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00:00:30.000 All right, so, wow, we covered a lot.

00:00:32.480 We covered all the connections to Joe Biden with China, which is why he will not actually shut down the border

00:00:39.540 or not actually do anything to stop 133,000 people coming across the border just in the last three years from China,

00:00:50.240 including 30,000 since October.

00:00:53.920 And more Chinese nationals coming across the border in San Diego than Mexicans.

00:01:03.460 And a jaw-dropping Hunter Biden-tied email that kind of plays into all this as well that just got released.

00:01:13.940 That I can't believe.

00:01:14.740 I can't believe.

00:01:16.120 I can't believe.

00:01:16.800 I can't believe how overt they were with this stuff and how most of the American people do not know it.

00:01:21.400 Well, this work actually says.

00:01:22.380 Yeah.

00:01:22.640 It actually says it.

00:01:23.480 It literally outlines how I was playing golf with my dad.

00:01:29.840 Yeah.

00:01:30.060 And he really wants to get involved in this business.

00:01:33.040 It's crazy.

00:01:34.600 I don't understand it anymore.

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00:03:36.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:52.840 All right, so we have a lot to concentrate on, but I want to bring you up to speed.

00:03:58.720 There is something wrong with the border.

00:04:01.140 You know this.

00:04:03.740 But to me, it is becoming more and more clear what the consequences are going to be without putting any blame on anybody.

00:04:11.780 But there is blame to go around on one thing.

00:04:16.740 Russia is not the biggest enemy.

00:04:21.820 China is.

00:04:23.620 China is.

00:04:24.580 There is a, there is, the Chinese Communist Party has real sophistication when it comes to war against the United States.

00:04:37.280 And that's absolutely what we're engaged with.

00:04:41.120 This is Sun Tzu.

00:04:43.280 They are, they're rotting us from the inside.

00:04:47.100 They are supplying drugs like nobody's business.

00:04:51.740 They are in business with the drug cartels.

00:04:55.860 They are actually the big dog and the Mexican drug cartels are the second in line.

00:05:03.100 All of the drugs that are coming in, a vast majority of them, all of the fentanyl stuff,

00:05:09.740 all of the ingredients come from China, are coming over here.

00:05:15.740 There's about, I think it's 5,000 Chinese workers just across the border.

00:05:22.000 They make it into fentanyl.

00:05:23.960 And then they, they don't press it into pills.

00:05:27.100 They give it to the drug cartels.

00:05:30.380 They sold the, the presses.

00:05:34.020 Cause it's got to say, you know, Adderall or whatever on the pill.

00:05:38.520 So people will be fooled by it.

00:05:40.860 And they gave the presses with all of the molds.

00:05:44.280 They sold them to the drug cartels at cost.

00:05:48.620 Why would you do that?

00:05:49.660 You're not trying to make any money on that.

00:05:51.720 So they sold it at cost.

00:05:53.080 So now they're supplying the materials, the presses and the drug cartels are pressing these

00:06:00.420 things into death, death.

00:06:04.040 Why is nobody talking about that?

00:06:09.560 Same reason we didn't talk about that spy balloon.

00:06:12.580 Remember that spy balloon?

00:06:13.860 We just didn't know what it was.

00:06:15.880 Spotted by a reporter in Montana.

00:06:18.760 It, it went over our major cities, our nuclear bases, some of the most, uh, secret bases.

00:06:26.600 We allowed it to fly over, but remember, we didn't know if it had any technology on it.

00:06:31.740 Well, December last year, the intelligence officials revealed that the Chinese spy balloon, get

00:06:38.980 this, they knew it at the time, used a U S based internet service to navigate as well as

00:06:50.400 to send high bandwidth collections of data back to China as it was floating over America.

00:06:58.080 You remember, they said there's no navigation.

00:07:01.580 Oh yeah.

00:07:02.100 Yeah, there was.

00:07:02.980 They've just revealed that to us now after when nobody cares about it anymore, that it

00:07:08.760 did have navigation and it was using U S internet to navigate and send all the info.

00:07:17.420 Remember we shot it down.

00:07:18.840 So all that information is lost.

00:07:20.940 No, no.

00:07:23.000 Last month, a FOIA requested by the heritage foundation's oversight project found 14 instances

00:07:32.880 since 2018 of Chinese nationals attempting to gain entry into our U S military base at Pearl

00:07:41.560 Harbor.

00:07:42.500 They also conducted surveillance, including flying drones over the base.

00:07:47.540 Last September, a Chinese man and Chinese woman were found taking photos and video near Pearl

00:07:52.820 Harbor security entrance before fleeing in a car with unidentified plates.

00:07:57.940 There have been 100 similar incidences in the recent years of Chinese nationals posing usually

00:08:06.580 as terrorists who are trying to infiltrate our military bases all across the U S.

00:08:12.620 And thanks to our wide open border policy, China has a much easier way of getting spies into 0.93

00:08:20.240 America.

