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00:00:00.000 coming up on the glenn beck podcast today with uh pat filling in for stew today we discuss some

00:00:06.640 of the violent riots across the country including video from our very own elijah schaefer of a man

00:00:12.100 in downtown dallas being beaten for defending a shop unbelievable video uh we see a lot of people

00:00:19.000 who are still looting from big businesses like nike but is that really in support of george

00:00:25.160 floyd or are they just using george's name for their own good plus the president has now declared

00:00:31.120 antifa a terrorist organization and glenn talks with michigan sheriff chris swanson uh about the

00:00:38.020 viral video of him talking to the protesters and letting them know that he and his department

00:00:43.060 were there to walk with them and they did here's the podcast

00:00:47.380 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

00:00:57.700 hello america

00:01:02.940 i want you to i want you to just listen for a few minutes and and tell me

00:01:11.300 tell me what you're really concerned about

00:01:15.200 tell me what the solution is to our problems

00:01:19.580 we're living in a time where the president is very controversial he's up for re-election

00:01:28.780 the democrats are divided over their candidate there's a pandemic going on

00:01:38.260 the film came out or video came out

00:01:43.300 that's resonated nationwide and started riots

00:01:49.920 there's ongoing tension with north korea

00:01:53.160 there's mistrust of the government because the way it's handling things

00:01:59.220 we're a sharply divided nation the student radicals versus the silent majority

00:02:05.920 and the media is reporting the death toll that is rising

00:02:11.040 every day

00:02:12.260 did i just describe today or did i describe 1968

00:02:20.620 because that's exactly what was happening in the summer of 68

00:02:28.200 let me take you there for a second

00:02:31.780 in january of 68 johnny cash performed his concert at folsom state prison in california the winter olympics

00:02:43.700 uh were about to be held in france and they were to be fully broadcast in color on abc for the first time

00:02:51.160 the reason why i bring the reason why i bring this up

00:02:55.140 is because i want you to think about the technology that was happening in that year

00:03:00.220 the good and the bad that was happening in that year

00:03:03.380 1968 was an important year

00:03:05.720 because while that was happening here in america cash and the the winter olympics

00:03:11.340 the prague spring began

00:03:13.720 the secretary of the czechoslovakian communist party

00:03:19.700 was uh the winner

00:03:22.540 and he became the prime minister

00:03:24.800 over the stalinist

00:03:26.500 candidate

00:03:27.300 and that win brought a very short period of liberalization

00:03:32.220 north korea at the same time had captured the uss pueblo

00:03:38.320 it was a u.s navy intelligence ship

00:03:40.800 captured it and its crew

00:03:42.860 and held the 83 u.s service personnel

00:03:45.700 in pow camps for 11 months

00:03:49.380 meanwhile vietcong forced uh

00:03:52.580 the the vietcong forces launched a the tet offensive

00:03:56.880 a coordinated series of attacks against the u.s targets in south vietnam

00:04:00.920 it surprised us

00:04:02.800 and 1500 americans died

00:04:06.080 and that was the turning point of the vietnam war

00:04:09.460 meanwhile back at home civil rights protests

00:04:12.780 at south carolina state university turned deadly

00:04:16.860 after a police officer was struck with a heavy wooden banister

00:04:20.440 that's when police opened fire

00:04:22.880 and an estimated 200 black students were there

00:04:26.420 three male students were shot and killed

00:04:28.620 28 others wounded

00:04:30.220 this is the orangeburg massacre

00:04:32.900 but you don't really know much about it

00:04:34.720 because the ted offensive was sucking up all of the air

00:04:37.800 and getting all of the news

00:04:39.020 it's also the year the first 9-11 call happened

00:04:42.560 first 9-1-1 call was placed in the u.s.

00:04:46.100 in 1968

00:04:47.060 meanwhile politically

00:04:49.300 lbj was in office

00:04:52.160 and he had the kerner commission

00:04:53.760 and they did a report

00:04:55.900 on the status in america

00:04:57.580 and they condemned white racism

00:04:59.360 as the primary cause

00:05:00.960 of the recent riots in the u.s.

