The Glenn Beck Program - April 11, 2019


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Carly Fiorina ｜ 4⧸11⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

157.30017

Word Count

8,466

Sentence Count

822

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

Biden likes to remind America that he s just a regular guy. But beneath his carefully crafted narrative is a familiar story of crony capitalism, or in this case, we should call it brony capitalism. Starting in November of 2010, Joe Biden was the guy who was supposed to make sure that tarp and everything was super, super clean.


Transcript

00:00:00.060 Hey, it's Lunch Bucket Joe Thursday.
00:00:02.620 Oh, I love Lunch Bucket.
00:00:03.680 Well, I like middle class Joe.
00:00:05.040 Is this the same Joe?
00:00:05.720 Same Joe, same Joe.
00:00:07.180 Is it Pennsylvania Joe?
00:00:08.140 No, it's Delaware Joe.
00:00:09.500 Well, formerly Pennsylvania Joe, near Katie's Restaurant.
00:00:12.620 And the Home Depot.
00:00:14.080 And the Home Depot.
00:00:14.840 Well, he hadn't been there for a while.
00:00:16.940 And I don't think he's going there anytime soon.
00:00:20.100 As we lay out a little bit on some of the Lunch Bucket Joe,
00:00:24.500 the small misdemeanors, not the high crimes per se,
00:00:29.080 on today's podcast.
00:00:30.700 We remind you that tonight at 5 p.m.
00:00:34.260 may have already happened, depending on what time you are listening.
00:00:37.040 But on Thursday on Blaze TV, make sure you grab that episode about Joe Biden.
00:00:43.580 This guy is the most corrupt vice president in the history of America.
00:00:48.620 And we lay out, we're going to try to lay out two stories.
00:00:52.720 I don't know if we're going to have time.
00:00:54.180 May have to break it up into two episodes.
00:00:56.440 But it's stunning.
00:00:57.680 Two huge problems with what you're saying.
00:00:59.260 Number one, if there was a place to watch it, then that would be something.
00:01:02.520 At least if you had that.
00:01:03.640 The Blaze TV.
00:01:04.860 How do I?
00:01:05.820 BlazeTV.com slash Glenn.
00:01:07.220 Well, what do I do when I get there?
00:01:08.200 Do I type anything?
00:01:08.720 You just sign up.
00:01:09.220 Yeah, you just sign up.
00:01:10.240 Do I type a code in any specific place?
00:01:12.620 Yeah, well, all you do is just click on it, and then you just sign up.
00:01:15.720 And you can even try it for seven days for free.
00:01:18.540 And if you don't like it, then just cancel.
00:01:20.240 No, it just doesn't.
00:01:20.920 I wouldn't do it without a promo code to save $10.
00:01:23.100 Well, just type in GLEAN.
00:01:26.020 Well, that solves problem one.
00:01:27.200 But problem two is, as you point out, if people are listening to this later, they've missed the show.
00:01:31.040 There's no way to view it.
00:01:31.980 Go to BlazeTV.com, and they can watch it in the archives, the show archives.
00:01:37.020 On demand?
00:01:37.600 On demand.
00:01:37.940 Like, whenever I want.
00:01:38.720 Whatever you want.
00:01:39.160 It starts whenever I want to watch it.
00:01:40.900 Wow.
00:01:41.060 Here's what I would like to focus on here on today's podcast with Stu, the way he uses
00:01:45.620 the word awful when he is talking about Maxine Waters.
00:01:50.720 Also, we have two big guests on today's podcast, Bill O'Reilly and Carly Fiorina.
00:01:57.860 And you don't want to miss a second of today's podcast.
00:02:00.940 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:17.920 Lunchbucket Joe.
00:02:19.740 Today is his day.
00:02:21.220 He likes to remind America, as often as possible, that he's just a regular guy.
00:02:27.660 But beneath his carefully crafted narrative is a familiar story of old-fashioned crony capitalism.
00:02:37.160 Or in this case, we should call it brony capitalism.
00:02:39.660 Starting in November of 2010, when, remember, Joe Biden was the guy who was supposed to make
00:02:47.300 sure that tarp and everything was super, super clean, right?
00:02:52.220 His job was to oversee to make sure that there was no graft going on or anything else.
00:02:59.980 Well, in 2010, Joe Biden's younger brother, James Biden, was named executive vice president
00:03:07.000 of Hillstone.
00:03:08.020 Now, this is a housing subsidiary of a company called Hill International.
00:03:13.840 Hill International owns 51% of Hillstone.
00:03:17.360 It's a group of partners, including James Biden, who owned the other 49%.
00:03:23.000 Now, James Biden has zero documented work history in the construction industry.
00:03:30.380 Let me go over that again.
00:03:31.980 How much experience does he have in construction?
00:03:36.160 Zero.
00:03:39.260 But six months after he joined Hillstone, the company scored a $1.5 billion construction contract
00:03:47.840 from the U.S. government to build 100,000 homes in war-torn Iraq.
00:03:54.040 Again, how much construction expertise does he have?
00:03:59.640 Zero.
00:04:01.080 How much money did he get to build homes where he has how much experience building?
00:04:08.000 Zero.
00:04:08.620 He received $1.5 billion.
00:04:14.880 The minority partners in Hillstone would pocket $735 million of that contract.
00:04:22.020 So, out of the $1.5 billion, for the guy who has how much construction experience?
00:04:28.000 Lots.
00:04:28.740 Zero.
00:04:29.660 Zero.
00:04:30.840 They pocket $735 million, which means, minus the expenses for the actual construction work,
00:04:36.740 James Biden and the rest of his minority partners would stand to pocket tens of millions of dollars.
00:04:43.320 Analysts were puzzled.
00:04:47.320 How does this brand-new construction business, created in 2010, get this sweet contract?
00:04:55.000 In a meeting with investors, the president of Hillstone's parent company, David Richter,
00:04:59.300 reportedly told them, quote,
00:05:00.500 It really helps to have the brother of the vice president as a partner, end quote.
00:05:07.000 I bet it does.
00:05:08.360 Other lucrative government deals materialized strangely for Hill International, including 2012,
00:05:14.900 a $22 million contract to manage the construction of State Department offices.
00:05:20.240 How much experience?
00:05:22.560 Unlimited.
00:05:23.880 Zero.
00:05:25.320 James Biden wasn't Hillstone's only connection to vice president.
00:05:29.300 Hillstone's president, Kevin Justice, grew up in Delaware, a close friend of Joe Biden's
00:05:37.380 sons, Beau and Hunter.
00:05:40.580 However, by the beginning of 2012, Kevin Justice claimed that James Biden and David Richter,
00:05:46.400 who was president of Hill International, were trying to dilute Justice's ownership stake
00:05:51.080 in the $1.5 billion Iraq project deal and control all of the money.
00:05:57.080 Kevin Justice left the company in February 2012.
00:06:01.360 And as you will see tonight, crony capitalism absolutely thrives under Joe Biden.
00:06:07.500 You can never accuse him of not trying to take care of his own.
