The Glenn Beck Program - Amendments on 'Life Support' - 3⧸5⧸18

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00:00:09.140 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:15.360 Oh, another award show and another chance to display the fake morality of the elite and the privileged.

00:00:21.360 I don't know if I can take it just another day. I just love it so very, very much.

00:00:27.460 Celebrities yesterday chose to wear an orange lapel pin.

00:00:30.640 Now, I don't have my color decoder kit yet, but apparently that was to support gun control on behalf of the organization Everytown for Gun Safety.

00:00:43.120 This is a group that raises awareness about gun violence protection.

00:00:48.160 They state their pins are a reminder that there's more we can all and should do to prevent more acts of gun violence.

00:00:55.840 I didn't actually see any of it. I didn't turn on the Oscars. I don't care.

00:01:05.860 I watched some clips so I could talk about it so you didn't have to, but don't worry.

00:01:11.260 This is the only monologue about the Oscars here, and this is all I have to say.

00:01:16.160 You know, just reading the monologue of Jimmy Kimmel says everything we need to know.

00:01:23.360 There is only one place for any kind of conservative, anybody who believes in the Constitution, anybody who believes in preserving the good thing, not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

00:01:37.340 And that is as a butt of jokes. That's it. That's all we are. And that's fine.

00:01:44.260 I mean, you can have your little community and, you know, there are little communities that make Hollywood the butt of their jokes.

00:01:50.760 And that's totally fine. But Hollywood, you need to understand we don't really care anymore because we don't really need you anymore.

00:01:58.160 We really don't. You need us more than we need you. Are we going to boycott your movies?

00:02:04.740 No, no. For the most part, we'll still go. But we'll be probably a little more selective.

00:02:12.420 But it's not like the days of the studio system anymore. We really don't need you.

00:02:17.960 We don't need the movie theaters and the movie theaters know this.

00:02:21.640 This is why they're all of a sudden, hey, I got an idea. We'll serve steak because we don't even need that.

00:02:28.440 We have Netflix. We have Amazon. We have YouTube. We have our own independent channels.

00:02:34.020 We don't need all of this anymore. And here's the thing. We're not victims. We're not victims.

00:02:42.000 People who believe in self-reliance believe you do what you want to do. We'll do what we want to do.

00:02:48.720 So I ain't going to react to you. We'll just create.

00:02:53.580 Now, I encourage those who are creative to actually create because we can either complain or we can create.

00:03:03.880 The basic choice is, how do you look at life?

00:03:09.560 This is the way I look at it.

00:03:11.840 Life happens for us, not to us.

00:03:18.720 It's Monday, March 5th.

00:03:25.220 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:28.480 So welcome to the program. That's as much Oscar talk as you're going to get.

00:03:31.760 Who won? I don't care.

00:03:32.920 What were they wearing? I don't care.

00:03:35.220 What happened?

00:03:35.920 Yeah, but you see that cinematography award? That was amazing.

00:03:38.120 I actually care about those kinds of things, but I don't care who they say is the best cinematographer.

00:03:45.180 Don't care.

00:03:45.760 Don't care.

00:03:46.700 They play no role in my life.

00:03:48.960 I don't care.

00:03:49.780 You've got to see every movie that comes out.

00:03:51.920 Right.

00:03:52.700 But I don't care what they say about it.

00:03:55.160 No.

00:03:56.000 I don't care about the critics.

00:03:58.960 I use Rotten Tomatoes and I look at, not the critics score.

00:04:03.540 I don't care what the critics say.

00:04:05.820 Nobody should care what I say about movies.

00:04:08.420 What does the average person say about movies?

00:04:11.140 You know, show me that score.

00:04:13.500 That one I care.

00:04:14.660 I care about.

00:04:15.300 Because most people are using movies the way movies were intended.

00:04:19.640 It's a form of entertainment.

00:04:20.860 It's a form of escape.

00:04:22.160 I go, can I escape for a few minutes?

00:04:24.140 Can I go in there and just pretend that the world isn't burning down?

00:04:29.200 If so, I'm there.

00:04:31.180 Yeah.

00:04:31.720 And then there's the 10% of movies that make 0.1% of the revenue for the movie companies that win all the awards.

00:04:39.900 And they're all message movies.

00:04:41.300 Yeah.

00:04:41.580 And they're all movies that are, that had these like, these messages.

00:04:46.260 And the director goes up there every time they win and they talk about how they crafted this message.

00:04:50.500 Because they thought it was so important that people knew about it and were influenced by it.

00:04:53.820 And then when you say anything about violence in movies or sex in movies, there's absolutely no influence in movies whatsoever.

00:05:02.240 You are so right.

00:05:03.420 So listen to this one.

00:05:04.400 Listen to this one.

00:05:05.400 So do you see Black Panther yet?

00:05:08.180 No.

00:05:08.300 You hate those kind of movies.

00:05:08.940 I'm not a big superhero movie guy.

00:05:10.100 So I saw it.

00:05:11.480 I liked it.

00:05:12.000 I liked it a lot.

00:05:12.680 I thought it was really good.

00:05:14.300 I watched afterwards, I watched like a five minute YouTube clip of the director talking about what he, what the choices he made.

00:05:22.460 Oh, okay.

00:05:22.820 And at one scene, he was like, if you look here on her shoulder, that fabric print is actually, I don't know, something from Zimbabwe.

00:05:33.200 I have no idea.

00:05:34.060 And then he says, but, but I want to freeze the frame right here.

00:05:38.680 Okay.

00:05:39.080 So the frame, the camera is moving and it shows the main character and he freezes it at a point to where somebody on, I don't know, right or left was wearing black.

00:05:48.460 And I'm like, dude, if you wouldn't have stopped it, nobody would have noticed that you are way overthinking this because nobody picked up on that.

00:06:09.160 And when's the next explosion?

00:06:11.420 It was like, wow, you're overthinking.

00:06:14.500 So I'm not really going to listen to you on whether this is a good movie or a bad movie because you're overthinking it.

00:06:21.160 Um, the, the, the, the interesting thing is, uh, how the movies are so anti-gun, the Hollywood is so anti-gun and yet they don't have a problem with putting in the, I saw, um, a, a PG 13, you know, warning.

00:06:41.820 Have you ever read those every once in a while and some there's really like smoking is in there sometimes.

00:06:47.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:06:48.820 PG 13 can be PG 13 for recreational cigarette smoking.

00:06:54.980 Okay.

00:06:55.420 Not dope smoking, cigarette smoking.

00:06:58.480 Okay.

00:06:59.200 Recreation.

00:06:59.820 No, no, I'm sorry.

00:07:00.320 It's not recreational.

00:07:01.180 It's secondhand smoke.

00:07:03.320 That's what it is.

00:07:04.060 Secondhand smoke.

00:07:06.020 I don't remember what movie it was.

00:07:07.160 I saw it.

00:07:07.640 I saw either a trailer or the movie and I was like, what?

00:07:10.540 What secondhand smoke can I get?

00:07:14.240 Am I breathing it in from the scene?

00:07:16.340 Why do I care about secondhand smoke?

00:07:18.480 They care so deeply about that and they care that, you know, that's, that's irresponsible.

00:07:24.440 That's irresponsible.

00:07:25.140 And we have to have role models in our movies, but they don't have a problem with all the gunfire. 1.00

00:07:31.920 They don't have a problem with all the violence.

00:07:33.800 They don't have a problem with it.

00:07:34.760 They refuse to look at that, which makes it just, it makes them a joke.

00:07:39.840 It makes them a joke.

00:07:40.980 And we should start looking at it that way.

00:07:42.800 Oh, Hollywood.

00:07:43.760 You're so cute with your little orange sign.

00:07:45.920 Oh, you don't like guns.

00:07:47.200 Who's funny?

00:07:48.300 You are.

00:07:49.440 Because people who smoke or don't smoke, it's not going to affect how much money that they bring in.

00:07:54.860 And, you know, any given weekend, you start taking guns out of movies.

00:07:58.560 People stop showing up.

00:08:00.140 Yes.

00:08:01.000 Because no boom, boom.

00:08:02.580 Right.

00:08:02.740 No boom, boom.

00:08:03.460 People like the boom, boom, boom.

00:08:04.980 I like this one because it goes boom in the middle.

00:08:09.180 That's what I like.

00:08:10.140 That's what I like.

00:08:11.020 I like Jerry Bruckheimer because I know his movies always go boom.

00:08:14.840 Yeah.

00:08:15.320 I like that.

00:08:16.800 Why do you put all those stupid speakers in the theaters?

00:08:19.680 Otherwise, I could just watch it on my phone.

00:08:21.360 Right.

00:08:21.760 Can you make the actors talk less and just make more things go boom?

00:08:26.300 Here's an idea.

00:08:27.120 Could we make the actors go boom in the movies?

00:08:30.020 This is the conversation that Hollywood imagines we all have.

00:08:35.400 And it's more true than they think it is.

00:08:38.260 Right.

00:08:38.520 I mean, it's not exactly true.

00:08:39.620 I don't want to just see explosions in a movie.

00:08:42.640 No, I mean.

00:08:43.120 Well.

00:08:43.640 An occasional conversation would be okay.

00:08:46.060 I can handle this.

00:08:47.900 Wasn't that cool?

00:08:49.940 Whoa.

00:08:51.820 That's basically what we want from Hollywood.

00:08:54.000 I mean, I actually like the stupid artsy movies that sometimes get featured in there.

00:08:57.500 I know you're, I mean, because, you know, you're big on movies.

00:08:59.540 Like, this is one of your biggest passions, right?

00:09:02.880 It's just, the condescension is just, it's irritating.

00:09:07.060 But I think I'm with you in that I really just don't care.

00:09:10.900 People on the conservative media were all fired up about the Jimmy Kimmel stuff from his speech.

00:09:15.980 There was never a moment where it really bothered me.

00:09:18.440 Yeah, he took a couple shots at Trump.

00:09:20.000 Yeah, he took a couple shots at conservatives.

00:09:21.640 Sure, he did.

00:09:23.020 It's all part of it.

00:09:24.240 And whatever.

00:09:25.400 Look, the only problem.

00:09:26.020 We know they're liberal.

00:09:26.620 The only problem is, is that he gave that, you know, that almost that teary-eyed, you

00:09:31.880 know, interview last week where, I don't want to offend anyone.

00:09:34.640 I'm going to try.

00:09:35.400 Come on, man.

00:09:36.480 We know you do.

00:09:37.100 Shut up. 0.95

00:09:37.620 We know you do.

00:09:38.000 So it's okay.

00:09:39.200 I expected it.

00:09:40.440 This is the way it always is.

00:09:42.260 I mean, I remember my father and my grandfather watching the Oscars in 1972.

00:09:47.460 What the hell is wrong with those freaks?

00:09:49.580 I mean, nothing has changed.

00:09:51.800 Nothing has changed.

00:09:53.120 So let's just let it go.

00:09:56.760 There's not anything more important in society that you'd want to focus on today, right?

00:10:00.760 There's nothing you can think of.

00:10:02.080 Hey, have you heard what's happening in South Africa?

00:10:05.500 No, I'm an American citizen.

00:10:07.080 So no.

00:10:07.660 Most people haven't heard.

00:10:09.240 The new president has just said, the time for reconciliation is over, and we're going

00:10:14.940 to confiscate all property from white people. 0.86

00:10:18.560 Now, that's worked out well when it's been attempted in the past.

00:10:21.160 Well, no.

00:10:21.620 They did it in Zimbabwe where they took all the white farmers and everybody starved to 1.00

00:10:25.520 death.

00:10:25.720 Yeah, that was an issue.

00:10:26.480 Okay, but this time, this time, the president of South Africa has said, we're going to do

00:10:32.720 it without the food shortage problem.

00:10:35.580 Oh, that was the big problem with Zimbabwe, because they came out right off the bat, and 1.00

00:10:39.120 we're like, we want food shortages because of the results of this.

00:10:41.980 Right.

00:10:42.240 No, they're going to push the other way?

00:10:43.760 No, they're going to push the other way.

00:10:45.020 That's an interesting twist on the policy.

00:10:46.400 So that'll be good.

00:10:46.940 And the time for reconciliation is over.

00:10:50.060 Not talking about that.

00:10:51.180 Nobody's even, eh.

00:10:52.940 Really?

00:10:53.560 Because it's the most successful, stable country in all of Africa.

00:10:57.280 Yeah.

00:10:57.780 I mean, the continent all chases South Africa. 0.98

00:11:01.040 If they start going that way, that's not going to happen.

00:11:03.800 Yeah, it's not going to be good.

00:11:04.660 It's not going to be good.

00:11:05.580 And there's now a petition for Donald Trump to let the Afrikaners into America because 1.00

00:11:11.640 they're losing.

00:11:12.480 They have no place to go.

00:11:13.440 They're losing all their property, all their wealth, everything.

00:11:16.440 It could be a full-fledged race war. 0.88

00:11:19.120 And can you imagine Donald Trump?

00:11:21.200 And no to Somalia.

00:11:23.780 Yes to the white guys in Africa. 0.93

00:11:26.920 That's just not going to.

00:11:28.080 Just to piss off Chris Cuomo, it may be worth doing.

00:11:30.480 But can you imagine what CNN would do if that actually happened?

00:11:33.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:33.820 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:35.180 It's not good.

00:11:36.660 It's really not good.

00:11:37.900 It's really not good.

00:11:38.760 So we got that going for us.

00:11:40.980 Hey, I was thinking a lot about the whole, you know what the problem is?

00:11:46.240 Guns.

00:11:46.920 Thinking about that this weekend.

00:11:49.760 And I'm reading a book on personal responsibility.

