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00:00:24.820 Well, I don't think he had any good moments, Glenn.

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00:02:18.660 Okay, all righty, okay, all righty then.

00:02:24.580 So, we're sending tanks.

00:02:28.020 Flashback, flashback, flashback.

00:02:30.700 Don't kid yourself if we send tanks and airplanes.

00:02:34.360 Well, don't kid yourself.

00:02:36.040 That's World War III.

00:02:37.680 Okay, what's changed?

00:02:39.820 I'd like to know what's changed.

00:02:42.280 Have we had a debate on any of this?

00:02:45.100 Are you for the $60 billion that we already sent over to Ukraine?

00:02:53.740 Are you cool with that?

00:02:55.140 Because I'm not cool with that.

00:02:56.620 I haven't liked that from the beginning.

00:02:59.000 Why are we doing it?

00:03:01.000 Why are we doing it?

00:03:03.660 There's no debate on the floor of the House and the Senate.

00:03:07.320 We don't have that anymore.

00:03:08.480 We don't do that anymore.

00:03:12.240 So, why aren't we debating the money?

00:03:14.600 And then, how come it was exposed last week?

00:03:19.160 What was it?

00:03:19.740 Ten executives from Ukraine?

00:03:24.100 Ten different politicians had to resign because they've been funneling our money off?

00:03:32.260 They're buying houses and vacations and sports cars.

00:03:35.320 We all knew this.

00:03:37.580 You knew it.

00:03:38.600 I knew it.

00:03:40.160 People who voted for Joe Biden, they know it.

00:03:43.600 People who didn't vote for Joe Biden, they know it.

00:03:46.560 Aren't we in this together as Americans?

00:03:50.940 Because you're about to go into World War III.

00:03:54.100 By the way, after Ukraine scored the U.S. tanks, now Zelensky, yesterday, said, great, we just need now some modern fighting jets from America, and we'd like missile systems.

00:04:16.620 What? 0.67

00:04:17.300 First of all, who the hell do you think you are? 1.00

00:04:23.980 Second of all, are you out of your mind? 1.00

00:04:27.100 Apparently, yes.

00:04:28.600 And so are all of the world leaders.

00:04:30.980 And I have a very big warning for you.

00:04:34.080 Already, the New York Times is washing their hands for Joe Biden.

00:04:42.080 It is Pontius Pilate.

00:04:43.680 Read the story in the New York Times that is talking about the tanks.

00:04:48.140 Oh, you know, he's doing it reluctantly.

00:04:50.980 Look, I wash my hands of this whole crucifixion thing.

00:04:55.760 I see no wrong in this, man, but I will do what you want me to do.

00:05:00.340 That's the way they are now presenting our tank deliveries.

00:05:07.360 Joe Biden didn't want to do it, but Germany really forced him.

00:05:10.700 No, excuse me, excuse me.

00:05:14.160 Our administration really wanted tanks there, but they wanted Germany to do it.

00:05:20.140 And Germany, after we were pressuring them, said, we're not doing that by ourself.

00:05:24.380 You want us to do that?

00:05:25.860 You send your tanks and we'll send our tanks, but we're not sending them by ourselves.

00:05:30.760 Okay, Germany's pressuring us.

00:05:32.800 We have to do it.

00:05:33.820 Look out.

00:05:39.180 Look out, America.

00:05:42.820 Let me take you back to a place in history so you understand, if you are younger, you're not my age,

00:05:51.340 you may not understand how things used to work and how they're supposed to work when you live in a democratic republic.

00:06:04.140 December 8th, 1941.

00:06:06.100 Franklin Roosevelt is wheeled into the Capitol and then with braces on his legs, he struggles because he has polio, no power in his legs.

00:06:17.720 He struggles to make it up to the podium.

00:06:20.460 He grips that podium and he delivers one of the most famous speeches in the 20th century.

00:06:27.440 December 7th, 1941.

00:06:30.780 A date that will live in infamy.

00:06:33.380 Germany, he then declares war on the government of Japan.

00:06:40.400 Germany declares war on us.

00:06:44.040 But why did he give that speech?

00:06:46.880 To announce that we were going to war?

00:06:51.100 He gave his speech so Congress could then vote on war.

00:06:58.120 Now, it wasn't a long debate.

00:07:03.620 It happened later in that day because we were attacked.

00:07:08.580 The day before Pearl Harbor happened.

00:07:11.280 So the vote was nearly unanimous.

00:07:14.200 There was only one vote against and one abstention.

00:07:17.960 By the way, the vote against was from a communist in Vermont.

00:07:23.040 I think it was Bernie Sanders, but I'm not sure.

00:07:26.100 The speech was historic.

00:07:28.380 But it is important today to look at that and understand the gravity of it.

00:07:34.700 In the U.S., as per our Constitution, there's a process.

