The Glenn Beck Program - February 27, 2026


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fraud investigation
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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Ann Bauer, an essayist, writer, and friend of the show, to discuss the importance of standing up to Big Tech and Big Government. Glenn also talks about Bitcoin and the future of the future, and why he thinks Bitcoin is a good investment.

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00:03:41.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:03:48.000 And welcome to the program.
00:03:49.000 How are you?
00:03:51.000 I am well, and I loved your dramatic reading of my tweet.
00:03:54.000 I think we should just do that all the time.
00:03:59.000 Uh, and I, I just loved your tweet, by the way, and is an essayist and she is, uh, the co-founder of story lies.
00:04:07.000 Um, so tell us what happened next after that.
00:04:12.000 So I, I assumed that I had mouthed off and, um, would not hear back from this woman whom I've known for 25 years.
00:04:22.000 That's happened a lot with people in Minneapolis, but after, Oh, about 25 minutes, I got a text from her.
00:04:32.000 And she said, Oh, sorry.
00:04:35.000 I didn't think of that.
00:04:37.000 Perhaps I should have.
00:04:39.000 I didn't mean to offend.
00:04:41.000 I was only sharing photos of the items at the, at the places of Memorial.
00:04:46.000 Yes, you are correct.
00:04:48.000 It is not a fair comparison.
00:04:50.000 And I just was.
00:04:52.000 God smacked.
00:04:53.000 I was like, you know, what a gracious response.
00:04:56.000 So then the bubbles on your side went off.
00:05:01.000 And what did you write?
00:05:03.000 I said, thank you.
00:05:06.000 Um, I have had many people I had had, I'd been deluged by that Anne Frank quote that everyone was sending about, you know, they came to round us up from people in Minneapolis during the ice rates.
00:05:21.000 And I had just hit my limit.
00:05:26.000 And so I said to this woman, uh, Tim Waltz was censured by the Holocaust museum for his constant comparisons to mass genocide, which was something I'd been so happy to see, you know, this governor who I, who I have been loathing, frankly, and terrified of for years. 0.99
00:05:48.000 Um, and at one point, Oh, he's, he's terrifying because he is both evil and dumb. 0.96
00:06:00.000 And I, I went all around the country saying this before the election of 2020, 2024. 0.99
00:06:08.000 2024.
00:06:09.000 I was like, Oh, people, you do not want this man, a heartbeat away from the presidency.
00:06:15.000 But when I said this to her about Tim Waltz is being really harshly, I thought criticized by the Holocaust museum, accurately, harshly criticized. 0.90
00:06:29.000 She said, Oh, my, I was not aware.
00:06:33.000 And of course, the reason she wasn't aware is because Minneapolis media is a blackout when it comes to any news that does not reflect wonderfully upon the governor.
00:06:46.880 And so this very smart lady who I've known for all these years, who really does care and is deeply religious in her own way and would never say something that she thought was offensive, had no idea, no idea, thought that this was just a marvelous comparison to make.
00:07:09.180 And so then what happened?
00:07:12.180 So I asked her what news sources she read.
00:07:17.180 And she of course said the star tribune, the star tribune was her, you know, compass.
00:07:23.180 Yeah.
00:07:24.180 Right.
00:07:25.180 And the star tribune is run by a publisher named Steve Grove, who served as commissioner of employment and economic development under Tim Waltz.
00:07:36.180 Who is like an arm of the state administration.
00:07:42.180 And it is shocking how the news in the star tribune specifically elsewhere to some degree is shaped in order to protect this man, which is how you all ended up saying in whatever fall 2024.
00:08:05.180 2024.
00:08:06.180 My God, how can all these things just be coming out about the lies that he's told and the, and the service that he didn't perform that he said he did.
00:08:15.180 And the trips to China that happened at really hinky times.
00:08:20.180 Um, how is that not reported?
00:08:23.180 Well, it wasn't reported because Minneapolis has only ever covered him as if he's, you know, the little prince who ascended and rules bountifully over the land.
00:08:34.180 And you said to her at this, at this point, you know, um, what was it?
00:08:41.180 Uh, I believe Tim Walz ginned up this dangerous violence situations and he did it to run cover for fraud investigations.
00:08:48.180 I think that's absolutely accurate.
00:08:50.180 Absolutely accurate.
00:08:51.180 Absolutely accurate.
00:08:52.180 Right.
00:08:53.180 And she replied.
00:08:55.180 What fraud investigations.
00:08:57.180 Oh my gosh.
00:08:59.180 Oh my gosh.
00:09:00.180 This is my favorite line from you.
00:09:02.180 After you said that, after you wrote, you know, what fraud, you just wrote.
00:09:06.180 Oh, sweet Jesus.
