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00:02:51.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:58.040 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:59.740 Yesterday, Allie Beth Stuckey hosted the Blaze debate for the Texas Attorney General, and Chip Roy is joining us.

00:03:09.160 Chip was there running for Attorney General of the great state of Texas.

00:03:13.080 And all the coverage, I'm sorry, Chip, I didn't have a chance to see it.

00:03:16.140 I was at an event last night.

00:03:17.160 I haven't had a chance to see it.

00:03:17.940 But I read about the coverage, and it looks like everybody was kind of infighting.

00:03:21.100 And then, you know, you were trying to talk about the Muslim footprint in Texas, which is really super important.

00:03:28.400 People don't understand in Texas how close Texas is to, A, going blue, and, B, having a real problem with Islamists.

00:03:42.080 Welcome, Chip.

00:03:43.900 Yeah, good morning, Glenn.

00:03:44.980 Great to be on.

00:03:45.580 No, I had a great debate last night.

00:03:47.120 A lot of great reviews.

00:03:48.520 I tried to be the, you know, adult there at the debate, making clear what we need to do for Texas.

00:03:54.180 Staying focused on the issues, laser focused.

00:03:56.680 You know, yesterday, before the debate, I joined with my colleague, Keith Self.

00:04:00.500 You probably know Keith well.

00:04:01.940 He's a great conservative, represents the County area north of Dallas.

00:04:06.440 And we were out at your studios, one of the great rooms out there, where we were holding a gathering, a meeting,

00:04:12.760 with a lot of folks in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex who are attuned to what's happening with the advance of Sharia law

00:04:19.220 and the advance of the Islamification of Texas, and particularly Dallas-Fort Worth.

00:04:24.180 And so we had a good discussion there about the state of things, about the extent to which there are some areas now increasingly no-go zones in Dallas-Fort Worth for women.

00:04:34.640 You know, you saw the dust-up with my friend and colleague Randy Fine, who was, you know, quipping a little bit,

00:04:41.820 but about a little bit of this issue in New York about the dog issue.

00:04:44.820 And now you've got Democrats calling on him to be censured.

00:04:48.100 I mean, it's absolutely absurd.

00:04:49.340 There is a cultural war going on, and I think it's really important for people to understand that.

00:04:55.540 Again, you and I have talked about this.

00:04:57.300 You and I are strong defenders of the Constitution.

00:04:59.540 This is not about your ability to believe in the God of your choice and how you want to carry out your life.

00:05:03.900 It's about being at war with our civilization and having a purposeful plan to undo it.

00:05:09.560 So I'm getting heat because I spoke about that yesterday, and I said, look, not all Muslims are Islamists.

00:05:17.580 And Islamists, I would pick a dog over an Islamist every day of the week and twice on Sunday. 1.00

00:05:22.460 And so, you know, what I'm getting heat on is I didn't go far enough.

00:05:28.640 I'm very, very clear.

00:05:30.120 I don't have a problem with Muslims if Muslims believe the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, period.

00:05:38.460 But anyone who believes that Sharia law and the Koran usurp the United States Constitution, then I got a problem with you, and you don't belong in here because you are warring against our culture and the Western civilization.

00:05:54.980 But there is a big difference between those two.

00:05:57.760 So here's the way I look at it, and I think this is a really, really important conversation that I hope you and I and all of us will be having now, like, regularly, right?

00:06:07.880 And to do it intelligently, as adults, as people who believe in our Constitution, but who recognize what's happening.

00:06:15.280 I start with, and what I want to do as Attorney General, is use the power of the Attorney General's office over looking at corporations and nonprofits, looking at the books, following the money, and go look at all these organizations.

00:06:28.220 And you start with places like CARE.

00:06:30.400 You look at the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.99

00:06:31.900 Obviously, Governor Abbott has declared each of those as terrorist organizations.

00:06:35.920 And we need to look at all of these organizations and see what their plan is.

00:06:40.480 What are they doing?

00:06:41.900 Because you've got groups that are saying specifically, as the Muslim Brotherhood has, that they have a plan to Islamify America.

00:06:49.460 And then carry forward that as a goal, an emotional goal, politically, ideologically.

00:06:56.280 That's not faith.

00:06:57.840 That's not religion that the First Amendment contemplates. 0.74

00:07:00.400 That is a specific, political, ideological effort to reshape and remake America and destroy our constitutional values in Western civilization.

00:07:09.620 If we don't recognize that, then look across the Atlantic, look at Europe, and that will be our future.

00:07:16.820 This is happening in real time, and we have to recognize it.

00:07:19.860 And we cannot flinch.

00:07:21.220 We cannot blink.

00:07:22.560 We've got to take this on squarely, because it is a war raging for the soul of Western civilization.

00:07:27.940 Okay, quickly, let me just ask you, what do you know, what are your thoughts on, Axios broke a story earlier today, a major war.

