The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Dan Bongino, Elijah Schaffer, & Sheriff Grady Judd ｜ 6⧸2⧸20

00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Pat Gray, and today on the Glenn Beck radio program,

00:00:04.380 we had Dan Bongino stop by to talk to Glenn about the president's move into the bunker.

00:00:10.920 Does President Trump have a right to unleash the military?

00:00:15.300 Spoiler alert! He does.

00:00:18.040 Also, Elijah Schaefer talks with Glenn about some of the groups he's seeing out on the streets during these riots.

00:00:24.040 And finally, we have Sheriff Grady Judd from Polk County to talk about his press conference that went super viral.

00:00:32.460 All that and more coming up on the podcast.

00:00:40.800 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:44.880 Well, of course, CNN is talking about the White House bolstering its defenses.

00:00:56.940 CNN reported that it was bolstering the White House defenses like authoritarian countries do.

00:01:05.880 Pat, tell me the last time you heard of 50 Secret Service agents hurt in any kind of confrontation.

00:01:13.240 That was the 15th of never.

00:01:17.740 I'm pretty sure.

00:01:19.540 Right?

00:01:20.140 I don't think I've ever heard of that.

00:01:22.500 I don't think I've ever heard of that.

00:01:24.600 And the president doesn't decide when he goes to the bunker.

00:01:28.780 It's my understanding.

00:01:30.360 But somebody who does know this is Dan Bongino, the host of the Dan Bongino show,

00:01:34.900 and a former Secret Service agent that was on the presidential detail at the White House for Barack Obama.

00:01:43.580 Hello, Dan.

00:01:44.120 How are you?

00:01:45.860 Glenn, good to talk to you.

00:01:47.280 Yeah, you're right.

00:01:48.080 That analysis is correct.

00:01:49.500 Okay, so first of all, tell me the last time you heard of any story with 50 Secret Service agents killed

00:02:00.200 at any time in American history, or not killed, but injured.

00:02:04.760 Never.

00:02:05.600 I mean, I can recall being at G7s, UN General Assemblies up in New York,

00:02:12.320 where there was a WTO, where we've had, you know, here and there at perimeters,

00:02:17.240 we've had people injured, things thrown at them, bottles generally.

00:02:21.620 But even overseas, where we were over in Georgia, I wasn't on that trip,

00:02:27.120 but I was in the training center at the time.

00:02:28.800 That time where they threw the grenade at President Bush, I don't know if you remember that one.

00:02:33.020 Even then, the injury count of the agents and staff and everyone was far less than what we saw

00:02:39.220 at this insurrection at the White House.

00:02:41.360 Listen, Glenn, that was not a protest.

00:02:43.900 It should have been, and it could have been.

00:02:46.080 There were obviously legitimate gripes here that should be aired.

00:02:50.440 But that's not what that was.

00:02:52.140 This is an insurrection.

00:02:53.340 It was a riot.

00:02:54.120 And I can tell you from sources of mine that were there, more than credible and unimpeachable,

00:03:01.180 that the attack on the White House, and that's what it was over a period of days,

00:03:05.180 was very organized.

00:03:07.180 It was done using very strategic tactics.

00:03:09.820 They were using this kind of lift and shift model where they would hit a certain point,

00:03:14.400 get the officers there, get the Secret Service Uniform Division there.

00:03:18.420 And then when they got them in one spot, they would move to another spot,

00:03:21.640 trying to sense the Achilles heel.

00:03:23.860 This is not the stuff, Glenn, of a bunch of, like, you know,

00:03:27.340 two-bit criminals who just found themselves at the White House on a Saturday and Sunday night.

00:03:31.920 I want to be crystal clear.

00:03:33.600 This was organized by Antifa terrorists.

00:03:36.560 It's not a joke.

00:03:37.760 It's not hyperbole.

00:03:38.780 These were people committed to an insurrection that was thankfully put down.

00:03:44.880 So, Dan, let me go, before we get back into all of that, let me go back to the other.

00:03:51.440 They're saying that, you know, he was a coward for hiding in the bunker, etc., etc.

00:03:57.180 Does the president have a right to say no when the Secret Service says,

00:04:03.860 you have to move now, Mr. President?

00:04:06.900 Well, let me give you the textbook, and then let's throw out the textbook and talk reality.

00:04:11.720 So the textbook answer to that is no, he doesn't have the right to say no.

00:04:15.840 The Secret Service has the authority under Title 18, U.S. Code 3056 to protect the president,

00:04:21.800 however they deem necessary.

00:04:24.540 Here's the real world.

00:04:26.340 He's the president of the United States, and I always refer back when questions like

00:04:30.060 this come up to that dopey movie, was it The American President or something, Michael

00:04:33.940 J. Fox is the chief of staff, and Margie says, well, I want to get out and jump out

00:04:39.360 here and say hello to some people.

00:04:40.260 And he says something like, you know, there's no jumping, Mr. President.

