The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus ｜ 6⧸13⧸25

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00:00:30.140 Hey, on today's podcast, we're, of course, going to talk about Israel.

00:00:34.020 We're going to talk about President Trump.

00:00:36.140 What did he know?

00:00:36.860 When did he know it?

00:00:37.660 And is that deception or is this just unbelievable negotiation?

00:00:41.720 I mean, he said you have 60 days and you don't want to see what happens the day after 60 if you don't negotiate.

00:00:47.660 Well, they didn't negotiate.

00:00:48.640 And lo and behold, it was just after midnight, day 61, that Israel went in and took care of business.

00:00:56.320 Everybody's upset about it.

00:00:57.420 We give you the real scoop, how we were involved and what it all means.

00:01:01.380 Plus, the military parade and Masterpiece Theater for the unbelievable acting prowess of Senator Warren and Padilla and Cory Booker.

00:01:14.420 All that and more on today's podcast.

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00:02:27.520 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:32.400 Let me just say this because I have quite a monologue.

00:02:37.820 I spent about three hours on about one o'clock in the morning I started it.

00:02:42.640 And I will tell you, maybe some anger therapy might have been better.

00:02:50.280 But I took it all out on a monologue.

00:02:52.260 And I'm going to unleash that onto all of the...

00:02:56.260 Onto some people that I actually still refer to as friends.

00:03:00.460 I just don't know what the hell people are thinking.

00:03:04.880 But let's start with why this war is not Iraq and yet why it terrifies me.

00:03:12.040 First of all, I hate war.

00:03:14.040 I used to be, you know, in my youth, a little more war happy. 0.58

00:03:18.060 You know, because I wasn't going to fight it.

00:03:20.280 And, yeah, we should do that.

00:03:22.340 We should go and we've got to police the world.

00:03:24.480 No, we don't have to do any of that.

00:03:26.000 We shouldn't do any of that.

00:03:27.080 And I have learned from, you know, my first 30, 40 years of my life that what I was for was absolutely wrong.

00:03:36.880 The State Department was wrong.

00:03:38.660 The neocons were wrong.

00:03:40.560 All of them wrong.

00:03:42.000 For one, it's not only wrong for America, but it is also...

00:03:50.020 I've seen too many people come home broken or not come home at all.

00:03:54.360 And those who do come home, nobody seems to care about them.

00:03:57.200 And I just think it is absolutely abhorrent the way we treat our soldiers.

00:04:01.140 And I've watched our country send generation after generation off to foreign battles with no clear ending.

00:04:09.600 Many times, no clear enemy.

00:04:12.260 Tell me who our enemy was besides Osama bin Laden for 20 years.

00:04:19.140 Who was our enemy?

00:04:21.200 Well, it's the ideology of...

00:04:23.340 What is that ideology?

00:04:24.680 You can't even say it.

00:04:26.620 And then we were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

00:04:29.500 You know, we were told we can't afford to wait.

00:04:32.020 And so we went.

00:04:33.480 And in the end, whether you believe the cause or not, it became another drawn-out conflict, another wound in our national spirit.

00:04:40.040 And far too many American families were touched by it.

00:04:43.580 And once again, the world is holding its breath.

00:04:47.640 Israel yesterday struck Iran hard, precisely, and quietly. 0.86

00:04:53.560 And before the screaming starts from the headlines, the chambers of the UN, the cable news panels, let's stop and ask ourselves a few hard questions, shall we?

00:05:03.860 First of all, is this America's war?

00:05:05.980 The answer is no.

00:05:07.640 Should we be there fighting it?

00:05:09.620 Answer, no.

00:05:12.400 Has Israel asked us to fight their war?

00:05:15.360 Answer, no.

00:05:17.180 Is this another Iraq? 1.00

00:05:19.400 Or is it something entirely different?

00:05:22.160 Well, let me tell you what makes this moment unlike anything else we have faced before.

00:05:26.600 First, this was not a call to war.

00:05:29.320 This was not a land invasion.

00:05:31.940 This is not a campaign to topple a regime and then sit around for 20 years trying to rebuild a culture that doesn't want what we have.

00:05:38.700 Even though Iran, the Iranian people, are good people, the Persians are great people, and they do want a life like ours.

00:05:47.800 But this was targeted.

00:05:49.480 This was surgical.

00:05:50.580 This was preemptive.

00:05:52.400 Not against an idea.

00:05:54.160 Not against a guess.

00:05:56.020 Against the very real, very stated intentions of a regime run by men who do not think like we think. 0.61

00:06:04.340 Okay?

00:06:04.900 They do not want what we want.

00:06:07.440 But we choose life.

00:06:10.600 They literally choose death.

00:06:13.140 That is as clear as it is.

00:06:15.040 Do you choose life or do you choose death?

00:06:17.420 That is a culture of death.

00:06:20.120 So I want to start with the clerics of Iran.

00:06:23.160 The Ayatollahs, the supreme leader, the mullahs, the puppet masters of the so-called Islamic Republic and their Sharia law. 0.95

00:06:32.420 I have said this for years and years and years.

00:06:34.820 If you don't understand this, you don't understand Iran.

00:06:38.160 These are Twelvers. 1.00

00:06:39.840 They are followers of a branch of Shiite Islam that believes not just in the return of the messianic figure called the Mahadi,

00:06:46.660 but also that his return can and must be, in their words, hastened or accelerated.

00:06:53.880 And the only way to do that is to, quote, using their words, wash the world in blood.

00:06:59.880 Okay, I think I'm out at that.

