The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Lt. Col. Oliver North ｜ 12⧸12⧸18

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00:00:08.480 Hey, we've got a great show lined up for you today.

00:00:11.600 Great podcast you don't want to miss, talking a little bit about what happened in France.

00:00:16.640 Oliver North stops in.

00:00:18.520 He was talking about an American hero that you have to meet.

00:00:23.340 But also, we kind of got into, you know, what's happening in the Trump administration,

00:00:27.000 because he went through a time of just nightmare scandal during Reagan.

00:00:32.980 Five years of hearings he had to deal with?

00:00:34.780 Yeah.

00:00:35.080 And I said, so what are you feeling?

00:00:36.940 What are these people feeling?

00:00:37.980 Really an interesting insight on that.

00:00:42.520 Also, we talk a little bit about Ocasio-Cortez.

00:00:47.300 What's the obsession, Glenn?

00:00:48.600 Why?

00:00:48.960 You know what?

00:00:49.420 She likes to think it's because she looks different and then she's female and that she's a victim of victimhood. 1.00

00:00:55.580 Luckily, she would not be up at the front of the TV all the time.

00:01:00.640 It's possible.

00:01:01.520 It's possible.

00:01:02.420 That's part of it.

00:01:03.100 Right.

00:01:03.380 You know, that happens with every politician, I guess.

00:01:05.440 But you posited a very interesting theory that we'll get into here in just a little while.

00:01:12.280 Also, an amazing story that happened in Alabama.

00:01:16.600 A nine-year-old girl who has killed herself over race.

00:01:20.940 A story that will haunt you and every American should know about.

00:01:25.640 All on today's podcast.

00:01:32.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:38.920 It's Wednesday, December 12th.

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00:02:32.540 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:35.300 Hey, how about that brawl yesterday in the Oval Office?

00:02:38.640 Was that great or what?

00:02:40.760 I mean, I don't think anybody won on that, but it was fun to watch.

00:02:45.180 I was actually, I want the Truman Show for all politicians.

00:02:49.040 I want them on camera all the time.

00:02:52.200 I think this is fantastic.

00:02:54.680 We'll get into that a little bit later.

00:02:56.600 Also, I want to talk to you a little bit of what's happening over in the U.K.

00:03:02.160 But now saying, who was it that downgraded?

00:03:05.800 Deutsche Bank.

00:03:06.780 Deutsche Bank just came out and said, yeah, we're going to raise the odds that the U.K., the government will collapse to 30%.

00:03:17.440 Ow. 0.99

00:03:19.760 But what is the president tweeting today?

00:03:21.660 Also, Christmas should be a time of happiness and celebration the world over.

00:03:27.000 But in Europe, it is now the season of terror.

00:03:30.760 The sounds of Europe's famous Christmas markets of Merry Christmas and laughter are being replaced with the sounds of Allah Akbar and gunfire.

00:03:40.600 Two years ago, ISIS attacked a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, injuring another 48.

00:03:46.740 And tragically, the sound of automatic gunfire.

00:03:50.380 Strange in a continent where you can't buy automatic weapons.

00:03:54.540 The chant of Allah Akbar was heard at yet another Christmas market in Europe yesterday.

00:04:00.620 This time, it was in France.

00:04:02.960 Two people are dead.

00:04:04.120 13 are battling for their lives right now in Strasbourg, France.

00:04:08.620 An attacker walked into the city market, the Christmas market, shortly after 8 p.m., and shouted, Alu Akbar.

00:04:16.840 And then he just started firing into the crowd.

00:04:19.860 He then proceeded to battle the police in four separate locations while he fled the scene.

00:04:25.660 At this moment, he still has not been caught.

00:04:29.440 The city of Strasbourg is on full lockdown.

00:04:31.920 France's terror level has been elevated.

00:04:34.300 A man, Middle Eastern descent, has been identified as the subject.

00:04:40.840 This is not going to be, this is not going to make things better in Europe.

00:04:46.380 This is not going to calm things down in Europe.

00:04:49.220 He was already on a terror watch list and had been deported from Germany recently with 20 criminal convictions.

00:04:58.820 Why was he still in Europe?

00:05:01.280 The politicians will have no answer.

00:05:04.300 And that is why people are in the streets.

00:05:07.240 One of the reasons.

00:05:09.040 He is also well known in the Islamist circles and has reportedly radicalized after spending time in prison.

00:05:17.980 Apparently, he wasn't too radical for the Germans, but not for France.

00:05:23.300 He was, the Germans said, eh?

00:05:25.120 But France said, oh, we'd like to welcome everyone, eh?

00:05:28.020 What is it going to take for these governments, like France?

00:05:32.640 Quite honestly, America is on this path as well, to wake up to their failed policies.

00:05:40.360 Nearly 300 people have been killed in terror attacks in France in the last three years alone.

00:05:48.100 300 people in three years.

00:05:50.600 But despite that, the French government refuses to address any immigration issues.

00:05:55.380 They continue to open their border policies.

00:05:58.420 They, more importantly, refuse to listen to their people when they try and tell them that they are scared to death over this issue.

00:06:06.620 This is something, if you're a long-time listener, we talked about for a long time.

00:06:10.940 What's happening in France is not only the coming insurrection, which is something that we talked about 10 years ago.

00:06:17.500 A legitimate plan from Marxists and communists published in a book called The Coming Insurrection, where the communist movement would take over.

00:06:28.280 But this is something else as well.

00:06:30.940 This is also the Bubba effect.

00:06:34.360 Something that we have warned against here in the United States.

00:06:38.340 And the Bubba effect is this.

00:06:41.880 There's a terror attack in the United States.

00:06:44.340 And somebody, nobody's doing anything.

00:06:48.560 And everybody's up in arms about it.

