Glenn Beck is back with a new segment on his radio show. He talks about the latest in the Trump administration, the latest on the Russia scandal, and the New York Times response to it. He also talks about why the media should be scared of the deep state.
00:04:44.020I want to actually start before we get into the show that we did last night and now the New York Times response, which is crazy.
00:04:51.900There was a story yesterday that Merrick Garland, who is so trustworthy, came out and talked about an indictment that tenant media was involved in some sort of Russian something or other.
00:05:18.560I'm not going to get into it and none of the details because I don't know what the details are.
00:05:25.100Right now, I know there is an indictment.
00:05:27.940But other than that, I can't figure out what the Russians would have been doing, how Russia was going to benefit from this.
00:05:38.600However, I'm going to leave this alone for the facts and just talk to you about this.
00:05:45.040I have been telling you for how many years that there are deep pockets in Russia and there are people that are trying to go after conservatives.
00:08:05.460I mean, we're in this place where I, we just played this last night.
00:08:10.080In 2019, I said, warning, there is going to come a time where there is a trust implosion, where you won't know who to trust and no one will trust anyone or anything.
00:08:24.040What happens after that is street violence becomes out of hand.
00:08:31.740There probably will be a war at the same time.
00:08:35.980And that's when everything shuts down.
00:12:49.100Last night on the TV show, I talked to you about illegal immigration and illegal voting.
00:12:59.800Now, Stu has a story that just came out from the New York Times that says, people like me and Donald Trump and anybody who's concerned about the vote, we're overstating the problem.
00:13:16.580You want to give me the highlights of this, Stu?
00:13:18.300Sure, Glenn, the title is Republican Seize on False Theories About Immigrant Voting.
00:13:25.860And it starts talking about a group, there's multiple groups discussed in the article, but it says in late July, a group of Republican activists met on a Zoom call to discuss preparations for the November election.
00:13:37.540The topic was how to keep undocumented immigrants from voting in November, a problem they claim inaccurately to be a looming threat to a fair election.
00:13:48.440It goes on to say that there's no indication that non-citizens are voting in large numbers, which is, I think, an interesting point because it doesn't have to be in large numbers to be a threat to an election, right?
00:14:03.680Especially a close one, but they, of course, also are admitted it happens.
00:14:09.460I'm kind of an absolutist where I don't want anybody who shouldn't vote to vote.
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00:20:20.700Under, you know, right around 20,000 votes or less.
00:20:24.660Those three states were Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
00:20:28.340So, if you were to say that those three states went the other way, Arizona, 11 electoral votes to Trump, Georgia, 16 to Trump, and Wisconsin, 10 to Trump.
00:20:48.320Can you, you think 2020 was chaotic the way it played out last time?
00:20:52.160Can you imagine if that thing landed with razor sharp margins in three different states that went Trump's way and led to a tie that was determined in the House of Representatives?
00:21:05.040Holy crap, that would have been insane.
00:21:07.440Have you heard that that's why RFK did not pull his name off of the ballots in deep blue states?
00:21:18.500Oh, yeah, he said that during his press conference, that if there was a...
00:21:22.340Because he believes, yeah, there's a chance that there's a 269 to 269 tie, and he would be the tiebreaker.
00:21:29.280Now, he will, the House of Representatives, I think he's in a, he's having a delusional state to think that the House of Representatives is going to select him.
00:21:40.660He'd be in, there'd be a chance of it happening.
00:21:43.960Well, no, if it's a tie, can't he throw his delegates?
00:21:47.040Well, first of all, he's not going to have any, but no, it would go to the House of Representatives vote.
00:21:53.500It's been a while since I thought this out, but my memory of it, at least off the top of my head, is it goes to the House of Representatives vote, which would be a vote that, you know, depending on whoever's controlling the House is going to be able to pick the next president.
00:22:07.000So, that is a, you know, there's a theory that can happen where, like, if, let's say enough, if Republicans were leading it, and Republicans, there was enough Republicans who didn't like Trump.
00:22:18.920Remember, 2016, this was talked about because there was a decent amount of Republicans in the House that really just didn't like Trump at all.
00:22:24.840They could decide not to vote for him and try to force into some sort of third option instead of Trump.
00:22:33.800The chances of that happening are so impossibly low.
00:22:36.720It's hard to state, but it is theoretically possible that if it tied at 269 or if, you know, let's say RFK Jr.
