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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk a little bit about the ridiculous nature of the restrictions

00:00:06.960 being put in by government, not only looking at some of the overreach, but also looking

00:00:12.320 at how much they actually matter and how much we as Americans listen to them. You know,

00:00:16.560 you guys are just not paying attention to authority as much as you're supposed to. You're

00:00:20.480 gonna have to work on that. Scott Walker, former governor, joins us to talk about the

00:00:24.900 developments in Wisconsin. Tim Poole is here on the media. We talked to an officer in Seattle who

00:00:30.680 says, look, he's not going to enforce unconstitutional measures, might cost him his

00:00:35.560 job. And we go through the entire Obamagate scandal. If you don't understand it, this is a great show to

00:00:42.320 check out. You can get all the information that kind of leads you to the understanding of what

00:00:48.140 actually went on with this. It's a bit complicated, but you need to know the story because it's going

00:00:51.740 to be a big factor as we go towards the election. You can also watch the full show with all the

00:00:56.920 documents and everything else from Glenn's show last night. You can get that, of course,

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00:01:07.440 so please don't miss it. Friday. As well as you can get all the information on what we're doing as

00:01:12.740 far as the government orders and how the American people are reacting to them. I did that on

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00:01:41.760 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I want to start with a piece of audio from a state Supreme Court

00:01:55.340 justice. This was from Esquire magazine. In discussing the governor's order to stay at home,

00:02:01.840 the assistant attorney general Colin Roth appeared to be rethinking his career choice. Bradley,

00:02:06.800 the Supreme Court justice, went full on Glenn Beck. Never go full on Glenn Beck. This is what the press

00:02:15.240 called full on Glenn Beck. Listen to this judge. My question for you is where in the constitution did

00:02:22.820 the people of Wisconsin confer authority on a single unelected cabinet secretary to compel almost

00:02:30.680 six million people to stay at home and close their businesses and face imprisonment if they don't

00:02:38.100 comply with no input from the legislature without the consent of the people. Isn't it the very definition

00:02:45.060 of tyranny for one person to order people to be imprisoned for going to work among other ordinarily

00:02:52.740 lawful activities? Where does the constitution say that's permissible counsel? One of the bravest guys

00:02:59.900 and the guy who appointed her to the Supreme Court, a successful governor, economic education,

00:03:05.460 health care reformer, Scott Walker joins us now. Governor, how are you, sir? Hey, Glenn,

00:03:11.000 even better today because of the Supreme Court yesterday, for sure. Okay, so the Supreme Court

00:03:16.420 yesterday in Wisconsin struck down the stay-at-home order. What does that mean? Well, there was no stay,

00:03:24.320 so it means technically anyone anywhere in the state of Wisconsin could be opened. The one caveat to that

00:03:32.320 is Wisconsin is a home rule state, so there are still the ability of local jurisdictions. So a handful of

00:03:38.820 communities, city of Milwaukee, city of Racine, Dane County, where our state capitol's at, all very

00:03:46.840 liberal Democrat areas, their governor, excuse me, their mayors and or county executives issued similar

00:03:54.680 orders to what the governor's administration had done. But for everybody else, it means technically

00:03:59.580 any retail establishment. There were taverns open last night around the state. There were other places

00:04:04.080 out there, although, and I heard the tail end of your last segment, in the end, I've said for weeks,

00:04:11.060 the government can get out of the way, but ultimately the market will determine when businesses

00:04:16.680 reopen, when employees feel safe to come back, and when customers ultimately come back as well. But

00:04:23.080 the first step is getting the government out of the way. So the new governor, the guy who I think

00:04:29.680 replaced you, had issued the stay at home order. He said yesterday, last night on CNN, this puts our

00:04:38.020 state into chaos. Now we have no plan, no protections for the people. When you have more people in a small

00:04:44.200 space, I don't care if it's bars, restaurants, or the home, you're going to be able to spread the virus

00:04:48.240 today, thanks to the Republican legislators convinced for Supreme Court justices not to look at the law,

00:04:54.120 but look at their political careers, I guess. It's a bad day for Wisconsin, because now it's the Wild

00:04:59.120 West. Well, it's like they've suspended common sense, not only in his statement, but in others

00:05:07.780 across the country. We see this over and over again. We have been operating for nearly two months

00:05:13.320 now with the threat of this coronavirus, and every time anyone goes into a grocery store, every time

00:05:20.320 someone goes into a pharmacy, every time someone goes into a hardware store, every time someone shows up

00:05:25.400 at a manufacturing plant that is deemed essential by the government, they've been able to do that

00:05:31.060 overwhelmingly across the country safely. So to me, it just defies common sense that now suddenly

00:05:37.260 the so-called non-essential businesses can open finally, because those justices actually upheld the

00:05:43.840 law. They did exactly the opposite of what he said. They actually upheld the law. Now, does that mean

00:05:48.760 that people who've been operating safely are suddenly going to go crazy and not use the same

00:05:53.460 safety precautions they've done before? Of course not.

