The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Larry Elder ｜ 7⧸29⧸21

00:00:00.000 Holy cow. What a great program for you today. We have Larry Elder. We talked to him for about an hour today. Could he be the next governor of California? It looks like there's a good chance. That's an amazing development for California. They might go into shock.

00:00:19.700 But we talked to Larry Elder. Also, we chip Roy. What an unbelievable rant in the house yesterday. We cover that and all the things that are going on with covid. Also, a look at what I talked about on last night's television program as well.

00:00:39.300 That is so important. This is the most critical information you could know what the Biden administration is doing that puts everyone that disagrees with them in a box all on today's podcast.

00:01:04.200 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:10.080 The host of the Larry Elder show. And now a California gubernatorial candidate, Larry Elder. Welcome to the program.

00:01:19.380 Glenn, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

00:01:21.240 Oh, yeah. I mean, Larry, I have to tell you, when I first saw I just said this to Stu on air about 10 minutes ago, when I first saw that you were running, I was like, that's not going to work out well.

00:01:30.780 You know, because I mean, you could be Ronald Reagan, but you're in California.

00:01:37.640 And then I start to see the poll numbers and you're ahead, almost double ahead of anybody else.

00:01:44.640 You're out. You're out. You're out raising funds for anybody else who is in the race.

00:01:51.500 And you have a legitimate shot here.

00:01:54.660 And that would be game changing for not only California, but for all of America.

00:02:00.020 You know, Glenn, I think it will be game changing for all of America for a number of reasons.

00:02:06.180 You know, this critical race theory, this reparation stuff, this race stuff you were just now talking about, training white kids to believe they're oppressors, training black kids to believe that they're victims. 0.61

00:02:15.540 And people in the center are sick of this. People in the center are sick of people like this guy, Ibrahim Kendi, running around saying, just being a good person, just being a not racist is not good enough.

00:02:25.740 You have to make sure that other people are not racist.

00:02:28.500 This is the kind of stuff that's sickening people in the center.

00:02:31.180 And so even people who are not Republicans are going to be, I think, buoyed by this candidacy.

00:02:35.960 And about Ronald Reagan, a number of people, Glenn, have said, well, Elder, what is your experience?

00:02:40.680 I said, what is the experience of the guy I'm running against, Gavin Newsom?

00:02:42.980 And this guy was governor of mayor of San Francisco.

00:02:45.720 He was lieutenant governor for eight years, had eight years to think about what he would do if and when he became governor.

00:02:51.740 And for two years, we've seen a rise in crime, rising homelessness, declining quality of public schools and the draconian way this man shut down the state while violating the mandates with the very same professionals who drafted the mandates when he was sitting at that famous French laundry restaurant, not engaging in social distancing, not wearing a mask.

00:03:09.840 Ronald Reagan came out of Hollywood.

00:03:11.120 He didn't spend 27 years, as I have, up and down the state broadcasting.

00:03:15.640 I'm on every major market in California from Sacramento down to San Diego.

00:03:20.120 I've been writing a syndicated column since April of 1998.

00:03:23.280 It's carried in the largest newspaper in the Valley here in L.A.

00:03:26.220 It's carried in the largest newspaper in Orange County.

00:03:28.720 I've been talking about issues like crime and homelessness and the outrageous cost of living for years.

00:03:33.780 Ronald Reagan came out of Hollywood.

00:03:35.200 Now, he, of course, was a student of William F. Buckley, began reading National Review.

00:03:38.500 And at one time, he was a left-wing guy.

00:03:40.900 I was never a left-wing guy.

00:03:42.340 So you could make the argument that I'm even more prepared to do this than Ronald Reagan.

00:03:46.220 Well, I will tell you this, Larry, that Ronald Reagan started to write radio minutes, if you will, just like Paul Harvey.

00:03:57.240 And that was explaining his philosophies.

00:04:01.400 And I think that really helped sharpen him and also prepare the way.

00:04:05.820 You've been doing it in a three-hour format every day.

00:04:09.400 That's right.

00:04:10.000 And I'm a native Californian.

00:04:11.560 And, Glenn, my dad came here in 1945, right after the war.

00:04:15.240 He worked two full-time jobs cleaning toilets.

00:04:18.020 Believe it or not, was able to save his nickels and dimes enough to have a stay-at-home mom, my stay-at-home wife, my mother.

00:04:25.020 And she stayed at home until the youngest of us was in middle school.

00:04:28.060 And he saved up enough money to move uptown to south-central L.A.

00:04:31.860 We were the second black family in the neighborhood.

00:04:34.880 Now, the house is still in the family, Glenn.

00:04:36.720 I just looked up on Zillow.

00:04:38.120 It is now worth $600,000.

00:04:40.380 No one with an eighth-grade dropout education could follow my father's path to the middle class here in California if he or she worked three jobs, let alone two.

00:04:49.680 And that's because virtually every development project, every housing project in California is stopped by the environmentalists who claim it's going to have an adverse environmental impact.

00:04:58.500 That's why there's a shortage of housing in California. 1.00

00:05:00.420 That's why for the first time in our nation's history, middle-class people, I'm talking about people making between $50,000 and $100,000, are leaving California because they cannot get that first house.

00:05:10.020 There's a magazine called CEO Magazine.

00:05:12.200 It's been around for 17 years.

00:05:13.960 And for 17 consecutive years, out of all the states, California has been determined to be the worst state in which to do business based upon taxes, based upon regulations, based upon the anti-business attitude that this legislature and these environmentalists have foisted down the throats of the American people.

00:05:29.300 I have a regular guest on my program.

00:05:31.080 His name is Leo Haney, and he's a brilliant economist with UCLA, writes a lot about real estate.

00:05:36.000 He says, because of the rules and regulations that we've had now for the past 30, 40 years, the average price of a home in California is literally 50% more than it otherwise would be.

00:05:46.500 And that's why people are leaving for the very first time.

00:05:49.060 And I think I can do something about that.

00:05:50.960 So what is the biggest problem that you see the first thing that you would have to tackle in California?