00:07:39.440 We're a step closer to a major war with Iran. 0.95

00:07:43.300 That's not Trump's M.O., to get us into a war.

00:07:46.780 What do you think is coming, Chip?

00:07:50.600 Well, I haven't been able to study that.

00:07:52.580 I saw the news.

00:07:53.620 I need to make a few phone calls today, so I'm always careful about how I speak about things until I at least go talk to folks.

00:07:57.720 But, comma, however, I don't believe that we ought to be looking to engage in getting involved with war.

00:08:04.580 I supported the president and what happened with the bunker busters and dropping the bombs and taking out their advancement of nuclear power. 0.97

00:08:11.820 Right now, I think we need to be resolved and stand with the people of Iran who are pushing back on their tyrannical leadership and offer that kind of support in that way.

00:08:20.260 But, you know, we start engaging in war.

00:08:22.160 I've got concerns.

00:08:23.360 I need to go look at it, talk to the experts.

00:08:25.280 I don't want to talk about what the president's doing without doing that.

00:08:28.040 But, look, we need to be very, very careful, okay?

00:08:32.140 We've had over two decades of this engagement and conflict in the Middle East.

00:08:36.780 There's a war raging right here in America.

00:08:39.860 There's a war being waged against our way of life.

00:08:43.280 And the Islamists are trying to do it here. 0.98

00:08:45.660 So let's start here and work out.

00:08:47.600 That's why I support the president in the Western Hemisphere, knocking out cartels.

00:08:51.620 I supported the Maduro move.

00:08:53.460 I don't want them having the Soviet Union, or I'm sorry, Russia, Freudian slip to my 80s youth, Russia, and China, and Iran over in the Western Hemisphere through Venezuela. 0.98

00:09:05.720 I think the president's doing a masterful job on many fronts, not being a warmonger but being a strategic peace through strength president.

00:09:12.600 Stay in that lane is where I think we need to be.

00:09:14.660 And I have a feeling that's where he, because he's not a war guy.

00:09:19.020 I mean, he is a peace through strength guy, but I'm anxious to see where he's going with this.

00:09:25.380 Let me talk to you about the ICE shutdown, putting your congressional hat back on.

00:09:29.880 The ICE shutdown.

00:09:31.360 We're now in day five.

00:09:32.960 I don't know what the Democrats are thinking.

00:09:35.260 This is only going to hurt them as it hits, because it's not going to stop ICE.

00:09:38.980 They are already funded.

00:09:39.840 This is only going to hurt DHS, which goes to our national security, but also go to Suara airports.

00:09:46.140 When that starts to hit, they're not going to be popular.

00:09:49.480 It's a rerun of what they just did, which didn't work out for them.

00:09:53.140 What are they doing?

00:09:54.160 Well, yeah.

00:09:55.280 I mean, look, I think this is politics, right?

00:09:57.000 This is all about what they're trying to do with ICE.

00:09:59.320 The Save America Act is connected to the very same issue.

00:10:02.980 It's their bread and butter.

00:10:04.720 Look, remember a year ago, some of us were leaning into the big, beautiful bill, working with the president to make sure that there was money there for both defense and for ICE and Border Patrol.

00:10:15.660 We put $150 billion in there.

00:10:17.540 A lot of conservatives kind of looked at us cockeyed and, you know, tilted their heads.

00:10:22.120 I said, guys, you've got to look ahead.

00:10:24.060 You've got to be smart.

00:10:25.300 We used that to guarantee there would be money there to stop what the Democrats are doing right now.

00:10:31.120 So there's money there for ICE and Border Patrol.

00:10:32.820 Now, what that does is it leaves TSA and the Coast Guard and FEMA dangling in the wind.

00:10:39.620 So we've just got to make sure that Americans understand.

00:10:42.420 We've already sent a funding bill over there.

00:10:44.640 Democrats are blocking that funding.

00:10:46.400 So when weeks go by, if they don't do their job, they're the ones that are going to be causing travel headaches and nightmares, not allowing FEMA to do its job in Tennessee after the ice storms, et cetera, and then the Coast Guard not to be what it needs to be.

00:11:00.520 I trust the president and Russ vote to figure out how to move money around and try to keep us safe at the Coast Guard.

00:11:05.560 But Democrats are playing politics.

00:11:07.460 And by the way, the Save America Act is a perfect example of the same story.

00:11:12.400 Democrats want to try to block that in the Senate.

00:11:14.580 I hope soon we'll use the talking filibuster, you know, which I've written extensively about to try to break the back of it.

00:11:21.300 But these things are related, right?

00:11:22.920 Because soon can't put that on the floor until we figure out this funding mechanism.

00:11:28.100 Yeah.

00:11:28.240 So I think that's what I think that's what this is about.

00:11:31.000 I think this is to delay the Save America Act, quite honestly.

00:11:34.360 Correct.

00:11:35.280 Would you do me a favor?

00:11:36.340 I think they're definitely tied.

