The Glenn Beck Program - February 17, 2025


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Sen. Tom Cotton ｜ 2⧸17⧸25


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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) joins us to talk about the 7 things you can't talk about about China, and we also talk about Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, and John Ratcliffe in the CIA.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to Monday, the podcast today.
00:00:01.900 We spend a little time just talking about the results of a hockey game and how it shows
00:00:08.000 maybe America is really back.
00:00:10.780 Also, Germany and Europe no longer allies on the free speech front.
00:00:16.320 It is disappointing that 60 Minutes didn't push back harder in favor of free speech.
00:00:21.520 But who are the allies in the war on freedom?
00:00:26.000 Welcome. And Senator Tom Cotton makes a lot of news in today's guest spot.
00:00:30.840 He was on with us to talk about the seven things you can't talk about with about China.
00:00:36.760 And we also talk about Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel and Ratcliffe in the CIA.
00:00:42.780 And are we going to war with China?
00:00:45.320 All that and more on today's podcast.
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00:02:00.960 All right, well, does the world hate us or are we gaining respect?
00:02:19.380 Let's look.
00:02:19.960 Last week, Trump was busy with the world leaders.
00:02:22.400 On Wednesday, Trump said he had a very lengthy phone call with Russian President Vladimir
00:02:27.560 Putin in which they agreed to begin negotiations around Ukraine.
00:02:32.120 On Truth Social, Trump posted,
00:02:34.640 Good possibility of ending this horrible, very bloody war.
00:02:39.780 They also discussed the Middle East, energy, and other issues and agreed to make visits to
00:02:44.920 each other's country.
00:02:46.080 The president also spoke to the Australian prime minister.
00:02:49.560 They discussed defense, trade investment, mineral supply chains, and concerns about China's
00:02:55.460 aggressiveness.
00:02:57.280 Also last week, the world came to the White House.
00:03:00.220 King Abdullah of Jordan, he was at the White House.
00:03:03.360 They discussed the situation in Gaza.
00:03:06.060 And then late in the week, it was the turn of India's prime minister, Prime Minister Modi.
00:03:11.440 He visited the White House.
00:03:13.080 They talked about launching a new initiative on military partnership, commerce, and our
00:03:20.080 countries are going to work together on semiconductors and AI.
00:03:24.980 In the end, the prime minister of India said,
00:03:27.920 We're going to make India great again as well.
00:03:32.560 The 51st governor, the one that runs Canada, is still not happy with Trump.
00:03:38.340 It played out this weekend in a Canadian soul-crushing event.
00:03:43.680 I'll get to that in just a minute.
00:03:45.800 In Germany over the weekend, they were listening to our new vice president, J.D. Vance.
00:03:51.740 They were a little upset because he said the control of thoughts and free speech has to end.
00:03:58.900 It actually made one of the leaders of the group weep openly, saying that it just showed how far apart Europe and America really are.
00:04:10.520 And yes, as the Germans bust down doors for a retweet, I agree. 1.00
00:04:17.960 On free speech, we're quite far apart.
00:04:22.020 60 Minutes did a segment on it.
00:04:23.920 That's our topic next hour.
00:04:25.240 But the Germans are now claiming that it was free speech that led to the Holocaust.
00:04:31.180 Excuse me?
00:04:32.420 In Paris, European leaders huddled behind closed doors over the weekend, debating Ukraine's future.
00:04:39.200 Official statements spoke of unity, but is that the reality?
00:04:43.160 France and Germany, they're whispering peace talks while Poland and the Baltics brace for something much, much worse.
00:04:49.980 It's a war of words at this point for now.
00:04:53.040 But history suggests words don't end wars.
00:04:57.120 Back home, Washington in its own battlefield, this time over tariffs.
00:05:01.960 The president announced last week a simple plan.
00:05:04.900 Whatever you charge us, we're going to charge you.
00:05:08.940 China was very upset.
00:05:11.740 Boo-hoo. 1.00
00:05:13.060 Wall Street panicked.
00:05:14.820 In the heartland, farmers remembered fair trade means fair play.
00:05:18.880 Over the weekend, storms rolled in as well.
00:05:23.840 They came fast and they came hard.
00:05:26.080 It was Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia.
00:05:29.580 Four states that are now digging out from flash floods that swallowed roads and homes and lives.
00:05:36.480 But among the storm clouds, there was a little parting.
00:05:39.820 Some good news.
00:05:41.580 Small-town America doesn't wait for Washington.
00:05:45.900 Neighbors showed up.
00:05:47.080 Churches opened doors.
00:05:49.600 And somewhere, a farmer with a backhoe is already clearing a neighbor's driveway.
00:05:54.700 That's America.
00:05:57.040 Back in Washington this week, President Trump is delivering on his promises while even attending the Super Bowl and NASCAR.
00:06:04.860 He's done all kinds of things, including last week, a decisive 25% tariff on foreign steel and aluminum, aiming to protect American jobs and industries.
00:06:15.060 Those jobs and industries here in America took a leap on the stock market.
00:06:20.800 Critics are grumbling, but Main Street applauds as, finally, a leader puts America first.
00:06:26.860 On Capitol Hill, Republicans are tackling a six-point agenda.
00:06:32.360 This is all about the budget and a looming shutdown.
00:06:36.780 Budget resolutions and reconciliation bills aim to bolster defense, secure our borders, all the while keeping a keen eye on the deficit.
00:06:45.800 It's a tough balance.
00:06:48.820 Democrats' support is absolutely needed to keep the government from running post-March 14th.
00:07:00.760 Bipartisan cooperation is a necessity, it seems, because we're going to lose some stupid rhinos.
00:07:07.140 Meanwhile, the Justice Department is undergoing transformation.
00:07:11.940 Seven prosecutors have resigned after being directed to drop corruption charges against New York City's Mayor Eric Adams.
00:07:19.380 Acting Deputy Attorney General Emile Bove cites governance concerns for the dismissal.
00:07:27.920 Critics say it's a political maneuver, just, it's Nixon's Saturday night massacre.
00:07:33.580 We'll see, as Kash Patel should be confirmed early this week.
00:07:39.500 And as he is, if he is, on day one, expect the Epstein client list to follow within hours of him arriving at the Hoover Building.
00:07:50.080 The Budget Committee, back to them, they have approved in the Senate, approving a fiscal year 2025 budget.
00:07:58.580 The plan emphasizes bolstering border security, military strength, independence, and an annual allocation of $85.5 billion.
00:08:10.220 An offset by corresponding spending cuts reflecting a commitment to fiscal responsibility.
00:08:16.420 House Republicans are navigating their internal debates over their budget approach.