00:08:22.240 This should shock you.

00:08:26.880 In the first three years in office, where are we just, uh, we're two xenophobes.

00:08:32.600 You just don't want Brown people coming in. 1.00

00:08:34.620 During the first three years in office, over 133,000 Chinese nationals have been encountered

00:08:44.760 at the U S border.

00:08:47.140 30,000 since October.

00:08:53.020 Most of them are military aged men.

00:08:56.720 These are the ones we encountered.

00:08:59.400 There are now more Chinese nationals crossing our border in San Diego than Mexicans.

00:09:08.920 I don't know.

00:09:10.500 That doesn't seem right.

00:09:13.940 Last week, three Chinese nationals were arrested trying to cross the border in Maine from Canada

00:09:20.120 in the middle of the night.

00:09:21.560 A fourth was driving a car arrested on suspicion of attempting to assist the others.

00:09:26.640 Last year, a border patrol memo identified 270 suspected properties in rural Maine that are

00:09:33.820 used for illegal marijuana growing.

00:09:35.760 They're all operated by Chinese nationals.

00:09:38.620 All the money is funneled back to the communist party in China or to use as financing for other

00:09:46.560 illegal activities, including drug and human trafficking.

00:09:50.520 In San Francisco, U S sovereignty is being undermined in absurd ways, but it's San Francisco law that

00:09:59.500 was passed in 2020 that eliminates the requirement to be a U S citizen to hold seats on city boards.

00:10:07.780 So last month, the San Francisco board of supervisors unanimously appointed Kelly Wong to the city's election

00:10:18.780 election commission.

00:10:21.040 This isn't just any commit.

00:10:23.720 This is the election commission.

00:10:26.240 She's not an American citizen.

00:10:28.380 She's been in the U S since 2019.

00:10:32.320 So she's a immigrant rights activist from Hong Kong.

00:10:38.120 Okay, so she's, we have the videotape of her giving a statement after she was sworn in as a board of elections.

00:10:48.580 I don't know what she's saying because she conducted the entire interview in Chinese.

00:10:57.880 Okay.

00:10:59.400 Now, she may not have anything to do with the Chinese communist party, but what if someone in that

00:11:04.800 position did?

00:11:07.240 San Francisco now has somebody who is not a U S citizen, cannot legally vote in charge of supervising

00:11:15.180 the elections.

00:11:17.180 Why?

00:11:20.380 Regardless of her national loyalties, her political loyalty is apparently left-wing because she

00:11:27.620 works for a group called Chinese for affirmative action.

00:11:32.940 Now who funds them?

00:11:35.260 Well, according to their most recently published annual report, they are funded by Chan Zuckerberg

00:11:41.000 initiative, uh, Google, the tides foundation.

00:11:47.320 And then there's this one, this, the most immediately pressing threat to Americans, the Chinese government 0.99

00:11:55.080 hacking operations.

00:11:57.000 Last year, the Chinese military hacked into around two dozen U S power and water utilities.

00:12:05.400 They hacked into communications and transportation systems.

00:12:11.120 They breached a water utility in Hawaii, a major port in the West coast, an oil and gas pipeline,

00:12:19.020 and attempted to hack into the Texas power grid.

00:12:24.360 How come?

00:12:25.340 How come?

00:12:25.740 What, what, what are we doing about that?

00:12:28.180 Despite these threats in 2022, the Biden administration shut down the Chinese or China initiative.

00:12:38.420 What's the China initiative.

00:12:40.560 Well, it was initiative started by Donald Trump at the department of justice.

00:12:45.920 It was to find and prosecute economic espionage.

00:12:51.640 And to help stop the stealing of intellectual property by the Chinese government agencies.

00:12:56.960 Why on God's green earth, would you shut that down?

00:13:03.400 Why?

00:13:06.040 Well, left-wing activists said the program allowed the FBI to unfairly target Asian Americans.

00:13:12.760 In a little publicized story under oath, Hunter Biden finally identified his father as the big guy,

00:13:28.360 the recipient of that $5 million.

00:13:31.640 Under oath, he identified his father as the big guy.

00:13:43.440 That was Chinese money.

00:13:48.100 Now, he went on to say, but everything else is a lie.

00:13:53.680 Everything else you're saying is a lie.

00:13:56.100 Is it?

00:13:59.120 I can't tell.

00:14:01.580 Because you said that was a lie for four years.

00:14:05.320 And now, when you have Congress putting you under oath,

00:14:09.940 you admit that it, well, that part is true.

00:14:13.960 That money went to dad.

00:14:15.180 Why is our administration not doing anything about the border?

00:14:22.400 Why is Gavin Newsom going over and not talking about fentanyl?

00:14:28.800 Because I believe he's surrounded himself with Chinese operatives and Chinese money.

00:14:36.460 I think he doesn't want to answer any questions either.