00:22:44.100were to win one of those states that you're talking about, then he would be in the, if he could hold both guys below 270, which would be very difficult to do.
00:22:53.440But if he could do that, it would go to the House, and then it's kind of up for grabs.
00:22:56.520But I don't think RFK Jr. has enough friends on both sides to be able to win that sort of election.
00:23:01.600Does it look like we're going to control the House?
00:23:03.300Are we, how are we doing on the House count?
00:23:05.200House is really a toss-up at this point.
00:23:52.920You don't necessarily have to buy anything.
00:23:55.340But if you've been thinking, you know, I should do this, do it right now.
00:23:59.200Because another day will pass, and you won't do it.
00:24:01.720Among other reasons that you should call, the BRICS nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are working to, right now, attack the U.S. dollar and destroy it.
00:25:02.720So, Stu points out during the break that last half hour I said, you know, after this Tucker Carlson thing, I'm not sure I will ever appear on stage with anybody else.
00:25:12.660And then I reminded you immediately, I'm going to be out with Donald Trump next weekend.
00:27:18.720If Kamala gets in, you're out of your mind.
00:27:22.380They are all going to batten down the hatches.
00:27:24.660By the way, job openings fell more than expected in July, which is, huh, what does that even mean?
00:27:33.620U.S. steel shares plunge as Biden, Harris, prepare to block Nippon Steel takeover.
00:27:41.180People familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that President Joe Biden is preparing to announce that he will block the $14.9 billion deal.
00:27:50.480U.S. shares have fallen now 41% this year.
00:27:55.140Kamala Harris, the presidential nominee, said U.S. steel should remain American-owned and American-operated.
00:28:01.900That was during a campaign event in Pittsburgh.
00:28:11.060Is anybody offering that to U.S. steel?
00:28:14.320Not according to U.S. steel, which is kind of the issue, which they say, and I'm interested in your thoughts on this because, you know, it's not China, right?
00:28:45.820A lot of union jobs go away if you do not let us go through with this deal.
00:28:51.340And I can kind of say, you know, I kind of have some understanding of, like, why you'd be hesitant to want U.S. steel to go into foreign hands.
00:31:11.780If the USDA has their way, and this has already passed, they're just looking on how to implement it, the secretary is allowed to go in and say, you know what?
00:32:27.180Well, people like Bill Gates will own that.
00:32:29.520Bill Gates will come in and say, you know, I just want to save the planet.
00:32:32.040So I'm going to just buy up all of this farmland, and I'm going to buy the air, and I'm going to buy the trees, and I'm going to buy everything.
00:32:42.060So that way, when somebody wants to farm on it, like these farmers that have been farming on it for generations, I can tell them no.
00:32:52.140No, because it'll hurt the environment.
00:32:54.100And all of this is done by the secretary of the USDA.
00:33:22.600So the Department of Agriculture and USDA, they administer the program, and the secretary—could you look up the secretary of agriculture, Stu?
00:34:06.240So the new law sets out how the secretary is to determine ownership of the environmental services that are created on private land through the federal conservation program.
00:34:17.500Contributing entity, the one who contributes the private funding to the conservation programs, is to prescribe the terms of ownership of the environmental services subject to the approval of the secretary.
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00:35:24.500What do you mean they're monetizing the natural processes under the Sustains Act?
00:35:29.680This is a way for them to take control of the land through private-public partnerships.
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00:39:31.440Well, Alan Dershowitz says that if the judge in New York goes through with the sentencing before the November election, we are a banana republic.
00:39:57.260He says this is exactly the kind of stuff that is happening in Venezuela and there's no need for it.
00:40:05.140He said this case is probably going to be overturned because, you know, of all the things that happened and that there's no evidence, there's no real case there.
00:40:15.020And he said, you know, I've been trying, I've been trying from, you know, since the 1960s.
00:40:20.820And he said, I've seen cases like this.
00:40:22.860And he said, they're always overturned.
00:40:24.020If this judge sentences him before the election, that is clear election interference because it will affect the election one way or another.
00:41:30.820So I think Donald Trump's chances of going to prison or winding up in an ankle bracelet increase dramatically if he wins that debate in some sort of demolishing fashion like he did the first one against Biden.
00:41:43.960If she's in trouble, the chances of him going to prison are much, much higher.
