Glenn Beck talks about the return of the authentic American spirit and how to get your life back. Glenn Beck is a conservative radio host and host of the radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on the Talk Network. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR and other media outlets.
00:02:40.760So I got up, and it's the middle of the night.
00:02:42.480It's, I don't know, 1, 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:02:44.220And I go out, and I just start working on some stuff.
00:02:48.580And then I find myself on Instagram, and I'm trapped in that hole for a second.
00:02:53.300But I stumbled across something from Britain's Got Talent, the Simon Cowell Show.
00:03:01.880And I always love these things where somebody is just amazing.
00:03:06.960But I found myself on the couch last night, you know, 1 o'clock in the morning, all by myself, crying like a little girl.
00:03:12.840I mean, I have, and I'm like, what is happening to me?
00:03:17.020Now, I usually cry, but I've noticed in the last four or five years, and I haven't talked about this, but I kind of felt like, gee, you're getting really dead inside, Glenn, because things weren't moving me emotionally.
00:24:18.040stuff that zelinski does he tries to try it in the in the court of public opinion um and trump's
00:24:26.300just not intimidated by that but he had to be tough on them not as a way to say i'm going to
00:24:32.560give favors to russia but he had to get them to the table and then go to russia and now he's tough
00:24:38.960on russia and you don't hear anybody saying oh well he's being so kind to ukraine he's a
00:24:45.780a master negotiator tell me about that moment in the in the oval if you can yeah let me give you
00:24:53.940a little bit of background on that because what happened is that morning we met with
00:24:57.340president zelinski at the hay adams hotel right across from the white house and we said to him
00:25:01.160look we kind of stage managed this is what you want to do you want to come in and talk to the
00:25:05.360president you want to he'll bring the press in you want to base you know thank you the american people
00:25:10.200for giving 176 million dollars of taxpayer money to support you and then when you're going to have
00:25:16.860a lunch and then you have a press conference and you exit stage left and it's all good well he came
00:25:20.840in he didn't listen to what we told him to do and he came in and he started to lecture the president
00:25:25.940and we told him before you are dealing with a different person this gentleman is not joe biden okay
00:25:32.560and the president let him go it was like and i was standing i was right behind the vice president
00:25:38.560right behind secretary rubio and i was one of those you don't want to reach over and said you
00:25:43.020clearly didn't listen to what we said president let him go and then when he said you need to kind
00:25:47.240of pick a side i knew that was the end the end state and basically it turned it he just blakes he
00:25:52.960blew up everything and the president wasn't going to budge and i think that that is the first time
00:25:57.640that president zelinski found out that he was going to try to play to the american people through the
00:26:04.220american press who were in the oval office and he was dealing with a guy who knew the press
00:26:08.300better than he did and the president said publicly afterwards heck that was even better than one of
00:26:12.580the apprentice shows and it really was it was and we said to him we hold the ace you know and he said
00:26:18.340doing the president said we hold all the cars we said fine we're not going to give you no more aid
00:26:22.120cut it off okay that just that was basically hitting him upside the head with a two by four
00:26:27.620saying do you realize what you've just done and and and they went to the roosevelt room and then they
00:26:34.260wanted to come back in the president said nope thank you very much but you're done
00:26:37.080and we escorted him out of the white house that was amazing that's never been done but that kind
00:26:42.300of got their attention and so what happened is intervening a couple of weeks everybody kind of
00:26:47.760not everybody but the ukrainians kind of understood what had happened and it generated a call obviously
00:26:53.700between president putin two days ago and then president zelinski yesterday and the call could not
00:26:58.520have gone better it was a great call and there was a lot of great discussion it went for well over an
00:27:04.280hour which one wait wait wait wait is that the zelinski call yeah the zelinski call see there is
00:27:09.900an hour when it's almost comparative in time because putin's call went almost two hours remember
00:27:14.580putin uses a translator so you double time yeah and then zelinski spoke in english and so uh it was
00:27:23.940basically a comparative call and spends time and effort and it was just a good call and he had the
00:27:28.620team around him he the president uh zelinski was in finland he was with president alex stubb who was
00:27:34.280a great friend of ours by the way uh he actually went to school in firman and actually plays golf with
00:27:38.780the president so he was there supporting and and i think we're all in good shape in this week we are
00:27:44.960putting what we call text technical teams in what are called proximity talks in saudi arabia where
00:27:51.700both sides come in they're kept in separate rooms and you basically say okay what is your terms
00:27:56.820and you turn to the other side what are your terms you kind of do it's basically shuttle diplomacy