00:14:39.180 That's why he went over to China and didn't point fingers at the Chinese,

00:14:43.360 but talked to him about the bad fentanyl problem.

00:14:45.900 They are the source of all of our fentanyl problems that are coming across the border.

00:14:53.320 They are the ones supplying all the chemicals,

00:14:57.320 then making them here and giving them to the drug cartel to press them into pills,

00:15:03.300 which their presses are from China.

00:15:06.100 China.

00:15:09.180 So what does all of this mean?

00:15:18.160 Well, it means that impeachment is probably not enough for this crime,

00:15:32.440 but it's not just the Democrats, and it's not just the Bidens.

00:15:37.100 It's the Republicans as well.

00:15:39.180 Why is it that no one will point the finger at China?

00:15:46.780 Who's taking money from China?

00:15:51.860 China is our number one threat outside of the United States. 0.99

00:15:57.740 What they're doing with ByteDance and TikTok alone.

00:16:01.800 Their own internal memos show they are rotting us from the inside intentionally.

00:16:11.320 Well, Donald Trump said it's got to be sold off.

00:16:18.340 Why won't Republicans sign on?

00:16:20.660 Well, you have some very powerful Republicans who are investors in ByteDance.

00:16:26.260 Is that maybe why?

00:16:27.540 You know, it's one thing to not face our problems like the budget.

00:16:35.720 It's going to kill us.

00:16:36.440 It's one thing to say, wow, we are overwhelming the system by letting all these people in.

00:16:44.040 It's another to turn a blind eye to terrorists coming across the border

00:16:50.520 and not saying anything about how many Americans are being killed by fentanyl

00:17:01.740 that is coming in through that open border with the complete knowledge that all of those drugs are coming in from China intentionally.

00:17:13.880 Okay, more from the podcast here in just a second.

00:17:17.880 It's tempting to believe that the good people all over in the Chinese Communist Party have your best interest at heart, you know.

00:17:27.160 And, you know, if there was some sort of medical problem, they would tell us immediately.

00:17:31.740 Or if there were medical shortages throughout the United States or something,

00:17:36.040 our good friends, the Chinese, would just make more and send it over to us as fast as they possibly could, right? 1.00

00:17:43.880 Yeah, don't be too shocked, but I don't think that's going to happen.

00:17:48.700 And they make most of our medication.

00:17:50.920 It is a dire situation if we start to run out of medicine or have shortages.

00:17:59.080 And that's why you have Jace Medical.

00:18:01.460 Jace Medical, J-A-S-E Medical.com.

00:18:04.140 You can get all the antibiotics you use.

00:18:06.580 You can have all of the medicine that you take.

00:18:09.860 And you can have a year's worth of it as a supply.

00:18:12.340 Just go to J-A-S-E Medical.com.

00:18:14.740 Jace Medical.com.

00:18:16.720 Now back to the podcast.

00:18:21.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:25.880 It could not be higher stakes for President Biden than tonight if people are actually watching the State of the Union.

00:18:34.400 He's not going to be judged just on what he says, but can he actually say them?

00:18:42.800 He's got to look vigorous and vital.

00:18:48.560 And that's what they're working on.

00:18:50.600 And they also want him to highlight the accomplishments.

00:18:53.800 And I don't really know what those are, so maybe it would be best to highlight them for me, I guess.

00:18:59.520 To talk about this is Senator Eric Schmidt.

00:19:03.600 He's just been elected from Missouri.

00:19:05.960 He was the Attorney General of the great state of Missouri and quite a fighter.

00:19:12.140 And God bless you, Eric.

00:19:13.480 Welcome back to the program.

00:19:15.200 It's great to be back with you.

00:19:16.240 Thank you.

00:19:17.040 So what are we expecting the president to say tonight, and how are the Republicans going to react?

00:19:25.480 Well, he doesn't have a whole lot to talk about as late to his record.

00:19:30.000 There are not a lot of accomplishments that have actually improved people's lives.

00:19:34.560 You know, working families, essentially, Glenn, are paying $10,000 more a year for the same stuff as they were just three years ago.

00:19:41.460 When he came into office in December of 2020, right at the end of President Trump's turn, we had the lowest level of illegal immigration in 40 years.

00:19:50.780 Now we have the highest level of illegal immigration we've ever seen, including 9 million people here who've come here since then illegally.

00:19:59.040 And our energy policy is, you know, it's just been a total disaster for people.

00:20:02.840 Instead of being energy dominant, we've weakened ourselves from export capabilities to just being energy dominant around the world, right?

00:20:10.900 And so there's not a lot to talk about.

00:20:12.560 So my guess is he's going to resort to fear-mongering, right?

00:20:14.920 I mean, I joke there ought to be a drinking game for every time he says extremist MAGA Republican.

00:20:20.680 This whole town in D.C. would be drunk 10 minutes in, probably.

00:20:23.880 So I don't know what he's going to do other than try to scare people.

00:20:28.600 It's all he has left.

