00:00:00.000Show's packed today. We started with Spirit Airlines. You know, what is happening? And by the way, thank you, progressives, for making people's lives better yet again. How? How exactly? They claim that Spirit Airlines not merging would be a victory for the Biden administration. And if the Biden administration's idea was, you know, to make people's life harder, congratulations. And I guess it is a victory for you.
00:00:23.920But if you are actually looking out for the little people, Spirit Airlines going out of business is a huge problem.
00:00:30.200But that seems to be the track record. We look at that.0.86
00:00:33.320Also, Harmi, Dylan was on with us today.
00:00:46.040What's happening in our political class is a problem.
00:00:48.480And the fact that President Trump is traveling to China, one of our biggest enemies, I think might be a big problem.
00:00:57.080I hate to say it out loud, but I don't think the president should go to China.
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00:05:17.520You know, our government, not just the DOJ, but, you know, various aspects of the government viewed people seeking religious accommodations to not have to get the COVID vaccination if they were government employees as, you know, not legitimate.
00:05:32.480They've basically internally labeled all of those accommodation requests illegitimate.
00:05:38.220The Biden DOJ continued the Obama DOJ's efforts to go after, you know, little sisters of the poor and, you know, other Christian organizations like that.
00:05:51.600The Bostock memo that effectively took that Bostock ruling, which I disagree with from the Supreme Court about, you know, gay rights and went way beyond that and basically made it illegitimate for any person employed by the government to have a Christian viewpoint on gay marriage and issues like that, which are very much spiritual and religious in nature.
00:06:21.600And so there was just a complete lack of respect for the Christian and more broadly, to the point of trying to get Christians off of juries, screen them out.0.53
00:06:34.220To get Christians off of juries to, in the case of a companion report that we issued a few weeks ago, our Faith Act weaponization report, where disparaging remarks were made by DOJ prosecutors in my department, former prosecutors now in my department here, about a magistrate judge being a Catholic, keeping people of faith off of juries,
00:06:58.780and going after and seeking sentences that were more than double for Christian protesters outside abortion clinics than for really domestic terrorists going after pro-life centers in Florida in, you know, one important case after the Dobbs decision.
00:07:18.980So these disparities were marked. They were open. They were written down in emails. And, you know, thank goodness that we have a president today who is not just dedicated to changing that, but also documenting what happened so that people should feel ashamed to do this to other people of faith in our country, because our country is founded on faith and specifically on the Christian faith.
00:07:43.820we're we're not really good at shame right now what what what are what steps are we taking
00:07:49.580i mean my biggest fear is we lose in 2028 and all of this stuff comes back with a vengeance
00:07:56.320what is being done to make sure this doesn't happen again anything can anything be done
00:08:02.640well glenn it very much could happen again i mean you can count on it happening again in fact in
00:08:07.580In fact, Hakeem Jeffries and the James Comeys and other prominent figures in the world are promising that punishment of conservatives will happen if the parties change.
00:08:20.600Now, we don't do the opposite, but what I will tell you is that lawyers in this department who violated the rights of Americans, including Brady violations against defendants, refusing to disclose exculpatory evidence in some of these weaponized faith-related cases, they no longer work here.
00:08:37.580year. So, yeah, sure, they could reapply in four years or three years, but their careers would have
00:08:43.660moved on by then. And frankly, if they want to fight, I mean, we have records, but before anyone
00:08:49.280gets terminated here, there's a record of what they did. And, you know, that'll all be a public
00:08:54.040record. So I think that is an improvement. I mean, a lot of people have criticized me on the Hill,
00:09:01.060and Democrats have criticized me for the fact that 75 percent of the lawyers in the Civil Rights
00:09:06.340Division left after I became the Assistant Attorney General. That is absolutely a positive
00:09:12.080development. For one thing, most of those lawyers were, you know, biased, and, you know, no one is
00:09:18.340entitled to a forever job here. What we have now, and we're building back up here, is Second Amendment
00:09:23.740lovers, is people who love liberty, Christians, Jews, people of faith, people of all faiths are
00:09:30.960welcome here if they are willing to respect the Constitution and commit to the civil rights agenda
00:09:38.020that's consistent with protecting all Americans, not just the favored few. And back to that
00:09:43.860weaponization report, this DOJ put out guidance that Christians could not possibly be the victims
00:09:51.740of religious discrimination because they're the majority. That's ridiculous. That's not what our0.99
00:09:55.660constitution says the roberts court for all of its you know flaws i disagree with some things
00:10:00.820the roberts court has absolutely and all the way up to yes last week's opinion in louisiana versus
00:10:07.120calais has steered the ship of regarding discrimination back to the center where it
00:10:12.300belongs let me switch to the scotus ruling on gerrymandering if i hear one more say
00:10:18.700one person say jim crow i think i'm gonna lose my mind i can't even imagine how you feel
00:10:22.480So what is the effect of this, and are we going after the states?
