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00:00:00.000 On today's podcast, I tell you why I think Trump is going to win in a landslide if we do one simple thing.

00:00:08.040 Also, Bill O'Reilly joins the program to talk about his latest book.

00:00:12.640 He and I disagree where Woodrow Wilson should be ranked among the worst presidents,

00:00:17.260 but there's no debate on how bad Joe Biden has been.

00:00:21.040 Alan Dershowitz also has joined the Avengers, become the latest Democrat to renounce the party, and Kamala Harris.

00:00:27.960 He opens up on that.

00:00:32.480 And if you want to hear more of the show, including the part of my conversation with Tucker Carlson from over the weekend,

00:00:37.660 make sure you download today's full podcast.

00:00:40.560 If you want to hear the full conversation with Tucker and I, all you have to do is go to X,

00:00:45.300 and Tucker Carlson has it on his channel.

00:00:48.440 It's Tucker Carlson from over the weekend.

00:00:51.040 But today, today's podcast begins in a minute.

00:00:55.600 You know what's going on in Aurora, Colorado?

00:00:57.200 Well, we found out that the Texas oil fields are also being threatened by gangs, these from Cuba and Venezuela.

00:01:05.860 This is going to be happening more and more.

00:01:08.480 I don't know where the law enforcement is on this, but they're taking over apartment complexes.

00:01:13.780 One guy refused to pay his rent to the Venezuelan gang, and he was stabbed.

00:01:21.000 But other than that, you know, what's the big deal?

00:01:24.840 You have a right to be armed as a citizen and protect yourself.

00:01:28.780 Now, is this a life-threatening situation?

00:01:32.880 Cops have to deal with this all the time, and they've always carried tasers as their first, you know, their first line of defense.

00:01:40.040 But they're not carrying tasers as much anymore because they're carrying Burna Launchers.

00:01:44.940 Burna Launcher has tear gas in it, kinetic rounds.

00:01:47.700 It'll stop somebody from 60 feet, but it won't be lethal.

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00:02:00.540 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn.

00:02:30.540 Glenn, welcome back to the studio.

00:02:35.400 Thank you.

00:02:35.860 It's good to be here.

00:02:36.720 Yeah, it's good to see you.

00:02:37.420 Good to be here, yeah.

00:02:39.380 So, I have to tell you, I was with Tucker Carlson this weekend and did his, you know, his stage thing.

00:02:51.840 And it was fantastic.

00:02:53.800 And there was just a spirit I had all day.

00:02:57.260 I had to do some fundraisers earlier in the day.

00:03:00.900 And I'm with these people.

00:03:02.640 And I'm just like, there's something happening today, at least in me.

00:03:08.400 And I don't know if people who saw the Carlson interview or I guess, I don't know what it was.

00:03:14.980 It was just two friends goofing around.

00:03:16.440 But if you saw it, if you felt something change, but I think maybe it's just the realization that things could change for the better that fast.

00:03:33.860 But we have to get out and vote.

00:03:36.500 But let me show you, you know, the poll numbers, Nate Silver just put out his latest prediction.

00:03:43.960 He says Trump has a 68% chance of winning.

00:03:47.960 That's pretty remarkable.

00:03:51.600 Tucker said he's seen some polls from both sides.

00:03:57.600 And he said Kamala is starting to crater.

00:04:00.700 And just a, it's 64% of winning.

00:04:04.120 64, sorry.

00:04:04.840 It's silver, 63.8, I think is where you got the 68 number.

00:04:07.600 But still, a significant favor, it's 64.36, right?

00:04:11.240 Yeah.

00:04:11.600 And it was, like, a couple of months ago.

00:04:14.560 Harris was leading at latest as of August 28th.

00:04:17.560 Right, right.

00:04:18.200 So, only, you know, a couple weeks ago.

00:04:20.300 Right.

00:04:20.720 Okay.

00:04:21.120 So, let me tell you what I'm feeling, and you tell me that I'm wrong.

00:04:28.160 But I don't think I am.

00:04:30.560 I don't know if you've been, I don't know if you've noticed, but people are starting to get pretty close to where they are in Europe about illegal immigration.

00:04:42.280 Now, they're farther ahead than we are, maybe a year's worth, but everything is fundamentally changing.

00:04:49.880 I mean, the people in Ireland now think Ireland is over unless they act right now.

00:04:57.840 Okay.

00:04:58.560 It is really bad.

00:05:00.700 But let me just show you some things here in America.

00:05:02.960 Here is a Springfield resident, Springfield, Ohio, about the new Haitian population, which I think there were 53,000 residents, and they added, what was it, 10,000, 15,000 Haitians into that?

00:05:21.700 The city's collapsing, all right?

00:05:24.700 Listen to this resident.

00:05:26.680 Wherever they're at, that's what they're used to, bro.

00:05:29.240 They're in the park.

00:05:30.480 City council meeting.

00:05:31.440 They're putting up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them like it's only going to get worse.

00:05:38.080 And y'all sitting up there in these chairs, all y'all need to get out here and do something.

00:05:41.820 Y'all making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:05:43.080 Y'all need to put on a T-shirt and some Crocs, and then y'all need to come out here in these streets, and y'all need to go out here.

00:05:48.540 I'm out here before the police is.

