Behind the Scenes of Glenn's White House Interview with Trump | Guest: Andrew Klavan | 4⧸24⧸25
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Summary
It was a wild time at the White House, and I learned an awful lot. We'll talk about that and much more on today's episode of How Are You? with Glenn Beck. Glenn is back from D.C. and had an incredible sit down with the President.
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A lot to share on that interview that we aired last night.
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We'll go through some of it and tell you some of the other stories that happen off air.
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And you get a completely different perspective when you're actually there talking to the people that are moving the pieces.
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And I had a lot of conversations that I can't divulge on the air.
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Unfortunately, I was with the president yesterday and it was an incredible, absolutely incredible.
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Did the interview, went in to the Oval Office and he left me alone with my wife in the Oval Office for like five minutes.
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Now, I am like I'm he was lucky I didn't go through the drawers.
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Is that where is that little hidden puzzle piece that I saw in National Art?
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Nobody's left alone in the Oval for five minutes.
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And he walks in five minutes later and Tanya was so uncomfortable.
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She's like, I don't I don't know what to I don't know how to what do I do?
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And I'm like, they said, make yourself comfortable.
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You know, probably not behind the desk, but have a seat.
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And I mean, I was alone with the Declaration of Independence.
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Any part of you think maybe I just kind of put this.
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But this is the second time I've been in the Oval Office.
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Nobody, nobody, nobody sits in here without the president or without, you know, somebody else.
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And he said, but I knew you'd want to look at everything.
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So I thought you'd be more comfortable if you were here by yourself.
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And while we were talking in the Oval, we were conversing about a few things.
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We were talking about he is well versed on the president's.
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And so we go, we do the interview and his aides are cutting us off.
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And I'm like, I got at least 10 more minutes of questions.
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And as we stop, his aide says, sir, the National Security Council is waiting for you.
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And he says, right, I'm going to take them to the Lincoln bedroom first.
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And they're like, the Security Council is meeting right now.
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He takes us through the entire White House room by room, shows us all of the meanings behind things,
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all of the amazing, amazing things that like nobody knows about the White House.
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Takes us to the, takes us to the basement, which is not really the basement.
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You know, it's the actual first floor where all of the guests come in and they come up the grand staircase and everything else.
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And he's walking through and he's showing me a troll.
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First of all, he goes, I got to show you these paintings.
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I just see these pictures, this painting of Laura Bush and, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton up on the wall.
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And he said, and then I got this painting of me.
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And it's, you know, me, the flag face looking really kind of tough.
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And he said, I thought I'd put it between the two.
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He had just released a picture of it and just gone viral.
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And I said, can we get a, can I get a snap of that with you?
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So we take this picture, the two of us, you know, in the, on the ground floor of the White House with this, this is the tour goes by this every day.
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Uh, and, uh, all of a sudden this thing goes viral and they start, the memes start to be made, uh, uh, but JD fans, uh, in the pictures, uh, they change.
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People just started changing all the pictures behind us.
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So this is a meme before, you know, going off, uh, before we finish.
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And then he takes us, uh, upstairs, takes us through all these things.
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And, and the, the, the, the aides keep gathering.
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And I keep hearing, sir, the national security council is waiting.
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Uh, and so we get up to the, uh, uh, executive residence and the reason why he had to give us, the reason why he had to do this tour, um, is because you're not allowed in the residence and you're not allowed into the, uh, Lincoln bedroom without the president of the United States.
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You can't, Melania couldn't come down and do the tour.
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He's telling them, I'm sorry, but you know, rules are rules.
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And so he takes us up into the Lincoln bedroom.
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It's really his bed, which is about six inches longer than like the big King size bed.
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It might've been longer than a California queen.
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It was like, obviously, you know, he's not like Hugh Hefner.
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It's just a very narrow bed, but very, very long.
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The mirror on one end was extended to, you know, for somebody who's like, you know, six, nine, I think Hugh Barron could use that mirror.
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Um, and then on the other side of the room is a writing desk and it on, on this one table were all these things about his son, Lincoln's son who had died.
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Um, and this really, uh, eerie picture of Lincoln, this painting.
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And, uh, the president said that was his favorite painting of himself.
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You're not allowed to take any photos in the Lincoln bedroom.
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And I was so bummed cause I couldn't wait to show them to you.
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Um, but, um, there, and there's a writing desk and on it is the Gettysburg address.
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It's one of four of the Gettysburg addresses because he gave Lincoln was at the, at the Gettysburg and said, Mr. President, that was a great speech.
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This, a New York reporter takes it, types it up and then throws it away.
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So during the war, Lincoln writes four copies of the Gettysburg address.
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In the four copies, only two of them say this nation under God, two of them don't say that.
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And we don't know why, but the one there says this nation under God.
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Uh, so it's just almost like a spiritual thing.
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And I said, I have to ask you, I said, I know you're Donald J.
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Trump, but now what do you think I'm going to ask?
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Cause he cuts me off there and starts to answer.
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And I was amazed that he knew what I was even going to ask.
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And that's the right answer, but I didn't still didn't know if he knew what I was talking about.
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And he said, every day, Glenn, I wake up every day.
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And I, I say to myself, I can't believe I'm in this house.
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I mean, uh, a lot of the, I'm going to just, well, he didn't tell me this, so I don't think
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So the, the word is that Hillary stole a lot of the glass doorknobs at the white house.
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He came in and he redid all of the doorknobs and they are beautiful.
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This guy has put serious money into the white house and he's never going to get any credit.
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And, you know, the rumor was on those doorknobs that they were going to take them out.
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Uh, but you know, they don't want any of the Trump stuff in there, uh, and took out the doorknobs.
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But, uh, he's, he's, he's poured a ton of money upgrading that house and, uh, he'll never get
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So you were able to go through all of this and look at all these incredible documents.
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I mean, this is kind of like your fantasy league life, right?
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Every document you could ever want, every piece of history you could ever want to look
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You would spend no time actually being president if you're president.
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They told me, some of the Secret Service guys said, he's here, you know, middle of the night
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He's, you know, he'll do a full day and then he's there, you know, like who's up at this
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That's interesting because that's not the way the media presents him, right?
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There's no way I had a conversation about history with him five, six years ago like I
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Remember the nuclear triad question that he was hit with where he didn't really know what
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There is not a question I can ask him where he doesn't know the answer.
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I mean, everything I ask him off air or on air, he's there.
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The bar was set pretty low the last four years, but his that's been one of the things that
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I don't think there's ever been really much disagreement on.
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Like the fact that I mean, we did, you know, years ago, we went around with candidates around
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And it was like, oh, gosh, by the end of the weekend, I just wanted to sleep for a week
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because it was just so much running around doing.
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I mean, we can't even imagine what it's like to be president of the United States.
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I mean, when I got onto the plane last night, because I know he went from he went from my
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interview directly to the National Security Council.
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And then by the time I'm sitting at the airport, there's a video of him meeting with the people
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that were in the lobby waiting for him, all of these veterans.
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I mean, the guy is just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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Remember, remember, Joe Biden was like, he'll have, he'll have some pudding.
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Obviously, we're just kind of setting up the main course here, which is your interview with
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Any questions he didn't, you know, you didn't think he wanted to go to or wasn't comfortable
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As we was going across the hallway, he said, after the interview, he said, now, try to be
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In fact, we didn't, you know, we wouldn't and we didn't give him any indication other
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than it was, you know, about the hundred days and everything that has gone on in the last
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He said a few things and I would give you, I want to give you one of them here.
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And I said, you know, how do you negotiate when you have a group of elites like the WEF,
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when you have China who's against you and the World Trade or the World Economic Forum,
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all the elites in England that are there, they're fine with a great reset.
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How do you negotiate with people who don't mind blowing the whole thing up?
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I'm talking to people out of respect, but I don't have to.
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So we're this giant store that people want to come in and buy from.
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We have the richest consumer, et cetera, et cetera.
