The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Senator Mike Lee ｜ 4⧸25⧸19

00:00:00.000 hey welcome to the podcast really good one mike lee is with us today um you know asked him some

00:00:05.680 questions i think it was really telling about how mike was talking about some of the people that

00:00:09.880 are running for democratic nomination i thought that was the most fascinating part of the show

00:00:14.760 because he you hear his commentary i mean look i'm reading into it like everybody else but you

00:00:19.420 you hear the way he talks about certain senators from the democratic side and certain others

00:00:23.020 i myself personally i felt like i read into it a little bit it's kind of like it's kind of like

00:00:29.820 when your mom and dad came and said hey there's somebody you should date you know we have this

00:00:35.100 friend and and you know they're like yes she's very pretty and blah blah blah but she's and then 0.99

00:00:40.860 them coming to you and say you should date this and listen she has a really sweet spirit she's very

00:00:45.740 kind right you're like oh my gosh she's horribly ugly she was in a fire right you see if you pick 0.71

00:00:52.240 that up with mike lee also biden it was official and my nfl draft picks this was fascinating to see

00:01:00.880 glenn try to select what top 10 players would be selected in the nfl draft and in today's world i'd

00:01:07.520 say i did really really well in today's world where criticism is not allowed yes you did or in today's

00:01:14.420 world where up is down and down is up yes uh all on today's podcast

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00:01:29.240 let's get to the big exciting news joe-chella joe-chella is happening

00:01:38.240 it is the burning man of politics he is there's so much excitement around this he is very excited

00:01:48.260 uh and he has released the video joe biden is in the race officially oh we have to move him over on

00:01:53.920 our fancy board over here oh yeah uh he is in the race he joins as the as the candidate leading in

00:01:59.920 basically every poll and basically every state the only place he's not consistently leading is in new

00:02:05.840 hampshire which there you have both elizabeth warren from next door and you have bernie sanders

00:02:11.420 from next door um people who live next door to elizabeth warren don't like her that much so she's not

00:02:16.400 close to the top yeah they're like we don't want her here we want her in washington can you just

00:02:20.360 please yeah please america elect her president so she's not here and bernie uh is doing very well

00:02:27.640 there but biden i think is second there he's way ahead in in south carolina he's way ahead in uh

00:02:33.840 in nevada i think he only has one place to go though down yeah you know i go back and forth on

00:02:40.120 this i think he's a he is a tougher general election candidate than a great fit for this

00:02:46.020 particular primary so it's going to be it's going to be interesting i think that wing of the party

00:02:51.480 the very tiny wing like you know every once in a while you get a bucket of wings and there's one

00:02:55.580 like deformed wing right you could barely you're like i think this is a frog leg yeah and it does

00:02:59.940 it doesn't have it doesn't have it's not coated in buffalo sauce it's coated in like fruit loops

00:03:03.940 and you're like what happened in the kitchen that's kind of the size and scope of the of the

00:03:08.740 moderate wing right democratic party right now but if everyone were to align around him he'd have a

00:03:15.680 chance to get through the primary and if and he's certainly the favorite as of this moment yeah it

00:03:19.980 really depends on whether the democrats are going to vote like the republicans voted last time which was

00:03:27.160 anyone but hillary clinton and this guy will take her out right and and that is biden polls better 1.00

00:03:35.300 against donald trump than every other candidate in the field so i did by a decent margin right if they

00:03:40.580 if they are a and and i'm not i'm not sure that these are uh these are um things that we would be able

00:03:50.780 to tell until the very end because people's rage on the left is so crazy about donald trump that they

00:03:58.020 might just say anybody but donald trump and this guy could win and so they won't care about his policies

00:04:04.900 on the other hand uh we'll see how much they do believe how the core of democrats believe in you know

00:04:14.600 social justice and and uh you know environmental justice he's gonna say all the right things but

00:04:21.100 he's not going to look like the reformer you know you gotta remember we live in a world now

00:04:26.700 in a world gone mad we live in a world where a comedian was just elected uh president with no policies

00:04:35.880 in ukraine okay that's a serious country with serious issues and they just elected a comedian

00:04:44.700 that didn't lay out any policies so people are just sick of politicians that's gonna hurt joe biden

00:04:52.640 but his scrappiness his willingness to um his willingness to you know be a dog fighter

00:05:02.200 is gonna help him yeah he's yeah he he will mix it up he doesn't mind getting in he has he has some

00:05:09.520 trump sort of qualities you know where the left will you know sometimes the right even will do this

00:05:15.320 when trump says something that's maybe not right or maybe a little offensive or you know whatever

00:05:20.780 there's a good portion of conservatives and republicans that are like ah you know look it's

00:05:24.740 donald trump like look at his policies with joe biden gets that same treatment from the left and 0.95

00:05:29.520 unlike donald trump he also gets it from the media so people when he says the you know dumb thing

00:05:34.920 about television being invented in 1492 like he just ah it's joe joe just does these things and it's

00:05:41.880 not you know look look at the big picture here he's got these policies hang on just a second but he

00:05:45.920 doesn't make a lot of those crazy flubs i mean there's no way we have audio of him just making

00:05:52.600 ridiculous statements oh no i don't think that's possible i'm uh lived in uh in long island for

00:05:59.180 10 years or so uh god rest her soul and uh um although she's wait your mom's still your mom's 0.90

00:06:06.180 still alive your dad passed god bless her soul chuck graham state senator's here chuck stand up

00:06:13.020 chuck let him see you oh god love you what am i talking about a man who will be the next president

00:06:19.160 of the united states barack america delaware the largest growth in population is indian americans

00:06:26.540 moving from india you cannot go to a 7-eleven or a dunkin donuts unless you have a slight indian 1.00

00:06:34.200 accent it's a fully i'm not joking you got the first sort of mainstream african america who was

00:06:44.080 articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy i mean it's that's a story they're gonna put

00:06:51.860 you all back in chains all right here it is uh the the tape that we've all been waiting for

00:06:59.640 here he is joe biden charlottesville virginia is home to the author of one of the great documents in

