The Glenn Beck Program - September 27, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Chip Roy ｜ 9⧸27⧸23


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Glenn and Stu discuss Josh Romney's announcement that he is running for Mitt's old Senate seat. They also discuss the latest on the Mar-A-Lago scandal, and how much Donald Trump's company is worth.

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00:00:00.420 Well, I don't know about you, Stu, but today, whoo, today was good, right?
00:00:06.400 Am I right?
00:00:07.040 Am I right?
00:00:07.640 Or am I right?
00:00:09.040 I am right.
00:00:10.140 It was incredible, Glenn.
00:00:12.080 It was incredible.
00:00:13.180 Hey, we had, for those of you who love Josh Romney, and that's Mitt Romney's son, I've
00:00:19.780 got good news for you on today's program.
00:00:22.640 He's going to run for his dad's seat.
00:00:25.500 So, anybody who is fretting, oh, but what would a Romney do, you're going to have that
00:00:30.620 opportunity, and that's great.
00:00:33.040 And we go over some of the senators that should be replaced.
00:00:36.280 You're just blurring that out, but that has not been announced.
00:00:38.520 There's no news story indicating that.
00:00:40.420 You are saying that.
00:00:42.300 I'm just, I am psyched.
00:00:46.440 I could be wrong.
00:00:48.000 I could be wrong.
00:00:49.020 I could be wrong.
00:00:50.880 I'm not saying I'm right, but I'm not not saying it either.
00:00:54.260 So, I could be wrong.
00:00:56.740 You just watch.
00:00:57.760 I'll bet you.
00:00:59.540 Anyway, there's so many Romneys out there, they have to do something. 1.00
00:01:05.480 We don't know who's going to be running against him, but we do have the list of senators that
00:01:11.620 went and voted for Mitch McConnell's big continuing resolution bill, and then added some more money
00:01:19.500 to it that we could send over to Ukraine.
00:01:23.280 Now, there's a few people on the other side of that, and they're your Freedom Caucus people.
00:01:28.980 They in Congress are going to hold up any of these spending bills, and if they don't,
00:01:35.420 as Chip Roy says on today's program, the Republican Party is dead.
00:01:40.120 It is officially over if they cave on the spending.
00:01:44.740 So, we'll see how it works out.
00:01:46.480 Today's podcast begins right now.
00:01:55.040 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:58.920 Welcome to The Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:04.760 I just, I cannot believe what this New York judge is attempting to do to Donald Trump.
00:02:10.260 Taking away his company because they say he overstated the value of his company.
00:02:15.440 Well, if this is any example of how Donald Trump overstated things, he said in his filings that
00:02:24.760 Mar-a-Lago is worth 400, what did he say, 400 or 450?
00:02:29.440 Yeah.
00:02:30.340 Like, around that area.
00:02:31.700 We get 400 to 700 million, I think, was the number.
00:02:33.880 Yeah, okay.
00:02:33.960 400 to 700 million is what he said it was worth.
00:02:37.080 The judge said it was worth 18.
00:02:40.520 Now, in 1985, when he purchased, the lowest acceptable offer for the house was 20 million,
00:02:49.580 plus $8 million for the historic furniture.
00:02:54.440 Then, he bought the land across the street to connect it to the ocean on both sides.
00:03:00.720 He bought that for 2 million.
00:03:02.960 So, that means...
00:03:03.440 Which is incredible.
00:03:04.260 We should just stop and note how incredible that is.
00:03:06.620 It's at $2 million for the land on the ocean right by Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:09.980 Okay.
00:03:10.880 And in 1985.
00:03:12.480 85.
00:03:13.040 So, he buys that now.
00:03:14.680 It's worth $30 million.
00:03:17.820 All those purchases together are $30 million.
00:03:19.660 $30 million.
00:03:21.480 Just with inflation, if you bought a hard asset worth $30 million at the time, just inflation
00:03:31.760 alone, that asset is now worth $85 million.
00:03:38.180 So, just because of inflated money, it's worth $85 million.
00:03:44.160 Now, add to that that this is a historic site that has been completely renovated and now also
00:03:51.140 is a business and is now known as the Southern White House.
00:03:56.540 Yeah.
00:03:56.720 I think it's worth more than $18 million.
00:03:59.640 I'm just saying.
00:04:00.500 I'm going to go with considerably more, Glenn.
00:04:02.980 Now, can we also add a couple of other details to this?
00:04:05.840 After Trump bought it, he added a 20,000 square foot ballroom to the property.
00:04:13.080 And if you've ever seen it, it's not like a little add-on.
00:04:18.000 It's not like they put a roof over the carport.
00:04:22.240 Right.
00:04:22.660 It's pretty-
00:04:24.540 It's very nice.
00:04:25.900 Very nice.
00:04:26.400 Yeah.
00:04:26.560 As you'd assume it would be.
00:04:27.800 Yes.
00:04:29.740 Now, we should also point out, you said $20 million, which is true.
00:04:33.440 That was their minimum bid.
00:04:34.900 Yeah.
00:04:35.500 Now, he bid $15 million.
00:04:38.740 Yes.
00:04:39.300 And then he turned it down because it was worth $20.
00:04:41.620 Right.
00:04:41.820 It was worth $20.
00:04:42.580 Mm-hmm.
00:04:43.080 Then he bought the land in front of the ocean-
00:04:46.540 This is so Donald Trump.
00:04:47.220 For $2 million.
00:04:48.260 Yes.
00:04:48.400 And then went to Mar-a-Lago and said, I'm going to build a giant building here that's
00:04:52.940 going to block Mar-a-Lago's view of the ocean.
00:04:55.800 So then people said, well, now I don't want to buy Mar-a-Lago because I won't have the
00:05:00.400 view of the ocean.
00:05:02.020 And so then he was able to purchase the property not for $20 million, not for $15 million, which
00:05:07.520 he already had offered, but instead for $7 million.
00:05:10.460 So he got it for $7 million, which is incredible, and less than the furniture cost inside the
00:05:20.220 house.
00:05:21.100 He actually paid less money than they had estimated the furniture was worth inside.
00:05:27.340 Now, it had a lot of work that had to be done, too.
00:05:30.340 It had really fallen into disrepair.
00:05:32.860 There was a lot of work, and he put that work in.
00:05:34.940 And it has also now turned into quite not only a business, but like a very good business
00:05:41.540 that generates millions and millions of dollars of revenue.
00:05:46.640 In 2014, it was estimated at $10 million a year in revenue.
00:05:51.080 The year Trump announced his presidential run, sales had estimated at $22 million.
00:05:56.460 And then the following year, $29 million in revenue from this property.
