The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Karen Whitsett ｜ 4⧸13⧸20

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today we look into what's going on with the governors kind of engaging in a power grab using the current crisis to try to gather as much power as possible for the aftermath.

00:00:16.640 We talked about that. We have a Democratic representative, state representative on the air who actually had COVID-19 and is now OK and actually credits Donald Trump for helping in that process.

00:00:28.180 Going to meet the president coming up here soon. And we talked to Pat Gray as well as an announcement from the South Dakota governor, which is pretty exciting as we kind of get some progress here, hopefully.

00:00:41.420 And what is the right approach? How do we unwind this? How do we open up the economy? How does that happen with the least amount of damage possible?

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00:01:30.180 State Rep. Karen Witsett is with us now.

00:01:33.580 She's a Democrat from Michigan.

00:01:36.800 You are a brave, brave soul.

00:01:40.380 Karen, welcome to the program.

00:01:41.860 Well, thank you very much.

00:01:44.900 I don't think it's brave just to simply tell the truth.

00:01:48.860 Well, I don't know.

00:01:50.120 I don't know.

00:01:51.180 I don't know anymore.

00:01:52.560 I used to believe that you were right, but I'm not sure.

00:01:56.800 So tell me about your experience with COVID.

00:02:02.280 What was it like to have it?

00:02:03.820 It was hell.

00:02:08.580 It scared the mess out of me.

00:02:10.380 I went from thinking I only had a sinus infection to maybe a touch of pneumonia to simply wondering if I was going to live.

00:02:19.460 And I didn't have a whole lot of time to think about what to do because when it comes upon you and it's really hitting you and you go from zero to 100 with it, you have trouble breathing.

00:02:31.580 Your breathing becomes extremely labored.

00:02:33.640 You feel your lungs filling up with fluid.

00:02:35.280 You can't walk even from your living.

00:02:38.080 Well, for me, from my living room to my bedroom, you can't really think very clearly.

00:02:43.260 You don't have a lot of time to figure out what it is that you're going to do because the hours are very pressing and the minutes are very pressing.

00:02:50.140 So you need to do it fast.

00:02:54.000 How long did it take you from first signs to I've got to go to the hospital?

00:03:01.560 Um, I've been quarantined since March 12th and first signs were really that weekend.

00:03:12.260 And like I say, I thought I had a sinus infection and pneumonia, but when it started really hitting me bad, where I didn't know what I was going to do because the hospitals near me were actually full to capacity.

00:03:23.640 I had, that was on March 31st and that was also the day that my husband and I got tested.

00:03:31.000 So literally after getting tested, I started declining rapidly downhill that day.

00:03:38.180 And did your husband have it as well?

00:03:41.500 Yes, he tested positive as well.

00:03:43.900 And he experienced that at a bad cough.

00:03:47.100 Yeah.

00:03:48.600 Yeah.

00:03:49.160 So it didn't hit him like it hit you.

00:03:51.200 No, it didn't hit him like me, but this is something that can definitely take out a family, which it did with my cousin, Cheryl Fowler and her, her husband.

00:04:00.200 She lost her husband and her father-in-law and she's had, um, two kids that tested positive.

00:04:06.220 Oh my gosh.

00:04:07.320 And how are they?

00:04:09.840 Um, she is out of the hospital.

00:04:11.060 How are the kids?

00:04:11.860 She's at home.

00:04:13.160 Um, the kids are doing well, but thank God that they have my doctor.

00:04:17.040 But once again, we're back to having to use your name as a state representative, um, which is completely wrong and sickens me.

00:04:25.960 What do you mean you have to order for people to get?

00:04:27.980 How do you mean?

00:04:29.060 That's how you, how do you mean you have to use your name?

00:04:33.160 That's how you're getting care is my, I use my name. 0.89

00:04:36.560 That sickens me.

00:04:40.080 You mean to get into the hospital or to get treatment?

00:04:43.520 To get treatment, to get anything that you need.

00:04:47.500 And that sickens me. 0.96

00:04:48.980 That disgusts me.