00:20:30.760 And, you know, Dark Brandon is probably going to come out on the speech, I'm guessing.

00:20:35.520 That would be, well, it would be revealing to some, I guess.

00:20:40.120 Not surprising.

00:20:41.100 The White House said he is going to highlight his historic accomplishments on issues, listen to this, on issues ranging from infrastructure spending to scrapping junk fees.

00:20:55.980 Now, I mean, I don't know about you, but those are historic.

00:20:59.360 I spent more money than anybody else, and I scrapped junk fees, you know, from things.

00:21:04.660 Yeah, they, what's really happening, Glenn, is the people who wrote white papers a decade ago or longer about, you know, whether it's open borders or this sort of climate alarmist agenda that fuels the ESG movement,

00:21:23.840 which I know you've talked about really almost before anybody else, quite frankly, that this just almost religious devotion where there's, like, sort of animal sacrifice involved now.

00:21:35.560 They want to kill cows because of emissions.

00:21:39.580 It's very bizarre.

00:21:41.520 And what's happened now is the policy has lined up with this sort of theoretical discussion among these people, and now we're seeing the results.

00:21:49.800 So I actually think it's really instructive for people to compare the record, you know, from three years ago to now because people are really seeing what it looks like when the left has the levers of power, and it's not good for people.

00:22:02.780 And I think, as Republicans, our response should be we should have an unabashedly pro-American agenda.

00:22:09.200 You know, just, let's just strip it down.

00:22:11.400 Let's make sure working people are making more. 0.99

00:22:13.380 Let's stop sending our jobs over to China because we want those materials to build EVs there's not a market for here. 0.71

00:22:19.080 You know, just let's secure our border.

00:22:22.380 Let's be energy dominant.

00:22:23.580 I think that is what people want to see.

00:22:25.280 There's so many people, Glenn, that these are the people I represent.

00:22:28.800 They're everywhere in this country that they work hard.

00:22:31.500 They play by the rules, and they love America, and they're constantly being told they're the problem.

00:22:36.340 And I don't agree with that.

00:22:37.500 I reject that, and I think most Americans do.

00:22:39.680 And so Biden, again, is going to try to wishcast tonight and blame other people, but people are smart enough to recognize, which is why his approval rating is in the 30s.

00:22:46.640 So I have to ask you a question because I don't think we talk about any of the real stuff.

00:22:52.140 We don't talk about China.

00:22:53.460 I've been harping on this for the last few days about how China is actually making the raw chemicals, bringing them over, mixing them with a thousand Chinese in a town just south of our border, mixing them into fentanyl. 0.92

00:23:11.020 Then they sold the drug cartels, the presses, so they could press them into pills.

00:23:17.300 So all of this is happening with China and our border.

00:23:23.880 They are pumping poison in.

00:23:26.420 He's going to talk tonight about how he's fought against the fentanyl, but he hadn't done anything with China and with the real problem on what's going on in our border.

00:23:35.620 And, again, on the border, he's going to make this about, oh, the Republicans, you know, they just wouldn't do a comprehensive package.

00:23:43.520 No, sir, you have let people in.

00:23:47.420 I really fear a massive terrorist attack on our land and possibly soon.

00:23:56.620 Well, I'll give you a startling number.

00:24:00.760 In just California alone in the last four months, you think about the countries of origin of people who've come here illegally and been released into the country.

00:24:11.380 China's number two, 21,000.

00:24:14.280 Okay?

00:24:14.620 We've never seen those kinds of numbers ever before from a place like China.

00:24:19.220 They're coming from all over the world.

00:24:20.400 And you're right.

00:24:21.340 They are importing poison.

00:24:23.500 And the cartels are being enriched.

00:24:25.160 They have lanes for human trafficking and drug trafficking that's well-established.

00:24:30.360 And they're getting rich off of this, and Americans are dying.

00:24:34.000 And I think, again, this is why the immigration issue, illegal immigration, is so seminal right now.

00:24:39.820 People don't get it.

00:24:41.040 They don't understand how an American president can't be, like, up in arms about this.

00:24:46.640 You know, like, it's a core thing that I think strips away some of the red jersey and blue jerseys we wear on some issues.

00:24:54.140 Like, this is our border.

00:24:56.620 These are our people dying.

00:24:58.060 How is it that you care?

00:24:59.580 And it's also a disconnect on Ukraine.

00:25:01.040 How is it that you were obsessed with sending another $61 billion there when this is happening right here?

00:25:06.340 So I think it really, Glenn, has just sort of crystallized the frustration of the people who are in charge who don't actually put America first in any way, shape, or form.

00:25:17.140 They just don't.

00:25:18.500 And I think the border issue, and you're right, he doesn't need any new laws.

00:25:23.540 He issued 90-plus executive orders on doing the successes.

00:25:27.760 Remain in Mexico, of course, is the most famous.

00:25:29.800 When I was AG, we held up those for a while.

00:25:32.120 We won in court for a while.