00:06:01.120 Now, there's some real estate experts say, well, actually, if you could just wipe that,
00:06:06.280 if you could just bulldoze the thing and build a, or keep it.
00:06:10.440 You can't.
00:06:11.060 You can't.
00:06:11.800 So the deed says it has to remain a club.
00:06:14.940 So they can't make a personal residence out of it, which if you could make a personal residence
00:06:19.520 out of it, there's arguments that it could be worth even more, just because, you know,
00:06:23.260 I guess that's the way these things work.
00:06:24.880 Though you'd think something that's generating millions of dollars of revenue would be worth
00:06:28.360 more, you know, but I don't know.
00:06:30.480 That's what some of these experts are saying.
00:06:32.300 Bottom line is Forbes estimated the value of this property at $350 million just last year.
00:06:39.500 Now, they also had some people who said it was worth around $200 million, and some people
00:06:45.120 who said it was worth up to $725 million.
00:06:48.080 Trump's estimates were between $400 million and $600 million, basically.
00:06:52.600 I think it was $612 million was his high estimate that he had used.
00:06:56.120 So that's pretty darn close.
00:06:57.880 Again, appropriate, and remember, this isn't just, hey, Trump says and the bank does.
00:07:04.860 The bank then assesses it themselves on a purchase.
00:07:08.140 Like, they look at this and they come up with their own number, right?
00:07:11.020 And they might, they don't have to just essentially believe Trump.
00:07:15.100 They wouldn't just believe him.
00:07:18.060 They might say, okay, well.
00:07:19.300 He has, he is known.
00:07:21.940 He's known, of course, for this.
00:07:23.240 He's known to, it's the greatest thing ever built.
00:07:26.660 But, well.
00:07:27.340 It's a, it's a snack bar.
00:07:29.960 But it's the best golden snack bar you've ever had.
00:07:33.380 Remember his grin looking up saying it was the best taco salad he'd ever had on Cinco de Mayo?
00:07:39.000 Do you remember this?
00:07:40.000 Right, yes.
00:07:40.520 And the thing about Donald Trump is we've only known this about him for half a century, right?
00:07:48.340 Like, he has been in the public eye for nearly 50 years doing this.
00:07:54.220 So this would not be a surprise.
00:07:56.260 Now, look, is there a problem?
00:07:58.200 You know, this is the type of thing that there is some evidence, right?
00:08:01.280 Like, at times, he has overblown the value of his properties.
00:08:06.680 And you could argue that.
00:08:07.860 But it's hard because he's also undersold them on different documents where that would be beneficial to him.
00:08:14.340 And that could be a problem for a business.
00:08:16.820 And that problem probably results in normal circumstances.
00:08:20.540 If you're caught, which would be rare, it would be probably a small fine, right?
00:08:25.680 Like, that is the, that's what this normally would be.
00:08:28.840 It would not be, we're taking all of your buildings in New York City.
00:08:32.740 We're dissolving your company, which is what they're trying to do in New York right now.
00:08:37.740 None of this makes any sense unless you apply the filter of knowing that Donald Trump is enemy number one to the people doing it.
00:08:47.060 That's the only way this makes any sense whatsoever.
00:08:50.580 It's crazy.
00:08:51.180 And it is, Glenn, you know, it's really reminiscent of go to Russia and try to do business right now.
00:08:56.580 Oh, yeah.
00:08:56.900 Go to Venezuela and try to do business right now. 0.61
00:08:59.400 It's exactly the same.
00:09:00.340 These are the things that happen to people.
00:09:02.460 And because it's not happening to everyone here, it is different.
00:09:06.240 But what is happening to Donald Trump in many of these circumstances is very reminiscent of what's going on in these countries.
00:09:11.500 And if you think they'll stop at Donald Trump, I mean, they're going to pull in the biggest fish of all and then care about you.
00:09:18.620 If they want it, they'll take it.
00:09:20.140 By the way, he revoked the business licenses of some of Trump's companies and order receiver appointed to oversee the disillusion of those companies.
00:09:32.640 Among those companies is Trump's flagship Trump, Trump organization.
00:09:37.200 This is crazy.
00:09:39.200 Yeah, this is crazy.
00:09:40.440 By the way, the district attorney of Manhattan declined to file any criminal charges in this case.
00:09:47.700 Yeah.
00:09:50.500 Wow.
00:09:50.900 They looked at this.
00:09:51.640 They looked at this closely because, as I noted, there is some evidence where they could come up with something here.
00:09:58.300 But again, we would usually lead to a fine slap on the wrist.
00:10:02.600 Hey, you know, you need to get this stuff right, whatever.
00:10:05.800 But it's notable that all these banks and insurance companies looked at this stuff and went along with it.
00:10:10.400 They were fine with it and they all made money.
00:10:13.100 They all did well.
00:10:14.460 So let me let me change subjects just a bit.
00:10:17.620 Trump is gaining in the polls against Joe Biden and they're all freaking out.
00:10:23.880 Now, let me just share with you this from the mainstream media.
00:10:28.320 Biden's campaign secret mission for reelection.
00:10:31.460 Don't let him trip.
00:10:34.380 President Biden, with the first lady, has been wearing tennis shoes more often as a precaution.
00:10:40.740 Biden and his campaign are working on a critical project for his reelection bid.
00:10:44.960 Make sure he doesn't trip.
00:10:47.640 As voters express deep concerns about the 80 year old president's age and fitness for office,
00:10:53.880 Biden's team is taking extra steps to prevent him from stumbling in public as he did in June
00:10:59.040 when he tripped over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy with a physical therapist.
00:11:06.000 Biden has been doing exercises to improve his balance as far back as November 2021.
00:11:12.840 Since his stumble in June, he's been wearing tennis shoes more often to avoid slipping
00:11:17.660 and using the short stairs at Air Force One, entering the plane on a lower deck than before.
00:11:24.660 This is the mainstream media.
00:11:26.980 Then yesterday, do we have the video of him slipping, going down the stairs from Air Force One?
00:11:33.640 Here he comes from Air Force One.
00:11:36.940 Whoopsie.
00:11:37.780 He slips.
00:11:38.460 It's not bad.
00:11:39.360 He holds on.
00:11:40.240 He doesn't fall.
00:11:41.100 Maybe that is from the physical therapy that he's doing.
00:11:46.260 So also from the media, President Joe Biden appeared to slip while walking down the short
00:11:52.060 stairs from Air Force One on Wednesday after staff mocked a report about how they were trying
00:11:56.900 to prevent him from falling.
00:11:59.760 Same day.
00:12:02.520 While passed unanimously in the state Senate, the bill was nearly defeated in the state
00:12:08.580 assembly's public safety committee.