00:07:40.580 We allegedly have a way we're supposed to do things like committing our military to war

00:07:45.960 and spilling not those in Washington, not their blood.

00:07:51.080 Hunter Biden is not going to the front lines.

00:07:56.360 They are not even discussing the blood of our children, our treasure, our good name.

00:08:09.640 FDR, that wasn't a photo op.

00:08:11.780 He was asking Congress, democratically elected officials, to vote to give him the authority

00:08:17.940 to go to war against Japan because that is the process. 0.89

00:08:23.240 Well, you're not going to have a choice.

00:08:25.660 You're not going to have a choice.

00:08:27.220 It will be December 7th.

00:08:30.020 That'll be the first time they actually discuss it in Congress.

00:08:34.220 When we are hit with a massive cyber attack from Russia in response.

00:08:41.120 Think of this.

00:08:42.500 You're in the Soviet Union.

00:08:44.020 And people are like, oh, we're not fighting a war against the United States.

00:08:49.860 Well, your response most likely would be, the hell we're not.

00:08:54.580 They're sending them all of the missiles.

00:08:56.920 They're sending them the technology.

00:08:58.840 They're sending them the bullets.

00:09:01.020 They're sending them now offensive weapons.

00:09:04.600 This is not a defensive weapon.

00:09:07.460 A tank is not a defensive weapon.

00:09:11.020 It is an offensive weapon.

00:09:14.740 And it even says in the Pontius Pilate is really a good guy article on this today.

00:09:22.420 They even say this is for the offense that Zelensky is planning in the spring.

00:09:29.460 I have to tell you, we're at war with Russia.

00:09:37.440 We are at war.

00:09:39.100 The Biden administration and the war hawks on both the right and the left have decided that we don't need to check with you.

00:09:48.920 We don't need to vote on things.

00:09:51.120 We don't need a consensus. 1.00

00:09:52.600 They're just the stupid people. 1.00

00:09:54.400 For those of us who grew up in the Cold War days, those who grew up in the Red Dawn 80s era, we only imagine tanks rolling across Europe against the Russian T-72s and see US F-16 fighting Falcons going against MiG-29s. 1.00

00:10:17.900 We saw that because they were going to attack us and then it quickly just went into nuclear war.

00:10:28.160 For those of you who might have been wishing for that, well, your fairy godmother called Joe Biden just granted your wish.

00:10:43.700 We are sending tanks and we're now allowing several European countries to send F-16 fighter jets full stop.

00:10:55.660 No joke, folks.

00:10:58.160 The cream of the crop of US weaponry is going straight up against the Russians on the ground and in the sky and it will be war. 0.68

00:11:12.320 But no vote, no debate.

00:11:15.600 We don't get a say-so.

00:11:17.060 Do you have a say-so on anything in your life?

00:11:20.560 Did you have a say-so with this government?

00:11:23.620 Do they actually work for the people?

00:11:27.120 Is this a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?

00:11:33.520 I got to tell you, no on all three counts.

00:11:38.020 No on all three counts.

00:11:40.120 You tell me what's going on.

00:11:42.280 You tell me when you were consulted.

00:11:45.480 TARP, it was an emergency.

00:11:48.580 December 7th.

00:11:49.120 It was an emergency.

00:11:52.640 We had to deliver TARP.

00:11:54.200 There was barely any discussion.

00:11:56.340 We did it.

00:11:58.080 We just did it.

00:12:00.340 The money printing.

00:12:02.260 By the way, with TARP, you were left out in the cold.

00:12:04.840 The banks got everything.

00:12:06.420 But then the Fed just went out of control on its own.

00:12:09.920 A private corporation in bed.

00:12:13.560 This is a private-public partnership.

00:12:16.160 This is what it means.

00:12:17.900 The Fed, a private corporation in bed with the government of the United States, just starts printing money.

00:12:26.440 Did you okay $7 trillion to go over to foreign countries between the crash of 2008 and 2020?

00:12:35.000 Did you okay that?

00:12:36.900 Were you cool with all of this stuff?

00:12:39.120 No, you didn't really have a choice.

00:12:42.440 How about were you cool when they shut down your business but opened Home Depot?

00:12:48.000 Were you cool with that?

00:12:49.740 Were you cool with, you must take this vaccine?

00:12:54.100 Maybe you might have been, but are you still cool with it now that we know?

00:12:58.520 And don't take it from Robert Kennedy.

00:13:01.740 Take it from Bill Gates.

00:13:04.000 The vaccine didn't work.

00:13:06.180 And yet they're still trying to force you to do it.

00:13:10.060 The masks don't work.

00:13:12.160 Yet they're still trying to get you to wear a mask on an airplane.

00:13:15.700 Did you know the administration was fighting for that?

00:13:18.020 Was that a fight for you and what you wanted?

00:13:21.400 Or was that a fight for what maybe they want?

