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Glenn Beck talks about the efforts of the Nazarene fund to get aid to Afghanistan, and how the government blocked them. Also, we talk a little bit about the economy, and Donald Trump's first ever appearance on the show.
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Hey, it's going to be a great podcast today. You don't want to miss it. We have an announcement on
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end of the story that goes behind what happened in Afghanistan this weekend. There's some really
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great things that happened because of the Nazarene Fund, and it is just the beginning,
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hopefully, as we just don't know, minute to minute. Also, we talk a little bit about the
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economy. We talk to you about tomorrow's episode, which has Donald Trump first time ever on my
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program ever, and I've known him since the mid-2000s, and we were going back, and we're
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like, no, he's never been on. That happens on tomorrow's podcast, but a lot here, including
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So, I never thought I would be a guy that would be negotiating with prime ministers and
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talking to people about what is the cost of human life. I mean, literally, what is the
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You wouldn't have foreseen that when we were playing Britney Spears records?
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That's weird, because I thought this was inevitable back then.
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Yeah, a lot of people saw this one coming, and it has been, I talked to somebody else who
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is involved in this in her own way, Emily Miller. I talked to her this weekend, and she's having
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a difficult time because she's seeing all of the, she gets all of these, you know, emails
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and passports and everything. Can you help get me out? And, and she, we had a long conversation
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about how people like us are not equipped to, to see the names and the stories of thousands
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of people and know they may not get out. And, and we're like, no, just get them out. How do
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we get them out? And once you get into it, it's extraordinarily difficult, especially when
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the most powerful nation on earth is blocking you every step of the way. And this, this state
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department has blocked us. Now it's my understanding that, uh, the state department helped at the last
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minute on, uh, one of these planes. I gotta be really careful. Um, but I'm talking historically,
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they have blocked us every single step of the way. Uzbekistan, as I just told you a minute ago,
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we had that ready to go and we had, I believe it would have been clearly, you know, what we had
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planned. I think that would be clearly by far the largest private airlift in human history. Um,
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it was astounding and it was ready. It was literally within three hours to go. And the ambassador
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from, um, the United States to Uzbekistan said, you can't let that happen. You can't let these planes
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land. And so they called it off giving no reason for that. Nope, nope, nope. Uh, no reason. Uh, and
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it's really difficult to find countries to even let a plane land. If you don't have the state department's
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approval because the state department has to say in so many words, but this happens all the time.
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This is a regular thing that happens. Um, every military plane, everything needs this kind of
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permission. And, uh, it just basically says we vouch for the people running this plane and that it's not
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human trafficking and it's, it's good. Well, they wouldn't give us any of those clearances. And when
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they would give us clearances, we would get them and they'd be expired. So your plane can take off at
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eight o'clock. We would get it at 9 PM and we'd be, well, what do you, it's expired. Oh crap. Did we get
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that too late? Oh shoot. That's the, that's the, that's the good, happy parts of working with the
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state department. The others are just clear blocks. So we had this all planned and then they blocked us
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and now how do we get them out? So we had another plan, um, and we were blocked on that. So we wrote
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to the ambassador of Pakistan. I never expected to get a letter back from, I mean, when I was told
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Glenn, um, you, you really, you're the guy who should write this. I'm like, okay, I don't know
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really much about Pakistan. I don't know anything. I'm probably not the guy to be doing this. Uh,
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yeah, no, he'll take a letter from you. Does he know I'm kind of a clown and really don't have a,
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he'll take it from you. So I wrote the letter that I just posted a few minutes ago. And in a few
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minutes I will post the letter, uh, I got back and, uh, he pledged his support and everybody was
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celebrating. I was like, well, okay. I mean, right. Everything's good. Right. Right. I'm just,
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I don't fit in the room, honestly, with all these people. And, um, and, uh, they said, well,
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let's see what he can do. So the last two weeks he has been moving mountains and I think to personal
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risk to himself, and I've done some homework on this guy. He is the number two cricket player in
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the world. He was educated in Cambridge, um, and saw what his country was doing and saw that his
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country was a military run country and said it really shouldn't be run by the military. And he's
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trying to balance things out and trying to change, uh, Pakistan. At least that's my understanding.