00:12:10.760 But California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a Republican authored bill into law that makes
00:12:18.500 trafficking minors a serious felony, marking an end to the saga of a bill that drew national
00:12:25.460 attention when a small group of Democrats in the state assembly attempted to stop the bill
00:12:31.220 in committee.
00:12:33.560 Hmm.
00:12:34.280 So now, last week, we had a bill that was all signed and ready to go that would make
00:12:41.540 it illegal for you to not affirm your child's choice of gender.
00:12:49.140 Your kids would be taken from you, right?
00:12:50.700 Yes.
00:12:51.080 Under this bill.
00:12:51.640 Or could be.
00:12:52.460 And everybody said, no brainer.
00:12:56.840 Now.
00:12:57.780 And he vetoed it.
00:12:58.760 He vetoed it over the weekend.
00:13:00.880 And now he's getting tough on trafficking of minors.
00:13:05.160 Huh.
00:13:06.240 Certainly.
00:13:07.160 I mean, everything about Gavin Newsom says he's running.
00:13:11.880 Everything.
00:13:12.420 With the exception of him physically saying he's running.
00:13:15.480 Everything.
00:13:15.980 I mean, this debate with Ron DeSantis on Sean Hannity's show.
00:13:20.040 Like.
00:13:21.280 What?
00:13:21.820 What?
00:13:22.360 You're a governor.
00:13:23.260 You're debating a presidential candidate on Fox News.
00:13:27.500 What is that?
00:13:29.940 I mean, most Democrats won't even go on Fox News.
00:13:32.640 But he'll do debate.
00:13:34.040 He's doing a debate on Sean Hannity's show?
00:13:37.140 I mean, he's running ads in Florida.
00:13:40.720 Come to California.
00:13:42.860 Everything.
00:13:43.100 It's almost like there's a shadow campaign going on.
00:13:45.400 Yes.
00:13:45.780 And I mean, there is, right?
00:13:47.620 Yeah, there is.
00:13:48.120 There's this calculation likely being made that something, you know, look, maybe this
00:13:51.680 Biden thing doesn't happen.
00:13:52.820 I should be in the position to to take this if it does.
00:13:57.320 And look, look, if Biden winds up running, he's positioning himself for the next campaign.
00:14:01.700 Though I will say that wouldn't you say, Glenn, you know, knowing what you know about media
00:14:05.420 and audiences, isn't the isn't the debate on Hannity's show relatively risky for Newsom?
00:14:13.820 I mean, if he gets blown out by DeSantis, who's a smart guy, if he loses that debate, he's
00:14:20.580 and it's on Fox News that Sean Hannity's the moderator.
00:14:24.000 He's not going to have friend a lot of friends in the room.
00:14:26.920 He loses that debate.
00:14:28.760 I mean, he's done, isn't he?
00:14:30.040 He's done.
00:14:30.420 Well, because Sean Hannity is the moderator, it'd be like me being the moderator.
00:14:34.500 They'll say, well, it was rigged against him.
00:14:36.660 He didn't have a chance.
00:14:37.860 But if he really loses and people look at it, of course, the media will come up with their
00:14:41.440 excuses no matter what.
00:14:42.980 But if he really loses that, Democrats are going to be like, why?
00:14:45.720 Why would we pick this guy?
00:14:46.960 The whole argument was that he was this brilliant politician in the next wave.
00:14:50.400 Well, obviously, he can't even beat DeSantis in a debate.
00:14:53.020 Now, if he wins, there's a big upside, right?
00:14:55.320 Yeah, huge.
00:14:55.860 If he was able to dominate the debate and actually come out of there as a real winner,
00:15:00.860 you could see that being a real advantage.
00:15:03.020 I just don't see that happening.
00:15:04.380 I don't either.
00:15:05.260 Against DeSantis.
00:15:06.460 I just don't.
00:15:07.340 Also, it's just hard to go into somebody else's house with a moderator who is not going to
00:15:14.380 be friendly to you, who's going to see the other guy's side on every one of these questions.
00:15:18.920 I think he thinks he's the tough guy.
00:15:20.500 And look, the thing we know about Gavin Newsom most is that no one has a higher opinion of
00:15:25.540 Gavin Newsom than Gavin Newsom.
00:15:27.420 He is he absolutely loves himself.
00:15:31.700 He thinks him he thinks he is great.
00:15:34.720 Right.
00:15:34.960 And probably just thinks he's going to win because he's so smart and so brilliant that
00:15:39.240 he can't be stopped.
00:15:40.280 But you have to believe if you're an advisor of his, unless you want to just completely
00:15:47.820 upend this campaign and be the candidate in 2024, there's no reason you would do this.
00:15:53.520 I think there's a shadow campaign for for a decent reason on both sides.
00:15:59.120 Yes.
00:15:59.880 Have no idea if Joe Biden is going to make it in a multiple different scenarios.
00:16:05.920 He could be gone.
00:16:07.460 And the same with Donald Trump.
00:16:09.760 He could be in jail.
00:16:11.540 Right.
00:16:12.000 I mean, we have no idea.
00:16:13.840 This is the most unstable the presidency has ever been.
00:16:18.660 And, you know, that always bodes well for a country.
00:16:20.860 But, you know, I digress.
00:16:23.740 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:16:25.580 And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.
00:16:28.540 Just going to call your dad on the program.
00:16:31.840 Dad, how are you?
00:16:33.460 I'm good.
00:16:33.940 How are you today?
00:16:34.660 I'm good.
00:16:35.380 I didn't expect you to sound this great.
00:16:37.700 You have gone through hell for the last three or four years.
00:16:42.480 Yes.
00:16:43.060 How did it start?
00:16:45.540 You know, it started with my daughter in the public schools.
00:16:47.980 They passed a program here called SOGI123, Chant for Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity.
00:16:57.180 And what that is, is it supposedly they called it an anti-bullying program.
00:17:01.840 But it's actually a policy.
00:17:02.920 And what happens in the schools is they're, essentially, they're telling kids, you can be, you know, you can be homosexual, you can be lesbian, you can be bisexual, all the letters in the alphabet of the LGBTQ.
00:17:13.640 And where my daughter went to school, it was where the pilot project was initiated, and so she was indoctrinated among the first in British Columbia in this program.
00:17:24.320 And so that's kind of where it all started.
00:17:27.080 So she had mental health issues. 0.65
00:17:28.960 I knew that.
00:17:30.100 But the school decided we're going to direct her towards being transgender.
00:17:36.640 Because at that time, that's how they thought they could deal with all mental health problems with children was just to transgender them. 0.96
00:17:46.020 Jeez.
