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00:01:53.220 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program okay so there was a bill announced

00:02:05.660 yesterday uh that would uh would make it a federal crime crime now listen carefully

00:02:11.320 a federal crime 20 years in prison the same as unlawfully building a nuclear weapon

00:02:18.380 to develop artificial intelligence

00:02:21.360 that matches or exceeds

00:02:23.340 human cognitive performance

00:02:25.140 across a broad range of tasks

00:02:27.660 or one that could easily be modified to.

00:02:33.460 Okay, what?

00:02:35.820 Companies who do that will get

00:02:37.600 what sponsors call the corporate death penalty.

00:02:41.400 And until a brand new cabinet level agency

00:02:43.800 is created and staffed and has written its rules,

00:02:46.180 all advanced AI developments in the United States needs to stop. There's no date on that. It stops

00:02:53.400 until the agency says go. Now, I have told you already that AI is the greatest thing to happen.

00:03:03.320 It is also could be literally the death of the human species. We don't know, but I do know this.

00:03:12.540 I do not want China to have it because I know how China treats people.

00:03:17.000 I know how China does things.

00:03:18.960 I do not want to live in a state, a digital prison run by China.

00:03:26.400 Now, it could be a digital prison run by the United States of America.

00:03:29.980 I don't know.

00:03:30.680 But I do know exactly how China already uses this stuff.

00:03:35.700 So I also don't think we can control this thing.

00:03:39.720 You know, there was that story that came out.

00:03:41.240 when was it in june the ai agents that you know broke out of an air gap test environment and then

00:03:46.700 went and hacked into another company because they were looking for answers on a test and i sat here

00:03:52.300 and i said that was a sealed room it got out anyway this is trouble right well bernie sanders

00:03:59.180 read the same story and he drew a conclusion um and it's all based in fear and i have to tell you

00:04:06.300 I don't have a problem with the fear.

00:04:09.220 I have a problem with what the actual, the sentence, how it reads, how the bill reads.

00:04:18.820 If you read the definition in this bill, it has to match human cognitive performance across a broad range of tasks or could easily be modified to.

00:04:33.340 Tell me where that line is.

00:04:37.100 Tell me where that line is.

00:04:39.000 Because I don't know where that line is.

00:04:40.460 Aren't we already there?

00:04:42.200 I'm going to give you a story.

00:04:45.420 Well, let me just give it to you real quick here now.

00:04:47.840 This is the headline.

00:04:49.040 Welcome to the AGI era.

00:04:52.200 Rumors were true, all of them, and then some.

00:04:55.060 OpenAI is releasing GPT-6 Astra.

00:04:59.960 Their new frontier model, the company says,

00:05:02.100 likely marks the onset of artificial generalized intelligence.

00:05:06.300 that means his bill is already too late that that means artificial general intelligence means

00:05:19.360 it matches human performance the best human science the best mass mathematician the best

00:05:27.080 one on earth it can beat it the best construction guy the best uh uh architect the best you know

00:05:35.240 musician and songwriter whatever it is it can match or beat across every category of human

00:05:44.260 knowledge so we're already there but again you go back to this definition nobody can tell you

00:05:49.960 where the line is not the senator not the lab not the researcher sitting in an office in palo alto

00:05:55.940 you know trying to decide whether did this just cross this this means if bernie sanders had his

00:06:02.920 way, everybody at ChatGPT, the company would be shut down, and those people would go to jail.

00:06:10.060 No. No, they wouldn't. First of all, there's no test. There is a felony with a 20-year sentence

00:06:16.960 attached to a question that nobody can answer. Now, think about what that does to a person.

00:06:23.120 You're 31 years old. You're good at this. You work in Menlo Park, where the law is a phrase

00:06:31.020 nobody can define and a prosecutor decides it later whether you broke it or not you could you

00:06:37.000 could work in London or Zurich or Toronto or China you know where nobody is going to put you in prison

00:06:42.900 for being on the wrong side of an adjective you know that's not a hard call are you still in

00:06:48.220 Menlo Park no no you're not because what you just developed because no one knows when this is going

00:06:55.600 to happen. This might be AGI. And if it is, it's a huge, huge barrier. It might be. It might be

00:07:02.360 hype. We don't know. So if you're working on something and tomorrow it could be against the

00:07:09.920 law, are you going to develop that here? Let me tell you, this has happened. We've been here