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And if you have a different understanding, don't tell me. Okay. Uh, anyway, so that is, uh, that's my
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understanding of, of who he is. And, but he has to balance because some of the people are deeply,
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deeply in bed, not just with the old Taliban, the new Taliban and the new Taliban is with ISIS and
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bad. And, and so there's all kinds of influences. And, you know, that country is really important
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that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands because they have nukes. And I do believe that he understands
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that. And I do believe that he's trying, um, we're not going to agree on everything, um, by any stretch,
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but all I want to say about him is thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for what you've
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done. If it wasn't for the Pakistani prime minister, none of these planes would be taking
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off today. None of them. Uh, they're even letting us use their airspace. Um, we were kind of going
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to cut some corners and then the state department, uh, strangely told Iran about it. Uh, and so we
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couldn't do, we couldn't cut any corners or do anything. Uh, and we actually had to then figure
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out once he got permission, we had to figure out where can we land this plane? So we reached out to
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our friends in Georgia and Georgia is a great country that they get the whole communism and everything
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else. And they said, we'll take the planes. So we had to fly him to, uh, Georgia and you can't fly
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cam air is the official airline from Afghanistan. It can't land in Western countries. Um, and so you
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can't get permission to land that plane in Western countries. So we had to go someplace. So we had to get
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them on the ground in the middle of the night in Georgia. Then we asked the government of,
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of, um, Ukraine. Can you help us get Ukrainian airlines to, to loan us a plane and pick these
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guys up? So the Ukrainians were involved getting a second plane, which then took this one group to
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Portugal where Portugal had been prepared by the FIFA people, the soccer people, because the girls,
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we don't have, it's, it's sketchy right now. I am not sure exactly how many girls. Uh, I mean,
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I have the name, I have the, the, uh, manifest, but it's 32 of the, uh, FIFA female athletes and their
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families. Uh, and we're not sure if everyone got out at this point, I was told they did, but then I was
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told this morning, maybe not. I, I, I'm not sure. Um, but that's how we got them. That's how we got
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them out. And I want you to read my letter. I just posted it on Instagram and Twitter. I want you to
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read that because you'll understand there's much, much, much more to this story. This is one plane
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that we are talking about that got out this weekend. What if you told the state department,
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you're only evacuating Guatemalans from Afghanistan. They would let us fly them right
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directly into the United States right here, right here. If I had Haitians, I could fly them into
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Oklahoma. Yes. Okay. Yes. I mean, I found it so ironic that the state department and the United
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States government and this white house have blocked us for weeks to get not only these girls out, but
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also Americans. And there's some news coming on Americans. Um, but, uh, they've blocked us over
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and over again. And then while I'm on the phone with this, I look up at the TV and I see these giant
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gray tails picking up people on our border. What? And they're flying them where, what? I mean,
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I can't believe it. They're, I, they're taking off every 30 minutes for the next 72 hours. Wow.
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That's my, wow. That sounds like a, yeah, that sounds familiar. Yeah. Is it really every 30 minutes?
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Yes. There's some for 72 hours. Yes. Wow. I wonder where they got that plan. Yeah. I would,
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I'd like to know as well. Oh my gosh. There's some question as to Haiti trying to block some of the
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flights, which is really, yeah. Well, we don't want them back. Like, yeah. Okay. We're kind of,
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I don't know if anyone's been following the news. We've had some of our issues of our own recently
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and don't necessarily need an additional 15,000 people who have not been checked or we don't know
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the health status or whatever else is going on. We're currently blocking our prime minister from
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leaving the country. Cause we think he might've killed the last one. Uh, so that's not a problem.