00:05:58.580 I think the first thing I have to tackle is homelessness.

00:06:00.640 You go under a freeway overpass in L.A. and a lot of other cities here in California, homeless people on either side.

00:06:08.280 Now, I don't blame all of this on Gavin Newsom because it preceded him, but he hasn't done anything about it other than to, quote, build more housing, meaning more government people building housing at a far higher cost than the private sector would do without doing anything about the underlying reason why people on the streets in the first place.

00:06:25.480 Why are they on the streets in the first place?

00:06:27.380 Well, maybe 10% of them, Glenn, we don't really know the percentage, are truly schizophrenic, meaning a danger to themselves or to others.

00:06:33.880 They literally need to be physically picked up from the streets, removed for their own safety and for the safety of the rest of the homeless population.

00:06:41.080 And put where?

00:06:42.480 And put where?

00:06:43.320 Put in mental institutions so they can get treated.

00:06:46.880 And another percentage of them, I don't know how many, I think it's relatively small, are people that just don't want to work.

00:06:52.780 And if you just don't want to work, either you're going to go to jail as a vagrant or you're going to get a job.

00:06:56.860 And the rest of them, probably the bulk of them, are people who have mental problems or who have drug problems.

00:07:02.120 They, too, need to be treated.

00:07:03.880 Now, what we've done in California is passed something called Proposition 47.

00:07:08.200 I think the voters were duped into doing it.

00:07:10.020 And the idea was that some people who are stealing are stealing in order to support their meth habit or their heroin habit.

00:07:15.780 And so we passed a law that says if you steal under $950, you don't go to jail.

00:07:20.240 You're not a felon.

00:07:20.940 You've committed a misdemeanor.

00:07:22.080 You get a ticket if you get caught.

00:07:23.320 And, well, what the sheriff of L.A. County tells me, his name is Alex Villanueva, one of the people that I interviewed before I got pulled off the radio because of my FCC requirement running for office, he said they've taken away our stick.

00:07:36.160 You have somebody on the street who's stealing in order to support the meth habit.

00:07:39.740 And we can't say either you dry out in jail or you dry out in rehab, one or the other, because we cannot tell them they're going to go to jail because they're not going to go to jail.

00:07:47.920 And you've seen all these videos of people literally stealing in front of people, in front of the security guards.

00:07:52.160 Walking, walking out, not running, walking out.

00:07:55.920 Now, as far as the mental illness part, churches need to be involved in that.

00:08:00.720 Government can't solve this.

00:08:01.860 We have missions in Orange County, for example, where they're getting people off the street, trying to give them some spiritual instruction.

00:08:08.260 And that's what needs to happen.

00:08:09.880 Now, I'm not at all saying that 100 percent of people on the streets can somehow become computer software programmers at Apple.

00:08:15.460 I don't believe that whatsoever.

00:08:16.980 But you cannot allow people to stay on the streets.

00:08:19.540 It is a taking of public property.

00:08:21.260 It jeopardizes the health and safety of everybody.

00:08:23.740 They literally need to be removed from the street.

00:08:26.140 And housing needs to be built for low-cost, low-cost housing, low-cost apartments.

00:08:29.860 But we have no low-cost housing, no low-cost apartments because of the environmental regulations I just now mentioned.

00:08:35.480 So the private sector needs to be unleashed to build these kinds of things.

00:08:38.900 The religious sector needs to deal with these problems.

00:08:41.800 People need to be picked up off the street.

00:08:43.700 And we need to then put them in these housing that's affordable housing built by the private sector, not by the public sector.

00:08:50.060 The other problem with just building housing, which is what Gavin Newsom and the Democrats want to do,

00:08:53.920 is you haven't dealt with the underlying reason people there in the first place.

00:08:56.700 A, B, you can't get them to get up in the new houses anyway.

00:09:00.840 They're not going to stay.

00:09:02.140 And C, you're inviting other people from cold-weather climates to come to California,

00:09:06.580 where they're going to be treated with care and compassion, as we should treat every human being.

00:09:11.580 We're going to get free needles and free food, and I might even be able to get a free house.

00:09:16.020 So officers tell me, Galena, a whole bunch of people who are living in these tents,

00:09:20.440 who are in skin row, aren't even from California.

00:09:22.920 We've incentivized people from the other states to come here.

00:09:25.140 So, for all those reasons, Gavin Newsom is doing nothing whatsoever.

00:09:29.280 He's not involved in the churches.

00:09:30.760 One of my mentors is a guy named Pastor Jack Hibbs.

00:09:33.380 And he said, Larry, let us do it.

00:09:34.940 Let us adopt a block, adopt a street, adopt an area.

00:09:38.200 Let us get these people off. 0.69

00:09:39.440 Let us get these people the kind of instruction that they need while the private sector is building low-cost housing.

00:09:44.340 And I believe that if I do the combination of things I just now mentioned, I can eliminate this problem.

00:09:48.900 So, Larry, one of the things that I think we all learned from Donald Trump was the system is so incredibly corrupt that there are career people that are just not –

00:10:03.200 they don't care who the president is.

00:10:04.980 Right.

00:10:05.180 And they will work to thwart and destroy everything the people elect somebody and put them in.

00:10:12.400 They'll work to destroy that person. 0.57

00:10:15.400 How are you going to deal with a Californian system of progressivism, socialism that is just bred now into the system?

00:10:28.960 It's a massive, massive problem, Glenn.

00:10:31.060 And I'm not deluding myself about that.

00:10:33.000 We have supermajorities in the lower chamber of government called the Assembly, supermajorities of Democrats in the upper chamber called the Senate.

00:10:40.300 And talk about a deep state.

00:10:42.260 Particularly, we have term limits.

00:10:44.220 And I know a lot of Republicans like term limits.

00:10:46.120 What it does is just strengthen the staffers and strengthen the special interest groups.

00:10:50.280 The politician comes in, knows that he or she is only going to be there for a few years, and has given a lot more power to the so-called special interests.