00:08:21.760 And the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, advocates for a comprehensive bill that combines Trump's tax cut agenda with increased funding for border security, military priorities.
00:08:34.080 Our friend and serious budget cutter, Chip Roy, is with the House package.
00:08:39.760 We'll see if they can bring them both together.
00:08:42.220 Both chambers are working on this because funding expires on March 14th.
00:08:49.900 Gee, have we ever heard that before?
00:08:52.580 We can't shut down the government.
00:08:55.400 Really?
00:08:56.420 I don't know.
00:08:57.840 Democrats are licking their chops at a government shutdown as usual.
00:09:03.320 But wouldn't it be them that shut the government down?
00:09:07.020 And quite honestly, really?
00:09:09.940 I've had enough of this game.
00:09:11.320 Would anybody notice?
00:09:13.720 Maybe this time the Republicans won't blow it.
00:09:19.380 Trump sent the Pentagon a valentine on Friday.
00:09:23.800 That valentine just pretty much said, be mine.
00:09:28.580 He sent the doge team out to the Pentagon on Friday.
00:09:34.660 Their mission is to cut the waste, cut the crap at the Department of Defense.
00:09:38.520 I think they're going to do that.
00:09:40.240 Last night, I don't know if Stu watched Hollywood.
00:09:43.920 They took the stage.
00:09:47.080 Saturday Night Live celebrated 50 years of laughs, or depending on who you ask, 50 years of diminishing returns.
00:09:54.640 The Golden Age was when Main Street was in on the joke, not the joke.
00:10:03.100 Tom Hanks is in trouble.
00:10:05.640 He played a MAGA supporter.
00:10:07.780 Oh, and the liberal laughs ensued.
00:10:11.200 Is it 2016 again?
00:10:16.000 And the hockey game.
00:10:17.800 I don't know if you saw the hockey game between the U.S. national team and Canada this weekend.
00:10:24.640 Normally, I'm not really into sports.
00:10:27.900 But sports sometimes, because it's part of culture, has a way of transcending and defining the era we live in.
00:10:38.180 Sometimes it says out loud what we're all thinking.
00:10:42.800 And like the horns of Jericho, it announces our arrival and our future.
00:10:48.720 So let's see if we can find any echoes in the past that sound an awful lot like this weekend.
00:10:57.340 In 1980, the United States was in the same situation we're in right now.
00:11:05.720 And it was a hockey game that changed everything.
00:11:09.400 By and large, the world had lost respect for us because, just like now, we lost respect for ourselves.
00:11:15.740 Our nation had gone through some of the most intense movements in civil unrest that we had ever seen.
00:11:21.120 The left seized on it, keeping us in perpetual cycle of class and societal warfare.
00:11:26.820 Patriotism and trust, when the government was spiraling out of control.
00:11:32.120 Three years after Jimmy Carter accepted the Democratic nomination for president, he addressed these concerns in a televised speech.
00:11:39.920 It happened on July 15, 1979.
00:11:43.760 He said there was a threat to the nation.
00:11:46.160 And let me quote,
00:11:48.580 The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.
00:11:52.720 It's a crisis of confidence.
00:11:54.420 It's a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.
00:11:59.720 We can see this crisis in confidence, in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives, and in the loss of unity and purpose for our nation.
00:12:09.800 The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America.
00:12:16.940 Wow, does that sound familiar?
00:12:20.740 And isn't it amazing how Carter could see what all of these policies were doing?
00:12:27.600 He could deliver impassioned speeches on the dangerous results, but then he would go back and double down on the policies that continued the spread of the virus.
00:12:37.780 The great inflation of the 1970s, it's what they used to call it.
00:12:44.500 It hit a fever pitch by 1980.
00:12:47.140 Interest rates spiked.
00:12:48.660 They fell briefly.
00:12:49.720 Then they flew up from there.
00:12:51.180 Does any of this sound familiar?
00:12:53.320 Banks stopped lending.
00:12:55.200 Unemployment skyrocketed.
00:12:57.280 The economy was clearly in a recession.
00:13:01.080 The geopolitical landscape, pretty much the same.
00:13:04.080 We had lost respect for ourselves, so the world didn't respect us.
00:13:07.860 Soviet Union appeared to be winning the war for global hearts and minds. 0.88
00:13:13.460 And then hockey.
00:13:16.040 Hockey came in to play.
00:13:19.260 It was the battlefield of the Cold War.
00:13:22.160 By 1980, the Soviet Union had taken home the gold in five of the six past Olympic Games.
00:13:29.220 But then came the night of February 22nd, 1980.
00:13:35.520 The game had already happened hours earlier due to a broadcast delay.
00:13:41.220 Americans were expected to lose the mighty Soviet national hockey team.
00:13:47.060 But then we heard Al Michaels.
00:13:49.500 Maybe the greatest sports call in modern history.
00:13:52.600 You've got ten seconds.
00:13:54.540 The countdown going on right now.
00:13:56.300 Morrow.
00:13:57.060 Up to slope.
00:13:57.960 Five seconds left in the game.
00:13:59.500 It's over.
00:13:59.680 Do you believe in miracles?
00:14:01.200 Yes!
00:14:02.640 Unbelievable.
00:14:07.620 Do you believe in miracles?
00:14:09.800 It was called the miracle on ice.
00:14:11.780 Movies have been made about it.
00:14:13.160 It was an announcement party was what really it was.
00:14:16.560 It was the changing of the guard.
00:14:18.720 It was the birth of a new era.
00:14:20.620 Herb Brooks brought together a group that everyone said could not win at a time when America was convinced it could not win.
00:14:32.720 And what it announced is America is back and we're not going to be pushed around anymore.
00:14:39.460 We would no longer be taken advantage of.
00:14:42.520 We would no longer allow people just to laugh at us or belittle us because we were back.
00:14:49.100 Reagan came in shortly after.
00:14:55.220 Now like 1980, we've just spent four years under a political ideology, as Carter put it, that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.
00:15:08.540 Our young people, they don't care about America anymore.
00:15:11.460 They don't have pride or love for the country because we haven't raised them that way.
00:15:15.980 In most cases, school is saying there's no reason to be proud of your country.
00:15:22.080 People take it for granted.
00:15:24.060 They're ashamed of the accomplishments of America, her history, and the very ideology on which she stands.
00:15:31.600 Now, before I get into this last part, I want to say I don't like the arguments between us and Canada right now.
00:15:40.500 I don't like it.
00:15:41.500 We've always been friends.
00:15:42.860 And it's a beautiful country.
00:15:44.440 It's cold.
00:15:45.360 I don't want to live there.
