The Glenn Beck Program - February 21, 2023


Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Nikki Haley ｜ 2⧸21⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

158.36488

Word Count

7,251

Sentence Count

588

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Nikki Haley and Jason Whitlock discuss the President's speech in Poland, the idea of a National Divorce, and why it's a bad idea. Glenn explains why a dual economy is a good idea, and how it should be implemented.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Holy cow, we covered a lot on today's program.
00:00:03.080 We had Nikki Haley on, a little history lesson as well about what was going on.
00:00:09.660 We covered the president's speech in Poland.
00:00:12.720 What else did we do?
00:00:14.160 Jason Whitlock was on.
00:00:15.160 Jason Whitlock was on.
00:00:17.020 We went over the idea of a national divorce.
00:00:21.980 That's where we start.
00:00:22.980 Really important first 40 minutes, I think, of the podcast.
00:00:28.260 Really important.
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00:01:34.800 So we have been talking about the national divorce.
00:01:43.520 It's trending again today.
00:01:46.480 And people are arguing back and forth.
00:01:48.480 You're a traitor if you say that.
00:01:49.800 Well, you're a traitor because you're trying to destroy America.
00:01:51.920 Let's just use some logic and reason here.
00:01:54.760 Okay.
00:01:54.920 Nobody wants a war.
00:01:56.600 If there is a war between the states, those don't usually end well.
00:02:02.320 And in fact, I think ours is the only one that's ever ended well.
00:02:05.660 But it won't end the same way this time because we are not the people our founders were.
00:02:11.260 We have to decide, first of all, is there a pattern or a long train of abuses?
00:02:16.520 Is there a pattern all pointing to a design to destroy your freedom, your rights, as outlined in the Bill of Rights Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
00:02:30.040 If you decide that, then you have a right and responsibility, according to the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:36.300 But now, what do you do?
00:02:38.280 What do you do about that?
00:02:41.480 Red and blue separate.
00:02:43.020 What does that even mean?
00:02:47.240 Because if Texas decided to secede, I would not live under a state unless it was under the framework, the exact framework of the Constitution and the mission statement of the Declaration of Independence.
00:03:07.100 So, in other words, I would not tolerate anything being changed except a reset back to factory settings.
00:03:16.480 If you want to write a new Constitution, I'm not in.
00:03:21.260 Because I support the Constitution of the United States.
00:03:25.320 Okay?
00:03:25.700 I will do everything in my power to protect and defend that.
00:03:30.220 So, I don't really see, you know, myself, at least, as leaving the United States of America.
00:03:39.120 I think the United States of America, the power structures, have left the United States of America.
00:03:45.060 Not me.
00:03:47.120 I still believe in the same values that we've had since the revolution and the beginning of the republic.
00:03:55.700 So, what does that mean exactly, the national divorce?
00:04:02.140 Now, build a dual economy?
00:04:05.800 This makes sense on so many levels.
00:04:09.200 First of all, we have seen that the economy, our banking system, our trade with one another, has become weaponized by the United States government through public-private partnerships.
00:04:22.560 The things they couldn't do because they were constitutionally restrained, they have gotten corporations to do.
00:04:29.860 Well, that's a usurpation of the rights in our Constitution.
00:04:34.920 So, no.
00:04:37.160 I don't want to live that way.
00:04:39.280 And until they will reestablish the proper role of government, we should do everything we can to ensure we don't need their corporations, the government's corporations, to survive.
00:04:56.620 But this makes sense in so many ways.
00:05:01.540 Look at what COVID taught us.
00:05:03.720 We are not independent.
00:05:05.980 We are not independent as people.
00:05:08.840 We are not independent as communities or states.
00:05:12.180 We will all perish if there is a global trade shutdown.
00:05:18.020 We should be rebuilding our manufacturing, our skills.
00:05:24.100 We should be able to survive locally.
00:05:28.720 So, having a dual economy is really smart.
00:05:39.060 So, you have a right to do this.
00:05:41.820 You have a right to discuss this.
00:05:43.520 You have a duty, it says in the Declaration of Independence, to throw off the chains.
00:05:51.400 But what is that duty?
00:05:52.980 What does that mean?
00:05:54.820 Because, remember, there's a comma, not a period.
00:05:57.500 You have to replace it with something that you think is going to be better.
00:06:03.160 Now, I can't think of anything better than the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.
00:06:07.560 Can't think of anything better that would protect them.
00:06:10.820 You just have to actually use those things.
00:06:14.560 See, it's our duty to not only throw off the chains and not act as terrorists or to become what we despise.
00:06:25.980 It's to work together as a people to throw off the chains and organizing such powers that will be more likely to protect those rights.
00:06:36.660 So, that's not a terror group from Antifa to the white supremacists that offer nothing more than chaos.
00:06:45.620 Slavery.
00:06:48.340 You have to have a plan before you follow someone or you say, let's just shirk off these chains.
00:06:56.660 You can't.
00:06:57.700 What's your plan that ends up being more safe for individuals and their rights?
00:07:03.800 I haven't heard that plan.
00:07:05.040 You see, there is a plan on the other side.
00:07:08.520 They are building the framework of a global community.
00:07:12.380 They are building a global government.
00:07:15.720 They are building a new currency that will monitor you.
00:07:19.160 They are building the authoritarian state.
00:07:22.800 And there's a very well-crafted, well-designed plan that, quite honestly, is genius.