00:06:50.920 And the government hasn't listened.

00:06:53.280 And the government just hasn't done anything about it. 0.99

00:06:56.520 And they keep telling you, shut up. 1.00

00:06:58.620 Shut up. 1.00

00:06:59.300 You're a bigot. 1.00

00:07:00.000 You're a racist. 1.00

00:07:01.120 Well, there's going to be a time where a Bubba is working at the convenience store. 0.99

00:07:06.200 And a Sikh comes in. 0.98

00:07:08.060 Not a Muslim, a Sikh, but he's got a turban.

00:07:10.200 Bubba doesn't know the difference between the two. 0.98

00:07:12.320 Bubba just knows that people are coming into our country and they're killing people. 1.00

00:07:18.380 And he thinks, turban, Muslim, Muslim, killer. 1.00

00:07:22.900 And he shoots him. 1.00

00:07:25.320 And everybody in the town and everybody in the United States knows that Bubba was wrong.

00:07:31.800 And Bubba should pay for his crime of murder.

00:07:36.180 But when the feds arrive, the town gathers around Bubba and says, we're going to take care of Bubba.

00:07:45.640 You got nothing to say around here.

00:07:48.240 Because it's your incompetence. 0.99

00:07:50.680 It is your arrogance. 0.97

00:07:53.200 It is your refusal to listen to people like us.

00:07:57.660 Not Bubba.

00:07:58.460 Like us.

00:07:59.360 That is causing this.

00:08:03.540 Because Bubba's been a good guy the whole time.

00:08:06.360 But we're so frustrated.

00:08:08.420 And you keep telling us there's no difference between a Muslim and an Islamist. 0.97

00:08:13.280 And there is.

00:08:14.260 But Bubba doesn't know the difference.

00:08:15.880 Because you've told us to shut up.

00:08:19.300 So get out.

00:08:21.060 That's when civil war happens. 0.64

00:08:22.620 That is what special forces experts told me in 2006 was their greatest concern for the United States and its future.

00:08:36.420 A government that has not responded and listened to its people.

00:08:42.660 Now, I don't know if they've been preparing for that in France.

00:08:45.940 But that's part of what is happening all over the world.

00:08:50.920 This is one of the real reasons why the yellow vests are tearing the country apart. 1.00

00:08:56.620 The government refuses to listen to their fears on terrorism.

00:09:00.860 Unchecked immigration. 0.99

00:09:02.300 Open borders.

00:09:03.300 The failing economy.

00:09:04.820 High taxes.

00:09:05.940 Out of control spending.

00:09:07.920 Wow, do any of these things sound familiar to you?

00:09:10.700 How many years?

00:09:11.800 How many months?

00:09:12.560 Are we behind France?

00:09:15.820 Listen to us.

00:09:17.520 Listen to the people here in America.

00:09:19.220 Outrage has replaced baseball as our national pastime.

00:09:24.800 And do you know why Donald Trump won?

00:09:29.220 Because he's angry as hell, just like the rest of America is, of not being listened to or not having common sense listened to.

00:09:40.460 Nobody, nobody, nobody, well, I can't say this.

00:09:44.600 What, 3% maybe of people who want a border wall are like, because I don't want any of them Mexicans in here. 1.00

00:09:55.220 Maybe, maybe, and I think I'm being generous, maybe 3%.

00:09:58.460 Everybody else who says yes to the wall is saying, look, man, I just, we, we've got to protect ourselves.

00:10:08.100 Do you see what's happening in Europe?

00:10:09.520 We've got to protect ourselves.

00:10:11.800 We cannot have a rush at the border, just like everybody says, oh my gosh, you're not going to let those people into the life rafts?

00:10:20.800 No, because if they do, we all die.

00:10:25.620 And then we're not able to help anybody.

00:10:29.400 That's what's really going on here.

00:10:31.400 But the more we're told to shut up and sit down, and it's not a problem, the problem is with you, the more disenfranchised we come, we become.

00:10:45.860 I tweeted a political cartoon today that I thought was hysterical.

00:10:49.660 It had this alien coming out of this spaceship.

00:10:53.120 And it said, people of the earth, we have taken all of your politicians.

00:10:59.080 And if you don't do exactly what we say, we will release all of them.

00:11:08.020 That is the way I feel, man.

00:11:10.780 Take them. Take them. 0.97

00:11:14.020 People have lost the ability to engage in peaceful protest.

00:11:20.180 Street demonstrations have turned into street brawls over in Europe.

00:11:25.860 But look at the images from places like Portland.

00:11:29.080 European governments are losing the social contract with their people.

00:11:34.120 Why?

00:11:35.340 Because years of broken promises and outright lies from Washington.

00:11:41.800 Hear me.

00:11:44.300 If we don't work to reduce the chaos, that does not mean don't be angry.

00:11:51.840 There's a lot of things to be angry about.

00:11:54.140 But if we don't work to reduce the chaos, how long before what's happening over in Europe happens here?

00:12:06.680 We have this big fight over Kavanaugh. 0.99

00:12:19.820 Everybody's like, oh my gosh, he's going to go at night and kill women. 0.99

00:12:23.500 There will be no women. 1.00

00:12:24.780 If he's on the Supreme Court, he'll kill every woman on earth. 1.00

00:12:27.920 It'll just be a guy club. 1.00

00:12:29.860 He was in rape gangs.

00:12:31.180 Yes, I know. 0.88

00:12:31.920 I know.

00:12:32.300 It's not that much of a stretch.

00:12:33.420 And so it's so polarized.

00:12:34.580 And what happens?

00:12:35.520 He's become a friend of Planned Parenthood.

00:12:37.660 I know.

00:12:38.380 He's already betrayed us.

00:12:39.840 We should have let him derail his nomination.