00:41:48.420If they think they're winning, I think they might go with your analysis and think this might hurt us.
00:43:14.780And by the way, this is a name you know.
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00:44:54.140Because I've never believed that politics really solve any problems, that I always felt like, you know, there's no political solutions to spiritual problems.
00:45:11.460I still believe that, but I do believe the stakes and the consequences of this election.
00:45:19.400And one particular issue that's just near and dear to my heart, if anybody has followed me for any period of time, on January 6th, 2021, I was defending them on January 6th.
00:45:38.400I didn't wait until the 7th or the 8th or the 9th or a year later.
00:45:42.500I felt like those people were justified in their actions.
00:45:51.000My instinct said they'd been set up, and they were agitators, and that this was being overblown and calling this an insurrection.
00:46:00.320And I just, Ashley Babbitt being murdered for no reason, and the only way to provide those people that they have put underneath prison, the only way to provide relief to them is if Donald Trump gets re-elected and pardoned them.
00:46:17.460And so, it's easier for me to see the consequences and or benefits in this election.
00:46:29.640And, you know, I could go on with all the other things that the left are doing that bother me.
00:46:36.360But I don't, sometimes I question whether, like, are the Republicans in on some of this other stuff that the left is doing?
00:46:43.660As it relates to getting January 6th people out of these dungeons, Trump can, should, I hope will do it.
00:46:55.500And I can't sit on the sidelines and say I did nothing when I'm, you know, when I have an opportunity to do something.
00:47:04.160So, you know, it's really weird with the things that are going on now, Jason, where, you know, we could talk about it before and say, you know, it looks like this might happen, this might happen.
00:47:28.020It's terrifying, but I tend to look at it more of it's inspiring because that would be part two of, like, this guy has pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table.
00:47:45.220He's made himself an assassination candidate, a career financial suicide candidate.
00:47:53.480He's been very bold, and I can't sit on the sidelines and watch this guy risk everything.
00:48:03.120And the third part of it would just be the shot that they took at Donald Trump is, I just, men are taking real risks right now.
00:48:14.980And for me to say, hey, it's not even worth my time to register to vote and vote, I would be a coward, a hypocrite, and worthy of, you know, disbargement.
00:48:29.280What do you think is going to happen with the jail time?
00:48:33.380If, I think it's the 16th, the judge in New York has to decide, you know, what his sentence is.
00:48:42.600If they put him in jail, Jason, how do you think that's going to play out?
00:48:48.060I think it's going to inspire more of us.
00:48:52.060I think that, you know, I'll be praying for President Trump, but I just think it's just pushing more and more chips into the middle of the table and making conflict more and more inevitable.
00:49:11.340You know, it's, I'm so, I have so little confidence in the integrity of the election process.
00:49:22.840We've clearly become a banana republic.
00:49:25.620And there's a TV show called Narcos that was popular on Netflix, and it was about, you know, drug cartels and their influence over politics in Colombia and other South American countries.
00:49:43.780And I watch it now, or I remember it now and go, holy cow, we're just like that.
00:49:49.980That the corrupt and the criminal are actually, we got villains, women, gangs taking over neighborhoods and communities, and we have politicians doing nothing about it.
00:50:02.360And today, Glenn, I'm going to, on my show, I'm going to get into a discussion about the great replacement, and I'm going to use sports to unpack it so that people can perhaps hear it in a non-political way.
00:50:17.640But this replacement thing that they got going on that too many black people don't understand, and I know it's not just black people that don't understand it, but we've lost our reverence for American citizenship.
00:50:33.220And we just think, hey, anybody and everybody should just be able to come over here and do whatever, and we're so caught up.
00:50:41.200We've lost sight of, like, religion, shared values based on religious beliefs, shared values based on our geography, shared values based on our language.
00:50:52.360That's our identity, not this other, oh, who you have sex with, how you have sex, what skin color you are.
00:51:33.860It's just, hey, just let any and everybody in here, and if they're from Somalia and they practice some other form of religion, that's fine.
00:52:09.680Let me break for 60 seconds and come right back with Jason Whitlock.
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00:52:39.580We have people in the highest places of power within our own government, elected and unelected, who are killing the U.S. dollar just as fast as our enemies.
00:52:48.900We've got to be prepared for whatever is coming our way economically.
00:55:12.600Because, you know, Midwest girl, you know, has some boyfriend that, you know, she keeps close, works for the Indiana Pacers, you know, seems to come from a good family, and doesn't hate America.
