The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Chip Roy ｜ 1⧸9⧸23

00:00:00.000 It was my 23rd anniversary, wedding anniversary.

00:00:02.580 It was?

00:00:03.460 Yeah.

00:00:03.820 Oh, congratulations to you.

00:00:05.680 Certainly not to her.

00:00:06.980 Oh, no.

00:00:07.560 My deepest sympathies.

00:00:09.200 It's a terrible time for her.

00:00:11.520 You know, 23 years.

00:00:13.180 It's amazing.

00:00:13.980 It's incredible.

00:00:15.160 We were talking last night.

00:00:16.760 It has flown by.

00:00:19.920 I don't know what happened at time.

00:00:21.840 I know.

00:00:22.800 I'm at this, you know, I had my 20th anniversary recently.

00:00:27.440 Condolences to Lisa.

00:00:28.640 No kidding.

00:00:29.120 And I thought to myself, like, wow, like, I've been together.

00:00:32.740 I've been with her for 20 years.

00:00:35.020 Going back a couple of years before that, like, we've basically been together half of our lives.

00:00:41.340 Yeah.

00:00:42.140 25 years for us, which is, you know, four years from my entire life.

00:00:49.300 For you.

00:00:51.440 29 times what?

00:00:52.800 Anyway, so it's strange because it's also the anniversary of this program.

00:01:02.300 I got married, moved.

00:01:04.340 I got married on a Saturday.

00:01:05.900 Yeah.

00:01:06.300 Moved to Tampa and started the show on the following Monday.

00:01:11.020 It's crazy.

00:01:11.860 Tomorrow's broadcast is the 23rd anniversary of the Glenn Beck talk radio program.

00:01:17.240 Although there were variants of it.

00:01:19.420 There were like, it's like, this is like the 23rd anniversary of the Omicron variant.

00:01:23.140 Like, we had beta.

00:01:25.420 We had alpha.

00:01:26.400 We had delta.

00:01:26.960 And it was just as helpful to society as that variant.

00:01:31.700 Okay, speaking of medical stuff, Jace Medical is a name I want you to remember.

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00:01:46.800 has declared that there is a worldwide shortage of antibiotics, specifically amoxicillin.

00:01:53.860 Oh, well, that's not used every day.

00:01:56.600 If there is one thing we learned or should have learned from the pandemic is we should make our medicine here.

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00:03:18.060 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:25.260 I don't know about anybody else, but I'm thinking that it worked out pretty good holding McCarthy, you know, for 15 votes.

00:03:35.100 I don't know.

00:03:35.560 But Glenn, it was such an embarrassment.

00:03:38.920 And it was such a...

00:03:40.360 Can you believe the dysfunction in the party and all that?

00:03:43.560 No, I can't.

00:03:44.420 Oh, gosh.

00:03:45.120 It was four days.

00:03:45.820 We delayed their important work by a few days.

00:03:48.300 Yeah.

00:03:49.180 That's...

00:03:49.780 Yeah.

00:03:50.120 So here's what they got.

00:03:51.960 Minimum 72-hour reading period for all bills presented to Congress.

00:03:57.760 Now, you would think that, well, we already have that because that's exactly what President Obama...

00:04:04.120 I'm just going to just point out, the Freedom Caucus actually got in writing what President Obama said he was going to do and never did.

00:04:14.540 72 hours to read a bill.

00:04:17.020 Why is that important?

00:04:18.320 Because we don't have a constitutional republic anymore.

00:04:23.560 The way this is being run is there is no appropriations committee, really.

00:04:28.900 There is no way to have the power of the purse with Congress because they don't make a budget.

00:04:35.620 They just give you one lump sum and then let the president divvy it out.

00:04:40.000 That's unconstitutional.

00:04:42.160 That's not the way anybody does that.

00:04:45.200 Nobody does that.

00:04:46.220 You have a budget.

00:04:48.960 Okay.

00:04:49.860 They don't have that.

00:04:51.620 You also no longer have the same process of debate on the floor.

00:04:57.560 When was the last time you saw, except for last week, when was the last time you saw Congress all sitting together as a House of Representatives and debating and have people behind them listening to them?

00:05:12.020 Everything that you have seen on the House floor where somebody gets up to make a statement, there's nobody else in the House.

00:05:19.960 Literally no one else in the House.

00:05:22.380 That's all made for TV.

00:05:24.380 And this is why one of the first things they do, and this is Republicans and Democrats, one of the first rules they pass is to make sure C-SPAN cameras can't be pointed at the gallery.

00:05:35.160 Yes.

00:05:35.400 Because they don't want you to see that no one's there.

00:05:37.560 Correct.