00:07:01.740 You know, that's my first stop on the train and I'm like, I'm going to get off here, please.

00:07:06.220 Let me say this again.

00:07:07.360 The highest religious leader who actually is in charge of the entire country, the one who commands the Revolutionary Guard,

00:07:16.700 who fund the terror groups by Hezbollah and Hamas, the ones who train children to chant death to America in the streets, 0.91

00:07:24.000 believe the world must be engulfed in destruction and flames to usher in the end times.

00:07:30.940 And they mean that the same way we mean that.

00:07:35.000 And that this is the regime trying to build a nuclear bomb.

00:07:39.060 Now, I have a problem with this because I've been talking about this since 2000, maybe 2002.

00:07:44.820 Oh, they're very close to a bomb.

00:07:46.140 They're very close to a bomb.

00:07:47.440 You know, I stopped listening to John Bolton a long time ago.

00:07:50.240 It was a kind of cute little oldie thing that he would, you know, he'd bring up once in a while.

00:07:53.680 But I don't know if they were close to the bomb.

00:07:56.120 I don't know if anybody knows they were close to the bomb.

00:07:58.220 Maybe. I will tell you what Benjamin Netanyahu told me in like 2010.

00:08:05.760 I had a meeting with him and I'm like, are they close to a bomb?

00:08:08.080 He said, I don't know.

00:08:09.400 But when we believe that they are truly close to a bomb, it doesn't matter what the world will say.

00:08:14.980 We will go in and do it ourself if we have to.

00:08:17.940 They cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:08:21.180 OK, so they want a nuclear bomb because they want to wash the world in blood. 0.63

00:08:26.600 Now, contrast that with the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that has kept peace between nuclear superpowers for over a half century.

00:08:35.240 The Soviets, they didn't want to die.

00:08:37.240 OK, the Chinese Communist Party, they don't even want to die. 0.99

00:08:41.360 Even North Korea, as crazy as that fat dude is, he doesn't want to lose power and his life. 0.98

00:08:48.000 But Iran, they're not afraid of death because they got all those virgins coming their way. 1.00

00:08:53.540 They see martyrdom as a promotion.

00:08:56.560 They don't want to win a war.

00:08:59.180 They want to ignite the good old end of days.

00:09:03.720 So ask yourself, what happens when those beliefs collide with the power of a nuclear warhead?

00:09:09.840 And by the way, you should answer this now because we're going to have to answer this when France topples to the same kind of radicals and when England topples to the same kind of radicals.

00:09:19.040 Do we go in and get their weapons?

00:09:21.040 Because you do not want these regimes with nuclear weapons.

00:09:25.160 Now, with all that said, I don't want my son going off to war.

00:09:29.020 I don't want America again to play the policeman or be dragged into another theater of blood and sand.

00:09:34.900 Enough is enough.

00:09:35.960 It doesn't work.

00:09:36.860 But I also do not want to be the father who has to tell his children, yeah, we saw it coming.

00:09:43.900 You know, I knew what they believed.

00:09:45.940 We saw what they were building, but we didn't do anything, you know, because, well, I mean, who are we to say?

00:09:53.020 When the only country most affected by this did something last night surgically, they are the tip of the spear.

00:10:02.620 They're the ones that are going to get speared first, vaporized first, and they're the ones that are like, you know what?

00:10:09.360 I don't care what the rest of you guys say.

00:10:11.040 I'm taking care of this.

00:10:12.200 And they did something surgical.

00:10:15.380 Holy cow. 0.89

00:10:18.000 I've never seen anything like it.

00:10:20.620 War is changing.

00:10:22.500 I have to tell you, what Israel did matters. 0.99

00:10:33.480 Now, I got on the social media spheres last night, and I just gave a few opinions, and none of them were bloodthirsty.

00:10:47.900 But, boy, I got to tell you, I am a warmonger and a Jew lover, I found out, from a lot of people.

00:10:54.860 I've listened to you for years, and I've always known you were a Jew lover. 0.90

00:10:59.520 Holy cow. 0.89

00:11:00.420 You haven't listened to me for years then, okay?

00:11:03.400 Or you've just been closeted in your hatred.

00:11:06.360 But what Israel did matters because they didn't wait for the mushroom cloud. 0.99

00:11:11.900 They struck not to conquer but to prevent.

00:11:15.000 Tell me the last time our country even that you can say, I used to say this all the time,

00:11:20.460 Look, we have never been in it for land or oil or anything else, and I don't know if I believe that anymore.

00:11:26.240 We've done a lot of really bad things.

00:11:28.620 A lot of really bad things.

00:11:30.440 Every country does.

00:11:31.960 But are you telling me that our government, we haven't done a war or two here recently where we haven't had greedy eyes on the wealth of another nation?

00:11:41.660 Where's the greedy eyes on Israel?

00:11:43.620 What did they do?

00:11:44.240 They killed their top scientists, and they killed the leaders of their military, and then they took out the installation that was making the bomb.

00:11:53.900 Boy, that's, wow.

00:11:56.360 Isn't that horrible?

00:11:57.300 Let me be really, really clear.

00:12:01.920 That is really good, but it doesn't mean that it's, you know, the Middle East isn't going to spiral out of control, 0.97

00:12:08.380 and it doesn't mean our streets in Europe or in America are going to get more peaceful, okay?

00:12:15.140 It may spiral out of control, and I hope not.

00:12:20.340 But let me quote Thomas Jefferson poorly.