00:07:07.600 human history very exciting we know it by heart we do we hold these truths to be self-evident

00:07:13.280 that all men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights okay stop

00:07:19.480 for a second now this is something we've argued with people over before and there is a legitimate

00:07:25.440 history there's a reason to say inalienable but when you are on the screen it says unalienable

00:07:32.220 and in he's talking about knowing it by heart so he's actually this is a produced video obviously

00:07:39.640 he's saying inalienable and on the screen it says unalienable which is what it actually says but

00:07:48.020 there i mean you can say it either way say it either way historically speaking you could say it

00:07:52.280 either way right but if you are quoting it and saying you know it by heart you should have

00:07:57.900 unalienable i mean again because right this is not from a speech this is not you know if you were

00:08:04.360 just doing you're recording this yes the one time you can be perfect and not make a flub you know

00:08:11.460 somebody can say cut joe you got to say unalienable because that's what's going to be on the screen okay

00:08:15.820 go ahead take it yeah exactly and like it's not as it's not a huge gaffe and it's like one of those

00:08:21.760 things where technically it is unalienable however i mean you've done the history of this before and i

00:08:26.900 can't remember it i can't remember it either it's but it's it's the same word inalienable

00:08:31.280 unalienable i can't remember i can't remember what said by the founders in both ways at times and

00:08:36.980 it's it's but it's just funny because here he is saying he knows it by heart it's on the screen

00:08:42.700 as the opposite word it kind of goes to the idea of i want this job but not that much right i mean

00:08:49.060 i'm not gonna work that hard but you haven't heard the passion that's coming okay okay all right

00:08:52.900 listen to the intensity and passion of joseph robinett biden jr we've heard it so often it's

00:08:58.860 almost a cliche but it's who we are we haven't always lived up to these ideals jefferson himself

00:09:05.420 didn't but we have never before walked away from them charlottesville is also home to a defining

00:09:11.820 moment for this nation in the last few years it was there on august of 2017 we saw klansmen and

00:09:23.180 white supremacists and neo-nazis come out in the open i mean let me stop for a second think of the

00:09:29.000 press we're giving these meaningless zilches of groups like white supremacists i mean they give

00:09:37.280 them so much attention as if they're controlling the entire country there was like 300 people at 0.96

00:09:42.920 this event and yes they were all horrible yes they were all saying jews will not replace us and are

00:09:48.600 complete disasters remember when they tried to redo the event the next year and no one showed up

00:09:53.260 like is this really we're launching a presidential campaign over a bunch of people that are just

00:10:01.800 because in our society because people now know that fear is the is the currency of the day everybody

00:10:10.920 in washington seems to know it yep maybe with the exception of our guest next half hour yeah

00:10:15.020 mike maybe i mean but that's about it i mean there are not there are not a lot of exceptions to that

00:10:19.540 one at this point all right go ahead the crazed faces illuminated by torches veins bulging

00:10:26.740 at no point do you actually see any veins bulging now i think i get what he's going for they were

00:10:33.920 angry but i there was not a there's not a noticeable vein issue with this particular event

00:10:38.940 was there i know i i mean i wasn't i wasn't checking all of their body parts if it would have

00:10:45.000 been on their face or on their neck i think i would have noticed now i know that is where joe

00:10:49.460 usually goes though he's usually it's usually really close to the neck that vein maybe this is

00:10:54.780 just the way he recognizes people he's he's always he's either the smell of the hair maybe it's not

00:11:00.640 even the smell he's like he it's more of a they're not angry he just has to move their hair

00:11:07.580 oh they're not angry that's what he's looking for there we go okay more from joe biden

00:11:12.900 chanting the same anti-semitic bile heard across europe in the 30s and heard in the democratic party 0.57

00:11:19.800 today and they were met by a crazy group of americans in a violent clash in syria

00:11:25.440 and a brave young woman lost her life and that's when we heard the words of the president of united

00:11:32.980 states that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation he said there were quote

00:11:39.840 some very fine people on both sides very fine people on both sides but those words the president

00:11:49.360 united states assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those of the courage to

00:11:56.360 stand against it and in that moment so i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i had ever seen

00:12:04.200 in my lifetime okay stop for a second so this is a guy who's a senator throughout like a good chunk of

00:12:09.460 the cold war but the threat of donald trump saying there's very fine people on both sides is the

00:12:15.900 greatest he's ever seen wow that's that's quite a that's that's quite a thing he may have poor

00:12:20.900 eyesight yeah i think he may or bad judgment but it could be bad judgment maybe bad judgment this is a

00:12:26.080 guy and now of course he says these things all the time like when he said getting uh osama bin laden

00:12:31.480 was the most difficult decision in 500 years yeah which is there's a lot of there's been a lot of

00:12:37.540 decisions in that time period we're gonna have a millennia here a lot of people make a lot of

00:12:42.680 tough calls yeah yeah it's not like the rest of them were easy you know what i mean but i mean gosh

00:12:48.680 i don't know maybe we should go try to find the biggest terrorist on earth that we've all been

00:12:52.840 trying to find right you know a decade everybody who's on the side of good and not the side of

00:12:58.960 the evil Allah right you know everybody's like i mean even muslims are like yeah no we gotta get him 1.00

00:13:04.900 that guy of course we gotta get that even a lot of muslim extremists were like yeah he's too far

00:13:08.820 like oh that was a real tough call from the white house somehow somehow it's hard to imagine okay um

00:13:16.120 more joe biden yeah okay i wrote at the time that we're in the battle for the soul of this nation

00:13:22.080 yes that's even more true today we are in the battle for the soul of this nation we are i believe

00:13:28.680 history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant

00:13:35.060 moment in time but if we give donald trump eight years in the white house he will forever and

00:13:41.700 fundamentally alter the character of this nation stop just a minute but i thought you were for a

00:13:47.780 fundamental transformation of the united states of america it was you're actually you actually

00:13:51.900 campaigned on it joe right that was that was the deal fundamental transformation of the united states

00:13:58.040 of america that's amazing yeah uh one thing you notice here from joe as well which separates him

