The Glenn Beck Program - June 01, 2020


Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Sheriff Chris Swanson ｜ 6⧸1⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

148.85419

Word Count

6,619

Sentence Count

22

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Today we discuss some of the violent riots across the country, including video from our very own Elijah Shaefer of a man in downtown Dallas being beaten for defending a shop. We see a lot of people who are still looting from big businesses like Nike, but is that really in support of george floyd, or are they just using his name for their own good? Plus, the President has now declared antifa a terrorist organization, and Glenn talks with Michigan sheriff Chris Swanson about the viral video of him walking with protesters.


Transcript

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
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
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
00:09:19.120 freedom trash
00:09:20.020 can where
00:09:21.180 women could
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
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
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
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
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
00:11:18.960 black
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
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
00:11:52.040 the first
00:11:52.480 black
00:11:52.880 person
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
00:16:53.860 my fat butt
00:16:54.700 down on the
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
00:17:21.900 to builtbar.com
00:17:23.640 use the promo
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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
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
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
00:22:23.600 police force people
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
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
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
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
00:26:36.000 this is mainly caused by white
00:26:37.580 supremacists but just not the way
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
00:26:46.700 these whites that just have to go in
00:26:49.100 and protect the poor black man
00:26:51.660 because the black man can't defend
00:26:53.740 himself and so these whites
00:26:55.480 defending the black man go into the
00:26:57.720 cities and burn them down the black
00:26:59.540 man's neighborhood
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
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
00:28:56.800 protest calling out a group of black
00:29:00.420 clad antifa white girls for causing
00:29:03.900 problems and vandalizing listen this is not
00:29:07.160 this is that don't police people let me
00:29:09.780 tell you this this is not a black woman
00:29:12.780 who's putting black lives matter i just
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
00:29:30.460 woman saying don't you write black lives
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
00:29:40.080 black community blamed for this you're two
00:29:42.360 white girls from antifa
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
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
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
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
00:44:25.820 you