00:25:33.520 But they are just dedicated to it.

00:25:35.020 It's in their DNA.

00:25:36.300 So they're getting exactly what they want, and the American people are feeling the consequences.

00:25:40.300 So can I talk about the budget that has just—the continuation of this nonsense and this madness?

00:25:52.220 I saw Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who I don't have a problem with.

00:25:56.020 He seems to be doing a good job.

00:25:58.220 He was talking about how many cuts there is, but that's not real.

00:26:03.720 Did we get anything from this, and is it going to pass to the Senate?

00:26:08.640 Probably.

00:26:09.120 I'm not going along with it.

00:26:10.520 I can't—I didn't get sent here to go along with a broken system, whether it's these, you know, no appropriations bills, no debate.

00:26:17.100 We don't even know if we're going to get amendments.

00:26:19.100 You know, think about that.

00:26:19.900 It's the United States Senate.

00:26:21.120 We don't know if Chuck Schumer is going to allow because he's unveiling these omnibuses.

00:26:25.200 Now, this is broken up into two omnibuses, but it's still bad.

00:26:28.280 It's still a bus headed off a fiscal cliff.

00:26:31.520 You know, we're $34 trillion in debt.

00:26:33.420 There's 6,000 earmarks.

00:26:35.300 There's money for eco-therapy, like people who are stressed about climate alarm.

00:26:42.960 I mean, there's money for algorithmic justice.

00:26:45.820 I mean, this is nuts.

00:26:47.520 And if you—again, if you put these questions to the American people, they reject it, but they try to do it under the cover of darkness.

00:26:53.220 They try to jam this at deadlines, and so I'm fighting, and I hope it can be bipartisan.

00:26:58.060 I mean, you know, Mike Lee and others, I know you know.

00:26:59.920 What we're trying to do is get to a place where we're empowering individual members, where you actually have a say.

00:27:05.660 I think that's what people think happens here, that you stand up on the floor as a senator like Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

00:27:10.860 I have an idea.

00:27:11.880 I have an improvement.

00:27:12.980 I want to build support.

00:27:14.200 I want to build a coalition.

00:27:15.660 Chuck Schumer doesn't rule the floor like that.

00:27:18.200 And so a lot of members are just completely cut out, and it's why we end up with these bills like this that are just needled, you know, are just embedded with a bunch of waste.

00:27:27.340 And I know I'm not disagreeing with you when I say this, but neither do the Republicans.

00:27:32.240 I mean, the Republicans and the Democrats have given away all their power to the state, to the administration, and that's the real problem here.

00:27:42.520 We need a president that will reduce the federal regulations that come from unelected nobodies. 0.76

00:27:51.980 Yep.

00:27:52.360 Well, and you know, we've talked about before, the first legislation I filed, one of my fundamental missions here is to dismantle the administrative state.

00:28:01.160 The founders never envisioned unelected people, unaccountable to anybody, affecting people's lives the way they do now.

00:28:07.300 So there's a bunch of structural reforms I think Congress ought to have to vote on.

00:28:11.120 Every regulation, pick the economic impact.

00:28:13.660 Mine would be lower than someone else's.

00:28:15.320 We should be on the record.

00:28:16.880 If we did that, there wouldn't be a ban on gas stoves. 0.80

00:28:20.280 There wouldn't be all this ridiculous stuff that we don't like.

00:28:23.080 We should have to vote on it, and that would stop this stuff cold.

00:28:27.100 We need structural reform, and I'm just not going to stop until we get it.

00:28:31.300 Because I think it's the – and you want to understand why people lose faith, it's because they see that, they send people to Washington, it feels like nothing changes because this administrative state exists.

00:28:40.300 And, by the way, the same apparatus is suppressing their speech, which is why the heart of Missouri versus Biden that I filed will be argued in two weeks at the Supreme Court.

00:28:47.260 So that was my first floor speech, Glenn, was taking on the administrative state and protecting the First Amendment.

00:28:53.220 I care deeply about it, and I think it's our way forward to restoring trust and actually living up to the promises of America.

00:28:59.620 You know, I haven't talked to you about this, so I don't know if – because you're busy on other things, but I don't know if you know, one of our investigative journalists was arrested by the FBI and absolutely humiliated.

00:29:11.460 He went in and covered January 6th in the Capitol.

00:29:16.680 We have all of the footage of him in the building.

00:29:19.560 He never did anything except report the news.

00:29:24.080 His video was used by the New York Times and HBO.

00:29:28.380 He was a legitimate reporter in there covering this.

00:29:32.280 They arrested him, put him in ankle chains and handcuffs, and marched him in front of a judge.

00:29:42.100 We don't know what's going to happen to him now.

00:29:44.760 He's been charged with four misdemeanors.

00:29:48.640 This has got to stop.

00:29:50.200 They're out of control.

00:29:51.460 Yep, and you're going to hear tonight, Glenn, these – you know, the American people have a choice between democracy and authoritarianism.