00:05:57.120 You know, here's the thing. First of all, I think you guys had the election when nobody knew what was

00:06:04.480 going to happen, and it shows that there was no spread from you guys holding the election, which,

00:06:12.460 quite honestly, at the time, I would have found surprising. But there was no problem from holding

00:06:18.700 the election. Yeah, I guess the governor didn't learn his lesson from that one. And when did we go

00:06:24.360 from a let's not overwhelm the system, let's not overwhelm the hospitals and the doctors and the nurses,

00:06:30.380 let's flatten the curve to nobody's going out until everybody is safe?

00:06:35.800 Yeah, it's the flatten the curve versus now we have to find a cure before anyone can set foot out there.

00:06:41.040 The logic, I went back and looked. Two months ago yesterday, I wrote a piece on Facebook about how

00:06:47.280 we need to be rational. We needed to follow the guidelines. We probably shouldn't have big

00:06:51.960 sporting events or concerts for a while until we could figure this out. But that we could do these

00:06:56.100 things without shutting down the economy, we just had to use our common sense. We had to be purposeful

00:07:01.320 in our actions to make sure we were safe. The same is true today. Over two months, we've flattened the

00:07:07.600 curve. But we still have government officials who, to me, at least seem like they're hiding under

00:07:12.460 their bed, hoping to God somehow this will just go away. It's not going away. It's not going to

00:07:18.680 change anytime soon. And if we don't want to see not just our economy devastated, but think of all

00:07:24.120 the people across America who missed out on doctors visits and clinics and other checkups who missed out

00:07:30.640 on early detection. I mean, this is literally a life threatening issue, even when it comes to reopening

00:07:35.700 the economy. So, uh, governor, do you really believe that these people are hiding under their

00:07:43.480 beds or is there something else involved? I mean, there is, we have to balance things and that is

00:07:49.960 what a leader does. He gets advice from the Fauci's and they say, Fauci, just tell me about the health

00:07:56.480 effects. And then somebody else has to advise, tell me just about the economic effects. And then I have

00:08:03.860 to make choices as a leader on what we do. We are now looking at a group of people in Washington,

00:08:11.400 and it seems to be falling on party lines that they, for some reason, just don't want to open

00:08:17.460 the economy. And no one is talking about the deadly effects of America going down the drain or going into

00:08:26.260 a deep depression, not only the effects financially, but the effects of health and welfare all over the

00:08:34.180 globe. Millions could die because we go down.

00:08:39.500 Even amazingly, a group that I'm not aligned with it don't normally reference, but even a United

00:08:44.680 Nations report recently, just this week showed that a grave concern about massive, I mean, we're talking

00:08:51.220 crippling poverty around the world because of the economic effects here. And their point was that 0.81

00:08:56.420 this will actually have a much larger devastating impact on fatalities, on casualties because of

00:09:03.180 malnutrition, because of depression, because of suicide, because of all sorts of issues. I think it's

00:09:08.800 a combination of some are afraid and some have an agenda. When I look at Nancy Pelosi's, and we could

00:09:14.040 talk all day about her ridiculous $3 trillion bill that's out there, but one of the things I think has

00:09:19.780 been ignored about what she just put out this week is they've got a provision that would extend the

00:09:24.520 federal unemployment enhanced benefit till January 1. That tells me Democrats believe or hope somehow

00:09:31.400 an agenda that they want the economy not to open until after the start of the year, which conveniently

00:09:37.500 happens to be after the presidential election. I got to say, if you're an American, not a Republican,

00:09:43.060 not a Democrat, not a conservative, not a liberal, but an American, that should scare the crap out of you.