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Is it? No, maybe not our best time for new visitors. You know, I don't think these people
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are, do you think that they fly to Mexico or these people that have already fled their country and were
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living? Yeah. They believe it's a mix. They, they believe, you know, they're like, Oh, well,
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many of them may be Haitians, uh, that had previously settled in Venezuela. I'm like, Oh,
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great. Well, that makes it way better. Much better. Yeah. They got a little Venezuelan
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influence before heading to our border. And now they're living under a bridge in Texas.
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A beautiful bridge. A beautiful bridge. Oh, you don't know property at that underneath
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that bridge. It's worth dollars. Oh my gosh. It's almost worth dollars. It's hard. It's hard
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to get property there, especially, especially this time of year. Yeah. Very hard to get property
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there. And they said, they did say that many of them were leaving and crossing the
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Rio Grande back into Mexico. Oh, sure. Sure. Sure. Oh yeah. Going back and forth. And
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then they would just come back across. And it's like, yeah, I don't, maybe, maybe if
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they leave, we don't let them cross again. Yeah. I mean, we know where they are. Well,
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I've seen it. Maybe just an idea. Maybe when they leave, it's like a concert, no re-entry.
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You gotta have a stamp to get back in on your hand. Did you see the video with the Haitians
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running up? Wait, wait, before we get to that, may I just ask, do you think that there were
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any Haitians that may have been living in like Panama that once they said they were going
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back to Haiti, everybody on the plane, they were like, no, no, no, no. We're going back
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to Panama. Go back to Panama. I mean, there had to be a lot that were like, I don't want to
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go to Haiti. No, no, no. You don't know what Haiti's like. I lived there for a while.
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We don't want to go back. No. There's so many of them running up. There's, there's a video
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of a bunch of Haitians crossing the Rio Grande and border patrol agents on horseback trying
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to stop them. And there's just so many of them that compared to the border agents that
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there's, they just overwhelm the system and there's no way you can stop. Wow. Overwhelm.
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That's the other plan that I've heard before. Where did I hear overwhelm the system?
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Doesn't sound familiar. That's weird. And I have to, I have to thank the great governor
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of our state for putting every state. I, I, I was driving just to the grocery store at
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170 miles an hour because there ain't a cop anywhere to be found on the highways of Texas
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because they're all down on the border. I don't know if you saw those. Oh yeah.
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Pictures aligned, but they, it was the state that protected our nation, not the U S government
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because they won't do it. They won't do it. And so it was the state. Yes. You're welcome.
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America. Our tax dollars went to protect all of America, not just our state. It's insane
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what's going on. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Real quick thing. I want to talk to you a little bit about what we announced, um, through the
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Nazarene fund and mercury one. We are thrilled to say that, uh, the, the FIFA athletes that,
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um, have been talked about in the news. Uh, and these are, these are some of them young, uh,
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girls, real young teenage girls. Uh, they have been marked for, um, brides and we have been worried
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about them for a very, very long time. Uh, we had them in safe houses for the last, I think two or
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three weeks and, um, getting all of them to move and their families to move at once and not be a
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crowd. We can no longer move buses to the airport. We can't do certain things now, um, that alert
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people. So we had to get them, you know, from their safe house, moving them at the right time,
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getting past the Taliban checkpoints, enabling them to get onto the flights and out of the country.
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We want to thank a delivery fund, which was responsible for communicating with the girls
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and finalizing all their paperwork because they eventually ended up in Portugal. Um, I think
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either last night or early this morning. Um, but because of you, because of you, uh, we were able
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to have the on the ground force through the Nazarene fund to ensure all of the pieces were in place
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and made it happen. The two people that were critical in this were you and believe it or not,
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the prime minister of, uh, Pakistan. Yeah. I, I wrote him a letter not expecting to get,
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uh, any kind of, it really any kind of response. I mean, who's going to respond to,
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to my letter? Um, but, uh, they did. And I was truly, um, humbled by his response. I'm going to
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give you his response here in, in just a second. And, and more than his response, what he did,
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um, to make that something that is much more, much, much more than, uh, than words. Uh, he was
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truly, truly a remarkable, uh, partner on this who had the humanitarian side, um, the whole time.