00:29:59.540 Well, we have seen the enemy, and it is Joe Biden's administration.

00:30:03.360 Look, this is – this is meant to quell dissent.

00:30:06.680 It's completely un-American, and they have weaponized these institutions to go after, you know, Catholics and people who are speaking out.

00:30:16.140 We saw with the censorship enterprise, it silenced millions of posts in Americans across the country, and that's what they're doing.

00:30:24.420 Well, excuse me.

00:30:24.940 That's what they're doing, and they're – it's really un-American. 0.63

00:30:28.260 And I remember a time where liberals, you know, actually believed in the First Amendment, and I don't know what the hell happened, but we've got to figure it out.

00:30:35.560 All right.

00:30:36.000 Thank you so much.

00:30:36.860 We'll be watching for you tonight.

00:30:38.280 One last thing.

00:30:39.700 Are they – the press keeps saying the Republicans are going to be out of control tonight.

00:30:48.580 We'll leave it at that.

00:30:50.460 It's Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri.

00:30:54.800 I think that was a great comment myself.

00:30:57.000 From Missouri, Senator Eric Schmidt, back in a minute.

00:31:02.240 Don't forget our coverage begins tonight with the State of the Union.

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00:31:46.220 If we were anywhere south of the border, this next guest – I mean, I think I would probably have girls screaming outside of the windows going, 1.00

00:31:57.560 oh my gosh, you talked to him.

00:32:00.680 Big, big star in South America and Mexico.

00:32:05.100 I'm going to introduce him, as only a white man can, as Alejandro Monteverde, which is not the way he would say it,

00:32:14.820 but better than the way George Bush would say it.

00:32:17.100 He'd be like, Alejandro, you know, he's here.

00:32:20.180 Anyway, Alejandro, how are you, sir?

00:32:23.100 How are you?

00:32:23.820 Thank you for having me on your show.

00:32:25.500 It's a great honor.

00:32:26.540 And, by the way, I met George Bush at the – you know, when he gave the State of the Union speech,

00:32:34.580 he picked two immigrants that came to this country, and I was one of them.

00:32:39.100 He spoke, so I had the opportunity to chat with him, and he did spoke like what you said.

00:32:46.300 Alejandro was here.

00:32:48.320 Anyway, so, Alejandro, you are one of the great reasons we love immigrants.

00:32:56.540 You are a guy, big, big star, all over South America and Mexico, and as an actor,

00:33:04.760 but you have become, I believe, one of the best filmmakers in the world.

00:33:12.180 I saw your movie Cabrini when it was – I don't even know if it was locked down yet.

00:33:19.280 And halfway through, I said to one of the producers,

00:33:21.960 I feel like I am in the screening room with the group that made The Godfather, you know, sitting next to –

00:33:34.120 Well, that is one of the most amazing compliments,

00:33:37.860 because when I worked with my cinematographer, that was one of the inspirations.

00:33:41.960 Oh, yeah, I'm telling you, you guys nailed that.

00:33:46.100 It is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, but not for an artsy reason.

00:33:51.300 It just captures a mood like I've only seen in The Godfather.

00:33:57.380 So you hit that.

00:33:59.000 The movie Cabrini –

00:34:00.280 Thank you.

00:34:00.700 You're welcome.

00:34:01.220 The movie Cabrini.

00:34:02.260 Tell the story of St. Cabrini, because a lot of people don't know her.

00:34:06.200 Well, you know, just to – the shorter summarized, she was a warrior. 0.98

00:34:12.420 She came here to America in the late 1800s as an immigrant, a woman with nothing,

00:34:19.900 with a dream, with a big mission to build hospitals and help those in need,

00:34:28.700 and built an empire as big as any Rockefeller or Vanderbilt.

00:34:32.600 Yeah.

00:34:32.780 Even though at that time when she arrived, she faced a lot of racism against the Italians

00:34:40.460 and discrimination, but that's the beautiful of this country.

00:34:44.620 That did not stop her from building one of the greatest hospitals that New York has ever seen. 0.79

00:34:50.700 It is.

00:34:51.240 And she actually, by the end of her life, I believe it was the largest hospital network in the world.

00:34:57.320 Yes.

00:34:57.560 I mean, what she accomplished was amazing, and she became an American shortly after she got here,

00:35:03.880 a few years after she got here.

00:35:05.820 But it shows a woman –

00:35:06.980 She became an American, and then she was the first American saint.

00:35:10.160 Yeah.

00:35:10.620 Which is also very powerful.

00:35:12.160 Yeah.

00:35:13.480 The way you have predicted her – tell me about the lady who plays her. 0.54

00:35:18.180 This movie, Cabrini, by the way, my highest, highest recommendation.

00:35:24.800 This is an incredible movie, so inspirational, so well done.

00:35:31.360 This will show you how far independent films have come from conservative media.

00:35:40.040 This is put out by Angel Films.