00:05:50.980 Y'all need to do something, bro.

00:05:52.300 Y'all really got to stand on minutes.

00:05:53.500 Y'all getting paid all this money just to wear a suit and sit in a chair. 0.89

00:05:56.460 Okay, that's a black man in an Ohio city council meeting saying, where are you? 0.90

00:06:06.300 What are you doing? 0.71

00:06:07.660 Let me give another resident the same meeting.

00:06:11.000 Listen to this.

00:06:11.700 Cut six.

00:06:12.240 I'm done with what I'm seeing.

00:06:15.260 It is so unsafe in my neighborhood anymore.

00:06:18.360 I have the homeless that were trying to camp out, and I have made concessions with them, and I try to help them the best I can to keep them from trying to squat on my property.

00:06:29.600 But it is so unsafe.

00:06:31.060 I have men that cannot speak English in my front yard screaming at me, throwing mattresses in my front yard, throwing trash in my front yard, and I can't. 1.00

00:06:43.000 Look at me.

00:06:43.840 I weigh 95 pounds.

00:06:45.160 I couldn't defend myself if I had to.

00:06:47.420 My husband is elderly, and last night after living in this home for 45 years, he said, Noel, guess what?

00:06:54.060 It's time to pack up and move.

00:06:55.960 He said, we can't do this anymore.

00:06:57.820 He said, it's killing both of us mentally.

00:06:59.560 I don't understand what you expect of us as citizens.

00:07:03.520 I mean, I understand they're here under temporary protected status, and you're protecting them, and I understand that our city services are overwhelmed and understaffed.

00:07:14.580 But who's protecting us?

00:07:16.000 If we're protecting them, who's protecting me?

00:07:18.860 I want out of this town.

00:07:20.460 I am sorry.

00:07:22.020 Please give me a reason to stay.

00:07:24.840 Now, listen to her.

00:07:26.420 Now, she's obviously somebody who is not like I am on illegal immigrants.

00:07:34.300 I want them sent back.

00:07:37.240 She's saying, I understand we're protecting them.

00:07:40.960 I understand we have to help them.

00:07:43.880 I don't understand that.

00:07:45.260 But she does.

00:07:46.780 She's coming from an entirely different place than I'm at.

00:07:50.260 If somebody were putting, you know, mattresses on my front yard, I'd be really pissed.

00:07:56.000 She's coming to them and saying, please, notice she also says, I don't know what you expect of us.

00:08:03.880 She's also somebody who has put herself as a servant of the government.

00:08:12.420 You know, I'm trying to do my part.

00:08:14.360 I'm trying to help.

00:08:15.200 I know you tell me we have to protect them, so I'm trying to.

00:08:18.500 I don't know what you expect of us.

00:08:21.520 No.

00:08:22.560 Reverse that.

00:08:23.480 If you're a right-thinking American, you understand you don't, you're not here to serve them.

00:08:33.160 The leaders in our communities are put there to serve us, to protect and defend us.

00:08:40.760 So, there's two people just in this small town in Ohio.

00:08:47.980 Ohio.

00:08:50.040 Ohio is, you know, has been in the past a bellwether and also a swing state.

00:08:57.720 Now, it's not probably a swing state this time.

00:09:00.480 But if these things are happening in Ohio, you're going to see people do one of two things.

00:09:08.600 One, stay at home because they can't vote for Trump, but they can't vote for this anymore.

00:09:15.680 Or two, they're going to go out and vote for Trump.

00:09:20.600 Let me give you another one.

00:09:22.480 This is a Chicago residence, a resident.

00:09:26.440 This is from a Fox 32 Chicago report.

00:09:31.260 And they're talking about the Venezuelan migrants in their community.

00:09:36.280 Cut seven.

00:09:36.840 I don't want them there.

00:09:39.300 Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela. 1.00

00:09:42.340 I don't care where they go. 1.00

00:09:43.800 Black women. 1.00

00:09:44.300 This is wrong. 1.00

00:09:45.820 You get 73% of the people homeless in this city are black people. 0.98

00:09:50.180 Whatever you got for now. 0.98

00:09:51.460 There were lots of fireworks.

00:09:54.860 Over the migrants moving into the Lakeshore Hotel for six months, where 300 can be housed.

00:10:00.740 Also, the city says it's a fluid situation and it will need to revisit that timeline.

00:10:06.000 So, now you have people.

00:10:09.580 Let me play another one.

00:10:12.140 Cut 12.

00:10:13.300 This is another woman talking to the city council in Chicago. 0.54

00:10:17.480 She's a black woman. 1.00

00:10:18.700 Listen to this. 0.99

00:10:19.340 You don't hang no signs about black people hating on immigrants. 0.98

00:10:23.940 Because black people ain't got no reason to hate on no immigrants. 0.98

00:10:26.360 Oh, no. 0.93

00:10:26.720 But the immigrants got no reason to hate on us.

00:10:27.480 We everything y'all are in this zone.

00:10:29.860 Let me tell you something.

00:10:31.000 You get them signs down.

00:10:32.540 Anytime that Arnold and Lawson and Silverstein.

00:10:37.120 And what's that other?

00:10:38.340 Seijo Lopez.

00:10:38.900 We sit up here and talk about how they should get a hate crime bill because Swastnicks will 1.00

00:10:44.780 send Ziploc bags in their community.

