The Glenn Beck Program - April 17, 2020


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Dr. Robin Armstrong ｜ 4⧸17⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

36 minutes

Words per Minute

149.44144

Word Count

5,391

Sentence Count

513

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Bill O'Reilly joins the show to talk about the coronavirus crisis in China and the dangers of hydroxychloroquine. Glenn talks to a doctor who has used the drug on his own patients and tells the story of how he got it from a Chinese government lab.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 It's Pat Grave for Stu.
00:00:02.180 Today on the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn in the city of Detroit asked for help and you really responded.
00:00:08.260 Mercury One raised a quarter of a million dollars to help prepare the city of Detroit against the coronavirus.
00:00:14.780 Also, Representative Trey Hollingsworth from Indiana stops by to talk to Glenn about our freedoms
00:00:20.540 and sacrificing ourselves to save the American economy and future generations.
00:00:24.880 Also, it's Friday, which means Bill O'Reilly is on the program today.
00:00:30.320 And we keep hearing good and bad news about hydroxychloroquine.
00:00:34.260 So, we decided to talk to an actual doctor who's used it on his patients.
00:00:40.040 All that and a lot more coming up on the podcast.
00:00:49.980 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:00:53.980 Well, let's see.
00:01:02.640 Here are the daily stats.
00:01:04.200 Cases worldwide, 2,197.
00:01:08.240 That's up about 100,000 cases.
00:01:11.240 Total confirmed deaths, 147,000 worldwide.
00:01:14.520 The U.S. now has 687,000 confirmed cases.
00:01:21.980 That is up from yesterday.
00:01:24.460 Plus, we have 34,641 deaths.
00:01:29.840 All global confirmed cases have had an outcome of either recovered or dead.
00:01:34.900 21% of COVID victims have died worldwide.
00:01:38.900 China revises the Wuhan death rate upward by 50%.
00:01:43.560 The WHO praises their transparency.
00:01:49.280 For those of us who have been saying,
00:01:51.220 bullcrap, these numbers are not right in China.
00:01:55.320 There's no way they would have done all of this
00:01:57.340 had those numbers been that small were 100% vindicated now.
00:02:05.700 The Chinese Communist Party issued a revision indicating
00:02:08.920 that they're now 90% positive their original case fatality rate
00:02:14.020 was off by only 50%.
00:02:17.760 There is also a 99% probability that the WHO will issue a statement
00:02:22.820 praising all of the transparency of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:02:30.880 We have got to get out of the WHO.
00:02:34.460 This is something that is so instrumental.
00:02:39.160 Let me just spend a second on this.
00:02:40.640 Let me go back to something we talked about yesterday
00:02:42.460 because it revolves around this.
00:02:46.700 Facebook yesterday lifted the false rating of Glenn Beck.com
00:02:52.300 because we had a social media clip on Facebook
00:02:56.100 from a special that I did two weeks ago on the coronavirus
00:02:59.260 where I showed the video from the Communist Party.
00:03:03.860 It was on Communist Party television back in December.
00:03:07.740 And it showed them, these researchers,
00:03:11.040 going into a cave of horseshoe bats and collecting samples.
00:03:16.740 And they were talking about how dangerous this was
00:03:19.080 because of this dangerous coronavirus in these bats.
00:03:22.660 And they had to be very careful not to get it on the skin
00:03:24.860 and everything else.
00:03:26.140 So that was on their national television
00:03:28.540 in either late November or early December.
00:03:33.040 We showed that those scientists were 300 yards
00:03:38.180 from the Wuhan wet market.
00:03:40.820 And we showed that it was now showing positive, proof positive,
00:03:46.340 that patient zero did not come from the Wuhan market.
00:03:50.680 The actual patient zero came, they said,
00:03:57.000 from near the market.
00:03:59.560 Like, I don't know, maybe 300 yards.
00:04:03.700 This is what you mean when you say it came from a lab.
00:04:08.800 They didn't bioengineer this thing.
00:04:11.860 They were sloppy with it, obviously.
00:04:14.980 It wasn't something that they released intentionally,
00:04:18.400 I don't think.
00:04:19.960 We asked the question.
00:04:22.380 We didn't even make the statement.
00:04:24.680 We were banned by Facebook.
00:04:28.100 They demonetized us.
00:04:29.640 They gave us a false rating.
00:04:31.820 And the reason why they did it is because USA Today,
00:04:34.620 USA Today claimed that we were making this up,
00:04:39.740 that this was a conspiracy theory.
00:04:41.800 They used an article from, like, the middle of March
00:04:44.940 to prove us wrong.
00:04:46.420 They didn't prove us wrong.
00:04:47.860 They proved themselves as being behind the news.
00:04:51.840 So yesterday, finally, after about two weeks,
00:04:55.800 our dispute with Facebook has been settled,
00:04:59.860 and they have removed the ban and the USA Today link.
00:05:05.540 This is why it is critical that you and I
00:05:09.020 have a direct link to each other.
00:05:12.620 Because not only did Facebook do this,
00:05:15.080 Google is doing this,
00:05:16.420 all of these companies are doing this,
00:05:18.680 they're throttling back anyone who has actual information.
00:05:21.780 I think if you've listened to me long enough to know,
00:05:24.880 you know I separate the difference between fact and fiction,
00:05:29.320 conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact.