00:04:50.120 And that's why today I'm thankful to say, and I'm happy to announce on your show that I am going to meet with hopefully the president, but I'm definitely meeting with the vice president and that I can come back to Detroit state of Michigan with some resources for us.

00:05:09.240 What are the resources your state needs?

00:05:13.140 We need everything from testing kits to PPE.

00:05:17.020 Um, we are looking at the fact that our jails, our prisons do not, are not being tested.

00:05:25.460 We're looking at the fact that our sheriffs and the people who work in the prisons are not getting what they need.

00:05:31.100 They're not being tested.

00:05:32.720 They are, they are sick.

00:05:34.560 We have people that are walking out of the hospitals, our nurses and our doctors and staff that are walking out because they don't have the necessary PPE that they need.

00:05:43.520 We have our senior citizen buildings that are just nothing but a hot bed. 1.00

00:05:47.600 And these seniors are suffering.

00:05:49.300 We still have water shut off here.

00:05:51.140 We still have pipes that need to be connected back to home.

00:05:54.820 Our seniors are suffering.

00:05:56.280 They are not getting the food that they need because they fall in between the cracks where no one can deliver food to them and they can't go and pick it up.

00:06:05.060 We, we, we have people that are in my community that do not have a doctor to get a prescription in order to even get the test.

00:06:13.700 My cousin's husband was turned away over four times and he died at home.

00:06:18.740 My cousin herself was turned away over three times.

00:06:22.880 Their father-in-law was turned away and died.

00:06:26.260 This has to stop.

00:06:29.620 This is unreal of what we're living here and we're in Detroit and we have a governor that is not helping us.

00:06:37.240 This is our reality.

00:06:42.660 So, Karen, you got, you were treated with hydroxychloroquine.

00:06:52.460 Yeah.

00:06:53.020 And you credited, uh, that for saving you and credited the fact that you even knew about it to Donald Trump.

00:07:04.140 Yeah.

00:07:05.220 Yeah.

00:07:06.120 I was familiar with this because I do have Lyme disease, but if it wasn't for the president trumping, literally trumping the governor, um, because she put out an executive order that day,

00:07:20.840 that day I did not have access to the medication.

00:07:26.000 So how many other people did access to that medication and lost their lives that day?

00:07:32.220 So how did you get the medication?

00:07:35.480 If she banned it, how did you get it?

00:07:39.160 It wasn't banned.

00:07:40.760 The executive order that was put into play was misinterpreted and it left all doctors and pharmacies scrambling.

00:07:47.820 Thank God, um, the doctor that I was able to call understood, but my first doctor, the one who ordered the test did not understand the executive order at all.

00:07:58.760 I contacted him.

00:08:00.980 I tried to explain it and I sent him the executive order and told him that he is misinterpreting it.

00:08:06.160 I contacted state representative Annette Glenn.

00:08:09.260 She contacted him on the Republican side.

00:08:11.860 She contacted him and said that he was misinterpreting the law.

00:08:15.500 The Lieutenant governor's office contacted him and told him that he was misinterpreting the law.

00:08:20.720 I still could not get him to write the prescription.

00:08:23.320 He told me he would have to wait until tomorrow.

00:08:25.100 And I told him tomorrow I'll be dead.

00:08:29.680 So has that cleared up now?

00:08:32.180 Are your doctors prescribing it now?

00:08:36.000 No.

00:08:36.800 They're still not.

00:08:37.780 No.

00:08:38.900 It's still a hot mess.

00:08:40.620 No, it is not cleared up.

00:08:44.720 No, sir.

00:08:45.680 Why?

00:08:46.280 What is going on?

00:08:47.720 Why is the point?

00:08:52.500 We are a major city.

00:08:54.400 We have a mayor, Mayor Mike Duggan, who is not.

00:08:58.520 You can ask for a better mayor for a time such as this, who has ran DMC hospitals.

00:09:04.140 He just needs what he needs to do the job that needs to be done.

00:09:08.480 And he doesn't have what he needs.

00:09:11.140 Karen, when are you, when are you, when are you going to, when are you going to Washington

00:09:17.200 to meet with the vice president and the president?

00:09:21.180 I'll leave today.

00:09:22.340 My husband and I will leave today.

