The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Kevin Freeman, Kyle Sammin & Max Lucado ｜ 10⧸22⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hello, you sick freak. Welcome to it. It is a Tuesday. Great show for you. We have Kevin Freeman 1.00

00:00:05.360 on. He's the guy who actually tracked down for the Pentagon what happened right after the 08

00:00:10.980 collapse. Remember, somebody got really rich on the housing collapse. Somebody got rich on 9-11.

00:00:18.160 He's the guy the Pentagon hired to track it down because there's something new that is going on.

00:00:23.800 The media seems to be trying to make this into a Trump scandal, but it's not. It looks like it's

00:00:28.160 Chinese and Iranian scandal in our stock market, what it means and what it even is. Also,

00:00:36.300 Beto's thoughts on America. I mean, I think we all need to hear. We all need to hear those,

00:00:43.040 don't you? We take some of the chaos and tie it together and show you what's happening around

00:00:48.040 the world and ask you about agents of sabotage. We talk about Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax and

00:00:56.560 why exactly it wouldn't work and unconstitutional and an amazing, amazing hour with Max Lucado,

00:01:04.020 how happiness actually happens all on today's podcast.

00:01:07.920 All right, so there's a couple of things going on in the world that I want to address and try to tie

00:01:27.880 together. My only real skill in life, I think, is to be able to see a bigger picture.

00:01:36.340 I want you to look at the demonstrations in Lebanon, Chile, Spain, Haiti, Iraq, Sudan,

00:01:46.000 Russia, Egypt, Uganda, Indonesia, Ukraine, Peru, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Colombia, France, Turkey,

00:01:52.840 Venezuela, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Brazil, Algeria, Ecuador, and what's happening in England.

00:02:00.680 Now, what happened last night in Canada? And I want to break these up into two different categories.

00:02:08.880 Usually when you have riots or you have violent protests, it's because of one of two things.

00:02:18.440 Either the people are hungry and they can't afford the things that they need and they see the government

00:02:25.340 as a problem or the government's not listening to them and the government's not responding to them.

00:02:36.840 Both of those things are happening, but there's a third new one that is also being injected.

00:02:42.880 So let's look at some of these. For instance, you have fuel subsidies that have been cut.

00:02:51.020 So the price of fuel has gone up. In places like Haiti, they can't afford it.

00:02:58.680 In Lebanon, there's a new tax levied on the use of WhatsApp.

00:03:04.240 That's the social media thing. That's also one of the causes for Uganda. 1.00

00:03:08.960 They're starting to put taxes on social media.

00:03:12.520 Now, why would you put a tax on WhatsApp and why would that cause a riot?

00:03:17.640 This is really important. We'll come back to that here in just a second.

00:03:25.500 In Sudan, it's the cut to fuel and food subsidies.

00:03:30.120 In Chile, they're protesting subway fare hikes.

00:03:35.120 Now, this is where WhatsApp comes in.

00:03:40.200 You'll notice these aren't striking workers like we have with GM.

00:03:47.340 These are just average people getting together on the streets.

00:03:51.620 Now, how is that happening?

00:03:54.380 That's happening now because we used to have to have labor unions 0.74

00:03:57.820 because it was the only way to get the message out

00:04:01.540 and we could all come together against the man.

00:04:04.700 And so, you had a labor organizer come in and he would organize everybody.

00:04:10.740 But now, you have WhatsApp.

00:04:12.440 Now, you have Facebook.

00:04:13.660 Now, you have the internet.

00:04:15.420 And so, if you're upset about gas prices,

00:04:19.060 you can find other people that are upset about gas prices

00:04:22.760 that you would have never met before.

00:04:24.720 This is why the governments are starting to crack down on social media

00:04:29.800 and start to tax them and everything else

00:04:31.680 because just like Facebook admitted to and so did Twitter,

00:04:37.760 they were greatly responsible for the uprising in Egypt

00:04:42.040 and they actually helped push Egypt.

00:04:45.880 So, you don't have to form unions anymore as long as you have the app.

00:04:50.840 Now, let's switch to other places.

00:04:57.720 There is a shortage of gasoline.

00:05:00.280 There is a shortage of food.

00:05:02.480 Okay?

00:05:03.040 We understand that.

00:05:04.520 But here's where something new is happening.

00:05:07.920 In France, one of the original demands of the yellow vests

00:05:14.140 was, and I'm not kidding,

00:05:17.080 free parking in Disneyland Paris.

00:05:22.900 They, one of the things, one of the demands they wanted

00:05:25.840 was free parking at Disneyland Paris.

00:05:30.280 Now, if you don't understand,

00:05:32.740 if that seems crazy to you,

00:05:34.700 which it does me, it is crazy.

00:05:38.800 If it seems crazy,

00:05:40.400 it's because you haven't really fully understood

00:05:43.680 what kind of changes are happening to our world.

00:05:48.020 And there's a reason for it.

00:05:51.440 People are,

00:05:52.720 people have very high expectations

00:05:55.100 in these successful countries

00:05:58.440 and anything that will help them cut their expenses

00:06:04.200 or give them free stuff is being pushed.

00:06:10.020 Just get me free stuff.

00:06:11.700 And the more free stuff that is out there,

00:06:14.820 the harder it is for, for instance,

00:06:17.640 a government to be able to pay for all that free stuff.

00:06:20.700 It's an overwhelming of the system.

00:06:22.880 People are now just starting to say,

00:06:25.440 well, I own that parking lot too.

00:06:28.800 That parking lot wouldn't be here if it wasn't for us.

00:06:31.840 I mean, it's in France.

