Glenn Beck reacts to the shooting of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and calls for her immediate release from custody. Glenn also calls for a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton and her handling of the Uranium One scandal.
00:07:37.960Why, when Hillary Clinton was sharing on her own private server, confidential, top secret documents, nothing happens to her.
00:07:51.680But a guy who takes a picture of the inside of a submarine for his kid, nothing sensitive, just breaking the law, taking a picture of inside of a U.S. submarine, he goes to jail.
00:09:20.560But I think the left should be arrested as well.
00:09:23.620What do people do with double standards and corruption?
00:09:34.600What do people do when the rule of law is corrupted by so many bad actors in nearly every institution that people feel powerless?
00:09:46.440When they see massive investigations launched by Congress, when Trump makes a phone call to Ukraine, but when real corruption with far more evidence and consequence, like voter fraud, Hunter Biden or the real story of Ukraine.
00:10:04.140When that's completely ignored, what do you do when the system is no longer followed?
00:14:32.360I have to tell you, Chris, the woman that was shot, it I don't think there was I'm saying the same things that I said, you know, during the Antifa stuff.
00:14:44.500If you don't obey the police, you have a chance of getting shot, especially in a situation where it's just chaotic.
00:14:51.980So you always have to obey the police fight about it later, but obey the police.
00:14:58.040I don't think that any cop should have shot her in the neck through the door.
00:15:03.600But I have to tell you, I was on the other side of the door.
00:15:07.900Theoretically, I wasn't inside that room.
00:15:23.720And then I was trying to come back to my office when a lot of this kicked off and they wouldn't let me.
00:15:27.740So I was walking through the tunnel back to the Capitol.
00:15:31.000And it sounded like a herd of horses coming up behind me.
00:15:34.140You know, maybe a dozen or 20 cops came running behind me.
00:15:37.900And, you know, then these guys are flat out running and they go rushing by and I kind of followed them.
00:15:44.340And, you know, I just wanted to observe and see what was happening.
00:15:46.980And a few minutes later, when they broke into the Capitol, I ended up getting kind of shoved into a room.
00:15:53.380But the reason that's interesting is it gave me a vantage point because instead of being on the floor, I was in a small room off the floor where I could actually watch the crowd.
00:16:01.940And they were banging on the windows and pointing at us and trying to get in.
00:16:05.240And then, you know, my initial feeling was, you know, what are these folks going to do?
00:16:11.520I mean, they're going to come in here.
00:16:14.400I mean, these are just, you know, kind of, you know, Trump supporters, good families, people who just want to come and express their displeasure.
00:16:22.860And then shortly after that, we heard the gunshot.
00:16:25.800And, you know, over the radio with the police officer who was with me, you know, they hear shots fired, shots fired.
00:16:30.540But from the window, I could watch the crowd.
00:16:32.260And you could see people who were just, again, kind of normal folks who just wanted, they were distressed about the election.
00:16:38.060They were, you know, frightened for our future.
00:16:40.440But you could see this kind of riot mentality develop for, you know, people who weren't Antifa, people who were, again, just kind of people like you and me.
00:16:49.160But they lost their minds and they all grabbed barricades and start, you know, smashing in windows and hurting each other in some instances.
00:16:55.660And it was really, really quite something to watch.
00:17:30.580You know, I felt for you yesterday because you and I have met over the last couple of weeks and and have talked about the things that might come our way.
00:18:01.700It was the right thing to ask for 10 days just to have a legitimate hearing on this so you can tell people and show people that, yes, your voice does matter because people feel like their voices have been squashed.
00:18:17.260Yeah. Well, there's no doubt about that, Glenn.
00:18:20.080Everyone everyone wins by the more information we have.
00:18:23.140Biden wins, the Democrats win, Republicans win.
00:18:26.320And those tens of millions of Americans that I felt like I was trying to represent.
00:18:31.580There were many others who feel like, look, I love my country, but I'm scared to death that we've lost the election process, the integrity of the election process, which changes the future for everyone.
00:18:43.180And we owe it to those tens of millions of Americans to do everything we can to tell them the truth.
00:18:48.420And that's what that effort was about.
00:18:51.480And Glenn, could I go back to something that, again, you're talking about the mentality of the crowd and how sometimes people just make mistakes and they lose their minds.
00:19:00.500I was watching, as I said, from the window and I see these two kind of middle aged.
00:19:05.680You know, they look like they were 45, maybe 50.
00:19:36.760And they kind of go back and eventually disappeared into the crowd.
00:19:39.940But, again, that was a that was a kind of a lesson for me to think, as you said, this is why these are bad ideas to get so carried away that you would do something you otherwise never would do.
00:19:51.920And people get hurt and you hurt the cause.
00:19:55.540You hurt the things you're fighting for.
00:19:57.540And I thought your illustration about Black Lives Matter and their approval rating going from, you know, really quite high down into the tank.
00:20:04.960And it's almost entirely because of violence.
00:20:08.160And then, of course, some of the things that they actually believe Americans share that goal.