00:17:46.420 And the idea behind that, it sort of, to me, reminds me of a video game where you have avatars.
00:17:52.980 And these kids will sit there for hours creating their perfect character.
00:17:57.400 And so now you have these adults, these perverted adults coming at your child and telling them, hey, if you're not happy being a girl, create your own, whoever you want to be.
00:18:06.760 Be an avatar.
00:18:08.020 You know, forget about that sad girl. 0.63
00:18:10.660 Become a boy.
00:18:11.520 And, of course, this is very alluring to them, right?
00:18:16.700 This is going to solve all their problems.
00:18:18.680 So that's sort of where it all started, was in the schools.
00:18:22.940 Where I caught on was fairly early on.
00:18:25.720 I didn't realize the extent of it all.
00:18:28.360 But at one point, you know, my daughter went to see a psychologist who goes by the name Dr. IJ.
00:18:36.420 because there's publication bans on all of these doctors because they're clearly so proud of what they do that they're hiding behind publication bans at this point.
00:18:46.300 But I thought, you know, at that time, this is great.
00:18:49.400 This person is going to fix this.
00:18:51.280 Clearly, my daughter is not a boy trapped in a girl's body.
00:18:55.420 That's impossible.
00:18:56.080 But instead, he went a firm, a firm, a firm.
00:19:00.980 And the next thing you know, my daughter's headed off to the BC Children's Hospital here in August of 2018.
00:19:07.100 And on her first visit, they're going to pump her full of testosterone. 1.00
00:19:12.040 I'm like, this is crazy.
00:19:13.260 My ex-wife gives me a call. 0.99
00:19:14.760 It tells me I put a stop to it.
00:19:16.560 So they send me what they call an informed consent form, which really doesn't, I find out later, doesn't mean much.
00:19:23.660 And, of course, my daughter has signed it.
00:19:26.820 My ex-wife has signed it.
00:19:28.220 I read it and I refuse.
00:19:29.580 I mean, it's talking about all the irreversible changes, you know, like lowered voice, increased growth of hair.
00:19:37.940 Sterilization.
00:19:39.820 And sterilization.
00:19:40.860 And what this thing goes on to say at the end, which is probably the craziest line in the whole thing,
00:19:46.160 is that it says the medical effects and safety of testosterone are actually not fully understood.
00:19:51.000 And there may be long-term risks that are not yet known.
00:19:54.960 It's in their consent form.
00:19:57.120 And they're asking my daughter to consent to this stuff.
00:19:59.480 Of course they say no.
00:20:01.540 So they harassed me for four or five months.
00:20:03.300 I finally get a letter in the mail in December of 2018.
00:20:06.960 And it's from BC Children's Hospital.
00:20:08.900 And they say, we don't need your consent.
00:20:10.960 We're going to give her testosterone anyways under something in British Columbia called the Infants Act. 1.00
00:20:14.840 But you've got two weeks to file in court.
00:20:17.000 The Infants Act? 0.69
00:20:18.340 They call it the Infants Act here in British Columbia.
00:20:21.600 And wait, wait.
00:20:22.100 How old is your daughter at this time?
00:20:24.840 At this time, she's 14.
00:20:27.120 Okay.
00:20:28.080 This started when she was 11.
00:20:31.140 I would say around 11.
00:20:32.260 Grade four and five.
00:20:33.140 Okay.
00:20:33.520 And she's not an infant now.
00:20:34.980 I just want to make sure she's not an infant.
00:20:38.680 No.
00:20:39.180 Currently, she'll turn 19 in October.
00:20:42.060 Okay.
00:20:42.380 So, yeah, that tells you how long I've been battling this, is that she's now, she's finally not going to be an infant, a minor soon.
00:20:51.320 But, so anyway, so I take it to court because I'm thinking, you know, even forget about the LGBTQ component to this.
00:20:59.640 Common sense says you don't medically do something like this to a child or a minor.
00:21:04.040 Correct.
00:21:05.620 You know, just like you wouldn't let a child say, oh, I can't have any feeling in my arm.
00:21:09.260 So, I'm just going to have it cut off.
00:21:11.360 Well, you don't let kids do this stuff.
00:21:13.940 But, boy, did I have a wake-up call just to find out what I was in the middle of.
00:21:18.980 And, so, yeah, I filed what they call a notice of motion in B.C. Provincial Court in, yeah, December of 2018.
00:21:28.040 And, and that's led to five years in the courts and to prison, as you mentioned.
00:21:33.820 So.
00:21:34.500 And you went to prison.
00:21:36.400 Why?
00:21:39.640 Yeah, that's sort of phase two of the story.
00:21:42.580 The first part has to deal with my actual battle to save my daughter from, you know, being a victim of all of this stuff, of the cross-sex hormones and the puberty blockers. 0.71
00:21:53.280 And, and so what happened is in court in January, the judge said that, you know, for me to misgender my daughter, for example, was going to be considered family violence.
00:22:05.400 And all of these crazy things came out.
00:22:08.660 I was not allowed to dissuade her from, like, only affirm, affirm, affirm, or that was family violence.
00:22:15.320 So, all of these rules were suddenly put on, which pretty much eliminated my ability to parent her on this issue at all.
00:22:23.120 And, and so what I did is I spoke with the Federalist after that ruling.
00:22:30.320 And I said to the Federalist, I said, well, it's a delusion.
00:22:34.360 I'm going to keep calling my daughter a daughter. 0.99
00:22:36.200 I mean, that's the reality.
00:22:37.840 I don't care if the courts tell me to lie.
00:22:40.240 And so I was hauled in for family violence under another judge.
00:22:45.620 And then this is when they added all of the stuff where I could be arrested again.
00:22:48.960 They put a protection order on me and said I could be arrested without warrant by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
00:22:54.980 And.
00:22:55.800 For what?
00:22:56.580 What do you mean arrested without warrant?
00:22:58.720 For what?
00:22:59.240 Arrest if somebody thought that I was misgendering my daughter.
00:23:03.740 Or not affirming her.
00:23:05.900 So it was really kind of vague.
00:23:10.460 It was really vague.
00:23:11.820 And it showed you that at the time, the power that the transgender activists really had on this province.
00:23:17.020 And probably to some extent still do, although things are changing just like they are in the United States.
00:23:21.000 Slowly.
00:23:21.520 That they could get away with something like this.
00:23:23.440 Now, where the change kind of came in, and this is, I should probably hit on this quickly, is the National Post, the big newspaper up here in January, when the court case is kind of starting.
00:23:34.520 They put out a front page article on it, you know, who decides the parent, the doctor.