00:09:24.420 Hopefully I will be seeing him.

00:09:26.420 The plan is tomorrow.

00:09:27.920 And hopefully I will be coming back here with some resources because we're in desperate need.

00:09:33.300 I can't cry out any more than what I'm crying out for what we need.

00:09:37.720 I don't have time to play politics.

00:09:39.760 This is not the time for that.

00:09:41.680 So about re-election and campaigning and being a Democrat and a Republican, that means nothing.

00:09:47.680 That means nothing.

00:09:48.880 When you have nobody here in the city left living, what does that matter?

00:09:58.260 We have lives that are dying in my street. 0.99

00:10:05.120 I can't care about any of that crap. 0.98

00:10:08.140 That means nothing. 1.00

00:10:08.920 And that's just garbage. 0.98

00:10:15.220 Karen, after you meet with them, could we... 0.99

00:10:18.240 I'm sorry, what?

00:10:21.080 I'm great at working on the other side of the aisle.

00:10:23.380 You know, I haven't even had time to even celebrate the fact that I got my first law through as a freshman.

00:10:28.200 My first TA for MISTA, increasing $4.3 million for low-income housing to $5 million.

00:10:34.900 But it doesn't matter because we need PPE.

00:10:40.120 That's neither here nor there at this point.

00:10:43.060 Karen, after you meet with the president and vice president, could we have you back on?

00:10:51.200 I'd like to hear, because I'd be shocked if they don't respond to your plea.

00:10:55.080 And I'd love to hear how that meeting went.

00:11:01.260 Absolutely.

00:11:02.240 Because, I mean, this is imperative.

00:11:03.600 How can we help as an audience?

00:11:12.660 How can we help you?

00:11:13.480 Just keep doing what you're doing and getting the word out and calling and messaging and doing whatever it is that you guys do on Twitter and social media.

00:11:27.100 And, you know, this is not a time for politics.

00:11:35.520 This is not the time.

00:11:37.700 Through the Democrat-Republican thing, this is about people's lives.

00:11:42.560 Lives need to be saved because lives are being lost every day.

00:11:46.220 That number that you see on your television, those are people.

00:11:50.060 It's not a number.

00:11:51.340 And the president cannot do what he needs to do if he doesn't know what needs to be done.

00:11:58.520 So stop putting blame where it doesn't belong.

00:12:02.300 Place blame where it needs to be placed.

00:12:04.920 Let's get this done, people.

00:12:06.780 We are in this together.

00:12:08.100 Stop saying we're in this together and not be in it together.

00:12:11.180 Let's do this.

00:12:15.400 State Representative Karen Whitsett.

00:12:18.820 Thank you, Karen.

00:12:19.760 I appreciate it.

00:12:21.340 And best of luck.

00:12:22.600 We'll keep you in our prayers.

00:12:24.240 And I urge every member of the audience to tweet to the president and the vice president, you know, that congratulations on putting politics aside and these guys meeting and and encourage the White House.

00:12:40.540 I don't think you're going to need it.

00:12:41.760 I think you're I think you're going to get it, Karen.

00:12:43.740 He has not turned anybody down that I know of yet when he understands the problem, at least according to Gavin Newsom.

00:12:50.240 He is there and you get what you need.

00:12:53.580 So I appreciate your phone call, Karen.

00:12:56.200 We'll talk to you again later this week.

00:12:58.000 God bless you.

00:12:58.620 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:09.900 Got some great emails in.

00:13:23.240 This one comes from Ingrid.

00:13:24.760 She says, Glenn, thanks to Mercury One.

00:13:27.300 Thank you so much for helping our hospital in our area.

00:13:30.220 I live with my 79 year old mother and 12 year old son.

00:13:33.100 I have asthma.

00:13:34.700 There have been coronaviruses, coronavirus victims at my son's school right before the governor closed them.

00:13:43.840 Now they're in my neighborhood and at my job, which I still am going in once a week because there are things we can't do at home.

00:13:51.040 Since my provider works for an organization who does coronavirus testing, he was able to order one just for peace of mind.

00:13:58.680 We've done the social distancing, et cetera, et cetera.

