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00:00:08.300 Hello and welcome to the Friday Podcast.

00:00:11.260 Very excited, we're from Florida today, we're tonight and tomorrow.

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00:00:19.560 tonight in Orlando, Florida, and tonight in Tampa, tomorrow in Orlando, Florida.

00:00:25.800 And we would love to see you.

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00:00:31.800 Love to see you.

00:00:32.440 Yep, we have a bunch of stuff going on today.

00:00:34.300 Bill O'Reilly joins us, and as usual, he goes through the news of the week, and there was a lot of it.

00:00:38.940 Yeah, and he has an interesting thing that I'm not sure what it's going to mean in the future,

00:00:45.380 but it is something that is going to be used in the future that he was talking about with Cohen and Donald Trump

00:00:52.980 and what's really going on.

00:00:54.600 And he said there was something that was important, but he didn't think it happened.

00:00:59.420 And if it's proven that it happened, it's going to mean something important.

00:01:03.400 I don't know what it's going to mean, but it's an interesting point of view.

00:01:07.160 We also talked to Sam Brownback, former governor and senator from Kansas,

00:01:11.700 who's now the ambassador for religious freedom around the world.

00:01:15.540 He's an ambassador at large, which I think means he's on the lam.

00:01:17.940 I'm not pretty sure that's not true.

00:01:20.400 I think we cleared that up with him, unfortunately, during the interview.

00:01:22.840 I don't know.

00:01:24.320 That's entirely true.

00:01:25.720 There's a lot going on in the Middle East, and he covers a lot of that.

00:01:28.420 Did we get into that?

00:01:28.920 Yeah, a lot of great stuff on today's podcast.

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00:02:43.520 All right.

00:02:44.180 Here's some of the questions that we should have our president asked today.

00:02:48.860 He's, you know, he's in Argentina at the G20.

00:02:51.720 Mr. President, Mr. President, how was your meeting with China's president?

00:02:55.840 Mr. President, Mr. President, have you ended the trade war?

00:02:58.720 Mr. President, Mr. President, insert anything relevant here that might show that we've solved

00:03:03.600 any problems that actually will affect us.

00:03:06.940 But that's not going to happen.

00:03:08.460 Instead, we're going to have, Mr. President, Mr. President, can you tell us what you said

00:03:13.760 to Robert Mueller?

00:03:14.940 Mr. President, Mr. President, you told the American people that you've not been able to do it.

00:03:18.840 You've never had any dealings in Russia.

00:03:21.120 And now yesterday you came out and said, yeah, I was trying to build a Trump tower in Moscow

00:03:26.480 at the time.

00:03:27.280 What?

00:03:27.640 No problem with that.

00:03:29.140 Oh, dear God.

00:03:31.200 Mr. President, Mr. President, can I ask you this?

00:03:33.980 Why do you make it so tough?

00:03:36.560 Why do you do this to your supporters?

00:03:39.120 Stop it.

00:03:40.480 Stop it.

00:03:41.240 You make it really hard to defend.

00:03:45.460 Because what we have to say is, no, it doesn't matter.

00:03:48.880 And we all know that lying matters.

00:03:51.540 We all know that.

00:03:52.880 But we don't say that because by saying that, then the press has more ammunition to come

00:03:59.920 after you.

00:04:01.360 But it hurts us because we have to say, what?

00:04:05.360 It doesn't matter.

00:04:06.180 Of course it matters.

00:04:08.560 Of course it matters.

00:04:09.520 You say you care about us, and I believe you.

00:04:15.800 Can you just not lie to us?

00:04:18.320 Just don't lie to us.

00:04:21.020 Since he was president, how many times?

00:04:23.100 11 times?

00:04:24.180 15 times since he was president?

00:04:26.780 Did he say, I have no dealings in Russia?

00:04:29.300 I was never.

00:04:30.820 Nobody, to the best of my recollection, had any dealings with the Russians?

00:04:35.760 About 14.

00:04:39.460 14 times.

00:04:40.940 I mean, why?

00:04:42.360 Why?

00:04:42.620 We have now the signed document where you signed off on a letter of intent to build a Trump

00:04:50.200 tower in Moscow while you were saying there was nothing going on.

00:04:56.360 Why?

00:04:57.980 Nobody's going to, nobody, nobody, nobody would have had a problem if you would have just come

00:05:02.600 out and said, yeah, I'm trying to build a Trump tower.

00:05:04.400 What?

00:05:04.580 I'm a businessman.

00:05:05.440 I try to build them all over the world.

00:05:06.600 Right.

00:05:07.160 Everyone knows that.

00:05:08.000 That's his business.

00:05:08.600 That's your business.

00:05:10.460 Why would you do that?

00:05:11.780 So now, we've got really, really important meetings.

00:05:20.020 The, President Xi is, this is one of the most important meetings.

00:05:25.420 This could decide whether or not the world goes to war in the next two years.

00:05:31.300 Literally, it's that important.

00:05:34.480 Meeting with the president of China.

00:05:36.800 Now, the president said last night, you know, that he's not sure he even wants to do a deal

00:05:43.640 with President Xi.

00:05:46.300 Why?

00:05:47.120 Because of all the tax revenue coming in from China, because of the trade, you know, embargo

00:05:52.920 or the trade tariffs.

00:05:55.700 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:05:57.320 Now, I'm hoping that that is just hyperbole getting ready to meet.

00:06:04.780 That's, you know, that's what you do.

00:06:05.760 Well, I'm not really interested in that car over there that I've been drooling over for

00:06:11.080 the last two years.

00:06:13.320 I don't know.

00:06:14.240 I'm not really in the market for the car right now.

00:06:18.200 I just happen to be, well, I live across town and I drove 45 minutes in traffic to get

00:06:25.000 to your car lot, but I'm not really that interested.

00:06:28.380 Hopefully, it's that kind of thing.

00:06:31.700 Hopefully, it's just a negotiating tactic.

00:06:34.060 But the one thing that I have learned is absolutely nothing, nothing this president said or says

00:06:43.680 or tweets should be discussed.

00:06:47.260 Just what he does.

00:06:49.380 Just that.

00:06:50.660 Just that.

00:06:51.200 If we were just looking at what this president does, he'd be pretty popular.

00:06:58.800 He'd be pretty popular.

00:07:00.900 He wouldn't be having all of these problems.

00:07:03.480 But because of what the president says, people get their panties in a bunch.

00:07:11.980 Look at how much, every time he tweets, the press goes crazy.

00:07:19.120 And you know what's so infuriating about this is the way the press reacts every single time.

00:07:25.140 Once again, I read two stories from two people at CNN that said, you know, this is the first time that I felt we really have him here.

00:07:38.040 They always feel bad.

00:07:39.100 Really?

00:07:39.360 You said that every time.

00:07:41.740 It's always the first time for them.

00:07:43.540 This is really the first time.

00:07:45.560 Really?

00:07:45.980 When he was on the bus talking about, you know, touching women?

