The Glenn Beck Program - April 20, 2018


'Believing in People, Not Institutions ' - 4⧸20⧸18


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1 hour and 52 minutes

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In light of the release of James Comey's memos, Glenn and I discuss what we can learn from them and what we should be worried about from them. Glenn explains why he thinks James Comey should have been fired and why he should have resigned.

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00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand.
00:00:10.940 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.
00:00:17.820 The Comey memos, they were finally delivered. Congress had them in their hands.
00:00:23.420 So, of course, those hands passed them immediately to the press.
00:00:30.080 In record time, literally within minutes, Nancy Pelosi quickly tweeted last night regarding the contents of the memos,
00:00:37.040 quote, the release of the hashtag Comey memos are further proof of at real Donald Trump's contempt for the rule of law.
00:00:46.160 His attempts to intimidate, circumvent the law and undermine the integrity of law enforcement investigations
00:00:52.380 demand immediate action to protect the Mueller investigation.
00:00:56.360 Hashtag follow the facts.
00:01:00.020 Now, maybe Pelosi got her hands on a group of different memos because we've all read the 15 page leak
00:01:08.480 and I don't find what she's describing.
00:01:12.900 In fact, it appears to me to be kind of the opposite.
00:01:15.440 Comey's memos cover conversations with the president from January 7th to April 11th, 2017.
00:01:23.760 And Comey has hinted that these conversations would prove that the president was guilty of a crime.
00:01:30.080 In fact, they wouldn't release these to the Congress because, well, it would hurt the investigation.
00:01:37.660 I don't wear how because I don't see collusion and I don't see obstruction in almost every single memo.
00:01:47.520 There are three topics that routinely pop up.
00:01:50.120 The first one, the Russian hookers and the infamous, you know, golden showers rumor. 1.00
00:01:54.560 The president seemed really worried about that and not because he thought it was true, but because how embarrassing it looked.
00:02:02.740 Also, you know, I think Melania was probably a little upset, even if she knew it was untrue to have this said about your husband
00:02:15.620 and have half of the country believe this stuff had to have been upsetting.
00:02:22.400 The second thing, Comey notes that the president was really worried about the leaks.
00:02:27.680 He should be both in the FBI and in the West Wing.
00:02:31.060 Now, to me, if you didn't laugh out loud when you read this line from Comey, you have absolutely no sense of irony.
00:02:43.240 Quote, I told the president that I was reliable in one way, but not in the way political people sometimes use the term.
00:02:52.060 I explained that he could count on me to always tell the truth.
00:02:55.940 I said, I don't do sneaky things.
00:02:59.400 I don't leak.
00:03:01.080 I don't do weasel moves.
00:03:04.780 No, no, no, not at all.
00:03:08.680 I just I just leak this stuff and then write a book about it.
00:03:12.840 Was Comey setting up the ultimate scenario for literary students in universities all over the world to understand the term poetic justice?
00:03:22.300 Because within a few months of telling the president he's reliable, he doesn't leak.
00:03:26.520 He's not a weasel.
00:03:28.100 He's both leaking these conversations to the press and writing a tell all book.
00:03:34.100 And lastly, the third and most common topic Comey mentions in the memos were mentions, any mention at all, that might have made reference to his job.
00:03:51.260 He seemed a little worried about that.
00:03:55.180 The president never appeared ready or willing to fire him, but Comey seems overly hypersensitive to it.
00:04:05.360 So what do we learn from this?
00:04:07.460 I don't think anything.
00:04:08.680 I really don't.
00:04:09.360 I would say that Comey's memos were just as disappointing and uneventful as one of his press conferences.
00:04:16.020 But that wouldn't be entirely true, because out of the seven total memos, four of them have been redacted and classified.
00:04:26.600 Three of them are not.
00:04:28.580 Remember these numbers.
00:04:30.560 Four have been redacted.
00:04:33.380 Three have not.
00:04:36.580 What does that mean?
00:04:37.980 That means that there is hypersensitive, top secret information in four of the messages, memos.
00:04:48.800 Three don't have that classification.
00:04:53.280 Well, Comey allegedly leaked four of these memos to his friend in order to be given to the press.
00:05:00.260 That means, at the very minimum, one of those memos was classified.
00:05:08.640 Oh, wait a minute.
00:05:10.760 Wait a minute.
00:05:12.160 But he's so careful.
00:05:13.940 He wouldn't have done anything like that.
00:05:16.160 You're right.
00:05:17.460 You're right.
00:05:18.800 Neither would the Secretary of State.
00:05:21.540 Uh-oh.
00:05:22.280 Wait a minute.
00:05:22.920 Is this the smoking gun that is really coming out of these memos?
00:05:30.260 Ricky Ricardo used to say it all the time.
00:05:32.960 You've got some splainin' to do.
00:05:42.920 It's Friday, April 20th.
00:05:45.160 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:05:47.480 Oh, this is going to be a good day to have Bill O'Reilly on.
00:05:51.000 Bill O'Reilly's on in about 55 minutes or so.
00:05:54.960 And I've got to get right to this.
00:05:57.980 Page 10 of the memos.
00:05:59.340 Here we go.
00:06:00.260 He then pivoted to the Russians wanting an apology from Bill O'Reilly.
00:06:05.140 I said I had seen that and O'Reilly's reply, which was to call him in 2023.
00:06:12.360 The president then said O'Reilly's question about whether he respected Putin had been a hard one.
00:06:18.400 He said he does respect the leader of a major country and thought that it was the best answer.
00:06:23.980 He said, you think my answer was good, right?
00:06:26.760 I said the answer was fine, except the part of the killers, because we aren't the kind of killers that Putin is.
00:06:33.520 When I said this, the president paused noticeably.
00:06:36.480 I didn't know what to make of it, but he clearly noticed that I had directly criticized him.
00:06:41.160 I can't wait to talk to Bill O'Reilly because he brings it up every week.
00:06:47.100 He does.
00:06:47.500 Every week is like, and you know, another thing, Bill, what do you think about putting?
00:06:53.260 Well, when I was talking to the president in my interview after the Super Bowl, I criticized his thinking about Putin.
00:07:01.180 And I also like chocolate pudding, so he's going to he's going to have a lot to say about this today.
00:07:09.820 And I can't wait to get his his take.
00:07:12.000 What is your take on the memos?
00:07:13.680 I mean, I don't think there's much that's new in there.
00:07:15.800 I mean, for all the beating that Comey has taken for selling the book, you just made that point, which I think is legitimate.
00:07:22.400 You know, I mean, people have been critical of him as far as trying to make money off of this that gets fair.
00:07:28.740 But on the other side of it, if his goal was solely to make money off of this, he has a terrible rollout of this material because he this is all just supporting evidence to what he said when he was in front of Congress.
00:07:41.760 He's already testified about everything that seemingly is in the book.
00:07:45.080 I have not read the book yet.
00:07:46.800 I've only seen the excerpts, but nothing that I've seen in the excerpts have led me to anything new.
00:07:51.760 And these memos, I mean, I guess you could look at them if you are a Comey supporter and say, OK, I mean, they look like it.
00:07:58.340 Was there a doubt when you were reading them that this stuff happened?
00:08:01.000 No.
00:08:01.420 I mean, it seems like they were legitimately what happened in these meetings and and most importantly, his impressions, not facts, but his impressions of of what happened in those conversations.
00:08:12.460 So he seems to be highlighting things he felt were important in the conversation and how he felt about them.
00:08:18.200 Right.
00:08:18.420 That's, I guess, what you do when you're making a contemporaneous memo.
00:08:21.980 Yeah, but can I pause there for a second?
00:08:24.200 Sure.
00:08:24.440 Your Honor, may I approach the bench?
00:08:25.440 You may.
00:08:25.940 Yes.
00:08:27.580 He's well known for making contemporaneous memos, right?
00:08:31.320 He is.
00:08:34.420 Are there memos about his meetings with Lynch and Clinton?
00:08:39.100 I think he did address that again in a previous conversation.
00:08:44.840 I believe he I believe he said he did not.
00:08:48.800 Yeah.
00:08:49.380 Because he did not think of them as he didn't think he was going to be a dishonest conversation that the person would later lie about what what was said.
00:09:00.900 So he believed he he had a distrust believed for Hillary Clinton and Loretta Lynch.
00:09:08.740 He believed them and thought, well, they'll never be doing anything.
00:09:12.580 She Hillary Clinton. 0.97
00:09:14.860 I mean, he complimented Lynch specifically saying she was nice, but less competent, I think, was was the was the general vibe than Eric Holder.
00:09:23.560 But again, she he worked for he's worked for Republicans and Democrats.
00:09:26.660 Yeah, I know he didn't.
00:09:27.780 He also didn't seemingly make those memos about George W.
00:09:30.640 Bush.
00:09:31.420 Right.
00:09:31.660 So I guess you could you could you could make I don't know, you know, again, I don't know.
00:09:37.060 I guess I guess if you just you know, if you if you look at the president and say the guy is a serial liar, then you start to you start to make the memos.
00:09:46.880 But if you don't if you don't also think that Hillary Clinton in the midst of an investigation about leaking secret documents that that might be used and turned around by Hillary Clinton and her operatives, you're you're an idiot, particularly when you're the one that's gone through an investigation in which you've called her extremely careless.
00:10:10.020 And you've dealt with the Clintons for a long time.
00:10:15.780 You know, there's a new book coming out by an author who was embedded in the Clinton campaign.
00:10:22.800 And they and this is from a mainstream journalist, not a conservative, obviously, talking about how Biden wanted to run and decided partially not to because he knew he would be destroyed by the Clintons.
00:10:40.680 And that's, you know, you know, if Joe Biden, a theoretical ally in every circumstance, except a primary, it feels that way.
00:10:50.440 You'd have to believe that Comey, after going through an investigation that could, you know, hurt Clinton's chances at the presidency would feel that way.
00:10:57.620 Can I say anything?
00:10:58.680 You can.
00:10:59.100 Here's the truth.
00:10:59.940 If I may, if I may quote the Daily Beast, no one in modern politics, male or female, has had to withstand more indignities and setbacks and criticism and cynicism.
00:11:12.860 She's developed a protective armor that made the real Hillary Clinton an enigma. 1.00
00:11:18.360 There is no real Hillary Clinton. 0.96
00:11:20.920 I love that, too.
00:11:21.500 It's it's it's it's not her fault.
00:11:23.160 Yeah, it's not her fault.
00:11:23.900 She can't communicate who she is.
00:11:25.580 It's the fault of everyone else who just can't see.
00:11:28.380 No, no, no, no.
00:11:29.360 I'm going to go.
00:11:30.060 I'm may I I'm going to go a little I'm going to go a little farther.
00:11:35.020 You were just talking about how Biden has confided off the record that he wanted to run.
00:11:41.760 But quite you don't understand these people.
00:11:44.060 The Clintons will try to destroy me.
00:11:46.700 OK.
00:11:48.160 But Hillary Clinton on election night, quote, they were never going to let me be president. 1.00
00:11:54.380 Oh, my God.
00:11:58.140 Steep state.
00:11:59.700 Steep state.
00:12:00.600 All aligned against Hillary. 0.96
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00:13:52.600 Glenn Beck, Mercury.
00:14:02.020 Glenn Beck.
00:14:05.740 Hey, just a personal note.
