Glenn and Stu talk about freedom of speech and what it means here in America. Corey Lewandowski and Tulsi Gabbard endorse Donald Trump. Tommy Robinson's comments about pedophilia and rape are taken down by YouTube.
00:03:37.120Well, after that interview, we posted it and it was up on YouTube and they immediately said that we couldn't post it because it was inciting violence.
00:04:51.280Meanwhile, you're convincing my kids that they can be, you know, another gender, which is scientifically impossible.
00:04:59.560But thank you for the protection on this one.
00:05:02.840Um, so we tried to embed the video in a story that we were sending out.
00:05:09.220Um, and once we just, we just did embed and what happened, this video cannot be played here.
00:05:16.640Its content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.
00:05:22.420So we are now, um, being, um, suppressed.
00:05:30.180We know that Facebook has suppressed us, uh, a great deal in the last couple of, uh, years.
00:05:38.320They are, they are now looking into it and I'm waiting to see what they find.
00:05:44.260I'm sure they're, I'm sure they're honestly looking, especially after what happened yesterday with Zuckerberg.
00:05:50.120Zuckerberg wrote a, a pretty astounding letter, uh, to, um, Jim Jordan and the, uh, the, uh, chairman of the judiciary looking into the weaponization of government.
00:06:04.500Um, he said, uh, this is Zuckerberg's letter.
00:06:07.820There's a lot of talk right now around how the U S interacts with companies like meta.
00:06:12.020And I want to be clear about our position.
00:06:16.000We're about promoting free speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way.
00:06:20.120As part of this, we regularly hear from governments all around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.
00:06:27.760In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the white house, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams.
00:06:42.760When we didn't agree, ultimately it was our decision, whether or not to take the content down and we own our decisions, including COVID-19 related charges.
00:06:51.820We made to the enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
00:06:54.900I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
00:07:01.320I also think we made some choices that with the benefit of hindsight and new information we wouldn't make today.
00:07:06.980Do you think, uh, like I, uh, said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction.
00:07:16.960And we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
00:07:26.560Uh, in a separate situation, the FBI warned us about potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.
00:07:35.260That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving the then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's family, we sent the story to fact checkers for review and temporarily, temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply.
00:07:53.100It's since been made clear the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story.
00:08:00.640We've changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
00:08:04.580For instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S. while waiting for, oh, kneel down and bow down to the fact checkers.
00:08:15.980Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contributions I made to the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure.
00:08:23.900The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the resources they needed to help people vote safely during the global pandemic.
00:08:32.800I made these contributions through the Chan Zuckerberg initiative.
00:08:37.760They were designed to be nonpartisan, spread across urban, rural, and suburban communities.
00:08:44.040Still, despite the analysis I've seen showing otherwise, I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over the other.
00:08:52.520My goal was to be neutral and not play a role in one way or another, or even appear to play a role, so I don't plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.
00:10:48.520French prosecutors released information on Monday about the potential criminal charges that the telegram founder and CEO is now being investigated in connection that he was arrested last week when a private jet was landed in the country from Azerbaijan.
00:11:03.500So, these are the 12 charges that they are investigating that appear to stem from Durov's alleged refusal to moderate illicit content on the platform.
00:11:14.960So, the idea here was, with Section 230, you are either a publisher, or you're just a free space platform.
00:11:27.860You either edit and hold standards, or you don't.
00:11:35.260And if you don't, you can't be held responsible for anything.
00:11:43.720So, if you're doing an app and something's happening, well, you better know about it.
00:11:49.360Well, if you have an encrypted service, how are you going to know about it unless you're listening in to all of the things that they're doing?
00:11:58.140Which would then negate the reason you would have encryption.
00:12:19.720Now, I would like to know, has any of these guys from the WEF, are they ever going to be charged with complicity on destroying the Western way of life?
00:17:43.700I'll take that compliment any day of the week.