00:05:37.840 So the only reason you saw any of this stuff with McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and the guy being restrained and all, the only reason you saw any of that is because the speaker wasn't in place yet and the rule wasn't set yet so that the C-SPAN cameras could be pointed at the gallery.

00:05:55.500 Now they can't.

00:05:56.960 You're never going to see that stuff again for two years.

00:05:58.940 But because they hadn't put those rules in yet, you've got this small window of time to actually see what was happening.

00:06:03.840 Right.

00:06:04.540 You need transparency.

00:06:06.620 This is our government.

00:06:08.620 We vote.

00:06:09.900 They're representing us.

00:06:12.240 I want to see what they're doing as they represent us.

00:06:16.140 So there was no debate.

00:06:17.660 It was all decided by Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy, and then it was Chuck Schumer and Turtle Face, and those four were making the decisions of what would come to the floor of the House and the Senate, and then they would give it to you, you know, maybe five hours before a vote.

00:06:39.540 It's 2,000 pages.

00:06:40.740 You can't read it.

00:06:42.000 You need attorneys.

00:06:43.060 You need your staff to go over what is in that bill.

00:06:45.860 Now, that's what the House Freedom Caucus just accomplished for you.

00:06:52.820 Conservatives who are against this, will you, you don't have to apologize, will you at least admit this is something good?

00:07:01.760 Democrats who said, these guys are terrorists. 0.99

00:07:04.360 It's in the hands of crazy people. 1.00

00:07:08.140 Is that crazy? 0.97

00:07:09.820 What they got, is that crazy?

00:07:12.380 Or does that work to your advantage as somebody who belongs to the United States of America as a voting citizen?

00:07:23.180 Isn't this a good thing?

00:07:25.040 Now, they also got a commitment on a committee to study potential FBI abuses against the American public.

00:07:32.980 That's a church committee, and I'll explain that later next hour.

00:07:37.620 That is really, really good.

00:07:40.720 How about this?

00:07:41.780 For everybody who thinks it's an extremist thing, on the left, term limits.

00:07:47.180 They're going to get a vote.

00:07:48.220 We all know how it's going to turn out.

00:07:49.540 But they're at least going to get a vote on term limits.

00:07:53.780 That's something that almost every American is for.

00:07:57.000 One of the most popular things in our discourse.

00:07:59.340 Correct.

00:07:59.860 80% of people support it.

00:08:01.540 Correct.

00:08:02.260 So, how is this a bad thing for America?

00:08:06.320 For Republicans or Democrats, this is the first time I've seen a group of people actually do the work of the American people and take all the arrows and keep standing.

00:08:19.100 When's the last time you saw anybody do that in Congress?

00:08:22.800 Not for some special interest, not for something that is really divisive.

00:08:27.780 None of those are divisive.

00:08:31.040 When's the last time you saw that?

00:08:34.260 Congratulations to the House Freedom Caucus.

00:08:37.400 I wish these guys were in charge, honestly, because they're only asking to live by the Constitution.

00:08:46.080 That's a good thing.

00:08:47.300 A really good thing.

00:08:49.160 So, congratulations, America.

00:08:51.560 You won.

00:08:52.800 Now, we're going to get into this a little later.

00:08:58.160 But I want to talk to you about how the world is completely inside out.

00:09:03.700 And I've spent a lot of weeks reading and studying and praying and looking at what is the message that I can bring to you that will be helpful and additive to your life.

00:09:18.280 How can we save our nation?

00:09:19.540 How can we save our nation?

00:09:22.480 I will tell you that I truly believe the only thing that will save our nation, really, truly, miraculously save it, is God.

00:09:31.960 If we turn back to the Lord is if we turn back to the Lord and beg forgiveness and ask for his blessings again.

00:09:39.380 If we don't do that, we are going to go the way of every other empire of history.

00:09:47.580 And we will find ourselves in true slavery, unlike anything that the world has seen ever before.

00:09:57.220 Because China is the future, except it will be global. 0.98

00:10:03.540 So, as I'm watching the rioters in Brazil, which we'll talk about later, and I'm seeing what's going on.

00:10:11.240 They're trying to say that this is, you know, January 6th.

00:10:14.180 This is nothing like January 6th, although it has many of the same motivations as what Americans who voted for Donald Trump were feeling.

00:10:27.380 And that is, this is us against the machine.

00:10:34.200 This is us against, not Republicans, Democrats, but this is a machine that is crushing the average person.

00:10:45.000 I want to give you the perspective here to think about that what you're really fighting is not left and right.

00:10:52.740 What you're really fighting is not Democrat and Republican.

00:10:55.500 What you're really fighting, and I said this to you last week, and I want you to understand it before I add in something today.

00:11:03.580 What you're fighting is a globalist, fascistic movement called the Great Reset, which really is run by the global corporations and the elite presidents, prime ministers, governors, parliaments of the West.

