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00:00:00.000 On today's podcast, we begin with more lies from The New York Times on Pete Hegseth,

00:00:05.760 proving they are little more than just left-wing propaganda. Wait until you see how crazy this

00:00:12.300 story is. And people need to stand up and tell the Democrats, stuff it, stuff it, pipe down.

00:00:20.760 Trump's second oath of office also shows he can't be written off or treated as a fluke

00:00:25.460 this time around. We have that story and President Trump takes on Mexico, but they're not going to

00:00:31.500 accept all of it. They're not. They're not. They're not going to accept the Gulf name change, 0.68

00:00:36.180 the deportation things. They're not happy about that. Well, how happy are they going to be when

00:00:43.840 we send in special forces to take out the cartels? Hey, drug lords, you might want a career change

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00:02:01.500 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, Stu. Glenn. Your take on today's

00:02:11.660 show and the feeling of the country is fascinating and kind of where I am right now, too. It's

00:02:16.840 like, it feels weird coming in and not having 46 bad stories to tell everybody in America.

00:02:22.800 I don't know how to tell people this. Yeah, this sucks. This is how it's going to ruin 0.98

00:02:26.520 your life. Like, it's not. There's a lot of good things today. A lot. Like, a lot of really

00:02:33.820 good things. Now, it's day one. We should be clear. And they're going to do everything they

00:02:39.200 can to, you know, make to try to reverse this and make all of our lives miserable. But

00:02:45.280 hey, you know, I don't know how long this lasts, hopefully for four years, hopefully for eight,

00:02:51.680 maybe 12. Yeah. Let me let me just get the one dark thing out. And this this should piss

00:02:55.880 off everybody. And you should all you have to do is call your congressman and your senators.

00:03:00.980 The New York Times to say that they are journalists is is like saying, you know, a Christmas carol

00:03:15.720 is a true story of Christmas. They are not journalists. They are not printing facts. This

00:03:22.540 is a propaganda machine. And they know these are not facts. Let me give you the latest. Julie

00:03:29.720 Turskin, Sarah Fitzpatrick and Courtney Cube have all worked together on a story that just

00:03:37.940 came out about Daniel, Danielle Hegseth. Now, who's Danielle Hegseth? Well, that is Pete's

00:03:46.360 former sister-in-law. So she's right there. OK, she's a former sister-in-law. And according

00:03:54.540 to these, quote, reporters, Danielle says, oh, you don't even know. You don't even begin.

00:04:05.020 Pete was involved in behavior that caused his second wife to fear for her safety. And she

00:04:12.980 describes in an affidavit allegations of volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth that made his

00:04:20.540 second wife, Samantha, fear for her safety. Now, I want you to know, Samantha denies all

00:04:29.040 of this. Samantha was fearing for her safety. OK, I was there. I saw it kind of. Not really.

00:04:36.540 But I saw it. Ninth paragraph in. Ninth paragraph in. They report something that should probably

00:04:45.540 be in the headline. Samantha's response to Danielle's allegations.

00:04:52.640 She says, first, I never asked anyone to share or speak about the details of my marriage on my

00:05:04.020 behalf. She wrote a letter to Danielle and said, please stop speaking on my behalf. Your information

00:05:16.020 is not accurate. And I have CC'd my lawyer. OK, there was no quoting. There was no physical abuse

00:05:25.620 in my marriage. This is the only further statement I will make to you. I have to let you know that I

00:05:32.080 am not speaking and will not speak on my marriage to Pete. Please respect this decision. But that's not

00:05:40.020 good enough for the New York Times. No, the person who is allegedly allegedly abused in their marriage

00:05:46.280 who says I wasn't abused and please stop speaking for me. I've contacted my attorney to make it stop.

00:05:56.120 No, you don't believe that person. You believe the far left Democrat who's no longer part of the

00:06:03.220 family. You believe that person. Now, if that's not damning enough, several paragraphs past the ninth

00:06:13.640 paragraph, they report both Pete Hegseth and Samantha Hegseth signed a 2021 court document that said

00:06:22.660 neither parent claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse. So in the court of law, they both signed a

00:06:32.460 legally binding document that said, yeah, that's not what this is about. Kind of important.

00:06:40.520 Now, what the New York Times would have you believe is that Pete, the abused wife, and everybody else

00:06:48.160 involved in this marriage and the disillusion of this marriage, including the attorneys and the judge,

00:06:54.140 they're all lying to you. They're all lying to you. It's just Danielle that is telling the truth.

00:06:59.780 This is, I think, the clearest way that the media executes their plan of bias.

00:07:06.700 Yes.

00:07:07.060 Right? It's who they decide to take the word.

