In this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn and Sarah Palin discuss the upcoming mid-term elections and how important it is to vote for the candidate you like. They also talk about the Iran hostage crisis and how it relates to America.
00:00:00.000We made a promise to ourselves, I don't know, eight years ago, that we were not going to, six years ago, that we were not going to push our will.
00:00:12.720Let people decide. Give them the facts. Let people decide and support the people, right?
00:00:18.400Are we doing that this time? I mean, because I think so, aren't we?
00:00:23.740I mean, I don't care who people vote for as long as it's a Republican that I like.
00:00:31.020No, I mean, yeah, I mean, maybe not in like the Utah race.
00:00:36.060I probably haven't been too balanced on that one.
00:00:38.980I mean, I think we're talking. I mean, I think what we've said is control needs to go to the Republicans to stop what Biden did.
00:00:47.280Right. Like, I wouldn't vote for Oz if I lived in Pennsylvania. It's easy for me to say I wouldn't vote for Oz.
00:00:54.600But if I were in Pennsylvania, I probably would vote for Oz. You know what I mean?
00:00:59.820He's not my favorite, but I'm living in Pennsylvania. What the hell am I going to do?
00:01:03.880Yeah, I vote for him. I vote for him. I'm just wondering if we're staying true to ourselves.
00:01:10.320Yeah, I mean, I don't advise anybody how to vote for him.
00:01:35.000I mean, if you have the best candidate on the Constitution, perhaps ever, the guy who should be running the Supreme Court, and you're going to vote him out for a CIA agent, you're dead to me.
00:04:07.280Across Iran, schoolgirls have defiantly taken off their headscarves, stomped on pictures of the supreme leader, and chanted for freedom, producing some of the most iconic images from the country's anti-government uprising.
00:04:25.420Many families fear sending their children to school, afraid they could be surveilled, beaten, detained, or disappeared.
00:04:36.180Rights groups and Iranians told The Washington Post Iran's clerical leaders are betting the crackdown on schools will help quell the unrest, now in its seventh week.
00:04:47.360In interviews with The Washington Post in recent weeks, three students and two parents described the assaults on schools where teachers are under pressure to squash any sign of dissent and often powerless to stop security forces from targeting the minors in their care.
00:05:05.160School attendance lists, report cards, and security cameras have become tools of repression.
00:05:13.460Parents are warned to keep their children in check.
00:05:17.360Now, just as anyone else thought, geez, I mean, they're indoctrinating my kids.
00:08:29.180It's the issue here, of course, you know, which is different than the House, where the House has everybody up for election, 435 members every two years.
00:08:45.140So every midterm election has a different number of senators available to be elected.
00:08:49.640So this one starts with a score on the board with, if no one else got elected at all, it would be standing at Democrats 36, Republicans 29.
00:09:13.440So they have to make up seven seats just to get to even.
00:09:17.260So if we look at the likely states for the Democrats, you have California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, that's Chuck Schumer, Oregon, Vermont, and Connecticut.
00:09:30.160Now, Connecticut, there's been some polling that showed it close.
00:09:33.540We kind of moved it to a lean Democrat for a while.
00:09:35.560I have it back as a likely Democratic state.
00:09:37.780We had six movers in the entire board yesterday as we finished this up.
00:09:44.240So Connecticut, likely, that gives you eight likely Democrats.
00:09:47.160On the Republican side, you have likely Republicans of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky.
00:09:55.560It's Rand Paul, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tim Scott there, South Dakota, North Dakota, two in Oklahoma because you have a special election.
00:10:03.980So you have two seats there, Missouri, Eric Schmidt.
00:11:29.160A lot of polls, there are some polls showing it very close.
00:11:31.460In fact, there was one that showed Washington within two points just yesterday.
00:11:35.340So possible that this could happen for Republicans, but difficult and I think still a little bit of a stretch even in this environment right now.
00:11:44.160I'd love to hear from people who live in Seattle that can tell me what it feels like because my friends in Seattle tell me they've never felt anything like this before.
