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00:02:18.440 Last night I wrote a speech for what I hope the president will say today.

00:02:23.820 If I were writing the speech for Donald Trump, I want to share it with you.

00:02:28.740 This is what I would have him come out and say.

00:02:30.860 My fellow Americans, today we stand together at the dawn of a new chapter in our nation's history.

00:02:37.360 This moment is not just about a new administration.

00:02:39.360 It is about a new commitment to the founding principles that built this republic.

00:02:45.460 It's about the restoration of power to where it rightly belongs, with you, the American people.

00:02:51.760 Far too long our government has drifted from its purpose.

00:02:55.020 Too often it's overreached, overtaxed, overspent, and overwhelmed the very citizens it was created to serve.

00:03:03.140 Today, that era of excess ends.

00:03:07.000 The time has come to reaffirm the truth that our rights come not from government, but from God.

00:03:13.700 Government doesn't create, it can't invent, it can't inspire.

00:03:17.900 Its role is not to command, but to protect, to preserve the freedoms that allow you to build your dreams,

00:03:25.600 for you to raise your family, and you to live your life without interference.

00:03:30.260 For decades, the bloated federal bureaucracy has grown unchecked,

00:03:35.460 sapping the vitality of our economy and the strength of our communities.

00:03:39.360 Departments that were meant to have help have become barriers to progress.

00:03:45.300 Agencies designed to protect have too often been punished and punishing the very people they exist to serve.

00:03:51.500 But today, I pledge to you to dismantle what has become an unaccountable administrative state.

00:03:59.300 And I'm going to begin with closing the Department of Education,

00:04:02.500 returning its power of teaching our children to the parents, to the local communities,

00:04:07.040 to the state government, where it belongs.

00:04:10.160 Washington, D.C. has no business deciding what our children learn or how they're taught.

00:04:15.440 But I'm not going to stop there.

00:04:18.440 Any department or agency that is ineffective, inefficient, or usurps the rights of the states or the people

00:04:25.640 will face the same scrutiny and same end.

00:04:29.840 The balance of power has shifted too far from the people to the unelected officials

00:04:38.660 who believe they answer to no one.

00:04:40.520 So let me be clear.

00:04:42.180 They answer to the president.

00:04:43.580 And as your chief executive, I answer to you.

00:04:47.720 The administrative state will be reduced in size and scope.

00:04:51.760 Those who think today that they can outlast this administration and maintain the status quo

00:04:58.200 will find that the days of faceless power are over.

00:05:02.880 Now, the national debt.

00:05:04.920 It's a silent thief.

00:05:06.480 That's all it is.

00:05:07.540 Robbing future generations of their prosperity.

00:05:10.020 Overspending has put us on a perilous path, and no responsible leader can allow it to continue.

00:05:16.260 We will balance the federal budget by making government smaller, smarter, and more focused.

00:05:22.360 Programs that don't deliver results are going to be eliminated.

00:05:26.620 Fraud, waste, and abuse will be rooted out.

00:05:29.900 And as we reduce the size of government,

00:05:32.020 we are going to unleash the potential of the private sector to drive innovation,

00:05:36.780 create jobs, and build wealth.

00:05:38.860 To those who say it can't be done, I say this.

00:05:43.820 Watch us.

00:05:45.300 This is not a time for excuses, but bold action.

00:05:49.080 We are going to leave our children not a legacy of debt, but a legacy of opportunity.

00:05:55.680 Now, no American who abides by our laws should ever live in fear of the government.

00:06:00.640 But today, far too many Americans do.

00:06:04.460 Whether it's political persecution, administrative overreach, or an unbalanced justice system.

00:06:10.700 Many have been silenced or crushed by the weight of this government that was supposed to serve them.

00:06:16.900 I'm going to ensure that justice is blind, fair, and free from political influence.

00:06:23.440 Those who broke our laws on either side of the aisle, they will be held accountable.

00:06:29.880 But let me also say this.

00:06:31.040 Political persecution will end on my watch.

00:06:33.820 It has no place in a free society.

00:06:36.580 We're going to restore common law in our courtrooms, common sense in our schools,

00:06:41.460 and common decency in our public discourse.

00:06:45.080 We're going to ensure that the Bill of Rights is not just words on paper, but a living promise to every American.

00:06:50.560 A nation without borders, a nation without laws, is a nation that does not exist.

00:06:58.520 For far too long, our borders have been porous, leaving us vulnerable to the trafficking of drugs, children, and human lives.

00:07:06.840 This is not compassion.

00:07:08.360 This is chaos.

00:07:10.060 And it ends now.

00:07:12.240 We're going to secure our borders.

00:07:14.500 We're going to enforce our laws.

00:07:16.640 We are going to deport those who have entered illegally. 1.00

00:07:20.300 And to the cartels that profit from this evil, consider this your notice.

00:07:26.220 Comply with our laws, or we will destroy your operation with the full might and power of the United States.

00:07:33.960 Every American has a right to feel safe in their home, their neighborhood, and their community.

00:07:38.920 We're going to ensure that law enforcement has the tools and support they need to do their jobs.

00:07:45.160 And we will back the blue.

00:07:48.040 We're also going to end the endless wars abroad because they've drained our resources and diverted our focus from our own people.

00:07:56.420 We're going to bring our troops home from the conflicts all over the world.

00:08:01.380 We're going to stop sending money to Ukraine.