00:11:54.120 And it got me to thinking, maybe, hear me out, maybe guns are not the problem.

00:12:04.520 It's time we do something, Glenn.

00:12:05.820 Why?

00:12:06.100 This same old argument.

00:12:07.920 The same old position.

00:12:09.180 Could you remember?

00:12:10.020 Could you just write that?

00:12:11.140 I want you to literally write that down.

00:12:13.000 I'm going to write that down right now.

00:12:13.620 We must do something.

00:12:16.180 I'm going to write that.

00:12:16.760 Because that's going to take on a whole new context in the next 15 minutes.

00:12:21.800 And we'll go there next.

00:12:28.320 Markets are, I'm going to be optimistic,

00:12:30.540 beginning to price for another potential interest rate hike.

00:12:34.780 Oh, my gosh.

00:12:35.520 I was reading stuff this weekend.

00:12:37.000 You don't want to read.

00:12:37.600 I read stuff that you don't.

00:12:38.740 So you don't have to.

00:12:40.960 There are some pretty serious people are saying,

00:12:43.380 yeah, this is going to, between this and the trade war and everything else,

00:12:47.400 we, you know, we could lose 40%.

00:12:49.380 Okay.

00:12:50.820 Okay.

00:12:51.380 All right.

00:12:52.440 That would be a bad thing.

00:12:54.680 But I look at the bright side.

00:12:56.980 There was another guy I read that said,

00:12:58.460 and by 2020, the Dow will be at 5,000.

00:13:01.460 So I'm going to dismiss that one as the outlier.

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00:14:05.100 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:14:08.020 Glenn Beck.

00:14:16.480 I want to look at the history of the problems of our country

00:14:23.200 in the last few years.

00:14:24.700 And where do we place blame?

00:14:29.300 And, you know, I think it's easier if I don't even talk about the problems.

00:14:32.720 I just talk about the blame.

00:14:34.900 All of our ills, what are they caused by?

00:14:40.000 Well, politicians, right?

00:14:42.440 The politicians are to blame.

00:14:44.240 I mean, the politicians, they're corrupt, they're dirty, they're stupid.

00:14:47.360 Whatever it is.

00:14:48.160 They're too far extreme one way or the other.

00:14:51.600 They don't care.

00:14:52.800 They're in it for themselves.

00:14:53.960 The politicians are to blame.

00:14:56.200 After the crash of 08, it was the politicians in Wall Street that were to blame.

00:15:01.980 You know, it's really the greedy Wall Street.

00:15:03.720 That's what it is.

00:15:05.320 The Wall Street is the Gordon Gekko's of Wall Street.

00:15:08.020 They were the ones.

00:15:08.980 They were too greedy.

00:15:10.280 They just didn't care about anything.

00:15:12.540 They didn't look at the bigger picture.

00:15:14.100 It was all about them.

00:15:15.800 And then the other side countered with,

00:15:17.840 well, what about all those people that took out the loans?

00:15:20.360 They should have known.

00:15:21.940 Hey, I've got to violate the free market system

00:15:24.640 to be able to save the free market system.

00:15:27.520 Well, wait a minute.

00:15:28.420 What happened to their personal responsibility?

00:15:30.680 The banks knew, well, they're too big to fail.

00:15:33.220 Too big to fail politicians, Wall Street, financial institutions.

00:15:39.000 We have a discussion now.

00:15:40.980 And you know what's weird is there's one person who has cobbled this coalition together.

00:15:47.300 Now think of this.

00:15:48.240 We're having a discussion now.

00:15:51.260 There are three groups of people that say the government is to blame.

00:15:54.840 There's the first group.

00:15:56.500 The government is to blame for all of our problems because they're too big.

00:16:01.080 The government is to blame because it's too small.

00:16:04.900 It doesn't have the right to take care of everything.

00:16:08.120 And the third one is the government is to blame because it's ineffective and it's corrupt.

00:16:15.760 Can you name anybody that unites all three of those people?

00:16:20.800 Donald Trump.

00:16:21.920 He's the only one in history to unite those three people.

00:16:25.580 And what are they united on?

00:16:28.320 Burn the system down.

00:16:30.920 Drain the swamp.

00:16:32.460 Get it either.

00:16:33.760 How many times have you heard people say just burn the whole damn system down?

00:16:36.700 Okay.

00:16:38.080 So we have we blame the government too big, too small or ineffective and corrupt.

00:16:44.720 Then we blame the corporations.

00:16:47.240 Now conservatives didn't used to blame corporations, but now we're starting to blame the corporations for the problems.

00:16:54.100 We blame globalism.

00:16:57.740 We blame the media.

00:17:00.000 There is one exception of the media and I want to come back to it.

00:17:02.900 Remind me.

00:17:04.300 We blame Islam. 1.00

00:17:05.740 We blame the Christians. 1.00

00:17:07.520 We blame the Jews. 1.00

00:17:09.400 We blame the capitalist system.

00:17:11.820 We blame that we're not doing the capitalist system.

00:17:14.340 We're actually a socialist nation.

00:17:16.480 We blame education or the educators or the institutions of higher learning.

00:17:21.460 We blame the doctors, the hospitals or the insurance or we blame the government.

00:17:29.120 Nothing has changed.

00:17:30.780 Some blame the government at the very beginning and said the government is too involved.

00:17:34.880 And others said, no, they're not enough involved.

00:17:38.160 Now, when you look at the your your price of health care and what you're paying and how things are going, you're starting to just blame the government.

00:17:47.700 Or are you still blaming the insurance companies and the doctors and the insurance?

00:17:54.040 I mean, I remember when a president of the United States said there were doctors in this country that are cutting people's feet off because they could make more money.

00:18:02.600 Wow.

00:18:04.160 We are now blaming guns.

00:18:10.460 There's something missing from this list.

00:18:12.380 Can you figure out what it is?

00:18:15.960 Have I have I covered everything, Stu?

00:18:18.380 Is there anything else that we're currently blaming?

00:18:20.400 I mean, you covered a lot of it.

00:18:24.840 Let's see.

00:18:25.940 I mean, you know, maybe religion.

00:18:30.260 I put that in Islam, Christians, Jews.

00:18:32.520 That's a blanket religion.

00:18:34.000 Yeah.

00:18:37.480 I mean, I mean, there's something you're thinking of, but I don't know.

00:18:39.840 Yeah.

00:18:40.280 I mean, I'm sure there's other things and we should add to it.

00:18:43.440 But there's one thing and it belongs in the media.

00:18:46.820 We're not blaming social media.

00:18:48.260 We're not blaming movies.

00:18:53.860 We're not blaming gaming.

00:18:57.100 Why?

00:18:58.680 Well, some people on the conservative side.

00:19:01.260 Some are.

00:19:01.920 Some are.

00:19:02.380 We'll go after those.

00:19:03.240 But yeah, you're right.

00:19:03.860 It's in a.

00:19:04.300 You're immediately shouted down.

00:19:06.240 You're immediately shouted down.

00:19:07.640 We are starting to blame social media, but we're blaming Facebook.

00:19:11.280 Right.

00:19:11.560 And Twitter.

00:19:12.780 Okay.

00:19:13.260 How dare they give us the chance to post things.

00:19:15.680 Right.

00:19:16.240 Here's what's missing.

00:19:17.280 Us.

00:19:21.700 Nowhere in there is us.

00:19:24.240 We're not blaming us for any of it.

00:19:27.560 There is no personal responsibility in this at all.

00:19:32.720 If we blame social media, it's someone else.

00:19:36.360 But it's most likely Facebook or Twitter.

00:19:40.580 They should do something.

00:19:42.200 Now, let me go through this list again.

00:19:46.520 Politicians.

00:19:47.480 We've got to do something.

00:19:49.360 Wall Street is collapsing.

00:19:50.880 We've got to do something.

00:19:51.960 The government is ineffective.

00:19:55.120 I don't care if we even burn it down to the ground.

00:19:56.860 We've got to do something.

00:19:58.620 Corporations are out of control.

00:19:59.760 We've got to do something.

00:20:01.220 Globalism.

00:20:01.920 It's out of control.

00:20:03.100 We've got to do something.

00:20:04.080 The media.

00:20:04.680 We've got to do something.

00:20:05.900 Islam.

00:20:06.400 Christians. 0.51

00:20:06.920 Jews.

00:20:07.260 We've got to do something.

00:20:08.920 Education.

00:20:09.680 We've got to do something.

00:20:10.700 Healthcare.

00:20:11.360 We've got to do something.

00:20:12.900 Guns.

00:20:13.480 We've got to do something.

00:20:15.780 Let me show you the results of all of those when we come back.

00:20:21.080 Glenn Beck.

00:20:22.920 Mercury.

00:20:23.360 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:33.960 Thank you so much for listening today.

00:20:35.660 So I want to talk to you a little bit about signing blame.

00:20:38.720 Politicians.

00:20:39.440 Wall Street.

00:20:40.120 The government.

00:20:41.720 Corporations.

00:20:42.640 Globalism.

00:20:43.280 The media.

00:20:44.620 Islam.

00:20:45.580 Christians. 0.51

00:20:46.460 Jews.

00:20:47.260 Religion.

00:20:48.440 Capitalism.

00:20:49.180 Education.

00:20:50.440 Healthcare.

00:20:51.360 Guns.

00:20:52.000 All those things to blame.

00:20:53.760 And you notice when we talk about it, there is no baby.

00:20:57.480 It's just all bathwater.

00:20:58.960 Throw it all out.

00:21:01.080 So we're not blaming ourselves.

00:21:03.500 But look what's happening.

00:21:04.760 Every time we say we've got to do something, the government does something.

00:21:11.400 And we cheer.

00:21:12.680 Or we're silent.

00:21:14.420 Look what we're doing.

00:21:16.160 Okay.

00:21:16.840 Stu, if you can, just kind of walk through this with me.

00:21:20.100 First of all, I just wrote these out today.

00:21:24.200 So it's just off the best of my memory.

00:21:26.820 And I'm going to kind of butcher some of this.

00:21:28.980 So I'm sorry if you're a real constitutionalist.

00:21:31.120 That one person is a real constitutionalist.

00:21:33.760 Knows every word.

00:21:35.300 Oh, sadly, he died this weekend.

00:21:36.680 He died this weekend?

00:21:37.620 Okay, good.

00:21:38.400 Okay.

00:21:38.680 So let's look at the constitutional, the Bill of Rights.

00:21:41.800 This is the thing that we should all be able to come together on.

00:21:44.880 Bill of Rights.

00:21:45.560 They're all self-evident that you have a right to a free press and the government shouldn't

00:21:50.500 get involved.

00:21:51.420 Is that under attack?

00:21:52.660 We've seen, I mean, Obama was putting people in prison and journalists in prison over that.

00:21:59.600 I mean, you know, we certainly have seen with Trump the opening up of the libel laws being

00:22:03.560 something he's tossed around.

00:22:04.720 Correct.

00:22:05.280 Free press is under attack.

00:22:06.940 Speech?

00:22:07.820 Absolutely.

00:22:08.300 Look at our college campuses, free speech zones, or on the other side, a free speech

00:22:15.360 zone where you're kept away from the politician or wherever you are.

00:22:20.440 Yeah, the left, you know, was big on complaining about that during Bush.

00:22:24.000 Yes.

00:22:24.580 And certainly.

00:22:25.840 Not so much on Obama.

00:22:27.140 Not so much on Obama.

00:22:27.800 Which he did as well.

00:22:28.640 And Trump is doing as well.

00:22:30.280 We see certainly on college campuses, though.

00:22:32.160 Yes.

00:22:32.380 Big time.

00:22:33.260 Massive.

00:22:33.660 Correct.

00:22:34.280 That's also your right to assemble and your right to petition.

00:22:37.160 And I think your right to petition and assemble was really hurt under the IRS scandal under

00:22:43.900 Obama.

00:22:44.460 That was trying to stop you from assembling and petitioning your own.

00:22:49.300 Yeah, targeting through political ideology, too.

00:22:52.120 Correct.

00:22:52.340 Correct.

00:22:52.860 Religion, absolutely under attack.

00:22:55.660 Guns under attack.

00:22:56.980 Now, this is the Second Amendment.

00:22:58.100 Guns.

00:22:59.240 The Third Amendment.

00:23:00.740 Quartering soldiers.

00:23:01.640 We don't seem to have a problem with that one.

00:23:03.420 Nobody's blamed that one yet.

00:23:04.480 You know, that's one violation.

00:23:05.760 Yeah, we got that.

00:23:06.120 No, violation free.

00:23:07.900 Try this one.

00:23:09.440 The Fourth Amendment.

00:23:11.120 Securing your papers, property and self.

00:23:14.740 You have to have a warrant and probable cause.

00:23:17.980 And you can't lose those things without a warrant and due process.

00:23:23.880 I mean, that's a civil asset forfeiture.

00:23:27.420 That's, you know, the Snowden stuff with the NSA.

00:23:29.640 That's what happened with Jeff Sessions.

00:23:31.920 Yeah, securing your property is very much not, I mean, you know, Trump said he didn't even

00:23:37.960 understand the other side of that argument.

00:23:40.100 The other side of the argument is the Fourth Amendment.

00:23:42.260 Right.

00:23:42.740 Right.

00:23:43.080 I think pretty clearly.

00:23:44.220 Fifth Amendment also is due process.

00:23:46.880 You can't be held without a grand jury indictment.

00:23:49.440 We violated that because of the war on terror.

00:23:52.220 And I'm not talking about Guantanamo.

00:23:54.180 I'm talking about the guy in Chicago that we've done that.

00:23:57.520 Double jeopardy.

00:23:58.440 We seem to leave alone.