00:55:25.620You know, the WNBA has been about kneeling and protesting America.
00:55:31.140And, yes, the Angel Reese, who has kind of stayed out of politics, but she attached herself to Caitlyn Clark by trolling her when they were college stars and then being jealous of her as WNBA players.
00:55:51.160And so Angel Reese is the villain, and Caitlyn Clark is the hero.
00:55:56.880And there are people, based on their racial idolatry, that just, they prefer Angel Reese and want to bring down Caitlyn Clark.
00:56:07.820It's, we all should be enjoying this, but also learning a lesson.
00:56:13.900And this is where my show is going to get into this.
00:56:16.160The WNBA trajectory, because of Caitlyn Clark, and because of those values that she represents, it's going to, and this will sound crazy when I say it, but it's going to surpass the NBA in relevance here in America.
00:56:34.680And I think that's going to happen more quickly than people realize, and it's because in the NBA, all of their young superstars, they're all foreign players.
00:56:48.600The NBA, the men's league, has bought into globalism.
00:56:52.400They don't understand the value of American citizenship.
00:56:55.640And so that league's popularity has been waning ever since Michael Jordan retired.
00:57:04.320But he's got that Marxist worldview and promotes all that stuff.
00:57:08.420But all their top stars, from Luka Doncas to Nikola Jokic to Giannis Antetokounmpo to Joel Embiid, they're all, I think, the Shea Gilders, I think he's maybe from Canada.
00:57:21.440All of these players are from foreign countries.
00:57:26.340They've surrendered their American traction and relevance.
00:57:31.560And now the WNBA is loaded up with American-born players, including Angel Reese, including this woman, Asia Wilson, who's a great player, and, of course, obviously, Caitlyn Clark.
00:57:44.960And eventually, I would say three to five years from now, they will be as popular as the NBA and eventually will surpass the NBA because the NBA has bought into globalism.
00:58:00.300They don't value American citizenship.
00:59:34.200And it seems like the league and everyone in the media apparatus around it has done everything they could to try to destroy her since the moment she walked into the league, including acts of physical brutality to her on the court.
00:59:50.320Why are they reacting this way to her?
01:00:28.160The media, the media is just stupid and it's controlled by leftists and Marxists and the media should, because it's actually a great story in terms of what you got a good guy and you got a bad guy.
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01:05:00.460You know, as you look at the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, and then you see that Kamala Harris will not say whether she's going to sign her own EV mandate bill.
01:05:48.700She is also the most pro-abortion advocate to ever be anywhere close to the White House.
01:05:56.820She is the first vice president to ever go to an abortion clinic and, you know, make happy talk with everybody in the, you know, in the, honestly, in the death chamber of Planned Parenthood.
01:06:14.340But if you think you're going to have a voice and be able to do anything about abortion, I think you're sadly mistaken.
01:06:24.880You know, one of the things that nobody seems to be talking about or caring about is the fact that they are, the DOJ is, is taking glee in prosecuting anybody who shows up to try to stop women from having an abortion.
01:06:43.700And they've been, you know, charged with violating the FACE Act.
01:07:27.220Well, Glenn, it wouldn't be a rosy report I could furnish the Biden-Harris DOJ, as you indicated, has ramped up criminal prosecutions against peaceful pro-life demonstrators against abortion in a way we have never seen before.
01:07:51.480According to my calculations, since 2011, there have been a total of about 51 criminal prosecutions.
01:08:00.060Thirty-five, thirty-five of those have been since the overturning of Roe against Wade in 2022 by the Biden-Harris administration.
01:08:09.220And as you indicate, they have thrown the book at these guys, including this 10-year felony conspiracy against rights charge.
01:08:17.580We just had guilty verdicts handed down in another criminal face case in Detroit here at the end of August.
01:08:29.800The court has graciously allowed us time to really brief and argue the fact that this statute has no bearing in the context of a peaceful sit-in, is what it amounts to, a violation of the face act.
01:08:44.920So we're still fighting those, but it's brutal.
01:08:48.140Let's go back for just a second on the Klan Act.
01:09:05.620The statute says if two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise of their rights guaranteed by the Constitution or the laws of the United States.
01:09:22.780So they take that or the laws of the United States and say, hey, the FACE Act is a law of the United States.
