The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Rabbi Daniel Lapin

00:00:00.000 Well, hello, America. It's Friday, and we start on the podcast with kind of a rundown of some of the week's news that we hadn't gotten to.

00:00:09.740 Somehow or another, we got to crazy water parks of Stu's childhood.

00:00:14.760 Then Bill O'Reilly stopped in. We talked about Epstein's death, Netanyahu versus Tlaib and Omar, Warren right behind Joe Biden.

00:00:25.900 Interesting stuff. And as always, fascinating conversation with Rabbi Daniel Lappin.

00:00:31.800 We also talk about Israel, but we get all the way to socialism and the Tower of Babel and AI.

00:00:39.720 You don't want to miss it all on today's podcast.

00:00:48.920 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:55.900 I guess I'm in a good mood because yesterday I got to this has never happened to me before.

00:01:05.200 Yesterday I was going home and as I'm leaving the office, they said, OK, don't forget Bill O'Reilly tomorrow.

00:01:13.400 And I'm like, no, no, no, no. Tomorrow's Thursday. And they went, no, tomorrow's Friday.

00:01:19.180 And I'm like, no, no, come on. Seriously, it's come on. It's Wednesday.

00:01:22.940 No, it's Thursday. I didn't believe them. I asked somebody else and they said, no, it's Thursday.

00:01:29.480 And I said, shut up. I went home last night. 0.92

00:01:32.740 I get into bed with my wife and we're setting the alarm clock.

00:01:35.520 And I said, is it really Thursday?

00:01:38.720 And she looked at me like crazy, like, yeah, don't you feel like it was Thursday on Monday?

00:01:46.940 And I'm like, for some strange reason, no, this is the first time in my life that I've screwed that up.

00:01:52.780 Usually it's Wednesday and they're like, and you're like, oh, tomorrow's Friday.

00:01:56.740 And they're like, no, it's only Wednesday.

00:01:59.160 You're like, I want to hang myself.

00:02:01.600 This is the first time.

00:02:03.120 It's possible you're rather lengthy vacation.

00:02:06.280 You just came off.

00:02:07.360 May I suggest that everyone takes two weeks off every other week.

00:02:13.080 So in other words, you come back for a week, take it because next week, it's not going to be like this. 0.96

00:02:18.260 Next week, I'm going to be like, oh, crap. 0.97

00:02:20.940 Tuesday. I thought it was Friday. 0.97

00:02:22.980 That's true.

00:02:23.980 I know.

00:02:24.960 So take, I want to make sure I understand the advice.

00:02:26.960 Take two weeks off.

00:02:28.460 Come back to work.

00:02:29.520 Oh, okay.

00:02:29.980 Come back to work for a week, then take two weeks off, then come back for a week.

00:02:34.640 It's like, I mean, yes, we'll be like France, but we'll have that moment of joy on a Friday morning going, I can't believe it.

00:02:44.980 I'm getting away with something.

00:02:46.100 It feels like Thursday.

00:02:47.880 We are headed to the world of Wally anyway.

00:02:50.220 Let's just go.

00:02:50.880 Let's go.

00:02:51.360 Let's go to it.

00:02:51.860 Let's go.

00:02:52.680 All right.

00:02:53.100 There's a couple of things.

00:02:54.160 I just want to go down to the news because we have Rabbi Lappin on today.

00:02:58.420 He's got some, you want to talk about good insight on Tlaib and Omar being banned from Israel.

00:03:07.320 Good day for a visit for Rabbi Lappin.

00:03:09.040 Yeah.

00:03:09.360 Good day.

00:03:10.080 Pre-planned, but this is going to be really interesting to hear his perspective.

00:03:15.400 I've got some perspective on that one, too.

00:03:18.520 Yeah.

00:03:19.320 I've got a little story to share.

00:03:21.420 You know, the Israeli law has perspective on it.

00:03:24.040 Does it?

00:03:24.600 Yeah.

00:03:25.160 Really?

00:03:25.360 And the Israeli law says that they shouldn't be able to come in.

00:03:27.820 Yeah.

00:03:28.220 They say that they can waive it.

00:03:30.340 And so what we're asking for is special privilege for Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

00:03:35.140 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:03:36.640 Yeah.

00:03:36.900 I mean, I guess Tlaib's getting it now because she's going to go visit her grandmother, which

00:03:41.360 is very, very nice of Israel.

00:03:43.120 But still, they act as if it's like this crazy idea that Donald Trump had last week.

00:03:48.120 It was a law passed in the country that if you support the BDS movement, you're not going

00:03:52.920 to be able to visit.

00:03:53.360 Well, I mean, I don't know.

00:03:54.880 I don't know how they think they can get away with that.

00:03:57.100 Look, we want to make sure that nothing from Israel is ever brought into our country. 1.00

00:04:02.980 Hey, I'm going to go visit Israel.

00:04:05.880 What?

00:04:07.160 I don't know.

00:04:08.020 I don't think so.

00:04:08.860 I don't think so.

00:04:09.520 And the media just can't be pleased with no matter.

00:04:11.460 I mean, no matter what Donald Trump says.

00:04:13.200 First, he says Rashida Tlaib should go back to her country and they get all mad. 0.98

00:04:17.460 And now they're saying, don't go back to her battle.

00:04:19.700 Stay here.

00:04:20.680 And now they're getting mad at that.

00:04:21.740 Right.

00:04:22.140 I mean, this guy just can't win.

00:04:24.020 He can't win.

00:04:24.820 All right.

00:04:25.280 So we have that.

00:04:26.580 Now, have you seen how Patrick Byrne from Overstock is being treated?

00:04:31.320 Did you see that his stock went down because he was on Fox going, yeah, I got some news for you.

00:04:37.600 I was strangely kind of in a Hitchcock movie kind of way, found myself in the middle of, you know, both the Clinton scandal and also the Trump-Russia scandal.

00:04:51.340 I was there with the FBI.

00:04:52.860 So I know what's really going on.

00:04:54.220 And it's going to be a big scandal when it comes out.

00:04:57.000 And it, you know, but the good thing is the attorney general's on it. 0.84

00:05:00.620 And I've already given my testimony to the attorney general and the New York Times and everybody else like this guy's crazy. 0.85

00:05:08.400 Wait, what? 0.97

00:05:10.300 How is he crazy?

00:05:12.160 What's their evidence to say he's crazy?

00:05:14.700 Yeah.

00:05:15.040 I mean, I honestly want to know.

00:05:16.600 First of all, he's not saying anything on either side.

00:05:19.400 No, neither side should be pissed at him. 0.89

00:05:22.220 He's like, look, I'm telling you, the FBI is corrupt. 0.99

00:05:24.740 It's dirty. 0.89

00:05:25.320 Shouldn't we all really care about that?

00:05:28.400 Yeah.

00:05:29.600 And so the New York Times is saying that he's crazy because he's inserting himself into this story.

00:05:34.100 Well, he has some crazy romance with this Russian agent.