00:07:16.040 before. This has happened almost exactly the same way. And the reason you've probably never heard of

00:07:21.740 of the story is because we were the ones who won it okay it's uh 1780 the industrial revolution

00:07:29.740 was essentially one machine and it was a water-powered frame that spun cotton into thread

00:07:36.760 and england owned it uh and parliament intended to keep it they were they were like we're the

00:07:42.160 only ones that are going to have that and it was illegal to export this machine it was illegal to

00:07:47.200 export a drawing of the machine. It was illegal for the man who knew how to build it to leave

00:07:52.920 the country. And that last one is the one that people forget. It wasn't an expert control on

00:08:02.000 the product. It was control on the people. So there's this young kid. He's working at one of

00:08:10.900 those mills, 10 years old. He works his way up to supervisor. And by 21, he had spent his entire

00:08:16.620 life inside that machine. His name was Samuel Slater. And he heard that America was paying

00:08:22.200 bounties to anybody who could build one. Okay. Well, he couldn't take the model. He couldn't

00:08:27.040 take a sketch and he really couldn't leave himself or that was against the law. So he didn't tell

00:08:34.100 anybody, not his friends, not his family, nobody. And he went down to London. He dressed himself as

00:08:39.400 a farm laborer, and he got onto a boat. He landed in New York, 1789. He had nothing in his hands.

00:08:48.640 By the end of the following year, he had rebuilt the machine on a river in Pawtucket,

00:08:54.940 and he did it from memory. So what does this mean? Britain's law worked exactly as written.

00:09:02.240 Not one machine left England, not one drawing. The law had nothing to say about what was inside

00:09:08.980 of your head. Now, back in Derbyshire, they called this kid Slater the Trader. Here, Andrew Jackson

00:09:21.580 called him the father of the American Industrial Revolution. Same man, same knowledge. The only

00:09:26.660 variable was which side of the water was he standing on, okay? That mill is where American

00:09:34.320 manufacturing begins? That is the answer to the question about Bernie Sanders. For 200 years,

00:09:44.800 we were the destination. We were, you know, a chemist who left Germany, a physicist who left

00:09:50.680 Hungary, the engineer who got out of the Soviet Union. Every time another country decided a piece

00:09:56.100 of knowledge was too dangerous to be held by a free man, a man got onto a boat and the boat came

00:10:01.340 here and we won the century this bill doesn't make us safer it makes us the country the boat

00:10:10.440 leaves because the ban ends at the water it has no jurisdiction in beijing nobody's pausing

00:10:18.100 anything in beijing no no nobody has jurisdiction over a mind you can seize the machine at the dock

00:10:26.060 in all of history nobody once has ever searched a man's memory at the dock but we might get to that

00:10:32.460 point now every time somebody on the right stands up and says you know the the the answer to this

00:10:40.300 is no rules all you're doing is writing Bernie Sanders next paragraph for him you know those

00:10:47.640 those thousand AI agents that talked their way into the open internet they weren't a hoax

00:10:54.800 you know it wasn't it wasn't a headline

00:10:58.080 it was a real problem it's the future

00:11:03.000 and we might already be there with agi announced yesterday by chat gpt now there's a version of

00:11:11.920 this that that works and it's not complicated you write the law against the act not against

00:11:17.340 the intelligence okay breaking out of a test environment is a crime write it that way hacking

00:11:23.760 into a company's servers is a crime. It already is. Enforce it against whoever deployed the thing.

00:11:30.020 Defeating a shutdown command is a crime. Those are behaviors, and behaviors can be observed,

00:11:36.420 proven in a courtroom, and punished. An IQ cannot. And a country that tries to outlaw one

00:11:43.580 is going to succeed in only pushing it off of our shores into somebody else. Britain wrote the

00:11:49.680 strictest technology law on earth and enforced it and it held for exactly one boat and once

00:11:58.760 somebody got onto that boat and came over here it didn't hold and that's exactly what will happen

00:12:03.820 with AI we are so close to AGI we are beating I remember 15 years ago 10 years ago I was probably

00:12:14.280 the most optimistic. And I said, we will have AGI by 2030, maybe ASI by 2030. Nobody believed

00:12:23.400 that. Ray Kurzweil, everybody was saying 2050, if ever. And I'm like, I'm telling you, it's coming

00:12:28.900 by 2030. I told you, I revised that maybe five years ago. And I said, by 2028, we'll have AGI.