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But we're not going to be that way for long if we don't do something.
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But we're this giant store and they all want to come in and they want to take our product.
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But to take our product, they're going to have to pay.
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And we'll either make a deal with them or we'll just set a price because some countries are worse than others.
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Some countries have ripped us off really badly.
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And some countries have just ripped us off a little bit.
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But almost all of them have ripped us off because we've had really poor leadership.
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And what's going to happen is we're going to negotiate with we are negotiating.
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I said, here's what you're going to pay for the privilege of servicing the United States of America.
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They can maybe talk to me a little bit or they can not shop.
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You know, they don't have to shop at this big store or they can shop.
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The reason is the trade and also the endless wars, the stupid wars that we fought.
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You know, when I left four years ago, we had no wars.
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And by the way, it would have never happened because Iran was broke.
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Don't forget, I charged China hundreds of billions worth of tariffs.
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We had no inflation because that doesn't cause inflation.
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So, you know, I was trying to in this interview, and I hope this interview was helpful.
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I'd love to hear from you if you watched the interview, 888-727-BECK, because I'd love your feedback on it.
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You know, when you're in an interview and you're trying to navigate your way through it with the president of the United States,
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it's a little dicey because he goes wherever he wants to go, and you're trying to control the interview to make it all lay out in a logical way,
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and he's going, and I've probably had 50 questions for him.
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I'm shuffling the cards trying to find, okay, how can I connect the next question so it leads me where I want to go?
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And so you're playing this hijack of the conversation both ways, you know?
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So, and so you don't know, and I really didn't have any idea when I finished what I had even asked him.
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If I was, if somebody asked me, did you push him against the wall on things?
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So I'd like to hear your comments on the interview, what you thought of it, and honest reviews.
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Anyway, I talked to him about, I talked to him about the GOP, and he was nicer on the GOP than I thought he would be.
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Seemed to just basically say, you're jumping the gun, Glenn.
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And so I pushed him on it a couple of times and, you know, said, my audience really cares about two things.
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Doge, the three things, Doge, the people go to jail that need to be prosecuted, and the other one is, you know, the Congress and the economy and tariffs.
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I mean, and you can't do all of it without Congress.
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And he was shocking, twice I came back at that.
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And both times he was like, you know, you just, you're going to love the big, beautiful, they're going to pass it.
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I think he leaned on the pragmatic realities of what the Congress is, which is Congress with a very small majority.
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And he mentioned, you know, it was seven seats in the House and three seats in the Senate.
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And he said that, but he thought it was going to be enough.
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He seemed to think that we needed, you know, one of the things we talked about, this is going back at the beginning of his administration,
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was he kept picking House members to serve in his government.
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So he seemed to be saying, like, look, we needed to get that straightened out first, win those special elections.
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And then now we're in a position where we can get the big, beautiful bill done.
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And he seemed to be incredibly optimistic about the bill.
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I will say that was an interesting part of that interview because he was much more optimistic than I feel like I am right now.
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So he either knows something that we don't know, or he is negotiating with them and playing nice until they go the right direction.
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And if they don't go the right direction this time, I think he will change.
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And there's a lot of complaints from the conservatives.
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And I, you know, I was, I think, I don't remember exactly what I said, but I think I was pretty clear on, you know, they got to do their job.
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And I said, and what does all of this mean if they don't codify?
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And he said, Glenn, we get the big, beautiful bill.
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He's like, we're going to codify everything we just did in executive order.
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And I think there's a tendency sometimes of Trump defenders when, you know, he wants something, it doesn't get done, or we all want something to get done, to not necessarily put blame on Trump, to put blame on Congress.
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He was very clear that that didn't need to happen.
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They're going to get this across the finish line, which is pretty, pretty, I don't know.
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You know, it was good to hear that that's what he sees.
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As you mentioned, it could be part of the negotiation.
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But, you know, that's kind of him saying, we've got this under control.
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And he said all the stuff's going to be in this bill.
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The big, beautiful bill has been sort of this generic term that he's used to kind of give us an idea.
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Maybe he's thinking about putting the tariffs in that bill.
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And that's an interesting part of it because that would also help the scoring of the bill.
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If you put the tariffs in the bill, it's going to show revenue coming in from those tariffs.
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And then that would help him put other things like tax cuts in the bill that are larger, for example.
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There's a lot of strategy and weirdness here because you have to get a reduction in the deficit and the debt to be able to pass it through the reconciliation process.
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But I think usually you'd go through a situation like this and say, if you have majorities as small as the Republicans have, you can't do this type of bill.
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And look, I think there's reason to believe he's going to be able to get people lined up behind this thing.
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No, I have faith that he knows something that I don't know.
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I trust some of them as individuals, but as a collective, they're absolutely worthless.
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I also talked to him about the judges and how the judges are holding everything back.
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And I used a term that Mike Lee has used, judicial insurrection.
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And Andrew Jackson, he went to court with the federal judges, not the Supreme Court.
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The good thing about judges is they don't have an enforcement arm.
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And constitutional, I mean, he just kept going.
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But I will say we have millions of people in this country right now that are criminals.
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But when you have to get out and do court cases for individual people, and you would have, in theory, millions of court cases, you know what that means.
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They're really saying you're not allowed to do what I was elected to do.
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I was elected for a very big part of it was the border and getting people out.
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Because I said, and the stats reveal it, when you look at Trin de Aragua, when you look at MS-13, when you look at these gangs and just really bad criminals coming in.
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You know, we have many murderers, people that killed, 50 percent of which killed more than one person.
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They put them into our country through open borders, and now we have to go to court to cut them out?
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I don't think the people of our country are going to stand for it.
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Let me go to Andrea in Arizona who's listening.
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I'm sure you, I know you've mentioned this before.
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And I'm just wondering, is he like that only during the interviews, or is he like that before and after the interview?
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What you saw, there was no difference in the Donald Trump that you saw in the interview that I saw giving me a tour of the White House yesterday.
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He is, if anything, did I tell about the, did I talk about the nondisclosure I had to sign?
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So, if anything, he is more genuine and more heart-driven than what you see.
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He was, he gave me a tour of the White House, and we went up to the executive residence.
00:35:07.980
And then he takes us to places that you don't go to.
00:35:13.580
And he was, I can't, at the end of this section, we come down the stairs from the executive residence.
00:35:20.240
And on the table there at the bottom of the stairs were two pieces of paper, one for my wife and one for me, that we had to sign.
00:35:29.240
And they said, the president doesn't want anything other than the Lincoln bedroom, any of your conversations shared.
00:35:36.940
Because that was the thing I was most excited to share with the audience.
00:35:50.280
And I sat there and I just, I mean, I had to sign it.
00:35:54.860
And I sat there and I wanted to, I just wanted to say, why?
00:35:59.200
This is the side of you that people should know about.
00:36:05.340
So, he's much, he leads by his heart much more than what you know.
00:36:13.920
There's something that happened also that my wife caught that didn't happen up there that I'm struggling with whether or not I should say anything.
00:36:20.940
I want to call the White House and just say, because it was caught on film.
00:36:33.680
Do they put you in Guantanamo if you talk about it?
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But he's better than, he's better than he is, you know, more calm and just more real.
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Nobody said gold could be any more golden than this gold.
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That's pretty consistent, even in the reporting from sources who don't like him.
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They say, you know, behind the scenes, you know, he is a very engaging, endearing guy.
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you're totally going to screw this up and say something about what you're not supposed to say.
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Your presentation last night was exactly what I expected.
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You had a deep seat, a split-fingered grip, and you let that bull ride.
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But when you got to Bondi and Patel, he dodged that one and you let him dodge it.
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And we just don't need to know right now is another.
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So here's why I here may I explain why I didn't push back.
00:42:53.060
And I pushed back after the interview in the hallway and I got the same answer and I knew I would get the same answer.
00:43:01.360
The second is I had information from others who are near Cash and Bondi who said pretty much the same thing the president did,
00:43:12.880
except they added Congress is holding up the nominations of the others and the you know, it's the rhinos.