00:10:56.380 What I intend to do, if I'm lucky enough to become governor, is to use a number of powers I have, even when dealing with the hostile legislature,

00:11:04.660 not least of which is the ability to declare a statewide emergency.

00:11:08.480 I'm going to declare one regarding homelessness to suspend the law that's called CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act,

00:11:15.820 that essentially allows anybody to stop anything for an indefinite period of time.

00:11:19.540 And somehow, someway, Glenn, the legislature is able to waive a CEQA for, for example, the construction of the Sacramento King Stadium for a billionaire.

00:11:28.060 Wow.

00:11:28.380 They waive it for that.

00:11:29.600 But they can't waive it to build low-cost housing so that these homeless people, to the extent that we can get some of them self-sufficient,

00:11:35.420 can get off the ground and go to these homeless places.

00:11:38.140 Also, in education, I'm a product of the public education system.

00:11:42.100 I went to Crenshaw High School.

00:11:43.300 That was a school that was featured in the movie Boys in the Hood.

00:11:46.460 Two percent of kids at Crenshaw High School can do math at state levels of proficiency.

00:11:52.240 That's not a typo.

00:11:53.140 Two percent.

00:11:53.900 Seventy-five percent of all black boys in California cannot read at state levels of proficiency, and those levels are low.

00:12:00.940 Did you say how—what was that percentage?

00:12:03.040 Seventy-five percent.

00:12:04.440 Oh, my gosh.

00:12:05.240 Fifty percent of third-graders, Glenn, cannot read at state levels of proficiency.

00:12:08.920 Now, check this out.

00:12:09.820 We have 300,000 public school teachers in California.

00:12:12.320 Every expert I talk to tells me, at minimum, five percent of them are incompetent.

00:12:17.560 That's 15,000 teachers.

00:12:19.420 Any given year—you know how many are fired?

00:12:21.620 2.2 are fired.

00:12:23.800 Now, imagine if we did the same thing with the LAPD.

00:12:26.320 There are 10,000 officers.

00:12:27.780 Imagine if we had five percent officers who were bad, who were corrupt, planning evidence, using excessive force, engaging in racial profiling.

00:12:35.000 We wouldn't put up with it.

00:12:36.360 We're putting up with 15,000 bad teachers.

00:12:38.360 How about I declare a statewide emergency on education, and I get rid of a minimum of the 5,000 teachers who are incompetent?

00:12:47.720 Teachers get tenure in California after just two years, and it takes almost an act of God to get them fired.

00:12:54.180 This is outrageous. 0.63

00:12:55.200 Just 80 percent of the public school kids in California are black and brown.

00:12:59.440 These are the ones that the left claims that they care about.

00:13:01.440 Gavin Newsom shut down the schools.

00:13:03.520 Again, the kids were already behind while his own kids were enjoying in-school private education.

00:13:08.300 It is outrageous.

00:13:09.600 And the teachers who know the schools the best, the ones with school-age kids, they're not putting their own kids in public school.

00:13:15.460 Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers with school-age kids have their own kids in private school, as opposed to 10 percent nationwide, 6 percent of black families nationwide.

00:13:24.420 39 percent Chicago public school teachers, school-age kids, their own kids in private school.

00:13:28.740 Here at the L.A. district, the public school teachers who have school-age kids are twice as likely to put their own kids in private school compared to families that don't have public school teachers.

00:13:38.240 Holy cow. 0.89

00:13:38.760 It's the equivalent, Glenn, of opening up a restaurant, putting up a sign and saying, come on in, just don't eat the food.

00:13:44.760 Yes.

00:13:45.740 Nobody that works here eats here ever.

00:13:49.180 All right.

00:13:49.780 Larry, I'm going to push back on one thing.

00:13:53.000 And I really do believe this is the only way you're going to be able to get things done.

00:13:57.800 But it makes me very, very uncomfortable.

00:14:00.100 You say I'm going to declare a statewide emergency.

00:14:03.820 That suspends all kinds of laws.

00:14:06.920 Now, I personally think a lot of those laws should be suspended.

00:14:11.560 How do you rectify that or how do you balance that in your head, being a conservative that I know believes in constitutional law?

00:14:20.740 Well, this man has invoked statewide emergencies to basically shut down the state for the coronavirus pandemic.

00:14:29.080 I'm sorry.

00:14:30.180 I think this is an emergency.

00:14:31.380 I think this is an intervention.

00:14:32.560 This is damage control.

00:14:34.080 We have not built enough homes in order for young people to buy that first home.

00:14:38.540 That's why they're leaving California for the first time in our nation's history.

00:14:42.700 Crime through the roof in L.A., in San Francisco.

00:14:47.280 Can you give me some of those stats, Larry?

00:14:49.720 About crime?

00:14:51.620 Well, let me give you one that will be jaw-dropping.

00:14:53.780 Since the coronavirus pandemic has started, Gavin Newsom has overseen the release of 20,000 convicted felons, released because of the coronavirus under early release.

00:15:05.340 Now, what could possibly go wrong when statistically the majority of criminals who are released from prison are going to reoffend?

00:15:10.980 Just a couple of days ago, Barbara Boxer gets mugged for her cell phone in Oakland, and two days earlier, the Oakland police chief held a press conference where he complained about the defund the police movement and how many millions were being diverted from the Oakland Police Department.

00:15:24.480 I'm in Los Angeles.

00:15:25.740 The LAPD has lost $150 million from its funds for so-called youth programs.

00:15:31.020 Now, connect the dots.

00:15:33.020 Why do we need youth programs?

00:15:34.660 Because these kids do not have fathers.

00:15:36.320 Why don't they have fathers? 0.67

00:15:37.100 Because the nouveau liberal named Lyndon Johnson launched the so-called War on Poverty in 1965.

00:15:42.380 At that point, 25% of black kids entered the world without a father married to the mother.

00:15:47.880 Today, that number is 70%.

00:15:49.460 What we've done, the left has done, is incentivize women to marry the government and incentivize men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility. 1.00

00:15:57.480 And forget about elder.

00:15:58.560 Barack Obama once said,

00:15:59.680 A kid raised without a father is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in jail.