00:06:35.160 Should be free parking at Disneyland for everybody.

00:06:38.080 Also, at the same time in France,

00:06:44.340 something else is happening.

00:06:46.000 Farmers are upset at the climate change plans.

00:06:51.060 Climate change, if you think it's unpopular here,

00:06:55.220 climate change with anyone

00:06:57.160 in the socialist leaning countries

00:07:00.140 is growing really unpopular

00:07:04.440 with farmers and people,

00:07:07.240 but only people who consume food.

00:07:10.520 Because it's jacking the price of food up.

00:07:15.140 When the government says,

00:07:17.040 we have to cut these programs to save money,

00:07:20.080 nobody wants to hear that.

00:07:21.980 It's starting to set people on fire

00:07:25.060 because they're also jacking up things

00:07:27.840 like things for climate change.

00:07:33.960 So here's what we have.

00:07:39.540 We have the poorest country

00:07:43.080 in the Western Hemisphere

00:07:44.660 with the most dysfunctional politics, Haiti.

00:07:49.620 And it's seeing protests

00:07:51.080 because the situation is bad.

00:07:53.580 But in the same hemisphere,

00:07:55.020 we also have Chile.

00:07:57.560 It's the wealthiest country

00:07:59.740 in Latin America.

00:08:02.220 And it has falling inequality.

00:08:07.440 So why are they protesting?

00:08:08.840 Let me give you one other thing.

00:08:16.980 I told you 10 years ago,

00:08:19.260 in the future,

00:08:20.580 the operative word will be chaos.

00:08:22.600 And anything that causes chaos,

00:08:25.060 get away from.

00:08:26.400 Because we know who the author of chaos is.

00:08:31.240 So get away from anybody

00:08:34.640 who's trying to cause chaos.

00:08:36.140 Let me show you one other thing.

00:08:41.320 Governments cannot work.

00:08:43.860 Governments fail

00:08:45.120 when the gears get jammed.

00:08:49.320 This is what saboteurs were during the war.

00:08:54.100 Saboteurs were people

00:08:55.200 that would put a monkey wrench 0.81

00:08:58.000 into the gears.

00:08:59.420 That was an actual thing.

00:09:01.480 In the Industrial Revolution,

00:09:03.500 somebody would take a wrench

00:09:04.740 and they'd throw it in the gears

00:09:06.040 and it would break the gears

00:09:07.940 and jam the machine up.

00:09:09.460 So it would stop the factory

00:09:11.220 from producing things.

00:09:13.260 That was a saboteur.

00:09:16.760 Do we have saboteurs

00:09:18.540 in our midst now?

00:09:21.100 And I don't mean just here.

00:09:22.400 I mean all around the world.

00:09:24.460 Because the gears of the machine

00:09:26.800 is stopping.

00:09:28.880 Let me just give you

00:09:29.840 a couple of stops here.

00:09:31.940 Benjamin Netanyahu

00:09:32.860 looks like he's going to have to quit.

00:09:34.800 He's been re-elected,

00:09:36.500 but he cannot put together

00:09:38.240 a coalition.

00:09:40.580 Coalition-style parliamentary governments

00:09:42.920 only work

00:09:44.100 when there's goodwill.

00:09:47.120 There is no goodwill.

00:09:50.480 Everybody is standing their ground.

00:09:52.580 Everybody is saying,

00:09:53.560 my way or the highway.

00:09:56.060 So,

00:09:56.660 Benjamin Netanyahu

00:09:57.520 looks like he's going to retire

00:10:00.340 and quit

00:10:01.060 and hopefully they'll find

00:10:03.040 somebody else

00:10:03.780 that can put

00:10:04.420 a coalition government.

00:10:06.140 But don't count on it

00:10:07.740 because look what's happening

00:10:09.320 in England.

00:10:11.840 You have Boris Yeltsin,

00:10:13.880 Boris Johnson,

00:10:14.560 Boris Johnson,

00:10:15.420 who is just trying to follow

00:10:18.360 the dictate of the people.

00:10:20.400 They voted Brexit.

00:10:23.640 The extremists in Parliament

00:10:25.780 are saying,

00:10:27.140 no Brexit. 0.97

00:10:28.860 At any cost.

00:10:31.500 So,

00:10:32.040 screw the people. 0.98

00:10:34.180 Monkey wrench. 0.97

00:10:36.340 Boris Johnson

00:10:37.060 can't put together

00:10:39.460 a coalition.

00:10:40.240 There is no coalition left.

00:10:41.700 Justin Trudeau.

00:10:49.420 Justin Trudeau

00:10:50.500 won in Canada,

00:10:51.960 but he doesn't have

00:10:53.300 a margin big enough

00:10:54.340 to put together

00:10:55.340 a coalition government.

00:10:57.080 So now,

00:10:57.840 the machinery in Canada

00:10:59.580 is also stopped.

00:11:02.280 And I would say

00:11:03.420 that while we don't have

00:11:04.400 a parliamentary system here,

00:11:06.260 look at our machinery here.

00:11:09.560 Because one side

00:11:10.900 refuses

00:11:11.740 to work

00:11:13.300 and listen to things

00:11:15.020 that they themselves

00:11:16.840 four years ago

00:11:18.080 said they wanted.

00:11:21.840 Because they won't

00:11:23.100 act on those things,

00:11:24.260 because they will stand

00:11:25.320 against those things,

00:11:26.800 because they're against

00:11:27.880 one person

00:11:28.820 and putting that one person

00:11:30.480 ahead of the whole country,

00:11:32.340 you don't have a coalition.