00:43:23.740
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00:43:28.340
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But what I was told by others around those two was that they are kind of surrounded right now and can't move.
00:43:41.960
So when the president said, look, it's early, but I think they're doing a good job.
00:43:53.320
I could be wrong, but that's why I didn't push him on that, because the other thing that that goes back into.
00:43:59.580
And I pushed him twice or three times on Congress was Congress.
00:44:03.600
And he kept he kept, you know, having faith in Congress as well.
00:44:11.320
So I couldn't make any real progress there, because I think he was solidly in the place of Congress.
00:44:17.640
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00:49:07.940
You know, Sarah said to me in the break, she said,
00:49:12.940
I'm more interested in what your wife has to think about it.
00:49:19.940
Yeah, but she is not a huge history nerd like you are.
00:49:24.940
So I figured she might be impressed about this trip.
00:49:28.940
You know, it's so that is so Tanya in a nutshell.
00:49:33.940
I've gone to the White House maybe three times.
00:49:35.940
I take my kids every time because she's like, no, I'd rather.
00:49:41.940
We're going to get all dressed up and go someplace.
00:49:46.940
So she's she first time she went to Mar-a-Lago was just a couple of months ago.
00:49:53.940
And I know she had an amazing day, but you're right.
00:49:59.940
I would like to hear what she has to say about all the history stuff.
00:50:34.940
I mean, I'm just saying she has expressed what her will is, and you are seemingly harassing
00:51:16.940
Because she's not interested in you or what you want.
00:51:24.940
I didn't even know we had a pool boy, but that's who she's with.
00:51:30.940
I am calling you when you least expect it, honey.
00:51:41.940
I didn't even think about your wife's feelings.
00:51:46.940
No, I mean, we were with each other and I knew she had a great time and we talked about
00:51:50.940
it, but I didn't ask her like, what'd you think of the history part?
00:51:58.940
And so it's the reason why we have such a great marriage, because if we were the same, we destroy
00:52:10.940
And so we get along because she's just not interested in a lot of this stuff.
00:52:14.940
She's not interested in politics and she's not impressed by anything.
00:52:21.940
She's the one that's kept me grounded because she's like, oh, really big shot?
00:52:46.940
Hey, I wanted to say a great job on the interview last night.
00:52:53.940
You know, you know, getting President Trump unfiltered and kind of unbiased.
00:52:58.940
I was listening to my 10 year old at dinner last night, you know, and it's really tough
00:53:03.940
to get quality, truthful sources and, you know, especially for the kids.
00:53:07.940
And so it's great to kind of see him, you know, in that, you know, where you were kind of
00:53:13.940
And to me, it kind of equated to the during the campaign, the Joe Rogan moment.
00:53:22.940
Like, that's kind of what I thought about last night.
00:53:23.940
It's like, man, I've been waiting for an update to three months.
00:53:29.940
You know, when you're doing it, you have absolutely no idea.
00:53:31.940
And even I'm watching it this morning and I was like, I don't know if that, I don't know
00:53:50.940
I've been able to watch all of his interviews with all these different anchors and, and people
00:53:57.940
and, um, maybe missed a couple of the nature of my professional life has made that possible.
00:54:01.940
I was so struck by your command of the situation.
00:54:13.940
There were pauses where no one was trying to talk over or interrupt him.
00:54:19.940
It was just a flow that I just had not seen yet.
00:54:24.940
And, um, as you were saying earlier in the program, it really shows us who Donald Trump
00:54:29.940
really is and, uh, and told me a lot about you too.
00:54:38.940
I tell you, I wish I'm going to go back and ask him if he do something different with
00:54:44.940
Um, uh, at the white house next time, next time I go, I'm going to see if I can get some
00:54:49.940
different kind of interview because you really didn't see, you didn't see the best parts
00:54:57.940
And, uh, and his staff even said, he said, they said, as, as he was leaving, his staff
00:55:07.940
She's, she said, he's, he's like a kid in a candy store with you.
00:55:10.940
He's like all about history and just like, look at this, look at this.
00:55:14.940
I mean, he was literally almost like dragging me into places like coming, coming, coming.
00:55:18.940
It was so amazing to see how excited he was about the history of our country and preservation
00:55:43.940
The last caller, Laura, I thought it was one of the best interviews I've seen.
00:55:53.940
He was relaxed and he was, I can't really put my finger on it, but he just seemed to,
00:56:02.940
Um, and I really thought it was one of the best interviews I've ever seen of anybody.
00:56:13.940
And, uh, I have love, I can't wait for the next one.
00:56:18.940
I, I, uh, it was, um, it's so odd because I can't judge it.
00:56:25.940
Did you see, did you feel it was different than other interviews that you've seen with
00:56:37.940
It didn't feel like he was, you know, trying to get some agenda through.
00:56:41.940
I think he was legitimately trying to answer your questions and bring you through his thought
00:56:50.940
Cause he, he can talk and talk and talk and talk.
00:56:55.940
And, uh, he answered a few questions like, okay, go ahead, come, come back at me, which
00:57:02.940
Was the first time I think I've seen that with him.
00:57:09.940
Y'all know how to make our day by making us laugh.
00:57:14.940
And I sure did enjoy it that you address the tyrannical judicial insurrection.
00:57:22.940
And you showed us that he is totally aware of it and he knows his options and he just seemed
00:57:29.940
And I really appreciated that because that was one of the worst things that I was fearing.
00:57:39.940
You know, we were up in the, um, the Lincoln bedroom and we were talking about Lincoln
00:57:45.940
and, uh, and he, he looked at me at one point and he said, you know, you said that
00:57:53.940
And I said, well, you know, trail of tears was not real good.
00:58:01.940
You know, he would, he would tell his friends, Hey, by the way, I'm going to be seizing this
00:58:07.940
Indian land and, uh, be auctioning off, you know, first come first serve.
00:58:18.940
And he said, but the judicial part you were okay with.
00:58:22.940
And I said, oh yeah, with what he did with the judges, absolutely fine.
00:58:30.940
And he's like, yeah, that's the part that I really like.
00:58:32.940
So he has been thinking about what do we do with these judges?
00:58:37.940
And he's not going to, I didn't get the impression he's going there first.
00:58:40.940
He's going to write it out and try to work the system as long as he can.
00:58:44.940
And then if they just won't, if they just keep doing this, he's going to draw a line and
00:58:51.940
When, when you have somebody like Mike Lee, who is the least radical of anybody, uh, I
00:58:57.940
mean, I'm surprised the guy doesn't have a flat top haircut.
00:59:05.940
Um, but when he says this is judicial insurrection, uh, you can pretty much bank on that, that
00:59:13.940
it would have constitutional, uh, weight behind it if he acted that way.
00:59:18.940
And I was, I was pleased to see that he has really thought deeply about it and constitutionally
00:59:32.940
Uh, I've got a little bit different take on your interview with the president yesterday.
00:59:37.940
Uh, I thought even I'll start at the beginning where you did, you spent the first five to
00:59:43.940
seven minutes talking when you could have been asking the president questions.
00:59:51.940
Let me, let me, let me take these one by one here.
00:59:54.940
If you've ever interviewed a president where, you know, you're going to ask tough questions,
00:59:59.940
you, and you were on, you had told them that this was about the hundred days and the accomplishments
01:00:07.940
You better start with the accomplishments that the administration has made.
01:00:11.940
Uh, and, and give them a little candy before you sour things up.
01:00:17.940
So that's the reason why I did spend about three, four minutes there at the beginning,
01:00:24.940
And, uh, another part of it was Donald Trump kept going back to, Oh, 2016.
01:00:33.940
And I walked away with it thinking I didn't learn anything that I previously didn't know.
01:00:42.940
And in addition, one of the biggies is the debt bomb, which he kind of danced around, but
01:00:51.940
nothing in, in you briefly mentioned it with, Hey, you started with 2 trillion, but you ended
01:01:09.940
That, and the, the, the other one was the Pam Bondi deal in the justice department.