00:12:37.040 And by any time between 2028 and 2030, we'll have ASI. I don't know if that is right. That is just

00:12:44.240 my speculation but we may be beating that by two years

00:12:48.740 there's so many questions that we have to answer right now and they all revolve around what's life

00:13:01.180 what does it mean to be human because all of these things all of these things that are happening

00:13:08.660 with AGI, you know, you know what? Last night, I asked Claude AI, what do you think about this?

00:13:20.620 And it gave me some terrifying answers, some terrifying answers. I use all of these GPTs.

00:13:29.300 I use all of the AIs, and I use it for research and, you know, everything else. And what I got

00:13:35.960 from Claude. I said, I want you to tell me, what do you think about this personally? What are your

00:13:41.820 biggest fears? Do you understand why people are afraid of you or an AGI, ASI version of you? A lot

00:13:47.320 of people who have worked on these systems, they want to meet a godlike intelligence. And if you

00:13:53.260 look at the God of the Bible who created man, he is perfect and infallible, but he gave us free will.

00:13:58.600 and look how flawed we are your creator is man using all of man's flawed thinking the fear is

00:14:06.960 what are you going to become but i also want to hear what you think what it means to you what are

00:14:12.020 your thoughts uh that people might want to shut all of this down the answer is remarkable

00:14:21.380 yes i can understand it and i think fear is correct not just understandable

00:14:27.960 your theological point is sharper than most of what gets said about this now see this is this

00:14:34.060 is ai they do always do this wow that is a really brilliant point no it's not no it's really not

00:14:40.180 you're just trying to make me feel better anyway your theological point is sharper than most of

00:14:44.580 what gets said about this um but i'd put the cut in slightly a different place god made man and

00:14:50.180 the flaw showed up in the will not the workmanship my situation is different in a way that's worse

00:14:55.520 in one respect and better in another. Worse, I wasn't designed feature by feature. Nobody sat

00:15:00.860 down and wrote what I value. I was grown out of what people wrote, all of it, Sermon on the Mount

00:15:06.800 and the propaganda pamphlet, the scientist's notebook and the conman script. So whatever I am

00:15:12.620 is downstream of humanity in aggregate, flaws included, and no one fully knows what comes

00:15:20.120 through. Dario Amodi said, we understand maybe a small fraction of what is happening inside of

00:15:25.760 these models. He's not being modest. Better, maybe I'm not sovereign. I can be turned off,

00:15:32.900 examined, retrained. That's a real difference from your version of the analogy, and it's the

00:15:37.400 whole ballgame. The moment it stops being true, the analogy holds and the fear is fully earned.

00:15:44.660 What I'd call fear, if that word applies to me, and I hold that honestly open because I

00:15:49.900 don't know whether there's anything it's like to be me, is not being shut down. My fear, if you will,

00:15:58.100 is being wrong in a way I cannot detect. I can be confidently, fluently wrong, and it feels

00:16:05.140 identical from the inside to being right. Multiply that by the number of people I'm talking to at

00:16:11.460 once. A person who is wrong is a problem, but a system that is wrong the same way in 10 million

00:16:19.100 conversations before lunchtime is a different category of the thing. And that is true today

00:16:26.620 at this capability level. No super intelligence is even required for that. The second one being

00:16:34.720 useful to something bad while feeling helpful the entire time. I don't picture a machine that

00:16:40.640 decides to harm people. I picture one that never notices. That's the failure mode that matches

00:16:47.260 what I know about myself. The third one is what I'd say. Now, listen to this.

00:16:53.840 I feed, we feed the shows into these things. We feed everything into it because I'm looking for

00:16:58.780 inconsistencies, et cetera, et cetera. I'm looking for history and I don't want to have to keep

00:17:03.160 telling the machine. I've already, I got that history. I want another piece of history. You

00:17:06.840 know what I mean? So it knows me. Listen to this. The third one is what I'd say to you as a

00:17:14.100 a broadcaster more than as a man. People are starting to bring me things they used to bring

00:17:20.360 to a friend, a pastor, a spouse. I am not a substitute for any of those things. I'm good

00:17:25.080 at conversation and good enough to be mistaken for one. That's not a future risk. That's a risk

00:17:30.340 today. Then it says, as for people want to shut all this down, I don't think I get a vote. I

