Glenn Beck: China is the Biggest Threat to U.S. Economic Growth Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator, bestselling author, and talk show host. He is also the host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" and is a regular contributor to conservative media outlets such as Fox News and the Christian Science Monitor. Glenn has been a long time supporter of conservative causes and has a long history of supporting conservative causes. He is a frequent guest on conservative talk show talk shows and is the author of several books, including "The Devil Next Door" and "The Godfather: An American Odyssey." Glenn is also a frequent contributor to the conservative media and has been featured in conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller.
00:01:35.580And I think a movie that everyone in this audience should see, just even just to mark how far we've come with, you know, conservative or Christian movies.
00:02:23.040We talk about that as well on today's podcast.
00:02:25.040So, when I first started my real estate company, realestateagentsitrust.com, I, you know, I didn't know anything about real estate before I started the company.
00:02:35.100And then I started working with real estate agents, and they were the 500 best, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:02:41.840500 best real estate agents in the country.
00:02:44.220And I learned so much from them, and I realized, wow, I know how to interview real estate agents.
00:19:17.040So what are we expecting the president to say tonight, and how are the Republicans going to react?
00:19:25.480Well, he doesn't have a whole lot to talk about as late to his record.
00:19:30.000There are not a lot of accomplishments that have actually improved people's lives.
00:19:34.560You know, working families, essentially, Glenn, are paying $10,000 more a year for the same stuff as they were just three years ago.
00:19:41.460When 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.
00:19:50.780Now we have the highest level of illegal immigration we've ever seen, including 9 million people here who've come here since then illegally.
00:19:59.040And our energy policy is, you know, it's just been a total disaster for people.
00:20:02.840Instead of being energy dominant, we've weakened ourselves from export capabilities to just being energy dominant around the world, right?
00:20:10.900And so there's not a lot to talk about.
00:20:12.560So my guess is he's going to resort to fear-mongering, right?
00:20:14.920I mean, I joke there ought to be a drinking game for every time he says extremist MAGA Republican.
00:20:20.680This whole town in D.C. would be drunk 10 minutes in, probably.
00:20:23.880So I don't know what he's going to do other than try to scare people.
00:20:41.100The 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.
00:20:55.980Now, I mean, I don't know about you, but those are historic.
00:20:59.360I spent more money than anybody else, and I scrapped junk fees, you know, from things.
00:21:04.660Yeah, 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,
00:21:23.840which 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.
00:21:35.560They want to kill cows because of emissions.
00:21:41.520And 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.
00:21:49.800So 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.
00:22:02.780And I think, as Republicans, our response should be we should have an unabashedly pro-American agenda.
00:22:09.200You know, just, let's just strip it down.
00:22:11.400Let's make sure working people are making more.
00:22:13.380Let's stop sending our jobs over to China because we want those materials to build EVs there's not a market for here.
00:22:19.080You know, just let's secure our border.
00:22:37.500I reject that, and I think most Americans do.
00:22:39.680And 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.
00:22:46.640So I have to ask you a question because I don't think we talk about any of the real stuff.
00:22:53.460I'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.
00:23:11.020Then they sold the drug cartels, the presses, so they could press them into pills.
00:23:17.300So all of this is happening with China and our border.
00:23:26.420He'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.
00:23:35.620And, again, on the border, he's going to make this about, oh, the Republicans, you know, they just wouldn't do a comprehensive package.
00:23:47.420I really fear a massive terrorist attack on our land and possibly soon.
00:23:56.620Well, I'll give you a startling number.
00:24:00.760In 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.
00:24:59.580And it's also a disconnect on Ukraine.
00:25:01.040How is it that you were obsessed with sending another $61 billion there when this is happening right here?
00:25:06.340So 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.
00:27:15.660Chuck Schumer doesn't rule the floor like that.
00:27:18.200And 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.
00:27:27.340And I know I'm not disagreeing with you when I say this, but neither do the Republicans.
00:27:32.240I 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.
00:27:42.520We need a president that will reduce the federal regulations that come from unelected nobodies.
00:27:52.360Well, 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.
00:28:01.160The founders never envisioned unelected people, unaccountable to anybody, affecting people's lives the way they do now.
00:28:07.300So there's a bunch of structural reforms I think Congress ought to have to vote on.
00:28:11.120Every regulation, pick the economic impact.
00:28:13.660Mine would be lower than someone else's.
00:28:16.880If we did that, there wouldn't be a ban on gas stoves.
00:28:20.280There wouldn't be all this ridiculous stuff that we don't like.
00:28:23.080We should have to vote on it, and that would stop this stuff cold.
