On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by his good friend and former radio host, Chip Roy, to discuss a new poll that shows Americans are less proud to be an American than they were after 9/11. Also, Preborn is back with a new campaign to save the lives of women in need of an abortion.
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00:04:08.420You know, before September 11th, you know, we all thought that we were all pretty much the same.
00:04:14.340We all thought we were pretty much the same.
00:04:15.480I mean, there were those that, you know, were on the fringes, but in the last 25 years, I mean, what have you heard about?
00:04:20.880If you're a Democrat, what have you heard about?
00:04:23.420You've heard about the genocide of indigenous peoples.
00:04:25.940You've heard about the massacres and the forced removals and the trail of tears and the boarding schools and the broken treaties and the...
00:04:31.660And slavery and the legacy of racism and colonialism and his imperialism and the annexation and the taking of Hawaii and the conquest of the Philippines and Puerto Rico is now a colony.
00:04:43.700And all the CIA-backed coups and the inclusion or exclusion in the internment camps and the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese Americans and the Muslims for surveillance and how anti-Muslim we are.
00:04:57.900We're all really afraid of all Muslims.
00:05:00.180The anti-labor repression, the Ludlow massacre, COINTELPRO, the labor organizers and civil rights activists that have just been oppressed the whole time.
00:05:12.820And women were denied their vote until 1920 and there were restricted roles in the workforce and politics and reproductive rights and all of the...
00:05:22.320What did we do on HIV? We did nothing on HIV.
00:05:25.500And homosexual rights, my gosh, we're still throwing people off of buildings if you're a homosexual.
00:05:30.760And trans, don't even get me started with trans.
00:05:33.200And then the environmental exploitation, the rivers that have been set on fire, the poison communities.
00:05:39.560Look at Flint, Michigan, and the land is stripped for profit.
00:05:43.280Now we want to sell our own national parks.
00:05:46.240The medical racism, the abuse of the Tuskegee experiment and forced sterilizations and the racial bias in health care that's still evident today, you know.
00:05:55.840Suppression of dissent with the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism and the surveillance of civil rights leaders and the protest criminalization.
00:06:03.540You can't even go out now and set any fires on the streets without being deemed a radical or revolutionary.
00:06:09.760And they want to throw you in jail just for breaking into a Macy's.
00:06:14.280And capitalism, it's nothing but an exploitation.
00:06:18.060Capitalism inherently generates inequality and alienation and commodifies every human relationship.
00:06:26.100You know, the state is nothing more than a tool of class denomination and the police and the courts and the military.
00:06:31.920All they do is protect the elite interest, not the public welfare.
00:06:35.720They're against, you know, be afraid of the police.
00:06:38.780And private property and wealth is just hoarded by the wealthy.
00:06:43.380Their inherited wealth, the land monopolies, the billionaire class accumulation, it's just fundamentally unjust.
00:06:53.920Real power resides with donors, lobbyists, the unelected bureaucrats, the military, permanent war economy, the prison industrial complex, the gender and patriarchal control, the surveillance capitalism.
00:07:08.960And let me, don't even get me started on the genocide, the climate genocide.
00:19:52.640I try to be level-headed through these things.
00:19:54.620I have enormously strong and good friends in the administration who, in good faith, want to see this pass, just as you do, just as I do, just as the American people do.
00:20:04.460They want to see us move forward legislation to make tax cuts permanent, to deliver on the border funding that we need.
00:20:12.120And, you know, Stephen Miller's a longtime friend I've known for 25 years.
00:20:16.040Russ Vogt is a longtime friend I've known for 25 years.
00:20:19.260We've been working together in the trenches for as long as I can remember.
00:20:24.520The problem is the swamp is going to swamp.
00:20:26.700And right now we have a bill that, in my estimation, violates the House framework, but more importantly, would add significantly to the deficits.
00:20:51.340It's baselines, you know, CBO, all these different things.
00:20:55.200I'm just telling you, Glenn, as objectively as I can, I look at the math and I look at how you factor in economic growth, which I'm doing, factor in revenues and expenditures and what we're doing on mandatory spending, which is not enough.