00:11:36.960 Yeah.

00:11:38.340 Do me a favor.

00:11:39.240 Talk about the talking filibuster.

00:11:41.000 Because a couple of conservatives came out and said, we can't change the filibuster.

00:11:44.100 We don't want to do this.

00:11:45.260 No, no, no.

00:11:45.820 You're not changing the filibuster.

00:11:47.780 You're actually restoring it to what it used to be, a talking filibuster.

00:11:53.060 This is the best option out there.

00:11:56.200 You're not changing it.

00:11:57.960 You're actually restoring it and doing it the way it's supposed to be done on the books.

00:12:03.680 Correct?

00:12:05.560 Well, well, Glenn, thank you for making that so clear.

00:12:08.240 And for all the listeners out there, if you don't understand what we're talking about, I posted on X a memo, a dear colleague letter I wrote, walking people through what's really happening.

00:12:18.280 Look, I understand the Senate, right?

00:12:20.000 I was there for seven years.

00:12:21.420 I was a lawyer on the Judiciary Committee, and I was Ted Cruz's chief of staff.

00:12:24.800 I know the rules.

00:12:25.860 I used the rules.

00:12:26.700 The rules, the Senate rules, it's built around the filibuster. 0.99

00:12:30.260 The filibuster is a great tool, right?

00:12:32.540 It's an important part of the Senate and its history and its legacy.

00:12:35.860 But we need Mr. Smith to go back to Washington.

00:12:38.580 If you don't get that joke, it's the old movie, right?

00:12:41.780 And where Jimmy Stewart had to be on the floor of the Senate filibustering and talking.

00:12:48.200 What we've done is we've defaulted to this notion.

00:12:50.340 It's a fake filibuster or a zombie filibuster, as Mike Lee says, that, oh, there's a 60-vote threshold to shut off debate if a senator wants to slow walk a bill.

00:13:00.660 That's a mechanism.

00:13:02.620 That is one tool to shut off debate.

00:13:04.900 The other thing to do is make them talk.

00:13:07.180 And if they keep talking, let them keep talking.

00:13:09.520 There's a two-speech rule where you can only give two speeches on a topic.

00:13:13.020 If Republicans are disciplined, Democrats will run out of gas.

00:13:16.220 And it's a win-win.

00:13:17.260 If they successfully filibuster for two months, then they've been on the floor of the Senate telling America they want non-citizens to vote rather than protect our elections.

00:13:26.920 They oppose voter ID even though it's an 85% issue.

00:13:30.240 Or we break their back and we get good policy.

00:13:33.380 That's a win-win.

00:13:34.540 We're not changing the rules.

00:13:36.640 That's not what we're saying.

00:13:38.340 We're saying use the rules.

00:13:40.400 Use the Senate.

00:13:41.520 Do your job.

00:13:42.640 Speak.

00:13:43.060 Stop playing fake games and trying to tell the American people that failure theater, putting the bill on the floor, the 60-vote threshold, is doing your job.

00:13:51.920 It's not.

00:13:53.380 Do you really think it would take two months?

00:13:56.780 No, I actually think we'd probably break their back faster than that, right?

00:13:59.920 I mean, how 47 Democrats, and I think Fetterman is kind of leaning in our direction, how many of them are going to speak for more than two hours or three hours or four hours?

00:14:08.700 Most of them are over like 97.

00:14:13.060 Right.

00:14:14.080 Like half of them, like it's a nursing home.

00:14:15.940 Like, look, you're going to have to wheel them over from the nursing home, tell them to put their Jell-O down, tell them to go down to the floor of the Senate and stand up. 0.92

00:14:21.780 Because, by the way, you have to stand.

00:14:23.880 And you've got to keep standing and keep talking.

00:14:26.960 Now, Cory Booker will go do a show.

00:14:29.200 You know, five, six, seven, eight of them will go do a big show.

00:14:32.220 They'll talk a lot.

00:14:33.280 They'll say we're going to be taking the vote away from women. 1.00

00:14:35.760 That it's Jim Crow 2.0. 0.66

00:14:37.500 Let them do that.

00:14:38.920 We stand strong.

00:14:40.620 We present the facts.

00:14:41.720 By the way, our bill specifically allows any person who goes to register to vote under the Save America Act.

00:14:49.100 If you have a conflict in your ID, if you show up as Sarah Smith on your driver's license, Sarah Jones on your birth certificate, you can sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury.

00:14:59.880 I'm the same person.

00:15:01.900 That's it.

00:15:02.760 We allow for that with any state's registrar.

00:15:05.620 We allow states to create the systems however they want.

00:15:08.360 That is a respectful way to make sure that we have a system that is trying to guarantee only citizens vote.

00:15:14.200 There's nothing controversial about it.

00:15:15.960 Democrats want non-citizens to vote.

00:15:20.440 Chip, thank you very much.

00:15:21.620 I appreciate it.

