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00:00:30.000 I had J.D. Vance on today, right out of the chute.

00:00:34.800 You're going to hear that as part of our edited podcast.

00:00:38.860 This is the shorter version of the show, so you can get everything you need quickly.

00:00:43.780 J.D. Vance, we talked about his new book, but we really talked about also what's happening in Iran.

00:00:49.620 Some questions were answered.

00:00:51.480 More questions are left to be seen when we see this deal with Iran.

00:00:55.020 Also, I think we're at a turning point in our nation.

00:00:57.700 And should we choose to accept it, Mr. Phelps, should you and your team choose to accept it?

00:01:05.960 We're hearing a lot of great things about America from Europeans who are visiting America.

00:01:12.060 And I went through all of them.

00:01:14.080 We have to restore the belief in America that this is worth saving, that it's unique, that it's different, that it's special, that it's worth saving.

00:01:25.140 And I think we can do that today.

00:01:27.700 And I show you the path on that.

00:01:29.780 And then the other thing we have to do is restore our story and our education on what our country, how it's actually built, why was it built?

00:01:38.640 And we do that through our summer of education at Torch250.com.

00:01:42.940 We talk a little bit about that on today's show.

00:01:44.820 And finally, a plot against the UFC fight at the White House.

00:01:50.520 It was just revealed today.

00:01:52.260 Several people are under investigation.

00:01:54.580 Some have been arrested.

00:01:55.780 but it was a bombing and shooting plot that is absolutely terrifying and shows this is no longer

00:02:02.560 a lone wolf situation. This one would have had to be planned and trained for, and they were moving

00:02:10.960 in, and thank God the FBI and DOJ caught them in time. But this comes with a warning.

00:02:17.200 when you're afraid you will give up freedoms and i have to tell you if we make it to election day

00:02:26.560 without a major thing happening that god has truly blessed us if something major happens

00:02:33.940 our government will grow in size and people will rush to anyone who will say i keep i'll keep you

00:02:42.140 safe. We mustn't do that. So weaponization of government is also on the list. You're going to

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00:03:12.860 hello america welcome to the glenbeck program it is tuesday uh want to get right to our guest

00:03:23.620 because it is the vice president of the united states it's jd vance i got to talk to him about

00:03:28.460 many, many things, but he has a new book out called Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith,

00:03:34.100 which I think is a very important book at this time, especially even if you're just trying to

00:03:39.540 understand the vice president, who may become our next president of the United States, at least

00:03:43.700 will be running for it, and also the times in which we live. We'll get to that and the Iranian

00:03:52.180 things here in just a minute. Let me introduce the 50th vice president of the United States,

00:03:57.660 J.D. Vance and his new book, Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith. J.D., you and I, when I'm

00:04:04.760 reading your book, we have an awful lot in common. Your mother, I'm a big fan of Hillbilly Elegy. I

00:04:11.920 mean, what an amazing story. Your mother was an addict. My mother was an addict. Your mom had a

00:04:17.020 happy ending. My mom did not. Your father, you were estranged when you died. It was a lot more

00:04:23.700 severe than mine. I was estranged with my father when he died. And there are so many things that

00:04:33.820 add complexities to your life when you go through all of that. And I hope we have a chance to have

00:04:38.080 a longer interview to kind of get into that. But I want to start with a part of the book where you

00:04:44.860 talk about where you committed to Christ. You were in a cathedral and you noticed that everything was

00:04:52.640 kind of falling apart. The whole world was falling apart and you committed. Can you talk a little

00:04:56.260 bit about the moment you chose to commit? Yeah, Glenn. So this is back in the summer of, I think,

00:05:06.160 2018. And if you remember the time was, you know, I eventually became a baptized Catholic and very

00:05:14.520 bad time for the Catholic Church. There was a very bad sex abuse scandal that was getting reported

00:05:19.400 on in Pennsylvania. And, you know, there was just this sense that, yeah, I was curious

00:05:24.560 in Christ. I was curious about Christianity, but I wasn't yet ready to commit. And I was

00:05:31.660 there with my son, actually. I was in this cathedral. It was beautiful. It was completely

00:05:34.880 empty. And I felt this kind of sense of despair at first because, you know, no one was there.

00:05:40.760 And this beautiful old church, no one was there. There was nobody praying. It felt almost lifeless.

00:05:47.440 And then there was just this beautiful sort of ray of light that came through the stained

00:05:52.220 glass windows.

00:05:52.860 And it was the perfect time of day to where, you know, you could see the dust and the light.

00:05:57.160 And I just, I felt this sense, it's difficult to explain.

00:06:00.960 I'm not saying it's rational, but I felt this sense that, you know, yes, the church

00:06:05.840 is going through a tough spot, but things are going to be okay.

00:06:09.060 And I belong here.