00:04:42.720 If the president wants to get out and jump out and say hello to people, he's going to

00:04:45.740 do it.

00:04:46.040 I can't tell you how many times we told President Bush and President Obama, it's probably

00:04:49.960 not a good idea that you do this, and they do it anyway.

00:04:52.600 I mean, I can only recall one situation where they shut the president down when they told

00:04:57.820 him we are absolutely not going to do this.

00:05:00.060 So, you know, if he says, well, I'm not going, they're probably not going to take him.

00:05:05.760 Having said that, in a situation like that, where there was very little doubt amongst those

00:05:09.940 people, they were trying to storm that White House.

00:05:12.180 I think they would have overrode in there.

00:05:14.320 So, Mr. President, we're really sorry.

00:05:15.740 You can punish us later for this, but we've got to go.

00:05:18.680 He did not make that call.

00:05:20.960 Dan, you know that I'm protected by Gavin DeBecker and Associates, and you know who they

00:05:27.120 are, I'm sure.

00:05:28.740 And there is a difference between when they say, we highly recommend, we really don't want

00:05:36.340 you to, and I can override them.

00:05:38.800 But there are also times that I have been where they have picked me up by my pants, like

00:05:43.420 the president and thrown me into the car and said, I'm sorry, you're not doing it, or

00:05:49.420 we're not protecting you.

00:05:51.380 We will not guarantee your safety on this.

00:05:54.460 We won't protect you.

00:05:55.220 And we've gone to war zones and everything else.

00:05:58.240 But there has been a couple of times where they said no, and I had no choice unless I wanted

00:06:04.360 to fire all of them, which, you know, I didn't.

00:06:08.800 The president can't fire the Secret Service.

00:06:11.640 They do have the right.

00:06:13.360 And if 50 Secret Service men and women were injured there at the White House trying to

00:06:19.460 protect the White House, I got to believe they walked in and said, I don't care what

00:06:23.080 you're saying, Mr. President, 50 Secret Service agents have just been injured.

00:06:27.920 You're in the bunker.

00:06:29.980 Yeah.

00:06:30.380 And yeah, you're right.

00:06:32.180 And just to double down on what you're talking about here.

00:06:35.740 Number one, the president is one of the few protectees who cannot what we call the Secret

00:06:40.320 Service sign off.

00:06:42.060 Other protectees, foreign dignitaries, they can sign off.

00:06:45.860 They can literally sign a piece of paper saying, I don't want you guys here.

00:06:49.740 Whatever.

00:06:50.120 I'm going out to party on a Saturday night.

00:06:51.940 I don't want you around.

00:06:53.220 And the Secret Service can say, OK, there's a there's a paper.

00:06:56.320 They sign it.

00:06:57.360 And that's the end.

00:06:58.120 The president of the United States cannot do that.

00:07:00.800 He has no authority, even himself, to sign off.

00:07:03.600 But none.

00:07:04.420 Zero.

00:07:04.820 Zero, number one.

00:07:05.440 And number two, you're right.

00:07:07.420 But you have a private security team is very good.

00:07:10.340 But they have professional liability standards, too.

00:07:13.040 But if you said, listen, I want to walk into this serial murderers house on a Saturday night

00:07:17.480 while he's high on drugs.

00:07:18.580 And I'd like you guys.

00:07:19.600 And they say, hey, that's a really bad idea.

00:07:21.480 They're not going to let you do it because they'd be humiliated when you get murdered.

00:07:24.940 They'd be on the front page.

00:07:25.960 Correct.

00:07:26.300 Don't be security firm.

00:07:27.520 Let's go in back. 1.00

00:07:28.360 Get himself killed. 1.00

00:07:29.400 They're not going to do that. 0.99

00:07:30.540 So in a situation like Sunday, Saturday night, where we're looking at a darn insurrection 0.64

00:07:34.940 at the White House, I don't blame the Secret Service one bit for saying, Mr. President, 0.84

00:07:38.940 we really got to go.

00:07:40.160 And shame on the media, by the way, for painting this as some kind of situation where Trump ran 0.99

00:07:45.380 like a coward. 0.95

00:07:46.100 You know what he said yesterday? 0.99

00:07:47.100 He said, fellas, hold my beer.

00:07:49.180 You think I'm going to sit in the White House? 1.00

00:07:50.580 I'm going to take my ass. 1.00

00:07:52.120 I'm going to show you the stones I do have. 0.99

00:07:54.420 And whether you like this guy or not, I'm going to walk across the street in the middle

00:07:58.600 of a riot in the middle of D.C.

00:08:00.400 And I'm going to show you whose streets these really are.

00:08:03.000 They're ours.

00:08:03.760 The American people.

00:08:04.840 They're not the streets of the rioters.

00:08:07.260 He's getting heat for that because they used they're actually calling tear gas chemical

00:08:13.220 weapons that he used chemical weapons on that crowd of protesters without any warning,

00:08:20.680 which we know for a fact is not true.

