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00:01:24.660 Hello, America.

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00:02:23.940 There's something else that I'm not blind to.

00:02:29.340 And everybody is forcing everybody to get into this fight.

00:02:35.580 And I'm not getting into the fight.

00:02:37.320 I'm just not going to do it.

00:02:38.900 And here's why.

00:02:41.400 I have a policy on school shooters.

00:02:44.120 And I don't always hold to it, but I try.

00:02:48.100 I don't want to mention the name of school shooters because that's what they want.

00:02:52.200 That's what they thrive on is attention to whatever it is they're wanting to talk about.

00:03:00.000 I'm not going to give it to them because I know that's what they want.

00:03:03.840 But I do, from time to time, feel I should say something, and not about the personalities, but about principles.

00:03:16.920 If you've listened to this show, when we started, you know, the Tea Party started, and that was all about politics.

00:03:20.820 And I said, the 9-12 Project is not about politics.

00:03:24.260 It's about principles, values and principles.

00:03:26.900 That's what this show is.

00:03:28.160 If you, and I'm not talking about you, those who say, you know, Glenn Beck hasn't spoken out about this, and he's got to speak out about it. 0.99

00:03:37.100 Go to hell. 0.99

00:03:37.760 Who are you to tell me what I have to do? 1.00

00:03:41.000 Second thing, if you don't know where I stand on issues, especially when it is regarding Jews, you don't know.

00:03:50.920 By now, you've never listened to this show.

00:03:53.140 Okay?

00:03:53.320 You've never listened to this show.

00:03:57.840 And if you think that you are more outraged than I am, have your children been dragged into it?

00:04:07.620 Have your children been questioned, like, why were they there?

00:04:12.040 You know, he loves the Jews, and they were suspiciously close to him when he died.

00:04:16.200 Were your children brought into it?

00:04:17.560 Because mine were.

00:04:18.400 For me, it's personal.

00:04:19.440 But that's no business of yours or anybody else.

00:04:24.340 That's for me and my wife and my family.

00:04:28.340 I want to talk to you about principles.

00:04:30.640 So let me lay out a couple of principles here.

00:04:33.060 I've lived my life since I was 13 years old behind a microphone.

00:04:41.680 Okay?

00:04:42.820 And I have been successful and a failure and successful and failed and successful again.

00:04:50.840 Okay?

00:04:51.080 I've lived long enough to see what fame can do to me and to others.

00:04:58.760 And it's not the applause.

00:05:00.080 That's harmless on the surface.

00:05:01.600 Not the money because that's just paper on the surface.

00:05:06.080 Fame is battery acid for the soul.

00:05:09.480 I've said that for a long time.

00:05:11.000 But I want to go into this principle a bit.

00:05:13.660 Fame burns slowly.

00:05:15.600 It doesn't scar all at once.

00:05:17.280 It corrodes you from the inside.

00:05:19.300 It corrodes your identity.

00:05:21.520 If you don't know who you are before the spotlight hits you, that bright, garish spotlight, that spotlight will then tell you who you are.

00:05:32.720 And it will lie to you every step of the way.

00:05:37.860 This is an important principle for you to understand because the spotlight is on all of us.

00:05:43.920 When I got into this, I had to work to build an audience.

00:05:46.880 Now, members of my audience have an audience.

00:05:52.040 Okay?

00:05:52.380 You can have an audience.

00:05:53.780 This applies to all of us.

00:05:55.700 In this age of social media, being the one is very dangerous.

00:06:03.540 And when I say the one, the one that's trending, the one that it's exposing, the one that is feared, the one that's being debated about, the one that is changing minds and hearts, the one, whatever it is, it's intoxicating.

00:06:15.880 And it feels like purpose.

00:06:20.540 It feels like destiny.

00:06:22.260 It feels like righteousness.

00:06:24.340 Yeah.

00:06:24.800 But it's a drug.

00:06:29.860 And it's interesting because you are both the user and the dealer.

00:06:32.880 Because media, social media or mainstream media, it's not, you are using the drug and it's lying to you.

00:06:41.960 But you're also dealing the drug.

00:06:45.280 Because you might have hit something that was honest.

00:06:49.180 But then, if things start to slide at all, you have to find out what that next honest thing is that will take you to the next level.

00:06:59.460 And that's really hard.

00:07:03.280 You have to be able to walk away from all of it.

00:07:06.420 You have to be able to say, it's not that important to me.

00:07:11.260 You have to be, how many times have I offended this audience?

00:07:15.120 How many times have you probably listened to the show and went, what the hell is wrong with you?

00:07:19.560 Why would you say that?

00:07:20.780 Do you not know who the audience is?

00:07:22.560 Yeah, I do.

00:07:24.040 I do.

00:07:25.140 And there have been times when I've almost driven you away because I felt, well, a couple of times because I was arrogant and I thought I knew better than you.

00:07:34.060 That was a huge mistake.