00:06:10.780 And that was sort of the moment that I decided, you know what, for all of my belly aching

00:06:15.100 and back and forth, and here are the reasons why to do it and not to do it. Like, this is my home,

00:06:20.020 and I'm going to try to make this home as successful as possible and contribute as much

00:06:23.780 as I can, and that's what I did. That was the moment I made the decision. Okay, so that seems

00:06:30.640 like a commitment to the church. Is that the same as the moment to follow Christ? Did that come first

00:06:38.560 and then the commitment to the church, or are they the same thing to you? Well, I would say that the

00:06:44.340 decision to follow Christ was gradual. I was raised in sort of an unchurched, but very devout

00:06:52.780 household. My grandmother would take us to church every now and then, but not regularly. I didn't

00:06:56.740 feel like I had a church home. And so I became, as a teenager, sort of an early 20s kid, like a lot

00:07:02.480 of kids who were raised in that background, but weren't properly formed in a real faith community,

00:07:08.040 sort of an arrogant atheist. I was one of these people who thought that I knew better,

00:07:11.040 and I went about trying to achieve every marker of worldly success.

00:07:15.360 You know, I wanted to go to the best schools and I wanted to have the best job.

00:07:18.100 I wanted to make the most money.

00:07:19.140 I wanted something prestigious to hang my hat on.

00:07:22.240 And I kind of got to this point where I had won all of these elite competitions.

00:07:26.400 I was at Yale Law School.

00:07:27.800 Things were going very well for me personally.

00:07:30.040 And I was kind of looking around and saying, you know what?

00:07:31.460 Those people that I dismissed as simpletons, they're much happier and much healthier

00:07:36.420 and much more interesting people than the elite crew that I seem to be joining.

00:07:41.740 And if they have something that's kind of anchoring them,

00:07:46.580 maybe there's something deeper to what's going on here.

00:07:49.840 Maybe the inspiration for their character and their wisdom

00:07:52.380 is this Jesus Christ figure that I'd kind of discarded.

00:07:55.900 And so that was not like a conversion on the road to Damascus.

00:07:58.740 That was me slowly seeing reflections of Christian truth

00:08:03.140 and the way that various Christians live their lives

00:08:05.440 and the way that they raise their families.

00:08:07.880 And over time, I just started to think, you know what?

00:08:10.520 There's something real here.

00:08:12.360 And then when you decide that there's something real here,

00:08:14.780 then I think I wanted to give my family what I didn't have as a kid,

00:08:18.180 which is a real formation, like an actual church community.

00:08:21.620 And I kind of, you know, experimented with different churches

00:08:24.420 and went to a number of different places

00:08:26.280 and eventually, you know, found a home and a church that we love.

00:08:29.800 And that's kind of where we are today.

00:08:32.060 you your story is just absolutely you're one of the most fascinating guys i think alive today

00:08:39.000 your story is just fascinating um you talk in the book about peter teal um and you wrote peter gave

00:08:47.480 voice to something i'd been feeling but not fully understood i was obsessed with achievement per se

00:08:52.300 not accomplishing something meaningful but to win a social competition um i think that's what you

00:08:59.400 just addressed people will say your relationship with Peter Thiel is all about high tech some

00:09:06.220 uncharitably will say that you know he funded your campaign and so you're going to usher in a

00:09:12.120 new you know high tech oligarchy but it seems that your relationship is more spiritual

00:09:17.660 is that was that accurate reading in this yeah so so one of the things that happened so Peter

00:09:25.820 was a friend of mine before, you know, we sort of ever were talking about politics. But one of the

00:09:31.220 things, and by the way, Peter's a very unorthodox Christian. Like, I want to be fair on that

00:09:35.600 account. You know, he has very like unconventional views about a whole host of things. Sometimes I

00:09:40.340 disagree with him. Sometimes I agree with him. But what Peter sort of almost gave me permission

00:09:45.700 is that I was in law school. I was calling myself an atheist at the time. And, you know,

00:09:50.800 he came and gave a talk and he talked more about spirituality and religion than he did about

00:09:54.980 business or politics. And I sort of realized, like, whether you agree or disagree with this guy,

00:10:00.720 his Christianity is much more interesting than the atheism of the people that I see surrounding me.