00:10:48.480 They hung this in our community.

00:10:50.680 We want it all composed.

00:10:53.180 We want that to be the beginning of a hate crime.

00:10:57.020 And that organization, which is a white liberal organization, like in the words of Malcolm X,

00:11:05.080 who told us what? 0.99

00:11:06.860 That the white liberal is the worst enemy to the black man. 0.99

00:11:11.000 And it is coming up in here acting like y'all representing some social justice. 0.99

00:11:16.260 But all along, all you're doing is trying to use black people to find a reason to make some money. 0.98

00:11:22.840 Let me tell y'all something over there. 0.90

00:11:25.040 We're done.

00:11:26.180 The Democratic Party is done.

00:11:28.920 You ain't gonna love us.

00:11:30.360 Y'all gonna abuse us. 0.99

00:11:31.680 Don't blame you, but I'm sorry. 1.00

00:11:33.600 They get to abuse the black Americans. 1.00

00:11:35.140 Trump's gonna come in here and gonna clean it up. 1.00

00:11:37.440 Clean it up.

00:11:37.580 I'm telling you.

00:11:38.180 No way!

00:11:39.000 No way!

00:11:40.260 Righteous heart.

00:11:41.140 Hey, stop.

00:11:42.760 Do you see what's happening?

00:11:45.660 People in small cities, people in big cities have had enough.

00:11:52.060 And if you're listening to her, what she's saying is, it's just not you and the city council.

00:11:59.300 It's Democrats.

00:12:00.360 Democrats, you have betrayed us.

00:12:03.780 I think this is going to crystallize like crazy by the time we get to the election.

00:12:12.820 I just think we are in for something pretty amazing.

00:12:20.880 Listen, here's Kamala Harris in a barbershop this weekend. 1.00

00:12:24.340 Cut 29, please.

00:12:25.700 And we're talking about specifically something that happened to black people here in America.

00:12:32.340 So we have to be specifically targeting to help those people.

00:12:36.600 Because we put those people in a position.

00:12:39.220 And everybody knows the history.

00:12:40.520 Yeah.

00:12:41.020 Everybody understands the history of America.

00:12:43.020 That's right.

00:12:43.520 America, you did this to these people.

00:12:46.240 You should write laws for these people.

00:12:50.460 Don't group us in with everybody.

00:12:52.780 Because everybody, it didn't happen to everybody.

00:12:54.640 But let's be fair.

00:12:55.840 We were playing from behind the eight.

00:12:57.580 But we were way back there.

00:12:58.800 400 years back there.

00:13:00.920 We're not actually going to give us nothing.

00:13:02.780 We actually write the law.

00:13:03.960 Those of us who are willing and able to do the work, will do the work.

00:13:07.700 Okay, stop.

00:13:09.400 So here she is in a barbershop.

00:13:11.300 Now, cut 52.

00:13:14.760 Listen to cut 52.

00:13:16.100 Here she is talking to Al Sharpton.

00:13:19.380 Put in the area of reparations for descendants of Africans enslaved.

00:13:24.880 If you elected president, would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?

00:13:29.720 When I am elected president, I will sign that bill.

00:13:32.060 So, why is she saying this?

00:13:37.220 Why is she saying this? 0.65

00:13:38.440 She knows the black community is cratering on her. 1.00

00:13:43.180 So now, we're going to sign reparations.

00:13:46.480 Well, how are we going to afford that and all of the things that we're paying for with the illegals? 1.00

00:13:53.660 We can't.

00:13:55.660 Cloward and Piven.

00:13:58.680 Collapse the system.

00:14:00.400 That's exactly what's happening.

00:14:02.420 Let me go to cut 48.

00:14:05.080 This is illegals and the school buses in California. 0.84

00:14:10.900 A group of migrants tried to board a school bus this morning while it was traveling to a school.

00:14:15.360 The superintendent for the Humboldt-Azura Union School District informed parents of that incident earlier today.

00:14:21.880 It happened at one of the stops on the school district's bus route that heads to Oak Grove Middle School and Humboldt Primary.

00:14:28.380 Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon, in a similar area along another route, the superintendent says that a group of migrants tried to stop another bus.

00:14:36.320 Border Patrol, CHP, and the sheriff's office have now been informed of these incidents.

00:14:40.480 The superintendent says that for the safety of everyone, if a driver sees a group of migrants at a bus stop, they will drive past it on and move on to the next.

00:14:50.880 Stop.

00:14:51.280 Stop.

00:14:53.260 Hmm.

00:14:53.960 So if a bus driver is going to pick up your kid at a bus stop and he sees a bunch of illegals there, he's going to drive past and let your kid leave them alone at the bus stop. 0.93

00:15:11.220 Oh, well, that's great.

00:15:14.640 I feel good.

00:15:15.740 I feel really good.

00:15:16.660 I feel like no, seriously, I want my kids to ride the bus.

00:15:20.900 I want my kids waiting for the bus.

00:15:23.420 Sounds pretty safe.

00:15:25.380 I'm telling you, this is the chickens are coming home to roost.

00:15:30.140 I'm telling you right now, if you get up and you vote and you bring everybody you know to vote and you start talking about, are you seeing this, what's happening in our community, what's happening in our in our schools, what's happening with illegal immigration, what's happening in the grocery store?