00:17:50.520So tell me why it is so important for you to now take the step that will make you even less popular with people on the left and put a target on your back,
00:18:37.660It's much bigger than one party versus another.
00:18:40.860What's at stake here is freedom and the fact that we have a candidate and Donald Trump who believes in freedom and the Constitution and who I and I've had personal conversations with him who understands the cost of war.
00:18:56.720And the seriousness of the fact that because of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden,
00:19:02.940we are closer to the brink of nuclear war now than ever before.
00:19:07.880That's a serious issue that he looks forward to as president, commander in chief to taking on and walking us back from the brink of war.
00:19:16.100And you contrast that with Kamala Harris,
00:19:18.840who in so many ways over the last three and a half years has shown that she will not hesitate to undermine our freedoms.
00:19:26.320We just saw Mark Zuckerberg come out publicly and say,
00:22:35.020And this is this is important for voters to recognize.
00:22:37.920And, you know, the more of these Hollywood celebrities and other people say those kinds of things,
00:22:43.500it just reinforces that fact and also the fact that they think that we as voters are so stupid as to fall for it,
00:22:53.700to fall for the lie, the facade that they are that they are creating.
00:22:57.900Yes, it is Tony Blinken who has turned the State Department, which is supposed to be the department that's responsible for diplomacy and preventing war into what is essentially a war department.
00:23:13.180And and we see Jake Sullivan, president, who's the national security adviser in the White House.
00:23:18.960And we see people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who are still calling the shots.
00:23:23.500And many others whose faces and names will not be on the front page or on your television anytime soon,
00:23:31.720both in the government as well as outside of the government in the military industrial complex who who are they are part of this.
00:23:41.060They are of this cabal of of of neocon elitist warmongers who will put their power and their profits ahead of people every day of the week.
00:23:49.300Let me let me play a couple of things for you, because Donald Trump, I think, would be wise to have you in his Department of Defense.
00:23:59.680And there is a lot of work to do here.
00:24:02.020Susan Rice in 2016 on the imperatives of national security.
00:24:09.900For starters, a diverse national security workforce enables us to unlock all of our nation's talent.
00:24:19.300There's some three hundred and twenty million people in the United States, nearly 40 percent are minorities and an increasing number of them are earning college and graduate degrees.
00:24:30.820As America becomes more diverse, so to do our best people.
00:24:36.520The next Colin Powell or Madeleine Albright or Bill Richardson.
00:24:41.080Stop. She goes on for I don't want to waste your time.
00:24:43.780She goes on and she says in that inclusion is a national security imperative.
00:24:49.800Now I want you to listen to the lieutenant colonel who is a man posing as a woman who is with Space Force.
00:25:00.860So inclusion is a national security imperative.
00:25:05.120We fight today and we are going to fight in the future using brain power.
00:25:12.240And if that brain who's going to revolutionize the way we fight in space, we fight in cyber, just happens to be in a trans body, you should want them all serving alongside me.
00:25:23.860And for your organizations, it's the same way.
00:25:27.200Those perspectives that we get from a diverse set of individuals, it's been talked about on stage a lot regarding the science behind high performing teams.
00:25:36.800But it's inclusion that actually drives that because you can bring people in.
00:25:42.240And if they don't feel safe to speak up, if they don't feel safe to bring their full selves to work, you're not going to get the value of the diversity.
00:25:50.720Okay. So, Tulsi, the kind of inclusion that I look for and I think most Americans are for is diversity of thought.
00:26:00.860Somebody at the table who has the guts to say, General, Mr. President, please do not do that and here's why.
00:26:09.140We are focused on all the wrong kind of inclusion that means nothing to people.
00:26:15.940Well, where does this fit on a priority list for you?
00:26:23.960Well, the fact that they care more about the color of your skin or how you identify or your sexuality than they do about your capability and what you bring to the table in service to our country is really indicative of their entire philosophy of their identity policy.
00:26:45.940And it's put our country in a dangerous place.