00:16:08.200 So what they do is they deal with the symptoms of the problem they caused.

00:16:11.060 The symptom is a lot of young people are not working, are doing all sorts of bad things.

00:16:15.800 So let's have a youth program for them.

00:16:17.300 So systemically, what the left has done is destroy the family, they're destroying schools, they're calling the police systemically racist, the police are pulling back, it's called the Ferguson effect, or the George Floyd effect, and crime is going up.

00:16:31.880 We have two left-wing DAs, one in San Francisco and one in L.A., both of whom got there because George Soros funded them, and both are facing recall elections because they're not prosecuting people to the fullest.

00:16:41.900 We have cashless bail in California.

00:16:44.400 So what could possibly go wrong when you reduce the chance of a bad guy being caught, being convicted, being put in prison, crime goes up, and the people who are hurt are the very black and brown people living in the inner city that the left claims that they care about. 0.57

00:16:55.700 So I'm going to declare a public emergency on crime, on housing, on education, and I'm going to suspend some of the rules and regulations that are stopping bad teachers from being fired, that are stopping cops from doing their jobs, and that are causing the cost of living to go so high because you cannot build anything.

00:17:10.220 One developer told me this, Glenn, I had a 10,000 housing project, I got sued.

00:17:16.180 I cut it down to 5,000, I got sued.

00:17:18.060 I cut it down to 1,000, I got sued.

00:17:19.700 Finally, they approved 250 houses after 22 years.

00:17:24.460 He got so fed up, he went to another city.

00:17:28.140 Another guy told me, I was giving a speech about CEQA, and I was giving some examples, and somebody yelled out,

00:17:32.900 I had to spend 25 grand to get rid of the kangaroo rat. 1.00

00:17:36.280 I never heard of a kangaroo rat.

00:17:37.540 And I talked to him after the speech, and he said he was building a factory, and as a condition of him building the factory,

00:17:43.220 he had to pay $25,000 to hire an expert to find not just the kangaroo rat, but the Stevens kangaroo rat,

00:17:49.220 which is a different species from the regular kangaroo rat.

00:17:51.780 So I hired this guy, he spent all this time looking for the kangaroo rat, and the Stevens kangaroo rat didn't even exist.

00:17:58.420 And had it existed, I would have to pay even more money to give them a new habitat.

00:18:02.140 Now, as far as I know, rats are rodents.

00:18:04.220 Who gives a rip? 0.81

00:18:05.320 But all you did was jack up the cost of this factory, causing people not to work or not to work when they would have worked.

00:18:12.540 And I have story after story after story about this.

00:18:14.860 When I was in Ohio, I practiced law at a big law firm, and one of the things I did for a while was workers' compensation.

00:18:21.580 Wait, I don't want to cut you off in the middle of this story.

00:18:26.260 So we're going to start back there in just a second.

00:18:29.460 More with Larry Elder in just a couple of minutes.

00:18:33.040 He is running to be governor of California.

00:18:38.700 If you would like to help him out and donate to his campaign,

00:18:42.220 just go to his website, electelder.com.

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00:18:51.440 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:53.980 We were talking business in California with Larry Elder,

00:19:05.460 and I had to interrupt him on a story that he said in Ohio.

00:19:09.080 Can you begin that story again?

00:19:10.860 Sure.

00:19:11.340 I practiced law at a big law firm in Ohio.

00:19:13.840 I did a little bit of workers' compensation from the defense side,

00:19:16.200 representing companies that had been sued by workers.

00:19:18.760 And the burden of proof was, of course, on the claimant to make the claim.

00:19:22.200 I get a phone call from somebody I'm trying to get money from

00:19:25.520 who runs a bunch of different restaurants in California,

00:19:28.080 and he tells me this story.

00:19:29.540 And the only reason he prevailed is because he's very, very wealthy

00:19:31.900 and wasn't going to put up with it.

00:19:33.640 One of these workers claimed that he was owed $65,000 in unpaid wages.

00:19:39.920 And he found out the guy wasn't even in the state

00:19:42.420 when he allegedly incurred the $65,000 in wages.

00:19:45.240 So he contested the lawsuit.

00:19:47.140 Turns out the burden of proof is on the employer to disprove the claim.

00:19:50.640 Oh, my gosh.

00:19:51.240 That's why so many employers just settle.

00:19:53.460 And after a while, they offered to settle for $50,000.

00:19:55.560 He said no.

00:19:57.040 $25,000, he said no.

00:19:58.140 $5,000, he said no.

00:19:59.380 Went all the way to court, spent way more money than the $55,000

00:20:02.260 that this employee was claiming.

00:20:03.860 But it was the principle of the thing, A.

00:20:05.560 And B, he felt that if he is perceived as somebody who can roll over like that,

00:20:09.220 there'll be other lawyers coming after him for other bogus kinds of claims.

00:20:12.660 But the point is, the burden of proof is on the employer to disprove the claim.

00:20:16.680 What the hell is that, Glenn?

00:20:17.880 So tell me, talk to me a little bit about, you know, I know big business.

00:20:23.260 A lot of them are moving out of California and they're coming to Texas.

00:20:26.780 And I swear to me, if these people, California, my Texas, I'm going to be really pissed.

00:20:32.040 But you can't do business there.

00:20:35.320 But there are so many small business owners that are just dying, just dying because of the COVID restrictions.

00:20:43.480 And it is a hostile environment.

00:20:47.160 There's, well, what is the name of that restaurant?

00:20:50.840 Yeah, Crony's.

00:20:52.540 Pineapple Hill.

00:20:53.360 Pineapple Hill.

00:20:54.020 No, it's Crony's Restaurant.

00:20:55.520 They are being boxed by their little community, their little city council, and just being forced out of business because they didn't do everything that little city council said they had to do to stay safe.

00:21:12.740 Well, they couldn't and keep people employed and keep their restaurant.

00:21:16.620 Right.

00:21:16.840 I mean, what is happening for the small business owner?

00:21:21.260 Because that's the backbone of society.

00:21:23.560 They're being slaughtered.

