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00:03:03.000 I am at the Artemis Club.

00:03:06.840 And I am surrounded by people who work in the space program that actually build all of the things for the...

00:03:15.280 launch for the space capsule and the rockets and everything else. And I'm fascinated by them. I

00:03:22.360 start talking to some of the people. And then I noticed this couple sitting right behind me,

00:03:25.940 husband and wife. And I start talking to them. And I realize they're not part of NASA. They're

00:03:34.500 not part of the program. They're not. And this is a section where you have to be, you know,

00:03:41.060 somebody who, you know, you have to be a journalist like me,

00:03:43.840 or you have to be somebody who actually worked on the program

00:03:46.280 and got an invitation to be there.

00:03:49.180 And I said, so how did you get here?

00:03:55.840 And they started telling me a story

00:03:57.600 that was as impressive as the rocket going off itself.

00:04:03.880 their daughter Liv

00:04:10.600 was 15 years old

00:04:13.240 she died of cancer

00:04:17.740 just a few months ago

00:04:18.620 but I'll tell you

00:04:21.480 that 15 year old

00:04:22.500 lived more of a life

00:04:24.460 than most of us

00:04:25.080 could ever dream of

00:04:25.920 and that is in part

00:04:28.020 due to

00:04:29.720 the new NASA administrator

00:04:31.780 Jared Isaacman

00:04:32.960 and Elon Musk

00:04:34.720 this is a story

00:04:36.620 that neither of them

00:04:39.120 this has gone on for years

00:04:40.600 neither of them would tell you

00:04:43.360 this is a story

00:04:44.520 they didn't do it for the credit

00:04:45.920 and I didn't ask for permission to tell

00:04:49.120 I asked Liv's mom

00:04:54.880 to tell the story

00:04:56.500 her mom wanted the world to know

00:05:02.640 what they did

00:05:05.140 and what it meant to

00:05:09.560 live and her family.

00:05:13.360 So I asked, I said,

00:05:15.020 can we please tell this story?

00:05:16.960 And she said yes.

00:05:18.480 And she gave us the privilege

00:05:20.420 of publishing an article that she wrote

00:05:22.460 telling her daughter's story.

00:05:23.960 You can find it right now at glennbeck.com.

00:05:26.760 You can read the whole story.

00:05:27.960 You'll see pictures and videos.

00:05:29.260 It'll just break your heart

00:05:30.560 and then heal it right back up.

00:05:32.640 That's what's so great.

00:05:33.580 This is not a heartbreaking story.

00:05:35.120 I mean, it is, but then it is a beautiful story.

00:05:39.820 Before I bring her mom, Rebecca,

00:05:43.480 let me just give you a condensed version of the story that I heard.

00:05:49.500 Liv was born in 2010 in Pennsylvania,

00:05:53.080 and she lived the dream of being a fighter pilot and an astronaut with SpaceX.

00:05:57.780 and she was obsessed with all things space anime uh she was obsessed with as well and she had you

00:06:06.280 know dogs and cats loved it and her sister abby that was her whole life when she was 10 her mom

00:06:12.460 saw that her jaw was swollen and needed thought she needed some antibiotics well that's when the

00:06:19.440 family found out that live had a very rare and very aggressive cancer called undifferentiated

00:06:26.100 sarcoma the entire family's life just turned upside down and they struggled to keep things

00:06:35.640 normal for you know both their daughters and Liv had to do chemo radiation surgeries clinical trials

00:06:47.380 It was a really dark time until she heard about a SpaceX mission, Liv did, called Inspiration4.

00:06:57.840 This one was commanded by a guy that most people didn't know at the time named Jared Isaacman.

00:07:03.760 The crew of Inspiration4 heard about this little girl with cancer, and Jared Isaacman paid to bring her and her family to the launch.

00:07:13.980 Now, Jared is independently wealthy.

00:07:15.940 He's worked hard. He's an entrepreneur, worked hard. He is a genius at me. He's one of those

00:07:21.400 people, like our founders had Jefferson and Ben Franklin. We have Jared and we have Elon Musk.

00:07:30.280 I mean, it's the same kind of thing we haven't seen in 250 years. But he paid for her to come

00:07:36.880 out, and this was the beginning of just a life-changing relationship.

00:07:42.120 And Jared, it wasn't just a one-and-done thing.

00:07:46.880 He became committed to her care and to her dreams.

00:08:06.880 And without anyone knowing, without anyone asking, much to the family's surprise, this guy just threw himself in.

00:08:20.700 And he asked her to design what's called a zero-G indicator for the Polaris Dawn mission.

00:08:31.600 He was the commander of that.

00:08:32.800 and she sketched out this little stuffed animal

00:08:35.780 that looked like Elon Musk's dog

00:08:38.920 and named him Asteroid.

00:08:41.340 And when Polaris hit zero G,

00:08:44.200 Asteroid started to float.

00:08:46.220 It was a dream come to for her.

00:08:47.620 She was in space.

00:08:54.660 But nobody on that mission

00:08:56.000 forgot about this little girl in Pennsylvania.

00:09:02.800 They sent her a birthday cake on her birthday.

00:09:05.040 They sent flowers to the hospital.

00:09:06.960 They all got together on a Zoom call just days before she died.