00:07:10.900 Yes.

00:07:11.400 Who's word do they take?

00:07:12.480 Exactly right.

00:07:12.860 You know, it's like we have had accusers against Doug Emhoff, right, for physical abuse. No time for

00:07:19.700 them at all.

00:07:20.180 No.

00:07:20.420 They didn't even mention them. If they were mentioned at all, it was to dismiss their claims.

00:07:23.740 It was the person who actually was supposedly hit in the face.

00:07:28.080 Right.

00:07:28.700 In front of witnesses.

00:07:30.020 Yep. No time for them at all.

00:07:31.580 None. 0.99

00:07:32.240 You know, women who claim to be raped by Bill Clinton. 0.99

00:07:36.580 Joe Biden. 0.99

00:07:37.640 Rape by Joe Biden. 0.99

00:07:38.580 Joe Biden.

00:07:38.600 Yep.

00:07:39.340 They don't have time for any of these people.

00:07:40.880 No.

00:07:41.000 But if some rant, not even the person, the person is saying it didn't happen.

00:07:46.180 Right.

00:07:46.460 Another person who is an X of an X of an X comes out and says, yeah, this is really bad

00:07:53.700 stuff. It's a whole giant news treatment from the New York Times as if it's a credible

00:07:57.560 assessment. It's pathetic. 1.00

00:07:59.900 You try to go to court against the United States government on things that they're doing, and 0.95

00:08:06.300 you will be deemed not having standing, meaning it's not really affecting you. It's not about

00:08:14.660 you. How many times have you heard this was rejected because you didn't have standing?

00:08:19.380 You hear that all the time. And the government just steamrolls over people. This woman does 1.00

00:08:23.700 not have standing. She wasn't there. That's not her. Everybody else who is understatement,

00:08:29.900 under oath, is denying what she said. Do I need to remind you of Kavanaugh? These people

00:08:37.360 have one mode. One. That's it. This is why the left can never actually gain rule. Now, they

00:08:48.740 just did, and you saw what happened. What was happening to our country? They were destroying

00:08:54.700 it. Why? Forget all of the philosophical reasons. The real reason is that's all they

00:09:03.360 can do. They cannot build. They can't actually create anything. They only destroy. So what

00:09:12.620 are they doing? They're not actually creating anything. They're not actually doing anything.

00:09:16.920 They're just destroying. Now they're destroying Pete Hegseth and his ex-wife. Because what are

00:09:25.740 they doing? They're not only saying he's an abuser, they're saying she's a pathetic woman. These are 1.00

00:09:30.720 the people standing up for women. She's a pathetic woman who just doesn't have the courage to stand up 1.00

00:09:36.400 against this brute. Are you kidding me? And they can tell that story over and over again. They can tell 1.00

00:09:43.500 it exactly on partisan lines the same way over and over again. They never have to admit it. They

00:09:47.640 never have to come to some come to Jesus moment where they say, gosh, we've been doing this wrong

00:09:52.880 the whole time. And you know what? When it comes to the success of the conservative movement in America,

00:10:00.700 good. It's probably the reason why Trump won. It's probably the reason why these things are happening

00:10:07.660 today. Because they have been so terrible for so long that it finally woke up a bunch of people who

00:10:13.000 don't even believe in conservative principles. And I tell you, what Trump is doing this week,

00:10:18.000 it is going to backfire on the left like crazy. People are not against the deportation of illegals.

00:10:26.380 No, it's quite popular, actually, in polling. I mean, what is the most popular policy in America?

00:10:31.900 What is it? Voting. The checks on voting, right? Like voter ID is one of the most popular.

00:10:38.940 And what is the mid to high 80s when it comes to approval rating? This is in the 70s, I believe,

00:10:46.540 with the conservatives in like 68% approval with the left, right? With Democrats. Yeah. I don't know

00:10:54.020 if it's that high with the left. Overall, it might be that high, though. Okay. I mean, it is.

00:10:58.280 It's high. It is high. It's popular. And well over 50% for the Democrats. Well over 50%.

00:11:05.280 This is not unpopular. And these guys trying to thwart our safety. I mean, you're going to now block

00:11:14.000 the CIA, the guy who's going in to lead the CIA. You're blocking the appointment for homeland security.

00:11:22.880 This is not going to end well for you Democrats. It's not. Your time is over. You lost.

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00:12:04.960 Rights. We are striving to build a more perfect nation, meaning we're never going to make it.

00:12:11.920 We always have to strive to be better. You understand that concept as a Democrat? Come on in.