00:21:24.500 And Glenn, I'm not just a lawyer.

00:21:25.840 I also ran a small business for 14 years.

00:21:28.160 At my peak, I had about a dozen employees, and it didn't go bankrupt.

00:21:31.200 I didn't liquidate it.

00:21:32.180 When I relocated back to California from Ohio, I sold it, and it kept going on for a number of years.

00:21:37.760 My point is most small businesses fail, and those who succeed operate on very thin margins, often from payroll to payroll.

00:21:45.620 So this guy shut down all businesses in California.

00:21:49.000 We're still getting our hands around how many ended up in bankruptcy because the bankruptcy courts are just now reopening,

00:21:54.140 and are processing the claims.

00:21:55.500 All I know is that the average state, two-thirds of jobs have been restored.

00:21:59.240 Here in California, only 50% of jobs have been destroyed.

00:22:01.740 How many lives were destroyed by this man, who, by the way, kept his own winery open while telling other businesses to shut down?

00:22:11.080 This is why one guy told me he's a tire guy.

00:22:13.540 He buys big tire factories, outlets.

00:22:18.500 He wanted to build another one out here, start another shop out here.

00:22:21.740 And he said, I got sick and tired of all the regulations.

00:22:24.140 He goes to Texas.

00:22:25.080 Literally, he was able to open one within a matter of weeks.

00:22:27.700 He'd been in litigation for months trying to open one here in California.

00:22:31.800 Larry, it took me two years to build a radio studio in New York City.

00:22:39.660 I built the studios here in Texas in two weeks.

00:22:44.360 I hear story after story after story like that.

00:22:47.780 There's a magazine called CEO Magazine.

00:22:49.720 It's been around 17 years.

00:22:51.100 And based upon taxes, based upon regulations, based upon the power of the public sector unions, unfunded pension liabilities, the degree to which the business climate is friendly or unfriendly, CEO Magazine, for 17 years of existence, has rated California the worst state in which to do business for 17 consecutive years.

00:23:08.700 It is absolutely outrageous.

00:23:11.180 And that is why, again, middle-class jobs, people making between $50,000 and $100,000 are leaving California for the first time in our nation's history.

00:23:18.800 Can I say one more thing about the school system?

00:23:21.840 Yeah.

00:23:22.700 The largest contributor to Gavin Newsom is the California Teachers Association.

00:23:27.300 The largest affiliate is the LA affiliate called the United Teachers of Los Angeles.

00:23:31.380 They, of course, shut down schools while the teachers still continue to get paid.

00:23:36.940 And as a condition for reopening, they made some demands.

00:23:39.320 Two of the demands were single-payer health care and defund the police.

00:23:44.780 What those two things had to do with education is beyond me. 0.99

00:23:47.800 This is the kind of crap that people are putting up with. 0.99

00:23:50.100 And I gave an interview to a black newspaper in Sacramento called the Sacramento Observer. 1.00

00:23:54.400 I walk in, Glenn, and I can just tell by their body language, okay, this guy's an Uncle Tom.

00:23:57.840 He's a sellout.

00:23:58.700 He's a Republican. 0.97

00:23:59.320 And I said, aren't you sick? 0.99

00:24:01.480 Aren't you sick and tired of a school system where 75% of black boys cannot read at state levels of proficiency? 0.98

00:24:06.940 Aren't you sick of these rich white liberals like Rob Reiner who some years ago stopped a housing development called Amundsen Ranch? 0.87

00:24:14.180 It was in Ventura County adjacent to LA.

00:24:16.420 9,000 units.

00:24:17.620 It was on pristine land.

00:24:19.200 I'll give you that.

00:24:20.200 But unless Rob Reiner lives on a houseboat, wherever he lived at one time was pristine too.

00:24:24.540 So he stops the project.

00:24:25.960 Ten years later, they celebrated high fives.

00:24:28.600 I read the article about the celebration.

00:24:30.540 Not one mention about the fact that 9,000 housing units didn't get built.

00:24:35.960 Now, everything is a tradeoff.

00:24:37.380 And I said, don't you see the connection between these rich, elite white people who are Democrats and the fact that you can't get housing here?

00:24:44.240 And one of the reporters told me before the interview started, he tried to buy a house, couldn't afford it.

00:24:48.520 I said, connect the dots.

00:24:49.660 And you sit there and you vote year after year after year for Democrats that don't give you choice in school, even though black and brown parents, based upon the polls, say they want it, that are causing the cost of housing to go through the roof, even though you're trying to get that first house. 0.66

00:25:02.160 And I'm the bad guy.

00:25:03.460 I'm the Uncle Tom.

00:25:04.520 I said, think it through.

00:25:06.280 And now, Glenn, I'm not saying all of a sudden because of that they became Reagan Republicans.

00:25:09.860 But I know that all of a sudden they were beginning to rethink some of their assumptions.

00:25:13.620 And that's why I believe they're so afraid of me.

00:25:15.360 I'm from the hood.

00:25:16.300 I'm from Crenshaw High School.

00:25:17.240 I can talk about the connection between what these liberal people that belong, say, to the ACLU, most inner city people, from what I can tell, I haven't seen any polling data, want gang injunctions.

00:25:28.040 And every time there's a gang injunction filed, the ACLU files a lawsuit to either trim it or get rid of it.

00:25:32.880 Crime goes up, again, for the very people in the inner city that people like that claim that they care about.

00:25:37.440 Tupac Secure once said, we need the police more than anybody else because of all the criminal element that's right there.

00:25:42.900 I said, who's on your side?

00:25:44.060 Larry Elder, the Uncle Tom, or people in the ACLU who aren't concerned about crime at all because they're living up in the hills, they have private security, and they have guns.

00:25:53.640 And I just ask you to rethink some of your assumptions.

00:25:56.560 And I can just tell that for the first time they're hearing stuff they never heard before.