00:26:49.480I've served now in the Army for over 21 years.
00:26:52.520And I can tell you, having people surrounding myself with people in different positions.
00:27:01.000I tell my soldiers now, I'm a battalion commander.
00:27:04.180I tell them, if you disagree with my plan or my position, I want you to tell me that you disagree and tell me why because you may have a better idea.
00:27:13.980That's exactly what we should be looking for, that diversity of thought, that environment that is inclusive of people who have a different way of doing things so that we can come up with the best plan, the best course of action, the best outcome.
00:27:29.500And that's true of the military and every agency across the government.
00:27:32.980That, to me, is what real leadership is about.
00:27:35.580And that is essential that that changes, another one of the many reasons why it's important that Donald Trump wins this election.
00:27:42.760So a couple of other questions, and I'll let you go.
00:27:47.900You debated Kamala, and you pretty much wiped the floor with her.
00:27:55.420What advice are you giving to Donald Trump, if any?
00:27:59.860And what do you think about the attempt to change the rules now by Kamala in the debate?
00:28:08.600Yeah, you know, Donald Trump is not a politician.
00:28:12.020I think that's what a lot of people really, really love about him.
00:28:14.260And so it wouldn't surprise you to know, Glenn, that he doesn't do debate prep like a typical politician would.
00:28:22.380But it's been great to be able to spend some time with him and his team.
00:28:28.120Really, for me, if there's anything that I can help with at all, it is just the fact that I've shared a stage with Kamala Harris.
00:28:33.920I know how she thinks and how she's going to try to lay some traps, try to bait Donald Trump into walking into the narrative that she's going to try to push for the American people.
00:28:47.860And quite frankly, how she's going to try, how she will try to hide her record.
00:28:56.320She says one thing that is directly opposite to what her record shows.
00:29:01.680And so this really will be an opportunity for Donald Trump to expose that to the American people.
00:29:10.500And to your second question about, you know, Kamala Harris is trying to change the rules here now less than two weeks before the debate.
00:29:16.640I think it points to that fact, points to her weakness that the American people need to see.
00:29:22.620She's demanding that the debate be seated and that she be allowed to bring in notes into the debate.
00:29:28.760Why does she need notes? If she knows the issues, if she knows her stance on the most important policies and the challenges the American people are facing today, why does she need notes?
00:29:39.120Well, we know why. It goes back to the thing we started our conversation with is because she needs someone else to tell her what to say.
00:29:45.500Yep. OK, last question. Yesterday, I had RFK Jr. on at this time and conservatives like me, people who have been waiting for people to wake up and see the insanity in the country are excited because you're now campaigning for Donald Trump.
00:30:03.260RFK is campaigning for Donald Trump. And it seems like there are people waking up to see this this party that says that they are protecting democracy is the furthest thing from, you know, defenders of democracy.
00:30:21.420Do you see people waking up? Have you have you experienced you think it's happening or are we being too hopeful?
00:30:29.940No, it is. And this is I'll give you just two brief anecdotes that happened within the last 24 hours.
00:30:37.740I landed in an airport late last night at about 11 o'clock at night, was walking off the plane and a guy named Jake walked up to me and said, hey, you know, I really appreciate what you did today.
00:30:47.100And and he talked about his family. His family comes from a long line of traditional Democrat, you know, construction union, hardworking American families.
00:30:56.780They voted Democrat almost their entire lives. And it is not until just recently, just over these past few days that they have he got calls from his dad yesterday after I made my announcement.
00:31:08.240And he said, wait, hold on a second. What's going on here? I need to pay closer attention to this and rethink the way that I thought I was going to vote.
00:31:16.780Second story, there's a teacher at a small private school who I met during my campaign for for the presidency in 2020 follows me on Instagram.
00:31:25.380He talks about real education, not the broken education system. But he has always voted for a third party candidate.
00:31:32.100He voted for me, but he had voted for third party candidates. And that's what he was going to do.