00:23:40.560 Now, the problem is they were trying to put my daughter on a pedestal because that had worked well for the transgender activists, is that you shame the father, but you do it publicly.
00:23:49.640 But the problem was, all the comments at the end of the story were supporting my position, and they were really going after the trance.
00:23:58.860 And so this is when they thought, okay, new tactic.
00:24:01.480 We're not going to do it this way anymore.
00:24:03.740 We're going to gag this dad.
00:24:05.280 We're going to shut the story down.
00:24:07.100 Parents are not allowed to know what's going on because this is not going to do well for us.
00:24:11.060 This will end it.
00:24:11.820 And that's essentially what they tried to do.
00:24:14.440 And so there was a gag order against you.
00:24:17.820 You would be sent to prison if you violated the gag order and spoke to any press member or was it anybody about what you were going through?
00:24:30.540 The honest truth, and this may sound super crazy, but my gag order actually said in it that I could only speak to my two lawyers, not even my parents or my family about this matter.
00:24:40.940 Only my two lawyers, because it's considered a privileged conversation.
00:24:45.620 This is insane.
00:24:47.180 This is insane.
00:24:49.320 That's how bad it got.
00:24:51.700 Okay.
00:24:52.180 And so we appealed all of this to the BC Court of Appeal, and we did go into the Court of Appeal back in September of 2019.
00:25:02.940 And we got a bit of a win out of it.
00:25:05.880 We got the ruling about five months later, and in that ruling, the BC Court of Appeal said,
00:25:10.380 well, we're going to take away the protection order.
00:25:14.120 We're going to make it a civil order instead of a criminal one.
00:25:19.220 And they also said, I do have the right to dissuade my daughter from being transgender.
00:25:24.040 They said, we're taking away the affirmation model.
00:25:26.680 And they also said that, yeah, under the Infants Act, the parents don't get to decide what their child wants to do, but neither does the child.
00:25:36.000 So essentially what they said is, well, it's on the shoulders of the doctors alone.
00:25:40.000 Oh, my gosh.
00:25:40.520 And so the doctors here in BC decide whether your daughter transitions or not.
00:25:45.980 The good news in that is that when this contagion possibly comes to an end, which it will, there's going to be a lot of law cases and a lot of girls being transitioned to boys that now have the right to go and sue that doctor and say, hey, you know, why did you transition me?
00:26:02.080 I didn't really know what I was talking about, and yet you thought I was doing the right thing.
00:26:07.060 And this is the reason why I fight this so hard is because, you know, my daughter is never going to be able to come to me personally and say, hey, dad, why did you rush me down, you know, to the gender clinic?
00:26:18.220 And I'll say, I didn't.
00:26:19.140 I did the opposite.
00:26:21.020 I tried to save you from going to that gender clinic, but you were rushed there by the government. 0.99
00:26:25.300 Do you have any mind?
00:26:26.560 Go ahead.
00:26:28.140 Oh, I was going to say, keep in mind.
00:26:29.340 In this case, it's not about parental rights at all.
00:26:33.100 It's the government that transitioned my daughter.
00:26:35.580 It has nothing to do with me or my ex-wife, what our positions were.
00:26:39.560 It was the government itself, which is a bit different than what's happening in the U.S.
00:26:42.900 where they're kind of, I believe, handing off kids to the parent who will transition.
00:26:48.000 So we're talking to a dad from British Columbia.
00:26:50.760 He was forced to watch as his 14-year-old daughter was destroyed and sterilized by court-ordered testosterone injections.
00:27:00.620 Do you have any relationship with her now?
00:27:04.860 I don't right now, and I can tell you a bit what happened because this is actually part of what they do over there on the far left.
00:27:12.900 My daughter would sneak over to my place, and she would have to tell my ex-wife, her mom, that she was visiting friends at school. 0.99
00:27:21.880 And, of course, the lesbian activist lawyer, Barbara Finley, attached herself as the lawyer for my daughter. 0.99
00:27:28.440 And so what happened is my daughter at one point came and said to me, she goes, Dad, I can't come over and see you anymore.
00:27:34.300 And I asked her, why is that?
00:27:35.780 She said, well, they're giving me a choice.
00:27:37.840 They said, if I keep seeing you, they won't fight for me to get my hormones and my transgender stuff.
00:27:44.380 And so they said, essentially, they bribed her.
00:27:46.940 And they said, pick your dad or pick becoming a boy.
00:27:51.840 And I haven't heard from her since.
00:27:54.620 I guess she chose to become a boy.
00:27:55.900 And so this is what they do with these kids, these vulnerable kids, is they really gang up and bully on these kids to get them to transition.
00:28:06.680 And it's, yeah, I mean, my daughter was a complete victim.
00:28:10.620 But, again, this also destroys families.
00:28:12.800 And that's also, I think, part of the intention is to destroy families as well.
00:28:18.440 So to answer the question, no, I haven't seen her, not since Christmas of 2019.
00:28:23.040 Oh, my gosh.
00:28:23.940 Last time I saw her.
00:28:25.420 Let me, if I can, just tell you that amazing things happen over time.
00:28:33.640 My daughter went to Fordham University, and I was working in New York at the time.
00:28:39.460 And they totally flipped her against me. 1.00
00:28:41.940 I mean, totally flipped her against me. 1.00
00:28:44.300 I was a bigot because I wouldn't agree with gay marriage. 1.00
00:28:51.280 I'd never been against gay marriage.
00:28:53.340 I'm more of a libertarian on this.
00:28:55.220 I just don't think the government has any right to be in anybody's marriage, period.
00:29:00.580 And she was convinced because they held rallies against me and everything else at her school that, you know.
00:29:08.320 Oh, wow.
00:29:09.300 And I thought I lost her forever.
00:29:11.800 And after a while of getting out of school and being, you know, just being out from underneath the thumb, she began to see things differently.
00:29:24.220 And we're very close today.
00:29:26.080 So hopefully it won't last forever.
00:29:28.900 It's just going to be an agonizing time that you lose with your daughter.
00:29:32.180 And I'm sorry for that.
00:29:33.100 So go ahead.
00:29:36.180 Well, that's because that isn't.
00:29:37.380 Yeah.
00:29:37.800 And that's encouraging because that's, you know, I go through this with my conscious clean.
00:29:43.320 And I and I and I hope that, you know, my arms are wide open waiting for her to come back after, you know, she's done whatever she's doing, which is terrible, which is terrible for herself.
00:29:54.480 But, you know, I'm waiting here for her.
00:29:57.160 And and I would like to think that at the end of the day, you know, it's going to be those that affirmed her that she's going to resent and she'll appreciate what I tried to do for her, even though I I didn't succeed with her.
