The Glenn Beck Program - June 09, 2026


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00:00:30.000 Has anybody ever said to you, can you imagine what would have happened if Kamala Harris would
00:00:34.760 have won? You don't need to imagine. You can see it. And the House Oversight Committee dropped the
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00:00:48.260 down what we now know and why we are so lucky we dodged a bullet and we've got to clean this up.
00:00:57.120 That's how we begin. Also, Graham Plattner, you are who you excuse. Democrats are excusing an awful lot. Also, Carmelo Anthony and black justice and the check that Martin Luther King wrote.
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00:03:07.880 you're listening to the best of the blend back program all right i want to walk you through
00:03:23.240 two stories that ran this week uh side by side because together they'll tell you something about
00:03:28.160 one of our you know major parties and you know let's be honest it actually tells us where any
00:03:34.220 of us will end up if we decide that the cause is bigger than the principles. So let me tell you
00:03:39.220 first the story about Graham Plattner, Democrat, frontrunner for the United States Senate in Maine,
00:03:46.460 taking the seat of Susan Collins, and they're calling him Maine's Momdani. That's enough to
00:03:51.680 throw me off the path, but if you like that kind of stuff and you're a Democrat, fine.
00:03:56.360 He sells himself as a working-class oyster farmer. He is a regular guy, anti-establishment,
00:04:03.620 But it turns out regular guy went to an $80,000 a year boarding school and comes from a family with a lawyer father and a world-famous architect grandfather.
00:04:14.280 So not the average guy.
00:04:16.080 And the average guy, if the average guy is a communist, that says billionaires just shouldn't exist, he's talked about deadly violence against political opponents.
00:04:25.960 he calls all police officers bastards and he has said rural white americans are actually racist
00:04:33.400 racist and stupid oh and then there's a little thing about that tattoo he's got a tattoo on his
00:04:39.400 chest used by the nazi ss it's inked on his body he says i didn't know what that was that's a
00:04:46.380 everyone knows what that is now on top of that the new york times reported that several women
00:04:53.920 who dated him described him as disturbing and intimidating with one of the ex-girlfriends
00:05:01.660 saying he was rough with her the reaction inside the party well not a lot senior democrat aide
00:05:10.600 has come out and said everyone's uh apoplectic about it but i haven't seen it his own supporters
00:05:17.560 congressman roe connor said that his behavior is wrong and toxic there's a second story i want to
00:05:25.160 talk to you about and it's the same story kind of this about a woman named uh geneve mcdonald
00:05:30.800 now she is a former main uh state representative she's a democrat she was the political director
00:05:40.260 of platner's own campaign she wrote an op-ed in the washington post blowing the whistle on the
00:05:46.640 man she was hired to elect. Will anyone hear that whistle? She said when she asked him about the
00:05:53.220 tattoo, he said, ah, it's a military thing, a little problematic, but nothing to worry about.
00:05:58.720 She believed him. Then the call started coming from Washington. Have you read about his opposition
00:06:04.980 file? Have you seen it? She hadn't. What she learned was that he absolutely understood exactly
00:06:13.220 what the ss symbol meant then there were the old post where he downplayed sexual assault
00:06:19.400 it disturbed her personally she was running it it disturbed her so deeply she quit
00:06:26.580 and here's those who are desperate for power want you to skip past after she left she was offered
00:06:37.100 $115,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement to go quiet. She, thank God, turned the money down.
00:06:46.280 And when she watched the giants of the progressive movement, Bernie Sanders among them,
00:06:51.160 wave the whole thing away with a shrug and a line about, you know, nobody's a saint.
00:06:56.820 She wrote one sentence that I think is the most honest sentence spoken in America politics this
00:07:02.540 year we have learned to excuse what we should condemn and then enough is enough so those two
00:07:13.240 stories who this guy says he is what she says he is hold these two stories in one hand okay at the
00:07:19.520 same time now let me play a clip of what democratic voters are saying cut five well i think candidly
00:07:28.200 The Democratic Party has come up short in a lot of ways in terms of, like, whitewashing our candidates and being so morally elitist and kind of entitled at times.
00:07:36.500 We have to be willing to get dirty.