00:15:47.160 And I don't want it to be the 51st state.
00:15:49.100 I think it's actually pretty funny that our president is calling the prime minister the governor.
00:15:55.580 But the Canadian government, led by their progressive prime minister, our governor, Justin Trudeau, is an annoying mascot for everything that is wrong in global politics.
00:16:06.660 Well, he was at the hockey game on Saturday in Canada between the national Canadian team and the U.S. national team.
00:16:16.940 Rumor was our boys were a little sick and tired of being booed every time the national anthem is sung.
00:16:24.740 And they weren't going to take it.
00:16:26.540 Canadians didn't care.
00:16:28.060 Why would they?
00:16:28.900 Our country, under the Democratic leadership, has been toothless and apologists for four years.
00:16:34.160 We've been taught to be ashamed of our country.
00:16:36.280 Why not boo the national anthem?
00:16:38.860 And boo they did.
00:16:42.740 If you saw it, it made your head explode.
00:16:47.960 When the puck finally dropped at the start of the game, the American center, he barely looked at the puck.
00:16:56.880 He didn't care about playing the game at that point.
00:16:58.940 He immediately tore off his gloves, dropped his stick, and clocked his opponent, taking him to the ground.
00:17:04.940 When the referees pulled the American away, he skated with his head high, glaring at the hostile crowd.
00:17:11.560 The message was clear.
00:17:13.300 Screw old glory.
00:17:15.000 To your peril.
00:17:16.120 It was kind of awesome.
00:17:19.180 There were a total of three fights in the first nine seconds.
00:17:22.160 Again, which I didn't like.
00:17:23.500 But the Americans were on a mission.
00:17:26.560 The intensity through the game was brutal.
00:17:29.840 And the Americans delivered an old-fashioned American beatdown. 0.82
00:17:35.300 The U.S. team delivered a message and won three to one.
00:17:42.060 I don't know.
00:17:43.300 Was it the miracle on ice of 1980?
00:17:45.900 Because that was more than a hockey game.
00:17:47.720 And I couldn't help but feel the same way on Saturday.
00:17:51.340 I think America is back.
00:17:58.140 We're not ashamed.
00:17:59.800 We're not going to be intimidated.
00:18:01.920 Nor cower anymore.
00:18:04.000 But we don't hate our neighbors.
00:18:06.020 We just love our country.
00:18:08.000 What she stands for.
00:18:10.080 And the birth of a new prosperous and proud era, I think, is upon us.
00:18:16.440 Congratulations, Team USA.
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00:19:11.320 Now, back to the podcast.
00:19:12.720 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:19:17.640 Senator Tom Cotton, welcome to the program, sir.
00:19:20.120 How are you?
00:19:21.440 I'm doing very well, Glenn.
00:19:22.780 It's good to be back on the program with you and looking forward to talking about just what
00:19:26.680 a dangerous risk China poses to American life. 1.00
00:19:29.220 Yeah.
00:19:30.340 You know, I read your book.
00:19:32.260 I haven't finished it yet, but I've been reading it.
00:19:35.360 You know, you talk about the seven things you can't say.
00:19:38.620 Let me just say them.
00:19:40.020 China is an evil empire. 1.00
00:19:41.480 Thank you.
00:19:43.280 China is preparing for war.
00:19:45.480 China is waging economic world war.
00:19:48.180 China has infiltrated our society. 1.00
00:19:50.680 China has infiltrated our government.
00:19:53.860 China is coming for our kids. 1.00
00:19:55.900 And China could win. 0.96
00:19:57.980 That's what your book lays out.
00:20:00.500 Let's take some of these one by one.
00:20:03.100 China is an evil empire. 1.00
00:20:04.940 Clearly.
00:20:06.320 Make the case.
00:20:07.340 Glenn, as Ronald Reagan said about communist Russia, we could say the same thing about
00:20:13.660 communist China.
00:20:15.020 It's an evil empire.
00:20:16.240 That's something that is often unstead in our society because China has infiltrated so 1.00
00:20:20.940 many corners of American society and people don't want to lose contracts or access or
00:20:25.460 jobs or have you.
00:20:26.500 But I think a simple look at the facts tells you that China, in some ways, is probably worse 1.00
00:20:31.160 than Soviet Russia ever was. 0.56
00:20:33.680 Remember, Mao Zedong, the founder of Chinese communism, is the worst mass murderer in all
00:20:39.660 of history.
00:20:40.300 Worse than Stalin.
00:20:41.560 Worse than Hitler. 0.88
00:20:42.300 China has never repudiated him.
00:20:45.540 You know, when Stalin died, Khrushchev and the Politburo, you know, kind of exposed him,
00:20:52.600 so to speak, and repudiated him.
00:20:54.900 China venerates Mao to this day.
00:20:57.680 You know, his picture hangs over Tiananmen Square.
00:21:00.260 His remains are still embalmed in a mausoleum.
00:21:03.800 Xi Jinping, the current dictator of China, is an open Maoist and aspires to be more powerful
00:21:09.840 than even Mao.
00:21:10.640 But just look at what they've done to their people, the monstrous crimes against their
00:21:15.440 people, like the Great Leap Forward in the 1950s and 60s killed anywhere from 45 to 50
00:21:20.920 million people.
00:21:21.740 The Cultural Revolution in the 1960s was an effort to totally destroy all of cultural
00:21:28.060 Chinese traditions, much worse than anything you saw in the French Revolution. 1.00
00:21:32.580 The one-child policy, which continued well after Mao, probably resulted in more than 300
00:21:37.960 abortions, 300 million abortions and 200 million forced sterilizations.
00:21:43.240 And how many people had their child, their baby, and then only to have the Chinese government
00:21:51.000 come in and drown it in a mud puddle?
00:21:54.560 I mean, they are brutal.
00:21:57.300 Yeah.
00:21:57.520 And what they do today in Tibet and Xinjiang, trying to ethnically cleanse and erase those 1.00
00:22:02.720 peoples forever by taking their kids away from them and putting them in communist indoctrination 0.83
00:22:07.520 schools or consider Christians, Glenn, many people are surprised to know that China is
00:22:12.600 one of the largest Christian nations in the world, maybe as many as 100 million Christians
00:22:16.600 in China.
00:22:18.260 Yet they face severe persecution.
00:22:21.260 They face risk of arrest and punishment.
00:22:24.340 Children are banned from going to church or Sunday school and required to sign atheism pledges 0.95
00:22:30.240 at school as they try to snuff out Christianity among the next generation. 0.99
00:22:34.680 China is even rewriting the Bible, literally. 0.94
00:22:37.780 It's substituting the word of God with the word of Mao.