00:12:24.280 But after he stopped our first foreign war with the Barbary pirates, which was Islam, 0.95

00:12:31.140 who just were coming on the seas and taking everybody's ship and their stuff, 0.93

00:12:34.580 and then they were enslaving or killing any infidel. 1.00

00:12:37.280 Because, you know, you're not a Muslim, and if you won't submit, I can either kill you or use you as, you know, a sex slave or some other kind of slave. 1.00

00:12:45.720 And he really didn't understand that. 1.00

00:12:48.000 And, you know, everybody's like, we got to get out of that war.

00:12:50.820 And so we did, but he said at the end, you know, I just got to warn you, it's our first foreign war, 0.91

00:12:56.880 but if we don't understand the ideology that these people have, it will be our last war as well.

00:13:06.300 And I think we are going to find, I mean, look at what's happening in Europe. 0.99

00:13:09.800 Look what's happening in our own streets with the Palestinian crap. 1.00

00:13:13.420 Where do you think that all comes from? 1.00

00:13:15.080 If you don't think we're going to eventually have a war with Islam, you are mistaken. 0.96

00:13:21.940 And I don't want one, because I think it is going to be ugly.

00:13:24.980 But just look at the state of Europe.

00:13:29.700 Now, I don't want to rush into it. I don't want it.

00:13:33.000 I pray that it never happens.

00:13:34.940 But not every preemptive strike is in Iraq.

00:13:39.500 Not every enemy is rational.

00:13:42.780 And not every country has people in it that don't want what we, they don't think like, you know, we think.

00:13:49.740 The Persians think like we think. 1.00

00:13:53.560 And they have spent two decades slow walking this game, smuggling uranium, building enrichment centrifuges.

00:14:01.120 They have funding proxies.

00:14:04.580 They are slaughtering protesters in their own streets.

00:14:07.680 The difference is now Israel felt the clock was up.

00:14:11.840 And Israel knew if they waited, there'd be no second chance.

00:14:15.320 So the world can criticize all they want.

00:14:17.560 They can lecture all they want.

00:14:18.660 They can threaten resolutions.

00:14:20.080 Israel stood alone.

00:14:21.280 And they didn't do it out of vengeance.

00:14:23.180 But because the alternative was unthinkable.

00:14:28.760 Again, let me say it for the third time.

00:14:30.320 I hate war.

00:14:32.080 I do not want us to get involved in another war.

00:14:36.220 I love peace.

00:14:38.360 But peace doesn't come from pretending evil doesn't exist.

00:14:43.960 You know, you're not being asked to rush the gates.

00:14:47.880 You're being asked, can you just stop holding the gates open for these people?

00:14:54.140 And that's exactly what is happening on our streets, in our universities, in our business, in our government.

00:15:01.500 We are holding the door open every time somebody else comes across our border.

00:15:06.320 Every time you say, I don't want to get rid of those people.

00:15:08.900 We have 8,000 people that we know of that are here, that are Islamists, that are also on the terrorist watch list.

00:15:17.940 8,000 people here.

00:15:19.420 You remember what 19 did?

00:15:20.800 If you don't think that we're going to be fighting this at some point, because we can't seem to get serious,

00:15:26.280 nobody will even say, I can't tell you how much trouble I'm going to be in for saying Islamists are evil. 0.95

00:15:34.840 It's evil. 0.61

00:15:36.800 I'm sorry.

00:15:38.380 You're 45.

00:15:40.000 She's 9.

00:15:42.580 Nope, I'm not going to condone that.

00:15:45.720 That's evil.

00:15:46.780 We cannot pretend that evil doesn't exist.

00:15:55.900 And, you know, what happens is, you know, you have to stop it coming, you know, you have to stop it before it gets a bomb.

00:16:04.300 And I hope Israel can do that.

00:16:06.500 And I pray for the people of Israel.

00:16:09.760 I pray for the people in Iran.

00:16:13.440 My gosh.

00:16:15.040 They're on our side. 0.85

00:16:17.280 They want these monsters gone.

00:16:20.040 And I was so happy to see how surgical this strike was.

00:16:24.960 I mean, I've never seen anything like it.

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00:17:55.740 Now back to the podcast.

00:17:57.460 Friend of the program and friend, Lieutenant Colonel Retired, Jonathan Conricus.

00:18:04.640 John, how are you today?

00:18:07.740 So far, so good.

00:18:09.340 Thankful of everything happening and happy to be on your show and discussing what

00:18:13.360 we're about to discuss, Glenn.

00:18:16.300 A lot of people were praying for you last night.

00:18:18.700 A lot of Americans are a little freaked out.

00:18:20.960 I kind of I'm not freaked out, but I'm very concerned.

00:18:24.240 You know, one of the things that, you know, the president, one of the things he really ran

00:18:28.640 and won on is we're going to stop all these endless wars and we don't have an end in sight

00:18:33.800 for Russia and Ukraine.

00:18:36.580 And this one, while this is your battle and a very important one, it is going to affect

00:18:42.720 the entire world.

00:18:44.180 What happened?

00:18:46.420 How what was the convincing evidence?

00:18:49.100 If you can tell us.

00:18:51.000 How close were they to a bomb?

00:18:53.320 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:18:56.440 And I think the concerns of the Americans that you referred to, they are very valid, that

00:19:01.280 this will affect other people in the world.

00:19:03.600 I think what Israel did has the potential to affect significant positive change in the

00:19:10.720 region.