00:10:05.420 Like, there's something there that I'd kind of dismissed as a kid. And that started me down,

00:10:11.400 again, this way of sort of re-exploring and rediscovering my own faith. But, you know,

00:10:16.380 definitely, you know, seeing this guy who was smarter than anybody I had met, who was obviously

00:10:21.600 very wealthy, very successful, sort of realizing that this idea that I had in my head that

00:10:28.320 Christianity was for superstitious people and atheism was for smart people. And that was the

00:10:35.360 categorization that I had made falsely. And there were a lot of people, Peter was one of them,

00:10:41.020 but there were a lot of people who slowly over time revealed that to be fundamentally an arrogance

00:10:46.120 that was deeply corrosive to my own soul you you are in a religion and a political party i think

00:10:55.660 that is hard to square at times um because of the pope you and marco you know you have things you

00:11:03.420 have to do as the president of the or vice president of the united states um your foreign

00:11:07.880 policy objectives in iran the pope is against uh the you know what you have to do on immigration

00:11:15.480 You view it one way. He views it another way. Even now, I mean, the press is even saying, you know, the fraud task force initiative is, you know, an attempt, again, just to target Somalis. How do you thread that needle with a pope, a guy who seems to not appreciate what you believe politically, and yet he's your spiritual leader?

00:11:43.400 Well, I'd say a couple things. First of all, I think this is true of sort of all Christianity,

00:11:47.980 is you have certain people who are going to disagree politically with what me or the president

00:11:53.580 or Secretary Rubio or anybody else does, and they're going to try to say you're not being

00:11:57.840 Christian enough. And one interesting thing is that often those criticisms are made by people

00:12:02.640 who say, I don't believe in Jesus, but you're not being Christian enough, which I always roll my

00:12:06.760 eyes at a little bit. Now, obviously, that's not true of the Pope. The Pope is explicitly the

00:12:10.480 leader of the Catholic Church. I'll say two things about the Pope, Glenn. So the first is that

00:12:14.880 oftentimes I find that when the media reports on him as an antagonist of Donald Trump or as somebody

00:12:22.060 who just rejects wholesale everything that Donald Trump says, and then I'll read what he actually

00:12:26.500 says, and I realize the Pope does sometimes have disagreements, but he's actually much more nuanced

00:12:31.940 and much more subtle than what the media gives him credit for. They want to play up the conflict,

00:12:36.400 But even on the immigration issue, yes, he's criticized some of the policy directions that we've taken, but he's also said it's right for a nation to have borders, that newcomers have a duty to integrate into their host cultures.

00:12:48.760 Like, those are things I very much agree with. The media doesn't talk about that because it's driving the narrative of conflict.

00:12:54.400 But I actually think the Pope's thinking on how to apply, you know, Christian teaching to the world today is much more complicated than the left-right media spectacle drives home.

00:13:06.400 You know, when I saw the cover of the book a few weeks ago, I just looked at it quickly. I thought it was communism. I was like, oh, he's going to write a book on communism. And it's communion is the name of the book, not communism. At a time when the vice president, you know, should be talking about communism, et cetera, et cetera. That's the obvious thought. Why is it important that you wrote a book on communion?

00:13:31.960 well because one i i obviously had a very complicated but i think in some ways a very

00:13:40.740 common way to finding my own faith where i was raised christian fell away from it and came back

00:13:45.760 to it i mean now i think a lot and i think a lot of christian parents are asking themselves the

00:13:50.720 question why is it that we or how maybe they've raised a kid who's fallen away from the faith

00:13:56.240 or maybe they're raising children in the faith and they're sort of thinking about why why didn't

00:14:00.260 that stick? Or how do I make it stick so that they don't have the same journey that I did?

00:14:05.180 I think there are a lot of people, especially in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination,

00:14:09.700 who are thinking about spirituality, who are going back to church. We see a lot of young

00:14:14.700 people in particular who are returning to church, but maybe like me, they didn't have the proper

00:14:18.820 formation. And so I felt that this was something important that I wanted to say. It's obviously

00:14:23.780 not a very political book. It's not a conventional politician's book. It's not like I have the

00:14:27.980 eight-point policy proposal in the final chapter to solve all the problems. But I just thought it

00:14:33.060 was something that was valuable and meaningful to say. I've been writing this book for 10 years,

00:14:37.300 and I kind of had this moment of, well, I'm either going to publish it now, or I'm never

00:14:42.160 going to publish this thing. So I might as well just get it out there, say what I need to say.

00:14:46.200 And obviously, you know, people are going to take from it what they will. But the one thing I'd ask,

00:14:50.240 Glenn, is that if you find it meaningful, great. But I think that there are so many different

00:14:55.200 pathways to Christ. And I think, you know, for some people, it's the Pentecostal church that

00:15:00.540 my dad called home. For some people, it's the Southern Baptist church that a lot of my friends

00:15:04.180 call home. I think what's really cool and dynamic about American Christianity is that we're sort of

00:15:09.520 forced to reckon with a lot of very complicated issues because our faith is constantly being

00:15:14.920 challenged, both by non-Christians, but also I think importantly by our fellow Christians who

00:15:19.680 are asking very important questions about the meaning and nature of God. That's what I love

00:15:23.900 about the American church, and that's one of the things that I hope to contribute to in some small

00:15:27.920 way. So I have to ask you a couple of questions on Iraq, or I'm sorry, on Iran. Sure. We are

00:15:35.860 supposedly, we have now apparently electronically signed a peace deal. We don't know what is in it

00:15:42.080 yet. You've come out and said some of the things are wrong that are being said. How do you negotiate

00:15:48.260 with an apocalyptic end times twelver regime?