00:14:08.020 Our good friend Pat Gray has been in and out of the hospital for the last few days, and we would just ask for your prayers for him and his family.
00:14:17.400 I saw him last night, and he's doing well, but he's had a rough week.
00:14:22.740 He's had a really rough week.
00:14:25.720 He went into the hospital for some pain, thought it was kidney stones.
00:14:34.700 It wasn't.
00:14:35.920 He had to have surgery.
00:14:38.660 He was in full-fledged kidney failure.
00:14:41.260 Oh, my God.
00:14:42.180 And he went into the hospital, like, at 6.30.
00:14:45.960 He was out and under the knife by nine, and he's doing fine.
00:14:53.700 They corrected everything, but it's been a bad week for Pat.
00:15:02.080 Oh, my God.
00:15:02.900 So please keep him in your prayers.
00:15:05.300 He is on the mend and doing well, but it's weird because he's, you know,
00:15:12.180 Pat, at one point, because he gets injections in his back, steroid injections in his back like I do, and you don't take those, you know, without anesthesia.
00:15:23.760 You know, they're jamming needles into your back, and he didn't want to ask anybody to drive him home because you can't drive home after that,
00:15:33.740 and so he decided to forego the anesthesia.
00:15:38.880 We go to the same doctor, and the doctor was like, I've never seen anything like it.
00:15:42.600 It was crazy.
00:15:43.980 I begged him not to do it, but he didn't want to bother anybody, so we haven't really known what's been going on with Pat.
00:15:50.320 We've been getting bits and pieces, and I went over last night, and I'm like, okay, dude, what is happening?
00:15:55.480 And he didn't know for most of the week, but he's doing much better.
00:16:00.760 Oh, good.
00:16:01.280 But, and out of the woods, I think, yesterday, I think he took a turn for the better, but it was a little touch and go, so.
00:16:08.740 I think the risk with Pat is that he's in such terrible pain all the time that if you have a sudden increase in pain, he just thinks it's normal.
00:16:18.400 Yeah.
00:16:18.620 So, you know, he probably doesn't rush to the hospital.
00:16:21.380 I don't think I've ever seen anybody in more constant pain than Pat.
00:16:24.220 Yeah, major back problems.
00:16:26.360 Yeah, I've known him since 1989.
00:16:29.500 His first back surgery was the year I met him, you know, so he's been in agonizing pain.
00:16:36.220 So if I could just summarize it, basically, before he met you, he was pain-free, and now he's been, it's been pain since that moment, basically.
00:16:44.320 I'm not sure.
00:16:45.600 Basically, incredible pain since he ran into you.
00:16:49.040 What you're saying is his lower back could be described as his ass, and I would be the pain.
00:16:57.400 Exactly.
00:16:58.180 Okay, thank you, Stu, for that.
00:16:59.620 Makes me feel really, it makes me feel super good.
00:17:01.740 But yesterday, we went through a list and tried to make a list, and it kind of happened offhandedly.
00:17:12.040 Yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
00:17:15.760 And we were talking about it on the air, and this happened in 1995, and I was really, 1995 was a big year for me.
00:17:28.640 I was just starting to sober up, and I was really starting to look at the world and try to figure out what I knew and what I didn't know.
00:17:38.680 And in 1995, we had the Oklahoma City bombing in April, and then in October, the O.J. Simpson verdict came back.
00:17:48.660 So while we were watching the O.J. trial, the verdict comes back just a few months later after the bombing.
00:17:56.000 And it was, I remember standing watching the television and seeing people cheer that he was found not guilty,
00:18:03.120 and I just shook my head, and I'm like, I don't understand my country anymore.
00:18:06.920 How can this guy, who grew up here in America, just bomb this building and kill all these people? 0.97
00:18:16.960 And then a few months later, how can O.J. Simpson, a hero of so many, cut the head off of his wife,
00:18:27.240 which was hard to believe in the first place, and then be found not guilty?
00:18:33.080 I just, I didn't understand it.
00:18:35.480 And then yesterday, I start going down this list of all of the things that happened after,
00:18:40.560 then Monica Lewinsky, and then, you know, the Bush Gore, you know, Bush v. Gore,
00:18:50.740 and, you know, selected, not elected, and then September 11th, and then the wars, and Michael Moore,
00:18:56.500 and, you know, us, and fake news, and all of this stuff.
00:19:00.360 And I thought, what a beating we have taken.
00:19:03.840 Is there anything that has made us feel good about the institutions, and about our country, and about people?
00:19:11.780 Is there anything that has happened where all of us have united, like we did on 9-12?
00:19:18.100 We united in our fear, but we were united.
00:19:21.920 We were one.
00:19:22.600 So we started making this list, the miracle on the Hudson, Sully Sullenberger.
00:19:28.560 That was a day that I think every American went, wow, miracles happen.
00:19:33.960 Wow, people are amazing.
00:19:35.580 The Houston Hurricanes, the response here in Houston,
00:19:39.240 the rescue of Elizabeth Smart, the Paris shooting on the train with the three Americans,
00:19:48.040 the Amish response to the shooting, the Charleston response to the shooting, even SpaceX.
00:19:57.660 There have been some amazing things, but as I look at this last night,
00:20:02.120 they make us believe in people, not institutions.
00:20:09.080 And those institutions have been being battered time and time again.
00:20:14.920 And one of the biggest battering we'll talk about next.
00:20:18.800 Glenn Beck, Mercury.
00:20:26.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:20:28.340 So, Stu and I saw a movie earlier this week that comes out, is it released today?
00:20:37.700 Do you know?
00:20:37.900 I think it's tonight, right?
00:20:39.040 Little Pink House.
00:20:41.100 It is quite an amazing story of something that I don't think anybody really pays attention to.
00:20:47.020 We were just talking about how our institutions have just taken a beating
00:20:50.120 where we don't really trust any of our institutions.
00:20:53.020 And I think it's because we no longer follow the Constitution of the United States.
00:20:58.940 We are violating the Bill of Rights all the time.
00:21:04.540 And it has become, you know, the way everybody just does business.
00:21:10.300 You know, I can fire you or do whatever I want.
00:21:13.740 I can shut you down on campus for speech.
00:21:17.900 You know, because of a safe zone.
00:21:21.380 I can take your wealth, seize your property, and just sell it off without any kind of charges
00:21:29.280 or any kind of court case.
00:21:32.140 I can spy on you.
00:21:35.240 It almost, in fact, I make the case that all of the top 10 in the Bill of Rights,
00:21:42.060 the first 10, they've all been violated on a regular basis.
00:21:47.580 And that is the source of our trouble.
00:21:51.520 We are a country that is based upon the idea that there are certain inalienable rights
00:21:58.440 that you cannot violate.
00:22:01.000 And as we violate those rights in this system,
00:22:05.000 the system takes a beating.
00:22:07.640 And the people suffer.
00:22:09.260 However, there is a case of evident domain that is phenomenal.
00:22:16.640 And I remember when this court case came out, it was the Kelo case,
00:22:20.460 I remember thinking, not really hearing anything about it until it was over,
00:22:24.660 and thinking, how is that possible?
00:22:27.280 How can a city come in and take a bunch of houses
00:22:31.620 and then give that property to a private corporation?
00:22:36.300 Well, there's a movie made about it now.
00:22:39.920 It's called Little Pink House.
00:22:42.600 And Scott Bullock, he is the president of the Institute of Justice.
00:22:46.120 He's the lawyer that is portrayed in this movie,
00:22:49.880 and he's joining us now.
00:22:51.020 Hi, Scott.
00:22:51.440 How are you?
00:22:52.420 I'm doing great.
00:22:53.080 Thanks for having me.
00:22:54.040 You bet.
00:22:54.760 So tell me a little bit about Suzette Kelo.
00:22:58.480 For anybody who doesn't remember the Kelo case,
00:23:00.440 kind of summarize it.
00:23:01.300 Sure.
00:23:02.580 Suzette Kelo was a paramedic, lived in Connecticut,
00:23:08.480 and she had left a bad marriage after raising five sons
00:23:12.900 and was starting a new lease on life.
00:23:16.340 And she saw a little cottage when she was making one of her runs in the ambulance
00:23:22.040 and fell in love with this place that, as she said,
00:23:26.320 had a millionaire's view on an EMT's salary.
00:23:30.120 It was the first piece of property that she ever owned in her entire life.
00:23:35.120 And she bought it, fixed it up, painted it her favorite color, pink.
00:23:41.700 And about a year after she had finally found a little sanctuary for herself in life,
00:23:47.720 she got a knock on the door and was told that because a new Pfizer plant was moving in next door,
00:23:55.080 that the city wanted to do development to supposedly complement this Pfizer facility.
00:24:02.300 And if she didn't sell, eminent domain was going to be used against her and her neighbors 0.98
00:24:07.320 to clear them out to make way for these development projects
00:24:11.280 because the city wanted more tax revenue and increased economic development.
00:24:15.760 So that's exactly the opposite of what eminent domain was designed to be used for, of course,
00:24:21.640 which is authorized under the Constitution only for public use.
00:24:26.680 So here's the amazing thing.
00:24:27.820 I used to work at Radio City Music Hall, and I would drive up to 30 Rock,
00:24:32.540 and there are two buildings, and they are both part of 30 Rockefeller Center.
00:24:37.080 There are two buildings that do not fit the Art Deco architecture.
00:24:42.100 Even Rockefeller, who was building when nobody else was building,
00:24:48.160 providing all kinds of jobs, all kinds of taxes for, I don't even remember what it is, 12 city blocks.
00:24:55.900 He had to buy every single piece of property.
00:24:59.380 Those two buildings that are now part of 30 Rock were left there
00:25:07.580 because those were the two people that said, I'm not selling.
00:25:11.720 Even he couldn't use eminent domain like this.
00:25:15.460 What's happened to us?
00:25:17.200 Well, it happened over the course of many decades where,
00:25:21.420 and this is what usually happens,
00:25:22.940 is where exceptions start being made to the Constitution
00:25:26.660 and words start being changed.
00:25:29.380 And so public use was pretty clear.
00:25:32.100 It meant for true public projects like a road or a bridge
00:25:35.700 or things that were used all by the public,
00:25:38.600 like a railroad or a public utility where everybody had right to use the line.
00:25:43.380 Hospital?
00:25:44.140 A hospital, that sort of thing with it.
00:25:46.760 But then government started wanting to do these,
00:25:49.940 what was then in the 50s and 60s called urban renewal projects.
00:25:53.380 So they said, well, it would amount to taking land from one private owner
00:25:57.640 and handing it over to another private owner.
00:25:59.500 That sounds like private use, not public use, as it stands in the Constitution.
00:26:04.460 But they said, well, let's read the public use provision broadly
00:26:07.840 to mean things like public benefits.
00:26:11.260 And public benefits are more tax revenue, more jobs,
00:26:15.680 and increased economic activity.
00:26:17.860 And so over the course of several decades,
00:26:21.700 this provision kept getting watered down.
00:26:24.380 Government power kept growing.
00:26:26.480 And then it got to the point where not just Rockefeller,
00:26:29.340 but just about any business, big box retail stores,
00:26:33.120 condominium developers, Pfizer, and others could say,
00:26:36.440 you know what, we would like to have this property.
00:26:38.360 It's great.
00:26:38.760 It's right down by the water.
00:26:40.020 And we could make better use of this land
00:26:42.400 than what the current owners are doing.