00:26:01.280 And unlike the typical Republican here in California, I can talk to black and brown people about what the left is doing to them in ways more effectively than I think the typical Republican can. 0.91

00:26:09.340 I will tell you, Larry, I think it is going to take a black man or a black woman to turn us around because you are the only ones that can really break through with any kind of credibility. 1.00

00:26:22.540 And it takes somebody who is not a bomb thrower and is eloquent enough to be able to get people to rethink their assumptions.

00:26:31.980 Larry, I wish you the best, and we'd love to have you on again.

00:26:36.760 Could I ask you, how does this work?

00:26:40.340 I mean, you go in and you say, I want him recalled or I don't want him recalled.

00:26:44.600 And then if you say, I want him recalled, you can vote then on who you want to replace?

00:26:51.340 No, it's real simple.

00:26:52.680 There are two questions on the ballot, and that's it.

00:26:54.820 Do you want Gavin Newsom replaced?

00:26:57.240 And if 50% plus one says yes, the second question is, who do you want to replace him?

00:27:01.720 Now, you won't know the 50% plus one until they, of course, count the ballots.

00:27:05.480 But you can either vote to replace him or not vote to replace him, and you can vote for somebody to replace him or not vote for somebody to replace him.

00:27:12.260 So 50% plus one has to vote to recall him, and then whoever gets the greatest number of votes to replace him will win.

00:27:19.180 So it's conceivable that I could win with 20, 25% or so of the vote altogether.

00:27:24.560 And that's why this is so unusual.

00:27:27.960 And it's on September the 14th, but the ballots go out.

00:27:30.760 It's going to be almost all mail-in.

00:27:32.640 The ballots go out on August the 14th.

00:27:34.840 So come September the 14th, when the election actually takes place, it's almost going to be anticlimactic because by then most people will have voted.

00:27:40.960 And that's why I need money.

00:27:43.080 Believe it or not, I have a campaign expenditure limit of $9 million.

00:27:47.300 It's something I can raise that amount of money, and I will.

00:27:50.020 He can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money, and most people speculate he'll spend at least $50 million trying to defeat me.

00:27:57.940 Good heavens.

00:27:58.860 How come you have the restraint that he doesn't?

00:28:01.740 That's a very good question.

00:28:03.160 I think that's a legitimate question for us to litigate in the courts.

00:28:07.740 But that's exactly the way it is.

00:28:09.020 I have restraints.

00:28:10.260 He does not.

00:28:12.120 That makes no sense.

00:28:14.500 Makes no sense.

00:28:15.660 It gives me a huge...

00:28:16.400 And when it was clear I was going to run, Glenn, all of a sudden, the SEIU union gave this guy $5 million.

00:28:22.820 And again, the number one contributor to him is a teacher's union.

00:28:26.700 And I'm not dissing teachers.

00:28:28.640 40% of the teachers feel the way you and I feel.

00:28:30.820 They want choice.

00:28:31.640 They want merit pay.

00:28:33.440 Really good teachers ought to be paid way more than the bad teachers ought to be paid.

00:28:37.340 And the person that hates bad teachers more than anybody else are good teachers.

00:28:41.140 But the unions are the ones that give all this money to left-wing causes and left-wing politicians just like Gavin Newsom.

00:28:47.400 So the power of the teachers' union needs to be broken.

00:28:50.760 The power of the public sector unions needs to be broken.

00:28:53.080 All are what Scott Walker did.

00:28:54.940 Recall that.

00:28:55.460 He had to face a recall election.

00:28:57.120 They gave him death threats.

00:28:58.120 They trashed his house.

00:28:58.900 They trashed the capital.

00:28:59.720 But he got it done.

00:29:00.560 He restricted the unions to only bargaining over wages, not on benefits, not on discipline.

00:29:06.440 He got them to no longer get automatic deduction for dues.

00:29:09.800 And if you got a raise above inflation, you had to go to the voters to get approved.

00:29:14.560 And he made them contribute to their health and retirement plans for the first time.

00:29:19.160 I need to do something very similar to what Scott Walker has done to break the power of the public sector unions in California.

00:29:24.720 And believe me, they will come after me with both barrels.

00:29:28.040 Oh, yeah.

00:29:28.360 Because they are vicious.

00:29:29.960 They are vicious.

00:29:30.920 No, I worry and will begin to pray for your security, Larry, and for a shield of protection over you.

00:29:42.400 You can go to electelder.com.

00:29:49.040 Newsom has a war chest already going into it of $30 million.

00:29:53.220 They believe that it's a $30 million war chest already.

00:29:57.600 Already.

00:29:58.480 And you know, if Larry is the guy, they are going to do everything they can.

00:30:04.880 They're raising money.

00:30:05.940 Just Larry's raising money for them.

00:30:08.760 Can we get Larry to raise money for Larry?

00:30:12.220 It would be nice to have Larry Elder as governor.

00:30:15.940 And you can help.

00:30:17.780 Everybody always says, what can I do to help?

00:30:19.660 What can I can't do anything to help?

00:30:21.560 How about five bucks?

00:30:22.420 Ten bucks.

00:30:23.220 A hundred bucks.

00:30:24.060 Anything that you have.

00:30:26.180 This, he could win with 20%.

00:30:28.120 Electelder.com.

00:30:31.460 Electelder.com.

00:30:33.000 Larry, thank you so much.

00:30:34.300 I hope to talk to you again.

00:30:35.860 God bless.

00:30:36.420 Anytime, Glenn.

00:30:37.000 You know where to find me.

00:30:37.680 You got it.

00:30:38.080 Thanks, man.

00:30:42.820 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:45.220 So, Glenn, I'm looking for an update here from you on a big story that was breaking yesterday

00:30:59.680 that...

00:31:01.180 I'm trying to get to the White House strategy on how we're all screwed. 0.95

00:31:07.240 Yeah.

00:31:07.940 And that's something we can get to after we hear the update on how you're feeling about

00:31:12.180 your art show. 1.00

00:31:12.840 You're such a jerk. 1.00

00:31:15.180 Well, you said you were like... 1.00

00:31:17.180 I was ready to vomit yesterday.

00:31:18.300 Yes.

00:31:18.740 It's got to be closer today.

