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00:00:13.880 Today's kind of an interesting podcast. It starts with a deep philosophical question.

00:00:20.660 Is Keith Ellison a moron? 1.00

00:00:23.960 We answer that pretty clearly with a chalkboard. And then we come back to the same kind of philosophical question later on in the podcast. 1.00

00:00:32.640 Is Gavin Newsom a moron? 0.99

00:00:36.240 We answer that as well. You don't want to miss that. You just don't want to miss this show. 1.00

00:00:40.720 Also, Iran, what's next? And how do you negotiate with a regime that just killed 35,000 of its own citizens?

00:00:47.260 What are we looking for in Iran? All of this and more on today's podcast.

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00:02:47.800 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:54.760 So there's a new Gallup poll out.

00:02:56.640 And Gallup is not usually very friendly to the right.

00:03:01.120 But here's what it says.

00:03:02.380 New Gallup poll.

00:03:03.340 50% of respondents say the stock market is set to go up a lot or go up a little within the next half year.

00:03:12.240 25% said the stock market is set to go down a little or go down a lot.

00:03:17.400 17% said the market will remain the same.

00:03:20.120 8% say they were unsure or refused to answer.

00:03:22.580 I love refused to answer. I'm not answering that question.

00:03:25.760 But anyway, I'm not sure the stock market means as much as everybody else except your 401k.

00:03:35.200 You know, it's funny when the stock market goes up, nobody says anything like, oh my gosh, have you seen my retirement?

00:03:41.300 My retirement, I can actually retire.

00:03:43.180 When it goes down, everybody's complaining.

00:03:45.900 Stock market's gone down.

00:03:46.980 What's happening to my retirement?

00:03:48.520 I think we should spend some time noticing as the stock market goes up.

00:03:53.140 Because I think that's the only way that really affects you is your retirement.

00:03:57.280 Because the stock market is no longer attached to what I believe, I don't believe it's attached to reality at all.

00:04:05.520 You know, there's nobody that says, you know, they've had some bad earnings and so that, of course, is going to have their stocks crater.

00:04:13.120 Occasionally that happens, but it used to always happen.

00:04:16.540 Now things just go up and you're not sure.

00:04:22.180 The poll also found 49% said the economic growth is set to go up a lot or go up a little within the next six months.

00:04:31.780 That's almost 50%.

00:04:33.240 49% say economy going up a little or a lot within the next six months.

00:04:40.580 36% said the economic growth is set to go down a little or go down a lot.

00:04:45.640 13% say economic growth is going to remain the same.

00:04:49.580 And 2% said, I am not answering that question.

00:04:52.320 How dare you ask me that question?

00:04:56.260 This is good news.

00:04:58.320 At least politically, it's good news.

00:05:01.240 If this is the way people are feeling and it continues to go this way, that's good.

00:05:06.280 Of course, it's also good news for the economy if it actually happens.

00:05:10.800 But there is reason to be optimistic.

00:05:14.200 I'm optimistic for the first time in ever.

00:05:20.780 I'm optimistic about things because I believe for the very first time we have a president that has a plan and is executing on that plan.

00:05:32.260 And it is a big plan.

00:05:33.580 It's not an eat around the edges.

00:05:35.320 It's the whole pie.

00:05:37.540 And now he's turned his focus inward and he's looking at Main Street, which he had to take care of Wall Street and the big banks and, you know, the WEF and NATO and everything else before he could turn in to Main Street.

00:05:51.460 But now he's turning into Main Street.

00:05:53.140 And I think you're going to see some good things.

00:05:56.920 Also, are you reading?

00:05:58.660 Let me bring Jason in on this.

00:06:00.420 Are you reading people saying, you know, Epstein files?

00:06:08.660 Boy, Donald Trump sure looks bad in the Epstein files.

00:06:11.200 Are you hearing that, Jason?

00:06:13.060 I got one comment from Zachary.

00:06:14.840 Zachary said that he's hearing that and he was just curious what that was and what it all means.

00:06:20.040 And I haven't really seen anything but really exoneration for the president, really.

00:06:24.360 Right.

00:06:24.380 I mean, it is amazing that the Democrats even say the word Epstein anymore because I'm convinced the only reason why they brought him up is because they needed to smear Donald Trump, needed to make him look like a pedophile or whatever.

00:06:37.840 But all of these documents, they show that, nope, he was the exact opposite.

00:06:45.860 The latest, President Trump, in a call two decades ago to the Florida police chief, bashed his former friend Jeffrey Epstein and called Epstein's procurer, Maxwell, evil.

00:07:03.580 This is now he is a retired cop, but at the time he wasn't.

00:07:09.600 And the FBI interviewed him.

00:07:11.680 And he said, Trump called me because he was the police chief of Palm Beach.

00:07:18.020 And he said, thank goodness you're stopping Epstein.

00:07:22.240 Everyone knows he's doing this and nobody would stop it.

00:07:26.180 The document came to light hours after Maxwell's lawyer turned on Trump or called on Trump to grant her executive clemency so she could speak honestly about what she knows.

00:07:37.080 Maxwell earlier Monday refused to testify to a House committee.

00:07:40.360 So she's trying to hold out so she can get, you know, a wave sentence or anything else. 0.83

00:07:46.460 And Trump has not been willing to do that.

00:07:48.520 And I think that speaks volumes, especially when, you know, he said two decades ago, this woman is evil. 0.87

00:07:54.620 In fact, Trump told him, the police chief, people in New York knew Epstein was disgusting.