00:28:01.180between rooms in in riyadh and that's where they're at and then we see where we can get to
00:28:07.120do a comprehensive ceasefire uh and that'll be the first step towards the at the end of this war
00:28:12.540and i think that's pretty fast the president said to me at one point and i i'm sure he has said this
00:28:19.180uh publicly as well um that you know he wasn't really prepared to be he thought he was but it was
00:28:26.380such a different job uh the first time around and you know you know where everybody on the view was
00:28:33.260hugging him just months before saying you're the greatest guy and you're our good friend and then
00:28:37.280all of a sudden all the knives come out he had to be stunned in that and then after 2020 he took the
00:28:44.240time to really analyze and prepare and put the right people around him and the one thing that has
00:28:51.500stunned me stunned me stunned me is i think he's one of the most well-read uh presidents uh we have
00:29:01.520had and i don't mean book smart stuff i mean you could ask him any question and he knows it down to
00:29:09.060the very smallest detail i found it am i misreading him or have you found that to be true no matter what
00:29:17.120you ask him about he knows it to the granular uh granular level yeah you know glenn he i'll give
00:29:25.560you kind of one of the inside stories on the fact that when you fly with him you know when you fly
00:29:30.680with him he always has a stack of newspapers and and from the new york times wall street journal
00:29:37.700washington post financial times and he reached through them and he and he's very very knowledgeable
00:29:43.040i was we were sitting in the oval during the first terms and he was talking about in the during the
00:29:47.240first term and he was talking about the uh you know aircraft carriers and the new aircraft carriers
00:29:52.500coming out the new forward class and what the problems were with the forward class and he said
00:29:56.520yeah there's you know where did he get this from i know they got a forbes magazine and you're
00:30:01.420absolutely right a couple things is when when the first administration you're absolutely right because
00:30:05.980nobody there's no book out there presidents for dummies you learn on the job it starts and i mean
00:30:10.580he learned so fast in that job but nobody is really prepared for a presidency remember president trump
00:30:16.200before he came to washington as a president i said i don't think he spent a night in washington dc ever
00:30:22.160so he came here and kind of came into it met obama and and and frankly i don't think he was well
00:30:29.140served by some of the people he brought in early on that's an understatement yeah and so he so he he
00:30:35.400basically you know we look we were under battle we were under siege before with the inauguration i
00:30:41.620mean i was with him on day one and we he was doing you know they wanted to impeach him before he even
00:30:46.580became president so we had to fight those battles okay fast forward to now oh yeah he when he went
00:30:52.620down to mar-a-lago and he said he's going to run again he prepared and he put a team around him
00:30:56.880a really smart team and he thought their way through it you know on day one of the first administration
00:31:01.500he signed one executive order i think on the first day of this administration he signed he signed
00:31:09.160over i think it was 47 on day one he signs him every day so we were rocking and rolling ready to go
00:31:14.700he to say he is prepared is a classic understatement and a difference between nine day but
00:31:20.580that is the beauty and you know something this is one of those you almost want to sit back and think
00:31:24.440about it in a way i'm glad there was a four-year break yeah because it allowed him to really reflect
00:31:30.360on the first administration what a second administration would look like the good the
00:31:35.020bad that the right people have around him and and and that's the reason why you're seeing him at uh
00:31:40.300do you talk about a man of action i mean i said we're day 59 and heck it feels like 59 years oh i know
00:31:46.000it's amazing this is the best of the glenbeck program so the president is going to um uh abolish
00:31:55.760parts of the doe uh but the department of education was um uh was first put in by jimmy carter and then
00:32:06.420a few years later it was it was you know set in stone by congress so he can't shut it down because
00:32:12.920congress established it okay so only congress can abolish it however he can trim the fat and he's
00:32:20.200going to cut it by about 50 percent today which is a great thing but as uh michaela was doing her
00:32:26.960homework on this um she said one of your producers yeah one of our producers she said um have you read
00:32:34.680the department of education organization act i'm like oh obviously of course i have but tell me what
00:32:41.920you found um listen to this it is the intention this is the founding document passed by congress
00:32:49.240it is the intention of congress in the establishment of the department of education to protect the rights
00:32:54.780of state and local governments and public and private educational institutions
00:33:00.080well just that are they operating within the law that was set by congress i think you could
00:33:08.560you could convince me that that's a good idea yeah right right that sounds great right so let me
00:33:14.000read that again the intention of congress in the establishment of the department of education to
00:33:19.600protect the rights of state and local governments and public and private educational institutions in