00:09:10.500 Jared chartered his own plane to fly, live cross-country.

00:09:19.720 So she'd get treatments.

00:09:22.220 Personally called St. Jude to review her case.

00:09:25.580 He took her up in a fighter jet, which he flew.

00:09:28.120 she was able to meet

00:09:30.860 Charlie Duke, one of the last

00:09:33.100 astronauts to walk on the moon

00:09:34.400 she met him in Antarctica, William

00:09:36.960 Shatner she met, later she

00:09:39.080 met Victor Glover

00:09:40.180 the whole space

00:09:43.220 world

00:09:43.760 opened its arms to this little girl

00:09:47.020 somebody

00:09:47.580 you've never heard of

00:09:50.780 and they didn't do

00:09:53.160 it for the press

00:09:54.060 they just did it because

00:09:57.060 she her passion was contagious so full of love and the space world was her world not hospitals

00:10:07.540 she didn't let cancer stop her from looking up at the sky ever her biggest dream was to speak

00:10:15.080 to Elon Musk the night they found out that her cancer had come roaring back she stood in line

00:10:22.300 to ask Elon when he would

00:10:24.220 send kids into space.

00:10:27.680 When Elon

00:10:28.480 heard her condition was worsening,

00:10:30.740 he said that he would call

00:10:32.360 her that night. Out of the blue,

00:10:34.680 he heard, I think, on social media,

00:10:36.300 I'm calling, I'm calling

00:10:38.300 you tonight.

00:10:39.940 He called.

00:10:52.300 she said

00:11:00.580 can you ask him to call

00:11:22.300 can you ask him to call tomorrow

00:11:34.640 I'm really tired

00:11:38.860 he agreed

00:11:42.060 he immediately sent flowers

00:11:45.280 and a note

00:11:47.000 to the hospital

00:11:48.300 just before they arrived she passed away

00:11:53.900 it's a remarkable story both the notes and the flowers

00:12:08.880 were put in this little girl's casket

00:12:10.880 i have the notes that she had written down the questions she wanted to ask elon

00:12:20.100 we are surrounded by so many people who are just in it for themselves

00:12:27.500 and when i heard this story and i saw that no one no everyone everyone was involved in just

00:12:39.180 just loving on this little girl and nobody had this been gone on and nobody was nobody the word

00:12:46.340 had not gotten out it wasn't anywhere nobody knows this in a time of such cynicism i really

00:12:55.600 thought her story should be shared and her mother is with me rebecca uh parado rebecca

00:13:03.340 how are you good thanks for sharing this story glenn you're welcome um

00:13:12.880 what what did i get wrong or what needs to be told what what do you think

00:13:20.280 needs to be said that i missed about her story 0.96

00:13:23.860 i think you captured her pretty well she um she was a fighter but she always

00:13:33.140 um she always loved space and that was the one thing that kept her going um

00:13:39.800 Jared the crew you know they always gave her something to continue to look forward to

00:13:45.380 um and you know she actually it took almost two and a half years for asteroids

00:13:52.080 to uh finally make it to space and so during that whole period of time they continue to keep her

00:13:59.400 close and keep her connected and zoom calls and birthday gifts. And, you know, she was sick in

00:14:06.720 the hospital. They just, they kept her close and didn't forget about her and really meant a lot to

00:14:13.540 her. How surprised were you about that? I mean, these are really, really busy people. Um, and

00:14:23.560 you know do things and you can absolutely mean it and touch base and be there for an occasion

00:14:29.840 and do something special but then you don't do what these two guys did i mean how shocking was

00:14:37.220 that to you we're probably still shocked that you know we're still so close to to jared and

00:14:45.660 and all of the people um even from inspiration for crew the polaris crew um you know to jared's

00:14:54.620 assistance um they all stayed in contact and stay close and um have been a huge supporter for live

00:15:03.660 and our entire family and we've been i i've told them we're grateful times you know a million times

00:15:11.580 And, um, and I think that they just do it and don't even think about that.

00:15:20.720 I have to tell you, um, when I talked to you at NASA, I didn't, I didn't, I just didn't think of the three letters of your daughter's name, L-I-V.

00:15:35.960 and um the whole time we're talking and i'm telling her story and i'm thinking

00:15:41.720 what an appropriate name as

00:15:45.200 this is this her story will live it will live on beyond her the things that she did are going to

00:15:55.640 live way beyond her years um tell me the story about the little zero g and i'm so mad i your

00:16:04.300 Her husband gave me one and I have it in my studio in Florida and I'm up at 0.75

00:16:07.680 another studio. And so I don't have it with me, but I mean,

00:16:11.100 she really wanted this to be a Macy's day thing. And, um,

00:16:16.600 tell the story. How did that happen?

00:16:21.560 Um, so, you know, we stayed close with,

00:16:24.540 so kid Poteet was the mission director for inspiration for,

00:16:29.200 and then ended up ultimately going up in Polaris Dawn.