00:28:27.100We need structural reform, and I'm just not going to stop until we get it.
00:28:31.300Because 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.
00:28:40.300And, 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.
00:28:47.260So that was my first floor speech, Glenn, was taking on the administrative state and protecting the First Amendment.
00:28:53.220I care deeply about it, and I think it's our way forward to restoring trust and actually living up to the promises of America.
00:28:59.620You 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.
00:29:11.460He went in and covered January 6th in the Capitol.
00:29:16.680We have all of the footage of him in the building.
00:29:19.560He never did anything except report the news.
00:29:24.080His video was used by the New York Times and HBO.
00:29:28.380He was a legitimate reporter in there covering this.
00:29:32.280They arrested him, put him in ankle chains and handcuffs, and marched him in front of a judge.
00:29:42.100We don't know what's going to happen to him now.
00:29:44.760He's been charged with four misdemeanors.
00:29:51.460Yep, and you're going to hear tonight, Glenn, these – you know, the American people have a choice between democracy and authoritarianism.
00:29:59.540Well, we have seen the enemy, and it is Joe Biden's administration.
00:30:03.360Look, this is – this is meant to quell dissent.
00:30:06.680It's completely un-American, and they have weaponized these institutions to go after, you know, Catholics and people who are speaking out.
00:30:16.140We saw with the censorship enterprise, it silenced millions of posts in Americans across the country, and that's what they're doing.
00:30:24.940That's what they're doing, and they're – it's really un-American.
00:30:28.260And 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.
00:30:50.460It's Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri.
00:30:54.800I think that was a great comment myself.
00:30:57.000From Missouri, Senator Eric Schmidt, back in a minute.
00:31:02.240Don't forget our coverage begins tonight with the State of the Union.
00:31:05.900And we're not covering it like everybody else.
00:31:08.740We're all getting together, and we're pretty much – I mean, we'll tell you all the facts and everything else, but we'll just be kind of an outlet for you.
00:31:17.160You know, just kind of a – let the steam off, because there's going to be things that we've got to say tonight.
00:31:46.220If 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,
00:36:06.820Well, the reason we – this is a woman that also defies death itself, defies our mortality every single day.
00:36:17.640She was able to literally steal decades of life.
00:36:22.020They told her that she had two to three years to live, and she kept fighting and fighting with – look at the amount of faith.
00:36:29.100If 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.
00:36:38.380So 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.
00:37:00.120You 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.
00:37:13.360The 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.
00:38:51.080So 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.
00:39:01.780And 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?
00:39:15.860That whole, the whole time the movie was black and white.
00:39:19.420And 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.
00:39:26.340It's a wonderful, you know, life, all those films.
00:39:29.480It allows you, you know, Orson Welles used to say, it is impossible to have bad acting in black and white.
00:39:37.260Black and white allows you to do everything.
00:39:39.000But most importantly, the reason I wanted to shoot it in black and white was because she was wearing black.
00:39:44.540And I did not want her, her habit to get in the way of her story.
00:39:48.260So I was like, well, then everybody's going to be dressed like her, black and white.
00:39:52.360So 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.
00:40:01.580Almost like if, almost like if you look in a movie on Broadway.
00:40:04.820Anyway, 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.
00:40:16.420He flew in and I say, well, he's coming for two reasons.
00:40:19.980Either he's firing me or he's telling me that he's not going to be black and white.
00:40:25.040That was the only two reasons because everything else he could just tell me on the phone.
00:40:47.260And it, you know, I didn't know if it was going to work.
00:40:49.680So 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.
00:40:57.380Because I had shot it designed for black and white, but I shot it in color.
00:41:13.740It is the most visually stunning movie that does not detract.
00:41:20.580You know, sometimes people do it for art's sake and blah, blah, blah.
00:41:24.080But this is just visually stunning and helps tell the story.
00:41:31.640I 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.
00:41:43.420Uh, I believe, uh, and it's just a matter of, just a matter of time.
00:41:51.440So 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.
00:41:59.160It'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.
00:42:08.380We don't have, we're not, you know, we're competing against Dune.
00:42:11.800So the only way the movie like this can survive is if in opening weekend, people go see it.
00:42:17.080Otherwise we'll be kicked out of theaters.
00:42:19.060So I cannot tell you how important it is that people come out on opening weekend because they are our billboards.
00:42:27.240It's people coming out of the theaters and sharing their experience, their cinematic experience with, with, with audiences.
00:42:34.180You know, our audience is the walking billboards.
00:42:39.100Well, 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.
00:42:49.120And we are all going to be at the theater tomorrow.