00:12:43.480 No, we shouldn't have.

00:12:44.680 No, we shouldn't have.

00:12:44.700 Because you would have gotten Amy Coney Barrett.

00:12:47.300 No, we shouldn't.

00:12:47.860 Maybe.

00:12:48.300 We shouldn't have because it was the wrong thing.

00:12:50.440 You didn't want to set that precedent.

00:12:52.540 I'm not sure.

00:12:53.820 You know, and I said this during it.

00:12:56.380 Is this guy worth fighting for this hard?

00:12:58.780 I think as a justice, no.

00:13:00.240 Right.

00:13:00.660 He's not.

00:13:01.100 Correct.

00:13:01.620 He's not.

00:13:01.980 He was not worth fighting for, but the principle was.

00:13:05.040 The principle is worth fighting for.

00:13:06.380 Yes.

00:13:06.560 Yes.

00:13:06.940 And it's one decision.

00:13:07.740 We shouldn't say.

00:13:09.020 I know.

00:13:09.420 Hopefully this is one thing.

00:13:10.860 It's a bad sign that we were all nervous about.

00:13:13.880 We thought, Amy Coney Barrett would be so much better.

00:13:17.160 And sure enough, the first chance he gets, he goes to the other side.

00:13:22.220 And why is it that you never see the reverse?

00:13:25.140 You never say.

00:13:25.700 Because they actually believe in something.

00:13:28.260 We always try to get those people who are going to, you know, have no record of being

00:13:35.180 anything bad.

00:13:36.220 They won't take a hard test.

00:13:37.840 There's no litmus test.

00:13:38.380 Well, they have a litmus test.

00:13:40.380 We should have a litmus test.

00:13:42.600 We should.

00:13:42.780 But we don't.

00:13:43.040 And not on the issues, but on the Constitution.

00:13:45.600 Yeah.

00:13:45.760 I want you to rule on the Constitution as it was written.

00:13:49.820 Sometimes that will work for us.

00:13:51.200 Sometimes that will work against us.

00:13:52.720 I don't care.

00:13:53.720 As written, rule on the Constitution.

00:13:56.460 That's our litmus test.

00:13:58.020 Wouldn't it be nice if just once you could say, wow, can you believe Ruth Bader Ginsburg

00:14:02.420 sided with Clarence Thomas on that Second Amendment thing?

00:14:05.540 Right.

00:14:06.000 Never.

00:14:06.640 Whoa.

00:14:07.020 I didn't see Sonia Sotomayor getting together with Samuel Alito on abortion.

00:14:12.720 Ha! 0.89

00:14:13.680 I wish.

00:14:14.560 It's just never going to happen.

00:14:16.280 Didn't Trump in the campaign, too, say that he was actually fine with a litmus test on

00:14:20.260 some of these things?

00:14:20.780 He did.

00:14:21.140 I think he did, yeah.

00:14:21.220 He was the only one who said that.

00:14:23.120 And of course...

00:14:23.440 And he should be because the Democrats absolutely have a litmus test.

00:14:26.960 Of course they do.

00:14:27.520 The litmus test is Roe v. Wade is settled law.

00:14:30.960 Period.

00:14:31.500 It's constitutional that you can have abortion on demand. 0.73

00:14:34.700 Well, we should get somebody on the other side who says the opposite.

00:14:38.540 That should be the litmus test.

00:14:39.740 That seems right.

00:14:40.280 And again, we brought this up many times, but Kavanaugh was not on the list that got

00:14:46.680 Donald Trump elected.

00:14:47.880 Donald Trump came out with a list of 21 justices.

00:14:50.400 And it was the reason that dozens and dozens and dozens of people called this program and

00:14:55.360 said, you know what?

00:14:55.880 I have my hesitations on Trump on X, Y, and Z, but that list was really good.

00:15:00.440 And these are a lot of good justices, and that's a really important issue.

00:15:02.920 And it was a really logical way to cast your vote.

00:15:06.700 And he got elected, and the first one he took right off of that list, Neil Gorsuch.

00:15:11.260 And there's been no problems with him.

00:15:12.900 And then after he got elected...

00:15:13.840 No, he's been right every time.

00:15:14.540 He's been great.

00:15:16.240 After the election, they added five people.

00:15:18.440 Now, that's the one thing.

00:15:19.300 My only hesitation with Amy Coney Barrett is that she was also added after the election.

00:15:23.260 Why there are still 20 people on the original list that are not Supreme Court justices?

00:15:28.280 Yeah.

00:15:28.440 Why do you...

00:15:28.940 If you have 20 people still on that list, why are we expanding it?

00:15:32.320 Why are we expanding it?

00:15:33.140 They're all still there.

00:15:34.060 They're all still available.

00:15:35.600 Go take them off of that list.

00:15:36.800 The one that everyone came together and said, well, you know what?

00:15:39.500 If he sticks to that list, it's worth it no matter what he does.

00:15:41.860 Yeah.

00:15:41.960 I mean, Kavanaugh should have been, you know, after all of the justices had been replaced,

00:15:48.260 and we still had 11 more justices on that list.

00:15:51.100 And those 11 all dropped dead from a heart attack.

00:15:54.940 That's when Kavanaugh should have been considered.

00:15:57.320 It would have already had to get to zero.

00:15:59.380 It would be very unusual.

00:16:00.760 Very unusual.

00:16:01.140 Yes.

00:16:01.600 And sad.

00:16:02.180 So that's how far off the mark he is with Kavanaugh.

00:16:07.480 It should also be noted.

00:16:08.840 We can't let John Roberts off the hook here.

00:16:10.900 Oh, yeah.

00:16:11.140 Good point.

00:16:11.680 He also voted with the liberal justices.