00:16:32.240 so you know we stayed close to him too and he had messaged me after Liv's surgery and asked me

00:16:41.360 to ask Liv what she wanted to send to space and initially we thought they were just going to send

00:16:48.520 a toy or you know something that she wanted and it ended up being the zero g indicator

00:16:55.360 and the the couple things that she wanted to send they couldn't get licensing to so they decided

00:17:01.940 to have her draw something up and custom make something and so she has always loved shiba inus

00:17:09.920 she found out elon had um floki so that was kind of like her basis she wanted it to be

00:17:17.180 a space shiba inu and um and they spacex kind of took it and ran with it and literally made

00:17:26.540 the cutest toy dog um and in a space outfit and he in a space he made lots of it and it didn't he

00:17:35.940 didn't elon pay for all of these things just pay for them to be made and i all of the proceeds

00:17:45.440 from asteroid uh live got to choose where the proceeds went to and so that she chose

00:17:52.400 for it to be donated to St. Jude.

00:17:58.260 So when she heard that Jared,

00:18:01.660 because this happened before he was head of NASA,

00:18:04.960 when she found out that he was the head of NASA,

00:18:07.960 did she at some point go,

00:18:09.100 that's the guy that I was in the fighter jet with.

00:18:14.320 I mean, it must have been amazing to have been with that guy 0.73

00:18:17.700 because she just wanted to be an astronaut.

00:18:19.320 um and to now no i know the head of nasa all that look at that picture

00:18:26.120 when they showed me that picture at fighter jet weekend i that was the one

00:18:35.000 she adored him uh she looked up to him so much and it was almost more of a an uncle

00:18:48.240 she felt like he was then then just he was just jared to her he wasn't he wasn't really the the

00:18:55.960 big astronaut he wasn't the head of nasa it was just that's jared to her and um and he went above

00:19:04.580 and beyond to make sure that she was taken care of so um we have a list that she wrote that she

00:19:16.060 wanted to ask elon when she was you know when he was calling she had a list of nine or ten things

00:19:23.940 she wanted to ask him and they are just so they're so nerdy yeah um and uh what i want to do is i

00:19:35.340 would like to uh have you go through the questions and we'll post it today on x and i will bet you

00:19:41.960 that elon musk will answer those questions tell me the story now rebecca of the list that i'm about

00:19:47.780 to share um so you know live's biggest dream of course was to meet elon and um when she started

00:19:57.280 to get really sick when we found out she only had about six months left which ended up really being

00:20:01.980 less than three um he agreed to meet her at the next starship launch which was at that time

00:20:10.240 supposed to be roughly february of course you know then it got pushed back and uh

00:20:17.920 after her after her appointment and new year's we realized that she only had weeks left days

00:20:25.920 and um kind of communicated that back to him and he was trying to get in contact with her

00:20:32.080 and was going to just call her then so um Liv was working on just a list of questions

00:20:39.600 and um they actually ended up being in my handwriting because her entire left side

00:20:49.100 ended up going paralyzed and she was a left-handed and when she went to try to write down the

00:20:55.700 questions she realized she couldn't write so um so her and i sat together the one night and

00:21:03.280 wrote down questions that way we had them ready when he called and um and he and he did call right

00:21:10.540 he didn't what happened he did not so i got a text message oh and uh the message was

00:21:18.180 i i'm with elon now he can call her tonight or um or tomorrow sometime and it was it was probably

00:21:27.240 eight o'clock at night by then and live said tell him to call tomorrow i'm tired

00:21:33.380 and we laughed because she's like no tell elon to call me tomorrow i want to go to bed right

00:21:40.300 and uh um and i i just assumed that he had gotten too busy and and just never got to call her the

00:21:48.380 next day um and then so he remained and when did she die

00:21:56.860 um probably three or four days after that just a couple days after

00:22:07.780 so she wanted to have the conversation with him so these are the questions that he never answered

00:22:14.600 and i'd love for him to answer them i think they're actually good questions she'd make a

00:22:20.200 good reporter she would have made a good reporter uh question number one are you going to make your

00:22:24.560 own phone i know his answer to that one and it's fascinating um are you expanding the tesla diner

00:22:32.160 to new areas. 1.00

00:22:34.220 She's a nerd.

00:22:36.320 If you know about the Tesla Diner,

00:22:38.380 you are nerd central.

00:22:41.180 Are there any new games

00:22:42.740 with any upcoming Tesla updates?

00:22:46.320 Listen to this one.

00:22:47.560 What is your favorite anime?

00:22:50.860 Have you ever been to Japan?

00:22:52.700 What was your favorite place

00:22:53.760 or thing there?

00:22:55.480 Do you know about Hatsumiku?

00:22:59.500 That's an anime character.

00:23:00.900 she was really deeply into anime and i think he is too right

00:23:04.680 yeah i think so yeah um was annie an ai grok companion inspired from uh misa from death note

00:23:17.840 uh okay uh and can you make asteroid the mascot for spacex

00:23:24.400 which of the questions do you think she would have wanted answered

00:23:29.360 positively

00:23:30.860 definitely if she could only ask

00:23:33.840 one and get the answer what one

00:23:35.900 do you think it would be

00:23:36.660 probably Hatsuniku

00:23:39.880 she loved that character

00:23:44.960 and you know there's another

00:23:47.940 list also that Jared

00:23:50.060 had her put together

00:23:51.840 for all her final wishes

00:23:53.380 or things that we could do to remember her

00:23:56.000 and the

00:23:57.960 one was she would like a collaboration with hatsu and miku figurine and an asteroid together