00:07:48.820 You didn't feel that? 1.00

00:07:50.140 It's like a prostitute constantly, over and over, losing their virginity. 0.99

00:07:54.520 That's what happens with the press. 1.00

00:07:55.840 Every time.

00:07:56.700 Every time.

00:07:57.300 Every time it's brand new.

00:07:58.840 Yeah, every time.

00:08:00.960 I think Madonna wrote a song about that at one point.

00:08:03.880 And it's amazing the press can continue to do it.

00:08:06.060 You're right.

00:08:06.420 I mean, and the thing is about what Trump says and tweets, he himself says over and over again that he's negotiating.

00:08:16.000 Right?

00:08:16.140 We're not supposed to, you know, talk like people will talk when we were complaining about tariffs.

00:08:19.340 A lot of people will say, well, he's just negotiating.

00:08:21.380 And, you know, I mean, I think that one he has implemented so that no longer is really a talking point.

00:08:26.400 But the point is, he says he's negotiating all the time.

00:08:29.020 So if he's negotiating, he has some, right, some agenda to win some battle he's trying to do behind the scenes or whatever.

00:08:37.100 Well, there's no reason to listen to those words specifically.

00:08:41.380 And I, you know, look, it's a double standard because I would not have accepted that from Barack Obama.

00:08:46.020 Because when he said things, I wanted to hold them to them.

00:08:49.780 But, you know, Trump makes an art form of it.

00:08:52.560 He's not even, I mean, this is a great point in that his supporters should not have to deal with trying to defend these things.

00:09:01.580 Look, I know this.

00:09:02.560 He doesn't even do anything wrong trying to build it.

00:09:05.240 His business is building towers in other countries.

00:09:07.620 This is what he does for a living.

00:09:08.780 Do you remember, do you remember how many times when I was at Fox and we were at the very height of all the controversy around me, how many times I came on the air and I said, I'm really sorry because I know it makes it hard to defend me.

00:09:22.680 Oh, yeah. 0.76

00:09:23.100 I used to say that all the time because I would say something stupid and it would be taken out of context or whatever or it was just plain stupid and I knew that it caused you trouble to defend me. 0.99

00:09:36.500 And you'd be like, oh, thanks, Glenn. 0.99

00:09:38.020 Thanks.

00:09:38.560 Now you've added that to the pile.

00:09:40.480 Okay.

00:09:41.280 And I know that.

00:09:43.080 And that's what I'm begging the president.

00:09:44.920 Listen, please, please, if you look at the Trump, Trump's policies, he's a good president.

00:09:53.740 Some of them are really good.

00:09:54.820 I mean, I think the best example of the trade thing is kind of a big one that's starting to really scare the hell out of me.

00:10:00.320 But but the best example of this is Russia. 0.89

00:10:02.400 If you look at what he says about Russia, you would think, oh, well, he's way too friendly with Vladimir Putin.

00:10:08.580 A lot of people believe, you know, you see that and it's notable.

00:10:10.840 I mean, I know because it is notable on what he says.

00:10:14.700 Right.

00:10:14.980 But if you look at what he does, his policies are pretty hawkish against very hawkish.

00:10:19.920 The administration has taken a lot of major steps against Russia through this period. 0.86

00:10:25.140 This has not been a presidency that has kissed the butt of Vladimir Putin.

00:10:29.000 Just because he said a few nice things in press conferences does not mean that the actions of the administration back, you know, go down that road.

00:10:37.460 And I think if if you realize that Trump is a guy who he's a big talker, right, he's saying that, you know, I have the best, the best of everything in the world.

00:10:44.820 And, you know, for years when he was back in the in the entertainment days, people would know.

00:10:49.300 OK, he's saying that, but it's bluster.

00:10:51.200 He's talking big.

00:10:52.020 We get that.

00:10:52.540 We're not really going to pay attention.

00:10:53.420 We know he's not actually meaning it's the biggest or best in the world.

00:10:58.200 And this is the thing here.

00:10:59.680 It's like he he because he says something in public or he says something to the press or he's fighting with the press and says something defensive.

00:11:06.440 Like I have absolutely no business with Russia.

00:11:08.840 You can't take it seriously because you don't know what the truth is until.

00:11:12.200 Right.

00:11:12.380 That's why we've been saying the Mueller thing.

00:11:13.440 Let's just wait for it to come out.

00:11:14.420 We'll read it.

00:11:14.820 And here's what liberals and the press don't understand.

00:11:18.360 They look at us. 1.00

00:11:20.240 And this is what's so frustrating is because there's look, 70 percent of this nation sick to death, sick to death of this crap. 0.99

00:11:28.340 I think it's actually 80 percent that they're exhausted by this. 0.99

00:11:32.580 They don't want to play this game anymore.

00:11:34.120 They don't want to fight.

00:11:35.000 They just want everybody just to shut up and do their job.

00:11:39.240 OK, and what the press doesn't understand is that there are many people in America that are so tired of the lies of the press, not just the Trump lies, but the lies that have gone on forever and the double standard for.

00:11:58.340 Never Trump hate. 0.99

00:12:00.020 I mean, Bush hates black people. 0.99

00:12:02.420 They didn't care. 1.00

00:12:04.780 They didn't care.

00:12:06.860 How can you possibly say that?

00:12:11.420 What's his name?

00:12:12.980 Dick Cheney blew up the levees.

00:12:15.780 George Bush knew about the towers when 60 percent of Democrats believed that in 2005, that George Bush had something to do with 9-11.

00:12:29.240 Now, of course, they deny it and say we're not into conspiracy theories.

00:12:32.900 Well, the evidence is there.

00:12:35.240 OK, and that came from a press not being a bulldog on that stuff.

00:12:42.200 They were at best neutral.

00:12:44.100 It's why I went on the air and said, we're going to get to the bottom of the FEMA camp thing.

00:12:52.100 I'm going to find out if they're happening or they're not.

00:12:56.120 I'm going to go in with an open mind and I'm going to say, are they happening or not?

00:13:01.000 I get I get bashed as a conspiracy theorist because I said, are they happening or not?

00:13:07.820 We're going to tell you next week.

00:13:10.300 And the answer, by the way, was no.

00:13:12.000 No.

00:13:13.260 And quite honestly, I was pretty sure the answer was no, unless Dick Cheney had been building underground camps.

00:13:23.020 Right.

00:13:23.220 But look at the way the press approached the birtherism stuff.

00:13:26.480 Right.

00:13:26.640 They went out and they did segments on it, debunking it every day.

00:13:32.580 They'd show you all the documents.

00:13:33.680 They'd go back and show all the history, the reports in the newspapers.

00:13:36.120 They did such a thorough job debunking that.

00:13:39.780 They did not do that with Bush.

00:13:41.560 They did not.

00:13:42.460 They did not try to debunk.

00:13:43.620 They don't try to debunk the crazy conspiracies against Trump.

00:13:47.280 They don't do it.

00:13:48.080 They just let them sit out there and don't really answer them.

00:13:51.220 And, you know, at times with him.

00:13:53.800 In fact, they spread them through speculation.