00:08:23.660 We know people that were there and they say that there were two warnings issued warning

00:08:29.520 that evacuate the area, evacuate the area and or or you will be confronted with tear gas.

00:08:39.200 So they warned people and the president, if he's got to go someplace, he's going someplace.

00:08:44.980 And I don't think that was a problem at all.

00:08:47.420 I don't read.

00:08:49.880 Yeah. 0.99

00:08:50.120 And I candidly don't give a rat's ass anymore. 0.99

00:08:53.360 What the media says they're actually putting the president of the United States and government 0.98

00:08:57.120 figures in danger.

00:08:58.300 Oh, my gosh. 0.99

00:08:59.160 Damn, that's rough to say. 0.99

00:09:00.260 Is it really? 0.99

00:09:01.160 Let me tell you something.

00:09:02.260 If they did not report on this bunker incident and it just either kept the lid on it or reported

00:09:07.560 on it responsibly saying, hey, the Secret Service made a security call to remove the 0.99

00:09:11.280 presence of the bunker instead of writing stupid articles like the president runs in shame 0.99

00:09:16.220 to the bunker, which is totally false and made up, Glenn. 1.00

00:09:19.140 Ironically, by writing like that, they incentivize the president to go out and say, listen, now

00:09:24.800 we have to do some kind of symbolic show of force or we're going to lose the White House.

00:09:28.740 They don't understand, like, because they're not smart. 1.00

00:09:31.320 They're morons. 1.00

00:09:32.180 These are imbeciles with double digit IQs who are only in this to aggravate the already 1.00

00:09:37.240 bad situation. 1.00

00:09:38.220 And it's a shame because they're really incentivizing this kind of stuff to happen.

00:09:42.860 They don't even see their role in it.

00:09:44.160 So, Dan, you came to me when I was on Fox.

00:09:49.240 Can I tell this story?

00:09:50.200 Have we told the story before?

00:09:51.540 Of course.

00:09:52.060 My gosh, that was so long ago.

00:09:54.140 That was great.

00:09:54.980 So long ago.

00:09:56.080 Yeah.

00:09:56.440 And you were you were there at the White House during Obama.

00:10:00.680 And you came to me during a show and I remember coming over to shake your hand and say hello.

00:10:07.200 And you said in the break, I'm leaving the White House because I'm watching you and I

00:10:13.060 know I'm seeing, you know, everybody watching in the White House.

00:10:16.820 And I know what you're saying is true.

00:10:19.040 You were there.

00:10:21.560 Can you talk a little bit about Obamagate and, you know, what we're probably not going to even care about at the end of this summer that we should care about?

00:10:32.500 I think I said on your show, a video, I'm pretty sure because the thing went nuclear like fire.

00:10:40.460 This has to be maybe eight, nine years ago.

00:10:42.920 I'm almost positive it was your show where I warned that the problem with the Obama administration was he was surrounded by sycophants who wouldn't tell him what he couldn't do.

00:10:52.760 And when you combine that and you may say and listen, to be fair here, every administration has sycophants.

00:10:59.620 You may say even even the administration now, everyone does.

00:11:02.420 The problem with the Obama administration, I think the warning I gave on your show is when you combine that with this toxic Stu Glenn of media permissibility, where the media, in contrast, with Obama, everything he did was OK.

00:11:14.300 You invite a Lord Acton scenario where power corrupts and what do they say?

00:11:19.720 Oh, great men are, you know, bad men.

00:11:22.100 You have a bad guy, Obama, with a way I think bad motivations, who had no control mechanism.

00:11:27.840 There was no choke points for his behavior.

00:11:30.200 And Obamagate at the end, I had left the Secret Service by the time Obamacate was happening.

00:11:35.020 But from my sources and the books I wrote about it, who were feeding me information about what happened, my FBI guys, it is the biggest scandal in American history.

00:11:43.620 And it's a direct result of the media refusing to call out the president of the United States, refusing and weaponizing the powers at his discretion.

00:11:51.760 It was a shame what he did is disgraceful.

00:11:55.620 So is there a possibility that it is the same deep state that is supporting?

00:12:01.600 I mean, I look at, you know, George Soros and the State Department and the the riots going all the way back to the Arab Spring that they helped produce and topple different governments.

00:12:15.680 This is taking the same kind of course.

00:12:18.700 Is is there a chance that the deep state is involved in this at all?

00:12:24.720 You know, it's funny.

00:12:25.680 We didn't plan this.

00:12:26.540 I didn't talk to you before the show, but I'm actually writing a different book.

00:12:30.180 And I don't even want to I'm not even to tell you that because I'm not interested.

00:12:32.660 But I just want to put this out there.

00:12:33.920 I'm done with it.

00:12:34.760 I actually finished it.

00:12:35.880 And the book is about following this deep state money trail.