00:12:17.040 Let's strive to be better without throwing out the baby. But for those of you who are just 0.97

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00:14:28.500 Politico has a fascinating article today that I want to start the hour with and it is from John

00:14:38.120 Harris. He is the founding editor and global editor of in chief of Politico. He says Donald J. Trump in

00:14:46.180 his second inaugural address was everything his supporters hoped he would be. Breathtakingly

00:14:51.140 expansive about his intention to reshape the vast federal government around his vision,

00:14:56.460 raucously jingoistic in proclaiming that the country will do whatever it wants to do to advance

00:15:02.620 its interests around the world, openly triumphal in asserting his belief that his survival from an

00:15:10.140 assassination's bullet or from an assassin's bullet and his victory show that he is God's chosen

00:15:16.480 instrument to lead an American revival. I don't think that's exactly what he said or how it came

00:15:22.660 across to his supporters. It didn't with me, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. I

00:15:28.260 understand what he's trying to say as somebody who's never supported Donald Trump. Trump was also

00:15:32.620 everything his adversaries feared. Messianic in tone, lovingly protective of his grievances, wholly

00:15:39.020 uncharitable to the people sitting just feet from him under the Capitol Rotunda who he defeated so

00:15:45.840 convincingly. But the second occasion of Trump taking the oath of office also put him in an entirely new

00:15:54.120 light. For the first time, he is holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot

00:15:59.640 deny a basic fact. He is the greatest American figure of his era. Let's quickly exhale, he writes.

00:16:09.360 Great in this context is not about a subjective debate over whether he is a singularly righteous leader

00:16:15.520 or a singularly menacing one. It is now simply an objective description about the dimensions of his

00:16:21.840 record. He began a decade ago by dominating the Republic Party. He soon advanced to dominating every

00:16:27.680 discussion of American politics broadly. Now his astonishing comeback after his defeat by Joseph

00:16:34.320 Biden in 2020 and the notoriety of January 6th riot makes it clear there are certain things he is not,

00:16:42.360 and one big thing he is. He is not a fluke who got elected initially in 2016 almost entirely because

00:16:50.220 of the infirmities of his opponent. That's not true. He is not someone the American public somehow

00:16:57.160 misunderstands as though Democrats and news media have not spent 10 years forcibly highlighting the risks

00:17:06.600 of his record in character. He is someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians

00:17:13.260 do not and forge powerful sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary

00:17:20.900 can match. In other words, he is a force of history. This is something his most ardent supporters, still shy of a national

00:17:29.700 majority, have never doubted, but something others, myself included, have been slow to reckon with. This is an article,

00:17:37.500 by the way, from the global editor-in-chief of Politico. The inaugural address and a raft of hundreds of executive

00:17:44.960 orders Trump has promised for his opening days in office make it impossible to avoid. For Democrats, and most

00:17:51.960 excruciatingly, Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the inaugural ceremony and all it symbolizes were

00:17:59.000 a meal made of ingredients scraped off the kennel floor. Once they gargle and spit, however, the opposition

00:18:06.440 party may find something liberating about this moment. That is, because they can no longer place confidence

00:18:13.160 in a strategy that once looked plausible, but has now been exposed as an illusion.

00:18:19.880 That's a massive statement. They cannot push Trump to the margins by treating him as a momentary

00:18:29.080 anomaly or simply denouncing him as a lawless or illegitimate president. Some voters bought that,

00:18:37.360 but not enough to win the election. Opponents have no choice but to acknowledge he and his movement

00:18:43.080 represent a large historic argument. And then they rally similarly large arguments to defeat it.

00:18:51.080 Trump in 2020 showed himself ready to undermine democracy for his own purposes. Trump in 2024

00:18:56.840 showed that he is also a potent expression of democracy. The most flamboyant rhetoric of Donald

00:19:03.340 Trump's inaugural address, drill baby drill, retaking the Panama Canal, renaming Gulf of Mexico,

00:19:09.580 kill the Gulf of America, sending federal troops to the border, all expressions of his genuine 0.94

00:19:14.700 worldview. Thank you for acknowledging at least just that. I can't tell you how many times I heard

00:19:21.060 CNN in the last couple of days say, he doesn't believe any of this stuff. He absolutely believes

00:19:26.260 all of this stuff. What part of this is giving you any indication he doesn't believe this?