00:06:12.300 He's an expert at keeping things in the family.
00:06:16.380 This is Joe Biden's biggest political achievement.
00:06:19.860 For anybody who thinks that Joe Biden is Lunchbucket Joe, anybody who thinks, ah, you know, he's just
00:06:27.660 kind of a crazy guy, he's really not.
00:06:30.220 This is a very, very good businessman.
00:06:34.680 If your business is the family business, he's a very good businessman.
00:06:41.540 And tonight, we will show you, not this, this is no big deal.
00:06:48.280 This is nothing.
00:06:50.320 I mean, zero experience to a $1.5 billion construction bill, that's nothing.
00:06:57.900 Tonight, I will show you, hopefully, we're not sure we have time for both.
00:07:02.560 We may have to break it up into two shows.
00:07:04.280 We will show you two examples of where not only is his family massively profiting, but
00:07:13.800 profiting at the expense of the United States of America, and profiting at the expense of
00:07:22.120 the security of the United States of America.
00:07:26.220 Joe Biden should be nowhere near an Oval Office.
00:07:30.180 We have done research to put all of this together, but the people who are really responsible for
00:07:38.580 the research, you will meet over the next couple of days.
00:07:43.140 They have spent years putting this together.
00:07:46.560 We have phone conversations.
00:07:49.920 We have documents.
00:07:52.400 We have photographs.
00:07:53.700 We have, I believe we don't even, we have even the banking records on part of it.
00:08:01.980 It's pretty clear.
00:08:03.940 No conspiracy.
00:08:06.280 But if you're looking for facts, you have to go to theblazetv.com slash Glenn and sign up.
00:08:12.800 Now, you can sign up, just watch today's show.
00:08:16.080 If we don't deliver on today's show, you can cancel.
00:08:19.660 But if you find this of value and you find this and say, wow, nobody is putting this together.
00:08:25.720 Nobody is explaining this to America.
00:08:28.320 Then I'd ask that you would keep your subscription, but you can just try it for free for seven days.
00:08:33.860 If it's not worth it, fine.
00:08:35.660 Just watch today's show because today's show is the beginning of showing you exactly who these people are.
00:08:43.900 Actually, last night I did a show because we did the show on the border earlier this week,
00:08:55.020 and I showed you on the chalkboard how that leads directly to Chicago and to communists.
00:09:03.020 Media Matters is all up in arms, and the deal is,
00:09:08.220 oh, Glenn Beck says George Soros is funding.
00:09:11.160 He's an anti-Semite.
00:09:12.380 Forget the George Soros stuff.
00:09:14.860 It's so boring, though.
00:09:15.860 I mean, how many times can they say the same stupid thing?
00:09:18.240 Oh, my gosh, it's so boring.
00:09:19.540 Forget about George Soros.
00:09:21.220 That's not the story.
00:09:23.660 The story is the communists in Chicago that are actually working to do a human wave assault
00:09:34.180 on the United States with these caravans.
00:09:36.880 It is clear.
00:09:38.640 It is clear cut.
00:09:39.860 The records are there.
00:09:41.440 Their AP has even verified much of this story.
00:09:46.600 They're bragging to the AP.
00:09:48.800 These communists are bragging to the AP that they are doing it.
00:09:54.180 So Media Matters is all upset that we have exposed this.
00:09:59.140 And of course, of course, you know you're over the target when you start getting flack.
00:10:05.040 When you start, when they start shooting at you, you know you're real close to the target.
00:10:14.200 Tonight, we take you to the next step, which is Joe Biden.
00:10:19.700 Last night, and I can't do this one on radio, I'm sorry, but it is so chalkboard intensive that you really have to see it.
00:10:28.160 Last night, I told you who the next president was going to be.
00:10:31.400 Last night, I didn't name them.
00:10:35.400 I did what I did under Barack Obama.
00:10:38.760 When Barack Obama was running in 07, I said, if this guy becomes president, the guy who will follow him will be the exact opposite.
00:10:47.500 Because this guy is so buttoned up.
00:10:49.300 He's so on target.
00:10:50.660 He is so connected to the teleprompter.
00:10:52.900 He doesn't make a mistake.
00:10:54.360 He's completely slick.
00:10:57.100 Not a hair out of place.
00:10:58.540 That the next guy, and I was really kind of describing more of a Chris Christie, would be kind of a fat guy with a gravy stain.
00:11:05.540 And he'd be like, yeah, let me tell you something else.
00:11:08.300 Well, that's really what we have in Donald Trump.
00:11:11.220 We have the guy at the end of the bar on the bar stool that's just telling it like it is.
00:11:17.840 I was right about who would follow.
00:11:21.180 I'm telling you, if you watched last night's show, I described our next president.
00:11:29.020 Now, it doesn't have to be that way.
00:11:32.240 It doesn't have to be 2020 either.
00:11:33.700 I mean, if you remember, Obama took two terms.
00:11:36.420 And I think it actually would be 2024.
00:11:40.180 But I want you to watch this and listen carefully because the next president of the United States could be the last president of the United States as we know it.
00:11:52.240 So join us this week.
00:11:53.840 It's a very big week on Blaze TV.
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00:12:06.700 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:12:08.540 Hey, it's Glenn.
00:12:16.060 And I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day with or start your morning with.
00:12:22.200 And that is the news and why it matters.
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00:12:38.780 We're going to go to A.G.
00:12:41.060 Barr here in just a second.
00:12:42.520 And what what happened on Capitol Hill?
00:12:44.200 But I want to really start with Bernie's taxing behavior.
00:12:49.740 It's the latest op ed from Mr. Bill O'Reilly.
00:12:52.340 Hi, Bill.
00:12:52.740 How are you?
00:12:54.120 I'm OK, Beck.
00:12:55.640 Thanks for having me back.
00:12:56.640 I appreciate it.
00:12:57.540 Are you ever good?
00:12:59.980 You know, that's a high bar.
00:13:01.700 I always strive to be good.
00:13:04.960 Right.
00:13:05.220 But when somebody asked you, you know, I got to deal with a lot of right.
00:13:09.260 At any point in your life when somebody said, how are you doing?
00:13:12.520 You went good.
00:13:14.100 Did that did that ever?
00:13:15.200 I'm like Yoda.
00:13:16.400 I sit there.
00:13:17.520 I have to deal with all of the problems and try to sort them all out for everybody.
00:13:22.400 So it's a it's a heavy burden.
00:13:24.100 Go out.
00:13:24.440 Get yourself an Orange Julius.
00:13:25.580 Those always remind me of my childhood and they always make you feel better.
00:13:28.640 So.
00:13:29.380 All right.
00:13:30.600 Talk to me about Bernie Sanders.
00:13:33.120 All right.
00:13:33.900 So the column is entitled Bernie's taxing situation and because he's going to put out his taxes
00:13:40.640 on Monday.
00:13:41.440 But we already know that Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, the socialist, is a millionaire
00:13:48.300 twice over.
00:13:50.820 All right.
00:13:51.220 So he's got assets of about more than two million dollars, according to himself.