00:07:38.040 His baggage is nowhere near their baggage.
00:07:40.700 We're talking about people that are felons and people that take bribes.
00:07:45.180 I really kind of think that we all have skeletons in our closet and we've all made mistakes, especially when we're younger.
00:07:52.320 and that was really a refrain we heard time and time again this kind of redemption arc
00:07:59.840 we can you know have faith and forgiveness uh stop stop we can have faith and forgiveness
00:08:08.100 let me ask this guy has not asked for forgiveness this guy has been denying all of these things
00:08:14.380 okay to give forgiveness you have to have somebody who is looking for forgiveness he's not
00:08:22.220 he's denying. Let me ask you this. How does the party that built its entire moral identity on
00:08:32.220 three pillars, fairness, ending racism, and believe all women line up to nominate a man
00:08:39.820 accused of frightening women, the women who loved him, a man who downplayed sexual assault,
00:08:47.220 and a man wearing an SS image
00:08:52.340 from the most racist regime in human history.
00:08:58.060 And then he lied about knowing what it was.
00:09:01.300 This is the hashtag Me Too party?
00:09:04.220 This is the party that told us
00:09:06.020 we should always listen to women when they come forward?
00:09:10.000 This is the party that told us correctly
00:09:11.960 symbols of hate are never just symbols?
00:09:14.580 okay yeah but the senate seat is online
00:09:20.640 those same people are looking at a nazi tattoo and credible accusations for women who loved him
00:09:30.520 worked for him and were frightened by him and the response is well i don't know too many saints
00:09:37.140 that's a problem and that that is a human problem this is not just a democratic problem
00:09:43.280 This is a human problem.
00:09:44.260 It's going to come for all of us if we let it.
00:09:48.040 And here's the lie at the very center of it.
00:09:50.500 The lie is this.
00:09:52.280 The ends justify the means.
00:09:55.160 They don't.
00:09:56.700 Well, yes, Glenn, we have to flip the Senate.
00:09:58.440 We have to stop the other guy.
00:09:59.360 We have to save democracy.
00:10:01.240 And if you have to swallow a Nazi tattoo and look away from frightened women and offer a whistleblower hush money to do it,
00:10:09.840 and that's just the cost of winning and it's the winning that matters,
00:10:12.920 Well, I'm telling you, that's not how it works.
00:10:15.980 That's never been how it works because the ends don't justify the means.
00:10:21.400 The means become the man.
00:10:25.300 The means make you into the very thing you set out to fight.
00:10:31.420 Think about what you're actually doing.
00:10:34.760 You pick up the cause of anti-racism.
00:10:37.440 and to keep their candidate they're now rationalizing an ss symbol that the guy put on his
00:10:46.340 body they picked up a cause of believing women and to keep their candidate they're now explaining
00:10:53.420 away the women did you see how the new york times treated these whistleblowers they pick up the
00:11:00.180 banner of fairness and transparency democracy dies in the darkness they love to say that
00:11:05.660 but to keep their candidate, somebody reaches for an envelope with $15,000 in it to buy somebody's
00:11:13.560 silence. I don't know. That's not defeating darkness. That's becoming a franchise of darkness.
00:11:22.840 Here's the problem. When you set out to slay a dragon, if you live your life one excuse at a
00:11:32.140 time. Nobody's a saint. You will wake up before very long and notice, oh my gosh, I have scales.
00:11:39.600 You're the dragon. That's the warning that everyone should hear and know for voting for
00:11:48.320 somebody like this. And it's bigger than his communism, which is enough, isn't it? Isn't it?
00:11:55.040 It's bigger than his communism, bigger than the math on Medicare for all, a plan that would cost
00:12:00.400 the entire state budget. I mean, bigger than any single policy. It's bigger than that. The real
00:12:06.420 danger is not what he can do to the state or to the country. It's what he does to you, your own
00:12:14.200 moral immune system. Because the first time you train yourself to excuse in your guy what you
00:12:22.340 would scream about in the other guy, you haven't just made one exception. You've reset the floor.
00:12:28.140 And I can hear people right now.
00:12:29.700 I can hear them.
00:12:30.760 You are such a hypocrite.