00:19:11.100 And currently, the ball is in the Iranian hands. 1.00

00:19:16.340 They have now the option to choose how to respond to what you, I think, correctly described

00:19:22.320 as a quite a magnificent and unprecedented military strike surprise against Iran, taking

00:19:28.980 out more than 20 of their senior leaders, conducting hundreds of strikes in all across Iran, about

00:19:36.720 eight, nine hundred, a thousand miles away from Israel.

00:19:40.160 We struck and all of our pilots have come home safely.

00:19:44.060 Many months of preparations and many years of collecting intelligence, Mossad and Israeli 0.76

00:19:51.400 Air Force cooperating together here, maybe also special forces on the ground.

00:19:56.260 But bottom line, this is a really, I think, an historic operation that will be studied by

00:20:01.400 military experts.

00:20:02.360 But we'll leave that aside for a second and address the concerns of people.

00:20:06.280 Now, the Iranians have to decide what are they going to do?

00:20:10.380 How are they going to respond?

00:20:11.640 They've tried to respond by sending about 100 drones.

00:20:15.320 They've been intercepted.

00:20:16.680 And now we're going to see how the Iranians are responding.

00:20:19.240 And the president, I think, very correctly, tell them, well, you got the option of going

00:20:24.300 and making a deal because you, the Iranians, are not going to have a nuclear bomb.

00:20:29.200 And if you continue going down the path of violence, then this will end badly for you.

00:20:34.340 That's what the U.S. president is saying.

00:20:36.020 Now, in terms of what, you know, the tipping point was, Iran has been dashing for the bomb 0.96

00:20:43.080 for a long period of time.

00:20:44.900 I think the atomic agency report that verified that Iran is not only enriching uranium to

00:20:53.180 weapons grade and has enough fissile material for at least 10 bombs, but that Iran is also 0.93

00:20:59.260 in non-compliance when it comes to their obligations to allow international supervision

00:21:05.860 of their sites.

00:21:07.620 And I think that and a lot of intelligence that we will, I think, have declassified in

00:21:11.800 the future was the tipping point.

00:21:14.840 And at the end of the day, this is has been, you know, months, if not years in the making.

00:21:19.520 Iran has an open goal to annihilate the state of Israel. 0.95

00:21:22.680 They say it clearly in Farsi and their language.

00:21:26.500 We know that they mean business.

00:21:28.200 And we also know that if we allow them to develop the tools to do so, they might be tempted

00:21:33.120 to use them.

00:21:33.840 And that is what Israel has today started to unravel in terms of those Iranian capabilities. 0.99

00:21:39.880 So I was a little disappointed today at two Israeli officials.

00:21:44.180 That's all it said in this Axios article that they said that President Trump was instrumental

00:21:50.660 in all of this, et cetera, et cetera.

00:21:52.540 But he and Benjamin Netanyahu were engaged in deception.

00:21:57.920 And I, I read this as I don't think Israel would have done something this massive without 0.94

00:22:04.040 the United States, you know, in their corner.

00:22:06.820 But I don't think it's deceptive when the president says you have 60 days to negotiate

00:22:11.600 and you don't want to see what happens on day 61.

00:22:15.460 I don't think that's deceptive to make plans to go in on day 61.

00:22:20.100 He kept giving them the same warning over and over again.

00:22:23.880 Do you read that as deception or a negotiator that is telling you the truth?

00:22:28.800 I think actually it's both.

00:22:32.620 It's deception in the good way of how to wage war and how to catch your enemy unaware and

00:22:40.820 unprepared.

00:22:42.660 And that is what Israel did. 0.96

00:22:44.380 Has the US president been deceptive?

00:22:46.820 No, I don't think so.

00:22:47.900 I think he's been very straightforward, telling the Iranians time and time again, this is the

00:22:53.180 best deal that you're going to get.

00:22:54.740 You should relinquish all attempts to enrich material in Iran, and you should allow full 0.97

00:23:01.620 comprehensive inspection of all of your sites, nuclear, as well as weapons development.

00:23:07.200 And if you do that, nothing bad is going to happen.

00:23:10.020 And we will probably freeze sanctions and good things will happen to Iran. 0.91

00:23:14.340 The Iranian leadership heard that, but didn't do it.

00:23:17.920 And as you said correctly, we are today on day 61 of the presidential ultimatum.

00:23:23.080 And this is what happens.

00:23:25.640 Yeah, it's just a president that draws a red line and then actually means it.

00:23:29.060 Ben Rhodes came out today and said, war is breaking out because Donald Trump pulled out

00:23:32.480 of the Iran deal and got humiliated by Netanyahu while trying to negotiate his own.

00:23:37.300 And he's going to have a military parade for his birthday.

00:23:39.840 This is the weakest strongman ever.

00:23:41.820 Is that why this happened?

00:23:43.300 Because Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran deal?

00:23:46.480 I think that sounds like a very bitter former person of influence who, you know, was part

00:23:55.440 in devising a lousy deal for America, a lousy deal for the world.

00:24:01.620 And he's bitter because the other perspective and the other line of thought is prevailing.

00:24:08.820 And I think that if we look at the current situation in the Middle East, the biggest destabilizing 0.97

00:24:14.540 and terror supporting country in the region that has its tentacles or had its tentacles

00:24:20.380 in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and that was trying to develop nuclear weapons, Iran

00:24:27.820 is now being right sized and put in a tight spot.

00:24:32.460 Maybe Mr. Rhodes has sympathy for the Iranian regime.

00:24:36.020 I do not.

00:24:37.000 I do not wish to see what happens if that regime is allowed to develop weapons, because I know

00:24:43.500 that they are a genocidal and absolutely crazy regime that might do the most horrible things.