00:09:47.800 And we should be doing something about it. So do you think that the American people are? I mean,

00:09:55.780 I think that my father used to say there is no such thing as bad. It doesn't nothing is bad. It's

00:10:02.820 depends on how you react to it. That will make it a bad thing in your life or a good thing. You can go

00:10:08.520 to prison for robbing a bank. That's not bad. That is something that you could use now to reforge

00:10:14.900 yourself and become better. The coronavirus, I think, has helped a lot of people get perspective

00:10:21.220 on their life. It has shown us that we need family. It shows us that, you know, this arguing back and

00:10:28.480 forth with the politics is really Washington doesn't have the power. We have the power.

00:10:33.700 We could use this to wake up on the Bill of Rights, etc., etc. Or we will allow it to destroy us. Do you

00:10:44.080 think the American people are waking up on both sides of the aisle and saying, wait a minute, wait a

00:10:49.240 minute, these essential Bill of Rights liberties are really important?

00:10:53.220 I do. Some more slowly than others, but I do think they're waking up. Yesterday's ruling in the

00:11:00.740 Wisconsin Supreme Court was a good step in the right direction because, as I said, after the ruling came

00:11:05.680 out, you know, upholding the rule of law is important. Even in an emergency, it's important.

00:11:12.640 And I'm optimistic, as frustrated as I am, as challenging as times are, I think about America

00:11:19.260 in particular, a country that started out, you know, defeating the greatest military power at the

00:11:23.780 time, who overcame a civil war that would have torn apart just as any other country in the world.

00:11:29.640 We overcame, excuse me, two world wars, took on 9-11. We're Americans, and we're a country based on

00:11:35.920 freedom. And as long as we cherish those freedoms and liberties, even in times like this, I have no doubt

00:11:41.720 we can overcome anything. But part of that means free will and the ability to engage in free

00:11:47.760 enterprise. That's something that I think is fundamentally a part of who we are. It's why

00:11:52.860 King Solomon talked about finding joy in your labor. I often say nobody signed my high school

00:11:57.980 yearbook saying good luck becoming dependent on the government. We all, no matter where we come from,

00:12:03.840 what we look like, we all in our hearts want to work. We want to find joy in our labor. We need to

00:12:09.020 get the government to unleash that and get it out of the way so that we can go back to work

00:12:12.760 and restore America again. Do you think there's anything to be said for

00:12:18.020 having Trump declare America an economic empowerment zone and help these small businesses

00:12:26.500 and everybody else get back on their feet by loosening some of these restrictions for a period of

00:12:32.500 time? Oh, absolutely. I think that's one of the great things, even some of the temporary things

00:12:37.700 that now the president, but even some state local officials have done. It should draw attention

00:12:42.180 to the question of why did we have these things in the first place? If we could operate under these

00:12:47.340 circumstances without those onerous restrictions from the federal, state and local governments,

00:12:52.000 we shouldn't have them in the first place. And that will unleash unlimited prosperity going forward.

00:12:56.780 One last question. I'm going to go back to the local lawmakers or the local administrators.

00:13:05.300 You said that some local counties and cities can, you know, still say you're not opening up in

00:13:12.080 Wisconsin. But didn't the Supreme Court yesterday say that these are not enforceable?

00:13:20.400 Well, and that's part that's going to be probably another legal challenge, although by the time it makes

00:13:25.080 its way through the courts will probably be past that date. But it is the sort of thing that I

00:13:29.540 think will have a lasting impact on where entrepreneurs decide to place their businesses

00:13:36.040 at. We just saw it recently with Tesla making the threat that they were going to go somewhere else 0.68

00:13:41.640 if California and that local county that was trying to restrict them didn't back away. They backed

00:13:46.600 away. But that means we need to be vigilant everywhere and every place at every moment because the

00:13:52.060 government's there to serve the people and not the other way around. And sadly, we've seen too many

00:13:56.420 examples of at all levels of government of people trying to get the people to serve the government.

00:14:03.360 We should never be for that. That's not how our country is founded. And it certainly shouldn't be

00:14:07.700 the case. We're tested the most when we face times of emergency and challenge. This is one of those

00:14:12.820 moments we need to stand up.

00:14:14.060 Well, we miss your leadership as a governor and and and miss all the fodder that we were able to

00:14:21.500 talk about because you were just pissing everybody off. We loved it and we miss you. Thank you so much,

00:14:26.300 Scott. Glenn, one last quick comment shows the importance, particularly in this presidential but

00:14:30.900 other elections, judicial appointments. Two of the four on that four person majority were people I

00:14:36.580 appointed. The other two I endorsed before I was governor. That's the lasting impact is putting people

00:14:42.040 uphold the law on the bench at all levels. Yes. Thank you very much, Scott Walker. All right.