00:26:44.620 And if they don't want to sell,
00:26:45.660 we'll just get the government to take it for them.
00:26:48.000 Developers love that they get land on the cheap.
00:26:50.520 And then government thinks that, well,
00:26:52.600 maybe these projects will produce more tax revenue.
00:26:55.180 And it's, of course, at the expense of our constitutional rights.
00:26:59.400 You mean this point is very well illustrated in the movie
00:27:01.760 as you're making your argument in front of the Supreme Court,
00:27:04.800 where you talk about if there's a Motel 6 that is put up somewhere,
00:27:09.700 they can actually tear down even a business to build a better hotel,
00:27:14.220 because in theory that would bring in more tax revenue.
00:27:17.060 Exactly.
00:27:17.580 In theory.
00:27:18.320 And that's the key.
00:27:19.740 And as the Kelo case is, you know,
00:27:21.760 exhibit A in this is all the government has to do in these instances
00:27:25.040 and private businesses is project.
00:27:27.600 We project that this will create X million dollars in new tax revenue
00:27:32.160 or several hundred more in new jobs.
00:27:35.320 And then oftentimes, as the movie illustrates,
00:27:38.160 and there's so many of these projects that have played out over the years
00:27:41.580 that the projections at best fail to live up to expectations.
00:27:46.300 Well, it's not.
00:27:46.920 Or they never come to pass at all.
00:27:49.160 Yeah, and that's the key on the Kelo case.
00:27:51.780 This changed our country, and it was all done because of urban renewal.
00:27:58.640 It wasn't really given to Pfizer.
00:28:02.260 This was adjunct land, if I understand right,
00:28:05.960 where they were going to build apartments and hotels and restaurants and movie theaters.
00:28:10.720 So the city just seizes it and mows all of these houses down,
00:28:16.000 causes all these people to lose their homes.
00:28:19.240 And in the end, what's on that property today?
00:28:23.540 Nothing, but weeds and feral cats.
00:28:28.680 That's what's there.
00:28:29.720 Unbelievable.
00:28:30.240 They never even came to fruition.
00:28:32.180 I grew up in Connecticut, as you know, Glenn,
00:28:35.040 and I spent a lot of my summers in that town.
00:28:38.100 There was a little water slide park in that town called Ocean Beach Park,
00:28:41.800 I believe it was called.
00:28:42.960 And we used to go down there every summer, right down near this area.
00:28:46.880 And, you know, it was not the nicest area in the world.
00:28:49.740 However, you know, it doesn't matter.
00:28:53.540 If you purchase property, that should be the end of the story.
00:28:58.680 And I think what you outlined, Scott, in the movie,
00:29:02.440 and, of course, more importantly in your actual constitutional argument,
00:29:06.160 is that, in a way, this ruling, if taken to its logical extent,
00:29:11.340 almost invalidates the concept of private ownership of property.
00:29:15.800 Yes.
00:29:16.360 Right.
00:29:16.720 That's exactly right.
00:29:17.740 Because anybody could come up with a better use of your property
00:29:20.820 than you're making of it.
00:29:22.160 They could say, you know,
00:29:23.680 we think this would be better used in the hands of this person over here.
00:29:28.100 So it really is a vision of eminent domain
00:29:30.160 without any sort of limitations whatsoever.
00:29:33.160 But the good news in the wake of the Kelo decision
00:29:35.120 is the backlash against this was so strong,
00:29:39.040 and people were so upset about this for that very reason.
00:29:41.940 I mean, this is a case that everybody instantly understood
00:29:45.560 and could not believe that the court would sign off on something like this,
00:29:49.840 that many states changed their laws in order to better protect property owners.
00:29:55.560 State Supreme Courts, nine state Supreme Courts,
00:29:57.880 have gone in the opposite direction under their own state constitutions,
00:30:01.400 which usually doesn't happen.
00:30:02.520 Usually state Supreme Courts follow what the U.S. Supreme Court has done.
00:30:06.220 So a lot of good has come out of the brave stand that Suzanne and her neighbors
00:30:10.700 have took in this case, but more needs to be done.
00:30:14.840 And historical memory, people forget the lessons of history, right?
00:30:19.480 And so now you're hearing governments and private parties saying,
00:30:23.520 you know, we've got to get serious about redevelopment again in our town.
00:30:26.780 And so this movie is extremely timely because it reminds people what's at stake in this fight
00:30:34.180 and to not go down the path that New London did in the Kelo case.
00:30:39.540 So you say there's been a lot of progress because we were so outraged,
00:30:43.900 but there has been another kind of seizing of property
00:30:47.460 where the government can come in and take your property
00:30:53.040 without accusing you of a crime or without a trial
00:30:58.680 and just take your property and sell it off.
00:31:04.140 And you're left with nothing.
00:31:07.300 Right. I mean, I think you're talking about civil forfeiture.
00:31:10.460 Yes.
00:31:11.280 That's right.
00:31:11.960 And that is something that has been a major part of our work,
00:31:15.480 fighting for private property rights as well.
00:31:18.520 And this is something that has been growing again throughout the country over a number of years.
00:31:24.660 And it's another thing, like eminent domain abuse,
00:31:27.160 that people can't believe that this power exists in a country
00:31:30.780 that's supposed to respect private property rights and rights to due process.
00:31:34.800 The government can take your property without convicting or even charging you with a crime?
00:31:39.380 How is that possible?
00:31:40.540 In the same way people think, wait a minute,
00:31:42.100 the government can take your house and give it to Costco?
00:31:44.700 Costco? What? How is that even possible in this country?
00:31:48.960 Are you concerned, Scott?
00:31:50.500 I mean, I read about civil asset forfeiture
00:31:53.400 and the way, the amount of those stories that is out there,
00:31:58.980 once you start scratching at the surface, is remarkable.
00:32:03.540 And it was started because, hey, we got to be able to seize the drug lords.
00:32:07.500 Well, that's not what's happening anymore.
00:32:09.200 And it seems to be growing at an exponential rate.
00:32:14.620 Is that just my perception?
00:32:16.500 No, you're absolutely right.
00:32:18.400 And it's a huge problem, not only at the federal level, but in many states.
00:32:24.740 But again, because of some of this backlash,
00:32:26.700 we're seeing some states have actually changed their laws to better protect property owners.
00:32:30.480 But so much more needs to be done.
00:32:32.480 And what's driving it is the fact that at the federal level and in most states,
00:32:38.840 law enforcement agencies get to keep the money that they forfeit for their own use.
00:32:44.500 Every economist that tells you incentives matter.
00:32:47.020 If you give people the wrong incentives, they're going to respond accordingly.
00:32:51.220 So you're going to see an increase in focus.
00:32:53.360 Is there any real pushback that is hope on the horizon on this one?
00:33:00.300 There is.
00:33:00.980 I mean, several states now have changed their laws.
00:33:04.220 We've been doing a campaign to try to stop this.
00:33:09.000 And so there's been changes.
00:33:10.340 Nebraska, in the past year, it just basically abolished civil forfeiture at the state level.
00:33:16.000 And so that's very encouraging.
00:33:18.920 And there is sort of this, in the same way that eminent domain abuse unites left and right oftentimes,
00:33:24.640 and people from both sides of the ideological spectrum are concerned about it,
00:33:29.280 civil forfeiture is another one of those issues where there's some bipartisan agreement that this is a real problem.
00:33:35.460 But the people in power, the people that benefit from this, of course, don't want the laws changed on this.
00:33:42.240 So it is a Herculean struggle to try to fight back against this.
00:33:47.420 We're talking to Scott Bullock from the Institute of Justice, an organization you need to know more about if you don't already.
00:33:52.160 Scott, on a personal matter, you're a lawyer.
00:33:57.760 You know, arguing in front of the Supreme Court has got to be one of the craziest things.
00:34:01.440 I mean, like, you know, when you start off in this field, this is like the top of the line, right?
00:34:05.060 So what's it like?
00:34:06.360 Tell us what it's like to actually do that, argue in front of the Supreme Court in a huge case like this.
00:34:11.000 And then also, what's it like to see yourself portrayed in a movie?
00:34:15.240 That's got to be bizarre and not what you're looking for when you start as a lawyer.
00:34:19.560 Exactly.
00:34:20.180 It is a little bizarre to do that.
00:34:22.740 I think the fellow that played me did a nice job with it.
00:34:26.640 And what I also like about the case, too, is it keeps the focus on the clients, as we always do in our work, too, is to portray their stories.
00:34:34.720 They're the ones who are, you know, out there standing up for their rights.
00:34:38.640 And to argue before the Supreme Court, of course, is a great honor to do that.
00:34:43.180 And it's in many ways thrilling, intimidating.
00:34:46.160 But what you also see, too, is that oftentimes the court has questions about where you draw the lines on this.
00:34:54.820 And that's what happened during the argument.
00:34:57.460 And the city admitted that there are really no lines.
00:35:00.720 Yeah, that was an amazing part of it.
00:35:02.400 Yeah, that was incredible.
00:35:04.620 Scott, thank you so much.
00:35:05.620 Scott Bullock, President of the Institute of Justice.
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00:36:28.220 Glenn Beck, Mercury.
00:36:38.100 Glenn Beck.
00:36:39.040 Talking about the movie Little Pink House about Suzette Kilo.
00:36:43.140 So I'm looking at the credits at the end of the movie, and do we have the still here for this?
00:36:46.400 This threw me for a loop.
00:36:48.280 If you look about two-thirds of the way down in here, Frederick Kondentrat, Glenn Beck, is in the movie.
00:36:55.520 And I'm like, was Glenn in the movie?
00:36:57.180 No.
00:36:57.440 Was he cut?
00:36:58.380 Because we were certainly talking about this.
00:36:59.680 If you were portrayed in the movie, it wouldn't have been a huge shock to me because we were talking about the story at the time.
00:37:05.160 No.
00:37:05.760 The actor who's playing Frederick Coralondi is named Glenn Beck.
00:37:09.880 Totally different person.
00:37:10.820 Same spelling.
00:37:12.060 Same name.
00:37:13.320 Or is it a totally different person?
00:37:18.140 Glenn Beck.
00:37:20.140 Mercury.
00:37:20.580 Love.
00:37:28.300 Courage.
00:37:30.000 Truth.
00:37:31.760 Glenn Beck.
00:37:33.120 From the Comey memos.
00:37:34.240 The president brought up the golden showers thing, and it really bothered him.
00:37:39.700 If his wife had any doubt about it, he then pivoted to the Russians wanting an apology from Bill O'Reilly.
00:37:46.260 I said I had seen that in Bill O'Reilly's reply, which was to call him in 2023.
00:37:53.280 The president then said O'Reilly's question about whether he respected Putin had been a hard one.
00:37:59.360 Redacted sentence.
00:38:00.240 He said he does respect the leader of a major country, and he thought that that was the best answer.
00:38:05.680 He then said, you think my answer was good, right?
00:38:08.080 I said the answer was fine, except the part about killers, because we aren't the kind of killers that Putin is.
00:38:13.500 When I said this, the president paused noticeably.
00:38:16.720 I don't know what to make of it, but he clearly noticed I had directly criticized him.
00:38:22.260 Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program.
00:38:24.480 How do you respond?
00:38:25.880 I'm still causing trouble after all this time.
00:38:28.480 I know, I know.