00:07:35.520 That's my fault. 1.00

00:07:36.300 That's stupidity. 0.99

00:07:38.180 But other times, like for instance, when I printed Addicted to Outrage, thank you, I can barely remember it because it sold like four books. 0.99

00:07:47.540 When I published Addicted to Outrage, I knew it wouldn't do well.

00:07:51.900 I knew it wouldn't do well.

00:07:53.420 But it was important for me to talk about what outrage can do to you.

00:08:00.180 It was important for me to say, you know what, I've made mistakes and I've learned from it.

00:08:05.740 For me.

00:08:07.720 But when you are, when you're addicted to that high, you addict others to that high as well.

00:08:16.180 You've got to keep the audience high, which means you have to push harder.

00:08:19.880 You have to dig deeper.

00:08:20.820 You have to reveal something darker, something more shocking than what I told you yesterday, something even more forbidden.

00:08:27.540 Because yesterday's outrage isn't a big enough drug.

00:08:31.480 That's what got me high yesterday.

00:08:33.520 It won't get me high today.

00:08:36.240 And sometimes that pursuit uncovers real corruption.

00:08:40.240 Sometimes it does serve justice.

00:08:42.260 But sometimes, if we're honest, it becomes escalation for the sake of escalation.

00:08:48.800 Not because truth demands it, but because the machine demands it.

00:08:53.740 And once you walk down that road, stopping walking down that road is almost impossible.

00:09:01.340 Okay?

00:09:01.880 You have no idea.

00:09:03.440 When I left Fox, it screwed with me for four years.

00:09:07.680 Hard.

00:09:08.580 It is so hard to walk away.

00:09:12.100 So hard.

00:09:12.920 Roger Ailes told me, you're not walking away.

00:09:14.420 Nobody ever does.

00:09:16.060 When he said that, I realized, oh my gosh, I really now have to walk away because he's right.

00:09:21.260 Nobody does.

00:09:23.640 But when you walk away from just the outrage part, not the fame, just the outrage part, I guarantee you, you're going to be accused of selling out.

00:09:31.240 If you show restraint, you've been compromised.

00:09:34.840 If you choose mercy, you're protecting evil.

00:09:38.980 And it's the very crowd that lifted you up that will turn on you the moment you refuse to go further. 0.98

00:09:45.840 One of the saddest things for me is you've listened to me for 25 or 30 years, and I can say one thing, and all of a sudden you'll say, you're a traitor.

00:09:56.440 And it's like, what?

00:09:59.600 Really?

00:10:00.480 Is that how shallow our relationship is?

00:10:07.520 This is principle.

00:10:09.740 And here's the principle that I think we have to defend.

00:10:13.920 And it goes right to the bride of Charlie Kirk.

00:10:18.600 Can we leave the grieving to their grief?

00:10:24.520 You may not like somebody.

00:10:26.140 You may not trust somebody.

00:10:28.500 You might disagree with them.

00:10:30.540 You might believe they're wrong about everything.

00:10:34.300 But grief is sacred ground.

00:10:38.060 And it's not battleground for speculation.

00:10:41.180 If someone dies and you believe a crime occurred, there's a process to that.

00:10:47.560 There are investigators.

00:10:48.880 There are courts.

00:10:49.920 If you have evidence, give it to the authorities.

00:10:52.220 If you have resources, quietly fund the pursuit of facts.

00:10:56.100 You don't conduct a trial through thumbnails and trailers.

00:10:59.940 Let me explain it this way.

00:11:04.120 Because I'm a former alcoholic DJ.

00:11:08.880 Let's say a small-town family loses their father in an accident.

00:11:15.320 Suspicious, however.

00:11:16.920 The town is divided.

00:11:18.660 Rumors are starting to swirl.

00:11:20.140 And one local radio host like me begins asking questions, not with evidence, but with feelings.

00:11:27.420 I don't know.

00:11:28.460 I feel.

00:11:29.460 And they're very, very guarded and careful.

00:11:31.480 They'll hint.

00:11:32.160 They'll imply.

00:11:32.940 They will build the audience on suspicion, but they'll never truly accuse because I'm going to pay for that one in a court of law.

00:11:42.500 But I have this feeling.

00:11:45.460 What happens?

00:11:47.020 Soon, the widow can't buy groceries without whispers every time she goes into the store. 1.00

00:11:50.980 The children hear theories about their mom at school.

00:11:55.120 Five months later, nothing has been proven, but the damage is permanent.

00:12:00.360 And even if later the host says, you know, I was just asking questions, the community is fractured.

00:12:06.700 That damage is permanent.

00:12:08.720 That's the principle at stake.

00:12:11.300 Free speech matters deeply.

00:12:14.640 I will defend someone's right to say the things.

00:12:19.120 I will defend their right to say the despicable things they've said about my children and me.

00:12:24.200 Because they have a right to say it.

00:12:25.980 And the moment we start silencing people that we disagree with, we lose.

00:12:31.560 We lose our freedom.