00:11:33.880 You don't have

00:11:34.580 good faith.

00:11:35.840 You have nothing

00:11:36.600 that will work.

00:11:37.860 Congress cannot

00:11:38.840 get anything done.

00:11:40.120 the administration

00:11:40.980 cannot get anything done,

00:11:42.760 because they're fighting

00:11:43.880 over things

00:11:44.760 that, honestly,

00:11:46.140 nobody in the country

00:11:47.300 cares about.

00:11:49.680 Everyone in the country

00:11:51.060 wants us to move

00:11:52.400 forward.

00:11:59.400 So let me just ask you

00:12:00.580 a question.

00:12:02.180 And this is an honest question.

00:12:03.820 is this really

00:12:06.980 a coincidence?

00:12:11.680 Now, it could be

00:12:12.660 because everybody

00:12:13.420 seems to have

00:12:14.540 just been

00:12:15.100 violating their

00:12:16.920 social contract

00:12:18.340 with

00:12:19.520 the people

00:12:21.860 all over the world.

00:12:24.520 So it could be.

00:12:25.720 But it's interesting

00:12:29.280 how no one

00:12:30.360 seems to be

00:12:30.900 learning the lesson.

00:12:32.420 Things just keep

00:12:33.320 getting worse

00:12:34.160 and worse

00:12:34.920 and worse.

00:12:36.360 And what do people

00:12:37.340 do?

00:12:38.380 While Barcelona

00:12:39.600 burns?

00:12:41.980 Huh, we've got

00:12:42.800 models out there

00:12:43.520 twerking in the streets.

00:12:47.740 What?

00:12:48.300 Is anyone

00:12:50.560 taking this

00:12:51.200 seriously?

00:12:53.900 Is anyone

00:12:54.740 seeing what's

00:12:55.340 happening to

00:12:55.840 the entire

00:12:56.540 world?

00:13:00.800 It might

00:13:01.620 be a coincidence.

00:13:04.560 But then

00:13:05.380 again,

00:13:06.700 it might

00:13:07.220 not be.

00:13:09.040 And we

00:13:09.700 turn to

00:13:10.660 AOC

00:13:11.380 and Bernie

00:13:12.360 Sanders

00:13:12.820 and Hillary 1.00

00:13:13.840 Clinton

00:13:14.360 in one minute.

00:13:18.300 You remember

00:13:23.300 in

00:13:23.580 Twister,

00:13:24.440 one of the

00:13:25.140 characters

00:13:25.460 comes running

00:13:26.140 towards the

00:13:27.440 camera.

00:13:27.740 He's like,

00:13:27.980 it's coming!

00:13:28.940 It's coming!

00:13:29.740 Run for your

00:13:30.300 life!

00:13:31.480 And the other

00:13:31.960 character says,

00:13:33.000 no,

00:13:34.280 it's already

00:13:35.100 here.

00:13:36.960 That was the

00:13:37.660 tagline in,

00:13:38.520 you know,

00:13:38.820 all the trailers.

00:13:39.840 No, I don't

00:13:40.400 remember that.

00:13:41.100 Who would

00:13:41.320 remember that?

00:13:42.780 When people

00:13:43.100 remember the

00:13:43.680 dialogue of

00:13:44.420 Twister,

00:13:44.940 there's one

00:13:45.420 thing you

00:13:45.720 remember from

00:13:46.160 Twister,

00:13:46.540 which is a cow

00:13:47.140 flying by.

00:13:47.760 That's it.

00:13:48.080 That's the

00:13:48.460 only thing

00:13:48.720 that anyone

00:13:49.040 remembers from

00:13:49.560 Twister.

00:13:49.920 You don't

00:13:50.240 remember the

00:13:51.060 guy's

00:13:51.480 description?

00:13:52.200 That was

00:13:53.280 the commercial

00:13:53.920 for it over

00:13:54.820 and over

00:13:55.240 and over

00:13:55.600 again.

00:13:56.640 I don't

00:13:56.980 remember that.

00:13:57.500 There was

00:13:57.740 that and

00:13:58.040 they tied

00:13:58.620 themselves to

00:13:59.180 a pipe to

00:13:59.780 survive a

00:14:00.520 tornado,

00:14:01.040 which is

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00:14:01.800 realistic.

00:14:02.400 Could you

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00:15:05.060 All right.

00:15:16.600 So I want to

00:15:17.860 like to

00:15:18.960 like to just

00:15:21.260 give you this

00:15:21.740 headline.

00:15:23.240 Democrats

00:15:23.800 2020 race

00:15:24.840 has a new

00:15:26.280 shadow.

00:15:28.600 Hillary Clinton.

00:15:30.460 Some Democrats

00:15:31.340 are putting caution

00:15:32.040 signs up for

00:15:32.600 Hillary Clinton as

00:15:33.420 she wades back

00:15:34.040 into presidential

00:15:34.620 politics by

00:15:35.380 casting a 2020

00:15:36.200 candidate, Tulsi

00:15:37.740 Gabbard, as a

00:15:38.380 Russian asset,

00:15:39.580 mocking President

00:15:40.300 Donald Trump's

00:15:40.940 dealings with

00:15:41.400 foreign leader and

00:15:42.140 drawing counterattacks

00:15:42.980 from both.

00:15:44.120 Bernie Sanders

00:15:44.960 wrote yesterday,

00:15:49.720 people can disagree

00:15:50.600 on issues, but it

00:15:51.540 is outrageous for

00:15:52.740 anyone to suggest

00:15:53.520 that Tulsi is a

00:15:54.420 foreign asset.