00:12:40.060 And it's interesting you bring up Soros, you know, oh, my gosh, you can't talk about.

00:12:44.440 So no, no, I will.

00:12:45.440 I'll talk about whatever the hell I want. 1.00

00:12:46.880 You could kiss my ass. 1.00

00:12:48.260 I'm not listening to any leftist media narrative. 1.00

00:12:51.300 No, I'm dead serious.

00:12:52.540 Like, I give exact.

00:12:53.420 No, I know you are.

00:12:55.220 No, I love you.

00:12:56.360 Yeah, I don't.

00:12:56.940 I mean, I'm not getting these media matters lunatics.

00:12:59.320 I actually have the document and a money trail showing that the same people, Glenn, in this deep state that the left says doesn't exist involved in the spy gate thing and the advancement of false narratives emanating from Ukraine and elsewhere.

00:13:13.100 Trump's a spy, including with the Russians, you know, he's from the Goldfinger James Bond movies.

00:13:18.340 Oh, my gosh.

00:13:19.400 The same exact people were involved in the impeachment hoax.

00:13:23.160 The same people.

00:13:24.040 It's on paper.

00:13:25.440 Just look at the documents.

00:13:27.060 It's on paper.

00:13:27.920 But the media will never tell you that story, because when you bring up Soros.

00:13:31.020 Oh, my gosh, George Soros.

00:13:33.020 Oh, this is you can't bring up.

00:13:34.300 No, I'll bring up whatever the hell I want.

00:13:36.340 And that's in the book.

00:13:37.280 So your assertion there is entirely accurate.

00:13:40.720 It is the exact same people they have.

00:13:44.280 They're all over.

00:13:45.360 Their fingerprints are on everything. 0.96

00:13:47.120 And it's really gross that the media won't get their heads out of their collective rear end and report on this. 0.51

00:13:54.400 Well, there I think they're part of it. 0.81

00:13:56.320 I think they I think they would rather have a world with Antifa than a world with Donald Trump and people who go to church.

00:14:03.980 That's the way it feels, at least.

00:14:05.980 Dan Bongino.

00:14:07.000 Have you seen their covering for them? 0.50

00:14:08.520 I mean, it's gross.

00:14:09.180 I know.

00:14:09.680 I know.

00:14:11.160 Dan Bongino.

00:14:11.920 Great to have you on.

00:14:12.720 You can find him at Bongino dot com.

00:14:15.460 B-O-N-G-I-N-O dot com. 1.00

00:14:18.040 Bongino dot com.

00:14:19.400 And follow him at D Bongino on Twitter.

00:14:21.540 Thank you so much.

00:14:26.780 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:29.320 Let me go to Elijah Schaefer, who has been down with these these rioters for a long time.

00:14:46.360 He's been following Antifa.

00:14:47.500 And when you were up with it with Antifa and you were you were watching them beat people, et cetera, et cetera.

00:14:54.880 You told me at the time, Elijah, that the police would just mysteriously disappear.

00:15:00.020 That's because the police chief and the mayor are are for Antifa seemingly.

00:15:09.000 Are you seeing a difference between other protests and, for instance, the Dallas police as opposed to the the Portland police?

00:15:20.860 Yeah, I think one interesting aspect and I could be correct if I'm wrong.

00:15:28.100 But, Andy, you know, a journalist has talked to me about how, like, the mayor of Portland similarly is the police commissioner.

00:15:35.000 And so some of these mayors have an uncanny amount of power and influence, as we just heard, over the police department,

00:15:42.020 whether indirectly by directing anger from their populace towards them and misrepresenting them or directly by telling them that they can they need to stand down and not do their jobs.

00:15:51.840 But I have absolutely watched not not where that police were overrun in cities like Portland over the years.

00:15:59.400 I watched as they've just begun to gain control on while I don't have a radio.

00:16:04.900 I watched them answer calls, get back on their trucks, in their cars and leave and watch the protests and riots turn violent.

00:16:12.900 And the vandalism increase when they had the opportunity to stop it in its tracks.

00:16:21.840 So what is your take on this, Elijah, as you've watched these guys?

00:16:27.460 I mean, it's really important for top down, bottom up, inside out.

00:16:31.460 That theory that I've been, you know, explaining for the last 15 years that you've got to have people in power.

00:16:39.880 This is the way they flip countries to be communist.

00:16:43.480 You have to have people who are communist in power, but they don't necessarily say they are.

00:16:49.140 But they have enough control to where they can move the system.

00:16:54.820 You have to control the attorney generals and the prosecutors.

00:16:57.860 We know that George Soros has been doing that for a while now.

00:17:02.180 And you have to have these uprisings in the streets.

00:17:05.260 No one prosecuted, no one paying any price until the until the people just stand up and they say to the federal government, help us, help us.

00:17:15.020 Nobody's helping us.