00:15:54.040 And what makes you confident that we can,

00:15:56.380 as the president has said on the outset,

00:15:58.400 get no support for proxies,

00:16:01.720 end of the missile program, and no nukes?

00:16:05.000 Do we have those?

00:16:06.480 And how do you lock them in with,

00:16:09.080 to be honest, crazy people

00:16:10.620 that think they're living in the end times?

00:16:13.240 Let me say a few things about this.

00:16:14.800 First of all, Glenn, you know,

00:16:16.140 The president is, I mean, one of the most important lessons that he's given me in international

00:16:21.220 negotiation or anything is you don't trust anybody.

00:16:24.380 I don't trust the words.

00:16:25.800 I don't trust the commitments that they have committed to stop funding terrorism and to

00:16:29.860 stop, you know, building or buying a nuclear weapon.

00:16:32.960 Those commitments are there, but I trust people's actions.

00:16:36.300 And so the way that we set up that deal, given the president's directives, is if they perform

00:16:40.760 the things that they say they're going to perform, then they get a lot of relief.

00:16:43.900 And if they don't perform any of those things, then they get nothing. And for the United States, either way, Glenn, we're in a great position. They don't get one cent of American money, regardless of how this deal takes place. They don't get any sanctions relief unless they perform. But we got the Straits of Hormuz open. Oil is now down below $80 today.

00:17:02.760 Today, we have their military still destroyed, their defense industrial base still destroyed, their nuclear program still destroyed.

00:17:10.980 And now the president's saying, you know what, if you want to behave like a normal country, we're going to treat you like a normal country.

00:17:15.580 And if not, the United States still has all the cards and there's no skin off our back for entering into this into this negotiation.

00:17:22.640 And no support for proxies, end of the missile program and no nukes for sure.

00:17:28.140 Correct, Glenn. And if they don't do that, then they don't get any of the benefits of the bargain.

00:17:31.440 And that's really the whole point here is I keep on sort of hearing people say, well, the Iranians get this or the Iranians get that, and they miss out the part where the Iranians get some sanctions relief, you know, the ability to sell their oil, for example, if they do what they promised they would do.

00:17:46.600 That's the fundamental point of this deal is we reward good behavior.

00:17:52.920 We don't do anything if the Iranians don't meet their end of the bargain.

00:17:55.880 So I like your stance on, you know, you're a very big skeptic on military interventionalism, as I am. We have to learn our lessons from the 20th century. As a Christian, however, it is hard to watch a regime slaughter its own people who are just, to use an American term, yearning to breathe free.

00:18:15.920 we hoped that we would be able to have you know a free people in iran by the end of this it doesn't

00:18:22.260 look like that is part of the plan at all can that be done without military interventional

00:18:29.420 without regime change which i don't want you don't want trump doesn't want well i think what

00:18:35.480 the president has said is when we've given the iranian people an opportunity here their military

00:18:39.240 is substantially weaker it's effectively gone their conventional military is effectively gone

00:18:44.920 if the Iranian people want to rise up and make, you know, their own country or make their own

00:18:50.280 political future, then obviously the president of the United States would be happy to deal with

00:18:55.040 whatever new government they produce. But we're not going to force that on anybody. I think this

00:18:59.280 is what is fundamentally different from Trump's foreign policy compared to, you know, Barack

00:19:03.920 Obama's or George W. Bush's is we will empower people on the ground who yearn to breathe free,

00:19:10.100 but we're not going to force them to elect their own government. What we're going to do is pursue

00:19:18.320 our best interests. And what did the United States want out of this? We wanted an Iran

00:19:22.420 that didn't have a nuclear weapon. We wanted an Iran that had a conventional military that

00:19:27.400 was not able to threaten its allies in the region. And that's what we got. And so the

00:19:31.600 president is saying, we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. We accomplished what we

00:19:35.880 needed to. I think it's actually a great virtue and wisdom of the president's foreign policy

00:19:41.620 that he's not now saying, you know what, now we're going to go do something else that's not

00:19:45.880 related to our core national security objectives. He's saying, we got what we came for. Let's

00:19:50.060 negotiate with these guys to see if they're willing to change their behavior. And if not,

00:19:53.600 we still got what we came for fundamentally. I appreciate all the hard work that you do.

00:19:59.380 I know how tired you are. That guy never sleeps. So thank you for all of the hard work that you

00:20:05.860 You guys have, you have all done your next interview.

00:20:08.540 I think you're going right from this to the view.

