360 So, I mean, people call me selfish for not aborting and stuff, and I'm like, calling me selfish

01:19:48.400 would be calling every other woman in the world selfish, because we all put our children

01:19:53.800 at the same exact risk while they're in the womb.

01:19:56.140 There's over 7,000 other rare diseases and stuff that most of them cannot be detected until

01:20:03.220 well after your child is born.

01:20:06.840 Had you known what Willow is going through now, would your answer have been different?

01:20:13.820 I don't think so.

01:20:15.840 I mean, I would never judge on somebody else's choice of whether they keep or abort their child

01:20:23.920 and stuff.

01:20:24.560 But for me, that's just, it's not in the cards for me.

01:20:26.780 I don't think that I could bring myself to do that.

01:20:29.040 I believe that every life out there has a very divine purpose and stuff, and I believe

01:20:35.620 that God gave me Willow exactly when he knew that I needed Willow, knowing the contents of

01:20:41.460 my heart, that, you know, I would go through to see her life happen and stuff, and then I

01:20:48.180 would be there when she would need me and stuff.

01:20:51.360 And when Willow is not expected to live possibly past 10?

01:21:00.380 Yeah, prognosis, medical prognosis at best is 10 years old.

01:21:04.640 There have been a few, very few kiddos with this that have made it shortly past 10, but

01:21:10.400 the average span of these kids is three to five years, because there is no treatment at

01:21:16.420 all whatsoever, because there's so little funding happening.

01:21:19.420 There's no government or federal funding like there is for cancer researches and that

01:21:26.000 kind of thing.

01:21:26.480 That doesn't happen.

01:21:27.520 All the research funding comes directly from, you know, the few families that have been affected.

01:21:36.220 I, Katie, I will tell you that I'm from a family that has a long history of abuse, and

01:21:45.700 I commend you for getting out, especially in your situation with two children.

01:21:54.040 One of them is severely sick.

01:21:57.420 A lot of people will convince themselves that they either deserve it or it's the pressure

01:22:05.220 on him or, you know, whatever the excuse is.

01:22:10.040 Mm-hmm.

01:22:12.380 How difficult was the situation?

01:22:16.380 How difficult was it to make the decision?

01:22:19.540 Or was it strangely for you just obvious?

01:22:23.020 Well, I mean, it was, we were kind of in this situation for a while.

01:22:26.640 Like, once Willow started getting sick, unfortunately, her father, because of the way he grew up, the

01:22:31.900 only way he knew how to cope was to have alcohol to drown out everything he needed to cope.

01:22:38.100 So it was going on for a while.

01:22:39.820 I had repeatedly tried to find him help, get him help, instead of, like, he would start

01:22:45.260 seeing counselors, and it would get better.

01:22:46.820 But then, you know, he would push off and fall back again.

01:22:51.880 It's really true what they say when, you know, they say you can't help somebody who doesn't

01:22:56.500 want to be helped.

01:22:58.060 But after her terminal diagnosis, it really spiraled for a while.

01:23:02.060 But after she came home, it seemed like things were getting better and stuff.

01:23:05.440 Like, we got into a routine and everything.

01:23:08.800 I think probably, because he hadn't drank in a while even, but I think what psyched it

01:23:15.320 was, you know, that, you know, it was Willow's birthday the next day.

01:23:18.540 And even though every birthday, just like for every family, is a huge milestone and, like,

01:23:24.180 it's very exciting for us, it's also extremely, extremely bittersweet.

01:23:29.360 And so, because we know that we're not going to have very many of them.

01:23:33.100 So I think that kind of got to him, and that's what stems his drinking after work that night.

01:23:37.760 And for when he came home, and, you know, I don't hold any bad blood for him, because

01:23:46.320 none of us know how we're going to cope with something like this.

01:23:50.860 You know, none of us can say what's going to happen or how we're going to handle a situation

01:23:54.620 like this until, you know, we're on the front line of it.

01:23:59.260 And we all have different coping mechanisms.

01:24:02.320 That doesn't mean that what he did was okay and that there's any excuse for it.

01:24:06.680 But once things became physical and once things posed risks to my children and stuff,

01:24:13.680 again, like, my life, it's for my children.

01:24:16.180 Just like when I was pregnant with Willow, like, I will not let anything in the pathway

01:24:21.780 of harming them.

01:24:23.380 So when it became...

01:24:25.200 Go ahead.