00:07:28.620 They didn't collapse us first.
00:07:31.700 They're collapsing us as the power grows.
00:07:35.760 They start to put in ESG.
00:07:38.680 And as that takes root, they collapse us a little bit more.
00:07:43.900 And so, it's a controlled destruction.
00:07:47.600 Well, you don't just destroy that and expect everything to go well.
00:07:51.920 Well, what is the framework?
00:07:55.560 So, when somebody says we should secede or we should have a national divorce, what do you mean by that?
00:08:01.480 What is the framework?
00:08:02.820 What are the states, what is their government like?
00:08:05.740 The first thing we have to do, if you believe there are usurptations and a long train of abuses that point to despotism,
00:08:18.660 we must first reestablish our first citizenship.
00:08:25.780 Otherwise, this is America's cornerstone.
00:08:29.060 God, if you live up to those laws first, start with the first, you know, hey, how about the Ten Commandments?
00:08:39.060 If those are too difficult, how about the Golden Rule?
00:08:43.880 Okay?
00:08:45.320 Live up to those laws first.
00:08:50.480 Because that will give you reason, clarity, and divine inspiration to reestablish God.
00:08:59.060 This experiment.
00:09:00.000 And the guardians to guard those rights.
00:09:04.660 In the meantime, know that the design is real.
00:09:09.540 The design to destroy this is real.
00:09:12.640 And so, we all have a duty to stand up.
00:09:16.280 But what?
00:09:17.500 We stand up for the restraint on current power.
00:09:21.000 We're not against.
00:09:22.400 We're for the Bill of Rights.
00:09:24.700 Why are we always saying we're against this?
00:09:26.960 We should be saying, no, that's a violation of the Bill of Rights, and I am for freedom of speech.
00:09:37.500 We need to stand for people like freedom caucuses.
00:09:41.140 There should be a freedom caucus in at least 25 states, and they should be powerful.
00:09:46.880 Texas doesn't even have one.
00:09:48.400 How is that possible in a state this red?
00:09:53.240 Because this state, the GOP, has gone corrupt.
00:09:57.280 We need to stand as long as the Freedom Caucus stands for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
00:10:05.340 Ohio, stop waiting for the feds.
00:10:09.780 What are you waiting for?
00:10:11.440 Why did the governor wait so long?
00:10:14.220 What, the governor has absolutely no power?
00:10:17.640 I mean, I swear, I'm going to get him a little bracelet that says, what would Ron DeSantis do?
00:10:21.500 Just look at it every day.
00:10:24.380 You think he's waiting around?
00:10:25.800 Take care of your own people.
00:10:28.240 You look mousy and, quite frankly, un-American.
00:10:31.540 Now, we need to stand up in all cases against lies.
00:10:40.420 Now, that's hard.
00:10:41.740 In all cases against, do not tolerate lies.
00:10:46.040 This is the easiest thing you can do.
00:10:49.400 Do not go along to get along.
00:10:52.060 That doesn't mean agitate.
00:10:54.100 That means, no, I'm sorry, that's not true.
00:10:56.720 Get involved in your anti-ESG legislation on your state level.
00:11:06.200 Work for fair access laws, which empower you, not the attorney general, but empower you to go after ESG.
00:11:18.880 Now is the time to support candidates that will throw the rhinos out.
00:11:23.140 Now is the time to decide, am I supposed to run?
00:11:27.740 Am I supposed to help somebody who is running?
00:11:30.680 In 2024, there should be strong Bill of Rights and constitutional candidates.
00:11:37.900 Not radicals, not crazy people.
00:11:40.460 People who know the Constitution and Bill of Rights and will walk through fire to reestablish that.
00:11:49.740 Mitt Romney should have a challenger right now.
00:11:53.140 Kevin Kramer in North Dakota should have a challenger.
00:11:57.740 Does he have a challenger?
00:11:59.640 Is the GOP or the freedom-loving people there?
00:12:03.460 Are you working on this?
00:12:05.780 Roger Whitaker of Mississippi.
00:12:10.520 These, Deb Fisher in Nebraska.
00:12:13.240 These senators can be flipped.
00:12:17.060 But you better have a good candidate.
00:12:19.200 And you should be working on it right now.
00:12:26.460 We don't need to separate.
00:12:28.740 We need to find things that we all pretty much agree on.
00:12:32.620 And this insane march to war is something that should be universal.
00:12:38.180 We should stand up against the march towards war.
00:12:44.960 Stand up in your local community.
00:12:47.900 You want to make a difference?
00:12:48.960 Start a farmer's market if you don't have one already.
00:12:52.640 You want to make a difference?
00:12:54.320 If you have one already, go shop the farmer's market.
00:12:57.580 Go find a church that is actually engaged.
00:13:01.800 Not necessarily in politics.
00:13:04.720 But a church that is teaching what our pilgrims knew.
00:13:09.680 That made them a danger to the king.
00:13:12.820 Which is, there is no king but God.
00:13:16.400 I answer to God first.
00:13:20.120 Not men.
00:13:22.180 And the flow of power goes God, man, government.
00:13:27.140 Government is last and only empowered by man to protect the rights given to him by God.
00:13:34.200 And this is what we need to do to save our country.
00:13:43.560 But if I boil it down to one thing, it would be getting you and your family right with God.
00:13:54.160 God is the only answer at this point.
00:13:58.680 If we do not have his favor, we do not survive.