00:15:22.400 Good luck with your race. 0.67

00:15:23.400 He's running for Texas Attorney General, a candidate in that race.

00:15:27.340 You can follow him at roy.house.gov.

00:15:31.980 Also, you can follow him on x at chiproytx.

00:15:35.400 Chip, thank you very much.

00:15:36.380 Appreciate it.

00:15:37.240 Chiproy.com is his campaign website.

00:15:39.240 Thank you.

00:15:39.680 You bet.

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00:16:43.220 Now, back to the podcast.

00:16:44.520 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:16:48.000 Monica, welcome to the program. 0.99

00:16:50.880 Glenn, it's so great to be with you.

00:16:53.420 Thank you so much for having me.

00:16:55.820 You bet.

00:16:56.560 So, I want to go right to the deal with Nixon.

00:17:00.060 You worked with Nixon.

00:17:02.520 When?

00:17:03.740 When?

00:17:04.260 How old were I when you worked with Nixon?

00:17:06.760 Yes.

00:17:07.220 Thank you for giving me the opportunity to set the record straight, Glenn, because I don't want anybody to think I'm 125 years old.

00:17:14.500 Right.

00:17:14.940 No, I was not actually born when President Nixon was elected president.

00:17:21.540 Right.

00:17:22.060 But I did work with him during the last four years of his life.

00:17:25.640 So, the early to the 1990s up until he passed away in 1994.

00:17:30.240 What an amazing thing that had to have been.

00:17:33.740 Did you ever talk to him about the deep state and some of this stuff?

00:17:37.740 I did, actually.

00:17:39.480 And what's so gratifying for me, Glenn, on a personal level is I really adored President Nixon.

00:17:45.800 You know, I came to know him as my boss, of course, for four years, my first job out of college.

00:17:52.340 But also, he served as a grandfather to me.

00:17:55.600 He was a mentor.

00:17:56.440 And he was a very, very dear friend of mine when I was very young.

00:18:01.040 And he was at the end of his life.

00:18:02.640 So, I promised him before he passed away that I would take care of his legacy.

00:18:09.640 I said, Mr. President, I pledge to you that I will spend the rest of my life advancing and protecting and defending your legacy.

00:18:18.300 And, Glenn, I'll never forget, he looked at me and he kind of smiled in a wry kind of way.

00:18:22.980 And he said, Monica, I appreciate that, but you're going to have much more important things to do in your life and career.

00:18:29.880 And now, of course, here I am working for President Trump.

00:18:32.840 But I pledged it to him.

00:18:34.940 And, Glenn, I have literally spent the last 30 years since he did pass away doing exactly that.

00:18:40.420 So, now to see these new documents coming out, these new revelations about the truth,

00:18:47.100 about what happened to Richard Nixon and how Watergate was a deep state frame up of him,

00:18:52.980 is personally very gratifying.

00:18:55.640 I will say that when I worked for him in the early 90s, Glenn, to your question,

00:19:00.840 we did speak about it, but nobody really knew what the deep state was.

00:19:04.420 Now, remember that Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's vice president.

00:19:11.200 Eisenhower's farewell address famously warned about the rise of an unaccountable deep state,

00:19:19.340 what he called the military-industrial complex, what we now know as the deep state.

00:19:25.200 Nixon internalized that lesson because he saw Eisenhower, a military man who helped to win World War II

00:19:34.000 and free the West from Nazi oppression, he saw what Eisenhower was going through

00:19:40.680 and the rise of the security state that was unaccountable to anyone.

00:19:45.620 So, after World War II, the creation of the CIA, the creation of the NSA, the creation of the DIA,

00:19:53.340 the corruption of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, Nixon saw all of this.

00:19:59.000 So, when he became president, and this is actually what gave the deep state the context to do what they did,

00:20:06.520 Nixon understood the threat within, but also understood he couldn't bring it to the American people

00:20:12.400 in the late 60s, early 70s.

00:20:14.500 They would go, what are you even talking about?

00:20:16.720 It took the next 50 years for people to wake up.

00:20:20.180 Go ahead.

00:20:20.480 He also, I mean, what I saw in the documents, he also was very, he did not want to drag the military through the mud.

00:20:30.340 He'd just gone through Vietnam, and he's like, I don't want to do more damage to the military 0.55

00:20:34.260 because the military is important and it's good.

00:20:36.900 So, he also was trying to protect the good parts of the military, at least it seems to be that way.

00:20:43.000 For anybody who doesn't know, give us what the documents revealed that maybe the public didn't know before.

00:20:49.180 Yes. So, when Nixon becomes president, he understands what Eisenhower was warning about.

00:20:56.420 So, he decides that he is going to consolidate all foreign policy and national security decision-making

00:21:04.100 in the hands of two people, he and his national security advisor at the time, Henry Kissinger,

00:21:11.540 who we later learned was a deep state operative.

00:21:14.600 Okay. So, Nixon is getting inputs from one man who he really trusted, who perhaps he should not have.