00:20:10.520 And I don't know why you're, and I know you talk about it in the book,

00:20:13.200 so you won't say it, but I will.

00:20:14.480 Why are you hanging out with the sad cat ladies?

00:20:16.580 What do you need from the view?

00:20:21.820 What do you hope to get from the view?

00:20:24.760 I would appreciate the prayers of you and your audience, Glenn,

00:20:27.640 because I'm certainly going to need it here in about 30 minutes.

00:20:29.860 But you know, the, the president's attitude on this is,

00:20:33.760 and I really do believe this, is you go everywhere, you go anywhere to try to take the message.

00:20:38.580 I mean, we'll talk about the book, obviously.

00:20:40.780 We're going to talk, I'm sure, about the Iran deal, about other policies in the administration.

00:20:44.840 I just, what I love about this administration is we go everywhere.

00:20:49.300 And The View has a lot of people who watch it.

00:20:51.600 Now, most of them are not sympathetic to the administration,

00:20:54.080 but if every 10 people who watch that show are not fans of ours,

00:20:58.200 but you get the message out to one open-minded person, that was worth it in my view.

00:21:02.480 And that's how we're going to win the future is actually to go out and persuade people, even in hostile places.

00:21:06.980 Good for you. Good for you. J.D. Vance, thank you very much, Mr. Vice President.

00:21:10.700 Thanks, Glenn. Take care of you again.

00:21:12.000 You bet. You bet. Bye bye.

00:21:13.600 Let me just take a quick break. Ten seconds. Station ID.

00:21:17.500 uh i'm getting shouted in my ear the whole time gotta go he's gotta go he's gotta go he's gotta

00:21:36.560 go he's gotta go i know he's gotta go i know he's gotta go i've got an interview to do um but uh

00:21:43.660 ricky your initial thoughts on what he had to say

00:21:47.980 um i was really really proud that you asked the crazy cat lady question um and it

00:21:55.300 but it also affirmed my hunch that he is doing a worldwide book tour with even the crazy cat ladies

00:22:05.780 because there is no demographic he wants to leave untouched

00:22:10.640 for future presidential runs.

00:22:13.760 And he is one of the guys that can meet with anyone

00:22:18.200 and can handle any room.

00:22:20.460 I mean, he's a very rare politician that can not pander

00:22:26.020 but handle himself in such a way to where, you know,

00:22:31.940 in a room of a hundred people, maybe, you know, two or three will say, wow, that was actually a

00:22:38.400 really good answer. Um, you know, in a very hostile room, he has a, he has a way of being

00:22:43.460 able to handle that. So, you know, good for him. I was just gonna say quickly, he became a rock

00:22:49.980 star during the election when he would go on all this opposition media and come out completely

00:22:55.260 unscarred he's a great debater uh i've only got a minute um jason did he say what you needed him

00:23:04.620 to say on the you know no interventionalism and i tried to hold him to that i think uh yeah and i

00:23:13.100 noticed that uh i think we that deserves a lot more discussion because i i'm trying to interpret

00:23:20.260 what he how he answered and where i see they can wiggle out of some things okay well let's

00:23:26.860 i didn't i didn't feel he was trying to get wiggle room but i but let's talk about it we'll get into

00:23:31.940 that next uh analyze what he just said about uh iran because that's more than i think he has given

00:23:38.020 or anybody has given on iran um so far but apparently we have a digital signature on some

00:23:45.640 deal. They're going to be releasing the details. The president is still with the G7 summit over

00:23:51.280 in Europe. He'll be coming back and we'll have more on all of that. And the summer of 250 continues.

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00:28:21.760 Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. The FBI has come out with something disturbing, a plot they

00:28:31.260 thwarted over the weekend targeting the White House UFC event. I looked at that event on Sunday

00:28:38.140 night and I said to my wife, pray for the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security because can

00:28:44.640 you imagine securing all of the things that are going on in the united states it is a miracle if

00:28:51.200 we make it through this summer without a major terror attack it's a miracle um please pray for

00:28:58.180 our law enforcement officials who are doing everything they can to keep us safe but there

00:29:03.820 is a balance there and i want to tell you first about what happened because it is truly frightening

00:29:08.360 the details that has just come out. And then I want to give you a warning on that because

00:29:13.520 the power that our government can grab in a moment of terror is terrifying in and of itself.

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00:30:33.480 Okay, let me just give you the

00:30:34.980 The story here that's just broken earlier today, an alleged plot targeting this weekend's UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., was disrupted by the FBI and saw its law enforcement partners spring into action.

00:30:50.100 Here's what we know so far.

00:30:51.620 Five people were in custody as of Monday.

00:30:55.140 Investigators have identified 23 individuals as part of what they describe as a potential network of plotters.

00:31:02.080 So we're no longer talking a lone gunman.