00:11:25.660 Okay, it's an international fascist, okay, it's an international fascistic sort of system, business and government colluding because they know better.

00:11:35.100 Then on the other side, you have the national great reset, if you will, the national fascist, and that is China and Russia, where it's all run by a bunch of oligarchs or, you know, the party in China. 0.56

00:11:53.100 And they collude with business to make money and keep the average person down at the bottom of the ladder.

00:12:03.200 That's what you think you're fighting.

00:12:05.180 But what we're actually fighting is international fascist, that's the Great Reset, that's what America is pushing for in Joe Biden.

00:12:15.220 And then you have the Chinese model, the national fascists. 0.99

00:12:21.000 You're leaving out something else.

00:12:24.440 The locals.

00:12:26.540 And that's where we are.

00:12:27.980 And that's why so many people who are former liberals, you'll read this from people in their tweets or their comments on things.

00:12:41.240 They'll say, it's just too crazy to hear a conservative talk about, you know, going local and think local and, you know, support your farmer's market.

00:12:54.540 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:55.560 You know why it's weird?

00:12:56.920 Because we admit you were right about some of this stuff.

00:13:02.560 You were right about international wars.

00:13:06.140 Maybe we should back off of some of that stuff and mind our own business.

00:13:09.560 You were right about the government and business colluding.

00:13:15.320 You're right.

00:13:17.080 And you were right that the power really is local.

00:13:22.260 So why are we arguing still?

00:13:25.220 Local, if we fix us ourselves locally, the power remains closest to the people.

00:13:35.080 This is the basic principle of the American Constitution.

00:13:40.040 You keep all of the power closest to the people, not in some far distant city of Washington or, God forbid, in some far distant EU or the United Nations.

00:13:53.640 You keep it closest to you because you have the best ability to fix the problems on the ground.

00:14:01.800 If I call 911 because my house is on fire, I want that 911 call to go to my local community that is in touch with my local fire department.

00:14:14.600 I don't want it to go to some national 911 call that will prioritize which city is more important and then filter it down to my local.

00:14:24.960 I want it local.

00:14:26.560 That's the most effective way to fight the fire.

00:14:31.800 That's what we're doing.

00:14:33.520 And that's what you're really feeling.

00:14:36.020 The media is helping either China or the Great Reset crowd.

00:14:41.700 So either the international fascist or the national fascist.

00:14:46.620 The media is helping both of those two and providing you with a false choice.

00:14:52.740 It's one or the other.

00:14:54.260 What do you want, China? 0.95

00:14:55.860 What do you want?

00:14:57.940 Well, no, I want local.

00:15:00.840 And local means the Constitution.

00:15:02.700 That's what they don't have a constitution like this around the rest of the world.

00:15:07.540 But we do so we can understand it better.

00:15:10.840 But that's why you're seeing riots in Brazil.

00:15:14.200 That's why you're seeing them all throughout Europe.

00:15:17.260 That's why farmers are standing up in the Netherlands.

00:15:20.720 Wait a minute.

00:15:21.340 We can't grow food this way.

00:15:24.160 Because they're the local fire department.

00:15:26.960 They know.

00:15:28.900 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:32.700 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:35.720 Welcome.

00:15:36.740 Glad you're here.

00:15:37.700 I just I want to go over how important the the winning of a committee, a church like committee

00:15:48.580 that has nothing to do with church, by the way, has everything to do with investigating the CIA,

00:15:54.540 the NSA, the FBI, all of these government agencies and finding out the truth of what

00:16:02.700 they did.

00:16:03.380 It was head headed by a senator from Idaho.

00:16:07.960 His name was church.

00:16:09.220 And it happened after Watergate.

00:16:12.200 And Americans like now had a lot of questions.

00:16:18.120 What is it that our CIA and FBI and everybody else is involved in?

00:16:23.500 And they uncovered and proved all of these things that were conspiracy theories, all of it, a

00:16:31.060 conspiracy theory.

00:16:32.140 The CIA couldn't be involved in Watergate.

00:16:34.580 Yep.

00:16:34.840 Yep.

00:16:35.180 Yep.

00:16:35.500 Yep.

00:16:35.820 Yep.

00:16:36.020 They were.

00:16:37.380 How about this?

00:16:38.320 Project Mockingbird.

00:16:39.540 Now, this was a this was a a rumor, a conspiracy theory about the CIA.

00:16:49.900 And what they did was they're not supposed to operate here in America, but they were and

00:16:56.720 they were manipulating the American news media organizations for propaganda and Project Mockingbird

00:17:04.820 recruited leading American journalists into a network and they influence the operations

00:17:12.280 of front groups.