00:15:52.220 This will be a blowout.

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00:17:05.820 Now back to the podcast.

00:17:10.380 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:17:18.200 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program, and I want to say hello to my dear, very old friend, emphasis on very old, Bill O'Reilly.

00:17:29.160 BillOReilly.com.

00:17:30.620 How are you?

00:17:31.560 You know, Beck, I'm the same, which is tragic for everybody.

00:17:36.820 You know, I may be aging in dog years, but I remain a consistent person.

00:17:43.420 I am exactly the same as when you met me 20 years ago.

00:17:49.160 Yeah, that's pretty crazy, isn't it?

00:17:50.700 You know who's not that way?

00:17:52.700 Kamala Harris.

00:17:56.360 She's not the one even 20 months ago, 20 minutes ago, really.

00:18:01.560 But you have a new book out called Confronting the Presidents, and I want to get to that, but I do want to ask you, how do you see the landscape of things right now?

00:18:15.060 Well, it's a pretty interesting situation and unique in American politics, and that's the fault of the folks.

00:18:23.260 We, the people, we, the people, are at fault here, because we have become so distracted in our lives, and I'm talking generally.

00:18:31.340 I'm not talking about Glenn Beck listeners or Bill O'Reilly TV watchers or listeners.

00:18:36.500 I'm not talking about the crew that seeks out information and opinion.

00:18:40.100 I'm talking about the people who, you know, I've got the phone in their hand 24-7, and they're all over the place.

00:18:46.980 So, when you have a candidate as unqualified as Kamala Harris, then you, you know, would assume that she'll get waxed by 10 points and she'll lose the election handily, right?

00:19:00.440 You would assume that, because she's not qualified to do the job. 1.00

00:19:05.640 And if you look and analyze what she's done in seven and a half years in Washington, four as a senator, three as vice president, she's done absolutely bupkis, word of the day.

00:19:17.400 Nothing.

00:19:17.880 Nothing.

00:19:19.120 Well, she's, no, she has, she voted in the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a nightmare.

00:19:25.840 She has taken really hard stance.

00:19:28.140 She supported George Soros' district attorneys.

00:19:31.960 I mean, the things that she has done has, are in the exact opposite direction, I think, where people want to go.

00:19:41.000 May I correct you?

00:19:42.480 Yes.

00:19:43.660 That isn't doing anything.

00:19:45.520 Those are opinions.

00:19:47.880 All right, so, when you're a senator, it is expected that you'll introduce legislation to help Glenn Beck and Stu.

00:19:56.080 I mean, that's like, okay, how are we going to help Glenn Beck and Stu?

00:20:00.440 Let's come up with a law or a bill that will help them.

00:20:05.060 Nothing.

00:20:06.300 Nothing in four years.

00:20:07.760 Now, Barack Obama was the same way and got away with it.

00:20:10.960 So, it's not unique there.

00:20:12.740 Yeah.

00:20:13.160 But when you look at a Kamala Harris who cannot even tell you what her vision for the country is.

00:20:20.300 So, I want a new way forward.

00:20:23.000 Well, what does that mean?

00:20:23.940 You're going to go on a nature trail and take a left instead of a right?

00:20:27.860 What does that mean?

00:20:29.720 I want joy.

00:20:31.780 Right.

00:20:32.000 Okay, lady, I can't have joy if you're not going to tell me one thing that you believe in.

00:20:39.720 All right?

00:20:40.340 One thing that you might accomplish and how you would do it.

00:20:43.780 So, how do you see it today?

00:20:45.500 If it was held today, how do you see this election going?

00:20:49.040 Trump would win by a very slight margin, but there would be a lot of chaos and a lot of angst and a lot of lawsuits.

00:20:56.040 He's got to pull away.

00:20:59.380 Now, on the Trump end, everyone knows that you're not voting for St. Francis of Assisi here.

00:21:10.000 Okay?

00:21:11.040 Everyone knows that.

00:21:13.280 But if you look at what he did in four years, because he does have a record of helping Glenn Beck and Stu.

00:21:21.680 And others.

00:21:22.480 And he did that by cutting their taxes and stimulating the economy before COVID, that everybody who is working, wages were rising.

00:21:34.980 Yes.

00:21:35.760 Real wages.

00:21:36.980 Yes.

00:21:37.220 That is what they call a record.

00:21:40.340 Now, if you don't like him, I don't like a lot of people, but I understand they are effective in what they do.

00:21:49.180 But the American population, we cannot separate now.

00:21:54.800 Okay.

00:21:55.540 All right.

00:21:55.960 So, let me ask you, let me go to the book, because I think there's maybe some answers here.

00:22:00.720 Because this is confronting the president's no spin assessments from Washington to Biden.

00:22:06.000 So, let me just ask you a couple of rapid fire.

00:22:09.460 Sure.

00:22:09.780 Best president.

00:22:12.100 Best president.

00:22:12.820 Abraham Lincoln, by far, because he inherited an unbelievably terrible situation, way worse than any president, including FDR and the Great Depression.

00:22:26.760 Wait, now, hang on just a second.

00:22:28.900 President Washington had to put together a country out of nothing after winning a war against, you know, King George.