00:08:01.100 Trump said Maxwell is Epstein's operative. 0.62

00:08:05.700 She's evil and you should focus on her.

00:08:09.820 During the 2006 call, Trump told Ryder that he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and Trump got the hell out of there.

00:08:17.920 This is the police chief.

00:08:19.840 And he said, as soon as we started investigating, he said, we called all kinds of people and said, hey, can you, can you talk to us about Epstein?

00:08:26.480 He said, the only one that returned the call was Donald Trump.

00:08:30.380 And he turned, he returned the call.

00:08:32.000 He's like, yeah, what do you need to know?

00:08:33.440 Yep.

00:08:33.860 Bad guy, bad guy, bad guy.

00:08:35.400 I mean, how, how, how do you, how do you turn this into?

00:08:42.600 He's the bad guy here.

00:08:43.880 I mean, he is again, he's the most investigated man.

00:08:49.560 I want you to hear this.

00:08:51.280 He is the most investigated man of all of human history.

00:08:58.300 There has never been a bigger, more thorough examination of a man's life.

00:09:05.680 And I think including Hitler, because he didn't, they didn't have the ability to do what they're doing now. 0.86

00:09:12.600 They've examined his life every, every possible way.

00:09:17.820 They have gone through all of his records, all of his IRA, everything.

00:09:23.840 And you got nothing.

00:09:25.840 You got nothing.

00:09:27.400 I think this is, I think the world owes him an, a giant apology.

00:09:33.360 Quite frankly, you may not like him, but you gotta say every agency, every spy agency on the planet was looking for things on him to either make sure that he didn't win.

00:09:48.140 So he wasn't going to do what he's currently doing to NATO or Russia and China, making sure that we continue to be weak.

00:09:56.420 Like, you don't think everyone investigated him.

00:09:59.880 Of course they did.

00:10:01.180 Nobody, like, like nobody else has.

00:10:03.960 It's the one time, you know, cause he always says like, nobody's ever seen before.

00:10:08.020 It's crazy.

00:10:09.000 No, it's never been done on this one.

00:10:11.240 He's right.

00:10:12.800 Never been done.

00:10:13.800 Never.

00:10:15.360 Nobody's ever seen anything like it.

00:10:17.160 It's true. 0.91

00:10:17.900 So, you know, give it up on the Epstein Trump thing, you know, especially when Maxwell, he's not, do you know, Maxwell is so dirty.

00:10:30.820 She'd be willing, she'd be willing, I guess she'd be willing to say, who do you want me to throw under the bus? 0.99

00:10:36.780 Do you need, who do you need me to throw under the bus?

00:10:40.280 And, you know, everybody on the left thinks that that's the kind of guy Trump is.

00:10:45.740 Isn't it interesting that he's not granting any clemency to her?

00:10:49.860 She's asking for personal meetings and he won't accept it.

00:10:53.020 She's begging him, look, I'll, I'll give you the testimony.

00:10:57.160 I'll give you the, I'll tell you everything I need.

00:10:58.880 Nope.

00:11:00.320 He didn't trust her.

00:11:03.620 Go ahead, media.

00:11:04.780 It's so funny.

00:11:07.560 Everything you do makes him stronger.

00:11:10.500 I've never seen anything like, I've never seen a, I've never seen a Sun Tzu's, you know, what is it?

00:11:21.940 Warrior, um, philosophy.

00:11:25.300 I've never seen it used like this before where he's just using their momentum.

00:11:32.820 He just uses that and it works for him.

00:11:35.720 He knocks him out every time. 1.00

00:11:37.060 I mean, it's, it's, he's just so stupid. 1.00

00:11:40.960 I just don't know why you're doing it. 1.00

00:11:42.440 Um, on tomorrow's program, we have the Royal Crown Prince of Iran who is going to be joining me.

00:11:51.940 I am quite anxious to talk to him.

00:11:55.260 Uh, he, his father was the King of, uh, Iran when, you know, the, the Ayatollah came to town like Santa Claus. 0.88

00:12:04.920 Um, and, um, and is he the guy to run the country?

00:12:10.780 I really want to know.

00:12:13.720 And I mean this sincerely.

00:12:16.140 I don't know how we could negotiate with them.

00:12:23.560 You know, they just killed 35,000 people.

00:12:26.000 That's what we think we know.

00:12:27.760 You can't verify those numbers, but that's the number that's going around that pretty much everybody agrees on is they scooped up 36,000 people off the street and just killed them.

00:12:36.540 Um, holy cow, how do you negotiate with them?

00:12:43.280 What do you want?

00:12:43.700 You want a nuclear treaty with those guys?

00:12:45.820 Why?

00:12:47.920 So let me go back to Trump.

00:12:50.020 I don't pretend to read minds.

00:12:52.800 Um, but I, I do read patterns and Trump has a very clear pattern.

00:12:58.700 Historically, it's been this maximum pressure, move that Overton window as far as you possibly can, visible leverage, and then a very narrow off ramp.

00:13:10.700 Okay.

00:13:12.000 He doesn't negotiate from empathy.

00:13:14.540 He negotiates from cost.

00:13:16.780 This is what it's going to cost you.

00:13:19.440 And we've seen it with sanctions, with isolation.

00:13:23.380 Um, you know, when, when he believed deterrence had failed with force.

00:13:27.420 Not war, but unmistakable signals that there was a line and he wouldn't cross it.

00:13:33.500 He drew that line.

00:13:35.020 That's why you have the biggest force since the Persian Gulf sitting all around Iran right now. 0.98

00:13:39.780 So what is he doing?