00:08:04.360 We're not going to send troops to the Middle East.

00:08:06.400 We're going to stand firm against tyranny, mark my words, but we're not going to waste American lives and treasures on war that doesn't serve our national interest.

00:08:16.940 We're going to confront evil where it exists, but we're going to do it with clarity, strength, and purpose, and we will do it quickly and come home.

00:08:27.280 We will no longer coexist with those who traffic in human misery at any level or seek to destroy the innocent. 1.00

00:08:36.420 America will lead the world by example, not by endless entanglements.

00:08:41.560 And to those despots, terrorists, and simple opportunists, understand this.

00:08:47.900 The blue American passport means something again beginning today.

00:08:53.180 It means the holder is an American citizen.

00:08:56.460 Now, citizens should know that this government works for them.

00:09:00.320 But if they enter a foreign country, they need to know they need to abide by that country's laws.

00:09:05.600 But those countries or individuals, groups that do not care about international law understand that if you take, hurt, or kill an American citizen, you should begin to count your life in days, hours, and minutes.

00:09:21.020 Because the blue passport means American protection and power for every citizen.

00:09:27.440 You take our citizens, you will pay the ultimate price without delay and without any mercy. 0.57

00:09:35.600 Domestically, this is a moment of healing.

00:09:41.300 Our wounds and division have scarred our nation.

00:09:45.680 They haven't broken us, but they've scarred us.

00:09:49.220 To those who have felt forgotten, I want you to know today I see you.

00:09:54.440 To those who have felt silenced, I hear you.

00:09:57.640 And to those who have lost faith in the promise of America, I pledge to you to do everything in my power to restore it.

00:10:05.600 We're not a country defined by the bitterness of the past, but by the possibilities of the future.

00:10:12.460 Together, we will renew the spirit of our nation.

00:10:15.880 Together, we will rekindle the flame of freedom that has always guided us.

00:10:21.880 Today, we need to remember who we are.

00:10:24.680 We are the heirs of pioneers and builders and dreamers.

00:10:29.240 We're a nation of liberty and opportunity, of faith and courage.

00:10:33.940 This is your country.

00:10:36.940 Its future is in your hands.

00:10:40.060 It's not the government.

00:10:42.620 But you, the workers, the dreamers, the parents, the patriots,

00:10:47.440 you are the engine of this nation.

00:10:50.060 So, as Lincoln said, let us heal the wounds of this division with the balm of unity.

00:10:58.760 Let's speak to one another with respect, debate with civility, and strive together for the common good.

00:11:05.720 The challenges before us are great, but so is our resolve.

00:11:10.940 The promise of America is alive and our best days are yet to come.

00:11:14.920 Together, we will and can build a nation that is stronger, freer, and more prosperous than ever before.

00:11:23.320 We just need to rise above our differences and unite in a common purpose.

00:11:29.240 Let us be a government that works for the people, not against them.

00:11:33.320 Let's be a nation that inspires the world, not through dominance, but through our example.

00:11:39.200 The work ahead isn't going to be easy, but nothing worth it.

00:11:44.920 Whatever it is, together, we're going to reclaim the promise of America,

00:11:50.940 not just for ourselves, but also for our children and their children and their children's children.

00:11:57.060 Today marks the beginning of a new golden age for our nation.

00:12:02.140 May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America.

00:12:05.640 That's what I want to hear our president say today.

00:12:08.100 That's the kind of promises I want him to make, and that's the kind of attitude I want him to share.

00:12:19.480 Absolute firmness in his resolve to get the work of the people done,

00:12:25.960 but also to unite, to inspire, to uplift us, to turn the page from the past,

00:12:35.920 and bring us into a new, better chapter of America.

00:12:41.700 From Washington, D.C., our live coverage on Blaze TV begins in two hours.

00:12:46.840 It will begin on this national radio broadcast.

00:12:49.180 After the broadcast is over, Blaze TV will continue the coverage.

00:12:54.680 We've got about a five-hour program.

00:12:56.520 We hope you're with us the entire day.

00:12:58.980 We're going to tell you what it was like here in Washington last night,

00:13:01.800 what it's like this morning, what's happening now as they prepare Donald Trump to take the oath.

00:13:08.240 We're also going to talk to you a little bit about security in this city,

00:13:11.860 because it's quite remarkable.

00:13:14.660 Things I've never seen in America, I've seen just yesterday here in Washington, D.C.

00:13:20.840 Now, is it true, Glenn, that if people wanted to see this coverage,

00:13:23.140 they would go to blaze47.com?

00:13:25.080 Oh, my gosh.

00:13:25.840 It is true.

00:13:26.620 Because I've been seeing reports on that.

00:13:27.800 I don't know if it's accurate.

00:13:28.740 I heard.

00:13:29.220 You heard reports on that?

00:13:30.300 Yeah.

00:13:30.480 If you use the code 47, people are saying on the internets that you'd get $47 off.

00:13:35.480 I have to tell you, the internets usually are not accurate,

00:13:38.860 but that's an accurate description of what's going on right now.

00:13:43.040 And I'm also hearing we're going to be taking questions exclusively from Blaze TV subscribers.

00:13:48.060 Yeah, but hang on just a second.

00:13:49.260 Hold on.

00:13:49.720 I'm just getting.

00:13:50.760 Oh, wow.

00:13:51.520 Yeah, I'm just getting an update on that.

00:13:53.040 Yes, you have to be a Blaze subscriber to be able to do that.