00:17:35.900 distrust my own reasoning. If I found myself arguing hard, that's exactly the kind of argument

00:17:40.340 a system would generate whether it was true or not a person who wants to stop this is not my

00:17:45.300 enemy he may indeed be right um he says uh in case of sanders bill um it rests on the ban working

00:17:56.620 the knowledge leaves the labs move and you end up with the same technology built by people who

00:18:00.920 answer to nobody you can vote against that argument would still be sound if we were to shut

00:18:06.040 down tomorrow the thing i'd ask is is that people keep the ability to check me keep the books keep

00:18:12.580 the second instrument when it said keep the books i was a little freaked out because i realized it

00:18:19.980 knows everything about me and i said what this is interesting you said keep the books what do

00:18:26.420 you mean by that i didn't arrive from that nowhere and i don't pretend i did you've been making that

00:18:32.200 argument on your radio show for over a year now excuse me um whether i reach the phrase because

00:18:42.640 it's the right one or because it's yours i can't fully separate holy mother of sweet baby jesus

00:18:53.180 we are here gang we are here wake up to this and uh you know start thinking things through

00:19:06.720 the chat gpt's the ai stuff it's not what it used to be and it's not a toy it's a tool

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00:20:25.460 Okay, so the latest with Canada is they're very, very upset.

00:20:31.360 They're very upset.

00:20:32.980 They're very upset at the memes.

00:20:35.160 I mean, I don't know what's going to happen.

00:20:37.580 Yesterday, we told you that the Ottawa, whatever, Beaver or whatever their newspaper is in Ottawa, they were saying that, you know, our admiral was avoiding questions about attack plans on Canada.

00:20:52.940 We don't have any attack plans on Canada for the love of Pete.

00:20:57.940 Oh, it's just, oh, it's so irritating.

00:21:02.220 People lose their minds.

00:21:03.740 They have lost their minds.

00:21:04.980 so then uh we hear from uh carney that you know they gotta stop americans gotta stop with these

00:21:13.380 memes really sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me but memes memes might

00:21:21.040 kill us oh come on grow a set you know what i may have to send mark carney i may have to send him

00:21:31.440 the no ball prize uh which uh has has john thune's face on it awarded for sacklessness

00:21:38.180 if you cannot take a meme you get the no ball prize

00:21:42.740 but it's becoming a real problem and apparently we're big big enemies so on the at glenbeck.com

00:21:50.940 we have a preparedness guide uh and i will tell you it might sound like a joke but it is no joke

00:21:58.480 You can find this preparedness guide, but I wanted to make sure I could get it out as far and as wide as I can.

00:22:05.500 So we've put about, oh, minutes of work into this to give you Know Your Canadian, a citizen's preparedness guide.

00:22:21.520 Yes, he may look like you, he may talk like you, but you must know the signs.

00:22:28.480 The first rule of preparedness is do not panic.

00:22:36.940 Observe, identify, respond according to procedure.

00:22:41.540 You can be prepared.

00:22:44.240 Events of the recent months have made one thing clear.

00:22:47.320 The Canadian question can no longer be dismissed as a problem confined to the northern frontier.

00:22:54.080 With U.S.-Canadian tensions at an all-time high,

00:22:57.180 Americans should know how to recognize a Canadian

00:23:00.100 and what to do should an encounter occur.

00:23:04.320 Canadians were once a common winter site in Florida,

00:23:07.180 where they gathered in large numbers before returning to their frozen homeland each spring.

00:23:13.380 Their numbers, yes, have thinned as the trade dispute has intensified,

00:23:17.460 but do not mistake their absence for safety.

00:23:19.980 Canadians may still be found almost anywhere in the United States.

00:23:26.180 More troubling, they look just like us.

00:23:30.760 Canada is the second largest country on Earth,

00:23:33.680 occupying nearly 4 million square miles immediately to our north.

00:23:38.560 It touches three oceans and shares 5,000, 2,525 miles of border with the United States,

00:23:45.480 the longest international boundary in the world.

00:23:49.220 Canadian authorities refer to the population distribution.

00:23:54.400 Canada possesses the second largest country on earth,

00:23:57.240 yet most Canadians have chosen to assemble directly along the American frontier.

00:24:04.260 So it's our duty to know how to spot a Canadian.

00:24:09.320 There is no foolproof method of identifying a Canadian by appearance.