00:30:07.740 But I'm, you know, obviously, I'm so thrilled with what I'm seeing as we are succeeding in countries around the world, you know, in Europe, obviously, in the United States, so many states and even in Canada, our federal government or sorry, not government, they're the official opposition right now.
00:30:27.880 But, you know, they passed a resolution, one of them being, you know, that they will never allow anyone under the age of 18 to medically transition.
00:30:35.380 And so hopefully they do form government and they're way up in the polls right now.
00:30:39.720 People want this stuff.
00:30:41.280 But but anyways, I guess I guess this goes to the second part of my story in some ways.
00:30:47.840 I went through the first half pretty quickly.
00:30:50.380 But so so we get this ruling out of the B.C.
00:30:54.220 Court of Appeal and we're debating whether to appeal that to the Supreme Court of Canada.
00:31:00.500 In fact, we kind of worked on it and then we kind of decided, well, we sort of got this thing where we can sue the doctors.
00:31:05.380 Down the road, let's just leave it because the. 1.00
00:31:08.560 The the the federal court in Canada is pretty loaded up with left leaning judges.
00:31:16.940 And so we thought, well, we probably did better than the B.C.
00:31:19.220 Court of Appeal than we were moving forward.
00:31:20.840 So at that point, I fired my two lawyers, not because of this, but because to protect them.
00:31:25.700 So I fired my two lawyers, got them off the record.
00:31:29.220 And I said, OK, well, this that's the end of the line legally for the moment.
00:31:32.860 But I'm going to protect them and I'm going to break all these gag orders because I thought, you know, the world needs to know what's happening to their kids in darkness in these schools.
00:31:43.480 You know, as an example, it came out in affidavits that when my daughter changed her name from her female name to a male name, I was under the impression that this was by her design.
00:31:55.000 No, it was the school counselor that changed her name comes out now in court record.
00:31:59.440 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:01.640 The one and only Chip Roy is with us now.
00:32:04.580 Hello, Chip.
00:32:06.160 Glenn, how are you, sir?
00:32:07.420 Well, I'm pretty good.
00:32:08.900 I'm pretty good.
00:32:10.780 I will tell you that, you know, if we cut 20 percent, cut back 20 percent, that would bring us back to the spending levels of 2019.
00:32:20.920 And people like Kevin McCarthy are worried that we can't even get 8 percent.
00:32:25.200 If that's true, why is he still leading the Republicans?
00:32:30.220 Well, like this is a fundamental question.
00:32:32.640 It has been a failure since the Memorial Day deal was cut in which we, unfortunately, cut a bad deal.
00:32:40.280 I say we.
00:32:40.780 I didn't obviously vote for it.
00:32:42.700 And, you know, we we have been moving forward since then, trying to get to the place where we can get where the American people want us to go, which is to actually cut spending, actually take the positions that we need to take and pass the laws.
00:32:56.440 We need to take the secure the border and force Biden's hand and go through the other issues you and I both care about, Department of Justice, weaponization, and so forth.
00:33:04.720 You and I both talked about on your show before.
00:33:07.040 I know I can't get every single thing I want.
00:33:09.660 I know that.
00:33:10.540 But if we can't meaningfully cut spending along the lines of what you just described, meaningfully secure the border, meaningfully restrain DOJ, then I don't know why the hell we're here.
00:33:21.180 I don't either.
00:33:21.820 And that's that's the question.
00:33:23.480 Now, so we just go ahead.
00:33:25.220 No, go ahead.
00:33:25.940 We just go ahead.
00:33:27.660 Well, what I was going to say is we just passed a rule last night because of the 20 because of the Freedom Caucus demanding that we move forward with regular order to move appropriations bills.
00:33:39.620 There's a lot of good policies embedded in those appropriations bills, limiting what Biden can do, constraining the use of dollars.
00:33:46.720 It does not cut enough yet.
00:33:49.280 I'll be honest, Glenn.
00:33:50.360 It does cut.
00:33:51.800 We passed more cuts last night.
00:33:53.520 We got to get through the sausage of the next 48 hours and see where it lands in terms of total cuts.
00:33:59.460 It's going down.
00:34:00.600 That's good.
00:34:01.660 But we got to keep moving the ball forward and then kind of let the dust settle and see what we get on the amendment process.
00:34:07.040 We can't be hypocritical here.
00:34:09.400 If we believe in an open process and opening up and having amendments, you got to let it play out, see what the end result is, and then look in the mirror and go, OK, is this good enough?
00:34:18.580 And so for me, we're going to decide the next 40 hours, 48 hours.
00:34:23.140 Are we cutting enough spending in these bills on the floor?
00:34:25.620 And this is the critical part.
00:34:27.680 Are we going to secure the damn border?
00:34:30.700 That is a just absolute deal breaker, 100 percent red line for me is they burn the place down, take, you know, absolute no hostages.
00:34:40.740 We're going to secure the border or the Republican Party is going to end.
00:34:44.860 That's where we are.
00:34:45.880 So we're going to force that question, but also force the question on cuts.
00:34:50.220 We're having meetings today and we're going to keep pushing as hard as we can.
00:34:53.660 But here's what I would do.
00:34:55.020 I'm going to be very clear.
00:34:56.360 We should not leave this weekend.
00:34:58.540 If we leave this weekend, that's a failure by our leadership.
00:35:02.440 Everyone should be here.
00:35:03.500 We should be voting.
00:35:04.460 We should be voting on Friday, on Saturday, on Sunday, on Monday until we get the job done.
00:35:09.680 Send the bills to the Senate.
00:35:11.020 We should tell the Senate, your bill is dead on arrival, McConnell.
00:35:14.440 Don't pull that crap.
00:35:15.400 I don't care if you have 32 idiotic Republican senators who voted for a garbage continuing resolution last night that gives more money to Ukraine and didn't touch the border.
00:35:25.020 They should be ashamed of themselves.
00:35:26.740 Only 17 Republicans voted against that.
00:35:29.380 We should stand up as the House led by McCarthy and tell McConnell to stick it up his rear end and say, absolutely not.
00:35:36.100 We should be here this weekend.
00:35:37.440 We should pass these appropriations bills.
00:35:39.320 We should cut funding.
00:35:40.640 We should absolutely die on the Hill to secure the border.
00:35:43.040 And if we don't do that, then we need to change things in the House of Representatives for Republicans.
00:35:47.500 So help me out on something, because I was disappointed when I saw it.
00:35:50.620 But I don't I don't believe it.
00:35:52.660 But I don't know what to believe anymore.
00:35:54.140 Jake Sherman tweeted out.