00:10:30.200I know you said you're going after enforce in every state that has radically rigged maps.
00:10:42.000Okay, so we're formulating what the plan means.
00:10:45.440I mean, I will tell you that the timing of this ruling is such that, you know, the closer you are to elections happening, the less leeway courts give you to make changes.
00:10:58.260A lot of these changes have to be made at the political level, and we're seeing that happen.
00:11:02.500And when I say I'm going to enforce the law throughout the United States, I mean, that's not committing to any particular timeline because we do have to respect some of these parameters and we do have to look at the political situation.
00:11:12.600So where some states, mainly it's southern states.
00:11:15.440but not exclusively, are committing to redistricting, you know, they're going to go through that
00:11:19.900process, which is a political process, and the Supreme Court has ruled that political
00:11:24.820gerrymandering is acceptable, and so that's going to be happening throughout the country.
00:11:30.800You know, eventually, I think what you're going to see eventually over the next two,
00:11:34.680four, six years is there are going to be legal actions, if not by the Department of Justice,
00:11:40.720by by candidates, by partisan entities, just like happened in Louisiana versus Calais.
00:11:46.520NAACP forced the hand over there. They may be regretting that now.
00:11:50.380But instead of having one black majority district, they went for broke and went for two.
00:11:57.220And now there may be zero because political gerrymandering means that they can redraw the lines that fit the other criteria that are mentioned in the court.
00:12:06.300the jingles test that talks about compactness and you know communities of interest and so forth and
00:12:12.300that isn't necessarily race in 2026 in america i i don't believe it's race we have a number of
00:12:19.340um people being elected from both parties constituencies of all different races in
00:12:25.420america and that's a beautiful thing in our country so we saw last week our acting attorney
00:12:32.460general go after you know Fauci's number two I know this is not your area of expertise but we're
00:12:39.520just days away from Fauci I mean he's already been pardoned but we can't bring up charges pretty soon
00:12:45.400are all these I mean are we moving forward on these things Harmeet are people going to pay a
00:12:52.440price for anything yeah look people are going to pay a price you have to understand that the wheels
00:12:58.020of justice turn a little more slowly in the government than they might in private practice.
00:13:02.880I certainly have been frustrated by that myself. But when I think you've seen my boss,
00:13:08.480acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, blanket the news waves this past weekend regarding
00:13:14.000the Comey indictment and others. And, you know, what you see in public is just a fraction of the
00:13:19.520evidence that's out there. And so building these cases takes time. We have had turnover here.
00:13:25.280We have had weaponized justice in the form of judges who refuse to let some of our cases go forward and, you know, and grand juries that refuse to indict.
00:13:35.540That's been a challenge. But I'm confident that you are going to see justice.
00:13:39.340I mean, people want it to go a lot faster than it has. That isn't my area.
00:13:43.440And civil rights, I'm very proud to say that in a year we have accomplished a tremendous amount of justice within our areas of expertise.
00:13:51.160But, you know, the U.S. attorney's offices I'm in touch with, my friends in different U.S. attorney's offices, they're bringing cases regarding illegal voting.
00:13:59.640They're bringing cases regarding some of these massive fraud issues.
00:14:04.580Yes, there are pardons out there that cover a lot of the behavior that frustrate Americans.
00:14:09.080I think I'd love to see Fauci pay for some of the things that he did and others.
00:14:13.980And, you know, I can't promise you any particular results, but I can tell you that everyone here in this building is extremely dedicated to the president's agenda, certainly in our leadership here, and to getting justice for Americans who were wronged in the last several years.