00:31:20.060 You're a day closer to it.

00:31:21.320 I'm a day closer and I'm very vomitous.

00:31:23.920 Very vomitous.

00:31:24.440 You could vomit at any moment.

00:31:25.620 I could vomit at any moment. 1.00

00:31:26.840 And I hope I could vomit on you. 0.68

00:31:29.140 So, what's your biggest fear here?

00:31:31.220 Is it that people won't show up?

00:31:33.440 Is it that people won't buy it?

00:31:35.380 Is that people come in and they do show up, but they laugh at your hard work?

00:31:39.100 What is the thing that most...

00:31:40.560 Thank you.

00:31:40.820 All of those.

00:31:41.620 Thank you very much.

00:31:42.520 Could you order them and describe how you...

00:31:44.600 If you'd like to go to the art show, it's up at Park City, at Park City Fine Art.

00:31:49.380 You can find them at parkcityfineart.com and get all the details.

00:31:54.600 By the way, you can come up and see the art.

00:31:59.160 And there's also affordable art, really, for everybody, I believe.

00:32:02.920 I believe.

00:32:03.860 I think we're supposed to have limited editions and some copies of the work that we will be selling on Saturday.

00:32:14.820 And you can call the Park City Fine Art for more information if you want.

00:32:20.560 Okay.

00:32:20.880 Can I get back to business now?

00:32:23.360 Listen to this.

00:32:24.600 In the White House strategy...

00:32:26.720 Remember, all of this stuff is already going on.

00:32:29.940 The Department of Treasury, in coordination with law enforcement and other interagency partners,

00:32:35.100 is exploring ways to enhance the identification and analysis of financial activity associated with domestic terrorists.

00:32:45.580 How do we define domestic terrorists?

00:32:49.200 We can't.

00:32:50.320 It's always evolving.

00:32:51.880 Oh, that's right.

00:32:52.560 Remember, it's always evolving.

00:32:53.740 As well as enhancing engagement with financial institutions on domestic terror financing through existing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act.

00:33:06.140 So, if you are deemed a danger or a domestic terrorist, they can cut you off.

00:33:15.040 They're working with the banks to stop your financing.

00:33:20.000 Okay?

00:33:20.260 The White House doesn't say exactly how the government is going to use the Treasury Department to spy on Americans in its war on domestic terrorism,

00:33:28.640 but we have some context clues.

00:33:31.660 Earlier this month, as we talked to Tom Fitton yesterday and found out,

00:33:36.020 Judicial Watch filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the FBI to view records of communication between the FBI and several banks.

00:33:43.500 Bank of America reportedly gave the FBI financial records of customers who made transactions in Washington, D.C. on January 5th and 6th.

00:33:52.920 Normally, you need a subpoena to do that.

00:33:55.400 Here's a guy.

00:33:56.560 We think he was involved.

00:33:58.240 Can you get us the records to prove that he was there?

00:34:01.140 Yada, yada.

00:34:02.020 That wasn't this.

00:34:03.380 Give us everybody who was at a cash machine or spent any money on the three days around January 6th.

00:34:10.980 That's unheard of.

00:34:13.600 Yeah.

00:34:13.980 That's such a wide net.

00:34:15.220 Exactly right.

00:34:16.380 Exactly right.

00:34:17.600 So they are not getting any information, even though we have FOIA.

00:34:23.400 But remember, the Capitol Police can't get a Freedom of Information Act request because they're from the legislative branch.

00:34:33.260 So this is Nancy Pelosi's force.

00:34:38.340 Judicial Watch complied when the FBI said, you know, we need more specifics.

00:34:44.920 What exactly are you looking for?

00:34:46.220 And then they said, ah, what you guys did about January 6th.

00:34:51.140 They will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any such records.

00:34:55.900 That's how your government is responding to a redress.

00:35:01.740 I would like you to give us the answers.

00:35:04.740 That's constitutional.

00:35:05.860 You have a right to do that.

00:35:07.060 Nope.

00:35:08.500 Last month, Wells Fargo shut down the bank account of Lauren Witsky, who ran for U.S. 0.99

00:35:13.620 Senate in 2020 as Delaware's Republican candidate.

00:35:17.120 Now, you may disagree with her.

00:35:19.180 I don't really know much about her.

00:35:20.640 She seems a little loopy, but you don't have to agree with people.

00:35:26.320 And there's going to be a lot of people that say crazy things.

00:35:28.960 Well, she was in Florida and they decided to shut down her bank account.

00:35:35.640 Wells Fargo did.

00:35:37.300 And they said they just did it for business reasons.

00:35:40.140 What business?

00:35:41.040 You just shut me out.

00:35:42.340 I'm in Florida.

00:35:43.140 I have no credit card.

00:35:44.180 I have nothing.

00:35:44.760 I can't get back home.

00:35:46.000 My credit in my account says zero.

00:35:49.220 What do you mean you shut me down?

00:35:53.300 In June, as you know, somebody at the IRS leaked 15 years worth of tax returns of thousands

00:36:01.780 of Americans who are really wealthy to ProPublica.

00:36:05.800 It's a nonprofit investigative news outlet.

00:36:09.140 The IRS says it's investigating the leak.

00:36:12.140 Okay, wait a minute.

00:36:12.900 What?

00:36:14.340 What?

00:36:16.180 They just leaked all this?

00:36:17.800 The press printed it?

00:36:18.740 It's all secret stuff, never supposed to be exposed.

00:36:22.040 And you're like, yeah, we're looking into it.

00:36:23.880 And at the same time, in this bill that Biden is trying to get past, the new spending bill,

00:36:31.520 there's $80 billion of a budget raise for the IRS.

00:36:37.140 $80 billion.

00:36:38.600 So, you know, the budget for 2021 is $11.9 billion.

00:36:43.240 This will increase their budget by one third.

00:36:46.080 What are they going to do with it?

00:36:47.040 They want more auditors.

00:36:51.260 Who do you think they're going to be shaking down?

00:36:54.300 The IRS is now going to be weaponized once again.

00:36:59.120 These are the things that they are doing.