00:24:00.020 Testify against yourself.

00:24:01.140 That's the only one people know about the Fifth Amendment.

00:24:03.600 And we've left that alone.

00:24:06.940 Not deprived of life, liberty, or property.

00:24:11.220 So without due process.

00:24:13.060 So we're violating that now with our gun talk.

00:24:15.860 Public trial.

00:24:18.120 You know, I think we misunderstand this one.

00:24:20.220 We are having public trials.

00:24:22.680 It's trial by public.

00:24:24.740 That's not what that means.

00:24:26.280 That's not what that means.

00:24:27.420 No.

00:24:27.720 You have to be informed of the nature and facts of the crime.

00:24:31.960 Oh, Ben, I mean, look at what's happening, again, in our colleges.

00:24:35.020 We have these accusations of sexual assault or harassment.

00:24:39.400 The students who are accused of the crimes aren't at times even allowed to know what the evidence is,

00:24:45.120 what the accusation is, or who the accuser is.

00:24:48.060 And that's the second one in this.

00:24:49.400 You have a right to face the complainant.

00:24:53.460 And you also have a right to compile or compel witnesses for yourself and have counsel.

00:25:01.960 None of those things are happening right now.

00:25:03.540 Nope.

00:25:03.940 Okay.

00:25:05.240 Then the seventh amendment is common law, juries, you know, civil court cases over $20.

00:25:12.880 You have a right to a jury.

00:25:14.140 Don't seem to be violating that one.

00:25:16.640 Eighth, that's the bail.

00:25:18.780 You have a right to have bail to be able to be free until proven guilty.

00:25:25.200 I'll bet you there's stuff that we have violated on that one, especially with the, you know, the FISA laws and everything else we're doing.

00:25:35.400 The right, these rights do not deny or disparage other rights held by the people.

00:25:41.980 We don't even recognize the Ninth Amendment, that there are other rights and that they belong to the people.

00:25:46.100 And the Tenth Amendment, of course, we all know, is just nothing but racist.

00:25:50.080 There are more rights, but they're reserved to the states or to the people.

00:25:53.440 That's dead.

00:25:54.340 Dead.

00:25:54.780 You know, the fourth and the tenth are just dead.

00:25:57.660 You know, there's a couple, there's little surviving pieces of some of them.

00:26:01.220 I would say the fourth, the fourth and the tenth are dead.

00:26:05.820 I would say the first and the fifth and the sixth are on life support.

00:26:11.860 I would say the second, fifth and sixth are in life support.

00:26:18.740 The eighth, ninth and tenth are in real trouble.

00:26:23.300 But the quartering soldiers and a civil court hearing, those are fine.

00:26:28.500 The good thing is you're not going to have any soldiers moving into your house anytime this week.

00:26:31.640 Unless, of course, we declare war, which is part of the Constitution, then they can come. 0.97

00:26:35.140 But right now it's peacetime, quote unquote.

00:26:38.860 Right.

00:26:39.120 So they can't come live at your house.

00:26:41.040 So here's the thing.

00:26:43.640 These all were violated because someone said, we've got to do something.

00:26:50.620 And so when it came to terror, we're going to spy on American citizens.

00:26:56.640 We'll spy on people.

00:26:58.540 We have to do something.

00:27:00.620 Okay.

00:27:01.020 You will not be secure in your papers or your person or your property.

00:27:07.980 We have to do something about these guns.

00:27:10.180 You're not secure in your persons, your papers or your property.

00:27:16.340 We've got to find out about Russia.

00:27:20.200 Well, go to a secret court.

00:27:21.800 Due process.

00:27:22.840 We don't need a grand jury.

00:27:24.460 We don't need to give them any information about the facts of the crime or face their accusers.

00:27:31.040 We don't need to do that.

00:27:32.900 We've got to do something.

00:27:34.280 The press is out of control.

00:27:35.920 You'll notice everything that we've done.

00:27:38.360 While we've made the list of, here are the problems, here's who's to blame, politicians, Wall Street, government, corporations, globalism, media, religion, capitalism, socialists, education, the healthcare system, and guns.

00:27:54.700 We've left off one thing, and that is us.

00:27:58.640 Us.

00:27:59.720 We're not to blame.

00:28:01.440 Somebody else or something else is to blame.

00:28:03.340 We're not to blame.

00:28:04.440 But notice the solutions.

00:28:09.280 So the people rise up because we have a right.

00:28:13.580 We rise up and we say, there's a problem and we have to do something.

00:28:20.460 And the government, who some people think are too big, some people think too small, and some people think it's just right except it's corrupt.

00:28:29.240 We say, you have to do something.

00:28:32.680 And so they do it.

00:28:34.440 And what do they do?

00:28:36.120 I would say they violate the Constitution because there is the evidence.

00:28:40.140 They violate the Constitution.

00:28:41.920 But that's gobbledygook.

00:28:45.780 They're assigning blame.

00:28:48.700 You.

00:28:50.460 They will take...

00:28:51.600 It's not the gun.

00:28:53.900 It's you.

00:28:54.960 It's not the press.

00:28:59.520 It's you.

00:29:00.440 And when I say you, I'm looking at us as a collective, but the people who are handling the guns, the people who are in the press, the people who are running the banks, the people who are Wall Streeters.

00:29:15.720 Because every one of us are being limited because of a few bad apples and because we don't want to take responsibility and be specific.

00:29:26.100 No, it's the bad guys with the gun.

00:29:29.720 Okay, well then, we can go, we can enforce laws or create laws for those bad guys.

00:29:37.480 No, no, no, no.

00:29:39.040 It may not just be the bad guys.

00:29:40.880 We got to take away the rights for everybody.

00:29:43.520 It may not just be freedom of speech for the Nazis or for the communists.

00:29:52.460 We've got to look at speech all the way around.

00:29:57.560 What are your pronouns?

00:29:59.960 We're taking the solutions.

00:30:02.340 When we have to do something, the solution is a violation of the Constitution.

00:30:08.500 It's the degradation of the Bill of Rights.

00:30:15.340 It is the loss of the foundation of this government and of us as a people that is really the cause of our problems.

00:30:27.260 The more we say we have to do something, the more we say, well, violate that one because we have to, the more problems it causes.

00:30:36.380 Because what you're doing is you're trying to, you're trying to take two systems of government.

00:30:43.720 The government of, by, and for the people, that's the people.

00:30:50.260 We're creating a government now through the violation of our Constitution of we got to do something where we are blaming the people.

00:30:58.240 Because we are taking away their rights.

00:31:02.560 And somebody is making the decision who the winners and the losers are.

00:31:07.700 This is the ultimate progressive goal.

00:31:11.640 We know, the hands of a few, we know who should have guns.

00:31:16.700 We know who should be licensed to be press.

00:31:20.300 We know who should have a voice.

00:31:22.880 We know who should run a bank.

00:31:25.480 We know who's too big to fail and who doesn't matter.

00:31:31.260 We know which doctor is good, which doctor isn't.

00:31:35.520 We know.

00:31:38.620 That's not our system.

00:31:41.020 So, to fix this system, we have to first fix blame where it belongs.

00:31:49.900 Because we are the politicians, or they represent us, we are electing them.

00:31:56.980 We are Wall Street.

00:31:59.360 We are the banking system.

00:32:01.620 Because, you know, when it comes to Wall Street or the banking collapse, how many of us, and I'm not saying it's all, everybody has done all of this.

00:32:11.300 I'm saying we all play a role.

00:32:13.440 How many of us took loans out that we couldn't afford?

00:32:17.120 How many of us now have debt that is way beyond what we should have?

00:32:23.900 We are the corporations.

00:32:25.940 We buy the products.

00:32:27.360 It's the invisible hand of the market.

00:32:29.040 We are the media by what we consume and what we do on social media.

00:32:35.580 We are religion.

00:32:38.280 We are the Christians, the Islamic and the Jewish.

00:32:42.860 We are.

00:32:45.120 What does it even mean to be a Christian anymore?

00:32:47.220 We just take the things that we want, and we reject the personal responsibility for everything else.

00:33:01.160 The only way that we're going to fix this situation is, A, we have to admit that we, the people, are each responsible in our own way.

00:33:12.400 And not for all of it, but for our own part.

00:33:15.600 We, the people, have the power, good or ill.

00:33:21.140 Once we do that, then we have to go back and say, okay, do we want these rights anymore?

00:33:27.080 Are we a socialist country or a capitalist country?

00:33:32.140 Do we believe in free trade or not?

00:33:34.780 Do we believe in the freedom of the individual, or do we believe in big state government?

00:33:41.540 We have to decide on the Bill of Rights.

00:33:43.620 Are they important or are they not?

00:33:45.960 And we need to have that discussion right now.

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00:35:31.340 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:35:41.440 Glenn Beck.

00:35:44.000 You know, Ben Sasse and Mike Lee have been talking about this very problem that most people don't even know what the Bill of Rights is.

00:35:50.540 They can't even name any of the rights.

00:35:54.960 Only, what is it, 48% know the First Amendment?

00:35:57.860 I mean, that's terrifying.

00:35:59.980 Terrifying.

00:36:00.420 Yeah, it's—I mean—

00:36:01.760 And it has dropped quickly.

00:36:03.100 Since 2011, we've lost a third of the people who knew what it was.

00:36:09.080 Yeah, it was—I think what you're thinking of is the three branches of government.

00:36:13.340 Three branches of government.

00:36:14.080 2011, 38% could name all three, which is terrible.

00:36:17.760 It's a terrible number.

00:36:19.000 It's gone from 38 to 26 now in 2017.

00:36:22.740 That's shocking and really dangerous.

00:36:26.420 And only 48% of people could name the First Amendment had anything to do with freedom of speech.

00:36:31.120 That was the highest.

00:36:32.380 The second highest one was freedom of religion at 15%.

00:36:35.420 15%.

00:36:36.760 That's incredible.

00:36:39.380 Then it was freedom of the press, 14%.

00:36:41.520 For right of assembly, 10%.

00:36:43.440 Right to petition, 3%.

00:36:45.100 Oh my gosh.

00:36:45.880 And then right to bear arms, 5%.

00:36:47.760 This is the second amendment.

00:36:50.140 We just don't know it.

00:36:51.800 We just don't know it.

00:36:53.280 We're going to be talking about this on TV all this week.

00:36:56.760 And we sure would like your comments and also for you to gather the family around and watch this week.

00:37:03.960 But we really need to start teaching the Constitution and making some decisions and taking on our own personal responsibility.

00:37:14.080 Forget what everybody else is doing.

00:37:15.800 What are we going to do?

00:37:17.640 More in a minute.

00:37:22.800 Glenn Beck.

00:37:24.660 Mercury.

00:37:30.300 Love.

00:37:31.640 Courage.

00:37:33.260 Truth.

00:37:34.900 Glenn Beck.

00:37:36.880 The Ayatollah of Iran went on a Twitter rant on Saturday, which is weird because he's banned that platform for his people, but not for him or for any of the religious elite.

00:37:50.780 But I digress.

00:37:52.440 He echoed every major talking point that you're hearing now today in America from people who want to grab guns.

00:37:59.420 He wrapped up his Twitter sermon with what he probably considered an ultimate uppercut to the Second Amendment.

00:38:06.740 He said, and I quote,

00:38:08.300 No one dares apply the clear solution to the promotion of guns and homicide in America.

00:38:14.040 What is the solution?

00:38:15.160 Well, even a stopwatch is right twice a day.

00:38:23.620 No, that's not what this one is.

00:38:26.960 He's he's all wound up and he's ticking.

00:38:29.720 If you're an anti-Second Amendment person, you have to ask yourself, wow, I'm now in the company of somebody who refers to himself as the supreme leader.

00:38:42.340 If anyone knows what this argument is really all about, it is really all about him.

00:38:50.580 Guns helped the mullahs of Iran pull off their coup back in the 1970s.

00:38:55.380 But after that, after that, after they obtained power, what was their first act?

00:39:02.380 To take away guns from the people that put them in power.

00:39:07.620 Guns are now banned in Iran.

00:39:10.600 But the clerical regime rules with absolute control and unchecked power.

00:39:16.240 You see, this is what it's really all about.

00:39:19.060 Power and control.

00:39:20.800 It enabled the Ayatollah in Iran to effectively turn his country into a slave state. 0.86

00:39:27.340 They now have the power to tell you how to dress, when to eat, how to style your hair, what you can say, what you can't say.

00:39:33.820 You don't like it?

00:39:34.780 Sucks to be you, doesn't it?

00:39:36.600 You'll have to deal with that and your detention camp without due process, without the need of being formally charged,

00:39:44.820 even knowing what the charges are or being able to face your accuser.

00:39:48.740 And with no formal date of release, you're just there because you're a property of the state.

00:39:56.380 You're a property of God through the state.

00:40:00.660 This is what the founders of our country feared.

00:40:03.740 And this is why they built certain protections into the Constitution to protect us.

00:40:07.820 They're called the Bill of Rights.

00:40:10.280 The Second Amendment is one of the most important.

00:40:13.820 Iran is a perfect example of what is possible when the government no longer fears their own people. 0.67

00:40:20.520 There were lots of people in Nazi Germany, Germans, that wanted to kill Hitler.

00:40:25.020 But they didn't have access to anything for an uprising.

00:40:29.740 Because they took away the guns.

00:40:31.960 So, to the Ayatollah, standing at his Twitter pulpit in Tehran, thank you.

00:40:39.100 Thank you for weighing in on America's gun debate.

00:40:42.160 Thank you for taking a side.

00:40:44.260 But most importantly, thank you for reminding me today why we have the Second Amendment to begin with.