00:05:03.840 the report declared

00:05:05.140 our nation is moving towards two societies 0.79

00:05:07.840 one black

00:05:08.860 one white

00:05:09.660 separate

00:05:10.360 and unequal

00:05:12.060 it was then that senator robert f kennedy

00:05:16.480 announced that he was going to enter the presidential race

00:05:18.600 on the same day

00:05:21.940 u.s. forces killed over 500 vietnamese civilians

00:05:25.340 in the my lay massacre in south vietnam

00:05:28.620 it was just a few days after that

00:05:32.360 that lbj announced he's not going to run for re-election

00:05:35.060 and then

00:05:36.240 martin luther king was murdered

00:05:38.140 and riots happened

00:05:39.640 in over a hundred u.s. cities

00:05:41.600 these riots killed 46 people

00:05:44.740 14,000

00:05:47.000 u.s. troops

00:05:48.800 the federal troops

00:05:50.640 were called in

00:05:51.420 to control the violence

00:05:52.780 at the same time

00:05:55.520 the hot wheels car was

00:05:56.600 introduced

00:05:58.100 then on june 5th

00:06:01.880 robert kennedy was murdered

00:06:03.060 by sirhan sirhan

00:06:03.840 he later said

00:06:06.660 he killed kennedy

00:06:07.560 out of concern

00:06:08.120 for the palestinian cause

00:06:09.500 he had felt betrayed

00:06:10.900 by the

00:06:11.660 support of rfk

00:06:13.280 for israel

00:06:13.940 during the six day war

00:06:14.900 in 1967

00:06:15.660 by the way

00:06:16.720 just another parallel here

00:06:18.560 i think you've seen

00:06:19.240 the other parallels

00:06:20.200 this weekend

00:06:23.260 i saw something

00:06:23.860 on the

00:06:24.320 ayatollah khameini's

00:06:25.900 or khameini's

00:06:27.220 website

00:06:27.880 the ayatollah of iran

00:06:29.420 palestinian

00:06:30.840 or palestine

00:06:32.380 will be free

00:06:33.420 and there's a

00:06:34.300 picture that they put

00:06:35.820 of the palestinians

00:06:36.760 celebrating their

00:06:37.660 freedom at the

00:06:38.940 al-aksa mosque

00:06:40.340 in jerusalem

00:06:41.100 but what struck me

00:06:42.660 was palestine

00:06:44.020 will be free

00:06:44.920 what says underneath

00:06:46.500 the final solution

00:06:48.560 resistance

00:06:50.820 until

00:06:51.740 referendum

00:06:52.540 not a lot has changed

00:06:55.040 richard nixon

00:06:56.340 won the republican

00:06:57.160 nomination

00:06:57.940 at the rnc

00:06:59.180 in miami

00:07:00.240 walter hedley

00:07:02.140 he was the police

00:07:03.140 chief in miami

00:07:03.960 in 1968

00:07:04.680 he said

00:07:05.920 when the looting

00:07:06.820 starts

00:07:07.400 the shooting

00:07:08.320 starts

00:07:08.940 and he said that

00:07:09.920 in response to

00:07:10.680 the protests

00:07:11.420 in the predominantly

00:07:12.980 black neighborhoods

00:07:14.000 of liberty city

00:07:14.840 during the republican

00:07:15.640 national convention

00:07:16.460 late last week

00:07:18.100 this is what

00:07:18.720 president trump

00:07:19.500 tweeted

00:07:19.840 the same phrase

00:07:20.860 referring to the

00:07:21.680 looters in

00:07:22.180 minneapolis

00:07:22.740 it was at that

00:07:25.320 time when america

00:07:26.280 was busy with

00:07:26.960 their own things

00:07:27.800 that we forgot

00:07:28.320 all about

00:07:29.020 the the

00:07:30.480 prague spring

00:07:31.980 in czechoslovakia

00:07:33.200 the soviet union

00:07:34.980 came in with

00:07:36.120 200,000 troops

00:07:37.320 and they ended

00:07:37.980 the prague spring

00:07:39.060 we've talked about

00:07:40.180 the prague spring

00:07:41.120 over and over again

00:07:42.240 what happened in

00:07:43.000 czechoslovakia

00:07:44.120 when the soviets

00:07:46.960 were coming in

00:07:48.620 to prague

00:07:49.340 and the people

00:07:49.940 were begging

00:07:50.620 them to come

00:07:51.560 into hungary

00:07:52.260 and to

00:07:52.760 and to prague

00:07:53.820 and to czechoslovakia

00:07:54.860 and please

00:07:55.480 get some control

00:07:57.500 in here

00:07:58.240 meanwhile we were

00:08:00.000 begging the same

00:08:00.800 thing please

00:08:01.620 is there any

00:08:02.180 control

00:08:02.760 the dnc

00:08:03.900 had their convention

00:08:04.940 in chicago

00:08:05.740 and the yippies

00:08:07.160 and the students

00:08:08.360 for democratic society

00:08:09.720 and the black 0.94

00:08:10.340 panthers

00:08:10.900 poured into the

00:08:11.820 streets

00:08:12.280 they were met

00:08:13.340 by police forces

00:08:14.460 rallied by

00:08:15.500 mayor richard

00:08:16.660 daly

00:08:17.100 vice president

00:08:20.440 hubert humphrey

00:08:21.240 became the

00:08:21.900 democrats nominee

00:08:22.780 with the riots

00:08:23.620 happening in the

00:08:24.480 streets

00:08:24.780 at the first

00:08:25.360 also at the

00:08:26.940 the um

00:08:27.800 uh

00:08:28.740 in 1968

00:08:29.480 we were counting

00:08:30.820 the numbers of

00:08:31.500 the dead

00:08:31.840 not only in

00:08:32.560 vietnam

00:08:32.960 but the hong kong

00:08:34.960 flu

00:08:35.440 it was a

00:08:37.340 pandemic

00:08:37.900 in the u.s

00:08:38.900 you don't read

00:08:39.440 much about it

00:08:40.020 because americans

00:08:40.780 did what americans

00:08:41.700 usually do

00:08:42.700 and that's just

00:08:43.620 move on with

00:08:44.520 their life

00:08:45.080 at this point

00:08:46.500 there were

00:08:47.080 100,000 dead

00:08:48.880 in the pandemic

00:08:49.760 in 1968

00:08:51.480 this year

00:08:53.180 there's 102

00:08:54.100 that are dead

00:08:56.240 102,000

00:08:58.120 the deaths

00:08:59.840 back in 1968

00:09:00.760 affected those

00:09:01.560 who were 65

00:09:02.340 or older

00:09:03.160 i just saw a

00:09:05.120 report this

00:09:05.560 morning that

00:09:06.180 this time

00:09:07.400 the deaths

00:09:07.880 81

00:09:09.660 or older

00:09:11.180 the miss

00:09:13.240 america pageant

00:09:14.060 atlantic city

00:09:14.680 had a protest

00:09:15.680 where people

00:09:16.580 were they

00:09:17.820 were gathering

00:09:18.620 around the 0.99

00:09:19.120 freedom trash

00:09:20.020 can where 0.98

00:09:21.180 women could 1.00

00:09:21.780 throw away

00:09:22.420 all the

00:09:22.820 manifestations

00:09:23.460 of women's

00:09:24.280 oppression

00:09:24.620 like bras

00:09:25.300 and girdles

00:09:25.960 and curlers

00:09:26.720 and false

00:09:27.340 eyelashes

00:09:27.820 and wigs

00:09:28.560 and women's

00:09:29.220 magazines