00:22:38.480 Oh, interesting question you asked there, Beck.

00:22:42.360 Okay.

00:22:43.620 Washington was revered by the population.

00:22:46.700 Yeah.

00:22:47.100 Everyone loved him.

00:22:48.840 Yes.

00:22:49.320 So, when he walked in or rode in on his stallion, people said, hey, George, whatever you want.

00:22:56.340 Okay.

00:22:57.020 Yeah, you want to do this?

00:22:58.360 Good.

00:22:58.800 We're going to do it.

00:22:59.780 Okay.

00:23:00.320 Lincoln came in, and half the country hated his guts.

00:23:04.320 Yeah, half of his cabinet. 1.00

00:23:05.420 Wanted to kill him. 0.99

00:23:05.760 Yeah, half of his cabinet, too. 1.00

00:23:07.980 Right.

00:23:08.780 So, that was the difference there.

00:23:10.640 But a good question, Beck.

00:23:12.120 Who's the worst?

00:23:13.180 Thank you.

00:23:13.680 Who's the worst president?

00:23:15.680 James Buchanan, the guy before Lincoln.

00:23:19.600 For four years, coming off Franklin Pierce, who's like the third worst president, he did absolutely nothing, Buchanan.

00:23:27.500 Buchanan stood up there in the White House, and allowed the South to arm itself, to abuse federal authorities right down to the post office, to build up caches of weaponry, to organize divisions, and Buchanan did nothing.

00:23:44.180 Not one thing.

00:23:45.180 Not one thing.

00:23:45.960 I have a letter from Harry Truman that says that if Andrew Jackson had been president from 1856 to 60, there would not have been a civil war.

00:23:55.760 Because Jackson would have crushed the rebellion in its infancy.

00:24:00.920 Yes.

00:24:01.880 And Buchanan did nothing.

00:24:03.340 All right. 0.97

00:24:03.780 That's why he's the worst.

00:24:05.080 You know me, Bill, and you're not singing music to my ears yet, and this may discredit your whole book.

00:24:13.740 Where is Woodrow Wilson on that list?

00:24:15.880 Wilson was a bad president, but he didn't reach the heights of Joe Biden, Herbert Hoover, people like that.

00:24:24.980 Warren Harding.

00:24:26.100 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:27.100 Okay?

00:24:27.940 And Harding came right after Wilson, as you know. 0.96

00:24:31.620 But Wilson was a racist, number one. 0.80

00:24:35.180 Number two, waffled all over the place. 0.96

00:24:38.480 Teddy Roosevelt hated him.

00:24:40.680 Yes, I know.

00:24:42.040 Despised him.

00:24:42.980 Yeah.

00:24:43.160 Now, I know you were going to ask this, but I'll jump the answer.

00:24:47.220 Joe Biden is the second worst president we've ever had in our country.

00:24:50.660 And I know people look at me like, oh, no.

00:24:53.440 And here's why.

00:24:55.060 He brought the problems onto the country.

00:24:58.460 Yes.

00:24:59.500 Yes, I agree with that.

00:25:00.260 He created the problems.

00:25:02.120 Yeah, okay.

00:25:02.920 You know what?

00:25:04.680 I might agree with you that that makes him worse than Woodrow Wilson.

00:25:08.280 Because Wilson was dealing with things.

00:25:14.000 He was helping them along, but he was dealing with things like, you know, the First World War, et cetera, et cetera.

00:25:24.540 I don't know.

00:25:25.080 He brought on taxes.

00:25:26.700 I don't know, Bill.

00:25:27.720 I don't know.

00:25:28.680 I don't know.

00:25:29.020 Look, it was a different time.

00:25:30.500 But you have to get into the mentality of these people.

00:25:33.440 I have no use for Woodrow Wilson.

00:25:35.420 I think Teddy Roosevelt is 100% right.

00:25:38.180 The guy was feckless. 1.00

00:25:39.420 He was a coward. 1.00

00:25:40.720 His wife ran the White House, a lot like Jill Biden. 0.99

00:25:45.140 And to some extent, Nancy Reagan, if you want to be fair.

00:25:48.560 Okay?

00:25:49.280 So, but when you have a person like Joe Biden, and, you know, this is not a political book.

00:25:55.380 In front of the presidents is no politics at all.

00:25:57.420 None.

00:25:58.300 Okay?

00:25:58.940 It's right down the line facts from every blanking president.

00:26:03.140 And then you, the reader, can decide.

00:26:05.400 I don't tell you.

00:26:06.300 I don't rank them.

00:26:07.920 All right?

00:26:08.420 You decide whether they were good or bad for the country.

00:26:11.040 It's much more fun that way.

00:26:13.080 All right?

00:26:13.500 But Biden himself, because Kamala is an acolyte of Biden, he caused these massive problems that we're going to have to deal with for decades.

00:26:24.200 The open border, those unintended consequences.

00:26:26.660 You think they're going away if Trump is elected?

00:26:29.180 They're not.

00:26:29.980 I don't think they're unintended.

00:26:32.540 Okay.

00:26:33.140 And that's a good debate. 0.87

00:26:34.980 Because there is a school of thought that says a Democratic Party hates the white patriarchy.