00:22:42.600 And of course, they treat other religious and ethnic minorities even worse. 1.00
00:22:47.900 I mean, consider the Falun Gong, a harmless spiritual movement that has roots in Buddhism.
00:22:54.660 Americans, to the extent they're familiar with it, have probably seen them doing their yoga
00:22:57.720 and breathing exercises and parks, all because of one peaceful protest 25 years ago.
00:23:04.420 These people have been brutally oppressed, tortured, disappeared, murdered.
00:23:09.660 There's credible reports that tens of thousands of them have had their organs harvested while
00:23:15.380 they're still alive, Glenn.
00:23:17.700 Again, China could not be more brutal, more depraved in the way it treats its own people. 0.99
00:23:23.920 And it's really constructed a kind of techno-totalitarian police state beyond the wildest dreams of George
00:23:30.680 Orwell, the author of 1984.
00:23:32.700 You know, he said in that book that tyranny is like a boot stomping on the human face forever.
00:23:40.720 With China, you might add, it's a smartphone app monitoring the human face forever. 0.99
00:23:46.500 You know, I talked to Chris Stewart a couple of years ago, and he said, going over to China,
00:23:56.540 he said, you know, we were informed there's nothing secret here.
00:24:01.420 Don't bring your phone.
00:24:02.260 Don't do anything.
00:24:03.560 He said the only place that wasn't under surveillance was up against one corner in the shower.
00:24:10.220 Or he said, everything else is being watched.
00:24:13.520 Everything is being watched and listened to.
00:24:16.480 That is a panopticon.
00:24:19.680 Oh, absolutely, absolutely, Glenn.
00:24:23.000 More than half the world's surveillance cameras are in China.
00:24:26.720 Think about that.
00:24:27.980 China makes up maybe, you know, a sixth or a seventh of the world's population,
00:24:32.860 but more than half of the surveillance cameras are in China.
00:24:36.220 They are everywhere, and they're also powered by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence.
00:24:45.380 China boasts that it can identify the face of any one of its subjects anywhere in the country in just a matter of seconds.
00:24:54.040 And it's right about traveling there.
00:24:56.160 I can tell you, I mean, I've never personally been there.
00:24:58.320 I don't plan to, Glenn.
00:24:59.380 I was sanctioned five years ago for pointing out the origins of COVID and standing up for Hong Kongers freedom.
00:25:04.460 But I know people have traveled there, to include people who have traveled there for U.S. government business or just as U.S. government employs.
00:25:11.720 And China isn't even subtle about it. 0.93
00:25:14.540 You know, they said that they would create a dummy account on Gmail or Hotmail or some other web-based email just so they could, you know, tell their family or friends that everything's going fine.
00:25:25.100 And they'd open it up at night, and all the emails would already be clicked as read.
00:25:28.720 And so, you know, the Chinese communist spies were reading their emails and not even bothering to mark them as unread.
00:25:34.900 No, I think they want you to know.
00:25:36.640 They want you to know.
00:25:37.820 Yeah, they're so aggressive and so blunt force in the way they want to push you around.
00:25:43.960 It's like what Chinese officials have said the country's on their periphery is that you're a small country and we're a large country, and therefore you have to dance dire-tuned.
00:25:52.220 So, I want to come back because there's so much to talk about COVID and everything else that is really, truly evil.
00:25:59.120 But before we leave into the next thing you can't say about China, why is it, do you suppose, I mean, we all think that we would be, you know, for the emancipation of slaves.
00:26:12.720 You know, if I lived in 1850, I would have been all over it. 0.91
00:26:15.820 Really?
00:26:16.800 Because what's happening in China is slavery, and we are all buying Apple products, we're all buying Google products, Google is in bed with China, Facebook is in bed with China. 0.98
00:26:29.020 I mean, everybody is.
00:26:30.580 Why is it we can't seem to understand that China is an evil empire? 0.99
00:26:38.920 We kind of got it with the Soviet Union.
00:26:41.300 Well, Glenn, I think I would say that our people do understand that China is an evil empire. 0.99
00:26:48.660 They may not understand the full extent of it, and that's what I want to explain in my first chapter in Seven Things You Can't Say About China, about how it is an evil empire. 0.98
00:26:57.080 But however bad they think China is, however dangerous it is, it's actually much worse. 0.65
00:27:01.880 But it's a lot of our elites that want to paper over it, that don't want to ring the alarm, which is what I'm trying to do with this little book, in part because our elites are often co-opted by China. 0.94
00:27:14.880 Over the last 40 years, due to failed policies that, frankly, both parties supported in the 1990s and the 2000s and the early teens, we shipped not just jobs or this or that factory or even business overseas.
00:27:28.160 We shipped entire industries overseas, and there are many, many Americans who are deeply invested in China and who won't say a critical word about China.
00:27:40.320 Even raising the point that slave labor is being used in northwest China to oppress ethnic and religious minorities, so much so that companies came up to the Capitol years ago and were lobbying against legislation that would force them to inspect and audit their supply chains to make sure that Chinese slaves, literal, actual slaves, were not making products in their supply chains.
00:28:06.980 They were lobbying against that legislation because, again, probably China was compelling them to.
00:28:13.800 And you could just see when they testified that their bosses had said, you know, we know this is going to put you in a hard spot with Senator Cotton and other China hawks testifying.
00:28:22.920 But if you say a single word that costs us any business in China, you're going to be fired immediately.
00:28:27.680 So where is the president, do you think, on recognizing that China is an evil empire? 0.98
00:28:33.380 Oh, I think there's no question that Donald Trump is the toughest president we've had on communist China since at least the end of the Cold War and probably the end of World War II since the Chinese took over in 1949. 0.85
00:28:48.200 I mean, I guess Eisenhower could give him a run for his money, Glenn.
00:28:51.560 But, I mean, remember, Eisenhower threatened to nuke communist China.
00:28:55.020 I know.
00:28:55.400 I mean, that's what it takes to be tougher on China than Donald Trump.
00:28:58.860 And for Eisenhower, in some ways, it was easier because Eisenhower was a Republican.
00:29:04.980 The Republican Party was 100 percent behind Chiang Kai-shek, the nationalist Chinese government that lost the Chinese Civil War and repaired across the Chinese or the Taiwan Straits, Taiwan.
00:29:17.620 So Eisenhower had the wind in his sails on being tough on China.
00:29:21.080 When Donald Trump came into office eight years ago, he had the wind in his face because you still had, by and large, bipartisan consensus that we shouldn't rock the boat with China.
00:29:31.540 We shouldn't confront them.
00:29:32.860 We shouldn't make them feel uneasy.