01:09:29.940These people have agreed to come in and engage in this sit-in, thereby intimidating or oppressing folks trying to get an abortion.
01:09:38.500Ergo, we can charge them with this conspiracy violation.
01:09:44.040So, you know, on the face of the act, Glenn, it really does seem to apply.
01:09:49.320But the fact of the matter is, and the U.S. Supreme Court in a very recent case, Fisher against the United States, decided the end of June, the end of this last term, 2024, that, hey, you can't just willy-nilly take these old statutes with generic, very broad language,
01:10:08.120and ratchet them down against a newly enacted act like the FACE Act, where the intent of Congress is clearly not to allow such things.
01:10:19.800There were great debates in Congress in 1994 when they tried to enact, for the first time in our nation's history, a federal law that criminalizes peaceful civil disobedience, you know, the time-honored tradition that we've enjoyed for our nation's history.
01:10:37.360And they directly asked, okay, so somebody that's engaged in this kind of nonviolent sit-in action, they can't be charged with a felony?
01:10:49.220And yet here we are, only under the Biden administration do you import Section 241, the Conspiracy Against Rights KKK Act, for use against pro-lifers only.
01:10:59.660So, I have a feeling that we haven't seen anything yet, Steve, that the mask is coming off.
01:11:11.620They've all but told us exactly who they are.
01:11:14.740Remember, they were running a moderate last time.
01:11:17.340This time, if you're paying attention at all, they're not telling you what she's going to do for a reason.
01:11:22.540They won't explain her flip-flops for a reason.
01:11:27.940And we know who she is, and she is massively anti-pro-life.
01:11:37.120And I just have this feeling, Steve, and please tell me this is hyperbole, that I could see in the next four years, if she wins, you don't have a right to say anything about abortion.
01:11:48.500Glenn, I wish I could disagree with you there.
01:11:53.220As you lay out, this is, I think, the most overtly, avidly, obsessively pro-abortion thing that we have ever seen.
01:12:06.020She falls all over herself in spite of her strict controllers trying to hold her back when it comes to the issue of abortion.
01:12:13.400And remember, by the way, just this week, there's a new report of the FBI's utter failure to act, even in the context of sexual abuse and human trafficking of children.
01:12:26.640They are too busy, apparently, combing through age-old Facebook records of gentle pro-life Christians, trying to find ways to come in with the SWAT teams and arrest them, rather than looking after the lives and sexual well-being of our children.
01:12:46.860I mean, it's unbelievable where we are and the priorities of the weaponized DOJ and FBI.
01:12:53.060Steve, let me just ask the listener to pray for you and the Thomas More Society for everything that you're doing.
01:13:03.880But also, if you feel this is something that is important to you, I think it is, please consider making a donation to the Thomas More Society, thomasmoresociety.org.
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01:13:31.460The rights that are on the line this time around are numerous.
01:13:46.740When you look at what they have done to Donald Trump, they have used and abused the FBI, the Justice Department, our intelligence agencies.
01:14:05.900They have all lied to us about Russia collusion, et cetera, et cetera.
01:14:12.920And I know if you're a Democrat, you're shaking your head saying, no, that wasn't a lie.
01:17:08.320And if they will persecute him, you don't think they'll do that to you?
01:17:14.780If they will go after the guy who is, A, the biggest manufacturer of electric cars, when they say the biggest thing we have to do is get rid of all of our cars and have electric cars,
01:17:28.480they'll go after him because he disagrees with them on Donald Trump.
01:17:34.080They will try to put him out of business because of his Trump connection and also because he believes in free speech.
01:17:51.600Because you're not voting for this country.
01:17:54.740You're not voting for our Constitution.
01:17:56.940You're not voting for our Bill of Rights.
01:17:58.700You may think you are, but it's because you haven't boned up on what's really going on.
01:18:06.160And in some ways, I can't blame you because the mainstream media either calls everything a conspiracy theory and then goes on a year later to go, oh, yeah, that is true.
01:18:21.820Or you've just stuck your head in the sand.
01:19:07.840We don't know how many millions of illegals are in this country right now, let alone how many more are going to get through before we finally seal the border.
01:19:15.860And if she wins, they're not going to.
01:19:18.460Being armed is your right as an American citizen.
01:19:21.340And nobody is more pro-Second Amendment than I am.
01:19:25.160But there are times when it's appropriate to protect yourself and your family with non-lethal means.