00:17:14.260 The CIA support of front groups was exposed.

00:17:17.860 And what they were doing is this front group with these journalists, they were coming out

00:17:23.620 and saying, oh, no, this is this is the way this is what the story really is about, yada, yada.

00:17:29.100 And they were taking all of their marching orders from the government and the CIA.

00:17:36.820 The church group proved that Project Mockingbird was happening and then set up, you know, a committee

00:17:46.560 in Congress to make sure that there was oversight on the CIA so they wouldn't do it again.

00:17:52.700 But may I ask you, do you think the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, that they have infiltrated

00:18:01.280 and have front groups that are pushing a narrative on our journalists?

00:18:09.720 Absolutely.

00:18:10.680 We know it.

00:18:11.600 Look at what happened again in Russiagate.

00:18:13.860 Look at look at all of these guys from the CIA, all the guys from the this is definitely

00:18:21.160 this has all the earmarks, all the earmarks of a Russian propaganda when they knew that

00:18:26.620 wasn't true.

00:18:29.540 Yeah, and we've seen several examples of this.

00:18:31.440 I mean, going back to Ben Rhodes and the Obama administration who went to the press and said,

00:18:36.200 you know, we told them basically admitted we told them lies about Iran because none of these 0.98

00:18:41.900 reporters knew anything about it so they'd believe anything we said.

00:18:46.120 We've seen that over and over and over again.

00:18:48.340 I mean, they are, you know, the attempt is not shocking.

00:18:51.840 But when we catch them, there should be consequences.

00:18:54.980 Consequences.

00:18:55.560 Accountability.

00:18:55.880 We should care.

00:18:57.280 This is, I mean, it took a long time.

00:18:59.360 Many of these were well-known conspiracy theories.

00:19:02.900 And that's how they were referred to as conspiracy theories.

00:19:07.380 And nobody would report on them until the church committee.

00:19:11.340 And then, lo and behold, what a surprise.

00:19:14.600 It turns out they weren't conspiracy theories.

00:19:17.640 Does any of this sound familiar?

00:19:19.600 Then it was old news.

00:19:20.580 Yeah.

00:19:20.960 It became immediately old news.

00:19:22.900 Then Project Shamrock.

00:19:25.420 Project Shamrock, Project Minaret.

00:19:27.540 This was an espionage exercise that was happening here in the United States, run by the AFSA,

00:19:38.360 which was the predecessor of the National Security Agency.

00:19:43.220 And what they did, and see if you don't think this is happening, what they did is they got

00:19:48.280 access to daily microfilm copies of all incoming and outgoing and transiting telegrams from

00:20:00.140 Western Union, plus everything from RCA and ITT.

00:20:06.300 They were looking at all messages, all conversations that they could get their hands on coming in

00:20:14.340 and going out from citizens here in the United States.

00:20:20.860 We just have, the NSA just has a better way of doing it now.

00:20:25.040 They just have more powerful, you know, computers and algorithms.

00:20:30.080 Do you think that's not happening now?

00:20:33.020 Well, some version of it is definitely happening.

00:20:35.480 I mean, that's what the Snowden situation showed us quite a bit of that, right?

00:20:40.120 In action.

00:20:41.500 And I mean, has it stopped?

00:20:42.780 I'm sure not.

00:20:43.580 But, and they had no warrants to do it.

00:20:47.900 Hmm.

00:20:48.600 You think anybody is doing that?

00:20:51.580 Another thing was Project Gladio.

00:20:54.720 This was a project to arm and help terrorists that were anti-communists, mainly in Italy.

00:21:08.700 So our government was helping to overthrow governments.

00:21:12.900 Can we, can we say Ukraine?

00:21:15.420 May we?

00:21:15.880 May we say Ukraine?

00:21:17.300 Not now, but just during the Obama administration?

00:21:22.460 Absolutely.

00:21:23.100 This stuff was happening.

00:21:24.520 Absolutely.

00:21:25.460 It was happening.

00:21:26.940 Here's one.

00:21:27.760 November 21st, 1964, a package containing a letter and a tape alleging Martin Luther King's sexual indiscretions

00:21:38.140 was delivered to Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr., and later to King himself.

00:21:45.300 The letter was anonymously written.

00:21:47.960 However, Martin Luther King suspected the FBI sent the letter, a conspiracy theory.

00:21:55.720 Coretta Scott King described the tapes by saying, I couldn't make much out of it.

00:21:58.920 There's a lot of mumbo jumbo.

00:21:59.980 The letter does not specify precisely what action they are urging King to undertake.

00:22:07.740 King understood the letter as advocating that he commit suicide.

00:22:11.140 Some say that it was just urging him to decline the Nobel Peace Prize and step out of leadership.

