A new Quinnipiac poll shows Bernie Sanders gaining ground in New Hampshire, Joe Biden's support among African-Americans has dropped significantly, and a new poll shows Hillary Clinton surging in the latest CNN/ORC poll. Glenn Beck talks about it all on today's show.
00:06:15.640This is like your, you know, 12-year-old arts daughter that has not ever watched a sporting event ever trying to make this case.
00:06:28.220So just give me the benefit of the doubt here and just treat me like your 12-year-old daughter who hates sports.
00:06:34.680One player noticeably absent during the XFL's kickoff weekend Saturday and Sunday was controversial former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
00:06:42.360Given Kaepernick's fallout with the NFL, one might expect he would jump at the opportunities to showcase his talent on a different stage in order to lure offers.
00:06:51.380But that's not the case for Kaepernick.
00:06:53.080Is Kaepernick being blackballed by the XFL?
00:07:00.020Actually, according to recent XFL comments from the commissioner, Oliver Luck, the reverse may be closer to the truth.
00:07:07.620Speaking with NPR on Saturday, Luck shed light on the situation, confirming that the league had spoken to Colin Kaepernick about joining the league last year,
00:07:16.120but the former quarterback's salary demands were so exorbitant for any agreement to be made.
00:14:32.360Tomorrow on my Wednesday night special, it airs at 9 p.m. on Blaze TV.
00:14:39.480What we've done is I've decided because of the success of these specials, what I do best is put pieces of the puzzle together and tell you what's really going on.
00:14:52.720And so what we've decided to do is I'm still on the news and why it matters every day at 5 o'clock.
00:15:00.500That airs now replacing my half hour daily TV show.
00:20:01.240Well, thank you for welcoming me, Mr. Beck.
00:20:04.000I'd like to thank you and all of your staff for really the best investigative journalism with the best sense of humor that there is out there.
00:21:09.920This is why, it's because I know Bernie's the most dangerous person, but for the republic, I think the lurch to the left by the Democrats has to be confronted, and Bernie is going to present that.
00:21:26.720So the challenge and the choice can be made.
00:21:28.960I know there's a lot to risk, but freedom favors the brave, and I think we have to confront what's going on.
00:21:36.760Well, I will tell you this, Mike, I would never urge this, but I understand your thinking, because Bernie is going to have a real conversation about real socialism.
00:21:49.860And I've wanted a Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee kind of debate for a very long time.
00:21:56.900In fact, we invited Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders to do a series of debates about a year and a half ago.
00:22:13.760And so I welcome that debate and that discussion, but I have to tell you, that is one scary proposition.
00:22:20.680Well, even scarier is to slide that way without everybody being asleep and turn up to Romney time, you know, where he goes that way, but you never see it happen.
00:23:11.380I just want to let you know, kind of to follow up on that last caller, New Hampshire, in case you don't know throughout the country or the world where you're broadcast, we have a beautiful independent lane.
00:23:23.420He obviously was a Republican, so was I, am I.
00:23:27.320This morning, I voted for Pete Buttigieg and then re-declared my independence so that I can vote for Trump in the fall.
00:24:25.280Yeah, but here's even a better thing for you is that my wife and I were at our brother and sister-in-laws the other night who are extreme leftist, Boston Globe-style leftists.
00:24:36.380They have no clue who they were voting for today.
00:24:38.920And then to follow it up, my wife who works for the evil empire, Walmart, was leaving work yesterday and ran to a good friend of ours who was a 40-year local union iron worker out of Boston.
00:25:25.840Are you going to vote for somebody else, too?
00:25:30.800I think, well, first of all, I'm a registered independent, and as the previous callers have said, we can choose our ballot when we go in to the polling place.
00:25:40.860I am actually, I lean more towards libertarian rather than Republican, but I think I've been tempted to vote for Bernie just for the joke factor because I think he's just so much fun.
00:26:21.720I decided that would be a wasted vote, which actually they're probably all wasted votes.
00:26:26.100But I think I'm probably going to vote for Klobuchar because she's the only one who raised her hand at the last debate when the question was asked whether socialism was dangerous for the United States.