00:14:05.700 This is a divine and sacred land.
00:14:09.400 This land, is it a coincidence that freedom was established here and all of this land, we have everything we need.
00:14:17.300 Everything we need to be independent and free.
00:14:22.140 And be a beacon on a hill.
00:14:25.180 For all the world to see, this is how it can be done.
00:14:30.780 This is how man can live with one another in peace, in harmony.
00:14:36.280 We get it wrong.
00:14:38.220 And sometimes for long periods of time.
00:14:41.360 But as long as the people understand they have the power to correct those wrongs.
00:14:48.300 And go back to the system that was divinely inspired.
00:14:55.220 Our constitution, our bill of rights, our declaration of independence.
00:15:00.400 All of the answers that you need are in those documents.
00:15:04.460 So, should we have a national divorce?
00:15:12.500 I wouldn't be against it, but I'm the one that's keeping the kids.
00:15:18.960 I think we're the ones that, you know, need to make sure we're not the ones that are violating the rules of this marriage.
00:15:29.320 You are.
00:15:31.700 You're the ones stepping out on us.
00:15:35.740 I'm living by my marriage vows.
00:15:38.640 I'm living by the rules of the constitution.
00:15:41.820 And if your state is not, start standing up and demanding that they live by the declaration of independence, the bill of rights, and the U.S. constitution.
00:15:53.600 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:16:05.120 Nikki, welcome to the program.
00:16:06.820 How are you?
00:16:07.660 Hi, Glenn.
00:16:08.360 It's great to be with you.
00:16:09.280 It is great to be with you.
00:16:11.340 Listen, I know we have a short period of time, so I want to get through an awful lot.
00:16:15.640 First, let me make sure that everybody understands.
00:16:17.880 This is Nikki Haley.
00:16:18.800 She's running for president, even though she's past her prime and only uses her brownness to mask her white supremacy.
00:16:29.780 You know, I mean, I have always made the liberals' heads explode.
00:16:34.520 They can't stand the thought that a conservative minority female would not be Democrat.
00:16:40.160 And they just throw anything and everything.
00:16:43.600 And, you know, it just means we're winning.
00:16:46.300 They know that I pull independents.
00:16:48.940 They know I pull suburban women.
00:16:50.360 They know I pull minorities.
00:16:52.140 And so if that's all they got, bring it.
00:16:54.180 Yeah.
00:16:54.800 I want to talk to you about, I'm very concerned about what I think is this march to global war.
00:17:04.360 You know, we have spent all of our capital on, you know, peace through strength.
00:17:11.540 We look incredibly weak.
00:17:13.660 Um, and the president was over in Ukraine, uh, you know, it's regime change or nothing.
00:17:20.540 I think, um, what, what, what are we doing is, what are we doing?
00:17:26.840 Well, first of all, this isn't peace through strength.
00:17:29.220 I mean, I think let's start with the fact that Biden should not be in Ukraine right now.
00:17:33.120 He should be in Ohio with the people who are hurting.
00:17:35.520 And that's problem number one is that you never have a crisis happen and not be with your people.
00:17:41.560 So that's my first phone to pick with him.
00:17:44.340 You know, the second thing is he's never shown any strength.
00:17:47.440 I mean, all we have to do is, you know, none of this would be happening.
00:17:50.920 Let's be very clear.
00:17:51.880 None of this would be happening if we wouldn't have had the debacle in Afghanistan.
00:17:55.080 That sent so many ripple effects.
00:17:57.860 I mean, the idea that we would leave Bagram Air Force Base in the middle of the night without telling our allies who stood shoulder to shoulder with us for decades.
00:18:06.360 I mean, nothing was more embarrassing than that.
00:18:09.360 So that sent a huge message to our allies, but it sent a bigger message to our enemies.
00:18:13.860 So what should we be doing?
00:18:15.000 I mean, we're in Ukraine just sending everything over, another $500 million, and now I guess we're paying for their pensions.
00:18:25.040 China is all pissed off at us.
00:18:27.300 They're threatening the Philippines.
00:18:29.640 I mean, Israel is probably going to hit Iran.
00:18:33.720 North Korea is flexing its muscles.
00:18:36.320 Are we a nation headed towards war because we look so weak?
00:18:42.060 Well, we have to understand that war is not an option.
00:18:44.300 We have to prevent war.
00:18:46.060 The way you prevent war is, first of all, I mean, when it comes to Ukraine, I will tell you, I don't think we should ever send cash.
00:18:52.840 I don't think we should send blank checks.
00:18:54.960 I think we should rally the NATO troops and say NATO countries and say, what are you sending?
00:18:59.640 What are you sending?
00:19:00.640 And we need to make sure that Ukraine has the equipment and ammunition from all of us to make sure they can win.
00:19:06.440 They have proven that they can do that.
00:19:08.220 If Biden would have done that quickly in the beginning and rallied the troops with the NATO countries, we wouldn't be sitting in this position.
00:19:15.280 But what you do is you make sure they have the ability to win.
00:19:18.880 They don't need us to do that.
00:19:20.560 They just need the equipment to do it.
00:19:22.240 The second thing is, if we see Ukraine follow through, which Russia's lost 200,000 troops, they've raised the draft age to 65, you know he's losing when he's getting drones from Iran and missiles from North Korea.
00:19:35.440 What we have to do is let them finish the job, and that will send the biggest message to China, Iran, and any enemy or dictator that wants to destroy the West, because China very much sees the West as the big centers, and they are determined to take us over.