00:17:16.020 And that's when you flip the country to to a Marxist utopia.

00:17:22.460 Does that sound too crazy at this point, Elijah?

00:17:26.560 No, you know, it doesn't, Glenn.

00:17:30.100 And I think what's really important for your listeners to understand is that I have been documenting groups like Revcom, Revolutionary Now, in Los Angeles, for years.

00:17:42.440 Just recently, I had them on camera.

00:17:44.960 They're calling for a revolution in the streets.

00:17:47.820 They are yelling and taunting and they are they are completely calling on people to revolt.

00:17:54.600 And, you know, people laugh at me.

00:17:56.360 Oh, why do you pay attention to this group?

00:17:58.160 Why do you pay attention to that group?

00:17:59.460 And I go, because they are literally calling for an attack on our country, internalizing it and calling for violence in our streets.

00:18:06.880 And I take people seriously that call for threats of violence in our streets.

00:18:11.120 Well, it looks like, you know, it looks like they're not laughing anymore because groups like that are working tirelessly in large cities like Los Angeles to wreak havoc.

00:18:19.540 And they're getting at least the first taste of the revolution.

00:18:22.080 And if we've seen this escalation in just the last couple of years where the media laughed at me, mocked me, called me a propagandist for saying that these were viable threats.

00:18:31.560 It's now just two years later.

00:18:33.280 They're saying, oh, actually, these people are burning down our cities.

00:18:37.120 I wonder if the next step, as we're seeing in the protests last night and riots, that violence in just three days have escalated.

00:18:43.940 So we went from two years to three days.

00:18:46.080 Who knows what's going to happen in the next 24 hours?

00:18:48.200 So tell me what you know about the the brick situation, because I've heard two stories on this and we're close to some some information that I hope to be releasing this week.

00:19:02.200 But at this point, until I have that information, I, I, I don't know if it's just a coincidence.

00:19:12.600 And, you know, Antifa happens to know where the construction site is.

00:19:18.220 And so they they say, hey, everybody meet here.

00:19:20.480 But I've I've I've been around a while now, and most construction sites are fenced off.

00:19:26.920 So you can't go steal a pallet of bricks, which is a lot of money.

00:19:32.320 But these these organizers are meeting at places where there's these these pallets of bricks and they appear to be part of a construction site.

00:19:41.160 Most of them.

00:19:43.360 But is this a coincidence or do you think this is coordinated?

00:19:47.300 That's a really important question.

00:19:51.120 And I want to make sure I only speak to what I know here so that we don't conjecture.

00:19:55.860 I went ahead and spoke to somebody who worked in bricklaying for quite some time.

00:20:00.720 And they confirmed with me that construction sites do not leave bricks out, that they're a commodity that is often stolen.

00:20:07.980 They're also completely sealed, often with wired bars when they're left that continue to keep the package in place after it's brought off of a flatbed.

00:20:16.480 But, you know, Glenn, that night when I made the claim that it was organized, that people were leading people to pallets of bricks, you know, I was mocked online and ridiculed as if maybe just maybe I wasn't trying to start a conspiracy.

00:20:29.160 Maybe I was myself shocked to realize that somebody was looking to increase the violence and the vandalism.

00:20:38.720 And I saw pallets of bricks in places where there was not construction.

00:20:41.980 And I uploaded video footage of even protesters acknowledging in filming like, oh, this is so fishy.

00:20:48.820 I see this is not construction around here.

00:20:51.360 These bricks are here.

00:20:52.620 And there is footage right now online.

00:20:54.260 Your audience can can look it up of right near protests, flatbeds of trucks just coming and just dropping off pallets of bricks the day of the protest while there's caught cars all around.

00:21:05.620 And that's what's most suspicious to me.

00:21:08.540 Cars are there while a flatbed truck goes into a parking lot right next to the protest and drops off two giant pallets of bricks into the middle of a parking lot.

00:21:17.200 I mean, if that doesn't breathe suspicion in the in the eyes of any smart, intelligent American of why bricks are being dropped off in an inner city in front of officers while a riot is ensuing, then I don't know what would.

00:21:30.600 I wonder if the teamsters could answer that question.

00:21:36.020 Teamsters would know who those truck drivers are. 1.00

00:21:39.200 Teamsters would know what what the usual is.

00:21:42.940 I wonder if they would answer that question.

00:21:46.860 Yeah, I absolutely.

00:21:48.680 I absolutely implore anyone with information, whether you work in construction or you have background to try to bring some clarity to the national conversation.

00:21:56.940 And that's why, for the first time, I think Americans are not only realizing that it's up to them to protect themselves, whether it's, you know, from from deadly force that seems to be escalating, where police cannot help them.

00:22:09.460 You know, one pretty liberal individual on Twitter said that he called the police because of an altercation between rioters and his neighbor.

00:22:17.300 And the police said the city is under attack.

00:22:19.740 It's it's on you right now.