00:26:40.720 and wanted to overthrow it by allowing people of color from other nations to swarm into the nation. 1.00

00:26:49.540 Well, I have to tell you, I think it's even, I think it's to collapse the system.

00:26:54.000 I mean, why is it happening all over the Western world?

00:26:57.000 Why are all European countries on the verge of collapse or civil war because of this?

00:27:05.040 Whose idea was that?

00:27:06.100 Well, they're all regretting it now.

00:27:07.860 Yeah, well, I mean, you're Irish.

00:27:12.700 Thank you.

00:27:13.400 What's going on in Ireland, did you see the arrest of that teacher?

00:27:20.400 Did you see this?

00:27:20.980 No, I missed that.

00:27:22.320 You have to, you've been busy with your book.

00:27:25.020 You have to see it, Bill.

00:27:26.360 They arrested this teacher because he would not say that, you know, girls could be boys and boys could be girls.

00:27:34.640 I think he taught elementary school.

00:27:37.440 I think it actually might be kindergarten.

00:27:39.660 And he said, it is my duty to protect children and teach them the truth.

00:27:44.020 And that is not the truth.

00:27:45.720 I'll look into that.

00:27:46.820 It's a good story.

00:27:47.460 You have to, because they arrested him and they're just, you know, the cops are just, I'm doing my duty.

00:27:53.240 Well, no, you don't have a duty to do the wrong thing.

00:27:57.260 You don't.

00:27:58.920 No, absolutely not.

00:28:00.400 And we'll definitely get into that tomorrow in the No Spin News.

00:28:04.640 Yeah.

00:28:05.960 Confronting the president.

00:28:07.220 Is it out tomorrow?

00:28:08.380 When is it out?

00:28:08.820 It is out tomorrow, September 10th.

00:28:12.100 And you can get it all everywhere.

00:28:14.480 And we're hoping it pops to number one.

00:28:17.020 Look, the worthiness of this book is that it's fun to read.

00:28:21.520 And it's not, I'm not Mr. Hand and Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Spicoli. 1.00

00:28:28.420 Okay?

00:28:29.160 I can't come to your house and tell you about Thomas Jefferson.

00:28:33.040 But in our country, the truth is becoming more and more elusive.

00:28:38.020 And the propaganda, particularly now in this election, my God.

00:28:45.780 I know.

00:28:46.360 You know, and you'll see it on display tomorrow night on the debate.

00:28:50.320 It's Harris just basically says, oh, open border, that's Trump's fault.

00:28:54.540 Oh, 20% rise in the cost of essentials of life, that's Trump's fault.

00:28:59.600 And then you'll have the two ABC people there going, uh, uh, uh, uh, next question.

00:29:06.400 You know, and I mean, that's propaganda.

00:29:08.800 That's how totalitarian societies rise.

00:29:12.780 I have about 45 seconds.

00:29:14.620 What's your advice to President Trump tomorrow?

00:29:16.780 What does he have to do?

00:29:18.180 Facts.

00:29:19.400 Facts.

00:29:19.920 Just hammer her with facts.

00:29:22.840 I would lead off with, they're going to ask him some questions.

00:29:26.540 You go, oh, look, I'll get to that.

00:29:28.220 But before, I would just like to know from the Vice President, as an American, because

00:29:32.700 I'm a little upset here tonight on the stage, I'm just thinking about why in God's name would

00:29:39.580 you open a border to allow 10 to 15 million foreign nationals to come into this country?

00:29:45.680 Why?

00:29:47.360 That's it.

00:29:48.120 Keep it simple.

00:29:50.340 Keep it simple and civil.

00:29:52.480 I think she wants to, her thing is piss him off.

00:29:57.580 He's just got to remain cool.

00:29:58.760 Yeah, he's got to know that, though.

00:29:59.360 Yeah, I know he does.

00:30:00.360 He's got to know it.

00:30:01.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:02.620 Well, she's said it, or at least her camp has said it.

00:30:05.120 That was her strategy.

00:30:06.500 Bill, thank you very much.

00:30:07.480 By the way, I loved your, uh, your, uh, message of the day on Dennis Quaid.

00:30:11.240 I think you're exactly right.

00:30:12.420 You can find him at BillOReilly.com, BillOReilly.com.

00:30:15.860 Also, the book, Confronting the Presidents.

00:30:18.760 That's the latest from Mr. Bill O'Reilly.

00:30:20.720 Thanks, Bill.

00:30:21.200 Talk to you again.

00:30:22.820 This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.

00:30:25.780 Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor, emeritus, host of the Dershow and Get Trump author.

00:30:36.960 He came out this weekend, uh, joining his voice to many others saying, I'm not a Democrat anymore.

00:30:44.940 He's an independent.

00:30:46.100 He's not saying he's going to vote for Trump, but there is a problem in the Democratic Party,

00:30:51.540 as we have been pointing out for a while now.

00:30:54.040 They're not your grandfather's, uh, Democratic Party.

00:30:58.080 Your father's, even maybe your Democratic Party anymore.

00:31:01.480 They're not.

00:31:02.940 Dershowitz is joining us now.

00:31:04.820 Alan, how are you, sir?

00:31:05.900 Well, I'm feeling really good as an independent.

00:31:09.440 You know, I've been a Democrat for 70 years.