00:14:01.400 The last time we went to the store, whole walls of food were cleared out.

00:14:06.680 I started ordering my groceries.

00:14:08.260 Can't get everything from one place.

00:14:10.360 Groceries are more expensive than ever here in our area.

00:14:13.280 We're prepared, but we're low on low disinfectant, disinfectant wipes.

00:14:21.040 Thank you so much again for helping our community out with Mercury One.

00:14:24.980 Ingrid, you're welcome.

00:14:27.680 Glenn, back in 2010 or 11, I stumbled across a video of you giving a speech.

00:14:32.420 At the time, I was a liberal, bit of a centrist, but more left leaning.

00:14:37.500 I registered Democrat.

00:14:39.420 Yes, we have cards.

00:14:40.680 I was what was called an agnostic religious view holder.

00:14:47.780 The whole the whole nine yards.

00:14:50.080 I voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary.

00:14:52.840 I used to belong to real socialism.

00:14:55.780 Hasn't been tried yet.

00:14:57.740 Leftist friend of mine, although we didn't call him leftist at the time, posted a video of you to prove his point about something.

00:15:05.540 I can't even hope to remember now.

00:15:07.440 But what I do remember was that I couldn't understand what was wrong with what you were saying.

00:15:12.540 I challenged my friend about it a year after he unfriended me.

00:15:16.880 You see, your video lit a spark in me that flickered for a long seven or eight years before roaring into a wild flame.

00:15:25.540 I turned back to Jesus in 2016.

00:15:28.600 I'm outspoken about the issues that are near and dear to my heart.

00:15:31.980 And if nothing, I just try to make the world better for my children.

00:15:35.640 Late in 2018, however, a man was nominated for a great honor.

00:15:39.560 But allegations that were made by people trying to deny this man his due process really pissed me off.

00:15:45.380 Fortunately, he was confirmed to SCOTUS and Justice Kavanaugh's struggle helped me turn that spark into an inferno.

00:15:55.300 Since then, I've been a raging conservative.

00:15:58.380 I have five little girls ages eight, five, seven and three.

00:16:03.480 Oh, wow.

00:16:04.320 Three year old twins.

00:16:05.480 I'm married to their mother.

00:16:07.120 She's the love of my life.

00:16:08.300 I'm trying to work out of this mess as I deliver for FedEx. 0.99

00:16:11.280 I'm putting money aside to get your book, both arguing with idiots and arguing with socialists, as well as a subscription to the blaze. 0.91

00:16:19.620 I'm wondering how long is the 30 percent off special going to happen if you start announcing it in advance when you're about to stop the deal. 0.96

00:16:28.240 I can I will make sure that I subscribe.

00:16:31.020 I tell you what, this came from Chris.

00:16:33.440 Chris, I'm going to send you the books and I'll make you a blaze subscriber.

00:16:37.340 And we'll give you like a, I don't know, free year or something.

00:16:41.520 And then you get on your feet, get past this mess.

00:16:44.480 And then you start subscribing.

00:16:47.080 Thank you so much, Glenn.

00:16:49.300 I've had something weighing on my mind for a couple of weeks, and I can only help that this concern I'm going to lay out will find its way to you to digest.

00:16:56.740 I've always agreed with you wholeheartedly when you implored people to know who they are, because times are coming that will try men's souls. 0.72

00:17:03.300 I would often wonder what those times would look like exactly and what knowing who I am would translate to.

00:17:12.040 I suppose that all that will remain to be seen.

00:17:15.140 I did, however, get to witness what those things would look like to someone else.

00:17:19.820 That someone being specifically Thomas Massey.

00:17:22.520 What I saw was a man who stood up in the face of possibly the darkest hour for the stability of our economy and the clear guidelines pertaining to the voting process of passing the stimulus package.

00:17:34.260 I must tell you, I was shocked when you didn't support him, but tried desperately to get him to change his mind and to preserve himself to be able to fight for other things down the road.

00:17:43.860 It was that moment, that moment when a politician stood up in the face of the disgusting state of our political world and said, no, thank you.

00:17:52.520 We always find ourselves wondering, almost pleading.