00:13:57.600 They just spread them and then they don't correct them afterwards.

00:14:00.860 And they never apologize for saying, you know what, we were wrong on this one and make a big deal out of it.

00:14:07.000 Nobody cares about your apology that happened one time, two o'clock in the afternoon after you've spent three weeks saying it.

00:14:14.020 Yeah.

00:14:14.080 And it's not universal there.

00:14:15.120 I mean, I've heard Jake Tapper specifically go after conspiracy theories even against Trump.

00:14:20.880 Jake Tapper, I think, is in a different category most times.

00:14:23.640 It's not universal, but it's common.

00:14:25.860 It is way too common.

00:14:27.260 And so it's why so many people agree when he says, you know, the enemy of the people, because it feels that way a lot of times.

00:14:33.300 Right.

00:14:33.880 So look at the border.

00:14:35.440 So when you're sitting here, media, you're like, how can these people, how can they just keep putting up with the president lying about this?

00:14:45.520 Because in our minds, this is what happens.

00:14:51.180 A, I know the president lies.

00:14:53.980 I get it.

00:14:55.040 What, I thought I was voting for the Pope?

00:14:58.700 I was voting for Mother Teresa? 0.99

00:15:00.940 Please, I've baked all of this crap in a long time. 0.98

00:15:04.360 You really thought we thought Cohen was a good guy? 0.99

00:15:08.260 Come on.

00:15:10.220 We knew he was a slippery fixer.

00:15:13.400 That's who he was.

00:15:14.720 So we've already baked that in.

00:15:16.780 Now, are we happy about this?

00:15:20.100 No.

00:15:21.040 But here's what we think.

00:15:22.680 If Donald Trump would have said during the election, yeah, well, I'm trying to build Trump Tower, which there's nothing wrong with that, as long as it's disclosed, there's nothing wrong with that.

00:15:39.480 That's his job.

00:15:41.560 I was shocked when he denied it so vehemently, because I'm like, of course he's trying to build one in my backyard.

00:15:48.600 He's trying to build them everywhere.

00:15:50.040 What do you mean, in all of Russia, he doesn't want to put a hotel?

00:15:54.180 Of course he does.

00:15:55.500 That's what every businessman wants to do.

00:15:57.020 Expand and make more money.

00:15:58.160 Correct.

00:15:58.420 And that's one of the reasons we liked the guy.

00:15:59.720 So we knew that.

00:16:00.960 However, him saying, yeah, I've got business dealings in Moscow right now, what would the press say?

00:16:07.420 He's in bed with Moscow. 0.50

00:16:09.640 So if he would have admitted it, they would have made it into exactly what it is today.

00:16:16.440 Not what it actually was, but what it is today.

00:16:19.840 A big scandal.

00:16:21.380 They would have used it against him.

00:16:22.900 So what happens, and let me explain this one more time as simply as I can to the media and to people on the left, not to the left, people who are Democrats.

00:16:37.060 Look, we don't like this either.

00:16:40.660 We don't like this either.

00:16:41.800 But what is he supposed to do when you have a media that will take anything and everything and turn it into a massive scandal when the media created this guy?

00:17:00.540 They created him in two ways.

00:17:05.920 Donald Trump, if we trusted the news during the Obama administration, if they were actually telling us what was really going on and did investigations when the government was out of control and when Obama was clearly lying about things like Obamacare.

00:17:28.320 That was a third of our economy.

00:17:31.480 That's the greatest health care system the world has ever seen.

00:17:36.140 And he lied $2,500 back for every family.

00:17:40.440 No, that's not possible.

00:17:42.000 The math shows that's never possible.

00:17:45.860 That you can keep your doctor.

00:17:47.620 No, here is the documented evidence that that will not happen.

00:17:52.700 But you let it slide until, what, a year after we lost our doctors and were paying higher prices?

00:18:01.060 Because we didn't trust you at all. 0.99

00:18:06.520 We needed somebody like Donald Trump to tell you, shut up. 0.99

00:18:11.760 That's not healthy. 0.98

00:18:12.980 And you created him in another way.

00:18:16.200 Because you thought he was going to be the easiest candidate to beat, you ran wall-to-wall coverage on him.

00:18:25.140 You took down everyone else in his path, but you just loved him for ratings, and you thought he was going to be the easiest one for Hillary to beat.

00:18:37.400 Well, you were wrong now, weren't you?

00:18:40.340 And you can't live with yourself.

00:18:43.620 You'll never admit to that.

00:18:46.000 But he is your creation.

00:18:48.240 So now you don't like it.

00:18:52.160 Oh, what a surprise.

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00:20:20.960 And then he wound up driving his lawnmower to town, right?

00:20:25.200 Yeah, well, first he drove his truck to Denny's, and then when he was backing out, he went the opposite direction really fast, so he went through the front window of Denny's.

00:20:37.480 So we had to take the keys of the truck away, and then he decided he was going to take the tractor to Denny's, and so they had to stop him taking the tractor.

00:20:46.360 So we had to take the keys away from that.

00:20:47.740 And then we caught him literally on the highway on his little riding lawnmower trying to get to Denny's.

00:20:55.860 And he was just like, first of all, the ultimate commercial for Denny's.

00:20:59.700 I mean, I like Denny's too.

00:21:01.320 I don't know if I'm going to those lengths.

00:21:02.800 Yeah.

00:21:03.120 But it's true.

00:21:04.640 Like, you lose those things, and, you know, you feel like you're no longer.

00:21:10.660 Well, but you have two ways to go.

00:21:13.520 Let's be honest.

00:21:14.120 May I share a story with you from the news?

00:21:16.700 Okay.

00:21:18.000 Now, imagine you're in line at the Dollar General store, okay?

00:21:22.100 Mm-hmm.

00:21:22.800 And the person in front of you is passing gas.

00:21:26.300 And I don't mean passing gas like, ooh, boy, you smell something?

00:21:30.760 I mean ripping them.

00:21:32.820 Okay.

00:21:33.160 Okay?

00:21:33.440 It's a woman in front of you, and she is just... 1.00

00:21:36.700 Okay.

00:21:49.100 That one.

00:21:49.620 That one.

00:21:50.160 Okay.

00:21:51.040 She's just ripping them. 1.00

00:21:52.000 We've all had that moment.

00:21:52.760 We've all had that moment.

00:21:54.300 Wait a minute.

00:21:55.640 Okay.

00:21:56.140 I'm done.

00:21:56.980 Okay.

00:21:57.380 So she's just ripping them. 1.00

00:21:59.460 And this guy, what would you do?

00:22:02.120 You would expect the person to go, oh, my gosh, I am so sorry.

00:22:07.600 But she didn't.

00:22:08.760 And she's like, yeah, okay.

00:22:12.060 And I need one of these.

00:22:15.720 And the guy standing behind her is backing up.

00:22:20.160 You know, there could be a fire.

00:22:21.480 Can we open a door here?

00:22:22.660 And he finally says something, because she's just crass about it. 0.79

00:22:30.000 And so she turns around.