00:14:03.180 from every other candidate in the field including sanders is his he's going right after trump yep this

00:14:09.200 is not a this is not a hey let me tell you about my wonderful vision for the future this is not

00:14:13.840 necessarily like let me tell you about some great policy ideas let me introduce you really smart it's

00:14:18.100 going after trump yeah head on and because that is the thing that will get him uh the nomination

00:14:25.060 is the guy who can take on trump yep and if he picks the fight and trump responds to biden

00:14:32.940 then it will be it'll be really a lock if he if trump starts to fight him now it'll be seen by the

00:14:42.120 democrats as oh he's gonna take him on he can take him on he's got it he's got it uh

00:14:48.080 and it will it's very smart on joe barton on joe biden's uh joe biden's part but whoa what a

00:14:54.540 riveting what a riveting reason to elect joe biden

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00:15:14.700 there do us a favor and rate the show we are so excited to have the one the only senator mike lee

00:15:20.760 uh with us uh really truly mike uh we are honored to have you you are a guy i remember the first time

00:15:29.020 we spoke you were in your car i think i called you right yes and uh did you know i was gonna call

00:15:35.160 i think somebody had told me i might be getting a call from you at some point yeah

00:15:39.960 i was in provo canyon yeah and uh and he pulled his car uh to the side of the road and we chatted

00:15:46.660 for probably a half an hour and uh i asked you some i think some pretty tough questions and

00:15:53.460 right yes starting with are you concerned with the eternal welfare of your soul

00:15:59.240 it's an interesting way to open up a conversation i think his response was

00:16:04.340 hang on i think i need to pull over uh but we had a great conversation um and really it was about

00:16:12.280 how how convicted are you on the principles the declaration of independence and the and the

00:16:19.000 constitution of the united states and could you and your wife handle what you were walking into

00:16:25.160 is it what you is it better worse or about what you expected about what i expected but a little

00:16:36.020 worse in some ways i i think i had overestimated the extent to which the american people would rally

00:16:44.760 quickly against the explosive growth of government that was happening at the time um and and underestimated

00:16:52.180 the difficulty of changing things but in many respects it's the same and yes my wife sharon was

00:16:58.200 with me and and we had to pull over in part because provo canyon has a lot of dead cell phone spots and in

00:17:05.040 part because i wanted to make sure i could pay full attention to our conversation there were times when i

00:17:08.640 had to mute it to say what do you think i don't know um let me ask you this we we just did an expose on

00:17:15.520 joe biden he announced that he was running today and um we did an expose which which comes from a

00:17:22.320 couple of really good investigative reporters uh one of them is peter schweitzer and the other one

00:17:29.740 john solomon is john solomon the hill and um i mean they have this thing really locked down what he and

00:17:37.880 his son and john carrey's son they started a uh a fund to be able to you know an investment firm uh and

00:17:47.880 they started it right after dad was sworn into office they don't have any experience and they went

00:17:54.560 over to the ukraine they were doing a deal while dad was doing a deal with ukraine uh you know joe biden

00:18:02.420 is very proud that he got an investigator fired over there because of corruption but what people

00:18:07.860 don't talk about is the fact that that investigator was investigating joe biden's son on the board of

00:18:14.840 this very corrupt gas company in the ukraine he also went over and did a 1.5 billion dollar deal with

00:18:23.380 the bank of china his son did while joe was meeting with the top ranking officials he got in he was uh they

00:18:32.240 invested in a in the main kind of their lockheed martin of china which was trying to in fact did steal

00:18:42.140 some of our stealth technology they also invested in a company uh that uh was um a nuclear company

00:18:50.880 that was nailed by the fbi while joe biden's son was part of the board nailed by the fbi for uh stealing

00:18:59.960 our nuclear secrets it's such cronyism nobody is paying attention to this and i wondered and mike

00:19:08.200 maybe you can help me out on this is that because nobody wants to bring this up because everybody's

00:19:15.760 doing this i can't imagine that everyone's doing that that's a pretty big deal there are people who

00:19:23.160 don't do 1.5 billion dollars in deals in a whole year yeah in a whole year lifetime in an eternity

00:19:29.860 um i can't imagine that that is terribly common and i can't imagine that that's not going to become

00:19:36.620 an issue with the presidential it doesn't seem to be going anywhere and it's the same kind of thing that

00:19:43.220 you know clinton was doing these shady deals uh over uh what was it with the with gas prom and it 0.55

00:19:50.800 really never went anywhere and it was all you know circumstantial evidence this he it's all documented

00:19:59.440 and i'm sure it's all legal but he is using the muscle of the united states of america when he was

00:20:08.420 vice president peter schweitzer said he was the most corrupt vice president in all of american history

00:20:14.100 do you suppose that a republican vice president doing such things would get away with that no not

00:20:20.660 have it reported extensively and john carrey's son i mean when he was secretary of state and joe biden

00:20:27.000 was the vice president and they had all this power the government of china was giving their sons 1.5

00:20:36.740 billion dollars to invest that's very impressive and very stunning yeah in its uh significance for

00:20:44.780 our system of government so i'm i'm i guess what i'm asking is uh you know i in some ways if we don't

00:20:52.240 turn around we're we're probably 1989 uh russia where people in your position people in washington

00:21:02.260 might begin to see the handwriting on the wall and say you know what we're not going to turn this ship

00:21:07.300 i'm already positioning myself for what comes after and what comes after this is probably a really nasty

00:21:14.800 uh oligarchy where you've got these people who are just pulling all the strings is are are is corruption

00:21:23.340 so bad in washington that nobody cares about this or do they not know look i i don't think that

00:21:31.500 washington is the kind of place where no one cares about this i suspect it has more to do with them

00:21:36.640 not knowing i also gather that someone running for president if he has done this is going to have

00:21:44.800 that exposed and that's going to become a problem for him are you concerned mike about uh the democrats

00:21:52.720 that are running is there anybody i know you you get along with bernie sanders oh sure but you don't

00:21:58.380 agree with any of his policies um do you see anybody on the other side you don't even have

00:22:04.740 to name a name but do you see anybody on the other side that you think isn't really dangerous to the