00:21:22.360 All right.

00:21:23.100 That creates the environment where he is excluding the military, his own State Department, his own Secretary of State.

00:21:33.100 They're all, the CIA, they're all going crazy, Glenn, because he is keeping all of the secrets to himself.

00:21:40.920 The opening to China, detente with the Soviet Union, shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East,

00:21:46.920 all of these huge, peaceful foreign policy initiatives he and Kissinger are keeping close to the vest.

00:21:54.240 That then gives rise to this military spy ring that pops up in the White House to spy on Nixon and Kissinger,

00:22:05.880 rifling through their papers when they go home.

00:22:08.500 You know, when Nixon goes upstairs to go to bed, they come in in the middle of the night in the White House,

00:22:13.880 in the Oval Office, in Kissinger's office, in the White House.

00:22:16.800 They're rifling through their papers.

00:22:19.180 They're examining their telephones, everything possible to spy on Nixon.

00:22:24.920 Does that sound familiar?

00:22:27.500 How they spied on President Trump.

00:22:30.580 Yes, because they were all freaking out.

00:22:32.940 The deep state flipped out that they were being excluded.

00:22:35.800 They had no idea what the president was planning, the discussions he was having.

00:22:39.900 And so ultimately, Glenn, when you and this is what these new papers show, the more Admiral Moore, General Radfield at the time created this military spy ring to spy on Nixon.

00:22:52.960 And you know who was a key member of it was one Bob Woodward, who was a naval intelligence officer who was read in on this military spy ring.

00:23:06.280 And then through the CIA's mockingbird media program, was planted as a, quote, journalist at the Washington Post, being fed all of the deep state fans to throw it on the front page of the Washington Post to bring down a president.

00:23:24.740 Wow.

00:23:25.340 I had not heard that.

00:23:26.940 That is shocking.

00:23:29.000 Shocking.

00:23:30.760 Yeah.

00:23:30.900 OK, so so what Nixon, when he left it, the deep state had to consider this a huge victory for them.

00:23:41.640 Did that just embolden them and just keep growing and growing and growing until we get to Trump?

00:23:47.240 And if that's true, Trump didn't know how to fight it last time.

00:23:52.940 He seems to be fighting it really well this time.

00:23:56.800 What's the difference?

00:23:57.760 How is he doing this?

00:23:59.140 Yes, great question.

00:24:01.640 Let me just go back to Watergate for one second, Glenn, because it's a really critical point.

00:24:05.880 The five Watergate burglars were apprehended at the DNC site at the Watergate complex, five of them.

00:24:13.020 And they were indicted along with two others, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy.

00:24:17.840 Of those seven, six were linked to the CIA and the other one was linked to the FBI.

00:24:24.500 So to your bigger point about Nixon's selflessness, which is what these current documents show, Nixon decided not to fight it in the moment because we were still in the Cold War.

00:24:37.840 And he wanted to preserve the integrity and the public's honor of the United States military.

00:24:44.020 So he did not blow the whistle at the time he fell on a sword for the second time in American history because the first time was the 1960 election, which was stolen by the Kennedys and by Lyndon Johnson.

00:24:59.040 It was also a deep state operative. It was stolen in 1960.

00:25:03.500 He was presented with concrete evidence on election night.

00:25:06.680 And he said, I am not going to challenge this result because the American people deserve a full time president who is not under a cloud.

00:25:14.280 Nixon gets no credit for putting the country first, not once, but twice.

00:25:20.000 You talk about what Trump has learned.

00:25:22.800 We talk about Nixon, but it actually is a deep state goes back even further to your favorite president, Woodrow Wilson.

00:25:29.680 Go ahead.

00:25:30.080 Of course.

00:25:30.920 And the rise of progressivism here in the U.S. and the West.

00:25:36.200 But remember, Woodrow Wilson comes in at the exact same time that you have Vladimir Lenin getting off the train at Finland Station and launching the Russian Revolution.

00:25:47.580 You know this better than anyone.

00:25:49.440 Those two tracks to destroy and crush the West gave rise to a globalist transnational deep state.

00:25:57.000 Donald Trump in the first term did not know what he did not know.

00:26:01.880 He had never done any of this before, but he knew that he was targeted.

00:26:05.540 This time around, and you know, God always has planned.

00:26:09.100 So God sent, just as God sent Richard Nixon into the wilderness from 1960 to 1968, when he ran and won again, he sent Donald Trump into the wilderness for four years during the Biden years.

00:26:22.400 Again, catastrophic for the country, but God had more work to do in both men.

00:26:27.520 And when Donald Trump comes back this time around, he's so much wiser about how Washington works, the deep state here works, but also the globalist deep state.

00:26:38.980 And Glenn, when I tell you, because I was in the Oval Office with him yesterday, this man is dismantling our deep state and the globalist deep state brick by brick.

00:26:50.140 I know he is.