00:26:36.560Yeah, I mean, and to back this point up, we had Mike Lee in here a while ago, and we have this big board behind Glenn that has all the candidates broken into categories as to how they can, you know, who has the best chance to win.
00:26:48.220And we said, you know, Mike, you work with a lot of these people.
00:27:24.880Like, I go back and forth on this because I think someone like Klobuchar, who is a little bit, she actually is a little bit, certainly more moderate than a Sanders,
00:27:33.440and maybe does understand at least some of the basis of this country, would be a better fallback than a Bernie Sanders presidency.
00:27:43.120If there was an election between Klobuchar and Sanders, I would vote Klobuchar.
00:27:47.160However, she very well might be tougher to beat than a Sanders.
00:27:51.840Part of me thinks maybe Sanders is in the race, you know, like, I go back and forth on this.
00:27:56.780Because if he is the nominee, and it looks like, unless it's like 70 to 30, you know what I mean, Donald Trump,
00:28:08.240the closer we get, if it, no, it won't be, if it looks at all close, the stock market will bake in a possible Bernie,
00:29:16.060A story that came out last week on the things that he has already, his team has already started to outline the executive orders that he is going to issue when he gets in.
00:29:30.240Because he knows he won't be able to get them through Congress, and he's just going to.
00:29:33.680So he's working on executive action right now.
00:29:37.140And they are terrifying, absolutely terrifying.
00:29:40.860It takes this country and our Constitution apart.
00:29:44.680But it's going to be really interesting.
00:29:47.420If he wins, and he wins the next three elections, he's going to have real momentum, real momentum.
00:29:58.100And with the Democrats trying to back up and go, okay, well, wait a minute.
00:30:03.420And you Democrats who have been playing footsie with the left and saying, oh, well, they're not dangerous, they're not this, they're not that, they're not really socialist.
00:30:13.640You're going to find out who they really are, and it should terrify you.
00:30:23.340Do you go just, do you go and stay home because you can't vote for Donald Trump?
00:30:28.680Or do you actually fight it because your party is about to be lost?
00:30:34.320And when Bloomberg comes in and the Democrats try to do some funny business to be able to get Bernie out again, the left is not going to take it.
00:30:45.700Remember, Bernie has said the target isn't just Donald Trump.
00:30:49.800The target is the Democratic Party itself along with Donald Trump.
00:39:09.380Could be that their income and wealth is rising.
00:39:12.300I have only seen, this is according to the surveyors,
00:39:16.760I've only seen this many people mention income gains twice before.
00:39:21.580In 1966, after the 60s expansion, and in the year 2000, after the 1990s expansion.
00:39:31.120Interviews with six small business owners across the country all acknowledged the economy had turned around under President Barack Obama,
00:39:39.200but they pointed out that three more years of steady growth, solid job gains, and additional stock market records under Trump had turned cautious optimism into full-blown optimism.
00:39:51.600Business owners varied in how much they credit Donald Trump personally, but all had examples of how they had more work than they could handle
00:40:00.500and were buying equipment and bringing on new people in ways that had not happened since before the Great Recession.
00:40:07.020Trump's approval rating on the economy has hit an all-time high, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll last month.
00:40:16.040On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the U.S. economy added 225,000 jobs in January.
00:41:36.320That makes us one of the strongest nations, if not the strongest nation in the world.
00:41:44.040If you have all the energy you need, if you can access and refine all the energy that you can use, that makes you a defensible nation.
00:41:57.140Nobody is going to threaten us, and us have to worry about, well, are we going to be able to afford the oil?
00:42:06.100Are we going to be able to have enough oil?
00:42:07.720Are we going to be able to put that into our ships, into our planes?
00:42:10.160Also, wage growth has inched up for rank-and-file workers in recent months.
00:42:15.900Economists say one of the biggest drivers of consumer confidence is job quantity.
00:42:21.780Confidence rises when people feel as if it's easy to get a job, even if it's not a high-paying one.
00:42:28.000Job growth has slowed lately, averaging $182,000 a month under Trump versus $220,000 a month in the 37 months at the end of Obama's tenure.
00:42:36.800But the health of the labor market is evident, with unemployment rate nearly half a century low at 3.6.