00:21:12.460The fact that we're only repealing half of the Green News scam, if we're lucky, the fact that we're continuing to allow Medicaid to go to illegals because of some arcane Senate rules, the fact that we're continuing to allow Obamacare subsidies to fund transgender surgeries,
00:21:30.840the fact that we're going to, in my estimation, have probably a couple of trillion of deficit spending in the first four years, which means you're going to have more interest, which means it's going to stack up, all to get savings in the out five years.
00:21:47.200That's not what you and I signed up for.
00:21:49.660Now, I'm looking at this trying to say, OK, the president wants the tax cuts.
00:21:58.500I think the president wants us to repeal the entirety of the Green News scam.
00:22:02.480I think the president wants us to get good reforms.
00:22:05.320Be careful, like handle Medicaid appropriately and all of that for our American citizens that are vulnerable or depend on it.
00:22:11.520But we haven't delivered because the Senate has a bunch of people in it who don't want to deliver.
00:22:18.000And they're hiding behind the parliamentarian and they're delivering a subpar product that I didn't come to Washington to sign up for, Glenn.
00:22:31.540They they say there was a change in the bill because of the Medicare paid to illegals and the parliamentarian said, you've got to keep it in there.
00:22:52.080They could overrule the parliamentarian.
00:22:54.180They could make a choice if they wanted to do so.
00:22:57.000Now, you know, then they'll say, well, some of these things take 60 votes and so forth.
00:23:00.220If they want to address this, they can address it.
00:23:03.880But the real issue here is that behind closed doors, what you know is that there are senators who don't want to make the reforms, don't want to make the changes.
00:23:13.800They're making their own policy choices based on what they want.
00:23:42.820How many times have you and I been on the phone over the last decade talking about shutdown fights on discretionary spending like every two years?
00:23:52.560Every time we have one of those fights, the people in this town say, Chip, you need to shut up because the real problem is mandatory spending.
00:24:01.640It's Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid.
00:24:03.340It's not fighting over all this stuff.
00:25:15.020There were bankers, banks, who came in and said, guys, this would be really hard on us if we had to enforce this policy of money flowing from our banks and institutions to Mexico and to, you know, Colombia and places.
00:25:29.900We really need to carve out so that banks aren't going to be attacked by this.
00:25:35.620But it would be way too burdensome on the people who come here and they're honest and they're working hard and they want to send money to their families.
00:25:41.940Look, you and I both have a heart, as people say, if you want to say, hey, I get it.
00:25:47.620You got an honest person here who's following the law.
00:26:40.560We did get Medicaid reforms that were good.
00:26:42.660We did get some tightening down on the Green News scam when others didn't want to do it.
00:26:47.540But we're now fighting a Senate that's watering down important stuff.
00:26:51.080And importantly, the way they concoct the tax and spend policies overall, I can't look at this in any way objectively without telling my voters, the people that sent me to Washington to represent them, the deficits will go up.
00:27:05.220Now, last point, the president and the administration will say, look, guys, don't worry about all that.
00:27:10.360We'll make it up with tariffs, and we think higher economic growth.
00:28:54.060So I do agree that we must deliver on the tax cut, and I believe we will.
00:28:59.080When push comes to shove, there's no way that we're going to get to December and not provide an extension of the tax cuts that were so important in 2017.
00:29:09.360Now, I want to remind everybody, the corporate rates were made permanent already, right?
00:29:15.260What we're talking about dealing with is the expiration of certain personal tax issues, marginal rates, but also child tax credits, also the standard deduction, et cetera.
00:29:25.740Now, I'm not sure how – you know, I've got different views on different ones of those policies.
00:29:30.720But overall, we want to ensure that that money is staying in the pockets of the American people.
00:29:37.480But I will tell you this, if we don't address the inflation tax, if we don't address the extent to which people are fleeing American bond markets because we're so irresponsible, then we're going to be doing a disservice to our kids and grandkids who can't afford a house.
00:29:53.880They can't buy a house because the mortgage rates are too high.