00:24:49.840 And of course, Mr. Rhodes probably doesn't assess it like that because he lives far away

00:24:54.660 and he isn't Israeli.

00:24:56.740 But for us Israelis, it is as tangible and as existential as it gets.

00:25:02.920 So I think contrary, I think just one thing, you know, President Trump in his first presidency,

00:25:08.940 he gave the bribe, the brave and correct order to take out Qasem Soleimani, the very important

00:25:15.900 Iranian general.

00:25:16.960 At the time, there was an entire chorus around the world, American media, blaming President

00:25:22.400 Trump for escalating, opening World War Three and all matter of other fabricated nonsense.

00:25:28.140 None of that happened.

00:25:29.760 And what President Trump did, what he ordered and what U.S. troops did was to take out the

00:25:35.640 most important mastermind of Iranian expansionism. 0.89

00:25:39.660 And I think that today that is also important because had he been around Qasem Soleimani, I'm

00:25:45.380 pretty sure that the Iranians would have fared better since October 7 and we would have had 1.00

00:25:50.440 a more difficult situation.

00:25:52.120 He is not around.

00:25:53.020 And I give credit to President Trump for doing that.

00:25:55.460 And I give credit to President Trump for supporting Israel and for working together with Israel,

00:26:01.780 of course, keeping America's interests first and Israel's interests second.

00:26:06.220 That's what the U.S. president should be doing.

00:26:08.280 But the interest here, they are aligning.

00:26:10.840 And I think we're in a very good situation.

00:26:13.720 I hope good things will come.

00:26:15.180 I hope prosperity.

00:26:16.620 I hope freedom for the Iranian people is just around the corner.

00:26:20.380 And I hope prosperity for all the people in the Middle East is around the corner.

00:26:24.580 It can happen because the Iranian regime was standing in between that progress.

00:26:30.500 And now there's a different time for the Iranian regime.

00:26:34.540 It would be amazing if we saw the regime actually topple and the people were free because the Persian 1.00

00:26:41.580 people are wonderful.

00:26:43.080 Let me ask you, you know, we're seeing we're seeing riots on our streets.

00:26:47.700 We're seeing it in Europe and it always has either a communist, socialist, anarchist and

00:26:54.000 an Islamicist tint to them.

00:26:57.680 The Palestinian protests are growing everywhere.

00:27:00.680 And I just look at this and say this is our future for the entire Western world.

00:27:06.360 Should we be concerned that this activity now, the green lights will be given to, let's say,

00:27:13.680 the 8,000 terrorists that we know are here in America, let alone all over Europe?

00:27:18.640 Yeah, I think that the West Europe to a more severe extent and the US to a certain extent in certain states

00:27:30.540 and certain cities, mostly along the coasts and less inside the country, perhaps barring Chicago

00:27:37.640 and the few areas of the Great Lakes.

00:27:41.340 But by and large, there's a significant threat to the Western-based system of democracy,

00:27:50.520 civil liberties, law and order.

00:27:52.840 And it is being implemented on the ground and carried and pushed forward by many rogue elements,

00:28:00.180 one of them being Islamists that are espousing terrorist ideologies and that deep down do 0.87

00:28:06.360 not agree with the Judeo-Christian values that are today governing the world and led by free

00:28:13.960 democracies.

00:28:14.840 And they are trying to import their failed system of governance and their outlook on life, which

00:28:23.460 they brought from the Middle East and from other places and enforce that on free democratic

00:28:28.780 societies.

00:28:29.860 And they're abusing the system, the liberties, the freedoms and the rights that democracies

00:28:35.900 like the US and in Europe avail people.

00:28:38.920 They're marching on the streets under the guise of free speech.

00:28:42.400 They are advocating violence.

00:28:44.740 They are trying to undermine the social fabric of society.

00:28:47.800 They're espousing terrorism.

00:28:49.520 They are glorifying violence.

00:28:51.860 And of course, anti-Semitism is always also in that bag of negative things.

00:28:57.100 And I think it is high time that there's a serious debate in the US and in the West.

00:29:03.820 I think the situation in Europe is far worse than it is in the US.

00:29:07.680 And I think Americans can look at the streets of London and Paris and heed warning and say,

00:29:13.440 if we want to reach a situation where the streets are dominated by Islamists and where

00:29:18.700 an ordinary white Christian or Jew or someone who isn't a Muslim extremist cannot walk the

00:29:25.820 streets safely in the streets of their home country, then we better look at what's happening

00:29:32.260 in Europe and take action before.

00:29:34.280 Now, to be clear, I am not branding all Muslims as terror supporters.

00:29:40.400 There are many great Americans who are of Muslim heritage, who are loyal American citizens,

00:29:46.700 who are not espousing terrorism.

00:29:48.260 But those who do, those who seek to undermine Western democracy, those who seek to undermine

00:29:54.640 law and order and a free and right-based society and to import dark worldviews from the Middle 0.99

00:30:02.260 East based on all kinds of extremist ideologies, they should be met with a firm response.

00:30:09.240 And in most cases, they are not met with firm responses.

00:30:12.340 And then they expand.

00:30:15.240 Lieutenant Colonel, I know you have to run.

00:30:16.760 You've got a busy day.

00:30:18.440 Thank you for spending time.

00:30:20.120 Is this over now or is there more to come?

00:30:22.720 No, no.

00:30:24.120 This is not even the end of the beginning.

00:30:27.240 Okay.

00:30:28.240 Lieutenant Colonel, thank you so much.