00:35:56.360 Chip Roy says Congress needs to stay this weekend to pass the C.R.
00:36:00.880 He says he agrees with the C.R.
00:36:03.720 strategy and bill.
00:36:05.200 I don't believe that.
00:36:06.740 Tell me that.
00:36:07.320 No, that's that's that's Indians inside a room live tweeting out bogus crap. 1.00
00:36:12.600 What I said was, as I was two weeks ago and you and I talked on your show, I do support sending a funding bill that cuts spending with H.R.
00:36:23.340 to the border security bill attached to it over to the Senate.
00:36:27.540 I absolutely support doing that while you move appropriations bills, because then you browbeat them that you're funding troops, you're funding Border Patrol, you're cutting spending and you're securing the border.
00:36:37.560 Now you go on offense and you crush the Senate Democrats and the president and you stick it up McConnell's rear end.
00:36:44.660 That's why I would pass that bill.
00:36:46.380 They won't pass it in the Senate.
00:36:48.560 We would pass it with cuts, border security, funding for troops.
00:36:52.500 That's what I support.
00:36:54.040 If that's not what we put on the floor, I'm not going to support it.
00:36:57.600 Meanwhile, we've got to move the appropriations bills.
00:37:00.280 No, I do not support a C.R. that people think a C.R. is.
00:37:03.780 It's not a C.R.
00:37:04.980 It's an 8% cut or a 20% cut, whatever it is.
00:37:09.640 Send a cut over there, secure the border and make sure our troops are funded.
00:37:13.920 That's how you win the message.
00:37:15.540 But I'm not going to support a C.R.
00:37:17.400 That's ridiculous.
00:37:19.920 Do you happen to know how Texas Senator John Cornyn voted on that Senate budget?
00:37:27.420 I do.
00:37:28.240 I do.
00:37:28.640 And he unfortunately was one of the whatever the total was, 30-ish or so Senate Republicans.
00:37:34.860 He certainly wasn't one of the 17 who voted no.
00:37:38.100 Do you have to move from where you live to be in some special district or anything so you could run for his job?
00:37:47.780 I'm not going to take the bait, Glenn.
00:37:53.400 The Constitution only requires that you be a resident of the state.
00:37:57.460 Of the state.
00:37:58.360 Okay.
00:37:59.400 To be a Senator of Texas.
00:38:00.740 I thought that's what it was, but I'm just thinking, Congressman, that that would be good.
00:38:08.080 So, Chip, how strong, because nothing can pass without Congress, and that will only happen is if the Freedom Caucus stands firm.
00:38:22.280 How firm are you guys when it comes to, you know, the 15 days to stop the spread?
00:38:28.380 Yeah, well, we're firm on rejecting what the Senate is sending to us.
00:38:33.700 We're firm on forcing the appropriations bills to move in the direction of cuts and to make sure they've got the right policies in place.
00:38:42.640 Where there's still some gray areas over these next couple of days on those four bills.
00:38:46.740 There are some provisions in there that need to change.
00:38:48.660 For example, there's some Ukraine funding.
00:38:51.260 It's small amounts in the underlying bill, but there's some Ukraine issues we need to address.
00:38:55.620 We, you know, we've got to stop.
00:38:57.440 The Senate bill just added $6 billion onto a 45-day continuing resolution of last year's spending levels with no help for the border, like I said a minute ago.
00:39:06.880 We've got to fight that.
00:39:08.500 So, we're trying to get through the bill.
00:39:10.080 So, we're united on a lot of these fronts and issues.
00:39:12.740 We're just trying to figure out the right play.
00:39:15.420 But here's the critical issue.
00:39:17.240 What House Republican leadership needs to understand.
00:39:20.620 You go cut a deal with Democrats to do this, and it is the end.
00:39:25.620 They need to understand that.
00:39:27.640 What does that mean to you?
00:39:29.660 It will be World War III within the Republican Party.
00:39:33.100 It will be an absolute, unmitigated separation, a break.
00:39:38.520 You will not go cut a deal with Democrats to jam through a spending bill that does not secure the border and perpetuates a war in Ukraine without accountability, without transparency, and that we shouldn't even be doing in the first place.
00:39:50.760 These are deal breakers.
00:39:54.700 So, we're trying to make very clear what we are going to expect and demand out of this.
00:40:00.360 And a lot of my colleagues in the Republican Party are bringing out their tropes, their tired old rhetoric, right?
00:40:06.120 Like, oh, well, you know, we've got to be united, and we've got to make sure, you know, you guys are over there saying that, you know, we're somehow lacking backbone and we're squishes.
00:40:16.080 And, look, politics is a tough business.
00:40:19.100 Stuck it up, Buttercup.
00:40:20.520 We have to stand up for what we were sent to Washington to do.
00:40:24.380 And so, that's my position, and it's not a hard one.
00:40:29.160 And, look, again, Glenn, you and I both, we've talked about this before.
00:40:33.320 I don't pretend to know all the answers.
00:40:35.660 I don't pretend to know, yes, there's a time when you have to look at each other and go, yeah, that's good enough.
00:40:41.260 We got something here.
00:40:42.860 We can't get everything we want.
00:40:44.740 Everybody understands that in negotiating.
00:40:46.940 But the American people are tired of the bullcrap excuses by Republicans and a failure to hold the line.
00:40:55.000 So, when Speaker McCarthy says he's going to hold the line on the border, okay, show me.
00:41:00.560 Show me that you're going to do that.
00:41:02.500 Show me that we're going to hold the line on spending, as you've said you would do, and the border, as you're now publicly saying you're going to do.
00:41:09.820 Reject McConnell.
00:41:11.160 Stay here over the weekend.
00:41:12.760 Pass these appropriations bills.
00:41:14.320 Do the work.
00:41:15.980 Convene the Appropriations Committee.
00:41:17.960 Move the DOJ, we call it CJS approves, Commerce, Justice, and Science.
00:41:22.780 Move that through the House with all of the changes we need to put in place to restrain the Biden, you know, Merrick Garland Department of Justice.
00:41:31.820 Let's do our work.
00:41:33.440 Let's fight through all of this.
00:41:35.400 And if in the middle of that we need to have a cut to spending in the form of a stopgap funding measure that's attached to HR2 and border security, yeah, I'll support that.
00:41:46.680 But nothing else.
00:41:48.460 No clean CRs.
00:41:49.840 No more Washington gimmicks.
00:41:51.460 We've got to move forward.
00:41:52.480 I will tell you that I've been waiting for this moment for about 15 years, and I hope that we are there in many ways.