00:19:32.460 And how explain to me exactly how both he doesn't believe in any of it and he's a Nazi? Yeah. Like

00:19:39.560 from what I understand, Hitler had some pretty strong beliefs. Jeez. That leaves plenty of room 0.98

00:19:45.500 for argument. Trump has transcended his vulnerability to criminal penalties for January 6th. It is not

00:19:52.380 possible for him to transcend a genuine contest over competing visions of the better America. The contest

00:19:59.160 may be more effective if opponents embrace the reality that Trump has already demonstrated some

00:20:03.760 familiar signatures of the most consequential presidents. Like influential predecessors, his

00:20:08.920 arguments have shifted the terms of debate in ways that echo within both parties, in this case on issues

00:20:15.400 such as trade, China, and the role of big corporations. Like other large presidents, Trump has been

00:20:21.420 communications an innovator and exploited technological shifts more effectively than his rivals. In that sense,

00:20:28.840 Trump's use of social media recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt's mastery of radio, John F. Kennedy and Ronald

00:20:34.500 Reagan's mastery of television, and even as his banter and insults don't aspire to anything like

00:20:41.120 traditional presidents' eloquence. One more signature shown, the most consequential presidents only,

00:20:48.040 uncommon psychological toughness. Have you ever known anyone who is facing similar legal hurdles?

00:20:54.720 In many cases, even if people ultimately win the case, they end up being consumed and shrunken by the

00:21:01.760 searing nature of the experience. Now listen to that. The same guy who's making the case that he's,

00:21:07.840 you know, he can't shake his grievances is saying in many cases, even if people ultimately win the case,

00:21:15.820 they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of that experience. So he's recognizing

00:21:23.940 what he just went through. Imagine running for president amid huge civil suits, criminal prosecutions,

00:21:31.180 even felony convictions, then emerging from the morass as a larger figure than before.

00:21:36.900 No one needs to admire the achievement to recognize that Trump is possessed by some rare traits of denial,

00:21:43.580 combativeness, and resilience. About that combativeness, could someone so zealously divisive

00:21:49.940 ever join the roster of presidents who even school children can typically recite as the nation's greatest?

00:21:57.120 My mind goes back to a conversation just before Bill Clinton. In his second term, the liberal historian

00:22:04.180 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., he inherited a tradition from his father, also a renowned scholar,

00:22:10.360 conducting surveys of historians asking him to rank American presidents from best to worst.

00:22:14.620 Clinton was promising in his second term to be a great national unifier. Schlesinger, who wished

00:22:21.620 greatness for Clinton, but mistrusted his ideological centrism, was skeptical. Great presidents are

00:22:28.920 unifiers mostly in retrospect, of course, because he is changing things. He is trying to bring people along.

00:22:38.820 FDR said, I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. That is the same thing. Aren't we judging

00:22:49.800 Donald Trump a lot on the enemies that he has made? Now we're starting to see him and do things that

00:22:59.220 you're like, okay, he understands the enemies, but more importantly, he understands what the enemies have

00:23:05.920 done to our country and can stop those and what we need to do to build a more unified and better country

00:23:13.940 to form a more perfect union. I'm telling you, I said this to him and I even said, I can't believe I'm

00:23:22.580 saying this to you, but if you accomplish these things, you will be on the same ground as some of

00:23:33.340 our founders and Abraham Lincoln and the greatest presidents to ever live. He is going to do more

00:23:39.440 in fundamental transformation of this country than Barack Obama did by far, than Joe Biden did in

00:23:46.820 destroying it. I hope that's a high bar. That's a very high bar. He, but he is, you know, he sat in the

00:23:53.740 church yesterday and just took that sermon. Nobody should be surprised by that sermon. That's an

00:24:00.920 Episcopal church. Hello. Um, and did you see how she walked out? I mean, she was practically a rainbow and 1.00

00:24:09.880 her shoes were pots of gold. Uh, I mean, she was, she's clear, clear in her stance, just the way she was 0.93

00:24:16.800 dressed as a high priestess. Um, and then on top of that, uh, this is the national cathedral. The national

00:24:25.880 cathedral is, is practically an un-American cathedral. I mean, it does not rejoice in 0.99

00:24:35.560 anything except progressivism. It's the burial site literally inside the church are the bones

00:24:44.060 of Woodrow Wilson. So, I mean, nobody should be surprised. And if this is being done for tradition,

00:24:50.220 it's the opposite of hallowed ground. Yes, it is. It's like a, it's like a poltergeist house,

00:24:54.200 right? It's, it's hallowed ground for progressivism. Okay. So for, for him to go

00:25:00.420 into the national cathedral, that's, that is tradition. Well, you know what? It's time to

00:25:06.080 end some of those traditions because some of those traditions are bad traditions. Unlike just saying

00:25:11.340 all American traditions should be abandoned like Barack Obama, he should look at each, each

00:25:17.540 tradition and say, you know, why, why would I go to the national cathedral? The national cathedral

00:25:23.620 stands against most of the things that Americans are for. I'm not going there. I'm going to go to