00:35:43.320 You remember how bad Christian movies were?

00:35:47.600 This is – I wouldn't categorize it as a Christian movie.

00:35:50.940 It's just a movie about this wonderful Christian, but it is brilliant.

00:35:56.180 So please go see it.

00:35:57.360 It's out tomorrow.

00:35:58.980 Anyway, tell me –

00:36:01.420 Well, thank you.

00:36:01.720 Thank you.

00:36:02.140 First of all, that's truly an honor to coming from you.

00:36:06.120 It means a lot.

00:36:06.820 Well, the reason we – this is a woman that also defies death itself, defies our mortality every single day. 1.00

00:36:17.640 She was able to literally steal decades of life. 1.00

00:36:22.020 They told her that she had two to three years to live, and she kept fighting and fighting with – look at the amount of faith.

00:36:29.100 If somebody tells you you have two years to live, but you have a dream that will take you 20 years to make, that requires a lot, a lot of faith in yourself to begin with.

00:36:38.380 So I needed an actress that was able to have the power of her eyes from going from loving eyes that can love a child that is abandoned to the streets to rapidly change to have these defiant eyes to defy all these challenges that were put in front of her.

00:37:00.120 You know, she fought all the way from the most dangerous criminal, a pimp that was prostituting little girls, to facing, you know, very powerful politicians.

00:37:10.240 Right.

00:37:10.760 And the Pope.

00:37:12.100 I mean, the scene –

00:37:13.120 And the Pope.

00:37:13.360 The scene with the Pope where she's like, I'm going to see the Pope, and everybody's keeping her away from the Pope, and he's finally like, I'm not going to mess with this woman. 1.00

00:37:22.840 Send her in. 1.00

00:37:24.580 Yeah.

00:37:25.260 She inspires me all the time.

00:37:27.060 You know, we take notes too easy nowadays.

00:37:29.140 So if somebody says no, and then you just walk away, she was able to convert the no to a yes.

00:37:35.620 She was able to build bridges, to even be able to work with people that disagree with her.

00:37:40.900 And that's what I think is a problem right now, and it's so relevant with America because right now we're in such a divided country.

00:37:47.360 We should be able to work together even though we're divided, and she understood that.

00:37:51.420 Yeah.

00:37:51.640 It's like we don't have to agree, but there's people dying outside.

00:37:55.220 You know, there's like, let's go and help.

00:37:58.100 Right.

00:37:58.460 And she lived a life for others.

00:38:00.560 Can I go down just an odd road perhaps with you?

00:38:04.520 There was one point where I leaned over to the producer and I said, that's Batman looking over Gotham.

00:38:13.800 Yeah.

00:38:14.680 Right?

00:38:15.280 And she was wearing a cape.

00:38:16.380 Yes.

00:38:17.000 And she was wearing a cape.

00:38:18.040 Yes.

00:38:19.080 So did you do these things?

00:38:21.200 Because there were several places where I was like, that's a hero shot.

00:38:25.100 That's a hero shot that I've seen.

00:38:27.300 Did you intentionally do that?

00:38:29.320 Yes.

00:38:29.940 Yes.

00:38:30.340 Yes.

00:38:30.620 Everything was designed and very intentional in this film.

00:38:33.660 We, because of COVID, you know, at least we have to use COVID for advantage.

00:38:37.580 You know, the movie kept being pushed, pushed and pushed.

00:38:40.140 So we used all that time to keep designing and designing, designing every shot, but designing

00:38:44.480 the subtext.

00:38:45.820 There's a lot of subtext in this film.

00:38:47.860 She lived a very heroic life.

00:38:49.920 She was wearing a cape.

00:38:51.080 So we wanted to, to present her visually as a hero, as those heroes that you see in Marvel movies, but she was a real hero.

00:39:01.780 And is it true that this was, because I think this is what makes the movie so visually appealing, is it was meant to be shot in black and white, right?

00:39:14.660 Yes.

00:39:15.240 And what happened?

00:39:15.860 That whole, the whole time the movie was black and white.

00:39:19.420 And when you shoot black and white, it allows you to be very operatic, you know, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, you know, it's like all those movies.

00:39:26.340 It's a wonderful, you know, life, all those films.

00:39:29.480 It allows you, you know, Orson Welles used to say, it is impossible to have bad acting in black and white.

00:39:37.260 Black and white allows you to do everything.

00:39:39.000 But most importantly, the reason I wanted to shoot it in black and white was because she was wearing black. 1.00

00:39:44.540 And I did not want her, her habit to get in the way of her story.

00:39:48.260 So I was like, well, then everybody's going to be dressed like her, black and white.

00:39:52.360 So for an entire year and a half, I designed the movie as it was black and white, which is very operatic, very cinematic, very orchestrated.

00:40:01.580 Almost like if, almost like if you look in a movie on Broadway.

00:40:04.820 Anyway, so, and then a week before we started the shoot, Eustace Wolfington, who was the person behind, behind all of this movement, I call it the Cabrini movement.