01:19:31.340That's where the Burna Launcher comes in.
01:19:33.180Can you imagine what's going to happen to people who defend themselves if this crew gets in?
01:19:37.100It's a great complement to your firearms.
01:19:41.540There are a few situations, quite a few actually, where less lethal is the way to go.
01:19:45.700And Burna is the best alternative to deadly force.
01:19:48.580The Burna Launcher has powerful deterrents like tear gas and kinetic rounds with a 60-foot range.
01:19:53.300And one shot can incapacitate an attacker for up to 40 minutes.
01:20:44.220We have Eric Berger on in just a minute.
01:20:46.740You may not know him by name, but he has probably done more one-on-one work or documenting of Elon Musk than maybe anybody else.
01:21:00.820In the early days of SpaceX, he was there and saw all of the trials and tribulations and how they pulled their butt out of the fire, literally, several times.
01:21:10.820You know, it was 10 years ago, Boeing was the number one company to go to for space.
01:21:17.880Now, SpaceX, 10 years ago, while Boeing was number one, SpaceX was just getting their feet underneath them and having, you know, all kinds of problems.
01:21:27.080Now, Elon Musk is going to save our astronauts from a Boeing product.
01:23:18.680You know, when Leonardo DiCaprio, when Leonardo da Vinci needed to flee the Pope's summer residence in the middle of the night,
01:23:29.200it was because he was, if they thought at the time, violating the most sacred things by doing vivisections of human bodies to understand how the human body worked.
01:23:41.840But when Galileo was saying, no, you know what, you're just wrong.
01:23:47.000I don't think we, I don't think we have the sun going around us.
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01:27:06.300So, Eric Berger is Ars Technica Senior Space Editor, but he's also the author of two books, Liftoff, about the rise of SpaceX, and re-entry on the development of Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon.
01:27:25.240Eric, it's a pleasure to have you on the program.
01:27:30.780So, am I that far off on putting Elon Musk into the Tesla, I hate to say it, but Edison for the credit he gets, you know, or even a Galileo?
01:27:47.780He is a visionary of our time that I think has changed so much of our lives, and he doesn't get the credit.
01:27:56.320In fact, he gets a lot of grief because of it.
01:27:58.880Elon, I would say, is definitely a visionary.
01:28:03.920He sees the world as he would like it to be in terms of space travel, in terms of electric vehicles, as you said, in terms of free speech.
01:28:13.900I think perhaps more significantly than that even is he's a disruptor.
01:28:18.660You know, he's really disrupted the automotive industry and especially the space industry.
01:28:24.740So, you know, you're seeing what's going on.
01:28:28.540I want to talk to you about with Boeing and stuff, but let me just first start with on freedom of speech.
01:28:35.980He is being attacked now in Europe, in Brazil, like nobody's business.
01:28:42.440And the United States government is actually helping those countries attack him.
01:30:37.700Boeing was the one that was leading in space.
01:30:41.000And now Elon Musk is going to rescue the pilots of that Boeing spacecraft because they don't trust that it's going to be able to come down safely.
01:30:56.880And it's a complete turn of fate over the last 10 to 15 years when Boeing was not just a commercial aviation, but was the gold standard of spaceflight.
01:31:05.160They were NASA's most important contractor.
01:32:28.360And so NASA decided it was okay to launch.
01:32:30.780It developed more helium leaks on the way to the space station.
01:32:33.880But it turned out that wasn't really the biggest problem.
01:32:36.340The problem was that five of the small thrusters, the RCS thrusters that helped point and orient the spacecraft and are critical to docking with the space station backing away from it, failed on the way.
01:32:49.660And so NASA has essentially been conducting some ground tests with Boeing to try to assess the problem.
01:32:55.860And they just haven't been able to understand the root cause of those failures.
01:32:59.800And so they can't be sure that when, you know, if the astronauts were to try to fly home in it, that there would not be more problems and they would lose control of the spacecraft.
01:33:08.500Right, because this positioning system, it is a very tight angle on reentry that you have to hit or you'll burn up, right?
01:33:39.760You've got to position yourself precisely to come back where you want to land.
01:33:44.920Starliner is supposed to land in White Sands, New Mexico.
01:33:49.140And if you get the angle or position wrong, you come down somewhere, you know, could be a populated area, could be an ocean, certainly where people aren't prepared to get to the crew.