00:15:56.240 Larry Cohen, one

00:15:57.080 of Sanders' top

00:15:57.600 supporters, was

00:15:58.380 conciliatory but

00:15:59.500 warned in an

00:16:00.080 interview that

00:16:00.580 Clinton could harm

00:16:01.560 the eventual 2020

00:16:02.560 nominee by weighing

00:16:03.560 in against specific

00:16:04.400 candidates, and

00:16:05.800 now they're

00:16:06.280 thinking that

00:16:06.820 maybe, maybe

00:16:08.540 she's thinking

00:16:10.460 about running.

00:16:11.540 Of course she

00:16:12.500 is.

00:16:14.160 I mean, there's

00:16:15.660 no chance of

00:16:16.340 winning, but of

00:16:16.880 course she's

00:16:17.500 thinking that.

00:16:18.920 You think

00:16:19.540 really?

00:16:20.240 Oh, yes.

00:16:21.200 I mean, she's

00:16:21.920 thinking about it.

00:16:23.320 You know, I'm

00:16:23.760 not saying anyone

00:16:24.700 else is thinking

00:16:25.600 about it.

00:16:26.260 She is thinking

00:16:27.320 about it.

00:16:28.020 She's thinking

00:16:28.720 about it all the

00:16:29.640 time.

00:16:29.960 Oh, they'll

00:16:30.700 come crawling

00:16:31.620 back to me.

00:16:32.920 They will.

00:16:35.140 I mean, what

00:16:35.820 they went was, she

00:16:36.500 went with the

00:16:36.920 double stack

00:16:38.200 conspiracy theory

00:16:39.460 yesterday, that

00:16:40.680 it was Tulsi

00:16:41.320 Gabbard was a

00:16:42.000 Russian agent, and

00:16:44.020 Jill Stein was a

00:16:46.140 Russian agent.

00:16:47.240 At that point, you

00:16:48.540 kind of thought she's

00:16:49.280 a little desperate

00:16:49.860 and certainly

00:16:50.480 obsessed about this.

00:16:51.800 Oh, no.

00:16:52.140 But you don't

00:16:52.680 think she's actually

00:16:53.240 jumping in, do you?

00:16:54.320 I think she is

00:16:55.760 waiting for the

00:16:57.080 moment where they're

00:16:57.920 just going to

00:16:58.300 come and ask me.

00:16:59.060 I know they'll

00:16:59.660 come and ask me.

00:17:02.140 To leave?

00:17:03.120 Because that's what

00:17:03.660 people are asking

00:17:04.360 her at this point.

00:17:05.140 She is delusional. 0.97

00:17:06.780 She is delusional. 0.94

00:17:08.600 And the Democrats

00:17:09.960 know that they're

00:17:10.980 in trouble, mainly

00:17:12.040 because of the

00:17:14.040 split in the party.

00:17:16.100 I mean, I don't

00:17:16.880 know if you've seen

00:17:17.400 the headlines in

00:17:18.540 the last 24 hours,

00:17:19.840 but because of

00:17:21.740 Ocasio-Cortez,

00:17:22.920 they're now saying,

00:17:24.120 is the Democratic

00:17:24.920 Party, as we know

00:17:26.780 it, over?

00:17:27.920 This election.

00:17:29.540 And I think so.

00:17:32.100 I mean, you mean

00:17:35.040 it changes into

00:17:35.780 something else.

00:17:36.980 I mean that what

00:17:38.160 Ocasio-Cortez and

00:17:40.640 the squad endorsing

00:17:42.240 Bernie rips that

00:17:44.340 apart.

00:17:45.560 Well, they're

00:17:45.800 setting a pretty

00:17:46.660 clear signal.

00:17:47.600 I mean, you know,

00:17:48.180 think about this.

00:17:48.640 You have, we're in

00:17:49.740 a moment where

00:17:50.460 Warren is arguably

00:17:51.660 the frontrunner,

00:17:52.680 right?

00:17:53.020 Warren's going to

00:17:53.420 give you 95% of

00:17:54.680 what you want out

00:17:55.540 of your socialist

00:17:56.380 candidate.

00:17:56.820 95%.

00:17:58.720 Okay.

00:17:59.820 Why now do

00:18:01.260 you pick now to

00:18:02.420 endorse Bernie

00:18:03.100 Sanders, a guy who

00:18:03.940 can barely walk

00:18:04.640 across the stage?

00:18:05.540 I want you to

00:18:06.140 listen to this

00:18:06.740 because I think

00:18:07.340 this is spot on.

00:18:08.880 Now, listen,

00:18:10.020 remember, Bernie

00:18:11.560 Sanders just had a

00:18:13.460 heart attack.

00:18:14.420 Yeah.

00:18:14.620 Okay.

00:18:15.340 He's falling in the

00:18:16.760 polls.

00:18:17.520 She's rising.

00:18:19.220 Biden is falling

00:18:21.520 in the polls.

00:18:23.200 Warren is clearly

00:18:24.520 the one to rally

00:18:25.720 around.

00:18:26.300 And again, Sanders

00:18:27.740 just had a heart

00:18:29.700 attack.

00:18:30.220 And they pick that

00:18:30.860 moment to endorse.

00:18:32.080 Why?

00:18:32.500 Why?

00:18:33.140 Number one, she's 1.00

00:18:34.480 saying this is my

00:18:35.400 movement.

00:18:35.900 As soon as Bernie's

00:18:36.900 gone, I'm in it.

00:18:37.960 It's me.

00:18:38.720 It's I'm the head of

00:18:39.860 this socialist

00:18:40.520 movement.