00:13:24.440 Do you hear anybody battling for voter ID?

00:13:33.100 Nobody trusts, nobody trusts anything anymore.

00:13:37.340 Why?

00:13:38.420 When you have about 80% of the American population, but that's all sides.

00:13:43.460 80% are for voter identification.

00:13:48.340 But they're not passing that.

00:13:49.900 Why?

00:13:51.040 It ain't because they work for you.

00:13:53.500 Because if they did work for you, they had already passed it.

00:13:58.080 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:14:02.540 Okay, we have Denise Warner on the phone with us.

00:14:09.620 Her sister was killed for improper mask wear.

00:14:15.020 And I want to make sure that we get the story from the horse's mouth.

00:14:19.060 Denise, first of all, our sympathies are with you and your family.

00:14:23.960 And thank you for coming on and retelling a story that has got to be painful.

00:14:28.680 Good morning, Glenn.

00:14:30.960 Thank you very much for having me.

00:14:32.700 And pardon me, you've captured the essence of everything, what happened quite perfectly.

00:14:38.140 It's gotten me a little emotional, actually.

00:14:40.180 Sorry.

00:14:41.540 I saw the video last week, and I think that's when we started talking, my office and you.

00:14:47.600 But we were so shocked when we saw this video.

00:14:53.100 We're showing it now if you happen to be a Blaze TV subscriber.

00:14:55.740 However, but it is, I mean, it's horrific.

00:15:01.120 Pretty despicable.

00:15:02.760 Despicable. 0.98

00:15:03.440 So she was sitting off to the side, kind of all by herself.

00:15:07.020 Had she just arrived at the hospital?

00:15:09.420 Had she been there for a while?

00:15:11.020 What's the story?

00:15:13.400 So she had been in the hospital two weeks prior, or rather, sorry, had been released just about

00:15:20.360 a week prior.

00:15:22.160 She had an underlying lung disease and had contracted COVID.

00:15:24.920 So she was one of those folks who got quite unwell.

00:15:27.900 She recovered.

00:15:29.220 She had tested negative and was released.

00:15:32.100 Within a couple of days, some of those lingering symptoms seemed to exacerbate.

00:15:37.360 So she returned to hospital on May 10th, was there in the evening, you know, had a productive

00:15:42.720 cough and had some obvious struggling with breath.

00:15:46.820 So she had been in the ER and, you know, she'd been in the ER for about 20 or odd hours, was

00:15:53.440 admitted.

00:15:54.680 Yeah, she was admitted.

00:15:57.380 So she was brought to the floor at 6 a.m.

00:16:01.100 Now, my understanding is, although she was known to be COVID negative, because she had similar

00:16:06.380 symptoms, she was placed on the COVID floor.

00:16:09.280 So she's, you know, on the floor at 6 a.m.

00:16:12.960 and asks for food.

00:16:14.440 They don't have anything.

00:16:15.720 So she decides, of course, there's a basic need.

00:16:19.440 You're hungry.

00:16:20.200 So she thinks that she's going to find something at the food court.

00:16:23.680 So she makes her way to the food court with her mask on, following whatever policies they

00:16:29.540 had.

00:16:30.160 And she becomes, of course, very unwell, as you can see in the video, without breath,

00:16:36.160 and sits in a corner to try to get her breath, you know, as if anyone else would do.

00:16:42.500 If you can't breathe, she removed the mask because it was an obstruction.

00:16:46.640 And that's where, you know, things pick up, as you said, that it was identified that she

00:16:52.060 didn't have her mask on.

00:16:53.360 It was below her chin.

00:16:55.160 And within minutes, if security shows up on site, they, you know, grip her, crush her

00:17:03.200 into a wall, and then there's a restraint and surprise, an unwell, petite, frail woman 0.99

00:17:10.400 goes into respiratory distress, sorry, cardiac arrest.

00:17:15.000 And as you see in the video, she is carted down a hallway like garbage. 0.95

00:17:20.080 I have to tell you, the disrespect for a dead body was so shocking to me.

00:17:33.200 I mean, she was practically dragged down the hall.

00:17:37.460 When she was under attack, these soldiers, really, these security guards come pin her

00:17:47.200 against the wall.

00:17:48.080 You would think she's a criminal. 1.00

00:17:50.480 And the one that I think is the most abhorrent is what I think is a nurse that first goes over 1.00

00:17:56.500 and talks to her.

00:17:57.480 She is just yelling at her to put the mask back on.

00:18:02.640 No compassion in this video at all for your sister.

00:18:07.260 She's actually one of the accused.

00:18:09.740 She's a female security guard. 1.00

00:18:11.840 You're absolutely correct. 0.64

00:18:13.640 She steps in immediately, and she is intimidating, and she is provoking, and she's a bully. 0.89

00:18:21.160 Big time.