00:17:55.080 Is there not one person who will stand up and say no?

00:17:58.540 That person who doesn't care about the personal price?

00:18:02.320 That was he.

00:18:03.760 Here he was.

00:18:04.900 The guy.

00:18:05.840 He gets it.

00:18:07.140 If it wasn't for an obvious I know who you are moment for someone, I dare not think I ever would.

00:18:12.800 Your initial take on this, however, really bothered me because you were promoting that he do nothing just to preserve himself and play the game.

00:18:22.280 That's exactly the slippery slope that the majority of our elected leaders sell their souls to.

00:18:27.740 A sort of weak need ends justify the means wishful thinking that they'll play the game and be the stand up guy when it really counts.

00:18:35.760 And they end up lost in the perverted world of politics time and time again.

00:18:39.680 My hopes and prayers are that you will realize the missed know-who-you-are moment when it was in plain view.

00:18:46.980 It's important that you realize this so you can continue to guide folks to be ready for theirs, not just to point out that you were wrong.

00:18:54.680 It seems now, a couple weeks after the fact, that you are more in its corner on hindsight.

00:19:00.080 That's great, but I think you'd do well to take ownership of the moment.

00:19:03.620 I feel you missed, and maybe share your thoughts with your listeners about it.

00:19:06.800 I can tell you it's important to me, and I looked forward to your leadership and humility.

00:19:11.320 Thank you for all you do.

00:19:13.360 You are a winter soldier, Mr. Beck.

00:19:15.200 Sincerely, Greg Literal.

00:19:17.260 Greg, let me explain it.

00:19:23.140 I don't think I don't want to excuse it, because perhaps it was a moment of weakness.

00:19:30.940 I'm friends with Thomas Massey.

00:19:33.000 I like Thomas Massey.

00:19:34.300 He's close to me, and I'm close to him.

00:19:37.560 And we agree on much.

00:19:39.680 And I did agree with his stance.

00:19:41.940 If you remember on that day, I said, I completely agree with you, but it's not going to change anything.

00:19:47.720 It's just going to get you hammered, and that is exactly what happened.

00:19:53.800 However, he was willing to pay that price.

00:19:57.120 I saw so few people that were willing to even stand up, to even recognize that this was wrong,

00:20:05.160 that I thought it would be best for him to sit it out, because that day came and went, and it was over.

00:20:14.740 And there was no chance of winning on that.

00:20:21.220 I am to the place, and maybe, again, this is weakness.

00:20:24.960 I don't know.

00:20:26.080 I'd like to hear your opinion, Stu.

00:20:27.840 But I think I'm at this place to when we have to pick and choose our battles, because there are so few soldiers on the field.

00:20:37.340 And I don't want one of them to pop their head up and shoot when the target is too far away, and they're never going to hit the mark.

00:20:51.000 I want to preserve the players that we do have and do things more strategically.

00:20:57.700 Maybe that's wrong, but I supported him then.

00:21:03.540 I was texting between him, the two of us, off air that whole time, and he was explaining to me, and I was explaining to him,

00:21:12.860 but we have been friends then, that day, beforehand, and after.

00:21:18.460 I haven't changed my support for him.

00:21:20.560 It was just the strategy of doing it.

00:21:25.440 That was certainly a long explanation as to why you hate freedom.

00:21:29.260 I don't know why you needed that long to say it.

00:21:31.340 You could have just said, I despise being free, and everyone would have understood.

00:21:35.200 Yeah.

00:21:35.660 Well, I think you're right.

00:21:37.620 So I think, like, I definitely understand where you're coming from.

00:21:41.460 And as you said, it was very much out of the idea that you really like Thomas Massey and what he stands for.

00:21:47.720 You know, I think, look, the problem here, when you talk about he's going to get crushed, who's he getting crushed by?

00:21:53.860 I mean, the big issue was that Trump was tweeting about it, about how bad it was that they went to vote on this.

00:21:58.320 And it's like, we can't excuse that.

00:22:00.180 That's really a problem here.

00:22:01.360 I mean, the fact that Thomas Massey wanted a vote on $2.2 trillion is not a ridiculous request.