00:18:42.100 I am the one to

00:18:43.400 bring the torch

00:18:44.980 forward.

00:18:45.760 And this is not

00:18:46.460 something that's

00:18:46.980 going away.

00:18:48.380 And number two,

00:18:49.560 there is no

00:18:50.500 compromise when it

00:18:51.840 comes to socialism.

00:18:52.580 There is no 95%

00:18:54.380 of what we want

00:18:55.080 from Elizabeth

00:18:55.820 Warren.

00:18:56.240 We want 100% of

00:18:57.320 it.

00:18:57.760 We're not

00:18:58.200 satisfying for

00:18:59.100 someone who still

00:18:59.960 says they're a

00:19:01.080 capitalist despite

00:19:01.820 all evidence.

00:19:03.860 We are the people

00:19:04.860 that are going to

00:19:05.260 say, no, we want

00:19:06.040 them to say they're

00:19:06.860 socialists.

00:19:07.560 We're not embarrassed

00:19:08.360 about it.

00:19:08.940 And we're going

00:19:09.600 forward and going

00:19:10.460 forward when

00:19:10.980 Bernie does

00:19:12.220 decide to to

00:19:13.520 stop running.

00:19:14.880 It's my game.

00:19:16.040 Yep.

00:19:16.420 She will take the 0.97

00:19:17.740 torch up.

00:19:18.820 And all you have

00:19:19.980 to do is know

00:19:21.100 what party she was

00:19:22.560 actually working

00:19:23.440 for.

00:19:23.700 It's not the

00:19:24.060 Democrats.

00:19:24.880 And go back and

00:19:26.220 listen to what

00:19:26.760 Sank said the

00:19:27.980 night of the

00:19:28.840 last election.

00:19:29.760 We're tired of

00:19:30.660 these people. 1.00

00:19:31.200 We'll destroy 1.00

00:19:31.940 them. 1.00

00:19:34.460 The best of the

00:19:35.500 Glenn Beck

00:19:35.900 program.

00:19:40.980 Hey, it's Glenn

00:19:43.780 and you're

00:19:44.260 listening to the

00:19:44.840 Glenn Beck

00:19:45.180 program.

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00:19:54.320 Okay, here's the

00:19:54.980 story from Vanity

00:19:56.060 Fair.

00:19:56.380 In the last 10

00:19:58.400 minutes of trading

00:19:59.080 at the Chicago

00:19:59.780 Mercantile Exchange

00:20:00.700 on Friday,

00:20:01.600 September 13th,

00:20:02.560 someone got very

00:20:03.600 lucky.

00:20:04.540 That's when he or

00:20:05.160 she or a group

00:20:06.540 of people sold

00:20:08.100 short 120,000 S&P

00:20:11.500 e-minis.

00:20:12.620 They're electronically

00:20:13.440 traded future

00:20:14.520 contracts linked to

00:20:16.240 the Standard &

00:20:16.920 Poor's 500 stock

00:20:18.240 index.

00:20:19.040 When the index was

00:20:20.280 trading around

00:20:21.020 3,010, that's

00:20:23.140 when this purchase

00:20:23.960 came in to sell it

00:20:25.040 short.

00:20:26.560 The time was

00:20:27.160 3.50 p.m.

00:20:28.140 in New York, and

00:20:28.980 it was nearing

00:20:29.520 midnight in

00:20:30.460 Tehran.

00:20:31.480 A few hours later,

00:20:32.700 drones attacked a

00:20:34.000 large swath of

00:20:35.020 Saudi Arabia's oil

00:20:36.080 infrastructure, choking

00:20:37.480 off production in

00:20:38.520 the country and

00:20:39.180 sending oil prices

00:20:40.180 soaring.

00:20:41.160 By the time the

00:20:42.040 CME opened for

00:20:43.640 pre-trading Sunday

00:20:44.620 night, the S&P

00:20:45.920 index had fallen

00:20:46.720 30 points, giving

00:20:48.240 that very fortunate

00:20:49.420 trader or traders a

00:20:50.940 quick $180

00:20:52.540 million in profit.

00:20:54.820 Now, does that

00:20:55.440 sound like something

00:20:56.060 that Donald Trump

00:20:57.160 or one of his

00:20:57.680 people are doing?

00:20:58.820 And does that

00:20:59.500 sound like the

00:20:59.960 chaos he's

00:21:01.120 creating?

00:21:02.500 It was not an

00:21:03.400 isolated occurrence.

00:21:05.040 Three days earlier,

00:21:06.400 in the last 10

00:21:07.400 minutes of trading,

00:21:08.360 someone bought

00:21:08.900 82,000 S&P e-minis

00:21:11.180 when the index was

00:21:12.740 trading at

00:21:13.240 29.69.

00:21:14.820 It was nearly

00:21:15.560 4 a.m.

00:21:16.560 on September 11th

00:21:17.880 in Beijing,

00:21:18.540 where a few hours

00:21:20.140 later, the Chinese

00:21:21.120 government announced

00:21:22.140 that it would

00:21:22.620 lift tariffs on a

00:21:23.860 range of American

00:21:24.680 made products, as

00:21:26.280 has been the

00:21:26.800 typical reaction in

00:21:27.760 the U.S.

00:21:28.220 stock markets as

00:21:29.440 the trade war with

00:21:30.660 China chugs on 0.89

00:21:32.100 without any

00:21:32.720 perceptible logic.

00:21:34.100 When the news

00:21:34.900 about the potential

00:21:35.700 resolution seemed

00:21:37.860 positive, stock

00:21:39.140 markets go up.

