America s 41st President, George H.W. Bush, died Friday evening at the age of 94. On today's show, Glenn Beck talks with Eric Bolling about the president, about what happened with China and the G20, but also some sad news about Dick s Sporting Goods.
00:02:59.280Bush navigated the choppy waters of the massive reshuffling of the world order, and he called for a new world order, which I always thought was a little spooky, but we're going to move on.
00:03:12.700He signed treaties with Gorbachev, mandating historic reductions in nuclear and chemical weapons.
00:03:18.680In 1990, he put together a 28-nation coalition that expelled Saddam Hussein's troops from Kuwait.
00:03:27.100The American-led ground war in Iraq lasted four days.
00:03:32.860And I never forget hearing him say, the war is over.
00:05:23.040He was ambassador to the U.N., chairman of the RNC, U.S. envoy to China, director of the CIA, and vice president under Ronald Reagan.
00:05:31.820And despite his accomplishments, he declined to write the traditional presidential memoir because he thought it would be too unseemly to write about himself.
00:05:43.880I met George H.W. Bush a couple of times.
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00:13:36.000There's going to be a lot of disagreement, I think, between hosts, which is, I think, great and healthy.
00:13:39.600And it represents pretty much everything from libertarian to Republican to super Trump fan to people who don't like Trump so much.
00:13:48.820That whole aspect on the right is represented here and you need this many people to kind of get all those shoes.
00:13:55.060And I will tell you this, it's refreshing because if you go someplace else, especially in the mainstream media, you all have to walk in lockstep.
00:14:06.100You walk in lockstep and you do what the boss man says.
00:18:07.820And it is a, what I hope to be, an ever-growing platform for the entire spectrum on the American right.
00:18:15.780Now, it's important that people understand what the American right is.
00:18:19.820The American right is based on the sanctity, the power, and the dignity of the individual and a rejection of the socialist collective that is found in the American left and the European right.
00:22:03.060And literally, Glenn, it was a three-minute video, and you do not see a woman or a child in this video at all.
00:22:09.900Yet Reuters publishes the one picture of a tear gas canister flying past the woman holding two kids in diapers or a kid in diapers.
00:22:17.480And that was their symbol instead of what was really going on.
00:22:20.620This was a male, young male-dominated caravan that was looking for financial asylum, not political asylum.
00:22:26.520We talked about this ad nauseum, but here's the good news.
00:22:29.020The good news is as it dissipates, the rest of Central America, this whole world basically says Donald Trump means business at the border, so don't try and come through here.
00:22:37.220Don't try and come through our borders as a way to infiltrate the United States for a better economic condition.
00:23:17.900So the message that I'm seeing in print today are the messages that say, basically, we were told this was going to be easy.
00:23:29.220We were told that America would accept us.
00:23:31.740We were told, just come, and that was a lie.
00:23:35.940That message going back into even Mexico and Central and South America is really important because it will stop people who want to exploit those who really do have troubles, even economic.
00:23:55.700But it also sends a message that, for the first time, I think maybe since Eisenhower, that we are serious about the border.
00:24:04.080I think you're right, and we forget that there were a lot of even Republican presidents that were offering forms of amnesty for people who made it here.
00:24:21.820But if the litmus test became or the judge has to adjudicate on whether or not people would be offered a better economic lifestyle here in America, then there are 6.5 billion people that would be here.
00:24:37.520That never could have been the reason.
00:24:39.800But the fact is, and again, we've all talked about this 100 times, but they showed their hands in the caravan when they didn't stop in Mexico because they were no longer in fear of their lives.
00:24:49.000They left their home country, and they were absolutely given an opportunity to at least make their case in Mexico.
00:25:04.380We use that to control crowds right here in the United States against anyone without any sort of bias at all.
00:25:12.340So all these other lefties who say they were instructed to use tear gas because of Trump, so he must be a racist against Latin Americans or Latinos or Hispanics.
00:25:26.900For anybody who might have said that, they should look at history because four years prior to the day, four years prior to the tear gas canister,
00:25:36.220there was another uprising at the border at the same location under Barack Obama.
00:25:42.260Tear gas was launched, also pepper balls and tasers.
00:25:47.240So I think Donald Trump was restrained, and the other stat that everyone should know is that under Barack Obama, tear gas was launched 1,600 times to stop people from coming over the borders.
00:26:00.580When it comes to Donald Trump, Eric, talking to Eric Bolling, host of America, which has Eric right in it.
00:26:13.100So Eric Bolling, who is from CRTV, which is now part of Blaze TV.
00:26:20.000Eric, I call balls and strikes on Donald Trump.
00:26:22.740Some things I like, some things I don't like.
00:26:25.120For instance, the border, really good.
00:26:27.220I got to give him credit on the Jim Acosta thing.
00:26:30.640When the Jim Acosta thing happened, you know, I think Donald Trump is a hothead and says a lot of things that is like, okay, that wasn't necessary.
00:26:41.560But when it came to Jim Acosta, I watched that exchange, and I saw a restrained president.
00:26:48.540He was like, well, thank you for informing of that.
00:26:50.820Well, you and I have a disagreement on this.
00:26:52.840But after the dust all settled, there was no one in the media that played, except for the right media, that played the audio of Jim Acosta.
00:27:02.360Everything he said to the president during that exchange was wrong, was proven wrong once they got to the border.
00:27:11.100Well, let me dismantle this a little bit.
00:27:17.100Playing your balls and strikes on the president, that's what American journalism is about.
00:27:21.120You absolutely should be doing what you're doing and have a right to be doing.
00:27:37.220I don't think he would have a conservative in the White House, unless it was someone different.