00:22:12.000 constitutional republic well let me put it this way i i see every single democratic presidential

00:22:18.500 candidate seems to be moving to the left and they're all moving in lockstep it's like a one-way

00:22:23.720 leftward turning ratchet each time any one of the moves further to the left they all try to outdo

00:22:29.840 each other and it doesn't go the other way no it doesn't go the other way and the problem is this is

00:22:35.060 not just a sort of red team versus blue team team a versus team b sort of a thing this is a different

00:22:41.760 political ideology it's a different concept of what government is what it's for and what dangers it

00:22:47.360 poses to the american people how close are we to turning on the constitution and declaration

00:22:58.520 and not being able to reel it back you know i tend to believe glenn that we're always close to that

00:23:07.720 point i i've come to believe that we have been close to that point at every moment since the american

00:23:14.580 revolution freedom and constitutionally limited government life liberty and the pursuit of

00:23:21.140 happiness the notion of the the inherent dignity of the immortal human soul relative to a big brooding

00:23:27.420 omnipresence of a government these are things that are part of human nature and unless we make a

00:23:32.940 deliberate decision that we're not going to have those things and unless that decision is remade every

00:23:37.360 day and within every generation we will always reach that point you just we've not been to a place to

00:23:43.340 where um the the left for instance on the second amendment you've got to watch about eight fronts

00:23:49.980 on that they're going through the courts they're going through the banking system they're doing all

00:23:55.140 kinds of stuff right now and any of them could um could mean the end of the second amendment

00:24:02.460 as we know it that's right people trying to punish others for engaging in certain types of businesses

00:24:08.920 if you transact in firearms for example you might find it difficult uh to get along in the banking world

00:24:16.020 or any other disfavored industry uh anything deemed sufficiently unwoke uh runs the risk of falling

00:24:24.280 victim to that kind of activity did you see did you see the aoc um questioning of uh the bankers

00:24:31.700 which she said to the head of wells fargo no uh oh my gosh um you know what let me take a break and

00:24:37.200 then we're going to find that audio because you have to hear it where she was basically threatening 1.00

00:24:41.680 the banks uh saying you're engaging in lending you know money to oil companies we're going to start

00:24:50.100 holding you responsible for anytime anything goes wrong and climate change it's remarkable mike lee who

00:24:56.640 has just penned a new book that is important for everybody's collection important to read but also

00:25:03.080 important to keep our lost declaration is the name of the book by senator mike lee he's with us here for

00:25:09.000 uh probably about another 40 minutes um and then he's going to be on tv with me tonight uh lots to

00:25:15.280 talk to him about i want to go over this audio uh from uh casio cortez and what she was saying to

00:25:22.140 uh the wells fargo and other banking executives listen mr sloan why was the bank involved in the

00:25:31.040 caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with uh i i don't know how to

00:25:37.060 answer that question because we weren't uh so in finance you've you were financing and involved in

00:25:44.820 debt financing of course civic and geo group correct for for a period of time we were involved in financing

00:25:50.120 one of the firms were not anymore and the other i'm not familiar with the specific uh assertion that

00:25:56.600 you're making but we weren't directly involved in that okay so these companies run um private

00:26:01.000 detention facilities run by ice which uh which is involved in in caging children but i'll move on

00:26:07.100 so she goes on to talk about oil spills and climate change and you're lending money to oil companies so

00:26:16.420 aren't you responsible shouldn't we hold you responsible for climate change damage your thoughts

00:26:22.160 well first of all she's shaming someone for being the banking intermediary for someone assisting a law

00:26:30.220 enforcement agency correct if she wants to disagree with our laws if she wants to disagree with how 0.95

00:26:36.120 they're enforced she ought to take that up with lawmakers and law enforcement and law enforcers i don't 1.00

00:26:40.980 quite understand why it makes sense to take that up with so i'll tell you why here it is he said for

00:26:47.040 a period of time we were involved with financing one of the firms uh we were not uh we're not anymore

00:26:52.220 so here's the thing they were wells fargo was featured november 2016 in a report along with line

00:27:00.260 other banks of lending to core civic and geo group uh 444 million blah blah blah the same uh period of time

00:27:07.600 in which the photo of caged children misattributed to the trump administration was taking uh was taken

00:27:13.160 wells fargo and other banks decided to re-evaluate their lending activity to private prisons amid the

00:27:19.900 controversy over the trump administration's immigration policies so she the reason why she's 0.99

00:27:24.860 bringing it up is because it's working the public shaming yes public shaming of people who dare to

00:27:30.960 provide financing for another company that provides outsourced law enforcement assistance you know

00:27:37.220 to a government agency you know that cuomo is doing that with the banking uh executives in new york

00:27:42.520 if you lend money to anybody who is a gun manufacturer or a gun uh store we're gonna have to send in more

00:27:51.600 investigators because we think those guys are up to shady things so if you want your you want your

00:27:57.380 approval every year you want your audit to go smoothly don't do business with them

00:28:02.260 i suppose the good news here is that we're not dealing with the government itself forcing it

00:28:09.220 we're dealing in some ways with uh shaming by public officials through private channels and

00:28:17.460 sometimes with a public stage i mean isn't that the same as the brown shirts it wasn't the government

00:28:23.460 it was an outside of the government arm yeah people can still arrange financing from another bank but

00:28:30.020 what happens when everyone turns against all other banks correct does that mean nobody will be able to

00:28:34.500 enter into a contract to provide support for a law enforcement agency right and if that happens what does

00:28:39.980 that do to our ability to enforce the law what does that do to president obama's administration's

00:28:47.820 ability to cage children as uh as happened we are we are sitting here at a time where people are not

00:28:54.580 abiding by the law we just had the district attorney here in dallas say that he is no longer going to

00:29:01.300 prosecute crimes if you uh break into somebody's house or their store and you steal something less

00:29:08.620 than 750 and you need it if you were just stealing it to enrich yourself he'll prosecute but if you need

00:29:18.260 it he won't prosecute senator mike lee uh just a an absolute wall around our constitution uh and we are