00:13:41.680 First thing he's doing is he restoring deterrence by making Iran understand that escalation has real consequences.

00:13:49.760 And it's not because he wants war.

00:13:51.360 The guy hates war, but he wants to prevent it.

00:13:54.080 Second, keep the negotiations transactional, not moral.

00:14:01.620 He's going in and I don't know if I like this, but he's going in and he's talking about nuclear capability, regional behavior, regime survival.

00:14:11.520 Those are the currency that this government responds to.

00:14:16.500 And then third, and this one really matters.

00:14:19.880 Don't own the uprising or the fall.

00:14:23.120 Okay.

00:14:23.940 Once the uprising or whatever is going to happen is American directed, whoever you replace is tainted and it's bad. 0.68

00:14:34.040 It's bad history tells us when, um, repression becomes, uh, brutal and then America comes in, it becomes even more brutal.

00:14:43.540 So let me address the one thing that I think you might feel and I feel, and it's valid.

00:14:50.620 I don't want war.

00:14:51.940 I do not want our boys fighting another war in the middle East period full stop, but I also don't want to encourage people pro to protest and then watch them be rounded up and killed.

00:15:06.020 I don't know what to do, you know, and that's the trap.

00:15:09.400 Revolt happened and we said, don't cross this line.

00:15:17.900 Don't kill your people.

00:15:18.740 And they did.

00:15:20.660 If you say nothing, are we then, do we have any credibility?

00:15:25.500 Has he lost all the credibility?

00:15:27.420 Is he complicit?

00:15:28.500 Are we complicit in silence?

00:15:30.140 Cause I don't want to do any of it.

00:15:31.780 I don't want to do any of it.

00:15:32.760 So the only ethical path, I think the only one, the narrow one that he always is, is tell the truth, um, not with certainty where certainty doesn't exist, but apply pressure that targets the perpetrators, not the civilians, keep the information flowing.

00:15:50.720 Even when the regime is trying to bury it, maintain deterrence without rushing towards war.

00:15:56.120 So he's going to give them, I think he's going to do what he did in Venezuela.

00:15:59.520 You have a very narrow path.

00:16:03.000 I suggest you walk this path.

00:16:06.000 And if you don't, it's over for you.

00:16:09.120 Um, the regime though has a huge weapon and it's not army.

00:16:13.980 It kills in the dark.

00:16:15.540 And then we all sit here and argue about the numbers.

00:16:18.340 There's 35,000.

00:16:19.460 Did they really kill 35,000?

00:16:20.660 Well, some people say it's 25,000.

00:16:22.300 Some people say it's 55,000.

00:16:24.260 We're arguing about numbers.

00:16:25.720 The point is they've killed thousands of people.

00:16:28.280 That's really a big deal.

00:16:36.080 This isn't about protests.

00:16:38.900 It's not about nuclear weapons.

00:16:41.100 This is, uh, this is about death.

00:16:44.640 It's whether the modern world will accept uncertainty as a substitute for accountability.

00:16:50.820 Who did you kill?

00:16:52.160 Who killed them?

00:16:53.520 Stop it.

00:16:54.320 Because if a government anywhere can massacre its own people and shut off the lights and scatter all the evidence and survive on the argument that nobody can prove it.

00:17:03.000 Every single tyrant on earth learns that lesson.

00:17:07.420 This is what happened, um, in Turkey with the Christians. 0.99

00:17:13.300 Hitler went in, uh, Turkey went in and killed a bunch of Armenians and it was the Armenian massacre and killed them all. 0.62

00:17:23.000 And the world did nothing. 0.71

00:17:25.520 Forget about Turkey. 0.97

00:17:27.400 Hitler said he saw that and saw the world's reaction and said, oh my gosh, you can kill anybody. 0.98

00:17:35.020 You can kill any number and the world's not going to respond.

00:17:38.260 We're teaching people, uh, lessons.

00:17:46.120 I pray that Oman, Oman, we're in Oman now.

00:17:49.840 I don't even know.

00:17:50.560 I wasn't she, I thought that was a model. 0.99

00:17:52.660 Um, but, uh, they're negotiating, uh, in Oman today.

00:17:58.100 I don't know what they're negotiating for again.

00:18:00.360 Again, I don't want war, but I also don't want this.

00:18:07.200 I don't trust them.

00:18:08.420 What do you negotiate for?

00:18:10.060 But I guess we're going for nuclear weapons or something.

00:18:13.780 I don't know.

00:18:14.640 We have the guy who is the, um, special envoy for nuclear non-proliferation.

00:18:20.660 He was the guy who went into Libya and said, you got to get rid of all your WMDs. 0.95

00:18:25.900 Um, and convince Gaddafi to do that. 0.95

00:18:28.660 And then Hillary Clinton had him killed.

00:18:29.880 Um, but, uh, he is now, uh, the special assistant to the president and, uh, the senior director

00:18:39.500 for proliferation strategy at the white house.

00:18:42.400 The one thing I know about Donald Trump is the one thing that truly scares him is nuclear

00:18:49.060 war.

00:18:50.300 He does not want a missile launched because he firmly believes in, you know, Annie Jacobson

00:18:57.660 will tell you in her book, the same exact thing.

00:18:59.620 You launch a missile, you're guaranteed the other side's going to launch missiles.

00:19:05.160 And then you're in a world of hurt.

00:19:06.940 You probably don't make it in every single test that they run.

00:19:11.440 Every scenario at the Pentagon since the fifties to today, it always ends in total nuclear war.