00:29:34.600 We're still going down this path of so-called economic liberalization, which is going to lead to political moderation, which had long since been disproven.
00:29:44.120 And President Trump really changed the terms of the debate about China.
00:29:48.800 There are still a lot of people who are not as strong as he is or as I am or some other Republicans.
00:29:56.560 But you saw it with President Biden's administration.
00:29:58.880 He was very hesitant to reverse President Trump's policies on China.
00:30:02.820 He reversed almost everything else, but he was hesitant on China because he knew how unpopular China is and that the American people do recognize China as a threat,
00:30:11.880 even if they don't understand the full extent of it, because so many of our elites refuse to speak these truths.
00:30:19.200 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.
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00:30:28.000 So last hour, I played a little bit of J.D. Vance's speech at the German or Munich Security Conference,
00:30:37.640 and he talked about how free speech is under attack in Europe.
00:30:43.380 And he didn't just point out that it was Europe that was having this problem, but he said it had to end.
00:30:50.120 But let's not stand here and point the finger at you.
00:30:55.600 Let's point it to ourselves as well.
00:30:57.840 Cut seven.
00:30:59.100 And in the interest of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth,
00:31:02.820 I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country,
00:31:11.160 where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation.
00:31:17.740 Misinformation like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from a laboratory in China,
00:31:25.840 our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth.
00:31:35.580 So I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer.
00:31:40.760 And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds,
00:31:45.140 so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite.
00:31:50.260 And I hope that we can work together on that.
00:31:52.860 In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town.
00:31:56.280 And under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views,
00:32:00.120 but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.
00:32:06.060 Wow. Didn't go over well.
00:32:08.600 In fact, here's the Munich Security Conference chairperson closing out the convention.
00:32:16.920 This conference started as a transatlantic conference.
00:32:20.320 After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday,
00:32:24.420 we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore.
00:32:29.500 I'm very grateful to all those European politicians that spoke out
00:32:35.340 and reaffirmed the values and principles that they are defending.
00:32:39.440 No one did this better than President Zelensky.
00:32:44.060 Let me conclude, and this becomes difficult.
00:32:46.900 He was applauded for crying that we don't have the same values in common anymore.
00:33:03.140 If this is the way Germany and the rest of Europe feels about free speech,
00:33:08.700 then yes, we don't have the same values.
00:33:12.240 And I don't care if we stand completely alone.
00:33:15.340 We've done it before.
00:33:16.900 And when it comes to freedom of the individual,
00:33:21.060 if that's what it takes, that's who we must become.
00:33:25.720 We have to square our shoulders and remember our principles.
00:33:30.140 Yes, if you want to shut down free expression and free speech,
00:33:36.200 which means you have to let the worst be said
00:33:40.420 so you can actually have dialogue,
00:33:44.780 learn from one another,
00:33:46.440 learn from the past,
00:33:48.180 and not just become a zombie robot
00:33:50.580 with an out-of-control government
00:33:53.000 that you can never speak against?
00:33:55.020 Well, that's who we are.
00:33:56.860 That's what we stand against.
00:33:59.380 I will tell you that their own people,
00:34:01.600 I can guarantee you,
00:34:02.820 are not for it.
00:34:03.680 How do I know?
00:34:05.280 Well, let me show you what happened on 60 Minutes.
00:34:09.340 Here's 60 Minutes joining a German police censorship raid.
00:34:14.940 It's 6.01 on a Tuesday morning,
00:34:19.540 and we were with state police
00:34:21.820 as they raided this apartment in northwest Germany.
00:34:27.680 Inside, six armed officers searched a suspect's home,
00:34:32.120 then seized his laptop and cell phone.
00:34:34.980 Prosecutors say those electronics
00:34:37.020 may have been used to commit a crime.
00:34:39.580 The crime, posting a racist cartoon online.
00:34:44.980 At the exact same time across Germany,
00:34:48.020 more than 50 similar raids played out.
00:34:53.260 Part of what prosecutors say
00:34:54.820 is a coordinated effort
00:34:56.440 to curb online hate speech in Germany.
00:34:59.280 Now, I don't like hate speech.
00:35:03.100 I don't like seeing racist cartoons.
00:35:06.300 But that is part of life.
00:35:10.520 It depends on who's in power,
00:35:13.140 on how you define hate.
00:35:16.360 And when you have a government
00:35:18.100 able to take away inalienable rights,
00:35:22.540 you have a real problem on your hand.
00:35:25.020 60 Minutes continues.
00:35:26.420 Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?
00:35:30.620 Yes.
00:35:30.860 Yes, it is.
00:35:31.660 And it's a crime to insult them online as well?
00:35:34.560 Yes.
00:35:35.180 The crime could be even higher
00:35:37.380 if you insult someone in the Internet.
00:35:40.460 Why?
00:35:41.220 Because in Internet, it stays there.
00:35:44.220 If we are talking here face-to-face,
00:35:46.320 you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish.
00:35:48.880 But if you're in the Internet,
00:35:49.960 if I insult you or a politician...
00:35:51.880 That sticks around forever.
00:35:53.180 Politician.
00:35:54.420 The prosecutors explained
00:35:56.240 German law also prohibits
00:35:58.100 the spread of malicious gossip,
00:36:00.080 violent threats, and fake quotes.
00:36:02.720 If somebody posts something that's not true
00:36:05.340 and then somebody else reposts it
00:36:08.260 or likes it,
00:36:09.460 are they committing a crime?
00:36:11.140 In the case of reposting,
00:36:12.700 it is a crime as well
00:36:13.580 because the reader can't distinguish
00:36:15.980 whether you just invented this
00:36:18.360 or just reposted it.
00:36:19.880 That's the same for us.
00:36:20.240 They can't be trusted to do that themselves.
00:36:21.620 Punishment for breaking hate speech laws
00:36:23.920 can include jail time for repeat offenders.
00:36:26.920 Jail time.
00:36:27.840 Jail time.
00:36:28.840 If you say something offensive
00:36:31.620 about a politician...
00:36:34.120 Did anybody catch that?
00:36:36.160 If you say something offensive
00:36:38.480 about a politician,
00:36:40.560 you can be charged with a hate crime.
00:36:43.460 You do it several times
00:36:45.840 and you'll go to prison.
00:36:49.560 Jawohl, mein Führer.
00:36:52.260 That's a question of how much
00:36:53.700 did we have in common
00:36:54.600 before J.D. Vance's speech.
00:36:57.580 Apparently not that much.
00:36:59.500 Apparently not.
00:36:59.840 Clearly not.
00:37:00.660 If those are your laws,
00:37:02.460 it's a crime.