00:12:32.100 Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
00:12:33.220 I spoke out about all of the things about Donald Trump.
00:12:39.480 I spoke out about all of them.
00:12:42.300 I continue to speak out about the things that bother me about Donald Trump.
00:12:47.220 I don't blindly accept them.
00:12:49.440 i just don't buy the fact that you think he's such a horrible guy i don't buy it i know him
00:13:03.720 personally you don't so i can excuse you i know him personally i know his children i know the way
00:13:11.280 he treats people i know all of his co-workers they don't walk away they all they work for him
00:13:18.220 forever. They don't walk away and say, the guy is doing this at night. The guy's got a Nazi tattoo.
00:13:28.820 You've told yourself your principles are all important. You've told us you've got to live
00:13:34.900 by these principles. You force people, but they were never principles at all. They were just
00:13:39.380 weapons that you used when it was convenient. And you put those weapons down when it's not
00:13:46.300 convenient that's not a principle that's a weapon and people who can't tell the difference between
00:13:53.320 a principle and a weapon is a people who will follow anyone anywhere into anything let me ask
00:14:00.820 you if if it's all if it's if he starts to say you know what we need to round people up he's got the
00:14:08.580 nazi tattoo he's got we got to round people up we got to stop listening to israel or we have to stop
00:14:14.440 listening to these MAGA people. We need re-education camps. Will you follow him there
00:14:19.400 because the ends justify the means? What is your line? If you don't know what your line is,
00:14:28.940 I won't vote for a Nazi. I won't do it. I won't do it. I know that sounds crazy that I have to
00:14:34.300 say that, but for half the country, apparently you do have to say it. I won't vote for a Nazi.
00:14:40.000 won't do it i wouldn't have voted for robert bird if you don't know who he was old timey days
00:14:50.800 in the 1990s the democrats voted he was a grand wizard or grand dragon or whatever the hell they
00:14:57.940 are in the clan i wouldn't have voted for him this is the oldest trap in human history
00:15:04.960 every moment every every movement in time
00:15:10.900 that has turned into a monstrous movement or moment started out certain that they were the
00:15:21.160 good guys the bolsheviks were there to free the worker the terror in france was going to perfect
00:15:27.300 liberty everybody believed the cause was so righteous that the rules no longer applied to
00:15:32.680 them. And the cause is exactly what gave them permission to become everything they claimed
00:15:38.020 they hated. Show me a man who tells you the ends justify the means, and I will show you a man who
00:15:44.460 is about to do something he would have called evil a year ago. I don't want to end with a villain
00:15:54.220 here. I want to tell you a story of a hero, because there is a hero, and it's a Democrat,
00:15:59.900 Geneve MacDonald, a Democrat.
00:16:02.580 She had every worldly reason to take the money and stay quiet.
00:16:07.540 She could have taken the $15,000.
00:16:10.080 She could have probably had a great, bright career with the Democratic Party.
00:16:15.920 She could have held up her own side, her own career, her own team shot at power.
00:16:22.400 And she looked at it and said, no, enough is enough.
00:16:25.300 and she walked into the daylight and told the truth about her own people that is a democrat
00:16:31.620 i love that is a democrat i celebrate that's what moral courage looks like that's the antidote
00:16:40.080 not tribe over over truth but truth especially when it costs your tribe
00:16:47.120 so anyone in maine anyone anywhere who is about to step into the booth and you're telling yourself
00:16:55.840 that the cause is worth holding your nose on a guy with a nazi tattoo remember her
00:17:04.000 remember that the ends never justify the means the means are the only thing you actually
00:17:14.040 get to keep. You own them in the end. Your means, that's your character.
00:17:22.400 They become your party. They become your country. Choose them like your soul depends on it.