00:11:54.420That the momentum, the attitude is towards the Republican.
00:12:20.080Yeah, that's that's the way I mean, it is a surprise that these things but, you know, Republicans do occasionally win statewide races in, you know, Washington Washington or very competitive.
00:12:29.380Yeah, there's every once in a while you get this and it seems like Tiffany Smiley's the candidate to keep it close.
00:12:33.880But you've got a sort of a blue climate there.
00:12:43.680And you you have, you know, some circumstances on the ground that would make you believe, you know, in the polling, in the sort of fundamentals of the state.
00:12:53.060It's still a lean Democratic situation, though.
00:12:55.700It's much closer than anyone would have expected.
00:12:57.660I mean, when we started this, I think Washington was a likely Democrat, but we moved it to lean.
00:13:02.140So that's two there in the lean Democratic category.
00:13:36.140Again, I think Mike Lee is going to win that state, but it is a quirky, weird state with a sort of false independent candidate going up there and getting Democratic votes.
00:15:52.240If the libertarians will vote for Blake Masters, and they should, the guy is very libertarian, but if that could give him the extra push over the top, just a close race, it could be very close.
00:18:10.480I'm the first Mexican born congresswoman, you know, ever to serve the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:18:15.740And I thought that by joining the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, we could, you know, build relationships and work in a bipartisan manner on our on our behalf of our constituents.
00:19:21.360And I voted for Barack Obama because that's what I was told to do.
00:19:25.060So and thank God I had another family member who brought it up to my attention and said, hey, we were raised the same way with conservative values.
00:20:27.640You know, be all about your faith and family.
00:20:30.020And that was my advice to my father's advice to me when I told him that I was going to be running for Congress and that I was going to be in the Republican ballot.
00:20:41.560So, Myra, what specifically is happening, though?
00:20:47.420I mean, it's the same thing with African-Americans.
00:21:28.240So for the first time, they were seeing someone, you know, that looked like them, that resonated with them in Telemundo, in Univision, which is very important because if we don't do it, they will spread the misinformation.
00:21:40.020So, you know, I'm very blessed and I'm very grateful to the Republican Party for finally investing in the Hispanic community, a community that you don't have to convince to be pro-God, to be pro-life, to be pro-family.
00:21:56.640Like this, you know, this is who we are.
00:21:59.820We align with the Republican Party, you know, but the Republican Party also was not investing prior to 2020.
00:22:07.880Now they're investing, so now we're able to send mailers, you know, in Spanish and English.
00:22:14.380We're on TV, we're knocking doors, we're raising the funds to be able to do those things.
00:22:20.220And before, we just did not have those funds.
00:22:23.880And that's also one of the main reasons as well.
00:22:27.560You know, it's a component of many things.
00:22:29.460Congresswoman, can you talk a little bit about your race?
00:22:33.660Because you won in a special election here recently in a race that surprised a lot of people, seemingly nationally.
00:22:41.040And then now you're running to be re-elected.
00:22:44.660However, the district has been, has changed.
00:22:47.320And it's, from all reports, made your re-election more difficult.
00:22:52.320Can you talk about that and how the race looks?
00:22:54.440Yes, you know, redistricting did me no, no favors.
00:23:00.200And, but at the end of the day, South Texas, you know, Cameron County, Hidalgo County,
00:23:07.500Labor County, Willoughsey, Kennedy, those counties, I had them in the previous, previous map.
00:23:15.000And I continue to have them on the new map.
00:23:17.100And these districts are, you know, who have been dictating, who, you know, who were representing them.
00:23:25.200I was able to flip Cameron County on the special election, which is my biggest county and is still within the current map.
00:23:33.380And again, the Hispanic community is very conservative.
00:23:37.600The people of South Texas, that doesn't change.
00:25:16.100I want more little girls like Myra to be able to come here to the United States.
00:25:20.880I don't want little girls like myself to have to come here illegally where they're going to get abused, rape, and having to pay criminal organizations thousands of dollars.
00:26:09.760What about those who are following the law and are there waiting right now as we speak, waiting to come here to the United States and have been waiting for years?