00:26:51.340 And he's doing it by pulling the funding, pulling their money.

00:26:55.100 We know that they launder money in a couple of different ways.

00:26:58.160 Human trafficking, Trump is putting a stop to that.

00:27:00.920 The drug trade, he's putting a stop to that.

00:27:03.980 Dealing the border.

00:27:05.880 In every direction.

00:27:07.080 He should look into the art world.

00:27:08.860 He should look into the art world.

00:27:10.700 Just saying.

00:27:11.320 Go ahead.

00:27:12.040 Good point.

00:27:13.080 No, thank you.

00:27:13.980 Peace by peace.

00:27:14.940 I can talk to you about that sometime off the air if you'd like.

00:27:17.620 But anyway, I would love it.

00:27:19.280 I would love it.

00:27:20.140 So he's really he's cutting off their sources of funding, which are all illicit and very dark human trafficking, child trafficking and the drug trade.

00:27:29.340 This is another reason why he got Maduro alive is because the drug trafficking trade through our entire hemisphere has funded a lot of these deep state activities.

00:27:43.020 Trump is doing it piece by piece.

00:27:46.500 And he is working with like minded leaders, like minded countries.

00:27:51.260 This is why, Glenn, you know, tomorrow, my team and I are actually helping to run the first Board of Peace inaugural meeting.

00:28:00.640 And I think we've got about 45 heads of state and others, foreign ministers, maybe more, maybe 60.

00:28:07.400 It's up to now coming in tomorrow for the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace.

00:28:11.100 I love this.

00:28:11.780 Donald Trump is building parallel organizations to the corrupt deep state globalist ones like the U.N., like the World Health Organization.

00:28:23.680 In a couple of weeks, we're going to do a Western Hemisphere summit.

00:28:26.760 So what he's doing is building a parallel superstructure of like minded people who are with him on destroying and smashing the entire corrupt globalist status quo that has actually run the world over the last 70 plus years.

00:28:42.580 Monica, I have to tell you, he said to me, you know, I hope to be considered like a founder.

00:28:48.540 And he said, you know, my goal is, you know, George Washington was so great.

00:28:53.140 And I'd like to be remembered, you know, in in in a category like that.

00:28:57.000 And I thought, wow, that's pretty ambitious.

00:28:59.800 I've been watching him, what he's doing to the rest of the world, how he's dismantling this.

00:29:04.220 I think he will be he won't be remembered like Washington, but he is a refounder. 0.93

00:29:09.100 He is in a unique category that I would only put a couple of presidents in.

00:29:15.480 What he's done is remarkable.

00:29:17.520 And the American people just don't understand it yet.

00:29:19.740 I know you have to run.

00:29:20.960 Can we touch base on America 250 just quickly?

00:29:25.220 Sure.

00:29:25.760 Yes.

00:29:26.100 Thank you.

00:29:26.660 And yes, I agree with you.

00:29:27.880 If you look at the big three, Washington founded the nation.

00:29:32.140 Lincoln saved the republic.

00:29:34.580 And Donald Trump is restoring the republic.

00:29:38.000 That's how I look at it, Glenn.

00:29:39.740 The big three.

00:29:41.300 So in terms of America 250, very exciting as we're getting closer to July 4th.

00:29:46.300 We have founded an organization that is nonpartisan, a public-private partnership called Freedom

00:29:53.340 250.

00:29:54.220 And I know you and your team are working in partnership for your big May 2nd event on Ellis

00:29:59.100 Island.

00:29:59.980 Incredible.

00:30:01.040 I want everybody to attend that.

00:30:03.040 It's going to be amazing.

00:30:04.580 Highlighting legal immigration that helped to build this country.

00:30:09.560 Legal.

00:30:10.080 Legal immigration.

00:30:11.420 Yes.

00:30:11.860 Yes, of course.

00:30:12.460 So Freedom 250.org is the website.

00:30:16.960 Please go check it out.

00:30:18.400 We are planning the Great American State Fair on the National Mall with all 50 states represented.

00:30:24.240 We are organizing a national prayer event to return the nation as one nation under God,

00:30:30.900 Glenn.

00:30:31.160 And that will be on the National Mall on May 17th.

00:30:34.700 So everybody mark their calendars for that.

00:30:36.840 We've got the big UFC 250 fight on the president's birthday on the South Lawn.

00:30:41.760 That will take place June 14th.

00:30:44.720 We've got your event on May 2nd, of course.

00:30:47.760 And it's going to all culminate on July 4th with a national, international naval review in

00:30:54.360 the New York Harbor and the Hudson River.

00:30:58.540 We've got about 50 countries sending tall ships as well as modern naval ships, which is going

00:31:04.640 to be incredible.

00:31:05.500 And then there'll be a huge salute to the nation led by the president, including an address

00:31:10.300 to the nation and the biggest fireworks display in the history of the world.

00:31:14.980 After July 4th, by the way, party doesn't end.