00:16:14.080 Oh, I don't even count him as a...

00:16:15.300 John Roberts is not...

00:16:16.520 I mean, what a disappointment he's been.

00:16:18.200 I don't even consider him a...

00:16:20.000 He's almost a David Suterland by now.

00:16:22.220 He's almost that bad.

00:16:23.940 I mean, he's certainly at least...

00:16:25.520 He's going to...

00:16:26.120 You know he's at least going to be Kennedy.

00:16:27.840 Oh, yeah.

00:16:28.160 Which means that this whole thing about all these justices is not going to get you anywhere.

00:16:31.520 Right?

00:16:31.840 I mean, it's just going to bring you back to where we were.

00:16:32.980 No, because he'll take up that medal.

00:16:33.960 Yeah, he'll take it up.

00:16:34.660 And if Kavanaugh is also Kennedy, then you're Orsoff.

00:16:37.500 And it's some sort of legacy thing with him, I think.

00:16:41.300 With Roberts, it does feel that way.

00:16:42.460 With Roberts.

00:16:43.300 Yeah, Roberts.

00:16:43.620 I used to think maybe they had something on him.

00:16:45.600 No, I think it's just a legacy thing with him.

00:16:47.740 He wants to be remembered fondly by history books.

00:16:50.260 I don't even think it's that.

00:16:51.560 I think he doesn't want to be remembered as the Supreme Court that changed everything.

00:16:58.380 He just wants...

00:16:59.300 I think he wants a Supreme Court that's just kind of like, well, no, we're not doing anything over here.

00:17:04.760 No, everybody can love us.

00:17:06.920 We're in touch with everybody who loves us.

00:17:09.560 Listen, so many Republicans have learned that it's not possible for you.

00:17:13.660 If you're a Republican, if you're supposed to be...

00:17:16.300 I mean, just because he was named as a Republican, by a Republican, he will always be a Republican.

00:17:21.760 And they're never going to love it.

00:17:22.640 In the media's eyes.

00:17:23.120 No matter what he does.

00:17:24.840 And they never...

00:17:26.140 Do they ever give him credit?

00:17:27.340 Did Planned Parenthood send out a thank you to Kavanaugh and Roberts?

00:17:30.360 Nope.

00:17:30.700 No, looks like they'll call them, you know, that they hate women and they'll do it forever. 0.94

00:17:35.160 Yep.

00:17:35.880 Which means that he's either a much bigger man than I am.

00:17:40.420 And he was like, you know what?

00:17:42.440 I'm going to give a bone to them. 1.00

00:17:44.780 I'm going to try to...

00:17:45.580 And he's a much bigger man. 1.00

00:17:47.220 Stupid. 1.00

00:17:47.760 He's more stupid than I am. 1.00

00:17:49.100 It's also not his job to be a big man. 1.00

00:17:50.660 His job is to read the Constitution in our lives.

00:17:52.620 I know that.

00:17:53.160 I know that.

00:17:53.660 That's the problem.

00:17:54.000 But I remember when he was going through all this, my instinct was, I don't care what the Constitution says.

00:18:01.160 You come in front of me.

00:18:03.060 You're doomed.

00:18:04.760 It's a good instinct.

00:18:07.720 Yeah, it's a good instinct.

00:18:08.480 Thank you, Pat.

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00:18:30.680 There are only a couple of organizations that I belong to.

00:18:33.440 I'm not really a joiner, but I joined my church and I joined the NRA.

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00:18:51.120 And the president of the NRA, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, joins us now.

00:18:56.900 Hello, Oliver.

00:18:57.560 How are you?

00:18:58.460 I'm glad to be with you, brother.

00:18:59.940 I'm glad you're a member.

00:19:00.980 Yeah.

00:19:01.340 So I want you to take this month's magazines and tear out that right after my column on page nine.

00:19:08.960 And tear those out and give your best friends on the planet Earth memberships in the NRA for Christmas.

00:19:16.680 Merry Christmas, buddy.

00:19:17.760 I think I could do that.

00:19:18.900 Thank you very much.

00:19:19.500 Okay.

00:19:19.760 So we have you on because you're starting a new show on NRA TV.

00:19:24.660 Yeah.

00:19:25.120 And the first one is done by a guy who I'm not sure people really know.

00:19:30.200 The average person, they just don't know who this guy is.

00:19:33.020 And he is one of the greatest heroes of our lifetime, I believe.

00:19:37.780 All true.

00:19:38.280 Dave Eubank is a former U.S. Army ranger, a special forces officer, a missionary, and the founder of Free Burma Rangers.

00:19:48.920 And I had covered him when I still worked for Fox, made him part of one of our documentaries up in Kurdistan.

00:19:54.500 And went back out there because this man has such a great story.

00:19:59.100 He is an American hero, thus the name of the show.

00:20:02.600 And he's one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever met.

00:20:05.840 He is out there with his family.

00:20:08.180 In fact, he was in Syria yesterday with a congressional delegation.

00:20:11.640 He lives in Burma.

00:20:13.440 He has a home in Washington State.

00:20:16.980 He has the kind of courage that is so remarkable.

00:20:21.980 It just had to be our first story in this long series.

00:20:26.460 He really, truly believes that he's on a mission from God to help people and that, you know, God will protect him for as long as God needs him to do his thing.

00:20:37.300 And he brings his family with him.

00:20:40.420 And he's been in some of the worst places in the world trying to save people who are being oppressed.

00:20:48.980 Well, we were out there with him in Mosul, and I can tell you that was the worst place in the world.

00:20:53.580 Thankfully, it's getting better now.

00:20:54.860 But what he does is he takes his family with him, his lovely wife, his two gorgeous daughters, and his son.

00:21:01.980 How old are his children?

00:21:04.740 Oldest of 15, 16.