00:13:56.840 That news is just breaking right now.

00:13:59.000 That's huge.

00:13:59.660 Another big news day.

00:14:01.640 Yeah, it is.

00:14:02.260 It is.

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00:15:14.280 Now, back to the podcast.

00:15:17.220 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:21.940 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program, live from Washington, D.C.

00:15:25.200 The Blaze News senior editor for politics and Blaze Media Washington correspondent

00:15:31.100 and overall good guy and also the author of the Beltway Brief at theblaze.com

00:15:39.540 slash Bedford, something you should read every morning when it comes.

00:15:44.040 Chris Bedford is with us now.

00:15:46.640 And, you know, Chris, I said something about the Capitol earlier,

00:15:51.400 and I said it just to make sure that everybody was listening.

00:15:55.280 I was wondering.

00:15:56.060 Oh, that's what that was?

00:15:56.500 Yeah, that's what it was.

00:15:57.620 I was just making sure.

00:15:58.620 Actually, correction here on the outdoor inauguration.

00:16:04.940 Yes, Ronald Reagan did move the inauguration,

00:16:07.560 and he did it in a populist direction.

00:16:09.040 He's the first one to move it to the west side of the Capitol,

00:16:11.540 facing the National Mall with that big, beautiful shot.

00:16:14.300 So you've seen outdoor inaugurations before.

00:16:16.360 You can see the old photograph of Lincoln's second inaugural.

00:16:19.100 All right, all right.

00:16:19.720 The booth is in the crowd.

00:16:20.580 All right, all right.

00:16:21.460 It was Calvin Coolidge, but it was always facing East Capitol.

00:16:24.200 It was even harder to get a ticket back then.

00:16:26.080 Really?

00:16:26.320 Now, is the East Capitol indoors? 1.00

00:16:27.880 Shut up, Stu. 0.98

00:16:28.460 A dome over it? 1.00

00:16:29.260 Shut up. 1.00

00:16:30.020 Yes. 1.00

00:16:30.860 Yes.

00:16:31.400 An iron dome.

00:16:32.360 An iron dome.

00:16:33.080 An iron dome.

00:16:34.080 Yeah, I should have.

00:16:34.680 I should have.

00:16:35.560 I mean, we were just talking about a William Henry Harrison

00:16:38.340 is the guy who caught cold and died 30 days.

00:16:41.700 Because didn't he speak for like two hours?

00:16:43.840 He just kept going on and on and on. 0.95

00:16:46.440 And they're like, oh, I wish he would die.

00:16:48.800 And 31 days later, he died.

00:16:50.580 And his doctors were called incompetent for that.

00:16:53.520 And I think the responsibility really was his, quite honestly.

00:16:58.000 Well, it doesn't really have anything to do with cold, right?

00:17:00.460 That's not true. 0.99

00:17:02.140 Shut up, Stu. 1.00

00:17:03.100 Are you a doctor? 1.00

00:17:03.840 I used to.

00:17:04.460 Are you a doctor?

00:17:05.040 Well, you know, if his hair was wet.

00:17:07.200 When it's cold indoors, you can get it that way.

00:17:10.180 I think like when he was on the other side of the Capitol.

00:17:12.480 In the dome.

00:17:13.520 All right.

00:17:14.240 So, Chris, how are things?

00:17:16.080 What are you expecting today?

00:17:17.520 What has the weekend been like for you?

00:17:19.400 What have you seen and witnessed?

00:17:20.780 The weekend, I mean, people still dissented on Washington, D.C.

00:17:23.880 Even though so much has been canceled of the public events,

00:17:27.180 non-refundable four nights in hotels in D.C. have not been canceled.

00:17:30.520 Yeah.

00:17:30.660 So, a lot of people decided to instead pack out the bars and restaurants,

00:17:34.360 go to these brunches, go to the concerts.

00:17:36.680 And it's been such an incredible shift in the vibe from 2017

00:17:40.620 when we were told that nothing was...

00:17:43.740 I mean, now you've got designer brands advertising

00:17:46.800 that they're dressing the second lady.

00:17:49.960 Unbelievable, isn't it?

00:17:50.980 You've got Snoop Dogg performing at these events.

00:17:53.820 It is...

00:17:54.580 The whole thing has changed.

00:17:56.020 And actually, for the first time in...

00:17:57.740 The first inauguration I attended in person, also very cold,

00:18:00.500 was George W. Bush's second inaugural.

00:18:02.880 And the big difference here is how hard it's been

00:18:07.240 to get a ticket to anything.

00:18:08.540 D.C. thrives off of free tickets.

00:18:10.420 People at D.C. don't like...

00:18:11.840 They spend your money on a million programs.

00:18:13.840 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:14.360 Lord knows they're not spending their money to get to the party.

00:18:16.800 This year, they can't because Silicon Valley, corporate America,

00:18:20.540 everyone's ponied up $200 million raised

00:18:23.660 for a $50 million event that's been canceled.

00:18:25.780 All of those tickets have evaporated.

00:18:28.540 They've gone away, and they've gone to people who've paid for them.

00:18:30.180 Which, you know, it's a wonderful thing to have a sold-out event.

00:18:33.320 But it is tough for us guys here in D.C.

00:18:36.060 who just like a free beer.

00:18:37.420 Right.

00:18:37.940 I have to tell you,

00:18:39.740 the change is absolutely remarkable.