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Um, let me, let me read his response to my letter. I'm going to post it here in just a second. Um,
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but I got back, this is on September 9th. We were pretty desperate and no one would help us. No one
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would help us. Um, Uzbekistan, they tried to help us. And then the Washington ambassador,
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the U S ambassador from Washington to Uzbekistan blocked all of our flights. They were absolutely
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incredible up until the U S ambassador got involved. And we had to get Georgia involved.
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We had to get, uh, the Ukrainians, which I'm very popular. I hear in Ukraine, if the Ukrainians,
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uh, involved and then Portugal, but it was the prime minister of Pakistan. And I just want to read
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to you what part of what he wrote to me. He said, Glenn, I'm writing, uh, to thank you for your
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extremely moving letter dated six September, 2021. Your views represent the best of our faiths,
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both in terms of highlighting the humanity and compassion represented by them. As you are aware,
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the Holy Quran specifically references. If anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole
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of, uh, uh, the whole of humanity. Pakistan wishes the world to see the compassion of the Muslims
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and non-Muslims that constitute the fabric of our beloved nation, irrespective of philosophical or
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political divisions. Our roles as leaders should always be to ensure that our actions benefit all
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people that rely on them on us to keep them safe. I will confirm that my government will make every
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effort possible to help you in this humanitarian mission. Uh, I hope that your initiative will show
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the world how we can bridge religious and cultural divides in order to work in making world a safer
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place. So he was, you know, as they said about Ebenezer Scrooge, he was better than his word. Um,
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he worked tirelessly. And I mean, he got so sick of hearing from us. His office was like,
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okay, stop calling. Okay. Stop calling. We're like, yeah, I know, but we really needed to stop calling.
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I think he regretted doing business with, with Glenn Beck, um, because we were, we were, come on guys,
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we got to get him on the phone. Is he doing this? And yes, he was doing a lot, a lot. Um, he is
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responsible for moving those people, um, to safety. And there are more than what we're talking about and
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operations are still going on, but he is getting, um, heat internally, I believe. And he, this is all
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me just speculating. And I saw, it was really weird because, um, when we finally let the United States
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government know, uh, that this was happening, um, um, others had reached out, uh, to other people and
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they could never get anything to happen. Um, and, uh, I think they, I think they, I, I just thought I
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found the timing of the attack on Pakistan and its prime minister from CNN last week. Interesting.
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I just found the timing interesting, especially if you knew what was happening behind the scenes,
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but that's just me. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that, um, the humanitarian effort
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that the prime minister of Pakistan, uh, has done will save men, women, and children, the innocent
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victims that are suffering. Um, all of the people, uh, that are getting out, uh, with the Nazarene fund
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on this particular operation couldn't have been done. We reached out to almost every political leader
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and very few have answered the call. Very few. Uh, most countries have answered the call. And then when
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the United States said, don't work with them, they have said, we can't, we can't work with you. We don't
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want to, but, uh, prime minister, um, Imran Khan, uh, did it without hesitation. And we are really,
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really grateful, especially since we don't have the same religion. We don't agree on different things.
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He just did what was right and wanted people to know that. Um, it wanted to know, I want you to know
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who he is. I can't vouch for anything other than this. He has been exceptional at not saying,
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uh, we can't rescue this person. We can't rescue that. He just like, who's there. Let's get them
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on a plane. Let's get them out of there. That's great. And it's something that I think we would
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expect from, we're supposed to expect from, uh, everybody, right? Like whether you agree or not,
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you're supposed to, we're all supposed to respect human life. And, and we're seeing how many people
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out there do not hit that basic requirement. And it's really good to see that there are some people
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who do care because it doesn't seem, I feel it can definitely get to that point where it feels like
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nobody does. And it's, it's nice to see that, that there are those people out there.