00:29:29.420 pleased to have him uh in studio hi mike great to be with you thank you so you've written new book called

00:29:36.060 our lost declaration which is a really important uh book i think and everybody should have at least

00:29:42.520 one copy hard copy uh to be able to keep and one to give to your kids or your grandkids um mike the

00:29:50.400 my understanding of the declaration of independence has changed so much it's gotten i just love this

00:29:56.180 document i just love it and i look at it as it's our mission statement and everybody says well we

00:30:04.100 haven't done those things well no because they're really hard that's an aspirational thing that no

00:30:10.480 one had ever said before and if we had accomplished all those things it'd be time for a new mission

00:30:16.000 statement it would and this mission statement remains achievable it remains desirable but we've drifted from

00:30:24.660 that understanding look our our children have been taught a distorted version of history one that

00:30:31.620 badly misstates the role and the mission of government and the risks associated with its abuse

00:30:38.160 i wrote this book to help fix that to give people the ability to help their children and their

00:30:43.620 grandchildren uh and themselves learn what they wish were being taught in our public schools and what

00:30:50.240 used to be taught in our public schools this is a companion book to another one i wrote a few years

00:30:54.620 ago about the constitution but the more i've researched and read into the constitution and it's

00:30:59.900 important the more i've come to realize you can't fully understand and appreciate and implement the

00:31:05.120 constitution without understanding the declaration and where it came from it is the the declaration of

00:31:09.620 independence is the mission statement we want to start a country and it's going to be this

00:31:16.180 and this is why we have to start our own country because of these problems but it leads with this

00:31:23.180 is who we're going to be the constitution is the owner's manual it's how to make that mission statement or

00:31:31.220 quite frankly any mission statement work that's right the constitution is the picture frame the

00:31:38.440 declaration is the picture correct it's the vision for where we want to go it's also the vision for what

00:31:43.020 happens when things go dangerously off course so can i ask you a question on the on the declaration

00:31:49.140 it says and for these purposes uh governments are instituted among men uh and what the purposes are

00:31:57.960 to protect those rights given by god and it is uh the duty uh if a government i'm badly mangling it now

00:32:09.360 i'm sorry but if the government uh goes awry and starts to go against those rights and they're not

00:32:15.080 protecting those rights it is the right and the duty of the people to alter or abolish

00:32:21.160 and institute a new system that will better serve that purpose right yeah so in the case of the civil war

00:32:34.160 that was not what they were trying to do they were not trying to protect rights they said they

00:32:39.900 were because they were saying state rights but they were violating all men are created equal they were

00:32:44.280 violating the basic human rights if a government becomes so horrible that it is taking away our

00:32:53.740 rights and it is mangling everything that we've ever stood for why doesn't a state have the right to say

00:33:01.640 no i i want to alter or abolish it and i'm going over here because we believe for our own safety and

00:33:09.200 happiness and the safety of those rights we can come up with a better way of doing it

00:33:14.520 that right exists i would clarify one thing there uh you referred to state it's not the state itself

00:33:20.540 a state is another government it's another layer of government it's ultimately the people that have

00:33:24.900 it governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

00:33:29.480 okay whenever government becomes destructive of those ends it is the right of the people to alter

00:33:33.820 or abolish it to alter or abolish their form of government and so that recognizes this beautiful

00:33:40.900 language penned by thomas jefferson some two and a half centuries ago identifies the fact that these

00:33:46.420 laws exist in a state of nature they exist out there they are pre-state they're pre-government

00:33:53.160 uh they exist because we exist and because god created us and we are the sovereigns that's what

00:34:00.520 was so revolutionary about this document and it's that thought the idea that we have god-given rights

00:34:06.060 that government is there to serve us and not the other way around it's considered revolutionary today

00:34:11.540 sadly because we've neglected it the um the idea that jefferson was a uh mentally tortured

00:34:23.060 man that lived in one foot in slavery one foot out i don't think is entirely accurate especially if

00:34:29.880 you read the first draft and it was two states i mean hancock said and i think he was right on this

00:34:38.740 look the the the king is going to divide us if there's any daylight between any of us 13

00:34:46.680 there he is going to use that and he's going to flip those people who have any kind of daylight

00:34:52.740 he will worm his way in and he will have you working against us so we have to be in

00:34:58.320 lockstep on everything so two states said no to jefferson's proposal in the first draft of

00:35:06.280 abolishing slavery that's right and i talk about this in our lost declaration in researching this i

00:35:12.560 discovered how much jefferson really wanted to put language in it identifying as one of the

00:35:19.180 grievances against king george iii that he had perpetuated slavery within the american colonies

00:35:24.360 doing so perhaps even to destabilize them and to make them dependent on that evil vile institution

00:35:30.320 as i researched for this book i also discovered that jefferson early in his career uh within the

00:35:37.380 state of virginia tried to get the state of virginia to abolish slavery now i also later in his career too

00:35:42.560 he tried several times he tried several times now i acknowledge in the book uh he does have a

00:35:48.220 complicated relationship with slavery because even as he's trying to do all this he still owns slaves

00:35:53.460 but he can't get rid of them because of state law he he can't unlike george washington he didn't make

00:35:59.720 arrangements for them to be freed after he and his wife had done not only that he couldn't because he

00:36:05.360 was in debt the law stated at the time if you're in debt at the time of your death you cannot get rid of

00:36:11.340 that property which is one of the great tragedies of the jefferson estate is that because of those

00:36:16.720 very same debts after he died uh his slaves were sold and in many instances families were separated

00:36:23.700 and sent to different parts of the country so yeah jefferson had a complicated relationship with this

00:36:28.500 but he knew what was wrong and he did try to do something about it he even put language in the

00:36:33.520 original draft of the declaration of independence to stop it and so we have to remember that jefferson

00:36:40.820 himself understood the nature of this he was able to identify good uh from evil and identify this as

00:36:48.600 part of the evil column should they go back in a time machine impossible question you're there

00:36:56.660 do you argue and say guys we cannot put this declaration together unless it includes slavery do you