00:19:19.160 And so the one thing I know is he does not want any missiles going up in the air because

00:19:23.920 he knows everybody lose.

00:19:25.460 Everybody loses with that.

00:19:26.700 So he's serious about nuclear weapons, but what can we achieve with people?

00:19:34.620 We don't trust and how close are we to actually, are we going to hit them?

00:19:40.260 He's not going to tell me that, but I think we can draw our own conclusions by how he has

00:19:45.940 behaved in the past and how he moves things and gives people a very narrow window.

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00:21:06.800 Now back to the podcast.

00:21:08.940 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:21:13.420 I got to get warmed up for Keith Ellis.

00:21:18.200 Let me just start with what Keith has written.

00:21:24.400 He wrote a little op-ed about how Trump just hates Minnesotans because they love one another.

00:21:36.400 Oh, not cute.

00:21:39.060 I'm going to read this in my third grade voice.

00:21:42.260 Okay.

00:21:43.260 The president has gone after us because of who we are and what we value.

00:21:47.760 We have an obligation to resist.

00:21:49.920 Okay.

00:21:50.880 I can't read it like that. 1.00

00:21:52.680 I think I have to read it like I'm talking down to you because you have to be a moron to believe 1.00

00:21:58.600 any of this. 0.99

00:21:59.340 Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration's campaign that has targeted the city of Minneapolis

00:22:06.380 and the state of Minnesota, which I serve as attorney general.

00:22:10.560 That is incredible.

00:22:12.680 I just want you to remember, he's the attorney general of the state.

00:22:16.940 Okay.

00:22:17.480 You know, the one with all the corruption.

00:22:19.440 He's the chief law enforcement officer.

00:22:21.780 I want you to keep that in mind because the guy has no idea how the country works.

00:22:27.340 Okay.

00:22:28.440 It appears to be the single largest deployment of immigration agents in the history of the

00:22:33.960 United States.

00:22:35.040 This domestic invasion has inflicted tremendous damage on our state. 1.00

00:22:40.580 In addition, the 10th Amendment gives Minnesota dual sovereignty with the federal government.

00:22:46.820 Yet we have seen the White House try to force elected leaders to bend to its will rather than

00:22:53.060 to will of the people of our state.

00:22:55.240 The federal government has deployed more than 3,000 masked and heavily armed agents to achieve

00:23:00.720 what Congress or a court would never grant.

00:23:04.000 Coerced control over the politics of Minnesotans.

00:23:08.280 Oh, I can't wait to come back to that paragraph.

00:23:12.240 People may ask, why is Minnesota having to deal with this targeted oppression?

00:23:18.740 Well, one answer is that we voted against the president three elections in a row.

00:23:24.200 Something he has publicly said he resents deeply.

00:23:28.300 But there's a deeper, truer answer.

00:23:31.540 Trump has gone after us because of who we are and what we value.

00:23:36.400 Oh, man, that is so obvious.

00:23:38.400 You know what it reminds me of?

00:23:39.580 Uh, the smell of number seven.

00:23:44.100 Oh, you can't smell number seven.

00:23:47.900 Yes, exactly right.

00:23:49.560 This makes no sense whatsoever.

00:23:52.920 We welcome strangers.

00:23:54.960 Do you?

00:23:55.720 We see refugees as cherished members of our community, not as threats.

00:24:00.120 We take the vulnerable among us.

00:24:02.240 We want to be a great place for everyone to live, no matter where they come from.

00:24:05.580 Really?

00:24:06.360 If I move there?

00:24:07.520 Texas?

00:24:08.260 Really?

00:24:08.520 And while we, of course, believe in the rule of law, we also believe that immigration is not a sin.

00:24:15.620 Well, I'm glad you're a preacher there at the end.

00:24:17.540 Okay.

00:24:18.000 So, Keith, I'm going to help you out a little bit because I got a chalkboard. 0.99

00:24:22.800 And the title of the chalkboard is, Ellison's a Moron.

00:24:26.700 Okay, let's start with that paragraph that I love so dear, about dual sovereignty with shared control. 0.81

00:24:39.620 What is he talking about there?

00:24:41.400 Dual sovereignty with shared control?

00:24:44.040 He's talking about the 10th Amendment, of course.

00:24:46.700 The phrase dual sovereignty?

00:24:49.520 Wow, that sounds powerful.

00:24:51.560 It does.

00:24:52.440 All right.

00:24:53.040 But it doesn't mean that the states and the federal government share authority over immigration enforcement.

00:24:59.540 They don't.

00:25:00.740 Here's what dual sovereignty means.

00:25:03.720 States oversee state powers.

00:25:07.200 Federal, overseas, federal powers.

00:25:11.140 It's just that easy.

00:25:12.980 Okay?

00:25:13.140 Immigration, border control, naturalization, and removal.

00:25:18.520 It's been settled repeatedly.

00:25:21.460 They are exclusively federal powers rooted in Article I, naturalization, Article II, foreign relations, and the supremacy clause.

00:25:30.700 Now, I don't like this.

00:25:32.940 Wait until I get to point number two.

00:25:34.980 I'll tell you why I don't like it.

00:25:36.540 I don't like it, but it's settled law now.

00:25:39.280 You can cooperate with the federal government and help them with their enforcement or not cooperate.

00:25:46.440 You as a state can decline to assist, but you may not obstruct or veto or override federal immigration operations.

00:25:56.720 Settled, settled in the court of law.

00:26:00.200 Okay?