00:31:04.980 It's not a lone wolf anymore.

00:31:07.700 Now, who are these people?

00:31:09.340 Officials say the alleged plan involved using explosive-laden drones

00:31:14.120 to strike buildings near the event.

00:31:18.260 That's what we saw happen in Ukraine.

00:31:21.560 That's what, when we saw, I warned and said,

00:31:24.160 this is not a good development.

00:31:26.500 And warned that this was the future of warfare.

00:31:29.080 So they plan on using drones that they strapped with explosives.

00:31:37.680 It would trigger a mass evacuation and funnel crowds toward a pre-stage sniper team.

00:31:45.080 A second phase allegedly called for storming the White House gate.

00:31:51.560 This is pretty elaborate.

00:31:53.160 it and the funneling in is what we've been talking about what terrorists have been planning on doing

00:32:01.260 for a while what they do is they strike and then when the ems and everybody else shows up

00:32:07.000 when everybody starts running there that's when the real terror strike happens fbi learned of

00:32:14.640 the threat on june 10th secured probable cause for an arrest in cincinnati where one suspect

00:32:21.020 was taken into custody. Investigators later uncovered signal chats in which multiple people

00:32:26.720 allegedly discussed the attacks on the UFC event. An initial review of one suspect's iPhone revealed

00:32:34.320 at least 23 signal users discussing pre-operational activity. Some participants allegedly planned to

00:32:41.300 travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia on June 12th or 13th to prepare for the attack. One suspect

00:32:49.340 allegedly told investigators the goal was to target capitalist elites, billionaires, or

00:32:56.120 politicians who received donations from the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee,

00:33:01.240 otherwise known as AIPAC. Now, let me see. What does this sound like? Capitalist elites were

00:33:08.300 targeted, billionaires, or politicians who were in bed with AIPAC. That does not sound like a

00:33:18.420 right-wing plot does it investigation spanned at least 12 fbi field offices cash patel credited

00:33:26.340 agents the department of justice law enforcement partners with acting quickly the event drew an

00:33:30.980 estimated 4 300 attendees including 1200 active duty service members as 14 fighters competed

00:33:37.380 blah blah blah the alleged scheme comes amid a series of threats and security incidents

00:33:41.500 involving trump and senior administration officials highlighting concerns about political violence

00:33:47.840 we are on the edge gang

00:33:49.780 we are on the edge

00:33:52.600 and when it happens

00:33:54.880 a couple of things could happen

00:33:56.940 let me tell you what the left

00:33:58.620 is counting on

00:33:59.700 that it will tear us apart

00:34:02.560 even more

00:34:03.380 and that we will do

00:34:05.660 the opposite of what we did on September 11th

00:34:09.160 what we did on September 11th

00:34:10.720 is we united

00:34:11.760 we came together, we didn't care about your politics

00:34:15.100 we didn't care who you were

00:34:17.060 your class we didn't care if you're a billionaire or you know poverty ridden we stopped people in

00:34:23.560 the street do you remember doing this you would pass people in a store or something and you could

00:34:28.440 see it in their eyes and they were complete stranger and you would say are you okay are you

00:34:34.360 okay we would hug strangers we would help strangers that's who we are Americans reveal

00:34:44.080 themselves at times of crisis. Now, are we still those same people? That's the only really remaining

00:34:52.920 question. That's why I have been preaching for years, don't close your heart. Don't close your

00:35:00.940 heart. Do everything you can to keep your heart open. Keep it soft. Remember who you are. Don't

00:35:06.940 get angry because only if that charitable part of your heart is open where you can still recognize

00:35:15.760 even the people who you don't like as spiritual family members part of the human race we won't

00:35:27.300 make it and they're counting on us turning on each other and it growing we have to decide right now

00:35:36.060 we're not going to do that we are going to come together we will be the americans we were on

00:35:43.300 9 12 and it's going to be harder because there are going to be those in our own communities

00:35:48.440 that are still pushing still blaming still you've got to be the person that says

00:35:53.760 when everybody is running one way you need to be the person that's is brave enough

00:36:00.720 and in this in touch with the spirit enough to be able to stand up and go don't don't don't

00:36:06.020 Don't go that way.

00:36:06.860 Listen, you know me.

00:36:08.900 Don't go that way.

00:36:10.240 Please don't go that way.

00:36:11.800 And know that some of them are going to continue to run past you in the wrong direction.

00:36:16.260 Just be calm, cool, and collected.

00:36:21.680 The other place we're going to need cool heads to prevail will be in Washington, D.C.

00:36:26.020 because the government will look to gain more and more power.

00:36:35.040 And it will happen with the Republicans just as fast as it will happen with the Democrats.

00:36:39.340 And they've already weaponized this government.

00:36:43.140 It's not too late, but it is soon, almost impossible to stop soon,

00:36:49.000 if we don't get it under control.