00:24:05.640 she also uh wanted uh a way for kids like her uh to be able to go to space camp right

00:24:19.600 right and that is possibly hopefully that's hopefully something that we can you know pull

00:24:31.220 off um sponsor a pediatric cancer child to attend a rocket launch in person uh she said there are a

00:24:38.460 lot of other kids that wanted the same opportunity i would imagine that i i can't imagine that jared

00:24:43.260 wouldn't i mean nasa have you seen how jared is like really in in incorporating kids in almost

00:24:50.260 everything he does now at nasa i mean he is really talking to her generation right i think that's

00:24:57.880 just who jared is though it is it is that's what i mean i fell in love with your daughter

00:25:05.160 through you guys at the space launch but i also have such profound respect now

00:25:17.660 uh for jared and elon on the things that they did that they didn't have to do jared did not he

00:25:25.580 had no reason to do any of these and not expecting anyone to ever find out and i just thought it was

00:25:32.340 important for people to know

00:25:34.500 that the

00:25:38.400 smallest of us,

00:25:40.300 the weakest of us, can make

00:25:42.420 a huge impact.

00:25:47.720 And some of the

00:25:48.340 world's greatest

00:25:49.260 in their quiet times

00:25:52.460 are doing remarkable

00:25:54.520 things.

00:25:56.580 Thank you so much, Rebecca.

00:26:00.200 Thank you.

00:26:02.340 god bless you uh you can follow the you can follow the story you can uh follow her um you

00:26:10.600 can go to uh her ex handle is rebecca parado rebecca parado and uh and follow the story

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00:27:29.920 Okay, so this war has caused a lot of problems.

00:27:34.080 But there are also other problems with the economy.

00:27:38.460 A lot of people are like, when is this going to get better?

00:27:41.060 I understand.

00:27:42.220 And a lot of people were expecting that Donald Trump could turn it around like he did in 2016.

00:27:46.540 But a lot of damage was done beginning in 2020, even 2019, with the Great Reset.

00:27:52.720 uh and uh covid you know it changed your life covid changed all of our lives it changed our

00:27:59.240 family it changed changed everything changed our culture everything it changed um and it really

00:28:06.820 affected our economy now i'm going to give you some some tough news first uh looks like farm uh

00:28:14.520 farmers are really struggling to be able to get fertilizer because fertilizer has gone way up in

00:28:20.820 price you know it's all petrochemicals and fertilizer uh you know when when petrochemicals

00:28:27.680 when you have problems with oil you have a problem uh with uh fertilizer and it looks like

00:28:34.140 what are the numbers here uh

00:28:37.900 looks like 20 and 40 percent rise in cost uh in fertilizer now and a lot of farmers are saying

00:28:52.540 i don't know how i can even afford that we also have cattle prices that are going through the

00:28:58.560 roof. Why? Because we now have fewer cattle in America than we had in 1950. Think of that. We

00:29:11.520 had fewer cattle. We have 2.2 million head in March. That's down from 2.5 million.

00:29:18.960 um that's going to be a real problem u.s population in 1950 was half the size that it is now

00:29:29.280 and we have the smallest herd since 1950 cattle prices beef prices are going to become very very

00:29:37.940 expensive and that has nothing to do with fertilizer or anything else except the cows

00:29:42.940 are going to cost more money to feed them alfalfa or whatever you're going to use fertilizer 0.79

00:29:47.440 to be able to grow all of their food for next winter,

00:29:51.780 so costs are going to go up on that.

00:29:55.500 Yesterday, the White House had a message to all of the CEOs from the oil companies,

00:30:00.060 pump more oil, pump more oil.

00:30:05.320 Okay.

00:30:10.540 America has a choice right now, and it's going to be a tough choice,

00:30:16.040 And I fear I know which choice we're going to make because it's human nature.

00:30:21.700 And it's human nature if we don't have somebody articulating what is happening.

00:30:28.340 And this would require the president to articulate the grand vision and say, look, this is where we're going.

00:30:34.500 This is what JFK did with the moonshot.

00:30:37.980 It's really FDR.

00:30:39.180 This is what he did with the, you know, with the New Deal, which really made things much worse, but that's a different story.

00:30:46.380 It takes somebody to say, we're going here. 0.53

00:30:48.980 It's going to be a tough journey, but this is where we're going, okay?

00:30:53.380 In 20 years from now, we are going to be listening to people say one of two things.

00:31:03.540 That was the moment.

00:31:04.700 It was probably 2026 that was the moment that America didn't turn the corner.

00:31:13.340 It just all began to fall apart right there.

00:31:18.300 Or they're going to say, 2026 probably was the year where it all started to come together.

00:31:25.200 And they turned the corner.

00:31:27.420 And that's how they survived.

00:31:29.480 But we are at that corner.

00:31:31.540 Make no mistake.

00:31:32.740 and that corner is either going to be turned or not and if it's not turned it will because

00:31:39.340 if it fails in 25 years we are no longer here or we're so diminished that it's you know no longer

00:31:46.460 really the united states as we know it um it'll be because of one of two things either donald trump

00:31:52.100 is wildly wrong, or we just couldn't get past the fact that the pain to get to where we need to go

00:32:03.340 is going to take time, and it's going to be tough to weather.