00:13:55.700 OK, now you're not.
00:13:56.880 You're not against millionaires.
00:13:59.320 Clearly.
00:13:59.800 Hey, I'm a capitalist.
00:14:01.900 Right.
00:14:02.300 I applaud Bernie.
00:14:04.040 Correct.
00:14:04.500 But but Bernie's vision for the country is dangerous.
00:14:08.400 So I must put Bernie's rhetoric in perspective with his actions, which is why I'm never good.
00:14:17.400 I always have to think about these things.
00:14:19.700 Right.
00:14:20.420 Right.
00:14:20.760 All right.
00:14:21.500 OK.
00:14:21.860 All right.
00:14:22.180 So Bernie's got three houses.
00:14:25.240 All right.
00:14:25.880 He's got a little condo in D.C., got a big lake house in Lake Champlain.
00:14:31.680 Samuel D. would be very impressed with that spread.
00:14:34.300 It's like three quarters of a million dollars.
00:14:36.460 We don't really know where that is.
00:14:37.900 OK.
00:14:38.180 OK.
00:14:38.620 All right.
00:14:39.900 Then he's he's a millionaire because he sells books.
00:14:45.380 Now, for me, I don't know why Bernie's not given those books away, because there's a lot
00:14:51.180 of people that don't they can't spend thirty dollars on a book.
00:14:54.240 Well, they want to kind of get a little book subsidy from Bernie.
00:14:58.300 But no.
00:14:59.400 But the big thing that I learned about Bernie Sanders is that in the last two years, he
00:15:05.400 spent three hundred and forty thousand on private jets.
00:15:09.660 So now I sent my column to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the hopes that somebody would read it to
00:15:17.660 her.
00:15:18.360 And I want to know about the Green New Deal and Bernie, because I think Bernie's Green
00:15:23.580 New Deal is in his wallet.
00:15:26.960 So can I ask you a question?
00:15:29.720 Bernie Sanders is.
00:15:30.980 No, you absolutely have that right.
00:15:34.580 So Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders has been in politics since 18.
00:15:41.700 When did he start?
00:15:43.040 When did he honestly, when did he get into politics?
00:15:45.760 Do you know?
00:15:46.820 Let me ask you this question.
00:15:47.940 Bernie was a hippie in Brooklyn.
00:15:49.420 Right.
00:15:49.800 And decided he didn't really want to work for a living.
00:15:52.780 And this is true.
00:15:54.340 And moved up to Vermont, where far more cows than people, and started to run for office.
00:16:01.140 And he lost.
00:16:02.740 He lost.
00:16:03.640 I mean, he couldn't win.
00:16:04.960 But then finally, he became mayor of Burlington, Vermont, the largest city in the state.
00:16:10.120 And then from there, became a congressman.
00:16:11.820 There's only one congressman in Vermont, because they don't have any people.
00:16:14.880 Two senators, one congressman.
00:16:16.600 All right.
00:16:17.440 And then he's been on the government dole more than 20 years, I believe.
00:16:24.240 I think he might be approaching 30.
00:16:25.760 So he's a career politician.
00:16:27.620 So where did he make the millions of dollars?
00:16:30.120 Now, I know he said.
00:16:31.740 Uh-huh.
00:16:32.420 The books.
00:16:33.340 Uh-huh.
00:16:34.440 So he.
00:16:34.960 Now, I believe that with you, Bill.
00:16:36.960 Well, no, no, Beck.
00:16:40.040 No, you don't.
00:16:40.600 No.
00:16:40.920 Let me.
00:16:41.620 And this is actually an excellent question that I'm glad you asked permission to ask.
00:16:46.440 An excellent question.
00:16:48.040 I know who's running the show here.
00:16:49.220 Here's how Bernie amassed two million.
00:16:51.280 Okay.
00:16:52.440 Number one, his campaign contributions take care of every single expense the man has.
00:16:59.060 He wants M&Ms, campaign expense.
00:17:03.480 All right?
00:17:04.000 I need energy to give my speech.
00:17:07.260 Every expense is paid for by the donors to his campaign.
00:17:12.000 Now, this is the second time he's run for president, and he's raised, I think, in excess of close to $100 million.
00:17:19.680 Okay.
00:17:20.800 So no expenses.
00:17:22.040 Because then he puts out books that his people, and there are Bernie people, apparently buy.
00:17:30.200 But even if they didn't, he gets an advance on the book, which means that the publishing company pays him a significant amount of money.
00:17:38.620 You add that to never paying for anything, and you can save a lot of money.
00:17:47.040 And has he done well in investments?
00:17:49.300 Because a lot of people.
00:17:50.940 Bernie invests.
00:17:52.040 Really?
00:17:52.660 I can't say.
00:17:53.900 I mean, look, I don't have access to his portfolio.
00:17:56.120 I don't have access to his tax returns.
00:17:57.640 I'm happy he's giving them out on Monday.
00:17:59.020 We'd take a look.
00:17:59.940 What I do know is a few years ago, Bernie donated $8,000 to charity.
00:18:05.520 $8,000.
00:18:06.620 Now, that'll get you on a private jet from Vermont to New Hampshire.
00:18:13.820 No, that'll allow you to land on the tarmac.
00:18:17.220 So is Bernie anguishing over the poor at $8,000?
00:18:20.940 And I don't think so.
00:18:22.660 Now, I know, Beck, you give a lot of money to charity.
00:18:25.200 I certainly do.
00:18:26.000 I have a foundation.
00:18:27.420 Okay.
00:18:28.300 I think Bernie's doing that.
00:18:30.320 He's got his little kayak.
00:18:31.920 He's got his little canoe up there on Lake Camp Plain.
00:18:34.580 I mean, you know, at least he wasn't.
00:18:37.260 Maybe he is now.
00:18:38.800 We'll see.
00:18:40.640 Let's go to taxes first before I go to the Attorney General.
00:18:46.500 Yesterday, there was quite, quite a showdown on Capitol Hill with Maxine Waters and Donald Trump's tax returns.
00:18:59.180 Now, you just said you're happy that Bernie Sanders is turning over his taxes, his tax returns on Monday.
00:19:05.720 Should Donald Trump turn in his tax returns?
00:19:08.520 Theoretically, yes.
00:19:12.820 But if I were Trump, I would not.
00:19:16.180 And here's why.
00:19:17.020 As you know, I'm writing The United States of Trump, okay?
00:19:20.340 A history book on Donald, his family, how he got where he is, how he – the only two people on Earth that could have become president with his background, him and Oprah Winfrey.
00:19:30.180 That's it, two people on a planet.
00:19:32.760 So the reason that Trump doesn't give out his tax returns is because they are very complicated, and they take into account depreciation on his real estate empire and all kinds of things that you can just twist and turn and make it look like the guy's a criminal.
00:19:50.440 So it's a very complicated deal.
00:19:53.140 He runs a very sophisticated real estate empire.
00:19:56.180 He knows, he puts out his tax return, this is going to be the main story for three months straight.
00:20:03.380 It's like Romney, same thing's going to happen.