00:09:29.760 this is what

00:09:30.900 happened

00:09:31.240 this is where

00:09:31.980 the phrase

00:09:32.380 bra burning 0.99

00:09:33.200 came from

00:09:33.920 and started

00:09:34.820 in 1968

00:09:35.760 but no

00:09:36.500 bras were

00:09:37.000 actually burned

00:09:37.820 the country

00:09:39.580 was in a

00:09:40.060 crisis

00:09:40.420 they didn't

00:09:40.840 know who

00:09:41.240 to trust

00:09:41.960 cbs

00:09:43.280 decided they

00:09:44.060 would launch

00:09:44.700 60 minutes

00:09:46.320 so there

00:09:47.440 would be an

00:09:47.920 authoritative

00:09:48.460 voice that

00:09:49.400 people could

00:09:49.960 rally around

00:09:50.700 and trust

00:09:51.440 then in the

00:09:53.640 midst of all

00:09:54.640 of this

00:09:55.140 doubt

00:09:55.800 apollo 7

00:09:59.440 was launched

00:10:01.560 and provided

00:10:02.680 the first

00:10:03.400 live TV

00:10:04.600 broadcast

00:10:05.200 from a

00:10:06.020 spacecraft

00:10:06.480 in orbit

00:10:07.180 for the

00:10:08.500 first time

00:10:09.180 we saw

00:10:09.680 the astronauts

00:10:10.280 strapped in

00:10:10.800 the seats

00:10:11.240 and we

00:10:12.060 saw what

00:10:12.820 they were

00:10:13.300 seeing

00:10:13.780 I was struck

00:10:15.260 this weekend

00:10:16.040 by the

00:10:17.500 parallels

00:10:18.000 of 1968

00:10:19.220 especially

00:10:20.580 how complete

00:10:21.480 they are

00:10:22.120 as I was

00:10:23.220 watching the

00:10:24.040 launch of

00:10:25.120 SpaceX

00:10:25.740 and NASA's 0.98

00:10:27.280 new rocket

00:10:27.960 we have

00:10:33.240 the launch

00:10:33.680 of SpaceX

00:10:34.180 here

00:10:34.960 we went

00:10:50.060 from

00:10:50.340 commander

00:10:51.360 so-and-so

00:10:52.720 to Bob

00:10:53.720 and Doug

00:10:54.320 but it

00:10:55.300 was pretty

00:10:55.640 much the

00:10:56.100 same

00:10:56.380 thing

00:10:56.720 just a

00:10:57.080 little

00:10:57.180 more

00:10:57.460 casual

00:10:57.980 it was

00:11:00.880 still

00:11:01.160 inspiring

00:11:01.820 it was

00:11:03.620 the games

00:11:04.280 of 1968

00:11:05.560 the summer

00:11:06.240 Olympics

00:11:06.620 in Mexico

00:11:07.380 City

00:11:07.800 where the 0.98

00:11:09.100 black

00:11:09.880 athletes

00:11:10.620 American

00:11:11.400 black

00:11:11.820 athletes

00:11:12.280 Tommy

00:11:12.560 Smith

00:11:13.000 and

00:11:13.300 John

00:11:13.840 Carlos

00:11:14.300 bowed

00:11:14.700 their heads

00:11:15.240 and raised 0.88

00:11:16.260 their black

00:11:16.980 glove fist

00:11:17.940 in a salute

00:11:18.620 to the 0.76

00:11:18.960 black 0.96

00:11:19.280 power

00:11:19.780 movement

00:11:20.760 during

00:11:21.580 the

00:11:21.780 Star

00:11:22.000 Spangled

00:11:22.420 Banner

00:11:22.780 Richard

00:11:23.980 Nixon

00:11:24.440 won

00:11:25.260 by the

00:11:26.700 way

00:11:26.920 he didn't

00:11:27.420 win

00:11:27.820 the

00:11:28.080 South

00:11:28.520 that

00:11:29.260 was

00:11:29.580 Alabama

00:11:30.100 governor

00:11:30.600 George

00:11:31.220 Wallace

00:11:31.720 he won

00:11:32.560 13.5%

00:11:33.800 of the

00:11:34.040 popular

00:11:34.380 vote

00:11:34.680 in five

00:11:35.140 southern

00:11:35.560 states

00:11:36.040 but

00:11:36.280 he won

00:11:37.700 the

00:11:37.980 Republican

00:11:38.760 Party

00:11:39.320 was still

00:11:40.260 the party

00:11:40.700 of Lincoln

00:11:41.260 I guess

00:11:41.920 at that

00:11:43.260 same

00:11:43.540 election

00:11:43.880 the first

00:11:44.280 black

00:11:44.600 woman 0.99

00:11:44.860 was

00:11:45.060 elected

00:11:45.360 to

00:11:45.660 the

00:11:45.860 US

00:11:46.120 House

00:11:47.220 of

00:11:47.420 Representatives

00:11:47.960 by the

00:11:48.320 way

00:11:48.480 not the

00:11:48.920 first

00:11:49.220 black

00:11:50.040 person

00:11:50.580 but the

00:11:51.140 first

00:11:51.340 black

00:11:51.660 woman 0.99

00:11:52.040 the first

00:11:52.480 black

00:11:52.880 person 0.78

00:11:53.460 that was

00:11:54.380 elected

00:11:54.840 was elected

00:11:55.840 in 68

00:11:56.960 as well

00:11:57.460 but I think

00:11:57.820 it was

00:11:58.020 1868

00:11:59.140 so we

00:12:01.680 had a

00:12:02.100 it was a

00:12:03.560 summer

00:12:03.920 and a

00:12:04.460 time

00:12:04.980 of

00:12:05.680 iconic

00:12:06.560 movements

00:12:07.420 Yellow

00:12:08.160 Submarine

00:12:08.720 was released

00:12:09.540 the White

00:12:10.060 Album

00:12:10.440 was released

00:12:11.180 William

00:12:11.920 Shatler

00:12:12.500 and

00:12:12.820 Nichelle

00:12:13.500 Nichols

00:12:13.960 shared

00:12:14.360 the first

00:12:14.860 interracial

00:12:15.440 kiss

00:12:15.880 in the

00:12:16.360 Star Trek

00:12:16.940 episode

00:12:17.420 that year

00:12:18.120 Aretha

00:12:19.200 Franklin

00:12:19.740 released her

00:12:20.620 album

00:12:20.860 Lady

00:12:21.200 Soul

00:12:21.680 Laugh-In

00:12:22.940 debuted

00:12:23.560 so did

00:12:24.200 Mr. Rogers

00:12:24.800 Neighborhood

00:12:25.540 imagine that

00:12:27.140 Mr. Rogers

00:12:27.880 how

00:12:28.180 opposite

00:12:29.240 to

00:12:29.600 society

00:12:30.280 NBC

00:12:32.920 had a

00:12:33.620 Motown

00:12:34.080 produced

00:12:34.420 special

00:12:34.760 called

00:12:35.140 TCB

00:12:36.080 that was

00:12:37.120 Diana Ross

00:12:38.000 the Supremes

00:12:38.700 and the

00:12:39.080 Temptations

00:12:39.940 Chitty Chitty

00:12:40.700 Bang Bang

00:12:41.300 was released

00:12:41.880 the love

00:12:42.420 bug

00:12:42.720 was released

00:12:43.400 all of

00:12:44.700 these things

00:12:45.280 that culturally

00:12:46.100 were pouring

00:12:46.760 good things

00:12:47.720 into our

00:12:48.420 society

00:12:49.020 and yet

00:12:50.620 1968

00:12:51.280 was also

00:12:52.060 the year

00:12:52.580 that Andy

00:12:53.140 Griffith

00:12:53.620 walked away

00:12:54.400 from

00:12:54.720 Mayberry

00:12:55.180 I see

00:13:01.280 so many

00:13:01.880 similarities

00:13:02.600 including

00:13:04.980 the good

00:13:05.360 things

00:13:05.820 and the

00:13:07.220 hope

00:13:07.500 and the

00:13:07.760 promise

00:13:08.140 of tomorrow

00:13:08.760 but there

00:13:10.700 is one

00:13:11.200 thing

00:13:11.720 that I

00:13:14.480 think

00:13:14.760 I haven't

00:13:16.760 seen the

00:13:17.120 parallel

00:13:17.480 yet

00:13:18.000 and I

00:13:20.600 think in

00:13:21.080 the end

00:13:21.440 it's what

00:13:21.860 saved us