00:26:23.000They want to focus on illegal immigration, knowing the dangers, knowing that the criminal organizations have taken complete control of the southern border.
00:26:32.480People here in South Texas, we have family in Mexico that we can't even visit as often because we're afraid.
00:26:40.640Why would we want when we're afraid to come here?
00:26:43.660We don't want no American to ever feel afraid to go visit their loved ones.
00:26:48.380That's what we're going through here in South Texas.
00:26:51.040My family still live in Burgos, Tamaulipas, where I'm from.
00:26:55.260And I miss being able to visit my loved ones more often.
00:27:22.980This administration has given their back on our border patrol agents, on our law enforcement.
00:27:29.860And our border patrol are focused on the humanitarian crisis and not able to stop the fentanyl that is coming in into our country, killing about 300 people per day.
00:27:47.660The things that we're fighting for, a better economy, reducing inflation and border security, these are things that, you know, we should all be working together.
00:28:00.420And under this administration, 98 suspected terrorists have been apprehended in the southern border.
00:28:08.020We're talking to Congresswoman, talking to Congressman Myra Flores, because of redistricting, this is a very tight race.
00:28:19.820If you would like to help her with her campaign, I think a little goes a long way in South Texas.
00:28:26.420Please, please go to the website, MyraFloresForCongress.com, M-A-Y-R-A-F-L-O-E-F-L-O-R-E-S, MyraFloresForCongress.com.
00:29:20.460I mean, the Democrats got brutalized in both of those elections despite his influence.
00:29:25.480Only when he was on the ballot specifically did they do well.
00:29:29.500And look, you can make the argument that Trump has some of the same features where he did well in 2016, 2020, brought up a lot of people that maybe you didn't think were going to win.
00:29:40.380But 2018 did not go particularly well.
00:29:42.680This is a chance here to see if those gains, especially in the Hispanic community, are real and are lasting.
00:29:49.120It's going to be fascinating to watch that race.
00:30:46.120You wouldn't have had a project without you.
00:30:48.460But this year, we've expanded tremendously, and we are in most of the swing states.
00:30:57.920We have more than 2,000 field agents, which means we're monitoring the content that the big tech companies are sending to voters 24 hours a day through more than 2,000 computers, computers of real voters.
00:31:10.860So we're seeing the actual content that these companies are sending, and we are measuring it, and we are finding all kinds of disturbing things.
00:31:22.040They're shifting right now at this moment.
00:31:25.320They're shifting thousands and thousands of votes in the swing states in a way that people cannot see.
00:31:33.900So this is much more dangerous than TV commercials or even trying to rig voting machines.
00:31:43.400And we're on it, and we're expanding the system.
00:31:47.480This time, it's going to be permanent so that we will have, by next year, a nationwide system, a digital shield that will be protecting 24 hours a day, protecting our elections,
00:31:59.100and protecting our children as well from any kind of manipulation by the big tech companies.
00:32:05.560So for people who aren't familiar with your research, tell people how Google, for instance, or YouTube changes votes without anybody knowing it.
00:32:16.660Well, on YouTube, for example, we found in 2020 that 93% of the videos recommended by their up-next algorithm,
00:32:25.620you know, that up-next suggestion that just plays automatically, 93% of those videos were coming from liberal news sources.
00:32:34.620And that is extremely powerful as a way of manipulating people.
00:32:41.300And by the way, those up-next suggestions weren't just going to liberals.
00:32:47.340They were going even more so to moderates and even more so to conservatives.
00:32:51.820And, you know, then there's search results, which right now we're measuring very carefully, and they're highly biased toward liberal candidates.
00:33:05.000And there are certain segments of our population, the most vulnerable being moderate Republicans, by the way, who trust those high-ranking search results.
00:33:14.460And right now, Google, especially in Wisconsin and in Florida and in Arizona and other swing states,
00:33:23.260they have high up in their search results links that bring you to webpages that make the Democratic candidates look great
00:33:34.640and make the conservative candidates, the Republican candidates look bad.