00:20:06.140 So that's why he doesn't do it.
00:20:07.320 And if I were him, I wouldn't do it either.
00:20:08.880 So I will tell you this.
00:20:09.720 If he's looking for his tax returns to examine it in an objective way or to explain it, they're looking at it to hurt him.
00:20:16.300 Right.
00:20:16.800 So that's why he doesn't do it.
00:20:17.720 I will tell you that during the campaign, I thought he should have released them, and I thought he was not releasing them because I don't think he has the kind of money.
00:20:30.480 His money is all borrowed money.
00:20:33.640 It's all, you know, he's very good at using other people's money to build things, and then he puts his name on things.
00:20:40.120 And so his image is that he's, you know, a multi-multi-billionaire.
00:20:46.060 He's very, very wealthy and may be a billionaire, but I don't think he's as rich as everybody thinks he does.
00:20:51.280 And I think that's part of his mystique that he wouldn't want to let out.
00:20:56.680 And I just wanted to see the tax returns because I thought people should know what he's doing.
00:21:03.120 At this point, however, and I don't think this is a flip-flop because I, like you, think he should release them.
00:21:11.520 But if I were him, I would not only because there's no – Congress, Maxine Waters is going to give me a fair shake.
00:21:21.940 It is – I'm only feeding the beast.
00:21:24.600 Right, and Maxine's had her own problems with her husband who's a big bank guy and does the same kind of thing that Trump does.
00:21:33.020 Look, every American, I think I can generalize, will take the deductions that are allowed them.
00:21:38.380 Yes.
00:21:39.440 Trump has never gotten in trouble with the IRS.
00:21:43.060 They always audit him because he does have all his crazy stuff and takes advantage of every loophole he can take advantage of.
00:21:49.800 So that's the story.
00:21:51.200 But the thing you need to – you and Stu need to know about Donald Trump, and this is why you're going to love my book, is because Donald Trump's whole life is a transaction.
00:22:00.540 And that is where you start if you want to understand the president of the United States and how he governs.
00:22:08.600 All right?
00:22:09.760 Everything is a transaction.
00:22:12.020 So the transaction here is, should I put out my tax return?
00:22:17.780 And then the question Trump asks is, what will I get in return?
00:22:22.080 And the answer is, nothing.
00:22:24.460 I'm not going to get goodwill.
00:22:26.060 No, I think you get misery.
00:22:26.920 I'm not going to get a fair shake.
00:22:28.240 Yeah.
00:22:28.520 It's all going to be used against me.
00:22:30.400 So that's a stupid transaction, and I'm not going to do it.
00:22:33.260 Yes.
00:22:33.760 And that's the way he thinks.
00:22:35.840 Bill, let's talk about the attorney general's appearance yesterday, because there are two stories out there.
00:22:43.480 One was that the attorney general said, I believe that there was a targeting and spying on Donald Trump, and I'm looking into it.
00:22:55.780 The other story is, that's not what he said.
00:22:58.800 What he said was, you look into it, and I don't know if we should even trust him anyway.
00:23:03.960 What happened yesterday?
00:23:05.920 All right.
00:23:06.360 Here's what happened.
00:23:07.900 The attorney general signaled to the country in a very subtle way.
00:23:11.500 He's an interesting guy, if you listen to him, that he knows that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign.
00:23:20.460 He knows that happened.
00:23:22.520 All right?
00:23:23.240 And it's true, it did happen.
00:23:25.780 Now, he used the word—
00:23:27.880 Wait, wait, wait.
00:23:28.360 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:23:29.960 How do you know that?
00:23:31.260 Is that just—
00:23:31.960 Because they got FISA warrants, they being the FBI, to put a wire on a man named Carter Page, who was working with the Trump campaign.
00:23:44.360 And they did.
00:23:46.420 Now, that's a spy.
00:23:47.860 They're spying on Carter Page because he's a member of the Trump campaign.
00:23:51.420 Okay.
00:23:52.440 Got it?
00:23:53.260 Okay.
00:23:53.560 Now, then Barr said, but I don't know whether the spying was illegal.
00:24:01.140 He used a different word than illegal.
00:24:03.220 And that's what we're looking into.
00:24:04.900 But if you follow what happened in the FISA warrant, and that is, the FBI went into a judge and said, judge, we need to spy on Carter Page.
00:24:15.880 Please give us a warrant to do so.
00:24:17.400 And the judge said, why?
00:24:18.260 Why do you need to spy on poor Carter?
00:24:20.380 And they said, well, because we have this dossier that we have obtained that says the Trump campaign and the candidate himself is compromised by Russia and did a lot of bad things in Russia, and they are blackmailing him.
00:24:35.840 And the judge went, wow.
00:24:37.900 Okay.
00:24:38.560 Here's your warrant to spy on Carter Page.
00:24:40.640 And we now know that dossier was phony, and it was paid for by the Clinton campaign.
00:24:48.560 So, bringing a judge fraudulent reasons, and the FBI knew that the dossier wasn't true, to get a warrant is a Class A felony.
00:24:59.840 That is very important.
00:25:01.580 Now, Barr knows all this is true, but he's not going to convict Comey, McCabe, and the other FBI people on television.
00:25:09.240 He's not going to do that.
00:25:10.280 He's going to say, well, I'm going to look into this.
00:25:12.600 It's already being looked into by the inspector general of the Justice Department, Michael Horowitz, and another U.S. attorney named Huber out of Utah.
00:25:21.940 So, now we have three looking into it.
00:25:25.540 Now, this is interesting.
00:25:28.000 On CNN last night, a clapper, one of the main drivers of spying on Donald Trump, said, oh, we weren't really spying on Trump.
00:25:39.000 We were spying on the Russians, but we had to use Trump people to get the information on the Russians.
00:25:47.440 Did you see that?
00:25:48.520 That doesn't make any sense.
00:25:52.540 Okay.
00:25:53.380 That's the defense.
00:25:54.960 Right, but it doesn't.
00:25:55.940 That Comey and McCabe and Clapper and all of them are going to use.
00:26:00.060 No, no, no.
00:26:01.260 We weren't spying on the Trump campaign.
00:26:04.040 We had to get information about Putin.
00:26:05.900 Then why would you use?
00:26:07.520 The way we could do that was to wire and to surveil Carter Page.
00:26:12.860 That doesn't make sense.
00:26:14.020 Why, if you believe that Trump was innocent and a good American and everybody was open,
00:26:22.380 why wouldn't you just say to them, hey, by the way, we need to tap this because we're concerned about this.
00:26:28.260 We want to do his thing.
00:26:29.160 Why wouldn't you?
00:26:29.880 We want to do his thing.
00:26:30.700 Exactly right.
00:26:31.780 And why wouldn't you?
00:26:32.580 You should be the prosecuting attorney in this case, Beck.
00:26:36.660 And why wouldn't you?
00:26:37.640 You could demolish their argument in two seconds going, no, no, no.
00:26:40.420 That's not how you do it.
00:26:41.700 Right.