00:14:47.140 I know what you're thinking. People ask me all the time. Glenn, how on earth do you maintain that

00:14:51.860 unbelievably handsome figure? It's not easy to have a body like this. I started 4 a.m. by running two

00:14:58.160 miles. Then I bike back to, I don't know, 750 crunches, finish the morning with hours of hot yoga.

00:15:05.440 OK, obviously, I don't do any of that. What I usually do is sit my fat butt down on the couch at night

00:15:10.620 and I eat a bowl of ice cream because I really have a sweet tooth. And my wife has been saying to me

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00:15:19.640 no, it's not. Are they protein bars? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's like eating the doormat. OK. And then I got

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00:15:51.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:00.480 Tim Pool is a journalist, award-winning American journalist, political commentator,

00:16:11.280 founding member of Vice News. He has written and been featured by international media outlets,

00:16:19.440 The Guardian, Reuters, New York Times, NBC, Fast Company, everybody. He's a truth teller. And he's

00:16:26.200 a guy that you may have seen before. If you don't know who he is, if you just think of him in the

00:16:31.360 in the stocking hat, he wears this like it's like like he's in my studio all the time.

00:16:39.160 And you at least I am fascinated by what he brings to the table because he I can't pin him down on what

00:16:47.380 he you know, how he would vote. And I don't really care how he would vote. He just seems to follow

00:16:52.980 the truth. And that is rare these days. Now has his Tim cast at Tim cast dot com and YouTube dot com

00:17:01.500 slash Tim cast. Welcome to the program, Tim Pool. Thanks for having me. You bet. So I wanted to

00:17:08.120 talk to you about a couple of things. I don't understand what's happening with the media right

00:17:13.560 now, especially when the documentation is coming out that shows that they never had any

00:17:22.400 evidence on Russia. None. None of them did while they were on television. All of the reporters and

00:17:30.960 the journalists that had their inside sources that said this is what they have. We now know they never

00:17:36.400 had it. And those journalists were burned or were they in bed with this narrative and they didn't

00:17:44.000 care what the truth was? I think they're in in bed is tough, but I think they don't care. I think

00:17:51.640 it's a confirmation bias. I also think it's it's economically driven. These are news companies

00:17:57.320 that are thinking, what's the fastest way to catch a quick buck? And one of the scariest things about how

00:18:01.700 the media operates is that if I publish a fake story and it goes viral, I'm going to sell the

00:18:07.680 ads on that story. I can then retract it later. I keep all that money. So, of course, these networks

00:18:13.500 are going to keep inviting, inviting back the same people and they'll just default to, oh, but that was

00:18:17.600 just the opinion of an official we had. We were just doing an interview. It's not our fault. But yes,

00:18:22.640 as it turns out, these documents get released. These people are going on CNN, MSNBC for years

00:18:27.660 under oath. They're admitting they know nothing. Nothing's really happening. And now the

00:18:32.700 the crazy thing about the Obamagate scandal and where it's sort of leading us is that, well,

00:18:38.280 it may not, you know, you know, Trump is saying it's worse than Watergate. We'll see if the evidence

00:18:41.660 comes out. But the desperate attempt of many of these partisan media people to act like there's

00:18:46.580 nothing here. You know, they're desperately trying to move the goalposts now because it really does look

00:18:51.320 like the Obama administration was at the very least acting inappropriately and potentially digging up

00:18:56.020 dirt on a political opponent. Now the media is all of a sudden we don't care about this,

00:18:59.740 but they went nuts on it when it was Trump being accused. OK, so let me just give you this.

00:19:04.520 This is from Secretary Rice. Remember, she she wrote that memo as she was leaving the Oval,

00:19:10.040 you know, on Inauguration Day. And in that she said President Obama began the conversation by

00:19:15.580 stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled

00:19:19.820 by the intelligence and law enforcement community by the book. The president stressed he was not asking

00:19:25.580 about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our

00:19:32.060 law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book. The problem is, is that the evidence

00:19:40.340 now shows that he had a meeting on January 5th, the day after the FBI said there is nothing on General

00:19:50.360 Flynn. We're closing the case. He called the law enforcement agencies and Brennan and everybody

00:19:56.840 else called them into the office. And that's where they said, let's get him on the Logan Act.