00:22:21.940 Do what you do what you need to.

00:22:23.820 And he goes, is this really America?

00:22:25.360 And yes, this is America in a good and a bad way, in a bad way, because we're seeing our own governments that have been falling apart for years, unable to protect us.

00:22:35.220 But on a good way, because America has always been by the people and for the people.

00:22:39.020 It's up to you to protect yourself.

00:22:40.220 And right now, not only physically, but information wise, you cannot trust the media and we need you to help.

00:22:45.840 So if anyone knows and has information, please contact myself, Elijah Schaefer online or this program and help us bring bring to light the evidence that the the deception of people who are trying to pretend like this is all just random.

00:22:59.420 And somehow every city in America is just burning accidentally at the exact same time.

00:23:06.500 Elijah, how is how do you think Trump is being viewed by the average American and the Trump supporter?

00:23:13.700 Because I have heard many Trump supporters saying he's being weak.

00:23:19.440 He's not reacting.

00:23:21.320 I know that Tucker Carlson did and did a monologue last night where he pretty much called him weak.

00:23:26.560 What is your thought?

00:23:29.480 You know, Glenn, I have been a very, very big supporter of the president of the United States since early on, since I saw him continue and completely ignore the advice of so-called, quote unquote, wise counselors.

00:23:48.360 And instead, speak to the heart of the American worker and people and just act like a run of the mill man who doesn't take any crud from people.

00:23:58.120 You know, I I don't think any leader just like George Bush during 9-11 really could fully understand how to respond to this because he's in a he's in a very precarious situation.

00:24:08.600 Everyone already calls him racist and fascist and, you know, compares him to, you know, to Adolf Hitler.

00:24:15.360 And so essentially, no matter what he does in the situation, I know as a man, you wouldn't you you're going to be labeled in a very negative light.

00:24:24.660 If you're tough on the violence, then you're racist.

00:24:26.680 If you're not tough, you're weak.

00:24:28.520 But I think everyone needs to give him a little bit of time.

00:24:31.140 I do think that his speech was about three days too late that he gave, but it was warmly welcomed in my understanding.

00:24:38.540 And I would hope that as he speaks and says that, you know, that America is a country of the rule of law, that he would completely stand behind that and that he would set an example on a precedent.

00:24:50.000 But weakness is not the right word, but maybe just a little bit delayed.

00:24:53.820 And perhaps just perhaps that could be because of bad counsel from people like Jared Kushner.

00:24:58.680 All right.

00:25:01.020 Thank you so much.

00:25:02.080 Appreciate it.

00:25:03.000 That's Elijah Schaefer.

00:25:04.460 You can follow him at Elijah Schaefer dot com.

00:25:10.900 Is that is that the web address?

00:25:11.860 I'm looking for your web address here.

00:25:13.080 Well, you can go to YouTube dot com slash slightly offensive or content as well at Blaze TV dot com slash slightly.

00:25:24.460 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:28.680 I have to play some audio from yesterday.

00:25:34.580 This is Sheriff Grady Judd.

00:25:38.860 He is the sheriff of Polk County, Florida.

00:25:41.800 I want you to listen to what he said in a press conference.

00:25:44.380 We have received information on social media that some of the criminals were going to take their criminal conduct into the neighborhoods.

00:25:53.460 I would tell them if you value your life, you probably shouldn't do that in Polk County because the people of Polk County like guns.

00:26:02.880 They have guns.

00:26:06.100 I encourage them to own guns and they're going to be in their homes tonight with their guns loaded.

00:26:12.180 And if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires.

00:26:17.620 I'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns. 0.75

00:26:24.420 So leave the community alone.

00:26:26.920 I lived in Polk County.

00:26:33.960 I think I lived in Polk County, Florida, and I did not get a chance to vote for him, but I think I would have.

00:26:41.300 He was overwhelmingly elected sheriff in 2004, reelected in 8, 12, 16.

00:26:47.740 And I'm guessing he's going to do well the next time, should he decide to run.

00:26:51.920 Welcome to the program, Grady Judd.

00:26:56.020 Thank you very much.

00:26:57.240 And certainly I want to continue serving the people of Polk County and keeping them safe and supporting them while they do the right thing.

00:27:05.460 So, Grady, did you see something in your county that disturbed you, or is this just what's happening all around the country?

00:27:20.880 And they've been saying they're coming to the suburbs.

00:27:23.420 So you were just making sure everybody understood.

00:27:27.460 The county is about 690,000 people.

00:27:31.920 And as you can imagine, we have a large sheriff's office here.

00:27:34.660 And our intelligence group picked this chatter up off of the different Facebook or social media posts.

00:27:44.000 I don't think it was on Facebook.

00:27:45.260 It was another social media.

00:27:47.140 We weren't able to verify it at the time of the press conference, but we take all of those threats serious until we can discount them.

00:27:57.440 And we weren't able to discount it because we saw it from more than one source.