01:34:01.340So the Dragon capsule, this is what's going to go pick them up.
01:34:05.960And this is brand new or not from SpaceX?
01:34:29.020In the United States, it's really SpaceX and then all the rest.
01:34:35.400There are some other interesting private companies out there that are trying to do things.
01:34:40.400But SpaceX is probably a decade ahead of a lot of their competitors.
01:34:44.460Really, if you look across the world, the only real competitor to SpaceX and NASA is China, and it has a quasi-commercial space industry that's advancing and rising as well.
01:34:55.740They're actually trying to copy a lot of what SpaceX is doing with both the Falcon rockets and the big Starship rockets they're building.
01:36:10.940I cannot believe how many people, I mean, really smart people that I know who have lost their faith in almost everything are now even questioning if we went to the moon.
01:36:47.060And the answer is that in the 1960s, you know, we spent 5% of the federal budget on this for the better part of a decade and 200,000 people.
01:36:56.820And it was a national imperative to beat the Soviets to the moon.
01:37:00.580There is not that geopolitical impetus behind going back to the moon, and so you've got to do it for less money and find other reasons.
01:37:08.640And the reasons that NASA has settled on, and I think these are very valid good reasons, is that we're going to go to the moon to stay.
01:37:14.940You know, the Apollo program was canceled because, you know, the missions were super expensive.
01:37:21.420And, you know, we did it six times, and what was the point of continuing to go back?
01:37:25.140And so now we're trying to go back more sustainably.
01:37:28.740And that just means lower-cost missions, go there for longer periods, and eventually build up a base on the south pole of the moon.
01:37:40.100China's trying to do the very same thing.
01:37:41.680They've partnered with Russia and some other countries, such as Iran, Venezuela, to build a research station to south pole of the moon.
01:37:49.760And the reality is that south pole is the most interesting part of the moon from a resources standpoint.
01:37:56.300We do believe there's ice, water ice at the poles, and potentially other interesting resources as well that we can tap.
01:38:04.280And really, I mean, it is the next point on the horizon.
01:38:08.160There are lots of strategic reasons to be on the moon or near the moon in terms of having a vantage point to look back at Earth.
01:38:17.080And there will, you know, satellites you could, you know, theoretically, you could send weapons from beyond lunar orbit that would be very difficult for our existing assets to track coming back to the planet.
01:38:27.100And so having vantage points out there is very important.
01:38:29.740Can I ask you to hang for just one more minute, because I want to do a follow-up question on that.
01:38:53.660First, let me tell you about blinds.com.
01:38:55.520Back in the old days, if you wanted to get the blinds in your home replaced, well, you'd have some pushy salesperson come out to your house after you went to their store.
01:39:04.200And then they'd schedule an appointment.
01:40:57.340It's so hard because you don't have direct line-of-sight communications.
01:41:01.980So you have to put a relay spacecraft in orbit around the moon that can link you back to Earth.
01:41:07.460And so, you know, when our astronauts landed on the moon, we had stations all around Earth that could talk to it at various times.
01:41:14.160But the far side, we don't have those direct line of communications.
01:41:17.320And that because of that, it makes it strategically important as well if you're looking out into space, if you're looking back in time, correct?
01:45:30.140You know, we've been talking for years now about the four dams, hydroelectric dams, that were, you know, they wanted to tear them down and get them out because of the indigenous peoples and the salmon.
01:45:44.660And so they said that this was really, you know, hurting the salmon, and it may have been.
01:45:50.580In fact, I think it's hard to make the claim that it didn't.
01:46:25.740Well, it's going to be fun to see how we get water and, you know, give irrigation to those farms and produce power for the Pacific Northwest.
01:47:22.940Well, it's disingenuous because, as you know, as I know, as your listeners know, Democrats have no interest whatsoever in ensuring election integrity.
01:47:38.700Now, they're going to, during the campaign season, they're going to hide behind, oh, there's no problem here, right?
01:47:44.020You heard Mark Kelly from Arizona go, oh, this is a solution in search of a problem.
01:47:49.460Meanwhile, you have 6,500 non-citizens cleaned off the Texas rolls in the last couple of years.
01:47:55.400You have 6,300 cleaned off Virginia's rolls.
01:47:58.640You have thousands cleaned off of other states' rolls.