00:09:08.180 That is exactly.
00:09:11.180 I mean, that is the nicest way of saying good God almighty.
00:09:16.180 Help us.
00:09:17.180 Oh, sweet Jesus.
00:09:18.180 Oh, so do you even encapsulate in, you know, a text message?
00:09:25.180 I happen to be sitting at, um, Bradley airport waiting for a flight.
00:09:30.180 So I was like, how do I say, Oh, well, the five to six years of rampant ongoing state sponsored fraud that has been sucking billions of dollars, both state and federal into Minnesota NGOs, and then funneling it back to the DFL, that fraud, that's what I wanted to say.
00:09:56.180 Well, um, she said, can you send me some articles?
00:10:01.180 Well, here's the problem.
00:10:03.180 Can I send her some articles?
00:10:04.180 Sure.
00:10:05.180 I had to be very choosy.
00:10:08.180 Yeah.
00:10:09.180 Will they be articles from sources?
00:10:10.180 She will find credible.
00:10:12.180 Exactly.
00:10:15.180 Could I find articles in the star tribune?
00:10:17.180 Here's what I could find an individual.
00:10:21.180 Oh, such and such a defendant was sentenced.
00:10:25.180 On this fraud.
00:10:26.180 That is completely freakish.
00:10:28.180 And we have no idea how it happened.
00:10:30.180 But luckily we sent the bad guy to jail.
00:10:34.180 That kind of article I could find in the star tribune.
00:10:37.180 They had done, you know, little smatterings of, Oh, bad Somali criminal.
00:10:43.180 Basically.
00:10:44.180 Yeah.
00:10:45.180 Yeah.
00:10:46.180 Take these people away.
00:10:47.180 Don't worry.
00:10:48.180 It's all good.
00:10:49.180 And Tim Waltz is heading up fraud prevention.
00:10:55.180 What I did was I found, uh, one or two pieces that made some links.
00:11:02.180 You know, how could the Waltz administration be ignorant of this was the way that it came out in, for instance, national public radio and the New York times.
00:11:15.180 And I did send those, I knew she wouldn't read anything with a paywall because, you know, she has her own life, her own media choices.
00:11:26.180 I knew she wouldn't read anything from a right leaning source.
00:11:29.180 So everything from Fox or, you know, daily wire, things like that was out.
00:11:35.180 Um, and so I sent her, you know, these two articles and about an hour later, I got a text that said, Oh my God, do we ever get the money back?
00:11:49.180 And what in the world do you say?
00:11:56.180 I, I, I really, I, I was like, Oh dear lady.
00:12:00.180 No, in fact, you don't get the money back.
00:12:05.180 No, it is electing your attorney general again, no longer my attorney general.
00:12:13.180 Thank God, because I left.
00:12:15.180 Well, where did you move?
00:12:18.180 Did you move to Connecticut?
00:12:19.180 I heard you say Bradley airport.
00:12:20.180 You didn't move to Connecticut.
00:12:21.180 Oh no.
00:12:22.180 I was out in Connecticut doing a speech.
00:12:25.180 No, no.
00:12:26.180 Because that would have been like the junior version.
00:12:30.180 Right.
00:12:31.180 Okay.
00:12:32.180 No, I'm a very proud resident of Thomas Massey's district in Kentucky.
00:12:40.180 No.
00:12:41.180 Okay.
00:12:42.180 Good, good, good, good.
00:12:43.180 Uh, and, um, you know, I read this and I thought you handled this so well.
00:12:50.180 Um, I wonder if you got the first response of, I'm sorry.
00:12:56.180 We got, I don't even know.
00:12:57.180 Are you Jewish?
00:13:00.180 Yeah.
00:13:01.180 I mean, in the way that one is.
00:13:03.180 Okay.
00:13:04.180 I'm wondering if you got, I wonder if you got the, right.
00:13:06.180 But I wonder if you got the first benefit of the doubt because she knew I better be careful
00:13:12.180 on this one.
00:13:14.180 Um, or if she would have reacted that to somebody who wasn't, didn't have any Jewish background
00:13:18.180 at all.
00:13:19.180 I do.
00:13:20.180 I think she would have, I think just a genuinely nice lady. 0.97
00:13:25.180 Um, so how do we, how do we, how do we spread that?
00:13:33.180 How, how do you know?
00:13:35.180 I mean, I talked to so many people who are like, I can't talk to anybody.
00:13:38.180 I say anything and it's just, it's like talking to a wall.
00:13:42.180 How do we spread this?
00:13:43.180 How do we change what we do to be able to find those people like her that are genuinely
00:13:48.180 good people that are just lost?
00:13:50.180 Would you learn?
00:13:52.180 I'm so sorry.
00:13:53.180 I don't know.
00:13:54.180 I don't know if I have an answer.
00:13:56.180 Uh, she is the outlier. 0.99
00:13:58.180 I have lost almost every contact I have in Minneapolis, St. Paul.
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00:14:12.180 They've just announced the election is on Gavin, Gavin Newsom.
00:14:21.180 He just did an interview where he said, you know, who scares me more than Donald Trump?
00:14:26.180 No Satan.
00:14:28.180 Well, no, you probably aren't scared, but I don't know who scares you more than Donald Trump.
00:14:32.180 You've been, you've spent what seems a lifetime now saying he's the scariest thing out there. 0.84
00:14:38.180 And I told you because remember Ronald Reagan was a Nazi. 0.94
00:14:44.180 Uh, George H W. Bush was a Nazi. 0.99
00:14:47.180 George W. Bush was a Nazi. 0.99
00:14:49.180 Uh, of all people, Mitt Romney was a Nazi. 1.00
00:14:54.180 Oh, and a car and a dog torturer. 0.94
00:14:57.180 He would just strap animals, uh, to the top of, of, uh, station wagons.
00:15:02.180 Uh, and then Donald Trump, he was, he was the, he was Hitler's Hitler. 0.55
00:15:06.180 Okay.
00:15:07.180 He was, he was the guy that Hitler was afraid he might become someday. 0.80
00:15:12.180 Now that we're cut, we're coming towards the next presidential election.
00:15:17.180 We have to have somebody worse than Donald Trump.
00:15:19.180 And he's said it.
00:15:21.180 So Gavin Newsom.
00:15:22.180 And I, I just, this is one of my favorite quotes.
00:15:26.180 There are some people waiting in the wings in the MAGA world who would love to be the chosen ones of the Trump orbit orbit.
00:15:33.180 J D Vance is one of them.
00:15:35.180 Marco Rubio is one of them.
00:15:37.180 You know, for whatever reason, Vance scares me.
00:15:42.180 Why?
00:15:43.180 Well, he scares me almost more than Trump.
00:15:48.180 I don't know.
00:15:50.180 I mean, talk about a guy who put a mask on and his face grew into it.
00:15:57.180 This is Gavin Newsom talking about how J D Vance is wearing a mask.
00:16:04.180 And when I, when I hear Gavin news, when I read that today, honestly, this is how it sounded in my head.
00:16:11.180 Coming from Gavin Newsom, it sounded like this.
00:16:14.180 I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, he scares me more than Trump.
00:16:18.180 I mean, I don't know.
00:16:19.180 I mean, talk about a guy who put a mask on and his face just grew into it.
00:16:24.180 He wears a mask.
00:16:27.180 The guy who just said, you know what?
00:16:30.180 Let me tell you.
00:16:31.180 I'm just like you.
00:16:32.180 I'm just like you. 0.99
00:16:33.180 Oh, you black people in this room. 1.00
00:16:35.180 I'm, I'm just dumb as a box of rocks. 1.00
00:16:39.180 It's just like, I can't read just like you. 0.99
00:16:42.180 Oh my God.
00:16:44.180 Oh my gosh.
00:16:45.180 Okay.
00:16:46.180 Gavin.
00:16:47.180 All right.
00:16:48.180 Thank you.
00:16:49.180 I mean, they're going to run out of people.
00:16:50.180 I mean, it's at some point. 1.00
00:16:52.180 Well, maybe not, maybe not because I apparently everybody's as dumb as Gavin Newsom. 0.96
00:16:58.180 I mean, at some point, do people stop buying? 0.99
00:17:02.180 Wait a minute.
00:17:03.180 You just said that guy was Hitler.
00:17:04.180 And if that guy's Hitler, how, where do you go scarier than Hitler? 0.87
00:17:09.180 I mean, at least be creative. 0.96
00:17:11.180 Just say, you know, like the German cannibal. 0.85
00:17:13.180 I think he, JD Vance is like that German cannibal that was eating people. 1.00
00:17:17.180 At least give me somebody new. 0.85
00:17:19.180 My gosh.
00:17:21.180 Okay.
00:17:22.180 All right.
00:17:23.180 And I don't want to be hyperbolic about any of this.
00:17:27.180 I just think that he's Hitler. 0.98
00:17:29.180 Okay.
00:17:30.180 Well, thank you for keeping the hyperbole out of it.
00:17:32.180 No, no, no.
00:17:33.180 I appreciate that.
00:17:35.180 By the way, Jason, can I bring you in here for a second?
00:17:39.180 Yes, sir.
00:17:40.180 Trump said about 10 days ago that, uh, Iran would have about 10 or 15 days before we would
00:17:47.180 we would have action that would come up this weekend.
00:17:51.180 Do we have any, you know, uh, I don't know, America two 50 freedom, two 50 events planned
00:17:58.180 over the skies of Duran this weekend.
00:18:00.180 Any firework shows happening in Iran this weekend?
00:18:03.180 Well, that's the big question.
00:18:04.180 So the USS Ford is now in striking range.
00:18:07.180 It's off the coast of Israel right now.
00:18:09.180 So all the assets are in place.
00:18:11.180 We are getting a lot of signs that we could be seeing some fireworks displays.
00:18:16.180 Um, you always look at some of the embassies that are around there and see what happens.
00:18:19.180 The, the embassy in Lebanon, uh, the U S said that a non-emergency personnel should
00:18:24.180 get out of there.
00:18:25.180 Um, China is now evacuating their people out of Iran.
00:18:29.180 Canadians are just announced.
00:18:31.180 They're having their people leave Iran.
00:18:34.180 Um, the U S state department just said for non-emergency personnel to leave Israel, to leave
00:18:41.180 Israel.
00:18:42.180 That's another big sign.
00:18:43.180 So yeah, I, it's not.
00:18:45.180 It's not trending well for the Iranian regime right now.
00:18:49.180 Let's just put it that way.
00:18:51.180 So J.D.
00:18:52.180 Vance came out and said, we're not going to get into a long protracted war in, uh, in
00:18:57.180 Iran.
00:18:58.180 I mean, I don't know if you can say that.
00:19:00.180 Can you, I mean, it would be our intention.
00:19:02.180 It is not our intention to get into a long and try, uh, you know, intracted, uh, protracted.
00:19:09.180 Protracted.
00:19:10.180 Yes.
00:19:11.180 Thank you.
00:19:12.180 I was trying to like, what is that word again?
00:19:13.180 Protracted war.
00:19:14.180 We don't want to get into that.
00:19:15.180 That's not our intention. 0.99
00:19:16.180 But I mean, you know, once you open a can of whoop ass, it's hard to get the ass back 0.99
00:19:21.180 into the whoop and put the can back together. 0.99
00:19:23.180 You know what I mean?
00:19:25.180 You don't know how that's going to go.
00:19:27.180 It's not our intention.
00:19:28.180 We hope that that doesn't happen, but it could.
00:19:32.180 I mean, that's like saying, you know, FDR going and saying, look, we're not going to
00:19:37.180 get into a lot. 0.99
00:19:38.180 We're just going to go over and kick Hitler's ass and then come back and then we'll just 1.00
00:19:41.180 elect a bunch of Republican presidents or just like Hitler. 1.00
00:19:44.180 Uh, you know, you just don't know how it's going to go.
00:19:47.180 And it, it, it concerns me because you know, Iran is not. 0.99
00:19:54.180 Iran is not, they're not good. 1.00
00:19:57.180 They're not, they're not, it's not a good regime, you know, and they, they got a lot
00:20:01.180 of assets all around the world.
00:20:03.180 I think, including here in America.
00:20:06.180 Yeah.
00:20:07.180 Well, and that's probably one of the biggest things that we should worry about is asymmetrically
00:20:11.180 what, what the Iranian regime is going to do, because that, that will be their main, 0.95
00:20:15.180 I guess, a point of attack on us to see if they can pull that off.
00:20:18.180 So that's whatever sleeper cells they have in both South America and within our own country.
00:20:22.180 But not only that, but cells within, uh, are close to military bases all over the, uh,
00:20:28.180 the Middle East.
00:20:29.180 You also got to look at the big one shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, which has always
00:20:33.180 been their major trump card.
00:20:35.180 And they've already signaled that they plan on doing that while talks were going on in
00:20:39.180 Iman a couple of weeks ago or a week ago.
00:20:41.180 This is going by so fast.
00:20:42.180 They actually did military drills where they shut down briefly the Strait of Hormuz,
00:20:47.180 huge signal attack, uh, you know, signal of what they plan on doing.
00:20:51.180 But when you talk about a long protracted war, I would like to know the definition of
00:20:55.180 long in today's modern warfare, because I mean, I is, is two weeks long is three weeks
00:21:02.180 long.
00:21:03.180 That's probably what I'm looking at.
00:21:04.180 It's going to take them a while to get air superiority, I think.
00:21:07.180 But I don't even know the capability after Venezuela.
00:21:10.180 I don't even know what our capabilities are as of now, but we expect the big guns to come
00:21:15.180 out like cyber warfare, all of that.
00:21:17.180 It's, it's going to be interesting.
00:21:19.180 Donald Trump.
00:21:20.180 The one thing is, I mean, the one reason why I think J.D.
00:21:23.180 Vance could possibly get away with saying that is because he knows possibly what we
00:21:28.180 don't know.
00:21:29.180 He knows what we used in Venezuela.
00:21:31.180 I mean, you know, I, I would be shocked after Venezuela.
00:21:35.180 I would be shocked if they can have, if we can't have air superiority.
00:21:40.180 Minute one, the minute we cross the airspace, if, if the, any of their planes can actually
00:21:45.180 get up off of the ground would, would shock me just based on what we did in Venezuela.
00:21:49.180 I don't know what happened in Venezuela.
00:21:51.180 And I think that's the point.
00:21:53.180 Nobody knows really what happened in Venezuela.
00:21:56.180 It was just like, huh, that's interesting.
00:21:59.180 Never seen a country be able to do that before, which let's just savor that for a moment.
00:22:07.180 Let's just savor that for a moment.
00:22:08.180 We went from a country that was like, what, what?
00:22:13.180 I mean, our withdrawal from Afghanistan was perfectly reasonable. 1.00
00:22:18.180 I mean, that was a well executed plan.
00:22:21.180 People fallen from the sky out of airplanes.
00:22:23.180 Okay.
00:22:24.180 We went from that four years ago to what the hell just happened in Venezuela.
00:22:29.180 And no one knows.
00:22:30.180 And China and Russia and everybody's like, what the hell is going on?
00:22:33.180 I mean, doesn't that feel good?
00:22:38.180 That's what keeps enemies at bay.
00:22:39.180 Just saying.
00:22:42.180 Um, by the way, we're going to take your phone calls here in a second.
00:22:44.180 888-727-BECK.
00:22:45.180 I just have to give you this quick story.
00:22:47.180 What was going through JD Vance's mind when the Democrats, uh, lost it at the state of the union.
00:22:54.180 Did you see this? 1.00
00:22:55.180 I had one thought in my head the whole time, which is don't make a stupid face for two hours, which is hard for me. 0.99
00:23:03.180 I love that. 1.00
00:23:06.180 Can you imagine the pressure of sitting behind the president and not making a face?
00:23:12.180 Cause I mean, you're sitting there literally for two hours.
00:23:15.180 There's gotta be times when you're like, not thinking about stuff and you're like, yeah, I gotta, I got an itch on the inside of my nose.
00:23:23.180 You know what I mean?
00:23:25.180 It's gotta be really difficult.
00:23:26.180 Gotta be really difficult, especially with that, which I mean, he did such a good job at that.
00:23:32.180 I don't remember even seeing any expressions on his face or, uh, what's his face from the speaker of the house.
00:23:39.180 I don't remember seeing an expression from either one of them, which says an awful lot.
00:23:45.180 Cause I remember seeing Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him and rolling her eyes and everything else.
00:23:50.180 There was no, I, there's no memory of what they did.
00:23:53.180 They allowed Donald Trump to do.
00:23:56.180 I mean, that was such Stephen Miller was responsible for that.
00:24:02.180 Wasn't he Ricky?
00:24:03.180 That's my theory.
00:24:04.180 That man is a political genius.
00:24:06.180 He's a genius.
00:24:07.180 I mean, that just seems like Stephen Miller.
00:24:09.180 Um, because that thing was so well executed.
00:24:12.180 He set them up.
00:24:14.180 He just set them up and they walked right into the trap.
00:24:18.180 And then he didn't have to say anything when he asked that question, you know, to stand up, stand up.
00:24:23.180 If you agree with this, he didn't, he didn't say, you know, you have to agree. 0.65
00:24:29.180 He gave them the opportunity.
00:24:32.180 Stand up on the easiest question in the world.
00:24:35.180 Stand up.
00:24:36.180 If you believe that the government of the U S serves U S citizens over illegal aliens. 0.69
00:24:42.180 Didn't stand.
00:24:44.180 And what did he do?
00:24:46.180 Do you remember?
00:24:47.180 He just stood back, smiled and gestured.
00:24:53.180 Like, look, America.
00:24:54.180 Look, he did that twice.
00:24:56.180 Smiling.
00:24:57.180 Look, it was brilliant.
00:25:00.180 Absolutely.
00:25:01.180 Brilliant.
00:25:02.180 Just brilliant.
00:25:03.180 And Janie fans had to be sitting there going, don't, don't, don't look.
00:25:07.180 Don't, don't do, don't do anything.
00:25:08.180 Don't do anything.
00:25:09.180 Let that moment sit by itself.
00:25:10.180 And it did.
00:25:12.180 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:25:14.180 And we really want to thank you for listening.
00:25:18.180 Let me explain the standing filibuster.
00:25:23.180 Let me, let me start at the beginning.
00:25:25.180 If you want to know how America and the filibuster is supposed to work.
00:25:30.180 All you need to do really is watch Mr.
00:25:32.180 Smith goes to Washington.
00:25:33.180 Okay.
00:25:34.180 Remember Jimmy Stewart.
00:25:35.180 He was standing at the table, just a glass of water, stack of papers.
00:25:38.180 And the weight of his convictions.
00:25:40.180 He, in that movie, he was a man all alone and he was willing to lose it all.
00:25:46.180 That's key.
00:25:49.180 This is the original filibuster, not a trick, not a procedural ghost, not a
00:25:54.180 backroom email.
00:25:55.180 It says, Hey, we're blocking this.
00:25:57.180 A man standing, speaking, burning daylight and paying a price.
00:26:03.180 So what does filibuster mean?
00:26:06.180 What does the word filibuster mean?
00:26:08.180 It actually comes, it's from the Dutch and it's like a
00:26:12.180 or something like that.
00:26:14.180 And it basically means pirate.
00:26:15.180 It's a free booter.
00:26:16.180 Okay.
00:26:17.180 Somebody who seizes control.
00:26:19.180 That's what filibuster means.
00:26:20.180 Someone who can seize control.
00:26:22.180 It's control early in our history in the United States Senate.
00:26:26.180 Um, that's what it meant.
00:26:28.180 There was no formal filibuster rule at all.
00:26:31.180 1806 at the urging of vice president, Aaron Burr.
00:26:35.180 The Senate removed its previous question motion.
00:26:38.180 That was the rule that allowed a simple majority just to cut off debate.
00:26:42.180 And it was considered redundant.
00:26:44.180 Why?
00:26:45.180 Because they got old timey.
00:26:46.180 This is because the Senate was so small.
00:26:49.180 They just knew gentlemen would restrain themselves.
00:26:54.180 Uh huh.
00:26:55.180 They just assumed honor.
00:26:57.180 Well, history has a way of challenging assumptions, doesn't it?
00:27:01.180 So for decades, they put the filibuster in and it was very, very rare.
00:27:05.180 It was dramatic when it happened.
00:27:07.180 It was the last stand.
00:27:08.180 It was a warning flare.
00:27:10.180 It was somebody who said, no, this is wrong.
00:27:13.180 And the people need to know it.
00:27:16.180 What is the reason we have the checks and balances?
00:27:20.180 Why do we have our Congress and our Senate and everything set up the way it is? 1.00
00:27:24.180 One of the reasons is to slow things down because people get passionate and they make stupid 0.99
00:27:32.180 Patriot act come to mind. 1.00
00:27:33.180 You make stupid moves when you are heated and in the moment. 1.00
00:27:39.180 So everything is built to slow things down. 1.00
00:27:44.180 Filibuster was one of those things. 0.98
00:27:46.180 If there was something passing a group of people or one guy could stand up, but he had
00:27:51.180 to stand and he had to speak the whole time.
00:27:56.180 1917 comes along.
00:27:58.180 Guess who was president at the time?
00:28:02.180 Woodrow Wilson.
00:28:03.180 I telling you everything crappy about this company, this country came from the Woodrow Wilson 1.00
00:28:08.180 period or his acolytes.
00:28:11.180 So they were, there were, there was a, a small group of two people, both progressives.
00:28:18.180 One was, uh, the fully at, um, what was his name?
00:28:21.180 Robert.
00:28:22.180 I think from Wisconsin, he is like a Godfather of progressivism.
00:28:26.180 Okay.
00:28:27.180 And two progressives stood up because Wilson wanted to now arm merchant Marine ships because
00:28:34.180 war was coming. 0.57
00:28:35.180 And so we were sending stuff over in the over and, and he's like, we have to have, we have
00:28:40.180 to have cannons on these ships so they can defend themselves.
00:28:43.180 Two progressives actually stood up and went, no, that's, that's a prelude to war.
00:28:48.180 We'll be at war.
00:28:49.180 You do that.
00:28:50.180 We will be at war.
00:28:51.180 And they said, no.
00:28:52.180 And so they started a filibuster.
00:28:54.180 Well, that just pissed Woodrow Wilson off.
00:28:56.180 How dare you stand against me?
00:28:58.180 And so he told the Senate, you need a new rule. 1.00
00:29:02.180 And so this is when that stupid word that nobody knows what it means, cloture came to play. 0.99
00:29:09.180 Okay. 0.99
00:29:10.180 It was rule 22 and it ruled that it, it cloture meant that a super majority could end debate.
00:29:24.180 Okay.
00:29:25.180 It require a super majority to end debate.
00:29:28.180 At first it was two thirds in 1975, that was lowered to three fifths, 60 votes.
00:29:35.180 So if you still wanted to stop something, you still had to stand there.
00:29:40.180 You had to speak and the whole country could see you again.
00:29:45.180 Think of Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart standing there, horse trembling, you
00:29:50.180 know, collapsing under the weight of corruption and exhaustion, reading from the constitution,
00:29:55.180 from the phone book, from the soul of the Republic.
00:29:58.180 But he had to stand there and speak.
00:30:02.180 That scene is part of our bloodstream because it captures something really essential.
00:30:08.180 If you believe enough, if you believe something is really wrong, then you must be willing to stand up and pay a price.
00:30:20.180 And that may just be enduring, you know, enduring days and days of standing up and speaking.
00:30:26.180 Okay.
00:30:27.180 The filibuster was not meant to be easy.
00:30:29.180 It was meant to be costly because it, it separates the serious from just the political.
00:30:36.180 It's costly in time.
00:30:38.180 It's costly in stamina and it is costly in political capital.
00:30:43.180 If you don't believe it, you're not going to do it.
00:30:48.180 And it forces whoever wants to stop things to prove that they're serious.
00:30:55.180 But in 1970 things changed.
00:30:57.180 Why?
00:30:58.180 Well, the Senate adopted something called a two track system.
00:31:02.180 And instead of grinding everything to a halt while a Senator spoke, the chamber could set aside the bill and move on with other business.
00:31:10.180 It's efficient.
00:31:11.180 Okay.
00:31:12.180 And it was the two track system solved the problem they were trying to solve, which was paralysis of the entire chamber.
00:31:21.180 Okay.
00:31:22.180 What was happening was because of FDR, another progressive, they had grown the administration's administrative state.
00:31:29.180 So large Congress and the Senate still had to pass the laws, the rules for the administrative state.
00:31:36.180 This is before they gave that up.
00:31:39.180 And so they had all of these things they had to do.
00:31:42.180 And so filibusters would start popping up and people would stand up and they're like, we have so much we have to do.
00:31:48.180 We can't stand here with this anymore.
00:31:50.180 Okay.
00:31:51.180 So here's what happened.
00:31:52.180 They created another problem.
00:31:54.180 It turned the filibuster from a rare act of physical resistance into just a routine procedural veto.
00:32:02.180 Before there were two track filibusters, the filibuster was exhausting and therefore scarce.
00:32:11.180 And it cost the people.
00:32:13.180 You had to believe it.
00:32:16.180 So think of this.
00:32:17.180 Why is what?
00:32:19.180 Why are people like me saying enforce the standing filibuster on these guys?
00:32:23.180 Why?
00:32:24.180 Because we know it will cost them just like the state of the union cost them.
00:32:30.180 They are going to be arguing against 80% of America, 71% of their own constituents believe in the save America act.
00:32:39.180 It's wildly popular.
00:32:41.180 One of the most popular unifying things I have seen come through Congress in 20 years.
00:32:48.180 And it will require them to pay the price with their own constituents.
00:32:54.180 If you really believe that, go ahead.
00:32:58.180 Stand there.
00:32:59.180 Tell the American people while you're why you're shutting down the business of this government, the business of the people to do something the people are against.
00:33:13.180 That's the price.
00:33:15.180 But once you take that price away, it's effortless.
00:33:21.180 You can obstruct anything you want.
00:33:25.180 The real breaking point was not one speech, not one villain.
00:33:28.180 It was the overload of the institution.
00:33:32.180 1806, the Senate could afford endless debate.
00:33:37.180 1970, Vietnam, civil rights, Cold War, sprawling administrative state.
00:33:43.180 It could not afford any time.
00:33:47.180 Efficiency became the priority.
00:33:50.180 Deliberation became negotiable.
00:33:52.180 Notice we don't even read the bills anymore.
00:33:55.180 This is just slid into hell.
00:33:59.180 In trying to prevent the paralysis, the Senate made paralysis easier.
00:34:06.180 Because when obstruction no longer requires stamina, it no longer requires effort, it no longer even requires conviction, it only requires strategy.
00:34:19.180 And strategy is always cheaper than sacrifice.
00:34:23.180 And that was the pivot point in America.
00:34:25.180 History is full of institutions that were destroyed by bad intentions.
00:34:31.180 But sometimes, you know, in the name of practicality, really bad things happen.
00:34:37.180 And this is one of those things.
00:34:40.180 So it creates the modern zombie filibuster.
00:34:44.180 What is that?
00:34:45.180 That's what Mike Lee and everybody else is saying.
00:34:49.180 We must end.
00:34:50.180 Not the filibuster.
00:34:51.180 The zombie filibuster.
00:34:53.180 Where a Senator doesn't have to stand.
00:34:56.180 They don't have to speak.
00:34:57.180 They don't have to read the phone book.
00:34:59.180 They don't even have to make a case.
00:35:02.180 They just have to signal an intent to filibuster.
00:35:06.180 And then that bill can't come back to the floor without 60 votes to proceed.
00:35:12.180 That's unreasonable.
00:35:13.180 Absolutely unreasonable.
00:35:15.180 Because it doesn't require any sweat.
00:35:17.180 There's no spectacle.
00:35:18.180 There's no accountability.
00:35:20.180 And the pirate is now a phantom.
00:35:24.180 So here's the key question.
00:35:26.180 If you require your elected Senator to stand and talk and defend why he wants to obstruct something, especially this popular, are you really weakening the filibuster?
00:35:43.180 No.
00:35:44.180 No, you are not, Senators.
00:35:48.180 You are restoring it.
00:35:50.180 You are restoring responsibility.
00:35:53.180 You are restoring the demand that you actually believe in something.
00:36:00.180 Because the American people do.
00:36:03.180 Returning to a talking filibuster does not change the cloture threshold.
00:36:08.180 It does not abolish minority rights.
00:36:11.180 It does not alter the law or the rule.
00:36:14.180 It changes the burden.
00:36:16.180 Under the zombie filibuster, the majority must muster 60 votes automatically.
00:36:23.180 Under the standing filibuster, the minority just has to continuously hold the floor.
00:36:28.180 That's not destroying the filibuster.
00:36:31.180 That's demanding conviction.
00:36:33.180 Period.
00:36:35.180 The zombie filibuster flips the entire Constitution on its head. 0.99
00:36:41.180 The framers designed a Senate to cool the passions.
00:36:48.180 They were the saucer to the House's hot teapot.
00:36:54.180 But they did not design paralysis by default.
00:36:59.180 Congress requires super majorities in very specific cases.
00:37:04.180 Treaties, impeachments, constitutional amendments.
00:37:08.180 But ordinary legislation, majorities rule. 0.86
00:37:11.180 The filibuster evolved as a tool of extended debate, not as a permanent 60 vote requirement for everything.
00:37:20.180 You can't get anything done.
00:37:23.180 And when the minority can silently raise the threshold to 60 without lifting a finger, 0.84
00:37:29.180 without standing there and saying, this is why it's important,
00:37:32.180 you have not preserved deliberation.
00:37:34.180 You have institutionalized gridlock.
00:37:37.180 You know, accountability is everything.
00:37:42.180 Everything.
00:37:43.180 Why would you oppose the zombie filibuster?
00:37:48.180 Accountability matters.
00:37:51.180 If you're willing to halt the nation's business, you should be willing to stand in the well of the Senate
00:37:57.180 and explain to the American people why, hour after hour, day after day, look into the camera,
00:38:03.180 let the American people decide whether your stand is heroic or absurd.
00:38:08.180 The talking filibuster forces sunlight.
00:38:13.180 The zombie filibuster thrives in the darkness.
00:38:17.180 When senators no longer have to fight physically for their objections, they object more often, wouldn't you?
00:38:26.180 The cost drops.
00:38:27.180 The usage skyrockets.
00:38:29.180 The Senate becomes a graveyard of legislation.
00:38:32.180 Not because ideas were defeated, but because no one had to sweat.
00:38:37.180 A talking filibuster disciplines both sides.
00:38:40.180 The majority must listen.
00:38:42.180 The majority must, the minority must endure. 0.96
00:38:45.180 That tension is healthy.
00:38:47.180 It's constitutional muscle.
00:38:51.180 So it doesn't change laws.
00:38:53.180 It changes behavior.
00:38:54.180 Period.
00:38:55.180 It means fewer automatic 60 vote hurdles.
00:38:59.180 It would mean only the most serious objections turned into full-fledged filibusters.
00:39:04.180 It would mean that when a bill dies, it dies in public.
00:39:08.180 And we all should know where you stood and who stood and what you stood for.
00:39:14.180 The Senate calls itself the world's greatest deliberative body.
00:39:18.180 Well, deliberation requires a voice.
00:39:21.180 Not emails.
00:39:22.180 Not procedural threats.
00:39:24.180 Voices.
00:39:26.180 Period.
00:39:29.180 Stop playing the game, senators.
00:39:31.180 We know the truth.
00:39:32.180 Stop playing the game.
00:39:34.180 Do what America is demanding on both sides in overwhelming numbers.
00:39:40.180 What you pass.
00:39:42.180 Have the balls to stand up for something you actually believe in. 0.97
00:39:49.180 Some say the bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth. 0.92
00:39:54.180 Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.
00:39:57.180 Rich, creamy, chocolatey arrow truffle.
00:40:00.180 Feel the arrow bubbles melt.
00:40:02.180 It's mind bubbling.