01:01:14.940
So let's use the Tesla's with, it was supposed to be an act of terrorism.
01:01:23.940
She is going after the Tesla people that, that they are going after.
01:01:28.940
The Tesla, I'm worried about some of the other things that she has been ignoring, but tell
01:01:33.940
me where, I mean, she has been going on against the Tesla.
01:01:41.940
When she announced that, Hey, here's what we're going to do.
01:01:47.940
It's going to be this and, and, and nothing happened.
01:01:57.940
And the reason why I let him skate on that is because I have information from people who
01:02:03.940
are around those individuals that I pushed before the interview.
01:02:09.940
They were not connected to the white house and I pushed them beforehand.
01:02:16.940
If people start, don't start to go to jail for things that are legitimate, legitimately jail
01:02:23.940
If they're not prosecuted, my audience is really going to be upset.
01:02:28.940
It, nothing will change if we don't clean this system up and both in separate situations,
01:02:35.940
both of them said, you don't understand Congress and it's the rhinos.
01:02:40.940
Congress is holding back some of the people that they need as second and third ranks that
01:02:48.940
And the Congress is saying, you know, like we gave you everybody you wanted.
01:02:54.940
And they're holding them up until possibly even August.
01:03:03.940
And so I was stuck in this trap with him of pushing him into a place to where if that
01:03:11.940
is the answer, he wasn't going to give me the answer because he was, he was negotiating
01:03:17.940
with Congress, I believe on the big, beautiful bill.
01:03:21.940
So the only answer I was going to get from him was it's not Congress.
01:03:27.940
And so what he gave me and I accepted because of the additional information I had, I accepted,
01:03:39.940
What I interpreted that was, yeah, what I interpreted that as is they've got things they have to
01:03:47.940
Uh, and I will come back to him, you know, you know, if I talk to him again, we have another
01:03:54.940
I will come back to him if nothing has changed and said, okay, it's not early anymore.
01:04:00.940
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I've talked to Sean Hannity, Paul W. Smith, Frank Beckman.
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Stu, you said earlier that President Trump looked relaxed.
01:06:24.940
I thought he looked very relaxed and I loved his posture, but Glenn, I'm an artist like
01:06:34.940
What did you see art wise that you didn't expect to see that you've never seen before
01:06:38.940
or that struck you that it was hanging in that spot?
01:06:46.940
First, the painting that I've seen in a picture in a, in a book a million times, a history
01:06:51.940
book of, of a young George Washington with the, with this, I think his hand in his vest
01:06:58.940
You've seen it a million times hanging over the fireplace of the Oval Office.
01:07:01.940
It's been sitting in a closet for maybe a hundred years.
01:07:06.940
It was amazing to see a Jefferson painting that hasn't been seen in 150 years.
01:07:10.940
The way Donald Trump has moved the paintings around in the white house, uh, to tell the
01:07:18.940
The fact that I couldn't find one painting of George W. Bush, I could find Barack Obama,
01:07:32.940
Um, and, uh, the fact that the president hasn't like an, uh, liked a single portrait of his
01:07:40.940
and he gets two because it's a broken, uh, presidency first term that another president,
01:07:45.940
then his second term, he hasn't found the right portrait of him yet.
01:07:53.940
Uh, you don't buy homeowners insurance because you expect your house to burn down.
01:07:58.940
You buy it because if it did, you'd want to be ready.
01:08:01.940
That's pretty much exactly what buying gold is all about.
01:08:18.940
It's going to be next month, but it's getting eroded little by little.
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01:08:27.940
You know, America always waits until things get really expensive.
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01:08:44.940
Uh, I think it was Goldman Sachs came out and said they're expecting it to be over $4,000
01:08:53.940
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01:09:51.940
So, uh, Sarah said she's less interested in hearing me talk about the experience of the
01:09:59.940
Now, remember you are, you did sign a nondisclosure on some parts.
01:10:05.940
But, uh, what, what was your whole, Sarah, what was it you wanted?
01:10:17.940
He's talked about you so much and how you're never impressed with anything.
01:10:20.940
And he's like a kid in a candy store with that sort of stuff.
01:10:41.940
And so that was just walking in there was so humbling and, you know, just keep pinching
01:10:47.940
myself because I couldn't really believe I was there.
01:10:49.940
And then getting the tour after the interview was phenomenal.
01:10:53.940
I think the last time I was there was in a high school trip and we actually could go
01:10:59.940
into the White House at that point and didn't see very much.
01:11:10.940
You know, he's very intimidating at first when you meet him, but he just makes you feel
01:11:16.940
And how do you mean he's intimidating when you first meet him?
01:11:19.940
Well, he's the president of the United States for heaven's sake.
01:11:26.940
It's, you know, that's why he says, he'll say to me from time to time, he'll be like,
01:11:32.940
And I'm like, cause you're the president of the United States.
01:11:44.940
What'd you think of the history that he, I mean, in his grasp of his history?
01:11:53.940
He studied and he knows, yeah, the history, the president, you know, what they did,
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Did you sense any, uh, any hesitation on anything that we talked about on, you know,
01:12:10.940
on where he was going or that you felt like, felt a little weird about that?
01:12:22.940
So you were impressed by where your husband took you yesterday.
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You know, just right there, close second, right behind him.
01:12:58.940
I mean, I didn't get any love, but whatever, you know.
01:13:01.940
I mean, it's nice that you can get your wife on the phone now.
01:13:07.940
So she's the one I can still kind of get on the phone.
01:13:17.940
You know, somebody called up and said that they felt that I was nervous in the interview.
01:13:31.940
I had two different feelings, actually, about the tariffs, because you brought up the tariffs
01:13:35.940
and you said, look, I don't, you know, I don't like tariffs.
01:13:40.940
And then you started going into any kind of like, he went, he started explaining why
01:13:58.940
Well, I had a 30-minute conversation with him on tariffs where I pushed him to the wall.
01:14:07.940
And he actually, towards the end, he said, you'll like him.
01:14:10.940
In a year, we'll have another interview and you'll tell me that you like him.
01:14:13.940
And I said, I've been wrong with you before and I hope to be wrong again.
01:14:18.940
It's funny because my initial reaction was you didn't, because you kind of got into this
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setup of, you know, I don't really like tariffs, but I'm trying to give you the benefit
01:14:28.940
And you got in the middle of it and he kind of interrupted you and went on to a point about
01:14:35.940
And my first inclination was like, you didn't really fight him on it.
01:14:38.940
And then my second instinct was, I will say, I mean, I've seen a lot of interviews, especially
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with people on the right with Donald Trump about this topic.
01:14:49.940
That was more pushback than I've seen from anybody, really, to be honest with you, at
01:14:54.940
And I thought it must be difficult at the White House, in the Roosevelt Room, sitting
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with the President of the United States to be like, you know, this particular policy is
01:15:04.940
I mean, there must be, that must be, was there any level of-
01:15:08.940
I mean, Donald Trump, you know, he will go for people who don't like his policies and
01:15:16.940
he will push them to the wall and in a good spirited way and try to figure out why.
01:15:20.940
But like Zelensky, if you've had that conversation and it's already decided, you know, don't
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Cause I, you're going to get the same answer over and over again.
01:15:36.940
I mean, you weren't trying to have some big adversarial argument, but you did want
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But I will tell you, this is one of the, and I haven't told him this yet.
01:15:45.940
I'm waiting for the right opportunity to tell them this.
01:15:47.940
Cause I think he'll really appreciate it, but I don't know how to tell this story.
01:15:54.940
If I've told this story before, we were in Mar-a-Lago and he invited, you know, I'm just
01:15:59.940
doing an interview and he's like, you having dinner tonight?
01:16:09.940
I'm in a jacket, but everybody else in the crew is in like, you know, black pants and
01:16:22.940
And I said, I kind of pointed at everybody and he's like, no, everybody.