00:22:35.920 She said, you have a problem with what's happened?

00:22:42.100 And he's like, well, I mean, it is just, I mean, can you at least say excuse me?

00:22:49.300 And she reaches into her purse, and she pulls the knife.

00:22:52.660 And she pulls the knife on the guy, and he starts to back away. 0.98

00:22:57.660 And she said, you say another word, and I'm going to gut you. 0.92

00:23:04.840 And she threatens to gut the guy. 1.00

00:23:08.640 Okay.

00:23:09.520 Now.

00:23:10.460 Rational reaction to the situation.

00:23:12.100 Now, the one reason why this caught my eye today is guess which state this story is from.

00:23:18.360 I mean, I would probably guess the one we're sitting in right now.

00:23:25.720 Florida.

00:23:26.520 Yes.

00:23:27.700 Yes.

00:23:28.740 This state is the home of the craziest news up until probably 2007.

00:23:36.880 Then all news became like Florida.

00:23:40.540 But Florida, I think the reason why Florida is so chill is because, yeah, they watch the news.

00:23:45.960 They've been seeing that stuff go on for a long time.

00:23:48.720 Yeah.

00:23:48.900 It's like, that's Florida.

00:23:50.080 You got a president who's up there.

00:23:54.940 Look, I didn't. 0.99

00:23:57.440 Oh, crap. 0.98

00:23:59.160 I had a bowl of chili that was fantastic. 1.00

00:24:03.680 Nobody in Florida is like, oh, yeah.

00:24:06.680 Yeah.

00:24:07.140 I got a neighbor like that.

00:24:08.220 That is, I think, the way they digest this information.

00:24:12.760 I think so, too.

00:24:13.640 Now, I don't have the answer to this one.

00:24:17.220 But I do.

00:24:18.620 There is a problem with this story.

00:24:23.160 A woman gets onto a plane with her five-year-old daughter.

00:24:26.200 And she gets on the plane, and the flight attendants make fun of her daughter's name.

00:24:38.940 And then they go an extra step.

00:24:41.000 And this part is way over the line.

00:24:42.880 They post a picture of the boarding pass and a picture of the daughter online.

00:24:48.660 Okay?

00:24:49.480 Well, yeah, I don't think that's cool.

00:24:51.760 But they're making fun of her because she told ABC News that her daughter, ABCD, it was not right.

00:25:04.300 I'm sorry.

00:25:04.800 It's ABCDE.

00:25:06.640 It's not right to make fun of her name.

00:25:10.660 ABCDE.

00:25:11.800 Is that a pronounceable name?

00:25:13.760 Or is it legitimate?

00:25:14.400 Of course it is.

00:25:15.840 It's Abcidi.

00:25:18.260 Abcidi.

00:25:19.900 Abcidi.

00:25:20.680 Abcidi.

00:25:21.200 Abcidi.

00:25:22.360 But it is spelled A-B-C-D-E.

00:25:26.860 Okay?

00:25:28.320 So if I had to ask you what state the parent was from that would name their kids A-B-C-D-E.

00:25:42.020 E.

00:25:42.780 Abcidi.

00:25:43.760 Abcidi.

00:25:44.560 But see, that sounds normal-ish.

00:25:47.840 Abcidi could be a name.

00:25:49.060 Abcidi could be a name.

00:25:51.140 But this is A-B-C-D-E.

00:25:54.000 Okay?

00:25:55.000 It's the alphabet.

00:25:56.200 In case anybody is not following this closely.

00:26:00.620 If I had to ask you what state would a parent be most likely to name their kid A-B-C-D-E, what would you say?

00:26:09.000 I would guess the one we're sitting in right now.

00:26:12.000 Florida.

00:26:12.220 I would have said Florida or California.

00:26:15.320 Okay?

00:26:16.540 No chance it's any place other than Florida or California.

00:26:21.600 Texas.

00:26:22.340 Ah!

00:26:23.000 Really?

00:26:23.300 Now, I believe this parent is a transplant.

00:26:28.220 We need a border wall.

00:26:29.080 We do.

00:26:29.520 I think this is a case why we need a border wall.

00:26:33.720 Yeah, yeah.

00:26:34.020 The president can build it on the south side.

00:26:36.420 I would like it on the west side of Texas because they're swarming in these Californians. 1.00

00:26:44.000 And no Texan, no self-respecting Texan would ever name their child A-B-C-D-E.

00:26:53.680 Never.

00:26:55.100 That is an immigrant.

00:26:58.040 A Texas immigrant? 0.77

00:26:59.480 Like from another state?

00:27:00.740 Yeah.

00:27:00.920 That's somebody from California that's like, I kind of like that country of Texas.

00:27:07.260 No.

00:27:08.520 You're going to name your kid after fruit, after space rocks, or any part of the alphabet.

00:27:16.800 I know my name is also part of the alphabet, but it's arranged in a name.

00:27:22.800 You're not allowed in Texas.

00:27:24.320 I want somebody on the staff of the Blaze to take 20 minutes out of their day-to-day.

00:27:29.420 They don't even have to write a story, but I'm the boss.

00:27:32.620 I want to find out if this is a California immigrant.

00:27:37.320 I want to find out.

00:27:38.640 I suspect she's a white person who's a social justice warrior from California. 0.98

00:27:47.280 I cannot stand white people. 0.99

00:27:49.300 I am just, oh, they're just so irritating. 1.00

00:27:50.940 The only person that hates white people more than you is probably the white person that 0.99

00:27:57.860 names your child A-B-C-D-E. 0.99

00:28:01.040 All right.

00:28:01.740 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:28:19.500 Let me go to Bill O'Reilly.

00:28:20.900 Hello, Bill.

00:28:21.600 I wanted to start with this because I know that your column is about another epidemic that

00:28:28.820 you say nobody's really paying attention to.

00:28:30.600 Yeah, and there's a correlation to the rise of drug addiction in the hard drug arena to

00:28:39.920 the massive amount of Internet addiction we're seeing, not only in the United States, but

00:28:45.100 the world.

00:28:45.680 There's a correlation to it.

00:28:49.220 And it's a very complicated issue, as you know, Beck.

00:28:54.220 By the way, I appreciate you guys labeling me Father Christmas because, as you know, I saved

00:29:01.680 Christmas for the United States of America.

00:29:04.200 Yes, I know you did.

00:29:05.360 And you've got rosy cheeks, and you just look like fun.

00:29:10.860 And no spin elves on BillOReilly.com working around the clock.

00:29:14.340 That's right.

00:29:14.960 All right.

00:29:15.820 But now, back to addiction.

00:29:17.160 So, it's a very complicated situation because you are dealing with individuals who make

00:29:27.180 a decision.

00:29:28.080 And the decision is, I'm going to take hard drugs for recreational purposes.

00:29:36.420 You know, there are people who get addicted because of medical reasons, but not that many.

00:29:40.820 All right.

00:29:41.200 And I'm going to do it despite knowing I might die, and I might become addicted and destroy

00:29:47.280 my family.