00:22:09.060 He wasn't even saying he was going to vote against it.

00:22:10.840 He just said he wanted to at least have people on record for it.

00:22:14.640 I don't think that's the type of thing that we should be lighting up congressmen over.

00:22:19.760 It's the type of thing that we should have.

00:22:21.760 You know, that's something that we should look at as a positive.

00:22:24.600 Because you were right, he did get lit up by it.

00:22:26.500 But that's really the issue here, isn't it?

00:22:28.340 He shouldn't be getting lit up by asking for a vote for over $2 trillion.

00:22:31.580 So, I mean, while I understand what the guy's saying in the email, you know, this is an issue where we have to look at this and say, I think Massey did the right thing.

00:22:45.540 And if he's going to get thrown out of Congress because of that, I think he's comfortable with that outcome.

00:22:53.820 He is.

00:22:54.260 Which is, you know, I'm not as comfortable with that outcome because I know what he can and does accomplish.

00:23:02.040 Yeah.

00:23:02.340 I mean, he accomplishes a lot.

00:23:04.560 Hopefully, this is one of those situations because there's been a mix of these.

00:23:07.520 Sometimes Trump gets really mad at a congressman for doing something and he holds it over their head for the rest of their lives.

00:23:13.120 Other times, they're back in the good graces, you know, in a week when they do something.

00:23:17.320 Because Massey will take a strong stand on Trump's side, too, when Trump's alone and has done that several times, too.

00:23:23.400 So maybe this is something that blows over.

00:23:25.560 I hope so.

00:23:26.280 But we've always asked congressmen to go there and do what they think is right.

00:23:31.500 And I think at the end of the day, you have to just respect that and, you know, realize that choosing your battles is part of this at some level.

00:23:41.720 But when you get to a point, this is the if you're not going to stand up at two point two trillion dollars without a vote.

00:23:48.520 I don't know.

00:23:49.200 When are you going to stand up?

00:23:50.380 I know.

00:23:50.940 You know, it's just my my my didn't delay it at all.

00:23:54.720 I'll just say, too.

00:23:55.820 And and and even with the approval of it, they can't seem to get the money to the people anyway.

00:24:01.580 I know.

00:24:03.120 Well, here's where I stood on this, Stu.

00:24:05.440 And and I'd like to hear where you were on this.

00:24:09.380 And if it's if I'm just if I've turned into this political nightmare on on this particular occasion.

00:24:16.940 I was looking at it politically, strategically, because I think we're at the you know, we are at the end game now and there's only so many soldiers on the field.

00:24:27.980 And, you know, we don't have a free market anymore.

00:24:31.940 There is no free market.

00:24:33.240 The free market has been absorbed and purchased at wholesale by the Federal Reserve.

00:24:41.060 You've got Congress slipping into madness and there is nothing more important.

00:24:49.120 More important than the two point two trillion dollars is the fact that Nancy Pelosi does not want to have any votes. 1.00

00:24:57.320 And and I felt he made his point.

00:25:00.620 But he was going to get slaughtered by Donald Trump and without Donald Trump, he's not going to make the impact.

00:25:09.180 He has foes on the right and he has foes on the left and he was completely alone.

00:25:17.700 Now, as it turns out and as it was, then it was the right thing to do.

00:25:23.480 But who's going to fight that battle?

00:25:26.660 Does he have the credibility to now fight that battle long term because she's still doing it?

00:25:34.180 She's still wanting to pass all of these bills without Congress voting on it at all. 0.91

00:25:39.520 That's got to stop.

00:25:41.800 So how do we get there?

00:25:43.540 I've tried to do my part by having him on the air to explain on that day.

00:25:48.680 He explained exactly what he was doing and I've had him on afterwards explaining what he did and, you know, what the fight is, trying to make sure that we don't lose a very valuable guy over nonsense.

00:26:04.600 And I think that's that's what it was.

00:26:07.500 It was a rush to get that money out.

00:26:09.520 And that's what made everybody blind that time.

00:26:12.600 This time, the money being rushed out is all political.

00:26:16.960 It's all political.