00:31:13.100 I started supporting the Democratic Party in the early 1950s as a kid who went around in a sound truck supporting Philip Shuppler,

00:31:23.280 the Democratic candidate for assemblyman in Brooklyn.

00:31:26.260 And I haven't voted for a single non-Democrat for president since, since John Kennedy in 1960.

00:31:34.220 But like Ronald Reagan said, the Democratic Party has left me by having people like Keith Ellison, who is a supporter of the Reverend Farrakhan and the Reverend Sharpton,

00:31:45.400 who conducted an anti-Semitic pogrom in the Bronx and in Brooklyn back in the day.

00:31:52.640 And AOC, who says that Israel is a genocidal state and people like Bernie Sanders, that's not my party.

00:32:01.400 I can't support a party like that.

00:32:03.900 This is really earth shattering, I think, to some people.

00:32:18.620 And the minute I read this, Alan, I thought of your children and your wife, because I know decisions that you make, like decisions I make, affect the whole family.

00:32:30.380 How is that going?

00:32:32.580 Terrible, terrible, terrible.

00:32:35.520 My nephew wrote to me yesterday and said, you're now to the right of, and then he mentioned, you know, some of the people who are, you know, the old Republicans, Cheney and others who are now supporting Harris.

00:32:48.620 And my family, everybody in my family is a Democrat.

00:32:54.700 And most of my friends, I don't have that many friends left because I have supported Donald Trump's civil liberties, even before I left the Democratic Party.

00:33:02.580 You know, I'm a civil libertarian at first, and I hate what the Democrats have done to Donald Trump, you know, that New York case and some of these other cases.

00:33:14.540 So, you know, I've been on his side of the legal issues for years now.

00:33:17.400 Right. But that's not, I mean, what they're doing on censorship overall is terrifying, really terrifying.

00:33:27.980 Well, it's happening around the world.

00:33:29.460 I know.

00:33:29.720 It's happening in England.

00:33:30.660 They're putting people in jail for protests.

00:33:33.540 It's horrible.

00:33:34.880 And they're applying a double standard on universities.

00:33:37.100 You know, you can't say a word negative about protected minorities on college campuses.

00:33:45.000 But, you know, if you use the wrong pronoun, you'll get suspended. 0.97

00:33:48.540 But you can call Israel a genocidal country and you can say, you know, Jews are destroying America. 0.99

00:33:54.760 That's OK. That's First Amendment protected speech. 0.62

00:33:59.080 And I don't mind that as long as you apply the same standard to everybody.

00:34:03.140 They're not. They're not.

00:34:04.540 They're applying a double standard.

00:34:05.900 So, Ellen, do you sense that this is more than just you?

00:34:14.840 Yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:34:16.020 I've gotten hundreds and hundreds of calls and emails from people who say, you know, we used to be Democrats.

00:34:23.600 We still support a lot of the Democratic platform on abortion rights and gay rights.

00:34:29.360 But we can't be members of a party that freezes Keith Ellison or AOC or people like that.

00:34:37.840 You know, the Republicans have their problem, too, with Tucker Carlson.

00:34:41.000 He platformed recently a Holocaust denier, and he would have be ashamed of himself for doing that.

00:34:48.420 Neither party is perfect.

00:34:50.780 But I think the Republicans have done a better job of marginalizing their extremists than the Democrats have done.

00:34:59.360 Well, I mean, you know, it's hard when Kamala came out this weekend, you know, saying,

00:35:07.020 I understand the Palestinians, those who are standing up for the, you know, for Hamas or the Palestinian cause.

00:35:18.620 I have sympathy for them.

00:35:20.040 And that's why Israel, they have to offer a two-state solution. 0.72

00:35:25.340 They don't want a two-state solution.

00:35:27.700 Israel's offered a two-state solution.

00:35:30.720 They don't want one.

00:35:32.040 There isn't a single protester.

00:35:34.140 I will give $1,000 to Hamas if you can show me protesters, protesters who are calling for a two-state solution. 0.96

00:35:43.100 What they're calling for is the end of Israel. 0.73

00:35:45.960 River to the sea.

00:35:46.620 What they're calling for is a victory of Hamas. 0.67

00:35:50.300 Yeah.

00:35:50.600 What they're calling for is the end of Israel. 0.73

00:35:52.940 They're not calling for a two-state solution. 0.97

00:35:54.600 And that's ridiculous.

00:35:56.260 And they're not even calling for a ceasefire because Israel has agreed to the ceasefire.

00:36:00.580 Even the State Department has said it's all up to Hamas now.

00:36:04.320 Has a single protester ever said, hey, Hamas, agree to a ceasefire.

00:36:08.720 Maybe then you can save some lives.

00:36:10.840 Nobody is calling for that.

00:36:12.180 These are just calls for the end of Israel and they're calls for the end of America. 0.97

00:36:16.200 Recently, some of the protesters were burning American flags and saying our real goal is the destruction of America because, you know, Israel is a surrogate for America.

00:36:26.540 Why is this so much focus on Israel?

00:36:29.340 Is there any focus on Darfur and the Sudan where people are literally dying of hunger and thirst?

00:36:35.080 No, because that has nothing to do with being anti-American.

00:36:40.440 So it's all about anti-Americanism.