00:26:41.940 You don't violate an American's rights and a political campaign's rights.
00:26:46.300 You don't do that to try to get criminal activity on another person.
00:26:50.540 You do his thing.
00:26:51.760 You enlist their cooperation.
00:26:53.340 And doesn't it show intent on the FBI in a negative way if they are doing this and not alerting Donald Trump?
00:27:03.600 I mean, this.
00:27:04.480 Well, you could make that argument.
00:27:06.100 They're going to counter and say, oh, no, no, we didn't have any animus.
00:27:08.740 We were just doing it this way because it was easier.
00:27:10.900 But here's the end game.
00:27:12.940 So Barr knows what happened.
00:27:15.200 And he's an attorney general.
00:27:16.340 Like Jeff Sessions, the attorney general from the beginning of the trial, he had no blanking clue about what was going on.
00:27:22.820 Barr, he knows.
00:27:24.600 Now Barr has got to make a decision.
00:27:27.660 Do you disrupt the federal government of the United States?
00:27:33.340 All right.
00:27:33.640 Do you tear it apart because they did this?
00:27:37.500 Because, you know, Loretta Lynch, the other attorney general under Obama, when this was all going on, they're going to haul her right in.
00:27:44.900 And that leads to who?
00:27:47.600 Barack Obama.
00:27:49.700 No, no.
00:27:50.700 Barack Obama.
00:27:51.420 Clinton is divorced from this.
00:27:54.960 Clinton campaign, they sleazed out by getting this phony dossier.
00:27:58.940 All right.
00:27:59.140 But they didn't have, you don't think they had.
00:28:01.800 I mean, they did.
00:28:02.980 But Obama had to know about this surveillance.
00:28:06.380 Had to.
00:28:08.020 Now, did he know it was illegal?
00:28:09.840 I don't know that.
00:28:11.140 Bill.
00:28:11.540 But once you start to domino down, once you put handcuffs on Comey and McCabe and Strzok and Page, and or five FBI high-ranking people, they're going to start to talk.
00:28:23.460 Oh, I was ordered to do it.
00:28:25.160 Oh, I told Loretta Lynch she signed off on it.
00:28:27.900 And then Loretta Lynch pulls in.
00:28:29.300 Oh, no, President Obama told me to do it.
00:28:31.280 That's what happened in Watergate.
00:28:32.580 That's exactly what happened in Watergate.
00:28:35.820 That'd be interesting to watch.
00:28:37.740 So Barr's got to decide, do you want to blow the government up or not?
00:28:41.880 And I don't know what that decision is going to be, because these guys really don't want to blow up their country.
00:28:46.620 And this would.
00:28:47.620 Bill O'Reilly from BillO'Reilly.com.
00:28:49.780 I urge you to join and follow Bill and watch the product that he puts out.
00:28:56.480 It is an important voice for America.
00:28:59.740 He also has a brand-new book that is coming out in September, and it is all about the United States of Trump and what Trump really thinks about America.
00:29:08.520 It's always worth a read with Bill O'Reilly.
00:29:11.360 And, Bill, I want to change the subject, and I want to go to the border here.
00:29:15.740 Bill.
00:29:16.540 Bill O'Reilly, a lead commentator and an author of, no, I mean, the guy who knows Trump better than anybody.
00:29:23.820 The border situation is interesting to me, because when Jeff Sessions is there, they put in this family separation policy, which was really just kind of a change in enforcement.
00:29:33.700 And at that time, they're complaining about a crisis, about 8,000 families crossing the border every month.
00:29:39.320 They put this policy in, and it basically works as a deterrent.
00:29:43.620 They hold it at about 8,000.
00:29:46.000 Eventually, the media pressure comes along, and they reverse that policy, and it has escalated ever since until this last month where 53,000 families come across the border.
00:29:57.060 The problem is seven times as bad.
00:30:00.000 Trump is taking action.
00:30:01.340 He's blowing everybody out in the department.
00:30:03.760 So, one, what is he doing with the department?
00:30:05.320 And two, was it a mistake to change that policy under the media pressure initially?
00:30:10.580 The policy goes back all the way to the Bill Clinton presidency, that if you are a migrant family and you come into the United States illegally, the children are then taken into protective custody by immigration officials while their parents are adjudicated.
00:30:30.740 And that has been going on for, what, 40 years, maybe more.
00:30:36.500 So, in the Obama administration, obviously, we have pictures of that, and we saw them.
00:30:41.960 So, the Trump people come in.
00:30:43.440 They just carry on the same policy.
00:30:45.400 They probably didn't even know that it was going to become a controversial issue.
00:30:49.260 When it did, Trump changed it.
00:30:51.020 Okay.
00:30:51.920 So, now you have a siege at the border where 200,000 human beings plus every month are trying to get in here to apply for asylum.
00:31:02.800 It's a con.
00:31:03.760 Everybody knows it's a con.
00:31:04.980 And Beck appeared on Hannity and rightly said that the origins of this come from George Soros-funded groups that are based in Chicago.
00:31:14.760 You may remember Bill O'Reilly.com broke that story about a year ago.
00:31:19.080 I remember talking to you guys about it.
00:31:20.700 Yeah, we talked about it.
00:31:21.880 We talked about it, too.
00:31:22.900 We talked about the, what is it, Casa de Tuer?
00:31:29.300 I can't remember what it's called.
00:31:30.680 The Center of Borders.
00:31:31.940 The People Without Borders.
00:31:32.940 People Without Borders.
00:31:33.760 We talked about that.
00:31:34.820 The People Without Borders are in Honduras, but the American so-called charities that funnel money to them are in Chicago with a head base in D.C.
00:31:46.960 And those names are listed on Bill O'Reilly.com.
00:31:49.420 I don't have them on the top of my head.
00:31:50.800 Yes.
00:31:51.040 But anyway, all they did was basically get the word out on social media, if you put one foot in the United States, you can apply for asylum, and they'll let you go.
00:32:00.700 And you can be in the country for three, four years.
00:32:02.860 You can work, send money back to mom and dad in Tegucigalpa.
00:32:06.680 That's how it started.
00:32:08.960 Now it's out of control.
00:32:10.280 So what I would do if I were President Trump is suspend all asylum applications for 90 days at least and say we have to get this under control.
00:32:21.240 We don't have enough facilities down there.
00:32:23.080 We don't have enough judges, and we're going to not take any asylum applications by order of the president.
00:32:29.680 He can do that.
00:32:30.480 Now immediately, the liberal judges in California would try to block it in the courts, but you have to go through that.
00:32:37.640 But this is a big reelection issue now for President Trump.
00:32:41.740 He's going to run on the economy.
00:32:43.160 He's going to run on the border and illegal immigration.
00:32:45.440 So he should do that and fight that fight that way.
00:32:51.520 Can we fight this battle, Bill, without actually going to the root of the problem?
00:33:02.160 And the root of the problem is this is not a naturally occurring issue.
00:33:09.220 This is being well orchestrated and well planned.
00:33:13.320 Pardon me?
00:33:14.000 It's like drug dealing.