00:30:29.920 Appreciate it.

00:30:30.640 God bless.

00:30:30.940 Thank you, Glenn.

00:30:31.180 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:30:36.300 You know, every show today can talk about the theatrics of Senator Padilla and Senator Warren

00:30:44.660 yesterday.

00:30:45.240 But it takes the special podcast to introduce you to Masterpiece Theater.

00:30:54.980 Tonight, we present a spectacle so sublime, so stupendous, it shall sear itself into the

00:31:02.060 annals of human history.

00:31:04.560 Behold, America's greatest thespians, nay, titans of the stage, Senator Alex Padilla, Senator

00:31:13.140 Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Cory Booker.

00:31:16.240 Prepare yourself for a torrent of fear, a deluge of tears, a veritable hurricane of histrionics.

00:31:24.020 First, witness Senator Alex Padilla as the poor, downtrodden, utterly helpless, yet inexplicably

00:31:31.940 powerful senator from California.

00:31:34.460 See him bum-rush the stage in a mostly peaceful, chaotic sort of way.

00:31:41.360 Then, Senator Elizabeth Warren takes the stage with her heart-wrenching monologue, which we've

00:31:47.340 dubbed the Trail of Tears.

00:31:50.260 Watch as she channels the anguish of a thousand ancestors, her voice trembling with the weight

00:31:56.660 of a nation's sorrow, or possibly just a really bad day at the Capitol cafeteria.

00:32:03.120 And finally, Senator Cory Booker unleashes the full outrage in our climactic opus, The Coming

00:32:10.820 of a Tyrant.

00:32:12.040 Feel the Earthquake beneath his righteous fury.

00:32:16.220 Marvel as he roars defiance.

00:32:19.320 Is every syllable a dagger to the heart of despotism?

00:32:23.180 Or at least to the heart of anyone who forgets to mute a Zoom call.

00:32:27.940 So, dear audience, gird your loins for an evening and episode of passion, pathos, and possibly a

00:32:37.200 few pulled hamstrings, because this is Masterpiece Theater.

00:32:43.880 We join the action now in California at a Kristi Noem press conference.

00:32:50.260 And in the room somewhere in the back, Senator Alex Padilla.

00:32:57.160 Let's listen in.

00:32:58.500 The burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country

00:33:05.360 and what they have tried to insert into this city.

00:33:08.560 So I want to say thank you to every single person that has been able to do this.

00:33:14.140 I'm Senator Alex Padilla.

00:33:15.760 I have a question for the secretary, because the fact of the matter is a half a dozen violent

00:33:22.100 criminals that you're rotating on your, on your, on your, how dare them, how dare them

00:33:31.940 indeed.

00:33:33.460 Okay.

00:33:33.740 So here he is.

00:33:35.100 He's identified himself after he bum rushes the podium for a live press conference.

00:33:41.200 He comes in, bum rushes. 1.00

00:33:43.020 He is not wearing his Senate pin, which would identify him.

00:33:46.280 They have no idea if he's a Senator or not. 0.97

00:33:48.700 I've never even heard of this clown. 0.98

00:33:51.100 Certainly wouldn't have recognized him. 0.92

00:33:53.680 It looks like somebody you would find, I don't know, sitting in the center of a Wendy's, you

00:33:58.100 know, for lunch.

00:33:58.920 I don't know who this guy is.

00:34:01.200 And so they get him out of there as they should.

00:34:03.760 I don't know if you know this, but, uh, this was his big stage debut.

00:34:09.440 This was his moment.

00:34:11.300 But before Israel could strike in those waning moments of his fame, Elizabeth Warren takes

00:34:21.260 the stage.

00:34:22.900 And here in the episode we call the trail of tears.

00:34:27.880 She says this.

00:34:30.640 When Senator Padilla gets pushed, shoved, thrown to the, handcuffed because he is asking questions,

00:34:41.640 because he is engaging in the very oversight that senators are supposed to engage in, then

00:34:48.540 What we're really talking about here is a Trump administration that just wants to shut down the ordinary functions of government.

00:34:58.180 He went there to observe and to ask questions.

00:35:01.440 Oh, here's a bonus.

00:35:02.100 And I watched with horror on this video, seeing these agents grab my colleague, my fellow senator

00:35:11.160 from California, grab him, push him out of the hearing.

00:35:14.960 And I am, I am shocked, shocked by how far we have descended in the first 140 days of this administration.

00:35:24.340 Oh my goodness.

00:35:25.380 Because if you can make Alex Padilla forcibly kneel before this executive, when does it stop?

00:35:33.420 When?

00:35:34.740 When dare I ask?

00:35:36.360 If you can force him to kneel to his knees, finally, when does it stop?

00:35:43.620 This is a test.

00:35:45.340 This is a crossroads.

00:35:47.220 This is a day in which the character of this body will be defined.

00:35:53.260 I say, dare I say, a day which will live in infamy.

00:35:58.700 I shall not bow.

00:36:00.920 Or even introduce myself for, you know, I'm just going to crash the press conference and

00:36:05.760 then just try to hijack it.

00:36:08.160 That's all I'm going to do.

00:36:09.580 That's all I'm going to do.

00:36:10.380 How dare you stop me?

00:36:13.300 When did, when did the Senate lose its decorum?

00:36:18.120 I mean, I expect this now from the, you know, from the Congress. 0.72

00:36:23.260 Generally, we've always known there are a few clowns in Congress, but now the senators are 0.92

00:36:27.800 all doing it. 0.89

00:36:28.460 I mean, there's nobody better at it than Cory Booker, though.