00:05:39.860 She wasn't a Russian agent.

00:05:42.280 You see Eric Metaxas?

00:05:43.600 Eric Metaxas, well, he might have DM'd me on this.

00:05:48.180 No, I think he posted last night on Twitter and he was like, I know her.

00:05:55.000 This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice I've seen.

00:06:01.560 He's like, she is not a spy.

00:06:05.440 And that's what they found.

00:06:06.520 That's what they found.

00:06:07.280 They found that she's not a spy.

00:06:08.780 They found that she just didn't register as a foreign agent.

00:06:11.780 But when you say agent, you're like, bum, ba-da-dum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, ba-da-dum, bum.

00:06:16.180 Say foreign lobbyist.

00:06:17.480 Right.

00:06:17.760 That's an easier way to talk about it, right?

00:06:20.100 Yeah, I mean, I guess if you're an investor, you just don't like any uncertainty, right?

00:06:25.360 So if there's a new thing coming out and you're not sure how it's going to play out, maybe that's what's hurting the stock price.

00:06:30.280 But that's a bizarre—because as of now, there's nothing that would indicate that he's doing anything erratic, right?

00:06:37.900 He actually was acting very responsibly if what has been reported is true.

00:06:43.660 Yeah, I think he's really—like, uber—he's done everything he was supposed to do.

00:06:48.320 Yeah, it's the stuff that—you know, frankly, it's the stuff they yelled at Donald Trump for not doing.

00:06:52.780 Right.

00:06:53.180 Donald Trump Jr.

00:06:53.780 It is what every time you're like, well, okay, yeah, maybe they should go to prison.

00:06:59.500 They didn't call the FBI.

00:07:00.980 I mean, who wouldn't call the FBI?

00:07:02.680 Yeah, he did.

00:07:03.100 So he calls the FBI, does exactly what all of us are screaming at our televisions that all these politicians should do. 0.71

00:07:09.800 He actually does it, and the New York Times is like, he's crazy. 0.67

00:07:13.660 All right.

00:07:16.560 Young Americans warming up to communist China.

00:07:21.240 Sometimes, sometimes.

00:07:23.260 Now, I am one of these guys who always has—I have real hope for the future because of the younger generations.

00:07:31.920 I see them as real heroes.

00:07:33.860 I see them as, you know, waking up, and then some—

00:07:36.720 Yeah, and I observe them, and that's the other thing.

00:07:38.400 Like, I actually observe them, honestly, and so I have the opposite opinion.

00:07:41.300 Right, and some days, like today, I'm feeling like the old, get up, my lawn guy. 0.96

00:07:47.560 What the hell is wrong with you?

00:07:49.300 They're warming up to communist China. 0.95

00:07:54.320 What are you, a fan of their concentration camps?

00:07:56.800 No, they have schooling for everybody.

00:07:59.320 Those are big re-education compounds.

00:08:02.220 Everybody gets a new education for free.

00:08:05.300 Yeah, the barrel of a gun and—

00:08:07.540 Free health care after they shoot you. 0.93

00:08:08.900 Yeah.

00:08:09.380 That's great.

00:08:10.280 Yeah, they take care of all the burial expenses.

00:08:12.300 That's very nice.

00:08:12.860 For you and your whole family, if you're lucky enough.

00:08:16.100 Let's see.

00:08:16.660 Huge government benefit there.

00:08:17.940 Did you hear about the artist that painted Bill Clinton in a dress?

00:08:22.160 Okay, you know this?

00:08:22.860 Have you heard this story?

00:08:23.580 This is Jeffrey Epstein in his apartment in New York, which apartment is a weird word

00:08:29.540 for what that was.

00:08:30.380 It was one of the biggest residences in the entire city, but he had a painting of Bill

00:08:35.220 Clinton in a blue dress, and some found that to be a little strange.

00:08:39.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:40.480 Well, he was wearing red heels and a blue dress, like a Monica Lewinsky blue dress, and

00:08:45.600 he was kind of, you know, slung over a chair in the White House.

00:08:49.680 And when, you know, when that came out, somebody took a picture of that, and they were like,

00:08:54.940 okay, that's weird.

00:08:56.680 That's weird.

00:08:57.700 Yeah, I mean, I don't have that.

00:09:01.340 I don't know anybody.

00:09:02.580 I mean, you know, but some people do have dogs playing poker.

00:09:05.660 That probably should be disturbing as well.

00:09:08.620 Come on, dogs dressed as poker players?

00:09:11.800 Yes.

00:09:12.280 No, I'm not saying that that's not weird, but certain things hit a cultural line in which

00:09:16.540 they become less weird, I guess.

00:09:18.500 Like, people also have, you know, singing fish on their walls.

00:09:21.640 Like, I wouldn't necessarily do that.

00:09:22.820 Oh, I would have a singing fish on my wall.

00:09:24.560 That's weird, though.

00:09:25.460 Okay, no, no, no.

00:09:26.480 I was in, when I was in Australia, I mean, the days go on forever.

00:09:31.320 And so we would go to, like, these flea market, you know, things.

00:09:35.460 They have animals, you know, heads of animals on walls, you know, at these flea market places.

00:09:41.280 And they're animals you've never seen before.

00:09:43.220 You're like, whoa, I think that's a cow to most people over here, but I've never seen

00:09:48.360 one of those with horns like that. 1.00

00:09:50.440 And so I was walking through, and I'm like, how can I get this on the commercial flight?

00:09:54.480 Can I get that in the overhead?

00:09:55.920 Would it be weird if I was, like, taking this animal?

00:09:58.360 And I decided, yes.

00:09:59.960 Yes, it would be.

00:10:00.880 But I just wanted, my son looked at me and said, why do you want that?

00:10:04.880 And I said, because I want to make, like, a little automatic mouth that I can, you know,

00:10:09.980 the singing fish?

00:10:11.260 I want to be able to have, like, a big animal head.

00:10:15.180 Like, I have this, like, big, huge buffalo head.

00:10:20.300 And there's part of me that, I mean, I don't want to do it because it feels, I mean, it

00:10:24.160 feels weird that it's like, hey, we killed this buffalo.

00:10:27.200 Maybe he died of natural causes.

00:10:29.020 I don't know.

00:10:29.760 But, you know, hey, I had this buffalo head.

00:10:33.300 Now I'm just going to make it into a big joke.

00:10:35.700 So I kind of feel bad about it, but not that bad.

00:10:38.580 If I was married to somebody who still enjoyed my sense of humor, it'd already be a talking

00:10:44.800 buffalo.

00:10:45.740 And I'd be able to turn music on, and it would look like it was singing.

00:10:49.060 Or, you know, I could have, like, a Mr. Microphone where I'd be like, hey, welcome to the

00:10:54.180 living room.

00:10:55.000 You know, something where I could freak people out.

00:10:57.300 It'd be fun.

00:10:58.140 I will say you do own a giant, real polar bear.