01:24:25.880 Yeah, it was...

01:24:26.240 When it became physical, it was, you know, at that point and stuff, like, obviously, police

01:24:32.700 were called and he was removed from the house.

01:24:35.580 And since then, we haven't had contact with him.

01:24:38.620 When I saw your story online, Willow is dependent on 24-7 feeding tubes.

01:24:45.120 She's on heart and oxygen monitors, medication from 6 to 10 p.m., BiPAP at night, requires what

01:24:52.560 is called deep suctioning, threading of suction catheter through her nose and the airwave.

01:24:56.840 This is so, so harsh for you.

01:25:01.000 You list all the things that you have to do.

01:25:04.840 And now that you are out, you can't go to a shelter because you can't bring Willow into

01:25:18.760 the shelter.

01:25:19.960 She gets a cold and she can die.

01:25:23.780 You've been accepted on a housing wait list, which you said could lift our biggest stressor

01:25:29.060 from our shoulders.

01:25:29.820 Um, and the list, the list is long and we're close to the end and not likely to receive

01:25:36.120 some help until next point, at some point in next year, we're just doing all we can

01:25:40.680 for roof over our heads.

01:25:42.040 You had a goal of $5,000 and you were, last I checked, you were at, uh, $2,900.

01:25:51.500 Um, that doesn't seem like an awful lot of money to be able just to keep the roof over

01:25:57.080 your head.

01:25:58.200 Uh, it seemed like...

01:25:59.440 It's not, it's, yeah, it's not, but I'm one of those people I have a very hard time

01:26:06.000 asking for help as it is.

01:26:07.980 And like, I don't really set my goals too big because I don't want to be disappointed.

01:26:14.820 I don't want to come off like, you know, I'm asking for a handout.

01:26:18.680 Like, you know, I'm asking the world of people.

01:26:21.340 That's not the person that I am.

01:26:23.520 So, uh, you're remarkable, Katie, you're remarkable.

01:26:30.080 And I applaud you for your strength and, uh, and, uh, expect miracles because they will

01:26:37.840 happen.

01:26:38.180 Thank you, Katie.

01:26:40.580 God bless.

01:26:41.140 Wow.

01:26:41.700 Can we change her life?

01:26:47.700 Yeah, really cool chance to do something for somebody.

01:26:50.620 Uh, Katie Hanson and her daughter, Willow Ray Porter.

01:26:53.960 Uh, they're up on youcaring.com.

01:26:56.340 Um, actually, let me send it right now.

01:26:59.640 Just posted on Twitter at world of stew.

01:27:01.640 If you want to donate and help.

01:27:03.320 I mean, she only needs a couple thousand dollars.

01:27:04.840 This audience can do that in like nine seconds per life.

01:27:08.460 Did you hear her the way she spoke about?

01:27:11.380 I don't want to ask for help.

01:27:13.360 I mean, holy cow.

01:27:15.100 Let's change her life.

01:27:18.380 We just, uh, tweeted, uh, how you can help join us on that.

01:27:22.420 Will you?

01:27:22.640 Can you give the address again, if you want to help, uh, Willow and Katie Hanson?

01:27:30.520 Well, it's youcaring.com.

01:27:32.180 Um, but if you go to at world of stew or at Glenn Beck on Twitter, it's probably the easiest

01:27:35.920 way to get to it.

01:27:37.360 Uh, and it's, uh, the money's coming in already and, uh, hopefully we can actually change their

01:27:41.500 life.

01:27:41.840 I mean, they're almost, she's almost to her goal already.

01:27:43.820 I mean, imagine about three minutes.

01:27:45.440 She's a mom, uh, a child who, if, if she gets a cold, she dies and she can't go to a

01:27:52.000 shelter and she's out of a house because she left an abusive relationship.

01:27:56.020 I mean, and she's not, she's so humble.

01:27:58.680 That's why we put her on the air.

01:28:00.400 She is just, this is not her.

01:28:02.560 She doesn't want to ask for help.

01:28:04.060 I just think it's a fantastic cause.

01:28:05.960 If you would like to help her out, you can, uh, DACA is probably the big news today.

01:28:11.240 Um, president, uh, Trump has, uh, reversed, uh, DACA and said the dreamers program is

01:28:19.800 over and is pushing it over to Congress and saying, you got to do something.

01:28:25.340 Right.