00:42:04.400 You know, Charles Sumner stood up in, I remember what it was, 1853, something like that, and he realized that neither the Whigs nor the Democrats were serious about doing anything to stop slavery.
00:42:16.620 And he stood up in the well of the Senate, and he said, the South is sleeping with the whore of slavery.
00:42:23.560 And I've been waiting for somebody to stand up and say, the Republican parties and the Democrats are sleeping with the whores of big business and special interests. 1.00
00:42:36.120 Now, he almost was beaten to death because he said that.
00:42:38.780 But what was interesting was both the Whigs and the Democrats were against him.
00:42:46.080 And that's what gave birth to the Republican Party.
00:42:49.560 And the Whigs went away immediately.
00:42:52.920 The next election, they were done.
00:42:55.120 And I really think, Chip, that this is the moment.
00:42:59.160 And I don't think that the Republican leadership, I think that they believe they have, you know, all of the big business, the big, you know, the big donors and everything else.
00:43:12.560 But all of those people are going to wake up to a very different world politically if this goes through.
00:43:19.440 You're done.
00:43:20.420 Really, truly done.
00:43:22.660 Well, and that's what I was trying to get out there, Glenn.
00:43:26.440 I mean, like some of these things, just they are what they are.
00:43:28.880 I know where the American people in the Republican electorate is.
00:43:32.980 There are certain Republicans who take way too much comfort in their handful of their little circles of the sort of business establishment.
00:43:40.800 And that is not where the American people are.
00:43:43.180 The Republican Party has got to actually stand up for something again.
00:43:46.780 We have to actually connect with the American people with a vision for what we want to do or go into the ash heap of history and there will be a new party.
00:43:55.560 But we can no longer continue to do this uniparty garbage where we are nothing but Democrat light.
00:44:02.340 And that means, look, again, can I get the 33 percent cuts that you've got to get to non-defense, non-veteran spending in order to fully achieve 2019 levels?
00:44:14.180 I don't know, Glenn.
00:44:15.120 You know, or we're going to have to go figure out how to go restrain defense and veteran spending, which is complex, as you know.
00:44:21.600 But if we can't go get meaningful cuts, 15, 20, 25 percent to the non-defense, non-veteran portion of our spending, I'm not saying veterans and defense don't need attention.
00:44:33.400 They do.
00:44:34.160 You and I would agree on that.
00:44:35.640 But if we can't do that, then why the hell are we here?
00:44:38.900 Don't come talking about what you're going to do about Social Security and Medicare when you don't have the balls to cut the Department of Justice.
00:44:43.620 Seriously, like if you can't cut the frickin, you know, EPA, if you can't cut, you know, HHS and the bureaucracy there, if you can't cut this bureaucracy, you're never going to touch reforming Social Security and Medicare to make it work for people and make this country solid.
00:45:02.180 So I'm tired of all the excuses.
00:45:04.660 We've got to do our job.
00:45:05.640 Last night on the floor, we're voting on amendments on the ag bill.
00:45:09.780 And there's a bunch of amendments there that the Farm Bureau wants.
00:45:12.460 Of course, they're a lobby.
00:45:14.860 I go see them.
00:45:15.760 I love them.
00:45:16.380 I love small farmers.
00:45:17.780 I want to help small farmers against these big corporate horrors that are screwing them.
00:45:21.640 I want to pass bills to help them.
00:45:23.200 But I'm not going to just go, sorry, I can't touch cutting ag bill because the Farm Bureau doesn't like it.
00:45:30.320 That's crap.
00:45:31.240 Just like saying you can't cut, you know, and eliminate Ukraine funding or cut defense because, oh, there's some other special interests that don't like it.
00:45:38.740 That's crap.
00:45:39.800 We have a job.
00:45:40.580 And frankly, at this point, we need to just do straight up across the board sequesters and do our job to drive the numbers down and then force us to the table to do the appropriations bills the way we're supposed to.
00:45:50.660 But again, on a positive note, because of the work of conservatives, we're actually voting on individual appropriations bills with amendments this week.
00:46:00.380 It's been a long time since we've really done that.
00:46:02.860 So we're working it through the process.
00:46:04.860 We're trying to drive the numbers down through the cuts and through the amendments.
00:46:08.680 And then we've got to force the hand of leadership.
00:46:11.020 And that's going to be the question over the next couple of weeks.
00:46:13.320 OK, I only have two minutes with you.
00:46:15.580 Is there anyone that it would be helpful to have the listeners call?
00:46:23.680 Well, look, that's always a question, right?
00:46:25.420 I mean, you know, make sure your congressman, wherever you are in the United States, knows that you want to see spending cuts.
00:46:30.680 You want to see the border security.
00:46:32.720 And let me just really focus on that issue on the border security.
00:46:36.040 That issue is something that can and should unite us.
00:46:40.400 If we can't do it now, after 304,000 encounters in August, after all of the things we are seeing now, the ridiculous numbers, the 11,000 in one day in Eagle Pass the day before yesterday, then we're never going to do it.
00:46:52.620 So light up your phones with your members of Congress.
00:46:55.280 Let them know you stand with conservatives.
00:46:58.100 Do not fold.
00:46:59.540 Cut spending.
00:47:00.580 Secure the border.
00:47:01.820 Hold this government accountable, DOD and DOJ.
00:47:04.380 And let your senators know.
00:47:06.540 I mean, golly, Glenn, 17 Republican senators out of 49 had the fortitude, the spine, the cojones to stand up to Mitch McConnell and the Democrats from passing last year's bloated omnibus spending bill, plus six billion for Ukraine and nothing for the border.
00:47:26.380 That is shameful.
00:47:28.100 It is absolutely shameful.
00:47:29.840 Chip, remain standing.
00:47:33.920 Let us know.
00:47:34.840 When is this going to come to a head, do you think?
00:47:36.760 When are we going to know?
00:47:38.420 Well, in the next 48 hours, we're going to know whether we are able to get these appropriations bills done.
00:47:42.800 I believe the government will shut down on Saturday night.
00:47:45.180 The question is going to be whether we pass a stopgap cut to spending plus HR2.
00:47:51.860 We're debating that in the conference.
00:47:53.740 And then I think between now and October 13th is going to be D-Day, right?
00:47:57.740 Because October 13th is when checks would need to go out to members, you know, in the military and others.
00:48:03.780 So I think you've got about two weeks here where you're going to see where the leadership has its fine to stand up and fight for what needs to be fought for.
00:48:09.920 Okay.
00:48:10.560 We're standing with you.
00:48:11.280 Thank you so much, Chip.
00:48:12.100 Appreciate it.
00:48:13.040 God bless.
00:48:13.580 God bless you, Ben.
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