00:38:31.840 I think that my question was a good one, a penetrating question to the newly elected president of the United States,
00:38:41.100 that, you know, how are you going to deal with this dictator in Russia, because the guy is a ruthless killer.
00:38:49.380 And the answer came back that, well, we're not, our country's not all that clean as well.
00:38:56.940 Well, you know, my job is to ask the hardest questions I can ask.
00:39:02.140 I did that.
00:39:03.240 The answer, I think, was a dodge.
00:39:08.520 You know, he didn't ask a question.
00:39:10.040 I mean, are you going to deal with the killer?
00:39:11.700 You're not going to deal with the killer.
00:39:13.100 What do you think has been redacted here, Bill?
00:39:15.200 Well, I don't know what Trump told Comey about Putin, but it would have to be something about Putin to redact it so that he might have said something about Putin that could hurt national security at this point.
00:39:32.040 So that is my guess on what would be redacted.
00:39:36.440 Is there anything, Bill, is it weird to know that the president of the United States, behind closed doors, talking to the FBI director, is whining about your questions?
00:39:44.120 I wouldn't say whining is a fair characterization of that, Stu.
00:39:49.340 That interview was...
00:39:51.320 What would you characterize it as?
00:39:52.600 He's saying he wanted an apology from you.
00:39:55.380 He wanted an apology for a normal question about world relations?
00:39:59.240 That's not whining.
00:40:00.180 You wouldn't describe if Barack Obama was whining about something like that?
00:40:03.380 You wouldn't describe it that way?
00:40:04.340 I'd say he was concerned about it because the interview got international play.
00:40:11.600 Yeah, he said...
00:40:12.480 You'll remember that Putin was demanding an apology from me, and I just said, yeah, I'll give you one in eight years, and I'll think it over.
00:40:19.640 Yeah.
00:40:20.420 So it was a big deal because it rankled Putin.
00:40:25.980 And so he was concerned.
00:40:27.740 Yeah, and he did say, he said, O'Reilly's question about whether he respected Putin had been a hard one.
00:40:32.960 He's not saying, I want an apology.
00:40:35.420 He's saying, Putin now wants an apology.
00:40:37.840 And that was a hard question to answer.
00:40:39.860 I, you know, I tried to, I respect him as a world leader, right?
00:40:45.240 And his, and Comey was like, well, yes, but, you know, the killer part was a little disturbing.
00:40:52.780 Right, but remember something here, that James Comey is not your correspondent of objectivity.
00:41:02.960 All right?
00:41:03.760 When he writes these memos, he's writing them the CYA, cover his butt.
00:41:11.180 The initials don't really, you know.
00:41:12.920 But that's why he's doing it.
00:41:14.540 The CYB.
00:41:15.620 Yeah.
00:41:16.180 Yeah.
00:41:16.500 He's not doing it to relate to the American people.
00:41:19.500 Here's exactly what happened.
00:41:21.260 I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a little, um, uh, you know, for a guy who has always takes copious notes, you know, contemporaneous, uh, contemporaneous notes, uh, and, uh, he always documents meetings.
00:41:33.900 I'm amazed that he doesn't have anything on Loretta Lynch, on Hillary Clinton.
00:41:39.620 It's just Donald Trump.
00:41:43.220 Well, I don't know what kind of memos that Comey has or has not.
00:41:46.980 I mean, Congress asked him for the memos with Trump.
00:41:49.560 So he may have other, uh, musings about dimension about Lynch and, and Hillary Clinton.
00:41:55.440 But I think that it's important for your listeners and for the American public to understand that even if you're the head of the FBI, or if you're the head of the CIA, the primary thing in your mind is protecting yourself from anything.
00:42:13.580 That's what they do.
00:42:14.980 That's how they get to these positions.
00:42:17.320 All right.
00:42:18.040 They're not Elliot Ness.
00:42:19.360 It's not, uh, the crime busters.
00:42:21.820 These are bureaucrats.
00:42:23.440 These are people who are saying, well, maybe down the line, somebody's going to do this.
00:42:28.220 So I'll cover my butt now and say this and write this.
00:42:31.760 That's what they do.
00:42:33.360 So to take it as gospel is ridiculous.
00:42:36.560 That's his interpretation.
00:42:38.040 I'm sure if you had Trump in the room, he'd say, no, no, no, this is what I meant.
00:42:41.620 This is what I said.
00:42:42.580 This is what I did.
00:42:43.480 So, Bill, you've, you've lived a little longer than I have, maybe a hundred years or so.
00:42:47.860 And, um, uh, so you'll have a better memory of this than I will.
00:42:52.780 But I was thinking today, I don't even think that a J Edgar Hoover was, was doing this kind of stuff, at least out in the open.
00:43:03.760 He was not taking things and leaking.
00:43:06.880 The FBI and the Justice Department is clearly leaking, uh, things that I don't even think JF, uh, J Edgar Hoover did this.
00:43:16.740 Did he?
00:43:16.980 Well, Comey admits it in the memo.
00:43:20.600 Right.
00:43:20.900 I know.
00:43:21.300 Because Trump, Trump asked him, you know, the FBI leaking going, of course.
00:43:24.600 But, you know, you're right in the sense that it's totally out of control now.
00:43:30.020 And we're nearly in many leaks with Obama.
00:43:32.880 And the leaks are designed to hurt one guy, President Trump.
00:43:37.620 And that's, that's, there's a torn of these leaks.
00:43:39.720 They're coming from everywhere.
00:43:41.200 And nobody really seems to care.
00:43:43.400 But in the J Edgar Hoover thing, the way he covered his butt was to get stuff on the President's.
00:43:50.820 Correct.
00:43:51.060 To get dirt on JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr.
00:43:56.940 He might even have some on Eisenhower.
00:43:59.040 Yeah.
00:43:59.480 All right.
00:44:00.040 So that's how he did it.
00:44:02.160 He blackmailed them.
00:44:03.600 And then he let them know, look, you know, Mr. President, I hate to tell you, but, you know,
00:44:07.540 we picked up on a wiretap that you got a girlfriend in Chicago that goes out with Sam Giacana.
00:44:11.580 Now, gee, wow, I'll never tell anybody, but be careful what you say.
00:44:16.780 Right.
00:44:17.080 That's exactly what Hoover did.
00:44:18.720 Right.
00:44:19.060 But at least it was compartmentalized.
00:44:21.760 I'm not saying that it's good, but at least it was, at least we, yeah, at least we didn't
00:44:27.940 have, you know, golden showers known by everybody.
00:44:33.040 Yeah, the press never would have printed it back then.
00:44:35.860 You know, I made a, I made a point that I think you'll enjoy and Stu will really enjoy
00:44:40.380 it.
00:44:40.520 I know.
00:44:41.000 Thank you.
00:44:42.120 That Sean Hannity stuff.
00:44:44.060 Okay.
00:44:44.660 That, oh, Hannity, he's friends with Trump.
00:44:47.520 Oh, look, look at this.
00:44:49.160 And, and it's coming out of the Washington post.
00:44:51.760 Well, who was JFK's best pal in Washington?
00:44:56.400 Uh, Ben Bradley.
00:44:58.000 Yeah.
00:44:58.960 Ben Bradley.
00:45:00.180 Yeah.
00:45:00.620 Who was Ronald Reagan's best pal in Washington?
00:45:03.840 How about George Will?
00:45:05.460 How about George Stephanopoulos?
00:45:07.580 How about, how about, how about, uh, uh, uh, what's his name at, uh, CBS, whose brother
00:45:13.860 was in the Obama white house?
00:45:15.320 sure um oh you know who i you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah but but the the outrage on
00:45:26.020 the part of the washington post that hannity is talking to president trump and has influence
00:45:32.100 and then i'm going you go into that building and you can't get it everywhere you look there's ben
00:45:37.900 bradley bradley's out on jfk's yacht jfk's call him every hour on the hour for advice and it's
00:45:44.580 funny because on the in the movie uh the post did you see it bill no i refuse oh no it's actually
00:45:50.740 really good but in the meryl streep is in it i know i know i know with you on that but uh
00:45:55.740 but for different reasons yeah i think she sucks so so um uh in the movie the ben bradley character 0.77
00:46:03.220 even comes to that conclusion saying i've i was used i i was used i mean like he didn't know it
00:46:12.140 even a meryl streep movie the characters come to the conclusion wow you shouldn't do that
00:46:21.700 no but the american people don't know it and and this is what i mean you you we have we're living
00:46:28.660 in such a dishonest age it's so from top to bottom you know where where are the truth tellers where are
00:46:37.160 the people looking out for the folks where are they they seem to disappear off the planet now
00:46:42.640 so what do you have the the fbi raids a lawyer's office and then within three hours calls the press
00:46:49.520 about some guy out in la has nothing to do with uh the trump investigation and ruins his life
00:46:56.220 that that's exactly what happened i mean what kind of people are these and a judge they don't judges
00:47:02.820 don't care well the judges the judge i'm trying to remember what the deal is with the judge but i i
00:47:08.000 made a note someplace on the judge this judge is um oh man yeah yeah yeah and and what was her
00:47:16.960 connection uh the clintons because she was named oh she was she married that's right any general yeah
00:47:23.100 but she was she was uh she's had hired a legal alien nanny yes yes she was the illegal alien nanny 0.64
00:47:31.500 uh lady uh the second one second one and she also uh was the was the judge that married george soros 0.90
00:47:39.020 which i you know this is just fun to throw in there um yeah i mean but you you know you just
00:47:45.680 step back and i want every listener that's hearing us now to step back so you're sitting there you're a
00:47:51.880 judge and you have the power to uh take all of this stuff and put it in camera all right which means
00:47:58.660 that the the press doesn't see it you see it so you can make responsible decisions all right but
00:48:04.320 you say no i'm not going to do that i'm going to let everything that the fbi picked up get out to
00:48:10.800 the press and i don't really care what lives are ruined or or who uh is is humiliated even though i
00:48:18.960 don't have anything to do with the trump investigation i don't let everything out there i mean come on okay
00:48:25.800 that's the age that we live in when we come back we're going to talk to bill about uh his friend
00:48:31.620 rudy giuliani who is now being uh hired by trump we'll get the uh wrap-up comments on uh anything
00:48:38.120 else that he has to say about the comey memo that we have to take away and a really good op-ed that he
00:48:43.740 has just published called the stalinists are here and i think that ties right directly into starbucks
00:48:50.620 which we will cover with him as well when we come back the idea of falling into bed is man is so
00:48:57.760 great you know how when you when you have a bad mattress going to bed can be like i don't even
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00:50:30.560 glenn beck ben shapiro joins us in this hour on monday jonah goldberg his new book suicide of the west
00:50:49.660 comes out tuesday one of his first interviews is on this program on tuesday and suzette kilo the woman
00:50:56.640 who the kilo case is named after on eminent domain there's a new movie out uh called little pink
00:51:02.980 house little pink house movie.com you can find out all about it that talks about eminent domain and
00:51:09.360 and reenacts the kilo case it's fascinating movie she's going to be joining us on friday and uh
00:51:16.480 also next friday bill o'reilly who's with us every friday hello bill back i'm back and and america has
00:51:24.180 just been waiting um so now so now tell me about rudy giuliani and the hire that donald trump made
00:51:31.620 there what do you what do you think that says well i think that the uh overall strategy on a part of
00:51:42.340 the white house now is to put pressure on muller to stop the investigation okay so that you got to
00:51:49.040 start there so giuliani knows muller and he knows a lot of the players and he brought in two people
00:51:56.720 with him who are former u.s attorneys as he is and i think that they're going to go in and say all right
00:52:04.600 we need a exit date you've got to you know tell us how long this is going to happen and if you don't
00:52:11.960 we're going to go on a tremendous pr blitz to destroy your credibility and you know giuliani can do
00:52:18.180 that he's a hard guy he's a tough guy and i think that's what this is is that the right thing for
00:52:24.360 trump it is because you just can't govern the way that this uh is unfolding look on billoreilly.com
00:52:34.720 what we've been able to do is to tell our uh listeners and our viewers on the website the damage
00:52:42.720 that they are experiencing that the regular american citizen is experiencing because of
00:52:49.800 all the chaos surrounding the attacks on trump whether it be by the media or by the special
00:52:55.660 prosecutor so americans themselves are being hurt and that is what should be marketed here i will tell
00:53:03.740 you that um you know if you look at what the average america is concerned about you do not see