00:13:22.580 what saved

00:13:24.620 us in

00:13:24.920 the end

00:13:25.280 was

00:13:25.620 we did

00:13:27.120 look to

00:13:27.900 the moon

00:13:29.000 and the

00:13:29.320 stars

00:13:29.700 and we

00:13:30.220 saw a

00:13:30.860 bright

00:13:31.060 future

00:13:31.540 while

00:13:32.520 Woodstock

00:13:33.600 was happening

00:13:34.300 while

00:13:35.040 Martin Luther

00:13:36.340 King

00:13:36.720 was killed

00:13:37.440 we looked

00:13:38.520 forward

00:13:39.040 we looked

00:13:39.600 up

00:13:40.020 thanks to

00:13:41.020 the men

00:13:41.300 and women

00:13:41.660 of NASA

00:13:42.420 we had

00:13:43.840 something

00:13:44.180 to aspire

00:13:44.920 to

00:13:45.360 we have

00:13:47.920 it again

00:13:48.440 we have

00:13:51.620 all of

00:13:52.000 these

00:13:52.360 promises

00:13:53.140 that are

00:13:53.940 just over

00:13:54.620 the horizon

00:13:55.320 last time

00:13:56.980 we decided

00:13:58.420 we're not

00:13:59.480 with the

00:14:00.080 rioters

00:14:00.700 we're with

00:14:02.180 justice

00:14:02.920 fairness

00:14:04.300 for all

00:14:05.160 we're not

00:14:06.520 with the

00:14:07.020 rioters

00:14:07.640 but the

00:14:10.340 thing we're

00:14:10.740 missing

00:14:11.120 is something

00:14:12.620 that happened

00:14:13.100 on Christmas

00:14:13.600 Eve of

00:14:14.120 1968

00:14:14.900 I take

00:14:16.760 you back

00:14:17.380 to the

00:14:18.440 moon launch

00:14:19.300 and the

00:14:20.660 commander

00:14:21.160 Jim Lovell

00:14:22.600 listen

00:14:24.040 we're now

00:14:26.700 going over

00:14:27.500 approaching

00:14:29.160 one of our

00:14:29.720 future

00:14:30.060 landing sites

00:14:30.980 selected in

00:14:32.640 this smooth

00:14:33.100 region

00:14:33.600 to

00:14:34.980 solve

00:14:35.960 the sea

00:14:36.280 of tranquility

00:14:37.100 smooth

00:14:38.580 in order

00:14:38.960 to make

00:14:39.360 it easy

00:14:39.780 for the

00:14:40.460 initial

00:14:41.580 landing

00:14:41.980 attempt

00:14:42.400 in order

00:14:43.940 to

00:14:44.300 preclude

00:14:45.400 having to

00:14:46.440 dodge

00:14:46.680 mountains

00:14:47.180 here we were

00:14:49.980 doing something

00:14:50.700 here we're

00:14:55.700 seeing for the

00:14:56.200 very first

00:14:56.900 time the

00:14:57.940 surface of

00:14:58.480 the moon

00:14:58.840 it's really

00:14:59.400 scratchy video

00:15:00.720 and he's

00:15:01.280 talking about

00:15:01.840 the lunar

00:15:02.300 sunrise and

00:15:03.260 the sunrise

00:15:04.340 for mankind

00:15:05.180 that was just

00:15:06.380 around the

00:15:06.820 corner as we

00:15:07.560 would land a

00:15:08.620 few years later

00:15:09.320 on the sea of

00:15:10.220 tranquility

00:15:10.880 and for all

00:15:14.600 the people

00:15:15.100 back on earth

00:15:16.840 the crew of

00:15:17.700 Apollo 8

00:15:18.360 has a message

00:15:19.900 that we would

00:15:20.400 like to send

00:15:21.000 to you

00:15:21.440 in the beginning

00:15:25.080 God created

00:15:26.800 the heaven

00:15:27.300 and the earth

00:15:27.940 and the earth

00:15:29.600 was without

00:15:30.140 form

00:15:30.720 and void

00:15:31.740 and darkness

00:15:33.040 was upon

00:15:33.580 the face

00:15:34.040 of the deep

00:15:34.600 and the spirit

00:15:36.420 of God

00:15:37.000 moved upon

00:15:37.840 the face

00:15:38.300 of the waters

00:15:38.920 and God

00:15:40.440 said let

00:15:41.900 there be

00:15:42.300 light

00:15:42.680 and there

00:15:43.700 was light

00:15:44.360 and God

00:15:45.700 saw the

00:15:46.160 light

00:15:46.480 that it

00:15:47.600 was good

00:15:48.140 that I

00:15:52.120 think is

00:15:52.480 what we're

00:15:52.960 missing

00:15:53.520 we're focusing

00:15:54.420 on the

00:15:55.240 darkness

00:15:55.860 and the

00:15:56.640 the deep

00:15:58.160 we're

00:16:02.820 forgetting

00:16:03.340 that we

00:16:05.000 were created

00:16:05.660 and that

00:16:07.200 we are very

00:16:07.820 similar to

00:16:08.460 our creator

00:16:09.100 as in

00:16:10.320 as

00:16:10.780 in the

00:16:12.580 way that

00:16:13.120 we can

00:16:13.840 to create

00:16:15.000 we will

00:16:16.860 create

00:16:18.120 our own

00:16:18.720 future

00:16:19.160 but we

00:16:20.240 have to

00:16:20.620 decide

00:16:21.160 what's good

00:16:22.220 what's bad

00:16:23.660 we have to

00:16:24.780 separate the

00:16:25.560 light from

00:16:26.180 the darkness

00:16:26.740 can you do

00:16:31.280 that

00:16:31.680 all right

00:16:32.300 I know what

00:16:32.840 you're thinking

00:16:33.240 people ask me

00:16:34.020 all the time

00:16:34.440 Glenn how

00:16:35.060 on earth

00:16:35.820 do you

00:16:36.260 maintain

00:16:36.800 that

00:16:37.080 unbelievably

00:16:37.820 handsome

00:16:38.440 figure

00:16:38.900 it's not

00:16:40.080 easy to

00:16:40.420 have a

00:16:40.660 body like

00:16:41.080 this

00:16:41.340 I start

00:16:42.140 at 4 a.m.

00:16:42.840 by running

00:16:43.160 two miles

00:16:43.700 then I

00:16:44.040 bike back

00:16:44.940 do I

00:16:45.540 don't know

00:16:45.800 750 crunches

00:16:47.200 finish the

00:16:47.740 morning with

00:16:48.360 hours of

00:16:48.920 hot yoga

00:16:49.700 okay obviously

00:16:51.220 I don't do

00:16:51.600 any of that

00:16:52.260 what I usually

00:16:53.080 do is sit 1.00

00:16:53.860 my fat butt 1.00

00:16:54.700 down on the 1.00

00:16:55.200 couch at night

00:16:55.860 and I eat a

00:16:56.420 bowl of ice

00:16:56.880 cream because

00:16:57.580 I really have

00:16:58.580 a sweet tooth

00:16:59.440 and my wife

00:17:00.040 has been saying

00:17:00.640 to me for a

00:17:01.080 while you gotta

00:17:01.720 try these

00:17:02.260 built bars it's

00:17:03.000 like you're

00:17:03.500 eating a candy

00:17:04.160 bar and I'm

00:17:04.640 like no it's

00:17:05.460 not are they

00:17:06.180 protein bars

00:17:06.960 yeah yeah well

00:17:08.100 that's like eating

00:17:08.680 the doormat

00:17:09.640 okay and then I

00:17:10.440 got desperate I

00:17:11.120 went into her

00:17:11.600 stash and I

00:17:12.160 actually had one

00:17:12.960 then I begged

00:17:13.800 built bars to

00:17:14.580 become a sponsor

00:17:15.700 because it's

00:17:16.540 like eating a

00:17:17.120 candy bar the

00:17:18.000 coconut cream or

00:17:19.060 mint brownie is

00:17:20.100 mind-boggling go

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00:17:30.580 don't tell my wife I