00:37:04.660 You can't trust people
00:37:05.960 to be able to decipher
00:37:06.900 whether a quote is fake or not.
00:37:09.140 It's not their responsibility
00:37:12.740 to look it up themselves.
00:37:16.160 Listen to Cut 3, CBS not pushing back.
00:37:19.940 To build their cases,
00:37:21.300 investigators scour social media
00:37:23.300 and use public and government data.
00:37:25.940 Lau says sometimes
00:37:26.960 social media companies
00:37:28.060 will provide information to prosecutors,
00:37:30.760 but not always.
00:37:32.120 So the task force
00:37:33.160 employs special software investigators
00:37:35.460 to help unmask anonymous users.
00:37:38.140 So this is suggesting
00:37:39.420 you kill people 0.89
00:37:40.320 seeking asylum here.
00:37:41.860 Lau says his unit
00:37:43.020 has successfully prosecuted
00:37:44.880 about 750 hate speech cases
00:37:47.380 over the last four years.
00:37:49.060 But it was a 2021 case
00:37:51.320 involving a local politician
00:37:52.980 named Andy Grote
00:37:54.420 that captured
00:37:55.400 the country's attention.
00:37:57.440 Grote complained about a tweet
00:37:59.100 that called him a pimmel,
00:38:00.820 a German word
00:38:01.600 for the male anatomy.
00:38:02.900 That triggered a police raid
00:38:04.700 and accusations
00:38:05.800 of excessive censorship
00:38:07.400 by the government.
00:38:08.900 As prosecutors explain to us
00:38:10.540 in Germany,
00:38:11.540 it's okay to debate politics online,
00:38:14.100 but it can be a crime
00:38:15.980 to call anyone a pimmel,
00:38:17.980 even a politician.
00:38:19.200 So it sounds like you're saying
00:38:21.140 it's okay to criticize
00:38:23.420 a politician's policy,
00:38:26.160 but not to say,
00:38:28.200 I think you're a jerk and an idiot.
00:38:30.380 Exactly.
00:38:31.280 Commence like you're
00:38:32.400 a son of a bitch, 0.99
00:38:33.460 excuse me for you.
00:38:34.480 These words have nothing
00:38:35.700 to do with a political discussion
00:38:37.840 or a contribution
00:38:39.200 to a discussion.
00:38:40.660 And it's up to him
00:38:41.400 to decipher
00:38:41.940 whether it contributes or not.
00:38:43.380 Yes.
00:38:43.800 Yes.
00:38:44.780 Boy, you better be careful
00:38:46.000 if you're going over
00:38:46.680 to Germany anytime soon.
00:38:48.740 60 Minutes finally asks
00:38:50.700 about some free speech issues.
00:38:52.740 Listen to this.
00:38:53.580 The criticism that,
00:38:54.740 you know,
00:38:54.940 this feels like the surveillance
00:38:55.940 that Germany conducted
00:38:57.580 80 years ago.
00:38:59.020 How do you respond to that?
00:39:00.240 There is no surveillance.
00:39:02.140 Josephine Ballon
00:39:03.120 is a CEO
00:39:04.060 of HateAid,
00:39:05.260 a Berlin-based
00:39:06.200 human rights organization
00:39:07.660 that supports victims
00:39:09.380 of online violence.
00:39:11.120 In the United States,
00:39:11.860 a lot of people
00:39:12.340 look at this and say,
00:39:13.280 this is restricting free speech.
00:39:15.300 It's a threat to democracy.
00:39:17.340 Free speech
00:39:18.060 needs boundaries.
00:39:21.060 And in the case of Germany, 0.54
00:39:23.560 these boundaries
00:39:24.240 are part of our constitution.
00:39:27.320 Without boundaries,
00:39:28.620 a very small group of people
00:39:30.380 can rely on endless freedom
00:39:33.680 to say anything
00:39:34.660 that they want
00:39:35.520 while everyone else
00:39:37.140 is scared and intimidated.
00:39:39.660 In your fears
00:39:40.280 that if people
00:39:41.780 are freely attacked online
00:39:43.400 that they'll withdraw
00:39:45.360 from the discussion.
00:39:46.980 This is not only a fear,
00:39:48.140 it's already taking place.
00:39:49.400 Already half
00:39:50.280 of the internet users
00:39:51.200 in Germany
00:39:51.800 are afraid
00:39:52.740 to express
00:39:53.560 their political opinion.
00:39:54.600 I bet.
00:39:55.320 They rarely participate
00:39:56.600 in public debates
00:39:57.560 online anymore.
00:39:58.680 Half of the internet users.
00:40:00.040 Of course!
00:40:01.080 You're putting them
00:40:01.600 in prison
00:40:02.060 when they say
00:40:03.300 the wrong thing.
00:40:04.140 I mean,
00:40:04.620 it is Gestapo
00:40:06.240 with today's technology.
00:40:08.960 I've warned you,
00:40:09.740 with today's technology
00:40:11.560 and what is right
00:40:12.740 around the corner,
00:40:14.220 you put a Hitler 0.95
00:40:15.740 in charge of it
00:40:16.780 and there's not a Jew 0.73
00:40:18.940 left in the world.
00:40:19.780 There's no place to hide
00:40:21.340 in the entire world.
00:40:23.360 This is extraordinarily dangerous.
00:40:25.520 Now,
00:40:26.220 that was the extent
00:40:27.900 of the CBS pushback
00:40:29.300 on the Germans.
00:40:30.120 That was a lot.
00:40:30.960 Then you get
00:40:31.940 Marco Rubio
00:40:33.160 and they go to Marco Rubio
00:40:36.040 to ask him about this.
00:40:37.920 Listen.
00:40:38.080 Well,
00:40:39.140 he was standing
00:40:39.920 in a country
00:40:40.780 where free speech
00:40:41.940 was weaponized
00:40:43.120 to conduct a genocide
00:40:44.700 and he met
00:40:46.180 with the head
00:40:46.800 of a political party
00:40:48.220 that has
00:40:49.280 far-right views
00:40:50.940 and some historic ties
00:40:53.380 to extreme groups.
00:40:56.280 The context of that
00:40:57.600 was
00:40:58.560 changing the tone of it.
00:41:02.060 And you know that,
00:41:02.840 that the censorship
00:41:03.480 was specifically
00:41:05.220 about the right.
00:41:06.100 No, I have to disagree
00:41:06.860 with you.
00:41:08.940 Free speech
00:41:09.620 was not used
00:41:10.160 to conduct a genocide.