00:22:18.780 The church committee found that, yeah, that wasn't a conspiracy theory.

00:22:24.920 The FBI did that.

00:22:29.180 Do any of these sound familiar?

00:22:31.700 I mean, do we really think that these things aren't happening right now?

00:22:40.820 We know.

00:22:42.460 We know for sure, Project Mockingbird.

00:22:44.940 We know the White House is telling people in social media.

00:22:49.840 Isn't that also exactly what Project MK Ultra was?

00:22:55.280 This is something else the church committee took on.

00:22:57.600 A program designed and undertaken by the CIA intended to develop procedures and identify drugs

00:23:04.240 that could be used in interrogation to weaken individuals and force confessions.

00:23:10.440 It began in 53, halted in 1973.

00:23:13.760 Numerous methods to manipulate subjects' mental states and brain function.

00:23:19.580 Can't we say that that's most likely happening with the CIA and Google, Facebook?

00:23:30.020 You really think that no one in the NSA, CIA, FBI is trying to, let me give this again,

00:23:38.700 weaken individuals or manipulate subjects' mental states and brain functions?

00:23:46.520 They were using drugs then.

00:23:48.180 They're just using algorithms now.

00:23:52.960 Do you think that it is important that we look into what our government is doing,

00:24:01.080 seeing that all of these things, it's a conspiracy theory,

00:24:05.120 all of the things back in the 60s and 70s that were, quote, conspiracy theories, end quote,

00:24:13.000 turned out to be true?

00:24:14.760 Do you think it might have been important for 20 Freedom Caucus members to stand up against

00:24:25.300 the machine and say, we want a committee to look into exactly the same things that the

00:24:33.800 church committee looked into in the 1970s?

00:24:36.840 And we want teeth so you can actually get the information and get to answers.

00:24:46.700 I don't know.

00:24:47.720 I think everyone who said this is the biggest crisis ever doesn't owe an apology.

00:24:56.800 We all have our own opinions, and that's fine.

00:24:59.360 But I would like to hear them at least come out and say, you know what?

00:25:05.980 It might have been chaos.

00:25:07.180 It might have looked bad.

00:25:08.960 It might have been.

00:25:10.040 But what they got, what they actually got, is pretty good.

00:25:15.600 And not just for Republicans, but for the Constitution and every single American.

00:25:23.340 Because if you think that this kind of this kind of black operations can happen in a free 1.00

00:25:33.300 country and not affect you, I don't care how you voted. 1.00

00:25:37.240 You are a fool or you're at least fooling yourself. 1.00

00:25:41.360 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. 1.00

00:25:51.920 We have Chip Roy coming up in just a minute.

00:25:54.680 He is a little tied up.

00:25:57.080 You know, I love this.

00:25:58.260 CNN said, you know, that he was dangerous last week.

00:26:04.400 And now they're saying he's gone from a critic to a kingmaker.

00:26:11.640 Really?

00:26:13.160 Really, CNN?

00:26:14.660 Huh.

00:26:15.740 Who would have seen that one coming?

00:26:17.960 If they were honest at all, they would have seen that coming last week.

00:26:21.040 It's really, truly bizarre coverage of this.

00:26:23.560 Like, my favorite part of this was Gerald Nadler, who came out and he said, if there's

00:26:28.800 a real emergency, we couldn't respond.

00:26:31.780 This is meaning that we don't have a Speaker of the House yet.

00:26:34.280 Either the Republicans don't understand that, or they do understand that, and they don't

00:26:38.540 care.

00:26:38.800 I don't know which is worse, but it's a profound danger to the country as long as it lasts.

00:26:45.100 Now, eagle-eyed viewers might be able to detect the fact that at any point, Gerald Nadler and

00:26:54.480 any of the other Democrats could have voted for McCarthy to put him over the 218 threshold.

00:27:01.180 But they didn't.

00:27:01.760 They didn't.

00:27:02.640 Why?

00:27:03.280 They knew they weren't going to win.

00:27:04.620 They knew Hakeem Jeffries was never going to be Speaker this term.

00:27:08.400 They knew that the whole time.

00:27:09.640 It was solely politics.

00:27:11.420 And by his definition, putting the entire country at risk.

00:27:16.760 All they had to do was say, you know what?

00:27:18.520 Screw these Freedom Caucus guys.

00:27:20.840 We don't want those rules.

00:27:21.820 Who cares about those rules?

00:27:22.980 Let's just put McCarthy over the edge.

00:27:24.380 He's going to get it anyway, eventually.

00:27:26.120 They didn't do it because they were taking a stand.

00:27:29.380 They didn't want to vote.

00:27:30.160 They didn't want their name on this leadership for whatever reason. 0.97

00:27:35.300 Like, it's so, it got so ridiculous so fast. 0.76

00:27:39.780 What did we have? 0.74

00:27:40.720 A few days of voting?