00:21:07.080 She's the only 16-year-old I know that can drive a Humvee. 0.90

00:21:10.860 Thank God she can because she saved a lot of lives by just putting that sucker on the road and going out and picking up casualties and bringing them back to a field hospital that they had set up. 0.99

00:21:23.340 You know, there's a lot, as you and I both know well, there's a lot of groups out there that will provide medicine and food and water and the essential supplies. 0.56

00:21:31.760 But there's very few that will deliver them to the front lines of a conflict like this.

00:21:36.720 And that's what makes this guy so remarkable.

00:21:38.880 Dave walked right up to me one day.

00:21:40.460 We were up in the berm right around Mosul, getting ready to go into the city.

00:21:45.740 And a casualty load came in from across the berm, helped by the Kurdish soldiers, the Peshmerga.

00:21:52.740 And every one of these folks was badly wounded.

00:21:56.140 And Dave raced out there in the middle of no man's land to bring him back.

00:21:59.880 We've got one very remarkable scene in it.

00:22:02.060 In fact, it's part of the tease for the show where he spots a little girl who's the only survivor of one of these massacres by ISIS.

00:22:08.920 And she's wrapped in her mother's clothing.

00:22:11.480 And what Dave does, only Dave could do, because he knew who to call on the telephone.

00:22:16.540 He calls an Iraqi general, and the Iraqi general eventually loans him a tank.

00:22:21.100 And Dave races up behind the tank right up to where the kid is.

00:22:24.260 Can't get out because he has to cross an open space of about 50 yards.

00:22:27.420 And he gets on the phone with a U.S. Army officer and a Marine artilleryman.

00:22:33.340 And they drop smoke in between Dave and this hospital that ISIS had taken over.

00:22:38.540 And it's an enormous fortress.

00:22:40.760 It's got anti-aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons, lots and lots of guys with guns.

00:22:45.300 And with just that tank to protect him, goes right up to the edge of this battle, races out, grabs the little girl and brings her back.

00:22:51.640 And the prayer he says just before he goes is as powerful as anything I've ever seen.

00:22:57.000 And he says, you know, afterwards, he said, I said, you're a hero.

00:23:00.600 He said, nobody ever wants to be a hero.

00:23:02.180 Nobody tries to be a hero.

00:23:03.440 And what, of course, a hero is, is a person who puts themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

00:23:09.640 That's clearly what Dave does every single day.

00:23:12.600 He does it in Burma.

00:23:13.840 He's done it in South Sudan.

00:23:15.220 He's done it in Iraq.

00:23:16.040 He's done it in Kurdistan.

00:23:17.140 And he's done it in Syria.

00:23:18.460 And without him, scores of people would have died that he saved.

00:23:22.300 So if you are a listener of this program and you are involved with the Nazarene Fund, you know that the Nazarene Fund now is in Burma.

00:23:31.300 And the guy who is working for the Nazarene Fund in Burma is the guy who had the rifle behind the tank and stepped out in front of the tank and started laying down fire.

00:23:44.940 So he could go run out and get the child.

00:23:47.520 And they're amazing people.

00:23:51.440 And this guy is one of the most amazing heroes around.

00:23:54.220 You can find it now on nratv.com.

00:23:57.320 That's nratv.com.

00:23:59.700 So, Oliver, can I ask you something?

00:24:01.900 Because you are such a piece of history now.

00:24:08.640 And you have been for a long time.

00:24:10.620 But now that we have distance from things and we see the world, as you see what you went through in the 1980s and how the world worked, how do you view that period of time compared to what we're going through now and what you're seeing happening in our country?

00:24:32.680 Well, quite frankly, I'm disappointed.

00:24:34.580 I'm disappointed to see that I was blessed to work for a great president.

00:24:39.000 His goal right from the very beginning of his eight years was to end the evil empire, and he did.

00:24:44.660 And, of course, that finished in the administration of the guy we just buried here a couple of days ago, George Herbert Walker Bush.

00:24:54.360 I look at what we went through back in those days to eliminate one of the greatest threats to mankind that ever was, which is the evil empire, the Soviet Union. 1.00

00:25:02.180 It's all its satellites.

00:25:03.000 And I look at what's happening today with terrorism.

00:25:06.220 I look at what's going on in our border.

00:25:08.060 And I say to myself, the polarization in the city where I have to go to work, Washington, D.C., the polarization is so great that a president, this president, cannot get the Congress to do what the Congress ought to do to protect our borders.

00:25:22.640 And a nation that has no borders is not a country.

00:25:26.460 I mean, the meeting yesterday with Pelosi and Schumer and the president of the Oval Office is an example of how incredibly left-leaning our Congress is today.

00:25:38.460 That's a shock to me, quite frankly, because I would have thought the American people did not want this kind of thing to be happening.

00:25:44.280 As I look at what's happening on our border, and I've been watching it for a while, and I've been comparing it to what's happening on the borders of Israel.

00:25:54.040 I believe that we are at the beginning of, you know, almost a Palestinian little mini state there on our border where we are going to be used just like the Israelis are used by the media.

00:26:11.780 They're going to attack.

00:26:13.660 They'll do things just to continue to bring America down to her knees. 1.00

00:26:18.520 I think we're in a really bad place to where you can't even recognize truth.

00:26:25.200 I mean, there are people who are refugees that should be allowed in, but there are also people who wish us ill that should not be let in.

00:26:33.820 Well, and what you just point out, the Israelis did solve that problem.

00:26:37.640 They built a wall.

00:26:38.320 They built a wall.

00:26:39.360 And doggone it, you can't argue with the effect of it.

00:26:43.020 And it stopped the kind of terrorism that Israel is experiencing almost every day.

00:26:49.000 It just eliminated it.