00:41:11.320 The genocide
00:41:11.680 was conducted
00:41:12.300 by an authoritarian
00:41:13.120 Nazi regime
00:41:14.120 that happened
00:41:14.640 to also be genocidal
00:41:15.700 because they hated Jews
00:41:16.860 and they hated minorities
00:41:17.940 and they hated those
00:41:18.720 that they had a list
00:41:19.720 of people they hated
00:41:20.340 but primarily the Jews.
00:41:21.900 There was no free speech
00:41:22.940 in Nazi Germany.
00:41:23.840 There was none.
00:41:24.620 There was also no opposition
00:41:25.760 in Nazi Germany.
00:41:26.740 They were a sole 0.99
00:41:27.380 and only party
00:41:28.380 that governed that country.
00:41:29.420 So that's not an accurate
00:41:30.380 reflection of history.
00:41:31.360 The free speech
00:41:33.940 caused the holocaust. 0.92
00:41:36.180 Amazing.
00:41:36.800 Free speech.
00:41:38.360 You couldn't speak out
00:41:40.220 against the Nazis.
00:41:42.060 Who doesn't learn that
00:41:44.240 in school?
00:41:45.780 Well, probably most Americans
00:41:47.200 and clearly the journalists
00:41:49.160 here in America.
00:41:50.740 You had no free speech.
00:41:53.720 How do you get everybody
00:41:55.000 to give the Heil Hitler salute? 0.79
00:41:57.700 You don't do that
00:41:58.960 by becoming popular.
00:42:00.360 They didn't.
00:42:02.200 They did it
00:42:02.900 by beating people
00:42:04.220 in the streets.
00:42:05.800 You will do this
00:42:07.380 when we salute.
00:42:09.160 If you don't
00:42:10.360 we'll beat you to death 0.91
00:42:11.700 in the streets
00:42:12.600 and we can get away with it
00:42:14.180 because our guy
00:42:15.980 is in power.
00:42:17.840 There was no free speech.
00:42:20.720 This is insanity.
00:42:23.500 Now I want to show you
00:42:24.440 what J.D. Vance said
00:42:27.900 that made the guy cry
00:42:30.420 in Germany.
00:42:33.780 Now
00:42:34.460 I want you to remember
00:42:36.660 that the Munich Security
00:42:39.220 conference chair
00:42:40.940 cried
00:42:42.460 at the closing
00:42:44.140 of the conference.
00:42:45.380 Cried
00:42:45.820 because
00:42:46.700 he realized
00:42:48.020 the United States
00:42:49.200 was no longer
00:42:50.600 on the same side
00:42:52.240 as Germany
00:42:53.220 and Europe.
00:42:53.900 Now that seems crazy
00:42:56.440 but
00:42:57.980 no
00:42:58.760 I'm not
00:42:59.720 on the same side
00:43:00.900 of people
00:43:01.520 who want to silence anyone.
00:43:03.340 I am not for the silencing
00:43:04.720 of people on the left
00:43:05.880 here.
00:43:06.920 I am not for
00:43:08.240 silencing the people
00:43:09.340 in the middle
00:43:09.860 or the right.
00:43:11.440 Even to the extreme
00:43:12.900 free speech
00:43:14.440 is an absolute
00:43:15.640 unless
00:43:16.380 you're calling
00:43:17.600 for violence
00:43:18.800 and it actually
00:43:20.360 turns into violence.
00:43:21.940 no
00:43:23.380 but you can
00:43:24.980 say
00:43:25.520 whatever it is
00:43:26.620 you want.
00:43:29.220 I know that
00:43:30.140 sounds extreme
00:43:30.920 it didn't
00:43:31.460 used to
00:43:32.020 but apparently
00:43:32.900 it does now.
00:43:34.240 Here's what
00:43:34.780 J.D. Vance said
00:43:35.660 and if you think
00:43:36.420 that Germany
00:43:37.080 is the problem
00:43:38.840 listen to this
00:43:40.740 from J.D. Vance.
00:43:42.080 Cut six.
00:43:42.440 I look to Brussels
00:43:43.300 where EU
00:43:44.440 commissars
00:43:45.740 warn citizens
00:43:46.600 that they intend
00:43:47.440 to shut down
00:43:48.460 social media
00:43:49.140 during times
00:43:49.900 of civil unrest.
00:43:50.780 the moment
00:43:51.920 they spot
00:43:52.560 what they've judged
00:43:53.680 to be
00:43:54.180 quote
00:43:54.640 hateful content.
00:43:57.060 Or to this
00:43:57.860 very country
00:43:58.520 where police
00:43:59.620 have carried out
00:44:00.420 raids against
00:44:01.060 citizens
00:44:01.520 suspected of
00:44:02.300 posting
00:44:02.760 anti-feminist
00:44:04.040 comments online
00:44:05.080 as part of
00:44:05.880 quote
00:44:06.260 combating
00:44:07.300 misogyny
00:44:08.060 on the internet
00:44:08.860 a day of action.
00:44:11.000 I look to Sweden
00:44:12.160 where two weeks
00:44:13.240 ago the government
00:44:13.840 convicted a
00:44:14.720 Christian activist
00:44:15.520 for participating
00:44:17.180 in Koran
00:44:18.020 burnings
00:44:18.620 that resulted
00:44:19.460 in his friend's
00:44:20.640 murder.
00:44:22.180 And as the judge
00:44:22.860 in his case
00:44:23.680 chillingly noted
00:44:24.540 Sweden's laws
00:44:26.260 to supposedly
00:44:27.180 protect free
00:44:28.040 expression
00:44:28.640 do not in fact
00:44:30.500 grant
00:44:31.000 and I'm quoting
00:44:31.820 a free pass
00:44:33.600 to do
00:44:34.680 or say anything
00:44:35.780 without risking
00:44:36.780 offending
00:44:37.360 the group
00:44:38.240 that holds
00:44:38.760 that belief.
00:44:40.800 And perhaps
00:44:41.400 most concerningly
00:44:42.480 I look to
00:44:43.400 our very dear
00:44:44.000 friends
00:44:44.360 the United Kingdom
00:44:45.160 where the backslide
00:44:46.780 away from
00:44:47.220 conscience rights
00:44:48.000 has placed
00:44:48.580 the basic
00:44:49.060 liberties
00:44:49.420 of religious
00:44:50.080 Britons
00:44:50.520 in particular
00:44:51.220 in the
00:44:52.040 crosshairs.