00:11:02.800 You do realize that, right?

00:11:05.840 A real polar bear that has been, that died in, like, 1960-something.

00:11:09.980 How much, how much do you think it would cost?

00:11:12.280 Okay.

00:11:12.980 How much do you think it would cost?

00:11:14.340 And I'm serious.

00:11:16.000 Do we have anybody in the audience that could make that polar bear so its hips swing?

00:11:23.660 Okay.

00:11:24.280 Uh-huh.

00:11:24.620 And the mouth can kind of, like, sing along.

00:11:28.680 That would be fantastic.

00:11:31.080 It would be a disgrace to do it to a bear that had been killed in 1971 and is like, you don't

00:11:38.080 do that to bears, but we did back in the old days.

00:11:41.160 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:11:41.640 Why would it be a disgrace?

00:11:44.500 That's a...

00:11:45.480 I don't...

00:11:46.240 I'm sorry.

00:11:46.820 Do I have not enough reference for a polar bear that died?

00:11:49.580 No, I just...

00:11:49.620 Didn't it die?

00:11:51.280 It didn't even get shot, did it?

00:11:52.160 Okay, so let me put it this way.

00:11:53.420 Let me put it this way.

00:11:54.320 Have you ever seen people who, like, I was, again, Australia, it's weird, but they're a 1.00

00:12:00.360 place with giant spiders.

00:12:02.120 So, uh, I'm there and I'm looking at this.

00:12:04.820 It's a place that had all the heads on the wall.

00:12:06.440 And that's not what...

00:12:07.140 It wasn't like a sign that says, we have exotic heads on the wall.

00:12:10.340 It was just like a flea market thing.

00:12:12.740 Okay.

00:12:12.940 Well, if there's exotic heads on the wall, you don't need a sign that says we have exotic

00:12:15.920 heads on the wall.

00:12:16.660 They're right there.

00:12:17.440 Well, no, I know, but it wasn't.

00:12:18.580 Okay.

00:12:18.820 There was a lot of them to not say, you know, not have that as a calling card.

00:12:23.660 You know, you're looking in the phone book and you're like, where can I buy exotic heads?

00:12:27.780 You know, we got a lot of them.

00:12:29.960 Maybe we should tell people.

00:12:31.080 I'm just saying.

00:12:31.880 But there was this creepy cat, a cat, like a house cat that had been stuffed.

00:12:38.660 Like it was like walking and looking at like...

00:12:42.300 Right.

00:12:43.180 And you're like, what the...

00:12:45.560 Who stuffed the cat? 0.82

00:12:46.880 This is the beginning of Pet Sematary.

00:12:48.820 This is kind of very similar.

00:12:50.600 Right.

00:12:50.680 Okay.

00:12:50.960 So, like, I wouldn't do that to my dog.

00:12:54.000 If my dog died, Victor died, Uno died, Ella died, you know, I'm not going to stuff them

00:12:59.100 and then like, oh, look, he can talk now too and sing songs in his hip swivel.

00:13:04.480 That just seems wrong.

00:13:05.840 This is a bear that was dead before you were born.

00:13:09.360 No, technically not.

00:13:10.460 Not right around the time.

00:13:11.720 Yeah, right.

00:13:12.600 I don't think it's the same thing.

00:13:15.540 But I mean, you already own it and have used it for a prop a hundred times.

00:13:19.120 Yeah, I have dressed him as Santa.

00:13:20.460 Right.

00:13:21.100 Right.

00:13:21.400 And put a Coke in his hand.

00:13:22.140 This is the thing to animate.

00:13:23.300 If you could animate a real polar bear life size.

00:13:25.940 Yeah.

00:13:26.520 I want to put like a Hawaiian skirt on him. 1.00

00:13:29.640 So when his hips swivel, he's like doing the hula.

00:13:32.640 Oh, this is...

00:13:33.240 This is...

00:13:34.080 There's got to be...

00:13:34.780 Is there anyone in the audience that can think about how to chop this bear up?

00:13:39.400 Now, you'd have to...

00:13:40.780 You'd have to know you could do it.

00:13:43.260 I'd be pissed if you like chopped it up and you're like, yeah, it didn't work.

00:13:47.020 I'd be pissed.

00:13:48.160 You know?

00:13:48.520 Yeah.

00:13:48.640 You got to have some expertise in this field.

00:13:50.460 Yeah.

00:13:50.620 I don't know how you would...

00:13:52.580 I don't know what credentials you would have to have to go, no, I can do this.

00:13:57.220 I've done it before.

00:13:58.000 Well, not with a polar bear or any other animal like this, but...

00:14:01.820 Things are going too well in this company lately.

00:14:03.460 It's time to blow a couple million dollars on a dancing bear.

00:14:05.040 It is.

00:14:05.500 Well, I don't know.

00:14:06.120 It's not even crazy.

00:14:07.180 A couple million.

00:14:08.460 I think I like 200 bucks.

00:14:11.360 I mean, how much does fish things cost?

00:14:14.560 They're like $49.99.

00:14:16.440 Okay.

00:14:16.800 So this is a bigger fish thing.

00:14:18.780 It's the same concept.

00:14:19.880 You could even put a bunch of other fish inside if that's...

00:14:22.000 If that would help you.

00:14:23.000 Right.

00:14:23.100 If that works.

00:14:23.960 Just use the other parts.

00:14:25.000 Look, if you'd like to take this on, it's like, I made the bear.

00:14:28.260 I made the hula bear.

00:14:29.860 Because it will be famous.

00:14:32.860 Who else has a hula dancing polar bear from 1971?

00:14:37.960 Nobody.

00:14:39.200 This will be famous.

00:14:41.300 You will be famous.

00:14:43.020 888-727-BECK.

00:14:44.920 Go now.

00:14:47.200 There's got to be like an enterprising taxidermist who's like...

00:14:51.200 That's a challenge.

00:14:52.360 It's called innovating in your field.

00:14:53.820 Yeah.

00:14:54.040 Step up.

00:14:57.480 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:05.800 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:15:17.260 Mr. Bill O'Reilly.

00:15:19.160 Hello.

00:15:19.960 I'm here.

00:15:20.880 Yes.

00:15:21.420 What can I do for you?

00:15:22.400 First of all, you can explain why when I was filling in for two weeks, you didn't bother

00:15:27.180 showing up on Fridays.

00:15:28.860 Nobody asked me.

00:15:30.080 What do you mean nobody asked you?

00:15:31.560 No, no.

00:15:32.240 Nobody asked me to come on.

00:15:33.840 I thought you were like putting the nose up into the air.

00:15:37.240 All I was thinking about was doing an interview with you for an hour all week, and then both

00:15:43.140 weeks I was told you were not available.

00:15:45.580 Well, I think one week I wasn't, but the other week I could have done it.

00:15:48.500 But the message never filtered down to me.

00:15:52.180 And let me add another layer onto this.

00:15:54.020 Glenn just said he's read the book.

00:15:56.740 I know.