01:16:26.940
So invited everybody to have dinner on him at Mar-a-Lago.
01:16:32.940
And, um, he comes by and he says, we're looking at the menu.
01:16:37.940
And he says, Glenn, you gotta have the Salisbury steak.
01:16:43.940
And I said, uh, okay, now I don't really like Salisbury's.
01:16:47.940
I remember having Salisbury steak when it was like in the TV dinner kind of thing, you know?
01:17:04.940
Everybody tells me the Salisbury steak best they've ever had.
01:17:08.940
So I ordered the Salisbury steak and I eat it and everybody's waiting at the table.
01:17:12.940
They're like, well, well, how's the Salisbury steak?
01:17:17.940
And I said, yeah, I mean, it's not, it's not bad, but it's not, you know, the greatest Salisbury steak.
01:17:23.940
I don't know what is the greatest Salisbury steak in the world, but.
01:17:34.940
Cause he said, everybody tells me is the greatest Salisbury steak in the world.
01:17:38.940
I said, nobody is willing to tell him that it's meh.
01:17:45.940
And then he'll come back and say, what'd you think?
01:17:49.940
So nobody has the balls to tell him cause he's the president of the United States.
01:18:02.940
And I was, as it was coming out of my mouth, I'm like, oh my God, I'm one of those people.
01:18:06.940
I can't tell him the truth about a stupid Salisbury steak.
01:18:11.940
So he still think if you're going to Mar-a-Lago, meh, meh, no matter what he says, meh.
01:18:16.940
But I guarantee you, if you order it and he asks you, you'll tell him it's the best you've ever had.
01:18:29.940
It was a good interview and it was enjoyable to watch.
01:18:46.940
You went through kind of every big topic and covered a lot of what they went through.
01:18:53.940
It was interesting because I feel like earlier interviews you've done with him, you would ask a question and he would kind of, I wouldn't say filibuster is the right term exactly.
01:19:02.940
He goes on and he kind of goes to his, he was much more willing to.
01:19:09.940
Like he, he stopped a couple of times when I thought he was going to kind of go on a rant and let you follow up and, and, and everything.
01:19:14.940
And I think that led to, to getting to a good amount of stuff rather than, you know, two questions and the things over.
01:19:25.940
I asked him after the cameras were off because I just, I've wanted to tell him this story because I didn't know if he remembered.
01:19:31.940
Uh, I mean, I knew he knew, but I didn't know if he connected.
01:19:35.940
I said, is there, is it ironic to you that when Nikolai Tesla died, your uncle, John G Trump, who was at MIT was asked by the government to come in and go through his papers to see which is good and which is dangerous.
01:19:54.940
It could be shipped back with him to his home for his museum and his library and which needed to stay classified.
01:20:01.940
And here you are now working with the new Tesla.
01:20:06.940
You're working with a guy who brought the name Tesla even back and he is our generation's Tesla.
01:20:17.940
And he just lit up and said, like, you know, he likes it when people know stories that nobody knows, you know what I mean?
01:20:26.940
And he said, uh, yeah, let me tell you about my uncle.
01:20:30.940
And he just shot an extra, I don't know, five minutes.
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They were yelling at him about the, you know, national security council is waiting.
01:20:41.940
And his whole staff is like, oh God, I mean, there might be a war that breaks out.
01:20:53.940
And then I also gave a tour of the Roosevelt room as we were setting up.
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Uh, cause it's just, it's, it's the white house.
01:21:00.940
I wish people could really take tours of the white house.
01:21:04.940
You can't, I mean, you can take a tour of the white house, but I wish you could take the tour.
01:21:14.940
And unlike the other places that are being treated like trash in Washington, D.C.
01:21:20.940
Now the national, this, I was in the Smithsonian, uh, in the, um, uh, portuary.
01:21:32.940
And, uh, it was, I mean, it looked like it hasn't been cleaned since, you know, 1872.
01:21:43.940
And it's just, it's disgusting the way it's all been taken care of.
01:21:49.940
And I talked to the president off that we were talking about art.
01:21:57.940
And I'm like, you know, maybe some people appreciate it, but I, I just, I can't take, I can't take it in your face as look how bad America has been.
01:22:07.940
And he said, yeah, we're, we're changing all that.
01:22:29.940
I mean, uh, you know, I, again, I wouldn't have put you in the radio hall of fame for it, but it's something.
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I mean, you're part of a network of human beings, people, the kind that still say a pledge and stand for the flag and teach our kids what the constitution is.
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What you're hearing are your thoughts via the mind and mouth of Glenn Beck.
01:24:18.940
Glenn, we had a comment come in from a listener.
01:24:21.940
There is no E or I at the end of Nikola in the name Nikola Tesla.
01:24:26.940
You keep calling him Nikolai or like Nikolai Chichescu, but that is not his name.
01:24:44.940
Who expects me to get a name right on this program?
01:24:50.940
You've never, I've never, it's never, that's not on my resume is one of my strengths.
01:24:56.940
In fact, even with people that you know, I mean, you know, how many times, how many times
01:25:01.940
has Jason Buttrill been on the program over the years?
01:25:04.940
I don't know who that is, but he, he, it's usually happens when Jason Buttrill is in
01:25:09.940
the room and, uh, you think you'd know his name.
01:25:19.940
Another example of why Glenn Beck is in the radio hall of fame.
01:25:31.940
No, you were with me the first time, the first time we interviewed George H.W. Bush,
01:25:47.940
And like, you know, again, and Trump, I think has a different vibe to him.
01:25:52.940
I mean, we've talked to him obviously several times, but it's still your interview.
01:25:55.940
I, you know, I've never, and same thing with George H.W. Bush.
01:25:57.940
We went to his house in Kennebunkport to do an interview and I had to get all the technical
01:26:02.940
stuff, all equipment that was brand new out of the box we'd never used before.
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And I spent all night getting it ready to record this interview.
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And I had the regular and last minute we added a backup just in case.
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After, after all night testing it, I was terrified.
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I didn't even tell you that we were having all these problems during the interview.
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01:29:20.700
Well, I'm pleased to have a good friend in studio, Andrew Klavan.
01:29:27.300
He's the host of The Andrew Klavan Show, and he's the author of a book I'm too stupid to understand.
01:29:34.440
I can say that because he's a friend, and he'll talk down to me without any loss of friendship.
01:29:41.200
The Kingdom of Cain, which we are joined by Andrew Klavan here in just a second.
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Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan program, the Andrew Klavan Show.
01:31:14.820
I don't think I've seen you out of your element.
01:31:32.200
And you, I got to tell you, the best compliment I can give you is your son is remarkable.
01:31:37.640
And, you know, I hope someday somebody will say that about my children.
01:31:47.260
So tell me about The Kingdom of Cain and talk down to me.
01:31:51.660
It's a really simple book and very entertaining because it's about the movies that we all love.
01:31:58.080
Let me read this to you, Stuart, and see if you understand what this is.
01:32:01.940
The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history, including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel,
01:32:06.960
and at the art created from imaginative engagement from those horrific events by artists ranging from Dosyevsky to Hitchcock to make beauty out of the world as it is shot through with evil and injustice and suffering.
01:32:19.840
It is the task not just of the artist, but Klavan argues of every life rightly lived.
01:32:27.180
Examining how the transformation occurs in art grants us a vision on how it can happen in our lives.
01:32:32.460
I don't know what you're missing, but that was perfect.
01:32:47.860
You write about prostitutes and gangsters and all this stuff.
01:32:53.320
I believe that God is a central fact of reality.
01:32:55.800
And I believe that any artist who speaks truthfully about reality will speak about God.
01:33:01.220
And so what I did was I took three murders, three very famous murders, and I showed how they inspired works of art over and over and over again.
01:33:10.960
They were, you know, not just one work of art, but they kept coming back and those works of art inspired other works of art.
01:33:16.300
And how those works of art actually speak about something that happens to a society when it begins to lose its faith, as our society has certainly done, you know.