00:20:02.860 So everything that Susan Rice wrote is wrong. She said that he said, I'm not going to involve myself in

00:20:10.300 this. If Donald Trump would have said, I don't care what the FBI says, go get Schiff. It would be

00:20:17.720 bigger than Watergate. This is bigger than Watergate. Right. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well,

00:20:24.680 I think now that we've seen the unmasking documents come out, it's particularly fascinating to see

00:20:30.640 members of the media now all of a sudden tweet, you know, post their Twitter posts, their Facebook

00:20:34.680 posts or whatever saying, oh, but why does it matter that the Obama administration was seeking to

00:20:38.920 unmask, you know, private U.S. citizens conversations, which is which is improper at the very

00:20:44.200 least. But then so I need to go through this. I want to make sure I'm not getting it wrong. But

00:20:48.500 my cursory understanding is that it was the day of or the day before that Obama's chief of staff

00:20:54.220 sought to unmask Flynn. Then Obama has this meeting. Then Sally Yates is shocked to find out

00:21:00.080 she doesn't even understand how Obama knows about this. So there's so much there's so much more

00:21:04.700 evidence here that at the very least, Obama is trying to dig up their own political opponents.

00:21:08.880 I know some people have said sabotage the Trump administration, but just trying to approach this

00:21:13.840 very, very lightly. What they accused Trump of doing with Biden and Ukraine is nothing compared

00:21:20.080 to what we have now as more and more evidence comes out, especially when you see those FBI notes.

00:21:24.820 Why did they want to get Michael Flynn fired? What does that have to do with anything from a law

00:21:28.220 enforcement perspective? Correct. That right there, you combine all these things and it really does

00:21:32.380 look like it was an effort to just jam up Donald Trump's administration, maybe set some fires,

00:21:37.120 cause some damage. It's substantially worse than Donald Trump on a phone call saying,

00:21:41.520 hey, this Biden thing sounds weird. How about that? But where are these media personalities?

00:21:46.200 They're in, you know, it's hard to say in bed with, but they really are rooting for Democrats

00:21:51.080 and acting as their defense. I think it's, I think when you look at the reason for doing it,

00:21:57.880 I think it's worse than this. Stephen, do we happen to have the video of Senator Church

00:22:04.400 from 1975. Let's see if we pull this out of our box. Do we have that? Okay. Let me know if you,

00:22:13.880 if you can pull it real quick. Senator Church, you know what the church committee was. It was in the

00:22:19.340 1970s and it was looking into what the intelligence department was doing because of Hoover and his

00:22:29.600 Hoover files where he was blackmailing people, et cetera, et cetera. And they were concerned that

00:22:35.300 the FBI, the intelligence, they were getting technology. This is 1975. They were gaining

00:22:42.320 technology that would be able to survey or surveil anyone and they could use it to smear people.

00:22:49.420 Listen, listen to the warning of Senator Church in 1975.

00:22:53.320 There would be no place to hide if this government ever became a tyranny. If a dictator ever took charge

00:23:03.900 in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government

00:23:10.300 could enable it to impose total tyranny. And there would be no way to fight back

00:23:18.360 because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how

00:23:27.460 privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of

00:23:34.640 this technology. Now, why is this investigation important? I'll tell you why. Because I don't want

00:23:40.100 to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny

00:23:48.340 total in America. And we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this

00:23:55.280 technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that

00:24:02.260 abyss. That's the abyss from which there is no return. So this is 1975. This is why these unmasking

00:24:11.660 laws and everything else were put in to make sure that never happened. Tim, I think we've

00:24:18.300 crossed that bridge. People don't understand that this isn't about politics. This isn't about Flynn.

00:24:24.800 This is about you. That law of unmasking is put in there because if the government ever happens to

00:24:32.060 collect information on you and there's not an investigation on you, it cannot ever be released

00:24:39.480 because it will smear you. And the government can shape the entire community by just smearing the

00:24:47.580 right people and making it appear as though that there is something wrong. This is what he was

00:24:53.580 talking about in 75. It's here. And the question is, who leaked Michael Flynn's name to the press?

00:24:59.980 Who within the administration was getting this information, used that to damage the credibility,

00:25:04.620 create public opinion. That's exactly why you're right at what you're saying.

00:25:10.820 Last night, we did a special and there's some real questions that need to be answered.

