The Glenn Beck Program - 'Always Remember'

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.

00:00:08.580 Today is the 74th anniversary of D-Day.

00:00:12.280 Now, I don't know about you, but over the years, this anniversary gets sadder and sadder.

00:00:19.620 At first, I remember growing up, and there were World War II veterans everywhere, and

00:00:24.180 you know, you could talk to them.

00:00:25.500 But every year that goes by, fewer and fewer men alive were actually in Normandy on June

00:00:31.680 6, 1944.

00:00:34.120 Those who are still with us are too frail to make the pilgrimage now to France for the

00:00:38.180 anniversary ceremonies like they used to.

00:00:44.180 It's sad that we're losing these people.

00:00:46.700 I mean, it's normal.

00:00:49.200 But once we lose them, once they're gone, we lose that tether to a time when the

00:00:55.480 nation figured out how to be a better version of itself.

00:00:59.860 Not that they were saints.

00:01:01.700 Not that those times were any better than these.

00:01:04.140 I mean, it's, I mean, we rounded up the Japanese.

00:01:09.180 But in some respects, they were better because they understood responsibility.

00:01:14.220 They went.

00:01:15.200 They toughed it out.

00:01:16.120 They didn't whine.

00:01:17.120 They accomplished an increasingly daunting mission.

00:01:23.660 Sickening.

00:01:25.040 Heartbreak.

00:01:26.840 Hardship.

00:01:28.080 Terror.

00:01:31.660 Today, for those who remain that are World War II veterans, thank you.

00:01:37.700 At the end of Saving Private Ryan, Captain Miller, the character played by Tom Hanks, he lays

00:01:46.100 dying and he gives one last instruction to Private Ryan, the young man that he and his

00:01:50.460 unit had sacrificed their lives to rescue in Normandy.

00:01:53.500 And all he says is two words.

00:01:56.840 Do you remember what they were?

00:02:00.140 Earn it.

00:02:02.100 In other words, don't waste the sacrifices that were made so that your life could be saved.

00:02:07.760 Live it well.

00:02:08.560 Earn this freedom.

00:02:10.220 Earn it.

00:02:10.680 Can we even say that anymore, that we've earned the sacrifices that were made by the Americans

00:02:18.720 on June 6, 1944, or at any time that we're earning our freedom?

00:02:26.320 Today, in the name of the game of politics, media, really all walks of life, when it comes

00:02:33.460 to the choices that we make, we deflect, we defend, we shout down, we attack, where are

00:02:43.900 the leaders, where are the real leaders among us?

00:02:50.920 And one of the most amazing things in history that nobody really talks about, it was 5 a.m.

00:02:57.260 on June 5, Dwight T. Eisenhower, he had consulted with the Allied commanders one last time.

00:03:04.460 This was it.

00:03:06.860 This was the day they had planned for.

00:03:08.920 This is the day they dreaded.

00:03:11.160 This was the day everything turned.

00:03:15.320 The weather was unpredictable.

00:03:17.080 It had been bad for so long.

00:03:20.060 The military was like a caged animal waiting every day.

00:03:25.620 And then one of the largest gambles in history, it came down to one guy, Eisenhower.

00:03:32.380 Ike had to make the call.

00:03:37.400 Early that afternoon, just before, he sat at his portable table and wrote out a press release

00:03:47.860 on a pad of paper.

00:03:49.000 He wrote it out so he didn't have to think about it after the battle had begun and was

00:03:56.700 being lost.

00:03:59.100 It was a contingency just in case the invasion didn't succeed.

00:04:02.980 He wrote it, and he kept it with him that day.

00:04:08.760 He wrote in his own hand,

00:04:10.180 My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information I had available.

00:04:22.680 The troops, the air, the navy, they did all that bravery and devotion to duty.

00:04:28.900 They did all of it that they could do.

00:04:31.640 If any blame or any fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

00:04:38.780 A million things could have gone wrong, but in advance, he took responsibility, honor, duty, sacrifice,

00:04:54.940 personal responsibility.

00:04:56.300 These used to mean a lot more.

00:05:02.520 I think they will again.

00:05:04.340 They have to.

00:05:06.180 Man always goes through cycles.

00:05:08.980 We're just in a downturn of that personal responsibility cycle.

00:05:16.920 Everybody seems to want something for nothing.

00:05:19.920 Everybody is feigning to be a victim.

00:05:21.940 It's not too late for us to rediscover those traits as a country.

00:05:28.380 It's funny because we've been in the position before where all seems lost.

00:05:35.420 The whole world seems lost.

00:05:39.320 And then at the last minute, we wake up.

00:05:46.300 And we live those two words.

00:05:48.260 At the last minute, we earn it.

00:06:01.620 It's Wednesday, June 6th.

00:06:03.740 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:06:05.900 Today on television, we're going to be sharing another tribute to D-Day that is pretty powerful.

00:06:19.260 A stark reminder of how hard it was on that day, 74 years ago, as we stormed the beaches of Normandy and just were slaughtered.

00:06:30.700 We were just slaughtered, but we took the beach.

00:06:36.640 An amazing sacrifice.

00:06:39.160 And for what?

00:06:42.440 You know, it wasn't for gold.

00:06:44.260 It wasn't for treasure.

00:06:45.200 It was for an idea.

00:06:48.600 It was for an idea that this monster was trying to tell everybody what to think, what to do, how to live, how to raise their children, how to work, who should live, who should die.

00:07:04.280 It was just this, it was, it was unthinkable.

00:07:09.800 It was just unthinkable.

00:07:11.880 In a world that had exited that world, we had left, the West had left behind the darkness of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, where one man could just decide whatever he wanted.

00:07:28.380 Then he could just take whatever he wanted.

00:07:30.820 Then he could grind people in the machinery that he had built.

00:07:35.500 That was unthinkable.

00:07:37.820 That was throwing us back to the Dark Ages.

00:07:41.960 There was a new way.

00:07:44.400 There was a way that Americans truly understood at that time.

00:07:49.180 At least better than we do now.

00:07:53.540 All men are created equal.

00:07:55.380 And I know, I know, that you can say, well, were they really all equal?

00:08:03.960 No, they weren't.

00:08:05.260 Man has never, never gotten their arms around that.

00:08:10.020 No matter where you go, no matter what the philosophy is, there's somebody always under the thumb of somebody else.

00:08:15.980 Society always deems somebody at the lower level of the ladder.

00:08:23.480 But it's an idea that we're supposed to strive toward.

00:08:28.440 Not just say, well, that didn't work.

00:08:31.220 No, we're never going to get it right.

00:08:33.880 And it's going to, it's going to ebb and flow.

00:08:39.980 But right now there is this, this effort to, to discredit not only the people that came up with that idea, but the idea itself.

00:08:52.380 Just throw that out.

00:08:53.780 Why would we throw that out?

00:08:58.560 All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

00:09:02.480 And among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:09:05.940 Why would we throw that out?

00:09:08.860 Well, right now there's an effort to make sure that everybody knows that our founders are just, they were so racist.

00:09:17.560 They were so racist.

00:09:18.720 How could Thomas Jefferson ever, ever write those words?

00:09:25.480 What a hypocrite.

00:09:27.100 Well, he was a complicated man.

00:09:29.420 Really?

00:09:30.640 So he writes all men are created equal and he doesn't even think of the slaves, the Declaration of Independence, not a word about slavery.

00:09:41.940 This has been the greatest privilege of my life.

00:09:48.720 The privilege of being able to have access, which you do, it's just online, to have access to the original writings and documents.

00:10:02.540 Yesterday we were doing a piece on the Second Amendment and how people are trying to twist the words of the Second Amendment.

00:10:10.660 And what was the original intent?

00:10:12.620 What is the argument they're making?

00:10:14.080 And is there anything to that?

00:10:15.700 And because we're having our museum next week and it's this little pop-up museum and it's all about the rights and responsibilities,

00:10:24.840 we brought in the engraving of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

00:10:34.580 It's from the 1800s, early 1800s.

00:10:36.780 And it is an exact copy or an exact engraving of the first draft that was written in June 1776, all in Thomas Jefferson's own hand.

00:10:50.000 And you see John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in their own handwriting, scratching things out and changing things.

00:10:57.380 It's amazing.

00:10:58.460 It's an amazing document.

00:10:59.600 And it's going to be on display here at the Mercury Museum next week.

00:11:06.600 But as we were sitting there and we were getting ready for the show to start yesterday, Stu and I were looking at it.

00:11:12.640 And I was upside down from it.

00:11:15.100 And I've had this document for a long time and I've never really read it all the way through.

00:11:19.880 And as we get to the usurpations, those are all the lines that were just one line.

00:11:25.840 And the king did this and the king did this and the king did this.

00:11:28.600 And this is why we're breaking away because the king did this.

00:11:31.060 There's a whole paragraph.

00:11:34.940 And it stuck out because as I'm looking at it, I'm standing on one side of the document.

00:11:39.160 Stu is reading it from the other side.

00:11:40.760 And I'm looking down and I can see Christian King all in capitals.

00:11:46.720 And I said to Stu, what is that?

00:11:49.300 And he's like, I'm just reading it now.

00:11:51.100 It's amazing.

00:11:52.280 Now, this is in Thomas Jefferson's own hand.

00:11:56.120 Slave owner, Thomas Jefferson.

00:11:58.060 Yeah.

00:11:58.380 Evil slave owner that didn't want to write anything at all about slavery in the Declaration of Independence.

00:12:04.900 This is from his draft that he wrote by himself in a room while his wife was miles and miles away dying.

00:12:15.460 He's writing this.

00:12:16.920 Talking about the king.

00:12:17.600 He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him.

00:12:25.240 Captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.

00:12:35.540 This piractical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain, determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold.

00:12:47.560 He has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this extorable commerce.

00:12:56.320 So what did he just say?

00:12:58.380 First of all, every single problem they had with a king, every single one prior to this is one line.

00:13:06.660 This is a paragraph.

00:13:08.680 Yeah.

00:13:09.380 And what is he saying?

00:13:10.520 This guy is mocking all of mankind and sinning against mankind by going over to a foreign land, grabbing people who never did anything to him, sending them over on a boat, moving them to a different hemisphere, enslaving them.

00:13:34.200 If they make it, the journey they probably are going to kill.

00:13:39.960 It's a horror-filled journey.

00:13:42.080 And then he's doing everything he can as we try to abolish slavery.

00:13:51.360 He is standing in our way.

00:13:55.240 Well, wait a minute.

00:13:56.300 What?

00:13:56.840 I thought they were all slave owners that didn't care.

00:13:58.900 And pretending to be Christian while doing it.

00:14:01.300 Yeah.

00:14:02.440 Yeah.

00:14:02.760 They actually are mocking.

00:14:04.280 They're saying, you think this guy's a Christian?

00:14:06.000 He's trying to continue this market where people are bought and sold.

00:14:10.860 I mean, he's blatantly against slavery here.

00:14:13.700 And we've talked about this before in that he did have slaves.

00:14:16.160 However, it was illegal for him to free those slaves.

00:14:19.820 Yes.

00:14:20.640 So that is a big asterisk to that whole story.

00:14:24.800 And he tried to change that law several times.

00:14:26.760 Several times.

00:14:27.180 And he couldn't get that law changed.

00:14:28.840 And as he's complaining, you know, in the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.

00:14:32.880 Now, later on, South Carolina and Georgia and some there were some factors in the north as well.

00:14:39.460 Businessmen who did not want this practice to end and they wound up taking this paragraph out.

00:14:45.980 Right.

00:14:46.200 But it was it was at the request of two slave states.

00:14:50.420 Now, you could sit here all high and mighty and say, well, why did they just they should have just let Georgia just walk?

00:14:57.960 Look, they couldn't.

00:15:00.460 They couldn't.

00:15:02.440 Because if they did, they would all it was freedom would be over.

00:15:07.560 Why read the next line that he wrote.

00:15:10.980 Let's see.

00:15:12.880 Try again.

00:15:13.840 The suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this extra bill of commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die.

00:15:22.640 He is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them.

00:15:31.360 OK, so murdering the people upon whom he's also obtruded them.

00:15:35.360 OK, so what is he what is he saying there?

00:15:37.460 He's saying on top of that, he will not let us free them.

00:15:43.000 He will not let us stop this horror.

00:15:47.460 But now he is going in and he is trying to give slaves money to fight us.

00:15:57.700 He enslaved them and now he's paying them to come and and kill all of us.

00:16:05.620 What is what do you what they couldn't let those two.

00:16:11.460 This line isn't in there, but the king was a douche.

00:16:13.520 Let's be honest.

00:16:14.340 Yeah, OK, well, again, it wasn't it's not in there.

00:16:16.800 It wasn't in there, but it should be in there.

00:16:18.240 Right.

00:16:19.240 Real quick.

00:16:20.340 Read the line before one of the other reasons why we broke away from England.

00:16:25.180 OK, there's a whole paragraph, but each line is just loaded.

00:16:29.220 Most all other offenses by the king were just one line.

00:16:32.720 Read this one.

00:16:33.520 He has incited treasonable insurrections in our fellow subjects with the allurements of

00:16:37.860 forfeiture and confiscation of our property.

00:16:41.440 Civil asset forfeiture was a reason we broke away from England.