00:25:31.060 another church to celebrate this occasion. Not that one. It'll be interesting to see how he responds to

00:25:37.420 this, uh, in a bigger picture because yes, what, what my perception is right now is Trump 2.0. The

00:25:45.660 second administration is more to that side. You know what? We're done with that tradition. We're done

00:25:50.760 with that whole thing. We're going to, in this direction. Then what I think he would have been

00:25:55.060 in 2017 where he, now he did put up a message about her and kind of an angry, uh, sort of, uh,

00:26:02.460 truth. Well, it wasn't, it wasn't speaking truth to power. It was, uh, it was absolutely an act,

00:26:08.280 uh, of fame. It was somebody who was selfish with this person that just wanted fame. You're not

00:26:14.700 going to change his mind. But like, I really hope he doesn't let this stuff bother him. This is the

00:26:20.200 type of stuff that like, you know what? It would have, I think he would have been, it would have

00:26:24.960 been a week of just bashing this woman and she is nothing. Forget her and move on with the exception 1.00

00:26:33.320 of, you know what, maybe this is why, why would it, why do we go there? You know, he did that

00:26:37.120 within the first term with the, uh, press, the correspondence dinner, right? And he said, no,

00:26:41.140 I'm not going to that stupid. Yeah. And like, that's the type of stuff he should do, but don't 1.00

00:26:45.840 let that, don't let crap like that. Cause it's going to happen to him throughout his four years. 0.65

00:26:49.100 Don't let that derail you. I'd like to know why the Washington, uh, the white house press corps even

00:26:54.460 exists. The, the white house, you know, it's the, it's the white house press corps that does the

00:26:59.520 dinner and, and they decide who gets the seats and what the rules are. Why? Why? Who the hell are

00:27:05.920 they? Yeah. Well, I mean, and we've seen, you know, we saw that with the debate commission, 0.96

00:27:10.160 right? Correct. Why? Well, who the hell are they? What Biden was like, I don't want to do it that

00:27:12.980 way. Right. And he didn't, you know, he probably should have probably should have stuck by that one.

00:27:19.420 Uh, but you know, I remember this in the Kamala debate with Trump where, you know, really her only

00:27:24.380 maybe a successful point of the entire campaign was to goad him on the crowd size of his first

00:27:30.580 inauguration, right? To, to, to taunt him, to try to get him off track. And it seems to me that he

00:27:39.560 is really mostly beyond that. I mean, it's obviously tempting. I mean, it's like the person, you know,

00:27:45.180 I'm in this situation. I know you are too, Glenn. You hop on social media, you know, the dumbest thing

00:27:50.860 you can do with your day is fight with idiots online. You know, it that then you read a comment, 1.00

00:27:56.900 you're like, Oh, come on. I know. And you type it in. Hopefully you don't click send. Yeah. But

00:28:02.660 like, it's just this stupid thing that we do as human beings. It's got to be a hundred times worse 1.00

00:28:08.000 for Trump. I kicked myself for posting about CNN because it's like, nobody's watching it. There's

00:28:14.620 like four people that are watching it. It doesn't matter. And three of those are cameramen and the fourth

00:28:20.320 and fifth cameramen aren't watching it as they're filming it on camera. So we knew those cameramen.

00:28:26.320 They weren't always excited about what was going on there either. No, they were not. I got to tell

00:28:31.260 you, it is. I did the same thing. I'm like, and I just blew up and I went live on X or wherever I

00:28:38.640 went and said a few things about CNN. It's so beneath us. It just, it doesn't need to be said.

00:28:46.060 It just doesn't need to be said. It doesn't need to be said. And we, we are morons who have plenty

00:28:50.900 of time to waste. He's the president of the United States. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a, I'm a former DJ. 1.00

00:28:55.800 Those are my qualifications for this job. Okay. Don't bitch at what you get. Those were the 0.99

00:29:03.180 qualifications. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:09.920 Oh boy. Stu, uh, Al Sharpton is very upset, very upset today. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um,

00:29:17.720 he is very upset that companies are dropping the enforcement of diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:29:23.300 policies. Uh, he said, why do we have DEI? We have DEI because you denied us diversity. You denied us

00:29:31.380 equity. You divided, you denied us inclusion. Uh, if you want to put us in the back of the

00:29:37.040 bus, we're going to do the Dr. King Rosa Parks on you. I don't know if that's a new dance move 0.67

00:29:42.820 or what. It's a TikTok. It's a TikTok dance. It's a TikTok dance. Yeah. Uh, but I, you know

00:29:47.580 what? I, I, I really don't fear, uh, Al Sharpton. No. You know, used to be a fear of Al Sharpton

00:29:55.260 with some and, uh, no, I don't think you watch how insignificant that's going to be. Americans have

00:30:03.820 heard it all. They've done it all. They're not afraid of it anymore. Oh my gosh. They're marching

00:30:09.300 in front of us, calling us racist. Oh my gosh. Well, let's give them a little something to make

00:30:14.060 them go away. They don't go away. Okay. They don't go away. You hire and you, you, uh, take activists,

00:30:23.740 bring them into your company, your company, or you play ball with those activist revolutionaries.