00:26:50.560 And at some point, they're probably going to have to build a wall around Gaza. 0.78

00:26:54.540 Look, the Iranians are stirring up trouble in that part of the world, the likes of which should never have happened, all because the last administration in Washington, D.C., let them get away with it. 1.00

00:27:03.640 In fact, helped pay for some of it.

00:27:05.560 Gave money back to them that they used for that very purpose.

00:27:08.120 What's going on in our southern border is not the direct consequence of that, but you've got to know that they're taking advantage of it.

00:27:15.200 And everybody that knows what's going on in the border, you've been there, I've been there, many of our listeners have been, that open border is an abscess in the health of America.

00:27:26.860 And what we saw happening before the tear gas was used with rocks and bottles and feces being thrown at U.S. Border Patrol, it's an outrage, and it should not be happening.

00:27:38.120 My hope is that the president sticks with his guns.

00:27:41.100 Mine too.

00:27:44.920 You know, everybody is talking about Cohen and Flynn and everything else today.

00:27:50.700 You've been at the eye of a hurricane like that before.

00:27:54.480 What does it feel like to be in that position?

00:27:59.620 And it must be very lonely.

00:28:03.060 Well, I was always certain of the outcome.

00:28:06.020 It was just a matter of how long it was going to take and how much it was going to cost to get there.

00:28:09.780 I never once doubted what my attorney, Brendan Sullivan, told me repeatedly.

00:28:14.320 It's going to turn out okay.

00:28:16.080 It's just going to be a long, hard slog to get there.

00:28:18.200 In my case, it took five years.

00:28:20.020 I was indicted in March of 1988.

00:28:22.600 The trial was over in 1992.

00:28:24.480 Went all the way to the Supreme Court.

00:28:25.880 And I was eventually vindicated.

00:28:28.580 The challenge today is they'll never do what they did to me.

00:28:32.500 They'll never put a hearing together like that.

00:28:35.260 They should never have brought back the special prosecutors.

00:28:38.800 I mean, it's the entire opposite of justice.

00:28:44.460 In justice, you have a crime committed.

00:28:46.300 You find the person who perpetrated it, and you give them justice.

00:28:49.480 In this case, you find a person, and then you go try to look for a crime that they committed.

00:28:54.640 And that's just the opposite of what justice really is.

00:28:57.740 And unfortunately, I said this to the president at the time, don't let this happen.

00:29:03.220 And unfortunately, they allowed the appointment, and you're going to get what you're always going to get with these circumstances is they've got a person.

00:29:13.100 Now they're going to have to find a crime for which they're going to convict them.

00:29:15.960 And, of course, that's what Flynn's going through right now.

00:29:17.880 Wow. Great perspective on that.

00:29:21.440 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, president of the NRA and the host of American Heroes, now on NRATV.com.

00:29:29.280 Always good to talk to you, sir.

00:29:30.820 Thank you so much.

00:29:31.700 Merry Christmas, my friend.

00:29:32.260 Merry Christmas. God bless.

00:29:38.120 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:29:47.880 Lots of emails have come in in regards to the Tyler Perry Walmart idea where he just went in and just paid for people's layaway.

00:30:03.980 Two stores did it in two stores.

00:30:06.380 Kid Rock just did it in Nashville as well.

00:30:09.180 And we've talked about it, and so many people are doing something similar.

00:30:15.560 And I just want to give you some of the emails that have come in.

00:30:19.740 Dear Mr. Beck, my husband and I listen to you every day.

00:30:22.120 Today, while you were talking about the Tyler Perry story and challenged your listeners to do the same,

00:30:26.560 my husband called me and said, let's do this.

00:30:29.440 We have been so stressed out and struggling financially, and with the season upon us,

00:30:35.780 we've been worried about how to afford to buy our kids things that we wanted to buy them for Christmas.

00:30:41.320 After listening to how your deeds affected so many people, we both realized how thankful we are for what we do have.

00:30:48.420 And we don't have to choose whether or not to buy my children toys or food.

00:30:52.360 This comes from a story that I told where a woman's layaway was paid off, and she said,

00:31:05.460 at the time, I have been laying awake.

00:31:09.280 I've been trying to figure out how to pay this.

00:31:11.200 I have three jobs.

00:31:12.800 My husband left me.

00:31:13.960 I lost my home.

00:31:14.860 I just was evicted.

00:31:16.280 I've got four kids.

00:31:17.500 And through tears, she said, I now, because somebody paid off my layaway, I now have the food I need.

00:31:28.720 I don't have to worry about a Christmas dinner.

00:31:31.180 I have the money to buy food.

00:31:33.780 That's remarkable to me.

00:31:37.020 And we don't sometimes live there.

00:31:40.000 You know, we get so lost in what we want or whatever that we don't really recognize the people

00:31:46.580 who might even be on our own street that are making that kind of choice.

00:31:52.160 After listening how it affected so many people, we figured that we could cut some spending out of our weekly budget

00:31:58.340 and pay $100 toward a layaway at Walmart.

00:32:02.380 I went to my nine-year-old son and told him what we were doing.

00:32:07.200 He gave me the last $15 he had from his lawn mowing money that he earned this summer.

00:32:12.960 Together, we paid two strangers' layaway bills off in full.

00:32:19.300 My son has a beaming smile on his face, and I am so proud of his generosity.

00:32:25.020 So, challenge accepted, Mr. Beck.

00:32:27.120 We have decided to this as a family now every year.

00:32:31.300 Dear Mr. Beck, I don't know how to go about things like this,

00:32:38.040 and I've always had trouble with issues expressing my feelings,

00:32:42.360 but I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart

00:32:45.120 because somebody paid off my layaway, and now I have a Christmas for my kids.