00:21:40.460 The news was

00:21:41.520 viewed positively.

00:21:43.040 The S&P index

00:21:44.100 moved swiftly on

00:21:45.340 September 11th to

00:21:46.800 2,996, up nearly

00:21:49.600 30 points.

00:21:51.260 That same day,

00:21:52.360 later, President

00:21:53.200 Donald Trump said

00:21:54.000 he would postpone

00:21:54.880 the tariffs on

00:21:55.600 some of the

00:21:56.020 Chinese goods, and

00:21:57.100 the S&P moved

00:21:58.160 even higher, up

00:21:59.040 47 points.

00:22:00.440 The person that

00:22:01.820 bought the 82,000

00:22:03.880 e-minis just

00:22:04.840 before the market

00:22:05.560 closed on September

00:22:06.420 11th saw a

00:22:09.800 movement up.

00:22:12.740 An e-mini

00:22:13.580 contract worth

00:22:14.560 $50, just

00:22:17.460 moving up 47

00:22:18.620 points, is now

00:22:19.480 worth $2,350.

00:22:22.280 That person or

00:22:23.540 persons made

00:22:24.620 $190 million.

00:22:27.220 Now that sounds

00:22:28.480 to me like that

00:22:29.300 one was coming

00:22:29.900 maybe from China,

00:22:31.080 somebody that knew

00:22:31.820 China, or they 1.00

00:22:32.740 were just extremely

00:22:33.540 lucky.

00:22:34.740 A week earlier,

00:22:36.400 three minutes

00:22:37.080 before the CME

00:22:37.920 closed on September

00:22:38.820 3rd, someone

00:22:39.520 bought 55,000

00:22:40.920 e-mini contracts

00:22:41.820 with the index

00:22:42.480 at about 2,906,

00:22:44.120 around 9 p.m.

00:22:45.800 New York,

00:22:46.620 9 a.m.

00:22:47.520 Hong Kong.

00:22:48.340 Markets started

00:22:48.940 moving, kept

00:22:49.940 rallying for six

00:22:50.740 hours, then

00:22:51.280 reaching 2936,

00:22:52.720 around 2 p.m.

00:22:53.540 Hong Kong, 2 a.m.

00:22:54.620 New York.

00:22:55.540 Carrie Lam, the

00:22:56.900 Hong Kong leader,

00:22:57.760 announced that she

00:22:58.420 would be withdrawing

00:22:59.220 the controversial

00:23:00.200 extradition bill that

00:23:01.440 had been rolling the

00:23:02.100 city in protest for

00:23:02.980 months.

00:23:03.660 Somebody there made

00:23:04.880 $82 million.

00:23:05.960 But then, somebody

00:23:08.480 who bought 420,000

00:23:11.160 September e-minis in

00:23:12.660 the last 30 minutes

00:23:13.580 of trading in June

00:23:14.440 28th, that was 40%

00:23:17.120 of the day's trading

00:23:18.080 volume.

00:23:20.180 They made a trade

00:23:21.280 that no one could

00:23:22.160 ignore.

00:23:23.240 President Trump was

00:23:24.060 already in Osaka,

00:23:25.360 Japan, 14 hours ahead

00:23:26.940 of Chicago, on his

00:23:28.340 way to a roughly

00:23:29.160 hour-long meeting

00:23:30.140 with China's 0.91

00:23:31.300 President Xi.

00:23:32.620 As part of the

00:23:34.440 G20 summit, Saturday

00:23:36.080 in Osaka, the market

00:23:37.640 had closed, blah,

00:23:38.700 blah, blah.

00:23:39.460 Trump emerged from

00:23:40.260 the meeting with Xi

00:23:41.140 and announced that

00:23:41.900 their intermittent

00:23:43.560 trade talks were

00:23:44.440 back on track.

00:23:46.080 That person made a

00:23:47.280 profit of $1.8

00:23:49.260 billion.

00:23:51.740 When this happened

00:23:53.120 on September 11th,

00:23:55.540 a financial expert

00:23:57.120 who now does a show

00:23:58.280 on Blaze TV was

00:24:00.960 called in by the

00:24:01.760 Pentagon.

00:24:02.620 And said, can you

00:24:03.380 do the forensics on

00:24:04.440 this?

00:24:04.780 And he found that

00:24:05.720 indeed, somebody

00:24:06.980 shorted the market

00:24:07.920 and it looked like

00:24:09.580 it was a sovereign

00:24:10.360 fund.

00:24:11.520 Kevin Freeman was

00:24:12.480 that guy, and he's

00:24:13.900 on with us now.

00:24:14.580 Hi, Kevin.

00:24:17.240 Kevin, are you

00:24:17.840 there?

00:24:18.480 I am, Glenn.

00:24:19.200 How are you doing?

00:24:19.840 I'm good.

00:24:20.560 So this is, this

00:24:22.340 story is presented

00:24:23.880 as if it is

00:24:25.340 Trump that is,

00:24:27.060 you know, possibly

00:24:28.200 involved here.

00:24:31.120 but this looks

00:24:31.840 like it would

00:24:33.220 be sovereign

00:24:34.660 funds or

00:24:35.560 investors that

00:24:36.480 have inside

00:24:37.020 information outside

00:24:38.360 of the U.S.

00:24:40.580 and not about

00:24:41.580 U.S.

00:24:43.180 movements on

00:24:43.880 things.

00:24:44.800 Are these, is this

00:24:45.660 just a string of

00:24:46.560 coincidence or does

00:24:47.500 this look like a

00:24:48.180 pattern to you that

00:24:48.980 we should be looking

00:24:49.700 into?