00:53:09.800 that reflected on cable news um this no not all of this why their numbers yeah uh their ratings are
00:53:16.820 declining and then declining in a very dramatic way yeah and and if you look at the new polling
00:53:22.080 muller's unfavorable rating is going up and uh that's what giuliani is going to be tasked to do to negotiate an
00:53:31.880 end to this let me let me say the change subjects ms uh ms 13 horrible horrible gang um is infiltrated
00:53:42.300 america there's now i think 9 500 members extraordinarily violent the the new york chapter of ms 13 has just
00:53:50.980 come out and said um you know we're we're getting too much pushback here maybe it's time we start
00:53:56.280 killing politicians like we do in el salvador yeah well i mean that's just bluster i i covered the war
00:54:04.600 in el salvador back in 82 um and uh that's a totally chaotic violent society over there did not anybody uh
00:54:16.180 in control of that country so the poor people the poor men join gangs and ms 13 is the most powerful 0.93
00:54:24.340 gang so they say well we didn't there's not really a lot of money in el salvador so where should we go
00:54:29.160 to make money and it's like okay we have open borders in the usa let's go here and you think i'm
00:54:35.000 exaggerating i'm not how did these people even get here they're not they didn't get here by getting a
00:54:40.660 visa in san salvador all right right yeah just walk through the border like everybody else does
00:54:47.280 but to you uh liberal open border people out there so they take up camp here in long island where
00:54:54.320 i live because it's close to new york city and you know their their comrades can fly into jfk and
00:55:02.380 do their deals and sell their narcotics and shake down the hispanic community which is what they do 1.00
00:55:08.460 um and they establish themselves as the most violent ruthless gang on long island um and so what
00:55:18.380 are they you know trump is pointing them out the feds are going to try to destroy them the feds will
00:55:24.260 destroy them that will happen so now you get a little bluster from ms 13 so if you look at the
00:55:31.460 violence though that's happening across the border on our southern border in mexico um they are killing
00:55:36.940 mayors there they are they kill everybody because it's the same thing in mexico as it is in el 0.74
00:55:42.460 salvador and honduras and guatemala and uh nicaragua so what is no central authority so what is what's
00:55:50.820 going to turn the tide here bill for instance half of californians half support the travel ban
00:55:58.380 and increased deportations half of california right but and that's why there's a civil war in
00:56:07.400 california san diego county voted this week to support the lawsuit against uh jerry brown and
00:56:13.660 the sacramento crazies um that's the second largest county in california so there is a civil war in
00:56:20.540 that state but you'd never know it if you if you listen to the media because the people in fresno and
00:56:26.140 bakersfield and up in northern california they don't have a voice in the media they don't get a say
00:56:31.540 let me let me change um topics uh kind of you wrote a great op-ed um that we're going to get
00:56:41.960 into when we when we come back about the stalinists are here and you are seeing this everywhere uh where
00:56:50.900 you are being uh shouted down and silenced you're just talking about the uh the you know the half of
00:56:57.680 californians that don't have a voice um what happened at starbucks is remarkable to me and i'd
00:57:08.260 like to get your uh opinion on that uh well the the column is posted on billoreilly.com we want
00:57:14.420 everybody to read it if possible because it is an important column on starbucks you had a store
00:57:19.400 manager who made a mistake all right the mistake was a couple of black guys sitting in philadelphia 0.99
00:57:24.840 starbucks and they weren't buying anything okay hang on hang on all right i want to start
00:57:29.600 back with your premise of this was a mistake on the part of the manager uh when we come back
00:57:36.060 glenn back mercury
00:57:43.920 this is the glenn back program so bill started talking about starbucks uh before the break and
00:58:05.380 he he said it was a mistake on the manager to call the police and i i i think that was their policy to
00:58:11.940 do that and i bill i want to get your opinion on um you know there's there is a unspoken social
00:58:19.300 contract you you really see it if you live in new york for any period of time you'll really begin to
00:58:25.300 understand it because there are millions of people on the streets every day and the sidewalks are large
00:58:31.000 and they're packed everywhere and people don't speak english people may have just gotten off a plane
00:58:36.620 from china they they don't have the same uh rules they don't they don't know our culture and yet
00:58:44.800 the city works that when there's a red light generally people stop when there's a red you know
00:58:51.740 walking person there you generally don't cross the street and it's this unspoken i'm not going to express
00:58:59.700 myself differently in the middle of the road because i'll get hit by a cab in in in today's
00:59:06.700 america there are no consequences to break the social contract somebody walks in it's not unusual
00:59:13.820 for a business to say the bathrooms are for paying customers and if you really need to use the bathroom
00:59:20.020 in a place like starbucks you say uh okay can just i'll have a cup of coffee i'll have a small i'll have
00:59:26.140 i'll have a could i just get a you know a dollar's worth of that cookie please that's the social
00:59:32.120 contract these people broke it they sat there this is a no loitering kind of thing the police come they
00:59:41.340 the police tell them to leave three times and they tell the police no these are not these are people
00:59:48.000 with an agenda well sure and and if you look at what's happened in san francisco where nothing is
00:59:55.220 enforced and the whole city is collapsing and the uh director of the tourism agency there had to go
01:00:02.120 public and say we're not going to be able to get anybody to come here anymore because so many homeless
01:00:08.600 people are out of control and nobody's doing anything about it that's the collapse of the social
01:00:12.920 contract correct but i don't know if the manager of a starbucks in philadelphia looking at two guys two
01:00:21.980 black guys sitting there now the guys weren't doing anything um to disturb other customers they
01:00:27.900 were just taking up space they obviously were there um for other reasons than drinking coffee
01:00:34.860 now they asked them politely if you know to buy something or leave they wouldn't the police came
01:00:40.560 in asked them as you pointed out they wouldn't leave they felt entitled to sit there so then the
01:00:46.500 decision has to be made in america do you force them to leave thereby creating a giant giant outrage
01:00:58.020 of uh victimization or do you just allow them to do what they're doing because they're not
01:01:07.280 um harming your business at that point so i mean i feel bad for the for the all the managers that
01:01:16.320 have to make that decision but if you decide to evict a minority who's not doing anything causing
01:01:21.920 a disturbance you're going to get it the press is going to kill you and the victimization 0.63
01:01:26.440 industry is going to kill you and that's exactly what happened
01:01:29.040 this coming this coming this is amazing because this is this is um this is what has happened to all
01:01:37.860 of us with political correctness we just said oh you know what uh don't say anything it's just
01:01:42.460 better to move on you know don't say anything about you know the bashing of christians or anything
01:01:47.880 because it's just better to move on don't want to make a big deal out of it and when do we learn
01:01:52.760 our lesson on that you can't learn your lesson because the big money is behind the grievance industry
01:02:00.100 so it's not a level playing field i don't know whether you follow politics in europe but
01:02:06.840 hungary is making laws against george soros yes i know okay why because soros is undermining
01:02:14.640 the hungarian society doing the same thing he did here or he's doing here pumping tens of millions
01:02:23.440 of dollars into organizations like media matters that are designed to tear down the fabric
01:02:31.020 the traditional fabric of america in the end in hungary so the strong-armed leader in hungary
01:02:39.700 so we're going to pass a law against soros we're going to get him out of here now you couldn't do
01:02:44.060 that here because the media is sympathetic to soros here where in hungary they're not that's the
01:02:52.000 difference yeah so the the the amount of money that is going into organizations grievance organizations
01:03:00.240 tear down america organizations stalinist organizations people think i'm i'm exaggerating
01:03:06.760 read the column i back up every word i say bernie goldberg coined the term stalinist by the way
01:03:14.400 and that's exactly what these people are if you disagree with them they're going to destroy you
01:03:20.600 so here's but here's the here's the thing bill are you following are you following the latest attack
01:03:26.200 on the second amendment which i i don't hear anybody talking about this and this is the way they will
01:03:32.400 take it apart the city group came out a couple of weeks ago and said they are no longer going to uh
01:03:39.840 do offer any banking services to any company that manufactures or sells uh firearms with uh high
01:03:49.920 capacity magazines certain kinds of guns uh or any gun uh sale for anyone under 21 so they're cutting off
01:03:59.080 all financial services a week later bank of america comes out and says the same thing in fact they're not
01:04:06.880 going to make any loans or offer any banking services to any gun manufacturer at all period and then this
01:04:15.120 david hogg comes out with a whole list of people uh or funds wall street funds that invest in gun
01:04:23.380 manufacturers they are going to try to squeeze the gun manufacturers and the gun sales points of sale
01:04:32.300 by choking off all of their banking services and all of their investors and i'm sure the 17 year old
01:04:39.340 david hogg came up with this on his own oh yeah i'm sure i'm sure right um sure that's the attack
01:04:45.760 the attack is that will break the industry um but here's a here's a more accessible attack and by the
01:04:52.300 way tim cook the uh uh you of apple they threatened him great because they wanted to bring uh to tip for
01:05:01.360 him to pull off nra tv yes from his streaming service cook said no cook defied them he he actually said
01:05:10.360 this is in your article and i love this quote democracy without discourse is not a democracy
01:05:15.920 right okay let me give you more accessible than the uh behind the scenes gun financing
01:05:22.180 fox news channel is right on the cliff and thereafter they started with me a year ago
01:05:30.300 and now they thought they had hannity um last year he he fought back he survived they got ingram
01:05:40.480 now they're after hannity again okay and this is the same thing attack the sponsors of the fox news
01:05:50.180 channel make it impossible for the channel to make generate income generate revenue all right and it'll go
01:05:59.540 off the air or they'll water it down which they already have it's already getting watered down
01:06:04.860 like crazy okay so these techniques stalin just shot you in the head all right but what soros and the far
01:06:16.140 left is doing is they're choking you economically and who's going to do anything about it everybody's
01:06:24.100 afraid of them everybody is afraid of them including the judges and the courts and that's what we have
01:06:31.600 coming and they'll just they'll just knock them down one by one back i had one they're gonna knock
01:06:37.560 them out we had uh edwin black on i don't know if you know who he is but he was the author of ibm and
01:06:42.080 the holocaust years ago really well researched man um and he has been ringing the bell lately for
01:06:49.560 something that he calls um uh algorithmic ghettos and he says that you know uh during world war ii
01:06:59.680 germany would just put the the jews behind giant walls that nobody could see and what happened behind 0.90
01:07:05.960 those walls in those ghettos you just didn't you didn't see no matter how loud they cried you couldn't 1.00
01:07:11.040 hear them you couldn't see them and so out of sight out of mind if there is no jewish problem 1.00
01:07:15.400 um and he says there is an algorithmic ghetto that is now being uh used to silence voices like yours
01:07:24.540 like mine uh you know anybody who stands against planned parenthood etc etc ted cruz talked about
01:07:30.600 this with facebook um and he is very concerned that these voices are going to be you know the people
01:07:39.400 who uh who are the tree in the forest that falls but nobody's around we can scream we can shout we can
01:07:45.260 say everything we think we're getting the message out but because of the algorithm they have put us