00:17:30.920 Because I have news for you. It does. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:17:37.700 so a house oversight committee has just come out uh with a report and it's dropping the hammer on
00:17:46.540 minnesota governor tim waltz and attorney general keith ellison this report now exposes they both
00:17:54.360 knew about the taxpayer fraud uh programs the welfare programs as far back as spring of 2019
00:18:01.200 that's nine billion dollars that's billion with a b lost to medicare fraud alone in one state
00:18:10.820 since 2018 another 300 million dollars stolen from federal child nutrition programs meant for kids
00:18:18.240 feeding our future and its cronies feasting while the system was looted now here is the worst part
00:18:27.120 they didn't just fail to stop it they had the authority they had the clear authority
00:18:32.440 to suspend payments investigate and shut it down but instead they chose political protection
00:18:40.220 over people's treasure question is why they say fear of political retribution
00:18:48.080 from certain activist communities fear of being called racist or islamophobic
00:18:54.940 so instead of guarding the taxpayers money they guarded the fraud machine now i want you to hear
00:19:03.640 this there is one thing about not catching it there's another thing to turning a blind eye
00:19:09.020 and then it's an entirely different category when you when you take the whistleblowers the public
00:19:16.720 servants with integrity trying to expose it and you retaliate against them and the retaliation
00:19:22.820 was vicious private investigators were sicked on these people and and were told to dig into their
00:19:29.240 lives photos of their cars and their homes monitoring of their phones and their computers
00:19:35.720 questions about their school kids you know when i say questions about their the school and the kids
00:19:41.680 it's like this you got a you got a kid going to uh uh roosevelt elementary don't you be ashamed
00:19:50.520 something happened there huh that's the kind that's the kind of retaliation check-ins from the top
00:19:56.540 threats of military style surveillance warnings to stop digging or be labeled bigots they had
00:20:05.280 hotlines that were supposed to be anonymous and it would expose who was calling they blocked the tip
00:20:13.560 lines they shamed and punished anyone who dared to speak the truth wow now that's a different
00:20:20.440 category, isn't it? That's totally different than I didn't know what was going on. Totally
00:20:26.700 different than, okay, I knew what was going on, but I didn't say anything. This is, I knew what
00:20:33.040 was going on. Quote, I'm afraid. So I'm going to make others very afraid. And I'm going to use
00:20:41.380 every tool in the toolbook that is that's crazy
00:20:46.080 turning a blind eye to billions vanishing and then actively silencing those who are sworn to
00:20:55.000 protect the system public officials elected appointed betraying their oaths betraying the
00:21:01.100 people of minnesota and betraying you and me let me tell you if this is proven in a court of law
00:21:07.360 because here in America, you are innocent until proven guilty.
00:21:11.900 They should face the full weight of justice
00:21:15.780 and the full power of the federal government.
00:21:19.040 You swore to protect the people.
00:21:21.740 You swore an oath to protect the state, the Constitution,
00:21:25.500 the public treasury, not to play politics
00:21:28.840 while people are enriching themselves.
00:21:32.580 Turning a blind eye to rampant theft?
00:21:35.080 malfeasance obstructing justice by intimidating whistleblowers that's a crime against the
00:21:43.360 republic that is that you should face the harshest penalty not the death penalty but the harshest
00:21:51.240 the harshest penalty a public servant can ever face you should go to life in prison for what
00:21:58.700 you've just done. Removal from office, not enough. Fines, not enough. But no one is above
00:22:07.140 the law. Not governors, not attorney general, not their enablers. You know, and we don't do
00:22:14.140 show trials. We don't do political revenge. We're not supposed to. I'm not advocating that. We do
00:22:20.440 justice, blind, impartial justice, rooted in evidence and the rule of law. But make no mistake,
00:22:27.740 accountability is not optional on this one if you are a leader and you loot the public purse
00:22:35.040 and punish the righteous Americans need to demand that those politicians answer for it and I mean
00:22:44.760 I mean demand it you have a right to assemble you have a right to petition
00:22:50.260 if this one goes down and these guys walk away it's the end it's the end
00:22:56.140 Glenn what do you think the republic would be like today if Kamala Harris would have won
00:23:01.880 you tell me look at what this guy was doing look at what he was willing to do to protect himself
00:23:10.780 first thing none of this would have seen the light of day all of this would have remained
00:23:18.480 covered Tim Walsh would have been vice president sitting right there in the White House
00:23:23.000 with all of the machinery of the federal government behind him.
00:23:27.460 Imagine the same corruption, billions stolen, whistleblowers crushed,
00:23:32.620 not at a state level, but scaled up to the entire country.