00:28:01.840 So I was responding to a reporter's question, but at the end of the day, that's, to me, common sense.

00:28:10.240 I mean, it's gone viral.

00:28:12.720 I looked last night, and it was 2.5 million views.

00:28:16.620 But think about this, Glenn.

00:28:19.900 All we said was what every citizen in the United States has a right to do.

00:28:24.660 Your home, in your house, and looters take to the neighborhoods, and they're going to break into your home to rob, to steal, to set your house on fire.

00:28:35.580 Why wouldn't you blow them out of your house with your firearm?

00:28:38.900 You've got the right to protect yourself, your family, and your home.

00:28:43.640 So, to me, it was just common sense.

00:28:47.840 I find it interesting, Grady, that there has been such a movement to get guns out of the hands of average citizens.

00:28:56.420 And the same people who have been trying to do that are now in the streets causing all of this ruckus and saying, we're coming to your house.

00:29:05.540 Do you think it's a coincidence, or are these things coordinated, do you think?

00:29:09.420 I think it's absolutely coordinated.

00:29:11.960 You know, it's pretty basic, but you know the old saying, when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns?

00:29:19.020 The reality is, I've been in law enforcement my entire adult life.

00:29:25.720 Outlaws, criminals, thugs, they don't pay any attention to rules.

00:29:30.800 If they did, we wouldn't have criminal conduct.

00:29:33.920 And the criminals always have guns.

00:29:37.380 So, that's what shocks me about this.

00:29:40.000 The criminals always have guns.

00:29:42.880 So, if the criminals have guns, why in God's green earth wouldn't we want law-abiding citizens to at least be able to arm themselves, to protect themselves and their families?

00:29:54.760 And there are areas in this country, if people didn't have guns in their homes, they wouldn't be safe.

00:30:01.300 So, what we're saying is, look, when the criminals start obeying the law, when the criminals start doing what's right, then come back to us and talk about gun control.

00:30:15.360 I don't think we'll ever have that conversation.

00:30:18.860 I don't think so either.

00:30:20.420 I still wouldn't give up my gun.

00:30:23.260 I mean, I have a right to protect myself.

00:30:25.400 And I think we're seeing now why there needs to be magazines that hold more than seven bullets.

00:30:31.300 I mean, look at some of these beatdowns that are happening in the cities.

00:30:34.740 There are, you know, 10, 12, 15, 20 people that are after one person and just beating them.

00:30:41.360 I mean, you know, I have a right to live, and I have a right to my own opinion, and I have a right to say it.

00:30:48.680 You have a right to protest, but not to beat me to death.

00:30:52.860 At least give me a shot of saving my own life.

00:30:56.620 And that's absolutely correct.

00:30:58.220 But I can assure you of one thing, that that second, third, fourth, fifth person, when you modify that first person's behavior with a gun, the others decide to go the other way.

00:31:12.580 And when you can't be safe in your home, you can't be safe anyplace at all.

00:31:16.880 But you have the right, especially in the state of Florida.

00:31:19.120 We have beautiful laws, not only castle doctrine laws, but we also have a stand-your-ground law.

00:31:27.120 And it's really been taken out of context.

00:31:30.620 Our stand-your-ground law doesn't mean that you can enter into a conflict and stand your ground.

00:31:36.940 The intent and the pure purpose of that law is you're a law-abiding citizen behaving, walking down the street, minding your own business, and someone comes up to attack you, to beat you down with a stick, a baseball bat.

00:31:56.900 They have a knife.

00:31:58.040 They have a gun.

00:31:59.080 Certainly, you have the right to protect yourself.

00:32:01.140 You don't have to run from somebody that may be faster and certainly wants to assault you.

00:32:07.880 And to me, it's common sense.

00:32:10.280 And when you look where the problems are occurring, traditionally, it's in the communities that have stopped the good people from doing what's right, possessing their firearms, having easy-to-access concealed weapons permits.

00:32:27.900 And obviously, then the criminals take over.

00:32:31.140 So, where do we go from here, Sheriff?

00:32:34.840 What should the sheriffs and the police forces around the country be doing right now to make sure they stay on the right side and their cities and their counties are protected?

00:32:48.760 Glenn, I'm glad you asked.

00:32:51.160 The police are nothing but a microcosm or a reflection of the community.

00:32:55.200 When you saw these police agencies around the country that weren't appropriately responding to protect lives and to protect property, that is a reflection of the government.

00:33:09.120 That's a reflection of the decision makers.

00:33:11.960 The police officers are the enforcers.

00:33:14.800 They don't create the laws.

00:33:16.540 They just obey the laws and enforce the rules.

00:33:20.320 So, when police officers are told to stand down, let them burn the building, police officers stand down and let them burn the building.

00:33:28.500 When police officers in other communities are told, you're not going to let them burn out our stores, then that's exactly what the police can do.