00:36:42.920 So when you left the Democratic Party, it's more than just their stance on Israel?

00:36:49.520 Oh, yeah.

00:36:50.040 Oh, yeah.

00:36:50.480 No, it's the whole movement to the hard left.

00:36:53.060 And look, I am a centrist Democrat.

00:36:55.860 I'm a liberal.

00:36:57.260 I'm an anti-radical.

00:36:58.660 I believe in civil liberties and free speech, all the basic aspects of the Bill of Rights.

00:37:06.080 And the Democrats aren't supporting that these days.

00:37:08.820 For them, it's free speech for me, but not for me.

00:37:11.520 So Dick Cheney came out, speaking of your nephew.

00:37:15.560 Dick Cheney came out this weekend and said there's never been a bigger threat to the republic, or I think he probably said democracy, than Donald Trump.

00:37:26.300 What do you make of that?

00:37:27.440 I don't know.

00:37:29.760 I mean, you know, he was a pretty tough vice president and pretty aggressive in his support of American policies.

00:37:39.160 I don't know what it has to do with his daughter.

00:37:41.340 I don't know what it has to do with his feeling that the Republicans haven't given him enough deference.

00:37:47.640 He hasn't quit the Republican Party, as far as I know.

00:37:49.640 He's still a Republican, but he's going to vote for Harrison against Trump.

00:37:54.980 I understand.

00:37:55.720 I know people like that as well.

00:37:57.860 And I know people on the other side.

00:38:00.020 This is an election that's very much about personalities.

00:38:06.040 You know, I don't know very many people who are going to vote for anybody in this election.

00:38:09.940 I think there are a lot of people who are voting against the candidate, and they haven't decided which candidate they're voting against yet.

00:38:16.740 The American people really were entitled to a better choice.

00:38:19.620 So, if you were talking in front of a jury, let's make America 12 men and women, and you had to make a case that the Democrats are actually a bigger threat, at least the way they're currently put together.

00:38:40.780 Well, I would approach the jury by looking at the facts, by seeing what the Democrats have done, how they've abused the rule of law, how they're violating the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment.

00:38:58.020 They're using lawfare in politics.

00:39:04.480 They're distorting democracy.

00:39:07.040 And, look, I don't like the fact that President Trump claimed he won the last election.

00:39:11.660 He didn't win the last election, although I think a lot of people think he did.

00:39:15.660 But I don't like the way the world and the country and the Democrats have reacted to that.

00:39:21.860 He has a free speech right to make that position.

00:39:24.360 He shouldn't have been indicted for any of the charges that he was indicted for.

00:39:28.980 And I think if you had to single out one case, it's the New York case against him where they made up a crime, has done more damage to the rule of law and to democracy than anything Donald Trump has done.

00:39:42.720 Alan, thank you so much.

00:39:47.360 My pleasure.

00:39:48.200 I feel for your family because I know what it's like.

00:39:53.080 I know.

00:39:53.400 It's tough for them.

00:39:54.300 It's tough for them.

00:39:54.940 But, look, they have to buy the whole package.

00:39:57.600 They know who I am.

00:39:58.640 I'm always going to set up for principal.

00:40:01.000 And, you know, I put family first, but I put principal first, too.

00:40:04.880 So, and mostly my family has been supportive.

00:40:07.760 Not everyone in the family, but mostly my family has been supportive.

00:40:11.200 Yeah.

00:40:11.420 Well, you know, you're probably feeling a lot like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. right now.

00:40:20.080 Well, Bobby's an old friend of mine.

00:40:22.180 I've known him since he was a young man.

00:40:24.480 And, of course, I've supported the Kennedys right from the beginning.

00:40:27.480 I'll tell you a funny story about that.

00:40:28.780 So I was at a dinner party when I was still invited to dinner parties.

00:40:32.600 And they seated Caroline Kennedy next to me.

00:40:36.640 And she said, if I knew you had been invited, I wouldn't have come because you defended Donald Trump.

00:40:41.340 And I said, yeah, but I also defended Ted Kennedy.

00:40:44.040 That's how I first came from Martha's Vineyard, defending Ted Kennedy.

00:40:47.540 That chap, Aquittic, would you have walked out on me for that?

00:40:50.700 Well, she had no answer.

00:40:51.820 What do you think of Robert F. Kennedy joining the Trump thing?

00:40:59.240 I'm not surprised.

00:41:00.260 I mean, they have a lot in common.

00:41:03.060 And, you know, he has very strong views, some of which I agree with, some of which I disagree with.

00:41:09.260 But he's a serious guy.

00:41:10.840 And I have to tell you, he's a great volleyball player.

00:41:13.780 I've played against him a couple of times.

00:41:16.000 My nose still hurts from some of the spots into my face.

00:41:20.680 But I like Bobby.

00:41:22.500 And, you know, I like his feistiness.

00:41:24.720 I don't agree with all of his politics.

00:41:26.460 But he shouldn't be attacked by his family.

00:41:28.680 He's an individual.

00:41:29.540 He's entitled to make his own decisions.

00:41:31.480 Alan Dershowitz, thank you very much, sir.

00:41:33.580 Appreciate it.

00:41:34.040 My pleasure.

00:41:34.340 Thank you.

00:41:34.620 Good to talk to you.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 09, 2024

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