00:23:36.160 Can you imagine the damage that they could have done at the federal level?
00:23:40.640 It would have been catastrophic.
00:23:43.220 Trillions potentially funneled away under the cover of equity or political fear.
00:23:49.500 the house of cards just would have kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger the lies deeper the
00:23:55.540 grip tighter imagine thank god the american people saw through this in 2024 thank god we had a chance
00:24:05.000 to root this out let me let me say that again we have a chance to root this out chance and i believe
00:24:14.600 we have one chance. The job isn't finished. If I read another one of these reports, they go
00:24:20.640 absolutely nowhere. I'm going to lose my mind. We have a chance to root this out. This has got
00:24:28.420 to stop. And this isn't just about Minnesota. This should be a warning to every politician.
00:24:36.400 I don't care, Republican, Democrat, Independent. Every politician should be put on notice.
00:24:43.160 and all of us should demand
00:24:45.300 we root this out, this rot in our system
00:24:48.480 no matter the place, the party or the person
00:24:51.540 no sacred cows, no protected classes
00:24:54.360 no more blind eyes
00:24:56.040 because it might offend the wrong voters
00:24:58.360 every voter should be offended
00:25:01.660 by what has just been done
00:25:03.680 this is spiritual darkness
00:25:09.080 idols of power idols of of political survivor survival over truth and stewardship
00:25:19.160 this is bad and it happens in history empires they always fall from the inside not from the
00:25:27.760 outside leaders who forgot that they were servants not masters i read a book once what did it say
00:25:36.780 something like woe unto those who call evil good and good evil we're living it gang we're living it
00:25:45.460 let me say something to the whistleblowers thank you thank you you should sue
00:25:55.780 the state should pay you a buttload of money and you should sue not just the state you should sue
00:26:04.580 waltz uh and the attorney general and anyone else that was involved they put you through hell you're
00:26:14.240 the remnant you're the watchman stand firm thank you thank you for doing it and know
00:26:20.480 that you are now an example that the truth always wins eventually the truth comes out and to every
00:26:28.240 leader, fear justice. Fear God, not the mob. Honor your oath, or you will be exposed.
00:26:49.020 To those who are going to try to take this and cover this up, again, fear God,
00:26:57.640 not the mob fear god and justice because come hell or high water the american people are not
00:27:05.480 going to take it much longer we're not going to have you steal from us while we're trying to feed
00:27:13.680 our children you're stealing from us we're the ones working we pay your salary and you're stealing
00:27:23.500 from us. I'm telling you, when the American people, when that really, truly connects and
00:27:29.420 they stop playing stupid politics, you are in trouble, my friend. Stop playing this game.
00:27:41.460 To the people, this is our republic. Reclaim your republic. Demand transparency. Support
00:27:51.440 real oversight build a strong family build a strong community strong character feed hope
00:27:57.960 every day reject all of the lies choose right right now choose who you are going to serve
00:28:06.060 the god of truth or the failing gods of this age because only one of them is going to stand
00:28:12.660 the gates of hell are raging right now they're not going to prevail because good always wins
00:28:20.480 in the end. Even if I don't
00:28:22.500 see it in my lifetime, good will
00:28:24.660 win in the end.
00:28:28.660 Darkness will
00:28:29.280 not conquer us if
00:28:32.480 we stand as free men
00:28:34.420 and women
00:28:35.180 under God.
00:28:38.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck
00:28:40.280 program.
00:28:44.240 Alright, I pray that you listen to this
00:28:46.460 story and really
00:28:48.120 listen, not just hear it, listen.
00:28:50.480 Because it is not just about one tragic day at a Texas track meet.
00:28:55.560 It's about who we are as people and what we're allowing ourselves to become.
00:29:03.360 I knew when I sobered up that I knew who I wanted to be.
00:29:10.960 But all I was left with was who I allowed myself to become.
00:29:16.140 And I became that man with a series of small compromises.