00:17:31.260 told you

00:17:31.520 this is the best of

00:17:36.960 the Glenn Beck

00:17:37.380 program and don't

00:17:38.220 forget rate us on

00:17:39.840 iTunes

00:17:40.340 so I don't think I

00:17:47.260 have ever seen

00:17:48.200 such a severe

00:17:50.220 contrast of action

00:17:51.840 surrounding an

00:17:53.000 alleged abuse by a

00:17:54.820 police officer and

00:17:55.740 a black person

00:17:56.460 whether it was

00:17:57.660 Rodney King or

00:17:58.700 Trayvon Martin or

00:17:59.860 Michael Brown there

00:18:01.400 was a lot of

00:18:02.120 violence in the

00:18:02.980 streets but there

00:18:03.620 were also questions

00:18:04.820 that were happening

00:18:06.220 at that time there

00:18:07.540 were questions on

00:18:08.300 what led up to the

00:18:09.280 confrontation between

00:18:10.220 the LAPD and

00:18:11.200 Rodney King there

00:18:12.120 were questions about

00:18:12.940 King's behavior just

00:18:14.160 before the camera

00:18:15.240 clicked on there

00:18:16.560 were questions that

00:18:18.400 were similar for

00:18:19.260 Trayvon Martin and

00:18:20.840 Michael Brown the

00:18:22.400 cases clearly were

00:18:24.300 not as cut and dry

00:18:25.880 as some of the

00:18:26.960 street activists had

00:18:27.840 wanted them to be

00:18:28.860 because there were

00:18:30.160 questions out them

00:18:31.120 about it and it

00:18:32.280 made some of the

00:18:33.160 violence even get

00:18:34.200 worse when you

00:18:34.960 started to ask the

00:18:35.900 questions but let me

00:18:37.980 look at the case here

00:18:38.920 of George Floyd

00:18:40.360 what's missing from

00:18:43.240 what's different from

00:18:44.740 the others I think

00:18:47.240 it's the lack of

00:18:47.960 questions there has

00:18:49.800 been near unanimous

00:18:51.820 consent that the

00:18:53.720 officer was in the

00:18:54.780 wrong this case

00:18:56.420 crosses the political

00:18:57.660 and ideological divide

00:18:59.440 the officer almost

00:19:01.120 immediately was

00:19:02.740 arrested and charged

00:19:04.660 with murder at the

00:19:06.540 federal level the

00:19:07.900 Justice Department

00:19:08.780 President Trump's

00:19:10.040 Justice Department

00:19:10.900 President Trump's

00:19:12.020 Attorney General

00:19:12.800 announced a federal

00:19:14.200 rights investigation

00:19:15.320 into Floyd's death

00:19:16.740 so there will be not

00:19:18.440 only a federal

00:19:19.400 prosecution for

00:19:20.500 murder but also a

00:19:22.980 civil rights

00:19:23.620 investigation those

00:19:24.940 happened without any

00:19:26.100 protests why

00:19:27.780 because this one's cut

00:19:30.900 and dry this one's

00:19:31.960 really pretty easy

00:19:33.400 and this is the

00:19:36.200 flashpoint

00:19:36.940 now this forget all of 0.86

00:19:40.080 the ridiculousness of

00:19:41.260 the kneeling at an

00:19:42.440 NFL football game

00:19:43.720 this case was primed

00:19:46.520 to be the flashpoint

00:19:47.680 that would have

00:19:48.760 given those that

00:19:49.840 think police action

00:19:50.920 deserves more

00:19:51.600 scrutiny and an

00:19:53.300 actual legitimate

00:19:54.520 platform and

00:19:57.360 they're right there

00:19:58.660 are bad cops out

00:20:00.020 there there might

00:20:00.600 even be bad

00:20:01.460 precincts or you

00:20:03.380 know bad a whole

00:20:04.900 city of bad cops

00:20:06.140 I don't believe that

00:20:08.620 but I'm willing to

00:20:11.100 listen to the case

00:20:12.300 because I want to

00:20:14.120 believe in our

00:20:14.940 police officers I

00:20:16.080 need to believe we

00:20:17.760 need as a society to

00:20:19.980 believe in our

00:20:21.020 police force

00:20:21.860 it's why I'm so

00:20:23.600 upset with what's

00:20:24.460 going on in

00:20:24.980 Washington DC if

00:20:26.160 you don't trust the

00:20:27.580 FBI if you don't

00:20:29.560 trust the Justice

00:20:30.460 Department we don't

00:20:32.060 have a civil society

00:20:33.720 but in this case

00:20:35.920 everyone and I

00:20:36.860 mean everyone was

00:20:38.120 in lockstep that

00:20:39.600 this was a horrible

00:20:41.040 unjustified act

00:20:42.560 now here's the

00:20:44.680 contrast between

00:20:45.620 Floyd and all the

00:20:46.800 others none of it

00:20:49.440 mattered to any of

00:20:50.280 the rioters

00:20:50.980 mutual agreement

00:20:53.480 swift action

00:20:54.680 against the officer

00:20:55.820 a federal

00:20:56.680 investigation

00:20:57.480 but where are we

00:21:00.700 now as a weekend

00:21:01.820 we are a country

00:21:03.480 that is in a

00:21:04.320 literal war zone

00:21:05.520 the headline that I

00:21:07.300 saw that was the

00:21:08.100 most frightening was

00:21:09.860 the world worries

00:21:12.000 why because one of

00:21:16.180 the things that we

00:21:16.940 have going for us

00:21:17.960 one of the reasons

00:21:18.680 why we are the

00:21:19.760 richest nation in the

00:21:21.360 world why we are

00:21:22.780 poor have a flat

00:21:24.680 screen TV is because

00:21:27.400 we are stable we

00:21:29.500 have a stable set of

00:21:30.880 laws a stable the

00:21:32.300 longest running

00:21:33.560 constitution in world

00:21:35.240 history and people

00:21:37.860 know they can count

00:21:38.920 on Americans to

00:21:40.160 not go crazy

00:21:41.500 that's why the

00:21:43.120 world is worried

00:21:45.000 3,000 arrests in

00:21:47.620 over two dozen

00:21:48.540 cities more than

00:21:49.920 two dozen cities

00:21:51.160 have also enacted

00:21:52.900 strict curfews 0.98

00:21:54.500 5,000 National Guard

00:21:56.680 troops have been

00:21:57.400 called up in 15

00:21:58.840 different states in

00:22:00.220 my home city of

00:22:01.140 Dallas it erupted

00:22:03.260 over the weekend

00:22:04.360 ATM machines were

00:22:06.280 smashed well that

00:22:07.520 will show the

00:22:08.120 police store windows

00:22:10.180 were broken in as

00:22:11.440 as looters scrambled

00:22:12.720 inside stealing

00:22:13.980 everything they could

00:22:14.840 get their hands on

00:22:15.720 Neiman Marcus what

00:22:17.720 does Neiman Marcus

00:22:18.860 have to do with the

00:22:20.100 oppression of the

00:22:22.620 blacks by the 0.97

00:22:23.600 police force people 0.96

00:22:26.260 were violently beaten

00:22:28.060 unconscious I

00:22:31.220 haven't seen anything

00:22:31.860 like this in my

00:22:32.580 lifetime and it can be

00:22:34.960 seen all over the

00:22:35.660 country there are no

00:22:38.320 questions as per the

00:22:39.900 conduct of the

00:22:40.540 officer but now there

00:22:42.540 are questions who's

00:22:44.540 fanning the flames here

00:22:45.740 they will tell you that

00:22:47.740 it is Donald Trump

00:22:48.980 they have no

00:22:51.640 credibility anymore

00:22:52.740 I'll tell you who's

00:22:54.820 fanning the flames the

00:22:56.420 radical left movement in

00:22:57.920 the late 1980s and 90s

00:22:59.780 and up until about a

00:23:00.800 decade ago was all but

00:23:02.300 dead but they were

00:23:04.000 still out there but

00:23:05.380 their arguments had

00:23:06.140 been proven wrong time

00:23:07.560 and time again they

00:23:09.760 had no ideological

00:23:10.760 ground to stand on they

00:23:12.380 were frauds and the 0.89

00:23:13.740 majority of those who

00:23:14.720 tried to pursue they

00:23:15.900 tried to persuade knew

00:23:17.600 it but that's not the

00:23:19.380 case anymore

00:23:20.120 president Trump has now

00:23:23.860 designated Antifa as a

00:23:26.120 terror group all that

00:23:27.840 means all kinds of

00:23:28.800 things we can be looked

00:23:31.480 into now which leads me

00:23:33.980 to all kinds of new

00:23:35.220 questions on who do you

00:23:36.500 trust

00:23:37.020 Attorney General Barr

00:23:39.480 also announced they're

00:23:40.300 looking into some of

00:23:41.020 these groups for their

00:23:41.800 culpability in the Floyd

00:23:43.300 riots