00:25:17.740 I had Lara Logan on with us as this was released. The list of all the people that had an unmasking

00:25:25.340 uh, Samantha Power testified. She never asked for Michael Flynn's name to be unmasked. Uh, although

00:25:32.460 the, the records that were released by the DNI yesterday show that she asked seven different

00:25:37.760 days, uh, for an unmasking on, on Flynn. So she, go ahead. Did she say she, she, she didn't ask

00:25:46.920 or she said she didn't, she has no recollection of that. She may have said, uh, hang on. Let me get it

00:25:52.780 exactly. Uh, hang on here. Hang on. Shoot. Where is it? Uh, right here. Uh, Samantha, uh, crap. I'm

00:26:05.120 going to have to look forward in a, in a break. I'll come back to that. But I, she, she said she

00:26:09.080 had no recollection of doing it. I know she said that, but I think she's also said I didn't do it.

00:26:14.800 It might've been someone else, which is against the law. Unmasking has to happen by you. And if you

00:26:20.360 have no recollection of seven times asking for it to be unmasked seven times, I don't

00:26:28.520 buy it at all. So, so, so here's what, uh, here's what I'm thinking on the day the Washington

00:26:34.140 Post published the story about Michael Flynn, Joe Biden had made a request according to these

00:26:38.380 documents as well. I'm wondering if someone in the Obama administration had done this

00:26:42.800 and then Joe Biden, upon seeing news or stories, sought to figure out to confirm it on his end.

00:26:47.800 Because I know a lot of people, you know, there, there is people, there are people trying

00:26:51.500 to paint a picture that Biden made this request the same day. So they're assuming that Biden

00:26:55.860 then got the name and then sent it to the press possible, possible, but it could also be

00:27:00.080 it's possible. But I think, you know, the Washington Post probably had to go through jumpsuits

00:27:05.360 through some legal hoops for a few days before they were able to, you know, so I don't think

00:27:09.800 it was Biden who made the leak, but nonetheless, someone administration leaked Flynn's name,

00:27:14.680 which is a serious violation of, of, of our privacy rights. And we've, we've had problems

00:27:19.520 with the FISA courts going back for, well, I mean, for a really long time, I'm only 34.

00:27:23.900 So I remember back during the occupy, you know, era back 2010, 2011, you had all of these left-wing

00:27:29.240 activists dragging the intelligence agencies for the non-adversarial FISA courts, how there

00:27:34.900 was spying going on. The Obama administration had been spying like crazy, spying on foreign

00:27:39.180 countries, spying on private citizens. And today something strange happens. Now you have

00:27:44.140 many of these same people who, who once used to complain about it in media, justifying it.

00:27:49.540 No, no, no. This is, this is routine intelligence work. This is how the FBI operates. It's totally

00:27:52.860 okay. You know, of course, there are many, there's, there are a lot of progressives and journalists,

00:27:57.080 people like Glenn Greenwald, who have never stopped ragging on these abuses. And he's a very

00:28:01.600 relatively progressive guy, but you can really see the, the, the, the deception, the people

00:28:07.400 with no principles who just want power, who will complain about it when they're not in

00:28:11.440 power. And then as, you know, as soon as it becomes a weapon for them, something they

00:28:16.200 can use now, it's just routine. It's all fine. It's all okay.

00:28:22.440 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:25.220 So what's happening to our nation? And does the bill of rights mean anything anymore? Wisconsin,

00:28:35.580 the Supreme court yesterday just said, all of these health things are, they are unenforceable

00:28:40.300 and go against the constitution and lead us to tyranny. Well, there is a, a port of Seattle

00:28:46.800 police officer. His name is Greg Anderson. I saw a video that he did that was on YouTube. It went

00:28:55.140 viral and he's very calm, rational. He's not accusing anybody. He's just saying, Hey, I I'm

00:29:01.560 seeing these reports from all over the country where people are being arrested for, uh, you know,

00:29:06.160 hair given haircuts. And I just urge police officers to know that, uh, this isn't the, the,

00:29:13.840 that's unconstitutional and we have to abide by the constitution. He was very reasoned. And I didn't

00:29:20.000 think it said anything wrong at all. Well, he had permission from, uh, his higher ups to make the

00:29:28.340 video and everything was fine until it went viral. And then somebody got pissed off about it. And now

00:29:32.560 he may, he may be terminated for it. He's been put on leave, uh, and they're deciding what to do

00:29:39.840 about it. Greg Anderson, who has rejected a lot of, uh, interviews has graciously accepted, uh, this

00:29:46.840 interview and, uh, is speaking out about it. Hi, Greg, how are you? Morning, Glenn. I'm doing well.