00:36:33.220 I mean, you want to talk.

00:36:34.180 He was good. 1.00

00:36:34.980 He is pathetic in every single way. 0.99

00:36:40.240 I love him. 0.99

00:36:40.820 A titan of the stage.

00:36:42.200 A titan of the stage.

00:36:43.920 Glenn, now you're a bit of a historian.

00:36:47.060 You own a museum, right?

00:36:49.300 You've been looking back at our history and throughout it.

00:36:52.840 At any point in the Federalist Papers or in our founding documents, was there a path created

00:36:59.680 for a senator to talk to a government official other than interrupting a press conference?

00:37:05.760 Has anyone ever thought of a way for them to meet and discuss an issue of importance?

00:37:10.140 No, it's in Section 2, Subject Section 3 of the Constitutionist part where they say, you

00:37:23.500 got questions, you got questions, you got to storm the room.

00:37:27.460 You just got to storm the room.

00:37:29.300 Don't tell anyone you're coming.

00:37:30.860 Don't announce yourself in advance.

00:37:32.260 Don't talk to the security.

00:37:33.200 Say, hey, just by the way, I'm going to go talk to, my name is Senator Aspedia.

00:37:36.780 Or if you did say that and they said, sir, this is a closed press conference, she's not

00:37:43.280 taking any questions, this is just a live broadcast, you can wait for her, she'll talk

00:37:47.300 to you after, and then you say, I have a right to storm the room. 0.97

00:37:53.660 How pathetic is it that they only had this little, they had this pathetic little 20 minute 0.97

00:37:58.920 period and now nobody's talking about it? 0.98

00:38:00.840 Oh, I know, I will say, the greatest party hurt by Israel's actions overnight was not 0.96

00:38:08.940 Iran, but it was Alex Padilla's fundraising, because this was his big plan, this was his

00:38:13.700 big moment in the sun.

00:38:15.280 He was going to take in millions of dollars and get all this attention and get all these

00:38:19.320 MSNBC hits and all the things that every senator seems to go to Washington for these

00:38:24.240 days, because it's certainly not making laws.

00:38:25.680 And he was going to have this wonderful wave of attention and he said he instead remained

00:38:31.620 the giant zilch he was yesterday. 1.00

00:38:34.080 He's going to remain a giant, pathetic, empty nothing of a senator that I might note, you 0.99

00:38:41.300 as a Radio Hall of Fame member and a person who follows this every day did not even know 0.99

00:38:46.880 who he was.

00:38:47.800 I mean, I mean, it was kind of like, you know, this guy named Alex Padilla, maybe, I don't

00:38:56.900 know, heard the name, he's a senator, perhaps, from, is that the, where, is that the ball club

00:39:03.660 in, in Washington, D.C.?

00:39:05.780 Oh, yeah.

00:39:06.620 No.

00:39:08.420 It's incredible.

00:39:09.520 And that's, that's who he is.

00:39:11.500 I mean, he, and it's funny, like the successful version, I suppose, of all of this is Cory

00:39:16.080 Booker, right?

00:39:16.600 Like he did this, he did this, you know, a big speech a few months ago that, you know,

00:39:22.840 everybody was, was talking about and, and then he, and that, you know, is on the heels

00:39:28.120 of his, I think, 2% presidential run effort, which was impressive as well back in the day.

00:39:34.540 So I think, you know, he's got a huge future as well.

00:39:37.380 Elizabeth Warren, kind of a trail of tears that we saw there.

00:39:41.460 That's good, that's good.

00:39:43.180 There's no acting involved in that.

00:39:44.840 She was just, she was just going into her kitchen to grab herself a beer and her husband's going

00:39:49.300 to just kind of pop in unexpectedly.

00:39:51.640 Whoa, whoa.

00:39:52.460 Hey, husband, uh, want a brew?

00:39:56.700 Well, the fascinating part about this is obviously they're bad at governance, but they're also bad

00:40:00.940 at this.

00:40:01.740 They're, these, they're not convincing people that anyone could take seriously, even if they

00:40:07.420 tried.

00:40:07.900 Well, they're, they are, all they are now is just storyline.

00:40:13.100 They are just telling a story.

00:40:14.920 You're watching a play when you're watching the Democrats in the, the left.

00:40:19.560 Now it is nothing but a play.

00:40:20.940 What are they doing?

00:40:22.180 They're getting ready for the big, no Kings thing on, uh, on Saturday, right?

00:40:29.660 All over the country, no Kings. 0.88

00:40:31.460 He, we he's, he's a tyrant.

00:40:33.120 He's a King.

00:40:33.740 So they've been planning this one for a while.

00:40:36.060 So what do they do this week?

00:40:37.660 Well, they make sure that they say that he's acting like a tyrant in Los Angeles.

00:40:42.920 Uh, then they say he's acting like a tyrant because he just scooping people up in the

00:40:47.060 middle of the night.

00:40:47.940 Then he's acting like a tyrant because he has a giant missile parade and nobody does that

00:40:53.040 a missile parade, nothing, nobody, but North Korea does that.

00:40:57.320 Uh, and then this, they storm in.

00:40:59.800 They know that they're going to be pushed back.

00:41:01.900 They're hoping to be pushed back.

00:41:04.400 Uh, and, and why, what do they, what do they get out of it?

00:41:07.880 They all run to the run to the social media boxes and go, Oh my God, he's a tyrant. 0.91

00:41:14.720 He's a tyrant.