00:23:43.920 can you imagine what's

00:23:46.040 about to happen if this

00:23:47.680 hopefully goes through

00:23:49.060 Antifa would be a major

00:23:50.820 target for anti-terror

00:23:52.260 investigations

00:23:53.000 that means the wiretaps and

00:23:55.640 a whole lot of doors that

00:23:56.760 were previously locked

00:23:57.980 that means looking into

00:23:59.920 these mayors that have

00:24:02.160 been playing footsie like

00:24:03.960 Portland with Antifa how

00:24:06.960 many people at the DNC will

00:24:08.420 be caught speaking to local

00:24:09.780 Antifa chapters how many

00:24:11.300 organizations such as

00:24:13.040 possibly the Democratic

00:24:14.500 Socialist Americas of

00:24:16.440 America can be caught up in

00:24:18.280 this web how many local and

00:24:20.180 state elected officials how

00:24:21.600 many media personalities

00:24:23.060 oh boy if you've been on

00:24:26.200 the side of Antifa you might

00:24:27.480 be in trouble

00:24:28.100 see this is why you

00:24:31.240 you don't want to be in

00:24:34.320 living in a country where 0.51

00:24:35.360 you could have these

00:24:36.400 terrorist designations

00:24:38.300 easily put through

00:24:41.220 because if you're on the

00:24:44.300 wrong side

00:24:45.300 you're toast

00:24:47.300 Ilhan Omar is now peddling a

00:24:52.660 conspiracy theory looking for

00:24:54.400 outside agitators yeah there

00:24:56.660 are outside agitators there

00:24:58.200 are people that are rioting in

00:24:59.520 Minneapolis that have no place

00:25:01.840 in Minneapolis or in Minnesota

00:25:03.540 for that matter and there are

00:25:07.040 outside agitators like China is

00:25:09.020 taking advantage of something that

00:25:10.900 is homegrown

00:25:11.900 they're terrified

00:25:16.640 now nearly every single riot that

00:25:20.360 has broken out over the past few

00:25:21.800 days they all are very very

00:25:23.700 similar peaceful protest begins

00:25:25.920 and then something happens

00:25:27.060 something spirals out of control

00:25:29.760 and the whole city is on fire

00:25:31.560 now is it a conspiracy is it a

00:25:34.540 theory of conspiracy to claim

00:25:37.480 that far-left radicals and groups

00:25:39.440 such as Antifa are stoking the

00:25:41.500 violent flames

00:25:42.580 the governor of Minnesota said

00:25:44.840 this weekend that 80% of the

00:25:46.560 arrests were made on people

00:25:47.880 outside the state

00:25:49.580 this number has gone back and

00:25:51.240 forth

00:25:51.500 but they were clear

00:25:53.560 clear outside agitators

00:25:55.700 now I want you to listen to this

00:25:57.040 quote from USA Today

00:25:58.240 drifting out of the shadows in

00:26:00.780 small groups dressed in black

00:26:02.480 carrying shields and wearing

00:26:03.780 knee pads

00:26:04.420 they head toward the front lines

00:26:06.320 of the protest

00:26:07.100 helmets and gas masks protect

00:26:09.260 and obscure faces and they

00:26:11.140 carry bottles of milk to

00:26:12.560 counteract tear gas and pepper

00:26:14.460 spray most of them appear to be

00:26:16.940 white they carry no signs and 0.70

00:26:19.900 they don't want to speak to

00:26:21.100 reporter trailed by designated

00:26:23.600 medics with red crosses taped to

00:26:25.540 their clothes these groups head

00:26:26.800 straight to the front lines of the

00:26:28.420 conflict

00:26:28.960 now so here we have these white

00:26:31.300 students and I will agree with

00:26:34.080 with some of the people that said 0.88

00:26:36.000 this is mainly caused by white

00:26:37.580 supremacists but just not the way 0.94

00:26:40.120 they think these white supremacists

00:26:42.480 are these people that think they

00:26:44.500 know better than everyone else 0.95

00:26:46.700 these whites that just have to go in 1.00

00:26:49.100 and protect the poor black man 1.00

00:26:51.660 because the black man can't defend 0.99

00:26:53.740 himself and so these whites 0.99

00:26:55.480 defending the black man go into the 1.00

00:26:57.720 cities and burn them down the black 1.00

00:26:59.540 man's neighborhood 1.00

00:27:00.320 uh that doesn't sound very helpful

00:27:03.980 night after night usa today continues

00:27:08.180 in this ravaged city these small

00:27:09.880 groups do battle with police and

00:27:11.380 national guard kicking away tear gas

00:27:13.320 canisters and throwing back rubber

00:27:14.940 foam

00:27:15.300 objects fired at them around them

00:27:20.200 fires break out windows are smashed

00:27:22.640 parked cars destroyed usa today

00:27:25.160 reporters have witnessed the groups on

00:27:26.740 multiple nights in multiple locations

00:27:28.540 sometimes they threaten those

00:27:29.880 journalists who photograph them

00:27:31.360 destroying property

00:27:32.700 so what does this sound like to you

00:27:35.060 does this sound like some something

00:27:36.940 spontaneous that we haven't seen

00:27:38.740 before or does this sound exactly

00:27:41.120 like antifa we've seen on the streets

00:27:43.840 of washington and washington state and

00:27:46.680 oregon and new york city it is antifa

00:27:49.880 a security consultant investigating the

00:27:53.640 riots told usa today that they found a

00:27:56.040 majority of the hardcore rioters are far

00:27:59.000 left and anarchist radicals again

00:28:02.660 antifa a peaceful protest in charlotte was

00:28:06.220 criticized by their own organizers after

00:28:08.300 other groups moved in and hijacked their

00:28:10.760 event the they implied it was an attempt

00:28:14.700 to support the movement but it was co-opted

00:28:17.200 by anarchists and others who were there only

00:28:19.920 to start fights elijah schaefer who works

00:28:23.200 for blaze tv was on the ground in dallas he

00:28:26.180 said the writers of the riots didn't have

00:28:28.320 anything to do with black versus white or

00:28:30.640 police brutality he said it was simple

00:28:33.800 class warfare against the rich and shop

00:28:37.200 owners he said organizers showed up with

00:28:39.800 pallets of bricks and said to them go in

00:28:42.960 this direction towards victory park because

00:28:45.040 that's where the rich people live end 0.78

00:28:47.440 quote now i want you to listen to this from

00:28:50.920 the uh from the riot in los angeles it's a

00:28:54.000 black woman who came to attend a peaceful 0.90

00:28:56.800 protest calling out a group of black 0.98

00:29:00.420 clad antifa white girls for causing 0.98

00:29:03.900 problems and vandalizing listen this is not 0.98

00:29:07.160 this is that don't police people let me 0.91

00:29:09.780 tell you this this is not a black woman 0.95

00:29:12.780 who's putting black lives matter i just 0.99

00:29:15.680 want you to know that when

00:29:18.060 right but y'all y'all doing that for us so

00:29:22.660 here are these listen don't don't don't

00:29:27.120 here is a peaceful protester a black 0.98

00:29:30.460 woman saying don't you write black lives 1.00

00:29:34.440 matter on that building in graffiti don't

00:29:36.740 do it we didn't you're you're gonna get the 0.99

00:29:40.080 black community blamed for this you're two 0.99

00:29:42.360 white girls from antifa 0.55

00:29:43.980 there is no conspiracy theory this is as

00:29:48.560 open and shut as the actual killing

00:29:52.380 of george floyd the evidence is out in

00:29:57.460 the open and it's spreading all over the

00:29:59.340 country and anyone claiming otherwise is

00:30:01.880 either not paying attention or mad because

00:30:04.980 it goes against their narrative or scared

00:30:07.100 that their culpability with the far left is

00:30:09.940 about to be on the front page of every

00:30:11.480 newspaper in the country there are three

00:30:15.900 actors in every case such as this the

00:30:19.620 first the peaceful activists exercising

00:30:22.120 their right to peacefully protest whether

00:30:24.500 you agree with them or not they're

00:30:25.800 operating under the law the second are