00:05:32.380 We are not talking about any conspiracy theories now.
00:05:35.640 We're not talking about any conspiracy theories with the WHO.
00:05:38.960 The WHO is corrupt.
00:05:41.680 The WHO is on the payroll of China.
00:05:45.300 The head guy is a former politician.
00:05:48.480 First time, not a doctor.
00:05:49.780 A former politician from Ethiopia who is on,
00:05:54.620 and his country is on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:05:58.740 This is all about money.
00:06:00.620 It's all about politics.
00:06:01.940 And we need to pull out and clean that place up.
00:06:07.360 It's the United Nations,
00:06:09.300 so I don't think you can clean it up.
00:06:11.280 I don't think we should be spending a dime with the WHO.
00:06:14.960 But yesterday, Facebook said that they are redirecting
00:06:18.680 any stories that they deem false.
00:06:20.940 They're redirecting for the truth to the WHO.
00:06:26.140 The only reason anyone would ever do that
00:06:29.860 is because you hate Donald Trump
00:06:31.720 and you just want to prove him wrong about the WHO.
00:06:36.380 And so you're just taking a stand of,
00:06:39.240 no, they did nothing wrong.
00:06:40.540 It is clear, clear the WHO was in the wrong.
00:06:45.340 They had information in late December from Taiwan that said,
00:06:50.640 China is lying to you.
00:06:52.760 We have proof.
00:06:54.240 This is much more virile than anyone thought.
00:06:58.060 It is spreading like wildfire.
00:07:00.120 The WHO didn't even address it
00:07:03.380 because Taiwan doesn't exist.
00:07:07.740 Oh, okay.
00:07:08.660 That sounds really scientific.
00:07:10.420 Thank you for that.
00:07:12.460 Please join us at Blaze TV.
00:07:14.460 Become a member now.
00:07:15.640 I'm telling you,
00:07:16.460 we have got to have a direct pipeline to each other
00:07:20.760 with no middlemen or algorithms in between us.
00:07:24.300 BlazeTV.com slash Glenn.
00:07:26.460 More important than ever.
00:07:27.600 That's why we've cut it to the bone.
00:07:30.340 We've slashed 30%.
00:07:32.060 Use the promo code Glenn right now.
00:07:34.800 We are going to keep this promotion going
00:07:36.640 until the end of this crisis.
00:07:39.180 And we're all back to work.
00:07:40.560 And we can afford things again.
00:07:45.880 They're opening up the casinos.
00:07:50.440 The rules for reducing the social distancing rules
00:07:55.080 released by the White House Task Force.
00:07:57.600 Came out yesterday.
00:07:59.000 They are calling for three phases
00:08:01.120 of reduced social and economic restrictions.
00:08:03.620 I mean, everybody knows all of these.
00:08:05.820 We all know all of them.
00:08:07.240 We're already doing it.
00:08:08.540 Nobody has to tell us where to stand.
00:08:11.920 We are all standing away from each other
00:08:14.460 when we have to go to the grocery store.
00:08:16.380 We get it.
00:08:17.980 It's time we open the country back up.
00:08:21.140 It may not be today,
00:08:22.960 but we are in weeks, weeks of opening this up.
00:08:27.960 If it's not next week,
00:08:29.320 it should be today in some places.
00:08:32.860 Next week in others, three weeks,
00:08:35.180 and let New York open in August.
00:08:37.740 Best of luck to you.
00:08:39.480 I personally say,
00:08:41.140 I ain't bailing you out anymore, New York.
00:08:44.280 You've made your own bed for decades.
00:08:48.420 Why is my tax money going to bail out California and New York?
00:08:54.500 All right, let me give you a couple of other things.
00:08:56.200 I told you that we would get to a point
00:08:59.480 where gas was so cheap,
00:09:01.740 they would pay you to take it.
00:09:04.960 No way.
00:09:05.960 No way.
00:09:06.620 That's crazy.
00:09:07.520 That's crazy.
00:09:08.800 Do you know what the wholesale gas price is today
00:09:12.000 in the middle of America?
00:09:15.620 I don't.
00:09:16.800 Per barrel?
00:09:17.480 Are you talking?
00:09:18.740 Are you talking about per gallon?
00:09:19.920 No, per gallon.
00:09:20.500 Per gallon?
00:09:20.980 Gallon of gas.
00:09:22.740 Gallon of gas.
00:09:23.720 What is the wholesale price in middle America?
00:09:27.320 Does that include Texas?
00:09:28.380 I think I just paid like two in the low twos.
00:09:32.260 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:09:33.720 What are they trying to sell it to the gas stations?
00:09:37.520 Oh, they, the wholesale price.
00:09:39.500 You're buying a bunch of it.
00:09:40.960 How much is it?
00:09:41.880 For instance, with economic, you know, inflation adjusted,
00:09:46.880 the lowest it's ever been in the history of gasoline in America
00:09:51.340 was 14 cents a gallon.
00:09:53.900 Okay?
00:09:54.580 That's in the old timey times.
00:09:56.600 But that's inflation adjusted numbers.
00:10:00.160 So that's the lowest it's ever been.
00:10:02.060 What is it today?
00:10:04.580 The lowest it's ever been is 14 cents, 50.