00:29:48.460 But I'm going to do it anyway.

00:29:50.300 Anyway, so you're starting with a person who's troubled because rational people, they don't

00:29:56.720 make that decision.

00:29:58.760 And therefore, all of this pie in the sky about, well, all we need is more money for rehab

00:30:05.520 and the government's fault because they don't provide whatever to these people.

00:30:11.700 I mean, it's just a lie.

00:30:13.260 The second thing is the society itself, with the legalization of marijuana and the basic

00:30:18.860 glorification of drug use in the media, in Hollywood, sends a message to young and mature

00:30:25.240 people that, you know what?

00:30:26.840 It's cool.

00:30:28.400 It's cool.

00:30:28.920 Look at Snoop Dogg.

00:30:31.460 Look, it's cool to do it.

00:30:33.940 All right.

00:30:34.380 And, you know, getting intoxicated when you're 14, that's a good thing.

00:30:38.660 You go right ahead and do it.

00:30:41.220 Okay.

00:30:41.600 So, you have that, that massive wave of, oh, inebriation is good.

00:30:48.100 And if you do it, you'll be accepted and you'll be one of the cool kids.

00:30:53.060 It's absolutely happening everywhere.

00:30:55.240 All right.

00:30:55.640 So, this is like a wave that comes in.

00:30:58.240 And the final piece to it is, and we're looking at it now, well, if you're a seller of fentanyl,

00:31:06.580 you know, it's a nonviolent crime.

00:31:09.620 Um, yeah, you might be handing people poison and they might die, but no, it's not that bad.

00:31:19.500 You shouldn't really be spending a lot of time in prison.

00:31:22.180 Uh, we need to rehab you. 0.91

00:31:25.740 So, all of this, um, is why the CDC comes out with this, um, you know, and by the way,

00:31:33.200 more people died last year of drug overs than in the entire Vietnam war by a lot.

00:31:39.540 So, there you go.

00:31:42.540 There's the analysis across the board.

00:31:44.480 It's pretty bleak.

00:31:45.500 Well, but there's, there's also something else that you talk about, and that is the addiction

00:31:49.060 to, um, devices and, uh, the internet.

00:31:52.680 Yeah.

00:31:52.940 Now, there, there is this actual term.

00:31:56.620 Uh, what did you say it was?

00:31:57.880 I just, I heard about it just the couple of days ago, and then I read it in your column.

00:32:01.540 Um, yeah, it's, it's internet disorder and, um, disorder, disorder.

00:32:08.180 So, now there are rehab clinics, of course, capitalism.

00:32:11.980 You're going to have four kids, mostly kids, um, ages 11, if you can imagine to 23, 24 and

00:32:22.200 it costs a fortune because insurance is not going to handle it, um, to go there and, and

00:32:26.880 to try to, you know, pry their iPhones out of their hands.

00:32:30.400 But every parent and grandparent knows about the addiction, and there are plenty of adults

00:32:35.580 addicted to it, too.

00:32:36.540 They don't pay attention to their kids.

00:32:38.380 They don't pay attention to their pets.

00:32:40.620 I mean, nobody talks about that, but pets used to be, you know, brought in and you pay

00:32:45.560 attention to them and you walk them and you nurture them.

00:32:48.620 And now the pets look at you, how come nobody's paying attention to me?

00:32:51.980 Because everybody's texting or Snapchatting.

00:32:54.880 No, that's why, I mean, I, I know.

00:32:56.820 That's why I got my dog an iPhone and, uh, and an Instagram page.

00:33:00.000 Yeah, that, that's a good move.

00:33:01.260 Very good, Becky.

00:33:01.900 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:02.720 All right.

00:33:03.120 Let's, uh, let's go into politics.

00:33:05.020 Let's talk a little bit about Cohen and what happened yesterday, what you think it, it, um,

00:33:11.080 it actually means, and then what you think it politically means.

00:33:16.240 Okay.

00:33:16.680 Um, I don't know what it means and no one else does either.

00:33:24.240 Therefore, all the pundits who are telling you on television and in the newspaper, op-ed

00:33:29.820 pages that they do know are lying, Beck.

00:33:35.220 Okay.

00:33:35.500 Well, wait a minute.

00:33:36.060 Hang on.

00:33:36.460 Hang on.

00:33:36.800 Let's just go over what we do know.

00:33:38.340 He, he, he came out, uh, and said, this is Cohen.

00:33:43.200 He came out and he said, I lied to, uh, some Congress people under oath about a Russian

00:33:51.760 condominium project.

00:33:54.880 Okay.

00:33:55.680 Now we, we, he is, he is already, uh, you know, not a credible person.

00:34:00.280 He's never been credible in my book.

00:34:02.040 Um, however, he made that claim then Trump who has been saying the whole time, 14 times

00:34:09.440 since he's been president, that we've had no business dealings at all over in Russia.

00:34:14.380 I don't know. 1.00

00:34:15.680 Yesterday he came out and he said he's weak and pathetic. 1.00

00:34:18.240 Don't believe it. 1.00

00:34:19.120 Then he came out later and said, uh, yes.

00:34:22.120 Okay.

00:34:22.400 So I was trying to, of course I was, I'm a businessman.

00:34:25.060 I was trying to build the Trump tower.

00:34:26.820 Uh, but there's nothing wrong with that, which is true.

00:34:29.760 Um, with an exception of the denials, but not under oath.

00:34:34.260 We do understand.

00:34:35.860 We think this coming from Rudy Giuliani, that the president answered, uh, honestly to in

00:34:42.080 his deposition.

00:34:42.840 So there's no, if Giuliani is telling the truth, there is no perjury trap here for him.

00:34:49.600 Uh, so there doesn't look like there's anything, uh, that there was any laws broken.

00:34:55.300 It's just about the Trump lying about it.

00:34:58.600 But he, but he didn't lie about it because he said quite clearly, I don't have any business

00:35:05.660 with Russia.

00:35:08.220 This was all pie in the sky.

00:35:10.500 Maybe we could do it.

00:35:12.100 Oh, don't cut that one.

00:35:15.520 Are you really cutting that line?

00:35:18.100 I'm telling you in a court of law.

00:35:19.900 I'm not talking about court of law.

00:35:21.020 I'm not talking about court of law because we don't, as far as I'm concerned, Trump and

00:35:26.060 his lawyers can say, as they have said, we didn't have any business dealings with Russia.

00:35:32.280 Correct.

00:35:32.840 And I, I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about the law because I don't think there's

00:35:36.120 any laws broken here.

00:35:37.360 I don't think there's any laws broken.

00:35:38.720 He's going to say Beck, and you can disagree with it and disparage him if you want to,

00:35:43.960 but he's going to say, I didn't have any business dealings with him.

00:35:47.340 A conversation about maybe someday we'll build a condo in Moscow is not a business dealing.

00:35:54.820 He did sign a letter of intent.

00:35:56.440 I can say that.

00:35:56.960 And yet you can't say.

00:35:57.880 He, he, he did, he signed a letter of intent.