00:29:53.540 Thank you. Uh, thank you for, I mean, you know, just at the time, I don't think there's any common

00:29:58.160 sense left in the Pacific Northwest. Then I see your video. Uh, so thank you for that. Um, first of all,

00:30:04.380 did you have permission and was everybody cool for you to speak on your own, uh, to do this video?

00:30:12.080 No. And that was the first point that I was going to clarify listening to your introduction. I wouldn't

00:30:17.560 say that I had permission from the department to do the video. I did the video a hundred percent on

00:30:23.220 my own accord for reasons that we'll get into, but, uh, I didn't, I initially didn't get any pushback

00:30:29.060 from the department. That's what, that's what I brought up the following day. Okay. So when you say

00:30:35.960 you did it for reasons of your own, what, what, what were those reasons? Well, I can tell you of,

00:30:41.260 you know, being a military vet and now being in law enforcement, I have friends in law enforcement

00:30:45.880 all over the country. And speaking to everybody that is in my profession, I can assure you that

00:30:53.280 99.9% of officers feel the exact same way I do. You know, all the stuff we're seeing going on,

00:30:59.640 nobody can believe it. And everybody I talked to says, I would never arrest someone for going into

00:31:04.300 a park and I would never arrest a surfer. And I would never arrest a lady for cutting somebody's 1.00

00:31:09.340 hair. This is absolutely, this is asinine yet. We keep seeing it every single day more and more.

00:31:15.580 And it really started to bother me for several reasons. I mean, the first and foremost reason

00:31:20.000 is we're trampling up people's constitutional rights and we don't have the authority

00:31:24.860 to do those things to people, regardless of what elected officials say. And the, the other aspect of

00:31:32.780 this that's really troubling to me is maintaining a good relationship with the public is something

00:31:38.260 that's been a struggle for law enforcement for a long time. And in a short amount of time,

00:31:43.000 I saw that relationship greatly strained and the gap, the trust between law enforcement and the

00:31:48.820 public, that gap is growing exponentially. And I felt like I needed to say something in an attempt

00:31:54.940 to slow that down. And, uh, I mean, I think the proof is in the pudding. It resonated with so many

00:32:00.020 people. So you say that, um, you, you know, you didn't, you don't want to do this. And most of the

00:32:07.460 officers, you know, don't want to do this, but do they end up doing it anyway? I feel, I mean,

00:32:13.680 and like I said, my video, I haven't seen it firsthand at my department. I, the port of Seattle

00:32:18.460 has been a really good department when it comes to any type of enforcement, but I believe in my heart

00:32:24.880 that officers don't want to be doing these things, but they're put in a place where they're higher up

00:32:29.620 ask them to. And now they're stuck between, okay, am I going to be looking at disciplinary actions or

00:32:34.600 losing my job where I lose my livelihood and the ability to feed my family? Or do I have to just,

00:32:39.800 you know, kind of bend the rules a little bit this one time. And I feel like a lot of officers are

00:32:46.200 getting stuck in that place. And they, a lot of people don't have the courage to just draw the line

00:32:52.140 in the sand and say, no, I have an oath to the citizens of this country and I'm not going to do

00:32:56.860 that. I can't believe Greg, that we're actually talking about this. This is something that war

00:33:03.220 gamed in my head a million times the last 20 years on whether or not, you know, we'd have to rely on

00:33:09.580 the sheriffs or the police would turn and, uh, you know, and, and it's always been a crazy thought

00:33:15.320 and thank God it's not to the level of, of, you know, why I was thinking about these things, but

00:33:19.580 this is really an important thing. And doesn't it seem crazy that we're here?

00:33:26.240 Well, yeah, it's, it's unbelievable. And, you know, and I touched on that on, on my video is that

00:33:31.860 our power is nothing more than a perception. We have a little piece of pin on our, on our chest

00:33:38.760 that reflects authority, but once the American people have enough, it's a numbers game. It could

00:33:45.940 be stripped from us in one minute. And that's a really scary thought of having citizen against

00:33:51.400 officer on the streets. And I know some people think that that's just, you know, like a conspiracy

00:33:56.380 theory or that's you're out of thinking out of left field, but I can tell you as someone that's

00:34:01.240 been deployed to a lot of third world countries that are torn apart by war, people, when people

00:34:08.740 get in places where they have, they, out of desperation, they start to do really nasty things

00:34:14.100 to each other. And if people think that that's an impossibility in America, I don't think they're

00:34:18.320 grounded in reality.