00:10:09.140 Yeah.
00:10:09.360 50 cents.
00:10:10.620 25 cents.
00:10:11.460 12.
00:10:15.460 It's, it's, it's lower than the lowest it's ever been.
00:10:18.640 It's lower than it was in the great depression at any given time.
00:10:24.480 Wow.
00:10:24.900 It is the lowest it has ever been.
00:10:27.120 There, there is such a glut of gasoline.
00:10:29.760 Now they are getting to the point to where they are going to start paying the stations
00:10:34.700 to take them.
00:10:35.500 So it's, it's all this.
00:10:37.940 The pipelines now are full of gas.
00:10:41.080 They're using the pipelines as storage units.
00:10:44.300 There's that much gas that is, is available right now.
00:10:48.480 You are not going to see those prices, obviously.
00:10:51.960 I mean, if, if it was 12 cents a gallon, you'd probably, I don't know, be about 70 cents, 60
00:10:57.560 cents a gallon, maybe.
00:10:58.760 Uh, and you're not going to see that because of all the other gas that's already in the
00:11:03.520 line.
00:11:04.220 Uh, but, uh, 50 cents a gallon, 60 cents a gallon.
00:11:08.780 That's amazing.
00:11:09.780 By the way, that gas, if it's 12 cents wholesale, you're in New York or California, it would
00:11:15.440 be about six 87 at the pump.
00:11:18.320 Um, uh, let's see.
00:11:21.280 There's a, there's a couple of other things.
00:11:23.120 Um, I want to get to Nancy Pelosi's freezer.
00:11:26.480 She was on James Gordon the other day.
00:11:28.740 And, um, I just have to say, I've never seen anyone more out of touch and I've never seen
00:11:35.620 anyone with a freezer quite like this.
00:11:37.500 Now, I'm not a guy that can cry poor mouth.
00:11:42.840 Um, but I believe her freezer rivals that of Queen Elizabeth.
00:11:49.880 Um, can we play this video, please?
00:11:52.140 And this is, this is something you can get through the mail.
00:11:58.780 Okay.
00:11:59.600 Run out.
00:12:01.020 Now show me.
00:12:02.100 Yeah, she's got two side by side.
00:12:04.140 I never knew I needed it.
00:12:05.440 Oh my.
00:12:08.980 Wow.
00:12:09.620 Now look at it.
00:12:10.300 Other people in our family go for some other flavors, but chocolate.
00:12:13.400 Can you pause it there?
00:12:15.740 Pause it there.
00:12:17.300 Um, show it, show it, uh, frozen, if you will.
00:12:20.820 Um, she's got a really well-organized, uh, freezer.
00:12:26.120 Everything's color-coded.
00:12:27.840 It's like the freezer has made service.
00:12:30.480 Okay.
00:12:31.640 She's got Dove bars in there.
00:12:34.060 Jenny's ice cream.
00:12:35.960 Uh, all the different flavors.
00:12:37.480 It's like $12 a pint or whatever.
00:12:39.240 I bet that's, I mean, that's expensive ice cream too.
00:12:42.220 The, the stuff next to the Dove, I don't even know what it is, but I know I see it at the
00:12:47.160 supermarket all the time.
00:12:48.680 And I look at it and I'm like, wow, that looks good.
00:12:50.640 And then you pick it up and you're like $18 for a pint.
00:12:54.960 You're like, ah, that's going to sit there.
00:12:57.360 Yeah.
00:12:58.120 I've never seen a refrigerator or a freezer like that.
00:13:01.420 Have you?
00:13:02.120 No.
00:13:02.560 I mean, it's $24,000.
00:13:04.220 There'll be between the two sides.
00:13:06.040 That's a $24,000 Wolf refrigerator freezer.
00:13:09.520 That's.
00:13:10.040 I mean, just the inside of it.
00:13:12.000 I mean, just, I'm not even talking about the freezer.
00:13:13.780 Yeah.
00:13:14.320 Those are really expensive freezer.
00:13:16.400 I'm talking about, I've never seen a free.
00:13:19.560 Can I, I just took a picture of my freezer in my kitchen.
00:13:23.380 Uh, and I just want to, can you put them side by side, Steven?
00:13:26.820 Because this is the way my freezer looks.
00:13:29.920 That's hers.
00:13:30.920 There's mine.
00:13:33.980 Okay.
00:13:34.660 Not, not as well.
00:13:35.620 There's no maid service.
00:13:36.640 Yeah.
00:13:37.080 No, there's no maid service coming.
00:13:39.180 There's, you know, there's Eggo waffles in there.
00:13:41.940 I mean, there's some, you know, fruit and, you know, there's crap in there.
00:13:47.080 There's a lot of crap in there.
00:13:49.680 Uh, yeah.
00:13:50.500 And it's, well, we really need to clean out our freezer.
00:13:52.660 This is really quite embarrassing, but I think mine in my, and mine is not a cheap ass freezer.
00:13:58.440 And, you know, I mean, I'm not crying poor mouth, but that looks like the inside.
00:14:03.460 I think of most people's freezers.
00:14:05.040 Does it not?
00:14:05.780 It does.
00:14:06.400 Yeah, it does.
00:14:07.000 It's not.
00:14:07.480 And maybe a little below.