00:19:51.340 And, Glenn, I've got to say, the idea that Americans, that American children would look to the sky and see a Chinese spy balloon looking back at them is the most unthinkable national embarrassment we could have ever had.
00:20:08.540 And that's no different than Afghanistan, because the rest of the world is going, what in the world is happening with America?
00:20:15.500 All right, so let me go back on a couple of things.
00:20:17.700 You said provide them, you know, the tools.
00:20:20.660 Does that include jets and tanks?
00:20:26.040 Well, I think that, you know, first of all, when we sent that, you know, if we had sent the anti-javelin tanks, you know, President Trump did that, and that was a big win for them, because that's what they needed to be able to finish the deal.
00:20:39.280 We have to go with the NATO countries and saying, what do you send?
00:20:41.760 But I think you send what they need to win.
00:20:44.160 But we don't do it alone.
00:20:45.540 We do it with the other countries.
00:20:46.960 They will win this, and they will win this sooner when we stop dragging our feet.
00:20:52.500 We don't need to worry about sending cash to keep their government going.
00:20:56.120 We need to worry to make sure that they have the ammunition to fight, because they have the will.
00:21:01.440 They are trying to protect their freedom.
00:21:03.180 They're trying to save their country.
00:21:05.160 We just need to give them the ability to do that.
00:21:07.300 So when we tell China that they can't send any aid over, or that'll be a line that they'll cross with us, how do we have any credibility?
00:21:17.460 I mean, China's going to do what China's going to do.
00:21:19.660 First of all, China usually got arms from Russia.
00:21:22.380 It was never Russia getting arms from China.
00:21:24.520 China typically sends parts.
00:21:27.160 That's mostly what China ends up giving to Russia.
00:21:29.840 But, look, I mean, you can't trust either one of these countries.
00:21:33.620 The problem is, don't forget, before this war started, China and Russia declared themselves unlimited partners.
00:21:40.660 And they said Iran was their junior partner.
00:21:43.480 They are determined to make sure that the West falls.
00:21:47.980 We have to be determined to make sure that we are the ones that show that freedom reigns, and that freedom will always reign,
00:21:54.780 and that we as freedom-loving countries are going to stick together to make sure that happens.
00:21:59.000 If they see that, China sees what's happened to Russia with all the sanctions.
00:22:04.840 They don't want that to happen to them.
00:22:06.860 So we don't need to be sending threats saying, you can't send this to Russia.
00:22:11.180 We just need to send the idea that, look, we're unbreakable.
00:22:15.160 This isn't going to happen.
00:22:16.160 You see what happened to Russia, that could happen to you as well.
00:22:18.700 I have said for years that there will come a time when the rest of the world will sense our weakness,
00:22:26.380 and they'll say, now, go, go, go, go, go.
00:22:29.500 I think we're at that point.
00:22:31.600 We are completely at that point.
00:22:33.720 And there's no way to, I mean, there's nothing this president can do that will send the message that we're tough,
00:22:42.580 because we're not.
00:22:44.420 He's not.
00:22:45.080 He's not a serious threat to anyone if somebody threatens us.
00:22:50.940 I don't even think our Pentagon really is a threat at this point, the way they're being run and what they did in Afghanistan.
00:22:58.300 How do we make it the next two years without getting into real trouble with some of these countries?
00:23:07.360 I mean, honestly, Glenn, and I'm not being funny here, we better start praying.
00:23:13.080 Because, you know, if he's not even going to protect our borders, and you've got terrorists coming across our borders,
00:23:20.060 you've got Russian terrorists coming across our borders, the fact that he's not even doing that says so much.
00:23:26.880 They know this is the weakest president we've ever had in history.
00:23:30.820 And they know if ever there was a time they wanted to get territory, if ever there was a time they wanted to defeat us, it's now.
00:23:37.360 And so, you know, Biden is doing nothing.
00:23:40.100 He's literally doing nothing.
00:23:41.840 And so, you know, what I can tell you is, as a military wife who doesn't want to see America go to war,
00:23:47.900 I will tell you that the second that we start getting control of America back,
00:23:53.580 the second we start showing strength, the second we show how strong our military is,
00:23:59.840 strong militaries don't start war, strong militaries prevent war.
00:24:03.120 We have to start acting like the strong country that we used to be.
00:24:07.780 And you do that not by reacting to countries.
00:24:11.080 You do it by telling them what you expect of them.
00:24:14.240 That's what went wrong.
00:24:15.540 If you look at when President Trump was in office, he and I did it at the U.N., he was there.
00:24:21.420 He told countries what they should expect from us.
00:24:24.760 I made a point when I went to the U.N., I told them what the U.S. was for and what the U.S. was against.
00:24:29.560 I didn't care if they didn't like me, but I wanted them to respect America.
00:24:33.360 That's where we have to get back to again.
00:24:36.580 You know, Trump surrogates are suggesting that you're more of a globalist war hawk.
00:24:43.420 You have told me how much you respect President Trump.
00:24:47.820 How do you stay above the fray with Donald Trump?
00:24:52.900 Why did you decide?
00:24:54.040 You said once, I'm not going to run if he's running, but you are now.
00:24:57.740 And how do we stop this from being ugly?
00:25:01.700 Well, first of all, when I said I wasn't going to run against him, we had not had to fall in Afghanistan.