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Well, I will tell you this. I'll work with anybody that wants to save lives.
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Yeah. Uh, I'll work with anyone we've worked with, we've worked with, um, we've worked with people
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that would never ever want my, uh, their name said by me in a positive way on this show. And without
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hesitation, we work because every life is valuable. This is the way he worked. Um, and, um, he has
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gotten the, he has gotten the people in Afghanistan that have the power to allow us to do these first
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two flights, um, and more hopefully coming. I'm looking forward to his continued cooperation to
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make sure that we continue our common goal. Um, but, uh, thank you. Thank you very much sincerely
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to prime minister Khan, uh, and the people of Pakistan for making this happen.
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Such an interesting thing. I mean, I, I don't know if people can hear it in your voice, but it's,
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it's so hard because there's so many things that you're not able to speak about, uh, in real time.
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Um, that, you know, you know who I thought of this weekend when I went to the white house
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and I said, Mr. President, George W. Bush, he was not stuttering. He wasn't confusing words. He
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wasn't doing anything. And I said, where is this guy? No offense, Mr. President, but this is the guy
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that America needs to hear from. And he got a little testy with me and he said, uh, you have
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no idea what it's like to be the president. You can't, I can't, I have a hundred different things
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I'm processing and a hundred different relationships and I can't say this and I can't say that.
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And I realized that job is so difficult if you care to do it right. And you're in the middle of
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complex negotiations and everything else. You have to be very careful with your words.
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And, uh, uh, yesterday, my gosh, just to tweet something was literally like an hour and a half
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of just everybody freaking out and screaming. And it was like, you can't say that. I'm like,
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okay, all right, stop, stop, stop. Oh, it must be impossible. It's impossible.
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I was reading that Josh Rogan book, uh, chaos under heaven. And they have the story of
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president Trump comes into office and people are calling them. Congratulations. You've won the
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presidency. Another call comes in, picks it up. Hey, thanks. Thanks so much. Uh, it was the head
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of Taiwan. Now, apparently that's, you know, I mean, we know the relationship between China and
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Taiwan, but specifically a president taking a call from the Taiwanese leadership is such a big deal to
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China. Now, I don't know. You like, you're new in the office. Someone calls a world leader,
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like, you know, an average person's just going to take that call. Now, this is something,
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obviously some of his aides should have got before it actually happened. But the point is though,
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that's just a basic one, right? Like think of how many, when you're in the middle of a negotiation,
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when you're in the middle of, of, of all these internal discussions that people aren't privy to,
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especially if the state department isn't with the president. See, that's the problem. The problem
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is the state department is just doing their own thing. I have a story about the state department
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that I'll be sharing soon. Um, you have a lot of those that shows that they are their own entity.
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They don't care. They do not care what anyone says they will do what they want to do. And it's
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completely out of control, completely out of control. And, uh, when you imagine being the
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president of the United States and having a general that, uh, yeah, I got a friend and I just called
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him. Don't worry. We got, we got this. We'll let you know. Okay. So you have a general sabotaging
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the president there. So now the Chinese don't know, do I listen to this guy? Do I not listen to this guy?
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Does this have power? Does he not have power? And I just went through that in a very, very,
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very small way. What, who is, who's really running the show? What's really happening? Yada,
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yada, yada. Um, I'm not the president. And, uh, so really it doesn't matter what this clown says.
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Um, but what's really incredible to me is that if you have the, if you have the military
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that is having side conversations and the, the state department also having side, uh, conversations
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and they disagree with the president, how does the president do anything? I mean, it's,
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it's such a clash and both of those guys can destroy the president as we have seen.
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It's, it, it's not what America, this is not the system that we think it is. This is,
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this is a very different system because we have allowed these agencies to grow out of control.