00:26:01.120 And that distinction matters because his argument assumes that Minnesota has a constitutional right to block the federal enforcement officers.

00:26:10.140 They don't.

00:26:11.060 Nowhere in the Constitution.

00:26:12.920 Nowhere.

00:26:13.840 Now, let me get to point number two, Keith, because this is where it gets kind of cute.

00:26:18.360 Kind of cute because you're pretending we don't have memory.

00:26:21.020 Look, what I'm going to do is I'm going to cook something up and hope that no one in America has any memory at all.

00:26:28.880 They're all goldfish.

00:26:31.460 Unfortunately, a few of us do remember what you tried to do in Arizona.

00:26:38.600 If your position was correct, then Arizona should have won when it tried to secure its own border.

00:26:46.240 Do you remember that?

00:26:48.300 Because it was your side that said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:26:52.440 They can't secure their own border.

00:26:54.880 That's the federal government.

00:26:56.220 It's in the Constitution.

00:26:58.280 The federal government has all the power on that.

00:27:00.940 They can't do anything.

00:27:02.580 And Arizona said, wait a minute.

00:27:04.360 You can't do that because they're not doing their job.

00:27:07.340 They weren't arguing that they had the right.

00:27:09.760 They were arguing that the federal government wasn't doing their job, so somebody had to.

00:27:16.360 But no, you Democrats were like, no, no, no.

00:27:18.840 They can't do anything.

00:27:20.180 It doesn't make any difference.

00:27:21.680 There are no borders.

00:27:23.140 There are no borders.

00:27:25.040 Okay.

00:27:25.960 So what happened?

00:27:27.100 Well, we took it all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court told us there are no borders.

00:27:32.640 Only the federal government could say there are borders.

00:27:35.740 Okay.

00:27:36.960 So you won that.

00:27:38.740 Now, wait a minute.

00:27:41.460 I'm trying to understand.

00:27:45.840 The state of Arizona was trying to say that, no, the federal government isn't doing things, and we have a right to protect our citizens, and you said, no.

00:27:58.720 Okay, so now you're arguing that Minnesota can resist federal immigration enforcement on the sovereignty grounds, which don't exist for you, by the way, which contradicts the legal decisions that you defended against Arizona.

00:28:15.460 Here's why I like to say, you can't have it both ways.

00:28:21.340 Life's like a box of chocolate.

00:28:23.680 You just bit into one that's nasty.

00:28:26.140 Then he says, well, he's coercing control over state politics.

00:28:38.820 What?

00:28:40.360 What?

00:28:41.940 Trump is coercing control over the politics of Minnesotans?

00:28:47.860 Really?

00:28:48.560 That's weird.

00:28:51.600 Um, because under the basic constitution, you guys don't have any politics.

00:28:58.040 You just say whatever you want, but you can't obstruct.

00:29:01.340 You can not help all you want.

00:29:02.820 All you want.

00:29:03.240 Yeah, but the constitution says the federal government has, has that.

00:29:09.680 So if, if enforcing federal law were coerced political control, then.

00:29:17.040 Hey, Keith, I got an idea.

00:29:19.000 Let's play this one out.

00:29:20.480 Okay.

00:29:21.180 A federal government doesn't have a right to do anything.

00:29:25.360 That was, that means the FBI is unconstitutional.

00:29:30.800 Yeah.

00:29:31.400 Uh, but wait, wait, wait, you might even say, yeah, that's right.

00:29:35.080 The FBI is unconstitutional.

00:29:37.960 Uh-huh.

00:29:38.620 Uh-huh.

00:29:40.160 That would mean that desegregation orders would have violated state sovereignty in the 1960s.

00:29:48.000 That means all federal civil rights enforcement in the 60s would have been illegal because our

00:29:53.620 federal government is trying to enforce it, uh, put its power down and wreck our politics.

00:30:00.260 Uh-huh.

00:30:01.400 Um, nope, nope, doesn't work, Keith. 1.00

00:30:08.000 You're a moron. 1.00

00:30:11.280 The mask agents, sending in mask agents. 1.00

00:30:15.000 Okay.

00:30:16.140 Here's, here's what you should know because you're the attorney general.

00:30:20.380 Well, you should know this.

00:30:24.720 If they wear masks or they carry rifles or they, they arrive in large numbers, 3,000 or

00:30:32.360 two people, that doesn't have anything to do with the constitution.

00:30:36.940 It has nothing to do with the constitution.

00:30:38.060 Here's what, here's the question that does have something to do with the constitution.

00:30:42.100 Are they enforcing federal law?

00:30:45.080 Are they acting within statutory authority?

00:30:49.600 Are they violating any constitutional rights?

00:30:53.360 If the answer of one of one and two is yes and three is no, then you got nothing.

00:30:59.920 You, you, you, you're just, you want it your way and you can't handle it.

00:31:08.160 And what kills me is how you people will jump from one side of the constitution to the other.

00:31:14.860 And, and sometimes, sometimes that happens, you know, the constitution, you know, what I love

00:31:21.100 about the constitution and I know that it's right is I don't always agree with it.

00:31:25.280 It doesn't always fall on my side.

00:31:27.400 You know what I mean?

00:31:28.040 And you're like, but when you expect it to fall on your side every time, that's a problem.

00:31:34.520 Not with the constitution.

00:31:35.720 That's a problem with you.

00:31:37.940 Okay.

00:31:38.380 When Arizona tried to secure its border, Democrats said only the federal government can do it.