00:34:21.480 So what was your message? Because now you have, you have two mortgages, you have kids,

00:34:27.160 you can't afford to lose your job. That sends a message to a lot of people. Well, I'm not going to do

00:34:32.680 that.

00:34:33.080 Well, the reason that I'm taking such a hard stance on that is because in the video, I implored

00:34:41.780 officers to stand up for what's right, regardless of what it costs you, regardless of what it costs

00:34:48.100 you, you have to put right over your own personal comfort. And I think the reason that I'm trying to

00:34:54.220 push that message out there is because if every officer stood up for what they believed, it'd be a

00:34:58.640 non-issue. And the people in these political positions that are using us like, like their,

00:35:04.560 their foot soldiers, they would lose all the power. And so that is why I think it's important to tell

00:35:09.840 people, no matter what is on the line, you stand up for what's right. And you stand up for the

00:35:15.720 constitution. And that's why I had to take such a hard line on this. Well, my department said, Hey,

00:35:21.480 it's time to pull the video down. It's getting too big. I said, my whole message is about standing

00:35:26.200 behind what you believe. I can't put a message out to millions of people telling them to hold

00:35:32.160 strong on their convictions. And then as soon as I get a little pushback, you know, within my words

00:35:37.300 and say, yeah, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. So would you do it again?

00:35:45.040 Absolutely. You know, regardless of whether it costs me my job or not, the amount of feedback I've got

00:35:51.120 across the country from both officers and citizens about how it just opened their eyes.

00:35:56.640 It caused, it started conversations. It made people look inward. You know, I got an email and

00:36:02.020 we're literally getting thousands and thousands of emails. I can't even begin to keep up on them,

00:36:06.460 but I got one yesterday that I did read. And it was from a guy who works for NYPD. And he said,

00:36:11.580 Greg, I want to let you know, every officer in our department has watched your video.

00:36:16.060 It made a lot of people do some self-reflection. And I can assure you that your eight minute video

00:36:21.760 changed the culture in NYPD. And I mean, that is the most, it's unbelievable to think that me

00:36:28.440 sharing my ideas for eight minutes has been able to reach people across the country. But when I'm

00:36:34.180 getting all this feedback from people, I have to believe that I did the right thing.

00:36:39.500 Well, I think you did. And I appreciate it, Greg. I think that you were very, very brave

00:36:45.900 and there was nothing that you said that our founders wouldn't have approved of. And it is

00:36:54.820 incumbent about all of us. You said something, I can't remember what it was, but you made me think

00:37:01.280 of the Germans back in World War II that said, I'm just following orders. And you said, we don't have 0.98

00:37:07.340 that here. We don't, we don't. That's not what we do. Do you remember what you said?

00:37:12.280 Well, no. Yeah. Because I have a friend who was in the Ranger regiment with me. He's a special

00:37:17.480 operations veteran and he's been stopped two times asking for papers, proving he's essential.

00:37:23.580 And I said that that's, that's the Gestapo straight out of Nazi Germany. You don't get to stop people

00:37:29.460 and see what they're doing or what their credentials are. As a law enforcement officer,

00:37:34.100 I can stop someone. If I observed them committing a crime, it's really simple. You don't get to just

00:37:41.460 randomly target people or go after certain groups because we're told to do that. I think that's a

00:37:48.000 slippery slope. You know, today this is essential, but, but what, what might a governor order tomorrow?

00:37:54.740 You know, that's why laws have to go through a long legislative process to become law.

00:37:59.580 And it's not just on a whim of one person, because before you know it, that becomes tyranny.

00:38:06.880 Greg, may your voice be heard all over the country by police officers and may they begin to form their

00:38:13.880 own words and their own spine to stand up and say exactly the same thing. You didn't do it in a time

00:38:19.500 of crisis and you didn't do it, uh, you know, uh, because you were all upset or anything. You spoke

00:38:27.100 calmly and rationally and, uh, you've made a big impact and I hope to see more police officers

00:38:32.860 doing the same. Thank you so much, Greg. I appreciate it. God bless. Thank you, Glenn. I appreciate it as well.

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