00:37:03.460 You know that they are doing all of these things.

00:37:06.320 Let me give you one of the other pillars.

00:37:08.100 By the way, watch all of this and you'll see all of the documents, all of the quotes.

00:37:13.880 This is nothing that is a theory.

00:37:18.920 This is the fact.

00:37:21.940 This is what they're doing in their own words.

00:37:27.060 If you don't believe me, go to WhiteHouse.gov and just look for White House's national strategy for countering domestic terrorism.

00:37:33.560 How do we define domestic terrorism again?

00:37:35.900 It's always evolving.

00:37:37.140 Yeah, okay.

00:37:37.880 That's right.

00:37:38.520 That's right.

00:37:39.720 Okay.

00:37:40.440 So one of their pillars is to understand and share domestic terrorism related information.

00:37:47.840 This one, they are working with high tech.

00:37:56.000 Now, as soon as they release this, it's interesting.

00:38:00.160 Facebook began doing something else.

00:38:03.140 They began, if you were on Facebook, you might have received one.

00:38:08.840 A rewarding extremist content.

00:38:11.520 If you go on to certain Facebook or you, you know, just click on something, you might get extremist content.

00:38:20.720 And then it asks, are you concerned someone you know is becoming an extremist?

00:38:27.540 What, what, what big brother, what are you doing?

00:38:31.800 Then another message from Facebook.

00:38:35.000 You may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently.

00:38:38.400 Anyway, violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment.

00:38:42.640 You can take action now to protect yourself and others.

00:38:47.560 To protect myself from what?

00:38:49.180 Thought crime prosecution?

00:38:51.600 I mean, desperate people do desperate things.

00:38:53.880 Desperate people are used and manipulated online.

00:38:58.100 And a lot of them are manipulated online by people who are seeking power in the different parties or Facebook.

00:39:08.300 And don't talk to me about manipulating people because that's what your algorithm does.

00:39:16.040 Now, the Democratic National Committee planning to work with SMS carriers to dispel information about COVID vaccines.

00:39:23.400 Are they reading our messages?

00:39:28.500 If you're an unvaccinated right winger, to many on the left, you're a threat to national security that should be locked out of public places. 0.78

00:39:36.420 Now, the U.S. Surgeon General didn't go that far.

00:39:39.060 But how long is it going to be before the Surgeon General has a warning label on things that I believe or things that you believe?

00:39:47.260 How do they define misinformation?

00:39:55.020 See, can we play the Nancy Pelosi audio from yesterday?

00:39:58.280 Listen to this.

00:40:00.940 On science.

00:40:04.880 Just to clarify something from earlier. 1.00

00:40:08.540 Is Kevin McCarthy a moron? 0.99

00:40:10.440 And if so, why? 0.99

00:40:11.140 I said earlier in my comment, science, science, science, and science.

00:40:17.460 On almost every subject that you can name, science is the answer.

00:40:22.080 Whether it's the climate crisis, whether it's a health crisis, whether it's our preeminence in the world in technology, science, science, science, science.

00:40:32.420 To say that wearing a mask is not based on science, I think, is not wise.

00:40:40.500 Okay, stop.

00:40:41.080 Stop.

00:40:42.920 It's not based on science.

00:40:44.740 It's based on somebody's opinion who happens to be a scientist today.

00:40:49.720 Because you've changed it over and over and over again.

00:40:53.820 If we're going to listen to science, do we have to listen to science?

00:40:57.300 You know, I don't mind listening to science when they say butter is bad for you.

00:41:01.020 And then 10 years later, they're like, you know, butter has some good things.

00:41:05.340 Okay.

00:41:06.660 This is like every other week.

00:41:08.500 They're flip-flopping.

00:41:09.660 That's not science.

00:41:11.260 That's an opinion.

00:41:15.120 And that's misinformation.

00:41:18.620 Me saying that will be deemed at some point, if not now, misinformation and dangerous.

00:41:27.000 The National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.

00:41:29.980 How do we define domestic terrorism?

00:41:31.960 It's always evolving.

00:41:33.740 It's always evolving.

00:41:34.500 Okay, good.

00:41:35.560 This is from the White House.

00:41:38.580 Their next pillar is clear consequences for accounts that repeatedly violate platform policies.

00:41:48.360 Okay.

00:41:49.460 All right.

00:41:50.800 Now, here's the thing.

00:41:52.020 They want to prevent individuals from being drawn into the grip of domestic terrorism in the first place.

00:42:00.640 So they're going to punish you if you are part of misinformation.

00:42:04.420 But they also, if you've been exposed to misinformation, they want to make sure that they are there.

00:42:10.180 Like clockwork.

00:42:12.440 After the strategy was released, the FBI posted a curious tweet saying,

00:42:17.420 Family members and peers are often best positioned to witness signs of mobilization to violence.

00:42:23.980 Help prevent homegrown violent extremism.

00:42:26.380 Visit this link to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and report them to the FBI.

00:42:34.900 Oh, I don't know.

00:42:36.160 That's a little George Orwell.

00:42:38.640 Especially when they're taking over our schools.

00:42:41.300 Let me just quote from 1984.

00:42:43.260 The children were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations.

00:42:51.840 The family had become, in effect, an extension of the thought police.

00:42:57.560 It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.

00:43:07.180 Let me give you this comparison here, a little nugget from the White House strategy.

00:43:10.860 Even as we augment our approach to domestic terrorism under existing authorities,

00:43:16.720 the Department of Justice is examining carefully what new authorities might be necessary and appropriate.

00:43:24.220 New authorities.

00:43:25.400 Well, we already have the Postal Service doing intelligence operations.

00:43:29.780 We have the White House senior staff flagging people's Facebook posts.

00:43:34.800 We have the FBI urging family members and peers to report on each other.

00:43:38.820 Do you see the apparatus that they have built?

00:43:45.600 It's not building.

00:43:46.920 It's built.

00:43:47.960 It's here.

00:43:48.900 Na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - July 29, 2021

Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Larry Elder ｜ 7⧸29⧸21

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