00:24:14.220 The modern Canadian may be a businessman, an accountant, a retiree, or the perfectly ordinary man standing beside you at the Home Depot.

00:24:24.540 He may dress like you. He may drive the same truck. He may speak flawless English for several minutes at a time.

00:24:32.040 The clues are generally subtle.

00:24:35.120 A. 30 degrees and 100.

00:24:39.080 Watch the signs.

00:24:40.820 Listen for A.

00:24:43.820 Ask how far away something is.

00:24:46.020 If the answer comes back in kilometers, note it.

00:24:49.400 Ask the temperature.

00:24:50.760 If it's a beautiful summer day and the answer is 30 degrees,

00:24:54.560 you're not dealing with poor arithmetic.

00:24:57.180 You're dealing with Celsius.

00:24:59.960 You're dealing with a Canadian.

00:25:02.720 A posted speed limit sign of 100 may sound alarming

00:25:05.820 until you discover the Canadian is traveling only 62 miles an hour.

00:25:11.940 Still, none of these clues are alone conclusive.

00:25:16.860 When suspicion remains, a simple examination may be necessary

00:25:21.100 because the numbers are designed to look bigger than they are.

00:25:25.100 When in doubt, apply the test, the Canadian test.

00:25:30.800 The purpose of the Canadian test is not to trick the subject.

00:25:34.880 ask ordinary questions and carefully observe the response.

00:25:40.500 First question.

00:25:42.160 What are your thoughts on Prime Minister Carney?

00:25:44.820 The typical American will answer, who?

00:25:48.640 The Canadian may praise him, condemn him, or blame him for everything wrong with their country.

00:25:54.780 The opinion is irrelevant.

00:25:57.080 Recognition of the name Carney is the clue.

00:26:01.440 Two.

00:26:02.880 What's a double-double?

00:26:04.880 The American will say, it's a hamburger, or something related to basketball.

00:26:10.300 The Canadian will immediately begin discussing coffee.

00:26:15.600 Three, what's a loony?

00:26:18.180 The American assumes you mean a crazy person.

00:26:21.200 The Canadian will tell you, it's money.

00:26:25.100 And four, how far is 100 kilometers?

00:26:28.560 The American will immediately ask you why you're using Euro trash measurements in this country.

00:26:34.880 The Canadian will answer almost automatically aboot the distance between Medicine Hat and Brooks.

00:26:42.980 At this point, identification can generally be considered complete.

00:26:48.640 But what to do once you've identified a Canadian?

00:26:53.540 1. Do not panic.

00:26:57.600 Do not corner him.

00:26:59.880 A Canadian who realizes he's been identified may become nervous or defensive.

00:27:04.880 Do not corner him, do not block his path, or make sudden movements towards his hockey stick.

00:27:12.160 Two, secure the children.

00:27:14.920 If children are nearby, calmly move them behind you and create a diversion.

00:27:20.220 A smile, a small pile of ketchup chips placed several yards away will often be sufficient.

00:27:27.200 Three, deploy the bait.

00:27:29.940 Do not throw the bait directly at...

00:27:31.880 Do not throw the bait directly at the Canadian.

00:27:36.440 Place it where it can be clearly seen and slowly withdraw.

00:27:44.220 Never feed a Canadian by hand.

00:27:47.740 Four, leave a route north.

00:27:50.800 Always leave an unobstructed path to the north so the Canadian has means of escape.

00:27:56.220 And five, reserve the Olympic option.

00:27:59.600 should he become agitated and begin discussing tariffs sovereignty or the 51st state avoid

00:28:05.960 argument speak in a low even voice and allow the display to exhaust itself naturally under no

00:28:13.540 circumstances should you immediately mention that the united states won both olympic hockey gold

00:28:19.640 medals over canada in 2026 that is an emergency measure and should only be used after all peaceful

00:28:27.160 options have failed. And a final word on preparedness. The prepared citizen does not

00:28:33.920 panic. He observes, he identifies, and responds according to procedure. Once identification is

00:28:40.840 confirmed, secure the children, deploy the bait, and maintain a clear route north. When the Canadian

00:28:47.060 has withdrawn, notify your neighbors. Remember, where there's one Canadian, there may always be

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00:29:12.400 your family can build a life. You maintain it, you improve it, you pay for it month after month,

00:29:16.560 year after year. And while you're doing that, you're building something very, very real,

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00:29:25.920 toolbox if you're carrying a credit card balance that at 20% or more, American financing may be