00:14:28.920can you go let me go back to the um to the gerrymandering thing can you can you speak
00:14:35.300as the person that is running the civil rights division at the doj can you speak to those people
00:14:41.100like the people on the view that say this is just we're just silencing blacks and minorities and
00:14:48.740um you know we're going back to the i don't even know 1950s or or whenever
00:14:53.740um to nightmare years can you what would you say to them well first of all i'm not sure they would
00:15:00.540listen but what i would say to them is i'm a woman who grew up in the deep south and you know i
00:15:05.660there was the ku klux klan in my county when i was growing up in the 1970s in rural north carolina
00:15:10.960and that was scary and guess what it isn't there anymore it is it is it is not mainstream it is
00:15:17.460fringe. Our country has come so far. We've had a black president. We have had so many people of
00:15:27.180power from all over. Look at Hakeem Jeffries as the minority leader. We have a diverse and
00:15:34.900beautiful society, and we should be proud of that. We should celebrate it, and we should stop putting
00:15:39.700our thumb on the scale. It's not fair to all Americans, and it is simply perpetuating a racist
00:15:45.480history that we should be proud to be able to have moved past in our country. And so I think
00:15:52.780some of these gerrymandered districts, I mean, you know, it has consequences on both sides. What it
00:15:57.480does is it creates one very liberal district and then all the other districts become slightly more
00:16:02.200conservative. That's generally the pattern in a red state or a southern state. And instead,
00:16:09.480what you're going to have is more competitive districts eventually for everybody. And I think
00:16:13.920that's actually a really good thing. I, frankly, even though, of course, I'm a Republican,
00:16:20.080you know, I go on Capitol Hill, I testify, I speak to members of Congress sometimes,
00:16:23.440and I despair at the sort of the difficulty one has in dislodging any of these people from their
00:16:31.280positions. Once they get elected, it seems almost impossible to replace them. We could use more
00:16:35.380change. We could use more fresh blood in politics. And I think all Americans should view this as an
00:16:41.080opportunity to get some better people elected to Congress. Harmeet, thank you very much. Appreciate
00:16:46.920it. Thanks for having me. Just want to say I wish you were our Attorney General. I'm just throwing
00:16:52.960that out there and not asking you to comment on it. But thanks, Harmeet Dillon, our Assistant
00:16:57.480Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division.
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00:18:06.160beck program and we really want to thank you for listening all right i want to play a couple of
00:18:11.280things for you you know it used to be really simple if somebody tried to kill the president
00:18:16.620you know it looked like one guy one gun you know they try you could point to it you could under
00:18:22.500you could understand it you could explain it to your kids but i think that world is absolutely
00:18:27.560gone. We're looking now at something really different. Because when you line up the attempts
00:18:34.720on Donald Trump's life, and there's a new story out on our show prep today, you can get it for
00:18:40.320free at glenbeck.com. Sign up for the show prep. There's a couple of stories in there about
00:18:45.960assassinations and what is coming and how bad it is. This president has been targeted
00:18:51.600officially now more than any other president in history. They have tried to kill him more than
00:18:56.400any other president in u.s history and what we're seeing is a progression um it's a pattern okay
00:19:05.200let's start at the beginning in 2016 a man at a rally in las vegas tried to grab a gun from a
00:19:10.940police officer and shoot the president that's the old model that's the what was her name squeaky
00:19:16.000from remember her tried to kill uh gerald ford it was impulsive it's fast it's rash it's the old0.97
00:19:23.720model. It's the old school. Back in my days, we tried to grab a gun. It's close range. It was
00:19:29.460desperate. 2017 comes along. Things start to shift. A man tries to attack Trump's motorcade
00:19:36.640with a forklift. Now, think about that. To me, this is the difference between planting a bomb
00:19:44.580in the basement of the World Trade Center and then that not working and then trying to fly
00:19:48.980airplanes into the side of the building five years later. The bad guys now are starting to
00:19:55.180think about disruption and spectacle. By 2020, we're not even in that room anymore.
00:20:04.900Letter arrives, 2020. Ricin, meant to kill through the mail. Distance now is entering0.93
00:20:10.880the picture. You don't need access. You just need to find a way to get proximity.
00:20:18.980You need a system, a way to exploit it.
00:20:21.940And then everything begins to accelerate from there.
00:32:37.660i'm glad you're here uh thank you so much for listening with everything that's going on in the
00:32:42.720world and there's a lot i want to bring carol roth in uh to talk a little bit about um well
00:32:48.320let's start with oil why did oil go up today uh carol when the president announced he was
00:32:53.820opening up and and protecting some ships going through you know so i think there's something
00:33:01.480you've heard of the boy who cries wolf problem right and unfortunately i think that the president
00:33:07.600has a little bit of a straight will be open and safe problem. Some investors may put it to the
00:33:15.520side, and sometimes you see that in the stock market. But the hardcore investors, those who
00:33:21.680are in the bond market, those who are in the commodity market, they are looking at not what
00:33:27.800the president is saying directly, they're reading between the lines, and they're taking note of his
00:33:33.000actions, because the president happens to be very transparent if you know what you're looking for.
00:33:39.320And basically, every time the yields on the 10-year get into the range of about 4.4%,
00:33:46.200the administration, led by a very smart guy at the Treasury in Scott Besant,
00:33:51.780starts to worry that we're going to have bond market dysfunction. And so the president comes
00:33:57.120out and says, everything is going to be good. Everything is going to be wrapped up here soon.