00:41:15.360 That's all they're doing is they're setting this up for him to be a tyrant and it's not

00:41:19.640 working.

00:41:20.060 You're just not, I don't, I mean, I'm not buying it. 1.00

00:41:22.760 I, I mean, as well as they're really stupid people in the country that, you know, look at 1.00

00:41:26.560 that and go, I think those are real tears coming from that, that squaw. 1.00

00:41:31.000 I think those are real squaw like tears, by the way, I heard the New York times, uh, the

00:41:38.000 daily with Michael Barbaro.

00:41:40.900 Uh, wow.

00:41:42.500 They did the whole thing on the missile parade.

00:41:45.300 Stu, you got to listen to this.

00:41:46.960 It'll drive, it'll drive you out of your mind.

00:41:49.680 So this is what they said.

00:41:51.260 They said first, it was a bad idea.

00:41:53.960 Why, why did he do this?

00:41:54.980 We're talking to expert on parades, uh, on the missile parade.

00:41:58.740 Why, why would he do this?

00:42:01.320 Well, a lot of people are upset because no democracy does this only dictators.

00:42:06.720 Well, I'm going to actually going to get to that here in a second.

00:42:09.520 Uh, but we don't do these things and except, except for Wilson FDR Eisenhower, JFK's inauguration,

00:42:17.500 none during Vietnam and then after the Gulf War with George, George W. Bush, but we haven't

00:42:22.900 done these things.

00:42:23.800 We just don't do them.

00:42:25.380 We never had.

00:42:26.920 Also, I would like to point out the, you know, the VFW and the foreign legion every year and

00:42:31.640 thousands of parades all around the country, but you know, they don't usually have tanks,

00:42:35.980 but it's a really bad idea because it's also Trump's birthday, you know, now it takes them

00:42:42.500 almost eight minutes before they also say, and it's the army's 250th birthday.

00:42:48.320 They never say, and by the way, we're going into the 250th anniversary, um, of America,

00:42:55.440 but it's just Trump's birthday.

00:42:56.900 And then they say it's a bad idea because Washington DC is a dangerous place and people

00:43:02.020 could get hurt.

00:43:03.920 Dangerous.

00:43:05.120 What, since when is Washington DC dangerous to the New York times?

00:43:08.600 Are you a racist?

00:43:09.860 My gosh, it's safe.

00:43:10.880 And the new socialist mayor who defunded the police and painted BLM on the streets has that

00:43:15.220 city running like a top.

00:43:16.780 It's completely safe.

00:43:18.920 But then it was too expensive.

00:43:21.940 You can't do that military parade because it's too expensive.

00:43:24.300 Yeah.

00:43:24.520 $45 million.

00:43:25.460 It is.

00:43:25.900 Now, my problem is, uh, you won't cut anything from the budget, even the corruption.

00:43:31.420 So how am I going to take you seriously about the budget?

00:43:34.540 And then my favorite is, which is they started with, they said, you know, Trump got this idea

00:43:39.860 because he was over in France and I can't explain France, but you know, no, no, no democracy

00:43:45.020 does this.

00:43:45.760 This is just dictators.

00:43:47.320 Uh, this, uh, we, we don't ever do this, you know, Republicans, I mean, sorry, uh, republics

00:43:52.640 or democracies.

00:43:53.600 Uh, you know, they don't have these military and they went on and on and on about how it

00:43:58.780 doesn't happen except for our closest cousin, England every year.

00:44:03.600 I know because I got caught in it last year.

00:44:05.980 Oh, geez.

00:44:06.900 They have something called trooping the color.

00:44:09.580 And that's the official birthday celebration of the King or the Queen.

00:44:13.700 And one of the oldest military traditions in the UK.

00:44:17.720 Uh, and they, they have all these guys, the military, and they do all these drills and they

00:44:22.840 all march out into them, you know, and it's not even on his birthday, his birthday.

00:44:26.920 I don't even know is in fall or something.

00:44:28.580 It's a complete sham.

00:44:29.620 Anyway, they don't have any missiles, but they've been dragging the troops out there,

00:44:33.480 you know?

00:44:34.020 So, uh, so Prince Charles can stand there all day and just look at him and go, yep,

00:44:39.580 they'll learn.

00:44:40.040 They're my boys.

00:44:41.480 Okay.

00:44:41.900 So you do it in England.

00:44:44.020 Um, then you also do it in, uh, France.

00:44:48.260 They've been doing it.

00:44:49.360 Bastille day military parade.

00:44:51.460 Uh, then you also do it in, uh, India.

00:44:55.740 Didn't know that.

00:44:56.560 Did you know that they do it in India?

00:44:59.340 Um, uh, and they also do it in another democracy as well.

00:45:05.460 I'm trying to remember which one it is.

00:45:07.180 Uh, but so it doesn't just happen in North Korea.

00:45:10.620 Hmm.

00:45:11.740 Shoot.

00:45:12.540 I guess they were wrong on all fronts. 0.95

00:45:14.440 New York times.

00:45:15.080 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

00:45:24.580 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:45:27.480 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:45:30.400 Are those from Winners?

00:45:31.940 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings.

00:45:34.400 Did she pay full price?

00:45:35.440 Or that leather tote?

00:45:36.780 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:45:37.980 Or those knee-high boots?

00:45:39.420 That dress?

00:45:40.220 That jacket?

00:45:40.880 Those shoes?

00:45:41.940 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:45:44.400 Stop wondering.

00:45:46.140 Start winning.

00:45:47.060 Winners.

00:45:47.660 Find fabulous for less.

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