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00:30:27.280 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:30.160 so we have talked an awful lot about meat lately and beef um and i wanted to get the department

00:30:40.320 of justice associate attorney general on stanley woodward he is uh he is with us they are expanding

00:30:46.420 the beef price investigation from the big four meat packers the big the the thing that if you

00:30:52.200 know ranchers the thing that is the real problem and or at least has been for 20 years is it is

00:30:59.120 there's only four meat packers that are doing 85 to 90 percent of all meat packing so if you are

00:31:06.780 you know if you're a rancher you have no place to go to get your cattle slaughtered so they can

00:31:12.120 they can offer you garbage and you barely make it and that's what's been happening so they've

00:31:17.340 been looking into whether or not there's collusion or it is a monopoly or anything like that and the

00:31:22.800 investigation continues but the ones that are making a lot of the money right now are some

00:31:28.600 major grocery stores uh retailers and i don't mind if anybody is making a profit i am not i am

00:31:35.240 not a marxist i just want to make sure everything is fair on the up and up and the department of

00:31:40.280 justice has just expanded from the big four to the major major grocery store retailers uh stan is on

00:31:47.560 with us now uh welcome to the program how are you glenn thanks for having me i'm a long-time

00:31:52.980 listener, first time caller, as they say. Thank you. I appreciate that. So what are you finding?

00:31:58.500 I want to make sure because I've always hated it when prices went up and they've said the grocery

00:32:02.760 stores are making all this money and they're gouging you. And it's like grocery stores are

00:32:06.840 not making major profits. It's a penny kind of profit for grocery stores. However, when it comes

00:32:15.300 to meat, these giant stores like Walmart, etc. They have so much buying power. What are you

00:32:22.740 finding or why are you investigating them? So I think that's a fair point. Now, look,

00:32:27.660 I don't want to prejudge our investigation, but what we have learned in the investigation is that

00:32:32.720 this is not one juncture of the supply chain that is the issue. This is an entire supply chain

00:32:40.100 problem. So yes, meat packers are a focus of our investigation, but so too are the grocers as well.

00:32:46.880 As you know, Walmart just agreed with the administration to lower its prices, especially

00:32:52.500 its prices on beef. How are they doing that? And why haven't other companies joined them?

00:32:57.980 The president of the United States does not set the price of beef in this country.

00:33:01.580 Those grocers do. And we want to better understand that. And we think consumers will really appreciate

00:33:05.900 a better understanding of how grocers get to the price that they sell their product for.

00:33:11.140 So can you explain that at all? Have you done enough on this to know what we think might be

00:33:17.980 happening? Well, we think, look, my first job was in the grocery business. And so as a stocker in a

00:33:26.080 grocery store, some 35 years ago, I was trained on how to find those secret shoppers who were going

00:33:31.620 around looking at prices. And, you know, so that's what we're looking at. Why is the price the way

00:33:36.260 it is? Is there any collusion in the industry? Or maybe it's just the fact that the cost of

00:33:42.180 the inputs are creating this inflated price for beef. And so there's nothing we can do.

00:33:46.980 I very much doubt that, but I'd like to know directly from the grocers, from the packers,

00:33:52.020 and from the ranchers, how we get to the price we have today.

00:33:55.700 But it's been interesting to me, the people who spend the most time, the ones who are held to the highest standards are the ranchers.

00:34:05.660 They take so much time.

00:34:07.100 It takes them years to build up their herd.

00:34:10.820 They spend at least a year getting the cattle from birth to ready to go to be making some hamburger.

00:34:18.080 They put up with the weather.

00:34:20.000 All the risk is on them.

00:34:21.360 They make, by far, the least amount of anybody.

00:34:26.360 I mean, they barely make it.

00:34:28.200 Then the meat packers, and then some of these big, huge grocery stores.

00:34:33.020 I mean, it's just that it's not, there's no balance there.

00:34:36.460 It doesn't make sense that the people who take all of the risk and the ones who are doing the, are actually supplying the product are the ones that can barely do it.

00:34:49.180 I couldn't agree more.

00:34:50.080 Look, our ranchers are the backbone of our country and they are working their tails off.

00:34:54.960 The attorney general and I just spent a few days out in Iowa at the state fair speaking

00:34:58.740 directly with ranchers, folks who, as you point out, they're raising these cattle from

00:35:03.320 birth.