00:14:08.540 It's not color coded.
00:14:11.180 Right.
00:14:11.940 So it has no maid service that they're not, you know, the, the frozen items are not having
00:14:18.900 a little frozen mint on their pillow every night.
00:14:21.980 I mean, this is nuts.
00:14:25.600 I've never seen somebody so out of touch as she is.
00:14:31.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:34.440 All right, Mr. Bill O'Reilly.
00:14:43.240 Welcome to the program, sir.
00:14:44.660 How are you?
00:14:45.860 I'm the same Beck, which is heartbreaking.
00:14:51.840 It really is.
00:14:53.000 But it kind of brings a little light to my eyes.
00:14:56.020 You know what I mean?
00:14:56.580 Yeah, just a maybe just a little bit.
00:14:59.940 All right.
00:15:00.440 So, Bill, let's let's talk.
00:15:02.380 Let's talk about the biggest news stories of the week.
00:15:06.320 We have a half hour today.
00:15:07.880 So let's get right to it.
00:15:09.160 Where do you want to start?
00:15:10.080 Biggest story of the week, you think?
00:15:11.880 Well, you're doing the dictators of the pandemic.
00:15:14.860 Is that what you're doing?
00:15:16.000 Yeah.
00:15:16.380 Yeah.
00:15:16.600 Yeah.
00:15:16.820 That's why I'm getting shortened up today.
00:15:19.220 Yes, it is.
00:15:21.280 Whitmer's got to win, right?
00:15:22.700 The governor of Michigan.
00:15:24.260 Well, she might be a nominee.
00:15:26.180 We don't know yet.
00:15:27.460 I got to be.
00:15:28.040 I haven't opened those emblems.
00:15:29.500 And she knocked herself out of the VP sweepstakes by this insanity.
00:15:34.520 I mean, I'm a simple man, logical man, as you know.
00:15:37.920 So say I live in Michigan and I got a nice house in Lansing, the capital.
00:15:43.960 And then I have another little chalet up in the upper peninsula and I want to take a drive up there just to make sure everything is good at the property.
00:15:52.400 And there's not a lot of virus up there.
00:15:54.980 And maybe I relax for the weekend.
00:15:56.880 And the governor says, you can't.
00:15:59.000 You can't get in your car and drive to your home, your other home.
00:16:05.740 And then I say, why?
00:16:08.800 Who am I putting at risk by doing that?
00:16:12.280 And then there is no answer.
00:16:15.380 That's fascism.
00:16:17.660 When you get that kind of ridiculous public policy, that's when the people have to say no.
00:16:25.960 And they did in Michigan.
00:16:27.620 And they are.
00:16:28.760 And they are.
00:16:29.220 And they're standing up.
00:16:30.140 And, you know, they're being called far right extremists and every other name in the book because of it.
00:16:36.320 But they're absolutely right.
00:16:38.540 So as you look at the things that are happening, Bill, with the utter economic devastation, we had another 5 million people added to the rolls yesterday.
00:16:48.920 We are probably we're probably at about 15 to 17 percent unemployment rate right now.
00:16:58.440 People, I don't think, are listening to the people.
00:17:02.280 They're not responding to the business owners.
00:17:05.420 What do you what do you see coming on this end of a lockdown?
00:17:11.860 Because the big debate now is, oh, Donald Trump is so irresponsible.
00:17:16.180 And nobody's talking about the real people that are hurting because of this lockdown.
00:17:20.820 Yeah, because there's always a political agenda.
00:17:25.560 So as we discussed here on this program, there are many people in the country that feel that Trump is worse than the virus.
00:17:36.880 So four more years of Trump is worse than anything the pandemic could bring.
00:17:41.520 So the way to get him out is to keep the economy in a deflated state until November.
00:17:49.200 Very simple equation.
00:17:51.080 And nobody can say it isn't in play.
00:17:53.220 Of course, it's in play.
00:17:54.400 You see it all the time.
00:17:55.420 You see it every day.
00:17:56.980 So as far as Americans are concerned, they're not getting the information they need from the national media.
00:18:05.500 And I'll give you a very specific.
00:18:08.440 In Europe this week, Denmark, Austria, Czech Republic opened.
00:18:13.780 Next week, Germany.
00:18:15.640 Big Germany opens up on Monday.
00:18:18.460 And the reason they are all opening is because Europeans, generally speaking, have no savings because the government takes all of their money.
00:18:31.180 All right.
00:18:32.500 Yep.
00:18:32.860 They don't have savings accounts like we do in America.
00:18:35.560 They don't have IRAs.
00:18:36.740 They don't have retirement.
00:18:37.880 They don't have any of that because the government gives them cradle to grave.
00:18:42.240 But now they can't buy food.
00:18:43.640 And if you're in Germany and you can't buy food, you know what's going to happen.
00:18:48.500 So Merkel didn't want to, all right, but has to open the country on Monday.
00:18:54.960 So all Americans should be watching what happens in Europe.
00:19:00.120 Does the pandemic spike?
00:19:02.660 Is there chaos in the streets?
00:19:05.000 What happens?
00:19:06.400 Is it orderly?
00:19:07.520 Are these shops functioning in an orderly way?
00:19:10.380 People have to wear masks and they have to distance.