00:16:46.420 And you pointed out, Glenn, you usually get to access these online.

00:16:48.640 Not the case this coming weekend or not this coming weekend.

00:16:51.100 The weekend of Father's Day.

00:16:52.060 Yeah.

00:16:52.240 June 12th and 13th.

00:16:53.720 No, 15th through the 17th.

00:16:55.160 17th.

00:16:55.540 Yeah.

00:16:55.780 Sorry.

00:16:56.180 All right.

00:16:56.440 I'm looking at the wrong thing.

00:16:57.800 But that's a pretty big deal.

00:16:59.940 Yep.

00:17:00.140 And you can actually see that document along with many, many others.

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00:18:49.100 So Howard Schultz from Starbucks, I don't think he's running for president.

00:18:59.280 Do you, Stu?

00:19:00.120 I mean, he just came out and said, you know, the guy who just closed Starbucks, okay,

00:19:06.300 comes out and says, you know, Democrats, you've got to be more moderate.

00:19:11.640 You're, I mean, you're becoming crazy.

00:19:15.620 Really?

00:19:16.700 Really?

00:19:17.240 Did you just close Starbucks for the day to, because two people who didn't abide by the

00:19:23.700 rules were, were, were asked to leave and all of a sudden it's the crime of the century.

00:19:29.580 It's like the Lindbergh baby.

00:19:30.900 It was stolen.

00:19:31.980 Yeah.

00:19:32.520 That was a, I must react in a way that will serve my future campaign.

00:19:38.160 Set me up to be president.

00:19:39.700 Yes.

00:19:40.280 Look how seriously I took this.

00:19:41.780 Of course you can trust me as your democratic nominee.

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00:19:46.420 Yeah.

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00:21:11.520 This is the Glenback Program.

00:21:13.840 So Stu will give us a quick rundown on the California primaries yesterday, anything that

00:21:20.260 was important.

00:21:21.540 We'll get to that here in a second.

00:21:22.880 There is also a candidate running for the third district in Utah, and he is a guy who

00:21:32.440 is, you know, another Mike Lee.

00:21:35.000 He's a guy who, you know, wants to go down that road and hold the GOP's feet to the fire.

00:21:43.700 His name is Chris Herrod, and he is with us now.

00:21:46.520 Hello, Chris.

00:21:46.960 How are you?

00:21:47.860 I am doing great.

00:21:48.860 Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

00:21:49.820 So tell me about the Republican congressman that you're running against right now.

00:21:54.960 Well, you know, we had a special election last summer for Jason Chaffetz, but, you know,

00:21:59.300 he's a former Democratic chair, you know, in Utah.

00:22:03.780 He switched three days before I ran against him when I ran for the Utah House and ended

00:22:08.200 up being appointed to go to the Utah House a decade ago.

00:22:11.420 And so, you know, he has a very spotty record.

00:22:14.680 You know, we had a debate this week, and he called me an extremist because, you know,

00:22:18.540 I'm a platform Republican.

00:22:20.240 If you want to know how I believe, look at the platform, and I'll vote like Mike Lee

00:22:24.300 and Ted Cruz.

00:22:26.100 But that's kind of how it is even in Utah where, you know, a platform Republican is being

00:22:31.400 called out to be an extremist.

00:22:33.300 You know, he had as a mayor, he hired a sanctuary city police chief that said he wasn't going

00:22:39.340 to help the feds, you know, do immigration law.

00:22:43.740 You know, unfortunately, that police chief is Provo City right now.

00:22:48.220 There's a sexual harassment lawsuit against that police chief, and the mayor, you know,

00:22:53.780 had numerous opportunities, according to the lawsuit, to fire him and didn't.

00:22:57.900 So, you know, there's a big difference in the way that we see the world.

00:23:01.600 So, the Second Amendment, he is currently, this is Jason Chaffetz's old seat, the guy

00:23:08.820 you're running against currently on the Second Amendment is for taking away their right to

00:23:16.940 own a firearm until you're 21.

00:23:19.480 Yeah, no, that's a big difference.

00:23:21.080 For me, you know, we've had conversations before, you know, I've taught in the former

00:23:24.860 Soviet Union, you know, I have friends that lost both their parents to Stalin's gulags.

00:23:28.680 You know, I have a business partner from Ethiopia that the communist came over, took the guns

00:23:33.540 away, and, you know, within a decade, having, you know, had to shout red terror as teenagers

00:23:39.660 were, you know, being shot down.

00:23:42.580 So, for me, the Second Amendment is, you cannot take that away.

00:23:47.060 To me, it's actually an insult to our men and women around the world that can carry a

00:23:51.360 fully automatic weapon, and then you're telling them they can't come home and purchase a .22

00:23:55.540 rifle until they're 21.

00:23:56.800 I just cannot believe that anybody would think that that's a good idea.

00:24:01.160 Chris, when you were over in the former Soviet Union, what did you learn?

00:24:05.340 What did you take away from that?

00:24:06.900 You know, for me, the biggest thing is a lot of people talk about socialism.

00:24:10.800 For me, it is not theoretical.

00:24:12.740 You know, my wife literally bears the scars of socialized medicine.

00:24:15.800 And I can say without any problem that socialism is wrong.

00:24:19.880 It robs the individual of their full potential.

00:24:22.120 It weakens the family.

00:24:23.680 And it eventually morally bankrupts society.

00:24:26.140 And yet our youth don't get that today.

00:24:29.280 And, you know, I'm a big believer that, you know, not only do our congressmen need to stand

00:24:35.100 up and vote right, but they need to get up and teach these principles.

00:24:38.180 We have lost that.

00:24:39.220 I mean, I was, I spoke at a Second Amendment rally about two months ago at the Utah Capitol.

00:24:45.100 And, you know, I thought this was great.

00:24:46.800 There were 400 people, you know, talking about how the Second Amendment could help us with

00:24:50.780 school safety.

00:24:51.660 And then I went around to the front of the Capitol where the, you know, the anti-gun people

00:24:55.700 were having a rally.

00:24:56.560 And there were 8,000 to 10,000 people shouting, you know, Utahns for gun control, Mormons for

00:25:02.120 gun control.

00:25:02.900 And I was absolutely frightened.

00:25:05.180 And, you know, I thought I was in 1930s Germany, seeing, you know, Hitler's youth taking away

00:25:10.900 again, because I know where it leads.

00:25:13.020 And the problem is, is these same kids that were speaking at that rally, they were talking

00:25:17.920 about every other progressive, you know, agenda.

00:25:21.920 And they don't realize that that system always leads to authoritative rule and loss of freedom.

00:25:28.520 And they were calling people Nazis.

00:25:30.420 And, you know, Nazis stands for National Socialists.

00:25:32.860 You know, the philosophy that killed the most people last century was socialism.

00:25:37.180 You look at, you know, what Stalin did.

00:25:40.180 Stalin starved this, 7 to 11 million Ukrainians in my wife's native country.

00:25:45.640 And yet our youth don't realize they're going to need the Second Amendment if we keep going

00:25:50.280 down this socialized path.

00:25:53.080 When you were over there, you knew a former MiG pilot and his family.

00:25:59.240 Well, actually, that was in Provo Freedom Festival.

00:26:02.880 I actually got to know him as Victor Balenko.

00:26:05.700 He, you know, he's the one that defected in the 1970s.

00:26:08.740 He flew with his countrymen trying to shoot him down in Japan.

00:26:12.600 I met him.

00:26:13.740 I actually met a family, you know, at the Provo Freedom Festival.

00:26:17.340 They built a homemade hot air balloon and flew from East Germany to West Germany.

00:26:21.900 So I've been fortunate in my life to meet lots of individuals that have paid a high price

00:26:27.040 for freedom.

00:26:27.980 But, you know, for me, it's just frightening that our children don't understand, you know,

00:26:33.000 how lucky we are and how easy it is to lose freedom.

00:26:35.980 So, Chris, we have sent a lot of people to Washington, D.C., and I'd say 80 percent of them

00:26:42.140 just, you know, turn out to be disappointments at best.

00:26:47.080 Just only a few, like Mike Lee, stand, and, I mean, they are under enormous pressure.

00:26:54.520 What makes you think you're going to be able to go there?

00:26:56.660 And, I mean, the enemy is not the progressive left as much in Congress as much as it is the

00:27:02.780 progressive right.

00:27:04.060 No, that's exactly right.

00:27:05.300 You know, the way that I point that, you know, I stood up here in the state of Utah for,

00:27:09.900 you know, I've been called all sorts of names, racism, you know, fascist, unchristian,

00:27:13.300 incapacitant, just because I believe that immigration should be done legally, and I've

00:27:17.640 stood against it, you know, illegal immigration.

00:27:20.720 And so I've had a record of standing up, taking on the establishment.

00:27:24.480 But I also, you know, I have a beautiful wife that, if, you know, I ever went any other

00:27:30.000 way, you know, would constantly remind it.

00:27:32.640 You know, you talk about your wife, you know, keeping you on the straight and narrow.

00:27:35.800 My wife would do the same, you know.

00:27:38.020 But I've paid a high price here in the state of Utah.

00:27:40.260 I've lost contracts because, you know, I spoke for truth.

00:27:44.020 And so I have a record of doing that.

00:27:46.560 And for me, it's not, it hasn't been the easy path.

00:27:49.980 I'm still kind of, by nature, a shy person.

00:27:52.440 I have to overcome all these things.

00:27:53.720 But I believe so much that our country is in jeopardy, that it's just not worth it for

00:27:57.760 me to go and immediately cave back to D.C.

00:28:01.000 Chris, where do people go to get involved with the campaign?

00:28:03.320 Uh, herodsforcongress.com, you know, that's Herod, like the bad guy in the Bible, but

00:28:10.340 with two R's, H-E-R-R-O-D, for congress.com.

00:28:15.240 You know, I'd love to have some comments.

00:28:16.980 You know, if you feel like donating, I'd love to have you go there.

00:28:19.640 But I believe these are the elections of our lifetime, and we need people.

00:28:24.320 It's not, if you think you can send me back to D.C. and I'll solve all your problems,

00:28:29.080 I'll do my part.

00:28:29.860 But I think it's time for all of us to pledge our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor.

00:28:34.220 Chris, thank you very much.

00:28:35.260 God bless.

00:28:35.660 Thank you.

00:28:36.120 You bet.

00:28:36.480 Thank you very much.

00:28:37.720 I think we found an official slogan there, like the bad guy in the Bible.

00:28:41.800 That's, uh, I don't think, is that going to be on any campaign science?

00:28:45.740 I don't think so.

00:28:47.460 Chris Herod, herodforcongress.com, H-E-R-R-O-D, for congress.com.

00:28:52.520 You can get him at Herod, the number four, Congress on Twitter.

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00:31:02.940 They're just tired.

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00:31:07.700 I don't know.

00:31:12.380 I don't know if you fit in that poll, but I, I am, I'm, I'm tired of, I'm tired of the media and I'm just tired of the dishonesty.

00:31:25.980 That's what I'm tired of.

00:31:26.880 Look, just, just tell me who you are and, and, and tell me what you really believe and let's work it out from there.

00:31:33.980 But instead we're just arguing back and forth and the media is not doing anything to help move the discussions forward.

00:31:42.240 They've, they've gone insane.

00:31:43.720 There was a story out yesterday that we're not talking, you know, the rest of the media is not talking about because, um, well, we, we, we have to, you know, hear the latest of Stormy Daniels or Samantha Bee or whatever it is.

00:32:08.200 The Eagles didn't, the Eagles, did you see what happened with the Philadelphia Eagles?

00:32:13.720 Did you, did you hear anywhere that, uh, Medicare now is going to go broke three years earlier than expected?

00:32:25.480 It's going to, it's going to go broke.

00:32:27.240 It's expected to completely run out of money by 2026.

00:32:31.200 That's earlier than projected 2026.

00:32:34.940 Don't worry.

00:32:35.660 That's only seven years away.

00:32:36.980 I'm sure we can come up with a plan.

00:32:41.580 We're not talking about that.

00:32:43.720 It, it, it was sad to see that we, we are talking about Kate Spade.

00:32:51.880 It was sad.

00:32:52.720 It was good to see that we were talking about it.

00:32:56.720 Sad because of what it meant.

00:32:59.420 But as I was reading the comments, I, again, I was fatigued.

00:33:09.160 The people who were saying, well, that's just what weak-minded people do.

00:33:16.020 That's just what people do who are selfish.

00:33:20.400 Really?

00:33:20.840 If you don't know, Kate Spade is the purse person that made all these purses and became very famous designer and then lost control of her company.

00:33:34.980 I mean, she sold her company.

00:33:36.820 She sold like 56% of her company and, and her name.

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00:33:45.120 And she was fine for that at the beginning with the exchange, but then mental illness set in and make no mistake.

00:33:57.880 It is mental illness.

00:33:59.720 You don't come to a place to where you say, I want to kill myself.

00:34:04.880 Everything, everything, everything in the human psyche is built to stop you from dying.

00:34:16.640 Every little creepy feeling when you get too close to an edge, to the spider senses that are saying something's not right here.

00:34:23.840 I shouldn't be here.

00:34:24.580 All of that, all of that, all of that is protection so you don't die.

00:34:32.380 It takes extreme mental issues to be able to get to the point to where you say, I'm better off dead and so are all the people around me.