00:37:06.420 i think every one of us would probably like to imagine that that is what we would say slavery is

00:37:14.260 so abhorrent and we're able to see that today and so i i think most of us would like to believe that if

00:37:21.780 we were there we would say okay let's rally around this so let me make a real life situation let's say

00:37:26.720 for some reason you know washington implodes and you're not there but a lot of the representatives you

00:37:32.500 know our government is gone we have to start over and we have to fight against an outside force and 0.76

00:37:39.480 we've got 40 states and 10 of them will not go for hey a pro-life declaration we are going to all people

00:37:51.560 are created equal and uh and endowed by their creator and we have to protect life and we believe life

00:37:58.700 begins at conception or whatever and you got 10 states that don't do it it's the same kind of

00:38:05.180 situation would you would you see a reason to compromise on that principle to be able to gather

00:38:14.920 a free country and and take care of it later you would hope yes i believe i would uh which is uh

00:38:23.560 illustrative here especially if we couldn't survive without those states unwilling to go

00:38:29.220 along with it and that i think was quite arguably the case at the time of the revolution uh these

00:38:34.520 were 13 colonies they understood that unless they were all united they couldn't survive not militarily

00:38:40.740 not economically and those two things were interrelated you couldn't get more pro-life than you are

00:38:47.540 that's correct and and if you couldn't survive and cobble this country back together because you

00:38:54.420 were pro-life and the and some states were not you would still say okay well let's work towards that

00:39:01.000 that's exactly right and so this is one of the reasons i tell the story uh about jefferson's attempts

00:39:06.640 uh to get rid of slavery in this book in in our lost declaration is i think it's important for us

00:39:12.260 to understand the historical context in which he operated uh back with mike lee in just a second

00:39:17.520 the book is on sale right now buy a copy for yourself buy a copy for your children and your

00:39:23.280 grandchildren and make sure you have a hard copy of this i think it's a really important book our

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00:39:34.320 everywhere this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:39:40.140 hey it's glenn and if you like what you hear on the program you should check out pat gray unleashed

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00:39:57.400 from the less than frozen tundra in fact mostly warm and soggy tundra of lost

00:40:09.900 colinas texas glenn beck prognosticates the nfl draft we've given glenn a selection of 20 players

00:40:23.100 from the nfl draft and he is going to try to place them yeah so he says i've already narrowed it down

00:40:28.160 pretty deep yeah going pretty deep i'll tell you who doesn't have a chance today okay don't have a

00:40:32.720 chance of being drafted don't have a chance of being drafted they will they they will spend their

00:40:36.880 lives in obscurity uh now that you do do all those more picks past 10 so you're only picking

00:40:43.160 the top 10 they could get track picked at number 11 for example they could go play cute little

00:40:47.360 football someplace these people are over nick nick bosa he's over he's over done okay dwayne haskins

00:40:54.560 done uh christian wilkinson he might i'll explain he might have a chance uh leon farrell okay done

00:41:04.920 uh quinn and quinn and quinn and williams done done done off not gonna get it to me uh byron

00:41:12.060 coward oh coward done devon white no and are we gonna hear the reasoning there's a chance there's 0.86

00:41:19.200 a chance i'm only judging by pictures weight and height that's up to you you could have had 0.98

00:41:24.400 knowledge and let's watch football like every other male in america for the last 50 years

00:41:28.480 done yeah josh allen's done for sure yeah he's a clown yeah okay so you have those are the people

00:41:33.820 you've eliminated i've eliminated i've eliminated more than that but i i've i've i've got uh i've got

00:41:39.600 my picks okay so so should we do this with the first pick of the 2019 glenn beck nfl draft the

00:41:45.640 arizona cardinals select you're doing you're doing i'm not doing no i don't no no no that's how

00:41:50.780 what do you mean this is how the draft works we tell you we say that little thing you'll get all

00:41:56.340 10 of them filled in but i fill them in differently so what are you doing like a countdown no i'm not

00:42:02.500 doing a countdown i'm gonna start with number eight we're just starting with the eighth pick of the

00:42:07.400 draft yes okay detroit lions all right okay here we go all right the problem with that is and i know

00:42:14.340 you know this uh the eighth pick of the draft could be gone if you start at eight because number one

00:42:19.820 could pick eight no no number one is not going to pick eight number one is going to pick number one

00:42:26.060 i i see okay okay number eight is ed oliver he will be going to the lions ed oliver ed oliver he's six

00:42:34.660 three two hundred and ninety pounds he's from houston now i thought why well i thought for a while

00:42:42.280 i thought for a while that he could go to the tampa bay buccaneers because he's been playing

00:42:48.840 in severe heat in houston okay okay okay and uh and he's been playing in an open stadium i think

00:42:56.580 probably okay houston uh-huh and so you think probably you're not sure not sure uh but uh the

00:43:03.440 team that he plays for in houston they know him as a big tough guy that can run around in sweaty and

00:43:10.840 not pass out in a really hot sweaty day so you're saying this is essentially a humidity pick by the

00:43:15.960 no no i'm not sending him to tampa bay i almost picked him for number five okay because of the

00:43:22.480 humidity thing but instead he's going to number eight the detroit gotta look at him now look at

00:43:26.480 his picture okay he looks like somebody just hit him in the face with a shovel like what's the

00:43:32.220 he right now he looks he does he looks like what the okay surprised look on his face right

00:43:38.380 stepped on a rake boom what the that's where he looks in this now i would i should note to you here

00:43:43.920 that the thing you're looking at is a photograph which is a moment in time of one particular

00:43:50.480 fraction of a second all i got to go always look like he has a surprise look on his face that's all

00:43:56.200 i got to go okay okay all right so if you want to take away his surprise reaction then he goes to

00:44:01.400 tampa i know but he's going cold weather no he's going to detroit oh no everyone who lives in detroit

00:44:10.120 opens their door every day he goes what the when they realize they're in detroit so number eight

00:44:16.620 to detroit ed oliver all right hard to argue with that logic wow it is uh detroit is okay all right

00:44:22.960 detroit gets ed oliver now we go to the next pick which is not nine as you might expect but another