00:19:13.280 People have to do all that, but I assume they will.
00:19:16.500 All right.
00:19:16.960 But this is a big story because what happens there this week and next week is going to happen here.
00:19:24.320 Just today, Jacksonville opened its beaches.
00:19:27.300 Jacksonville has to open its beaches because it has no money coming in.
00:19:32.020 So all of these stories are what Americans should be concentrating on, not the phony, fabricated reports that you're getting 24-7 on cable news, which is absolutely outrageous.
00:19:46.420 What a useless industry.
00:19:48.480 Go ahead.
00:19:49.100 So wait, wait, wait, Bill.
00:19:50.120 I want to go back to Jacksonville.
00:19:51.740 What you said was really important.
00:19:53.760 Jacksonville has to open their beaches because they have no money coming in.
00:19:57.040 Well, what really pisses me off is states, quite honestly, like Michigan, where, yeah, they've got money coming in because they're keeping the state liquor stores open.
00:20:09.700 Yeah, but it's not nearly enough.
00:20:11.100 You know, Jacksonville has to open their beaches.
00:20:13.740 Well, what about all the businesses that have to open?
00:20:17.180 Listen, what you're going to see in America is what you're seeing in Europe.
00:20:20.680 You're going to see, beginning very quickly, stores starting to open in states that are not that impacted.
00:20:30.980 And you're going to see that.
00:20:32.080 That's going to happen.
00:20:33.700 Now, there are going to be places like New York City, where I am, okay, which can't happen.
00:20:38.760 It can't.
00:20:39.860 All right?
00:20:40.320 But it will happen, I'd say, in 75% of the country.
00:20:43.580 However, we have to watch to see what happens in Europe.
00:20:47.000 This is the perfect place, because they have the pandemic there, and they have large cities there.
00:20:54.360 Give me a review of what you think about these Northeastern governors that are all coming together to be Trump-proof.
00:21:02.960 What are your thoughts on that?
00:21:04.780 Okay, look, if you don't live in the Northeast or California, you don't understand the welfare state that's been set up.
00:21:11.500 So you don't have that welfare state in Texas, where you are.
00:21:16.700 You don't have it in most of the upper Midwest and the Rocky Mountain states.
00:21:21.560 But you have it here.
00:21:23.600 So New York State owes, what, $100 billion?
00:21:29.320 They can't possibly ever pay it.
00:21:31.980 So they need the federal government to give them stuff.
00:21:34.440 Because New York State is so irresponsible on its spending, and it's the highest tax state in the union.
00:21:41.800 But they give away, and there's so much corruption that the tax money is flushed down the drain.
00:21:48.160 Just this week in California, the governor said, we're going to give $1,000 to every illegal alien in here.
00:21:57.960 Okay, well, how do you do that?
00:21:59.460 You don't know where they are.
00:22:00.580 They don't file tax returns.
00:22:02.160 You know how they're going to do it, Beck?
00:22:03.160 They're going to give it to private charities, the state, Sacramento.
00:22:07.940 Oh, my gosh.
00:22:08.440 The private charities who deal with the undocumented community, as they call it.
00:22:16.540 And how much of that money, I guarantee you, how much of that money, I know, but how much of that money is not going to actually make it to those people?
00:22:28.000 This is a way to funnel money into those organizations.
00:22:31.140 And if you're an illegal alien, and they don't know where you are, you go to every charity and get the grant.
00:22:37.760 You go to one, you go to two, you go to three, you go to four.
00:22:40.960 You don't get in a little car and you zip around, hey, here I am.
00:22:45.260 And nobody's going to monitor it.
00:22:46.820 They don't know where you live.
00:22:47.740 They don't know where you are.
00:22:48.580 You don't have a passport.
00:22:50.120 Who are you?
00:22:50.940 I don't know.
00:22:51.440 I'm an illegal alien.
00:22:52.180 Give me $1,000.
00:22:53.500 And then California, of course, is going to run a huge deficit.
00:22:57.260 Then I go, well, I want federal money.
00:22:59.560 Give me federal block grants.
00:23:02.080 And so look, this is the game.
00:23:04.900 When you're dependent on government, as many states are, they're dependent on the federal government.
00:23:10.920 And then you're in a pandemic where the spending is crazy, all right, where are you going to go?
00:23:18.860 So Cuomo says, oh, I need 30,000 ventilators.
00:23:22.600 Give me them.
00:23:23.380 Give me them right now.
00:23:24.560 Where are they?
00:23:25.280 How come you don't have them?
00:23:27.080 This is what Cuomo's saying, right?
00:23:29.440 You know how many he's used?
00:23:31.320 Five, 5,000.
00:23:34.700 I'm sorry.
00:23:35.600 He needed 30,000.
00:23:36.980 He's used 5,000.
00:23:38.020 All right, but he wanted the 30,000.
00:23:41.100 Give me the 30,000.
00:23:42.300 Where are they?
00:23:42.940 How come you don't have them?
00:23:44.820 This is the game.
00:23:46.380 Blame everyone else for your irresponsible and corrupt spending practices because, oh, no, it's not my fault.
00:23:53.680 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:23:55.940 It is so staggeringly corrupt.
00:24:00.340 But when you do have a corrupt system, anything like this collapses it.