00:33:57.700And we're monitoring that very carefully because in 2020, we found last minute that Google was sending those out primarily to liberals and moderates.
00:34:13.040Now, think how big a manipulation that is because no one knows it's occurring.
00:34:18.800That's targeted messaging, we call it.
00:34:20.740So, you have been doing some just, I mean, God's work here on this.
00:34:27.100And you've been doing it for years now.
00:34:29.700At least we've known each other, what, five, six years?
00:34:48.760You see, you've got to have the data to bring to the courts.
00:34:53.700You know, the legislation is not going to help too much.
00:34:57.420And, of course, you know, we don't have much cooperation in Washington.
00:35:04.000So, I'm worried about, you know, the legislative approach ever moving forward.
00:35:08.560But there is an alternative because in 2020, we got some senators based on our preliminary data to send a threatening letter to the CEO of Google.
00:35:36.780And at this moment, Glenn, you're the first to know.
00:35:39.700But there are a group of senators right this second ready to send another threatening letter to the CEO of Google based on our preliminary data that we have right now.
00:36:45.080Because it looks like now, in fact, I don't even think it looks like, we have the evidence that Google, Facebook, Twitter, they are all colluding with the government.
00:36:55.880The government was directing them on who to ban and what to look for.
00:37:10.360By the way, I hope your audience, which has been so generous to us in the past, will go to mygoogleresearch.com if they want to get more info or help us out.
00:37:20.220But, you know, what we are studying are the manipulations themselves.
00:37:25.580And we are collecting data now, by the way, not just on Google, but on YouTube, on Facebook, Google's homepage.
00:37:36.800We are really, we've expanded tremendously over the years.
00:37:40.980You know, I've been working on this stuff for 10 years.
00:37:43.480But we've gotten to the point where we're going to have a national digital shield in place.
00:37:51.580Well, that means that 24 hours a day through the computers of more than 20,000 people around the country and the computers of lots of children, this is with their parents' support, of course, will be looking at content being sent by the tech companies.
00:38:08.020And if we find any kind of bias, any kind of manipulation, we will report it to the AGs, to members of Congress, to the Federal Election Commission, to journalists, anyone who will listen.
00:38:22.800And they will stop because, as Justice Brandeis said 100 years ago, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
00:38:30.120And we're building a permanent system now that's growing every day that will stop these companies cold for many years to come.
00:38:47.840And, you know, no matter what happens or doesn't happen with legislation in our crazy government or with regulation, the monitoring system will protect us.
00:38:58.920It's a digital shield across the country.
00:39:11.780And I haven't said it on the air because I didn't, I don't want anybody to think that I'm thinking this happened.
00:39:17.420This is, this is though, if I were a fiction writer, this is what I would write for fiction.
00:39:24.500But I wanted to know if you think it would even stand up the scrutiny in a fiction book.
00:39:30.960You know, you're looking at this guy who was a hippie in California.
00:39:35.700He was lefty, Black Lives Matter, all of it.
00:39:39.360And then suddenly he, he finds himself spewing, you know, Republican like talking points.
00:39:48.400And then he goes into the house and, and wants to horribly kill Nancy Pelosi.
00:39:56.080And, and I'm not saying this happened.
00:39:59.020What I'm saying is, is it possible in a fiction setting right now, would it be possible to come up with a script that would show that a company like Facebook or Google, especially, could manipulate things subtly over time and convince somebody who's really kind of crazy already to do bidding.
00:40:45.360My team is the only team in the world doing this.
00:40:47.760And we study these techniques that these companies have access to that can change people's opinions, attitudes, beliefs, purchases, voting preferences, political preferences.
00:41:01.920And these techniques are among the most powerful to influence techniques, techniques of influence that have ever been discovered in the behavioral sciences in 100 years.
00:41:45.960And we don't know how the heck this change occurred.
00:41:48.460I am telling you that because we're starting to monitor the content going to kids, we're going to find out because there is, I am sure, indoctrination occurring on a massive scale.