00:31:46.780 When the federal government enforces immigration law in Minnesota, Democrats say states have

00:31:51.140 a right to resist.

00:31:52.180 Both things cannot be true.

00:31:54.600 I'm happy.

00:31:55.740 I'm happy.

00:31:56.360 You tell me which one is true.

00:31:58.120 You're telling, you tell me which one's true.

00:32:00.040 You, you want to make it states have a right to resist.

00:32:02.940 Okay.

00:32:03.320 We'll make it.

00:32:04.180 States have a right to resist all the time.

00:32:06.920 All the time.

00:32:09.420 If you say, nope, they don't have a right to resist.

00:32:12.960 Great.

00:32:13.400 We'll say that all the time.

00:32:17.220 Keith, this isn't about compassion or cruelty, refugees or fear or Donald Trump or Minnesotan

00:32:24.740 values.

00:32:26.160 This is about the constitution of the United States.

00:32:29.480 And here's what it says.

00:32:31.040 The state can disagree.

00:32:32.860 The state may protest.

00:32:34.320 The state may refuse cooperation, but a state cannot veto something that falls under the

00:32:42.240 10th Amendment in the constitution to the federal government.

00:32:46.940 That's how federal government, this federal government works.

00:32:49.880 That's how our constant.

00:32:50.660 And I would think that maybe somebody who was attorney general, do I got a uniform with

00:32:56.160 that job?

00:32:58.020 You'd think that the attorney general, especially one that was, was at least on the sidelines involved 1.00

00:33:06.220 with Arizona would know that, but see, you do know that you're either a moron or you're just a liar. 0.99

00:33:18.420 You decide you're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts. 0.99

00:33:25.060 You know, there's, there's, uh, something unique that is uniquely American about the Superbowl.

00:33:33.640 I'm sorry.

00:33:34.180 The reason why I'm having a hard time with this sentence is because this year it wasn't, I mean,

00:33:37.800 it was, it felt like Latin America.

00:33:40.760 It might as well been a world cup event.

00:33:43.160 Um, but Superbowl generally speaking is a very American experience and winning the Superbowl.

00:33:51.040 I mean, you know, you're on the Wheaties box.

00:33:54.220 You, you've most, most of those players have come from nothing, nothing.

00:34:01.100 And they train their entire life.

00:34:03.560 They sacrifice their body for the rest of their lives.

00:34:07.160 You'll win the Superbowl.

00:34:09.620 And if you win the Superbowl in California, then they send you a bill that says, oh, you lose

00:34:17.360 because the Superbowl was played in California.

00:34:21.700 That means California gets to tax the income earned in that game.

00:34:26.660 This is going to blow your mind.

00:34:28.920 Now, most people would go, okay, fair enough.

00:34:31.100 I mean, you know, whatever, but that's not what California does because that's not enough money. 0.93

00:34:35.560 California reaches backward months into the past, and they claim the right to tax a slice

00:34:44.320 of your entire season salary based on how many duty days you spent in the state.

00:34:50.620 Okay.

00:34:51.580 So every day you're in the state, they, they reach back.

00:34:56.140 So they're not just taxing the bonus.

00:34:58.880 They're not, they're not test taxing the game check.

00:35:01.200 They're, they're taxing you the entire year.

00:35:04.860 So if you earn $178,000 for the Superbowl, okay.

00:35:09.760 That's what you get.

00:35:10.580 If you won 178,000, you end up owing the state more than that in taxes.

00:35:19.220 How can you lose money winning the Superbowl?

00:35:22.240 Well, California has found a way to do it. 1.00

00:35:24.040 I mean, they are just, I mean, dumb as a box of rocks. 0.99

00:35:27.960 Do you think the players don't have anything to say about where the Superbowl is played? 0.99

00:35:34.140 I mean, yeah, you've got the whole front office, but if all the players are like, you know what?

00:35:38.000 I'm not playing in California anymore. 0.91

00:35:39.460 That's ridiculous. 0.79

00:35:41.960 Don't put the Superbowl there. 0.90

00:35:45.480 Now the players don't choose the venue.

00:35:48.000 They don't negotiate the location.

00:35:49.940 They didn't vote on California tax law.

00:35:52.740 They just showed up to work.

00:35:55.700 California calls this a jock tax, but California takes it further than anyone.

00:36:01.500 If I work in New York city, I have to pay taxes to New York city and state for every day I broadcast from New York.

00:36:08.440 Oh, and they check, they check, but I have to pay just the day that I'm working.

00:36:14.140 And if I'm working there and broadcasting there, then I pay that.

00:36:17.600 And in California, they're giving you the highest marginal rate in the country.

00:36:25.480 It's over 13% and they're thinking about raising it.

00:36:30.880 So I'm not asking you to cry for the millionaire quarterback.

00:36:33.540 That's not the point.

00:36:34.260 The point is the precedent that this is set.

00:36:37.220 No, no, no.

00:36:38.460 I'll get to the precedent in a second. 1.00

00:36:40.380 The point is how stupid is California? 1.00

00:36:43.600 California, you are driving everyone with money away. 1.00

00:36:50.280 You would tax people, tax them, but you're taking away more than what they won by going.

00:36:57.800 That's nuts.

00:37:01.680 Precedent.

00:37:02.360 When a government decides it can tax income earned elsewhere, just because you happen to pass through, you're not taxing activity.

00:37:13.360 You're taxing existence.

00:37:16.620 That doesn't work out well.

00:37:18.080 Back in the 1970s, it was part of Cloward and Piven.