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I mean, I would like to say the house and the Senate, you know, are a shadow of themselves,
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but that is an insult to all shadows. Uh, sorry, I apologize to all shadows for saying that
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because the shadows are like, come on, man, we're not that worthless. They are, these guys are that
00:28:11.060
worthless. It's a rubber stamp and, uh, and it's got to change. It's got to change, but I just want
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to say one thing on this. Everyone said that you couldn't do it. Everyone for the last three weeks
00:28:26.840
have been saying, we can't help. We can't get them out. We can't get Americans out. As you will see
00:28:34.120
in the coming days, all of that is a lie. And if we would have believed them, these people, and in
00:28:41.200
particular today, uh, these, uh, 30, is it 32 female athletes, they'd be probably being raped.
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If they lost their hiding place, if it wasn't for you, they wouldn't have had a hiding place.
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Um, they'd be raped over and over and over again, several times a day.
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It is truly because of you, because you didn't listen to a government saying, no, you can't.
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And it brings me great joy to say that that is a lie because the truth is, yes, we can.
00:29:21.920
This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.
00:29:35.060
So, Stu, um, may I just suggest that, uh, and I, I just think this is kind of important,
00:29:43.640
uh, to wrap your head, uh, clearly in, in duct tape and, uh, oh yeah, see the air sirens have gone on.
00:29:51.920
Yeah. The locals have heard that we are going to talk about Nancy Pelosi and actually play some audio.
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Um, and your head just might explode. So you were warned in advance. Here is Nancy Pelosi, uh, on, uh,
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In America, uh, capitalism, uh, is our system. It is our economic system, but it has not served
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our economy as well as it should stop just for a second. Still, uh, that seems like a crazy blanket
00:30:25.000
statement to me. I'd like to believe it was true. I'd like it to be true. Yeah. I'd like it to be true.
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So I, it hasn't served, uh, our country well and served all of our purposes up, you know,
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you're right on that. It hasn't done everything, but it has created some pretty sweet spots all
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around the world, not just in America. Uh, it's been responsible for the greatest human achievement,
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uh, in our, in our, in our species history. I'm not something it's done over the past. Let's say
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20 years. Yeah. That's crazy. Ripped billions of people out of poverty around the world. Uh,
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you know, it is basically changed what we used to have into modern civilization. Yeah. So other than
00:31:11.940
that, other than that, other than, other than cooking with fire and reading, if you could afford
00:31:18.480
a book by candlelight, America kind of changed the world. You know, we did a few little things here
00:31:24.940
and there, and now we don't have to cook our food over a fire unless, unless you're part of the new
00:31:32.440
immigration program from the Biden administration. You can cook anything under that bridge now. Um,
00:31:39.680
so she goes on here, here she is on a, the capitalism system. What to do is not depart from
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that, but to improve it and to make sure that it serves, uh, uh, Adam Smith wrote two books.
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Can you go back just a little bit? Cause I don't want you to miss this part. Uh, she said,
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we don't want to, uh, change capital or we don't want to destroy capitalism. We just want to change it
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for the better. Have you heard any of the, uh, serious, I mean, as a people, have we had that
00:32:11.140
serious discussion? Have we, I mean, I've heard a lot of, you know, slogans, you know, Hey, tax the
00:32:17.580
rich, blah, blah, blah. But have we had the slogan of, Hey, we're going to lift the engine up on this
00:32:23.140
economic, uh, lift, lift the hood up on this economic engine. And we're just going to change
00:32:28.160
some things, you know, tune it. Okay. But we're going to change some things. I don't know if it
00:32:36.640
was my car. I'd say, wait, wait, hang on. Just saying what, what, what exactly are you going to
00:32:41.340
change? We're taking out these crazy spark plugs. We don't even know what they do, you know, sticking
00:32:47.920
up there and having to change them and stuff. We got to get rid of them. Okay. Do you have another
00:32:52.900
replacement for them? Cause if you do, I'm, I'm all in, I'm all in, but I'd like to see what you
00:32:57.940
want to change. We're going to get rid of this, uh, gasoline in this engine. Okay. What are you
00:33:06.220
going to replace it with? Well, batteries are dirty too. Now, you know, everybody was touting
00:33:10.260
that battery, but you know how much, you know how much it takes to make a battery. So we're not
00:33:14.640
using batteries. What are you going to use stuff? That's the way they talk to us stuff. We're just
00:33:25.100
going to get rid of all the police and replace it with something else. What more do you want?