00:32:10.740 But I think there is a plan right now, and you are seeing it in action, that actually saves us.

00:32:18.160 This is why I'm so optimistic because we never had anybody.

00:32:21.620 Remember, I kept saying, I've said for years, where is the guy who's got the big vision?

00:32:25.680 Where is the guy who's going to point to the moon and say, we're going there?

00:32:28.860 We have it.

00:32:29.980 He's just not pointing to it.

00:32:32.080 He's just not doing a good job of articulating the big plan.

00:32:36.400 You kind of have to put it together yourself.

00:32:38.280 Now, I could be wrong in putting this together.

00:32:40.120 If I'm wrong on this

00:32:42.900 And it works

00:32:44.920 Then he's just the luckiest man ever

00:32:48.620 Because he's got all the pieces

00:32:50.280 And I just don't believe he's not seeing this

00:32:52.320 As a grand unifying theory

00:32:54.240 So let me give you this grand unifying theory

00:32:56.560 Because

00:32:57.820 We are looking at

00:33:00.080 The most dramatic

00:33:01.820 And possibly peaceful power shift

00:33:04.780 In modern history

00:33:05.760 Everything is interconnected

00:33:09.000 and americans aren't looking at that and i think and i well i know this part is true because i asked

00:33:15.460 donald trump this probably 60 or 80 days into his into his term i said you looked at the post-world

00:33:22.280 war ii world and you said none of this works didn't you and you're redesigning all of it and

00:33:26.480 he said yes yes so imagine let's start there a president looks at everything that we had built

00:33:34.460 since 1945, all of the systems that we all know are broken. And he says, none of this stuff works.

00:33:42.240 And so I'm going to dismantle it and change it because, you know, we're funding the world's

00:33:49.100 defense. We're fighting everybody else's war. You know, we're subsidizing our own decline.

00:33:56.620 And Donald Trump is stepping in and going, yeah, we're not going to do that anymore.

00:34:00.280 okay if this is right he is building something historic he is building a new american economic

00:34:09.920 empire and here's how he's doing it energy dominance hemisphere security technical supremacy

00:34:17.800 a military that is like no military i mean i'm actually afraid of our military in a good way

00:34:25.220 but if it goes dark it could be a very bad way i mean i've never seen anything like it

00:34:29.960 So a reborn manufacturing heartland, this is an economy that is not being reborn, but reimagined for the 21st century.

00:34:43.520 And one that, let's not kid ourselves, is not going to pay down our debt.

00:34:47.920 But the strategy would be to grow the economy to the point to where the debt is less of a problem, still be a problem.

00:34:54.180 but you know i'm not sure that that even works but if he is right it does prevent the collapse

00:35:00.660 of the american dollar on so many fronts okay if this war ends without spreading

00:35:09.440 and this theory that i'm going to lay out for you these six things if it's if this if this

00:35:15.980 is what it is it will all have been done without the kind of global war that has defined the 20th

00:35:22.480 century. This is America reclaiming its golden age, just smarter, stronger, and sovereign.

00:35:31.060 So let me take a one-minute break, and then I'm going to come back and I'm going to show you the

00:35:34.280 board, and I'm going to show you the six things that are happening right now that people need to

00:35:39.200 put together in their head and then choose. Do you believe this is what's happening? And if you do

00:35:45.220 believe, what do we have to do to make sure that this happens? Because I do believe this is our

00:35:50.700 last chance at saving America. So if I were in the White House, I would go take my chalkboard

00:36:03.180 into the Oval Office and I would say, let me show you the board. Let me show you the strategy here.

00:36:08.400 First, let's start with energy dominance because without energy, we can't do anything. It's the

00:36:13.400 foundation of everything. Trump, in his first term, made us a net exporter. Never before in

00:36:20.100 human history or American history had that happened. Then in the second term, he unleashed

00:36:25.020 it. Record production, deregulation, National Energy Dominance Council, the LNG exports all

00:36:31.920 exploding. Why? Why is this important to put first? Because energy is leverage and energy

00:36:38.680 we must have if we're going to be dominant. When we crippled Iran's oil exports and we seized

00:36:46.120 control of Venezuela's massive reserves. We took Maduro in Operation, what did he call that one?

00:36:52.160 Absolute Resolve. And then we put American companies in charge of that. Do you notice

00:36:57.740 the world didn't scramble to the Mideast and that chaos? They began to come to us. 0.87

00:37:06.000 Argentina's fields align under our umbrella. And Europe, Europe's now one of our biggest buyers,

00:37:12.900 Hundreds of billions in deals for American oil and gas, replacing the Russian supplies.

00:37:18.960 Now that this is happening over in the Strait of Hormuz and that becomes so unstable, you can track it.

00:37:26.200 You can watch the ships and track them.

00:37:28.360 They are making U-turns in oceans and turning around and coming to American ports instead of going to the Middle East.

00:37:37.160 The world is buying American energy in ways that we've never seen before.

00:37:43.020 Russia and China are losing their pricing power.

00:37:46.580 So we become the undisputed energy superpower of the 21st century without the Middle East quagmire, if this works.

00:37:55.860 That freedom lets us walk away from being the globe's babysitter.