00:33:39.680 We have the resources to protect people's property and to protect their lives.

00:33:44.620 But if the leadership of a community, the mayors, the city commissioners, the governors, the state legislators, if they capitulate, if they back up because of a use of force or threat against them, or a threat of force against them, if they tell the police to stand down, then you get what you get.

00:34:08.340 There's a horrible video back in the Baltimore riots where the police were told, do not engage these people that are tearing up and burning this store.

00:34:20.060 And there were certainly enough police officers there to do it.

00:34:22.920 So, you have to not look at the police.

00:34:26.060 You have to look at the leadership and the management of the city or the community.

00:34:30.520 And how do you think the police and sheriffs are handling it so far?

00:34:38.860 I mean, between COVID, there were some really dicey things that were happening around the country with COVID.

00:34:44.500 And some sheriffs, mainly sheriffs, but some police officers, stood up against some of the draconian things that were happening in the state.

00:34:53.400 How do you think the police are handling it?

00:34:56.120 Well, we've got a lot of challenges on our plate right now.

00:35:00.600 COVID is certainly a problem.

00:35:02.620 We've got high unemployment.

00:35:04.720 We've got folks who have an environment where they can legally wear masks all the time and be in positions to, one, protect themselves with a mask, or, two, hide themselves with a mask while they rob.

00:35:20.560 So, when you add to that this environment that we have here now, that is absolutely, totally shocking.

00:35:28.340 First and foremost, no rational, reasonable police agency, police officer, could ever defend the conduct of that police officer in Minneapolis.

00:35:39.680 That was totally horrific.

00:35:42.120 There's not enough words to talk about that.

00:35:44.920 I mean, there just is not adequate words.

00:35:47.380 Never has a police officer been trained in a police academy to put their knee on someone's throat.

00:35:54.360 Regardless of whether they're resisting or not, you don't kneel down on someone's throat.

00:36:01.520 So, let's set that aside for a second because we all agree that that was horrific and wrong.

00:36:08.600 And in this community, had that police officer done that, I would have had him in jail before sundown.

00:36:13.820 But that doesn't give people a right to riot, to loot, to steal.

00:36:20.700 Yes, you want to protest.

00:36:22.800 What's the difference between a protest and a riot?

00:36:26.160 A protest is when, and we had one Sunday where we had four or five hundred people show up to protest against the death of George Floyd.

00:36:37.600 It was healthy, it was good, there was old folks there, there was young folks there, there were children there.

00:36:44.580 And they protested that horrific event.

00:36:47.920 It was a wonderful event.

00:36:50.080 They exercised their First Amendment rights.

00:36:53.220 It was so passive, the local police department didn't even visually have law enforcement officers in the crowd.

00:36:59.880 But, let me tell you what happened.

00:37:03.920 The protesters then went home.

00:37:06.300 But from there, the anarchists, the rioters, they marched down toward the police department with some protesters.

00:37:15.860 And after they protested at the police department, then those protesters went home.

00:37:20.160 And that left the anarchists.

00:37:21.920 And it left the rioters.

00:37:25.360 And that's the people that we had problems with in this community.

00:37:28.920 Well, the police department called the sheriff's office and we all mustered together.

00:37:35.020 And we pushed them out of the intersection after they had torn up one building and damaged one car and injured one set of people.

00:37:45.380 Which, by the way, was one of the protesters that they got mad at.

00:37:49.840 But that's the difference.

00:37:51.280 Because protesters are exercising First Amendment rights.

00:37:55.620 Rioters are taking advantage of the situation in order to loot, steal, hurt people, or create absolute chaos.

00:38:05.720 And that's why it's important for police agencies to be allowed to go in and pick the dissidents out, the troublemakers out, that's inciting the riot.

00:38:16.940 But when you get them out, then you are left with the protesters.

00:38:21.280 Sheriff, it has been great to talk to you.

00:38:24.920 Thank you for your insight.

00:38:26.000 Thanks for the courage for standing up.

00:38:29.240 And my best to all of your fellow officers.

00:38:34.260 And I wish you nothing but safety and health.

00:38:38.500 Thank you so much, Sheriff.

00:38:39.620 By the way, we should keep our policemen, first responders, in our prayers.

00:38:48.220 I can't imagine what it's like to go to work, especially in a city that is hostile to cops.

00:38:52.700 And you're one of the good guys.

00:38:54.380 We have two cops in Vegas in the hospital. 0.95

00:38:58.200 One of them seriously injured.

00:39:00.920 We have four in St. Louis in the hospital.

00:39:04.940 And two cops last night were run over in Buffalo, Ohio.

00:39:10.400 How many is it going to take before America says enough is enough?

00:39:13.420 Because I can't believe any honest, decent American is with the looters at this point.

00:39:20.440 Na na na na na.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 02, 2020

Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Dan Bongino, Elijah Schaffer, & Sheriff Grady Judd ｜ 6⧸2⧸20

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