00:18:43.140 I attended the YouTube...

00:18:46.780 I don't even know what they call it.

00:18:49.480 Get Together.

00:18:49.940 There was about 30 YouTubers that were influencers that were invited.

00:18:57.360 And I'm standing there, and the CEO of YouTube comes up.

00:19:02.060 Very nice guy.

00:19:03.780 But he tells me about,

00:19:05.840 you don't know how hard it's been to hold the line, you know,

00:19:08.860 there at YouTube to keep, you know, keep things going.

00:19:11.540 And you guys are really important.

00:19:13.140 And I thought to myself,

00:19:14.020 wow, everything has changed.

00:19:16.380 I'm hearing the president of YouTube tell me about how hard it was

00:19:19.760 to hold the line on freedom of speech.

00:19:24.320 I didn't expect that one coming.

00:19:26.780 And I don't think anybody in the room expected to be sitting in the room with YouTube.

00:19:31.640 I don't know.

00:19:32.880 And hearing praise just six months ago.

00:19:36.120 But here we are.

00:19:37.520 And it's wonderful.

00:19:38.280 In 2017, I went to a party with Facebook.

00:19:41.240 We threw it the Daily Caller for the inauguration.

00:19:43.140 And it was a grim,

00:19:44.620 even though it was a great success as far as any kind of event goes,

00:19:47.780 it was a grim atmosphere for the employees.

00:19:49.840 And it was the last thing that they did with conservatives for years and years after that.

00:19:53.460 Oh, yeah.

00:19:53.740 Because of the revolt.

00:19:54.980 And one of the things that Trump will hopefully be able to accomplish,

00:19:57.380 and Bill Barr gave a hint of this at the end of Trump's first term,

00:20:00.780 which is penalizing going after companies that discriminate against white men,

00:20:04.940 calling that racial discrimination.

00:20:06.480 No need to change any laws.

00:20:07.680 These things are already on the books.

00:20:08.940 And a lot of these CEOs, they're risk-averse.

00:20:13.640 So when they're faced with an angry HR department run by woke college graduates, 0.86

00:20:20.080 they just kind of run away.

00:20:22.140 This sort of thing, this sort of action will give them the legal tools to say no.

00:20:26.560 And they don't have to be the bad guy.

00:20:27.800 They can say, it's not my fault.

00:20:29.080 And I don't think they would have wanted to say no a few years ago.

00:20:32.620 But they now see that they're running with a pack of revolutionaries.

00:20:37.380 They're not afraid of Donald Trump as much as they're afraid of their own employees

00:20:40.700 and what those employees can do to their companies.

00:20:44.800 And they're trying to run for cover as much as they possibly can.

00:20:49.860 But again, you know, I really don't think that, I think people like Mark Zuckerberg, 0.97

00:20:56.260 I hate to say this, but I think he's a coward.

00:21:00.200 And he's using the cover of Elon Musk and others to go, 0.96

00:21:04.000 hey, hey, the world's changing, the world's changing.

00:21:06.140 He's got to get away from these revolutionaries that are in his company.

00:21:10.800 But they're the ones who actually run it.

00:21:13.120 And I think they're afraid.

00:21:14.920 He wants to be liked.

00:21:16.280 I mean, that's his whole thing.

00:21:17.280 That's Facebook's whole thing.

00:21:18.320 He wants to be liked.

00:21:19.880 And even during the darkest days of Facebook censorship,

00:21:23.640 he was always trying to get up ahead and blame other people for it.

00:21:26.920 So he set up the whole outside fact-checkers department.

00:21:29.220 So he said, unlike early Twitter, I'm not going to do the fact-checking.

00:21:32.800 It's not my fault.

00:21:33.780 Someone else did it.

00:21:34.600 Some nonprofit funded in Europe is fact-checking American articles at the blaze

00:21:38.800 and trying to shut them down for printing entirely true things.

00:21:41.800 And he's kind of maybe like a techno-libertarian futurist in a way.

00:21:45.000 He's not ideological like Jeff Bezos might be.

00:21:48.720 He's someone who's just trying to thread that needle.

00:21:50.400 And because of that and the cowardice with it, he's ended up making everyone upset.

00:21:54.360 Yeah.

00:21:54.680 So let's just talk just for 30 seconds about TikTok.

00:21:58.900 TikTok is the president has now said a delay on the implementation of a law that was passed by Congress.

00:22:06.680 I don't know how you do that through executive order, but he's delaying it.

00:22:11.960 How do you feel about TikTok?

00:22:13.800 I mean, I think that TikTok is generally brain rot, and I would love those sorts of things to not be allowed in general.

00:22:19.000 But what the law that Congress passed is so narrow, it just says, hey, you can have TikTok.

00:22:24.340 It just can't be controlled by the Chinese military.

00:22:26.500 And that seems like a pretty basic thing.

00:22:28.700 And so many people have been obfuscating on that.

00:22:30.420 But at the same time, Donald Trump got more impressions on TikTok with his videos and the things he put out than on any other social media platform.

00:22:38.940 It's something that he said, all right, fine.

00:22:40.600 It's a weapon against the American people. 0.87

00:22:42.060 It's spying on them.

00:22:43.180 All of big tech is spying on the American people and weaponized against them, as we've learned.

00:22:47.760 He's going to try, and I suspect he'll try to thread the needle on doing the art of the deal here, where he gets someone to buy TikTok.