00:38:00.960 When Donald Trump says, I'm not going to get you into wars, that's what he means.

00:38:05.300 I've got to, we have to pull out.

00:38:07.140 We can't just leave the world the way it was because we depend on them for too much for oil and everything else.

00:38:13.280 We can't create a vacuum.

00:38:15.420 We've got to create some framework to keep that stable and we pull out.

00:38:20.600 And then we become the stable place to be able to buy, have the world buy our energy.

00:38:26.640 Second, with ending the World War II burden and forging real peace through strength, okay?

00:38:32.600 for 80 years, we carried NATO and the Middle East on our backs. Trump came in the first term and

00:38:40.260 said, pay up. And they started to. NATO allies put, what, 5% of their GDP in defense spending.

00:38:47.240 Never happened before. Now, Europe is only stepping up because in the second term,

00:38:52.440 he's made it crystal clear. We're going to defend our hemisphere. You defend yours.

00:38:57.360 And in the Middle East, first term, Abraham Accords. 0.92

00:39:01.420 That was the beginning.

00:39:02.900 In the second term, he's built the Council of Peace.

00:39:05.760 Now, this is a new body turning former enemies into partners at the table.

00:39:11.000 Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE.

00:39:13.600 They are now more Israel-friendly than Great Britain ever has been. 0.64

00:39:18.880 And when we and Israel struck the nuclear program and the regime, 0.70

00:39:24.500 did you notice they stayed on our side? Every nation is playing its role in its own security.

00:39:32.700 It was Bahrain that went to the UN Security Council to ask permission to use force against

00:39:37.620 Iran. Not America, not Israel, Bahrain. Now, America is sitting at the head of the table,

00:39:44.720 but we're not carrying the load alone. And the hundreds of billions that once were flowing

00:39:50.700 overseas now stay at home. We could pay down the debt. We could build factories. It's powering

00:39:58.780 the future if this works. The third thing is the hemisphere first strategy. This is his 21st,

00:40:06.260 his 21st century Don Roe doctrine is what they're calling it. All of this stuff looks random at

00:40:15.360 first. Greenland, everybody's like, what is he doing? Well, first he was securing rare earth

00:40:19.520 minerals. And in the second term, he's secured those from all over the world, taking those

00:40:25.300 minerals from China, breaking China's monopoly, and then locking in a new Arctic sea lane for

00:40:32.260 the future of global trade. Nobody's talking about that. Then he forced the EU to take a stand. When

00:40:38.200 they denied us airspace during the Iran operation, we found out who our real allies are, which makes

00:40:44.660 the Greenland case even more obvious, even to Europe itself. They're like, oh boy, we're screwed.

00:40:51.720 Panama Canal. What was that all about? To eject the Chinese influence. Cuba. What's that about?

00:40:58.460 We're squeezing them now. Pentagon said yesterday, be ready. We're starting to prepare for things in

00:41:04.340 Cuba. That's getting Russia, Chinese, and all the Marxist lifelines out of a place 90 miles from 0.76

00:41:12.060 our shore and venezuela maduro is gone terror networks are being dismantled gangs defunded 0.74

00:41:20.020 oil now flowing under our umbrella that is a death blow to whom to bricks bricks russia china

00:41:30.360 brazil all bricks wanted to have a they wanted to challenge the petrodollar well without iran

00:41:37.440 and without uh venezuela they can't do it i mean this is really genius if if this is the plan it's 0.80

00:41:46.860 genius russia and china are kicked out of our hemisphere i mean that's what this is all about

00:41:53.080 our resources shipping lanes borders secure no more rivals building bases in our hemisphere

00:42:00.320 and then you have the military restoration this is the fourth thing

00:42:05.320 and i would also add the quiet revolution in space that nobody's talking about

00:42:11.160 do you remember just what four years ago how humiliated we were with the afghani withdrawal 0.95

00:42:18.020 the world was laughing at our hollowed out force and we had guys in dresses 0.90

00:42:23.760 trump has completely turned that around in 18 months and built it into the most respected and

00:42:32.260 feared military, I think I can safely say, ever on planet Earth. Precision, strength,

00:42:41.180 and peace through overwhelming power. Then you add this, which nobody is putting into place,

00:42:48.140 the Kennedy Space Center. Why should we go to the moon? Because the coast of Florida is going to be

00:42:58.620 the world's spaceport. No one is really talking about the master plan of what's happening in

00:43:05.380 space. If you go into the show prep today, you're going to find all these stories about

00:43:09.200 how important space is becoming with just, you know, what China is doing to help Iran

00:43:16.580 with satellites, okay? I'm going to tell you if I have time today about a space war that is

00:43:22.280 actually going on. I mean, it's like Star Wars up in space right now, but the moonshot is

00:43:28.220 is critical record launches master plans on track to dominate the moon and the space economy if you

00:43:39.880 don't understand the space economy read up on it because this is this is like ai it's a an entirely

00:43:46.100 new world okay new industries new wealth new american leadership in the final frontier now

00:43:54.720 how does this relate to you we need somebody to outline the big vision and i don't see anybody

00:44:03.380 doing it so let me just tell you what i think is going on six steps to what's going on because you

00:44:10.280 can't just say you know we got to get out of europe and then not have a plan to do that

00:44:15.040 otherwise it's just everything craves we got to get out of the middle east well you can't just

00:44:19.180 leave a vacuum there. We've got to fix our oil. Well, you can't just fix the oil, because as you

00:44:25.460 see, when other places of the world start to have problems, our prices go up as well, because it's

00:44:31.100 a global market. We've got to beat China to AI. We've got to beat China and space. We've got to

00:44:37.840 fix our manufacturing. You can't do all of these things until you've ripped all of the wires out

00:44:43.940 of what we had, what was built and what was wrong. We all know the system that we had doesn't work.