01:07:51.780 in a ghetto with walls around us that nobody's hearing the message i don't think it's that bad yet
01:07:58.140 no he's saying it's there yeah he's saying that we're on that road he's not saying we're there yet
01:08:02.920 right yeah i mean we still have um uh we still have availabilities but they're shrinking yeah and um
01:08:11.420 but the legal system journalism shot not coming back ever all right the legal system really is
01:08:19.320 concerning me now because it doesn't seem to be any constraints contracts don't matter yeah threats
01:08:26.820 don't matter boycotts don't matter just destroy destroy destroy and there's nobody there to say hold
01:08:35.260 it this is not what a free society allows what we what we have to do bill is stop um admiring the
01:08:44.740 problems and i think start teaching the bill of rights because the bill of rights are common sense
01:08:51.380 and they they are the things that have always united us and the problems with our country all stem
01:08:57.920 from the violation of the of the bill of rights everything that is undermining of the whole concept yes
01:09:04.580 correct correct soros doesn't want the bill of rights the far left doesn't want it they want
01:09:09.940 totalitarianism funny you brought that up on saturday night back i'm going to be in dc
01:09:15.120 giving the keynote address for an organization called flag f-l-a-g this is a brand new organization
01:09:22.520 that is doing exactly what you said educating younger americans on what the bill of rights says
01:09:30.520 what the constitution says excellent and i'm doing it gratis and people if you're in the dc area or
01:09:36.300 whatever it's going to be at the uh at the trump hotel go to billoreilly.com we got the information
01:09:42.500 there but you're right it these are we have to start to bring this to the attention of the masses of
01:09:50.120 people you may have to sing about it on american idol to get their attention i may have to write
01:09:57.440 songs back about it oh boy you want to talk about destruction of everything we hold dear that that
01:10:04.160 would be it um bill o'reilly from billoreilly.com thank you so much we'll talk to you next week brother
01:10:09.060 okay thank you all right bill o'reilly
01:10:11.460 billoreilly.com is the place to go to get all bills analysis by the way uh i think on monday
01:10:19.960 we're going to talk about uh this new polling that's out regarding uh the difference between
01:10:26.080 how much people consider guns to be a problem oh my gosh this is so good how much people believe
01:10:32.560 legal immigration to be a problem you've seen the news coverage which one if you to reflect from the
01:10:37.280 news coverage which one you think people are more concerned with on monday we're going to go
01:10:40.960 through this poll it's remarkable it's you look at what people are concerned about and then what
01:10:47.920 they're showing us on television and what they're talking about in washington they're not aligned at
01:10:53.100 all which is causing this massive disconnect between the people the government and the press that's on
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01:12:19.140 glenn beck so we have brad melzer coming up in a few minutes good friend of ours uh great writer
01:12:35.540 little did we know really close personal friend with barbara bush i knew they knew each other but i had
01:12:43.720 no idea that they were they were pen pals for years yeah uh and uh i am interested to hear what
01:12:51.580 he has to say today as we remember barbara bush brad melzer joins us in just a few minutes also i have
01:12:56.320 a glenn beck prediction update oh boy i think it's a it's this is this concrete of an update on one of
01:13:04.460 your predictions uh that maybe we've seen in a long time really because i mean there's been
01:13:10.200 hints that this is that one of these predictions of yours was coming true but this one i don't know
01:13:16.280 like oh i can't wait i think this is the front page of your case really i think it is oh i can't wait
01:13:22.020 especially who's coming from interesting i have absolutely no idea i'll tell you who it's coming
01:13:28.740 from the new york times so again a glenn now first of all glenn the new york times is running a podcast
01:13:36.940 now yeah called the caliphate called the caliphate these are which is completely amazing to me they
01:13:44.440 are at the thing that they mocked you for at the time for saying they are now embracing and running
01:13:50.560 a for-profit enterprise yeah on how how it all happened
01:13:54.860 i wrote i wrote something somewhere about the new york times that's impossible you're running a podcast
01:14:05.500 about a caliphate that's the ramblings of a madman that's gonna be super frustrating oh my gosh and
01:14:11.580 that's why i like it so much um but also in addition to that this is another one uh that you've been long
01:14:16.980 a big one i yeah i think a really big one okay we'll get to that coming up in just a second also
01:14:21.860 uh tribute to uh barbara bush as um as they get ready to lay her to rest from brad melzer coming up next
01:14:35.500 glenn beck mercury
01:14:48.940 love courage truth glenn beck stop what you're doing pull up a chair even if you're in your car
01:15:04.660 pull up a chair put it in the seat and sit on that chair for a minute because this is important
01:15:11.180 time magazine has just come out with their list of the 100 most influential people on the planet it's
01:15:16.740 finally out now you remember i am one of the most influential people i've been in the time magazine so
01:15:23.040 i can speak from a position of authority on how important that honor really is so what
01:15:30.420 it's uh important that wasn't the adjective i was oh no oh no don't mock this okay okay uh what lucky
01:15:38.880 hundred humans has time anointed as head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to influence
01:15:46.420 well time has divided their list into categories like pioneers pioneers you know you immediately when
01:15:54.760 i say pioneer you immediately think of david hogg okay and the rest of the parkland five uh that
01:16:03.400 was uh i mean and the and the essay believe it or not was written by dana lash i don't believe it
01:16:11.380 okay you shouldn't believe it it was i don't know i'm gonna say you're exactly right you win
01:16:16.060 written by barack obama wow under the artists category is jimmy kimmel with his tribute written
01:16:25.360 by senator dick durbin that's not a joke durbin writes about kimmel night after night he sparred
01:16:32.580 with the politicians who tried to take health insurance from millions of americans oh i know
01:16:37.840 those darn republicans always hoping to see americans die in the street from no health insurance oh i can't
01:16:44.100 wait to get back to those good old days where people were dying of cancer on the sidewalk do
01:16:50.260 you remember that still piles of them on the way to work i'd step over them every day they would be
01:16:54.720 booted out of the hospitals just to make sure that those with insurance could see a doctor right away if
01:17:02.360 you went into the emergency room there was no weight in those days i mean if any hospital did that one
01:17:07.820 time they'd be breaking the law but let's ignore that sure let's ignore among those in the leaders
01:17:12.560 category we have justin trudeau naturally kim jong-un why not and nancy pelosi
01:17:19.760 pelosi's tribute is uh well it's written by the president of uh planned parenthood so if you're
01:17:28.520 making a if if you're if you're making a list of the top influencers in killing unborn americans
01:17:35.540 uh pelosi and richards would probably make the top 10 and with pelosi using your faith to justify
01:17:41.000 it makes you kind of shoot to the top of that list now under icons there is adam ripon
01:17:47.240 because nothing says icon like finishing 10th in your event at the winter olympics
01:17:53.720 yeah so he was the skater yeah this is a skater very important very important he's an icon
01:18:00.580 also under icons maxine waters because i actually have no idea how they came up with that one sorry
01:18:09.020 um now these are not the most influential people on the planet time i'm sorry they may be the loudest
01:18:16.120 they may be the most famous at the time they may be the most popular at the time i speak i'm going
01:18:22.040 back to the 2010 i speak from a position of knowing i'm sure there's some really great people on the
01:18:31.680 list and even some people have the power to affect our lives through technology or government policy
01:18:36.920 but they can never have the kind of deep genuine lasting influence that real people have on their
01:18:45.560 own families on their own children on their own friends and their own community how time every year
01:18:52.760 especially in 2010 overlook the people risking their lives to save others around the world is beyond me
01:19:00.440 this is why i mock the 100 most influential people
01:19:07.700 as alumni because the real influencers are more often the ones that we don't
01:19:15.560 hear about hard-working people like you trying your best serving your neighbors doing secretly
01:19:22.840 amazing things for people in their life and honestly if this truly is a list of the 100 most influential
01:19:32.300 people then honestly america we are far too easily influenced
01:19:39.760 it's friday april 20th you're listening to the glenbeck program
01:19:52.640 the author of the escape artist one of my favorite books of the year
01:19:58.040 brad melter is uh joining us now he's on his way to barbara bush's funeral uh which is happening
01:20:04.280 tomorrow uh brad i had no idea you were close personal friends with barbara um she is uh someone
01:20:15.040 i know it sounds it is one of the most unlikely friendships i've ever had and uh it's simply
01:20:21.500 because we have this one thing in common which we you and i share as well which is we don't care
01:20:27.020 where you're from we don't care what your title is we don't care where you went to school and we don't
01:20:31.600 care how much money you make uh the currency is do you have something interesting to say
01:20:36.660 and that is what i always appreciated about her you know she lives in a world of complete
01:20:41.160 fanciness and amazingness right a dynasty but would talk to me as quick as she would talk to the janitor 1.00
01:20:47.660 as quick as she would talk to the queen of england and that's what i appreciate about anyone it's just
01:20:52.040 that grounding and that sense of humor that's so sharp and uh and that's what we you know we always
01:20:57.040 hit it off yeah it's a it's a it's a pretty amazing thing i was we just had um bob goff in studio
01:21:03.260 uh who's a remarkable man uh and very few people come into the studios and pay attention to anybody but
01:21:12.060 me even sometimes they just kind of dismiss stew but most people uh always dismiss wait what yeah
01:21:20.980 yeah yeah i'd hate to bring it to you um but they always dismiss the crew and the makeup people
01:21:27.420 and the lighting people all the people behind the scenes you can always tell somebody's character
01:21:32.180 when they when they walk into a room and they say hello and what's your name and actually have
01:21:38.840 some bit of dialogue with the people who have no influence uh that can help them at all
01:21:46.420 and that's rare and one thing right i agree i teach my children one thing i if you're nice to me and
01:21:52.500 you're a jerk to the waiter you're a jerk yep and and barbara bush i think was always that person 0.97
01:21:59.480 i think that's why people like you know and the amazing party you know i remember the the first
01:22:05.180 time i met the bushes they read one of my thrillers and uh president bush had written to me about it and i
01:22:10.740 went to meet i remember the bushes in houston for a literacy event and he spent the first
01:22:15.340 10 minutes of our time together trying to convince my wife that he invented the phrase you the man
01:22:21.480 my wife is you know it's a great joke right and my wife is like brad did you know that president 0.87
01:22:28.460 bush invented the phrase you the man and and i'm like and barbara bush comes over she's like no he 0.56
01:22:33.800 didn't he's lying to you that is so funny totally took him down and it was just so great and and i
01:22:41.400 again i was completely intimidated the first time i met her because she she her strength is clear i
01:22:48.360 believe to this day the only reason the bush has got two people in the white house is because of
01:22:53.220 barbara bush i agree wasn't dad it was mom i agree she knew that and and the other thing that i always
01:22:58.380 appreciated beyond her sense of humor is that every time i saw her she didn't ask me about the famous
01:23:04.720 place i went or the famous person i met or what is it like to go to you know wherever it was i was
01:23:09.140 going she always asked me about my mom she remembered that my mom when my mom was dying 0.60
01:23:14.900 i took her to meet barbara bush and my mom was sick at this point i knew it was the end and i took her
01:23:21.180 to meet mrs bush and president bush of course treated they treated her like royalty but she always said i