01:28:25.820 So they're encouraging the GOP Congress to pass something similar to DACA, but they, they're

01:28:30.420 saying they don't like the way it was put in, which is completely unconstitutional in

01:28:33.920 my view.

01:28:34.300 So I'm glad they're doing that.

01:28:35.980 Um, the reporting is that sessions really wants this done.

01:28:39.160 Trump doesn't like the politics of it.

01:28:41.160 So he's hoping that the Congress will kind of come through and pass this so they don't

01:28:44.580 have to deal with it.

01:28:45.860 Um, it's also the details of it are interesting in that, uh, new DACA applications that have

01:28:51.480 been received as of today on a case by case will be reviewed as a case by case basis.

01:28:55.460 So they're not just going away.

01:28:57.040 They still have a case by case basis.

01:28:59.120 Anything that is in process already will be processed as usual.

01:29:02.320 Anyone who has it now can renew for multiple years.

01:29:05.220 Um, and they are not taking it away from anyone who has it now.

01:29:07.740 So it's, they're going to be, everyone's going to present this as really hateful, but they,

01:29:10.500 they're very lenient in the way that they're doing this.

01:29:13.000 Protesters are already filling the street in front of the white house.

01:29:17.940 This is a PR nightmare for the president and for the GOP.

01:29:26.740 Mercury.

01:29:27.500 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:29:35.320 So we have, uh, Congress working on ways to a path to citizenship, uh, for the, uh, the

01:29:43.480 dreamers, which I believe is what got everybody off the stage in the GOP in the first place

01:29:51.440 during the election.

01:29:53.260 But now the GOP is working on, um, on that.

01:29:57.880 Um, and, uh, the GOP, the, uh, the DNC is of course saying that, uh, president Trump is

01:30:04.120 heartless on the, uh, getting rid of DACA.

01:30:10.680 Pat is, uh, starting his own broadcast on this network on, uh, the blaze radio network, uh,

01:30:17.700 starting, but Monday, a week from yesterday, a week from yesterday, Pat was, uh, the number

01:30:23.840 one host on KPRC in, uh, Houston before I dragged his, uh, butt to New York city to help

01:30:31.040 me with the Fox thing and everything else.

01:30:32.720 And, um, I am re you can read my Facebook posts from last night.

01:30:37.520 I am, uh, re figuring my entire company as a, as you know, if you're a regular listener

01:30:45.180 of the program, I took control of my own company about four months ago, six months ago, something

01:30:51.080 like that.

01:30:52.420 And, uh, started to, uh, do my own homework on exactly what was happening and, and how

01:30:59.660 we're doing things and then looking at the future and seeing what is happening in conservative

01:31:04.660 media.

01:31:05.660 And then I started listening to you and we need to start to really listen and respond to

01:31:12.420 you.

01:31:12.720 And one thing that Pat does really, really well is respond to things, um, perhaps with

01:31:23.480 a little more vigor, uh, than I do at times.

01:31:28.580 Uh, and so he's going to be on the blaze radio and TV immediately following this program, starting

01:31:34.740 a week from yesterday on Monday.

01:31:37.440 And it's a three hour broadcast and it is one that you don't want to miss.

01:31:42.640 We're internally, we've been just calling it Pat unchained.

01:31:46.800 Um, there's, there's no more, uh, there's no more, uh, Glenn steak.

01:31:50.740 Uh, the chain has, has been unstaked.

01:31:54.720 And, uh, and so we're letting him loose, uh, starting on Monday.

01:31:59.280 So what have you been thinking this weekend?

01:32:01.300 So, uh, I'm sitting in church yesterday because I, you know, I'm not unleashed quite yet.

01:32:05.820 Uh, it's still a little bit of a leash, still a little bit of a leash.

01:32:09.420 So I'm, I'm trying to stay awake in church, uh, and, uh, and this young woman gets up and

01:32:17.280 she starts talking about a blog post that her friend in Houston wrote and she shared this

01:32:23.600 post and I thought, wow, that's everything we've been saying for the last year.

01:32:29.020 Um, so I, I thought I'd share part of it.

01:32:33.000 Um, it's, it's called the good thing that hurricane Harvey washed away.

01:32:38.340 There's not much in the world that I can truly say I hate, but I hate Harvey.

01:32:43.480 We've been sitting here for more hours than I can begin to count being brutally lashed by this

01:32:47.680 seemingly never ending fury.

01:32:49.660 I would be lying if I said it wasn't scary, terrifying at times, but we're among the lucky

01:32:54.920 ones.