00:29:20.480 and most people don't notice it
00:29:23.300 until there's a problem in their life
00:29:25.340 and then even then
00:29:26.780 I dismissed it a lot
00:29:28.320 because I was like
00:29:28.860 how come these things keep happening to me
00:29:30.860 before I realized
00:29:32.440 wait a minute
00:29:32.880 maybe that's because life is trying to teach me something
00:29:36.060 that I refuse to learn
00:29:37.320 the problem is not other people
00:29:39.120 the problem might be me
00:29:40.440 so I want to talk to you about
00:29:42.880 who we're allowing ourselves to become
00:29:44.420 let me tell you the story
00:29:45.360 17 year old Austin Metcalf
00:29:47.100 he's a high school athlete
00:29:48.400 he's a kid with his whole life ahead of him and he was at a field event in frisco texas just outside
00:29:55.440 of dallas last april this kid comes in wants to see wants to sit in this one area it is a team
00:30:03.640 tent he was told you can't sit here blah blah words were exchanged the kid 19 years old his
00:30:10.520 name is carmelo anthony he was asked by multiple witnesses 19 leave the tent it belongs to the
00:30:18.140 opposing team. He refuses. He swears at them. He taunts them. He reaches into his backpack
00:30:25.500 grabbing something apparently and repeatedly saying, you touch me and you just see what happens.
00:30:33.380 At one point he pulls a knife out. Austin, by all accounts, stays calm, not looking for a fight.
00:30:42.000 When Anthony pulls out a semi-serrated folding knife,
00:30:47.040 he just turns around and he just drives it deep into Austin's chest.
00:30:53.640 Pierce's bone punctures his heart, a gaping fatal wound.
00:30:58.920 Yesterday, the jurors saw the autopsy photos
00:31:02.440 and some people gasped, one woman put her hand over her mouth.
00:31:06.760 Oh my God, it's horrible, horrible.
00:31:09.160 anthony the accused just looked down he didn't look at the photos that's what happened young
00:31:17.220 life full of promise cut down in a moment of rage another kid full who had his whole life in front
00:31:24.820 of him full of promise drives the knife into that kid now he's standing trial for murder
00:31:31.660 his claim is self-defense but it's completely falling apart witnesses including some called
00:31:38.280 by his own attorney have painted a very different picture. Anthony as the aggressor, the defiant
00:31:45.360 one, the threatening one, the one who escalated everything. Again, even witnessed, yesterday was
00:31:50.640 a witness called by his own attorney. It was like, that's not what happened. He was the aggressor.
00:31:57.120 Okay, so that's just the way things happen in court, okay? And this is a story that men have
00:32:03.000 been murdering men forever let me show you what happens to this story and what is old but also
00:32:10.820 new that needs to be changed what happens when that story hits the wider world well there are
00:32:17.580 people that don't want you to see um you know the truth they don't want they want you to see
00:32:24.080 not the dead boy and the knife and even the testimony. They just want you to see color.
00:32:33.480 They want you to see a black defendant and a white victim. That's it. Now, let me prove this
00:32:38.920 out. I want to play two pieces of audio here that came out yesterday. The first one is not his
00:32:44.560 mother, but a black mother. She says this about her standing at the courthouse watching this
00:32:53.920 whole thing. Listen. If evidence does come out that Carmelo was not in fact fighting for his
00:32:58.780 life when he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, do you think that the black community will accept
00:33:03.260 that? If evidence shows that he did not, no, we're going to stand by ours regardless. They
00:33:09.480 stand by theirs. We're going to stand by ours regardless. I'm a mother first. I'm a black
00:33:14.040 mother. Let me put that on there. I'm an African-American mother. So I have to put away
00:33:18.840 my color first and step into the motherhood. Nobody wants to see their child slain, so I do
00:33:26.360 want to send prayers to Austin Metcalfe, their family. But at the end of the day, I got to think
00:33:32.060 like, okay, what did you do to them or whatever to cause this to happen, the reaction? We got to
00:33:36.940 start taking accountability for our kids. Because then again, if my kid, that's why I said Catch
00:33:41.140 22, if my kid was Carmelo and I feel like his back was up against the wall, I'm going to tell
00:33:45.700 straight up better mind than yours better mind than yours so either way go everybody loses a
00:33:51.660 black boy allegedly ordered and i say allegedly heavy on the allegedly allegedly ordered somebody
00:33:58.880 you see what i'm saying so yeah this is this this is about race