00:15:57.360 He was on a big plane over to Australia, correct?

00:16:00.140 Yeah.

00:16:00.620 That happened.

00:16:01.280 I mean, I don't have a copy of the book to read.

00:16:03.880 Well, you don't read.

00:16:05.180 That's true.

00:16:07.780 Not big, but he sent me a large check.

00:16:10.640 Right.

00:16:11.020 Okay.

00:16:11.340 Well, that's acceptable.

00:16:12.600 Or something like that.

00:16:14.620 I mean, you did send a book to my mom signed, and for that I will be ever grateful.

00:16:18.580 So I guess I can't complain anymore.

00:16:20.000 And she'll get this book, too, before you do.

00:16:23.100 Thank you.

00:16:23.600 So, Bill, I read the book.

00:16:27.380 Okay.

00:16:29.120 So how are things?

00:16:34.760 I know you like the book because you would not have read it had it

00:16:40.180 been boring or not engaged.

00:16:42.680 I did not say I finished the book.

00:16:45.240 Oh, you said you read the book, Beck?

00:16:47.420 No, I did.

00:16:48.260 Did I say I finished it?

00:16:51.140 Broadcastersitrust.com.

00:16:54.180 No, I actually, I did.

00:16:55.740 You said you read the book.

00:16:56.980 No, I did.

00:16:57.740 I read the book, and I finished it.

00:16:59.640 And it is really, really good.

00:17:01.200 In fact, I'm sorry you didn't see this.

00:17:03.440 I tweeted, and I think I Facebooked, at LAX, waiting for my red out of Sydney,

00:17:08.480 about halfway through Bill O'Reilly's tome on Trump out in September,

00:17:13.240 it will be his best-selling book yet.

00:17:15.840 Tough questions, even uncomfortable answers, but fair,

00:17:19.800 and a very different look at the real Donald Trump.

00:17:22.360 I thought it was excellent, Bill.

00:17:24.060 I really think it is your best book.

00:17:27.400 And you did the best you can with a guy who's constantly watching TV over your shoulder.

00:17:35.860 That's right.

00:17:36.360 I mean, he was not engaged in this process at all.

00:17:39.180 He's not a I'm-going-to-my-high-school-reunion type of guy.

00:17:43.680 Right.

00:17:44.220 He's not.

00:17:44.960 Right.

00:17:45.140 But I thought the stories you told about him, the perspective that you gave,

00:17:50.560 I really think it, you know, if anyone is, I wrote another Facebook post or something

00:17:56.320 and said, if anyone in the media is actually, if they really want to understand Donald Trump

00:18:03.420 and take a different look and go, well, now, wait a minute, maybe it's this.

00:18:07.580 They should read the book.

00:18:10.120 None of them in the media will.

00:18:12.180 But it honestly, without sugarcoating him, without, you know, avoiding the tough things,

00:18:19.940 you looked at him and you brought a perspective to him that I never thought.

00:18:26.740 You know, I just, I thought.

00:18:28.520 You know, I really, that's high praise from you.

00:18:31.660 And I hope your prediction comes true.

00:18:36.180 That's not a prediction.

00:18:36.960 It's a guarantee.

00:18:38.180 Here, here's what it, what it comes down to.

00:18:41.400 Whether you like Donald Trump or not, he's a president of the United States.

00:18:44.740 If you love your country and you're engaged in the process of evaluating the president

00:18:49.920 fairly, then you need to know the entire story.

00:18:54.700 You're not getting it in the media.

00:18:56.300 Everyone knows that.

00:18:57.480 Okay.

00:18:57.840 You're either getting, we love him, we love him, we love him, or we hate him, we hate

00:19:01.660 him, we hate him.

00:19:02.360 And that, as we have discussed, is based on money.

00:19:06.300 There is ideology involved as well, but it's a primary money play.

00:19:09.840 So I said to myself, you know, I had a killing book, it's already done, but we said, all

00:19:14.160 right, we'll, we'll postpone that.

00:19:16.380 And I'll write this Trump book because it's a history book and we need this in America

00:19:22.340 at this time in history.

00:19:24.320 So were you, were you, um, I mean, I don't know how you, well, you love confrontation.

00:19:28.700 I mean, I, I think you kind of like, I hate confrontation though.

00:19:32.860 We veered away from that, but that's a philosophical.

00:19:35.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:36.400 Um, and I just hate confrontation at all.

00:19:38.900 You know, I grew up in an alcoholic family and it's like, you know, mommy and daddy are

00:19:42.800 fighting.

00:19:43.240 I don't like this.

00:19:44.260 Um, uh, but you don't mind it, but you, you confronted him with things when you're, when

00:19:51.680 you were leading up to, you know, what you're about to ask him, you're, you're thinking,

00:19:56.660 oh, he's not going to like this.

00:19:58.060 Um, he didn't like it.

00:20:00.560 You didn't leave it alone.

00:20:02.380 And then you wrote some things about it and said, look, here's what some people say.

00:20:07.380 Here's what other people say.

00:20:09.400 I think it's probably this or that, but we don't really know for sure.

00:20:15.020 And you're thinking, okay, how does he like Bill O'Reilly?

00:20:19.720 Well, I'll tell you an interesting story in a moment, but, um, two things about it.

00:20:23.900 No, no anonymous sources.

00:20:25.340 All right.

00:20:25.760 That I, I'm stopping that stuff right now.

00:20:28.440 Cold, everybody's on the record.

00:20:30.020 So when you have somebody, uh, commenting on the president or you, he's saying it himself,

00:20:35.900 the words are true.

00:20:37.720 And the words were, um, confirmed by me.

00:20:41.060 So for example, Don jr, his son, I thought was very good in giving an insight into Donald

00:20:46.640 Trump, the parent, but I had to check a lot of the stuff that Don Trump jr told me.

00:20:51.760 And it all checked out.

00:20:52.620 I thought he was very, very strong in the book, but.

00:20:55.760 The confrontational aspect of the book is this.

00:20:58.640 I did ask Donald Trump about his father and some of the things that his father did about

00:21:04.800 some of the things that he did.

00:21:06.520 Donald Trump himself, but I didn't do it in a confrontational way.

00:21:11.060 And that's why the pages about Megan Kelly and her debate.

00:21:15.000 And I thought that was one of the strongest parts of the book, because we got the true

00:21:18.560 story.

00:21:18.980 That's never been told about that ambush on Trump and the woman.

00:21:23.720 That must've been towards the end.

00:21:24.960 Because I didn't.

00:21:26.160 I just gave it.

00:21:28.580 You were underline and I was like, give me a pen.

00:21:31.120 Give me a pen.

00:21:32.320 All right.

00:21:32.880 So, uh, uh, Bill, let's change subjects.

00:21:35.160 The book comes out, by the way, in a few.

00:21:36.980 One more thing.

00:21:37.640 Yeah.

00:21:37.780 While you were gone, I was in Trump's presence at a fundraiser in the Hamptons.