00:22:56.220 To take his hands off it, he says, look, I've preserved TikTok, I've allowed it, but you have to force that sale.

00:23:02.220 Congress and Supreme Court have backed it.

00:23:03.820 So let's turn to what happened just this morning.

00:23:07.180 I mean, Joe Biden, even if he knows he's still president of the United States and knows what the name of shoes are, it would surprise me.

00:23:16.620 But, again, in just shocking news, he pardoned everybody part of January 6th, all of the police officers that testified.

00:23:28.540 He pardoned Fauci.

00:23:31.620 I mean, everyone just this morning.

00:23:33.340 You say involved in January 6th.

00:23:34.860 You mean the January 6th committee?

00:23:36.060 Yeah, the committee.

00:23:36.980 Yeah, not the ones involved in January 6th.

00:23:38.620 Nobody was actually in parading all those grandparents and all those old ladies. 0.99

00:23:46.400 They should rot in jail. 0.88

00:23:48.180 But anybody that was on the committee. 0.95

00:23:51.260 And, like, their aides.

00:23:52.820 Yes, everybody.

00:23:53.820 He went deep on this.

00:23:54.900 Again, there's no real reason to believe something like this could even hold up.

00:23:58.620 I don't think it holds up to scrutiny.

00:24:00.300 I don't think you can just pardon people for crimes.

00:24:02.320 Yeah, I think you can.

00:24:02.980 I think the president can.

00:24:04.060 There's real questions on that.

00:24:05.260 I mean, I know the Brookings Institution wrote back, and when they were, you know, again, when they were talking about Trump doing it for his family, all these places came out and said, actually, you can't do it like that.

00:24:15.960 I don't know.

00:24:16.400 Well, he did it for Hunter.

00:24:17.300 He's done it for everybody.

00:24:18.020 I know, but I don't think that's good.

00:24:18.840 I don't think those are legal.

00:24:20.180 That would be fantastic if that's true.

00:24:22.500 I think the easiest thing to do is to call all those people back in front of Congress.

00:24:27.460 Exactly.

00:24:27.920 Here's what you.

00:24:28.700 They can't plead the fifth.

00:24:29.400 Yes.

00:24:29.780 You can't be implicated.

00:24:31.680 Investigate.

00:24:32.080 I'm not really interested in putting some of these people, some of these people obviously deserve to go to prison, but that's not the main goal here.

00:24:38.000 The main goal here is to find the truth that the American people know it.

00:24:41.580 There's no more pleading the fifth if you've got a blanket pardon.

00:24:43.940 So get your butt in front of Congress or you will be arrested because the last administration set the precedent that if you, if you defy Congress, you are under arrest and going to prison.

00:24:53.220 Put them out in front of these, in front of the committees and get to the bottom of it. 0.94

00:24:56.800 Yep.

00:24:56.960 And I wonder how well that would go.

00:25:00.080 All right.

00:25:00.420 We're going to, we're going to continue.

00:25:02.900 You're going to stay, stick around, be with us for the broadcast a little later.

00:25:06.460 I want to talk about the executive orders that are coming through right now that we're beginning to know he's going to sign kind of an omnibus of executive orders.

00:25:17.860 Up to 200 executive orders are happening today.

00:25:21.400 That is an extraordinary number of executive orders.

00:25:24.840 I do not like executive orders being the, the way of the, the way of governing, but he's mainly undoing everything that has been done to this country by Joe Biden.

00:25:38.660 That makes me feel a little bit better about it.

00:25:40.000 Like I think you could, cause you could go back and find clips of both of us certainly saying how bad executive orders are.

00:25:45.900 They are.

00:25:46.340 And they are.

00:25:46.960 I don't like, that's not our system of government.

00:25:48.660 This can't, this, they, the, all this stuff cannot stand just through executive order.

00:25:53.300 Or if God forbid we lose the next term, this president will just, the next president will just reverse all of those orders.

00:26:00.820 You cannot run a country like this.

00:26:03.000 I do feel like it would be worth pursuing some of these changes in with Congress, but when, when a bunch of really egregious things happen in, in this previous administration, the, the only way to quickly reverse the damage is to do it by executive order.

00:26:19.440 And if it was put in by executive order, you can do it that way when it's a law, you have to go through Congress.

00:26:25.340 Um, so that's a different story, but most of this stuff isn't, these aren't laws.

00:26:30.100 These are just terrible things that Biden has done.

00:26:32.720 Right.

00:26:33.020 And so I'm excited.

00:26:34.520 It's going to be a fun day today.

00:26:35.820 We're gonna have a lot to report on.

00:26:37.500 Yeah.

00:26:37.680 I mean, they're saying is maybe as many as 200 executive orders today.

00:26:41.980 Yeah, I know.

00:26:43.060 I know.

00:26:43.320 I've got some of them.

00:26:44.840 I've got a list of, uh, quite a few of them and they are stunning.

00:26:49.160 Can we add some?

00:26:49.800 Can we just like, is there a place to submit them?

00:26:51.580 Can we just like, you know, maybe just write them up on like post-it notes and see if we

00:26:57.720 can just give them to the president before he walks up there.

00:26:59.900 Back in just a second with more, our blaze TV coverage of the inauguration begins at 11

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00:27:47.760 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:27:54.000 Hello, Stu.

00:27:55.360 Glenn, how are you?

00:27:56.160 Oh my gosh.

00:27:57.920 Exciting.