01:48:01.200And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
01:48:02.740Because if we actually had the tools to go, you know, discover the problem, which the SAVE Act would provide, by requiring that when you register to vote, this is a novel concept, Glenn.
01:48:13.060You can't believe this crazy stuff, this radical stuff, that when you register to vote, you just need to demonstrate you're a citizen.
01:48:37.500This is all about control, empowering the government.
01:48:40.900This is all of the Marxism, the communism, the statism, the totalitarianism that Reagan fought, but that we are not remotely close to completing.
01:48:51.340They're on the mark because they live among us.
01:49:33.560I think the thing that I, you know, you know, you opened this segment talking about those dams.
01:49:38.460You know, we could do a whole segment, and you talk about it all the time, about what's happening in the United Kingdom, the takeover that's happening there, what's happening in Ireland, what's happening in Germany.
01:49:58.920Like, this is happening, and it's happening right now.
01:50:01.940The only reason we're slightly not as bad as Europe is the massive oceans on either side of us, but with the increase of air travel, with the porous border, America is only a nanosecond behind Europe.
01:50:15.960So our whole point on the SAVE Act is to call their bluff and to force the question.
01:50:21.960Now, I've got to say, because I know that some of your listeners, strong, awesome conservatives, are hearing a few of my conservative colleagues and some pundits say, gosh, why are we going to do a continuing resolution?
01:50:38.760I think they're garbage, except if I have the chance right now, heading into an election season, and I know we're not going to pass all 12 appropriations bills because a lot of our colleagues refuse to cut spending.
01:51:16.940Let's tell our Democratic colleagues, guys, we have funded your precious, god-awful government that we hate the EPA, and we hate all of the stuff with the FBI, and we hate the Secret Service failing to do its job, and we hate the open borders.
01:51:29.620We're funding your government at current levels through March.
01:51:32.360We're going to fight and fix this when Donald Trump wins in November and we have the House and the Senate.
01:51:36.360We'll see you on Election Day in November.
01:51:39.320You're going to vote for this with election integrity, or you're going to be the ones who decide to shut the government down.
01:51:55.860If you can't get this basic thing down, that citizens are the only ones to vote, and if it's already been done, then they should have no problem voting for it.
01:52:34.760I mean, he got shot and he stood right back up.
01:52:37.540I think the question here is whether or not the president is going to decide that it is in the strategic interest of him and the party and the House and the Senate for us to carry on the shutdown fight from October 1st to Election Day.
01:52:50.000But if he wants to do that, and if that's the right thing for us to do, I'm all in.
01:53:03.860I would defund some stuff, and I would send them a funding bill, and I'd go send it to the American people and say, here are our priorities.
01:53:10.400If Democrats don't like it, make that the Election Day issue.
01:53:17.260We have some colleagues who are in tight districts who will come into our conference and say, guys, I can't win the election if we have a shutdown and a quarter of my constituents or 10 percent or whatever are either not getting their paychecks because they're a government employee or they're not getting some benefit or they're whatever.
01:53:36.260So we're going to have that fight inside the Republican conference in September.
01:53:43.200But I'm happy to try to figure out how we navigate to get to November 5th.
01:53:47.420But the starting place for that conversation is get the government spending past Christmas so the appropriators and the uniparty swamp dwellers on both parties can't screw the American people and pick a fight on the save act.
01:54:02.040I'll trust President Trump to land the plane strategically.
01:54:05.260You know, do we come up with some solution on September 30th and they campaign on it?
01:54:08.660Do we let it shut down for a week or two or all the way to November 5th?
01:54:13.820I'm game for any of those options, provided that we fight, provided that we put up a fight, demonstrate the fight and campaign on it.
01:54:22.720Democrats are taking your country away, people.
01:54:48.060Well, you know, look, here's the one thing I'll tell you, because a lot of the people that you and I are friends, your listeners, they will come to me out on the campaign trail and they'll say, well, why should I bother voting?
01:54:59.180I mean, you know, they're going to rig the election.
01:55:01.100Well, there's one way to guarantee we lose the election, and that's to not show up.
01:55:15.220Demonstrate that we want our country back.
01:55:16.960If all of your listeners, families, friends, you know, churchmates, all the people that they drag their family, their kids and everything vote, we'll win and we'll win in overwhelming numbers.
01:57:58.760We know about what you're talking about, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, all of the crap they're doing, what they're doing, reparations.