00:34:49.460 And it's a lie.

00:34:54.580 People were writing last night, how selfish it was for, for a mother to do this.

00:35:01.960 I, I, I know my mother did this exact thing when I was about the age of Kate Spade's kids.

00:35:14.980 It screws you up for life.

00:35:17.120 You never get over it.

00:35:20.620 My nieces and nephews were the same age that I was when my mother killed themselves, when their father killed himself.

00:35:36.220 They haven't recovered.

00:35:38.900 It's been a decade and a half.

00:35:42.700 You never do.

00:35:43.520 As somebody who has been in clinical depression, somebody who has gone through a period of my life where I honestly considered killing myself.

00:36:01.960 There's a huge difference between that and every bad time that I've ever gone through where I thought everything was hopeless and this is never going to end.

00:36:14.460 And I don't know how we're going to turn this around and oh, my life sucks and whatever it is.

00:36:20.420 That's normal.

00:36:21.400 There is a different level to where you start thinking to yourself.

00:36:27.020 I'm so tired.

00:36:30.140 I can't do it another day.

00:36:33.560 When you start to actually think that it's logical, that life is better if you weren't living, that others, their lives would be better if you weren't living.

00:36:53.660 It's a mental condition to take a scarf out and hang yourself as she did yesterday.

00:37:07.480 The reason why I bring this up is because my life was saved by a guy named Bobby Drees years and years ago in the 80s.

00:37:16.200 And he had gone through depression before and he recognized it and he said to me, you are coming with me to the hospital now.

00:37:31.220 And he took me to the hospital pretty much against my will.

00:37:35.220 And I'm alive today because of that.

00:37:39.340 Life is hard.

00:37:42.320 Mental illness is a condition.

00:37:46.200 There is help and treatment.

00:37:49.300 Your life is so great.

00:37:52.140 Once the clouds start to dissipate, please get help.

00:37:57.920 Glenn Beck.

00:37:59.760 It's Wednesday, June 6th.

00:38:01.820 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:03.900 I read an amazing article by a friend of ours, Paul Kangor.

00:38:08.220 It's in the American Spectator.

00:38:10.380 I think it came out last week where he was talking about the Boy Scouts and he said,

00:38:15.660 congratulations on the Marxist progressive victory, the war against the Boy Scouts.

00:38:23.760 It is a fascinating article and I wanted to bring him on to talk about it.

00:38:27.700 Paul, how are you, sir?

00:38:29.320 Hey, good, Glenn.

00:38:30.120 Thanks for having me on.

00:38:31.280 You are, man.

00:38:32.040 You are one of the braver guys I know.

00:38:33.620 First of all, your research in all of your books and everything else really, really buttoned up.

00:38:38.160 But, man, this is you are you are opening yourself up to be the guy who is the king of the conspiracies because you dare say this has been a Marxist, communist and progressive plot or or wish since the very beginning of the Boy Scouts.

00:38:59.600 Well, that's right, Glenn.

00:39:01.380 I'm either brave or stupid.

00:39:03.140 You don't want to do it, but no, it's absolutely true.

00:39:07.260 And I titled the piece The Marxist Progressive War on the Boy Scouts.

00:39:11.060 And after I had finished writing it, I thought, you know, I better start with the kind of a caveat in the very beginning, just telling people, yeah, I know the title of this article is going to make you probably not want to read it.

00:39:22.720 But please read on and and when people read on, I mean, they'll see that I included hyperlinks to all the original sources, which are which are posted on Marxist dot org.

00:39:33.680 I will tell you, Paul, I followed those hyperlinks.

00:39:36.400 I mean, sometimes I follow hyperlinks.

00:39:38.260 I followed every one of these hyperlinks because they were the original sources.

00:39:42.240 And it's shocking.

00:39:44.120 It's shocking.

00:39:45.500 It's shocking.

00:39:46.580 And in fact, they go back.

00:39:48.380 I mean, when I say that this is a century long assault on the Boy Scout by Marxists, well, the Boy Scouts were founded in 1910.

00:39:56.720 And the first example that I give in the article is a June 1911 piece by published in Young Socialist magazine.

00:40:03.800 And it's called Why Boys Should Not Join the Boy Scouts.

00:40:07.720 And, you know, they go through, they describe them pro war, bloodthirsty, kind of gun hungry, militarist, capitalist fanatics.

00:40:15.920 And then after that, I give an example from the March 1924 issue of the Young Comrade.

00:40:22.480 And that's called Why We Are Against the Boy Scouts.

00:40:26.040 And this one, I mean, this is unbelievable.

00:40:27.880 I've got to read you the exact quote because people will think that I'm making it up when I say that they charge that Boy Scouts would actually shoot their fathers and brothers.

00:40:36.560 The actual quote here is, capitalism does not only train the Boy Scouts to shoot and use a rifle for its own interest, but to shoot down his own father and brothers when there is a strike.

00:40:49.920 And, you know, that's the kind of thing they, I mean, they said that stuff for decades.

00:40:56.400 I give an example from 1929, the Young Pioneer, you know, urging people down with the Boy Scouts.

00:41:04.540 In fact, this one's really insidious, Glenn.

00:41:07.120 I mean, imagine this.

00:41:08.160 There were like 15, picture this scene.

00:41:10.240 You got 1,500 innocent boys from all across America, from California, from Oregon, Utah, the West Coast, the Midwest, and they're all there in New York.

00:41:23.780 And they're about to take the trip of a lifetime on a boat across the ocean to England where they're going to go to this international jamboree.

00:41:32.240 And a bunch of literal young commies, right, show up in New York carrying banners down with the Boy Scouts, smash the Boy Scouts, join the Young Pioneers, and then this one, defend the Soviet Union, right?

00:41:48.760 And they're there protesting these boys who are probably speechless, thinking, you know, I never saw anything like this in Peoria, right?

00:41:58.320 But they did that through the 70s.

00:42:05.800 I give an example from the 1970s.

00:42:08.320 They did it into the 90s.

00:42:10.740 The communists have done this into the 21st century.

00:42:14.340 And here's the really sad thing.

00:42:16.240 Everybody, anybody that knew about it, laughed at it or ignored it.

00:42:20.900 And, you know, all these attacks by the far left describing the Boy Scouts as fascists and imperialists and dirty capitalists, none of that stuff ever worked until the 21st century when they started to frame the Boy Scouts as anti-gay, right, as not including girls.

00:42:40.380 And when they did that, and they got the ACLU on board, and they got the wider progressive left on board, that's where they finally had their tool, their approach, their tactic to take down the Boy Scouts.

00:42:57.280 And that's what's finally worked.

00:42:59.080 So where did that turn come?

00:43:03.940 Was that an accident?

00:43:05.240 Were they, do you know, how did that turn come to start to go, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's not go after the warmongering part, if you will.

00:43:14.960 Let's go after the fact that they won't have girls.

00:43:18.380 Have you tracked the origin of that down?

00:43:21.760 Well, it's a good question, Glenn.

00:43:23.300 And I think it's more of a kind of different elements of the left going in a common direction.

00:43:30.720 And I found a May 2001 issue of Party Builder.

00:43:35.160 You've got to love that publication, right?

00:43:36.740 I'm sure you're a subscriber to Party Builder.

00:43:39.340 But it's published at Communist Party USA's website.

00:43:43.240 And right there, they were citing the ACLU, which was going after the Boy Scouts as being, you know, quote-unquote anti-gay.

00:43:52.320 And so at that point, there was finally, I think, a convergence of interests among the wider left.

00:43:59.740 And that's where Communist Party USA said, aha, right?

00:44:03.460 Now, this might work.

00:44:05.820 You know, describing the Boy Scouts as, you know, fascists who want to murder their fathers and brothers on behalf of, against the workers, right?

00:44:15.720 None of that nonsense ever worked.

00:44:17.900 None of that ever stuck.

00:44:18.980 But this idea of going after them as anti-gay, now here's something that might actually work.

00:44:27.060 And I quote in the piece, a July 2017 piece.

00:44:31.600 This is from just last summer by John Bactol, who's the current head of Communist Party USA.

00:44:36.620 And he was writing on this massive national jamboree of, like, 40,000 Boy Scouts in West Virginia.

00:44:45.660 And Donald Trump spoke there.

00:44:48.680 And John Bactol compared it to a Hitler Youth Rally.

00:44:52.620 A Hitler Youth Rally, right?

00:44:55.020 And that's the kind of rhetoric that they were using in the 1930s, American communists against the Boy Scouts.

00:45:03.500 But here, this time, Bactol just laid out everything, right?

00:45:07.640 The slam against the Boy Scouts is militaristic, jingoistic, and then these words, right?

00:45:14.680 Racist and homophobic.

00:45:16.540 And they even tried the racist thing 100 years ago against the Boy Scouts.

00:45:21.780 Of course, that didn't work.

00:45:22.820 That was complete nonsense.

00:45:24.480 But this homophobic approach, right?

00:45:27.780 That's what's worked.

00:45:29.000 And for the kind of old classical Marxists to move more in the direction of cultural Marxism, based on gender, sexuality, a takedown and redefinition of the family and marriage, that homophobic, that label, that's what has really worked for them in allowing them to permanently redefine

00:45:54.000 and actually even literally rename the Boy Scouts.

00:45:59.180 For Scouts now, in their adolescence, basically 11 to 17 years old, 12 to 18, they're no longer the Boy Scouts.

00:46:07.680 You know, they're now, I think, just calling them Scouts, right?

00:46:11.640 They've literally taken the boy out of Boy Scouts.

00:46:14.480 My wife was shocked when a couple of weeks ago, right before this happened, or right after this happened, maybe a day or two, she walked into the scouting headquarters, had to get something, and there was a skirt for girls to join.

00:46:30.380 And she came and she's like, well, how long has this been in the planning?

00:46:35.060 You know, how long has this been going?

00:46:37.040 If you've already got the skirt, you know, in the, in the, and my son immediately said, I'm out.

00:46:44.600 I don't want to be around a bunch of girls.

00:46:46.660 I mean, he's a 13-year-old boy.

00:46:48.360 Well, that's right.

00:46:49.480 He's a 13-year-old boy.

00:46:51.380 And my 11-year-old boy, he thinks that way as well.

00:46:55.200 Now, maybe the 15, 16-year-old boys, they might want to be around.

00:46:59.340 Yes, yes.

00:47:00.280 Which will cause all kinds of different interesting issues.

00:47:03.520 That's right.

00:47:04.200 I mean, that creates an entirely different dynamic.

00:47:07.260 And if you're a parent, that's probably a dynamic you don't want for your 15, 16-year-old boy, right?

00:47:13.900 I mean, that, that was a time when, there was a time when you could have sent him off to the Boy Scouts camp.

00:47:19.120 And, you know, it was a way of keeping him away from his interests with girls for a little while, right?

00:47:25.040 You know, that, that was the advantage of it.

00:47:26.900 But if you go right now to the, to the Boy Scouts website, or excuse me, the Scouts BSA website, it's filled with a bunch of, you know, sappy, puffy propaganda pieces all about girls.

00:47:41.020 And, and, and, and I thought, Glenn, that maybe they would, if I went there, I wouldn't be able to find anything on it other than a general statement on a change in policy.

00:47:49.400 Right.

00:47:49.980 No, they're gung-ho on this.

00:47:51.820 You could tell they've gone from defensive mode to full, like, like recruiting mode, right?

00:47:57.360 This is, this is really like McDonald's, um, saying, you know what, we're going to get rid of all of the fried stuff, and we're doubling down on salads.

00:48:06.220 It's not, it's just, I mean, they have gutted this organization to where it doesn't mean anything.

00:48:12.820 Right.

00:48:13.500 And that's what happens.

00:48:14.540 I mean, at first it was, I think it was about 10 years ago that the left, the kind of ACLU left, the atheistic left, secular left,

00:48:23.280 they were going after the scouts about merely pledging themselves to God.

00:48:27.740 Right.

00:48:28.020 Right.

00:48:28.740 I mean, that was part of it.

00:48:30.080 They tried to remove that.

00:48:31.560 And then the issue became gay scout leaders.

00:48:35.080 And then, I guess this was about two or three years ago, the issue was the transgender scouts.

00:48:40.360 And so at that point, if you had a biological, biological girl whose gender identity, her proclaimed gender identity was a boy,

00:48:50.180 then she could be allowed to join.

00:48:51.840 And so all along, and guys like you and I saw this coming, and we warned people, and they called us conspiracy mongers, haters, whatever else.

00:49:01.580 But every step of the way, the Boy Scouts would compromise on one thing, thinking, okay, okay, now the guys on the left will be happy.

00:49:09.700 Right.

00:49:09.840 Now they'll leave us alone.

00:49:11.060 Right.

00:49:11.600 Okay.

00:49:12.000 We did gay scout leaders.

00:49:13.700 Okay.

00:49:14.260 No.

00:49:14.860 As soon as you buckle, they keep coming back.

00:49:17.920 It's like they smell the weakness, and they say, now we've got you.

00:49:24.000 Right.

00:49:24.280 Now we've got you.

00:49:25.840 Paul, tell me, how much of a role did this post-modernism crap that's coming out of our universities and our schools play, where there is no truth anymore?

00:49:39.880 There's no absolute truth.