00:40:50.500 To protect ourselves from people exactly like you.

00:40:56.300 We have Angela Paxton joining us.

00:41:13.220 Now, Angela has kind of a famous husband, the Attorney General here in Texas, Ken Paxton, who I think is doing an amazing job.

00:41:25.720 He is an amazing guy.

00:41:27.920 You know, they always say, you know, behind a great man is a great woman.

00:41:30.760 This should be flipped.

00:41:32.400 Behind every great woman, there's a great man.

00:41:36.760 Angela is the lesser known of the two, but she is running for Senate and is truly, truly remarkable.

00:41:45.680 Hello and welcome to the program, Angela.

00:41:47.620 How are you?

00:41:48.360 Well, I'm doing great, Glenn.

00:41:50.200 What a nice introduction.

00:41:51.220 And I was listening in as you were just talking.

00:41:54.440 I got to say, I think the last person we want to take our gun rights advice from is the Ayatollah. 0.94

00:42:02.220 Yeah, I think that's probably a bad idea.

00:42:06.700 But people will say, well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

00:42:11.360 Is he a stopped clock on this one?

00:42:13.740 No, I agree with you.

00:42:16.220 He is a very, he's tightly wound.

00:42:18.400 That's what he is.

00:42:19.760 And we've got to look out for our own freedoms here in the United States.

00:42:25.200 We are so blessed to be a nation with the greatest constitution in the world.

00:42:31.080 And I've always believed that the best way to protect our constitutional freedoms is to exercise them.

00:42:36.440 Angela, people don't know what their constitutional freedoms are.

00:42:40.640 We've gone down to a place to where it's like, I've got rights.

00:42:44.980 Great, tell me what they are.

00:42:46.640 They can't.

00:42:47.920 They can't tell you.

00:42:49.820 26% now of the American people can tell you what the three branches of government are.

00:42:55.340 How do we save a country that isn't even interested in knowing what it is we're trying to save?

00:43:03.000 Well, you know what, Glenn, one of the things I've always appreciated about what you do is you teach.

00:43:12.160 I mean, you're a great student of history and you're a great teacher of history.

00:43:17.240 And I think one of the failures that we have in the United States is a failure to teach the Constitution properly and at a proper level in our schools.

00:43:30.020 You know, that's my background is in education.

00:43:32.760 I'm a 22-year educator.

00:43:34.300 I taught in public schools and Christian schools, and we homeschooled our children in early elementary.

00:43:41.020 And, you know, while my background was in high school math, I've got a lifetime Texas teaching certificate in secondary mathematics.

00:43:49.420 But I've always appreciated, you know, the importance of teaching students as they are learning about what it means to be an American about the Constitution.

00:44:03.540 And I think it's a missing piece.

00:44:07.000 Well, we haven't taught civics forever, and you're running for the Senate of Texas, and we're not covering local or state politics all that often.

00:44:16.120 But I really believe in you, and I'm not going to endorse you, and I shouldn't have even said that because it's always the kiss of death for the candidate.

00:44:24.320 But I've met you, and I know your husband, and we've had, you know, some long conversations, and I just think you guys are the real deal.

00:44:36.680 But talking about education, I mean, you can't even teach.

00:44:41.340 They're actually going in and changing again the lessons of the Alamo, and they're, quote, in Texas, the educational system is, quote, reimagining the Alamo.

00:44:55.960 How do you reimagine history?

00:44:58.500 That's a very scary thought, isn't it?

00:45:03.720 I mean, how can we learn from history if we don't see it for what it is?

00:45:09.820 I mean, the good, bad, and the ugly, that is how we learn.

00:45:13.740 That's how we grow.

00:45:14.740 That's how we improve.

00:45:15.820 And to try to remake things into something that's nice and neat according to just one person's viewpoint, it's very dangerous.

00:45:29.360 So how are you, there's a couple of things in your platform.

00:45:32.940 You say, first, you're going to improve education.

00:45:35.900 How do you possibly do that?

00:45:37.940 And then I'm going to get into a couple of others.

00:45:40.360 First, this real quick, how are you possibly going to improve education?

00:45:43.780 Well, I mean, I think one of the things as I've been out talking with voters and people who live in Senate District 8 in the Collin County area for the most part where I am, you know, one of the things that people talk about a lot really is bringing back a focus on history, not a revisionist version of history, but real history.

00:46:08.160 And, of course, you know, that's something that belongs to our State Board of Education.

00:46:14.020 But I think we have to be vigilant about the content that we're teaching our students.

00:46:20.800 And then I think, you know, another piece of that is just making sure that we're properly training teachers, that we're attracting great teachers who want to make a difference in students' lives, that they want to teach the facts.

00:46:36.600 They're not there to, you know, to, I guess, progress some kind of crazy agenda, that they're going to stick to the curriculum that we're asking them to teach in Texas.

00:46:50.820 Where do you stand on school safety and guns in school and what are we supposed to do with this?

00:46:56.500 Wow.

00:46:58.060 You know, the left always makes these issues about something that they're not.

00:47:02.900 But what we're looking at in this horrific, you know, recent experience in Florida with school safety is that we've got to make sure that there are people on campuses that are prepared and trained to deal with these kinds of crisis situations.

00:47:26.500 I mean, you can't stop the evil from coming, but you can be prepared to intercept it and stop it when it's at your front door.

00:47:35.700 So you be for arming teachers or do you want some sort of an armed system in there?

00:47:42.040 And are you also for hardening of the schools themselves?

00:47:45.520 Well, I think all of those are good options.

00:47:48.160 Now, you know, for me personally, I'm licensed to carry as an educator.

00:47:53.720 I completely support arming teachers and making sure they're properly tactically trained.

00:47:59.680 I mean, this is not, this isn't, you know, licensed to carry training.

00:48:03.320 This is tactical training, obviously on a voluntary basis.

00:48:07.440 But, you know, whether it is the schools hiring, you know, law enforcement or hiring, you know, retired, you know, military or whatever, trained professionals, people that can be in the schools that are ready to intercept and protect the children.

00:48:29.440 And until we do that, you know, unfortunately, these kinds of things are going to continue to happen.

00:48:35.660 Let me just, I'm going to go down a couple of just things real quickly, and I want to stop on a couple.

00:48:39.520 First, you're fighting for property tax relief, which in Texas is, I mean, we don't have an income tax, but property taxes.

00:48:46.480 I have a house where everybody in the area is, you know, has an acre or two.

00:48:56.840 I happen to have four acres.

00:48:58.960 The tax assessment came in and said, well, you could split that up and have three more houses there, and you chose not to.

00:49:08.340 And so you have to pay for the property tax of not just the four acres that I have, but as if four imaginary houses existed on there.

00:49:18.720 When we tried to fight it, they wouldn't even listen.

00:49:22.540 We made an error in our writing of the letter, and they said, we don't trust that this is what this letter means, that you were upset about that.

00:49:31.100 And I said, we're standing right.

00:49:33.160 We're the author of the letter.

00:49:35.080 You can trust us.

00:49:35.980 That's what we meant.

00:49:37.000 We made one like, you know, it's like a Second Amendment comma thing, and there's no tax relief here, and it's getting out of control.

00:49:46.880 Any thoughts on that one at all?

00:49:50.840 Well, it's definitely out of control, and it's something that we deal with here in Collin County and Senate District 8, but it's also an issue statewide, really.

00:50:03.200 And the governor and the lieutenant governor have both said this is a top priority for the next session.

00:50:09.400 I mean, our property taxes are growing at a rate that far outpaces people's paychecks, for one thing.

00:50:16.860 But what you bring up is another piece of the puzzle, which is, you know, there's no accountability.

00:50:24.800 Those that assess the values of our property, they have no accountability to the taxpayers.

00:50:31.580 And there's little transparency, most places, in the rate-setting process as well.

00:50:40.520 We're talking to Angela Paxton.

00:50:41.700 She's running for the state senate here in Texas. 0.97

00:50:43.320 And I hate to give you tough questions here, because you seem nice, but I've been watching the attack ads on you, and I'm won over by one piece of criticism that seems to be in every single attack ad about you.

00:50:59.000 I know what you're going to say.

00:51:00.160 Which is, you have a nice smile.

00:51:02.460 Yes.

00:51:03.160 What's behind that smile, Angela Paxton?

00:51:06.100 What's behind that smile?

00:51:07.440 It must be, you feel pretty good when you're running a candidate, you're running a campaign, and the worst thing that can come up with you is your smile is nice.

00:51:15.180 Well, you know, it's funny, as I've been out at the polls the last couple of weeks, how many people have said, hey, I'm voting for you.

00:51:24.000 And you know what?

00:51:24.600 You really do have a nice smile.

00:51:25.960 It's crazy.

00:51:26.840 It's the craziest attack ad I've ever seen in my life.

00:51:29.580 It's constantly on.

00:51:30.720 Let me just, let me add one more question.

00:51:32.300 You say you want to secure the border, enforce the ban on sanctuary cities.

00:51:37.440 You want to oppose new taxes and wasteful spending.

00:51:42.200 You want to stand for life, defend religious liberty, defend the Second Amendment, and on to the Constitution.

00:51:48.260 Here's my problem.

00:51:49.400 I think we are on the verge of losing Texas as Texas because of the amount of people that are moving here from California and other places that don't honor any of the things that average Texans have always honored.

00:52:04.260 How are you going to reverse that?

00:52:05.820 What do we do?

00:52:06.900 Are you worried about that?

00:52:09.340 Well, I wouldn't say I'm worried about it, but I would say this.

00:52:13.720 I acknowledge that our demographics are changing.

00:52:16.780 And, you know, the time for us to just kind of sit back and let things coast and things be easy for us as conservatives is over.

00:52:27.340 Our demographics are changing.

00:52:29.160 And we have the winning argument.

00:52:31.480 We have to get out there and meet our new neighbors, and we have to help them understand there's a reason your company moved here.

00:52:39.080 There's a reason that it's better here for your company and for your children and for your future.

00:52:44.660 And we've got to get out there and do the work of, as a friend of mine says, evangelizing the Californians.

00:52:52.480 But we've got to, we have the winning argument, and we've got to get out there.

00:52:58.020 And instead of just letting people be co-opted by the left, we've got to get out there and do the work of making the arguments and building the relationships so that people see the connection between why their companies have moved here and the success and the prosperity that Texas is.

00:53:17.420 Angela, thank you so much, and best of luck, Angela Paxton.

00:53:20.500 She's running for U.S. Senate as a Republican.

00:53:24.860 I know her and her husband professionally, and I am wildly impressed with both of them.

00:53:31.900 Her husband is the Attorney General, and it would be great to have her in the Senate.

00:53:37.000 But what's behind that smile?

00:53:39.640 Why are her teeth so white and clean?

00:53:42.000 Probably more, and this is saying something, because you know how I feel about her husband.

00:53:45.920 What's behind the smile?

00:53:46.680 Well, more brains and spine than her husband even has.

00:53:50.840 That's a good thing.

00:53:52.220 Wow.

00:53:55.880 Who is her dentist?

00:53:59.640 AngelaPaxton.com.

00:54:00.820 Craziest decade.

00:54:02.060 It's the place to go.

00:54:03.140 Or at AngelaPaxtonTX on Twitter.

00:54:07.260 When an emergency strikes, what is your first impulse?

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00:54:12.560 That's what it should be.

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00:54:15.920 Or if it's snowing, I've got to get to the grocery store!

00:54:20.480 Why do I live in this state?

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00:54:24.260 Yeah.

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00:55:50.760 Glenn Beck.

00:55:52.700 Mercury.

00:55:58.700 Glenn Beck.

00:55:59.720 We, um, you'll have to excuse me and pardon me for, uh, uh, putting on a state race because

00:56:08.640 we don't do that, but, uh, we're in Texas.

00:56:12.840 We lose Texas.

00:56:13.820 We're in trouble.

00:56:14.500 And, man, I'm telling you, people here, she was nice about it, but, uh, the people I know

00:56:20.080 that are here that are like, you know, we're losing this state.

00:56:23.340 We're losing this state.

00:56:24.480 This state is changing rapidly.

00:56:26.120 And it is.

00:56:27.340 It really is.

00:56:28.160 And we need to be strong on the things that Texans have always believed.

00:56:32.600 The Constitution, personal responsibility, and freedom.

00:56:36.840 Uh, what about her facial expressions expressing happiness?

00:56:40.720 Is anybody else tired of all of the political ads?

00:56:43.220 I don't know if your state is running them like we're running them here in Texas, but they

00:56:46.880 are non-stop.

00:56:48.140 And it's, it's, it's a Paxton ad run, uh, right after an ad from the guy who's running

00:56:55.480 against her.

00:56:56.320 And then she'll run another one or it'll be reversed. 0.74

00:56:58.660 It's like several of them in a row.

00:57:00.280 You're gone for four minutes and you've seen four ads going back and forth from each other.

00:57:05.080 Yeah.

00:57:05.180 They're saying this is actually going to be one of the most expensive state Senate races

00:57:07.980 in history.

00:57:08.420 10 million dollars, they said, expected to be spent on it.

00:57:11.240 He's, uh, very wealthy, I guess.

00:57:13.640 Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:14.520 And so.

00:57:14.960 And he's, he's very politically connected.

00:57:17.440 Yeah.

00:57:17.540 He's been involved with everybody and, uh, for a very long time.

00:57:21.680 So there's, I feel like every area has their local race where every commercial at this

00:57:28.040 time of year, when it run, it just like, but I've never heard one where the, the dirt

00:57:32.280 is her smile is nice, but what's behind the smile?

00:57:41.540 Glenn Beck.

00:57:43.480 Mercury.

00:57:44.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:57:55.260 Welcome to the program.