00:21:46.540 Okay.

00:21:46.900 Oh, yes.

00:21:47.640 Yes.

00:21:48.240 Right, right.

00:21:48.820 This is, this is interesting.

00:21:50.180 So I went as a reporter and I was the only national reporter there that campaign banned

00:21:57.380 everybody else.

00:21:58.460 Nobody else could go to this fundraiser, which raised 5 million bucks for his campaign.

00:22:03.220 I sat right in front of him when he gave his 40 minute speech.

00:22:08.980 Okay.

00:22:09.380 I didn't do the meeting greed or any of that.

00:22:12.060 I didn't see him before.

00:22:12.940 I didn't see him after.

00:22:14.160 He's with the fat cats.

00:22:15.520 They're giving him money.

00:22:16.400 I don't give money to any political candidate.

00:22:18.040 Okay.

00:22:18.900 So he sees me.

00:22:19.700 He knew I was there anyway.

00:22:21.420 And he's, and about 10 minutes of the speech is directed to me.

00:22:25.580 Some of it was very funny.

00:22:27.180 He's mocking me.

00:22:28.580 Um, but I think that he respects me, um, because he knows that it's not a sugarcoated deal.

00:22:34.520 And he actually told the audience that, that after some of the interviews that I did with

00:22:38.620 him on television, he would go out furious.

00:22:41.120 And then his wife would say, what are you talking about?

00:22:44.260 You should be answering these questions.

00:22:46.320 This makes you look stronger.

00:22:48.500 So he told that story to his benefactors.

00:22:52.340 Um, and it was a pretty interesting day.

00:22:54.380 That was last Saturday.

00:22:56.140 Yeah.

00:22:56.580 Interesting for you.

00:22:57.400 I don't know about the rest of us, but, um, uh, thank you.

00:22:59.700 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:23:00.380 The only guy you're talking to is Stu.

00:23:04.640 I know.

00:23:05.260 I know.

00:23:05.860 I have no friends, Bill.

00:23:07.060 You're talking to me.

00:23:07.680 You're talking to Stu.

00:23:08.400 No, I know.

00:23:09.340 You're going to be jealous.

00:23:09.980 I have no friends.

00:23:11.780 I mean, I'm down to you and we're not really friends.

00:23:14.380 No.

00:23:14.700 Uh, so it's crazy.

00:23:16.400 You know, you should go on a website, friendsitrust.com.

00:23:18.920 All right.

00:23:20.360 So, uh, so Bill, let's, uh, let's start with, let's start with Philadelphia.

00:23:24.200 Cause that's kind of a story that kind of, uh, you know, went by the wayside.

00:23:28.080 And I think it is a crazy story, crazy story about the suspect, uh, that now is in custody.

00:23:35.520 Six officers were shot.

00:23:37.760 Uh, it was a standoff in Philadelphia.

00:23:39.880 The people from Philadelphia, some of the people in Philadelphia were at some point, you know, mocking the police as they're in this shootout.

00:23:48.480 I mean, it's crazy.

00:23:50.460 Okay.

00:23:51.080 There's four or five things to this story.

00:23:53.880 All right.

00:23:54.200 Number one, Barack Obama made a very big show out of telling the American people that most drug crimes are nonviolent.

00:24:04.540 I went through the roof when he did that.

00:24:07.040 The narcotics industry in America is the most violent industry we have, which is why the mafia chieftains in the fifties and sixties wouldn't even deal with it.

00:24:17.940 Even though they could have made gazillions of dollars, it was so nasty.

00:24:22.900 They wouldn't even do it.

00:24:24.640 Okay. 0.97

00:24:24.980 So this guy is a drug dealer. 0.66

00:24:26.820 He's got all kinds of guns in his apartment. 0.83

00:24:29.140 All right.

00:24:29.660 And the, uh, the warrant, uh, for, if you please execute a warrant, he starts shooting at them.

00:24:35.660 Okay.

00:24:36.040 Look at his record.

00:24:37.500 You know how many times he's convicted of violent felonies, including gun crimes.

00:24:41.320 He's serving two years here, two and a half years there said dangerous man.

00:24:46.400 He should have been away for 30 or 40, but no, you can't do that because then if you put somebody in jail for that long, you're persecuting people of color.

00:24:55.560 So you're against, hang on just a second.

00:24:57.700 So you're against the prison reform that the president just did.

00:25:00.720 I'm not against the prison reform.

00:25:02.260 If it's very specific, but I have said for years that if you commit a crime with a firearm in this country, you go to federal prison for 10 years, mandatory first conviction.

00:25:15.340 That solves the gun violence problem.

00:25:18.740 How many, how many decades do I have to say this?

00:25:22.020 How many times do I have to say it?

00:25:24.280 If you're a criminal using a gun in a crime, it becomes a federal crime.

00:25:29.380 And you have a mandatory 10 that stops gun violence.

00:25:34.660 I get so angry because the rest of this gun stuff is B.S.

00:25:40.120 It's political posturing.

00:25:42.140 You want to solve it.

00:25:43.380 You put the criminals with guns in prison for 10 years.

00:25:47.380 That's what you do.

00:25:48.600 You know, it's funny that you say that because if you have, if you have a firearm, you are caught with a firearm in New Jersey and you don't have the bullets, you know, locked in your trunk and, you know, and the, and the trigger underneath your seat in the car and locked in the glove box is the slide.

00:26:09.640 I mean, they throw you to jail, throw you in jail.

00:26:13.160 I think it's in New York and New Jersey for 10 years for carrying a firearm without a concealed carry.

00:26:20.120 You could just, that's the absurdity of, right?

00:26:22.740 I know leave, leave the law abiding people who want to protect themselves alone.

00:26:28.600 All right.

00:26:29.360 And concentrate on the guy in Philadelphia who's selling heroin and carries around an AR 15 to protect his operation.

00:26:39.880 It, it, look back, you know, and I know we live in a corrupt world and this is as corrupt as it gets.

00:26:47.680 Okay.

00:26:47.880 And as a result, six police officers got hurt.

00:26:50.460 The United States of Trump, the new Bill O'Reilly book, it's released September 24th.

00:26:54.720 You can find it on Amazon or anywhere else that they're schlepping these things.

00:27:00.860 Mr. Bill O'Reilly joins us now.

00:27:02.880 Bill Epstein.

00:27:05.500 Yeah.

00:27:05.760 Um, his neck was broken in several places after he hung himself with paper sheets.

00:27:14.420 Well, look, two things.

00:27:16.440 I talked to a New York city coroner about this and, uh, this is obviously the biggest topic of discussion, uh, among the corners in the city.

00:27:25.960 And, uh, the consensus is, and, and that the autopsy is honest and this is absolutely could have happened physiologically to this guy.

00:27:36.740 Um, secondly, I walk into my local deli, um, a couple of days ago.

00:27:42.340 I'm besieged by mostly women telling me he was murdered and I have to find out who did it.