00:24:06.400 And it should become clear to the American people that you cannot be dependent on a government.
00:24:14.480 If you are dependent, you're going to die.
00:24:17.320 It's a matter of when, not if.
00:24:20.360 All right, so let me ask you this.
00:24:23.260 Looking at the latest poll, and I'm trying to find the actual story,
00:24:27.440 it shows that Donald Trump has gone down five percentage points, which is a big deal for him.
00:24:33.800 Gallup poll.
00:24:35.420 So you don't buy it.
00:24:37.540 Sure, I do.
00:24:38.760 Americans are an impatient people.
00:24:41.680 Of course I do.
00:24:43.360 Every week this goes on, his numbers are going to go down.
00:24:47.380 Then when it gets better, they'll go up.
00:24:50.280 And it depends on the timeline on whether they go up enough for him to win.
00:24:56.300 But Americans are, I mean, everybody's getting a little teed off now.
00:24:59.440 And the blame game is starting.
00:25:01.280 And unfortunately, a lot of Americans are watching television news,
00:25:07.000 which is totally misleading them in every area.
00:25:10.640 And enough people believe it so that anybody's numbers would go down.
00:25:16.180 And that's what you're seeing with Trump.
00:25:17.980 Trump knows that he wins if he gets it under control by midsummer,
00:25:22.600 that if September rolls around, the kids can't go back to school,
00:25:26.060 or then he loses.
00:25:27.420 He knows.
00:25:33.040 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program,
00:25:35.020 and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:25:45.440 Wow, there is early data on a drug made by Gilead
00:25:51.520 that suggests patients are responding to treatment.
00:25:56.080 Now, this is everywhere in the news.
00:25:58.360 The media is very excited.
00:26:00.560 We only have a few data points right now,
00:26:03.780 and they're in phase two of the three phases for their clinical trials.
00:26:08.700 But it's very promising,
00:26:10.760 and the stock market is going through the roof.
00:26:14.540 However, the Hill would like to remind you that Rita Wilson
00:26:17.480 experienced extreme side effects of hydroxychloroquine.
00:26:23.840 A family of a New York woman blames hydroxychloroquine combination
00:26:28.680 for a fatal heart attack.
00:26:31.260 A French study, now from CNN,
00:26:34.260 finds that hydroxychloroquine just doesn't help any patients with coronavirus.
00:26:39.720 Same from Reason.
00:26:41.620 It's just very disappointing.
00:26:43.240 And then you have this story, a local story from Dallas.
00:26:48.180 39 elderly Texans successfully complete hydroxychloroquine treatment
00:26:52.540 for COVID-19.
00:26:54.400 They completed a five-day treatment,
00:26:56.400 and their doctor said none of the patients experienced side effects,
00:27:00.000 and maybe they're all dead now.
00:27:05.400 We're not sure.
00:27:07.320 Oh, wait.
00:27:07.720 We have the doctor on?
00:27:09.640 Dr. Robin Armstrong, medical director at the nursing home,
00:27:14.540 the resort in Texas City.
00:27:17.400 He has his BS in microbiology from Texas A&M,
00:27:22.400 MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,
00:27:25.860 and his wife is a doctor.
00:27:28.520 So, you know, he's got something going on.
00:27:31.060 He's not a vet.
00:27:32.240 So, let's talk to Dr. Robin Armstrong.
00:27:36.720 Hi, Doc.
00:27:37.420 How are you?
00:27:38.680 I'm doing well, and yourself?
00:27:39.900 Thanks for having me on.
00:27:41.700 You bet.
00:27:42.780 I'm excited to hear the results of the 39 patients.
00:27:46.440 What happened?
00:27:47.060 So, what happened with our patients that we treated
00:27:51.180 with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc
00:27:54.160 is we've had great results.
00:27:57.640 We've had one patient that passed away from other causes,
00:28:02.920 not coronavirus likely,
00:28:05.400 but all the other 38 have done well with the regimen.
00:28:09.360 And so, these were all elderly patients as well,
00:28:13.240 nursing homes.
00:28:13.960 And so, these were patients that, by and large,
00:28:16.580 ranged from the ages of probably 55,
00:28:18.960 but really chronically ill, to 102.
00:28:22.220 And so, we had a wide range of patients.
00:28:24.760 Most of them are all above 70 and 80.
00:28:27.700 And so, when they actually tolerated the medication well,
00:28:30.420 we monitored them closely,
00:28:32.240 did not have any side effects from the medications,
00:28:34.620 and they've done very, very well.
00:28:37.100 In this cohort of patients,
00:28:38.480 you would expect a certain number to go to the hospital.
00:28:41.300 You would expect a certain number to succumb to the illness.
00:28:45.760 But that just didn't happen in our case
00:28:47.500 and with our observations.
00:28:50.540 Okay.
00:28:50.680 So, are any of them now COVID-free-ish?
00:28:55.960 I mean, as free as you get with this.
00:28:58.760 So, as of yesterday,
00:29:00.620 was two weeks post-testing.
00:29:03.180 Their test was on April the 2nd.
00:29:04.880 So, they finished two weeks yesterday.
00:29:07.220 We're going to retest them, actually,
00:29:09.440 on Tuesday of next week.
00:29:11.340 And they make that determination.