00:36:01.780 I mean, his intent was to do, uh, to, to do business and he formally engaged them.

00:36:10.440 Who?

00:36:11.040 The letters, I mean, obviously, you know, it's been reported on if it comes out.

00:36:15.980 Yeah.

00:36:16.160 I haven't seen any letter and until I see the letter, I don't believe it.

00:36:20.640 So if, so if there is a letter and he did sign it, does it matter?

00:36:25.100 Yeah, that would matter.

00:36:26.300 Because if there's a letter of intent to build a condominium in Moscow, that's a business dealing.

00:36:35.400 So that would matter.

00:36:37.160 So even if he, see, this is, this is interesting because, um, I buy into the letter and I don't

00:36:44.220 think that anybody's, I don't think it's going to come from.

00:36:48.740 Seen it in several places.

00:36:51.160 Um, October 28th, 20, October 28th, 2015 was the date.

00:36:56.060 It was the date of the third Republican presidential debate.

00:36:58.660 And I think this is an interesting one, Bill, because it's one of those things.

00:37:01.760 Everyone can throw out these accusations.

00:37:03.280 This one should be provable.

00:37:04.420 If it was, but what, but, but if they have the letter, they should be able to show it.

00:37:07.220 Right.

00:37:07.580 Yeah.

00:37:07.780 If they have the letter, it should be in the Mueller report when it comes out.

00:37:10.260 It would have been legal a long time ago.

00:37:12.820 Well, maybe.

00:37:12.940 If, if Cohen had a letter and Cohen would be the guy.

00:37:18.160 Mm-hmm.

00:37:19.240 But he was the guy just yesterday.

00:37:20.820 He's just yesterday came out and said, okay, yes, I did lie about this too.

00:37:24.460 So, so, so here's the thing.

00:37:25.800 I don't want to even, I don't really care.

00:37:28.060 I get to the point on this when, when the facts are out, then we'll be able to comment

00:37:33.080 on it.

00:37:33.760 I'm not, I'm not holding the letter out as, cause I'm not talking about, I'm only talking

00:37:40.500 about politics here.

00:37:41.920 Don't use the word lie and fall into the trap of all of the hate Trump media.

00:37:49.040 Look, listen to father Christmas.

00:37:52.660 It's the season of joy. 0.84

00:37:55.380 You sit on a throne of lies.

00:37:58.300 Man, lie, don't use the word.

00:38:02.600 Well, this would be proof that you would, you, you are saying it would be proof if this

00:38:06.580 letter existed and he signed it.

00:38:08.000 A letter of intent to build a condominium in Moscow, that is a business dealing.

00:38:16.500 Okay.

00:38:16.920 So what does that mean then if that did exist to you?

00:38:21.880 It means that he misled people about what his contacts with Russia were.

00:38:26.560 That's what it would mean.

00:38:28.200 I got it.

00:38:29.020 So then what would that actually mean?

00:38:32.480 Because it's not illegal.

00:38:34.740 No.

00:38:35.120 So, so is anybody, is this going to change anything?

00:38:39.220 Well, unless he said that under oath in his deposition.

00:38:42.600 Right.

00:38:43.080 Right.

00:38:43.900 Then it would.

00:38:45.020 And no.

00:38:45.840 If he didn't, it would just be, it would just be another thing that the anti-Trump people

00:38:53.320 could say, the guy's not trustworthy.

00:38:56.120 That's all.

00:38:56.680 Right.

00:38:57.200 Okay.

00:38:57.500 So now let me ask you this question.

00:38:59.620 Yeah.

00:39:00.080 Because if you, Stu and I were talking about this earlier, if you listen to what the president

00:39:05.420 says, you have a good chance at one point or another during your day, I'm getting pissed

00:39:10.760 off.

00:39:11.280 Okay.

00:39:11.720 But if you don't listen to what he says, you just watch his actions.

00:39:16.580 Like on, on, on Russia, he's very strong against Russia.

00:39:20.340 Um, he is, he has taken real sanctions to, uh, to Russia that we have not seen before.

00:39:26.720 When, when you watch his actions, they don't match the words.

00:39:32.000 Cause he's a guy like, this is the most beautiful sink ever built.

00:39:35.980 And you're like, okay, it's, it's, it's a sink, man.

00:39:38.640 You watch your hands on it.

00:39:39.880 Um, so you, you have to, you have to not look at his, his language, but when you, when

00:39:46.640 you actually listen to him, um, you have to defend it.

00:39:51.480 And, you know, we're, we're put into a role to where, um, we have to somehow or another

00:39:57.960 say, it's okay.

00:39:59.680 That he said, I had nothing to do with paying those girls off.

00:40:04.320 And we know now that he did, um, if he, if this happens with Russia and there's a, there's

00:40:09.120 a couple of other things that are like this, that you have to make a decision whether his

00:40:13.800 policies override his personal behavior.

00:40:21.480 It's the same thing with Bill Clinton.

00:40:23.200 And I think the American people, same thing with Clinton, as the Republicans are doing with

00:40:28.560 Trump.

00:40:28.800 Right.

00:40:29.800 And I think, and I think everybody has already made their decision on that.

00:40:33.320 Right.

00:40:34.640 I'm not sure because if Trump needs, if he wants to be reelected, he's got to win over

00:40:41.260 about 7% more votes, uh, that he has now in the polls.

00:40:46.680 All right.

00:40:47.200 So let's, let's persuadable people depending on who runs against him.

00:40:55.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:40:58.800 20th anniversary of the international religious freedom act.

00:41:20.080 20 years.

00:41:21.300 This has been in, and I'm not sure that religious freedom is getting better, uh, at all. 0.86

00:41:26.540 We have the ambassador at large, uh, Sam Brownback.

00:41:30.100 He was a Senator and governor of, uh, Kansas.

00:41:33.680 Uh, and now the ambassador at large, which I think means he's either on the lamb or they

00:41:39.880 don't, or they, or they don't give him a cool, you know, residence to live in.

00:41:44.200 I'm not really sure.

00:41:45.580 Uh, let's ask him.

00:41:46.600 That's an important first question.

00:41:47.880 It really is.

00:41:48.680 Ambassador Brownback.

00:41:49.580 How are you, sir?

00:41:50.820 I'm doing well.

00:41:51.900 How are you guys today?

00:41:52.980 Very good.

00:41:54.660 Uh, I'm, I'm sure that at large means that you're not on the lamb, right?

00:41:59.140 Uh, that's correct.

00:42:00.380 It means you cover the whole world.

00:42:02.360 Okay.

00:42:03.020 At large, it's not a religious freedom for, uh, you know, a particular country, Bulgaria

00:42:08.380 or Iran or something like that.

00:42:10.460 It's on, covers the entire world.

00:42:12.160 So, you know, we work on the issues around the world.

00:42:14.440 I'm stationed out of the state department, but I do do a lot of traveling, uh, to different

00:42:18.740 countries and work around the administration on religious freedom topics that, uh, yeah,

00:42:23.520 you're right.