01:32:55.240 We are safe and dry Harvey has taken so much from so many homes, lives, hopes, jobs, all

01:33:02.680 washed into the Gulf of Mexico by his relentless anger, pregnant women and their toddlers stuck

01:33:08.100 on roofs, waiting for hours, upon hours for help.

01:33:11.160 A friend with seven feet of water in her home, swimming for her life to a rescue boat, an elderly

01:33:15.940 couple trapped in their attic with rising water.

01:33:18.900 A man drowned as he clung desperately to a shopping cart in a parking lot.

01:33:23.460 Thousands stranded, thousands homeless, hundreds in need of rescue, no water, no food, no end

01:33:29.440 in sight.

01:33:30.540 My heart is bleeding yet in the deluge.

01:33:34.060 There is something incredibly beautiful emerging emerging.

01:33:37.520 You see, Harvey has washed away something else.

01:33:41.200 Hatred.

01:33:42.080 The only color in greater Houston today is red, white, and blue.

01:33:46.020 The only religion on our streets is love.

01:33:48.600 There's no race, no creed, no gender, no socioeconomic classes, no nationality, no sexual orientation,

01:33:56.020 no religion.

01:33:56.840 There are only people helping people.

01:33:59.820 There are only strangers opening their homes for strangers.

01:34:02.600 There are only men and women risking their precious lives for other precious lives.

01:34:06.840 Today, no matter who you worship, no matter the color of your skin, no matter where you

01:34:11.520 were born, we're all Texans.

01:34:13.520 For a stunning moment, the world has stopped fighting against each other and started fighting

01:34:18.520 for each other.

01:34:20.280 It's breathtaking.

01:34:22.080 Take note, world.

01:34:23.280 You don't need to wait for a devastating disaster to love.

01:34:26.620 You don't need to wait until your neighbors are drowning to reach across the color, religious,

01:34:31.020 nationality, political boundaries.

01:34:33.100 This world is suffering a different kind of storm, one far more dangerous than Harvey,

01:34:37.480 a storm of hatred.

01:34:38.920 Let's refuse to let it break us.

01:34:41.300 I will tell you, that is the spirit that I found on the streets.

01:34:45.540 I was there Saturday, and we were the first plane, I think, to land in Galveston, and we

01:34:52.600 were the last one out on Saturday.

01:34:56.120 And we brought in, I don't know how many tons of water and everything else, and we went and

01:35:03.380 A, I brought the family because we wanted to actually serve, and we were mucking houses

01:35:08.300 out, and people were like, oh, I don't see Glenn working.

01:35:13.020 Yeah, because I didn't have them film my family and I doing service.

01:35:19.340 But what I was amazed by is, as we're mucking out one house, we're standing there, and we're

01:35:28.940 taking a quick break, and it's about noon or so, and the homeowner says to somebody else,

01:35:36.580 you know who really has it bad?

01:35:38.840 Now, I'm thinking, you?

01:35:43.600 I'm standing there with a woman who has just dumped every photo album, all of her baby pictures

01:35:49.280 with her kids.

01:35:50.020 She, by the front door, she's just kept a chair with a couple of things that she could

01:35:54.820 keep, and one of them was a couple of photos of her children and her in her wedding dress,

01:35:59.780 and that's it.

01:36:00.400 And all of the other photos have all been destroyed, and so they're just dumped out

01:36:06.260 under the lawn.

01:36:07.660 Everything's gone.

01:36:08.380 And she says, you know who I really feel bad for?

01:36:11.800 No, who?

01:36:15.040 And she said, the couple across the street.

01:36:18.980 Now, their house looks exactly like her house does.

01:36:22.020 And I said, why is that?

01:36:25.600 And she said, because they're older than I am, I can start over.

01:36:31.240 I don't know how they're going to mentally make that gear shift.

01:36:35.260 I feel so bad for them.

01:36:37.900 So I go over, and I'm talking to them, and they say, and I'm not kidding you, you know

01:36:45.000 who really has it bad?

01:36:47.340 And I'm like, yeah, the lady across the street over there.

01:36:49.920 And they said, the couple across the street, they pointed to another couple across the

01:36:57.860 street.

01:36:59.420 They've had a really tough go of it lately, and blah, blah, blah.

01:37:03.280 I later, as I'm leaving, the couple that the second couple pointed to, the third corner,

01:37:10.680 okay, they come out.