00:37:21.140 If you don't know who those are, well, soon you'll be able to find out with Glenn AI.

00:37:25.500 But they're these crazy Marxist professors that they had this theory, hey, let's overwhelm the system and collapse the system.

00:37:33.480 And then we can have a beautiful Marxist one.

00:37:35.660 Well, that's what they did.

00:37:36.620 They didn't get the Marxism, but they collapsed New York in the 1970s because they had high taxes, aggressive enforcement.

00:37:43.960 You owe us because you were here.

00:37:46.960 What followed in the 1970s?

00:37:49.360 Capital flight.

00:37:51.040 Businesses leaving.

00:37:52.340 A hollowed out tax base.

00:37:54.160 Why do you think Rush Limbaugh left?

00:37:56.380 Why do you think Sean Hannity left?

00:37:59.080 Why do you think I left?

00:38:00.480 Why do you think all of these people leave?

00:38:03.500 We were just the first out because we're like, I'm not paying that because I believe in small government and this is insane.

00:38:08.740 But when you start to have people who believe in big government go, this is insane.

00:38:12.440 In the 1970s, the city nearly went bankrupt.

00:38:16.380 In France, we know this.

00:38:20.160 What did they do?

00:38:20.820 They imposed temporarily a wealth tax. 0.93

00:38:24.540 Well, I mean, I remember watching from over here going, well, that's just dumb as a bunch of rock because who's going to stay in France? 0.79

00:38:31.560 You move out of France. 0.87

00:38:33.360 Well, that's exactly what happened.

00:38:35.080 The wealthy didn't pay more.

00:38:36.480 They left.

00:38:37.100 And by the time the government repealed the tax, tens of billions of dollars in capital already gone, along with all the jobs and the investment that came with it.

00:38:46.860 You know, that's the one thing you forget.

00:38:49.420 Have you ever worked for a guy who is poor?

00:38:53.000 I haven't worked for a single poor man my entire life.

00:38:58.780 Somebody who just didn't have any money, didn't pay any taxes because he just didn't have any money.

00:39:03.260 The only people that are hiring are people who have money.

00:39:07.480 You get rid of the people who have money.

00:39:10.300 Who's building businesses?

00:39:11.660 This is what happened in Rome, late, late empire.

00:39:17.080 They took productive citizens and just squeeze them. 0.99

00:39:21.560 Why?

00:39:22.220 Because they needed to, they were bloating the state.

00:39:24.660 They needed to pay for the giant state.

00:39:26.800 Tax base completely collapsed.

00:39:28.640 Economy followed.

00:39:29.700 Gone.

00:39:30.500 There is a lesson in every civilization that has tried this.

00:39:34.920 It learns this lesson the hard way.

00:39:37.760 You cannot tax people into staying.

00:39:41.200 You can only tax them into leaving and you can lower taxes to get them to move in.

00:39:48.580 California is learning this in real time right now.

00:39:51.460 Six straight years of net population loss.

00:39:54.860 And what are they doing?

00:39:56.380 Hundreds of major companies are gone.

00:40:00.080 Film production is a thing of the past.

00:40:02.920 Billionaires are moving their resident.

00:40:05.400 Where?

00:40:05.740 To Florida.

00:40:06.340 And instead of asking the question, what's happening here?

00:40:09.700 They just answer the same way.

00:40:12.280 Just tax what's left.

00:40:14.220 Tax what's left.

00:40:15.460 That's the danger of the tax, the jock tax mentality.

00:40:18.700 Because once you accept the idea that location alone gives the government to right, to, to reach

00:40:23.980 into your entire life, there is no limiting principle anymore.

00:40:28.500 Today it's, it's athletes.

00:40:30.200 Tomorrow it's remote workers.

00:40:31.540 Then investors, then investors, then anyone with assets connected it all to the state.

00:40:37.420 If the, God forbid that mindset ever goes national, when there's no Florida to run to, no Texas to escape to, that's when, that's when it's over, over for good.

00:40:47.820 I mean, the, the jock tax isn't insane because it, it punishes rich athletes.

00:40:55.140 It's insane because it teaches the government to believe if you pass through our borders, we own a piece of you.

00:41:00.260 And that idea never has ended well, never, not once, ever, ever, ever, but that's not all California is doing.

00:41:09.000 Try this.

00:41:11.920 Valero.

00:41:13.140 Valero is a gas stations, oil, oil refineries.

00:41:18.300 Okay.

00:41:18.480 You know, California, what is it?

00:41:21.820 They're already paying.

00:41:22.720 Let me look this up real quick.

00:41:23.800 Already the national average for gas, national average for gas all around the United States is $2 and 88 cents.

00:41:33.940 If you're living in a state where you're paying more than that, that's because of your state.

00:41:38.920 Okay.

00:41:40.020 $2 and 88 cents.

00:41:42.640 California today is $4 and 36 cents.

00:41:47.480 Holy cow. 0.89

00:41:51.020 Okay.

00:41:51.580 Now that's for a lot of reasons, but one of those is they make it impossible to refine oil.

00:41:59.680 You got to buy everything from out of state.

00:42:02.360 Nobody wants to do any business with them because they have to have their own special blends, which costs money, et cetera, et cetera.

00:42:08.900 Okay.

00:42:09.760 So Valero is a company that will do, will refine the oil the way they want it refined in California.

00:42:17.680 Okay.

00:42:19.320 So they decided, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore.

00:42:24.860 We're not going to do this.

00:42:26.200 We can't do this.

00:42:27.240 This is insane.