00:32:51.640 If it wasn't for a kind soul, my tree would be empty

00:32:55.380 because I couldn't afford to pay away my layaway.

00:32:58.360 I recently got married in November and found out that we were expecting our third child.

00:33:03.320 I've been in and out of the hospital, missing work,

00:33:05.460 and being sick that my paychecks were all we had to use for Christmas.

00:33:08.840 As a parent, being able to see my kids happy with a smile on their face Christmas Day

00:33:12.960 is a great blessing.

00:33:14.800 Thank you.

00:33:15.520 Thank you for giving me that joy and happiness on Christmas Day.

00:33:19.380 You and your listeners are an answer to our prayers.

00:33:22.220 Glenn, this might be the most memorable Christmas I have had in a long, long time.

00:33:29.460 After listening to your segment, I went to Walmart and wound up paying for seven families' gifts on layaway.

00:33:37.020 One family in line, plus we just finished shopping for two foster kids in the neighborhood.

00:33:42.960 At the end, the manager shook my hand, thanked me, and wished me Merry Christmas.

00:33:46.860 I couldn't even talk.

00:33:49.080 The lump in my throat prevented me from speaking.

00:33:51.960 I just nodded my head in agreement, tried to hold my tears back, and briskly left.

00:33:57.060 Tonight, I hope to make ten stockings out of paper to hang on the mantle.

00:34:01.280 It'll be reminded of what Christmas is really all about.

00:34:04.860 Thank you, Glenn, and thank you, Tyler Perry, for the great idea.

00:34:08.640 Thank you for everything and standing up.

00:34:11.460 Glenn, as a daily listener, you had the dad tears flowing today,

00:34:19.480 as you shared the Tyler Perry challenge that you experienced.

00:34:23.500 And as you said, it does ground you.

00:34:26.640 This year, I am so strapped that I can't even afford layaway,

00:34:29.940 as my wife has had a double mastectomy this year and nearly a year of chemo and radiation.

00:34:35.260 My precious bride of twenty-one years, becoming even more of a hero than she was

00:34:40.440 when she gave birth and blessed me with my four beautiful children, all under sixteen, no doubt.

00:34:45.920 But just hearing about the grandmother, hearing that she didn't have to cancel her Christmas,

00:34:52.060 and the mother of four after the husband had left and losing the house,

00:34:56.980 you had me in tears.

00:34:58.860 And for the first time in a long time, I was not cursing the traffic on the 405.

00:35:05.260 Instead, I was sharing in a truly human moment, with you and with millions.

00:35:11.320 I was touched deeply.

00:35:15.260 Thank you.

00:35:16.700 You stoked the fire of hope within me this morning.

00:35:21.200 I'm glad you took me there.

00:35:27.120 From San Antonio, Glenn,

00:35:29.060 I paid off three Walmart layaways as a result of your show.

00:35:33.940 One man in line.

00:35:36.660 He didn't know he had to pay the whole thing and didn't have the money.

00:35:40.560 So I tapped him on the shoulder and I told him,

00:35:42.680 I came here today to pay off some layaways and I'm happy to pay yours.

00:35:45.940 He was so thrilled that he called his wife and handed me the phone,

00:35:50.260 saying he wanted to thank me.

00:35:52.460 They were overjoyed.

00:35:53.480 I then paid two more while I was there.

00:35:56.360 What a great feeling.

00:35:59.540 You know, we, um,

00:36:02.180 we forget how easy it is to make an impact in somebody's life.

00:36:11.580 That it doesn't take a Tyler Perry.

00:36:14.300 It doesn't take a huge checking account.

00:36:18.140 I learned that Saturday as we were,

00:36:24.500 as we were shopping as a,

00:36:26.080 as a church,

00:36:27.060 we all went out to the Walmart and we were buying toys for a,

00:36:30.600 a, um,

00:36:34.080 a shelter for,

00:36:35.040 uh,

00:36:35.900 abused women and children.

00:36:39.020 And we do this every year.

00:36:40.280 We go out and we,

00:36:41.000 we shop for these kids and then the moms come in, 1.00

00:36:43.700 um,

00:36:44.540 to where we have all the toys and then they just go shopping for their kids. 0.99

00:36:47.120 And it's great.

00:36:47.800 We love it.

00:36:48.800 It's just so great.

00:36:51.360 And I,

00:36:52.120 I heard about the Tyler Perry,

00:36:53.820 uh,

00:36:54.720 thing that he did.

00:36:56.620 And I thought I've,

00:36:57.900 I've never even thought of that.

00:37:01.040 You know,

00:37:01.540 we think about the people in the homeless shelters and we think about the people

00:37:05.160 who are going out to get aid,

00:37:07.200 who are in real dire trouble,

00:37:08.700 but we never think about the people who are just on the edge,

00:37:11.940 the people who aren't asking for anything.

00:37:14.280 And I think that's why I liked the layaway thing so much is because these people

00:37:19.280 were not that the,

00:37:21.380 not that it's any different,

00:37:22.540 but these people were on the edge and they were trying,

00:37:28.120 trying to do their best to be able to have something under the tree for their

00:37:33.520 kids and nothing for them.

00:37:35.940 And,

00:37:37.940 uh,

00:37:38.320 it doesn't take a lot.

00:37:41.740 It doesn't,

00:37:42.120 you don't have to be Tyler Perry.

00:37:44.400 Find a way.

00:37:45.280 I challenge you and your family to put meaning in Christmas this year.

00:37:48.680 find a way to serve others,

00:37:51.840 find a way to find that person that thinks nobody even notices me.

00:37:58.740 Even if you don't go to church,

00:38:00.320 sometimes churches will know somebody in that,

00:38:03.540 you know,

00:38:04.140 that area,

00:38:04.900 that church that is really struggling.