00:33:15.000 It's the same thing.
00:33:16.200 It's run by the same people.
00:33:17.720 And you can't.
00:33:18.680 Cartels.
00:33:19.500 No, they're.
00:33:20.420 I charge the family five, six thousand.
00:33:23.540 They school the family on what to do.
00:33:26.000 They get them to the border and then kids take over and they walk across the Rio Grande or they climb a fence or they do something.
00:33:35.440 It's a very contrived, organized criminal activity.
00:33:39.300 I see this.
00:33:40.000 I see this differently.
00:33:41.000 I see that as the system and the free market, if you will.
00:33:48.620 You know, sensing a need and here comes the corrupt people to make that all your dreams come true.
00:33:55.080 That's the invisible hand of the market.
00:33:57.080 I mean, the people who actually have designed this.
00:34:01.420 They they started in 2006.
00:34:04.240 They are communists.
00:34:06.580 They they are the ones who started the sanctuary city thing in 2008.
00:34:12.500 I think it was or 12.
00:34:15.500 They started to say that, you know what we need are caravans.
00:34:18.840 They carefully planned this.
00:34:20.640 This is a human wave theory and it is happening here in the United States.
00:34:26.500 Everything else is a branch off of that.
00:34:29.120 You've got to get the people that are here behind the the the the crisis itself, the ones who are causing the crisis.
00:34:38.820 You've got to charge them with anything because there's no violation of U.S.
00:34:44.460 law by giving money to organizations like people without borders.
00:34:49.640 You can that's that's perfectly legal.
00:34:51.880 So it'd be very hard to make a RICO case that you could try against these so-called cherries who are doing it.
00:35:01.660 But you're right.
00:35:02.720 They're doing it for a political reason.
00:35:04.760 Yes.
00:35:05.340 It's the same thing that happened in Europe with the flood of North Africans.
00:35:08.640 Yes.
00:35:08.940 Eastern people.
00:35:10.500 Yes.
00:35:10.880 And the governments of Austria and Poland.
00:35:14.020 Yes.
00:35:14.460 And the Czech Republic basically put up huge fences.
00:35:18.620 Yes.
00:35:19.640 And we're backed up by military.
00:35:22.020 And they were the nobody's coming in here.
00:35:23.820 And they were called haters.
00:35:24.800 And they're the only ones.
00:35:26.800 They're the only countries that are not being destabilized now internally by all of those those North African immigrants.
00:35:35.940 The federal government under President Trump has got to have the barrier, the wall and the military.
00:35:44.100 The military is already there.
00:35:45.600 Now he's saying he's going to bring more down.
00:35:48.080 But you have to get the asylum law changed.
00:35:51.800 It has to be changed because they found a loophole in the illegal immigration system whereby if you put one foot on U.S. soil, you're entitled to the whole Megillah of applying for asylum and they can't get to you for four years.
00:36:08.120 How is Megillah not word of the day?
00:36:10.040 How is Megillah not word of the day?
00:36:13.340 How do you get through that sentence?
00:36:14.380 Megillah is a mythical creature who has a goatee and kind of blonde hair and leaves in Dallas.
00:36:20.840 I used to watch Megillah gorilla.
00:36:22.740 Is that any relation?
00:36:24.460 Yes.
00:36:25.080 It's a mythical creature.
00:36:26.400 Okay.
00:36:26.960 All right.
00:36:27.260 I mean, but Bill, have you seen any reporting on these?
00:36:30.940 Because I'm amazed.
00:36:32.040 We see lots of reporting on Venezuela, right?
00:36:34.640 That there's at least some that shows how bad it is there.
00:36:37.280 I have not seen the equivalent reporting from Honduras or any of these countries that supposedly are having these huge problems that need new asylum requests.
00:36:46.240 Well, I mean, I don't know what you want.
00:36:48.240 It's been going on down there since the conquistadors.
00:36:51.720 It's ugly, but it's not any more ugly than it's been.
00:36:54.640 Central America has been a center of poverty forever because of its systems are corrupt.
00:37:02.440 I mean, my local newspaper, Newsday, which is like reading the ravings of a five-year-old.
00:37:09.960 All right.
00:37:10.180 So, oh, we have to solve the problems in El Salvador, Guatemala.
00:37:14.220 Yeah.
00:37:14.760 Okay, fine.
00:37:15.820 You know, it's just if you go there and I've been there, I covered the Salvadoran war in the 80s.
00:37:20.520 I know what it is, all right?
00:37:23.000 It's corrupt all across the board, and the poor people don't have anything.
00:37:26.920 And if I lived in Honduras, I'd try to come to the United States, too.
00:37:30.880 I have to be honest.
00:37:32.160 I would try to come here with my family, too, because living down there is horrible.
00:37:36.900 But what are you going to do?
00:37:38.180 You can't change it from El Norte.
00:37:41.680 We can't change it.
00:37:44.540 All right.
00:37:45.860 Bill, how many books have I helped you sell?
00:37:48.380 Many, many over the years, Beck.
00:37:51.240 And Killing the SS is still in the marketplace.
00:37:53.760 I know you like that book.
00:37:55.480 I do.
00:37:55.980 With the focus on Israel and the new election.
00:37:58.380 So what you're saying is you owe me a favor.
00:38:02.160 Well, Beck, you know, I always use business to help you.
00:38:06.960 I accept.
00:38:08.720 But I think coming on your program every week is...
00:38:11.620 Not exactly charity.
00:38:12.720 Well, I mean, that's a pretty good deal, right?
00:38:14.900 Right, right.
00:38:16.140 Here's the favor that I'm going to call in a chip, okay?
00:38:20.440 Yeah.
00:38:20.700 I want you to interview somebody.
00:38:23.780 And I don't think this is a big favor to ask, because once you know the story, it's an unbelievable story.
00:38:29.980 There is a guy.
00:38:30.740 He's a liberal journalist, okay?
00:38:32.940 His name is Blake Harris.
00:38:34.780 He was known as writing one of the best books of the year, according to Publishers Weekly and everything else.
00:38:42.340 He wrote Console Wars.
00:38:44.000 He's a tech guy.
00:38:45.520 He's a Silicon Valley guy.
00:38:47.680 He starts writing this story about Oculus and this great American story about this 19-year-old kid living in a trailer, you know, finally figuring out VR and doing what nobody else could do.
00:39:01.900 He sells Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion.
00:39:06.300 He is working with Zuckerberg on Facebook until the election.
00:39:11.880 The election happens.
00:39:13.740 He says that he's going to vote for Donald Trump.
00:39:18.280 He gives a $10,000 donation anonymously to this company that's going to put billboards around the country.
00:39:24.320 And all of a sudden, that anonymous donation is outed, and he is blamed for all of the memes.
00:39:33.180 The worst memes that you see on the internet are all coming from him.
00:39:37.660 It's this Facebook Oculus guy.
00:39:41.160 And everyone reports that he's the worst human being in the world.
00:39:45.260 Then Mark Zuckerberg, the guy wants to, he wants to, Lucky Palmer is his name.