00:24:50.720 Well, there's no

00:24:51.460 question it's a

00:24:52.100 pattern, number one.

00:24:53.080 Number two, it is

00:24:53.760 not President Trump.

00:24:54.760 He wants to see the

00:24:55.460 market go up every

00:24:56.360 single day, all day,

00:24:57.960 every day during the

00:24:59.420 period of his

00:24:59.940 presidency.

00:25:00.580 He has no desire

00:25:02.100 whatsoever to

00:25:03.100 manipulate the market

00:25:04.080 during this.

00:25:05.360 His trades would be

00:25:06.280 noticed.

00:25:06.820 There's no way he's

00:25:08.080 behind it.

00:25:08.840 But foreign 1.00

00:25:09.920 governments are

00:25:11.060 behind it.

00:25:11.740 It's what I wrote in

00:25:12.500 my book, Secret

00:25:13.140 Weapon.

00:25:13.900 It's what I talked

00:25:14.640 about when you first

00:25:15.640 uncovered my research

00:25:16.640 from the Pentagon.

00:25:17.580 It's what we've talked

00:25:18.540 about on the show all

00:25:19.860 the time.

00:25:20.360 Foreign governments

00:25:21.020 have interest in

00:25:22.100 manipulating our

00:25:22.900 market or traders

00:25:23.980 associated with

00:25:25.140 foreign governments.

00:25:26.380 They want to both

00:25:26.940 profit, but they also

00:25:28.160 want to destroy the

00:25:29.120 American economic

00:25:29.860 system.

00:25:30.980 So is this the

00:25:31.880 beginning?

00:25:32.480 Has this been going

00:25:33.700 on forever?

00:25:34.560 Because, I mean, if

00:25:35.000 I'm Tehran and I'm

00:25:36.840 really struggling for

00:25:37.880 cash and I'm going

00:25:39.480 to launch some

00:25:40.200 things, I immediately

00:25:41.640 short the markets

00:25:43.140 because I know it

00:25:44.800 will affect and that

00:25:45.640 will just give me

00:25:46.560 more money for

00:25:47.500 whatever it is I'm

00:25:48.480 trying to do.

00:25:49.700 Well, there's no

00:25:50.580 question.

00:25:51.160 In fact, Osama bin

00:25:52.840 Laden was found to

00:25:54.600 have manipulated the

00:25:55.800 market prior to 9-11.

00:25:57.760 And, you know, they

00:25:58.280 dismissed it in the

00:25:59.080 9-11 commission, but

00:26:00.220 there are several

00:26:01.200 collegiate university

00:26:02.380 studies that came

00:26:03.200 back afterwards and

00:26:04.140 said, no, there was

00:26:04.800 unusual trading

00:26:05.900 activity in United

00:26:07.320 Airlines and in

00:26:08.680 reinsurance companies

00:26:09.740 and so forth before

00:26:11.340 9-11.

00:26:12.020 This is a path to

00:26:13.740 profit if you don't

00:26:14.920 mind manipulating,

00:26:16.200 causing harm to

00:26:16.900 people and so forth.

00:26:18.080 Of course, it's an old

00:26:19.880 mob technique.

00:26:21.020 You know, you take out

00:26:21.820 insurance on a

00:26:22.860 warehouse and then you

00:26:24.680 burn down the

00:26:25.280 warehouse.

00:26:25.540 So, absolutely, it's

00:26:26.800 a way to make

00:26:27.380 money and it's a

00:26:28.780 way to manipulate

00:26:30.120 the global system.

00:26:31.560 So, what has

00:26:32.120 stopped people from

00:26:33.220 just making money

00:26:34.380 like this in the

00:26:35.680 past?

00:26:36.540 I mean, is this

00:26:37.380 something new that

00:26:39.140 we're dealing with?

00:26:40.580 No, it's not

00:26:41.260 entirely new, but it

00:26:42.380 certainly has ramped

00:26:43.480 up recently and

00:26:44.500 certainly with the

00:26:45.340 Iranians.

00:26:46.040 I mean, we gave,

00:26:47.040 for example, during

00:26:47.780 the Obama

00:26:48.200 administration, we

00:26:49.120 gave the Iranians 0.99

00:26:50.000 something like $150

00:26:51.400 billion to play nice

00:26:53.880 and be good and so

00:26:54.920 forth, but now

00:26:57.060 they're desperate for

00:26:57.960 capital and under

00:26:58.940 the Trump

00:26:59.380 administration, we're

00:27:00.400 really locking down

00:27:02.120 in a lot of areas

00:27:03.120 and so this is their

00:27:04.320 way to lash back

00:27:05.320 and to access

00:27:06.500 capital.

00:27:07.700 So, the market

00:27:10.320 should know who's

00:27:12.580 making these

00:27:13.140 transactions, right?

00:27:14.300 Can't we, can we,

00:27:15.400 is there a way to

00:27:16.000 track them?

00:27:17.140 No, you can do a

00:27:18.040 lot of this in secret

00:27:19.200 through dark pools

00:27:20.560 and other places

00:27:21.840 and keep in mind,

00:27:23.120 we just assume that

00:27:24.080 every trade is

00:27:24.780 economic.

00:27:25.420 That's something that

00:27:26.180 we're born and bred

00:27:27.100 into so we're, a

00:27:28.120 trader says, well,

00:27:29.060 somebody's trying to

00:27:29.680 make money, this is

00:27:30.280 economic and so we

00:27:31.500 assume that they're

00:27:32.420 acting nice and being

00:27:33.760 legal and appropriate.