00:25:07.800 We did not have Biden fall all over himself to get back into the Iran deal.
00:25:11.820 We didn't see all of these closings in schools.
00:25:15.260 We didn't lose the midterms.
00:25:18.000 So when I look at this, I think that we have to start looking forward.
00:25:23.440 There's been a lot of chaos in the past.
00:25:25.380 People love to talk about the past.
00:25:26.840 We've got to move forward.
00:25:28.640 I was a governor.
00:25:29.400 I took a hurting state and I turned it into the beast of the southeast.
00:25:33.180 When I was at the U.N., I took the kick me sign off of our back.
00:25:36.500 I am a problem solver.
00:25:38.280 I want to get in there.
00:25:39.340 I want to fix it.
00:25:40.120 And I do think it's time for a new generation to go in there.
00:25:43.720 I don't think you have to be 80 years old to run for president.
00:25:46.560 President Trump is my friend.
00:25:48.320 He is my friend.
00:25:49.520 But I think it's time for something new.
00:25:51.760 And I think that we need to start boldly going where we haven't gone before and start riding
00:25:57.520 the ship.
00:25:58.320 And, you know, I think that if ever there was a time America is tired of losing, America
00:26:04.400 is tired of losing.
00:26:05.400 And we have to do that.
00:26:06.880 Now, how do we keep it from not getting messy?
00:26:09.420 I'm not kicking sideways.
00:26:10.920 I'm kicking forward.
00:26:12.240 I'm not going and focusing on President Trump.
00:26:14.900 I'm focusing on President Biden and how awful he's leading our country.
00:26:19.380 And that's where we're going to focus.
00:26:20.960 And, you know, if those others choose to get dirty and you've seen how the liberals have
00:26:25.560 like self-combusted over the fact that I'm running, they can do that.
00:26:29.180 But I am very focused and very disciplined on the fact that American families can't afford
00:26:34.540 their groceries.
00:26:35.600 Mothers are looking for baby formula.
00:26:37.780 Children are so far behind in their education.
00:26:40.020 We don't know if we can catch them back up.
00:26:42.260 We've got open borders.
00:26:43.580 We're having our minds closed by woke ideology.
00:26:46.620 And we've got a Chinese spy balloon in the air.
00:26:49.660 I mean, something's got to give.
00:26:51.180 I'm not going to wait for somebody else to fix it.
00:26:53.020 I'm going to get in there and fix it.
00:26:54.480 So what you talked about, a competency test for politicians recently.
00:26:58.400 And, you know, we didn't have this problem when George Washington retired after his seven
00:27:04.120 his second term that set the standard until the progressive era.
00:27:08.640 And the progressives just wanted to be more autocratic and keep the power centralized
00:27:15.660 and everybody can run for as many terms as they want, which we saw with with FDR.
00:27:21.500 When you talk about a competency test, that's clear with Joe Biden.
00:27:26.140 It is clear with Feinstein.
00:27:29.140 It's it's clear with our new senator from Pennsylvania.
00:27:34.420 But it's not really just the competency of the people in office.
00:27:40.740 Honestly, that's competency of the voter.
00:27:44.720 How do you not?
00:27:46.640 It's not that they just won't leave.
00:27:48.980 It's just the voter can see it and they still vote for it.
00:27:53.540 Well, I think what I am strongly and I will push for term limits.
00:27:58.640 I do think we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over 75.
00:28:02.520 Look at D.C. and look at everybody there from Dianne Feinstein to Bernie Sanders, you
00:28:08.380 know, pitched a fit yesterday on the fact that I said that.
00:28:11.140 And that's all the reason we have to do it.
00:28:13.300 It's about transparency, Glenn.
00:28:15.440 We need to start realizing government works for the people, not the other way around.
00:28:19.700 And that means that elected officials don't get to go up there and just do what they want
00:28:24.640 and show the power they want.
00:28:26.140 They need to be transparent to the American people.
00:28:28.660 I mean, don't forget that when I was a state legislator in South Carolina, our legislators
00:28:34.500 weren't showing their votes on the record.
00:28:36.560 We had a Republican House, a Republican Senate and Republican governor.
00:28:40.060 And my focus was if you are debating anything on the floor of the House or the Senate, you
00:28:44.700 have to show legislative votes on the record.
00:28:46.880 I was completely blackballed.
00:28:48.640 So I ran for governor.
00:28:49.760 And now South Carolina shows every vote on the record, every ounce of transparency from
00:28:55.440 health care to term limits to competency tests.
00:28:59.140 When the American people see who is really in D.C., when they see what they're doing,
00:29:05.340 we will expose all of that because we need to light a fire under our elected officials.
00:29:10.180 Congress is not working.
00:29:11.660 So it is something's got to do.
00:29:12.980 It's also, though, if you get rid of the you put term limits there on elected and not on
00:29:20.660 the so-called public servants who have long careers and they make up the deep state, they
00:29:26.820 don't care who's elected.
00:29:28.180 They're outlasting them.
00:29:29.580 Would you consider doing that and reducing the size and or abolishing a lot of the the
00:29:35.640 agencies under the president?
00:29:37.020 Well, you first have to start by being able to fire whoever you need to fire.
00:29:41.700 I mean, when I was at the United Nations, I saw how entrenched they were.
00:29:46.320 But Obama was very smart when he was leaving office.
00:29:50.140 He went and basically promoted all of middle management to senior management so that they
00:29:55.940 couldn't get fired.