00:31:35.980And his statement yesterday to me and on his Instagram was, hey, I think we need to rethink things.
00:31:42.920If Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and other common sense minded Americans who we support are now endorsing Donald Trump, I he's like, I need to check myself.
00:31:53.800I need to look in the mirror and say, what am I doing to actually make a difference rather than just make a statement?
00:32:00.240That is that is fantastic news. Tulsi, thank you for everything. And I'll see you Friday and Saturday. Right.
00:32:07.540For the March for Children. Yes, I will see you there. I look forward to it.
00:32:16.880You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:23.800Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:25.660So several times Bill Maher has called out Kamala for not doing interviews and he's particularly pointed out she needs to do interviews with people who are, quote, more centrist like me.
00:33:06.960And Trump's not the president. And we're the president.
00:33:09.480And now it's going to be about this. But this is about winning.
00:33:12.880What what most people don't give the Democrats enough credit for.
00:33:19.120All right. But we give the Republicans credit for it's like, no, sometimes it's just about winning and it doesn't matter how we look at this moment.
00:33:31.560OK, we got it. When we got it, we got it.
00:33:34.020That's fantastic. So what is he saying?
00:33:36.320She doesn't he was defending that she doesn't have any policy points out and that she hasn't done any interviews.
00:33:42.540He is pushing for a machine. He's saying the machine is already in.
00:33:48.180It's already running. She doesn't matter.
00:33:51.500So just win. That is a little terrifying.
00:33:55.740And I think people are starting to wake up to it, as evidenced by RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and others that are starting to say, I'm questioning my involvement with the Democrats.
00:34:10.280Is all of this making any difference at all looking at the polls?
00:34:18.200Well, it's still too early to tell. Right. All this stuff just happened.
00:34:21.580The RFK endorsement, the Tulsi endorsement, the Democratic National Convention is going on.
00:34:26.960You know, is the poll bounce, I should say, is still going to be going on.
00:34:30.600You'd expect. Every time you have a convention, you have a bounce in most circumstances, usually two to three points.
00:34:37.040You'd expect that to kind of kick in this week.
00:34:38.820So the polling should be very good for Kamala Harris this week if historical patterns sort of follow the norms.
00:34:46.160In this election, it's always difficult to say that something's going to follow the norms.
00:34:49.360But that is what we would expect in this situation.
00:34:51.920Right. Now, I've talked to a lot of people who are looking for hoping for Trump to win here.
00:34:57.000And I've sensed, I don't know if you sensed this, Glenn, a lot of pessimism lately over the past week or two.
00:35:03.140Like, walking very close to the edge of the cliff, considering jumping off, but maybe not quite have taken the leap yet.
00:35:11.380I think everybody is in that position on both sides.
00:35:14.100I think both sides have good days and bad days where you're like, we're going to win.
00:35:17.960And the next day, you're like, heavens, where there's no way we can win.
00:35:21.500Yeah. I think everybody's feeling that way.
00:35:23.280Yeah. And I felt it was like universal confidence for most on the right when Biden was the nominee.
00:35:29.960And now we're into the point of the opposite.
00:35:32.300It's a universal pessimism now that Kamala is the nominee, which is incredible.
00:35:35.860But you should look back at Kamala's history a little bit.
00:35:38.740I think people forget the 2019 campaign and think Kamala Harris just failed.
00:35:44.020And it was a different kind of failure than most other failures, if you will.
00:35:50.060When she launched her campaign, this is the period we're in now.
00:35:53.460When she launched her campaign in 2019, she literally rocketed all the way to the top of the gambling markets for Democratic nominee.
00:36:43.140Now, all of that stuff has been disproven.
00:36:46.600But it was, again, that feeling that she gave everybody at the speech, that if that's the snapshot you get of her, you're like, I like her.
00:36:58.200Yeah, and I think, you know, we talked about this at the time and were mocked by some for that.
00:37:01.960And, you know, of course, she wound up being vice president of the United States.