00:39:52.860 He wants to set the record straight.
00:39:54.560 He says, I'm going to release this statement.
00:39:57.240 Zuckerberg says, no, you're not.
00:39:58.940 You're going to release this one, which says, I'm not voting for Donald Trump.
00:40:02.800 I never liked Donald Trump.
00:40:04.340 I'm going to vote for Gary Johnson, which is not what he was going to do.
00:40:10.020 He took it because he wanted to save his job, and he was like, everybody around him said, you can sue Zuck, but you're going to be tied up in courts forever.
00:40:19.640 He made the wrong choice.
00:40:22.040 Time goes on.
00:40:23.520 He's fired from Zuckerberg.
00:40:26.200 He's, I'm sorry, he's left to go and pursue other adventures.
00:40:31.980 The guy is destroyed.
00:40:34.120 His life is absolutely destroyed.
00:40:35.940 Blake Harris is given full access to him and to Zuckerberg and all of Facebook because Blake's writing this story about Oculus before the election.
00:40:47.040 And then he sees all of this start to shake out.
00:40:50.240 He goes in a fan of Zuckerberg and Facebook.
00:40:54.240 He comes out saying, this is evil.
00:40:57.620 What is happening is so wrong.
00:40:59.940 They're crushing people.
00:41:01.580 It's illegal what Zuckerberg is doing.
00:41:04.040 He spends three and a half years writing this book.
00:41:08.260 No one in the liberal media, they've all turned on him because he said, you know, this is what's going on.
00:41:14.460 His journalists, liberal journalist friends have all said, that's not the kind of political injustice we care about.
00:41:22.360 He's been called a Nazi, a MAGA supporter.
00:41:25.300 He's none of those things.
00:41:26.960 And I want to give you one quote he wrote me in a personal email last night.
00:41:30.100 He said, you know, his life had been destroyed.
00:41:34.880 He said, then after a cup of coffee, the answer of why would I do this became overwhelmingly obvious, because that's what journalism is.
00:41:42.480 You follow the story where it takes you and you never, however tempting it may be, let it go the other way around.
00:41:48.560 You follow leads.
00:41:49.720 You examine evidence.
00:41:50.780 You continue to dig deeper and deeper until you get to the truth.
00:41:53.460 Not for the praise you think you deserve, not to try to be everybody's best friend, but because however fast or partisan or cynical the world has gotten, the truth still matters.
00:42:04.680 He wrote this book yesterday.
00:42:06.720 It was three, sorry, 33,336 on the bestseller list on Amazon.
00:42:12.980 After the interview, it went to number six on Amazon.
00:42:18.320 This story is one of the most compelling stories.
00:42:21.360 This guy won't agree with you, Bill, but this guy is an honest guy who's trying to tell the truth.
00:42:28.200 And courage is so rare.
00:42:31.220 I would like you to highlight him and his book.
00:42:33.460 All right.
00:42:33.960 I mean, we'll definitely talk to him.
00:42:36.020 When did the book come out?
00:42:37.400 It's already out.
00:42:38.540 It's been out for a month.
00:42:39.540 Nobody has talked about it at all.
00:42:41.240 No, he can't get an interview with anybody.
00:42:45.260 Nobody will put him on.
00:42:46.600 Yeah, we did.
00:42:47.280 We were the first one.
00:42:48.260 I'm afraid Facebook will take Ben out on them.
00:42:52.300 That's how powerful Facebook is.
00:42:53.680 Right.
00:42:54.160 That's exactly what's happening.
00:42:55.400 So I'll send you this.
00:42:56.580 I'll send you his information.
00:42:57.680 Please have him on, Bill.
00:42:58.280 Yeah, send me all his stuff.
00:42:59.400 I'll be happy to talk to him.
00:43:00.300 Good.
00:43:00.500 Thank you very much.
00:43:01.160 Bill O'Reilly from BillO'Reilly.com.
00:43:03.640 By the way, the name of the book is The History of the Future.
00:43:07.380 Let's make this book number one, please.
00:43:09.580 Please go buy this book.
00:43:10.980 I mean, Bill could probably do that.
00:43:12.420 You could get him to number six, and then Bill can get him to number one.
00:43:14.340 I got him from 33,000 to number six in one show.
00:43:19.160 That's just not good enough.
00:43:20.080 The History of the Future by Blake Harris.
00:43:22.520 Hopefully he will join us again tomorrow.
00:43:24.600 He's got a lot more to say about what's going on at Facebook.
00:43:27.180 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:43:33.100 Carly Fiorina, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard and blah, blah, blah.
00:43:48.900 Good presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate and good friend and really good person who I got to know fairly well.
00:44:00.780 And I just admire her so much.
00:44:03.760 She has written a new book that is not about politics.
00:44:08.320 And I think it's far more important.
00:44:10.600 Welcome to the program, Carly Fiorina.
00:44:12.960 Thank you.
00:44:13.600 Good morning, Glenn.
00:44:14.300 So good to talk to you again.
00:44:15.520 Good to talk to you.
00:44:16.320 So, Carly, it's so strange that you write this book because my father died a few years ago.
00:44:21.540 And my father really shaped my life and shaped my thinking in so many ways.
00:44:27.740 And for reasons not worth getting into now, I lost a lot of that after he died.
00:44:34.260 And I've been trying to figure things out.
00:44:37.800 I went to Tony Robbins.
00:44:38.800 I spent some time with Tony Robbins.
00:44:40.160 And that has helped get my mojo back in many ways and trying to, you know, take control of my own power and my own mind and work to my potential.
00:44:59.620 It's a hard thing to do if you don't know a few basic secrets to grab on to your own potential and to realize that you have a lot of power in you as an individual.
00:45:18.500 Well, that's exactly why I wrote this book, which is called Find Your Way.
00:45:24.020 And I wrote it now because, honestly, I think so many people feel the way you felt after your dad died.
00:45:32.020 So many people feel kind of helpless and powerless and hopeless.
00:45:37.320 And they look at institutions that they thought were supposed to be solving problems and making things better.
00:45:44.880 They're disappointed by so many people who call themselves leaders because they have positions and titles.
00:45:49.920 And yet what I've learned from my own life, but more importantly, from the lives of so many people I've met in so many different places along the way, here are some fundamental things that are true.
00:46:04.840 All of us have more potential than we realize, period.
00:46:09.200 Number two, people closest to the problem know best how to solve it, always, whether they're given the opportunity to do so or they think it's their job to do so or they have the resources to do so.
00:46:19.920 If there's a problem that impacts each of us, we actually know what would make it better.
00:46:25.100 And number three, leadership fundamentally, the purpose of leadership, is not position or title or wealth or fame.
00:46:33.260 It's to solve problems and change the order of things for the better.
00:46:37.440 And leaders are made.
00:46:39.480 In the end, leadership is a choice.
00:46:41.700 And so what I talk about in this book is what does it take to lead?
00:46:45.120 Some fundamental things that are really hard to learn, but they are within each of our capacity to learn.
00:46:53.340 Things like courage.
00:46:55.340 We're all afraid.