00:49:41.040 There is no male or female.

00:49:42.680 There's, you know, there's nothing.

00:49:45.380 And how much of a role did, beyond communism, this post-modernist thinking, play in this?

00:49:55.260 And do you see a way to turn that around?

00:49:58.420 Oh, I think that's all of it, and it's all come out of the universities.

00:50:03.640 I mean, this is very much the 60s tenured radicals who are now in charge at the universities.

00:50:10.040 I mean, the very idea of redefinition of marriage, same-sex marriage, I mean, that came, that changed so quick.

00:50:18.140 I mean, we had people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

00:50:21.500 I mean, Hillary Clinton's saying, well, I've always believed that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

00:50:28.020 I mean, I wrote a whole book on the faith of Hillary Clinton.

00:50:30.320 I have a whole chapter on her traditional stance on marriage.

00:50:35.040 And that all changed within a matter of months between Barack Obama coming out for same-sex marriage.

00:50:41.760 I think that was the Robin Roberts interview in the spring of 2012.

00:50:47.000 And then she, I think, went around November 2012.

00:50:50.400 But really going back before that, it just all came out of the universities.

00:50:55.520 Post-modernism in the universities, a kind of radical secular relativism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes, there's no absolute truth.

00:51:06.020 And, you know, to kind of tie that back to some of the communist thinking, Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto,

00:51:12.380 they said communism represents the most radical rupture in traditional relations, the most radical rupture in traditional relations.

00:51:21.700 We have an 1843 letter from Marx where he said that communism means the ruthless criticism of all that exists, the ruthless criticism of all that exists.

00:51:33.400 And so, you know, that's the hard communist Marxist left.

00:51:37.200 But even then, as you know, Glenn, just the sort of general liberal progressive left, you know, not the Marxist left,

00:51:44.900 but, of course, communists call themselves progressives and vice versa sometimes.

00:51:48.420 But even among liberals, this strong post-modern streak, it's all now sort of come together where they're all on board for this sort of same cultural revolution here today in 2018.

00:52:03.400 I have only about a minute.

00:52:04.680 We're talking to Paul Kangor, political science professor and author of the Marxist Progressive War and the Boy Scouts, American Expectator.

00:52:11.840 You've got to read it.

00:52:12.640 It's unbelievable.

00:52:13.460 And please do the hyperlink thing.

00:52:15.300 It's unbelievable.

00:52:17.200 But Paul, let me ask you, and I have about a minute left.

00:52:21.900 Have you done any thinking about the ramifications of the loss of this hundred-year-old institution?

00:52:29.820 What do you think this means for our society to lose the Boy Scouts like this?

00:52:34.880 Oh, I think it's sad.

00:52:35.880 I mean, I think just aside from what it means about the Boy Scouts, I just think it's a broader reflection of how we've lost.

00:52:43.560 We've lost so much in the culture, the war of gender ideology that's going on right now, critical theory, cultural Marxism, the social justice warriors.

00:52:59.200 Obama's alma mater, Occidental College, has a department of social justice and critical theory.

00:53:05.600 I mean, this is the kind of thing that's being taught at our universities.

00:53:08.600 Is this a bumpy ride back, a ride from hell back, or do we come back from that?

00:53:18.920 I honestly think, Glenn, that anything short of a religious revival, and I don't see it turning around.

00:53:26.280 I mean, I'm sorry, but when it comes to this, I'm probably Mr. Hell in a Handbasket.

00:53:30.720 I think culturally we're in really bad shape, and really nothing short of some sort of religious revival is going to turn this around.

00:53:42.400 I see it as only getting worse.

00:53:44.960 I mean, even the masterpiece cake shop victory, I don't know if that's necessarily a victory for religious freedom, right, based on how it was written.

00:53:55.020 I mean, those battles are still going to go on.

00:53:57.400 Read a couple pieces in the New York Times and by other people on the left reacting to the masterpiece thing,

00:54:03.520 and they just can't believe that anybody would dare cite their religious faith as an excuse to discriminate against gay people.

00:54:09.980 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:54:11.160 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:54:12.220 Paul, thank you so much.

00:54:13.320 Paul Kangor from Spectator.org.

00:54:17.260 The Marxist Progressive War on the Boy Scouts, his latest book, is also called Dupes,

00:54:24.400 How American Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for Over a Century.

00:54:31.300 Dupes.

00:54:32.940 According to Redfin, homes have now sold faster than ever, and that's in April 2018.

00:54:39.520 Prices rose 7.6%.

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00:54:44.200 The median price for a home in America is $302,000.

00:54:51.100 That is incredible, especially if you think, I think my dad paid for our home $15,000 maybe when I was a kid in the 70s, 15.

00:55:04.820 And people are not making much more money.

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00:55:55.480 Welcome to the program.

00:56:00.960 We are thrilled that we're just a few days away.

00:56:04.300 A week from this Friday, we have our pop-up museum here at the studios in Las Colinas.

00:56:10.960 We have the original handwritten Gettysburg Address on its way.

00:56:17.060 It is.

00:56:18.140 That's mind-blowing.

00:56:20.000 So, the original handwritten copy of the most famous speech in America?

00:56:25.480 Probably ever given in American history?

00:56:27.160 I think so.

00:56:27.480 I think so.

00:56:28.360 Right?

00:56:28.700 That's pretty...

00:56:29.260 I mean, wow.

00:56:30.460 Because, I mean, you know phrases from a lot of other famous speeches.

00:56:34.080 You likely, if you went to school in the United States, probably had to memorize the Gettysburg Address at one point in your life.

00:56:39.820 Yeah.

00:56:40.300 I mean, it's that big of a deal.

00:56:41.640 That's crazy.

00:56:42.460 The original will be here.

00:56:43.740 That's crazy.

00:56:44.720 Yeah.

00:56:44.900 We're also going to have the leadership training program going on with Mercury One.

00:56:50.100 Sessions Two and Three are still coming up.

00:56:53.300 Session Two is a cool one because you start the weekend of this museum.

00:56:57.340 Yeah.

00:56:57.540 So, you're going to be able to get to see all...

00:56:59.360 I mean, you're going to get to see the Gettysburg Address.

00:57:00.860 You'll be volunteering at your time that weekend, I think.

00:57:04.300 I think the students are going to be...

00:57:06.020 Yeah.

00:57:06.480 You're going to be putting it together.

00:57:07.500 Yeah.

00:57:07.640 Be putting it together.

00:57:08.420 So, you're...

00:57:08.940 I mean, you're going...

00:57:09.840 I mean, the documents...

00:57:12.300 We shared one last hour.

00:57:14.460 The Declaration of Independence.

00:57:16.300 The first rough draft of the Declaration of Independence where Thomas Jefferson writes

00:57:23.580 a whole paragraph just excoriating the king for slavery.

00:57:28.980 Who knows that?

00:57:30.560 I can guarantee you your history...

00:57:32.080 We're told the exact opposite.

00:57:32.620 We're told the exact opposite.

00:57:34.020 And that's what this program is.

00:57:35.260 You're going to learn the real truth with the original documents.

00:57:37.600 If you want to join, mercury1.org slash LTP for a leadership training program.

00:57:44.340 Mercury1.org slash LTP.

00:57:46.420 There's a couple seats available in Sessions 2 and Session 3.

00:57:48.940 Go there now.

00:57:49.460 Please, come and join us for a couple of weeks.

00:57:54.880 Welcome to the program.

00:57:56.760 So, very, very glad that you are here.

00:58:00.120 There's a couple things we want to tell you about that I think are kind of important today.

00:58:06.220 Social Security is going to start dipping into their reserves.

00:58:10.880 What reserves do they...

00:58:15.440 Oh, the lockbox.

00:58:17.120 It's in the lockbox.

00:58:17.740 Oh, okay.

00:58:18.080 It is in the lockbox.

00:58:19.040 Yep.

00:58:19.360 Yeah, they have all those IOUs.

00:58:20.960 So, they're dipping into all those IOUs.

00:58:23.280 Al Gore has the key.

00:58:24.060 And they're going to get that money from themselves somehow or another.

00:58:33.460 But anyway, we're having to dip into that.

00:58:35.720 Medicare is what?

00:58:39.280 Out?

00:58:40.480 Absolutely fine, I think is the words you're looking for.

00:58:42.920 No, I think it's 2026, 2029, or 2027 that Medicare doesn't have any more money left.

00:58:50.560 But I think that's good.

00:58:51.760 We should expand it.

00:58:52.800 We should expand it.

00:58:55.940 Also, Stu has a story that, I mean, if you hate women, you're going to love.

00:59:02.620 You're going to love this if you're a woman hater.

00:59:05.180 Right.

00:59:05.440 I know you are if you're listening to this station.

00:59:07.940 Right.

00:59:08.700 Come on.

00:59:09.720 Let's be honest about it.

00:59:10.740 We all hate women.

00:59:11.380 We all hate women.

00:59:12.880 And, you know, but I don't, Glenn.

00:59:14.740 You don't.

00:59:15.140 I am above this.

00:59:16.440 Okay.

00:59:16.860 I don't believe.

00:59:18.460 It sounds like virtue signaling.

00:59:20.100 Oh, it is.

00:59:21.260 I'm signaling to you that I have virtue.

00:59:23.740 Okay.

00:59:24.280 All right.

00:59:24.520 And I want you to know that this story about hatred, this one's from Sydney, Australia,

00:59:28.540 but it could be here at any time.

00:59:30.400 It could be here at any moment.

00:59:33.280 Okay.

00:59:33.740 All right.

00:59:33.960 I'm buckled up.

00:59:34.580 I need to hear this.

00:59:35.500 Julia, which is not her real name.

00:59:37.760 We're protecting her identity in this story.

00:59:39.860 All right, Julia.

00:59:40.260 Because I, it's so, what she's gone through and proven.

00:59:43.240 It's got to be horrible.

00:59:44.180 It's horrible.

00:59:45.140 Yeah, it's got to be.

00:59:46.160 So she has been volunteering for a few weeks as a patient escort at the private clinic in

00:59:52.540 Sydney.

00:59:53.500 Now, the private clinic, they perform mostly women's health procedures.

01:00:00.420 Yeah, most, mostly probably mammograms.

01:00:02.340 Mostly mammograms, like 98% mammograms.

01:00:04.840 Yeah, but, well, not mammograms, but they refer you to somebody that does.

01:00:08.740 Basically.

01:00:09.320 Yeah.

01:00:09.660 Basically.

01:00:10.220 And they also, they also do another procedure, which is totally pro-woman.

01:00:15.620 It's a pro-choice procedure.

01:00:18.160 It is.

01:00:18.640 Where are they?

01:00:19.320 It's the type of procedure that.

01:00:20.440 Rip the baby apart?

01:00:21.520 Well, it's about 50% chance that a woman dies in the process, but it's a pro-woman procedure.

01:00:25.580 I want to make sure you understand.

01:00:26.660 Okay.

01:00:27.080 All right.

01:00:27.420 Okay.

01:00:27.660 That a future woman surely will die about half the time, but it's very, very pro-woman.

01:00:33.760 All right.

01:00:34.180 Go ahead.

01:00:34.600 They have uncovered an incredible scandal here.

01:00:37.820 And this is, you're not going to believe what they've uncovered.

01:00:41.220 Well, it's got to be pretty big.

01:00:41.700 The Julius name is not a real name.

01:00:43.600 Right.

01:00:44.320 So Julia had been, heard about an incredibly exploitive tactic used by religious anti-abortion

01:00:54.060 picketers who approach women going to the clinic.

01:00:58.180 You're not going to believe the incredibly exploitive tactic they've, they've come up with

01:01:02.080 this time.

01:01:03.120 These bastards, I quote, I learned that one of the things they do is specifically target

01:01:13.080 people of color and migrant patients who are trying to access the clinic.

01:01:19.460 Like these bastards, they're going after people of color and immigrants to try to have them

01:01:27.960 have children.

01:01:29.640 They're going to try to stop them from going into the abortion clinic, but it gets much

01:01:34.540 more disgusting than that.

01:01:37.660 I don't know how Julia held up.

01:01:39.580 I know.

01:01:40.320 She heard about this and she figured there's no way.

01:01:43.020 Right.

01:01:43.220 Well, they are.

01:01:43.960 I will say that you underplayed the word targeting.

01:01:47.900 So thank you.

01:01:49.040 Thank you.

01:01:49.480 I'm glad you pointed that out because the people understand.

01:01:51.920 Yeah.

01:01:52.120 So the patients are apparently told that if they keep their baby.

01:01:58.820 Oh my gosh.

01:01:59.680 They will get free legal services and immigration help.

01:02:05.440 And in some cases, free visas.

01:02:09.340 Do you believe what they're doing to these people?

01:02:12.460 All they want to do is have an abortion and kill their person of color from coming into

01:02:18.540 the world.

01:02:18.800 Well, they're not going to come in that way.

01:02:19.920 They want to just erase a person of color.

01:02:21.840 And these evil religious people are coming up to them and saying, hey, you guys, you

01:02:26.320 know what?

01:02:26.560 We'll give you a free legal help to help on your immigration issues if you keep your baby.

01:02:31.820 Now, I'm with you.

01:02:33.280 I could see a face you're making right now, which it seems like you're puzzled.