00:26:18.700 Yeah.

00:26:19.100 Another another interesting solution to this would be, you know, Thomas Massey not being alone in Congress.

00:26:24.780 You know, it'd be nice if some of these other congressmen stood up and said, you know what?

00:26:28.460 Look, we agree.

00:26:30.220 I'm going to vote for this when we vote for it.

00:26:32.100 But we've got to be on record.

00:26:33.900 We've got to at least be on record when we're going to spend more money than any other time in American history.

00:26:38.900 We at least have to have a vote on it.

00:26:41.360 Is that too much to ask?

00:26:43.260 And apparently to almost everyone in Congress, the answer to that was yes.

00:26:47.480 You know, that's not that's not a good outcome.

00:26:49.640 And we need to at least you can't.

00:26:51.380 But you're right.

00:26:52.080 If Thomas Massey leaves, then there will be no one.

00:26:54.600 There'll be no one.

00:26:55.480 And you don't and no one's willing to do it if if Donald Trump is going to hammer them.

00:27:00.940 I mean, you have to build a coalition.

00:27:02.920 You just have to build a coalition.

00:27:04.880 And he's got to be part of it.

00:27:06.460 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:12.540 Our coronavirus update.

00:27:21.600 Here are the numbers.

00:27:22.320 1.8 million up from 1.6 million confirmed cases worldwide.

00:27:29.140 Deaths worldwide.

00:27:30.360 114,000 up from 96,000 total confirmed recovered up about 80,000.

00:27:40.380 The United States has 560,000 confirmed cases and 22,000 deaths.

00:27:46.680 That's that's quite a jump.

00:27:48.700 About 100,000 confirmed cases since Friday and a jump of about 6,000 on on Friday as well.

00:28:00.700 The U.S. now leads the world in both cases and deaths from COVID-19.

00:28:04.620 We now account for 30% of all confirmed cases, 20% of confirmed deaths globally.

00:28:12.880 For the first time in all of U.S. history, all 50 states are now declared disaster zones.

00:28:19.800 This is why everything is overwhelmed.

00:28:23.260 This has never happened before.

00:28:26.480 Should we cue the fat lady on the on the free market system? 1.00

00:28:32.280 The U.S. Federal Reserve is now purchasing approximately $625 billion per week in U.S. Treasury bonds, U.S. municipal bonds and corporate bonds.

00:28:47.660 So they're buying stocks, your city, and they're buying Treasury bonds.

00:28:56.500 $625 billion per week, $1.2 trillion every two weeks.

00:29:02.280 I don't know.

00:29:04.300 Sounds like a problem.

00:29:06.160 At that rate of spend, the Federal Reserve will own all outstanding U.S. public debt, federal and local debt by September or October of this year.

00:29:18.280 Let me say that again.

00:29:19.600 The Federal Reserve will own all outstanding U.S. public debt, federal and local debt by September of this year.

00:29:35.220 It will own all U.S. private and corporate debt by December.

00:29:42.240 The Federal Reserve is already now, today, the largest single holder of U.S. government bonds of $20 trillion in outstanding U.S. debt.

00:29:55.900 The Federal Reserve owns approximately $5.7 trillion and is now adding $1 trillion in new bond purchases every two weeks.

00:30:06.460 This comes as the Bank of England skips the bond market entirely and is just printing new currency to fund U.K. expenditures directly.

00:30:17.340 This is modern monetary theory.

00:30:22.620 You don't have to have a way to pay for it.

00:30:25.980 You just print it.

00:30:28.040 As of this week, the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting, the Fed will also be willing to purchase so-called junk bonds from all U.S. companies that are in distress.

00:30:40.940 The Fed has also issued a new fund to buy U.S. mortgage assets from banks, pledging $200 billion per month to U.S. banks plus Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy distressed mortgages that become insolvent due to COVID-19.

00:30:59.360 The U.S. Federal Reserve is now officially the largest landowner in the world.

00:31:06.340 At this point, the only major asset in U.S. equity markets the Fed is not directly buying are U.S. stocks.

00:31:28.240 However, that's on the way.