00:12:32.820 We lose the republic.

00:12:34.100 But free speech is not the same as moral obligation and responsibility.

00:12:39.540 Free speech comes with responsibility.

00:12:42.200 And the First Amendment protects your right to speak.

00:12:46.320 It does not compel you to speak.

00:12:48.440 It doesn't sanctify escalation.

00:12:52.660 It does not require you to monetize suspicion.

00:12:57.460 Because there's a difference between investigation and insinuation.

00:13:01.840 Between courage and compulsion.

00:13:04.860 Between truth-seeking and audience-feeding.

00:13:09.540 And fame, if you're not careful, convinces you that every instinct must be broadcast.

00:13:15.360 I suffer with this so badly.

00:13:18.940 I don't know.

00:13:19.340 I have this feeling.

00:13:20.040 I should say that.

00:13:21.580 No.

00:13:22.780 Not everything you think, not every suspicion needs to be shared.

00:13:30.660 Not every silence is weakness.

00:13:33.880 Sometimes it's strength.

00:13:35.880 Sometimes restraint is the highest form of strength.

00:13:39.900 We should be rallying around principles that make us more human.

00:13:45.120 Not more viral.

00:13:47.540 Decency.

00:13:48.860 Process.

00:13:49.580 Presumption of innocence.

00:13:51.380 Respect for grief.

00:13:53.900 It's been five months.

00:13:56.880 Put yourself...

00:13:57.760 If this society can no longer put itself in another man's shoes.

00:14:02.520 And see what those five months must be like.

00:14:06.120 And you were dogpiling in the first three weeks.

00:14:11.840 We're a lost society.

00:14:15.800 Once we normalize turning mourning into content.

00:14:20.080 None of us are safe from being content ourselves.

00:14:23.600 The culture that rewards behavior like this isn't just influencers.

00:14:32.060 It's us.

00:14:33.180 Because we click.

00:14:34.500 We share.

00:14:35.220 We debate.

00:14:36.060 We fuel the machine.

00:14:37.560 We demand people get involved.

00:14:40.380 And that demand creates supply.

00:14:42.720 So instead of saying, what the hell happened to fill in the blank of the influencer?

00:14:52.060 What the hell has happened to the right or to the left?

00:14:54.920 Maybe the question is, what is happening to us?

00:14:59.540 If we don't anchor ourselves in who we are, and my opinion shouldn't matter more than your opinion.

00:15:07.620 Glenn, Glenn's got to speak out on this because his opinion, my opinion is no more important than your opinion.

00:15:16.780 If you are waiting for me to endorse your opinion, you're lost.

00:15:21.580 Don't.

00:15:23.340 There's power in you.

00:15:27.180 But you've got to know these things before the likes, before the numbers, before the praise.

00:15:33.020 Or all of us are going to be swept away by whatever gets the most reaction.

00:15:37.620 Truth requires patience.

00:15:40.360 Justice requires evidence.

00:15:42.760 Grief requires space.

00:15:46.180 These are not partisan values.

00:15:48.820 These are civilization values.

00:15:52.160 If you lose the civilizational values, it doesn't matter who wins the argument.

00:15:57.400 Let me tell you about American Giant.

00:16:01.140 Long before algorithms, you know, there were calloused hands shaping steel and cotton and timber into something lasting.

00:16:09.800 There were men and women who measured twice, cut once, and took pride in a finished product that could be passed down through generations, not tossed out.

00:16:18.400 Quality back then was not a marketing term.

00:16:20.840 It was a personal standard.

00:16:22.840 And somewhere along the way, we started optimizing for speed and scale instead of durability, and things got cheaper and faster, more disposable.

00:16:31.760 And so we shipped many manufacturing jobs overseas because it was cheap.

00:16:35.720 American Giant decided, you know what, I think it's time to go in the other direction.

00:16:39.940 And they build their clothing here in America.

00:16:42.000 They work with American factories and American workers who still believe how something is made actually matters. 0.68

00:16:49.960 From the fabric to the stitching to the focus on craftsmanship and long-term wear, not just what looks good on a website, when production is close to home, standards aren't abstract.

00:17:00.620 They're visible.

00:17:01.400 They're accountable.

00:17:02.480 Because something made with calloused hands tend to last longer than something designed by an algorithm.

00:17:08.700 Buy American today at American-Giant.com slash Glenn.

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00:17:15.740 That's American-Giant.com slash Glenn.

00:17:18.720 Now back to the podcast.

00:17:20.540 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:25.280 Last night was not a speech.

00:17:28.300 Last night, it was a mirror.

00:17:31.140 And if you were watching carefully, not through Twitter, not through the spin room, not through cable chyrons, but actually watching the room, you saw something that should concern every Democratic strategist in America.

00:17:45.920 You saw something in the room that if you vote for the Democrats should have made you question, who am I standing with?

00:17:55.720 The damage was done by the people who refused to stand or clap for the most obvious things.