00:42:24.080 It, that the situation has gotten worse over the last 20 years.

00:42:27.660 Uh, but this administration is serious about what we can do to, to try to change that trend

00:42:33.420 line, get it going back the right way.

00:42:35.380 Now, I know you're a ambassador.

00:42:37.060 So if, if we ask anything that we shouldn't be asking, I know, I know we want,

00:42:42.160 people to be free and I don't care about, you know, I don't care about the interview

00:42:46.420 or anything else.

00:42:47.140 I just want people to be free.

00:42:48.160 So feel free to say, shut up Glenn at any time.

00:42:50.660 Um, but can we, um, can we talk a little bit about, um, the middle East, uh, and, and

00:42:58.280 start with the middle East on what's happening, what's happening there.

00:43:03.500 We are, you know, Mercury one has done a remarkable job on bringing thousands of

00:43:11.960 Christians out of the middle East and the lion's share really now at this point has 1.00

00:43:16.800 gone to, um, uh, Australia and these are good Christians who were marked for death in 1.00

00:43:23.620 the middle East.

00:43:24.900 We've got one, one, not family, one person into America. 1.00

00:43:30.920 How come America is not embracing the persecuted Christians, uh, like some, uh, other countries

00:43:40.380 around the world?

00:43:42.280 Well, we historically have, uh, you can, uh, look at a number of people that have fled

00:43:47.760 the middle East, particularly religious minorities over the last 30 years and a number have come

00:43:52.900 to the United States.

00:43:53.580 And I don't know why the recent, uh, situation has changed where they're not coming into the

00:43:58.460 United States, uh, cause we've, uh, we've always been a haven for religious minorities.

00:44:03.400 One of the new things that we're trying to do more is though, to make the situation safer

00:44:08.800 in the middle East for religious minorities to stay.

00:44:12.000 Uh, and that's the, well, I know that's what a lot of them.

00:44:15.080 Yeah.

00:44:15.560 A lot of them want to.

00:44:16.840 So what are we doing to, to secure that?

00:44:21.140 Northern Iraq is probably the best example where a number of them are moving back. 1.00

00:44:25.480 I toured there first of July.

00:44:27.560 Uh, we're rebuilding homes, rebuilding, uh, churches, institutions, hospitals, uh, and

00:44:34.100 the key long-term is to get a better security environment, uh, so that people don't feel

00:44:39.520 threatened, but they're, they are moving back.

00:44:42.460 Uh, and now we're starting to focus on that security agenda, uh, to be able to tell people

00:44:49.620 that, you know, yes, you can leave.

00:44:51.460 You can seek asylum status in other places and people grant it, but we really need you to 1.00

00:44:57.420 stay.

00:44:58.240 Uh, we, we don't want to see these historic religions, particularly Christianity, but 1.00

00:45:03.500 also the Yazidis in that region just get, continue to get pushed out of the Middle East

00:45:08.240 like they have for the past 30 years.

00:45:10.720 Well, I tell you, they, they, most of them have reluctantly left, um, the ones that we

00:45:16.680 deal with.

00:45:17.160 They don't want to leave because they, they, they all say the same thing.

00:45:21.100 If we leave, we are the original people that you read about in the Bible, the ones that 0.95

00:45:26.240 were persecuted, the, you know, the ones that the apostles first went to talk to, that's

00:45:31.000 us.

00:45:31.560 And if we leave it completely, it leaves a vacuum.

00:45:35.580 And so they don't want to leave most of them.

00:45:38.840 I, I agree.

00:45:40.620 I agree.

00:45:41.280 And that's why I was happy to hear that a number of them are moving back now, uh, into

00:45:46.700 these communities.

00:45:47.600 I, I, we just held, I had some meetings every week at Tuesday from 11 to noon, Washington,

00:45:54.020 DC, usually on the Hill.

00:45:55.600 Uh, we do a religious freedom round table with outside groups and a number of outside

00:45:59.660 individuals then that have been persecuted or represent persecuted communities come in

00:46:04.080 and tell their story.

00:46:05.440 Uh, and recently I was at one of those where people say, no, we, our community, Northern

00:46:10.380 Iraq, about 55% have moved back now, uh, to the community.

00:46:14.820 The homes have been rebuilt.

00:46:15.980 The churches have been rebuilt, uh, and they're, they're happy to be able to move back home.

00:46:21.480 But the security situation is still tenuous at any time.

00:46:26.040 A new ISIS type variety could, could build up. 0.99

00:46:29.520 And so, you know, they're, they kind of sleep with a bag packed, uh, ready to flee to Erbil

00:46:36.500 or somewhere else in the region where they can get to near term safety.

00:46:40.600 But that, that's the situation we've got to correct where they don't have to, to sleep

00:46:45.500 with a bag packed to, to leave at any, at a moment's notice.

00:46:48.900 So, um, you know, the, the Saudi Arabia situation with Khashoggi was, uh, an absolute nightmare.

00:46:58.920 Um, and, you know, they're not the, uh, friendliest, uh, place, uh, to visit, especially if you're

00:47:04.820 a Christian and open about it.

00:47:06.720 However, I have heard that things are dramatically changing there.

00:47:11.420 And, uh, you know, they, the, the, there are some areas in the Middle East that are even

00:47:17.180 now openly embracing Israel.

00:47:20.520 Are you sensing something happening in the Middle East more than just an opposition to Iran?

00:47:28.800 No, I, I am.

00:47:30.500 I am.

00:47:30.980 I'm headed to the UAE, uh, United Arab Emirates next week, uh, speaking to a major, uh, mostly

00:47:38.300 Muslim leadership, uh, conference, uh, and going to talk about, uh, uh, ending, uh, violence 0.98

00:47:46.900 between the Abrahamic faiths, uh, and talk about, uh, that, that what we, uh, need to

00:47:53.440 do is have a respect, uh, for each other, uh, that these are different faiths.

00:47:58.900 They have different beliefs.

00:47:59.940 There's no question about it, but people, we should have a respect, uh, for that, uh,

00:48:05.080 and that there should not be, and that, and that the theologians should say that our religion

00:48:10.780 does not support the use of violence in the promotion, uh, the propagation of the faith,

00:48:17.500 that to, to renounce that use of violence.

00:48:20.360 Now that, that seems, that seems, uh, you know, that, that seems just like something that

00:48:27.120 people are going to say and they don't really mean it because that's the way it has been.

00:48:31.340 But I, I have again heard, uh, that in Saudi Arabia, they are now arresting and closing

00:48:38.620 down many of the extremist mosques, the Wahhabist, um, clerics, that there are fifteen, fifteen

00:48:45.580 hundred to three thousand that have, uh, have lost their mosque, uh, and have been, and,

00:48:52.100 and have been, uh, stopped because of their view.

00:48:55.240 Is that true?

00:48:56.360 Do you know?