00:30:30.820 That's all you're going to have left in the end. So congratulations with that. Saw that doesn't

00:30:36.680 work. No interest. It's not going to make a difference. It's a mindset change, right? It

00:30:40.920 is. You know, I, I remember the first time we got like protested by one of these organizations

00:30:46.160 and, and it was like, gosh, like what's happening? Like, wait a minute. Like I didn't understand

00:30:50.800 it. I mean, we came from a, you know, we had started a local radio show that wound up going

00:30:55.160 national. When you get to that level, these things start happening. And then like, I don't

00:30:58.880 know, a few times after it occurs, you just roll your eyes. Like when I go on Twitter and

00:31:04.460 you see someone saying something negative about you or whatever, like you just don't,

00:31:08.080 I mean, generally speaking, you just don't care. Like I mean, it comes and it goes and you

00:31:12.860 just get to that point where none of it makes any difference to you and it becomes a superpower

00:31:16.440 because you just don't care about any of it. And especially now, nobody cares about

00:31:20.880 it. Nobody cares about it. You know, do you mind being called? I mean, now people are wearing

00:31:27.400 that as a badge of honor. Oh, Al Sharpton. Yeah. He came after me because I believed in actual

00:31:35.180 diversity because I believed in actual racism was bad. I believed in that idea. And the best

00:31:42.980 way to fight it is to forget about color and just look for merit. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, I'm scared.

00:31:49.480 It's not going to, it's not going to change anything. Let me give you a couple of other

00:31:52.640 things that Donald Trump, in fact, I could go a full hour on just the things remaining

00:31:56.920 that we haven't talked about in the last two hours of the things he's done in the last 24.

00:32:02.400 President Donald Trump declared the global corporate minimum tax.

00:32:07.640 Did you know we had one? Yeah. Uh, the Biden administration signed us up for this one,

00:32:14.280 a global minimal tax. Uh, so in other words, companies, we promise, we promise the whole

00:32:21.640 world. We're never going to have a tax rate lower than 15%, the global minimum tax, uh, because that

00:32:30.060 would be unfair. And Donald Trump said, yeah, screw you. We're not doing that. Um, and let everybody 0.97

00:32:36.000 know that, uh, no, we're not going to do that. Now that doesn't mean we're going to have a tax

00:32:41.720 lower than, uh, 15%. Let's do it, but we could let's embrace it. I'd love it. I will say I,

00:32:47.780 when it comes to economic, uh, competition, I want to be unfair. Yeah. I want to be the country where

00:32:55.100 everyone else is like, gosh, I got to get there. I, how do we get involved with them? Yes. That's

00:32:59.540 exactly who I want to be. Yes. Not to mention it really benefits the people here in the United States

00:33:04.020 more than any, more than all. Now, not everybody agreed to it because after, uh, Biden agreed to it,

00:33:10.380 the, uh, the pillar one talks that should really scare you. This was pillar one, the pillar one

00:33:16.920 talks stalled because we just kind of lost interest, I guess, uh, in countries, Italy, France,

00:33:23.260 the UK, Spain, Turkey, um, you know, weren't, weren't really excited about reinstating their digital

00:33:30.180 taxes. Uh, and now with Donald Trump in, there's no way they're going to do it. So congratulations,

00:33:35.820 uh, to the rest of the world. We have helped set you free again. Um, now, uh, Rand Paul has

00:33:45.700 introduced some legislation to repeal corporate transparency act. This is so important. The CTA

00:33:54.360 corporate transport, uh, transparency act. We talked about this. This is, this will protect small

00:34:00.120 businesses. And it was signed into law as part of a fiscal year, 2021, the national defense authorization

00:34:06.580 act. What does this have to do with national defense? It requires, uh, individuals with an

00:34:12.340 ownership interest in a limited liability company, an LLC to disclose all their personal information to

00:34:18.740 the U S treasury department's financial crimes enforcement network. Um, and they go after American

00:34:25.960 small business owners, uh, and any failure to comply could result in up to two years in prison

00:34:33.100 and up to $10,000 per violation. So they are repealing that, or at least that has been introduced,