00:33:27.240the area of educational policies and administration of programs and to strengthen and improve the control
00:33:34.500of such governments and institutions over their own educational programs and policies you hear the second half of that
00:33:44.120to strengthen and improve the local and state administration and uh um and the control
00:33:55.640of their own educational programs and policies that is not what the do is doing no not even listen to the
00:34:03.840next line the establishment of the department of education shall not increase the authority of the federal
00:34:12.340government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the states
00:34:19.160and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the states oh wait this is not what the
00:34:29.100department of education is at all so when they say well he can't abolish the department of ed no they abolished
00:34:35.640the department of ed the department of ed isn't that right you know because like you just said i wouldn't have
00:34:42.680necessarily a problem with that i'd have some questions but yeah i wouldn't want it as a direction
00:34:49.100protecting local rights over education is exactly kind of what i want exactly right uh b no provision of a
00:34:57.300program administered by the secretary or any other officer of the department shall be construed to
00:35:03.640authorize the secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction supervision or control over the local
00:35:12.500curriculum any program of instruction or administration or personnel of any educational institution
00:35:20.900school or school system over any accrediting agency or association or over the selection and content of library resources textbooks or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system except to the extent authorized by this law
00:35:40.300i mean it seems all there's all sorts of limitations on it oh yeah i mean if you just go back to this
00:35:47.720if he just reset it to this do you know how many problems would go away i know this is really common too
00:35:55.220we mentioned the same thing with the patriot act yep like uh the guy who wrote the patriot act
00:36:00.500there's a bunch of these things going on they're like i can't believe the patriot act would do this and he's like i wrote it it's not supposed to do that
00:36:05.920like right that's not what it right that's not what it's supposed to do at all it always grows it always grows it always evades that initial
00:36:12.960yep uh you know the limiting principles put on it by the law itself which is amazing when you know that to be true and our founders knew that
00:36:21.640it's amazing how long our constitution and bill of rights has lasted yeah you know the average constitution's age
00:36:29.360in the history of the world the average age of death of a constitution is 17 years
00:36:37.580we're coming up to 250 uh of our of our declaration of independence 17 years that's the average we are so far
00:36:51.400out for it to have lasted this long knowing that this is what it always happens they always morph and
00:36:58.440distort and erase the original uh founding ideas uh wow that's impressive and we're still standing
00:37:07.840yeah and again giant chunks of it are still standing as we pointed out many times a lot of it isn't
00:37:14.020standing yes in other than it's just on paper but that's the problem right we should be back to it and
00:37:20.280should be trying to focus our country on following it again right a little bit more closely but i am glad
00:37:25.260that it still stands me too it's just us and what is it san marino there's one other one other weird
00:37:30.800country that has a very old constitution is that an old like chevy yeah it's the chevy san marino
00:37:36.140beautiful car yeah beautiful v8 yeah it's great yeah um here's the other thing that we need to talk
00:37:42.020about and that is these judges i'm going to get into tesla on this in a second and that's equally as
00:37:47.060important but let me talk again about the justices and the judges on what is happening
00:37:51.300um the judge has ordered to restore usaid uh worker access and forbids the shutdown because it's
00:38:01.980likely against the constitution well that's not your job um the opam the obama appointed judge trying
00:38:08.940to stop usaid shutdown donated thousands of dollars to the democrats the judge who blocked the key
00:38:14.700executive order has a long progressive activism history uh i mean we're we're having these judges
00:38:22.000get involved in everything so what what are judges supposed to do what does the constitution actually
00:38:29.420say i want to take you to a a football field glenn don't do it you're getting dicey don't go into
00:38:38.500sports now let's just take you out to a football field for your first second oh here we go get prepare
00:38:43.960yourself your loins is that like the grid loins yeah there you go so so uh let's say the ref is out
00:38:53.140on and he decides that that touchdown's worth 10 points the clock should be kept running because
00:39:00.520i think so it's most likely that it should be running right now that is what's happening in our court
00:39:08.120system that's judicial or referee activism all right they're just making stuff up
00:39:13.580um judges that are stepping beyond their lane and making up the rules instead of just calling
00:39:20.680the game as written that's what judges are supposed to do they're supposed to look at things as
00:39:26.780written and then say no sorry guys that's the law not you know what you know what we should do
00:39:34.660i should also be able to eat any kind of candy that i want and you're all you're a defendant you