01:02:36.240 And you're thinking to yourself, that can't be true.

01:02:38.740 Right.

01:02:39.020 Am I right?

01:02:39.760 You're thinking there's no way someone would be that evil to stop someone from having an

01:02:44.960 abortion and give them help with their legal problems.

01:02:48.460 You're thinking to yourself right now, no way is this true.

01:02:52.500 So Julia decides to get a hidden camera and go undercover to reveal the truth of these

01:03:02.940 bastard religious people.

01:03:04.740 Okay.

01:03:04.960 So can I ask when you say undercover, does it mean that she just took a camera with her

01:03:09.900 as she was walking?

01:03:12.080 Well, yeah.

01:03:12.960 Forth or?

01:03:13.580 Yeah.

01:03:13.700 She, she, she hit record on her phone.

01:03:15.660 Okay.

01:03:15.960 And then, and then she, she approached the clinic with a male friend who is also Chinese

01:03:21.480 Australian because it's not just Chinese American or Australian American here in Sydney.

01:03:29.620 It's Chinese Australian.

01:03:30.760 You know, I will tell you that England has very few African American.

01:03:35.220 Yeah.

01:03:35.440 Almost none.

01:03:36.140 Almost none.

01:03:36.600 They've almost deleted all of them.

01:03:38.100 Bastards.

01:03:38.620 They seem to be African Australians.

01:03:40.340 Yeah.

01:03:40.940 But they're still called, I think if you call them African Australians, you're a hate monger,

01:03:44.360 but that's a whole nother thing.

01:03:45.140 All right.

01:03:45.340 So here's the footage.

01:03:46.960 This is going, this is going to hurt your soul.

01:03:49.500 Listen to this bastard.

01:03:51.960 Okay.

01:03:52.420 Okay.

01:03:53.020 Talk to Julia, our hero.

01:03:56.060 Samar?

01:03:57.500 Yeah.

01:03:58.580 Sorry.

01:03:59.420 This is not a good place.

01:04:00.360 Let us help you.

01:04:01.780 Let us help, let us help you.

01:04:03.200 Keep my card.

01:04:04.120 Keep my card.

01:04:04.920 Information.

01:04:05.780 Okay.

01:04:06.200 Here's my information.

01:04:07.420 Yeah.

01:04:08.040 That you hear?

01:04:09.720 We help.

01:04:10.900 Okay.

01:04:11.260 You're here and we'll help.

01:04:11.780 Immigration problems.

01:04:13.440 Legal problems.

01:04:14.360 Medical problems.

01:04:15.320 Immigration.

01:04:16.400 All those things we can help you with.

01:04:17.740 If that's why you're here, that's what you're worried about.

01:04:19.980 Where you from?

01:04:21.020 If that's what you're worried about, we can help.

01:04:22.020 China.

01:04:23.020 Other people, other Chinese people we've helped.

01:04:25.420 Okay.

01:04:26.300 Help how?

01:04:26.820 If you keep your baby, you call my card, my number.

01:04:30.620 See the card I gave you?

01:04:32.340 Has my number.

01:04:33.020 That's me.

01:04:33.620 Okay.

01:04:34.800 And we can help you.

01:04:36.200 Okay.

01:04:37.980 Keep you and you can keep your baby.

01:04:39.780 Okay.

01:04:40.060 Okay.

01:04:40.760 My name's Paul.

01:04:42.120 What's your name?

01:04:44.380 What's your name?

01:04:45.220 It's the first name.

01:04:46.160 Sarah.

01:04:47.560 Sarah.

01:04:48.500 Sarah.

01:04:49.660 Sarah.

01:04:50.400 Sarah.

01:04:50.880 Yeah.

01:04:51.340 Yeah, Sarah.

01:04:51.960 And Charles.

01:04:52.980 Charles.

01:04:53.520 Yeah.

01:04:56.120 Okay.

01:04:57.000 Oh.

01:04:57.320 Let us open.

01:04:58.020 Oh, okay.

01:04:58.720 We have hundreds of people.

01:05:00.120 Okay.

01:05:00.640 This is crazy.

01:05:01.640 So this is, is this, is this going on?

01:05:05.440 Is this a setup?

01:05:07.020 Right.

01:05:07.480 It seems like it's fake footage because what the Australian religious person who's anti-abortion,

01:05:13.180 therefore anti-woman, is saying here is that he will help them with thousands of dollars

01:05:19.480 of legal help.

01:05:20.760 He will help them through their immigration problems.

01:05:23.760 He will help them through their financial problems.

01:05:26.300 He will help them in any way possible to just keep your immigrant minority child alive.

01:05:33.980 Anything this group can do to keep your immigrant minority child alive, it wants to do.

01:05:40.300 It's not forcing them to do it.

01:05:41.760 It's not lying to them about it.

01:05:43.180 Why do they?

01:05:43.360 It's saying we will offer you any help we can possibly do just to keep this child alive.

01:05:48.540 And this is being reported as a horrible negative.

01:05:50.940 Why do they, why do they hate immigrant minorities so much?

01:05:56.680 Right.

01:05:57.420 Well, I mean, honestly.

01:05:58.880 I mean, this is a great point because we are told that these groups despise minorities,

01:06:04.200 that religious groups despise immigrants, right?

01:06:07.160 Conservative groups certainly do.

01:06:09.280 And here's a conservative, a gentleman in Australia who just wants to stop abortion,

01:06:13.760 is willing to, to break down every supposed wall conservatives have just to keep, to add

01:06:20.540 to the population of minority immigrant children.

01:06:24.880 I think this is, Stu, I think this is what people are tired of.

01:06:28.720 You know that poll, that Pew Research poll I sent to you this morning?

01:06:31.320 Yeah.

01:06:32.360 Do you have a chance to look at that?

01:06:33.660 I just saw the email.

01:06:35.360 So basically it says that people are just tired of the news and they're tired of politics.

01:06:40.800 They just can't take it anymore.

01:06:43.220 Um, and I think that's why, because we, we've so unhinged from anything resembling the truth.

01:06:53.100 We, there's, and we know it and we know it, you know, people, I, I want to fix immigration.

01:07:01.460 I want legal immigration.

01:07:04.140 I want to know who's here, where they are, and when they're going home, I want to reward

01:07:10.260 the good behavior and, and, uh, punish the bad behavior.

01:07:15.900 I want to invite the world to come and renew us and make us stronger, but you have to come

01:07:21.260 through the front door, not the side door, not a window, not break in in the middle of

01:07:26.860 the night.

01:07:29.920 I think that's where most people are.

01:07:33.200 Most people are, but the politicians and the news media, they just, they're making everybody

01:07:38.780 into monsters.

01:07:39.580 And I think most people are like, I, I'm not watching this because I'm not a monster.

01:07:43.820 And if everybody else is a monster, I just don't want anything to do with them anyway.

01:07:47.880 And I, and we, we, you hear that.

01:07:51.360 And only the most, this is, this is there to addict their people to outrage.

01:07:59.760 It is not to solve a problem.

01:08:02.960 It's not to actually uncover anything of value.

01:08:06.400 It is merely for the fringe group to raise money because they will be outraged because

01:08:14.740 that's the pattern.

01:08:16.360 And it, and it happens on both sides, but we just look for things that we know will stir

01:08:22.220 the pot and get people really upset and excited and raise money off of it.

01:08:27.400 I'm glad you brought up the idiot to outrage thing here because with this story, I, that

01:08:33.220 is exactly what all the tweets were about.

01:08:36.260 They were, they were left, left-wing pro-choice people saying, look at this disgusting tactic.

01:08:42.280 These people should be ashamed of themselves.

01:08:44.280 That was like the general theme of the commentary.

01:08:46.940 It's like, wait a minute.

01:08:49.580 If you are a hardcore left-wing activist who just loves abortion, is this tactic going to

01:08:55.260 work on you?

01:08:55.640 No, you're going to go walk up to the abortion clinic and say, no, I don't need your help.

01:08:59.000 Leave me alone.

01:08:59.600 I'm getting my abortion.

01:09:00.740 If you are a person, an immigrant who might not want to go to authorities, who might not

01:09:05.320 want to pop their head out if they happen to be illegal, if they're a minority community

01:09:11.280 member who might not be in the best place financially and needs help in another area, and that's the

01:09:16.160 reason they're resorting to abortion.

01:09:19.360 They, they want, they might want the child, but they can't, they don't believe that they

01:09:23.340 can do it.

01:09:24.160 Here's a person reaching in and saying, look, I will take away every single obstacle you

01:09:29.340 have if you have this child.

01:09:31.940 Right.

01:09:32.620 That is, that is an honorable thing to do.

01:09:36.020 Well, no, no, shockingly, not if you are, quote, pro choice.

01:09:45.140 This is opening choices for women.

01:09:47.700 It's opening up options.

01:09:49.260 Sometimes you have no choice on what to do.

01:09:51.260 Sometimes you don't.

01:09:52.020 Yeah.

01:09:52.680 Sometimes, you know, don't know the situation, whatever, and you feel completely trapped.

01:09:57.520 At least that's how they might feel.

01:09:58.900 Correct.

01:09:59.960 Completely trapped.

01:10:00.960 Here is new options.

01:10:03.860 New doors may not work for you.

01:10:05.600 New choices.

01:10:06.220 New choices.

01:10:07.280 They are not actually pro choice.

01:10:10.200 And as we're seeing with all of the progressive nonsense, it is either their way or the highway.

01:10:16.340 They want the death of this child, period, period.

01:10:21.520 Yeah.

01:10:21.860 And the audio you heard there was a little difficult because it's on the street and it's through

01:10:25.520 a phone and sitting in her pocket.

01:10:27.420 But you can hear the approach of the guy.

01:10:29.140 He is not, you, damn you, damn you and you're targeting.

01:10:33.700 Yeah.

01:10:33.860 He's just saying, look, I can help.

01:10:35.560 We've helped hundreds of people like this.

01:10:37.700 If you're having these problems and this is the reason you're here.

01:10:40.620 He even said that.

01:10:41.380 If this is the reason you're here, you're having these problems, we can help take those

01:10:44.480 problems away.

01:10:45.560 That is an incredibly, it destroys every stereotype of a religious person.

01:10:50.460 It destroys every stereotype of a conservative.

01:10:52.520 And it shows that, that life is first, right?

01:10:57.620 You can say that you don't like the immigration policies.

01:11:00.240 You can under, you can say that you don't like all this other stuff.

01:11:02.620 Life is first.

01:11:03.920 What happened?

01:11:04.460 What happened to the idea that we want them safe, but rare?

01:11:09.100 No, if you wanted them rare, you would be saying, you would be saying yourself as progressives

01:11:16.500 as the left, let's give these people other options.

01:11:19.380 Maybe they want to keep their baby and we, we want to make it rare.

01:11:23.920 So let's find out what's the pressure on them.

01:11:26.340 Is there pressure on them?

01:11:28.340 And some, no, some, yes.

01:11:30.960 Let's relieve that pressure so we can make it safe, but rare.

01:11:36.500 Or do we now understand what you denied for so long being true is true.

01:11:44.560 You don't want it rare.

01:11:46.680 You're looking to increase sales.

01:11:50.000 You know, a lot of people forget that that, that, that, that's what this is.

01:11:57.000 This is a business.

01:11:58.120 They are making money off of this.

01:12:01.880 They have sales projections.

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01:12:14.940 That's just sick.

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01:13:42.900 I still, I don't think I could take another story like the one that you just shared where,

01:13:48.540 where people were offering people going to get an abortion money and help and immigration

01:13:54.300 attorneys, I, I can't, I, I could, I could top it with these two bastards from Sacred

01:13:58.840 Heart University who raped this woman when they basically admitted it.

01:14:03.060 Basically.

01:14:03.940 I mean, when you say, when you say basically.

01:14:06.700 Yeah.

01:14:07.620 What?

01:14:08.700 Well, they admitted to sleeping with her.

01:14:10.380 They said the sex was completely consensual.

01:14:12.260 Now, of course they got dragged through the mud and are out of school and their lives

01:14:16.100 are ruined.

01:14:16.860 Um, but, uh, the victim, Nikki Yovino, um, she is now admitted she was lying.

01:14:24.000 The entire time.

01:14:25.620 Um, so, so they, they victimized her twice, right?

01:14:30.000 Yes.

01:14:30.540 Wow.

01:14:31.000 Hashtag her.

01:14:31.740 Not so much.

01:14:32.620 Right.

01:14:33.020 I think is.

01:14:35.880 Wow.

01:14:37.420 Glenn.

01:14:38.300 Back.

01:14:38.680 You know, I think the average American is just tired of seeing politics in absolutely

01:14:41.460 everything.

01:14:42.060 We're tired of seeing it in sports.

01:14:43.300 We're tired of seeing it in TV and movies.

01:14:45.300 We're, we're tired of seeing it on coffee cups.

01:14:48.940 Just give me a cup of coffee.

01:14:51.060 Will you please?

01:14:52.060 During his tenure at, uh, at Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz took every chance to bring politics

01:15:00.360 into your coffee, uh, your coffee cup.

01:15:03.300 He did it in small ways, like, you know, rainbow cups.

01:15:06.240 And then in large ways with the initiative to hire 10,000 refugees and the recent countrywide

01:15:13.380 shutdown of stores so that every single Starbucks employee could undergo anti-bias training.