00:40:16.420 He flew in and I say, well, he's coming for two reasons.

00:40:19.980 Either he's firing me or he's telling me that he's not going to be black and white.

00:40:25.040 That was the only two reasons because everything else he could just tell me on the phone.

00:40:28.520 Why is he flying in to see me?

00:40:30.760 And he was the second one.

00:40:32.980 It's like, it's not going to be black and white.

00:40:35.800 And, but this point I already had to sign the movie.

00:40:38.420 When you design the movie for black and white, like, like Citizen Kane, you, you, you take a lot of creative licenses.

00:40:45.320 And it was too late to go back.

00:40:47.260 And it, you know, I didn't know if it was going to work.

00:40:49.680 So when I finished the film, I went into deep, deep depression for two weeks because I didn't know if I had, if this movie was going to work.

00:40:57.380 Because I had shot it designed for black and white, but I shot it in color.

00:41:01.980 So it was the most dark.

00:41:04.900 I went into a dark place for two weeks and, and then I saw the first cut and I was like, oh, it worked.

00:41:11.420 Oh my gosh.

00:41:12.220 It was a risk.

00:41:13.740 It is the most visually stunning movie that does not detract.

00:41:20.580 You know, sometimes people do it for art's sake and blah, blah, blah.

00:41:24.080 But this is just visually stunning and helps tell the story.

00:41:31.640 I mean, Alejandro, you don't need this from me, but I truly believe you are one of the, if not the best director around today, you are going to be legendary.

00:41:43.420 Uh, I believe, uh, and it's just a matter of, just a matter of time.

00:41:49.120 You are just, it's, it's brilliant.

00:41:51.440 So truly, because we've been in a fight and I, and I want to, you know, I, I, I, I've never heard that and more coming from you.

00:41:59.160 It's, it's shaking my heart, but I want to say something, you know, you know, this very well, you know, movies like these, if we don't, we don't have the big billboards.

00:42:08.380 We don't have, we're not, you know, we're competing against Dune.

00:42:11.800 So the only way the movie like this can survive is if in opening weekend, people go see it.

00:42:17.080 Otherwise we'll be kicked out of theaters.

00:42:19.060 So I cannot tell you how important it is that people come out on opening weekend because they are our billboards.

00:42:25.560 The billboards is the word of mouth.

00:42:27.240 It's people coming out of the theaters and sharing their experience, their cinematic experience with, with, with audiences.

00:42:34.180 You know, our audience is the walking billboards.

00:42:39.100 Well, I will tell you that I, I saw it in a, a studio projection room and I went home and I've been telling my family about this movie ever since.

00:42:49.120 And we are all going to be at the theater tomorrow.

00:42:52.300 I can't wait to see it again.

00:42:54.020 It is so good.

00:42:55.160 Thank you so much.

00:42:56.300 Yeah.

00:42:56.820 You saw, you saw an early cut, so I can't wait for you.

00:42:59.540 There is two or three new scenes.

00:43:00.860 Uh, I wonder if you'll be able to, to start them.

00:43:04.160 I think you will, by the way.

00:43:06.120 Alejandro, thank you so much and keep up the good work.

00:43:09.400 Um, you're, you are fantastic really.

00:43:12.620 And Cabrini is a, is, is a piece of, uh, really a piece of art.

00:43:17.440 It really is.

00:43:18.380 And I'm so grateful, so grateful for your support, but thank you so much.

00:43:22.420 Thank you.

00:43:23.660 Alejandro, uh, Montever, Monteverdi, um, filmmaker.

00:43:28.260 And I, I really mean this.

00:43:30.520 I, I think he is, he's going to be remembered with all of the greats.

00:43:36.980 I, I have been a fan of his when he started making smaller movies.

00:43:40.940 Um, and he made little boy, which I thought was just fantastic.

00:43:45.440 Captured the spirit of America and world war two, like very few people can do.

00:43:49.920 Uh, and then he also is responsible for, um, the, um, uh, the sound of freedom and now Cabrini.

00:44:00.440 And this is amazing and a great uplifting story.

00:44:04.600 You will just love it.

00:44:06.540 Find it at a theater.

00:44:07.740 Like he said, this weekend is really important because they, the reason why sound of freedom

00:44:15.180 did well is because more movie theaters open up on the opening weekend.

00:44:20.180 If they have a big opening weekend, then more theaters go, you know what, I'll give that

00:44:24.540 a try.

00:44:25.460 And if you don't support these things on the opening weekend and you will just, just go

00:44:31.500 to support, um, filmmakers, we, we have come from really bad movies to brilliant, brilliant

00:44:42.080 pieces of work.

00:44:43.340 And this is the best I've seen from a conservative.

00:44:47.240 And it's one of the best I've seen from anyone.

00:44:51.040 It's called Cabrini.

00:44:53.040 See it this weekend.

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