01:37:12.640 They recognize me.

01:37:13.380 I'm getting into the car.

01:37:14.420 I didn't even know they were in the house.

01:37:16.020 They come out.

01:37:17.000 Everything is out.

01:37:18.020 And they said, Glenn, Glenn, can we talk to you for a second?

01:37:21.040 I said, sure.

01:37:22.400 Now, go on my Facebook page and watch it.

01:37:26.000 I just wrote something like, for those of you who don't believe in America or the goodness

01:37:31.180 of neighbors, just watch these people.

01:37:34.080 Can we talk to you for a second?

01:37:35.480 I said, yeah.

01:37:37.420 They talk about what life is like for them and what's been going on.

01:37:43.520 And then they talk about how hard it is for everybody else, but how grateful they are

01:37:51.200 because everybody's just pulling together.

01:37:53.540 When they said, can we talk to you for a second?

01:37:55.420 I said, sure.

01:37:56.140 I didn't bring out the iPhone.

01:37:58.540 I said, sure.

01:37:59.700 And they said, can you please get the word out?

01:38:02.740 Because some of our neighbors are really having a hard time.

01:38:05.540 They're not going to be able.

01:38:06.400 We can do this, but they're not going to be able to handle this mentally.

01:38:11.780 They just are so.

01:38:13.380 These people are amazing.

01:38:15.280 Yeah.

01:38:15.680 This would probably be astounding to some people, but not to me because I lived there

01:38:20.420 for eight years.

01:38:21.200 And even when there's not a disaster, the people of Houston are phenomenal.

01:38:24.680 And that's why I fell in love with that city.

01:38:26.380 And that's why I love it to this day.

01:38:27.520 But especially when there's something going wrong, they band together.

01:38:33.520 And that's why that article we read a couple of weeks ago from the salon is just so aggravating

01:38:42.840 because we did see the best come out in human beings in Houston and we continue to see it.

01:38:48.640 And it's happening every single day, every minute of every day.

01:38:52.160 And the worst is probably still not behind them.

01:38:54.740 I mean, they've got a cleanup of years here.

01:38:58.160 I was.

01:38:58.540 So I was in Friendswood, you know, where Friendswood is.

01:39:01.080 Okay.

01:39:01.180 So I was in Friendswood.

01:39:02.300 That was hit the hardest for rain.

01:39:05.220 Okay.

01:39:05.620 That was the one that got the 51 inches of rain.

01:39:09.120 These people left.

01:39:10.520 One of them said to me, they left to go to a movie.

01:39:12.780 They get out.

01:39:14.160 They start driving home and they can't get to their house.

01:39:16.840 I mean, and that was the first day.

01:39:19.160 That was Saturday was the first day they could get back.

01:39:21.160 And these guys were telling me, oh, no, there's there's parts of Houston.

01:39:25.620 The water's still coming in.

01:39:27.700 They won't.

01:39:28.600 They're not expected to get into their houses for nine more days.

01:39:33.100 Can you imagine?

01:39:33.860 I can't even imagine.

01:39:34.940 Have you ever cleaned up after Hurricane?

01:39:36.580 Yes.

01:39:37.320 I never have.

01:39:38.700 You will never forget the smell.

01:39:41.540 Oh, my gosh.

01:39:43.040 Yeah.

01:39:43.520 You can't.

01:39:45.340 Yeah.

01:39:46.100 Even begin to relate.

01:39:47.820 You can't even begin to relate.

01:39:49.340 This is why earlier today we asked you to do two things.

01:39:52.940 One, if you can donate money, go to mercuryone.org.

01:39:57.300 The money is being deployed.

01:39:59.180 I was there, you know, holding up the arms of some of the people who are doing the work on the ground and making sure that, you know, we're doing everything that we can to help.

01:40:10.560 I was there on Saturday.

01:40:12.820 And Mercury One has amazing partners on the ground.

01:40:16.620 So if you can donate, please do that.

01:40:19.740 If you can donate your time, especially if you're a veteran, Team Rubicon is this amazing veterans organization that has a whole bunch of people that are already members, but they need to be activated.

01:40:35.400 And we're trying to raise the money and get the airlines to be able to give free tickets or we'll reimburse or we'll do whatever we have to do to get all of these volunteers down.

01:40:46.960 But we need some heavy lifting people.

01:40:48.880 We need some back.

01:40:49.560 We need some backs and we need some arms and we need some hands.