00:37:04.700We were talking about her in sort of a long shot capacity.
00:37:08.180Who's the person outside of the major features who could make a run at this?
00:39:23.920But, I mean, if I were her and her campaign and did not care about the country, in fact, probably wanted to destroy it,
00:39:30.200I would recommend her doing something like Rachel Maddow, who will present, who will come up with a modestly intellectual interview
00:39:38.800that is incredibly tilted in her favor to present her with every opportunity not to make a mistake.
00:39:44.700And while a lot of people will mock her for doing that, you know, the media doesn't seem to care about it much at all,
00:39:51.060although maybe some of the pressure is increasing.
00:39:53.200Axios had an interesting story on this front today.
00:39:56.580But when it comes to the state of the race, and I do a podcast, by the way, called State of the Race.
00:40:03.640It's available on the Studos America feed, wherever you get your audio podcasts.
00:40:06.720And we update this a couple times a week with, you know, sort of larger in-depth looks at this type of stuff.
00:40:12.940But if you look back at June, mid-June, okay, this is before the debate, Donald Trump is at 44.6% in the polls.
00:40:22.020Currently, he's at 44.4% in the polls.
00:40:26.020So there's been almost no change at all from before the debates to right now when it comes to the support level for Donald Trump.
00:40:35.900What has changed here is Kamala Harris, who went – it was actually Joe Biden back in mid-June, of course – but has gone from basically 42 to 47.
00:40:47.500So at the time, Donald Trump's got about a two-point lead over Biden.
00:40:50.160Now he trails by about three points, two and a half, to Kamala.
00:40:55.600Still all of it in the margin of error.
00:40:58.020All of it in the margin of error on both sides.
00:41:00.280You know, that is important to point out, Glenn.
00:41:11.400What you had is a situation where a decent amount, about 5% of people who would typically vote for Biden, were over to the RFK side of things because they looked at Biden as embarrassing and unpalatable.
00:41:24.100Like, they just – they're normally left-wing type voters.
00:41:26.960They looked at Biden just like, this is – I can't justify this.
00:42:33.580And it winds up being much more significant to Donald Trump than it was to Kamala Harris.
00:42:39.920The Harris people who were thinking about Harris went to Harris when she's dropped into the race, where that was not the case with Biden.
00:42:47.880So you have this situation where RFK now presents an almost unique risk to Trump rather than to Biden.
00:42:54.640RFK Jr. talked about that in his speech and talked about it in the interview a little bit with you yesterday.
00:42:59.320He became something that was not hurting both sides equally or, as it was earlier in the campaign where he was hurting Biden more, he became a candidate that was hurting Trump a lot more.
00:43:12.500Now, when you go through this – and I went through a few dozen polls from the Biden era and the Harris era to try to look at the effects there.
00:43:20.800And we did see that play out, where about 65% of the voters that were in the RFK people category were Trump-leaning voters, and only about 30% to 35% of those people were Kamala voters.
00:43:37.240There's also a contingency of people who are going to vote third party or maybe not vote at all.
00:43:41.400You kind of throw them out for the time being.
00:43:43.560For this exercise, it was about two to one when it comes to Trump voters versus Kamala voters.
00:43:49.060When you go through all of that and break it all down, it looks to be a little bit over a point, between 1.2% and 1.5% movement toward Donald Trump here.
00:44:01.160And you might look at that and say, well, that's not that big of a deal, right?
00:44:32.040He's running a much more, I'm sure, high-level analysis than I am with my stupid Excel sheet.
00:44:37.460But he came up with about 0.6 points of effect.
00:44:41.740But even 0.6 points is a massive, massive difference in a race like this.
00:44:48.500And if you think about the way this race has unfolded, you have a situation where Joe Biden went through about five of the worst weeks humanly possible for a campaign, right?
00:45:00.660He had the horrible debate performance.
00:45:02.820His opponent had charges against him dropped.