00:27:50.080 And I'm looking around going, can I get, can I get my muffin?

00:27:54.160 Um, I mean, it's a popular story and it's one of those stories like the Kennedy assassination where it's going to run wild with this stuff.

00:28:02.980 But I'll tell you from what I know, and I, my sources are pretty good.

00:28:07.540 Nobody could have gotten into that cell to kill him because there are cameras all over the place.

00:28:12.260 All right.

00:28:12.780 And it would have been impossible for that to happen.

00:28:16.400 Number two, he did strangle himself.

00:28:18.900 All right.

00:28:19.240 They say he hung himself, but it basically strangled himself with whatever he had as far as a covering was concerned.

00:28:25.560 The coroner's report reflects that and it absolutely could have physiologically happened.

00:28:30.760 The real story is where the guards brought, because they had to know that this guy, um, was up to no good.

00:28:38.560 So that has to be investigated by the attorney general bar because it's a federal facility.

00:28:44.460 Um, other than that, I mean, I think people have to step away from the hysteria.

00:28:48.980 I know it's fun and entertaining, um, but I don't think it leaves us anywhere.

00:28:53.340 So speaking of hysteria, uh, this, this, um, this inversion, the yield inversion that happened this week, which the media was only giving half the story.

00:29:07.460 Yes.

00:29:08.080 Every recession we've had in the last 50 years has been pointed out by a yield inversion, but there've been several yield inversions that did not lead to a recession.

00:29:18.520 Look, the media wants a recession.

00:29:20.380 Um, the New York times, the Washington post, they want it because they know that the democratic field.

00:29:26.660 And I think we know enough now, um, there's another debate coming up in three weeks.

00:29:31.140 Um, but we know enough.

00:29:32.320 There's very weak.

00:29:33.860 Would anybody disagree with that?

00:29:35.440 Listening to me across America.

00:29:37.120 No, the democratic fields, very weak.

00:29:40.060 You've got actually dangerous people running for president there who would put this, you think a recession might come?

00:29:47.740 If Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren get elected president, we might have a depression, not a recession, a depression because corporate America would be corporate Belgium.

00:29:58.860 They're going to get the hell out of here with these socialist people.

00:30:03.440 If they ever got power.

00:30:04.700 I mean, it would be a flight of capital out of this country.

00:30:09.340 Foreign investment would dry up.

00:30:12.320 You're looking at a catastrophe and this is fact-based.

00:30:16.860 All right.

00:30:17.120 So, I mean, don't tell me about an aversion that might lead to a, uh, recession.

00:30:22.880 The democratic party, if their wishlist were fulfilled, I mean, I'm, I'd be in the Bahamas.

00:30:29.860 I'd be calling you call me in the Bahamas because I'm not staying here with a wealth tax.

00:30:34.380 You pass a federal wealth tax.

00:30:35.980 You come into my house and take my stuff.

00:30:37.840 Um, where's bill?

00:30:38.900 Um, I think he's in Greenland because Trump's going to buy Greenland.

00:30:43.160 I think, isn't he?

00:30:44.520 Can I tell you something?

00:30:45.940 Yeah.

00:30:46.180 First of all, I need to know, you know, when was the last time the kitchen was updated and

00:30:51.400 how many bathrooms does Greenland have? 1.00

00:30:53.920 Uh, uh, because you know, that's where you really drop all your monies on kitchens and 0.73

00:30:58.880 bathrooms.

00:30:59.720 Uh, why, what is this Greenland story?

00:31:03.760 Um, it's just another story that gets floated out and I can't tell you who floats it, um,

00:31:11.040 to get Trump's name in the, uh, in the paper.

00:31:13.300 I think it came from the Trump people.

00:31:14.920 You have to understand that Trump's on vacation this week.

00:31:17.800 Okay.

00:31:18.380 But he hates vacation.

00:31:20.140 He never takes a vacation.

00:31:22.440 He doesn't play miniature golf.

00:31:24.040 He plays real golf, but it's hot and humid and nobody wants to go to Jersey to play with

00:31:29.940 him.

00:31:30.260 That's right.

00:31:31.020 Got nothing to do.

00:31:32.320 So he goes, yeah, let me buy Greenland.

00:31:35.320 You know, I was shocked that there, we've tried to buy it twice.

00:31:39.960 I think it was, was it Eisenhower or Truman was the last one.

00:31:44.060 Yeah.

00:31:44.280 Then Denmark supervises Greenland.

00:31:46.980 Okay.

00:31:47.800 So I don't know what's going on in Denmark, but I think if Trump made them a good offer,

00:31:52.140 Denmark, I think they would, I don't know if there's anything that we need from Greenland.

00:31:58.200 You know, it's a big strategic, uh, though.

00:32:00.180 No, I know it's very strategic.

00:32:01.360 It goes a thousand miles, I think, into kind of Russian area.

00:32:05.860 So it's very strategic.

00:32:08.260 Uh, but you know, is there anything else we can exploit by digging it all up?

00:32:12.180 I mean, I don't know.

00:32:15.740 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:28.800 Hey, it's Glenn.

00:32:29.840 And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:32:34.220 His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.

00:32:38.080 Rabbi Daniel Lappin.

00:32:40.160 How are you, Rabbi?

00:32:41.120 Couldn't be better, thank you, Glenn.

00:32:42.580 Good to have you.

00:32:43.280 I can't wait to go on vacation with you.

00:32:45.000 I was just going to say, I count, I'm marking the days on the calendar.

00:32:49.320 I know, I know.

00:32:49.740 It's going to be great.

00:32:50.620 We so far have 3,000 people on this ship that are going to come with us.

00:32:55.040 And I hope you don't mind.

00:32:56.320 I've added some extra shows on the, on the trip.

00:32:59.840 I don't mind at all.

00:33:00.800 I think that that's, I mean, that's what we're going for.

00:33:03.620 Yeah, it's going to be fun.

00:33:05.480 And so.

00:33:05.980 To actually vacation with a few thousand of our closest friends is wonderful.

00:33:09.360 That's right.

00:33:09.780 That's right.

00:33:10.220 And get to see some really cool things.

00:33:12.200 Yeah.

00:33:12.340 Let me just start with the news of the day with Rashida Tlaib and Ilan Omar.

00:33:19.440 They, they're, the story yesterday came out as Donald Trump just called his best friend,

00:33:24.720 Benjamin Netanyahu and said, don't let these crazy people in.

00:33:27.900 And Israel did it. 0.99

00:33:29.680 But that's not the story, is it?

00:33:32.240 I mean, Israel has a problem with people who are running BDS and they passed a law.

00:33:38.080 And let's remember the left has a problem in general with the idea of national borders

00:33:43.740 of any kind whatsoever.

00:33:44.940 And so the notion that Israel should exert any form of sovereignty is profoundly disturbing.

00:33:50.760 It's like a deep stomach ache for them.

00:33:52.460 Right.