00:44:28.780 pick on well no this one's this one um tj hawkinson you know who he is we do yes okay six

00:44:34.720 five 245 pounds he's going to the seattle supersonics which is on another board yeah but

00:44:43.240 he's going to the seattle supersonics board because it's on a basketball board and also

00:44:47.320 they don't exist anymore uh they're now the oklahoma city thunder right yes seattle doesn't have a 0.93

00:44:52.940 basketball team anymore they do not no they do not these damn marxists they do have a football team 1.00

00:44:57.080 but they're not drafting in the top so the supersonics are over yes they've been over for 0.97

00:45:00.560 for a long time yes so they're going to be who knew that pick is going to be surprised when he

00:45:05.240 goes there and you know what he's playing football or basketball well he'll win so yeah because nobody

00:45:09.740 would be playing against him uh all right six five 254 pounds from wyoming what i was going to ask

00:45:18.120 what team we're drafting what position and the top 10 are we drafting i'm telling you in a minute

00:45:23.880 okay okay first let me introduce carl ganderson you know carl carl ganderson six five from wyoming

00:45:33.040 254 pounds i'm not familiar with carl frankly are you uh yes yes i am familiar with carl uh it's an

00:45:39.640 interesting pick for which team i'm gonna i i'm gonna pick him for denver number 10 okay okay he's

00:45:46.420 going to denver and the reason why if you look at this picture he looks like kind of one of those

00:45:51.620 go west young men statues you know is that because he's holding his football out in front

00:45:57.740 of him might be but look at look at his eyes he's like i'm determined i'm gonna go someplace

00:46:01.800 where it's where it's west so he is going to the denver broncos okay so so far we have the eighth

00:46:08.580 pick in the draft is ed oliver and the tenth pick is carl ganderson i wouldn't be surprised though

00:46:12.720 if denver was actually east of laramie um but that's a whole nother that's a whole different story

00:46:18.680 well i'm just saying yeah okay i know so here we go here we go from alabama six five three hundred

00:46:26.940 and one pound jonah williams you know jonah yes yes jonah that guy looks like

00:46:35.360 i think he's going to the oakland raiders the oakland raiders at number four yeah because he

00:46:45.060 looks kind of pissed off he looks like a guy who could live in oakland and be like what i'm going

00:46:51.720 to tear these people in from limb and uh and you have to if you're going to live in oakland that's

00:46:57.400 the way you have to look all right there he looks like he's from game of thrones kind of yeah he does

00:47:00.960 be right by the way he's from california play for the kings there you go oakland raiders select at

00:47:06.260 number four jonah williams for some reason the arizona cardinals at one still have not decided to make

00:47:11.120 their pick which is a controversial move here in this draft okay i do have uh hang on i've i've lost

00:47:16.180 the i've lost mr hunk a lot hang on he is where is he uh i've got one for san francisco he's really

00:47:26.900 a good looking guy okay and here he is drew lock from missouri okay yeah quarterback he's kind of in

00:47:34.760 this picture he kind of looks like tom cruise san francisco they're gonna like they'll love him

00:47:40.500 there they'll love him in san francisco number two pick wow lock going to san francisco drew lock at

00:47:46.660 number two yes for san francisco so we now have two four eight and ten have been selected here in the

00:47:53.420 glennbeck 2019 nfl draft tampa bay buccaneers number five okay the mothership of this program

00:47:59.600 yes big pick yes people on the edge of their seats right now six two three hundred and five

00:48:05.140 pounds from kentucky it's a big fella bunchy stallings all right bunchy bunchy has a good name

00:48:12.800 it's a good name he's a good name he's from kentucky he looks friendly he looks like a guy who'd be like

00:48:18.800 come on tampa's fun yeah he does he looks like he's having a good time in that picture i agree for

00:48:23.560 good times he's going to the tampa bay okay buccaneers bunchy stallings at number five okay

00:48:30.160 we still have the one three six seven and nine picks to go glenn the next election that's getting 0.99

00:48:36.660 tough now it's getting tough because i'm kind of down to just a bunch of people that are like yeah

00:48:41.280 uh based on their photos they're just yeah you were very excited about christian walk christian

00:48:50.360 wilkins christian wilkins clemson you know him yes okay yeah uh he looks like a homeless guy

00:48:57.180 why in that picture yeah he looks like a homeless guy in this picture he's got a beard and it's kind

00:49:03.540 of unkempt and uh he looks like a guy who's like hey dude hey dude uh you got some money let me wash

00:49:12.460 your windshield i don't think that's accurate but he just seems to have his mouth open and you're

00:49:17.040 judging it completely he's going to new york to wash windshields yes or no he's going to play for

00:49:23.540 the play for the giants and jets there's two teams so he's selected now that this guy goes to new york

00:49:30.860 but he doesn't know which new york team it is this is a good general manager you have all right i'm

00:49:35.600 going to play i'm going to pick jawan taylor jawan taylor okay from florida wait a minute don't you want

00:49:40.760 to decide where christian wilkins is going they both go to three and six they can work it out

00:49:46.320 between themselves which one they go to they don't get to work it out you have to pick them

00:49:50.700 yeah this is how this i'm gonna let them decide you can't you can't do that you have to select

00:49:56.160 which one is which three and six jawan taylor and christian wilkins i don't know the jets just seem

00:50:01.440 more like new york the giants seem more like a knockoff kind of girly team so i'm gonna put

00:50:09.020 jawine for the jets and uh christian wilkins because he looks happy but homeless uh we'll give

00:50:16.080 him to the giants but i say those two are interchangeable they could pick it could go to

00:50:20.060 six or three doesn't matter yeah again maybe there'll be a maybe this is the this way of glenn's

00:50:25.120 signaling there will be a trade made there between the giants and jets which has a good zero percent

00:50:29.040 chance of happening okay so we still have the what seven and nine picks to go and then the

00:50:33.920 number one overall in the 19 2019 glenn beck have i selected the number one the one that everybody is

00:50:39.640 like not yet not yet no you have not no you did discount one of the top three though uh in fact a