00:44:50.860 So first, energy dominance. I just laid this out just a minute ago. Second, ending the post-World

00:44:57.640 War II burden of peace through strength, meaning we pay for everything. We're the strong ones and

00:45:03.420 they get the peace. Third, control this hemisphere. Fourth, restore the military. Boy, have we done 0.93

00:45:10.960 that. Now five, declawing China without getting into a war. That's a big one. How do you beat

00:45:20.020 China? Because their plan is 2027 or 2028 to be dominant. How do you declaw them without getting 0.98

00:45:28.420 into a war? Well, tariffs, tech controls, reshoring our factories, getting control of the rare earth

00:45:36.880 minerals. All of these things have been done and America yawns. Plus the $18 trillion of investment

00:45:43.440 for our industrial base. Even if only half of that comes through, that's $9 trillion to build

00:45:50.060 factories here in America. And then you're not going to build them tomorrow. Okay. All of this

00:45:55.520 takes time. That's the frustrating part. America first AI tied to cheap, abundant American energy.

00:46:03.520 so we surge way ahead of them in the real arms race of this century ai while china is getting

00:46:10.820 starved of markets and minerals manufacturing boom here at home but it takes time debt could

00:46:18.400 get paid down but we're not going to we're gonna our plan will be grow our way out of weakness

00:46:23.440 six this is the one that i people are not going to understand for 10 years i don't think anybody's

00:46:31.140 going to understand any of these. If these things work, I don't think any of us going to understand

00:46:34.540 them. One day you'll wake up and you'll start to hear people on TV going, you know, Trump was

00:46:38.980 actually really quite smart. He's been dismantling the globalist machine. The globalist machine

00:46:47.860 was engineered to manage our decline and eventual collapse. Okay. All of this wiring was put into

00:46:58.740 this engine to be a governor on it to keep it down keep it down and manage the decline so it

00:47:06.460 would fall into a new system that they were building so in the first term he takes the

00:47:12.020 economy because it's not as governored as it as it is now and he's he brings it so it's roaring back

00:47:19.200 okay then comes covid the perfect crisis for the world economic forum's great reset that they they

00:47:27.000 waited for that. I mean, I think they planned that actually. But that was not organic growth again.

00:47:33.000 That was controlled demolition of the American markets and the system that we all have. Open

00:47:40.400 borders, endless regulations, green new deals, hollowing out of our industry, a deliberate

00:47:47.260 weakening of American sovereignty so the elites could build the world in the way they wanted to

00:47:52.880 do. Biden's policies just poured gasoline on that fire and quite honestly nearly nailed our economic

00:47:59.120 coffin shut. Trump, thank God he didn't win in 2020 because he watched and he learned. He's

00:48:07.580 nearly collapsed the WEF's entire agenda, but he hasn't killed it. All of these people are waiting

00:48:14.640 to see what happens in the next two elections. He's building this new American empire and he has

00:48:21.340 to simultaneously neutralize the globalist forces

00:48:25.200 that don't want us to be sovereign,

00:48:27.580 don't want us to be dominant.

00:48:30.060 That's why fixing the economy is slower this time.

00:48:33.440 The American economy is a V12 or a V16 underneath that hood.

00:48:38.140 Man, that thing just cooks.

00:48:39.860 When it's right, it cooks.

00:48:41.940 Well, it had been so governed and destroyed

00:48:44.500 by the globalist agenda,

00:48:46.220 it was running on three cylinders.

00:48:48.480 and everything else in this thing is almost shot so he has to rebuild the engine rip out all of

00:48:56.500 the old wiring all of the stuff that they broke or intentionally put in there to slow it down

00:49:02.060 to keep us dependent and not not dependent and not declining

00:49:08.340 i'm telling you if this is true this is huge

00:49:15.540 and the problem is the biggest battle is with us

00:49:22.860 because if you don't see this vision you you don't know where we are and you won't understand

00:49:31.340 how critical it is to keep the power that we have to secure the house and the senate and the white

00:49:39.820 house have to and you have to do it even if congress does nothing honestly even if they do

00:49:46.320 nothing you have to keep this going for the next term otherwise i mean long-term institutions

00:49:55.620 all entrenched bureaucracies, the globalist networks, the NGOs, the legacy media,

00:50:02.420 they're all just holding on until 2028, praying that the plan stalls, okay? If we lose now,

00:50:10.160 the old schemes come raging back with a vengeance. This is the final play. That's why I said at the

00:50:18.140 beginning of the hour, in 20 years, 10 years, historians are going to look back and say,

00:50:22.940 that was the moment America turned the corner

00:50:25.140 or that was the moment it died.