00:31:17.660 We've got the FIFA World Cup final two weeks later in New York with a big Freedom 250 theme.

00:31:23.360 And then in August, the president just announced an IndyCar Grand Prix race for the first time

00:31:30.880 in Washington, D.C.

00:31:33.360 So Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue and so many other streets in D.C.

00:31:40.840 will be turned into an IndyCar 500 race with the president in attendance and about 100,000

00:31:47.640 spectators.

00:31:48.340 So we want everybody coming out for that.

00:31:51.000 This is going to be a truly national and global celebration.

00:31:55.460 I have every world leader approaching me, Glenn, including some of our tough adversaries who

00:32:01.980 want to help America celebrate.

00:32:04.160 So we are going to have every country on the face of the earth who's willing to do it is

00:32:09.340 going to help us celebrate that entire week leading up to July 4th.

00:32:13.140 Extraordinary.

00:32:13.660 Monica, you are an amazing, amazing person, and I just love having you as the ambassador

00:32:19.880 of protocol because I know what that means, and you are perfect for the job.

00:32:23.240 So thank you for everything you're doing.

00:32:24.980 My best to you and everybody in the administration.

00:32:27.580 God bless you.

00:32:28.580 That's so kind.

00:32:29.580 Thank you always for having me, big friend.

00:32:32.380 You got it.

00:32:33.200 You bet.

00:32:34.120 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes

00:32:37.920 wherever you download podcasts.

00:32:39.400 So let me just start with Ash Wednesday, because my favorite part of Lent is Fat Tuesday, but

00:32:45.760 that's past.

00:32:47.080 So let's start with today.

00:32:51.460 It's amazing to watch people go on television and see this, and you see the sign of the cross

00:32:58.440 on their forehead in ashes.

00:33:03.620 Ashes.

00:33:04.060 There's something haunting about ashes.

00:33:08.860 You know, every year, people from all different walks of life from all over the globe stand up,

00:33:19.220 moms, presidents, plumbers, teenagers, to stand in line and get a mark on their forehead 1.00

00:33:26.580 and hear the words that, you know, most of us are trying to live our lives not to hear.

00:33:34.620 Remember, you're dust, and to dust you will return.

00:33:39.840 And that's where the story of Ash Wednesday begins.

00:33:43.040 Ash Wednesday didn't begin as a holiday.

00:33:45.260 It was really starting as a shock, you know.

00:33:49.200 In the earliest centuries of Christianity, long before there were stained glass windows

00:33:57.420 and grand cathedrals, those who had fallen badly were brought forward publicly, and then

00:34:04.980 they were told they had to wear sackcloth, rough, you know, like bags of flour come in

00:34:09.980 sackcloth.

00:34:10.500 And then they were covered in ashes, and they had to stand outside of the community as a visible

00:34:15.260 reminder that human beings fail, and that only with humility comes restoration.

00:34:23.340 And that practice echoes something even older.

00:34:26.980 In the Hebrew scriptures, figures like Job and Daniel sat in ashes as a sign of repentance.

00:34:33.020 Kings humbled themselves in dust when they realized, or they were forced to realize, that their

00:34:38.660 power is temporary.

00:34:41.160 Ashes have always been the universal language of mortality. 1.00

00:34:45.360 But late in the first millennium, something profound happened.

00:34:50.940 What once only marked the worst sinners began to be given to everyone.

00:34:58.380 Now, think of that.

00:34:59.760 The church looked at humanity and said, we're all sinners, everybody.

00:35:04.740 No one stands outside the need for repentance.

00:35:06.840 So the ashes moved from the few really, really bad to everyone.

00:35:13.340 And by the 8th century, the day of ashes appears formally in liturgical books.

00:35:20.500 And by the 10th century, the entire congregation received them all over. 0.83

00:35:25.440 The ashes are what remains after a fire is finished.

00:35:31.100 You can't fake ashes.

00:35:32.380 They're the only thing that's left when everything else burns away.

00:35:36.540 Wealth, titles, ego, clothing, certainty, everything.

00:35:41.220 And here's the little known part that most people don't talk about.

00:35:44.900 The ashes are traditionally made by burning the palm branches from Palm Sunday last year.

00:35:51.620 And that's the day that people were cheering and waving branches because the victor was entering.

00:35:59.260 Christ was coming into the city.

00:36:01.660 So yesterday's celebration becomes today's reminder.

00:36:07.080 Triumph turns to dust.

00:36:09.600 History folded into this one simple ritual that most people don't even think about.

00:36:17.820 Ash Wednesday became really widespread during a time when Europe was building empires and kings were imagining themselves nearly divine.

00:36:24.760 Remember, I mean, a divine right of kings.

00:36:26.960 Who gave you?

00:36:27.660 God appointed me king.

00:36:28.780 Yet, once a year, even the powerful bowed their heads and heard the same words that the peasants did.

00:36:35.960 Dust. 0.98

00:36:37.320 You're dust.