00:36:52.040 I don't care how you vote.

00:36:53.680 this is one thing that we all should unite on

00:36:56.940 you know that scene

00:37:02.880 we've seen it in movies a million times

00:37:05.420 it's seen usually in a mob movie

00:37:08.560 where somebody walks into a store

00:37:12.060 neighborhood guy standing behind the counter

00:37:14.180 his little grocery store

00:37:15.340 he's worked there his whole life

00:37:16.620 his dad built it

00:37:17.680 his kids stock the shelves after school

00:37:20.500 you know

00:37:20.940 and then a local guy walks in in a nice suit and he almost offhandedly says nice place you got here

00:37:30.980 shame if something happened to it huh everybody understands what's happening immediately

00:37:37.520 everybody understands that threat only works because the mob already controls the pressure

00:37:43.860 points um i watched what is the new dutton show the is it dutton ranch uh yeah right dutton ranch

00:37:52.700 tanya and i were watching that last night and i won't give anything away in case you haven't

00:37:57.580 watched it yet it's really good i love beth and her character but um there's corruption

00:38:02.960 and it's in this town and it's deep in this town and one of the characters is kind of like faced

00:38:10.140 in this situation what are you going to do i mean you know what to do what the right thing is but

00:38:14.280 it's basically like that be a shame if you said anything now you know it'd be a shame if something

00:38:19.000 happened to you because you know basically we control everything and that's what has happened

00:38:25.040 in america okay the the threat only works if you control the unions and the permits and the cops

00:38:31.880 and the judges and the banks the loans and the trucking routes that's real power real power

00:38:38.620 It doesn't kick your door in.

00:38:40.540 It just sometimes makes it impossible until you cooperate.

00:38:46.400 And if that doesn't work, then, you know, be a shame if something happened.

00:38:50.720 If that doesn't work, they burn your house down.

00:38:52.920 And you know the police are never going to do anything because they own the police as well.

00:38:59.980 That's the conversation that we should start having.

00:39:02.180 That's the way we should start viewing our government.

00:39:04.280 That is the healthy way to view a government.

00:39:06.800 Never give them enough power so they can do those things.

00:39:10.720 And whether people like hearing it or not,

00:39:12.920 the story didn't begin with Donald Trump or Obama or Biden.

00:39:16.780 This road goes back more than a century.

00:39:20.060 I mean, when America first fell in love with the idea

00:39:24.360 that experts should manage society.

00:39:27.940 Ricky, what is the name of that podcast that we have on Torch 250?

00:39:33.700 Is it the experts or?

00:39:34.940 control freaks oh my gosh that is such a good series uh nathan nipper wrote this before he

00:39:41.900 wrote the american story um and he's he is our historian he is really super good a great writer

00:39:48.580 and he wrote control freaks and it is a um a whole podcast series about how did we get here

00:39:55.640 how did we get to a place to where you won't even listen to yourself anymore you won't listen to

00:40:00.480 your mom you'll listen to an expert you won't listen to your mom about raising your kids

00:40:04.540 and look at the damage we've done by listening to experts.

00:40:07.920 This started in the early 1900s, okay?

00:40:11.860 In the early 1900s, we fell in love with this.

00:40:15.460 Progressives looked at Europe the same way, you know,

00:40:20.020 youth, many of us in our 20s might've looked at,

00:40:22.840 you know, Scandinavian socialism.

00:40:25.060 It's easy to see centralized power and it's modern

00:40:27.540 and it's efficient and it's scientific.

00:40:29.600 It doesn't work, but on the surface,

00:40:31.900 it looks kind of good, right?

00:40:33.360 You know, the Canadian health care system, it looks good until it catches up with you, and then it's horrific.

00:40:40.760 Woodrow Wilson actually argued the Constitution was outdated because it restrained the government too much.

00:40:46.340 Think about that.

00:40:48.120 He said the same thing, actually, that Obama used to say.

00:40:51.080 Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, tells the government what it can't do.

00:40:55.320 We need a charter of positive liberties telling us what the government must do.

00:40:59.920 Wow, sounds nice until you realize

00:41:02.240 that that is the failed model of every authoritarian state, okay?

00:41:07.920 Well, let me stick with Wilson.

00:41:10.840 1900s, he openly believed government needed

00:41:14.220 more freedom from the Constitution.

00:41:17.600 And that mindset is what changed everything in America.

00:41:20.480 We began listening to the elite class,

00:41:22.780 the experts over common sense and the common man.

00:41:24.960 And you won't believe how this was played.

00:41:27.100 I mean, you've got to listen to that Control Freaks podcast because in it, I tell you a story about how all these experts went into places like GM and said, well, here's how many widgets you should make.

00:41:38.980 This is what every man should do.