00:18:08.660 Let me say something plainly here.

00:18:14.120 This was the best speech President Trump has ever given.

00:18:17.620 I mean, you want to talk about a mic drop.

00:18:19.560 And I urge you, go back and look at when he was walking out.

00:18:24.620 I mean, I think you will see it.

00:18:26.220 Now, when I point this out, you will see it.

00:18:28.200 When he's walking out and he's shaking people's hands on the way out, the guy looks 20 years younger.

00:18:34.280 He looks like he's 60 when he's walking out.

00:18:39.100 He walked in strong, clear, disciplined, not tired, not wandering.

00:18:45.780 He was on prompter, yes, but he commanded the prompter, unlike any time I've ever seen him give a speech.

00:18:52.900 He had humor that landed.

00:18:56.180 He had key moments like the hockey team that was human, that was light, that was confident.

00:19:03.780 The opening statistics I thought were overwhelming.

00:19:07.880 Rapid fire, border, inflation, energy, jobs.

00:19:11.360 There was a rhythm to this speech.

00:19:13.300 The most important thing is he did not look like he was defensive.

00:19:20.100 And Donald Trump has been on the defense for most of his presidency, not necessarily this term, but last term.

00:19:29.580 And then when he was running for president, and even towards the beginning of this first or this second term,

00:19:37.180 he has been saying, look, it's going to be great.

00:19:40.760 He no longer had to say that.

00:19:44.060 Last night, he was on the offense.

00:19:46.980 Last night, he looked certain.

00:19:50.660 He knew what he had done, and he was commanding as president of the United States.

00:19:57.900 But that's not the story.

00:19:59.540 Although that's big news, that's not the story.

00:20:02.420 The story was the Democrats.

00:20:06.640 When you have a third of them not standing for the U.S. hockey team, what is going on?

00:20:17.500 No real applause for the Olympics or the World Cup coming to America?

00:20:22.840 Muted response for the first World War II veteran?

00:20:30.980 Polite, restrained clapping for the Coast Guard rescue mission?

00:20:35.900 What?

00:20:36.480 What?

00:20:36.680 The moment that was the most powerful moment I have ever seen any president give other than Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.

00:20:48.400 There was no moment in presidential history in my lifetime that was as strong as that until last night.

00:20:56.400 Stand if you agree the first job of government is to protect the American citizen and not foreign citizens. 0.98

00:21:08.080 That's the easiest applause line ever presented in American politics.

00:21:14.200 That is, you shouldn't even think.

00:21:17.740 Stand up.

00:21:19.180 That's not even partisan.

00:21:21.000 Is the job of the American government, Congress, to protect the American citizen or illegals or foreign citizens?

00:21:35.180 What happened?

00:21:37.340 Hesitation, folding of arms, looking down, no one clapping, no one standing up on that side of the aisle.

00:21:47.340 Just play this out with me.

00:21:50.340 That's something that even if you don't believe in, you stand up for.

00:21:55.400 It's something that you go, like, I don't believe in this, but this is going to look really, really bad.

00:22:00.360 We all got to stand up.

00:22:02.520 You don't damage your opponent when you do that.

00:22:05.140 You damage your brand.

00:22:07.540 This was the worst night for any brand, and maybe twice as bad for the night that Coca-Cola came out and said,

00:22:21.380 we're getting rid of the original recipe and we're going right for new Coke.

00:22:25.800 I mean, that did brand damage like I've never seen before.

00:22:28.760 This, I'm not sure the Democrats survived the brand damage that they're doing right now.

00:22:34.280 You know what I mean?

00:22:35.620 When you, when you, you can't stand for that.

00:22:41.940 The American people last night were not watching like operatives.

00:22:47.160 They were watching like parents.

00:22:50.620 And parents understand instinctively.

00:22:54.160 If you can't stand for protecting citizens, something is very broken.

00:23:00.120 Something is very wrong.

00:23:01.600 The border section was devastating to the Democrats.

00:23:07.820 Angel moms.

00:23:10.340 Elizabeth stabbed 24 times.

00:23:14.060 Delilah crushed by an 18-wheeler.

00:23:17.240 Now a little girl in first grade kissing her father.

00:23:22.240 You don't stand for that?

00:23:23.820 Calling for commercial license to be denied to illegal immigrants because of her and calling it Delilah's law. 0.98

00:23:32.500 And you can't stand for that? 0.68

00:23:36.180 You can't clap for removing dangerous rapists and criminals from the country?

00:23:42.520 Think about this.

00:23:44.200 We can disagree on immigration policy all you want.

00:23:47.980 We can debate visa quotas.

00:23:50.700 You can argue about asylum reform.

00:23:52.840 But when you can't stand for deporting violent criminals, that's not a strategy.

00:23:59.980 That's the end of your brand.

00:24:02.220 That's moral confusion.

00:24:05.720 I was stunned by that.

00:24:08.800 Because America looked at that and went, do these people hate our country?

00:24:17.520 Do they hate America?