00:27:42.260 Guys, can we get over ourselves?

00:27:43.900 I guarantee what they would have done in those four days was nowhere near as consequential

00:27:47.560 as what got done in those rules.

00:27:49.120 They would have done nothing.

00:27:51.320 The main thing they would have passed is, hey, no longer, C-SPAN cameras can no longer

00:27:55.440 point their cameras at people in the gallery so we catch them doing things.

00:28:00.820 Right.

00:28:01.400 Like, that's it.

00:28:02.000 You see that?

00:28:02.700 I mean, McCarthy, when he came up to Gates and Boebert.

00:28:07.600 Yeah.

00:28:08.000 Woo! 0.99

00:28:08.840 And I, can I?

00:28:10.080 Smoked.

00:28:10.600 Oh, hang on, hang on.

00:28:11.360 Is he on?

00:28:11.760 Yeah, we have Chip Roy on.

00:28:14.200 Oh, you have the clip.

00:28:15.480 Okay.

00:28:16.140 Yeah, go ahead and play the clip.

00:28:20.300 You can see a representative come up.

00:28:22.760 They keep saying he's been restrained.

00:28:24.680 Yeah, and he's-

00:28:25.720 Like, they're going to come to blows.

00:28:27.140 Like, it didn't look like that.

00:28:27.920 It looked like he was pissed off.

00:28:29.360 Yeah.

00:28:29.780 And came and was going to say something that somebody else put his hand over the congressman's

00:28:36.600 face so he wouldn't say.

00:28:38.240 It was like, don't make this worse.

00:28:40.000 Just don't make this worse.

00:28:41.300 So, two things on this.

00:28:42.060 One, I think the restraint, there's like he restrained, it almost came to blows.

00:28:45.580 To me, it looked like somebody realized this is going to be on TV and you shouldn't say

00:28:52.220 it.

00:28:52.420 It wasn't a physical, like, pulling him back like he was going to get into a fight.

00:28:56.480 It was pulling- He specifically starts with his shoulders and then pushes his hands up

00:29:00.180 to his face so he doesn't say the thing he's about to say.

00:29:03.580 Right.

00:29:04.120 That's not about they're about to get into blows.

00:29:05.860 They were about to get into a big fight verbally.

00:29:08.440 Of words.

00:29:08.740 And they didn't want that to be exposed to the cameras, which normally you can't see

00:29:12.960 that stuff in the house.

00:29:15.380 Secondarily, on Gates, everyone was bashing Gates because they were going after him.

00:29:20.540 They had this big back and forth.

00:29:21.920 But quite clearly, there was a deal in place after the Chip Roy faction had already come

00:29:29.340 back to the other side.

00:29:30.220 They were voting for McCarthy.

00:29:31.240 They needed four out of the remaining seven or six to come to just say present.

00:29:37.140 Or three.

00:29:37.720 I think it was three.

00:29:38.440 They needed to get present.

00:29:39.660 They got Boebert.

00:29:41.460 They got Gates to say present.

00:29:43.380 The third person, whoever that was, a lot of people think it was Rosendale, but the

00:29:48.820 third person said, voted for Jordan or one of the other candidates.

00:29:54.800 And then Gates got all the heat because he was the last one who went.

00:29:58.920 He was the last one who went and he said present instead of voting for McCarthy, which would

00:30:02.720 have put him over the edge.

00:30:03.440 Again, none of this made any difference because five minutes later, they just voted for him

00:30:07.100 anyway.

00:30:07.500 So it didn't wind up making a difference.

00:30:09.460 But like Gates got all the heat.

00:30:10.900 He got the physical, you know, sort of confrontation.

00:30:13.680 He got the yelling back.

00:30:14.680 And he was the one that was focused on by almost every media source.

00:30:18.880 And I'm not like a Gates defender or anything, but like it seems like someone else bailed on

00:30:23.160 this deal.

00:30:24.500 Someone else said they were going to vote present and then changed their mind right beforehand

00:30:28.640 and it wound up costing the vote.

00:30:30.860 Did they get anything in that last, because I know the last two votes were kind of close

00:30:37.360 together.

00:30:38.160 Right.

00:30:38.360 So did they get anything?

00:30:39.700 I don't think there was any expansion.

00:30:42.260 I think what happened was there was a deal cut for the 14th round.

00:30:45.240 Right.

00:30:45.820 Then I think Gates and Boebert stuck to the deal and said present.

00:30:51.580 They had to get three present.

00:30:53.140 He's there.

00:30:54.220 Okay, real quick.

00:30:55.040 We'll get to this in a minute.

00:30:55.480 We have Chip Roy on.