01:33:29.520
And some of them are just – some of them are like the stupidest little horror movie.
01:33:32.900
And yet the guy who was making that horror movie understood what he was talking about and can show you – if you go back, for instance, and watch a slasher movie like Halloween, which is actually quite a good little scary movie, it actually is about the fall of the end of faith and how that destroys sexual responsibilities.
01:33:55.780
It takes place in a suburb where there are no moms and the dads are very weak.
01:33:59.260
And this knife-wielding crazy man comes back and basically prays on kids having sex while nobody's watching them.
01:34:09.280
I'll bet if you asked the director what he was doing, he would tell you that because it's right in the movie when you notice it.
01:34:16.640
And the thing is, these movies are – not just movies, but novels, the arts really reveal the conscience of a culture.
01:34:27.080
And so taking the way that they look at murder tells us things that are bad about our culture.
01:34:32.920
But it also tells us about ways that we want to go in the future.
01:34:36.640
The role, for instance, of psychiatrists in these films.
01:34:40.800
Most of these films are based on murder committed by Ed Gein in the 1950s.
01:34:44.740
There's a guy in Wisconsin who used to kill women, right, and then dress up in their bodies just like in Silence of the Lambs.
01:34:53.180
It inspired a really good horror movie called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
01:34:57.740
Even though it's a crazy title, it's actually a good movie.
01:35:02.580
All of these movies grow out of that one murder.
01:35:05.900
It's about confusion, about sexual – about gender, you know?
01:35:08.680
We don't see a lot of that going around nowadays.
01:35:13.540
These movies were being made in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s and on.
01:35:18.960
And so they were predicting, as art often does, what was going to happen and explaining why.
01:35:23.700
So do you think these – do you think Alfred Hitchcock knew that this was coming or was he just making a good – he was a good storyteller?
01:35:32.720
T.S. Eliot said a great poet writes himself, and in writing himself, he writes his time.
01:35:39.240
These artists basically bring something out of themselves, but it reveals where we all are, and that reveals where we're going, right?
01:35:45.440
If you see where we are, you can tell where we're going.
01:35:48.380
And that's why the book does not just concentrate on the darkness.
01:35:55.040
Now that we know what's happening, how do you react to those things in a creative, joyful way?
01:36:01.440
Because this is what – look, the Bible doesn't say things are going to be great, right?
01:36:04.580
The Bible says, yeah, if God comes, we crucify.
01:36:09.320
And yet at the same time, it says rejoice evermore.
01:36:11.620
And so one of the things that really bothers me about Christian movies is they don't really represent life.
01:36:18.620
They're all – if you do a Christian movie that has real things in it, you get slammed.
01:36:27.840
One of the major influences that turned me to Christ when I was 19 years old, it took three decades to kick in,
01:36:34.260
but it was reading Crime and Punishment, the great novel by Dostoevsky about an axe murder
01:36:39.360
and about a prostitute who basically turns this axe murderer's life around.
01:36:44.320
If you walked into a Christian bookstore today and said,
01:36:47.220
can I have that book about the axe murderer and the hooker?
01:36:52.920
But because Dostoevsky was a great artist and a great Christian,
01:36:56.540
one of the truly deep and interesting Christians in history,
01:37:00.260
he revealed something about the philosophies that were rising up at that time
01:37:04.980
and that are still with us today, the philosophies that later became spoken out by Nietzsche,
01:37:11.240
and Nietzsche affected all of the leftist philosophers that you and I love so much
01:37:15.360
and have done so many good things through our society.
01:37:18.400
So let's pretend somebody didn't read that by Dostoevsky or whatever his name is
01:37:24.680
and tell us the story and exactly what he was teaching.
01:37:34.480
Well, the idea was that God is dead, God is gone,
01:37:37.900
and therefore instead of having this horrible Christian philosophy
01:37:42.280
that is nice to the poor and the weak and has charity and compassion,
01:37:46.520
we need strong special men like Napoleon, for instance,
01:37:51.720
And this man in the story, Crime and Punishment, says,
01:37:54.860
well, if I can make my own law, I can murder somebody and it won't be a sin,
01:38:03.000
And then he actually accomplishes this murder and finds,
01:38:06.900
oh, wait, oh, wait, I have actually shattered the moral order
01:38:12.640
Now, Nietzsche wrote his philosophy, which was the exact philosophy in this book,
01:38:19.440
And then his philosophy inspired two murderers in America named Leopold and Loeb.
01:38:24.880
This was called the Crime of the Century, the Crime of the 20th Century.
01:38:28.820
I know, nobody remembers it now, but it was one of the biggest crimes of the century.
01:38:33.480
It inspired countless movies and television shows.
01:38:39.180
They were rich, gay, Jewish kids in the suburbs.
01:38:53.740
And they decided, well, we're supermen like Nietzsche.
01:38:58.100
They read Nietzsche and they thought, yes, this is what we want to be, one of them.
01:39:01.380
And we're going to commit the perfect murder just to show that we can do it.
01:39:04.200
And so they just picked a kid at random who they knew and took him out and killed him.
01:39:11.100
And Rope became the Hitchcock film and also inspired Compulsion is another movie, is almost
01:39:18.620
And it just pops up again and again, two people who say, we're going to commit the perfect
01:39:23.560
If you look for it, you'll find it in one story after another.
01:39:27.160
And it's based on the idea that there's no God and therefore anything is permissible
01:39:32.420
That's one of the best movies of Hitchcock and nobody even knows it.
01:39:42.760
And written, the original play was written by the guy who also wrote a play called Gaslight,
01:39:49.020
And so I talk all about these works of art and these works of movies.
01:39:53.960
And listen, I think it's an entertaining book, Glenn.
01:40:00.180
I mean, you know, most people, if you don't know who Andrew Klavan is, you've written movies.
01:40:04.620
I mean, you've written some just thrilling novels and novels that have been made into movies.
01:40:13.020
But I mean, you know, you are talking to mice here.
01:40:17.100
Well, I try to just make it about things that people like and enjoy.
01:40:22.660
So what is the lesson that we learn from all of this?
01:40:29.260
Well, I think the most important lesson, if I can call it that in the book, is that beauty
01:40:39.340
You know, one of the things that keeps people from believing in God, they say there's so
01:40:48.660
And at the end of the book, the last third of the book, which is a very personal statement
01:40:52.700
about what I do to basically live joyfully in a world that I can see as evil, it ends
01:40:57.780
with looking at the Pieta, the statue by Michelangelo, that is one of the most beautiful works of
01:41:14.400
And yet, Michelangelo, a man, made it beautiful.
01:41:17.640
And my question at the end of the book is, if a man can take that misery, that suffering,
01:41:23.040
that evil, and turn it into beauty, what can God do with the world that we're living in
01:41:30.960
And so I work my way to that point by going through the movies that we watch and the stories
01:41:36.760
that we read and why we're so fascinated with murder.
01:41:42.980
Because it is the borderline where you cannot say there's something right about this.
01:41:48.580
It's the place where we suddenly realize that the moral order has its gray points, but it
01:41:56.400
So explain to me, explain to me why shows like, let's say, Yellowstone are so satisfying because
01:42:07.460
you're kind of like, I kind of like seeing that guy take into the train station.
01:42:14.000
You know that it's wrong, but you're kind of in there.
01:42:17.660
You're kind of like, you know, and you feel, at least I do.
01:42:21.820
I mean, I'm sure a lot of people watching, they're like, ah, that's fine.
01:42:25.460
I'm like, I don't like the fact that I kind of, I'm rooting for them.
01:42:30.480
It makes you think like, yeah, I'm really enjoying this, but that actually tells me something
01:42:33.700
about myself that now I have to go and think about.
01:42:35.540
And that's what art, see, you see, a lot of people think that art is like a sugar pill that
01:42:39.240
they use to give you a little lesson in life, a little parable sort of.