00:24:20.360 The average person, you had to walk away with that.

00:24:25.140 The contrast on all of it, I mean, the economic contrast, very sharp.

00:24:30.000 He talked about, you know, inflation and how they drove up inflation by spending too much energy.

00:24:38.520 They drove up inflation because they stopped drilling, you know.

00:24:43.220 And he said, you caused this.

00:24:45.300 Your policies caused this.

00:24:48.040 I'm fixing it.

00:24:49.660 Crushing health care costs.

00:24:51.360 Everybody in the country knows health care is being crushed.

00:24:55.640 It's crushing people.

00:24:57.260 You did, you promised Obamacare.

00:25:02.100 You said it would fix it.

00:25:04.120 And it hasn't.

00:25:04.960 It's made it worse.

00:25:07.200 And I'm going in and fixing it.

00:25:10.160 When he comes out and he says, look, you're going to pay, what was it, the IVF thing.

00:25:16.700 I've got to get into that.

00:25:18.960 When he talks about any of the drug costs, going from $4,000 to $500,

00:25:25.720 you can't stand and applause for that?

00:25:29.040 You can't?

00:25:30.020 What?

00:25:32.920 Then taxes.

00:25:35.500 Did you notice that when they introduced Michael Dell, who gave, what was it, $6 billion,

00:25:42.280 some crazy amount of money, to these, you know, to the, you know, these America accounts.

00:25:49.080 So, your kids can be, when they're born, they can get an account worth, I don't know how much.

00:25:55.600 Well, Michael Dell gives, he and his wife give, I don't remember what it was.

00:26:00.140 I think it was, I think it was $6 billion, wasn't it?

00:26:03.700 $6 billion.

00:26:06.320 $6 billion.

00:26:08.280 Okay?

00:26:12.100 They don't stand for a guy who just gave the nation and the children and the most vulnerable $6 billion.

00:26:20.440 They will stand and applaud for, we want to take more of these rich billionaires' money,

00:26:26.760 but we're going to take it, we're going to use it for the IRS, we're going to take it,

00:26:30.860 and then God only knows where that money goes.

00:26:33.900 They'll cheer for taking and crushing billionaires, but they can't stand and applaud a man who

00:26:41.980 voluntarily gave $6 billion to the government to help children.

00:26:48.140 That should tell you a ton.

00:26:51.640 They could not applaud for a deduction on your auto loan for the first time in history.

00:26:59.760 No tax on tips?

00:27:01.440 No tax on tips?

00:27:04.520 They could not applaud for that.

00:27:07.780 They couldn't applaud when he talked about 401ks are up, what was it, 30%, I think?

00:27:16.360 I mean, I know that you don't feel it, and quite frankly, it's hard to feel.

00:27:22.700 You know, I don't feel it.

00:27:23.880 When I go to a fast food restaurant and I'm rolling out of there and it's just Tanya and I

00:27:30.220 and we've just spent $35 at McDonald's, I have a hard time going, inflation's under control.

00:27:35.200 So I get it.

00:27:36.900 If you're trying to buy a house, I completely get it.

00:27:39.680 I don't think the average person feels it yet,

00:27:42.720 but I don't think the average person has looked at their 401k either.

00:27:46.580 How much is the average 401k up?

00:27:50.600 He said, since I took office, the typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000.

00:27:55.860 $30,000.

00:27:59.180 Okay.

00:28:00.940 You can't applaud for that?

00:28:06.520 You can't applaud.

00:28:08.160 Actually, I think Elizabeth Warren did.

00:28:11.860 Applauded for the Wall Street being banned from buying up single-family homes.

00:28:17.140 She also stood for insider trading.

00:28:20.680 They didn't stand for paying the lowest prescription drug price paid anywhere in the world.

00:28:26.440 I have always said, Democrats, why do you have a problem with us overpaying here in America,

00:28:32.640 that we're paying the highest drug price in the world?

00:28:34.820 Aren't we the wealthiest 1% in the entire world?

00:28:38.660 Of course we are.

00:28:39.900 America is, when you look at it globally, we are the wealthiest 1% in the world.

00:28:45.100 You always say the wealthiest 1% should pay more.

00:28:48.740 Well, your drug policy for prescription drugs,

00:28:51.940 the way you allow America to have her eyes pushed in

00:28:57.000 with the thumbs of the insurance and the drug companies,

00:29:01.120 it at least fits your view that the wealthiest 1% should pay the highest

00:29:06.420 because as a collective looking at America,

00:29:10.580 even the poorest are among the wealthiest 1% in the world.

00:29:15.920 But he comes in and he says, that's not fair.

00:29:19.160 That's not right.

00:29:20.860 We should not be.

00:29:22.360 We're now paying the lowest.

00:29:24.260 And you can't recognize that accomplishment?

00:29:33.820 I mean, you can argue policies.

00:29:37.460 You can argue whether any of these mechanisms will work long-term.

00:29:41.460 That's fair.