00:41:40.880 And they were making it up, okay?

00:41:43.580 The elite class, the modern scientific class, they gave us the rise of eugenics and everything else.

00:41:49.620 And this is one of the parts of history that, you know, schools fly past at about 90 miles an hour because it's ugly.

00:41:55.460 But that's the kind of stuff that happened in America that we should be talking about.

00:41:58.480 Not only slavery, but the American elites, the politicians, the professors, the journalists, the academics that supported the idea that government should improve humanity by controlling who could reproduce and who couldn't.

00:42:10.940 Force sterilizations.

00:42:12.860 We don't talk about that.

00:42:14.540 That happened a lot, lot closer to us now than slavery did.

00:42:18.520 in america thousands of people and mostly poor mostly disabled minorities people the experts

00:42:26.840 decided decided were undesirable okay if that sounds bad to you if you think donald trump

00:42:32.260 can do that or wants to do that to the people he finds undesirable well then you shouldn't give the

00:42:39.600 government more power and it's not just him because your side did this last time okay here's

00:42:46.120 the uncomfortable part nobody likes talking about america's eugenics programs are the inspiration

00:42:52.080 they were big inspiration inspirational uh parts that made up the nazi germany racial policies

00:43:01.240 okay that's just fact the nazis studied the american programs our elite educated class

00:43:07.780 went to meet with a scientist who taught him to quote the nazis to show them what could be done

00:43:14.480 with modern eugenics.

00:43:16.560 Okay, now why does that matter?

00:43:17.660 Why am I telling you this

00:43:18.420 after I'm telling you a story in Washington, D.C.?

00:43:20.500 Because it shows how quickly government power

00:43:23.600 becomes dangerous once people convince themselves

00:43:26.360 they're building a better society

00:43:27.960 or they're saving society.

00:43:31.180 That's the pattern.

00:43:33.440 Every era, and we'll do it too,

00:43:35.580 you get these big terrorist attacks

00:43:37.100 and people will say,

00:43:38.140 yeah, but this time it's different.

00:43:39.460 We've got to do something.

00:43:41.040 Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:43:42.220 We've got to do something

00:43:43.580 that's really bad that's a very dangerous phrase because that doesn't tell us what we are doing

00:43:51.300 that tells us we have to do something well maybe not that yeah every era says oh this power is

00:43:57.580 only going to be used for good until somebody ugly gets all control of the machine and it always

00:44:04.300 happens okay let me take you from woodrow wilson to fdr sorry i'm going on this history tangent but

00:44:11.440 it's important to understand what not to do if something like what was just thwarted actually

00:44:18.900 happens. And it could happen this summer. So how did our government get out of control?

00:44:24.100 Started with Woodrow Wilson and then came FDR. What also came around the time of FDR?

00:44:30.580 The depression. It was an emergency. We've got to do something. And so the government exploded

00:44:38.140 in its reach into everyday life i mean exploded the federal government exploded in size agencies

00:44:44.840 multiplied regulations multiplied the alphabet soup began the fec the fcc the nr uh the nlrb the

00:44:55.460 ssa why did the cia happen because of the oss why did the oss happen because of ww2 that's why

00:45:04.340 It was another crisis.

00:45:06.680 Once government systems grow and grow large enough, they stop behaving like temporary emergency measures.

00:45:13.700 They become permanent institutions with their own interests, and it's human nature.

00:45:19.180 World War II, Japanese Americans, what happened to them?

00:45:22.120 Round up.

00:45:22.980 They were rounded up, put into internment camps, entire families.

00:45:26.600 They lost businesses.

00:45:27.980 They lost home.

00:45:28.720 They lost land.

00:45:29.520 They were American citizens.

00:45:31.900 What did the government say?

00:45:32.840 Got to do it for security.

00:45:34.440 They're going to kill us all.

00:45:35.500 We're at war.

00:45:37.020 Fear becomes the justification for expanded state power.

00:45:41.760 Fear.

00:45:43.960 Again, why am I telling you this?

00:45:48.600 Did you hear what I just said was thwarted over the weekend?

00:45:54.400 Flying drones into businesses at the White House,

00:45:59.620 then funneling, because they know the plans of escape,

00:46:03.980 funneling those people into choke points then shooting those choke points okay then storming

00:46:11.880 the gates of the that's what they just stopped over the weekend what is that does that make you

00:46:15.720 feel comfortable or does that make you feel fearful how many people will hear that and go

00:46:20.280 i don't know if i want to go to washington dc this summer i know i'm going with my whole family this

00:46:24.940 summer i'm going for the fourth of july maybe giving speeches and everywhere all over my whole

00:46:30.420 family's coming. I mean, not going to stop me. I'll be more alert. But when fear happens,

00:46:38.520 the pattern starts, and it repeats over and over and over again. More on this in just a second.

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