00:20:32.180I mean, we had, as you know, something more than two dozen senators who were originally joining in this effort to question some of these electorals.
00:20:42.820And at the end of the day, we anticipated four, potentially six states that we were going to contest.
00:20:51.800And the debate on them was much more subdued and much shorter, although there was one incident on the floor about 2.30 in the morning where you had, you know, people rush each other and almost come to fisticuffs.
00:21:04.820And there was, you know, a fair amount of emotion there.
00:21:07.780But the Senate side particularly felt subdued and just wanted to walk away from it.
00:21:13.360I was talking with a couple senators just a few minutes ago and trying to get their feeling for it.
00:21:17.600I mean, it just took all of the energy out of the effort.
00:21:22.380And many of them and others in the House as well felt like, look, we just need to get this behind us.
00:21:27.480We know we're not going to change the outcome.
00:21:30.200Let's just deal with the world as it is and move on.
00:21:35.100And I think there's no question it changed.
00:21:37.960It didn't change the outcome in any way, but it certainly changed the process and the debate that we went through to get there.
00:21:43.540You know, I've said several times the president needs to appoint a special counsel to look into this, because if it's true, it changes everything.
00:21:57.740It's not going to change the presidency.
00:21:59.940There is no, correct me if I'm wrong, there is nothing in the Constitution that says what you do if the president's side cheated and he's now the president of the United States.
00:22:11.720There's no there's no answer for that.
00:22:14.260So you're not necessarily changing anything.
00:22:16.520You are ensuring that it never happens again.
00:22:39.040But you can't survive people losing faith to the point that they just say, well, I'm not going to vote anymore.
00:22:44.960Or the presumption for regardless of who wins for half the country, you think, well, they only won because they cheated.
00:22:50.400And if we don't if we don't reform the electoral process and the last thing I want, by the way, the very last thing I want is to federalize this.
00:23:00.100It would be a huge mistake if we did that.
00:23:03.380But but we can but we can incentivize and compel the states to put in, you know, processes of integrity.
00:23:10.400So we don't find ourselves in this situation every four years, because if we don't, then I promise you every four years, again, regardless of who won, we're going to be in this situation.
00:23:20.780I mean, the Democrats did it in 2016 when there was zero evidence.
00:23:24.480But how many of them said he's an illegitimate president?
00:23:27.500How many of them said he's not my president?
00:23:29.940And how many of them said I won't be governed by him?
00:23:32.720And it's going to be worse and worse every year unless we can fix it.
00:23:35.940Chris, tell me what you think about the idea of states becoming sanctuary states, meaning they they that we strengthen our states and not all states will do it, but strengthen our states that if you start passing things that are unconstitutional, we will not go along with it and we will be a sanctuary state.
00:24:01.580We stand for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
00:24:04.180And if you decide to change that, you're leaving us.
00:24:19.280And for various reasons of which I don't support, by the way, I mean, they're generally over enforcement in the immigration law and maybe one or two others.
00:24:27.780But they've just essentially said to the federal government, we don't care.
00:24:45.140And if we do, it's a catastrophe for our nation.
00:24:47.780It's a catastrophe for the rest of the world, because the United States is the only thing holding the world together.
00:24:53.620And you're never going to do that without bloodshed.
00:24:55.860But are there things that we could do that would allow some separation where people could be governed the way they feel like they they should be governed?
00:25:03.540And one of those is to go back to federalism, which is, I think, essentially the idea you're suggesting.
00:25:07.600And that is allow the states to have the authority to govern their own people so that we don't feel like California values are being imposed on us in my home district of Utah.
00:25:19.040Where we can say, well, look, if you want to do that, you know, California, if you want to go all in on the Green New Deal and, you know, blah, blah, blah, whatever it might be.
00:25:29.020But you can't compel those of us living in the Midwest or living in the Western states or living in the Southern states to comply with morals and standards that we just simply don't don't agree to.
00:25:39.100And I think ultimately it's the only answer to keep our nation together at the same time and not have people feel like they're being lorded over by a king who doesn't believe that they're worth the values and the integrity that they think are inherent in their own lives.
00:25:53.540More important than the union, it's the only way to keep us alive, quite honestly.
00:25:59.780It's the only way to survive as a nation, as a people, is to have certain states and each state can decide for themselves, but elect people who will say we stand for the Constitution here in this state, here in this town.
00:26:18.000And if unconstitutional things are passed, you go ahead.
00:29:13.940The voting has to be fixed at the state level.
00:29:17.060And we have more influence, but closer to home.
00:29:22.780We also need to find ourselves and find out if we're living in a state that will hold the line against unconstitutional action.
00:29:31.460I believe that the the best thing to do right now is to get your your state, your governor and your and your your house and Senate to be able to stand up now and say, hey, we're cool.
00:29:50.240Until you start messing with the bill of rights, until you start messing with the Constitution, if this is unconstitutional, I don't care what the Supreme Court says.
00:30:28.600I would like to say that, first of all, I don't see much chance of any type of change happening in the places where it needs to happen, such as Atlanta, such as Philadelphia, such as Chicago.