01:23:27.760 remember how your mom sold books for you at the start of your career and the last time i was with her
01:23:32.280 she's 90 years old at this point i was at her 90th birthday and they she invited four authors to
01:23:38.080 entertain and i remember going wow who are you going to get she was like dummy it's you and i said 0.79
01:23:43.220 okay and even then at 90 a decade later was still going you know that story you told about your mom
01:23:50.040 15 years ago i still think about it and i love that she always understood the power of a strong
01:23:56.340 mother were you you were pen pals with her yeah you know so um i you know i don't want to overstate
01:24:04.520 we used to write back and forth these re she just was a great you know she didn't email so she would 0.98
01:24:09.380 write letters handwritten letters and so when we started doing the i am series the kids book series
01:24:14.580 we started with i'm amelia erhart and i am abraham lincoln and i get a letter in the mail that tells me
01:24:19.700 she you know she she had read the books and really enjoyed the books but she told me this whole story
01:24:24.680 in this letter about how she almost met amelia erhart she was actually felt like oh my gosh i can't go
01:24:31.480 over to and tell this incredible story and then in the ps of the letter she writes and by the way
01:24:36.480 i hadn't met abraham lincoln although i kind of feel as old and i wrote her back and i and i said you
01:24:42.100 know that's very funny but we all know you met george washington and martha washington and you know
01:24:46.880 she would write back and even funnier jokes like and then we would just kind of go back and forth
01:24:50.520 and every time it wasn't you know letter writing is an art form yeah it's a communication right that
01:24:57.020 is lost these days and she would her biting sense of humor would come through in every letter you'd
01:25:02.360 be like this is this is funny this isn't some bit that some staffer writes this isn't some you know
01:25:07.840 like kind of press thing where you have you know good saturday night live writers writing for the
01:25:11.340 president you're like oh he's got a sense of humor no he knows how to read that's what he can do
01:25:14.640 um this is truly an incredibly biting personality and and i think the most important thing is
01:25:20.640 and i i feel like you understand this as well as anybody i've ever met this is why our friendship
01:25:25.120 you know all these years is who your character is who you are behind closed doors when no one's
01:25:30.600 looking and what i love is you know you see a lot of first ladies who take on a cause and then the 0.95
01:25:36.960 moment they're out of the white house the cause is done right and you're like was that their cause
01:25:41.220 or was that something to do for four or eight years and i just appreciate that barbara bush spent 1.00
01:25:47.940 after the white house you know 40 50 more years working for literacy and she wasn't helping 0.99
01:25:55.100 you know she was helping poor people she was helping people from other countries from who 0.96
01:25:58.920 are immigrants here who are new and couldn't read she was trying to give people that leg up because 0.82
01:26:04.540 she knew that if you do that you give them the most powerful weapons in the universe books and ideas
01:26:11.120 and again i have to you know over and over year after year until she when she turned 90 she could
01:26:17.920 have had a big 90th birthday party and been on you know the stage show and everyone would have made a big
01:26:21.320 deal she said nope i want to take my birthday i want to invite the wealthiest people in the world
01:26:26.760 and they're all going to give their money all to literacy and that's what i'm going to do my 90th
01:26:30.220 birthday i was standing next to her when she blew out the candles and i remember thinking this is your
01:26:34.500 birthday party and you're giving it all to literacy at 90 at 90 you go you know what if i'm 90 god bless
01:26:41.080 i get there i'm gonna i want to relax but i love that this woman said nope i'm still going to use it to
01:26:46.340 help and and fight for other people that was incredible to me so brad can i ask you a favor
01:26:50.740 you're going to the funeral tomorrow yes sir um please pass on our condolences uh to the family i i
01:26:59.160 i think that um i agree with you that without barbara bush i don't know if there would have been
01:27:06.540 even one president bush um she was uh she was the one and i i think the bushes are honorable people as
01:27:17.580 it is but i i i have nothing to back this up just in meeting barbara bush a couple of times i don't i
01:27:25.480 didn't have a relationship like you did um but i think she was the one that um that taught those boys
01:27:35.580 hey hold your tongue you don't have something nice to say don't say anything support even the
01:27:41.620 people who are you or who are saying bad things about you you know just don't climb down into the
01:27:48.340 gutter with them and they have always done that and i think they've done a great service to their
01:27:54.520 to their mother she had to be extraordinarily proud of just that forget about all the accomplishments
01:28:01.260 just that is rare and i think it came from her yeah no i listen i think there are people i've met
01:28:08.100 every president from from bush 41 to our current president i've met them all i've had interactions
01:28:13.540 with them all um some bigger some smaller there are people and again that wasn't meant to be like a
01:28:20.260 a brag it was there are people that you meet and i usually don't like politicians right they're
01:28:25.080 always telling something but there are those you meet that are inherently decent there are people you
01:28:30.880 meet in the world that you meet them and you go they are inherently decent and to me barbara bush
01:28:35.860 and george bush i think are inherently decent people try and and you know how you know it and i'll tell
01:28:40.160 you my secret for how i know it is you ask the secret service when you talk to the secret service
01:28:45.960 agents who regarded them the one thing that comes up it will tell you immediately who's a jerk off
01:28:50.720 and who's good because they're the waiters right if you're nice to me and you're a jerk to the 0.51
01:28:54.540 waiters you're a jerk everyone loves those two bushes everyone who ever served with them everyone
01:29:01.500 who's guarding them now they are they you know they'll tell you they ask about my grandkids they
01:29:06.580 ask about my my nieces and nephew they know my my son is sick that they will tell you details about
01:29:12.720 their own families uh the bush is asking about them and and that's inherently decent and that's how
01:29:19.420 you're supposed to be and that's how you raise um you know your kids i'm not talking about being
01:29:23.720 president that's how we should all be raising our kids right is fighting to make sure that they
01:29:28.760 remember who they are where they come from and never to take ourselves so seriously and when we do mess
01:29:34.400 up which we never really will do we're all human that you learn how to be big enough to actually
01:29:39.180 apologize and say you know what i was wrong in that moment my anger got the best of me my ego got the
01:29:44.760 best of me whatever it might be um that is how you raise and and and get to be inherently decent
01:29:50.640 brad melzer thanks for sharing your thoughts on on barbara bush
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01:31:28.980 join glenn stew pat gray doc thompson and sarah gonzalez weeknights at 5 30 eastern on the news and why it
01:31:37.420 matters tweet us your questions using the hashtag the blaze why and tune into the show to hear the
01:31:42.260 answers at the blaze.com slash tv glenn back mercury glenn back welcome back to the program
01:31:58.960 it is friday we've got a great week uh planned for you i'm going to be out in california next week
01:32:04.660 um we have jonah goldberg uh going to be joining us suzette kilo from uh the kilo case in supreme court
01:32:14.580 that you know i'm making a list of all the people that have been first-hand witnesses to history
01:32:21.480 that i could talk to now you know what i mean let me i'd love to interview these people and say okay
01:32:27.520 what was that like um and she's you know i just saw the movie uh little pink house um which you
01:32:36.220 can find at little pink house uh movie.com comes out today right yeah and um it's it's the story of
01:32:42.660 the kilo case and one of the actresses is you know oscar nominated yeah she was the you remember her 0.84
01:32:49.800 from well i consider her best role to be of course the 40 year old uh 40 year old virgin 0.99
01:32:54.520 um she was in that uh she was the steve carell love interest in that movie but she also was
01:32:59.640 nominated for two oscars capote and one other one uh but she's been i mean she's a you know you
01:33:05.580 definitely recognize her yeah um you know and there's a couple people that you definitely
01:33:09.580 recognize in the movie i mean the fact that hollywood that's why i was kind of amazed by this is
01:33:12.940 hollywood actually participating in a movie about libertarian constitutional principles
01:33:20.100 because there's nothing sexier than the takings clause for a good movie yeah uh but you know what
01:33:25.020 it is compelling it is compelling you watch it and you're like oh my gosh i mean you you the whole time
01:33:31.080 you're like she's a regular person she's an emt she is just she's just found this house that you know
01:33:38.360 she's putting her life back together after being in a bad marriage raising five boys she's finally
01:33:44.460 going to start her life over again she finds this great little house in the middle of nowhere right
01:33:50.240 down the street from a sewage plant she loves it and the government comes in and takes it away from
01:33:57.100 her yeah because they they think they can make more tax money by building hotels there which they never 0.99
01:34:03.260 do um and because i'm a complete loser instead of going to disney world on vacation i actually went to
01:34:09.040 uh one time i went back to connecticut to visit and went to this area for trumbull because i just
01:34:14.300 fascinated by that story just to see what it looks like today you can see the overheads if you search
01:34:18.620 for fort trumbull on google maps you can see the overheads of it you see about five fields just
01:34:24.180 fields this is where their houses were cleared out fields they never built anything there they never
01:34:29.140 developed it they ruined these people's lives destroyed their homes for no reason they got nothing
01:34:33.760 out of it and then the only building that stands on any of the fields is the italian dramatic club
01:34:41.260 now for some reason with i don't know what reason i don't know what reason that could be
01:34:47.600 somehow the italian dramatic club listen the mob doesn't exist and if it does exist i love the mob
01:34:55.440 but it definitely doesn't exist
01:34:57.840 glenn beck mercury
01:35:09.820 you're listening to the glenn beck program welcome back to the program glad you're here
01:35:24.720 glenn beck prediction time can we get a glenn beck prediction update update okay yeah you say
01:35:32.460 that there is a new prediction or a prediction that i've made and it's a big one it's a big one
01:35:37.900 and we've seen some supporting evidence for it okay um but this one is just another step in that
01:35:42.620 process and i think a big one all right yeah i mean you look back at all the the glenn beck
01:35:46.680 predictions over the years there's been some bad ones yeah there's been a lot of bad there's been
01:35:50.240 some bad ones yeah there's been bad ones it feels like mainly around politics like i remember at one
01:35:54.840 point you like before 2008 because i get i set these little uh yeah yeah calendar reminders and
01:36:00.460 they pop up to me on important dates yeah and a lot of times they're funny because whatever you
01:36:04.800 predicted that looks insane yeah um right and it always i mean i can't say always because a lot of
01:36:11.340 insane ones uh have not come true um but uh uh i'm the worst when it comes to politics because i
01:36:17.920 have no idea i don't know i i cannot well you've hit some of those though i mean i you know but yes
01:36:24.900 you've missed some of those as well i think big one in 2008 you were thinking hillary clinton was going
01:36:28.860 to be the the candidate for the democrats she almost was yeah but she wasn't um and if you look back at
01:36:34.760 that during that time one of your predictions was if barack obama wins the next president we you called
01:36:43.980 him the the gravy stain candidate yes um however the summary that was a that was a shorthand for
01:36:49.700 a guy who talks like you who doesn't give a crap about uh i said if i remember right i said he would come 0.84
01:36:57.500 out and he'd be like oh i farted but don't we all fart and he would just be a guy who is 0.75
01:37:04.740 who was the guy at the end of the bar sitting on the stool that everybody could relate didn't seem
01:37:11.840 refined yes i mean if that's not donald trump i mean again that's one of the things that trump