00:36:38.460 You'll return to dust. 0.94

00:36:39.460 No exceptions.

00:36:42.080 It was perhaps the first and most radical equalizers in all of human history.

00:36:47.860 Imagine the medieval rulers who believed the bloodline came from God, kneeling with ashes on their head.

00:36:54.620 And the public declaration that you're going to die. 0.85

00:36:59.600 This guy, he's just like you and he's going to die just like you.

00:37:04.280 No law forces humility like mortality.

00:37:09.920 When you hear from ashes you came and to ashes you'll return, you know, from dust to dust, we hear that today as pessimism.

00:37:18.840 But it's not.

00:37:20.220 It's realism.

00:37:21.720 The message is not, you're nothing.

00:37:25.920 The message is, you are temporary.

00:37:31.600 And if that's in the right context, that truth doesn't lead to despair.

00:37:37.620 It leads to clarity.

00:37:39.460 When you know the clock is ticking, you stop wasting time pretending it isn't.

00:37:46.960 Pope after Pope have repeated the same idea.

00:37:49.840 Ashes remind us of our fragility. 1.00

00:37:51.720 But also of the hope.

00:37:55.300 Dust, according to the tradition, is not worthless.

00:37:58.980 It's dust touched by God.

00:38:01.340 We came from dust.

00:38:03.140 So it's not worthless.

00:38:05.480 History turns when people forget they are dust.

00:38:11.120 Empires collapse when leaders believe they are beyond dust.

00:38:15.500 Markets crash when investors believe growth is eternal.

00:38:20.080 It will always be this way.

00:38:22.560 From dust to dust.

00:38:25.620 Ash Wednesday is this amazing historic counterweight that changes human arrogance.

00:38:33.760 It's one day each year, a group of people in a civilization pauses to admit, we are not God.

00:38:45.220 How great is that?

00:38:47.600 How much would change if we would all humble ourselves and say, we're not God.

00:38:53.700 I know I am not God.

00:38:55.920 There are things that I can do and lots of things I cannot do because that's in the realm of God.

00:39:01.520 It's a warning and a promise.

00:39:06.120 If you stand far enough back, Ash Wednesday looks less like a religious ceremony and more like an annual corrective to human amnesia.

00:39:16.320 It's once a year being reminded, hey, you're fragile, dude.

00:39:21.900 Time is really short.

00:39:24.440 You know, you don't understand until you get older how fast and how short your life really is.

00:39:32.140 I mean, it's gone in a blink.

00:39:34.020 And you can only understand that to when I think you get to be about my age where you're like, wow, I mean, it's almost over.

00:39:40.540 And I still have the mind of a 20-year-old, but my body reminds me, no, it's coming and it's coming for you.

00:39:54.940 And when you start thinking that way, you realize, wow, whatever I build is not going to last.

00:40:03.280 The only thing that survives is character.

00:40:07.760 That's it.

00:40:09.620 Honor.

00:40:10.960 Integrity.

00:40:13.080 How you treated others.

00:40:16.000 I think this is why this has lasted, you know, a thousand plus years in its current form.

00:40:21.560 Because every generation, it's normal for humans to think, well, there is an exception.

00:40:26.880 I'm an exception to history.

00:40:28.120 They didn't know.

00:40:28.840 I know.

00:40:29.820 Until the ashes remind them otherwise.

00:40:35.780 Think about what this was like then and really what it's like now.

00:40:39.920 People lining up, not to be praised, but to be reminded.

00:40:44.540 No applause, no spotlight, just dust.

00:40:47.540 And I think that's why this ritual endures.

00:40:55.360 Because we live in a world obsessed with proving we matter.

00:41:00.080 Ash Wednesday doesn't care.

00:41:03.960 Ash Wednesday doesn't care.

00:41:05.460 It doesn't, it's not asking.

00:41:06.460 It asks a better question.

00:41:07.820 Your life is short, dude.

00:41:12.240 What are you going to do with the very limited time that you have, that you've been given before you return to dust and ashes?

00:41:21.320 History waits for your answer.

00:41:28.940 Na, na, na, na, na.

00:41:32.780 Some say the bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.

00:41:37.780 Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.

00:41:41.200 Rich, creamy, chocolatey arrow truffle.

00:41:44.280 Feel the arrow bubbles melt.

00:41:46.320 It's mind bubbling.

00:41:47.300 Others may engage in an arrow cake with the ambassador.

00:41:51.660 But theadia voice is fine.

00:41:53.120 It's a flavor when you sit down, maybe you see if it's right on your map.

00:41:55.160 But as much as you weave in anywhere else you will find your expensive phase.

00:41:57.160 It's more than when you knit your

00:42:04.560 year.

00:42:05.060 In this type ofandalism is yours or your life but you will find your question.

00:42:06.920 To find out, it's not your mind.

00:42:08.820 Until Monday, get back on your application and do the new application.

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