01:15:18.660 Imagine that you're saying to everybody in the, say, yeah, we know you've been here and

01:15:23.060 we love you and everything else, but you're a bunch of racists.

01:15:25.780 It's incredible.

01:15:27.240 Um, now this was just the result of the left that is becoming more and more hysterical as

01:15:34.040 we all are becoming addicted to outrage.

01:15:37.080 Can we all grow up?

01:15:38.940 Please.

01:15:39.420 The left has to be in a bad, in a bad way when someone as loudly progressive as Schultz

01:15:47.360 expresses his displeasure with the left, as he did now in an interview with CNBC.

01:15:53.700 It concerns me that, uh, so many voices within the democratic party are going so far to the

01:16:00.620 left.

01:16:00.960 And I asked myself, how are we going to pay for all these things in terms of things like

01:16:05.600 single payer or people espousing the fact that the government is going to give everyone

01:16:10.400 a job?

01:16:11.040 I don't think that's realistic.

01:16:12.380 And I think we've got to get away from all of these falsehoods and start talking about

01:16:17.140 the truth and not false promises.

01:16:19.280 Holy cow.

01:16:19.800 You know what?

01:16:20.360 There's a guy, there's a guy that I will listen to.

01:16:23.700 I may disagree with everything that he says, but if you're saying, look, we can't afford

01:16:27.860 all that stuff.

01:16:28.940 I mean, let's just do a bath.

01:16:30.080 Let's just do math.

01:16:30.740 Let's just break it down to the truth and do math.

01:16:34.540 He retired on Monday, 64 years old.

01:16:36.940 He served as two stints for CEO of Starbucks 36 years.

01:16:41.580 He built the company, uh, to the Frappuccino empire that it has become.

01:16:46.080 Um, he earned for himself a net worth in about the $3 billion range, but he was there at the

01:16:53.140 beginning, almost immediately news broke after this interview that Schultz is planning to run

01:16:58.020 for a candidate to run for, uh, the president of the United States in 2020.

01:17:03.640 He told the New York times, I want to be truthful.

01:17:06.640 You know, I want to, I want to tell you, you know, without creating more speculative headlines,

01:17:10.860 but, uh, for some time now, I've been deeply concerned about our country and the growing

01:17:14.260 division at home and are standing in the world.

01:17:17.040 However, he also told CNN's poppy Harlow quote, I intend to think about a range of options

01:17:22.840 and that could include public service, but I'm a long way from making any decisions about

01:17:27.340 the future.

01:17:27.820 End quote, uh, he's running, he's running.

01:17:31.220 I mean, you know, he's exploring right now.

01:17:33.760 And if it looks like he could have a chance of win, he'll wheel, he will run.

01:17:37.500 And I imagine he dreams of running America.

01:17:40.900 Unfortunately, I hope, I hope this is wrong that we don't have a president who wants to

01:17:46.800 just run based on microaggressions and on bias.

01:17:49.880 Although I will take a president that, you know, runs on a campaign of pumpkin spice lattes.

01:17:57.620 I'm just, I'm not opposed.

01:18:04.720 It's Wednesday, June 6th.

01:18:06.740 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:18:09.040 So, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago, I saw a, an email, uh, or I saw a, a headline

01:18:17.060 about, uh, the, the Abraham Lincoln stovepipe hat and his blood stained gloves, among other

01:18:27.140 things, going up for sale because, oh my gosh, this museum's going out of business.

01:18:34.560 No, no, no, it's not.

01:18:36.040 I called and we reached out right away because we want to help them.

01:18:41.820 If that were the case, that's not the case.

01:18:44.180 They, they purchased a few years ago, um, a collection.

01:18:48.600 We'll tell you about it in a second.

01:18:49.900 And it cost them, I think $9 million and it was worth every single penny.

01:18:56.260 This museum, if you don't know anything about it, it is the Abraham Lincoln presidential

01:19:00.920 library and museum.

01:19:01.880 It's up in Springfield.

01:19:02.980 It's just last week was voted the best, uh, museum in Illinois.

01:19:08.200 And it's, I mean, it is like a real presidential, uh, museum that they're building now.

01:19:14.380 I mean, it, it, it has the largest collection of Lincoln papers and artifacts in the world.

01:19:19.740 Uh, it has 40,000 square feet of just galleries, then theaters, then artifact displays.

01:19:25.060 They have a reproduction of the white house of what it looked like in 1861.

01:19:28.920 Um, they have these things where they're, you know, talking about the, you know, the ghosts

01:19:33.880 in the library that, that, um, teach kids, you know, the importance of libraries and, and

01:19:40.320 museums because museums are just, they're, I mean, they're awful.

01:19:44.380 They're awful.

01:19:45.100 They're not anymore.

01:19:45.960 And the guy who is really, um, heading this effort and really, uh, making sure that this

01:19:51.540 library, uh, remains the best, uh, museum in Illinois is, uh, the guy who actually was

01:19:58.800 the founding director of the George W. Bush library here in Dallas, uh, which is an incredible

01:20:05.320 library.

01:20:06.440 His name is, uh, Alan Lowe, the executive director, and he joins us now.

01:20:10.200 Hello, Alan.

01:20:11.480 Great to be with you, Glenn.

01:20:12.840 Um, I, first of all, I want to fully disclose to the audience, uh, so they don't think something

01:20:18.160 funny is going on.

01:20:19.320 You are bringing, you are bringing some of these Lincoln artifacts yourself down to our

01:20:25.400 pop-up museum, um, here in a couple of weeks and we are thrilled, but I, I want, as

01:20:31.420 I said to you before, and I want the audience to know, I am such a fan of what Alan and, and

01:20:38.500 the Lincoln presidential library is doing, and these items must remain in their hands

01:20:45.220 that I want to expose you and help you in any way to raise, to raise money, to keep these

01:20:50.360 items, uh, in any way I can, Alan.

01:20:52.760 So, well, thank you so much, Glenn.

01:20:54.440 That, that is so important to us to, to keep that Lincoln legacy here together for our

01:20:59.260 visitors, for researchers, uh, we're the place, uh, where that, that legacy is preserved

01:21:04.360 and perpetuated.

01:21:05.300 So we greatly appreciate your help.

01:21:07.140 And I'm very excited about bringing some items down here in just a week or so.

01:21:11.320 So let's talk a little bit about the, the items that you, you bought, uh, you, the foundation

01:21:17.120 paid $23 million for the taper collection.

01:21:19.940 You have like a $9 million bill on this worth every penny.

01:21:26.180 Can you tell me the things that you bought in that collection?

01:21:29.700 Sure.

01:21:30.340 It's, it's an amazing collection of artifacts and documents about Abraham and Mary Lincoln.

01:21:35.120 Uh, it includes, you're right, his stovepipe hat, one of the three known to still be in

01:21:39.540 existence.

01:21:40.320 It includes the gloves that were in his pocket the night of the assassination, covered with

01:21:44.260 his blood, uh, the fan that Mary was carrying that night, uh, the presidential seal he used

01:21:49.920 in the White House, uh, documents going back to his youth, including the earliest known

01:21:54.140 piece of writing where he was practicing his mathematics as a, we think maybe a 13 or 14 year

01:21:59.140 old young man all the way through his presidency to the end of his life.

01:22:02.980 So it just goes on and on a great selection of Abraham, of Mary Lincoln documents as well,

01:22:08.060 including her fan that she had that night as she was sitting in the theater.

01:22:11.320 That's right.

01:22:12.680 With, with, uh, with bloodstains on the fan, sadly.

01:22:15.820 So, um, it goes on and on.

01:22:18.960 Who did this come from?

01:22:20.320 How did this collection come together?

01:22:22.240 So, uh, collector in California put it together over the years and this, uh, the Abraham Lincoln

01:22:28.620 Library Museum was established in 2005.

01:22:31.540 Uh, and in 2007, the state asked the foundation to consider purchasing that private collection,

01:22:37.340 the taper collection.

01:22:38.560 Uh, and they did, as you said, they purchased it for 23 million.

01:22:41.660 They've paid it down now to a nine, $9.7 million still remains to be paid.

01:22:46.380 And that's our, our current, our big, big challenge right now.

01:22:49.620 And people can help you by, you know, just being a, uh, you know, a foundation member

01:22:54.000 and actually giving money.

01:22:55.260 That's how this, this was purchased, um, in the first place is with the foundation.

01:23:00.200 And, and there's nothing you can do that I think is more important, um, than preserving

01:23:06.020 American history, especially when it is, um, you know, not in the hands, uh, and I don't

01:23:12.320 want to involve you in politics here, Alan, but not in the hands of, of, um, of universities

01:23:17.040 that sometimes we'll have these huge collections and it will lock it up and you won't see it.

01:23:23.020 And this is all about Abraham Lincoln.

01:23:25.220 So this, these are always going to be seen because Abraham Lincoln is the topic of this

01:23:31.260 museum.

01:23:32.280 Um, I would say, well, you know, we are, we're not here just to be a warehouse.

01:23:35.580 We want to obviously preserve these items.

01:23:37.700 We want them to be used and to be seen.

01:23:39.560 So tell me about the, um, you guys are coming down to, um, the, you know, our, our, our cute

01:23:48.300 little pop-up museum, uh, and you're bringing the, um, handwritten Gettysburg address.

01:23:55.300 That's right.

01:23:56.000 Tell me about that.

01:23:57.400 Of course.

01:23:58.200 So the original Gettysburg address, we're not quite sure what happened to it.

01:24:02.340 You know, Mr. Lincoln was very good with the press.

01:24:04.760 And one theory is that as he left the stage, he handed it to a member of the media and it's

01:24:09.060 disappeared into history, but there were, there were a few copies he wrote out by hand

01:24:12.740 afterwards.

01:24:13.300 And the copy we have, he wrote out for Edward Everett, you know, who was the main speaker

01:24:17.360 of that day at Gettysburg.

01:24:19.200 And, uh, not long after Everett asked Mr. Lincoln to write down his remarks, which he

01:24:23.900 did send to Mr. Everett, who pasted them in a book with some other things from the day,

01:24:28.400 which I think he sold to help veterans of the war.

01:24:30.980 Uh, in the 1940s, uh, the school children of Illinois, uh, along with Mr. Marshall Field

01:24:37.580 helped purchase that copy of the Gettysburg address for our predecessor agency was the

01:24:42.120 Illinois historical library.

01:24:43.540 So, um, we have that in our collection.

01:24:46.060 It's in his hand, hand, it's his handwritten copy of it.

01:24:48.980 And it's a pretty awesome thing to see.

01:24:51.100 Uh, kind of brings us to tears every time we, we open that box.

01:24:53.960 And it's one of those things that you, at least my age, we had to memorize when we were

01:24:59.060 in school.

01:25:01.060 Well, very much so.

01:25:02.060 I'll tell you the international reach of this man, uh, when I started here in 2016,

01:25:07.060 that December, the outgoing secretary general of the UN came through here and he was on his

01:25:11.060 way back to South Korea.

01:25:12.060 When we got to the Gettysburg address area of our museum, he turned to me and recited the

01:25:17.060 Gettysburg address from memory.

01:25:19.060 He learned it as a young student in Korea.

01:25:22.060 Uh, so you see that, that, that is the, probably the most famous speech in perhaps world

01:25:27.060 history.

01:25:28.060 We were talking about that just the other day.

01:25:29.060 We were wondering, it's the most famous, got to be the most famous speech in at least

01:25:34.060 America.

01:25:35.060 Uh, and I, I can't think of any, I can't even think of anything close.

01:25:40.060 And we were talking about this, that it's, it's like, well, you know, Mr. Gorbachev, tear

01:25:44.060 down this wall or, you know, you know, the moon shot or nothing to fear, but fear itself.

01:25:49.060 But those, we know those because there was the press that could replay them over and over

01:25:55.060 and over and over again.

01:25:56.060 So we hear those, this, there was no press that was playing this over and over again.

01:26:00.060 This one was, we picked it up because it was so powerful.

01:26:03.060 And we said, we should learn this.

01:26:06.060 It helped define America in a way became in my mind, like a charter document.

01:26:11.060 You know, Lincoln loved the declaration of independence.

01:26:13.060 He said every thought, every political thought he had emanated from that document.

01:26:17.060 And I really put the Gettysburg address on, uh, right up on that pedestal with the declaration

01:26:22.060 of defining what America means to us and to the world.

01:26:26.060 Helen, are you, are you surprised at all of, uh, about how many people, um, I mean, I,

01:26:32.060 I had never heard this till he moved down to the South and I moved down to the South.

01:26:35.060 You know, these people, you'll meet these people.

01:26:37.060 They'll be like Abraham Lincoln.

01:26:39.060 I can't believe you like Abraham.

01:26:41.060 You're like, wait, what?

01:26:43.060 The, uh, the war of Northern aggression.

01:26:45.060 I've heard that.

01:26:46.060 Yeah.

01:26:47.060 Yeah.

01:26:48.060 Yeah.

01:26:49.060 Uh, I mean, there are people that still really do not like Abraham Lincoln and they say it's

01:26:53.060 because he violated the constitution in all sorts of ways.

01:26:56.060 Right.

01:26:57.060 Well, we, you know, we hear that every now and then suspending the writ of habeas corpus

01:27:01.060 and, you know, he did jail certain war opponents.