00:39:43.280need to bring me candy uh because that's what i want right now okay i'm fat i've been sitting behind
00:39:49.220the bench for a long time you can't even notice my fatness i am the size of the bench just my upper
00:39:55.980torso's not okay you can't do that you don't do that now it's important to realize judges aren't
00:40:03.460necessarily bad guys they have a really really tough job and i don't like um you know i really
00:40:09.820feel bad when you're like uh well that's just a bad ruling well maybe but i wasn't in the courtroom
00:40:16.760how many times have we done a story where we really want to bash the judge but you weren't in the
00:40:22.100courtroom you don't know what was said or what they know you talked about that when you did jury duty
00:40:27.560yeah i remember because i think from an outsider perspective you could always come to something but
00:40:31.500when you're there watching it every single day and yeah it's just different sometimes it's different
00:40:36.460so when they start acting like lawmakers instead of interpreters of that law then we have a problem
00:40:44.240like a judge should step in now on the department of education and say sorry gang uh i read this
00:40:50.960section last night that's not what's going on here so the president um yeah i i recommend i shouldn't
00:40:58.860but if it comes into my courtroom i'm going to show yeah well that's the law not my opinion i might
00:41:05.220love the department i might be a full-fledged communist but i'm here to uphold the law and
00:41:11.100that's what congress said it is and that's not what it is now sometimes there are problems that congress
00:41:20.540needs to step in and say you're out of here sometimes the judges and it has happened in our
00:41:27.600history and it's a very high bar but i'm not sure i mean it should be a high bar like it is with
00:41:33.120impeachment of the president but it shouldn't be off the table okay and and here's why if you go back
00:41:40.020to the founding fathers they thought this through it's kind of crazy it's not like hey we're going to do
00:41:46.240a new constitution in iceland tweet us your ideas uh in federalist 78 alexander hamilton says judges
00:41:54.820should not have life tenure um and if they do only if they're on good behavior well what does that
00:42:04.920mean well he saw judges uh as the least dangerous branch because it doesn't have it doesn't control
00:42:12.280the purse strings and it doesn't have an army okay so he's like you know i mean if they're on good
00:42:19.660behavior just let them go just let them go but he also knew that judges weren't perfect they do go rogue
00:42:25.540so he knew that they would twist the constitution and what they were doing um into something that it's
00:42:33.240not and that good behavior clause is not just for decoration it's it's the lifeline of the people
00:42:40.640to stop the judges that have gone bad then in federalist 81 hamilton doubles down on this
00:42:48.420judges can be impeached if they abuse their power how do they abuse their power they step out of line
00:42:56.600of interpreting the law and start writing laws and he's very clear congress has the muscle to check them
00:43:05.180you know it's it's like giving the principal the power to fire a teacher who's you know teaching
00:43:11.040kids the alphabet you know backwards and mixed up no you know i appreciate it we're not doing that okay
00:43:17.240we hired you to teach the alphabet um so has this ever been done has this ever been exercised yeah
00:43:25.060i talked to a federal judge last night about this and he's like glenn luster versus georgia and i'm like
00:43:33.060oh man that's one of my favorite rulings but i want to ask you to see how much you know about
00:43:40.140luster versus georgia it's back in 1832 supreme court told georgia they have to stop messing with
00:43:47.380the cherokee nation land and they i think they also said you can't go in and teach the cherokee
00:43:54.400uh tribes um christianity okay georgia said nah we're gonna do that anyway okay now i am not a fan
00:44:06.400of the way the native americans were treated in history and i'm not a fan of andrew jackson
00:44:10.740but he wasn't a fan of the court and he supposedly said great the judge has made his decision
00:44:19.420now let him figure out how to enforce it now i don't like that i don't like that but that's what
00:44:27.440uh federalist 81 was saying they don't have purse strings they don't have an army they have an opinion
00:44:34.680but if the other two branches are like nah we're gonna do it anyway again i don't like that but that's
00:44:43.000only uh that can only apply to when the judges step out of their lane when you when you're an
00:44:51.780activist judge go ahead you call your army but when they're in their lane and they're saying no this is
00:44:59.120the law this is how it's written then you don't say nah you go ahead and try to enforce that because
00:45:04.440then it's a breakdown but it's just as much of a breakdown if they legislate from the bench and we
00:45:11.040do nothing about it the court doesn't have any tanks doesn't have any cops it relies on the other
00:45:17.340two branches it's why that one's the weakest it has no enforcement it was never given any enforcement
00:45:24.480the founders didn't want it to have any enforcement congress has the checkbook the president has the
00:45:31.620tanks the justices have their robes so they lose they're the weakest of them
00:45:40.460now they're supposed to be able to check each other so you're out of respect for what each
00:45:48.180arm is supposed to do we do listen to the supreme court
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