00:33:53.420 So, so then Benjamin Netanyahu said, because Tlaib said, I've got a grandmother and this

00:33:58.660 might be the last time I see her.

00:34:01.000 I just a humanitarian.

00:34:02.180 He said, well, you can apply for a humanitarian.

00:34:04.540 We'll grant that.

00:34:05.300 You can come on in today.

00:34:06.800 Tlaib said, no, I, I can't go under these conditions.

00:34:11.420 I refuse to see my grandmother into these conditions.

00:34:14.260 What conditions?

00:34:16.220 Yeah.

00:34:16.720 Well, I mean, I think the main condition is grandma probably said, keep her out. 0.95

00:34:20.400 I can't stand.

00:34:21.080 You know, that's probably what happened.

00:34:23.140 But, uh, so the idea that a country is going to let people in who are actively trying to

00:34:32.600 destroy that country.

00:34:33.900 Yes.

00:34:34.520 I don't think they actually even cared on going.

00:34:37.820 Uh, and one of the things they announced in advance they were going to do is visit the

00:34:42.120 temple mount.

00:34:43.080 What do you think that would have done?

00:34:45.580 Uh, some Friday with Tlaib and Omar on the temple mount, that would not have been good.

00:34:53.480 No, it would, uh, would unquestionably have precipitated drama, which is exactly what they

00:34:58.660 want.

00:34:59.100 Right.

00:34:59.780 Right.

00:35:00.060 Look, I mean, there's a bottom line to it all, which is that, um, uh, these are two

00:35:06.820 women and they're by no means unique in this. 1.00

00:35:09.580 Of course, uh, the, the, the, there are huge numbers of people, uh, they speak for and they're

00:35:15.660 with, but, uh, these are people essentially, um, who are haters of a Western civilization and

00:35:25.480 doing everything in their power to undermine it.

00:35:28.060 It so happens that the, uh, most effective defenders of Western civilization in a hostile

00:35:35.440 world right now are the United States of America and the state of Israel.

00:35:39.900 And so for these reasons, uh, these two countries arouse the intense hostility, uh, of all those

00:35:47.520 the unifying theme on the left, I think is hatred of Western civilization and everything

00:35:52.340 that it was built upon.

00:35:53.560 Um, so, uh, what, what exactly is it that you do?

00:35:59.120 I just saw a, a poll today that said, while the approval rating of China is collapsing, uh,

00:36:08.480 not necessarily with millennials, at least not collapsing as fast.

00:36:12.760 Millennials are saying, Oh, I kind of liked the idea of what China is doing.

00:36:16.120 How is that even possible?

00:36:18.200 Uh, you know, part of it, of course, millennials, um, I think is a, uh, a catch all phrase that

00:36:26.120 probably includes a lot of people who don't agree on everything in exactly the same way

00:36:31.060 as there's no such thing as America's black community.

00:36:34.300 Right.

00:36:34.720 And there certainly isn't such a thing as America's Jewish community.

00:36:38.200 As a matter of fact, if you gathered all the self-identified Jews of America into a huge, 0.64

00:36:44.420 you know, four million seat auditorium and said, we're here to find the one thing we

00:36:49.240 can all agree on.

00:36:50.660 Um, they would only all agree that Hitler was a very bad man.

00:36:54.520 There's nothing else.

00:36:55.640 All American Jews would agree on.

00:36:57.360 So, uh, the notion that all millennials agree on something is, is childish and it's just

00:37:03.520 a notion pushed by, um, by some of the, the pundits with nothing to say.

00:37:08.360 Uh, you know, there's, there's, there's a part of them, I would say that, that, that

00:37:13.840 appreciate the, the rapidity of the rise of China.

00:37:19.000 Um, many people dislike the, um, the, the freedom with which they have purloined the

00:37:26.920 intellectual products of the West, uh, through, um, uh, through literal theft and, and through

00:37:33.400 other means as well.

00:37:34.500 There are many people who admire that.

00:37:36.060 They don't like it.

00:37:36.880 They don't think it's a good thing, but they say, you know what?

00:37:38.920 Those guys were really determined.

00:37:41.240 Um, when you, when you look at China, it is very hard not to see, uh, a nation on the 0.59

00:37:48.240 ascent.

00:37:49.320 They're moving up.

00:37:50.480 Mm-hmm.

00:37:51.580 And what we, uh, want to try and do everything we can to, um, to avoid is America becoming

00:37:59.020 a nation on its way down.

00:38:00.540 It's had its day in history.

00:38:02.620 Uh, it's now getting ready to leave the stage and make room for China.

00:38:07.840 I hope that's not the case.

00:38:09.660 And all the, the work you've been diligently devoting yourself to these many past years has

00:38:15.740 been devoted to avoiding that eventuality.

00:38:19.140 But I think for many people, they kind of welcome and look forward because their contempt

00:38:24.100 for America as a representative of civilization is so deep that, uh, even to be displaced by

00:38:29.760 China is desirable.

00:38:30.900 But I think that, uh, also there is another, there's another set of people that don't want

00:38:38.580 to see America leave the stage, don't hate America, et cetera, et cetera, but, uh, are

00:38:45.000 tired of the leadership role because they think that, that, because we've all been convinced,

00:38:50.620 not all of us, but we've been convinced that, you know, to lead means you have to be the

00:38:55.160 policeman of the world.

00:38:56.020 For instance, Hong Kong, uh, I don't know what to do about Hong Kong, except if I were

00:39:04.780 president, I would be stating as firmly as I could, knowing who owns our national debt,

00:39:11.500 that we stand with people who, you know, search for freedom and, and understand the universal

00:39:18.360 truths that all men are created equal.

00:39:20.920 I don't want to send troops over there.

00:39:23.100 I don't want to do that.

00:39:24.000 When Taiwan falls, if Hong Kong, if these guys are all rounded up and killed, Taiwan is 0.88

00:39:29.460 next. 0.60

00:39:29.840 It's just done.

00:39:30.900 You know, the only thing is though, if they really wanted Taiwan, the time to have taken

00:39:34.240 it was during the Obama administration, when there would have been a yawn and an explanation

00:39:38.920 to the public as to why this makes sense in the, in the new world order.

00:39:43.600 Uh, so I'm not sure they actually wanted and, and for the sake of, of a discussion, Glenn,

00:39:49.200 I would say that, um, from a strategic point of view, it's not really a good idea to ever

00:39:57.720 point a gun at anybody, particularly if it's not loaded.

00:40:02.180 Yes.

00:40:02.700 Um, and so I don't think that making a statement about Hong Kong is, is necessarily a good idea,

00:40:10.160 particularly since we're not willing to send in troops.

00:40:13.580 Right.

00:40:13.820 So, well, that was kind of, kind of my point.

00:40:16.320 I mean, you can say that you're standing with people who, uh, have freedom, but that doesn't

00:40:23.120 mean anything other than we salute you for standing, for recognizing these universal truths,

00:40:29.440 but you're kind of on your own.