00:29:42.060 But he was offering mechanisms.

00:29:46.720 The Democrats last night offered facial expressions,

00:29:51.280 pins that use the full word F-ice.

00:29:55.160 You see Rashida Tlaib wearing a pin that said F-ice.

00:29:59.780 That's appropriate?

00:30:04.100 They offered angry insults, screaming on the floor.

00:30:09.220 I mean, do I need to go into Joe Wilson?

00:30:14.920 Do you remember what that was all about?

00:30:16.920 Under Obama, during the debate on Obamacare,

00:30:20.340 he said, look, you got to pass Obamacare.

00:30:23.900 It's got to be done because it doesn't have anything

00:30:26.480 that these people say it will.

00:30:28.020 It will never be used to support health care for illegal aliens. 0.84

00:30:35.220 That's an absolute blatant lie.

00:30:36.880 It was a blatant lie then.

00:30:38.480 It's a blatant lie now.

00:30:39.460 Look at it.

00:30:40.720 But he said that.

00:30:42.180 And Joe Wilson could not take it.

00:30:44.080 And so he said, you lie.

00:30:47.540 What happened?

00:30:49.620 What happened?

00:30:50.560 It was like the whole world caved in.

00:30:54.360 You can't do that.

00:30:55.860 How dare you say that?

00:30:58.060 He had to apologize the next day.

00:31:00.740 The president then accepted his apology.

00:31:03.800 But that wasn't good enough for the Democrats.

00:31:07.100 They didn't accept it.

00:31:08.940 You know, John McCain, everybody was on fire because he said two words, you lie. 0.99

00:31:15.300 Last night, they were screaming, you kill Americans. 0.98

00:31:21.680 From the floor. 1.00

00:31:24.000 Representatives were screaming, you kill Americans. 0.94

00:31:31.000 And nobody says anything. 0.88

00:31:36.020 It was incredible.

00:31:37.400 When he said Republicans voted for tax cuts and every Democrat voted against them, they sat.

00:31:43.660 But when he said stop insider trading in Congress, Elizabeth Warren stood. 0.99

00:31:51.980 Democrats did not.

00:31:54.720 When he said we're putting the American worker first, arms folded.

00:31:58.860 Do you know what the American voters saw last night?

00:32:05.220 Resentment.

00:32:07.320 Resentment.

00:32:10.640 Hatred for America.

00:32:12.360 It was the most patriotic speech I have seen given by a president in a very long time.

00:32:19.580 And they looked like they hated America.

00:32:23.600 I want to start with the audio, which I have never, ever seen anything like it.

00:32:42.400 He is calling out.

00:32:48.540 Where is that audio here?

00:32:50.980 Okay, this, cut 13.

00:32:53.660 Listen to this, where he is just asking people, just stand.

00:32:59.260 Just stand if you believe this.

00:33:00.780 Listen.

00:33:01.640 So tonight I'm inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.

00:33:09.580 If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.

00:33:14.180 The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. 0.61

00:33:21.500 They're not clapping the Democrats.

00:33:33.680 None of them are standing.

00:33:36.180 None of them.

00:33:36.980 And Donald Trump just motions towards them.

00:33:41.260 Like, look at that.

00:33:43.140 Look at.

00:33:49.200 This is the biggest political mistake I've ever seen a party make.

00:33:53.380 Isn't that a shame?

00:33:54.520 You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.

00:33:57.920 You should be ashamed of yourself.

00:33:59.440 That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities.

00:34:05.800 Okay, stop.

00:34:06.720 Do you notice here, I've never heard the president speak so forcefully.

00:34:11.960 I mean, he was almost talking like this a couple of times, where you're like, what?

00:34:15.920 What is happening?

00:34:17.060 It's because he was trying to drown out the shouts from the high schoolers that call themselves congressmen who were shouting, you kill American citizens.

00:34:30.580 I mean, insane stuff.

00:34:33.800 That's why he was shouting so loud.

00:34:36.720 That's why I'm introducing, because he wanted to drown them out.

00:34:40.580 I've never seen anything like it from a country that went from Joe Wilson saying, you lie, and the whole nation stopped.

00:34:48.620 How dare you do that to the president of the United States?

00:34:51.000 I don't care if you disagree with him or not.

00:34:52.540 You don't disrespect the president in the State of the Union.

00:34:56.180 To that, I was surprised they didn't start throwing things at him.

00:35:00.560 And I mean that sincerely.

00:35:02.360 I was shocked they didn't start throwing things at him.

00:35:06.420 It was not a good look.

00:35:11.540 Now, do we have the place to where he is talking about here?

00:35:23.180 Let's play cut 12.

00:35:26.060 Him calling for the, you know, for ending the shutdown.

00:35:29.320 Listen to this.

00:35:29.880 Cut 12.

00:35:30.380 As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

00:35:38.540 It's all cut off.

00:35:40.200 It's all cut off.

00:35:42.200 They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.