00:42:29.520 Now, remember California is the home of what?

00:42:34.280 Okay.

00:42:36.000 Besides lunatics, besides progressives and high techs. 0.61

00:42:40.280 I got to, they're the home of high tech.

00:42:43.400 High tech needs what in the future?

00:42:47.900 Energy.

00:42:48.540 They're getting rid of all of their energy.

00:42:53.220 Now they're getting rid of their pipelines. 0.57

00:42:55.860 They're getting rid of the, the, one of the only refineries.

00:43:00.340 Okay.

00:43:01.020 One hundred and forty-five thousand barrels per day.

00:43:04.120 They were going to leave in April.

00:43:06.160 They've just said, you know what?

00:43:07.400 We can't take it anymore.

00:43:08.300 We're out.

00:43:08.740 We're just going to close it down.

00:43:10.060 Close it down.

00:43:10.940 They're walking away from like a billion dollar asset because they can't take California anymore.

00:43:19.360 They think that gas in California, once this is, is in effect, they believe gas will go up

00:43:26.500 another dollar to dollar 50 because of this one refinery.

00:43:30.880 And Gavin Newsom, you know what they're, you know what they did?

00:43:34.700 Well, that's why we're going to have electric.

00:43:36.940 That's why we're going to have electric cars.

00:43:38.820 Okay.

00:43:39.080 What are you producing the electricity on?

00:43:40.820 Cause you won't do coal.

00:43:42.020 What are you producing it on?

00:43:44.120 Sunshine.

00:43:45.040 Uh-huh.

00:43:45.720 And your tan is real. 0.99

00:43:47.640 Uh, I mean, this is ridiculous. 0.99

00:43:50.280 This is ridiculous. 0.63

00:43:51.520 So now because, and I told you this would happen because they convinced everybody to get an electric

00:43:59.120 car, they're having an energy crisis, but also what have they decided to do?

00:44:05.520 They've decided because you have an electric car, you're no longer paying that gasoline tax.

00:44:10.400 So they've just passed a bill where you have to pay by the mile.

00:44:15.660 You have to pay a tax, a mileage tax.

00:44:19.620 Okay.

00:44:20.780 Told you that would happen.

00:44:22.340 No, it won't.

00:44:23.620 No.

00:44:24.980 We're getting rid of the gas tax.

00:44:26.760 You're going to, where are they going to?

00:44:28.040 Uh, they have no money.

00:44:30.640 They have to have the money.

00:44:32.440 They'll tax anything.

00:44:33.860 If they can tax rain, they will.

00:44:36.140 They will.

00:44:39.020 I hate to even say that.

00:44:40.320 Cause I, uh, you watch, they will tax, they will tax rain, uh, because they have to have

00:44:46.620 the money.

00:44:47.060 There are five cities now in the U S and I swear to you, if the federal government

00:44:54.020 decides to bail these, these states and these cities out by using my federal tax dollar,

00:45:02.560 I am going to hemorrhage out of my eyes.

00:45:08.240 I mean, it will be like, uh, I have an artery just behind my, my eyes.

00:45:15.840 It's just you.

00:45:17.260 I bleed out in two minutes.

00:45:19.200 I won't be able to take the federal government saying we have to bail out Los Angeles over 0.98

00:45:25.440 my dead body over my fricking dead body. 0.94

00:45:31.220 Not going to do it. 0.98

00:45:32.800 I, I don't, I don't care.

00:45:34.600 I won't pay my taxes.

00:45:35.580 I won't.

00:45:36.640 You're going to bail out Los Angeles.

00:45:38.600 No, we're not.

00:45:39.640 They did this.

00:45:40.920 We've warned them forever.

00:45:42.280 It's why I lived in Texas and why I lived in Florida and not in California.

00:45:48.780 Okay.

00:45:49.840 I gave up the beautiful California weather to get beautiful Florida weather by the water,

00:45:56.560 but with a hundred percent humidity, I gave that.

00:46:01.520 I'll accept that over the taxes because they're insane and they'll never stop.

00:46:06.640 You want me to bail them out?

00:46:08.500 No, I won't do that.

00:46:09.680 What do all these cities have in common?

00:46:13.080 Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York city.

00:46:17.760 Those are the cities that are going to need a bailout soon because they can't do it anymore.

00:46:24.820 New York city, the residents there have the highest tax burden of $61,700.

00:46:33.160 Chicago, 42,600.

00:46:36.540 Philadelphia, 17,000.

00:46:38.440 Houston, 4,800.

00:46:40.080 Los Angeles, 1,300.

00:46:41.720 Los Angeles seems like a dream come true.

00:46:47.820 New York city has a tax burden for every resident of $61,700. 0.99

00:46:55.340 You're insane. 0.84

00:46:56.420 If you think that's going to work and you know what? 1.00

00:46:59.160 They've just hired a mayor who's insane.

00:47:00.700 And California, Los Angeles is about to do it again.

00:47:04.100 Somebody who is more progressive than the woman who's making out with Karl Marx and Fidel Castro, you know, while the fires are burning out of control. 0.58

00:47:13.760 I'm just, I got my tongue down Karl Marx's throat right now.

00:47:17.100 I can't, I can't fight the, somebody who's like, yeah, I agree with her on a lot of stuff, but she doesn't go far enough.

00:47:24.420 Another Marxist is running and I bet you they hire her. 1.00

00:47:28.280 I bet you they vote her in. 0.99

00:47:29.840 Oh, good luck.

00:47:33.360 Don't come to my door and ask me for a dime.

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