00:27:42.920I don't think Jeb Bush would have beat him.
00:27:44.340I don't think Ted Cruz would have beat him.
00:27:46.980I don't think there's anyone on that stage on the Republican side that would have beat Hillary Clinton, except for someone new like Donald Trump.
00:27:52.200So you've got to take some of the bad with the good.
00:27:54.440As far as the Acosta thing, this is important.
00:27:56.560I think no one's really touched on this, but that was handled so well.
00:28:00.560And I will tell you why that happened.
00:28:02.580But Bill Schein was only about five or six months into the job when this kind of heated up with CNN and Acosta.
00:28:11.000That was handled the way it was because of Bill Schein.
00:28:13.440There was a certain amount of presidential restraint in that whole intercourse.
00:28:17.920And look, it came out very well at the end.
00:28:21.360Acosta sat down back into his high chair in the front row of the briefing room.
00:28:42.660I've known him for 15 – Schein, 15 years, as long as I've known Donald Trump.
00:28:46.300And I think Donald Trump will be well, well served, the American people will be well served if Schein were to rise to the ranks of chief of staff at some point.
00:28:54.800But I think you saw that media interaction with Acosta tone down or, you know, the bomb defuse because of Bill Schein's influence on him.
00:29:04.660So I think that's where that was headed.
00:29:06.680And, yeah, but it wasn't that Acosta was wrong in that instance.
00:29:11.540They are just nitpicking the president to pieces, just whatever he says, they'll go the other way.
00:29:16.940And no better evidence than if you go back over history and video, you can see Bill Clinton saying we should be closing our borders down.
00:29:25.500You can hear Barack Obama saying we should close our borders down.
00:29:28.480You can even hear Nancy Pelosi saying we should take no more illegal.
00:29:31.960So, I mean, it's just – it wasn't the policy issue.
00:29:34.980It was Donald Trump, and they needed to go the other way.
00:29:37.240Eric Boulding, a friend that we worked together at Fox News, and he's left Fox, joined CRTV, and now CRTV has merged with The Blaze, and it is blazetv.com.
00:29:50.060Eric, you know, the – you and I agree fundamentally on tariffs, that they are bad.
00:29:58.960But your case, as I understand it, has been he's doing these tariffs as a negotiation ploy.
00:30:05.120It looks like there was some good news coming from China.
00:30:09.240China said they're going to drop the tariff on our cars, which will help an awful lot.
00:30:14.540But they haven't reached an agreement yet.
00:34:31.360You know, as I hear this clip, I think to myself, I can't believe that Americans actually are at a place where they need what really should be a first-grade education on the importance of a wall and a gate.
00:34:46.660We have to know who's coming and going, just like I do on my own private land, you do on your private land where your home is.
00:34:58.840It's a nation, it's a nation, it's a nation for crying out loud.
00:35:01.640We have to have borders, and everyone has to get in line, and we need to know who's coming and going, come and sit for crying out loud.
00:35:10.620So, but tell me how you really feel, Phil, seriously.
00:35:15.220Well, I'm beating around the bushes a little bit.
00:35:19.380You open up a thousand miles of open territory between you and another country, you are asking for a lot of trouble.
00:35:25.960What's happened to America is that we've lost our religion, and because of that, we've lost our morality, and because of that, we've lost our virtue, and because of that, we're operating like children, running around, tearing up stuff, waving signs.
00:35:48.680You know, we're reaping what we have sown over this no-God thing for about the last 60 years.
00:36:33.600We have been a civilization, the Western civilization, that was built around the images of two men, Moses and Jesus, the lawgiver and the lover.
00:36:45.100And those two men have always been held up as, this is how we want to be fair, and this is how we want to be charitable.
00:36:56.140And our icon was, be more Christ-like.
00:37:22.340We are to put on the full armor of God so that we can take our stand against the devil's schemes.
00:37:28.440For our struggle is not against flesh and blood.
00:37:33.340It's really not the human beings who are the problem, the ones running around hollering, and this lawless mindset that's emerged from the evil one.
00:37:44.100We're wrestling against the rulers, the authorities, the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil and the heavenly wrath.
00:37:53.540You know, we have been told, really almost since the dawn of time, that there would come a time where good would be evil and evil would be good.
00:38:18.700The apostle Paul wrote to the Romans, because this is verse 28, 120, when they decided not to retain the knowledge of God, he gives them over to a reprobate man.
00:38:32.640Phil, I don't know if you have, I don't know if you've moved, but we've, your signal is breaking up horribly now.
00:38:51.120Okay, we're, we're, we'll try to get him back on the line, get a, get a clearer line from him.
00:38:56.640I, I, I also, I'd love to know if he ever met the Bushes, you know, because he's, Phil's a simple guy, you know, who has been now made famously wealthy and hasn't changed.
00:39:14.780I like his practical breakdown, though, because it's really is, you hit it perfectly.
00:39:18.180It's, this should be easy to understand.
00:39:20.360No, play this, play the clip again, play the clip again.
00:42:18.820Because we were just talking about how you're just full of common sense.
00:42:23.460Did the fame and fortune of Duck Dynasty, did it ever challenge the rock that you had built for your family or that your family stood on?
00:42:34.740Not one iota, not one time did I ever deviate from God becoming flesh 2018 years ago, dying for our sins on a cross, being buried and resurrected.
00:42:58.620We lost George H.W. Bush this weekend, and I don't know if you ever had any dealings with him, but I was struck in the remembrance of him this weekend how we have lost this simple kindness that I think he really embodied.
00:43:16.640He was a simple, God-fearing, great, virtuous American.