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I don't know. Maybe actual facts, but getting actual facts from them. Um, it's never quite
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clear because they're morons when it comes to the economy. You can say safely, and I'm going
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to give you the evidence. Nancy Pelosi is a complete and utter moron. Here's why. Listen.
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Uh, uh, Adam Smith wrote two books. He wrote wealth of nations, and then he wrote another book about
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principles and the rest about how he wrote wealth of nations. And then he wrote a book about
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principles and all that. I, I mean, don't get me wrong. I think that was an eloquent way of,
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of describing what he did. Um, uh, yeah, I should point out that actually he wrote that
00:34:24.500
principles and stuff book before wealth of nations, but only 17 years before Glenn.
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Yeah. Um, but it was just the foundation of wealth of nations. So it probably shouldn't be dismissed as,
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you know, on principles and stuff because it's those principles and stuff that, uh, make the wealth
00:34:46.740
of nations, but she already knows that. And we point out that the reason why she frames it that
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way, at least in my view would be that she's trying to act as if he corrected himself. You know, he gave
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you this vision for capitalism. And then he said, you know what, by the way, though, don't just do
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this. You have to have principles too. That may have been the way she was told, uh, by us. I don't
00:35:10.620
think she has a clue on who Adam Smith really was. I'm giving her too much credit. You're giving her
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way too much credit. But that's why the story works for her, right? If there was a guy who wrote a book
00:35:19.780
about capitalism that we all praised and then later on said, by the way, I was mistaken. I didn't point
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out that you're supposed to be nice to each other and give away and have the government take all your
00:35:28.080
money. Right. Or whatever she believes is in the second book there. Um, you know, then you'd
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understand, right? Sure. That perhaps, uh, that makes sense. This is, he set up, Hey, you have to
00:35:40.180
be the theory of moral sentiments. Yeah. It happens long before he sets that, that framework for what
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later becomes what we understand as capitalism. He says, you cannot be an amoral people because the
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invisible market of the hand, which he describes later in wealth of nations, that invisible hand
00:35:59.200
will reach up and choke you to death. If that's what the market is asking for, if it's asking for
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bad things, it will produce bad things, but it's not the invisible hand jamming those things down your
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throat. It's you asking for them because you are the market. So if you are moral, it will ask,
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it will, it will demand moral things to be produced. But if you don't have a society that
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has moral sentiments, it's going to be a really bad ride because it will be used against you and
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it will come and choke you to death. We've been saying that for a long time. We all know that
00:36:40.180
it takes a moral people to have this much freedom. They've been saying, get out of here with all your
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morality. You don't know what you're saying. Really? So let's listen to the expert Nancy Pelosi on
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that, uh, principles and stuff. In an economy, in a society, you had to meet the needs of people.
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He wasn't doing it really from compassion, but from practicality. Stop. That is absolutely not true.
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Not true. If you know anything about moral sentiments and the wealth of nations, it is the greatest
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charitable arm ever. Because if it is done with moral sentiments, people are thinking, how can I improve
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the life of others? How can I make their life better? It's only when you have an amoral or immoral
00:37:39.040
society that they think, how can I make this iPhone addict children to it? That's not a moral idea, but a moral
00:37:50.760
society would say, how can we use this to help free people? Help them not to be enslaved, especially to a
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giant corporation who is, through their algorithms, shaping, changing, and enslaving based on what we want
00:38:14.620
It's not, he never wrote about, this is, you know what this is? Just make money.