00:30:29.000 the troublemakers that want to benefit off

00:30:31.940 the chaos the rioters the looters etc they

00:30:35.560 need to be held accountable under the same

00:30:38.200 law that is protecting the protesters there's

00:30:41.700 a difference between protesters and looters

00:30:44.160 and thugs they aren't protesting they're

00:30:47.880 committing crimes but the third the third

00:30:52.020 they're the ideological agitators and chaos

00:30:56.160 is their ladder they don't care about

00:30:59.260 anybody's color they don't care about

00:31:01.620 justice they don't care about police

00:31:03.880 brutality in fact they actually want it

00:31:07.040 because it brings more chaos now that

00:31:11.740 movement is gaining in strength but we

00:31:14.980 have allies all over the country and they run

00:31:17.080 all the way up to washington dc and we

00:31:19.320 surround them this is classic strategy top

00:31:24.380 down bottom up but the bottom is coming up in

00:31:28.520 a different sort of way the best of the

00:31:33.500 Glenn Beck program

00:31:34.480 so chris swanson is a is a guy who's done a

00:31:43.880 lot of work for an organization that you

00:31:46.140 are well aware of that you actually helped

00:31:48.120 start operation underground railroad where

00:31:51.040 we go and we rescue slaves all around the

00:31:55.760 world chris was with me in mexico and i had

00:31:59.940 time to spend with him and i just i love

00:32:02.080 this guy he's the sheriff in genesee county

00:32:04.860 michigan he put down uh his baton and took

00:32:09.100 off his helmet and he said i'm with you and

00:32:12.620 so are all these cops and we're nothing we're

00:32:16.780 nothing like the guy who murdered murdered a

00:32:21.920 man this is actually what he said to the

00:32:26.020 crowd i want you to listen to it

00:32:27.060 the only reason we're here is to make sure

00:32:30.920 that you got a voice that's it

00:32:32.700 don't think for a second

00:32:34.660 don't think for a second that he represents

00:32:38.740 who these cops are from all over the county

00:32:40.900 and around this nation we go out there to

00:32:43.500 help people not do that nonsense we want

00:32:45.940 to be with y'all for real so i took my

00:32:48.540 helmet off to lay the batons down i want to

00:32:51.700 make this a parade not a protest

00:32:53.800 you got other ones here you got dogs so

00:32:58.720 what's up so listen i'm just telling you

00:33:01.440 these cops love you that cop over there

00:33:04.460 hugs people so you tell us what you need

00:33:07.460 to do

00:33:07.800 they start chanting walk with us

00:33:13.540 and he says let's walk where you want

00:33:19.640 to go well walk all night long

00:33:21.640 this is a different story than we're seeing all

00:33:25.300 over the country uh with us now is that

00:33:29.140 sheriff chris swanson hi chris how are you

00:33:31.980 great to talk to you again my friend thank

00:33:35.320 you

00:33:35.560 so i saw this uh i saw this this morning

00:33:40.240 when i got up around five o'clock and i'm

00:33:42.480 like i i know chris and i was so proud

00:33:46.220 i was so proud of you chris thank you

00:33:49.340 um first of all tell me how this

00:33:52.340 happened was this spontaneous did you plan

00:33:55.440 that were there risks there had to be

00:33:58.040 real risks involved in doing this

00:34:00.660 well i can tell you that um i would love

00:34:04.460 to say that it was planned and we had a

00:34:06.300 strategy but uh that's not the case and i

00:34:09.540 could tell you throughout the whole week uh you

00:34:11.900 could feel the tensions build you felt it the

00:34:14.280 nation felt it over the weekend it went

00:34:16.260 buck wild you felt that uh there was such a

00:34:19.360 level of frustration that's never been seen

00:34:21.260 before and on saturday when we had gotten

00:34:23.960 word they were doing a demonstration you

00:34:26.260 know as the sheriff of the county chief law

00:34:27.940 enforcement officer we work with other

00:34:29.460 agencies our local flint township precinct was

00:34:33.800 uh kind of taking the lead as blocking traffic and

00:34:36.400 everything was calm at five o'clock crowds met at

00:34:39.200 a target which ironically was the first big

00:34:41.240 store torched in minneapolis and then you

00:34:44.220 could just feel the tension continue they

00:34:45.980 marched up and down east and west and i'm

00:34:48.980 going to tell you when the crowd grew to uh

00:34:50.880 hundreds and they marched towards the local

00:34:52.920 police department we saw what happened in uh

00:34:56.260 orgon we saw what happened in minneapolis to

00:34:58.520 the police departments and the temperature change

00:35:00.860 glenn the temperature changed and i uh i saw

00:35:04.120 officers we battled geared up and you know now

00:35:06.420 it's more of a response to what could happen

00:35:08.740 i have 11 second video i just record i don't

00:35:11.920 know why i did it as i walked towards the

00:35:13.800 crowd uh and where our line was and the tension

00:35:16.940 was so it was so intense i thought to myself how

00:35:20.680 did we get here like how did we lose in eight

00:35:23.280 minutes and 46 seconds we lost years of inroads to

00:35:27.200 our communities and uh i will tell you that line

00:35:31.260 that was formed is a line that you've seen across

00:35:32.920 the nation with uh cops on one side and

00:35:36.020 protests on the other and and it was just uh by

00:35:39.440 the grace of god i saw a flint township officer

00:35:42.620 miller he did a fist pump i don't know who 0.95

00:35:45.100 instigated it i saw it out of the corner of my

00:35:46.620 eye i saw a short little attempt of a hug and i

00:35:49.260 thought that's it i gotta speak to these people so

00:35:51.400 they dropped their batons i took my helmet off

00:35:53.960 i walked in the middle of the crowd and picked out a

00:35:57.040 shot caller and gave him a big old fat man hug and

00:35:59.920 said brother that guy is not who we are and uh

00:36:03.420 he said you need to tell the people that and

00:36:06.140 then i said you get them to listen to me and he

00:36:08.340 turned and and the whole crowd they're just

00:36:10.240 hungry for a an ear to listen and i'm going to

00:36:14.220 tell you that was the first question but the

00:36:16.240 second one really is what changed history and

00:36:18.360 made flint uh the beacon of light across our

00:36:21.700 nation that you can protest just like the

00:36:23.640 individual you're going to have on your show

00:36:25.320 that says basic rights and humanity that's

00:36:26.840 what they're fighting for we want a peaceful

00:36:28.400 demonstration that guy is a rock star because

00:36:31.180 the protesters they're protesting for the right

00:36:33.800 reasons and when i said did you notice on your

00:36:35.820 audio i did i've heard that just a couple times

00:36:38.220 even though it's gone pretty uh insane

00:36:39.900 i didn't they didn't have to think about what

00:36:42.660 they wanted i said what do i need to do next

00:36:44.600 immediately walk with us that's i want they

00:36:47.220 want to show unity they want the cops to listen

00:36:49.740 and to react and not just give lip service

00:36:51.820 so chris did you fear that because there are

00:36:57.220 there's a difference between the protesters and

00:37:00.040 then those agitators that are joining in many of

00:37:03.600 the mantifa and have nothing to do with uh with you

00:37:07.660 know the black community even um did you fear that

00:37:11.840 those people were involved were they there

00:37:14.520 um yes they were uh now the group that you

00:37:18.700 mentioned we did not have intel that they were

00:37:20.560 there but we had a clear uh direction that we had

00:37:24.460 people bringing bottles and gasoline and rocks and

00:37:26.780 and uh that was always a threat but i'm going to