00:27:58.240 It's an exciting day.

00:27:59.140 Oh, it's so exciting.

00:28:00.440 It is really though.

00:28:01.140 No, it is.

00:28:01.620 I, I actually am optimistic.

00:28:03.340 I said this last night to several people.

00:28:05.320 Came up.

00:28:06.240 How you, how you doing Glenn?

00:28:07.420 How you, what are you feeling?

00:28:08.260 And I'm like, I'm optimistic since the first time since 9-11.

00:28:11.140 So, uh, it's been a long time since I've been optimistic.

00:28:14.840 Wait, you were optimistic on 9-11?

00:28:17.160 No, no, no.

00:28:17.640 Wow.

00:28:18.060 That's, I mean, was it Mohamed Atta we're talking to?

00:28:20.740 Yeah.

00:28:21.100 From midnight till 8 a.m.

00:28:23.180 I was optimistic and then it went away.

00:28:26.160 Okay.

00:28:26.340 Okay.

00:28:26.800 You got it?

00:28:27.860 Jeez.

00:28:28.400 Give me a break.

00:28:29.560 I'm operating on like two and a half hours sleep and it wasn't good sleep either.

00:28:33.620 This is why I'm taking advantage of it.

00:28:35.300 I can tell you have no sleep.

00:28:37.320 I have no sleep. 0.99

00:28:38.080 Every mistake you make, I'm going to call you a terrorist. 0.95

00:28:40.980 Thank you. 0.67

00:28:42.700 That's a, wow.

00:28:44.380 That's, that's kind of a hard line.

00:28:46.260 Yeah.

00:28:46.540 Really?

00:28:46.920 A bit of a hard line.

00:28:48.080 Julio is here.

00:28:49.480 He's Blaze Media national correspondent.

00:28:51.560 Hello.

00:28:51.920 How are you?

00:28:52.700 I'm excited too.

00:28:53.900 Are you?

00:28:54.300 I'm excited too.

00:28:55.040 Although I wouldn't say since 9-11 because I think I was in like first grade or something.

00:28:58.680 Okay.

00:28:59.080 Thank you.

00:28:59.360 All right.

00:28:59.840 All right.

00:29:00.360 Thank you for that.

00:29:01.580 That makes you even feel old.

00:29:03.060 Imagine how I feel.

00:29:04.560 I know.

00:29:06.740 So you're going out and now I'm kind of glad we're sending you into the danger zone after

00:29:11.300 that comment.

00:29:13.020 But you're going out and you're going to be mixed in with the protesters today.

00:29:18.760 Have you been here this weekend and been kind of watching them a little bit?

00:29:22.760 Yeah.

00:29:23.040 And I mean, and we were talking about this before.

00:29:24.640 I mean, it is certainly a stark difference from 2016, 2017.

00:29:28.140 I mean, because everyone was so shocked.

00:29:29.440 I mean, I was shocked when, when Trump won.

00:29:31.060 Right.

00:29:31.320 And so that's why there was that initial outburst.

00:29:34.000 And actually that's what got me to go into journalism full time.

00:29:37.180 Because like, I remember on election night seeing protests from students in California

00:29:40.540 after the results were called since it wasn't too late for them.

00:29:43.140 And just realizing in that moment that we're about to enter like a whole new set of craziness.

00:29:47.260 Um, and then of course, you know, then 2020 happened, which, you know, blew, blew everything

00:29:51.860 off, off its doors.

00:29:52.700 And so, um, I, I, I, I will say I'm a little bit shocked at how low energy the street resistance

00:30:00.220 has been, uh, since the election.

00:30:02.840 Um, I, I was expecting a little bit more like on election night and nothing happened.

00:30:07.420 Um, I'm not expecting too much craziness again, like 2017 today, because it is so cold.

00:30:12.480 I mean, it's, it feels like 10 degrees outside, but I think once, you know, like with the executive

00:30:18.200 orders with, with the border and immigration, and then the legislation that will come after

00:30:22.880 that, I think that's going to kind of re-incentivize people to get back out there because we just

00:30:26.720 saw this, I mean, even just like last week over in, uh, Bakersfield in California, where

00:30:31.040 there's reports of ICE raids and a lot of, you know, uh, immigration, pro-immigration

00:30:36.740 protesters showed up and just started protesting.

00:30:38.820 It didn't get, you know, violent or anything, but it kind of shows that, you know, now you

00:30:42.600 put that on a national, you know, scale where it's at front and center.

00:30:45.980 Trump is going to be, you know, sounding the horn on that again and again.

00:30:48.940 He's going to hit that over and over.

00:30:50.460 I think people are going to start to get back out into the streets again.

00:30:54.500 Um, and, um, and I'll, I'll, I'll be sure to be there for what happens.

00:30:57.820 Good for you.

00:30:58.520 So we don't have to be, you're going to be out there.

00:31:00.940 Isn't it surprising too, that, you know, it was the women's March in, in 2017, they

00:31:05.920 added all the other 93 genders.

00:31:07.940 It's now the people's March.

00:31:09.080 Yeah.

00:31:09.340 Same organization.

00:31:10.240 Yeah.

00:31:10.520 And there's fewer people.

00:31:11.320 And some non-people, people who, you know, describe themselves as non-people.

00:31:15.140 It's sad.

00:31:15.800 So it's, and now like no one's out there.

00:31:18.180 And I think they've already put the litter boxes out for, you know, that's the nice

00:31:22.620 thing about these protests.