01:42:44.660
I think it's an experience that you really can't have in your life that broadens the way
01:42:50.340
you look at life, broadens your view of humanity.
01:42:52.540
And so when you get Christian stories like, God is not dead, I don't want to pick on anybody,
01:42:59.080
The guy is hit by a car and everybody says, well, at least he was saved.
01:43:03.560
And I think really, we can't just say, you can't call his wife first and say this is
01:43:07.160
a sad moment, you know, that we grieve when people die.
01:43:12.320
We can't say we're horrified by death and afraid, you know.
01:43:15.920
So I want Christian art that deals with life in a real way that shows people are afraid
01:43:21.540
and people have evil thoughts and people want to justify murder.
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And there are moments when we all sort of think, look, if you go off into a room by yourself
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Within two minutes, so help me, you will be committing mass murder in your mind.
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And we say, well, first I got rid of these people because these people can't be reformed.
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And when we start to see that, I believe that that's actually a layer on top of who we
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I believe who we really are is who Christ wants us to be, this loving person.
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They show us our true selves and they lead our conscience to the place that it's supposed
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And then we're encapsulated in this flesh and the natural man is an enemy to that.
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You know, one of the stories I mentioned in the Kingdom of Cain is Macbeth because it's
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And it ends with the most beautiful speech about nihilism, about things, nothing makes
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But because you're watching the play, you understand that Shakespeare's not saying that.
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A guy who has detached himself from the moral order is saying that he's lost the meaning
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And so studying murder and writing art about murder takes you to the most serious questions
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about who we are and who we really are and what we really want and how we, you know,
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So doing this kind of research on history, art, murder, societal mischief, you have to have seen the patterns that keep repeating.
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I think this is the most important moment in the culture in either of our lifetimes.
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Yeah, I think that a very natural – you know, people have to follow – people in general, if you take them as the big picture, they have to follow an idea to its furthest extent.
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And basically when Newton said, you know, things don't actually work by magic.
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It was very natural to extrapolate from that, to move on from that and say, well, we don't really need a God.
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And then you had Darwin saying, you don't even need, you know, God to create people.
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They just kind of grow up out of this accidental process that goes on.
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Now, that idea doesn't really make sense, and Newton didn't believe it, certainly.
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But it had to work itself out, and it took centuries.
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And over those centuries, our faith has vanished.
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Even the people who believe don't really believe in the way people believed when they believed.
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You know, they don't actually see God everywhere, which is my big argument about – if there's a God, you can see him.
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I mean, this is – everything is the expression of his nature.
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But the thing is, the science is now about 100 years behind, because the science has changed.
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And one of the things that even the greatest theoretical physicists have said is there is a spirit behind matter.
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There must be – our minds create part of reality.
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So there must have been a mind to create reality.
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We begin to find that actually the world looks a lot like the Bible said it does.
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And so a lot of those people who were saying, you know, I think the Bible has more truth in it than people say it does, were absolutely right.
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Now, because we lost that, we lost even a sense that our bodies meant something.
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If I cut her up and make her into a make-believe man, she'll be a man.
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If I, you know, castrate this child, you know, I can make him into a little girl.
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I mean, that's not even a, you know, rational thing to say.
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If there's no God and we are just bodies, just pieces of flesh, then why not turn a male body into a female body and call it a girl?
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The answer to my friend Matt Walsh's question, what is a woman, is actually a spiritual answer.
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A woman is something – what a soul becomes when she has a woman – when she's born with a woman's body.
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And so if we don't start talking about spirit again, I mean, I think all of us, everybody uses terms like it's an adrenaline rush or it's, you know, as if the chemical were causing our experience.
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But the chemical is just a messenger bringing the experience to the body.
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If we can start to learn that actually our faith was real and see the world that way again, this will be one of the great turning points in the right direction.
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And, in fact, we will make America great again.
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I've been talking to you for a while now about the Berna launcher.
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You know, what do you do when you find yourself in a situation that demands personal protection but, you know, doesn't necessarily call for lethal force?
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When you get a Berna, it fires kinetic and tear gas rounds, and it'll take all the fight out of the aggressor.
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I mean, you're going to have time to call the police.
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The police will have time, depending on what city.
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If you're in a blue city or a blue state, nah, police aren't going to show up in 45 minutes.
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But, you know, 45 minutes, your attacker is down.
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Berna has just introduced the Compact Launcher.
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It's got some power behind it, and it will stop somebody in their tracks, and you hit them with tear gas within six feet.
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Hit Glenn's complete interview with Donald Trump at BlazeTV dot com slash Glenn.
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We're with Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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He's also the author of a book called The Kingdom of Cain, how we can find God through life's darkest moments.
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I mean, I went through some of the darkest things.
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I mean, I would not wish my life on anybody, you know, the bad parts of my life on anybody.
01:52:00.840
It's because of that my relationship with God is much different and much deeper.
01:52:05.240
See, this is why I think good Christian art is so important because I had a character in one novel, True Crime, who said you have to believe in a God of the sad world.
01:52:15.800
And this was before I became a Christian because if you don't believe in a God of the sad world, the sadness is going to kill you.
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When the sadness is going to – if you think, you know, those guys who preach prosperity, that everything's going to go great if you just believe, then when you hit that wall, that wall of suffering that Christ knew about and talks about and tells you it's coming, then suddenly you lose your faith.
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And so I really want art – I want art that's just honest, that just shows you life as it is because I think God will speak through that.
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I don't think you even – I think even artists who don't believe create holy art if they are truthful.
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You know, a lot of them aren't, but when they are, you will find God in art.
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And I think the arts – in some ways, the arts have taught me almost as much about God as theology has because we live in an authored world.
01:53:05.760
You know, we live in a world that is a work of art in a sense.
01:53:09.540
I was in one of the art – the Smithsonian Art Museum, American Art and Portraiture.
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Well, this is one of the things I really like about Trump is that he's the first president to notice it and to sort of say, we've got to get a new guy in the Smithsonian.
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We've got to get a new guy at the National Gallery, which I'm in all the time.
01:53:36.020
And, you know, all of our president's homes have been taken over by these people.
01:53:40.600
You know, I'm interested in how the slaves lived at Mount Vernon, but I'm not at Mount Vernon because George Washington lived there.
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And that's the main thing you want to hear about.
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I mean, these are great men who lived in their times.
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And like all of us, they partook of the violence and evil of their times, as we all do.
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I mean, I can't believe the same people who say slavery is, you know, so bad and I would have stood up against it.
01:54:11.200
I mean, don't lecture me about people 200 years ago when you're doing the same thing.
01:54:15.880
If you say you would have stood up against slavery then, why aren't you standing up against it now just by saying, I will not buy any products from China?
01:54:24.860
This is the introduction to the kingdom of Cain.
01:54:27.740
This is exactly, yes, what it says is, look, this is what we, you know that movie, The Zone of Interests, where the guy, it's about a guy who's running a death camp, based on a true story,
01:54:36.100
about a guy running a death camp, and he lives in a little, beautiful little house right off the death camp with his wife and his kid.
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And I say at the beginning of The Kingdom of Cain, I say we all live in The Zone of Interests.
01:54:49.360
We're all living in a nice little house knowing we're surrounded by evil and not really, we're not really doing anything about it.
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You know, people like you and I, we speak up about it.
01:55:00.700
I mean, you know, I know where it's coming from.
01:55:02.740
I beat myself up about this all the time, Andrew.
01:55:05.800
It's like, you know, you think you do so much, and then you really haven't.
01:55:14.200
That's why when they say rejoice over more, you think like, wait, now?
01:55:20.360
And that's why, for instance, when people get up and say, oh, we're standing on land owned by the Indians, I think, well, if you're not giving it back, you don't have to bring it up.
01:55:33.340
I'd just like to point out, they stole it from somebody else.
01:55:44.940
Well, I always laugh about you and me because you're like the mask of tragedy.
01:55:53.460
I'm kind of appalled at the way, not the way the left.