00:29:57.200 We have to go clean our agencies out from the inside out.
00:30:01.820 Look at our intelligence agencies right now.
00:30:03.740 Look at the DOJ right now.
00:30:05.340 Look at the State Department.
00:30:06.980 All of those.
00:30:08.120 We have to go in and clean house.
00:30:09.860 And I did that in South Carolina as governor.
00:30:12.340 You go in and you let them know what you expect of them.
00:30:15.080 And anybody that is not walking the line where they understand they work for the people,
00:30:20.200 you get rid of them and you do it in a way.
00:30:22.420 You know, when I went to the U.N.
00:30:23.980 my very first week, John Kerry's sister worked at the U.N.
00:30:28.320 in the U.S. Embassy of the U.N., and she went and started, you know, causing trouble the
00:30:35.860 very first week.
00:30:36.940 I told them, I said, get rid of her.
00:30:38.680 And they said, oh, you can't get rid of her.
00:30:40.140 She doesn't retire for six more months.
00:30:41.740 I said, send her home.
00:30:42.660 I don't care.
00:30:43.560 She's not working here.
00:30:45.480 You got you can't have poison in a situation and think you're going to fix it.
00:30:50.660 You've got to get rid of all of the toxicity.
00:30:52.780 Nikki Haley running as a presidential candidate for the GOP in 2024.
00:30:59.380 You can find all the information on her and support her candidacy by going to Nikki Haley dot com.
00:31:08.600 That's Nikki Haley dot com.
00:31:10.500 Nikki, thank you so much.
00:31:11.680 Thank you, my friend.
00:31:12.560 Talk to you soon.
00:31:13.240 Good to talk to you.
00:31:13.940 Bye bye.
00:31:17.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:31:22.780 So I don't know about you, Stu, but I feel pretty darn good about that Putin speech.
00:31:28.860 Yeah.
00:31:29.700 Yeah.
00:31:30.100 Pretty good.
00:31:31.020 Pretty good.
00:31:31.620 Oh, yeah.
00:31:32.020 Yeah.
00:31:32.260 Oh, yeah.
00:31:32.860 In what way?
00:31:35.300 Well, I got up this morning and I'm like, look, he would be the pariah of the world if
00:31:40.000 he launches a nuclear war.
00:31:41.800 Now, could he launch a tactical nuke?
00:31:44.460 Yeah.
00:31:45.400 But I still think that would be a bad idea.
00:31:49.180 OK, I think he would find himself the pariah of the world.
00:31:52.080 Well, I mean, he's in some ways is the pariah of the world already, but even more so.
00:31:56.320 I think that's true.
00:31:57.240 And I think it would only be done in a true moment of real desperation.
00:32:02.120 Yeah.
00:32:02.400 Like he thought it was over and he was about to be overthrown type of situation, which,
00:32:07.360 by the way, is in the realm of possibility.
00:32:09.040 Correct.
00:32:09.540 So you have you have that going on for you.
00:32:12.800 And and I was thinking, hey, he wouldn't do that.
00:32:16.220 But what he would do is exactly what he said.
00:32:19.140 Fight World War three with ones and zeros.
00:32:21.340 And he could do as much and maybe even more damage if he could cripple our electricity, if
00:32:29.860 he could cripple our access to power for a few months.
00:32:35.080 Even we large population death.
00:32:40.540 That seems like a real possibility, a scary one.
00:32:43.920 And you hope the worst case doesn't come to play there.
00:32:46.720 But like my son asked me this the other day.
00:32:48.600 He got he they he got a he's 11 years old.
00:32:51.640 Got a got a whiff of the Chinese balloon situation.
00:32:54.140 Yeah.
00:32:55.040 And was like, well, you know, started asking me about nuclear war and stuff.
00:33:00.020 And, you know, they talked about, I guess, the Chinese balloon in school and he said
00:33:03.540 like he was asking me what what are the chances of of nuclear war?
00:33:08.260 And you didn't call me.
00:33:09.420 You didn't have to say let's ask Uncle Glenn.
00:33:12.400 He knows how to talk.
00:33:14.160 He knows how to talk to kids.
00:33:18.280 Good God, my kid would be twisted forevermore.
00:33:22.180 And I said to him, my answer was the the odds of a nuclear war are very, very low.
00:33:27.400 Very low.
00:33:27.900 Very, very low.
00:33:28.960 So probably will not happen.
00:33:31.880 Now, of course, that's the right answer to a kid, probably even if the odds are high.
00:33:36.440 But I think that it's true that the chances of that breaking out are low.
00:33:39.940 I think mutually assured destruction still is effective.
00:33:43.320 It's one of those things that goes beyond politics and relationships and bad presidents
00:33:47.840 and all of that, which is why it's such a good thing.
00:33:50.760 Right.
00:33:51.700 It's why having a nuclear arsenal like we have and like they have winds up being a net positive,
00:33:57.500 despite how crazy that sounds at times.
00:34:00.400 But these other possibilities are real.
00:34:03.300 Right.
00:34:03.880 Oh, and scary and things that we have not really contemplated and certainly can't deal with.
00:34:09.440 You take our power generation ability away from us.
00:34:13.300 You hit our power plants and you collapse our grid and you could do it by hitting 10.
00:34:18.980 You you collapse our grid.
00:34:21.500 It will work one time, just like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
00:34:27.400 You know, that first shock and awe of it.