00:48:56.820 I, I, I can't verify that particular, uh, thing, but I can tell you, uh, that things

00:49:04.400 are changing, uh, just that, uh, you are seeing, uh, a, um, leadership at the governmental

00:49:12.340 level, uh, in these countries that, uh, is more open, uh, respectful, and then seeing too,

00:49:20.920 Glenn, that when, when you decide as a nation, we are only going to have one faith and we're

00:49:26.740 only going to have one interpretation of that one faith in our country and all else are

00:49:31.400 not welcome, uh, and they can easily be, um, vandalized, terrorized, killed, you limit the

00:49:39.680 growth of your own country.

00:49:41.440 You, you limit your potential and you actually increase extremism and terrorism and you almost,

00:49:48.640 uh, authorize mob violence by doing that.

00:49:51.880 A number of the governments in the region are seeing, this is a bad strategy for us long

00:49:56.360 term.

00:49:56.720 We can't grow based on this strategy.

00:49:59.560 We have to be open and, and let the faiths compete, uh, in a, in a, in a environment that 0.99

00:50:07.000 protects all faiths, being able to practice as they see fit, as long as they're peaceful.

00:50:11.380 So I'm, I'm, I'm sure you've seen what's been happening on our, our borders.

00:50:16.940 Um, and, uh, it has been a little agonizing, um, to many people to hear the, the refugee,

00:50:28.520 uh, word thrown around so much and, and asylum thrown around for people that, uh, many of

00:50:36.900 them are on record stating, uh, that they are here because they can't find a job or

00:50:41.600 they want to finish their education in America, et cetera, et cetera.

00:50:44.960 There, I'm sure there are qualified people that need asylum, uh, you know, that, that

00:50:49.500 are headed towards our, our border, but it's, it's in the vast minority I'm guessing.

00:50:55.940 And it seems like we've lost touch with what a refugee really is.

00:51:00.340 When, when the United States opens, uh, its arms to say, we, we will provide shelter for

00:51:08.600 you, uh, it is for something vastly different than what we're seeing on the border.

00:51:14.720 Can you, can you define what a, what persecution looks like, what a refugee or someone who needs

00:51:22.220 asylum looks like in your world of religious freedom?

00:51:27.400 Um, well, I mean, there's, there are legal definitions and there are courts that make

00:51:31.560 these determinations and we have, uh, hundreds of thousands probably of people in the United

00:51:37.100 States currently seeking asylum status.

00:51:39.300 And I, I pulled that number out of the air, so I'm not certain, but I'm certain it's thousands

00:51:43.540 that are seeking and courts make that determination.

00:51:46.460 But generally the situation that has to prevail is that they were from or in a country where in

00:51:52.680 their set of beliefs, they could not, uh, function, they were subject to, uh, terrorism, to arrest,

00:52:00.460 uh, that they were not allowed to go to school, uh, or to practice their, uh, freedom, uh, freely

00:52:07.960 so that they had this level of systematic persecution that was taking place at the hands of the government,

00:52:14.720 uh, or that they had no protection, uh, provided by the government.

00:52:19.080 And this was allowed to take place against them.

00:52:21.400 Those are the sort of factual situations that you're looking for on an asylum status, which

00:52:28.480 is, which can often be pretty hard to, to, uh, actually achieve to meet the factual setting

00:52:35.000 that we require to grant somebody a legal asylum status.

00:52:38.980 Is the, the increase of religious persecution, is it a factor of the governments of the world

00:52:47.940 getting worse, or is it a factor that the churches have pretty much fallen asleep at the switch?

00:52:58.480 Uh, you know, I ask this question of experts all the time, uh, because it seemed like to me

00:53:03.500 that we had a burst of religious freedom after the fall of communism.

00:53:07.340 Yes.

00:53:08.260 That those nations opened up, there was a, just, there was a freedom that happened that

00:53:12.460 they hadn't breathed for a long period of time.

00:53:14.640 It was more exclusive to there, but there was a nice push of it around the world.

00:53:18.480 And then the things have been constricting, uh, since that period of time.

00:53:21.940 And I was talking with an expert about that earlier this week.

00:53:24.800 And he said, you know, it's a series of factors.

00:53:26.620 It's government seeing religion and its importance, uh, and its impact.

00:53:32.380 And then dabbling in it, in some cases funding it.

00:53:36.120 But if you fund something by government, government's tentacles go into you and they tend towards

00:53:41.620 control, uh, of a means.

00:53:43.940 In other cases, it's a political move by government where a majority faith oriented people, uh,

00:53:50.480 don't like a new minority faith that's coming in and they want them kicked out, uh, limited, 1.00

00:53:57.620 and they'll pursue laws that, uh, that do that.

00:54:00.920 There's any number of factors, but it is probably really reflective as much as anything of the

00:54:06.540 growing importance of religion at a time when much of the world thought religion would be in

00:54:11.380 decline.

00:54:12.520 Uh, the impact and the importance of religion is growing around the world and governments

00:54:18.520 are active, uh, around that space, more active.

00:54:24.440 So let me ask you this, and it kind of goes to what you just said.

00:54:27.620 Um, as I travel the world and I am with persecuted people, uh, and persecuted for their religion,

00:54:37.580 I am struck by how shallow my faith really is.

00:54:46.240 Um, it is, it is remarkable for the country that is known to be one of the most religious,

00:54:54.960 at least in Christianity, how shallow our faith is overall compared to those countries where

00:55:02.320 Christianity is being persecuted.

00:55:04.920 Those people, their faith is remarkably different.

00:55:09.660 Do you agree?

00:55:11.360 Oh, absolutely.

00:55:12.160 I, I, I, I'm around people weekly, uh, whose faith astounds me, uh, whose beautiful faith.

00:55:21.240 And there's a, there's a calm peace, uh, and joy, uh, about them that you're looking, this,

00:55:28.300 you, you can't make that up.

00:55:30.340 Uh, uh, I, I was, um, on the phone with Andrew Brunson, uh, and we worked his case.

00:55:37.680 The president got him out, uh, the president leaned in and got that done.

00:55:42.540 But that man, uh, Andrew Brunson has a remarkable calm and peaceful faith.

00:55:49.240 And he spent two years in a Turkish prison and had great difficulty and lots of spiritual

00:55:54.360 failures, but towards the end is getting successes.

00:55:57.420 And you're just going, yeah, yeah, I, I, you just see the purified faith there.

00:56:02.540 And that's what I get to see regularly.

00:56:04.400 And, and people speaking clearly about miracles and signs and things that they've seen personally

00:56:12.200 that have caused them to, to make this bold proclamation of their faith.

00:56:17.940 It's, it's a gorgeous thing.

00:56:21.040 Ambassador, uh, Sam Brownback, um, you were a, uh, great governor and a great senator.

00:56:26.360 And, uh, and thank you for all of your hard work through the years.

00:56:29.680 And thank you so much for your, your work as the ambassador of, uh, religious, international

00:56:35.300 religious freedom.

00:56:36.400 Thank you, Sam.

00:56:37.220 Appreciate it.

00:56:38.320 My honor.

00:56:39.000 Take care.

00:56:39.460 Thanks, Glenn.

00:56:40.220 Bless you all.

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