00:34:02.760and we're taking care of everything in an effort to get those yields down and to buy them a little
00:34:09.400bit of space and a safety buffer. And if you are in the bond market, you're in the commodity market,
00:34:15.280you've noticed this pattern. And at some point, you don't believe it anymore. And obviously,
00:34:20.860the longer that this goes on, and the more tail there is, there's going to be on cost and economic
00:34:27.840consequences. So I think that you have, you know, in certain markets, you know, certainly each one
00:34:34.060is individual in terms of how they're digesting information and has different focuses. But I
00:34:39.000think that they have caught on to, you know, every time we hit this level, this is what the
00:34:44.000administration says, but we're not actually seeing an end to this conflict. And, you know,
00:34:50.320investors who are very focused on geopolitics and oil and gas, you know, believe that the
00:34:56.200rate at this point is closed indefinitely and that there's no clarity about when an opening
00:35:01.800date is really going to happen so even if ships apparently three american flag ships have gone
00:35:07.760through even if ships are going through now none of them had oil i think but yeah so you know
00:35:15.280obviously there would have to be a long extended you know not not a one-off situation or a three
00:35:21.860off situation, but there would have to be a return to some sense of normalcy and flow.
00:35:28.740And even then, that doesn't mean that there's definitely an end to the conflict, but that
00:35:34.380within the context is going to have a different read in terms of the market.
00:35:39.700And look, the reality is, Glenn, that the cost of gas and the cost of oil on a worldwide
00:35:47.240basis should be higher at this point in time.
00:35:49.780There has been a lot of concerted efforts in terms of strategic petroleum reserve releases across the world and other efforts to try to keep this down and keep a lid on it during the conflict.
00:36:02.680So even at the high levels that we're at, it could be worse.
00:36:06.160And I think that, again, that's part of the calculus is how much runway is there to keep a lid on this over time.
00:36:14.020And obviously, the longer that it goes on, the more longer term risk there is.
00:36:19.780So the flying bananas are done this, uh, this weekend spirit airlines is, uh, is out.
00:36:25.840And Elizabeth Warren, when, you know, when she announced this with, uh, with Joe Biden,
00:36:30.700that they weren't going to merge with jet blue, uh, she said, that's a win for the Republican
00:36:47.980all these people have lost their jobs the airline is closed the only ones that will win are the0.99
00:36:52.220bigger airlines yeah the thing about the elizabeth warrens which has
00:36:58.140progressivism but basically liberalism in general at this point is that they are always wrong and
00:37:05.840never in doubt and this is a very dangerous combination because you know you can have this
00:37:12.380moral preening, but it doesn't replace economic reality. And they are so decoupled from the
00:37:19.640economic reality, either because they don't understand or because they don't care that they
00:37:24.820get to be Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. Oh, I did a thing. I helped. And, you know, no,
00:37:29.440you did not help. They take their victory lap. And then what happens is that long term,
00:37:35.080everybody suffers the consequences. You know, M&A is part of my background. I'm a recovering
00:37:40.500investment banker. You know, we see this all the time. You have a company that needs a lifeline
00:37:46.340and another company steps in and it's letting the market sorted out. Does it mean that, you know,
00:37:51.940that that would have worked? I don't know. It's, you know, 50-50, but at least there would have
00:37:57.560been a chance. What they did is they took a struggling company and they said, no, you cannot
00:38:03.180have that lifeline. Look, we did a good thing. And like you said, now we have less choice.
00:38:08.860Now we have people who are out of a job. Now we have less of an opportunity for this to work its way out in the markets and in the system. And this isn't just about M&A. This is about minimum wage. This is about rent control.
00:38:27.040This is about every time they don't understand or don't care about economic reality, they want to do a thing.
00:38:34.260They want to do their Ralph Wiggum thing and be helping, and they're not helping, and they're making it harder for Americans to thrive, to be successful, and in some cases just to afford the cost of living.
00:38:46.040And unfortunately, that's where we're at today.
00:38:47.960well but you can't i'm sorry but i can't i can't give them the benefit of the doubt on this because
00:38:56.300every time i mean the the facts are out about minimum wage they're going to go and say there
00:39:02.220needs to be a minimum wage now they're going to try to pass it in congress again um no especially
00:39:08.440not a national minimum wage what what somebody can live on in preston idaho is different than
00:39:14.640what somebody can live on in New York city. That makes no sense whatsoever. You put a national
00:39:20.660living wage together and it's 25 bucks. The people in small towns of America, you will lose those
00:39:27.740jobs. You will lose many of the jobs in the big cities because people can't afford that as a
00:39:33.460business. And the, the proof is there. They just never seem to want to look at it. Yeah. I mean,