00:46:56.800 How do you get over your fears?
00:46:59.020 Character.
00:47:00.080 We're all tempted to do the easy thing instead of the right thing.
00:47:05.080 We're all tempted to let the ends justify any means, even if we know they're wrong.
00:47:10.840 And by the way, we see that going on around us all the time.
00:47:14.620 Things like humility and empathy.
00:47:19.560 Did we lose Carly?
00:47:21.580 Did we lose her?
00:47:22.500 Because I don't hear her in my headphones.
00:47:24.380 Yes, we lost her.
00:47:25.960 Courage, character, humility, empathy.
00:47:29.980 The things that you say, you know, are really important.
00:47:33.560 Yes, and seeing possibilities in even tough circumstances, but particularly seeing possibilities in other people.
00:47:42.420 These have always been the core of leadership, by the way.
00:47:46.160 But we're mixed up about it because we think it's position and title.
00:47:49.400 And we're also mixed up about it because our culture, let's face it, lifts up everything but these things.
00:47:55.620 You know, we lift up outrage, conflict, controversy, fame.
00:48:01.340 You know, we lift up all these things.
00:48:02.780 And so people start to wonder, do these fundamentals still matter?
00:48:08.700 And yes, they do.
00:48:11.040 Particularly if somebody wants to change the order of things for the better in their own life, in their own place of work, in their own sphere of influence, and solve the problems in front of them.
00:48:21.960 And that we can all do if we learn or relearn some basic disciplines.
00:48:27.320 And I have some very practical how-to tips of, you know, how to get more brave.
00:48:32.960 We're all afraid of things.
00:48:34.720 How do you practice getting brave?
00:48:36.440 So that is something.
00:48:37.520 I just had dinner with somebody last night who we had that very conversation about courage.
00:48:42.920 And it is, I mean, it was interesting you said, courage, character, humility.
00:48:47.880 I'm not sure which one comes first.
00:48:50.520 I mean, I think character is the product of embodiment of all these other things.
00:48:55.000 But does courage come before humility?
00:49:00.600 I mean, how do we shape courage?
00:49:04.800 How do we grow it?
00:49:06.300 It's a package deal.
00:49:08.340 And, of course, one of the things, one of the reasons I say this is countercultural right now is, first, let's acknowledge, everyone's afraid of something.
00:49:18.100 I do a lot of work with wounded warriors.
00:49:21.480 And you would think these are people who can't be afraid of anything given what they've gone through.
00:49:27.500 But they are.
00:49:28.280 They're afraid of being pitied.
00:49:30.320 What are we all afraid of?
00:49:31.800 I mean, there are existential fears.
00:49:33.700 I'm afraid I'm going to die.
00:49:34.880 I'm afraid my buddy's going to die.
00:49:36.380 I'm afraid someone I love is going to die.
00:49:39.040 But the truth is, most of us are paralyzed by the more superficial fear.
00:49:46.160 I won't fit in.
00:49:47.780 I'll make a mistake.
00:49:49.360 I'll get criticized.
00:49:51.040 I'll look foolish.
00:49:52.660 I'll fall on my face.
00:49:54.820 Those fears hold us back.
00:49:57.460 And in this culture today, my gosh, everybody wants to fit in.
00:50:00.680 No one wants to be criticized because criticism is so brutal out there.
00:50:06.200 Or, you know, we curate our Instagram photos so our life looks perfect for people.
00:50:11.400 And so, in order to actually change things, you have to be willing to get brave and say,
00:50:19.740 OK, I might make a mistake.
00:50:21.180 I do have to take a risk.
00:50:22.880 People will criticize me.
00:50:24.540 It's the price of changing things for the better.
00:50:27.400 But nevertheless, I'm going to move on.
00:50:30.140 I want to play something.
00:50:31.500 This is an Instagram star.
00:50:33.400 Yesterday, this video came out yesterday afternoon.
00:50:36.140 I want to play just a little bit of this.
00:50:37.940 Sarah, can you roll the Instagram star that is receiving, you know, shutdown notices on
00:50:45.940 some of her platforms?
00:50:47.520 Hey, guys.
00:50:48.380 So, like, I'm in the middle of editing and my Instagram account got deleted.
00:50:53.560 And I'm trying to get it back.
00:50:55.880 I'm calling everybody I can.
00:50:58.500 And I don't know why it's not working out for me.
00:51:01.840 I've been all late because of this.
00:51:04.000 I've been all late because I want to be on Instagram.
00:51:06.960 And I'm randomly just recording this to put this in the video.
00:51:11.180 I am nothing without my following.
00:51:14.980 I am nothing without my following.
00:51:17.880 Stop.
00:51:19.580 Carly, this is one of the saddest things I've ever heard.
00:51:24.340 Yes.
00:51:24.800 I'm nothing without my following.
00:51:28.120 Yes.
00:51:28.540 And this is what our culture is lifting up right now.
00:51:32.940 You know, I wrote this book for everyone who's feeling helpless and helpless and powerless,
00:51:37.460 and especially in many ways for young people who have enormous pressure to fit in.
00:51:46.120 And that is not our purpose in life.
00:51:51.360 I mean, it's wonderful to have friends.
00:51:53.280 It's wonderful to receive accolades.
00:51:55.680 But I think there's a reason that the Bible talks more about courage than almost anything else,
00:52:03.080 because all change for the better requires courage, bravery.
00:52:11.900 You know, one of the practical tips I put in here is write down what you're afraid of.
00:52:17.680 Write it down.
00:52:18.640 You know, my first business meeting ever, I started out as a secretary, as you know, Glenn.
00:52:23.980 But when I finally went off and got my MBA, and I landed in a big corporation,
00:52:28.560 and I was at this entry-level job, my first meeting, I was informed that my first meeting
00:52:35.480 to meet a customer was going to be held in a strip club, because that's what men did.
00:52:40.500 And because they didn't really much care for me being around.
00:52:44.100 I was terrified, terrified.
00:52:47.340 I sat for hours by myself trying to figure out, oh, my God, what am I going to do?
00:52:52.720 And finally, I had to write it down.
00:52:55.000 What am I afraid of?
00:52:56.320 And what I wrote down was, I'm afraid of looking like an idiot.
00:52:59.720 By the way, I did.
00:53:01.140 I'm afraid of being in a circumstance that I've never been in before.
00:53:05.780 And then I said, okay, what's the worst thing that happens here?
00:53:08.800 I look like an idiot.
00:53:10.380 But actually, there's something worse, which is I get scared off, and I can't do my job.
00:53:15.180 But one of the things that we all need to do is stop and pause and reflect.
00:53:21.440 Bravery, anyone will tell you.
00:53:23.840 Courage isn't the absence of fear.
00:53:26.040 It's moving past fear.
00:53:28.120 And we are so afraid of not fitting in.
00:53:32.580 But when we all fit in, guess what happens?
00:53:34.800 Nothing gets better.
00:53:35.960 It just all stays the same.
00:53:37.500 Carly Fiorina, the name of the book is Find Your Way.
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