00:34:30.800 And, you know, we didn't know what it would actually be like.
00:34:34.400 We knew it would be horrific, blah, blah, blah.
00:34:36.400 But what are the lasting effects?
00:34:38.480 That'll be the same conversation around the world if they would shut down America's power.
00:34:42.960 But the death toll would be so much higher than, you know, what we did in Japan.
00:34:50.900 It will be thought of in the future as a tactical first strike nuke.
00:34:56.640 It's remarkable.
00:34:57.560 We really don't seem to be taking that seriously.
00:35:00.360 You know, I usually when these things happen, they're more difficult to do than you think they are.
00:35:06.640 Like, I remember when, you know, biological war was in the news a lot.
00:35:10.320 And they talked about how scary and it's really scary possibilities.
00:35:13.220 But to spread a bioweapon is very difficult.
00:35:16.840 A dirty bomb like is actually more difficult than and it doesn't.
00:35:21.220 I mean, if you want to poison the water supply, I mean, you have to have a train.
00:35:25.640 You have to have a derail that you have to set it on fire.
00:35:29.840 Then you have to deny it.
00:35:31.380 War trains Biden was talking about sending to Ukraine.
00:35:34.060 You have to have that.
00:35:35.060 And that's really hard.
00:35:36.220 It's very difficult.
00:35:37.260 But like, I don't know, like, could they Russia?
00:35:40.320 China, they don't seem to be competent in a lot of things.
00:35:44.320 Could they actually pull this off perfectly?
00:35:46.360 I don't know.
00:35:47.340 I mean, maybe not.
00:35:48.320 But the fact is they could do a lot of damage with very with very little resource.
00:35:53.900 And that's the scary part about it.
00:35:55.420 You you could do this with we saw this happen.
00:35:57.800 Where was it, Glenn, recently where supposed white supremacists of some sort were firing at power plants and taking them offline?
00:36:05.620 And it was, you know, short term in that particular case.
00:36:08.840 There's a lot more that would need to be done to talk about the types of death numbers you're talking about.
00:36:13.440 But these aren't studies Glenn Beck is creating.
00:36:15.540 This is what our military looking at these possibilities.
00:36:18.480 If this goes away, what happens?
00:36:20.380 It's not good.
00:36:21.340 It's not good.
00:36:22.620 Let me switch back here quickly to East Palestine.
00:36:27.360 I can never say it.
00:36:31.160 East Palestine.
00:36:32.260 Thank you.
00:36:32.860 Well, I look at Palestine's been in every I know for 100 million years.
00:36:38.380 So I get right now I get that thing.
00:36:40.480 You know, I think you and I may be the only two people that have it.
00:36:43.740 You cannot say it because whatever you think you think it's wrong.
00:36:48.800 And so you just don't say it.
00:36:50.300 So then you say the one you believe is wrong in your head and is always wrong.
00:36:53.840 It's always wrong.
00:36:54.540 Yeah.
00:36:54.740 Anyway, do you remember when we talked to Caitlin?
00:36:59.440 Uh, she owned the farm, uh, that was really one of the closest to the train, uh, derailment.
00:37:07.860 And she had to get out of her property and they handed her a, uh, uh, a waiver and said,
00:37:16.760 here, we'll test your property and just, just sign this waiver.
00:37:19.460 And like, no.
00:37:20.660 And she was looking for somebody to test the property that wasn't, you know, from the train, uh, company or from the EPA.
00:37:31.480 And I said, we will help you do that.
00:37:33.720 Well, uh, we started looking and it was, um, interesting, um, to, to even find a company that was qualified, that was independent of the government and train companies that could test the water, air and soil for residents.
00:37:51.460 It was not easy.
00:37:54.400 Most of the companies were not helpful.
00:37:56.860 Uh, one said, good luck, laughed and hung up the phone.
00:38:02.200 When I say they weren't helpful, it led me to believe that some of these companies, um, would not get involved because they know of government, uh, private, uh, and public partnerships.
00:38:16.600 Um, um, we tried to find a company that would test the water, the soil, um, the sediment, the air based on, you know, the chemicals that were released, um, into the air.
00:38:34.500 Um, they, it's about 10 to $15,000 per property.
00:38:40.500 And we're willing to do this for Caitlin, but I'm not sure that's the best thing.
00:38:47.200 Um, and we can put Caitlin and, and, you know, we'll write the check if she wants to engage them.
00:38:52.960 Um, but I just want you to know there's, there's, uh, there's too many public private partnerships that are going on where everybody is scratching each other's back.
00:39:03.820 That makes me quite nervous.
00:39:06.200 Now, when it comes to the train, you know, the train company said, oh, that release, that was, well, was that a mistake?
00:39:17.500 I don't know how that got out there.
00:39:20.080 Okay.
00:39:20.700 Wait a minute.
00:39:21.440 What?
00:39:22.360 We were the first person to, we were the first show to bring to you the news.
00:39:27.740 We got it from Caitlin, uh, that they were, they were asking people in the neighborhood to sign releases.
00:39:34.120 And Caitlin told us 350 people had already signed this, which signed away all of their rights to sue or anything else really bad.
00:39:43.500 Uh, and so then when you had, um, uh, JD Vance, the Senator from Ohio, he went on and said, you know, about the legal waivers.
00:39:56.420 Uh, we wanted to know, is this the same waiver and what's happening?