00:29:13.160 We certainly think that they're out of the woods
00:29:15.300 as far as a serious medical illness
00:29:17.480 from COVID-19 at this point,
00:29:19.300 because they're all 14 days out.
00:29:23.120 And on Tuesday,
00:29:24.720 they'll be two weeks from the treatment as well.
00:29:26.600 So, doctor,
00:29:28.780 there are stories of people
00:29:31.020 that have taken this and said,
00:29:32.600 within a few hours,
00:29:34.080 I turned, you know,
00:29:35.980 for the better.
00:29:36.900 I started making the turn.
00:29:38.900 Have you seen any results like that?
00:29:41.560 Were they going in the wrong direction
00:29:43.760 and this turned it around?
00:29:45.160 Or do you have any real results
00:29:47.840 that you could say,
00:29:48.820 this was effective?
00:29:51.100 Well, in our observation,
00:29:55.180 I would say that
00:29:56.320 the only patients that we treated
00:29:58.100 on this reg,
00:29:58.760 we had about 56 positives.
00:30:00.780 We put everybody on it
00:30:02.120 because we put folks on it
00:30:03.800 who were getting worse.
00:30:05.120 We put folks on it
00:30:06.040 in the nursing home.
00:30:06.940 Our goal was to manage them
00:30:08.120 there in the nursing home.
00:30:09.640 And if they started getting
00:30:10.840 more short of breath,
00:30:12.520 if their oxygen saturation
00:30:13.820 started to decline,
00:30:15.080 or they started having a fever,
00:30:16.740 we would start the medication regimen
00:30:18.400 at that point.
00:30:19.100 And so what we saw
00:30:21.860 was the patients started
00:30:23.520 to get better.
00:30:24.460 They either maintained
00:30:25.500 where they were
00:30:27.060 or they slightly got better.
00:30:31.600 And over time,
00:30:32.540 all of them got better.
00:30:33.940 And so we've seen
00:30:34.920 a significant improvement in them.
00:30:37.020 And so, like I say,
00:30:38.300 in our small observational study,
00:30:40.740 our patients certainly
00:30:41.840 have gotten better.
00:30:43.160 The health department director says,
00:30:45.120 you know,
00:30:45.360 you would expect percentages
00:30:46.620 to be much higher,
00:30:47.780 percentages of death,
00:30:49.360 percentages of hospitalization,
00:30:50.700 and we just saw none of that.
00:30:52.580 And so in my observational study,
00:30:54.920 we saw folks improve.
00:30:56.300 And so that's pretty exciting for us
00:30:58.060 because we're about saving lives.
00:30:59.760 And that's all we're about.
00:31:01.420 All right.
00:31:02.140 So let me take you here.
00:31:05.680 There is a report out
00:31:08.240 that's been circulating this week,
00:31:09.580 and it started with this woman
00:31:10.860 in New York
00:31:13.120 who is now suing
00:31:14.220 because she said that
00:31:16.060 it was the combination
00:31:18.760 that caused a fatal heart attack.
00:31:22.460 And even I know that.
00:31:24.760 Just talking to my local doctor,
00:31:26.400 when he looked into this,
00:31:27.940 I called him and I said,
00:31:28.660 what do you know about this stuff?
00:31:30.180 He looked in and he said,
00:31:32.160 hydroxychloroquine's been around forever.
00:31:35.100 He said, it's safe.
00:31:36.120 You know, there's some eye problems,
00:31:37.320 et cetera, et cetera.
00:31:38.040 He said, but the combination of the two,
00:31:40.640 he said, I wouldn't feel comfortable
00:31:42.160 giving someone
00:31:43.160 unless they were being monitored
00:31:45.920 at a hospital
00:31:46.580 because it can cause heart problems.
00:31:48.760 This is nothing new.
00:31:50.500 Every doctor knows that.
00:31:52.320 That's one of the risks, correct?
00:31:55.400 Absolutely correct.
00:31:56.520 And I'll tell you,
00:31:57.220 so what the issue is
00:31:59.160 doesn't cause heart attacks.
00:32:01.160 It can cause an arrhythmia
00:32:03.380 with the combination
00:32:04.620 because what they do
00:32:05.560 is they prolong the QTC interval
00:32:08.480 and that's an EKG finding
00:32:10.880 that shows that they're predisposed
00:32:12.660 to having a cardiac arrhythmia.
00:32:15.600 Now, most cardiologists will tell you
00:32:17.940 that in prolonging the QTC interval,
00:32:20.620 they've never, very rarely
00:32:22.240 see arrhythmias with them.
00:32:23.900 But if you do see that
00:32:26.600 prolonged QTC interval on the EKG,
00:32:28.780 it says that they're predisposed to that.
00:32:30.960 We actually checked EKGs
00:32:32.920 on all of our patients in the middle.
00:32:35.560 So on day three and day four,
00:32:37.160 we checked EKGs on those patients
00:32:39.420 that were on the combination
00:32:40.680 because I understood that concern
00:32:42.700 and none of them
00:32:44.440 had a prolonged QTC interval.
00:32:46.280 So none of them had the change
00:32:48.660 that's indicative
00:32:49.440 of cardiac arrhythmias.
00:32:51.640 And so I don't think
00:32:53.900 that that's actually accurate.