00:30:57.560 Chip, thank you.

00:30:59.280 Hey, boy.

00:30:59.700 From many of the American people, thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:31:04.500 It should come from all quarters of the American people, because I don't think what you gained

00:31:10.700 was partisan at all.

00:31:14.040 And so thank you.

00:31:17.000 Well, Glenn, thank you.

00:31:18.240 Again, we're still working through it all.

00:31:21.060 And, you know, I was in D.C. this whole weekend.

00:31:23.480 I didn't go home.

00:31:25.040 See my family.

00:31:26.540 We're now having meetings today.

00:31:28.540 We got this rules vote tonight.

00:31:29.920 We're still working hard to try to make sure we get this all structured correctly.

00:31:33.980 I do think we won a significant battle of public opinion by the end of the week.

00:31:38.100 We were trying to fight for structural, fundamental, transformational changes.

00:31:43.440 But, you know, look, miles to go before we sleep, right?

00:31:46.140 We've saved this from, yeah.

00:31:47.700 So can you tell me about the church committee and the details of that?

00:31:51.680 Because this is so important.

00:31:53.900 Did we really get what we hope we got?

00:31:57.180 We got a lot of what we hoped we would get.

00:32:01.300 I would have preferred slightly more independence to elevate it to the level that I thought was

00:32:05.780 critically important, given the extent of the weaponization of government.

00:32:09.040 However, given the track record of Jim Jordan being willing to take on the establishment in

00:32:13.640 this town and take on and do the kind of investigative work necessary, we agreed for a number of reasons

00:32:20.360 to put it as a subcommittee within the House Judiciary Committee.

00:32:24.840 But it would have autonomy to a degree, obviously, with Jim on the subcommittee and significant

00:32:31.340 players that would be off of the Judiciary Committee combined with the smart lawyers on Judiciary Committee

00:32:36.420 who know how to execute this sort of thing with broader jurisdiction to be able to touch on intel

00:32:42.480 and other things.

00:32:43.220 So we're still dotting every I and crossing every T literally today as we speak.

00:32:48.040 We believe we have an agreement in principle that we think will give us significant more power and scope

00:32:53.400 to go after the weaponization of government.

00:32:55.100 But we're still fighting through it all today.

00:32:57.300 So when it comes to the details, and especially of the church committee,

00:33:02.760 is there anything that we should know or anything that they can take away at this point?

00:33:10.320 No, I mean, look, I think what we're now trying to do is figure out the who and the exact mechanics.

00:33:18.360 We press for bigger budget, bigger staffing, bigger breadth of jurisdiction to be able to make sure that,

00:33:25.060 for example, it's not enough to say, oh, the Judiciary Committee will go after the FBI

00:33:29.640 and Energy and Commerce will haul Anthony Fauci in for some health care stuff

00:33:33.900 and Homeland Security will do something because it's China.

00:33:35.460 We need to have a centralized command and control ability to go across the entirety of the federal government

00:33:41.240 to see who was talking to whom, to go after the American people for what reason,

00:33:45.620 whether it was related to COVID, whether it was domestic terrorism for parents who were going to school boards,

00:33:52.240 whether it's DHS, what the intel community is doing, who is collecting information on people,

00:33:57.200 what do they do after January 6th?

00:33:58.800 We need to be able to go broadly and look and dive into and hold this administration accountable.

00:34:04.580 We think we've achieved that to a significant degree,

00:34:08.580 but the who and the exact mechanics are going to be important.

00:34:12.640 But again, Jim Jordan is a good friend with a track record,

00:34:15.220 and we've given broader jurisdiction within this subcommittee.

00:34:18.420 We're working again on who and what.

00:34:20.340 And it has the teeth to, if it's Fauci, if any of these things happen,

00:34:26.440 you can defund and recommend for criminal behavior if it's found?

00:34:33.740 Well, for sure we can go.

00:34:35.360 Look, first of all, we've got to exercise the power of subpoena.

00:34:38.060 That's something the House does.

00:34:39.200 The committees don't do it blindly, right?

00:34:40.780 The committees have to go to the House.

00:34:42.020 The House executes a subpoena.

00:34:44.160 If you're talking about what we're going to be able to do to hold them accountable,

00:34:47.900 look, on defund, the Senate, you know, they screwed us, Glenn,

00:34:51.740 when they passed that bill in December.

00:34:53.100 So we don't have defund power until next October.

00:34:56.400 So we're going to spend now nine months building up to a conservative budget,

00:35:00.740 conservative spending that will restrain Leviathan.

00:35:03.220 We got that promise, that pledge to cap at 22 levels

00:35:06.200 and to budget within 10 years and balance.

00:35:08.500 That's hard.