00:34:40.120 uh, because, you know, farmers, restaurants, gyms, lawn service companies, all of these people,

00:34:46.940 you're, I have to, I have to register with the treasury department's financial crimes unit. I don't

00:34:54.220 think so. No, that's a big one. And we talked a lot about that when it happened. Yeah. That's a big,

00:35:00.840 big, big one. Pain, a giant pain at the very least going away, hopefully. Uh, all right. Uh, also,

00:35:08.020 um, an update on the border, the Southern border apparently witnessed an outflow of persons,

00:35:15.360 uh, that came into, uh, the United States over the last four years. I don't know. I don't know if you

00:35:23.180 heard that. Um, there was an outflow of persons, uh, even on inauguration day, um, illegal aliens were

00:35:32.300 voluntarily deporting themselves and saying, I, yeah, you know, that's good. First of all, uh, that's,

00:35:41.060 that's you, if you're here illegally, you should leave, you should leave and you should leave on your 1.00

00:35:44.820 own. Yes. Um, you know, it was interesting. There's a poll, uh, Axios had today, which is

00:35:49.560 the share of, um, uh, of, uh, Americans who agree with immigration policies, like deporting immigrants

00:35:56.320 who are in the country illegally, uh, the number overall 66%. So a popular, a popular policy. Um,

00:36:05.220 but they, the, the take from Axios is they, they don't agree with the ways to do it. Right. And so they,

00:36:12.500 they, they, they say here are their examples of this using active duty military to find

00:36:17.720 undocumented immigrants. Only, uh, let's see, 38% agree with that. Deporting immigrants that came 1.00

00:36:24.060 to the U S illegally as children, 34% agree quickly deporting detained immigrants, even if it involves

00:36:30.000 separating families or sending people to countries other than their country of origin, 34% using money

00:36:35.980 allocated to pay for the U S military, uh, for deportation, 28% deporting immigrants who are in

00:36:41.320 the country legally, 11%. Who the hell is talking about deporting people who are in the country 0.93

00:36:46.160 legally? So, and who's 20, 27% or 25% there for that? Yeah, it was 11%. 11. Okay. Um, again, 11,

00:36:55.640 right. But like, are any of those, any of those policies, really the policies you're talking about

00:37:02.200 on a day-to-day basis? What, what there are waves of this, right? It starts with obviously criminals

00:37:08.820 that have committed other crimes, right. Then you have, you have people who are, who come in

00:37:13.440 contact with, uh, with law enforcement for other things that they may have done. Like if you, if you

00:37:18.100 are, um, uh, uh, busted, let's say in a, uh, a raid of a factory, those people would get deported

00:37:27.240 now as opposed to just released. And then they go to another factory, right? Correct. Like those types

00:37:31.840 of things are the, uh, uh, are the interactions that would lead to a deportation. You're like this,

00:37:36.680 they're trying to paint this picture. I heard all sorts of coverage on this this morning

00:37:39.720 that like, we're going to have military members going school to school to find children who are

00:37:45.620 illegal immigrants and deport them. That is not like that is not what these policies are going

00:37:51.060 to do. And what more likely the overwhelming majority of these, these quote unquote deportations

00:37:57.480 are going to be of the self deportation variety. When people start seeing that, Hey, I got pulled

00:38:04.020 over, uh, for, uh, you know, I got, cause I got in a car accident or whatever. And, and the, you

00:38:09.320 know, police came over and they investigated, found out somehow that, you know, we're illegal immigrants.

00:38:14.100 You're going to get deported for something like that. Well, when people start seeing that,

00:38:17.840 they're going to say like, wait a minute, there's no longer this giant welcome mat for us to come

00:38:23.100 here illegally. Right. It's going to be too much stress on the family too much, you know, and they say,

00:38:28.280 what are we going to do with the children? Take them back home with you. You shouldn't just leave them

00:38:31.860 here. Yeah. What is wrong with you? Like, what do you do when you leave? I don't know. When you,

00:38:34.880 when you leave a park, you don't just leave them at the park. What am I going to do with the children

00:38:38.520 when I take them to the park? You take them home with you. Right. And that is what like a large

00:38:45.520 portion of this will be people saying, you know, and when we talk about this, like they say, Oh,

00:38:51.520 well, they're just coming here to do jobs and Americans just won't do, you know, like when we say 0.97

00:38:55.560 those jobs aren't here, they're not going to come right. When we're not rewarding companies for giving

00:39:01.780 jobs to immigrants who are paying them less than a minimum wage. The majority of people are going to 1.00

00:39:07.380 self-deport. Also the cities that are sanctuary cities are only making it worse because if they

00:39:14.540 won't turn over the criminals when they're released or they're in jail, if they won't do that,

00:39:20.260 then they release them and our ice needs to go find them. And if they're hiding with the family and

00:39:27.380 stuff like that, or a different family, when we do find them, they'll bust everybody. They'll bust

00:39:33.340 everybody. So, you know, any sanctuary city that's saying we're not going to help ice, you're only

00:39:39.460 getting more people deported quicker. Uh, and, uh, you're not really, you're not really helping.