00:18:21.540 And obviously, her ego is front and center, and I think that she was just waiting for 0.90

00:18:30.380 my sister to flinch, and she was ready to take her down, because she could. 0.94

00:18:35.540 It's unbelievable.

00:18:36.360 Because she could.

00:18:36.800 Okay, so this apparently, I don't know how your system works, but it went up to a district

00:18:47.340 attorney or something.

00:18:48.820 What happened next?

00:18:49.960 These guys were being held for manslaughter, right?

00:18:54.320 So they were both charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death.

00:18:58.440 And the way that our system works is you go to a pretrial, and at that point, the government

00:19:06.060 and the defense put their cards forward.

00:19:08.660 A judge determines, is there enough evidence here to go to trial?

00:19:13.160 And so that justice, Justice Quali, determined there was enough evidence for it to be put to

00:19:18.320 a jury trial.

00:19:19.760 Defense counsel filed an appeal, and their suggestion was that there was a lack of evidence.

00:19:26.660 And so this goes before Justice Sean Dunphy, and he listens to a few hours of oral summations

00:19:34.080 and reads some written summations.

00:19:37.380 Did he see the video?

00:19:39.760 He did, actually, and he was quite dismissive of it, if I'm truthful.

00:19:44.500 His actual words were, and I'll quote, is, this was assaultive at best.

00:19:52.700 Okay.

00:19:54.600 Yeah.

00:19:55.560 Yeah.

00:19:56.000 And I think that the video speaks for itself, that it is evident.

00:20:00.480 As you rightly pointed out, this was a killing.

00:20:04.660 So Justice Dunphy decided that there was insufficient evidence.

00:20:10.540 He aligned with the defense.

00:20:12.660 And in fact, he made that decision effectively before the end of oral summations.

00:20:16.960 He was asking the defense counsel, how do you want me to basically send this to you?

00:20:21.780 What term do you want me to use?

00:20:23.260 And it was tossed.

00:20:26.740 And I think that not only the, you know, there's been an incredible national reaction, but it is, it is at a global scale, which I think.

00:20:36.880 So the Canadian people are responding properly to this?

00:20:43.360 You know, I'm not sure if we, our culture probably isn't as assertive as American culture.

00:20:51.540 And I can say that because I'm married to an American.

00:20:53.740 So, but I will say that there has been, there has been an outrage.

00:21:01.220 There has been an outrage.

00:21:02.420 I mean, I personally, of course, I would have, you know, appreciated us, appreciated us chanting in the street, so to speak.

00:21:10.680 But there has been, there has been an outrage.

00:21:13.860 But I have, and I have done, you know, everything that I can to try to reach out to the folks in, you know, power and elected government.

00:21:23.020 And I've been stonewalled at every path.

00:21:25.840 Well, let me give you some updates here.

00:21:27.840 We wrote to several people, the Premier of Ontario, University Health Network CEO, the Attorney General of Ontario, and the Justice, Dumfey.

00:21:39.920 And we said we were going to be doing this program today.

00:21:43.720 We quoted what the CBC said, and we said we are looking, what actions did the hospital take against the guards who were criminally charged,

00:21:52.800 the guard who adjusted the camera to avoid capturing the confrontation, are they still employed or at the hospital or any capacity at the University Health Network?

00:22:04.400 If so, what action was taken against them?

00:22:07.660 And we asked for statements on from all of them in regard to what they had to do.

00:22:14.580 So, the hospital network said they won't comment on any matter before the court, and they won't comment on anybody's employment.

00:22:25.840 Andrew Kennedy, which one is he, Andrew Kennedy?

00:22:30.340 He is, oh, I don't know.

00:22:35.940 He's a spokesperson, I guess, for the Attorney General of Ontario.

00:22:41.400 Our sympathies are with the Warriner family regarding the death of their loved one.

00:22:45.940 It's important to note that the courts are independent of the Ontario government,

00:22:49.760 and neither government ministries nor elected representatives can interfere with court decision-making.

00:22:56.400 Wow, if that's not just a weasel.

00:23:01.960 That's a kiss-off is what it is.

00:23:04.240 It really...

00:23:05.400 They want you to vanish.

00:23:06.480 Right, right.

00:23:07.660 So, we've received many responses, but I don't think any of them,

00:23:15.600 media request, Ford's office, no, we didn't get anything there.

00:23:22.160 So, there's a lot of responses, but they were all pretty much generally weasel.

00:23:27.700 So, how can we help you?

00:23:30.340 Well, I think those responses, before we go on, are pretty...

00:23:34.940 You know, I think that they are another level of complicity here.

00:23:40.260 You know, I have filed a complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council,

00:23:45.840 which apparently is an independent association responsible for oversight of our justices.

00:23:51.340 You know, I'll be honest with you, at this point, I lack any trust that there will be any movement.