00:35:09.540 If we do that, we're going to be beating the crap out of non-defense discretionary

00:35:13.500 in order to get there.

00:35:14.580 And then by next October, we'll be able to,

00:35:17.300 in the process of that spending arrangement,

00:35:19.460 have accountability for the FBI, for the IRS, for DHS, et cetera.

00:35:23.760 But that's going to take nine months to get there

00:35:25.700 because the Senate stuck it to us.

00:35:28.180 Are you seeing anybody that last week was opposed

00:35:32.640 and this week is coming and going,

00:35:34.620 you know, actually, you got good things.

00:35:36.780 I'm sorry, I wasn't with you.

00:35:39.160 I think we've seen a decent amount of that.

00:35:41.840 You know, I've seen some contrition.

00:35:43.880 I'm not going to mention by name.

00:35:45.040 No, no, no.

00:35:45.400 But I've had some good text messages, some good conversations,

00:35:49.500 some good, you know, personal encounters.

00:35:51.760 There's still a little bit of, you know, hard feelings.

00:35:54.300 And frankly, there's a lot of misinformation.

00:35:56.200 A few of my colleagues have gone out there and said,

00:35:57.740 oh, you guys did a backroom deal yourself.

00:35:59.940 I said, hold on a second.

00:36:00.780 We posted on December 8th a letter listing the things that we thought we needed.

00:36:07.220 We put it out there for public consumption.

00:36:09.560 We debated within the four corners of roughly that agreement or that, you know, set of asks

00:36:14.660 and did that right up until D-Day on Friday,

00:36:17.680 trying to extract the right level of promises and belief system that we would get there.

00:36:22.340 We were given enough tools that gave us comfort that we moved the needle.

00:36:25.680 But, you know, it's going to take a while to execute and make sure we can get it done.

00:36:30.120 This is the first time I have seen the media end up on the Freedom Caucus side

00:36:38.060 or the side of the Constitution.

00:36:40.600 Usually when you fight like this, the Republicans never win.

00:36:47.020 Why the change is that?

00:36:49.340 And what do you learn from this?

00:36:51.160 That standing up and fighting for something that everybody on all sides should want

00:36:59.140 is popular or worth doing?

00:37:02.800 Or what is it you take from this?

00:37:05.380 Well, part of the problem for the American people is the opaqueness, right?

00:37:09.840 Like, it was kind of cool having the C-SPAN cameras following us on the floor,

00:37:13.840 watching us talk, seeing how we're engaging.

00:37:16.160 It was important to have 434 bodies there on the House floor this entire week.

00:37:21.340 It was important to be able to get up and give speeches somewhat open-ended

00:37:24.880 in front of the whole body and see what would happen.

00:37:27.460 For example, when I stood up and nominated Byron Donald for the first time,

00:37:30.560 we had two black Americans in nomination for Speaker of the House.

00:37:35.060 And to say, you don't own playing games about race over there on the Democratic side.

00:37:41.760 We stand up for people that we believe regardless of skin color and are willing to stand up behind

00:37:46.860 someone like I did, like Byron Donalds, because I believe in him.

00:37:50.400 I want him, not Hakeem. 0.99

00:37:52.260 And I don't care about his skin color. 0.92

00:37:54.040 At the end of the day, we worked out a deal and arrangement, including with Byron sitting

00:37:57.960 at the table at the room with me and with Dan Bishop and Scott Perry from the Freedom

00:38:01.760 Caucus and others.

00:38:02.660 We worked out an arrangement that we think will improve things.

00:38:05.520 It ain't going to be perfect.

00:38:06.880 It's a majoritarian body.

00:38:08.260 I can't own 218 people's votes.

00:38:11.960 I have no right to.

00:38:13.420 I have the ability to try to persuade.

00:38:15.700 We are moving the needle.

00:38:17.240 It won't be perfect.

00:38:18.500 I just ask all of our conservative activists, friends and listeners out there, keep the pressure

00:38:23.000 up.

00:38:23.720 Hold me accountable.

00:38:24.560 Hold us all accountable.

00:38:25.700 But we're doing what we can, we think, to move the needle in this town towards openness

00:38:29.860 and a sense that we're going to try to do the work of the American people and empower

00:38:34.080 your congressmen, not just a few people, to be able to execute for them.

00:38:38.060 Congressman Chip Roy from the great state of Texas, a man I hope eventually runs for Senate

00:38:44.860 and I'm not talking about Ted Cruz's seat, a guy who has actually fought and come forward

00:38:52.780 with the goods at the end.

00:38:55.400 Thank you, Chip.

00:38:55.980 I appreciate everything you do.

00:38:57.320 God bless.

00:38:57.800 Na na na na na.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 09, 2023

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Chip Roy ｜ 1⧸9⧸23

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