00:57:56.580 So glad you're here.

00:57:57.560 So there's more on the boycott of the NRA, which I think is, is ridiculous, um, in the

00:58:04.460 first place, because I think the average person's reaction when they heard Delta Airlines is, is

00:58:09.440 joining the boycott of the NRA.

00:58:11.360 No, I think most people's reaction was I could have gotten discounts.

00:58:17.160 Right.

00:58:17.800 Right.

00:58:18.060 I mean, well, it's not like we joined Groupon.

00:58:21.060 Well, you don't know the facts though.

00:58:22.320 This is, this is typical Glenn Beck.

00:58:23.740 Just coming out there throwing it because you don't know the facts of how many people

00:58:26.780 utilize this discount.

00:58:29.000 This is basically the lifeblood of business travel in America.

00:58:31.820 The NRA discount to Delta.

00:58:33.420 Okay.

00:58:33.860 Is I would, my guess is 80% of all travel done on the, uh, on the NRA discount.

00:58:39.800 Well, we don't have to guess anymore because, uh, we found out the exact amount of people

00:58:45.200 who have utilized the NRA discount at Delta airlines and it's massive.

00:58:48.460 It's massive.

00:58:49.020 This is massive.

00:58:49.600 This is economy shifting.

00:58:50.920 If you have stocks, sell them all right now.

00:58:52.760 How many passengers do they put through?

00:58:54.620 I wonder how many passengers they put through in a year.

00:58:56.980 How many tickets sold every year on Delta?

00:58:59.820 Use the NRA discount, right?

00:59:01.620 No, no.

00:59:01.780 But how many, how many overall tickets are sold on Delta?

00:59:05.160 How many tickets do they sell per year before you give this number?

00:59:10.600 Because here's, I contend and I could be wrong.

00:59:14.700 I could be wrong.

00:59:15.780 I have not seen any polls, but I contend everybody went, I didn't know you could get discounts.

00:59:22.980 No, I think you're right.

00:59:25.000 Now, a Delta, let's say, they say they serve 180 million customers a year.

00:59:29.700 180 million, let's just be, let's just say they sell a hundred, a hundred million tickets a year.

00:59:37.900 The 15,000 flights a day, 15,000 flights per day.

00:59:43.960 So that 180 million is probably accurate.

00:59:46.640 So let's just be, let's just be, let's be less generous.

00:59:50.140 They sell 100 million tickets every single year out of 100 million plus.

00:59:59.420 How many people access the NRA discount?

01:00:02.980 13.

01:00:06.160 How many?

01:00:07.440 13, 13, 13 people.

01:00:09.960 13 million?

01:00:10.680 13 period.

01:00:12.020 13 people.

01:00:13.360 One three, the big one three.

01:00:15.360 That's 13.

01:00:15.960 That's three more people than you have fingers on your hands.

01:00:20.140 Okay.

01:00:22.120 They sell a hundred million, 180 million tickets a year and 13 people use this discount.

01:00:28.700 So may I just say.

01:00:29.460 What a, what a, what a public stance.

01:00:31.580 Yes.

01:00:31.820 Okay.

01:00:32.100 So, so may I just say two things that you have to keep in mind here.

01:00:37.860 Delta starts getting an awful lot of mail.

01:00:40.580 You've got to stop.

01:00:41.600 I contend if they're only selling 13 tickets out of 180 million, if they're only selling

01:00:50.940 13 tickets with that discount, I believe I'm right.

01:00:55.280 Most people have no idea that discount even existed.

01:00:58.920 Of course not.

01:00:59.880 It's literally 0% of people that join an NRA.

01:01:02.380 So why did this become such a big deal?

01:01:06.500 Activists.

01:01:07.680 Somebody went to the NRA website and looked for where they have programs and discounts

01:01:14.140 that no NRA member even does.

01:01:17.660 We joined because we believe in the second amendment.

01:01:21.440 Right.

01:01:21.700 Okay.

01:01:22.400 So we gave our money.

01:01:24.060 We didn't look at the, we didn't look at the brochure.

01:01:26.380 We were like, oh, the discount, throw in the garbage.

01:01:28.540 So we don't know about it.

01:01:31.300 We don't care about that.

01:01:33.040 That's not why we joined the NRA.

01:01:35.700 And so the NRA, this is not really hurting the NRA financially or any, in any other way

01:01:42.620 other than perception.

01:01:46.820 But what is the perception?

01:01:48.500 Only 13 people knew about it.

01:01:52.180 13.

01:01:53.740 Okay.

01:01:54.220 So, so all this is, is a CEO sitting in his office and there's, and the PR people come

01:02:01.740 in and they're like, we are getting hammered for the NRA.

01:02:05.960 And at some point in the distant future, these companies will realize they're not actually

01:02:09.680 getting hammered.

01:02:10.600 It's a nonsensical activist campaign where people just like Russian bots can tweet for

01:02:16.020 free.

01:02:16.440 So can activists.

01:02:17.360 Right.

01:02:17.500 And, and quite honestly, we don't do what they do.

01:02:22.200 We, the, the, the right does not have these organizations that just tweet like they, they've

01:02:29.300 got it down.

01:02:30.520 Center for American progress, uh, media matters, uh, all of that.

01:02:35.700 Millions of dollars go to this.

01:02:36.720 All of that.

01:02:37.900 Millions of dollars are spent.

01:02:40.220 Nobody's doing that on the right.

01:02:43.000 Nobody.

01:02:44.120 Okay.

01:02:44.480 So they get all of this, they get all of this, uh, uh, these pieces of email and social

01:02:51.240 media.

01:02:51.900 And I can guarantee you, the CEO says, looks at all the bean counters and everything else

01:02:56.620 and says, how many people is this affecting?

01:02:58.840 How many people did this affect?

01:03:00.020 Would this affect next year?

01:03:01.600 And they say, well, we've crunched all the numbers.

01:03:05.400 Uh, last year it, uh, affected 13 people.

01:03:08.500 That's when the CEO says, what the hell are we doing it for?

01:03:14.920 I mean, it's only, only 13 people used it.

01:03:18.060 We're getting hammered over here for 13 people.

01:03:20.960 This obviously doesn't mean anything to anyone.

01:03:24.300 Get rid of it.

01:03:25.720 That's what's happening.

01:03:27.460 Maybe.

01:03:28.120 I mean, I, you know, that's a terrible way.

01:03:29.620 Obviously make decisions based on whether they're right or wrong.

01:03:32.740 Wait, let's do it in your own life.

01:03:34.680 We'll do it in your own life.

01:03:35.940 I mean, there's a, you know, I'm a strongly anti-boycott.

01:03:39.560 I have taken a lifelong boycott of boycotts.

01:03:42.480 Yes.

01:03:42.780 Uh, so I, you know, I know I'm with you on this and we either have to do them and do

01:03:47.480 them well or don't do them at all.

01:03:49.720 I mean, look, for instance, I'm, there's a lot of things that the left does that we don't

01:03:53.540 do.

01:03:54.060 And I, that's why I'm here.

01:03:55.640 That's why I'm on the right.

01:03:57.120 I don't like the way the left does the things that they do.

01:03:59.400 Correct.

01:03:59.800 So, I mean, you know, I, I understand, you know, that there's, there's a, there is a,

01:04:05.080 there's an itch at times and, and, and, and it does feel like you get pushed around, but

01:04:09.580 again, are you getting pushed around with 13 people not flying?

01:04:12.080 Right.

01:04:12.300 I mean, it's not that big of a deal and that's probably right.

01:04:14.840 You're probably right.

01:04:15.920 Delta probably, this probably isn't a big stand against the NRA by Delta.

01:04:19.800 It's not.

01:04:20.140 It's probably just them saying, what is the point of this?

01:04:22.120 I'm sick of getting emails.

01:04:23.460 If they, if they said, if, if they had out of 180 million tickets sold, let's just say

01:04:30.000 they had 20 million, 20 million.

01:04:33.660 Oh yeah.

01:04:34.160 10 million.

01:04:35.620 Okay.

01:04:35.960 They came in 13, not million, 13 tickets.

01:04:41.120 Okay.

01:04:41.860 So that's when somebody says, this is meaningless.

01:04:44.720 Why are we taking such a hit for something that no one is using?

01:04:50.340 0.00007% of our business.

01:04:53.480 Is that really what it is?

01:04:55.260 Is that really what it is?

01:04:56.500 Do it again.

01:04:58.200 0.000007%.

01:05:06.320 Okay.

01:05:06.880 Five zeros.

01:05:07.500 There is no one who runs any business that says, we're still going to take the heat.

01:05:14.920 I, the problem is you create new heat.

01:05:17.420 Oh yeah.

01:05:17.840 I agree.

01:05:18.880 As Cameron from Ferris Bueller would say.

01:05:19.900 But you know what?

01:05:20.540 If you are in business today, most of the decisions you make are just, how do I reduce

01:05:27.000 the friction?

01:05:27.920 How do I?

01:05:28.700 You're probably right.

01:05:29.180 But how, how many other, I mean, I would assume there's not like five companies the NRA

01:05:33.340 gives discounts to.

01:05:34.200 There's probably hundreds.

01:05:35.040 Sure.

01:05:35.280 Right?

01:05:35.600 Sure.

01:05:35.980 I don't, what are the other ones?

01:05:37.140 Right.

01:05:37.560 Yeah.

01:05:37.760 They might be getting emails, but they're not getting the other pushback.

01:05:39.960 Right.

01:05:40.240 You're not getting your, is the, is the left.

01:05:43.160 But somebody go to Delta and find out, do they give, you know, do they give discounts

01:05:48.280 for Planned Parenthood?

01:05:50.080 If so.

01:05:50.700 Yeah.

01:05:50.840 I think, no, there was a, there was a campaign about that, but I don't think that's actually

01:05:54.000 right.

01:05:54.280 So if, I mean, you have to look and if it's something that is on the, on the extreme left

01:06:00.220 or important to the left, is there a big letter writing campaign that has been happening

01:06:06.560 for Delta on that?

01:06:08.820 Yeah.

01:06:09.020 I mean, I just, does it affect 13 people, 13 entire people?

01:06:14.600 Can we stop incentivizing companies with praise to raise their prices?

01:06:22.080 Like the idea that, Hey, wow, they did the right thing.

01:06:25.340 They got rid of that discount to their customers.

01:06:27.900 That is what a weird thing we're setting up here.

01:06:31.000 I mean, it'd be one thing that they said, you know what?

01:06:32.980 We're going to get that content, that discount to everybody.

01:06:35.220 Yeah.

01:06:35.660 Every one of our customers gets that discount.

01:06:37.520 That's something to praise.

01:06:38.580 The fact that they're taking more money out of 13 people's pockets is not something to

01:06:42.520 praise.

01:06:42.660 What is that?

01:06:43.400 They didn't do that because they didn't, they didn't sign up with the NRA because they

01:06:47.840 believe in the second amendment or don't believe in the second amendment.

01:06:50.980 What they wanted to do was have the NRA say, Hey, all of you members, you fly on Delta

01:06:55.860 and you get a discount.

01:06:58.100 Well, it wasn't working for Delta because they didn't, the 13 people signed up.

01:07:03.560 So why carry the baggage for it?

01:07:05.800 Why carry the baggage to me?

01:07:08.320 Now there's two issues here.

01:07:10.740 Do you fold to everybody who has a letter writing campaign?

01:07:15.320 The answer is no, you shouldn't.

01:07:17.740 You should know what you believe in and what you don't.

01:07:20.520 That's a publicly traded company.

01:07:22.740 They shouldn't be offering these discounts to anyone who is causing them trouble in the

01:07:27.780 press.

01:07:28.120 You shouldn't be publicly traded.

01:07:31.160 I don't think, I think I would be happy with somebody who says, we're not going to offer

01:07:35.020 these discounts for anything political, anything, anything that is, is a hot button.

01:07:40.680 We're just not going to do it anymore.

01:07:42.340 You know, we don't want anything to do with the left and the right.

01:07:44.660 We believe in America and all Americans are different and we're all flying together anyway. 1.00

01:07:49.200 That's what should be done.

01:07:50.340 But that's even risky, but do it.

01:07:55.400 The only way to depoliticize, our whole life is political now.

01:07:59.440 Everything is political.

01:08:01.160 The only way to depoliticize things is to be able to just say, I'm not giving you benefits

01:08:09.120 on either side.

01:08:09.880 Yeah, I mean, you know, look, I think the issue here is you have a situation where we

01:08:18.360 went through this in the 2016 election, for example.

01:08:21.080 In 2016, there was a situation where we all kind of got these fake news headlines, right?

01:08:25.860 And it became this thing where now we're seeing that a lot of that comes from, you know, some

01:08:32.920 of it's been Russian bots.

01:08:34.440 A lot of it is just political activists.

01:08:36.720 A lot of people who are running websites, clickbaity websites with fake news stories

01:08:42.980 and stuff.

01:08:43.360 And you get to a point now, I think Americans have gotten to the point where they look at

01:08:46.700 social media and they doubt whether what they're seeing is real.

01:08:51.660 They doubt whether what they're saying is a legitimate headline.

01:08:55.620 They doubt whether what they're saying is coming from a Russian bod or an activist or

01:08:59.080 what, whatever.

01:08:59.960 You have doubts when you go on social media.

01:09:02.240 At some point, these companies should do the same thing.

01:09:05.320 They should go on and they should say, OK, yes, I got 100 emails today about this thing.

01:09:10.820 Is this real?

01:09:12.300 Is this real or is this just a bunch of activists doing their thing because there's somebody

01:09:17.020 has, I mean, the Internet Research Agency was a million and five a month.