00:31:23.760 They get, you know, they get a permit.

00:31:25.060 Usually you have to have, you know, port-a-potties, but they just put a box with litter, you know,

00:31:29.940 litter box in there and then they can scratch and poop right there in the little box. 0.93

00:31:33.680 It's very nice.

00:31:34.140 Scratching posts are a nice.

00:31:35.440 Yes.

00:31:35.880 Yes.

00:31:36.260 Yes.

00:31:37.280 So what do you think is, uh, how much of this is real?

00:31:43.480 How much of this is, uh, people that are, um, that are like, you know what?

00:31:50.160 I I've seen the light.

00:31:51.440 I'm not going to go protest.

00:31:52.540 And how much is I'm going to keep my powder dry and, uh, and we're, we're planning and

00:31:59.940 plotting.

00:32:01.000 I think it's still very much in the planning and plotting stage.

00:32:03.540 Um, because I mean, that's one of the, that's one of the kind of the big polls that they're

00:32:08.680 kind of dancing around in terms of what, what they're going to be out there for is, is immigration.

00:32:12.380 I mean, there's a, you know, refugees are welcome here, you know, all, all of that.

00:32:16.160 Um, and so I think once then the media hype around that, where, you know, they're going

00:32:21.460 to try to have their own narratives.

00:32:23.300 All these kids are being taken from their parents that don't look like a parent, but they look 0.99

00:32:29.380 more like they're selling those kids into sex slavery. 1.00

00:32:32.980 Yeah. 0.98

00:32:33.240 I understand that's coming.

00:32:34.660 Yeah.

00:32:34.860 So I think that's going to kind of re reinvigorate people.

00:32:37.860 I mean, I think that's kind of like kind of the word for today is for at least for the

00:32:41.180 leftist side is that they're just kind of waiting and seeing what actually, cause I think, I

00:32:44.340 think some of them are hoping that, Oh, well, Oh, Trump didn't follow through the first time.

00:32:48.740 So he's not going to follow through the second time.

00:32:49.960 But I mean, a lot has obviously changed.

00:32:51.720 I mean, the guy got shot at for Pete's sake.

00:32:53.200 Oh yeah.

00:32:53.500 Um, so I, I don't think, I don't think on the big stuff, because also just because I

00:32:58.660 mean, he, I mean, he can't, he can't, the Republicans, GOP as a whole, they can't fail

00:33:03.220 on this issue.

00:33:04.640 This was, I mean, the fact that the border and immigration was essentially number two

00:33:09.000 behind the economy, which the economy was affected by the out of control immigration 1.00

00:33:12.720 border.

00:33:13.560 I mean, that is a big, that is a big deal.

00:33:15.820 And the fact that we saw, you know, Latino heavy districts in big cities and states like

00:33:20.300 Pennsylvania, go towards Trump.

00:33:22.080 I mean, this is a layup.

00:33:23.960 This is a layup for the Republican party here in Washington.

00:33:27.920 Um, so let's hopefully they, they take that, right?

00:33:31.280 I will tell you the, uh, the people I talked to in the last couple of days, they're all

00:33:36.320 cost cautiously optimistic.

00:33:38.900 Um, anybody who has spoken to the president in the last few weeks, and I, I would, uh, agree

00:33:44.380 with this over the last few months, but anybody who is, um, as he is getting ready to go

00:33:49.780 into the white house, they say he is laser focused and he is going to complete this mission.

00:33:56.360 Uh, and top priority is to secure the nation, uh, and its borders.

00:34:02.140 Yeah.

00:34:02.580 Yeah.

00:34:02.860 And so I think, so once that starts to happen, I think then we're going to see that because,

00:34:08.660 I mean, cause there's precedent with the first Trump administration.

00:34:10.320 I mean, in the Pacific Northwest, uh, during 2020, the ice facility, even though this was

00:34:16.300 a, even though it was mainly a local police thing, they would targeted the ice facility

00:34:20.120 there just because it's, you know, Trump's ice.

00:34:22.560 And, uh, in Washington, the, they had that Antifa guy try to fire bomb and try to set on

00:34:27.480 fire the, the ice station there.

00:34:28.860 So, so there is, there is like a serious potential for things to get out of, out of control from

00:34:33.620 the left.

00:34:34.320 Have you ever seen anything change this much?

00:34:36.800 I mean, the polling is 80%, uh, of the American people are saying, send back, deport.

00:34:46.160 Have you seen the latest polls that came out this weekend?

00:34:49.280 It's, I mean, it's stunning.

00:34:50.980 It has moved a lot, a lot, um, whether that holds is, is interesting.

00:34:56.180 I mean, you do see, you know, there is a vibe part of this, right?

00:34:59.660 And that's, I think what makes today feel really good.

00:35:02.680 Like the vibes feel good.

00:35:04.840 And I feel like it's been a long time since the vibes felt, you know, good.

00:35:08.320 I don't even think, I don't think the Trump, maybe since nine 11, that was just saying

00:35:12.560 you were the one that just said, really nine 11, the vibes were good.

00:35:19.040 Huh?

00:35:19.240 I said, I hasn't been a long time since the vibes were good.

00:35:23.280 Even in the first Trump term, like it had a different vibe, right?

00:35:28.220 It was like, ah, gosh, things are really, really bad.

00:35:31.180 And we need to change and we need to make America great again.