00:50:46.060 couple of the top three yeah i will say the most excited yes uh they're in the pile of discounted

00:50:50.760 most excited clellan feral quinnon no quinnon williams is quinnon williams but you can't put them

00:50:56.680 back in now nick bosa but i want to take a look at him i want to take a look at you can't change

00:51:01.060 them now you've already discounted them we need to take a break we need to do our we got three more

00:51:05.340 all right well i have the i have the number nine pick and the number one pick to go yes who's it

00:51:09.720 going to be only i know we'll do that

00:51:13.920 okay i'm gonna dismiss kyler kyler murray because he's 5 10 from oklahoma

00:51:24.920 and you're dismissing nobody's nobody 5 10 and 195 pounds in the nfl there have been people who've

00:51:32.380 made this point actually actually there there are a few there are a few but there's a few and there

00:51:37.600 have been a few but i mean kyler murray but you've discounted him so who's next can we get the next

00:51:43.260 three picks please well i still had him in my go pile but i was thinking about discounting him

00:51:47.320 daniel jones he's from duke you know daniel jones is yes we do okay i'm gonna put him

00:51:56.540 i'm gonna put him up in the buffalo bills because he just looks like an eater

00:52:00.020 and he's got his tongue out and he's like that looks delicious again glenn because in this photo

00:52:06.260 yes his tongue does not mean he walks around all the time with his tongue out he likes buffalo

00:52:10.200 buffalo wings okay uh they make great buffalo wings is the home of buffalo wings i'm gonna put

00:52:15.780 uh daniel jones up there intriguing number one from buffalo we still have number seven do you

00:52:21.040 want to do his number seven first and end on number seven oh the jaguars yeah it's not even a team

00:52:26.100 uh it actually is yeah it's a team in jacksonville uh-huh ah i'm gonna give it to kyler murray

00:52:33.180 because he's a fast runner he's gotta be a runner it's that small now why would why would

00:52:37.200 why would jacksonville need a runner per se what do you think because uh jaguars are like cheetahs

00:52:42.240 they're fast okay okay that's more logic than i thought you're still attached to that okay all

00:52:48.220 right all right so one more pick still on the number one pick i still have josh allen byron coward

00:52:55.980 i think those two are still out out quinnon williams he looks like a football player devon white

00:53:03.840 now you've already eliminated it i know i know and then we gave you too much information on that

00:53:08.480 you did so i know i hate to get rid of him you already had him you got rid of him that's why

00:53:13.040 we uh we we brought it up okay the number one okay okay number one pick i you just

00:53:19.780 all right i'm just number one pick

00:53:23.720 didn't i get rid of nick bossa right yes whatever i got rid of him he's dead to me

00:53:31.880 now andre dillard and devon white uh-huh now i'm putting clean farrell back in uh because i have

00:53:40.920 some information that he is good at something uh i bet he is but if you look at them they all look

00:53:47.780 happy they do lean does not look he looks like he's faking it okay but if you look at andre dillard

00:53:56.260 and devon white they look sincerely happy that's nice that you're judging them that way i like that

00:54:03.060 but no one wants to play football in a thousand degrees okay all right it's true it's very hot in

00:54:10.920 tampa and the new stadium's not quite uh ready so i'm getting rid of andrew dillard we're doing

00:54:15.340 arizona though no oh arizona that's right well they do have an indoor stadium they do have an

00:54:19.480 indoor stadium they have an indoor stadium yes i'm going devon white because he looks the happiest

00:54:24.680 all right devon white he's like hey i just picked number one there you go there you go there it is

00:54:30.200 so let's give you the rundown here arizona cardinals select devon white san francisco 49ers go qb

00:54:35.920 with drew lock at two new york jets jawan taylor at three oakland raiders wait wait you didn't tell me

00:54:41.500 that san francisco needed a uh quarterback they don't they don't but they selected a second one

00:54:46.280 for some reason oh oh he's a quarterback he's a quarterback he was white i wanted to see if there

00:54:51.880 was a chance that he was do they draft for owners oh that's right because i cory booker i mean i think

00:54:58.660 the only white people are they don't draft owners they don't draft all the time that this is essentially

00:55:03.480 slavery right players but drew lock cannot be an owner no of the san francisco 49ers he can't be no he

00:55:08.920 they'll never draft him for that oakland raiders at four go jonah williams at five the tampa bay

00:55:13.940 bucks with an interesting selection of bunchy stallings at five uh at six uh the giants like

00:55:20.180 christian wilkins wilkins or jawan taylor you don't get your oars we'll give you credit if they switch

00:55:27.380 if they trade those two picks we'll give you credit jacksonville jaguars select kyler murray

00:55:31.800 and they are number seven which is kind of a surprise yeah detroit surprise detroit lions ed oliver

00:55:36.960 yeah i almost cut him out i thought kyler i don't think he's really a football player

00:55:42.280 do you think we're fooling you uh number nine daniel jones goes to the buffalo bills uh they've got a

00:55:48.020 good quarterback situation there now too and denver broncos like carl ganderson at number 10

00:55:53.380 so here's what it kept when we now these are locked in place yeah these are locked in yeah so what

00:55:58.900 interesting selections here uh san francisco as we mentioned has a very highly paid quarterback

00:56:04.780 and for them to select someone at number two that is a quarterback would be very surprising

00:56:09.500 let me tell you if that happens whoever the quarterback is for the 49ers better watch your

00:56:15.100 back because they're offing you because you are too expensive okay now it is believed that kyler

00:56:20.940 murray the quarterback the one that you discounted because he's 510 and 190 will be the number one pick

00:56:26.800 in the draft why would you do that is he a he's a fast runner he is also fast he's also fast throw

00:56:32.580 now jacksonville just signed a giant quarter uh quarterback contract with nick foals at seven so

00:56:38.940 it'd be surprising to see them draft another quarterback there kind of yeah but this is

00:56:43.660 information that would have been helpful this all would have been information that would have been

00:56:47.960 helpful you know if you would have told me their positions and what the teams needed maybe i could

00:56:53.660 have helped you out a little bit more the blaze radio network

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