01:09:20.500 The left wing activists are funded in multiples of that.

01:09:24.140 I mean, they're getting tons more money than the Internet Research Agency from Russia received

01:09:28.500 to run their operations.

01:09:29.980 And what they're doing is very similar to what the Russian groups were doing in that

01:09:36.200 like they don't care about the issue.

01:09:37.960 They don't care about any of that.

01:09:39.340 Their job is to inflame these divides so that these companies fold and we can all have another

01:09:44.960 culture war for a couple of weeks.

01:09:46.220 Again, this issue was a big news story and 13 people were affected.

01:09:53.280 13 people didn't get a slight discount on a flight in the future.

01:09:58.920 They won't be able to get that same discount.

01:10:00.360 Now, they might get it from another airline, but they can't get it from Delta.

01:10:03.140 And we all talked about it for two weeks.

01:10:04.760 Out of 180 million tickets, Stu is trying to do with a straight face is trying to make

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01:12:11.980 Oh my gosh.

01:12:24.180 I, you know, I promised that I wasn't going to talk about the Oscars,

01:12:26.800 but I just asked Stu, because one of our monitors was probably CNN is glorifying Kobe Bryant for winning an Oscar.

01:12:34.720 And I said, he won an Oscar.

01:12:36.080 What the hell did he win an Oscar for?

01:12:38.160 Dear Basketball, an animated short film he was in.

01:12:41.980 And so he actually accepted the award and was cheered glowingly and everything.

01:12:45.080 But wasn't this the year of the Me Too movement?

01:12:48.640 I'm amazed at who gets the pass on this and who doesn't.

01:12:51.300 Again, I don't know if Kobe Bryant definitely had an affair in a hotel room with a young worker there.

01:12:59.460 An affair?

01:13:00.540 That much is known.

01:13:01.300 Wasn't it?

01:13:02.160 She accused him of rape, though.

01:13:03.660 Yeah, okay.

01:13:04.160 I was going to say there's a difference between an affair and rape.

01:13:07.060 Yeah, she accused him of rape.

01:13:08.140 It went to trial and everything.

01:13:09.060 She stopped working with prosecutors, so the case fell apart.

01:13:16.800 Reportedly, he wound up paying her $5 million as a settlement, although he denies that.

01:13:25.240 But surprisingly, even TMZ noticed it was odd that Kobe Bryant got a wondrous applause.

01:13:31.620 Well, people don't go see Ryan Seacrest.

01:13:32.800 Yeah, they avoided Ryan Seacrest, who has been cleared of all wrongdoing.

01:13:38.980 They will not go stand next to Ryan Seacrest, who is a good and decent guy.

01:13:44.520 And Kobe Bryant, they invite on the stage and give him an Oscar.

01:13:49.600 Yeah, strange.

01:13:50.820 Unbelievable.

01:13:51.620 Strange.

01:13:51.860 I was laughing, too.

01:13:52.460 I was watching the first thing.

01:13:53.640 And, you know, everyone's coming out, of course, in these super low-cut, you know.

01:13:57.560 Yeah, don't objectify women. 0.99

01:13:58.860 Don't objectify women's super low-cut gowns.

01:14:00.900 And then the shot, as they're walking from the back of the stage to the front of the stage, is an overhead shot.

01:14:05.840 So you're basically looking straight down into the cleavage.

01:14:09.020 It's like Harvey Weinstein designed the actual shots used at the Oscars.

01:14:13.040 So did you watch it because of your wife?

01:14:14.340 I watched a decent amount of it.

01:14:15.520 So were they lecturing America on the Me Too thing?

01:14:19.560 Or was anybody pointing the fingers to 80% of that crowd?

01:14:23.140 Kimmel took on the Hollywood pretty strong on the Me Too stuff.

01:14:26.620 Good for him.

01:14:27.080 You know, you give him some credit.

01:14:27.940 It was pretty funny.

01:14:29.060 I mean, of course, there's a lot of conservative bashing mixed in.

01:14:32.000 But you expect that at the Oscars.

01:14:34.520 Why?

01:14:35.720 Why should I expect that?

01:14:37.460 Let me introduce you to Hollywood.

01:14:38.600 You're right.

01:14:39.060 Okay, I got it now.

01:14:42.980 Glenn, back.

01:14:44.980 Mercury.

01:14:45.520 You know, there are several things that are going on in Washington where we could really make a difference if we would just stop trying to, I don't know, go for the big win instead of looking for the things where we could unite.

01:15:12.440 You know, people say, we should get money out of politics.

01:15:15.880 Okay, we should get money out of politics.

01:15:18.220 I agree with that.

01:15:19.320 Now, how do we do that?

01:15:21.140 And what does that mean?

01:15:22.400 And are corporations, people, et cetera, et cetera?

01:15:25.600 I don't know.

01:15:26.320 Because you've got corporations on one side.

01:15:28.060 You have unions on the other side.

01:15:29.760 That's going to take us a long time to sort out.

01:15:32.080 How about we do this?

01:15:33.240 Let me give you this story over the weekend.

01:15:35.140 Over the last several weeks, Mueller's team has been questioning George Nader.

01:15:38.800 He is a Lebanese-American businessman with close ties to the UAE.

01:15:43.500 Investigators are trying to determine whether the UAE tried to buy political influence during Trump's presidential campaign and administration.

01:15:51.560 They're also trying to determine how George Nader has influenced White House policy.

01:15:57.000 During the first few months of 2017, Nader had several meetings at the White House with Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner about American policy in the Persian Gulf.

01:16:05.020 Nader is something of a Middle East mystery man.

01:16:08.560 During the Clinton presidency, he was a back-channel negotiator with Syria.

01:16:12.180 With Clinton's permission, he tried to secretly work out a peace deal between Syria and Israel.

01:16:18.200 During the 90s, he also ran a magazine called Middle East Insight, which sometimes ran editorials by Middle Eastern leaders like President Mubarak of Egypt, Prime Minister Rabin of Israel, and Yasser Arafat.

01:16:31.480 Well, this guy fell off the radar for a while.

01:16:34.320 But in 2016, he somehow became an advisor to the crown prince of the UAE.

01:16:40.240 After Trump's inauguration, Nader met with Elliot Broidy.

01:16:44.640 He's a major Republican fundraiser who also owns a private security firm.

01:16:49.800 With Nader's help, Broidy's security firm landed several hundred million dollars worth of contracts at the UAE.

01:16:56.500 Last fall, Broidy had a private meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office.

01:17:00.860 Afterwards, he sent a memo of the meeting to Nader at an encrypted email address.

01:17:08.520 Apparently, we can decrypt this somehow or another.

01:17:12.020 In the memo, Broidy said he advised the president to have a private meeting outside of the White House with UAE's crown prince.

01:17:19.180 He also encouraged Trump to fire the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, because of his support for Qatar.

01:17:26.300 A copy of this meeting memo was sent to the New York Times by someone, quote, critical of the UAE's influence in Washington.

01:17:36.120 A spokesperson for Elliot Broidy didn't deny the memo's contents, but said that the Qatari agents hacked Broidy's computer and stole the memo.

01:17:46.720 So what does any of this have to do with the Russia investigation?

01:17:50.240 I have absolutely no idea.

01:17:52.260 But here is my point of getting money out of politics.

01:17:56.660 Can we start here?

01:17:57.480 This is why President Trump, like all other presidents, needed to divest himself of all of his business holdings and interests.

01:18:07.720 So he we know for sure that there is no pressure point on the president.

01:18:13.560 He's not trying to make deals and get special favors.

01:18:16.180 It it makes us feel good when everything is transparent.

01:18:20.180 We need our president to be free of all influence.

01:18:24.680 So now the president, he's caused trouble on his own because he's refused to get away from his business holdings, just like President Clinton or better yet, Hillary Clinton.

01:18:37.020 She brought this on herself by having her foundation.

01:18:41.340 That was trouble because, wait a minute, was she involved with Russia?

01:18:45.200 Was she getting special deals elsewhere?

01:18:47.220 We don't know.

01:18:47.960 And I don't think we're ever going to know the real truth on either of these things.

01:18:52.780 Why?

01:18:53.300 Because there's too much money in politics.

01:19:06.580 It's Monday, March 5th.

01:19:08.620 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:19:10.500 So I believe that if we are going to heal as a nation, we have to have start having conversations and have conversations that make us uncomfortable.

01:19:22.040 We're not learning anything if we're not uncomfortable.

01:19:27.060 You know, it's nice to sit on the on the mountaintop.

01:19:29.540 But on the mountaintop, no work is really done.

01:19:32.060 You just have a nice view.

01:19:33.320 It's nice to be up there once in a while.

01:19:34.900 But it's down in the valley where all the work and the and the and the fruit is is is grown.

01:19:42.360 So let's get into the valley.

01:19:44.620 Let's get into the places.

01:19:45.640 And we have uncomfortable conversations with people, but civil conversations and try to knit ourselves back together.

01:19:52.900 There's two people that are trying to do this now.

01:19:56.580 Justine Lee, I think.

01:19:58.600 Is it Justine or is it just it's Justine, right?

01:20:02.800 That's correct.

01:20:03.660 Justine Lee and and Tria Chang.

01:20:07.800 Is it Tria?

01:20:09.320 Let me make sure.

01:20:10.140 All right.

01:20:11.580 So you guys have started something called Make America Dinner Again, and you're trying to bring people together.

01:20:21.280 You want to explain this?

01:20:25.540 Sure.

01:20:26.660 Yeah.

01:20:27.300 Make America Dinner Again is something we started or we conceived the day after the election.

01:20:34.500 You know, we were feeling frustrated.

01:20:36.260 We felt like no one was really listening or understanding each other.

01:20:39.420 And as ordinary citizens, one thing we we knew we could do is is get people together, get people together over a meal, people across the political spectrum to share their stories or perspectives and really listen with the intent to learn.

01:20:54.660 And we believe that ordinary citizens just like us can do the same.

01:20:59.640 So you guys started this and I'm I'm pretty sure you're not of the same political bent that I am.

01:21:09.420 You live in you live in San Francisco, right?

01:21:14.300 That's correct.

01:21:15.200 And are you able to have real conversations with people who really disagree?

01:21:24.620 Are you are you able to get people together who are very diverse?

01:21:28.200 And and actually have reasonable conversations?

01:21:35.420 Yes.

01:21:35.920 And that's a huge priority for us to get that diversity of thought in there.

01:21:39.860 So it's not going to be the demographics of San Francisco, which are, you know, maybe we'd have six liberals and two conservatives.

01:21:47.480 We really try to have a mix.

01:21:50.360 It's going to be hard only.

01:21:52.540 Yeah, it is hard, but it's so worth it.

01:21:54.960 And we also make sure we don't only have Republicans and Democrats, but also libertarians and people who have views that don't fit into any particular bucket, because there are so many different perspectives out there.

01:22:07.880 And we all get better and learn more if we can hear from each other.

01:22:11.700 Well, first of all, you guys had me when you mentioned dinner because I'm a big fan of it.

01:22:16.180 Big supporter.

01:22:17.260 But you go through how to put this together.

01:22:20.060 And, you know, it's a great really walk, walk people through it step by step on how to do it.

01:22:24.380 But I was looking at how this, the worst case scenarios, of course, as an American, that's where I go immediately.

01:22:30.560 And these two things seem really possible to happen.

01:22:33.940 One, you get a group of people who are, it's difficult to draw into a conversation.

01:22:38.300 Very possible, especially in that environment when you know people disagree with you.

01:22:41.940 And the other, you get a group who quickly spirals into arguments and chaos, which I think is in this environment really likely.

01:22:48.400 How do you get around that stuff?

01:22:49.400 Yeah, so one way is that we, right off the bat, in our language and our outreach to our guests, we let them know that, you know, our intention here is not to win, is not to convert or change minds.

01:23:07.560 It's just simply to take a step back and get to know each other as people first.

01:23:11.880 And you can't, you know, when you're sharing your stories about your life experiences, those are things that people can't really argue, right?

01:23:17.680 What you've experienced, what your life has been to you and how you perceive it is your truth.

01:23:24.020 And so I think that folks come and they really internalize these stories from other people.

01:23:31.400 And they now have these perspectives and these stories and they leave the dinner as data points that they can reference when they're considering an issue or an idea.

01:23:39.500 And that's been really valuable for them.

01:23:41.200 So do you have, this is the biggest, I mean, I've been on this kick for a few years now of trying to explain how right Martin Luther King was, that it was, that it's all about reconciliation.

01:23:55.720 And we lose the minute we start, we try to win and everyone is trying to win right now.

01:24:04.900 How is this going for you on explaining that and getting people to participate?

01:24:13.500 Yeah, well, first of all, Glenn, we love that message that you're spreading, that it's not about winning.

01:24:18.680 It's about reconciliation.

01:24:20.700 Sometimes the word reconciliation is perhaps a little too strong for the people who want to just come eat dinner and hear some perspective.

01:24:28.440 Sure, sure, sure.

01:24:29.080 So we really, yeah, we put the emphasis on it's about listening.

01:24:33.320 It's about understanding and personal growth.

01:24:35.760 And you've been talking about personal responsibility and we really feel that as citizens, Justine and I felt the personal responsibility that if we were surprised by the elections result, that meant we weren't listening enough and we weren't understanding our country well enough.

01:24:51.120 And we think that the people who sign up for dinners do a little bit of self-selection and that they feel that same responsibility.

01:24:57.920 So it hasn't been too hard, actually, to get people in the mood to come together and hear each other out and share their perspectives as well without trying to gain points and win.

01:25:09.520 It's interesting.