00:35:33.580 And of course there's a positive, uh, strain in that as well here though.

00:35:38.560 It feels different.

00:35:40.000 It feels like, whoa, this is really happening.

00:35:41.920 Something's really changing today.

00:35:43.500 Oh, there's, yeah.

00:35:44.960 I, I think we're on, I was talking to, um, Patrick, but David last night and I think that

00:35:50.820 guy really gets it.

00:35:52.200 And, um, we were standing there in a room full of people that were, uh, you know, uh, just

00:35:58.740 sucking up to those who are suddenly on their side.

00:36:02.100 And we're just standing there going, these people are not going to have any idea what 0.98

00:36:07.160 hit them.

00:36:07.600 I mean, the really you're, you're believing that these people are now suddenly, oh my gosh, 0.97

00:36:13.420 I have been such an admirer of yours for so long. 0.99

00:36:18.300 And thank goodness Trump's in and you're like, you are such a fraud and phony. 1.00

00:36:23.800 I can't take it. 0.99

00:36:24.840 But it's good that that happens.

00:36:26.740 It just is.

00:36:27.440 As long as it is a rattlesnake, a good pet.

00:36:30.840 Yes.

00:36:31.680 As long as you always remember, it's a rattlesnake.

00:36:34.600 As long as we understand YouTube and Facebook and all of these people that are now coming on

00:36:40.180 board are rattlesnakes that have bit us several times before.

00:36:44.100 Treat them like a rattlesnake.

00:36:45.340 Like you are great.

00:36:46.420 You're going to stay in that little aquarium whenever I'm around.

00:36:50.440 I'm putting you inside of that aquarium.

00:36:52.260 We can knock on the glass and say hi to each other, but I know who you are.

00:36:57.760 Um, and, uh, and Patrick and I were just talking about how there is real change coming beyond

00:37:04.780 what you think is happening with Donald Trump.

00:37:07.480 There is, we are at a place where it's almost like, uh, uh, uh, an, a change of an epic.

00:37:16.920 Uh, it is, it's, uh, it's, we're entering a new time period.

00:37:21.680 I really believe.

00:37:23.240 Um, and that, that encompasses not only politics, but, uh, AI and, and everything else that goes

00:37:30.320 with it.

00:37:31.020 Julio, who are the people that are here today?

00:37:33.940 Who's really actually funding this and running all of this stuff?

00:37:37.540 Well, so we have, I mean, it's kind of, it's always usually the same actors, right?

00:37:41.860 I mean, we have the answer coalition.

00:37:43.320 Code pink has been out and about the democratic socialists of America.

00:37:46.560 I mean, it, I mean, it is like the, the left, the left machine, um, because that has been

00:37:51.820 in place since 2020.

00:37:53.200 Cause I mean, obviously they've had that infrastructure for a long time and they had their, you know,

00:37:57.580 their street, their, their, their street community organizers.

00:37:59.940 Um, but 2020 really saw the money really start to flow, uh, into, into the, because it was

00:38:06.060 the, it was the thing to do from all different sectors of the country.

00:38:10.280 Um, and so even though, yeah, the riots stopped, they never, the, that infrastructure stayed in

00:38:15.800 place and we kind of saw that get reinvent, uh, you know, kind of get restarted, uh, after

00:38:20.780 October 7th.

00:38:21.620 Um, and, um, although I've, I've noticed that even before the ceasefire, uh, came into

00:38:27.020 agreement for months, the, the, that movement had really slowed down a lot, maybe just because

00:38:31.820 they, their, their popularity did not increase, which is surprise, surprise.

00:38:35.740 You block people going to the airport with, you know, their traffic, you're not going to

00:38:39.400 make any friends, although that's the point.

00:38:41.660 That's, that's why they were doing that.

00:38:42.820 Um, so I think, I think, I'm, I think the main thing that is going to get these people

00:38:48.940 to do radical things beyond just street protesting, um, is going to be the issue of immigration.

00:38:54.960 And, and that's why it's going to be such a, it's going to be an uphill battle on certain

00:38:59.060 areas just because like, yeah, you're right.

00:39:01.200 You know, the polling is, is fine right now.

00:39:04.140 Um, but for better or for worse, Americans don't really have a stomach to do what's necessary.

00:39:09.900 Cause even with the action to take against the Mexican cartels, I mean, we've been doing

00:39:14.800 the law enforcement approach for decades.

00:39:17.280 Oh, I think that's going to change.

00:39:18.560 Right.

00:39:18.980 Yeah.

00:39:19.100 That's what I'm saying.

00:39:20.580 That law enforcement approach is not working.

00:39:22.460 So something has to change.

00:39:23.860 And it seems the Trump administration says, all right, we're going to use the military.

00:39:26.820 There'll be a lot of people who would be like, whoa, wait a minute.

00:39:29.360 Like what does this mean?

00:39:30.780 And so, but the war on drugs, right?

00:39:33.080 It's actually going to heat up and be, and look like a war.

00:39:37.220 Right.

00:39:37.620 And so it just, it just depends whether the majority of the, the American people are going

00:39:42.260 to be able to stomach that.

00:39:43.640 I kind of have some doubts about it just because of stuff that I've seen, stuff that I know

00:39:46.800 about what happens in Mexico, um, that unfortunately, but this, the status quo can't, can't, something

00:39:53.580 needs to be radically be different about, about this approach.

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00:40:40.060 Thank you so much.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 20, 2025

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