00:50:28.100 If you don't do any of the stuff that he's doing now,

00:50:31.620 the big, huge structural changes globally,

00:50:35.700 you can't fix the economy.

00:50:38.040 If you're not willing to do that,

00:50:40.360 all he has to do is just,

00:50:42.140 he has a few levers that he can play with

00:50:44.220 to get us to rev up a little bit,

00:50:46.900 but it's not going to last.

00:50:49.000 You've got to do these big, huge things.

00:50:52.940 And then comes the economy.

00:50:56.400 That's just my view.

00:50:57.640 I could be completely wrong, completely wrong.

00:51:00.440 But we have to be crystal clear.

00:51:02.580 I mean, I could be blackbilled and say, this is all just chaos.

00:51:07.240 I don't think it is.

00:51:09.280 When you step back and look at it, it's too orchestrated.

00:51:13.360 It all would fall in our favor if it works.

00:51:17.600 So it's like saying, yeah, humans, you know, we just, we climbed out of, you know, out of the premortal slime.

00:51:24.280 You can believe that.

00:51:25.280 I just don't think that makes any sense.

00:51:28.860 Energy powers AI and factories.

00:51:31.840 Hemispheric security protects, you know, our supply chains.

00:51:36.000 The Middle East and NATO pullbacks free our budget and our boys.

00:51:42.720 The Council of Peace proves a new model, shared responsibility.

00:51:46.460 By the way, I haven't had a chance to tell you about what's happening with Lebanon.

00:51:51.780 On Lebanese television today, for the first time, there is a Lebanon flag and an Israeli flag behind the anchor.

00:52:02.560 And Israel is now telling Fox News this morning that the negotiations that are going, not only for peace, but they may end in the Abraham Accords.

00:52:13.180 You get them into the Abraham Accords, all bets are off.

00:52:16.880 Everything changes. 1.00

00:52:18.300 It proves, to me at least, that part of this is right.

00:52:23.460 You have Greenland and space securing the future.

00:52:28.480 You have the war against the globalist reset to ensure that none of this gets reversed.

00:52:34.840 Every single move this guy has made connects if you look at it from a bigger point of view.

00:52:39.580 so 25 years from now was it chaos maybe um did we did we finish this maybe but i think they're

00:52:52.380 going to look back if he's successful and say you know what he played the long game he ended

00:52:57.320 america's era of of the world sucker he took the great reset he built an economic empire that

00:53:04.420 rivals our greatest golden age. Energy, AI dominant, military supreme, hemispheric security,

00:53:11.680 financial independence. You don't fight wars. We're not paying their bills. We don't have to

00:53:20.540 worry about taking some World Economic Forum's orders. We lead, we win, we thrive. The moves

00:53:28.200 might look scattered, but if I'm correct, this is vision. This is what vision. We haven't seen

00:53:35.980 vision like this. I've never seen this in my lifetime. This is vision, if I'm correct.

00:53:44.360 And it is a long-term play. The question is, well, it is honestly the question the world's

00:53:53.240 asking itself right now on the war does america have the stomach for it iran doesn't think you

00:53:59.100 have the stomach to withstand more economic pressure for very long and if that's true

00:54:04.980 and we get to the next election and nobody has articulated this vision

00:54:10.460 but if we get to the next election and people see the vision and they go

00:54:17.360 no i want cheaper gas instead of being able to say look this ensures your children

00:54:26.800 do you want your children to do better than you're doing now are you willing to sacrifice

00:54:35.040 now so your children have a chance of freedom because that's what this is about americans

00:54:42.820 when they get it, when they see the vision, they will make the long-term call. I will sacrifice

00:54:48.040 now so my children don't have to suffer. That's what this moment is all about. This moment right

00:54:54.100 now is, will you pay attention to the Islamist invasion of the Western world to save the Western 0.99

00:55:00.900 world? Will you do the hard thing right now and be uncomfortable for pointing it out so your 0.95

00:55:07.360 children don't have to be in the streets fighting those who want to behead them. Yeah, I will be a

00:55:14.220 pariah today for that. And I urge you to join me. Will you pay higher gas prices today if this

00:55:23.160 vision is correct? I tell you, it could be wrong. I could be wrong. I don't think I am, but I could

00:55:30.640 be. If this vision is correct, are you willing to pay higher prices for a little while longer

00:55:38.020 to be able to secure freedom for your children? I am, but I don't know if the rest of America is.

00:55:51.620 You have to decide. We'll put this monologue out so you can read it and think about it and add to it.

00:56:00.640 argue about it but i'm i'm telling you i this is there's too many things that fall into place

00:56:10.360 where we're the winner remember remember when when everything joe biden did we ended up being

00:56:15.900 the loser on and i'm like come on guys it can't be a coincidence you can't be that unlucky

00:56:21.360 this is the opposite of that everybody's saying these these moves are all erratic and everything

00:56:27.060 else you can't be this lucky every because if it works everything falls into america is dominant

00:56:34.360 and our children have a future wow if that's chaos that's the most lucky group of people on the

00:56:43.180 planet some say the bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth

00:56:52.620 Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.

00:56:56.700 Rich, creamy, chocolatey Aero truffle.

00:56:59.540 Feel the Aero bubbles melt.

00:57:01.580 It's mind bubbling.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 16, 2026

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