00:39:45.600 Now let's, let me give you this from the Chicago Tribune. When reports surfaced over the weekend

00:39:50.760 that mass deportations could potentially begin in the Chicago area on Tuesday, Martin Ramos informed

00:39:57.640 his boss. He was taking time off from work. He stocked up on groceries and decided his kids would

00:40:02.640 skip soccer practice this week. Ramos who immigrated from, uh, Guadalajara, Mexico without the necessary

00:40:10.340 work permits, spent the first full day of Donald Trump's second presidency, hunkered down with his

00:40:15.940 family, trying to avoid being picked up by ice agents. An arrest he knows would destroy everything

00:40:21.720 that he and his wife have worked for and force their two boys into an uncertain future, force their

00:40:27.500 two boys into an uncertain future. They're, they're staying home from school because they play soccer

00:40:33.860 and they can't play soccer. We have to do everything possible to keep our children safe. What will they

00:40:39.820 do? If we get deported, they will go home with you. Ice agents did not show up at the Joliet factory

00:40:48.960 where Ramos and his wife both work on Tuesday, but fear inflicted upon the employees. There was

00:40:54.080 evident. A coworker told Ramos that only 10 out of the typical 40 to 50 workers showed up in little

00:41:00.320 village. One of Chicago's largest Mexican immigrant community streets were mostly deserted and quiet.

00:41:05.540 Uh, tamale vendors, a hardy group used to braving all kinds of weather weren't lined up on the

00:41:11.380 sidewalks. The hardware store parking lots where day labor laborers search for work were also largely

00:41:17.280 empty. So in other words, they're not hanging out with a sign that says we'll work for food. We'll

00:41:23.340 work for anything and picked up by construction workers that don't want to pay union workers in

00:41:29.280 Chicago. Is that what I'm hearing from the Chicago Tribune? The possibility of mass

00:41:35.160 deportations have terrified some of the areas, roughly 400,000 undocumented immigrants, prompting

00:41:41.220 many to skip work, keep their kids out of school and stay hidden until the promised raids and they're

00:41:46.100 not going to end. They are not going to end. Now, uh, Chicago is saying that they're not going to help

00:41:57.620 at all. That's okay. That's okay. Sunday mass at a St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic church was unusually

00:42:07.080 empty. And person, the church personally advised a group of street vendors based on the Southwest

00:42:12.840 side to stay home during the week until they learn how ice will operate out of the 13 street vendors.

00:42:18.460 Only one was out there. Most vendors declined to speak to the Tribune out of fear. They might be

00:42:23.880 identified and targeted. People are hiding. They call me and ask me what to do, but my hands are

00:42:29.180 tied. I don't think anyone knows what to do. Yeah. Here's what you do. You tell them to go home.

00:42:34.580 You tell them that this government is serious about applying the laws equally and holding onto those

00:42:42.680 laws. And you then tell all minorities in Chicago, uh, you know, I gotta tell you, if your city continues 0.94

00:42:52.360 to defy federal law, then your city's going to get funding cut off from the federal government,

00:42:58.460 let the minorities know that they are embraced by the federal government, but due to the city and

00:43:04.920 the state stance on protection of those who come here illegally and took your jobs and receive things

00:43:11.400 that Democrats would have never given to you or any other American, the federal government only has

00:43:17.920 one lever. And that is to shut off the funding to Chicago. So recognize who the bad guy is here.

00:43:25.100 It's, it's up to you, Chicago. It's up to you to stand up. Now, the question is, are you going to

00:43:31.820 stand up with illegals? Are you going to stand up for the absolute vast minority? Are you going to stand 0.99

00:43:39.420 up against the minorities in your city that are Americans? Because they've been protesting this whole 1.00

00:43:47.080 time saying, wait, why are we getting the shaft and these guys are getting hotel rooms and free food

00:43:53.880 and everything else? You never gave us any of that stuff. Yeah. Well, it's time for Chicago to wake up.

00:44:01.420 And these States are either going to be absolutely left behind or they're going to wake up. And that

00:44:06.520 goes for California too. And you're going to see that choice on Friday.

00:44:09.400 Na, na, na, na, na.

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