00:31:30.280 Deutsche Bank said last week, because of what the Fed is doing, they're quoting is no such thing as a free market anymore.

00:31:42.700 End quote.

00:31:44.280 By the way, just a note on this.

00:31:47.300 It is you, the U.S. taxpayer, that is responsible for all of this debt, not the Fed.

00:31:54.480 The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each Fed fund and is in the first lost position, making you, the taxpayer, responsible should any of these investments or underlying funds fail.

00:32:14.720 As such, the U.S. Treasury, not the Fed, is actually buying all of these securities and backstopping all of these loans.

00:32:24.300 The Fed is only acting as a banker and providing that financing.

00:32:32.320 You say we don't need to open up the economy?

00:32:36.600 Just think about that.

00:32:38.940 The U.S. could face rolling lockdowns and social distancing orders for 18 to 24 months.

00:32:47.000 That's according to the U.S. Federal Reserve.

00:32:50.180 Without an effective therapy or vaccine for COVID-19, the U.S. economy could face 18 months of rolling shutdowns as the outbreak recedes locally and then flares up again.

00:33:01.880 The hunt for a vaccine continues a year, according to scientists, a year would be a miracle.

00:33:13.540 Kentucky churchgoers are not alone.

00:33:16.660 They were met with nails in the road and surveillance of license plates because the mayor decided there wasn't going to be any church services anywhere in Kentucky.

00:33:29.540 That's the governor, I should say, not the mayor.

00:33:32.840 He urged residents to remain indoors for the Easter holiday, and they are enforcing with state troopers and county sheriffs.

00:33:44.260 The mayor of the mayor of Louisville also came out and had draconian measures.

00:33:53.480 The DOJ to states, First Amendment is still the First Amendment.

00:34:00.020 A federal judge ruled that this weekend.

00:34:04.820 An attorney general, William Barr, indicated the DOJ is monitoring state and local government actions related to limitations on religious services

00:34:14.460 and will potentially prosecute local officials if they violate the civil rights of religious people.

00:34:22.240 Are our oil wars over?

00:34:25.640 Maybe, maybe not, because of Mexico.

00:34:29.820 And is democracy the ultimate COVID-19 victim?

00:34:35.520 France and Bolivia have postponed elections now.

00:34:38.420 Peru has handed its president broad new legislative authority.

00:34:42.700 Israel sharply ramped up the reach of its surveillance state.

00:34:47.460 The U.S., we're curtailing religious services and searching for out-of-staters door-to-door in some states.

00:34:55.280 While leaders around the world are fighting the spread of the coronavirus, they're also amassing sweeping new powers.

00:35:01.460 As legislatures limit or suspend activities in the name of social distancing, many of the norms that define our free market and our democracy, elections, deliberation, debate, checks, and balances have all been put on indefinite hold.

00:35:18.080 The speed and breadth of the transformation is unsettling to political scientists all over the world.

00:35:25.640 Government watchdogs and rights groups, many concede emergency declarations and streamlining government decision-making are necessary responses to the global threat.

00:35:36.720 But they question how readily leaders are going to give these powers up.

00:35:41.280 We've all put our economies on hold.

00:35:44.920 Can we have an open debate on when we bring those back?

00:35:49.560 We've also put democracy on hold.

00:35:52.480 Are we going to talk about bringing those things back as well?

00:35:56.820 Also, the cost of COVID-19, phase one and two bailout.

00:36:02.040 NASA's budget.

00:36:04.800 Matt, NASA's budget for the next 207 years.

00:36:08.500 The cost of the $4.7 trillion bailout package equates to NASA's $22.6 billion that they get every year for the next 207 years.

00:36:21.680 The cost of the bailout, put in other words, is equal to fully funding six Mars landers, rovers, missions to the red planet every single day.

00:36:34.460 Just the phase two of the deal, $2 trillion is $7,500 per American or $16,500 per taxpayer, saying that only half of our citizens pay taxes.

00:36:52.780 There's no word yet on why it costs $7,500 in actual taxpayer cost for each American to receive a $1,200 stimulus check.

00:37:05.680 We don't know.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 13, 2020

Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Karen Whitsett ｜ 4⧸13⧸20

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