01:37:16.400 supporters love about him right like that's the thing that they cite he doesn't try to be a
01:37:21.160 politician he just blurts stuff out yep he talks like me yep uh so that one i think completely came
01:37:27.460 true with trump the housing crash is a kind of a famous one from back in the day go back way back i mean
01:37:32.300 i remember being on wabc and in new york on the air in new york in the late 90s 98 99 yeah where you
01:37:38.900 talked about osama bin laden and a terrorist attack on new york city where you'd see blood and bodies in
01:37:46.180 the street always an uplifting program blood bodies and buildings in the street within the next decade
01:37:51.040 and it was what two or three years later yeah uh that wound up happening of course the caliphate we
01:37:55.180 talked about today already yeah with you talking about the caliphate coming everyone you know 0.97
01:38:00.420 mainstream media new york times everybody bashing you about being crazy for that almost like to
01:38:05.460 the point of like they thought it was a made-up word yes and uh it wasn't it was based on a lot
01:38:10.300 of research it was that you know yep uh and now the new york times has not only come along to the
01:38:15.680 point that there was a caliphate and that one was built but they've actually now memorialized it in a
01:38:21.440 new podcast called the caliphate how it happened which i gotta say i actually want to listen to
01:38:27.780 um i surely at some point they'll reference the fact that they mocked they mocked glenn beck about
01:38:33.560 anyway but there's another one you've made and we've seen some supporting evidence for this
01:38:36.900 about how we're going to hit a point that the left is going to take their masks off that they are
01:38:44.420 going to instead of denying that they're basically socialists in training long-term slow-moving
01:38:53.940 progressives that are going towards socialism they're going to come out and just say it
01:38:58.280 so we've seen some evidence backing that up this from the new york times today new york times new
01:39:05.940 york times can't wait quote headline yes i'm running as a socialist oh my god why candidates
01:39:14.080 are embracing the label in 2018 unbelievable listen to some of this there's no question uh primary
01:39:22.700 night in texas last month franklin bynum would win the democratic nomination to become a criminal
01:39:26.980 court judge in houston the 34 year old defense attorney had no challengers but for his supporters
01:39:31.580 who packed the mexican restaurant that evening there was still something impressive to celebrate
01:39:35.500 many in the crowd were members of the democratic socialists of america dsa a group that has
01:39:41.060 experienced an enormous surge of interest since the election of president trump do you remember
01:39:46.700 what they used to say when i brought up the dsa yeah i used to bring that up on the chalkboards
01:39:51.240 all the time and they called me a conspiracy freak and i'm like these people are still around and this
01:39:56.600 is what's coming our way oh my god mr bynum said yes i am running as a socialist end quote rather than
01:40:03.680 shy away from the being called a socialist a word conservatives have long wielded as a slur
01:40:08.500 candidates like mr bynum are embracing the label he's among dozens of dsa members running in the
01:40:14.240 fall midterms for offices all around the country at nearly every level wait wait the prediction was
01:40:20.040 that they would embrace it and they'd say damn right i'm a socialist because this doesn't work and
01:40:24.640 we have to try something we have to try something new did they say anything like that oh my god yes
01:40:29.900 oh my gosh oh my gosh let me get all right good so it's gone uh in membership in the dsa has gone
01:40:37.060 up seven times since november 2016 wow uh the number of organizations almost five times as many
01:40:43.560 including 10 in texas democratic socialists of america studies suggest that young people with few
01:40:49.380 memories of the cold war embrace socialism far more than older people do a 2016 survey of 18 to 29
01:40:54.780 year olds by harvard's institute of politics found that 16 percent identified as socialists while 33
01:41:02.400 percent supported socialism only 42 supported capitalism while a majority 51 said they did not
01:41:09.980 those results surprised the pollsters so much they thought they made a mistake he conducted a new study
01:41:16.980 this time of the general population and got the same result the only group that expressed net positive
01:41:22.980 support for capitalism were people over 50 years old oh my god that's amazing many socialist candidates
01:41:29.460 sound a lot less like revolutionaries and more like traditional democrats who seek to return the
01:41:33.920 radical pose for the radical ends um they want they want single-payer health care and remember when we
01:41:39.240 talked about obama and we said these are socialist tendencies he wants single-payer health care higher
01:41:43.460 minimum wage and greater protection for unions that was called a slur as they kind of associated here in
01:41:49.620 this in this article however they're defining it as exactly that others advocate more extreme
01:41:55.680 changes such as abolishing the prison system interesting okay some local democratic party
01:42:02.160 leaders worry that taking openly talking openly about being a socialist is only going to make it harder
01:42:07.000 to defeat republicans people are more willing to come out and say i'm a democratic socialist running
01:42:13.060 says jorge roman romero 24 who leads the dsa chapter in tulsa oklahoma wow where six democratic
01:42:22.220 candidates four of whom were willing to run as democratic socialists sought the group's endorsement
01:42:28.580 it's not a liability to say that anymore uh let's see wait can i can i give you a story that i found
01:42:39.260 that we're gonna do on monday uh you have more yeah uh let's see gerald uh bernberg former chairman
01:42:46.720 of the harris county democratic party harris county texas has discouraged mr bynum from talking about
01:42:51.540 socialism or bail reform on the campaign trail socialism is too taboo in texas not not so not
01:43:00.540 socialism is bad or wrong or terrible it's too taboo
01:43:04.840 uh i'm trying to think if there's anything else what was the what was the exact prediction there
01:43:10.120 was one line that specifically supported i said uh that i said that uh that they would not only come
01:43:16.260 out they would just say yeah you're right i am a socialist because this isn't working and we got
01:43:20.780 to try something oh yeah it was right after the polling section here because i know that exact same
01:43:26.540 thing was i think we can oh here it is the only group that expressed net positive support for
01:43:31.900 capitalism were people over 50 years old the largest generation of americans in history
01:43:35.780 millennials have lost confidence they are interested in finding a better way unbelievable
01:43:41.680 unbelievable that's exactly what you're talking about okay listen to this we're going to do something
01:43:46.120 on this monday a wealthy democratic donor club is plotting the future of the liberal movement in hopes
01:43:51.200 to be fighting for reparations by 2022 according to a document obtained by the washington free beacon
01:43:58.120 from democracy alliances spring conference this last week in atlanta the desire was stated in the
01:44:04.360 invitation for monday reception during the annual spring gathering attended by top democratic officials
01:44:09.580 such as the dnc chairman also terry mcauliffe etc etc etc the reception way to win 2022 victory party
01:44:18.840 was presented as a look forward what is possible if democrats can be effective in coming elections
01:44:24.640 it's 2022 quote and we are celebrating policy victories across the nations medicare for all free college
01:44:34.200 and next on the agenda reparations take a ride with us to hear from the true political geniuses
01:44:43.600 that can make this happen this is the there the left is
01:44:54.620 very focused very very focused very very focused they know what they want
01:45:00.980 they are you could say that they're built on destruction but they're not they're built on
01:45:10.360 building something new reparations fairness for all social justice universal basic single-payer
01:45:21.460 health care a socialist state that is for some a positive vision especially for those who are young
01:45:30.860 because they don't know what socialism does they have been raised in this soup this toxic soup
01:45:39.940 in our educational systems that say it's all good it's just never been done right well when will
01:45:46.960 government ever do something right that is a positive vision and conservatives better come up with a
01:45:56.240 counter a brighter vision for tomorrow or we will lose
01:46:02.400 and as we uh speak here the uh democratic national committee has filed a lawsuit suing the russian
01:46:20.160 government the trump campaign and wikileaks alleging the three entities conspired to help president
01:46:26.940 trump win the 2016 election on what on what evidence they have no evidence of this no evidence of this
01:46:33.800 uh now that may come out and let's just say if you want to take their side of it maybe something
01:46:37.860 comes out in the muller investigation that shows that but they have nothing on you know what's
01:46:41.940 incredible why are they doing this they're only doing this so they can say we're standing against the
01:46:48.820 big evil trump they know they have no chance of winning but they'll raise a ton of money
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01:48:26.460 glenn beck mercury
01:48:30.460 glenn beck
01:48:36.540 a couple of show notes uh here first of all i remember i remember when i first came to the
01:48:45.800 studios and uh a guy walked in and uh he i thought it was clint eastwood um he walked in and he had the
01:48:53.840 big uh long cowboy coat and he was clearly a cowboy and uh he even had the little cup or the bottle that
01:49:01.600 he was like uh spitting and i'm like we're in texas we're in texas uh travis uh has been uh
01:49:09.440 uh working with us for years now and is just a fantastic guy uh and uh this is his last show um
01:49:19.660 producing for us and we're or directing for us and we are grateful travis and we will all miss you
01:49:26.240 we won't miss the end of the cup we won't that doesn't still you're gonna miss that probably not
01:49:32.660 as much not as much but but uh we will we'll miss you on on everything else um we have uh also an
01:49:40.620 update on pat uh i talked to pat last night pat has been out he's you know he does the uh pat gray
01:49:47.280 radio roundup i think is what we call it uh no it's pat gray unleashed uh after this program on the
01:49:52.680 blaze radio network and uh first we heard that pat was uh passing a kidney stone not true not not
01:50:01.780 pleasant even if it were true yeah not pleasant um i saw him last night he's been in and out of the
01:50:06.700 hospital he had surgery earlier this week he woke up with pain uh they thought it was a kidney stone
01:50:12.060 uh they had to perform surgery right away uh emergency surgery and uh apparently um
01:50:19.360 uh you know his kidneys had gone into failure because i guess i think like uh you know out of
01:50:26.820 the fallopian tube there was like uh one of the i don't think are you a doctor i am not a doctor i'm
01:50:34.300 a doctor of humanities which mean i know everything there is about the human body okay i mean i guess
01:50:39.040 that's you i don't think that's what that means that's what yes you are no they they they bestowed
01:50:43.140 it upon me and and so anyway i can perform foot surgery kidney surgery whatever i'm pretty sure
01:50:48.000 anyway uh so so his kidneys shut down uh and he's had a really bad week you know when your kidneys
01:50:56.140 uh fail it's a bad week you need those yeah so uh but i saw him last night and uh cheered him up i
01:51:03.140 told him i said the audience is praying for you i said and they're they're praying for a miracle in
01:51:07.100 fact if i may pat i want to read you a tweet and so i read him uh the tweet from the listener that said
01:51:12.760 we are praying for a miracle uh and the miracle that we're praying for is that jeffy will not be
01:51:17.800 filling in for pat uh today and i think it's probably the first time in a week that pat has
01:51:24.000 laughed uh and he just said i love this audience so much uh but uh i think that miracle will be
01:51:31.800 happening on monday oh good i think he'll be back on monday so and uh for so after this program on the
01:51:37.780 blaze uh radio and tv you do get jeffy filling in for pat wow wow that's a good promotion i think
01:51:46.940 right there now we now we know why travis is jumping the ship like a rat is this what caused
01:51:52.000 this is because of jeffy jeffy's on for five days i'm losing my mind i can't like i don't know what
01:51:58.680 to do uh so we'll see you uh we'll see you monday uh live from los angeles all next week
01:52:06.380 glenn beck mercury
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