01:40:52.300 Yeah.

01:40:52.720 It's Team Rubicon USA.org, I believe.

01:40:56.460 You say that with such confidence.

01:40:58.040 Well, because you just looked at me like I was supposed to know it off the top of my head.

01:41:00.960 I threw the piece of paper out two hours ago.

01:41:02.600 I will say this, though, Pat.

01:41:05.060 I do have one important question, the most important question, which you have not answered, which is, did this incredible story from Houston keep you awake at church?

01:41:14.580 Did it succeed?

01:41:15.280 It's the thing that woke me up.

01:41:16.660 Okay, good.

01:41:17.560 Wow.

01:41:18.400 Yes.

01:41:18.780 Enabled me not to plant my head into the bench ahead of me.

01:41:22.160 By the way, you can catch Pat's show beginning Monday on the Blaze Radio Network following this program.

01:41:43.960 Pat Gray is joining us.

01:41:54.320 We were just talking about Hurricane Harvey in Houston, and now Irma is making her way.

01:42:02.320 And it looks, I mean, I'm not a sports guy, but I think it's a field goal if Irma goes right between Florida and Cuba.

01:42:12.700 And they're now saying it's going to be a five plus.

01:42:15.980 In fact, they may come up with a new category, a category six, because it's shaping up to be the most powerful storm ever seen.

01:42:24.660 I mean, it just can't happen, right?

01:42:25.960 Just we got to pray that that does not happen.

01:42:27.960 I remember the similar warnings when Rita was headed towards Houston.

01:42:34.460 Two weeks after Katrina, right?

01:42:35.640 Yeah.

01:42:36.240 And it was, at the time, it was, when it was out at sea, it was the strongest hurricane ever measured.

01:42:42.760 And so they were talking, we might have to come up with a new category, like a six or a seven for this thing.

01:42:47.240 Well, it fortunately petered out a little bit and was only a three by the time it veered off and hit Beaumont.

01:42:52.500 But so anything can happen with these things.

01:42:55.700 And you just got to hope and pray this doesn't come anywhere near Houston again.

01:42:59.960 Jeez, that would be devastating.

01:43:00.920 Yeah, anywhere near land.

01:43:02.180 I mean, these things are, hopefully, I mean, the best thing is it would just spin off north before.

01:43:07.080 And that could happen.

01:43:07.880 It could go northeast.

01:43:09.160 But they're getting close.

01:43:10.100 It could.

01:43:10.720 They're getting close enough now where they're starting to really think it's going to hit Puerto Rico and Florida.

01:43:15.640 And we're talking about Puerto Rico being just, if it is as strong as they think it is, Puerto Rico would just be wiped off the face.

01:43:22.720 Yeah, there was a report earlier that said that they may not have power for six months in certain areas.

01:43:28.120 Six months?

01:43:28.980 Your entire civilization turns off at that point.

01:43:31.780 Yeah.

01:43:32.100 And have you been to Puerto Rico?

01:43:33.940 I have not.

01:43:35.040 It's not that big.

01:43:36.960 It's really not that big.

01:43:39.980 You go to Puerto Rico and you're like, this is it?

01:43:43.040 I mean, this is all of it, right?

01:43:46.640 To not have power in, you know, on an island that small is pretty remarkable.

01:43:57.020 And what does that mean for the people of Puerto Rico?

01:44:01.020 What does it mean for that culture?

01:44:02.480 What does it mean for the United States?

01:44:04.780 What does it mean for the economy of the world?

01:44:07.100 I mean, holy cow.

01:44:10.120 It's amazing.

01:44:10.500 We had 12 years without one of these things making landfall in the United States.

01:44:14.580 It's 12 years.

01:44:16.180 Two of them possibly back-to-back giants.

01:44:18.600 And they look horrible.

01:44:19.960 You know, you get really spoiled by it because as soon as this stuff comes back, you realize it really does send that signal of how insignificant you feel.

01:44:27.820 Yeah.

01:44:27.960 You have no control over your life in these circumstances.

01:44:29.920 As I was shoveling literally the remains of a woman's life in a, you know, snow shovel, and I was throwing it out on the front lawn, I thought, our lives, the stuff that we collect, the stuff that we think is important, absolutely meaningless.

01:44:50.200 Just each other, that's all that counts.

01:44:53.400 Mercury.

01:44:53.880 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 05, 2017

9⧸5⧸17 - This isn't a game

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