01:56:01.280
But I'm a little bit appalled about the way the right is covering Trump as if everything he does has to work today.
01:56:06.980
Because China is a slave state, Xi can sit around and say, the president of China can sit around and say, I've got a 20-year plan we're going to institute to take over the world.
01:56:18.480
Like with Trump, it's supposed to work by the end of business day today.
01:56:25.600
And they even bring up things like, oh, retirees.
01:56:30.720
But if you are doing what Trump is trying to do, which is rejigger our economy so that we can stand up to China in the years to come, that's a big thing to do.
01:56:39.660
You know, to pluck out this cancer of bureaucracy that has basically overridden the Constitution is not easy.
01:56:46.020
And I hear people saying, oh, these people are being fired and it's sad.
01:56:52.380
You know, there's always somebody who's being hurt.
01:56:54.060
But that bureaucracy is the worst thing in this country.
01:56:57.580
You know, it is just a terrible – it has glued the gears of democracy together.
01:57:03.960
And I think that, you know, it's not that the bureaucrats themselves are all bad.
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Some of them are lovely people doing as good a job as they can.
01:57:11.780
But the structure where the Senate and the House do nothing and just say, yeah, that agency is going to take care of it, that's a recipe for slavery.
01:57:21.420
And so Elon Musk is now a supervillain, you know, instead of one of the most creative people around him.
01:57:25.840
I mean, because it's – I don't know how you get to a place from here where, you know, we all know and even the president knows.
01:57:35.520
I don't have this moving in the right direction.
01:57:41.780
So I think – like I remember Reagan came in and when you try to get rid of the kind of inflation, stagflation we had, you have to increase unemployment.
01:57:50.740
And so Reagan was not that popular in the first year.
01:57:53.260
But by – and I think he lost in the midterms.
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But by the time his first term was over, he won like every – there was like three guys who didn't vote for him.
01:58:04.860
And so I'm kind of hoping that's going to happen this time.
01:58:07.060
And I actually have a small bet, and I've been right a lot about Trump after I kind of caught on to who he was.
01:58:13.860
I have a small bet he's going to win the midterms.
01:58:15.520
And I think that that is going to be a really interesting turn of events.
01:58:27.440
Because I think the things that he's doing are right, but I don't think they're instantaneous.
01:58:33.000
I think that he is actually on the right track.
01:58:35.160
We should be – you know, people say, oh, he's got tariffs.
01:58:39.060
And you think, well, if tariffs are bad, why are they on us, you know?
01:58:42.960
If it's such a great thing to have a trade deficit, how come no one else has one except us?
01:58:48.080
How come they're not fighting for a trade deficit as well?
01:58:50.360
So I think what he's trying to say is that World War II is a long time ago.
01:58:56.180
You know, after World War II, not only were our enemies in ruins, but our competitors were in ruins.
01:59:04.900
And even a little bit – we got a little bit of that hit after the Soviet Union came down.
01:59:14.720
And that doesn't work if Europe is sitting around going, oh, we have health care.
01:59:18.340
We don't have to protect ourselves from China and Russia.
01:59:23.520
Those savages don't have health care so they can afford to take care of us.
01:59:26.920
Well, no, that's not the way it's going to work anymore.
01:59:29.040
We can't be in a situation where China – we can fight China as long as China will sell us the bullets, basically.
01:59:42.520
Well, after a generation of watching superhero movies, I do not know.
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You know, that is something that really bothers me.
01:59:47.940
Somebody once asked me, why do you hate superhero movies?
01:59:50.240
And I say, because there's no sex and death in them.
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And that's kind of what life is about, you know.
01:59:58.020
You know, this is a time – I'm going to say this.
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I'll probably be hit by some bolt of lightning.
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This is a time when men have to stand up and say, yes, it is sad that people are being fired.
02:00:10.300
Yes, it's sad that the stock market is dropping for a little while.
02:00:14.780
This is the kind of thing that men say to women, basically, to calm them down and we go forward.
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I think that this is a time for that kind of cool, calm, collected idea that certain steps have to be taken.
02:00:31.060
That's what the president said to me yesterday.
02:00:38.620
And he said, if I don't do it, I don't see anybody on the horizon that will.
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And, you know, I had somebody who is, you know, in the vicinity of, you know, our economy.
02:01:01.520
And I don't want to out them for saying anything, but they were in the vicinity of our economy and would know.
02:01:08.720
And I talked to them before the Trump interview.
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And I said, you know, I have a feeling that people don't really understand how much trouble we're really in, you know, because no president has told you the truth.
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All it was like, oh, no, we can just keep living this way.
02:01:35.080
And the individual reached out and put their hand on my shoulder.
02:01:38.260
Now, this is somebody who is, you know, right in the mix.
02:01:41.960
Put their hand on my shoulder and looked me in the eye and said, no, Glenn, we're done.
02:01:47.040
Like I, when I said we're done, wasn't deep enough of the understanding.
02:01:51.780
No, no, Glenn, we are done if this doesn't work.
02:01:56.320
And I don't think people have that understanding yet.
02:02:03.200
And there is no way to pull away from the table.
02:02:05.640
Our chair has been pushed in by us for too long.
02:02:09.940
We have not been willing to put our chips down on the table and let the game just keep going and us not really playing for it.
02:02:16.340
Now it's now we have a serious player down at the table saying, you know, we're going to lose everything unless I play.
02:02:22.360
And you trust me as a card player right now to read the room right and take our money back off the table.
02:02:33.460
Yeah, because I mean, this is the this was the revelation of COVID, right?
02:02:36.220
The revelation of COVID was our elites don't know what they're doing and they don't and they don't care about the things they said they care about.
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And they lie to us and they want us to be quiet.
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And in order to get that country back, part of it is economic.
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I mean, you know, nobody talks about well, that's not true.
02:03:00.020
And people are killing themselves from despair so much that for a while until until a few months ago, it was bringing down life expectancy because people were taking drugs and drinking themselves to death.
02:03:18.600
My wife and I were walking down the street of Washington, D.C. yesterday or two days ago.
02:03:23.340
And this guy comes up on a bike, black man on a bike, probably 30 years old, looks normal enough.
02:03:32.620
And then he starts circling us on one of these big sidewalks and he starts shouting at us.
02:03:41.920
I promised myself today was the day I was going to kill me a white man.
02:03:47.880
And what he doesn't realize, I have two other people that are just behind us with guns.
02:03:53.480
But he was just I don't know what he was doing.
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Well, when you see all the homelessness, they they make believe it's because they don't have enough houses.
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That's all almost all mental illness and drug use.
02:04:12.600
I mean, I think we're living we have lived through a mentally ill century.
02:04:16.780
I think the things that people say, the things that they believe are nuts.
02:04:20.680
And I think if we don't start to say, you know, I mean, you kind of see it with the Democrats as they scramble to get back power.
02:04:26.720
And they say the first thing we have to do is we have to bring back a gang member from prison and import him back into the country.
02:04:32.540
Because we're a horrible thing that we're doing this.
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You know, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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Well, I guess we'll give you a minute to let all that sink in.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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If you would like to watch the interview that I did with the president yesterday from the White House,
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Otherwise, 6 p.m. tonight on YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck.
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Our two favorite teams are picking right next to each other.
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Yours is picking 31st, and mine's picking 32nd.
02:07:45.880
I wonder, do we have a reason why are they in that particular order?
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I don't remember because the Eagles are picking last in the draft,
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Yeah, I think the rules state Philadelphia sucks.
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Yeah, and so they want to give you the last shot.
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They haven't burned the city down in weeks, Glenn, so come on.
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Well, they just wanted to make sure that the place that lost Andy Reid goes after the place
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They're like, hey, Andy Reid, he's such a great guy.
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But that's a whole other story for another day, Glenn.
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And too bad we're out of time to pursue that tourist story today.
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If you did miss the presidential interview, it was a great one.
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Or tonight at 6 on YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck.