The Glenn Beck Program - June 30, 2026


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00:00:00.000 Wow. We had a lot on today's podcast. We start before the Supreme Court made its ruling today.
00:00:08.520 We started with the Bible. The Bible is in schools in Texas and it's a theocracy. No, 0.78
00:00:14.720 it's not. There's no Western culture without the Judeo-Christian scripture. And I prove that point
00:00:21.920 and I show you what's actually happening in Texas. It's not what the freakouts are saying in the
00:00:29.980 well. If you listen to the full broadcast today, you'll get part one of the signing of the
00:00:34.020 Declaration of Independence. That's an hour or two. But the left versus the Declaration,
00:00:39.960 that is about something else SCOTUS did. And that is dismantling the deep state. That's kind
00:00:47.120 of an important thing that happened. Now, some bad news with Supreme Court. They did overturn
00:00:51.800 birthright citizenship or actually left it in play. They overturned the president's executive
00:00:57.020 of order. I expect the president is going to be coming out with a statement because he's not going
00:01:02.080 to sit in place for that. And we have Franklin Carmago. He is a guy from Venezuela. He is working
00:01:09.640 now at PragerU. He is fantastic. He's not a citizen. He's here under protection because
00:01:17.420 they were actually calling him a terrorist and putting all of his friends in jail. He had to
00:01:21.040 get out of Venezuela because he was speaking up for freedom. What does immigration mean to somebody
00:01:26.660 like that. What does assimilation mean? All of this getting ready for our big special, 0.82
00:01:33.600 which is tomorrow night only on Torch. It's called The Golden Door, and it's the complete
00:01:38.920 history and perspective of what immigration actually is supposed to be. It's a great special
00:01:45.800 that's tomorrow. If you're a Torch member, you'll find it on the app or wherever you get your Torch
00:01:49.720 product. But if you're not a member, join us now at Torch250.com. That's Torch250.com.
00:02:08.240 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:12.340 all righty then oh my gosh there is so much to go over today let me let me start with what's
00:02:23.580 happening in texas because um uh we then we got to get into the scotus and it is a wild ride for
00:02:29.700 the rest of the show because the scotus case is going to be announced uh in an hour one of them
00:02:34.280 is going to be announced in an hour and then uh probably in 90 minutes from now will the second
00:02:38.240 case will be announced. And these are big ones, big ones. But let me start here. If you turn on
00:02:44.480 CNN or the BBC or the Guardian or PBS, NBC, any of them, honestly, you'd think Texas had just crowned
00:02:51.300 Jesus King of Texas and ordered every public school child to genuflect before a Bible on
00:02:58.120 their teacher's desk. The headlines scream, Texas State Board of Education votes to require
00:03:05.780 millions of students to study Bible stories. Oh my, lions and tigers and bears. Bible stories
00:03:13.340 become required reading for Texas schools, sparking a row about separation of church and state,
00:03:19.520 which doesn't exist, but I digress. Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of
00:03:25.640 public school students. Oh, wow. Maybe they'll spend less time on what part you're not supposed
00:03:34.200 to put your part into the backside of somebody else's part you know what i'm talking about
00:03:39.560 maybe they'll spend less time on that anyway critics call it unconstitutional
00:03:45.920 inappropriate i love that one inappropriate you know i think you've lost the license on the word
00:03:54.200 inappropriate i do i do when it comes to school you've got the dancing drag queens i don't think 0.55
00:04:00.240 you know what inappropriate means. Religious favoritism and part of a dark conservative plot 0.59
00:04:06.680 to infuse, and I'm quoting, infuse Christian teachings into American classrooms. The hysteria. 0.64
00:04:14.640 Oh my gosh. Now let me tell you the truth because the truth is not that, okay? The Texas State
00:04:22.520 Board of Education, Republican controlled, yes, nine to five vote. That's one of the perks of
00:04:27.000 living in Texas, I guess, approved a required reading list for English and literature classes
00:04:33.300 across K through 12. And yes, they do include specific Bible passages and stories as literature,
00:04:40.100 right alongside with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and other classics.
00:04:45.140 Example, there's a picture book version of David and Goliath for younger kids,
00:04:50.400 sections from the book of Exodus for fifth graders, the shepherd's psalm for seventh
00:04:55.120 graders the parable of the prodigal son and the beatitudes not the beatitudes where we're taught
00:05:01.480 to love one another lock your children up now this list doesn't take effect until the 2030
00:05:10.600 2031 school year by the way i just want to say because i know some of the things that are going
00:05:16.960 on with the school board in 2030. And Texas, you're going to be a very, very great place to
00:05:25.720 educate your school in 2030. But more on that much later. Now, there is no mandate to put a physical
00:05:32.860 Bible in every classroom. There's no statewide requirement for devotional prayer or forced
00:05:38.320 religious exercises. Most districts have already declined those opt-ins anyway. What is mandatory
00:05:45.180 are the Ten Commandments posters in classrooms,
00:05:48.460 but that is a separate policy entirely.
00:05:50.960 This one is just academic.
00:05:53.060 It's literacy and historic study.
00:05:57.640 Now, let me ask you,
00:05:59.220 how do you understand anything
00:06:00.760 without understanding the Bible?
00:06:02.600 I mean, at least knowing it exists.
00:06:05.760 The Supreme Court back in 1963,
00:06:08.900 in the very case that banned devotional Bible reading
00:06:12.620 and school-sponsored prayer,
00:06:13.700 said that objective study of the Bible for its literary and historic qualities is perfectly
00:06:20.840 constitutional when presented as part of a secular education program. So this doesn't
00:06:26.780 violate the Supreme Court. It doesn't violate the Constitution at all. Justice Clark wrote
00:06:34.240 plainly, quote, it certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary
00:06:40.220 and historic qualities what historic and literary qualities oh don't don't tempt me because i got a
00:06:48.500 list nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the bible or religion when presented
00:06:55.960 objectively as a part of secular program of education may not be effectively affected
00:07:01.580 consistently with the first amendment end quote okay so texas is not becoming a theocracy
00:07:07.520 They are walking through a door the Supreme Court left wide open and that our founders walk through with conviction.
00:07:16.000 Let me take you back to 1782.
00:07:18.080 This is something that is currently on tour from my collection and the collection of American Journey Experience with the White House.
00:07:25.640 They've put together a truck with Prager University, AJE, and currently on the road is my Aiken Bible.
00:07:31.560 There are only, I think, seven of these left, and our library happens to have three of them
00:07:36.720 because they are very important.
00:07:38.900 Revolutionary war is still raging.
00:07:41.260 Importing Bibles from Britain is the only way.
00:07:44.120 We cannot print a Bible while we're under the crown, and it's nearly impossible to get them.
00:07:49.580 So a Philadelphia printer named Robert Aiken, he's a devout man.
00:07:53.680 He's been working on the first complete English Bible ever printed in America.
00:07:58.100 he petitions the continental congress because he wants to produce it quote for the use of schools
00:08:04.880 congress appoints a committee including the founding fathers they have the congressional
00:08:12.700 chaplains examine it for accuracy everything else then on september 12th 1870 or sorry 1782
00:08:19.760 the Congress of the United States passes this resolution, quoting, resolved that the United
00:08:27.820 States in Congress assemble, highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Akin
00:08:33.480 as subservient to the interest of religion, as well as an instance of the progress of arts in
00:08:40.380 this country, and being satisfied from the above report of care and accuracy in the execution of
00:08:45.300 the work, they recommend this edition of the Bible to inhabitants of the United States.
00:08:50.400 That Bible is the Aiken Bible. It is the only Bible printed with a congressional endorsement
00:08:58.480 in it on page one. And they did it because they needed it for religious study. And dare I say it
00:09:05.880 again, schools. So one of the very first things that our representatives did, they violated the
00:09:13.360 constitution uh they were the ones who wrote it while they're fighting for their lives and their 0.63
00:09:18.740 liberty was to put the bible in the hands of american families and schools that's not christian
00:09:23.580 nationalism that's the actual founding character of our republic okay for most of american history
00:09:30.620 the bible was not controversial in schools it was central go look up the mcguffey readers
00:09:36.400 i'm so i right now homeschooling moms are like he's going to talk about the mcguff oh talk sexy
00:09:43.160 to me, man. The McGuffey readers, these are the textbooks that educated generations, were saturated
00:09:49.860 with scripture and biblical morality, okay? Children learn to read from the Bible. They learn
00:09:56.440 character from the Bible. That was normal. What happened in the 1960s, that was the radical break,
00:10:02.360 not Texas 2026. All right, so why does any of this matter? Because Texas is right. You cannot
00:10:11.220 understand western civilization without the bible period try to read shakespeare without it
00:10:18.340 you won't understand it he weaves in over a thousand biblical allusions salt of the earth
00:10:24.820 apple of my eye feet of clay a thorn in the flesh out of the mouths of babes the powers that be
00:10:31.760 all of these come from the bible macbeth is drenched in the language of the fall and guilty
00:10:38.480 conscience merchant of venice is a meditation on mercy versus strict justice the tempest is a story
00:10:44.580 of forgiveness and redemption remove the bible and half of shakespeare goes dark try reading
00:10:51.500 milton's paradise loss what the hell is that oh just genesis retold in an epic poem that's what
00:10:58.500 it is try to understand dante's divine comedy it's the architecture of hell what's hell purgatory
00:11:05.440 paradise oh i don't know i didn't me read bible you cannot understand pilgrim's progress
00:11:14.540 moby dick the scarlet letter doskievsky's novels of sin and redemption any of this
00:11:21.340 any of it you can't understand it you can't understand the art that defines the west
00:11:27.700 michelangelo who's that guy in the middle i don't know who's he reaching out to touch
00:11:34.180 i don't know the creation to the last judgment leonardo's last supper what does that mean the
00:11:40.940 cathedrals the stained glass the piatas you can't understand handel's messiah or bach
00:11:47.560 beethoven none of it you can't understand the laws that shaped us the 10 commandments are woven
00:11:56.120 into the western legal codes the idea that every human being has inherent dignity because they're
00:12:02.120 made in the image of god that's not a secular invention it's biblical you don't understand
00:12:08.040 the declaration of independence if you don't understand the bible you don't understand the
00:12:14.140 abolition movement in britain and america it was driven by men and women who read their bibles
00:12:19.280 and could not reconcile slavery with love thy neighbor as yourself lincoln the second inaugural
00:12:27.480 address what is that other than one giant biblical meditation on sin and judgment and mercy
00:12:34.260 martin luther king was he talking about i don't know let justice roll down like the waters that
00:12:43.560 comes from amos his whole dream is rooted in scripture trying to understand western civilization
00:12:51.200 The art, the literature, the music, its laws, its ethics, the very language.
00:12:58.340 Without the Bible, it's trying to understand the Middle East without the Koran.
00:13:01.820 It is the foundational text. Remove it and the culture becomes incoherent. 1.00
00:13:06.740 The morals drift. The art loses meaning. The law loses anchor.
00:13:10.840 And most importantly, and don't the progressives know it, the people lose their story.
00:13:16.460 that's what's been happening for 60 years in american education we have raised generations
00:13:24.280 who are strangers in their own civilization they don't know the book that built the house they live
00:13:28.760 in and we wonder why everything feels so untethered why our culture is fracturing young
00:13:34.660 people are anxious and adrift because they don't know where we came from they don't know why any
00:13:41.240 of us or how any of this was
00:13:43.160 built.
00:13:45.140 Texas is not forcing anyone to believe.
00:13:48.220 They are doing what
00:13:49.160 they must do, simply refusing 0.81
00:13:51.120 to continue the lie that the Bible
00:13:53.260 is irrelevant to who
00:13:54.860 we are. You
00:13:57.080 don't have to like it, but that's
00:13:59.060 the truth.
00:14:00.680 They are giving children back a piece
00:14:03.000 of their inheritance so you can
00:14:04.960 actually understand the world that
00:14:07.020 they inherited.
00:14:09.800 Media is in full
00:14:10.840 panic because they know what happens when people rediscover the source and rediscover their story.
00:14:15.820 All their work is gone. The same people who lecture us about diversity and inclusion lose 0.72
00:14:21.560 their minds when the most influential book in the history of the world is treated with just basic
00:14:29.080 cultural respect. But let me leave you this, the good news. Bible has outlasted every empire,
00:14:35.920 Every ideology, every attempt to bury it 0.97
00:14:38.360 It survived Hitler 0.89
00:14:39.620 It survived far worse than a few hysterical headlines
00:14:43.920 And the American people, especially parents
00:14:45.980 Are waking up
00:14:46.780 You don't need to turn our churches into schools
00:14:49.780 I mean our schools into churches
00:14:51.560 And I don't want to do that
00:14:52.700 We just need to stop pretending our civilization 0.90
00:14:55.680 Sprang from nowhere 1.00
00:14:57.600 Wait a minute
00:14:58.640 I was a tadpole
00:15:01.760 Then a monkey
00:15:02.640 And now me
00:15:03.660 our civilization just appeared from nowhere from pure secular reason alone no none of that is true
00:15:14.020 give your children the tools to read their own story
00:15:19.100 texas just took one careful legal long overdue step in the right direction and the hysteria
00:15:26.300 will fade, but the truth will remain. Back in a minute. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:38.760 Okay, let me take you to a room in Philadelphia. I want you just to, it's Independence Week,
00:15:46.600 and it is imperative that we learn what actually happened in the summer of 1776. So I want to take
00:15:54.360 you back there. And I want you to leave everything you think you know about our founders at the door.
00:16:00.560 Leave the parade, leave the fireworks, leave the fat, comfortable, settled feeling of a thing that
00:16:07.660 already happened and turned out fine. Because none of those men in that room knew it was going
00:16:12.860 to turn out fine. What happened in that room was not a celebration. It was the most frightened,
00:16:19.520 most courageous act grown men will ever make. You'll never read about something like this ever
00:16:26.260 again. And we've buried it under 150 years of bunting until we can't feel it anymore.
00:16:33.500 We understood it maybe for the first hundred years, and then it just started to go away.
00:16:37.760 And I want you to feel it again. So start with this.
00:16:41.840 The war was already a year old. Did you know that? The war was already a year old, a year. Blood had
00:16:48.260 been spilled in lexington and concord back in april of 1775 men had already died on bunker hill
00:16:54.020 that june washington had taken command of the army and chased the british out of boston there
00:17:00.360 had already been a year of killing and because we have not changed at all even though we were
00:17:07.400 already engaged in it americans wanted to stop the war they were like no no it's going to cost
00:17:14.060 us too many people. We don't want independence if it's going to cost us our kids, okay? Nothing
00:17:19.680 changes. A year after their son's coming home in boxes, the majority of colonists still wanted to
00:17:26.220 patch it up, still wanted to be Englishmen, and I understand. They still walked across the ocean
00:17:31.080 at a king and thought, surely he's going to come to his senses. He's going to protect us from his
00:17:35.980 own corrupt ministers, right? People think that now. When our government goes truly corrupt,
00:17:41.800 we still think well we used to they're going to fix this somebody's going to go to jail for this
00:17:46.940 it's not really what's happening that's common that's what humans do and that's how badly they
00:17:52.940 wanted to stay and stay at a war and the king knew it and he spat on it the year before we wrote the
00:17:59.540 declaration of independence this congress had sent him what they called the olive branch petition
00:18:05.100 you ever heard of that i need you to understand the tone of that document because it shatters
00:18:10.180 the cartoon of the angry rebel okay it was not a list of demands it was not i want reparations it
00:18:17.980 wasn't that it wasn't a threat it was a plea on their knees please we are still your loyal subjects
00:18:23.880 we love you stop the bloodshed and we're yours and they sent it across the ocean with a man named
00:18:31.560 richard penn he was a descendant of the founder of pennsylvania and that name meant something
00:18:37.400 And George III wouldn't even take the document into his hands.
00:18:40.840 He refused to touch it.
00:18:44.480 And before he'd even technically rejected it,
00:18:47.260 he stood up in front of Parliament and declared the whole of the colonies
00:18:50.300 an open and avowed rebellion.
00:18:52.540 Every man in that room in Philadelphia,
00:18:54.680 he declared a traitor, officially, by the name of the crown.
00:18:58.520 And then he kept going.
00:19:00.040 Because in December of 1775, Parliament passed,
00:19:03.340 and the king approved
00:19:05.200 the thing that just slammed the door
00:19:07.280 and threw the bolt.
00:19:08.420 It was a prohibitary act.
00:19:12.460 This is what it actually did.
00:19:14.560 Listen to this.
00:19:16.320 It banned all trade with the colonies.
00:19:19.460 He was going to strangle us to death.
00:19:21.860 It declared that every American ship
00:19:23.880 on the open sea forfeit. 1.00
00:19:25.800 Fair game.
00:19:27.020 You can take it.
00:19:27.940 It belonged to any open enemy.
00:19:29.780 and in the language of nations a blockade like this is not a policy it's an act of war
00:19:37.720 with one signature the king of england took three million of his own people
00:19:42.480 and threw them outside of his protection and said rape them take them he stopped being their king
00:19:49.460 and then he started being their hunter because he went shopping right after this he went to germany 0.96
00:19:55.640 and he looked for soldiers, Hessian soldiers.
00:19:58.820 He was looking for mercenaries.
00:20:00.520 They'd never set foot in America.
00:20:02.000 They had never a problem with America.
00:20:04.420 They'd never been here.
00:20:06.200 They were paid in gold to cross an ocean
00:20:07.840 and kill his own subjects out in their own fields.
00:20:12.320 When John Adams heard about this, he didn't rage.
00:20:15.980 He almost relaxed.
00:20:17.680 He said, well, now the die is cast
00:20:19.940 because the question had been answered by the king.
00:20:22.460 and right in the middle of this in january of 1776 a pamphlet hits the streets it was 47 pages if
00:20:31.000 you've never read it you should it's amazing it was made by a failed corset maker from england
00:20:36.240 who had been uh in america for barely a year and kind of been adopted almost as a son by
00:20:42.200 benjamin franklin his name was thomas pain and he called this pamphlet common sense and it was
00:20:47.820 common sense because he said, I'm saying the things out loud that everyone has been too frightened to
00:20:53.120 say, but the pulpits had not been too frightened to say it. All of these things had been said from
00:20:58.560 the pulpits over and over and over again for the last couple of decades. And he just comes out and
00:21:04.280 he says, it's absurd. How is this continent being ruled by an island? There's something rotten in
00:21:12.740 the very idea of a king and the time for asking about it is over and he sold a hundred thousand
00:21:19.660 copies in just a couple of months now imagine that that's three million people total man woman
00:21:23.940 child everybody do the math on that it was read aloud in taverns around campfires to men who
00:21:31.940 couldn't read it themselves and it was pain that put the match to the kindling and by the spring
00:21:37.660 of 1776 the ground under that congress had moved so understand what the question actually was when
00:21:47.280 the men actually sat down it was never should we rebel the king had already declared war they had
00:21:53.720 already named them traitors he had already hired men to kill them the only question in that room
00:22:03.480 was whether 13 really jealous, squabbling, distrustful colonies 0.96
00:22:08.380 would have the nerve to stand up and say out loud
00:22:12.160 that which was already true. 0.80
00:22:17.400 To say it was to die.
00:22:22.580 You know, the word treason, I don't know,
00:22:25.620 it's like a debate club term now, treason.
00:22:28.480 What does it even mean?
00:22:29.380 Treason against the crown was punishment by death
00:22:32.500 and not a clean death.
00:22:33.660 You know how they killed William Wallace, right?
00:22:35.680 They tied a rope around his arms and his legs
00:22:39.400 and then tied a horse to each end of those ropes
00:22:41.760 and they drew and quartered him, 0.98
00:22:44.300 tore him apart in the square because he was a traitor.
00:22:47.960 The traditional sense of sentence was create horror.
00:22:56.360 So every man who signed his name to that declaration,
00:22:59.660 that was it he was a traitor he's signing his own death warrant
00:23:05.280 betting that an army of farmers could win before the king's men got to him
00:23:10.820 and here's what we forget
00:23:13.560 these were not men who had nothing to lose that's the lie that makes them safe and small
00:23:21.960 john hancock was the wealthiest man in new england there was already a bounty on his head
00:23:27.600 The British wanted him personally to be drawn and quartered.
00:23:31.760 Benjamin Franklin was 70, the most famous American on earth.
00:23:36.740 That man could have lived out his days in comfort and glory anywhere.
00:23:40.420 He could have gone over to France easily.
00:23:42.180 They loved him in France.
00:23:44.960 And his own son, Benjamin Franklin's son, William, was the royal governor of New Jersey, loyal to the crown,
00:23:53.100 about to be arrested and never truly speak to his father ever again.
00:23:57.100 Imagine that. A revolution that ran a fault line straight through the most famous family in America.
00:24:05.100 These men had farms and fortunes and businesses and libraries and wives and children and grandchildren.
00:24:12.580 Every single one of them was about to wager all of it.
00:24:15.580 The entire inheritance on the longest odds on earth.
00:24:19.960 so let me take you to june 7th because june 7th it begins you're listening to the best of the
00:24:30.800 glenn beck program hello america you know we've been fighting every single day we push back
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00:25:27.740 Let me start with a sneak peek into this live documentary that is going to air tomorrow on Torch250.com. Listen.
00:25:37.880 Now on the base of the Statue of Liberty is a poem and it's called The New Colossus.
00:25:44.200 Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
00:25:51.600 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. 1.00
00:25:54.920 Send these the homeless tempest-tossed to me. 0.95
00:25:58.380 I lift my lamp beside the golden door. 1.00
00:26:01.920 For more than a century, Americans heard those lines as an invitation to the world's dreamers, the fighters,
00:26:08.460 the people who looked at tyranny and said,
00:26:10.980 I'm going to go to a place where a man can rise, where I can be who I was born to be.
00:26:18.200 It was never intended to be a suicide pact.
00:26:21.620 And that's why I say this with zero apology. 1.00
00:26:24.940 Zero new immigration. 0.99
00:26:27.360 Until we can get this right. 0.96
00:26:29.960 Because you can't understand immigration if you first don't understand its purpose.
00:26:35.140 Well, we're going to correct that.
00:26:36.000 From New York City, where it all started.
00:26:38.040 We'll take a tour through history from some of the historic sites that wrote the immigration
00:26:43.880 story in our country.
00:26:45.940 And speaking of stories, I'm going to tell you the story of a young woman who stepped
00:26:48.840 off a boat from Scotland.
00:26:51.680 One generation later, her child achieved something I can guarantee you she could have never dreamt
00:26:57.600 of.
00:26:58.600 You think this kind of success happens in Somalia?
00:27:08.040 A true political refugee, Franklin, you're from Venezuela.
00:27:17.180 You left Venezuela because your family was under attack.
00:27:21.240 What does immigration to the United States mean to you?
00:27:24.360 Immigration is everything.
00:27:25.820 It saved my life.
00:27:27.260 But I also understand that for immigration to work, it needs to serve America.
00:27:32.000 It needs to serve the American people.
00:27:33.400 The comment I always get from the left when I criticize illegal immigration, the current system, is that just because I'm an immigrant, I'm supposed to support open borders.
00:27:44.640 But the thing about immigration and what makes immigration and has made immigration for so many years, for so many decades, good for America, not anymore right now, of course, is that immigrants would assimilate to America and would put America first. 0.58
00:27:58.620 What does this mean?
00:28:00.180 That your concern is America.
00:28:02.720 So if my concern is America, when I look at the immigration system right now, where it's no longer necessarily a beacon of freedom or opportunity, but a beacon of free stuff and welfare state, I'm concerned and I understand that we need to change this.
00:28:19.600 So, first of all, you have family back in Venezuela, I'm sure. Is everybody OK after the big earthquake?
00:28:26.340 Yes, I have family. I have friends. Thankfully, they're OK. They were impacted by it. I mean, they witnessed it.
00:28:31.620 We're talking about the worst natural disaster in Venezuela in over a century.
00:28:36.400 Two earthquakes, one minute away from each other, 7.2, 7.5.
00:28:41.080 Very strong.
00:28:43.200 A spokesperson from the United Nations said that we could be talking about at least 10,000 dead people.
00:28:49.560 It's a real tragedy.
00:28:51.480 The government is not the one to blame for a natural disaster.
00:28:55.400 But Venezuela right now is the poorest country in Latin America.
00:28:59.320 It's a story of mismanagement.
00:29:01.980 It's a story of corruption.
00:29:03.940 The buildings have no infrastructure.
00:29:06.220 The rescue teams, Glenn, the rescue teams do not even have flashlights.
00:29:10.720 When you look at that, of course, you need to blame the government for this, because
00:29:14.380 the worst natural disaster in Venezuela is not just the earthquakes, it's been socialism.
00:29:21.260 So, you know, Venezuela, people don't know this.
00:29:23.880 Venezuela back even as early as the 90s, Venezuela was the richest country in the
00:29:31.480 hemisphere, I think outside of us. You guys have more oil than Saudi Arabia. It was really a great
00:29:40.400 country. And then the socialists took over. And we've been debating. I've been watching this since
00:29:46.120 the 90s. I've been on the air saying, don't go socialist, don't go socialist. This is what's
00:29:50.640 going to happen next this what's going to happen next and then it would all happen and now you've
00:29:54.440 had people eating zoo animals can you explain to people who think socialism is neat why they should
00:30:01.840 pay attention to venezuela venezuela is a great example not just because it's actually close to
00:30:08.680 the united states and you know uh we can find some uh similarities but it's this also because
00:30:14.960 venezuela is a story of a country that used to be wealthy and it's also the story of a country with
00:30:19.480 a lot of natural resources. And it's also a story where Venezuelans, before I was born,
00:30:26.880 because when Chavez took power, I was only one year old, really. Venezuelans said, you know what?
00:30:31.980 We are a rich country. We have a lot of oil. We are a successful nation. We have our democracy.
00:30:38.580 So we can try something different. Maybe the role of the government is not to protect our
00:30:44.420 individual rights, maybe the role of government is to make our life better. In economic terms,
00:30:50.220 free stuff, free education, maybe wealthy people, business people, they are too greedy, too rich.
00:30:57.160 We need to go after them. And people were warning, hey, look at Cuba. Cuba right now is a poor
00:31:03.120 government. They tried socialism and they are escaping to Miami on rafts. And Venezuelans said,
00:31:08.460 nah, that is not going to happen to us. Well, it happened. And now when I talk to young Americans,
00:31:14.420 you find two type of leftist young Americans.
00:31:17.840 One type of socialist would say that the reason why Venezuela is poor
00:31:21.860 is because of the United States, the sanctions.
00:31:24.880 They have that anti-American sentiment that they have learned in schools.
00:31:29.140 But you also find another type of socialist.
00:31:31.680 And they would tell you, no, no, no, no.
00:31:33.180 We don't want to be like Venezuela. 0.89
00:31:35.360 We don't want to implement their policies. 0.97
00:31:37.240 We want to be more like Norway.
00:31:38.800 We want to be more like Sweden.
00:31:39.980 What you find is that they are not promoting free markets with some type of welfare state.
00:31:45.400 No, they are promoting socialist policies that were implemented in Venezuela.
00:31:50.300 How did a country like Venezuela that had the fourth largest GDP per capita in the 1950s,
00:31:58.080 how did that country go from that to be a country where 90% of its population is poor or extremely poor?
00:32:05.820 Socialism.
00:32:06.880 The government taking control of businesses.
00:32:09.980 expansion of the welfare state, government spending so much money because they promised
00:32:15.800 that your life was going to be great. The government was going to give you everything
00:32:19.200 and the results are there. They are clear. And that type of leftism exists in America.
00:32:26.800 I wish my disagreements with Democrats were just maybe slightly on immigration or some other topics.
00:32:33.760 No. When we look at Mamdani, we're talking about a Venezuelan type of leftism, a Cuban type of leftism, someone who is quoting Marx on Twitter, someone who is promising grocery stores, which, by the way, when you meet a Cuban, when you meet a Venezuelan, ask him what was the most astonishing part of coming to the U.S.
00:32:56.420 And I guarantee you that one of the things they're going to mention are grocery stores, because when the government takes control of grocery stores, you only see empty shelves.
00:33:06.360 So tell me about the story of the Oreo cookie with your family.
00:33:10.260 Yes. So the first time I came to the U.S. was on a family vacation.
00:33:13.920 Venezuela was already doing bad. My dad had some small businesses.
00:33:17.660 They worked really hard and we were able to come to the U.S. on a family vacation.
00:33:22.420 We were the exception, not the norm in Venezuela, not because we're working for the government,
00:33:26.820 but because we're working really hard.
00:33:28.800 And I was six years old.
00:33:29.920 I came to the United States on a family vacation again.
00:33:32.380 We went to Orlando, Florida.
00:33:34.140 And that trip changed my life entirely.
00:33:36.320 I'm pretty sure that I'm talking to you right now.
00:33:38.420 And I introduced myself into politics because of this trip.
00:33:41.660 And again, I'm a six-year-old kid.
00:33:43.800 I didn't know anything about politics.
00:33:45.580 I didn't understand economics.
00:33:47.180 I didn't know the difference between capitalism and socialism.
00:33:49.920 I haven't read Milton Friedman.
00:33:51.340 but I went to a grocery store. And why would that be impressive for a kid? Because I saw the variety
00:34:00.440 of cookies and I couldn't believe it. And, you know, this story is funny, but it's also to me
00:34:08.980 is very impactful because now that I'm, of course, older, I understand that the difference between a
00:34:15.680 free society and an oppressed country, the difference between communism, socialism and
00:34:20.900 capitalism is so big that a kid can even witness that again i didn't know what gdp was i just saw
00:34:27.880 the variety of areas and i was okay they're doing something different here i don't know what they're
00:34:32.840 doing but they're doing something different and i like it so you were accused actually of terrorism
00:34:38.820 you're going to medical school and you're accused of terrorism and that's why you had to leave they
00:34:44.700 kicked you out of medical school and you had to get out because the government's starting to come
00:34:48.580 after you? What were they accusing you of? Yes, correct. So this is the price for free
00:34:53.280 education. When they tell you it's free, it's not actually free. We pay through that
00:34:57.040 with our taxes, with inflation, and also with a totalitarian regime. If the government has the
00:35:03.720 power to educate you, what do you think they're going to try to teach you? And what ideas and
00:35:08.200 opinions are they going to tolerate? That's the question we always need to ask. In Venezuela,
00:35:12.320 if you want to go to med school, you only have one option. You have to go to the public system.
00:35:18.020 You need to be taught and indoctrinated by the state, by the government.
00:35:23.080 So I had a debate with a professor.
00:35:25.040 And by the way, long before that, I did a lot of political activism in Venezuela.
00:35:29.200 I led peaceful protests.
00:35:31.380 I gave speeches in different colleges, campuses about capitalism, socialism, individualism versus collectivism.
00:35:40.060 And I had a debate with a professor.
00:35:42.140 You know, something normal that it should happen at a university.
00:35:45.460 That's the place to debate ideas, to exchange opinions, ideologies.
00:35:50.620 And of course, the professor didn't like it.
00:35:52.900 They expelled me from college.
00:35:55.100 My case went viral.
00:35:57.020 It was even discussed in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.
00:36:01.380 And when the government held a press conference about my case, they said, yes, of course,
00:36:08.120 we expelled Franklin.
00:36:09.460 But the reason why we did it is because he wanted to set our classrooms on fire.
00:36:13.620 He wanted to attack our students. He wanted to attack our professors. He's a criminal that has been funded by foreign countries and foreign organizations. And he's a threat to our schools.
00:36:26.080 So I have a cousin who went to prison for more than two years.
00:36:31.320 Most of my friends that did political activism with me went to prison as well for political reasons.
00:36:38.080 And I knew that was most likely my future and I could escape and I made it to the United States legally.
00:36:46.680 And that is why I love this country so much.
00:36:49.940 Glenn, you are lucky that you were born here.
00:36:51.800 But I'm even luckier that even though I wasn't born here, I had the opportunity to come to this country and be free and speak out and not be in prison or tortured.
00:37:05.480 So that is why we really need to preserve the values that make this country great.
00:37:10.260 And we need to make sure that those who come here love this country as well. 0.96
00:37:14.060 So Prager University, PragerU and Donald Trump and the administration are in trouble because of what they're trying to do to preserve the country with legal immigrants.
00:37:28.840 So Franklin, you came in the right way. You applied for asylum. You were heard and you have actual asylum because you were actually being persecuted in Venezuela and they were chasing you, accusing you of crimes that you didn't commit.
00:37:44.060 Right now, the New York Times has just criticized Donald Trump for providing refugees and new arrivals with educational materials about America.
00:37:57.160 And part of those educational materials come from PragerU, but it's all about American history, our values, our civic culture, et cetera, et cetera.
00:38:06.680 Did you get anything when you came in to teach you about America?
00:38:10.360 Was there any kind of, hey, do you know about our culture or anything?
00:38:15.420 No, I didn't. I didn't. I had to do it on my own.
00:38:18.940 And we should expect immigrants to, of course, try to do it individually. 0.98
00:38:24.060 But, of course, the government also needs to make sure that those immigrants who are coming into the country are going to embrace American values. 1.00
00:38:32.820 Otherwise, it would be a self-destructive act. 1.00
00:38:35.460 And organizations like PragerU are providing something very simple, an American flag.
00:38:40.360 A Nikon, an icon and symbol of freedom, a beautiful flag, a flag that they must respect, an Android tablet, a copy of the Constitution and a copy of what I think is the best political document ever written, the Declaration of Independence. 0.94
00:38:55.120 For immigration to work, America has to choose its immigrants. 0.51
00:39:00.340 And those immigrants need to embrace American values. 0.58
00:39:03.660 They need to understand what made this country great, why they chose America and not other countries.
00:39:09.620 Why is that important? Why is that necessary? It is necessary if we want to preserve America a great country. If you invite people who do not believe in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, if you invite people who do not believe in the idea of individualism or self-government, America is no longer going to exist.
00:39:31.240 So, of course, America has been a generous country, but you need to be generous to those who are going to embrace the values that made America great.
00:39:39.260 If we want to help people, if we want to be generous, if we want to provide freedom to those who do not have it, you also need to make sure that those are going to be people who are going to be grateful and people who are going to put America first, whose allegiance is going to be to this new country.
00:39:56.740 That is the way to do it.
00:39:58.620 Otherwise, you are committing suicide. 0.94
00:40:02.140 Thank you so much.
00:40:03.280 Thank you for everything you do.
00:40:04.460 I really enjoy watching you.
00:40:05.900 I've enjoyed every time we've met Franklin Carmago.
00:40:09.580 He is with PragerU, a political commentator
00:40:12.960 and a refugee from Venezuela.
00:40:17.480 An American citizen soon?
00:40:20.000 Yes, correct.
00:40:20.960 I'm about to apply for my citizenship.
00:40:23.040 It's going to be the biggest privilege of my life.
00:40:25.840 Yeah.
00:40:26.760 God bless you.
00:40:27.320 Thank you, Franklin.
00:40:27.980 I appreciate it.
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