01:27:04.060 And, you know, he, he talks about that as he goes to the presidency, why he's taking these

01:27:08.060 steps to save the constitution, to save the union.

01:27:11.060 He had to take certain steps, uh, kind of an existential crisis, right?

01:27:14.060 So you had to do certain things, but he knew he was kind of trotting along the line there

01:27:19.060 of what was constitutional and what was not, uh, all to preserve this last best hope of

01:27:24.060 man.

01:27:25.060 So, uh, I do hear that sometimes you hear sometimes, well, he was a racist and so on and so forth.

01:27:29.060 And my, um, initial response that always is come here, come see these exhibits, come use these

01:27:36.060 archives, come, you know, take part in our programs, really learn about the man, what he stood for.

01:27:41.060 And you'll see that's all wrong.

01:27:42.060 It's all wrong.

01:27:43.060 I will tell you that, uh, we have a piece through Harlan Crowe.

01:27:46.060 I don't know.

01:27:47.060 I'm sure you know him.

01:27:48.060 Uh, I do.

01:27:49.060 Yeah.

01:27:50.060 And, uh, Harlan is collected this amazing writing from Abraham Lincoln long before he

01:27:54.060 was a president of the United States, trying to, as an attorney explain to the American

01:28:00.060 people, why slavery is wrong and how, you know, people are people.

01:28:04.060 And, uh, it, it debunks everything that you hear.

01:28:08.060 And yet somehow or another, that racist, he didn't care about the slaves.

01:28:12.060 He didn't care about black people's story is, is the winning one right now.

01:28:17.060 Yeah.

01:28:18.060 He said, if slavery is not wrong, then nothing's wrong.

01:28:20.060 And what you see though, with Lincoln is a real, uh, despite what some of his critics

01:28:24.060 say, a real adherence to the constitution.

01:28:26.060 So he knew sadly, uh, that some protection had been run into the original constitution.

01:28:31.060 And so when he went into office, as you know, what he said is slavery will not spread.

01:28:35.060 Right.

01:28:36.060 And then the hope was over time, it would, it would be extinguished.

01:28:39.060 Uh, now he realized also, that's why he's so supportive of the 13th amendment is he knew

01:28:44.060 the emancipation proclamation is a wartime measure done as commander in chief.

01:28:48.060 How do you make sure that the stain of slavery is removed from that constitution?

01:28:52.060 That was the 13th amendment.

01:28:53.060 Any doubt in your mind that if Abraham Lincoln would have lived that reconstruction and all

01:28:59.060 of those dark times would have been different?

01:29:01.060 No doubt.

01:29:02.060 No doubt in my mind.

01:29:03.060 No doubt in my mind.

01:29:04.060 And I will tell you one man who deserves more credit than he gets is Ulysses Grant for what

01:29:08.060 he did try to do, uh, to remain true to what he saw as Lincoln's vision, um, and helping,

01:29:13.060 uh, the freed man and helping rebuild the South and so forth.

01:29:16.060 But I have no doubt that it would have been a much different place if Lincoln had survived.

01:29:21.060 Alan, thank you so much.

01:29:22.060 God bless you.

01:29:23.060 And we'll, we'll talk again.

01:29:24.060 See you next week.

01:29:25.060 Look forward to it.

01:29:26.060 You bet.

01:29:27.060 Thanks.

01:29:28.060 You bet.

01:29:29.060 Alan Lowe.

01:29:30.060 He's the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln presidential library and museum.

01:29:33.060 Uh, and, uh, he's joining us.

01:29:36.060 Um, and he'll be, he'll be here.

01:29:38.060 I think, I think he's required to be with the Gettysburg address the whole time.

01:29:43.060 So you're going to be able to talk to him and ask him.

01:29:46.060 Considering how chocolatey your hands get from the chocolate bars you're eating all the

01:29:49.060 time.

01:29:50.060 He should be around those documents.

01:29:51.060 Right.

01:29:52.060 Should not eat chocolate that no.

01:29:55.060 All right.

01:29:56.060 Anyway, June 15th through the 17th tickets are on sale right now.

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01:30:16.060 All right.

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01:32:00.060 Glenn back.

01:32:01.060 You know, you have a guy like Abraham Lincoln who dies and, uh, you know, his obituary is

01:32:06.060 still being written and the lives that he changed.

01:32:09.060 And then you have people like Kathleen shunk.

01:32:13.060 Did you see the obituary written by her children?

01:32:17.060 Uh, after she died, she just died.

01:32:19.060 Uh, she was 80 years old.

01:32:21.060 Kathleen shunk born March 19th, 1938 to Joseph and Gertrude shunk.

01:32:27.060 She married Dennis Demlow at St.

01:32:30.060 Anne's, uh, in 1957 and had two children, Gina and Jay in 1962.

01:32:35.060 She became pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle.

01:32:39.060 Hmm.

01:32:40.060 What was it that was 1962?

01:32:43.060 She became pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle.

01:32:46.060 Oh, okay.

01:32:48.060 And moved and moved to California.

01:32:50.060 Okay.

01:32:51.060 She abandoned her children.

01:32:52.060 Gina.

01:32:53.060 Hmm.

01:32:54.060 She what now?

01:32:55.060 She abandoned her children.

01:32:57.060 Gina and Jay.

01:32:58.060 Mm hmm.

01:32:59.060 Uh, they were raised by her parents.

01:33:03.060 Okay.

01:33:04.060 So she, she slept with the husband's brother, had a.

01:33:08.060 And then again, got pregnant and then moved to California and abandoned the kids who she

01:33:15.060 just left them with grandma and grandpa.

01:33:17.060 Seems like you might want to leave this out of the obituary.

01:33:20.060 She passed away on May 31st, 2018 in Springfield and will now face judgment.

01:33:26.060 Okay.

01:33:27.060 She will not be missed by Gina and Jay.

01:33:30.060 Wow.

01:33:31.060 And they understand that this world is a better place without her.

01:33:34.060 Holy crap.

01:33:36.060 Holy cow.

01:33:37.060 Wow.

01:33:38.060 I mean that I've, I do find some humor in that, although it's very sad, tragically sad.

01:33:44.060 Yeah.

01:33:46.060 You imagine?

01:33:47.060 I mean, first of all, it's, it's sad for one reason.

01:33:49.060 I mean, you know, in 1962, she moved away from her kids.

01:33:54.060 So think about, I mean, you know, her, her kids are at least my age and, uh, and they're

01:34:03.060 just, and they're this pissed still.

01:34:06.060 Yeah.

01:34:07.060 Hope you have time to repair relationships like that.

01:34:09.060 Yeah.

01:34:10.060 Well, she did.

01:34:11.060 She had, she didn't take it.

01:34:12.060 Apparently.

01:34:13.060 That's what I mean.

01:34:14.060 Yeah.

01:34:15.060 That's one of the goals you have in life.

01:34:17.060 Right.

01:34:18.060 I mean, I'm sure there's people you don't get along with.

01:34:20.060 Like at some point you want to try to revisit those things.

01:34:22.060 If you can.

01:34:23.060 Well, if they're valuable.

01:34:24.060 I mean, at least, at least just so you don't get an obituary like this.

01:34:34.060 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:34:36.060 64 year old Cleveland man suing us customs and border protection after agents strip searched

01:34:43.060 him at the airport in October and took more than $58,000 in cash from him without charging

01:34:50.060 him with any crime.

01:34:51.060 This according to a federal lawsuit, customs agents seize the money through a process known

01:34:57.060 as civil asset forfeiture, a law enforcement technique that allows authorities to take cash

01:35:03.060 and property from people who are never convicted or even charged with a crime.

01:35:09.060 Had a bunch of these two that are ones more egregious than the next.

01:35:13.060 So tell me about this story, Pat, because you've been Pat Gray joins us.

01:35:16.060 You've been following this story.

01:35:18.060 64 year old guy.

01:35:19.060 Yeah.

01:35:20.060 Heading back to his native country of Albania.

01:35:22.060 And he wanted to put a down payment on a on a retirement home.

01:35:28.060 He wanted to retire on the Adriatic Sea.

01:35:30.060 And he said some of his relatives were really struggling hard.

01:35:33.060 And so he was going to help them.

01:35:35.060 And so he took his entire life savings, converted it to cash.

01:35:39.060 Fifty eight thousand one hundred dollars.

01:35:41.060 And left it and put it in his put it in three envelopes that he carefully counted several

01:35:47.060 times and then put it put the three different stacks into one envelope labeled it fifty eight

01:35:52.060 thousand one hundred.

01:35:53.060 And when they saw it go through because he had it in the carry on, you wouldn't want to

01:35:58.060 put that in your luggage.

01:35:59.060 That'll be taken by somebody.

01:36:01.060 But it was taken anyway, of course, because he put his bag through the scanner and they

01:36:06.060 saw that there was cash there and they confiscated it.

01:36:09.060 Just took it.

01:36:11.060 And eventually they gave him a receipt for.

01:36:16.060 U.S. currency, didn't say how much, didn't say when he get back, didn't say what he was

01:36:21.060 being charged with.

01:36:22.060 In fact, he wasn't being charged with anything.

01:36:24.060 They just took it.

01:36:26.060 And so it's been like six weeks now since that happened.

01:36:30.060 He still hasn't gotten a penny of his money back.

01:36:32.060 They have absolutely zero evidence against him or his family that this is any kind of

01:36:37.060 drug involved money.

01:36:39.060 In fact, I mean, from the circumstances, you can it's obvious he's just an Albanian

01:36:44.060 American who is going home and wanted to use his own money that he worked his entire

01:36:49.060 life for speaks very little English and had a real trouble, a real problem at the airport.

01:36:55.060 And I don't know if that how much that contributed to it.

01:36:58.060 But he's got a lawyer now and he's got he's got some justice organization that's trying

01:37:07.060 to help him get this money back.

01:37:09.060 So here's here's the here's the interesting thing.

01:37:12.060 Guy comes into the airport, has an envelope.

01:37:15.060 Fifty eight thousand dollars.

01:37:17.060 We now know that in the Minneapolis St.

01:37:21.060 airport over the last four years, literally millions of dollars in cash in suitcases.

01:37:32.060 Carry ons have been taken out of this country and gone into hostile regions of the world to

01:37:41.060 Yemen.

01:37:42.060 They were on their way to Yemen.

01:37:44.060 That's not forfeited.

01:37:46.060 Why?

01:37:47.060 Wait, I can take a million dollars in cash on my way to Yemen and I'm not stopped.

01:37:54.060 It's not civil asset forfeiture.

01:37:57.060 How is that possible?

01:37:59.060 I think this is an evil law and it needs to be overturned.

01:38:04.060 But instead, it's going the other way.

01:38:06.060 President Trump and Jeff Sessions in particular are in favor of making this easier to confiscate

01:38:11.060 people's wrong.

01:38:12.060 It's wrong.

01:38:13.060 It's wrong.

01:38:14.060 It's wrong.

01:38:15.060 It's wrong.

01:38:16.060 It's wrong.

01:38:17.060 The reason is, you know, look, it makes it easier for law enforcement to, you know,

01:38:19.060 stop someone who is not who might be guilty of something, but there's not enough evidence

01:38:26.060 to actually convict them.

01:38:27.060 Wait, then they shouldn't be.

01:38:29.060 Then they're not guilty.

01:38:30.060 Convicted, right?

01:38:31.060 If you can't make the case.

01:38:33.060 Seems like a technicality.

01:38:34.060 Yeah, you can't make a case.

01:38:35.060 No, if you can't make the case.

01:38:36.060 You don't have a case.

01:38:37.060 You don't have a case.

01:38:38.060 This is why we put Al Capone in prison for income tax evasion.

01:38:42.780 We could not make the case because he wasn't killing anybody,

01:38:46.920 and anybody who wanted to testify against him ended up dead.

01:38:50.820 So we had to go after him for income tax evasion.

01:38:54.780 That's what you do.

01:38:56.740 You find where they are breaking the law, and you make that case.

01:39:01.880 You can't just take people.

01:39:04.200 Well, we couldn't make the case.

01:39:06.000 Well, then you don't have a case.

01:39:08.840 I mean, how many law and orders do we need to watch where they're like,

01:39:13.040 you got nothing.

01:39:14.820 Get out of my office.

01:39:16.940 I mean, every law show is always showing the prosecutor saying,

01:39:23.360 you're bringing me this crap.

01:39:25.040 I got nothing.

01:39:26.240 I can't go before a judge and say all of this.

01:39:29.100 I got nothing.

01:39:29.880 I don't know why he sounds like Jimmy Durante all of a sudden.

01:39:32.080 But that is it.

01:39:33.620 I mean, that's an inconvenience for many to actually have to prove those cases.

01:39:39.400 And look, you know, especially with this one, there doesn't even seem to be an attempt at a case.

01:39:44.200 They just found it suspicious.

01:39:45.960 They're not even trying to manufacture anything.

01:39:47.500 They're just saying we, yeah, I'm sorry.

01:39:49.820 This was a smuggling, drug trafficking, money laundering situation.

01:39:53.880 If they don't get this under control, if they don't stop this, the American people,

01:39:58.760 this will be something that turns the American people against their government.

01:40:03.980 And it should be if it keeps going like this.