00:44:53.120 A little over
00:44:54.180 two years ago
00:44:54.920 the British
00:44:55.540 government
00:44:55.900 charged Adam
00:44:56.720 Smith Conner
00:44:57.420 a 51 year
00:44:58.820 old physiotherapist
00:45:00.040 and an army
00:45:00.740 veteran
00:45:01.060 with the heinous
00:45:02.660 crime
00:45:03.140 of standing
00:45:04.340 50 meters
00:45:05.880 from an abortion
00:45:07.120 clinic
00:45:07.580 and silently
00:45:08.780 praying
00:45:09.240 for three
00:45:09.920 minutes.
00:45:11.100 Not obstructing
00:45:12.120 anyone
00:45:12.420 not interacting
00:45:13.660 with anyone
00:45:14.280 just silently
00:45:15.460 praying
00:45:15.880 on his own.
00:45:17.800 After British 1.00
00:45:18.360 law enforcement
00:45:18.980 spotted him
00:45:19.720 and demanded
00:45:20.280 to know
00:45:20.640 what he was
00:45:21.060 praying for
00:45:21.720 Adam replied
00:45:23.200 simply
00:45:23.680 it was on
00:45:24.460 behalf
00:45:24.900 of the
00:45:25.360 unborn son
00:45:26.160 he and his
00:45:27.080 former girlfriend
00:45:27.840 had aborted
00:45:28.980 years before.
00:45:31.120 Now the officers
00:45:31.780 were not moved
00:45:32.580 Adam was found
00:45:34.020 guilty
00:45:34.420 of breaking
00:45:35.260 the government's
00:45:36.520 new buffer zones
00:45:37.280 law
00:45:37.620 which criminalizes
00:45:38.620 silent prayer
00:45:39.380 and other actions
00:45:40.200 that could influence
00:45:41.420 a person's decision
00:45:42.520 within 200 meters
00:45:43.980 of an abortion
00:45:44.720 facility.
00:45:45.940 He was sentenced
00:45:46.460 to pay thousands
00:45:47.380 of pounds
00:45:48.060 in legal costs
00:45:49.060 to the prosecution.
00:45:51.100 Now I wish
00:45:51.580 I could say
00:45:52.060 that this was
00:45:52.580 a fluke
00:45:53.020 a one-off
00:45:53.580 crazy example
00:45:54.620 of a badly
00:45:55.300 written law
00:45:55.940 being enacted
00:45:56.680 against a single
00:45:58.700 person
00:45:59.100 but no
00:45:59.580 this last October
00:46:01.300 just a few months
00:46:02.040 ago
00:46:02.260 the Scottish
00:46:02.780 government
00:46:03.140 began distributing
00:46:03.960 letters to
00:46:04.580 citizens
00:46:05.080 whose houses
00:46:06.140 lay within
00:46:06.760 so-called
00:46:07.380 safe access
00:46:08.220 zones
00:46:08.760 warning them
00:46:10.260 that even
00:46:10.640 private prayer
00:46:11.520 within their
00:46:12.500 own homes
00:46:13.040 may amount
00:46:14.320 to breaking
00:46:14.840 the law.
00:46:16.720 Naturally
00:46:17.360 the government
00:46:18.020 urged readers
00:46:18.780 to report
00:46:19.340 any fellow
00:46:20.060 citizen
00:46:20.440 suspected
00:46:21.060 guilty
00:46:22.020 of thought
00:46:22.500 crime
00:46:22.860 in Britain
00:46:24.040 and across
00:46:25.260 Europe
00:46:25.680 free speech
00:46:26.920 I fear
00:46:27.500 is in
00:46:28.180 retreat.
00:46:29.260 What part
00:46:29.800 of that
00:46:30.260 did you
00:46:30.740 disagree
00:46:31.200 with?
00:46:33.060 What part
00:46:34.120 of that
00:46:34.580 makes you
00:46:35.160 want to
00:46:35.660 embrace
00:46:36.320 the European
00:46:37.000 Union?
00:46:38.600 For me
00:46:39.580 it's quite
00:46:40.160 the opposite
00:46:40.780 I've
00:46:42.280 always
00:46:42.700 believed
00:46:43.180 that Europe
00:46:43.780 are brothers
00:46:44.320 and sisters
00:46:45.020 and we're
00:46:46.060 fine and we
00:46:46.820 should help
00:46:47.440 one another
00:46:48.000 but I have
00:46:50.320 to tell you
00:46:50.920 I no longer
00:46:52.540 am comfortable
00:46:53.180 with a single
00:46:54.420 dollar going
00:46:55.300 over to
00:46:56.500 Europe
00:46:57.060 to defend
00:46:58.120 those kinds
00:46:59.380 of policies
00:47:00.360 you're not
00:47:01.580 on the same
00:47:02.260 side
00:47:02.600 we are not
00:47:03.480 on the same
00:47:04.440 side
00:47:04.840 if you
00:47:05.320 violate
00:47:05.940 freedom of
00:47:06.540 speech
00:47:06.840 that way
00:47:07.440 and remember
00:47:08.280 this is why
00:47:09.660 Klaus Schwab
00:47:10.520 told Europe
00:47:11.840 just believe
00:47:13.660 in the
00:47:14.060 system
00:47:14.520 well what
00:47:15.580 is the
00:47:16.140 system
00:47:16.580 we found
00:47:17.680 out
00:47:18.100 the system
00:47:18.980 is if
00:47:19.640 the people
00:47:20.200 vote for
00:47:21.000 a candidate
00:47:21.540 that is not
00:47:22.560 going to play
00:47:23.280 ball
00:47:23.600 if they are
00:47:24.320 at all
00:47:25.300 in line
00:47:26.520 with freedom
00:47:27.520 of speech
00:47:28.280 they're a
00:47:29.420 radical
00:47:29.820 need to be
00:47:30.760 shut down
00:47:31.460 and we
00:47:32.580 cancel that
00:47:33.440 election
00:47:33.900 until the
00:47:34.960 people get
00:47:35.460 it right
00:47:36.020 that's a
00:47:37.720 dictatorship
00:47:38.460 we are
00:47:40.020 seeing
00:47:40.620 the hatred
00:47:41.740 of the
00:47:42.880 old
00:47:43.540 Germany
00:47:44.580 and Europe
00:47:45.460 start to
00:47:46.440 grow again
00:47:47.440 and Europe
00:47:48.520 could become
00:47:50.080 a very large
00:47:51.500 foe
00:47:52.200 of freedom
00:47:53.080 na na na na
00:47:56.340 nananana
00:47:56.640 nananana
00:47:56.680 nananana
00:47:57.520 nananana
00:47:58.180 nananana
00:47:58.780 nananana
00:47:59.020 naana
00:47:59.060 nananana
00:48:21.140 nananana
00:48:22.040 nananana
00:48:22.620 nananana
00:48:23.040 nananana