00:37:29.700 tell you i'm not trying to be a superhero i'm not

00:37:31.960 trying to be uh macho but that was the least of my

00:37:35.260 concerns uh 27 years on the job tomorrow's my

00:37:38.820 anniversary i started june 2nd 1993 through years of

00:37:42.300 experience and training and we started in the jail and in

00:37:45.460 the jail of a sheriff's office you learn how to deal

00:37:48.360 with 120 convicted felons and people that are that are

00:37:51.920 awaiting prison for life offenses and it just treats it

00:37:55.160 trains you to be very comfortable in those situations but

00:37:57.500 i know you are a uh i know your heart glenn and i know that

00:38:01.040 you understand the spirit of god came over and anointed that

00:38:04.280 situation and i walked into it as david did and i felt that

00:38:08.780 peace and i saw the entire crowd move so to say that i wasn't scared

00:38:14.860 i'm sure i was but the action and the the the movement of

00:38:19.880 vulnerability that sent the message more than my words could

00:38:22.680 so now talk to the police officers all around

00:38:27.820 uh the country and well no first let me start with this

00:38:31.820 for those who are listening who are protesting tell me who the tell them

00:38:37.960 who the police are yeah there's 800 000 police officers in

00:38:43.840 the nation that go to work every single day

00:38:46.940 because they love their community and if you go to

00:38:50.320 officer down memorial page you'll see people

00:38:52.360 every day giving their life those are real hearts of

00:38:55.820 of the people's guardians you know your moms and dads and brothers and

00:39:00.520 sisters that are out there and 24 7 and everybody in the country no matter

00:39:04.860 if you hate the police when you're in trouble you call three numbers 9-1-1 and

00:39:08.020 we risk our lives to get there that's who police are

00:39:10.380 they're soccer coaches and soccer moms and they're 0.99

00:39:13.180 they're people who love their families and they're

00:39:15.340 singles and marrieds and that's who the police are they're the fabric of 0.99

00:39:19.700 protection and but we can't forget that we need to serve

00:39:22.640 and to those that are protesting there's righteous anger

00:39:25.820 and that righteous anger can be met with a police force that can hear the

00:39:30.380 voice of the people and when those two work together you see what happened on

00:39:33.840 may 30th here in flint michigan but if the protesters like was said in

00:39:37.740 your show are rioters those are folks that are

00:39:41.460 taken and what what what your uh your uh your next guest was probably going to

00:39:46.240 talk about is they're stealing the message from the people who want

00:39:49.820 change now those folks are hard to negotiate with

00:39:52.860 i'm talking to the people who have righteous anger

00:39:55.480 and for the law enforcement it's got to start from the top glenn people need to

00:40:00.280 come out from their conference rooms their podiums their

00:40:02.720 intelligent briefing rooms and get with the mix

00:40:05.820 start serving people you know you don't need to be the higher you go more removed

00:40:10.620 from your community you need to be more in tune

00:40:13.020 with your community you need to serve water and food and go to the same events

00:40:17.760 without any strings attached just like you do with

00:40:19.880 oh you are you serve with nothing in return you know when when people see

00:40:24.260 that they see the heart of people and i'm gonna tell you this that group

00:40:27.300 they're street savvy if they felt for a second that my words were empty

00:40:31.780 we wouldn't be having this conversation but they saw the heart

00:40:34.480 it started with a fist bump went to a hug and the whole thing was turned

00:40:38.660 so chris we're uh we're facing a time now i mean you're in you're in michigan

00:40:44.700 which has been uh quite an interesting i didn't think i would be coming back

00:40:49.780 from vacation talking about riots in the streets on something entirely

00:40:53.620 different than covid yeah um but here but here we are so you're

00:40:58.460 in michigan and and i know that there are good cops and bad

00:41:01.940 cops and you know we see them um every day

00:41:05.380 but the average american now is losing faith in their police force and in some

00:41:13.700 of the sheriffs etc etc in our fbi and justice system what has to be done

00:41:19.520 to uh to be able to regain that trust from some of your biggest supporters

00:41:28.200 i mean i i see things that are happening with covid

00:41:30.740 um up in michigan and i just i'm i'm stunned by it

00:41:35.640 i'm stunned by it well to answer a lot of that question to your first point

00:41:41.400 the burden falls on the police we have to take the first step

00:41:45.380 and there should be no such thing as a bad cop because if you got a bad cop

00:41:49.520 they shouldn't be a cop get them out fire and charge nobody's fired more police

00:41:54.440 officers than our office in the last 15 years

00:41:56.600 i've arrested my own people i arrested people there's a guy in jail in the next

00:42:01.120 county charged with life offenses for committing a sexual assault on duty

00:42:04.120 we are held to a higher standard and when it falls on us

00:42:07.540 that standard means that we need to act swiftly

00:42:10.120 and not make a wrong a right call it what it is to your second point

00:42:14.920 i don't want people to lose faith in the very people that will give their life to

00:42:19.420 protect them they're there 24 7 and they are great

00:42:24.060 people do not paint all law enforcement with the

00:42:27.200 same brush number three it starts from police

00:42:29.880 leadership set the tone set the standard expect what the people want and that is a

00:42:35.360 professional police officer that is willing to protect and serve and when it

00:42:40.440 comes to michigan you're right especially flint crime the automotive

00:42:43.760 industry shut down you have poverty the water crisis from

00:42:48.400 2015 2016 i mean you got people my parents live in the city and

00:42:52.940 but you know this agency we delivered cases of water to people on the front door

00:42:56.720 we we took care of their basic maslow needs during this covet case on march 17th i

00:43:02.300 swore in 40 faith-based leaders as deputy sheriffs to deliver a million pounds

00:43:07.200 of food because the system had shut down we delivered a million pounds of food to

00:43:11.580 people over the last six weeks we have a jail that has in the county

00:43:15.980 fourth highest in deaths of the in michigan we have a jail of inmates the most

00:43:21.720 violent people we have zero covid cases in the jail zero inmate cases from this

00:43:26.600 entire pandemic because it's not one person it's not one protocol it's an

00:43:31.380 entirety and uh the community in flint showed rock star behavior on may 30th

00:43:37.800 they set the tone for what flint can do in spite of all the the challenges they've

00:43:42.560 had and and that we've had as a city to say we can protest we can do it with

00:43:46.880 righteousness and we don't want to burn our city down but you're right we're

00:43:50.640 getting smacked every which way to sunday but the nation needs healing and it

00:43:54.600 needs people to step up in leadership positions to say listen i'm gonna do it

00:43:58.300 because it's the right thing it ain't the political thing it ain't the faith it's

00:44:01.640 the right thing and if you do the right thing people respect that they don't

00:44:05.240 want words they want action

00:44:06.460 chris swanson uh good to talk to you again my friend thank you so much

00:44:12.480 chris swanson he's sheriff of genesee county in michigan

00:44:16.100 he is the sheriff that you're seeing everywhere put down his baton and listen

00:44:20.700 to the protesters and change things dramatically in flint michigan

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