00:34:03.000 i can't even make heads or tails of that okay if it was proven he was not defending himself but he
00:34:12.180 was the aggressor she says yes because of race i will stand with them because they stand by theirs
00:34:18.440 that's the worst thing you can do my mother would have said if everybody's jumping off a bridge would
00:34:23.040 you jump off a bridge no it's wrong you don't do that then she brings in motherhood now this is
00:34:28.720 what a mom should do to some degree in this way a mom or a dad i've told i've told my kids i don't
00:34:35.720 care what you do in your life i don't care i will always love you what that means at the extreme
00:34:41.820 example uh the extremes is um my daughter goes out and does what anthony carmelo is alleged to
00:34:50.600 have done that means i sit at the table with her i go to the prison with her i don't defend her
00:34:59.000 but i love her and i'm with her but you cannot expect society to change if you don't hold you
00:35:07.560 know, she says, we got to stand by our kids. No, no. We stay by our kids' side just as God stays by
00:35:13.980 our side when we screw up. He loves us. He's with us, but he requires a penalty, okay? And if you
00:35:21.260 don't get it here on earth, you're going to get it with him. So we look to our heavenly father and
00:35:27.120 say, how would he deal with it? Well, he would not abandon us. He would not disown us. He would love
00:35:32.920 us he would counsel us he would see to the punishment but he would do it with love and he
00:35:39.300 would always be there that's our responsibility as a parent now let me show you a minister and
00:35:45.820 what he said listen to this cut seven i come out here every thursday and we pray for people going
00:35:51.220 to court because this we know this is the final frontier of racism and it's legalized here it was
00:35:59.560 announced yesterday that there's no black jurors that were chosen. What are your thoughts on that?
00:36:04.900 That's why we need God. That's why we need God. And that's why he's going to show
00:36:11.440 who's in control. And would you be open to giving us your personal insights
00:36:16.960 into the Carmelo Anthony trial and what your thoughts are on it?
00:36:21.980 I just want justice done. You know, we know. Okay, stop. Nope. Okay, stop. So he just wants
00:36:29.260 but this is the this is where this is all about race he starts it there it's all about race
00:36:34.500 now i believe he's got a good heart i just think he is misguided if i understand him correctly he's
00:36:41.400 misguided here because people want you to believe that this is just an endless american morality
00:36:49.540 play of systemic racism over and over again they want you to ignore that anthony was asked to leave
00:36:56.120 15 times that he put his hand into the bag and dared them he said i'm not leaving f you all
00:37:04.540 they want outrage they don't want evidence division not truth i i we have to love him
00:37:14.440 carmelo we have to we as people and you know we it's easy for us be hard for the family
00:37:20.820 but we as people have to forgive him but there must be justice and look at how the press just
00:37:27.320 plays along no blacks on the jury as if as if justice requires a racial quota
00:37:33.720 here's what they left out there are minorities on that jury it's not all white people
00:37:39.140 there's just not black minorities okay and the one prospective juror who was black who got
00:37:46.560 herself disqualified. How? Was it because the prosecution was racist? No. Can you be fair?
00:37:57.660 Can you be blind as a juror? And she said, I don't think I could put another brother in jail
00:38:03.120 if he's guilty. Well, then you can't be on the jury. She removed herself because she couldn't
00:38:11.360 promise fairness that's not the system failing that is a human being in a moment of honesty
00:38:18.260 admitting she couldn't live up to the blindfold and so the system worked and a jury of your peers
00:38:24.540 doesn't mean people who look like you it never has it does mean this citizens who can set aside
00:38:33.060 their bias racial political cultural and weigh the evidence with integrity this has been hard
00:38:41.000 for whites to judge blacks and blacks to judge whites,
00:38:43.740 but that's what it requires if you're on a jury.
00:38:47.220 Now, perhaps we think that the juror needs to look like us
00:38:50.120 because we don't think the people of other color
00:38:52.920 hold the same values,
00:38:54.360 and that is terrifying if that is true.
00:38:56.900 And these voices here that I just played for you
00:39:00.140 make me think that is true,
00:39:02.740 but that can't be fixed by putting more whites or blacks
00:39:06.500 or anybody based on race in the jury box.