01:25:10.300 When I look at your program, I'm conflicted because part of me thinks, wow, what an amazing thing to do and take this big step and try this really innovative, cool thing that can really solve a problem that America is having right now.

01:25:23.620 And the other part of me says, wait a minute, this is just what we're supposed to be doing.

01:25:26.720 Like, this is just a regular American thing.

01:25:30.820 We were supposed to get together with people regardless of their politics and have conversations with them and get to know people.

01:25:37.280 Does it feel like you're doing both of those things simultaneously?

01:25:41.980 It does, yeah.

01:25:43.580 I mean, we found that, you know, right now at this time in our state, in our country, it's a very divided time, right?

01:25:51.160 The amplification of that division and distrust online for media.

01:25:54.460 You know, people are speaking another way and they're tired of feeling anger and misunderstood.

01:25:58.520 And MADD has become this refreshing avenue for them.

01:26:01.460 But the hope is that that isn't going to be the case.

01:26:05.380 This actually becomes an everyday thing, right?

01:26:07.440 Sitting down at dinner and talking respectfully to each other.

01:26:10.360 So we really see Make America Dinner Again as a blueprint for, you know, future conversations when things aren't as heated around politics.

01:26:19.380 Maybe it will be something else.

01:26:20.480 I mean, we think there will always be some type of conflict in the world and in our country.

01:26:24.700 So it's just getting people, you know, to practice active listening, to remembering what it's like to communicate with one another in a respectful way.

01:26:34.900 Would you guys come and have dinner with me?

01:26:37.620 We would love to.

01:26:38.900 Let's do that, baby.

01:26:41.540 Maybe you guys bring some friends from San Francisco and I can bring some friends from Texas who they usually don't meet unless it's in Austin.

01:26:54.560 And we can, you know, I would love to have a conversation with you and I would love to have dinner with you.

01:27:01.700 We would love that, Gordon.

01:27:02.940 I think that we've always been a country that was e pluribus unum.

01:27:09.960 We all come from different backgrounds.

01:27:11.860 We all have different beliefs, but we all settled on a few, and I think they're the Bill of Rights, a few things that we all had in common that we all believed.

01:27:19.560 And if we can just stop believing the worst of each other, and that's hard.

01:27:27.020 I mean, that's really hard.

01:27:28.760 If we can start believing the best intention out of most people, we'll be able to make it.

01:27:35.660 But if we don't start talking to each other, we ain't going to make it.

01:27:41.040 Totally agree, Glenn.

01:27:42.200 And actually, yeah, I just wanted to mention that we just got a sign-up from someone who heard about us on your show.

01:27:48.600 Because we do ask our guests when they sign up how they've heard about us.

01:27:51.860 And they've mentioned Glenn Beck.

01:27:53.920 Oh, that's great.

01:27:54.420 Already you're helping us out.

01:27:56.980 Well, we're posting, you know, how to do this and, you know, your whole kit.

01:28:07.300 We're posting it at glennbeck.com.

01:28:09.320 I'll Facebook it today.

01:28:11.360 And I strongly urge people to get involved in Make America Dinner Again.

01:28:17.440 How do they find you?

01:28:19.760 You can find us on our website.

01:28:21.240 Yeah, it's MakeAmericaDinnerAgain.com.

01:28:26.020 Nice and simple.

01:28:26.940 Nothing fancy.

01:28:28.400 And, yeah, there are a lot of ways to reach out there.

01:28:30.960 You can either email us directly, download the kit, or sign up for dinner, either to host or be a guest.

01:28:37.840 I've got to believe that, for instance, in my little town in Idaho, it would be really hard to find somebody who is really hardcore liberal.

01:28:46.920 Uh, and, uh, I would imagine in San Francisco, it's really hard to find somebody like me.

01:28:52.960 Does it, does it, does it get, I mean, it takes, depending on where you live, it takes real work, does it not?

01:29:01.900 It does.

01:29:02.940 It's hard, but it's possible.

01:29:04.520 The website does a good job, too, of discussing how to find people and how to really walk through the process.

01:29:11.180 It's a great idea, and you can just do this.

01:29:12.800 You don't have to just, you know, you don't have to be in San Francisco to do this.

01:29:15.460 You can start up your own, right, in your own area.

01:29:17.360 No, it's important that it happens everywhere.

01:29:18.640 Yeah, and what's the food selection for a Glenn Beck dinner here?

01:29:23.080 Do you guys have suggestions?

01:29:24.220 I was thinking maybe the Brooklyn barbecue controversy from Twitter over the weekend would be a good starting point.

01:29:28.640 We can all join together to make fun of Brooklyn barbecue.

01:29:31.060 Well, we found one of the, one of our go-tos is pizza.

01:29:36.740 That's something usually people can agree on, and we do pull our guests ahead of time and get their dietary restrictions, so we consider that.

01:29:45.480 What's the best thing that has come, that you guys have personally witnessed?

01:29:49.860 What's the most surprising thing that you were like, wow, was that amazing?

01:29:53.120 Well, there are a few, but one that stands out is we have two guests that, you know, have been to a couple of our dinners the first time they met, and the second one they actually really got to know each other.

01:30:06.740 And these are two guests who seem like complete opposites in their build and their demeanor.

01:30:11.260 One is a straight, middle-aged white man who is a real estate attorney and voted for Trump, and the other is a young transgender Korean adoptee who voted for Hillary.

01:30:22.100 And it was pretty clear they have different politics, but when they sat down and exchanged stories, they actually found they had some things in common.

01:30:29.940 They're both from the Midwest.

01:30:31.040 They have, you know, one was from North Dakota, the other was from South Dakota, and they have a real shared love for that part of the country.

01:30:37.700 They're both fathers, and they really strongly identified as being fathers.

01:30:42.500 They said above anything else, that's how they identify.

01:30:46.500 And they both also found they have a real love for our country, and they want the best for it.

01:30:51.520 And those commonalities were enough for them to leave actually hugging each other and looking forward to the next time they'd meet.

01:30:57.540 So we've seen that friendship blossom over the course of a few dinners, and it's been pretty cool.

01:31:03.000 I'm thrilled to have you guys on.

01:31:04.520 I would love to have you again, and I would love to invite you here to Texas, and let's have dinner.

01:31:07.800 And if you can't make it, then I'll come to San Francisco, but let's have dinner because I think you guys are doing just a great, great service to our country.

01:31:15.500 Thank you so much, guys.

01:31:17.520 Thank you, Glenn.

01:31:18.540 We appreciate it.

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01:33:11.520 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:33:15.680 Glenn Beck.

01:33:22.080 No, it's very interesting.

01:33:24.660 We were just talking off-air.

01:33:26.020 One of the reasons why gay marriage became about love is because we started to talk to gay people.

01:33:33.260 They started coming out of the closet.

01:33:35.100 We allowed them to come out of the closet.

01:33:37.620 And we were like, oh, well, you know, I have a friend.

01:33:40.560 I have a sister.

01:33:41.180 I have a brother.

01:33:41.660 I have, you know, somebody that, and I know they're not monsters, and they don't hate me and, you know, all of this stuff.

01:33:49.840 And so we, you know, recognize them as people instead of this mythical, you know, oh, they're all out to, you know, get your kids or whatever it is.

01:34:03.320 You know, whatever the stupid things that held us apart.

01:34:05.780 Now, we are having the same problem, except it's people who, you know, believe in guns, et cetera, et cetera.

01:34:14.380 I think we're seeing a little bit of movement on that in that it's the same type of thing where people, when they meet gun owners, they think in their head of these scary people who want to shoot everybody.

01:34:22.620 And that's not who they are.

01:34:24.960 They're real people.

01:34:26.300 David French was on last week and talked about a column he wrote for The Atlantic, a left-wing, largely a left-wing publication, to kind of just inform people on the left of how you'd even come into guns.

01:34:39.840 Because I can tell you, as, you know, someone who grew up in Connecticut, like, it was not at all part of my life or culture.

01:34:45.000 And, you know, people don't, you know, in the Northeast, they don't understand it.

01:34:48.860 It's, I mean, and it's the same crazy thing, oh, all gay people are going to try to make us all gay or whatever that was. 1.00

01:34:55.420 All gun owners want to just kill people and they just are bloodthirsty.

01:34:59.520 Neither of those are true.

01:35:01.400 We really need to start reaching out to each other.

01:35:03.560 Glenn Beck.

01:35:05.280 Mercury.

01:35:12.420 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:14.700 Welcome, Mr. Pat Gray.

01:35:15.920 How are you, sir?

01:35:16.700 I'm great.

01:35:17.320 How are you?

01:35:17.680 Oh, my gosh, I'm great.

01:35:20.080 I'm great.

01:35:21.000 I'm great.

01:35:22.360 So, you are our one source for all Alex Jones news.

01:35:30.540 I like to be your one-stop shop for that.

01:35:32.240 Yes, for all things Alex Jones.

01:35:33.420 I have noticed this.

01:35:34.600 Now, here's the reason why we're bringing this up today is because Alex Jones had some claim that he is now.

01:35:42.900 He's got three strikes against him.

01:35:45.200 Against, with YouTube.

01:35:46.480 With YouTube.

01:35:47.020 And that they've banned his site now.

01:35:49.780 Which does not appear to actually.

01:35:52.360 And then he says they claim they're going to delete all 33,000 videos or whatever he's got on the site.

01:35:57.420 They say, no, we didn't do any of that.

01:36:00.820 We're not doing that.

01:36:01.860 So, what's, I mean, there's a way to check this, right?

01:36:03.500 Well, I went to the channel and it seems to be accessible.

01:36:06.880 Unless I have a secret passageway in.

01:36:09.620 Oh, you're using your Glenn Beck.com address?

01:36:11.680 No, I just went there.

01:36:13.380 Yeah, but that's probably a Glenn Beck.com kind of computer.

01:36:16.640 Where you're in cahoots with him?

01:36:18.320 Or is it because you work for the CIA?

01:36:19.840 Oh, it's CIA, that's right.

01:36:21.080 It's our CIA access.

01:36:22.840 Yeah.

01:36:23.060 That's why you have that.

01:36:23.860 No, it seems to be accessible.

01:36:25.620 And it seems, YouTube is denying it.

01:36:28.840 They said, no, we didn't do any of that.

01:36:30.200 Can I tell you something that shouldn't be surprising to this audience at all?

01:36:33.740 I mean, you know exactly how I feel about Alex Jones.

01:36:36.480 But you also know exactly how I feel about the Constitution.

01:36:39.220 I don't think, I think YouTube has a right to ban private business.

01:36:45.880 So, they have a right to do whatever.

01:36:47.980 I don't think they should.

01:36:49.900 I mean, I don't, you know, I don't know.

01:36:53.280 What do you do?

01:36:53.980 If somebody is really, really crazy saying crazy things, which he is.

01:36:58.000 I mean, just last week, you know.

01:36:59.980 90% sure it's a deep state.

01:37:02.880 This shooting was a deep state false flag.

01:37:06.200 He claims he didn't say any of those things.

01:37:08.960 We have the audio of what he said just last week.

01:37:12.660 Can you play it here?

01:37:13.040 Ladies and gentlemen, I can now officially say that it's about a 90% chance that the

01:37:20.960 Florida event at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that's killed 17 people and injured

01:37:27.720 over 20 is a deep state false flag operation.

01:37:33.420 Okay.

01:37:33.620 He can't help himself.

01:37:34.540 He can't.

01:37:35.080 And then he denies that he said, well, he denies categorically that he said they were

01:37:39.600 crisis actors.

01:37:40.300 But what are you saying when you're calling it a deep state false flag operation?

01:37:48.220 So, can we keep this on track, though, on freedom of speech?

01:37:52.120 Does he, does, should YouTube, should YouTube be able?

01:37:56.680 Well, yes, I think they should.

01:37:58.300 But they, Stu brought up, like, a specific rule that I didn't know they had.

01:38:04.660 Yeah, Ted Cruz is making an argument, and, you know, Ted knows the law very well.

01:38:08.900 Yeah, a little bit.

01:38:09.740 So, but his argument is basically that if I'm, let me, allow me to butcher Ted Cruz's legal

01:38:15.560 argument, but that YouTube gets an exemption, essentially, from their copyright problems,

01:38:21.720 because obviously anybody can upload any video.

01:38:23.820 So you could upload an entire movie, and it would be up there, and that's a copyright problem.

01:38:27.680 The way they get around that is there's an exemption for a site that is seen as completely neutral,

01:38:35.700 essentially, right?

01:38:36.500 Like, this is a, it's an open operation, right?

01:38:39.060 Anyone can post anything, so we're not censoring, so therefore, you know, we get an exemption.

01:38:44.600 If they start taking a political angle and start banning certain types of speech,

01:38:49.040 they may lose that exemption, which would basically wipe the entire company out.

01:38:52.340 They couldn't do that.

01:38:53.480 Yeah, you can't.

01:38:54.400 They could get sued every five seconds.

01:38:55.760 It's every, I mean, it would be horrible.

01:38:57.580 It would be impossible.

01:38:58.060 They've got to remain neutral.

01:38:59.660 And so I think Jones is just using this to pad his numbers on his subscription.

01:39:05.620 It seems that way, right?

01:39:06.740 Yeah, I think that's what he's doing.

01:39:08.300 So, so, so, so where do we, how do we, what do you do with people who, you know,

01:39:15.460 if Nazis were, were on, and they were spewing all of this stuff on YouTube, which they probably are. 0.70

01:39:22.840 Oh, definitely are, right?

01:39:24.020 I mean, that's what YouTube was built on.

01:39:25.260 It was built on people with crazy, yeah, crazy Nazis and crazy socialists and Antifa people.