00:40:02.860 Cause he said it was a mistake.
00:40:04.860 They accidentally did it.
00:40:06.720 Well, what he didn't ask was, okay, but those who signed that mistake, are they going to be held to that?
00:40:13.600 Or is that an invalid waiver?
00:40:17.060 So we wrote to, um, Norfolk and asked them, uh, can you confirm that it's null and void?
00:40:28.020 If it is null and void, how was it accidentally sent?
00:40:32.760 Um, I'd like to hear that one, the 340 residents that signed the waiver at the time of our original interview, it could be higher.
00:40:43.960 Now, will those waivers be nullified if the waivers are nullified, will you complete testing without a waiver?
00:40:54.020 Uh, and are there any other partners beyond CTEC and LLC North, uh, uh, Southern that is, is, or will work on contamination testing or are these the only companies that, uh, uh, that you will cover the costs, uh, for.
00:41:13.560 So we got a call back and I was shocked that we got a call back.
00:41:17.580 Uh, it was on the record phone call with Connor Spielmaker.
00:41:20.680 He's the senior communications manager, media relations for, uh, the train company.
00:41:26.160 And he said, I wanted to address your core question.
00:41:29.300 I'm reading the transcript of a phone call with my producers.
00:41:32.360 I wanted to address your core question first about the waiver.
00:41:35.600 I guess we're calling it.
00:41:37.260 That was a mistake.
00:41:38.560 So I believe the language, how it actually happened.
00:41:41.940 I'm not sure, but there was a batch of those forms that were printed that included that language and it wasn't supposed to.
00:41:49.440 Our producer asked, how did that happen?
00:41:51.880 He said, well, probably it was just, uh, some copy, you know, copy and paste from a word document to make sure that whatever it was certainly not intentional.
00:42:02.540 And as soon as that mistake was realized, we pulled those forms, replace them with the right ones.
00:42:08.500 And we're contacting everybody and anybody who had that form and basically letting them know that that form is not enforceable.
00:42:16.220 We said, uh, I could see how in an emergency, somebody on the ground chain of custody gets lost and people aren't getting right approvals.
00:42:26.900 I could see how that mistake would happen.
00:42:28.780 So everyone that either got the form or signed the form has been notified or will be notified that it's not enforceable.
00:42:37.200 Correct.
00:42:38.600 Have you reached everyone yet?
00:42:41.700 I don't know, but obviously I'm sure we will reach some of them through you guys announcing it.
00:42:47.760 Uh, we'll be providing, uh, that to them in writing anyone that has come and gotten assistant from, uh, the railroad company through the family assistance center, through reimbursements, foreign expenses, or those thousand dollar checks that are floating around or has had Norfolk Southern contractor, whatever.
00:43:07.960 In addition to the EPA or whoever was with us come to their property, no one has signed away any of their legal rights to us.
00:43:17.840 That's, well, that's positive.
00:43:19.400 That's really good.
00:43:20.200 Assuming they, they back that up with action.
00:43:22.440 Uh, we have an updated waiver too, that we can get to here in a minute, but it looks like they have actually updated that, uh, at some level already and are trying to get that out to people.
00:43:31.340 Yeah.
00:43:31.740 And this is obviously a, a, a catastrophe that they're trying to deal with.
00:43:35.320 And, and while, you know, going through the blame of why the actual accident happened is something that's going to happen over the next, you know, months and years, you know, at this point, all they can do is do the best thing possible for the people around the situation and try to make it as tolerable as possible.
00:43:52.060 If you're giving them a waiver that puts, that wipes out all of your responsibility, that's a real problem.
00:43:59.180 It looks like they've corrected that problem, which is a step in the right direction.
00:44:02.980 Uh, also we did get the updated waiver.
00:44:06.760 We can, we'll at least tweet that if we don't have time.
00:44:10.100 We called Caitlin last night to see if she had heard from the railroad.
00:44:15.140 It was nine 15 Eastern.
00:44:16.920 When we talked to her last night, she said she had not, uh, received that information.
00:44:22.340 Um, at, uh, seven 45 this morning, we reached back out, um, and wanted to get a copy of it and we have it and we will share it with you, uh, in, uh, in just a little while.
00:44:36.100 So if you are one of those people that signed that waiver, know that that waiver is no longer enforceable and you can sue them if you want to.
00:44:45.100 And anybody else, um, however, they seem to be doing the right things.
00:44:50.200 They, you know, I don't know how stupid you have to be to send that waiver out and how that happened.
00:44:56.140 However, they are trying to make it right.
00:44:59.080 And I, I applaud them for that.
00:45:01.660 Yeah.
00:45:01.780 It's certainly some will argue that it was, they're now doing PR work afterwards, whatever it is, whatever it is, it could, but I mean, it's also a pause, totally plausible that in the middle of a chaotic situation, they pulled a standard waiver out and, and, and you sent it to people.
00:45:16.940 So definitely plausible as long as they're correcting it again, this is a bad situation.
00:45:22.880 They're going to have to deal with the consequences of this.
00:45:25.420 All, all you can expect out of them at this point is to do what they can to make these people's lives a little bit better.
00:45:32.280 And they seem to be doing that.
00:45:34.920 They told us in this phone call, they are there for the long haul and they are not going to abandon the community.
00:45:40.340 And we will continue to watch that and make sure that they are held to their word.
00:45:45.240 Got to hold them to it.
00:45:46.940 Banana.