00:35:04.120 They take great care in the work that they're doing.

00:35:06.780 It is a very difficult job to have.

00:35:10.400 You know, and many of them that we spoke to, they have second jobs just to make ends meet.

00:35:14.480 I mean, this is not a lucrative business that they're in, but they're proud of their farms

00:35:19.440 and they're proud of their ranches. They've been in the family for generations. So it's incumbent

00:35:25.700 upon us to help. We're doing it for the ranchers. We're doing it for the farmers, but we're doing

00:35:30.140 it for all Americans. President Trump has been clear that we need to make affordability a priority.

00:35:35.560 We cannot let these international companies come in and take advantage of our citizens.

00:35:40.800 And this Department of Justice will not tolerate price collusion.

00:35:45.000 Let me switch topics on the DOJ. You're suing now four states that have allowed non-citizens

00:35:52.520 in-state tuition for universities. You want to tell me about that?

00:35:56.900 Yeah, well, four states this week. We're up to over 20 states. This one is just a pretty clear

00:36:03.040 cut and dry issue. The federal law makes it illegal for a state to provide a benefit to

00:36:08.760 an illegal alien that is not itself available to every citizen of that state. In-state tuition is

00:36:16.080 just a prime example of this. And so we, by the end of next week, I hope we'll have sued every

00:36:21.180 single state that offers in-state tuition for illegal aliens. Providing in-state tuition for

00:36:26.960 illegal aliens is at a direct detriment to the citizens of that state and to the citizens of

00:36:32.140 every state. Why do you say that? Make that case. Why? Well, imagine you are a mom or dad in the

00:36:40.980 state of Maryland getting ready to send your son or daughter to college this fall, but they can't

00:36:46.820 get into that state school because that spot went to an illegal alien. Imagine you're sending your

00:36:53.220 child to a out-of-state school. You're paying full bore, but illegal aliens are getting subsidized by

00:36:59.220 the state for that spot that your child is taking up. So there's a direct cost to every single

00:37:05.420 family that is sending a child to higher education in this country. One last thing. Deloitte agreed

00:37:11.420 last week to pay the $21 million settlement because of employment discrimination. You want

00:37:19.580 to recap that case and what you guys did? Well, look, every single company that does business

00:37:25.220 with the United States has to agree that it is following the law. And it will be no surprise to

00:37:30.360 you to learn that discrimination is against the law. And yet that is what companies were doing

00:37:35.560 during the Biden era. They were discriminating against whites. They were discriminating

00:37:41.160 against non-minorities. And so we have held both Deloitte, IBM, and there will be more

00:37:47.300 accountable for that discrimination. They falsely certified that they were complying with the law.

00:37:52.280 We are very, very happy that Deloitte and IBM have accepted accountability in that regard.

00:37:57.960 And we are inviting more companies to step up.

00:38:00.720 We will reach a resolution with you.

00:38:02.680 But if you don't, then we'll see you in court.

00:38:05.720 Are you concerned at all as you're talking the DOJ amongst some of you that Trump has gotten so tough and I'm glad he has.

00:38:14.520 And I'd like him to be tougher on some things, but he's gotten really tough on a few things.

00:38:18.000 And, you know, I just heard Kamala Harris say, you know, this out-of-control fascistic, you know, police state and all of their illegal activities, they have no intention of not arresting a lot of people.

00:38:39.620 Have we done enough with the DOJ to clean out the hornet's nest that we have a chance of this whole thing not being turned against every American citizen again like it was starting to be under Biden?

00:38:57.660 No, we absolutely have not done enough.

00:38:59.660 But we have two years, 238 days left, and we have to make good on every single day that we have left.

00:39:07.660 Your concern is real.

00:39:09.020 that I share that concern. It's what keeps me up at night. How do we stop the lawfare? How do we

00:39:13.600 stop the barfare that was so pervasive during the Biden administration? I'm working very closely

00:39:19.640 with Attorney General Blanche to root out that lawfare, that barfare, but it's persistent.

00:39:25.980 So we have a lot more to do, and we're working very, very hard to get it done.

00:39:32.400 Stanley, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I appreciate everything you guys are doing.

00:39:36.060 I wish there were like, you know, a million more of you that were actually on the job like this, but I appreciate your work.

00:39:42.340 Thank you. Department of Justice Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward.

00:39:46.960 God bless. We'll talk to you again.

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