00:24:00.080 Interestingly, I've heard from some, you know, other folks that, again, these are allegations,

00:24:04.440 but that Justice Sean Dunphy is well-known for being one-sided and for not looking at totality,

00:24:11.180 and has made some other pretty controversial decisions.

00:24:16.920 You know, I'm not sure what more can be done.

00:24:20.880 I have spent three years stamping my feet, accessing systems to seek oversight.

00:24:29.880 I've done everything I can.

00:24:31.000 And interestingly, some of those folks are still employed.

00:24:36.440 In fact, the person who moved the camera, who tampered with evidence,

00:24:42.360 is still employed at University Health Network.

00:24:45.180 I have to tell you, if you moved the camera, you did it because you knew you were doing something wrong.

00:24:53.640 Why else would you move the camera?

00:24:56.520 Why would you even think about that?

00:24:58.740 You moved the camera.

00:25:04.080 His testimony at pretrial was that he panicked and that he has an anxiety problem.

00:25:11.020 And so I think either way you look at that, actually, when he was pressed further,

00:25:16.360 why did you panic?

00:25:17.560 Why, you know, and he says, well, it was the use of force.

00:25:20.520 No kidding.

00:25:22.020 No kidding.

00:25:24.080 This was not their first rodeo, in my estimation.

00:25:28.740 You know, I think that folks ought to be very concerned.

00:25:34.300 And University Health Network is the largest hospital network in Canada.

00:25:38.680 So they operate a number of very big hospitals in the downtown core, which, as you know,

00:25:43.200 Toronto is one of the largest cities in the world, North America especially.

00:25:47.080 So, you know, everyone's just hands off.

00:25:50.240 They don't want to, they don't want to, you know, pull the layers back and take a look.

00:25:55.780 I have to tell you, we are following this story.

00:26:01.300 We will continue to follow it, Denise.

00:26:03.240 I'm going to post this story along with all of the email addresses.

00:26:07.600 I would ask the audience to just send a very nice tweet or write these offices and just say,

00:26:18.000 we think this is a real injustice here.

00:26:22.820 This is a killing.

00:26:25.460 I don't personally know why there isn't a George Floyd.

00:26:28.960 Well, yes, I do.

00:26:29.600 There's no money to be made here.

00:26:31.720 And it's not in the, you know, it doesn't fit into the narrative.

00:26:36.080 In fact, it fits very well into the neighborhood narrative of COVID people are dangerous. 0.95

00:26:41.660 We should take them out.

00:26:43.300 But this is a human life.

00:26:45.920 And if this is the treatment you get from a hospital, Canada, you should be afraid to go to the hospital.

00:26:53.940 My grandfather, he was born in 1903.

00:26:56.220 And he said, never take me to the hospital.

00:26:58.280 Hospitals are where people go to die.

00:27:00.100 And because of his experience before antibiotics and everything else, that was true.

00:27:05.100 And I think it's becoming true again, but just for different reasons.

00:27:10.340 So we're going to post all of their email addresses.

00:27:13.120 And I would just ask you a very nice email just saying, this is an injustice, a clear injustice.

00:27:19.480 And we'll include the video so you can see it.

00:27:23.020 If you happen to agree, you need to rally behind this family.

00:27:28.840 This should be a global movement because life matters.

00:27:33.820 Life matters.

00:27:36.820 Thank you so much.

00:27:37.980 I really appreciate it, Denise.

00:27:39.480 Let us know how we can help.

00:27:41.640 Thank you so much.

00:27:42.900 I'm really grateful for your support.

00:27:44.620 Thank you.

00:27:45.240 You bet.

00:27:45.520 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:56.260 Let's go to Chris Stewart.

00:27:58.400 Hello, Chris.

00:27:59.000 How are you?

00:28:00.400 Good morning, Glenn.

00:28:01.420 Are we going to talk planes, trains, and automobiles?

00:28:03.940 Yes, I think we have to.

00:28:05.880 First of all, I kind of remember when the American people were consulted about important things,

00:28:14.040 and then it would go into Congress and the Senate, and they would debate and have to vote.

00:28:19.860 I am so glad we are past that messy part, and we can just send offensive weapons against Russia 0.98

00:28:27.600 just right there so we could go into World War III without a messy discussion.

00:28:32.760 Yeah, well, your memories are so cute, aren't they?

00:28:37.100 Yes, they are.

00:28:38.940 So dusty and old.

00:28:41.280 You know, Glenn, I have supported, as a former military officer and someone who works in intelligence,

00:28:46.760 national security, I supported our initial efforts in Ukraine.

00:28:50.060 I think we did the right thing.

00:28:52.120 At the beginning.

00:28:53.580 I agree with you at the beginning.

00:28:55.740 It's been very effective.

00:28:56.980 It's been a very good return on investment, and essentially we've been able to decimate the

00:29:01.000 Russian military and find out that they were a paper tiger.