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That's not Adam Smith. That's not Adam Smith. That might be Nancy Pelosi. It might be the people in
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Silicon Valley. It might be the people today at Coca-Cola, but it's not Adam Smith.
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I know, there's so much of it to be had in her freezer. Listen more.
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Uh, so you cannot have a system where we, the, the success of some is springs from the exploitation
00:38:50.680
of the workers. That's top. And that's Karl Marx. That's Karl Marx. That's not Adam Smith. Moral
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sentiments is not about some, uh, uh, some, uh, you know, buddy at the top exploiting their workers.
00:39:07.480
Uh, what was the words that she was just using? It comes right from Adam or it comes right from
00:39:12.560
Karl Marx. That's not what this is about. This is about can companies, can people, can the market,
00:39:21.160
can inventors, can business people have the moral sentiments to be able to help people and not make
00:39:31.280
it just about money. She's now turning this into see these giant corporations.
00:39:37.480
are just exploiting the people at the bottom. So we have to take money from them. That's where
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she's going. So we have to take money from them to make it better. That just makes you part of the
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system that is completely corrupt. All you're then going to do is take bribes from people to say,
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oh, we're going to leave that company alone, but this company get them. You're just getting money.
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That's all that is. You're just getting money. You're not giving it to the people. You're giving
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40 cents on every dollar back to the people, please. And her criticism of this system is so
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terrible. It's just awful. When you think about what has really occurred in the world, when Nancy
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Pelosi turned 90 and that was, I think in 1970, uh, 56, 56, I have it here. 50. So she turned 104
00:40:30.060
years old in 1970. Yes. About 27% of the world lived in extreme poverty. 27, 27%. Write this down.
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I'm remember I use common core. I have 27 units of something. Yes. That dropped, uh, into by 2006,
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it had fallen by 80%. So we're down to about 5%. We're now below that, by the way, the biggest
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drop, if you want to look at an era, by the way, would be the Reagan era. But I mean, let's not even
00:40:56.160
point that out at all. An 80% decline in the world's worst poverty since, you know, many in this audience
00:41:02.320
were children, right? Like that's in our lifetimes since 1990, since 1990, we have removed 17,000,
00:41:13.860
258 child deaths per day out of the world. Just since 1990. Remember, this is Bill Clinton
00:41:24.320
is president. No, I'm not talking about that. No, we're killing them before they can live
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and starve to death. I'm talking about just making it to five years old, right? Born and
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your lifespan less than five years old. We're eliminating thousands of deaths every day around
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the world because of preventing disease, because of, um, uh, starvation, because of all these
00:41:45.020
things. Exploitation. No. Um, and we've now removed poverty out of, by, you know, 80% in,
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in, uh, that rough timeframe that we're talking about. And when you ask people in the United
00:41:58.700
States, what has happened in their lifetime with poverty, 70% of them say it's gotten worse.
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We have eliminated over 80% of extreme poverty in our lifetimes and 70% of the American people
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think it's gotten worse. That is because of people like Nancy Pelosi.
00:42:19.180
What? Yes. That is who tell you all the time that things are getting worse. That is people
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like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. Uh, I might as well throw in ISIS, uh, all of those
00:42:33.600
bad people trying to do an insurrection just this last Saturday. Were you blind man? Yeah,
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no, I, I saw the four people standing out there on the Hill with the 812 reporters surrounding
00:42:45.920
them. This whole thing needs to be changed, but not changed because we love it. We love
00:42:50.940
it. That's who we are. We're just going to change it. We just have to remember that book
00:42:55.660
that Adam Smith wrote after he wrote the wealth of nations, right? Which is get that.
00:42:59.820
This doesn't really work at all. Um, unless you could get a big government to control everything
00:43:05.940
and take money, you know, through extortion or through taxes, which might be the same thing.
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That book that he wrote, that was a couple of years after the principal book. Yeah. That
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principal book. Yeah. Yeah. More in just a second.