00:30:22.600We've got to get rid of some of these ridiculous things like Medicaid for illegal aliens, like, you know, pork that's going to Alaska, like specific giveaways.
00:30:37.040And, you know, get rid of those things.
00:30:40.900Make sure the Inflation Reduction Act is getting terminated and make sure this map adds up.
00:30:45.960We'll deliver on the tax cuts, deliver on border, deliver for the president.
00:30:49.020But I'm prepared to do everything to do that, but I'm not going to swallow a crappy bill because the Senate tries to jam me with it before July 4th.
00:30:56.640I have to tell you, I don't know how it is unpopular to say, no, we're not giving illegals any of Medicaid.
00:31:04.980I mean, do you remember when – who was it that was in Congress when Barack Obama talked about Obamacare and he said, you lie, Joe Wilson, wasn't it?
00:32:00.160You haven't – the president is not turning this economy around fast enough because he can't get anyone in Congress to do jack crap on anything.
00:32:09.980You need to cut the frickin' spending and the waste and the garbage.
00:32:16.560And I tell you, I am with Elon Musk 100%.
00:32:22.400You are one of these weasel Republicans who don't – who just go along and just be like, you know what, we're going to add another $5 or $6 trillion to our debt.
00:33:02.780And we celebrate Lexington and Concord.
00:33:04.780And we celebrate all that they stood for.
00:33:06.840We celebrate the men that stormed the beaches in Normandy.
00:33:09.380And we celebrate all of the great courage that our men and women in uniform have done to fight to give us this country.
00:33:15.440How can I say, no, sorry, I'm going to vote for this bill because there's going to be some political pressure when I regale the boys at the Alamo sitting there taking bullets knowing they were going to die or those that ran into a wall of bullets in Normandy?
00:33:35.200I'm sure I'm going to get labeled, you know, any number of things that I'm not delivering on the president's agenda, that I'm jamming up a bill.
00:33:45.440And I'm not going to get defensive about it.
00:33:47.360The president wants his bill, and he's right to want his bill.
00:33:50.060But Congress has to deliver a bill worth sending him.
00:33:52.540And I'm prepared to stay here until we do.
00:33:54.980But I'm not going to vote for a bill because I'm being told I have to because a bunch of frickin' losers who are swamp creatures who want pork and giveaways and don't have the cojones to stand up and deliver for the American people and to actually reduce spending and not hide behind promontory and not hide behind tax cuts.
00:34:13.180They want to hide behind the tax cuts to tell me and the border to tell me, you've got to vote for this bill and don't worry about the spending.
00:35:54.480When in the course of human events, Jefferson wrote them, 33 years old.
00:36:06.700Adams would later say, you do well to revere Jefferson, but he didn't write alone, basically.
00:36:11.660I was there too, and so has Ben Franklin.
00:36:13.540The ideas were forged in the minds of men like Franklin, who was old enough to know better, and Adams, who was stubborn enough not to care.
00:37:02.660What are our failures that future generations are going to go, pfft, these people just didn't get it?
00:37:11.940Perhaps what we should notice is that they, unlike most of us, they were willing to gamble their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for something that had never, ever been done before.
00:37:42.100You know, for all these people who are, you know, going in Macy's and burning down towns and then stealing clothing, and they're like, go because I've been oppressed.
00:38:06.240That idea came from the founders that you say you hate.
00:38:13.080But the actual rights come from God, which you dismiss.
00:38:17.540Think of this, think of this, just ponder this for a second, that all men are created equal, that their rights are given to them by a creator.
00:38:54.400And I don't mean like, they knew what they were doing.
00:38:57.180They knew that the British crown had the largest military force in the world.
00:39:03.160And these guys, they were farmers, they were printers, they were lawyers, they were a ragtag collection of intellectual and idealists facing down an empire where they said the sun never set on the British Empire.
00:39:22.320Meaning, the colonialism was everywhere.
00:39:34.120And they said that when a government becomes destructive of the ends of liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness, it's not only the right of the people, it's their duty to throw it off.
00:43:24.880When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another,
00:43:33.240and to assume among the powers of earth the separate but equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
00:43:42.440A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.