00:29:03.980 But we're at the point now where we have to begin to ask these questions.

00:29:07.540 In fact, we're beyond the point.

00:29:09.500 Do our goals align with President Zilincki's?

00:29:13.420 Because I can tell you that they're not.

00:29:15.520 He says he will not quit fighting until we go all the way to Crimea, which I promise you,

00:29:20.760 Vladimir Putin is not going to allow that to happen without responding.

00:29:23.920 And every time we have a proxy war such as this, and there's an escalation on one side,

00:29:29.120 and you could go back to Korea to Vietnam, and the most recent example is Syria.

00:29:35.160 Every time you have an escalation on one side, it doesn't end the war.

00:29:39.680 It leads to an escalation on the other side.

00:29:42.300 And you just have this continual acceleration.

00:29:44.740 It leads to more blood, more conflict, more deaths.

00:29:47.660 And I think, once again, we have got to ask ourselves, what is the end game in Ukraine?

00:29:54.120 How much time, how much money are we willing to spend there?

00:29:57.020 And how do we minimize the threat globally if we reach a point where Vladimir Putin does

00:30:02.520 something that we all deeply hope that he would never do?

00:30:05.540 Chris, can I put the shoe on the other foot?

00:30:08.160 If Russia were doing the same thing, the sides were switched.

00:30:12.240 If Russia were doing the same thing to us, would you not be having conversations in Washington

00:30:17.580 saying, their allies have said, this is war against the United States.

00:30:24.400 They're sending in now offensive weapons for a move Zelensky's going to make,

00:30:30.000 or our guy's going to make, in the spring.

00:30:32.880 This is war.

00:30:34.640 This is war.

00:30:35.720 They've declared war on us.

00:30:37.160 Would we not at least be having those discussions?

00:30:40.920 Well, we should.

00:30:41.820 And of course, we would.

00:30:43.080 And of course, Russia should.

00:30:44.360 And of course, Russia should.

00:30:45.540 They are.

00:30:46.020 Yeah, they are.

00:30:46.900 That's exactly right.

00:30:47.760 Which is to the point about we need to understand and decide what is our national goal,

00:30:53.360 what are our national strategies here, and not just allow this to step by step move us

00:30:59.520 into a position that's indefensible when it comes to the interest of the American people

00:31:04.040 and the interest of global security.

00:31:06.700 Because those two have to be imbalanced.

00:31:09.060 And until we answer those questions, you're going to have a growing number of Americans

00:31:13.340 who say, I'm not sure that I support this ad infinitum.

00:31:17.440 I'm not sure I'm going to support this kind of money.

00:31:19.720 And this kind of escalation has such a dangerous downside.

00:31:24.360 We are going to be asked to send our sons and daughters, if this escalates, out of control.

00:31:30.080 Our sons and daughters will be drafted because they won't volunteer because they can't.

00:31:36.860 We don't have the army that we even need.

00:31:40.100 We're not hitting any of the recruiting numbers.

00:31:42.180 So our kids are going to be asked to go and die for a war that nobody understands.

00:31:49.960 And there is no way.

00:31:50.940 You might support the Ukrainians. 0.80

00:31:52.800 You might support the Russians. 0.93

00:31:54.300 But you're not willing to say, no, I'm willing to lose my house and my children for it.

00:32:00.780 Nobody's at that point.

00:32:02.520 We just can't reach that point, Grant.

00:32:04.160 No.

00:32:04.380 We can never reach a point where we send American soldiers to fight in Ukraine.

00:32:08.740 Okay.

00:32:09.620 Well, I think we're going to be, I mean, it's an offensive, a tank is an offensive weapon,

00:32:16.760 not a defensive weapon.

00:32:18.100 Do you agree with that?

00:32:19.540 Well, yeah.

00:32:20.080 I mean, the whole design of it, the whole purpose of it is to move the battlefield.

00:32:22.860 It's to move a defensive line.

00:32:25.280 It's to gain territory.

00:32:26.380 It is a very different weapon than, say, a Patriot missile system, which is designed

00:32:31.360 to protect your own people and your own resources.

00:32:34.820 All right.

00:32:35.740 Chris, let me change.

00:32:38.300 Are you still on the intel committee or not?

00:32:41.540 I am, sir.

00:32:42.440 You are?

00:32:42.760 And in fact, we're expanding that because I'm going to sit on the new church committee,

00:32:45.800 which I think is some of the most important work we could do as we look to rein in the 0.99

00:32:49.520 FBI and DOJ and others.

00:32:51.780 And the people that are on the new church committee, are you guys, they're all

00:32:56.360 serious?

00:32:57.420 I mean, are they all brave, fearless?

00:33:01.280 Or are they weasels?

00:33:04.880 Well, they're members of Congress, Glenn.

00:33:06.520 Right.