00:35:49.260 Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.

00:35:53.380 Now, they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.

00:36:01.120 Tonight, I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States,

00:36:10.120 and also for helping people clean up their snow.

00:36:14.520 Now, we have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice, you'd love to give your hand to clean it up, but you gave no money.

00:36:23.360 Nobody's getting paid.

00:36:24.380 It's a shame.

00:36:25.280 So you have to think about it.

00:36:26.620 We have, in case you didn't know, a pretty large snowstorm out there.

00:36:32.720 You know what he didn't say?

00:36:34.480 You want to be petty, but accurate.

00:36:37.920 But anybody who thought he was petty, you know what he didn't say has been defunded?

00:36:44.520 Secret Service.

00:36:46.540 Secret Service.

00:36:48.160 DHS and Secret Service.

00:36:50.860 As they continue to try to kill this president, they're defunding Secret Service.

00:36:59.160 To me, that took a man much bigger than me because I would have said,

00:37:06.420 I've had attempt on my life after attempt on my life, and you people are responsible because you keep saying I'm a Nazi,

00:37:15.240 and you have the gall to cut the budget and stop paying Secret Service to protect not just me, but our judges and some of you.

00:37:28.520 How dare you do that?

00:37:32.200 You have a responsibility to protect the constitutional order.

00:37:38.020 He didn't say that.

00:37:39.740 And he would have had every right.

00:37:41.420 They just tried to kill him again.

00:37:44.140 He had every right to do that.

00:37:46.620 Every right.

00:37:47.260 Now, it's amazing to me how some people are saying, you know, well, he didn't get any of the facts right.

00:37:57.180 He didn't get any of the facts right?

00:37:58.880 What?

00:37:59.760 So let's look at what he said last night because a lot of them that they say he didn't get right, well, it was mostly true, but we don't have enough evidence yet.

00:38:10.320 Okay.

00:38:10.720 That doesn't make it false.

00:38:13.280 Okay.

00:38:13.760 The economy.

00:38:14.720 I had inherited a nation in crisis with stagnant economy inflation at record levels.

00:38:20.340 Yep.

00:38:21.780 Yep.

00:38:22.720 The economy was not growing.

00:38:27.680 Now, BLS said it wasn't stagnant.

00:38:32.520 He says inflation is plummeting, core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.

00:38:37.860 In the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.

00:38:41.300 The BLS says core CPI is at 2.5 to 2.6 year over year, December and January 26, the lowest in years, but not at 1.7.

00:38:55.520 Gasoline, he said, now below $2.30 a gallon in most states, $1.99 where I've seen it, and $1.85 a gallon I saw at a gas station in Iowa.

00:39:05.920 The press is saying that's false.

00:39:09.760 The national average is $2.92 to $2.95.

00:39:13.100 Well, it's sure the hell better than $4 a gallon, isn't it?

00:39:17.380 And that was in February of 2026.

00:39:20.380 No widespread sub $2.30 prices.

00:39:25.820 No widespread.

00:39:27.020 He said, I saw a gas station in Iowa, and in most states, it's $2.30.

00:39:35.700 That's not sub $2.30, is it?

00:39:38.800 Interesting.

00:39:40.220 Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast.

00:39:42.900 The annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 since I took office.

00:39:47.800 Slight exaggeration is what they mark this.

00:39:50.420 Rates fell in 2025, but not to a four-year low across the board.

00:39:55.880 Notice that.

00:39:57.000 Exact $5,000 savings not independently verified at scale.

00:40:03.640 Okay.

00:40:05.100 The stock market is at 53, all-time record highs.

00:40:10.340 Dow Jones broke $50,000 four years ahead of schedule.

00:40:13.400 Mostly true, but exaggerated on 53.

00:40:15.320 Dow Jones hit $50,000 in early February, not at $53,000.

00:40:22.640 That's not what he said.

00:40:24.300 He said the stock market broke 53 records.

00:40:30.880 Did he not?

00:40:31.960 He wasn't saying he was at $53,000.

00:40:35.060 It just broke, because he follows it, all-time highs.

00:40:38.000 Dow Jones broke $50,000 four years ahead.

00:40:41.100 Okay.

00:40:41.600 Even if it was 50-53.

00:40:43.680 In 12 months, I've secured commitments for more than $18 trillion new investments.

00:40:50.700 Fact checkers, unverifiable.

00:40:53.460 I mean, where is he getting that number?

00:40:55.240 Well, this is their quote.

00:40:57.060 No independent government or news confirmation of exact $18 trillion figure in commitments.

00:41:03.540 Okay, but what is the figure that you have?

00:41:05.860 If it's not $18 trillion, what is the figure?

00:41:08.220 Because when you look at those numbers and you add them up, and if they actually come through,

00:41:14.720 and this is all you need to say, $18 trillion, okay, that's what he says, but that money is trickling in.

00:41:23.080 There's maybe been a trillion of it that has come in so far.