00:40:31.480 Yeah.

00:40:31.860 Yippee.

00:40:32.280 What good does that do?

00:40:33.160 So here's my dilemma.

00:40:38.480 Isn't that kind of what America said?

00:40:41.000 I'm reading a book right now called The Volunteer.

00:40:43.420 Have you read that?

00:40:44.000 No, I haven't.

00:40:44.900 Really good.

00:40:45.560 It's about a guy who's been erased from history by the Soviet Union who volunteered to go into 0.74

00:40:52.760 Auschwitz to find out what was really going on and create, uh, an underground movement in

00:41:01.000 the camp and get the information out.

00:41:03.540 It's incredible.

00:41:04.760 I always read your recommendations, your book recommendations, and I'll read that one too.

00:41:08.720 It's an incredible book.

00:41:10.480 Um, but he was just a, a normal guy.

00:41:13.040 Now he's in the camp.

00:41:14.540 He's, I'm at the place now in the book.

00:41:16.140 He's been there for about two and a half years and it's, you know, it's, it's Auschwitz.

00:41:21.600 And he's like, where is everybody?

00:41:23.860 Did the information get out?

00:41:26.020 Yeah.

00:41:26.400 The information got out, but what are you going to do about it?

00:41:29.500 What are you going to do about it?

00:41:30.460 So we all know that was a mistake, but aren't we making those same mistakes with the prisons

00:41:37.580 in North Korea or the prisons in, in China, these giant re-education camps.

00:41:43.340 We know that that's what's going to happen to these people if they survive in Hong Kong.

00:41:48.440 Do we have any responsibility?

00:41:50.440 I don't believe we do.

00:41:52.660 I believe the, now as an individual, Glenn Beck might decide to support a ministry that

00:42:00.440 that, uh, that tries to get people in there to help them.

00:42:04.300 Right.

00:42:04.460 But as a government of the United States with coercive taxing authority, uh, to become the

00:42:11.200 effective policeman or for, or even worse, the spinster aunt of the world, wagging a bony 0.98

00:42:18.020 finger, uh, with absolutely no strength behind it.

00:42:21.340 Uh, I think it's enough already.

00:42:23.000 That's not, that's not what the government of the United States has respond.

00:42:25.900 Nobody appointed them to promote values around the world.

00:42:29.800 We promoted them to follow the constitution, which says nothing whatsoever about being the

00:42:35.360 policeman of the world.

00:42:36.360 It's on the contrary, uh, for, for many years, the, uh, early Americans knew the important

00:42:42.180 thing was to absolutely stay out of the old world and its problems. 1.00

00:42:46.140 Um, and so I can't see any, but don't forget some of the right to ignore what was happening

00:42:52.380 in Poland and Germany with the Jews.

00:42:55.200 Should we have just done something as individuals, but we were right to stay many, many people

00:43:02.340 were doing things as individuals, but this idea that somehow the allies were evil for failing

00:43:08.940 to bomb Auschwitz. 0.59

00:43:10.440 Hello.

00:43:11.000 They were bombing Hamburg.

00:43:13.340 They were bombing the Ruhr Valley.

00:43:15.320 Right.

00:43:15.500 They were destroying the dam.

00:43:17.400 Right.

00:43:17.860 Meanwhile, I'm not saying that.

00:43:19.300 No, no.

00:43:20.020 Yeah.

00:43:20.500 I see what you're saying, but we, I'm talking about before we even engaged in the war.

00:43:24.780 Yes.

00:43:25.400 You know, a lot of this stuff could have happened, you know, may have happened differently, but

00:43:30.200 then again, world war two is really caused by world war one and our big nose into everything 0.85

00:43:35.600 and not letting the Germans win world war one.

00:43:37.800 Frankly.

00:43:38.420 Yes.

00:43:39.400 So, I mean, I, you know, I, I don't know.

00:43:41.960 It's just a weird place because I think the country, I think there's a lot of conservatives

00:43:46.640 that are transitioning that are, have always been for, you know, like these people who are

00:43:52.100 like, I, you know, let's go save the little guy.

00:43:54.300 Let's go help.

00:43:55.000 Let's stop this.

00:43:56.360 But you look at the world and you're like, no, no, we only make it worse.

00:44:00.520 Usually.

00:44:02.220 Sometimes we make it better.

00:44:03.900 Sometimes we don't.

00:44:04.960 What we did in the Middle East, I don't know.

00:44:07.180 What a waste of money and blood.

00:44:09.320 And blood.

00:44:09.980 What a waste, you know?

00:44:11.380 It seems like there's like a certain hurdle to clear, right?

00:44:13.520 You know, there's a certain level of risk and a certain level of damage being done.

00:44:17.180 Like Hong Kong, they're protesting in airports.

00:44:19.100 It's important.

00:44:19.560 I think moral support is important and we can do that as individuals.

00:44:23.680 You know, Germany and the Holocaust is a different situation, right?

00:44:26.800 There's a much higher threat level to us at that moment and also a much higher damage level.

00:44:31.280 Even in Rwanda where there's a huge, massive damage, that's not necessarily what's happening

00:44:36.320 in Hong Kong.

00:44:36.860 So there is, I think that our level has to be, our response without deep thought needs

00:44:46.800 to be no, right?

00:44:47.920 Like we need to defer and default to no.

00:44:51.000 We're not getting involved.

00:44:52.060 And only when it raises to some insane level do we jump in.

00:44:55.040 The clarity is that he says, this is all about America.

00:44:59.540 You want to use tax money and the goodwill of the American people.

00:45:04.720 It's not to fix up the whole world.

00:45:07.760 It's amazing to me how people still on the left will say, oh, well, Donald Trump's a

00:45:13.120 warmonger.

00:45:14.140 We haven't had, I mean, we haven't had one that is this piece going, I think, since maybe

00:45:22.360 Carter.

00:45:22.980 Now, Carter was worthless.

00:45:24.160 This guy is just like, no, it doesn't rise to this level. 0.95

00:45:28.760 You know, I mean, he is.

00:45:30.360 He wants to stay out.

00:45:31.000 I mean, he wants to stay out.

00:45:32.360 And I think in a good way.

00:45:33.600 Yeah.

00:45:33.900 In a real good way.

00:45:35.320 You know, and going back, I mean, as you mentioned, the Middle East, the only rationale 1.00

00:45:39.540 for dealing with Iraq was the conviction that there were weapons of mass destruction,

00:45:44.300 which at the time was not an unreasonable assessment.

00:45:47.600 But other than that, this foolishness that permeated so much of the Republican establishment

00:45:53.560 at the time of that nation building.

00:45:56.040 And we've got to bring democracy to the Middle East.

00:45:58.320 You can't give it to people. 1.00

00:45:59.560 Just how stupid can people really be? 1.00

00:46:03.380 Arrogant. 1.00

00:46:04.000 Not only they were stupid. 1.00

00:46:05.080 I think they were arrogant. 1.00

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 16, 2019

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