00:33:06.860 So they're weasels.

00:33:07.580 I mean, no, no, no.

00:33:08.780 They're all honorable.

00:33:10.900 No, no.

00:33:11.480 I mean, look, Jim Jordan is someone that I think I trust, and he's earned our trust.

00:33:17.280 And you got people like myself, Tom Massey, who's a good friend, a real libertarian and

00:33:23.000 understands, you know, the line between between what we should allow and power.

00:33:29.280 We should allow our federal government and power that we should not.

00:33:32.320 OK.

00:33:32.480 I don't know all the members.

00:33:33.560 A couple of them are new, but it is a serious effort.

00:33:36.040 I promise you that.

00:33:37.100 Good.

00:33:37.700 All right.

00:33:38.060 The Mental Health Caucus.

00:33:39.400 You're now the co-chair of that.

00:33:41.640 What is that?

00:33:43.620 And so go ahead.

00:33:46.100 Well, Glenn, I mean, when I came to Congress, I didn't know that I'd become involved with

00:33:49.540 mental health and emotional health and suicide prevention.

00:33:52.680 I mean, I wrote the legislation that created the 988 number, the National Suicide Hotline

00:33:57.320 Prevention Number.

00:33:58.660 And the reason that drew me into this was our veterans, the fact that we had 22 veterans

00:34:03.140 a day that were committing suicide.

00:34:04.980 But shortly after that, it was a mental health crisis that we recognized is taking place among

00:34:10.060 our kids.

00:34:11.720 I mean, we are destroying a generation as we allow them and encourage them to wallow in 1.00

00:34:17.220 this cesspool of social media.

00:34:19.560 So we have a we have a bill and I believe we're going to have bipartisan support for it.

00:34:23.620 And I know, you know, some may not like this because it does.

00:34:27.340 They'll say it's big nanny. 0.99

00:34:28.800 It's a nanny government. 1.00

00:34:30.200 But we should protect our kids.

00:34:32.120 We don't allow them to drink.

00:34:33.260 We don't allow them to drive.

00:34:34.500 We don't allow them to buy cigarettes or marijuana.

00:34:36.680 Why do we allow a nine year old to spend five hours a day?

00:34:41.980 And that is the average for an American nine year old, five hours a day on social media.

00:34:46.600 The average 13 year old is nine hours a day and it destroys their confidence.

00:34:52.900 It destroys their self-worth.

00:34:54.320 It makes it so they can't look at a life of hope.

00:34:56.660 And we hope to move legislation that would preclude the social media companies from allowing

00:35:02.880 anyone under 16 to to have a social media account.

00:35:08.260 And you have to recognize, Glenn, that Instagram and TikTok are designed to be emotional heroine

00:35:15.300 and they are deliberately advertising to nine, 10, 11 and 12 year old.

00:35:19.840 That is their target audience.

00:35:21.700 They all are designed to really rewire your brain to be able to not be able to get off of

00:35:31.740 those social media platforms there.

00:35:34.180 It is an IV bag of dopamine and it's it's destroying our society.

00:35:42.300 It's destroying our children.

00:35:43.940 But how are you going to do that?

00:35:45.260 They will all say, you've got to be older than nine to do this.

00:35:48.960 I mean, how are you going to actually police that?

00:35:54.480 It's actually it's actually pretty simple.

00:35:55.920 And before I answer that, could I just make one more point?

00:35:58.960 We now live in a society where nearly a third of our young people have contemplated suicide

00:36:06.260 and have discussed how they would commit suicide with a print.

00:36:10.460 Nearly a third of them.

00:36:11.840 That's what we've done to our kids.

00:36:13.060 So how do we stop them?

00:36:14.800 Well, it's actually pretty simple.

00:36:16.160 And that is for a new account, we're not going to go back and try and kick anyone off.

00:36:20.240 That would be nearly impossible.

00:36:21.540 But for any new account that the social media companies would require them to show proof of

00:36:28.600 how old they are.

00:36:29.460 Now, I argue with the social media accounts, you already know how old they are.

00:36:33.340 You know everything about them.

00:36:34.580 You know what their shoe size is and what they eat for breakfast.

00:36:36.760 And they'll say, no, no, no, we don't know anything about them. 0.97

00:36:39.480 That's bullcrap. 0.93

00:36:40.260 But let's put that aside. 0.99

00:36:42.440 OK, so let's say you don't know.

00:36:44.240 You still have to verify.

00:36:45.860 And so they would have to show a driver's license or a birth certificate.

00:36:50.340 And again, I know that some people are uncomfortable with that.

00:36:53.700 I know there's privacy issues.

00:36:54.960 But if we can save a 9, 10, 11, 12, 13-year-old young person, a young girl, a young boy from

00:37:03.160 immersing themselves in this world that can be so destructive, I believe it's well worth

00:37:07.360 the price.