00:39:11.000 That's only fixed when we all understand and hold the same self-evident truths.
00:39:19.960 We need jurors in every case who can see the defendant as a man and not a symbol.
00:39:28.240 We are judging the individual, not the symbols, not culture, good, bad, guilty, or innocent.
00:39:35.600 That is the American promise, and it is imperfectly kept.
00:39:39.760 it's been betrayed but the north star we have always tried to steer toward and this is not
00:39:47.660 steering toward you remember oj simpson oj simpson walked free not because the church the jury
00:39:54.780 believed he was innocent they said that at the time but later in interviews years later they've
00:40:00.700 all admitted it they wanted to send a message to the man to stick it to the system they played
00:40:07.400 politics with a murder trial years later some of them express regrets because the blood on those
00:40:15.880 gloves told its story and they knew it but they wanted to make a political point at the time and
00:40:22.720 so they let a killer go free we always get in trouble when we turn a courtroom into a billboard
00:40:32.040 for our grievances instead of a sanctuary for truth. I want fair trials. If the evidence shows
00:40:41.960 that this is not the story that I just told you, then he should go free, but not because of
00:40:49.340 something political or racial. Moral boundaries of our society are cracking, and they're cracking
00:40:55.960 because we are prioritizing the narrative over reality.
00:41:00.060 It's amazing.
00:41:00.900 They're trying to destroy our story of who we actually are
00:41:04.300 and replace it with a story of who we should never, ever become.
00:41:08.940 When we teach young people that justice is about racial score settling
00:41:13.340 rather than right and wrong,
00:41:14.700 when we allow race hustlers to poison the well, white or black,
00:41:20.260 before a piece of evidence is even heard, that's not progress.
00:41:24.020 that's regression
00:41:25.740 that goes back to
00:41:28.040 tribal blood feuds
00:41:29.620 and it's all dressed up in modern
00:41:32.080 university language
00:41:33.640 and it spits on the grave of
00:41:35.880 every American, black, white
00:41:37.680 anyone who bled for a system
00:41:40.180 where the arc bends towards
00:41:42.020 justice, not vengeance
00:41:43.620 the American
00:41:46.040 justice system is supposed to be blind
00:41:48.000 not
00:41:49.840 colorblind in some naive slogan
00:41:52.040 sense, but truly blind
00:41:53.700 to politics, to pressure, to wealth, or social status, or the mob, or headlines.
00:42:02.300 And we've never achieved it. We've never fully achieved it. It's like a tide. That's why our
00:42:09.240 founders said a more perfect nation. We are gathered to build a more perfect nation. It's a
00:42:14.360 tide. It rolls in, and then it goes out. And right now, the tide is so far out, I can't even see the
00:42:20.640 water anymore the rhetoric is so loud now the temptation send a strong message is so strong
00:42:27.960 i'm not sending a strong this message that needs to be said is this kind of crime any kind of crime
00:42:35.200 will not be tolerated that's the only message you're you get justice for the family of the
00:42:42.140 person that was hurt or abused or killed you then try to teach this personal lesson that that is
00:42:48.280 outside of polite society you have no place doing this in society so cool off think about it and try
00:42:54.760 to reform yourself and then the third is a message to those who want to commit these crimes don't do
00:43:01.120 it or you'll get the same the activists and the activists are there and they are desperate for
00:43:09.120 another narrative to fuel the fire but it is our job yours and mine to push back to see past the
00:43:15.820 race baiters and the selective outrage and demand that juries and judges and citizens
00:43:22.080 look for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Guilt or innocent based on evidence,
00:43:26.920 not identity. That's not just the legal way. That's the American way, the way all men are
00:43:34.460 created equal, the way of a republic that dares to say character and content matter more than the
00:43:40.880 color of your skin. Austin didn't deserve to die in a seat in a tent. And Carmelo deserves a fair
00:43:49.560 trial, truly fair, without the circus. And you and America deserve better than to let another
00:43:55.440 generation be taught that justice is whatever serves the narrative. Stand firm, demand the truth,
00:44:01.620 reject the easy tribalism. Because if we lose the blindfold, we lose everything worth preserving.
00:44:10.880 Na na na na