00:41:26.060 It's over five years.

00:41:27.200 We'll watch.

00:41:27.820 But if that happens, then it's true.

00:41:32.540 American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day.

00:41:37.580 Plausible, but unconfirmed is the exact figure of 600,000.

00:41:43.540 American natural gas production is at an all-time high.

00:41:47.060 True.

00:41:48.040 More Americans are working today than any other time in the history of our country.

00:41:51.880 100% of all jobs created were in the private sector.

00:41:55.520 True.

00:41:56.480 Let me say that one again.

00:41:58.560 More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.

00:42:04.140 100% of all jobs created were created in the private sector.

00:42:10.120 True.

00:42:11.900 Why is that important?

00:42:15.700 That's important because we're not growing the size of the government.

00:42:19.840 All the jobs that have been created in the last, you know, during the last administration,

00:42:25.320 the vast majority of them were all government sector.

00:42:28.840 They're not.

00:42:30.800 Okay.

00:42:31.360 We cut the record number of job-killing regulations, lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.

00:42:37.900 Exaggerated.

00:42:39.100 Snap rolls declined, but exact 2.4 million record, not independently verified, as largest one in one year.

00:42:48.560 Okay.

00:42:49.560 All right.

00:42:51.640 Largest tax cuts in American history.

00:42:53.580 No tax on tips.

00:42:54.500 No tax on overtime.

00:42:55.920 No tax on Social Security.

00:42:57.780 Interest on auto loans tax deductible if made in America.

00:43:02.060 Mostly true, they say.

00:43:04.600 The typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000.

00:43:09.580 Fact checkers?

00:43:11.080 Plausible.

00:43:11.560 Strong 2025 market gains boosted balances, but not exact averages increase varies by source.

00:43:18.140 So, we found another source that said it was, what, $23,000?

00:43:22.420 The average is up $23,000.

00:43:24.060 So, we're not sure.

00:43:26.780 $23,000, $30,000.

00:43:29.020 What difference does that make, honestly?

00:43:31.100 Because there's no verified number.

00:43:34.560 So, you can pick either and say either one of those is true and probably won't be wrong or that wrong.

00:43:41.140 The point is, is that America's 401ks, I didn't even think of that.

00:43:47.020 I didn't think that 401k, the average American 401k, let's just use 23,000.

00:43:51.660 Did you know that?

00:43:53.040 Nobody's checking their 401ks.

00:43:55.160 Everybody checked their 401ks in 2008.

00:43:59.020 I heard every day.

00:44:00.820 Do you know how much I've lost in the stock market?

00:44:02.420 You know how much my 401k, how am I going to retire?

00:44:04.960 In the last year, if your 401k is up $23,000 or $30,000, that's a big deal.

00:44:13.720 In one year, the flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56% in one year.

00:44:22.880 True.

00:44:23.440 The murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history.

00:44:28.560 It's the biggest decline, lowest number in over 125 years.

00:44:32.240 Mostly true.

00:44:33.940 Homicides fell 21% in 2025 across major cities.

00:44:37.540 Largest single year drop on record.

00:44:40.100 National rate likely lowest, likely lowest since 1900.

00:44:44.780 Okay.

00:44:45.780 All right.

00:44:46.200 Members of the Somalia community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion, Minnesota, California, Massachusetts, Maine, even worse. 1.00

00:44:56.480 They say that's exaggerated.

00:45:00.480 Real fraud cases existed in feeding programs, et cetera.

00:45:04.280 But the totals were in the hundreds of millions, not $19 billion nationwide.

00:45:07.800 I think we have that to play out yet.

00:45:10.420 And I don't think I take the press on their number more than I take what the president is saying on the number.

00:45:17.780 I'm telling you right now, a third of our debt, a third of our debt is going to, in the end, be because of fraud.

00:45:32.340 That's how big I think the fraud is in the United States government.

00:45:36.700 I think a third of our debt, not our deficit, our yearly deficit.

00:45:41.720 What did he say yesterday?

00:45:44.340 I think he said, didn't he say half or a third of our debt?

00:45:51.840 He said we would wipe out our national deficit.

00:45:53.960 If we just eliminate the fraud, we will wipe out our national deficit, and we will balance the books.

00:46:00.600 I think that is absolutely true.

00:46:02.900 Absolutely true.

00:46:04.520 Crime in D.C. is now at the lowest level ever recorded, and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100%.

00:46:10.620 Fact check, exaggerated.

00:46:13.300 Homicides are down sharply, 67% year-to-date, early 2026 versus prior January 2026.

00:46:20.960 Very low, only one to two cases, not almost no crime, or exactly 100%.

00:46:29.020 That's how they, not almost no crime, or exactly 100%.

00:46:35.600 Okay, all right, well, we get it.

00:46:38.560 The point is, is that when he said that, and he said crime is down dramatically, we're at the lowest crime in over 100 years,

00:46:47.220 the murder rate is down, the Democrats didn't applaud.

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