00:37:07.880 And then the second element to that, Glenn, is you actually provide legal standing to

00:37:12.120 parents and to states to sue the social media companies if they don't adhere to this and

00:37:19.080 then for the damage that they do, whether it's your child who maybe is involved with, who now

00:37:25.160 is suicidal or anxious or depressed, or states can pursue legal remedies as well.

00:37:32.320 So, Chris, I, you know, all due respect, I love you.

00:37:35.220 And I appreciate, you know, what you're trying to do.

00:37:38.280 I'm not sure I agree with your solutions, but I applaud you for looking into it and beginning

00:37:45.920 to study it.

00:37:47.340 The problem is social media.

00:37:49.920 I'm not sure the best way to do it, but we are doing experiment.

00:37:56.040 I mean, I'd love to see the Nuremberg laws enacted here, but unfortunately, we're all

00:38:01.580 volunteering for these tests.

00:38:03.380 We're doing massive experiments on our children and ourselves and the social media companies.

00:38:08.780 They absolutely know what they're doing.

00:38:11.200 And it is unethical and it is so destructive.

00:38:18.060 It's a real problem.

00:38:20.780 Glenn, that's why I look forward to talking to you about this today, because I wondered

00:38:25.340 whether you would support this idea.

00:38:27.040 And I know that you and I feel the same way about emotional health and mental health.

00:38:30.720 And like most Americans now, we have experience with someone we love who has taken their own

00:38:38.140 life or attempted to do that.

00:38:39.580 And the tragedy that is for so many people.

00:38:43.020 And gosh, Glenn, if you or if any of your listeners have a different idea, please tell

00:38:47.040 us, because we're open to anything that would protect our children from this.

00:38:53.060 But short of us having a better idea, this is one avenue that I think is worth pursuing.

00:38:59.760 Well, I'd like to, I hope you debate it and debate it in public, because I would like

00:39:04.820 to hear the debate on it.

00:39:06.920 And I'm sure if anybody has an idea, you know, you can tweet at Chris Stewart.

00:39:15.380 And if you don't agree, you don't have to say, I can't believe, just say like I did.

00:39:20.020 I don't think I agree with you.

00:39:21.380 I'm not sure I agree with you.

00:39:22.720 Have you thought of this?

00:39:24.480 Let's be productive on this.

00:39:26.860 I, Chris, I, this is very personal to me.

00:39:32.600 I have had a suicide attempt and and a ideation of suicide in my family in the, you know, not

00:39:45.520 too distant past.

00:39:46.860 And if that's happening in my family and I don't know what to do about it, you know,

00:39:54.700 I've had I've had what three suicides in my family, one on two on my side, one on my wife's

00:40:01.280 side.

00:40:01.580 It's an epidemic.

00:40:02.840 And you just when it comes to your kids.

00:40:06.020 I don't know what to say to you because I don't understand their world.

00:40:11.000 They are living in a different world entirely.

00:40:15.920 I mean, I talked to a girl who said, do you know what it's like to always have to be on?

00:40:23.760 And I said, what do you what do you mean?

00:40:25.300 And she said, you you go to school.

00:40:27.300 I can't have a bad hair day.

00:40:29.320 I can't have a bad outfit day.

00:40:31.960 I can't just go as a slob sometimes because it will be recorded and it will be out there

00:40:36.640 forever.

00:40:37.880 I didn't even think of that. 0.91

00:40:39.680 And it's ridiculous that she had to think of that.

00:40:42.720 But they are under so much pressure all the time.

00:40:47.040 And it's not just social media.

00:40:48.880 It is also just the access to the phone and the videotaping and everything else.

00:40:54.900 It's it's a real problem.

00:40:56.240 Um, Chris, it's more of a problem, Glenn.

00:40:59.720 It's a tragedy.

00:41:00.660 I mean, it's just that there's just aren't words strong enough to what we've done to our

00:41:03.840 young people, the pressures that we put on them.

00:41:06.140 And again, this is a long road.

00:41:07.880 This legislation isn't going to happen this week.

00:41:09.660 It'll take years.

00:41:10.700 We look forward to people's inputs, but we've got to do something to protect our kids.

00:41:14.280 I agree.

00:41:14.700 And it's not just our kids.

00:41:15.900 I don't know if you know this.

00:41:16.960 I'm sure you do.

00:41:18.140 The suicide rate around among African-American men is up like 30 or 35 percent.

00:41:23.860 It's it's crazy.

00:41:25.660 It is we there's there's an issue of meaningless that we have to talk about.

00:41:31.940 Um, yeah, nothing has meaning anymore.

00:41:36.140 Chris.

00:41:37.040 Well, thank you, Glenn.

00:41:38.380 Thank you.

00:41:39.080 I, uh, I appreciate it.

00:41:41.440 And, uh, and God bless.

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