01:39:31.140 And, you know, I mean, that is, you know, Alex Jones has a big business on YouTube because of that.

01:39:38.260 He built, 9-11 conspiracy theories were like one of the first YouTube hits.

01:39:41.900 You know, I mean, it really, it really was built partially on that, and now they're trying to control it.

01:39:47.500 But I think you could take a line, too, where you allow people to post things that aren't threats.

01:39:54.680 And there are certain lines that they have in their user agreement that would be covered.

01:39:59.000 But, you know, they talk about conspiracy theories.

01:40:00.600 You allow people to post them.

01:40:02.400 What I don't think you have to do if you're YouTube is recommend the videos through your algorithm.

01:40:09.360 A lot of times this happens, and people, I was reading a story about this just the other day of you get on, you watch one of these videos,

01:40:14.980 and then YouTube just keeps recommending you video after video after video.

01:40:17.980 With Prager University, it's wonderful, right?

01:40:20.760 With Alex Jones, it's not.

01:40:22.220 With Alex Jones, it's not.

01:40:22.860 Because you go to Alex Jones, and then you get to five Alex Jones,

01:40:25.660 and then you're down to some other conspiracy theorists who thinks Alex Jones is part of the deep state.

01:40:29.540 And then where do you go?

01:40:30.820 It's really dangerous, though, when you start, who decides whether it's conspiracy theory or there's actually something to it?

01:40:37.520 Okay, so.

01:40:38.240 They would probably think the Tides Foundation stuff is conspiracy theory.

01:40:41.260 And they probably would.

01:40:42.320 And I think that's why you have to be really careful on how you do it.

01:40:47.400 Right.

01:40:47.700 It's got to be almost only blatantly obvious things, which, again, I know to us and them are completely different things.

01:40:53.900 But we both would unite and say the 9-11 conspiracy theory stuff is hopefully, hopefully we would.

01:40:59.920 Actually, that's not even true.

01:41:00.740 The Democrats, what, half the Democrats believed that at the time when George Bush was in office.

01:41:04.520 So let me, this sounded to me, I posted this this weekend.

01:41:08.960 And this sounded to me like it was from a, you know, a Philip K. Dick book, you know, and one of those dystopian 1960s.

01:41:18.280 And he did the, what's that Amazon series?

01:41:20.500 Man in Hightower.

01:41:21.440 Man in Hightower, yeah.

01:41:22.000 And he also did Blade Runner.

01:41:23.700 Okay, this is not a parody.

01:41:25.420 I want to just play this.

01:41:26.620 I have to play it off my laptop here.

01:41:28.520 Hang on just a second.

01:41:28.960 Still a long way to go with artificial hate.

01:41:30.580 Okay, let's do this.

01:41:31.520 ADL and the University of California at Berkeley's D-Lab have been working to develop a new approach to tackle online hate using the latest methods.

01:41:40.640 The goal of the Online Hate Index is to help tech platforms better understand the growing amount of hate on social media and to use that information to address the problem.

01:41:49.700 By combining artificial intelligence and machine learning with social science, the Online Hate Index will ultimately uncover and identify trends and patterns in hate speech across different platforms.

01:42:02.860 We've just completed our first phase of research, and we found that the machine learning model identified hate speech accurately between 78 and 85% of the time.

01:42:12.940 In the next phase of our project, we will look at specific targeted populations in a more detailed manner.

01:42:19.700 We'll examine content on multiple social media sites, and we'll identify strategies to deploy the model more broadly.

01:42:27.680 While there's still a long way to go with artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions, we believe the Online Hate Index will help tech companies better understand the extent of hateful content on their platforms by creating community-based definitions of hate speech.

01:42:43.400 Okay, so that's from the show?

01:42:45.340 That's from ADL.

01:42:46.140 No, no, no.

01:42:46.700 This is real.

01:42:47.480 That's real?

01:42:48.320 This is real.

01:42:49.700 This is from the Anti-Defamation League.

01:42:52.700 This is real with the University of California, Berkeley.

01:42:59.220 That is chilling.

01:43:01.000 That's real.

01:43:01.220 It's not fake.

01:43:02.140 It's real.

01:43:02.920 How do you know?

01:43:03.940 Identifying hate speech.

01:43:05.140 How do you know you're 78 to 85% accurate on that?

01:43:07.560 Yeah, right.

01:43:07.840 Who decides?

01:43:08.600 Again, who decides that?

01:43:09.800 Again, no.

01:43:10.200 But I think that's a place where you allow people to upload everything, right?

01:43:15.660 And when you're talking about your recommendations as a site, that is absolutely your determination of how you want to recommend the next thing.

01:43:24.060 If you want to recommend only liberal videos, you can absolutely do that.

01:43:27.340 I mean, there's no reason you can't do that.

01:43:30.260 You know, it's another thing to say we're not going to allow people to access those videos because then you're taking a stance against...

01:43:36.540 But this, I think, is worse.

01:43:38.660 Do you think any of what they identified as hate speech applied to Donald Trump?

01:43:43.720 I doubt it.

01:43:45.000 And there is plenty, as we know, on every social platform...

01:43:50.120 Meaning that people hate Donald Trump.

01:43:51.440 ...hate speech about Donald Trump.

01:43:52.320 Yeah.

01:43:52.480 So, but you look at this.

01:43:54.180 Now, remember, I said don't fear robots.

01:43:57.600 Fear the goal of artificial intelligence.

01:44:00.660 If the goal is to identify hate speech, and we have, in our machine learning and AI, taught it that this is hate speech,

01:44:12.240 it will not stop until it identifies all hate speech and stops all hate speech.

01:44:19.440 We better be very sure and very careful on AI how we're identifying hate speech.

01:44:28.440 Yeah.

01:44:29.300 You know who I think it's...

01:44:30.300 Is it Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter?

01:44:32.440 One of them is using the Southern Poverty Law Center as their source on hate speech.

01:44:39.020 Right, which is obviously...

01:44:40.960 As far extreme left as you can get.

01:44:44.460 Spartan is known as their, you know, a terrorist or their worst, their worst hate speech category.

01:44:50.980 Yeah.

01:44:51.640 And that's one of them.

01:44:52.980 And we also know that Media Matters is consulting, I think, YouTube and Google.

01:44:58.200 I mean, they're not legitimate organizations.

01:45:00.860 No, they're not.

01:45:01.760 At all.

01:45:02.280 No, they're not.

01:45:03.880 Oh, by the way, I just got a notification from YouTube that they just took down the Pat Gray channel.

01:45:08.360 Oh, my gosh.

01:45:08.840 Completely.

01:45:09.520 Wow.

01:45:09.760 It's as if it never even existed.

01:45:11.680 What?

01:45:12.080 Holy cow. 0.89

01:45:12.760 Wait, what about your 542,000 videos?

01:45:14.960 Right now, right?

01:45:15.820 We should do something.

01:45:17.000 We should do something.

01:45:17.920 Well, I think the only place you can get me now is on the Blaze Radio and TV network.

01:45:22.680 Holy cow. 0.89

01:45:23.480 And the podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud and Stitcher.

01:45:27.780 The only thing you can do to stop people, Pat, I think, in addition to those things, is just send you money directly.

01:45:32.740 Or you could do that.

01:45:33.400 Or buy your supplements.

01:45:34.440 Right.

01:45:34.680 If people would buy your supplements, your male vitality formula, everything would be fine.

01:45:40.080 Plus, you'll be super vital.

01:45:41.580 Oh, really?

01:45:42.240 Super vital.

01:45:42.940 Wow.

01:45:43.580 Do test show.

01:45:44.500 I'm going to take my shirt off later on on the show.

01:45:46.340 Oh, wow.

01:45:47.220 Bad idea.

01:45:47.960 Bad idea?

01:45:48.420 Yeah.

01:45:48.920 Okay.

01:45:49.060 Never mind.

01:45:49.820 I'm not going to take my shirt off on the show.

01:45:51.420 Okay, good.

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01:47:00.100 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:47:02.400 The First Amendment guarantees your right to say stupid things.

01:47:11.740 But it doesn't guarantee we have to listen to them.

01:47:14.260 Share your intelligent thoughts with Glenn and Stu through social media.

01:47:17.200 At Glenn Beck and at World of Stu.

01:47:19.240 This one came in from Jerry.

01:47:21.480 He said, Glenn, what color are they wearing at the Oscars to stop all the graphic violence that they put in movies and video games?

01:47:28.240 I think that was covered with orange, still orange, which, by the way, if anyone can get their hands on those orange lapel pins that they had, please let me know.

01:47:40.240 We need these.

01:47:41.200 We need to start collecting all of the anti-Second Amendment stuff for the museum.

01:47:46.240 So if you see any anti-gun propaganda or anything else and you can get your hands on it, please send it to us and we can post an address.

01:47:55.860 But we really need to preserve this.

01:47:59.260 This is an amazing moment in history.

01:48:01.760 And those orange lapel pins were important.

01:48:05.820 John wrote in and said, I always skip the Oscars.

01:48:08.000 What a waste of time watching Hollywood elite pat themselves on the back for producing violent and bloody movies and then crying about guns.

01:48:13.820 Because, yeah, I loved it also that they were wearing clothes that, you know, makes it very hard not to notice a woman and all of the things about being a woman and and then talking about don't make women into objects. 0.93

01:48:32.720 I thought that was an interesting thing as well.

01:48:35.060 Glenn, the I think we need a special counsel to investigate the need for another special counsel in light of the original special counsel.

01:48:45.540 This is about the Trey Gowdy says the second special counsel is likely needed to investigate the DOJ.

01:48:51.240 I don't know how many special counsels we can have investigating special counsels, but I'm kind of with you.

01:48:56.380 Shane says the government should not be investigating the government.

01:48:59.660 It's like letting criminals investigate the criminals.

01:49:02.820 Amen.

01:49:03.400 But who do you trust to do it?

01:49:06.080 Who's going to do it?

01:49:08.220 Is there anybody that we trust anymore?

01:49:10.400 Stu, anybody that you say, you know what?

01:49:12.520 They'd be able to handle it.

01:49:13.880 I'd trust them to do it.

01:49:15.420 I mean, it's hard.

01:49:16.400 Right.

01:49:16.660 And that's that's I think the point of this hour, maybe.

01:49:19.100 Right.

01:49:19.460 You know, like we have to find places where we can find that trust between people, even if they disagree.

01:49:25.240 You know, it's where I mean, I mean, we have to find it in our neighbors.

01:49:29.020 And then we can rebuild it.

01:49:30.620 But is there anything that you trust?

01:49:32.180 Is there anybody that you would say any group, any group of people, anything you could cobble together that you'd go?

01:49:38.320 I believe that if they came out.

01:49:40.020 I think you have to go to like, you know, America's family.

01:49:42.960 You got to go to like Bill Cosby.

01:49:44.860 Then you find somebody there that can really.

01:49:46.820 No, I don't.

01:49:47.880 I've been following the news lately.

01:49:48.720 Is there any?

01:49:49.180 No, there's a there's a there's an update updates on that.

01:49:52.160 But a study out shows Americans blame government mistakes, not guns for Florida shootings.

01:50:00.300 Yeah, I think we know that.

01:50:02.600 So see, American people.

01:50:03.940 I mean, this is this is a really easy one because there are times you can sit here and have this discussion.

01:50:09.420 The fact that the discussion on guns is happening after this particular shooting is so strange.

01:50:14.180 I mean, it's it's a terrible example for people who want gun control.

01:50:19.780 It is something we had a million warning signs.

01:50:22.860 We had all of these laws in place.

01:50:26.020 We had crimes that were not reported.

01:50:28.560 FBI tips that were not followed up on local police.

01:50:31.840 Screw this thing.

01:50:32.640 And they're asking for more power, more power so they can screw it up more.

01:50:36.560 And they want to take they want to take guns away.

01:50:38.680 I mean, like there have been cases in which you could say, well, you know what?

01:50:41.960 The gun is the bad thing.

01:50:43.160 I never agreed with their arguments, but this is a terrible opportunity.

01:50:47.180 This is not it.

01:50:47.680 And again, this is just all built on the backs of they have willing participants in their theater.

01:50:53.860 The one the one who could have made this case.

01:50:57.520 The one thing was Vegas.

01:51:00.640 There was a guy who was off the radar.

01:51:03.700 There were no warning signs at all.

01:51:06.220 Yeah, he's I mean, he seemed to do everything legally until he started shooting people.

01:51:12.060 Yeah. And that one's so difficult because there I don't think there's even a proposed law that could have really stopped him.

01:51:18.520 I mean, they always say, oh, you're going to ban all your guns.

01:51:20.340 Well, yeah, I guess maybe right in theory.

01:51:22.180 Right.

01:51:22.780 That one.

01:51:23.400 And that was, you know, well, if there was somebody else with a gun, they could have stopped him.

01:51:26.980 No.

01:51:27.220 In that case.

01:51:28.400 No, I mean, unless you had a sniper rifle, you know, and there's no there was no law and no protection on that one.

01:51:36.680 We have to admit we're not we're not infallible.

01:51:38.920 Sometimes this.

01:51:39.600 Yes.

01:51:39.840 We're going to have people who are correct.

01:51:41.600 Really.

01:51:41.720 But that's the one to make the case on.

01:51:43.780 Not this one where law enforcement dropped the ball over and over and over and over again.

01:51:49.900 It certainly could have been stopped.

01:51:52.260 This last one and the one before that in the Texas church.

01:51:56.700 See you tonight at five o'clock and then again, five thirty.

01:51:59.940 The news and why it matters only on the blaze dot com slash TV.

01:52:04.760 Glenn back.

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 05, 2018

Amendments on 'Life Support' - 3⧸5⧸18

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