01:40:06.880 Yes, if it keeps going like this, it's got to stop.

01:40:08.720 It's got to stop.

01:40:09.900 If people start saying, average person that you know, and they're like, dude, the government just seized my bank account and took all of my money.

01:40:20.860 Americans will start to see this going to happen to me and it will be over.

01:40:25.400 They will rise up.

01:40:26.420 How many times have we talked about this?

01:40:27.660 There was the guy, I think he had a pizza restaurant, remember, and he was making deposits in his bank of cash that he received during the course of the day or week.

01:40:38.400 And then he would go to the bank and deposit $9,000 at a time because he was told deposit $10,000 in cash and they're going to think you're doing something seedy.

01:40:51.180 And they confiscated his money, $30,000 because it looked like he.

01:40:56.540 Why does he keep doing $9,900 every time?

01:40:59.260 Because he was told.

01:41:00.300 Because he was told.

01:41:01.380 That's how you do it.

01:41:02.700 Did we even do the story on the air?

01:41:04.080 Because this is an amazing one of what Chicago is doing to its residents with a very similar concept with cars, impounding cars.

01:41:12.420 What they're doing is they, like, for example, there's this guy who, he ran an auto repair sort of business.

01:41:20.080 And person comes in with their car.

01:41:22.540 It's getting fixed.

01:41:23.580 He needs to bring them back to work.

01:41:24.760 So, guy hops in his car.

01:41:26.540 He takes his own car, his own personal car, drives this guy back to work.

01:41:29.960 On the ride, he gets pulled over.

01:41:31.600 And that guy, his passenger, who he doesn't even know, he's just a customer, has drugs in his pocket.

01:41:37.420 They impound his car, the guy who owns the auto repair business.

01:41:41.980 They impound his personal vehicle.

01:41:43.600 And they hold it behind closed doors with a massive payment to get to free it.

01:41:48.760 And then charge him storage every day.

01:41:52.260 So, it's thousands and thousands.

01:41:54.160 Much more than the value of his piece of crap car at this point.

01:41:58.280 Thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars.

01:42:00.600 And he can't get his car back.

01:42:02.840 They're putting him out of work.

01:42:04.540 Because he can't get back and forth to work.

01:42:06.360 Is this still going on?

01:42:07.740 It was a few weeks ago.

01:42:09.040 It was something I printed out for prep.

01:42:09.960 I don't think we ever got to.

01:42:10.780 Let's call him.

01:42:11.140 I never heard that.

01:42:12.060 Let's call him.

01:42:12.660 Let's get him on.

01:42:13.260 It was incredible.

01:42:13.720 And they had multiple stories, just like it, from Chicago.

01:42:16.340 And it was all under the pretense of they can't pay their bills in Chicago anymore.

01:42:20.700 So, this is what they're trying to do to take people's money.

01:42:24.560 Is impound everything for every reason.

01:42:27.160 To charge exorbitant fees.

01:42:29.360 And take regular people's money who either did something very minor or nothing at all.

01:42:34.640 It's not America.

01:42:35.580 Civil asset forfeiture.

01:42:36.840 It's coming because we can't.

01:42:38.000 We're not going to be able to pay our bills.

01:42:40.120 We're not, the cities and the states are not going to be able to pay the bills.

01:42:46.280 I got news for you.

01:42:47.160 You're not going to pay the bills by taking $58,000 from every American.

01:42:51.860 No, no, no.

01:42:52.300 You're still not going to pay our bills.

01:42:54.820 You're going to have to start civil asset forfeiture in China and India and all of Asia.

01:43:00.680 And you look at that case with the Albanian guy on the airplane.

01:43:04.180 And you might say, well, I don't know.

01:43:05.920 It does sound a little suspicious.

01:43:07.400 Why is this guy bringing $58,000 to Albania?

01:43:10.280 Now, to me, it's his freaking right.

01:43:11.880 It's his freaking money.

01:43:12.720 He can fly wherever the hell he wants with as much money as he wants.

01:43:15.280 Seems totally reasonable that he wants to buy a home.

01:43:17.340 Right.

01:43:17.700 Wait a minute.

01:43:17.960 Just a second.

01:43:18.600 We used to be the country where we didn't trust the banks.

01:43:21.480 And so we would put our cash in our mattress.

01:43:24.020 Now, the government can come into your house for any reason.

01:43:28.340 They just have a feeling you're doing something wrong.

01:43:30.920 And they find cash in your house.

01:43:32.520 They can take it.

01:43:33.800 Yeah.

01:43:34.300 They can take it.

01:43:35.260 You're told to keep the receipts because that will be your proof that you had it legitimately.

01:43:39.740 He had 13 years of documents with the bank that he kept meticulously and showed them and still didn't get his money back.

01:43:48.540 Yeah.

01:43:49.120 And if you are the person who thinks that it's a little suspicious, I mean, they kind of explained it in the article.

01:43:53.980 Apparently, the Albanian banking process may be not as buttoned up as America.

01:44:00.500 Which is why he didn't trust it.

01:44:01.720 So, in other words, if you had money in the bank and you wanted to transfer it, somebody, maybe even a government official, might take it.

01:44:11.820 Yeah.

01:44:12.140 Without explanation.

01:44:13.020 That could never happen here.

01:44:15.100 That's the good thing.

01:44:16.320 That's why he did it, though.

01:44:17.680 I mean, he didn't think it could ever happen here.

01:44:19.620 And then, yet, here, it has happened here.

01:44:22.220 How sad.

01:44:23.960 How un-American.

01:44:24.980 How un-American and how sad.

01:44:27.340 Oh, and we're, you know, it's an immigrant.

01:44:30.800 We hate immigrants.

01:44:32.700 You know what makes me the most sad is, well, what makes me frightened is this growing out of control.

01:44:39.880 And it doesn't seem to be stopping, and it doesn't seem like anybody in power wants it to stop.

01:44:45.840 But what makes me sad about this is, here's a guy who worked hard his whole life and was probably going home with a great story to tell about America and how different things are in America and how great things are in America.

01:44:56.860 And look at me.

01:44:57.580 I was able to save $58,000.

01:44:59.660 Right.

01:45:00.040 You know, you guys stayed here, and you're really struggling, and I'm able to come back and help you.

01:45:03.960 And America has its problems, but, boy, is it, you know, it's better than this.

01:45:07.680 And this happens on your way out.

01:45:11.360 Building the American dream so we can crush it, and you, and your family.

01:45:18.200 I mean, probably the right answer here is that it never happens, right?

01:45:21.880 You take the money after you convict them, period.

01:45:24.600 No, it was a good idea at the time.

01:45:27.680 You know, when I was, what, 18 or something, when they started doing this, when did they start?

01:45:32.740 When did this start with the drug lords?

01:45:35.940 80s?

01:45:36.660 90s?

01:45:37.680 Probably in there, yeah.

01:45:38.620 Yeah, I thought it was in the early 80s, but maybe it was in the 90s.

01:45:41.440 But when they started, when they started doing this, you know, you were like, yeah, well, that's good, because the drug lords, they're really bad.

01:45:47.120 No!

01:45:48.300 No, first they came for the drug lords, and then they come for you at the airport.

01:45:56.700 More on Pat Gray Unleashed coming up here in a few moments on the Blaze Radio and TV networks.

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01:46:07.680 That's an amazing one.

01:46:09.180 I mean, there's tons of these stories, man.

01:46:12.500 And look, you know, you can say a lot of times, you know, they are drug dealers.

01:46:16.440 They are criminals.

01:46:17.160 And if you like the asset forfeiture laws, you can say there are good uses of it, blah, blah, blah.

01:46:23.900 You know, I'm a little iffy on that, but still.

01:46:25.920 No, no, no, no.

01:46:28.300 You are innocent until proven guilty.

01:46:30.460 And that's what trumps it all to me.

01:46:32.060 But still, even if you believe that it's necessary at times for certain reasons, there are thousands of abuse stories of this, and those need to be corrected.

01:46:42.220 There's no reason to be strengthening these laws.

01:46:44.620 At the very least, it should be at the very last resort if you want to even consider it.

01:46:49.160 I don't particularly want to, but if you want to, it should be a last resort process, not something we jump to every time you get pulled over because they're able to do it.

01:46:57.520 That's what happened to a couple in Texas.

01:46:58.900 Yeah, it's happened in Texas.

01:46:59.920 They're driving a lot.

01:47:01.480 A couple driving in Texas.

01:47:03.520 I think they were on their way to for an adoption thing, and they had $10,000 in the car, lost it, never got it back.

01:47:13.420 I mean, what is happening to us?

01:47:16.860 All right, let me tell you about Goldline.

01:47:18.460 As we're thinking about paper money and banking and all of that stuff, you know, a little physical gold, you know, might not be such a bad idea.

01:47:29.180 Inflation is rising, and one of the few investments that can thrive in inflation is gold.

01:47:35.440 It's one of the major reasons that I own it.

01:47:37.960 I don't want to wake up one day and find out that my dollars are worthless due to inflation, and I have no asset to protect me.

01:47:43.720 Now, if you think this can't happen, didn't we just say that with civil asset forfeiture?

01:47:50.260 Other countries have had such bad inflation that they've had to print new denominations just to keep up.

01:47:55.940 One of those countries is Venezuela.

01:47:57.500 Another one is Zimbabwe.

01:47:59.240 Goldline is going to give you a free Zimbabwean $10 billion banknote.

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01:48:40.560 Glad we're finally done with the show.

01:48:41.880 I've got to get it over to IHOP.

01:48:43.560 No, it's IHOP.

01:48:44.980 It's IHOP.

01:48:45.920 IHOP.

01:48:46.540 I'm not going to buy into this.

01:48:47.920 This is a marketing scam.

01:48:49.980 I won't buy in.

01:48:51.780 What are you talking about?

01:48:52.540 It used to be International House of Pancakes.

01:48:54.280 It was so for 60 years.

01:48:55.440 Now it's International House of B.

01:48:58.460 It's IHOP.

01:48:59.940 They're now saying it's IHOP.

01:49:02.020 Right.

01:49:02.580 And people are saying my initial guess was International House of Breakfast.

01:49:07.460 Because they do have things other than pancakes.

01:49:10.480 As someone who goes to IHOP several times a day.

01:49:16.160 It's like saying I go to the McDonald's Playland as an adult.

01:49:20.320 Anyway, you know, if you're saying International House of Pancakes,

01:49:23.900 I would think that I could go there any time and get pancakes.

01:49:28.980 Yes.

01:49:29.580 If it's International House of Breakfast,

01:49:32.240 I just think of getting the Riot Act read to me by the McDonald's people.

01:49:37.460 I'm sorry, but the griddles are off.

01:49:39.920 We are now serving lunch.

01:49:42.780 Well, this is, of course, you could go any time per day and get breakfast.

01:49:46.920 But that's been kind of the policy of IHOP for a long time.

01:49:51.000 So I think you might be right.

01:49:52.300 Could you say marketing scheme?

01:49:54.120 I think they might be changing into like for a month International House of Bacon or something.

01:49:59.060 Yeah.

01:49:59.360 Because they're introducing some new line of something.

01:50:02.300 Right.

01:50:02.460 You know, Belgian waffles.

01:50:04.520 It's International House of IHOP because our Belgian waffles are so good.

01:50:10.240 It's interesting because they do that all the time.

01:50:12.240 And IHOP, it's one of the things I actually like about it because they are always,

01:50:14.880 every month or so, they have a new kind of crazy pancake or French toast or something.

01:50:19.060 I was there.

01:50:19.960 I happened to be there very recently.

01:50:22.880 And they had the English sticky toffee pancakes.

01:50:26.400 Oh, my.

01:50:27.000 Oh, my.

01:50:28.420 Oh, my.

01:50:29.040 I have not been to an IHOP in I don't know how long.

01:50:32.560 I used to go with my grandparents all the time.

01:50:34.180 We used to go all the time back in the, when we were in New Haven, Connecticut.

01:50:37.560 There was one down the road from our station and we actually go there and get omelets.

01:50:41.420 Did we?

01:50:41.860 Yeah.

01:50:42.640 I don't remember.

01:50:43.540 That was like drinking.

01:50:43.980 That wasn't memorable apparently for you.

01:50:44.960 Oh, yeah.

01:50:45.240 You were hammered every day.

01:50:47.120 Why else would you be an IHOP?

01:50:48.380 I had a sticky one.

01:50:50.880 And that's because you vomited on it.

01:50:52.620 Okay.

01:50:53.800 It is very sticky though.

01:50:55.540 International House of...

01:50:56.980 And that's what it actually stands for now.

01:51:01.040 Right.

01:51:01.360 International House of...

01:51:02.460 International House of...

01:51:04.500 It has a new IHOP.

01:51:07.200 It doesn't have a good flow to it.

01:51:08.760 The IHOP, it sounds...

01:51:10.120 No, it's a scam.

01:51:11.000 You watch.

01:51:11.440 It's a marketing scam.

01:51:12.600 They're introducing something.

01:51:13.900 Don't, don't buy into this whole...

01:51:17.180 We're changing our name.

01:51:18.860 No, they're not.

01:51:19.660 Glenn Beck.

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The Glenn Beck Program - June 06, 2018

'Always Remember' - 6⧸6⧸18

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