00:32:55.380 I bet you if you go
00:32:56.740 to any individual's medicine cabinet,
00:32:59.540 many of those medications
00:33:00.660 prolong the QTC interval.
00:33:02.500 Antidepressants do.
00:33:03.700 A lot of them do.
00:33:04.880 And it's just sort of a common
00:33:06.000 pharmacologic side effect
00:33:07.420 of a lot of different medications.
00:33:09.680 But it's very rare
00:33:10.800 that they cause fatal arrhythmias.
00:33:13.060 And in our study,
00:33:14.660 we had zero that had the EKG finding
00:33:17.860 that would show
00:33:18.600 that they would have an arrhythmia.
00:33:19.840 None of them had arrhythmias.
00:33:21.640 And none of them had the EKG finding
00:33:23.500 consistent with arrhythmias.
00:33:25.260 We are hearing from doctors
00:33:27.040 all over the country
00:33:28.000 that are using this
00:33:29.020 that have seen results.
00:33:30.500 I mean, it's not a cure-all
00:33:31.680 by any stretch of the imagination.
00:33:33.440 Absolutely.
00:33:34.060 But yesterday,
00:33:34.640 a few things have come out
00:33:38.660 about the new drug from Gilead.
00:33:41.840 It's not even through with testing.
00:33:43.920 The stock market went crazy.
00:33:46.660 CNN, all of the New York Times,
00:33:48.620 everybody went crazy.
00:33:49.580 Oh, this is it.
00:33:50.760 We finally have a cure.
00:33:52.560 We don't even know anything
00:33:53.860 about this drug yet.
00:33:55.120 And I'm really excited.
00:33:56.520 I hope that this is all true.
00:33:59.260 But here's a drug
00:34:00.680 that's been around
00:34:01.460 literally forever,
00:34:03.680 hydroxychloroquine.
00:34:05.360 And it is being treated
00:34:06.660 like a pariah.
00:34:08.480 Do you believe that this is happening
00:34:10.360 because Donald Trump
00:34:11.840 was behind it?
00:34:13.960 Absolutely.
00:34:14.480 Or mentioned it?
00:34:15.460 That is the reason.
00:34:18.060 I absolutely think
00:34:19.160 that's the reason.
00:34:19.920 I think that's why people are...
00:34:21.940 I have been attacked
00:34:23.140 when I've treated patients
00:34:24.700 with this,
00:34:25.260 and we've seen improvement
00:34:26.240 in the patients.
00:34:27.080 And so I believe
00:34:28.140 it is a political agenda,
00:34:29.560 unfortunately.
00:34:30.360 And it's just...
00:34:31.320 It's really sad to me
00:34:32.660 because I've never allowed
00:34:33.820 my political preferences
00:34:36.020 to get involved
00:34:36.940 with my medical practice.
00:34:39.780 And that's still the case.
00:34:41.960 We've never allowed
00:34:43.120 that to happen,
00:34:43.780 and it hasn't happened
00:34:44.500 in this case.
00:34:45.180 And I think it's a shame
00:34:46.060 that they've allowed
00:34:46.760 this to happen.
00:34:47.940 But even though
00:34:49.380 I've seen great results,
00:34:51.060 families are happy,
00:34:52.420 the patients are happy,
00:34:53.860 the patients are alive,
00:34:55.080 they didn't go to the hospital
00:34:56.180 like you would expect.
00:34:57.660 And so I'm really excited
00:34:59.280 with the results.
00:35:00.700 And so as a medical professional,
00:35:03.140 morally,
00:35:03.920 I was set up
00:35:04.820 with a situation
00:35:05.560 where I thought
00:35:06.360 the outcome of this
00:35:08.160 could be catastrophic.
00:35:09.780 You could send
00:35:10.660 all these folks
00:35:11.300 to the hospital
00:35:12.100 and expose EMS workers,
00:35:14.340 ER nurses, and doctors,
00:35:15.740 or you could manage them
00:35:17.120 in place,
00:35:18.000 watch their symptoms closely.
00:35:19.320 We rounded on them
00:35:20.480 every single day.
00:35:21.400 We saw them every day
00:35:22.520 to manage their symptoms
00:35:23.840 and make sure
00:35:24.440 they were not getting worse,
00:35:25.940 started the medicines,
00:35:27.100 monitored them closely
00:35:27.900 on the drug
00:35:28.460 in the nursing home,
00:35:29.880 and saw an improvement.
00:35:31.020 And so I'm excited
00:35:32.060 about the results.
00:35:34.340 Well, I'd like to hear
00:35:35.380 the results from the test
00:35:36.960 again next week.
00:35:38.520 Thank you so much,
00:35:39.200 Dr. Robin Armstrong
00:35:41.100 from the resort
00:35:44.320 at Texas City's,
00:35:45.520 the medical director
00:35:46.280 at that nursing home,
00:35:47.820 treated 39 elderly Texans
00:35:49.800 with the signs of COVID-19
00:35:52.900 for treatment for COVID-19.
00:35:55.520 One passed away
00:35:56.660 not from COVID-19,
00:35:58.700 and the rest of them
00:36:00.180 are getting better every day.
00:36:02.180 Thank you so much.
00:36:03.060 Appreciate it, Doc.
00:36:03.700 Thank you, sir.
00:36:04.420 Thank you, sir.