00:42:44.420The nation has added over 2 million jobs every year for the past nine years, an unprecedented streak of steady gains.
00:42:53.180Women today outnumber men in the American workforce for only the second time.
00:42:58.700Your chance of going to work tomorrow and getting laid off is lower than it has ever been going back to 1948.
00:43:10.720Now, think about what the country was going through in 1948.
00:43:16.840They were retooling from a war economy back to a peacetime economy, and all of the soldiers were coming back.
00:52:21.700This book can be given to your Democratic friends.
00:52:25.700Because your Democratic friends, the ones who don't believe in the end of capitalism, which I think is the majority, they're now panicking.
00:52:41.540These are a list of potential and possible executive actions from the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:52:52.300Now, there are dozens of options for reversing President Trump's immigration policy, such as lifting the cap on the number of refugees accepted into the United States,
00:53:01.580immediately halting all border wall construction.
00:53:05.040Another option is to reinstate the Obama-era program that granted legal status to undocumented immigrants brought here to the United States as children.
00:53:14.480The list of potential executive actions include unilaterally allowing the United States to import prescription drugs from Canada and directing the Justice Department to legalize marijuana.
00:53:57.220And if you declare a national emergency, we have like 54 national emergencies still on the books, things that have been acted a long time ago.
00:54:07.180The executive branch never closes them down because it gives them power.
00:54:12.620And if you declare climate change, which, as Stu said, is completely all-encompassing, it gives the executive branch reason and the legal power to be able to do really everything.
00:54:26.180His national emergency on climate change, he has an executive order being prepared banning the exportation of crude oil.
00:54:42.920So we're not going to be able to pipeline it around here.
00:54:47.080We're, of course, not going to build any refineries.
00:54:49.760We're probably going to shut down drilling sites.
00:54:53.020But we also can't make any money on crude oil.
00:54:56.920Other options in the document include canceling federal contracts for firms paying workers less than $15 an hour.
00:55:05.340Now, I just want you to know, that sounds great.
00:55:08.560But where are all those wages getting paid?
00:55:53.540As we continue discussing, this is what he wrote, as we continue discussing the early work of your presidency and the progress we can make, below for review is a brief overview of executive actions you can take earlier in your administration.
00:56:09.220We cannot accept any delay from Congress on some of the most pressing issues, especially like the immigration, where Trump is governed with racism and for his own corrupt benefit.
00:56:20.120He is going to put through, through legislative channels, Medicare for all, single health care system, which we told you would be the thing that they would do.
00:56:58.400Have you seen the price of heating oil, air conditioning, electricity?
00:57:04.980It may not be as cheap as you would love it to be, but I don't think we need to rework our nation's energy system.
00:57:16.440The worst thing we can do is introduce government all along the way.
00:57:22.560We are, for the first time in American history since, you know, carbon fuel, energy independent.
00:57:32.460Energy independent for the very first time.
00:57:39.620That's never been true in my lifetime.
00:57:42.280That is, that's something we aspired to.
00:57:49.180So one woman told him in a town hall in Iowa in January, what are you going to do about the partisanship that prevents any good Democrat from getting anywhere in Congress right now?
00:57:58.420He said, quote, we're going to run a different type of presidency.
00:58:06.000Well, I don't know what kind of presidency that is.
00:58:08.480What do you mean you're going to run a different type of presidency?
00:58:11.940The president has to work through Congress unless you do it through fiat because you have emergencies that have to be done.
00:59:26.420But that's one of the things he was really impressed with, with the beautiful chandeliers.
00:59:30.500It was a collapsing society that was killing and oppressing its own people so they could have the chandeliers for the right people in the right places.
01:00:10.520Everyone I know that is a real big Democrat, even real, real, real liberal.
01:00:18.860Not a socialist, not a Marxist, but an American liberal that has agreed with, I mean, just thought Barack Obama was the greatest thing ever.
01:00:29.120All of them are saying now, we can't have that.
01:00:34.180If Bernie Sanders, I've talked to people who don't agree with me on anything.
01:00:40.100If Bernie Sanders is the Democratic candidate, I think I have to even campaign for Donald Trump.