00:38:09.240 So if you can't find anybody,

00:38:10.940 reach out to somebody else and say,

00:38:13.120 Hey,

00:38:13.200 do you know anybody who's just on the edge?

00:38:16.180 Cause I think that's what Christmas is really supposed to be about.

00:38:25.060 We're supposed to humble ourself at Thanksgiving and we're supposed to be down on

00:38:29.040 our knees and be able to see the child that is laying in the very humble manger

00:38:37.160 in the straw and the family that struggled just to be able to sleep in the

00:38:42.960 manger.

00:38:43.320 Let's celebrate this year by finding those families and helping them.

00:38:55.600 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:38:58.460 We found something on a GoFundMe page that I wanted to bring your attention to.

00:39:15.200 Cause I think for the next few days,

00:39:17.200 we should find a GoFundMe page that we could do and that we could point you to,

00:39:21.780 and we could make somebody's dream come true.

00:39:24.920 Okay.

00:39:25.680 So we found one,

00:39:27.160 uh,

00:39:27.740 from a family.

00:39:29.520 Um,

00:39:30.320 this family,

00:39:31.620 let me just say this.

00:39:32.640 My father was 19 years old and he's always wanted to go back,

00:39:36.660 uh,

00:39:37.640 to D-Day.

00:39:38.580 He landed,

00:39:39.560 uh,

00:39:40.660 at Normandy on D-Day and he has always wanted to go back to France.

00:39:45.480 He was the youngest in his unit.

00:39:47.460 He's now the only survivor of the four 53rd automatic weapons battalion out of Fort

00:39:51.980 Knox.

00:39:52.820 He was a machine gunner on a half track.

00:39:55.440 My mother never wanted to travel and he would never leave her side.

00:39:59.100 They were married for 71 years.

00:40:01.920 She's just passed away.

00:40:03.360 And my sister and I are trying to make my dad's dream come true and be part of

00:40:07.640 the D-Day ceremony in Normandy for the 75th reunion.

00:40:12.440 Um,

00:40:13.120 I think we can do this.

00:40:15.100 They want to raise $12,000 and I think they are,

00:40:19.980 I think they're almost halfway there now.

00:40:22.420 So I want you to go to GoFundMe and just,

00:40:26.740 uh,

00:40:27.620 just search for get to Normandy.

00:40:30.000 Okay.

00:40:30.500 Get to Normandy.

00:40:31.980 Uh,

00:40:32.540 it's a world war two veteran that wants to go to Normandy.

00:40:35.740 It's Lori and Julie are the daughters.

00:40:38.260 They're from Tacoma,

00:40:39.500 Washington.

00:40:40.540 Uh,

00:40:41.080 and,

00:40:42.080 uh,

00:40:42.300 their dad,

00:40:43.380 Lauren landed on the beach on June 6th,

00:40:47.180 1944.

00:40:47.960 And it would be so cool to put him back there for the 75th anniversary.

00:40:53.060 And it'd be great if they could have this all wrapped up and give it to him for

00:40:58.220 Christmas.

00:40:58.620 So go to GoFundMe.com and search for get to Normandy.

00:41:06.620 Now,

00:41:07.220 if you do do any of these things,

00:41:09.540 will you do yourself a favor?

00:41:12.220 Will you put this story underneath your tree?

00:41:16.920 What do you mean?

00:41:20.440 Put it under your tree.

00:41:21.140 If you're helping anybody,

00:41:23.100 if you went to Walmart,

00:41:25.220 put the receipt underneath your tree and open it on Christmas or put it in a

00:41:31.160 stocking and sit on Christmas morning and talk about the people that you

00:41:38.400 helped impact.

00:41:39.520 Let your children and you it's a,

00:41:42.520 it's the best present you can give to your family and you is to share your

00:41:46.620 blessings,

00:41:47.020 but I don't want you just to do it and then feel great today.

00:41:50.520 And then Christmas comes and you're not even thinking about it.

00:41:53.440 Put the receipt to remind you and talk to your family and your children.

00:41:58.160 So put,

00:41:59.420 if you help him out,

00:42:00.500 go to GoFundMe and search for,

00:42:04.040 uh,

00:42:05.140 get to Normandy.

00:42:06.920 Yeah.

00:42:07.380 We also,

00:42:07.900 uh,

00:42:08.120 I just retweeted it out for Matt world.

00:42:09.700 So we can do it from Glenn,

00:42:10.880 your account as well.

00:42:11.580 Okay.

00:42:12.440 Um,

00:42:12.840 and,

00:42:13.460 and help them,

00:42:14.260 but then print it out and make sure you talk about it with your family.

00:42:18.160 So you can enjoy the idea that they opened up a present as well,

00:42:24.480 that somebody else that you're not seeing,

00:42:27.080 you sent a present and it was a big deal.

00:42:30.380 And it was a great thing that they wouldn't have had for Christmas,

00:42:33.760 but you guys helped pitch in.

00:42:36.360 So again,

00:42:37.440 go to GoFundMe.com,

00:42:39.180 uh,

00:42:39.880 get to Normandy is what you search for.

00:42:42.280 And,

00:42:42.780 uh,

00:42:42.980 let's see what we can do.

00:42:43.820 I mean,

00:42:44.120 we should be able to do this within an hour.

00:42:46.780 Another,

00:42:47.120 like $4,000.

00:42:48.480 So they want to get to $12,000,

00:42:50.060 $8,000.

00:42:51.140 We should be able to raise this quickly,

00:42:52.640 go and,

00:42:54.060 uh,

00:42:54.480 do this right now.

00:42:55.900 It's a great story.

00:42:57.720 Make this,

00:42:58.760 this hero veteran,

00:43:00.740 make his lifelong dream come true.

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