00:27:34.800 It's not always the

00:27:35.620 case.

00:27:36.280 So, what we say in

00:27:37.020 the economic war room

00:27:37.980 is what we see as a

00:27:39.240 marketplace, our

00:27:40.000 enemies view as a

00:27:40.900 battle space and

00:27:42.400 there's no real way

00:27:44.320 to track down some of

00:27:46.400 these foreign trades.

00:27:47.380 You can say they're

00:27:48.380 unusual, where's it

00:27:49.420 coming from, but

00:27:50.380 there's no real way

00:27:51.240 to trace and

00:27:52.420 understand what

00:27:53.640 happened in 2008,

00:27:55.160 for example.

00:27:55.840 We looked at the

00:27:56.600 short selling on the

00:27:57.480 banks and you had to

00:27:58.920 go through like seven

00:27:59.940 layers before you

00:28:00.960 found out where it

00:28:01.860 came from, which was

00:28:02.640 a sovereign wealth

00:28:03.360 fund in the Middle

00:28:03.960 East.

00:28:04.420 It took, you know,

00:28:05.400 they were trades

00:28:05.980 placed by traders,

00:28:07.100 placed by dart pools,

00:28:09.060 placed by, you just

00:28:09.840 keep going back until

00:28:10.860 you finally found

00:28:11.820 where it was and it

00:28:12.860 takes a while to do

00:28:13.840 that forensic analysis.

00:28:16.380 Are you concerned

00:28:16.940 at all, you know,

00:28:17.740 we've talked on this

00:28:18.440 program about the

00:28:19.320 I think it's 50

00:28:20.340 trillion dollars that

00:28:21.980 China has just 0.81

00:28:23.100 printed and 24 of

00:28:25.980 that looks like it

00:28:27.480 went to offshore

00:28:28.140 accounts and was

00:28:30.140 invested in stocks,

00:28:31.660 bonds, et cetera,

00:28:32.520 et cetera, here in the

00:28:33.240 United States and in

00:28:34.220 the West.

00:28:35.660 That really, I mean,

00:28:37.000 that is a staggering

00:28:38.700 amount of money that

00:28:41.340 if somebody wants to

00:28:42.240 collapse the market,

00:28:43.600 you know, 20

00:28:44.200 trillion dollars, 15

00:28:45.900 trillion dollars makes

00:28:49.140 the market move

00:28:50.580 dramatically, does it

00:28:51.780 not?

00:28:52.560 Yeah, it would.

00:28:54.180 You normally wouldn't

00:28:55.180 be concerned because

00:28:56.380 a major nation would

00:28:58.380 realize that the

00:28:59.140 blowback if you

00:29:00.340 destroyed the global

00:29:01.260 financial system would

00:29:02.300 be so severe.

00:29:03.620 The frightening thing to

00:29:05.020 me is that China has,

00:29:06.440 along with Russia and 0.67

00:29:07.840 other nations, created

00:29:09.040 virtually an alternative

00:29:11.080 economic system that

00:29:12.400 doesn't use the

00:29:13.220 Western system at all.

00:29:14.520 So they may not use

00:29:15.600 the SWIFT transaction

00:29:16.580 system.

00:29:17.200 They've created their

00:29:17.860 China payment system.

00:29:19.200 They may not use the

00:29:20.140 International Monetary

00:29:21.140 Fund.

00:29:21.600 They may use the

00:29:22.320 Asia Development Bank.

00:29:23.800 And so normally you'd

00:29:24.740 say, well, no sane

00:29:26.280 nation that's not

00:29:27.680 collapsing would, you

00:29:29.860 know, collapse the

00:29:30.540 world economy because it

00:29:31.480 would just damage them

00:29:32.380 too much.

00:29:33.020 But we're fast

00:29:34.080 approaching the point

00:29:35.080 where they may have an

00:29:36.000 alternative system if

00:29:37.380 they wanted to pull the

00:29:38.500 plug on the West.

00:29:39.440 They could restart very

00:29:40.840 quickly and they would

00:29:41.700 be winners from this.

00:29:42.480 And this is something

00:29:43.320 that's actually out in

00:29:44.560 the literature.

00:29:45.320 It's something they've

00:29:45.900 talked about in

00:29:46.620 Unrestricted Warfare.

00:29:47.960 And it's also something

00:29:48.880 that the Russians talked

00:29:49.960 about more than, well,

00:29:52.300 20 years ago now.

00:29:53.700 Well, but they've also

00:29:54.640 taken action steps on

00:29:56.560 those.

00:29:56.900 They're both stockpiling

00:29:58.140 gold and they both have

00:30:01.300 negotiated with Saudi

00:30:02.380 Arabia to get off of the 1.00

00:30:03.960 petrodollar.

00:30:05.700 And so they've already

00:30:07.960 taken those steps to

00:30:09.640 to show us that they

00:30:12.080 are moving towards

00:30:13.520 getting away from the

00:30:15.180 Western standards.

00:30:17.660 Absolutely correct.

00:30:18.940 A hundred percent.

00:30:21.260 Okay.

00:30:21.780 And it never makes me

00:30:22.540 feel good when I talk to

00:30:23.400 you, Kevin.

00:30:24.400 I mean, I always am glad

00:30:25.780 because I know you know

00:30:27.000 these things, but I guess

00:30:29.000 there's part of me that's

00:30:29.860 like, I don't, I don't

00:30:30.580 know if I really want to

00:30:31.720 know these things.

00:30:32.800 What should we be looking

00:30:33.980 for, Kevin?

00:30:35.620 Well, one of the signs

00:30:37.340 would be an issue that

00:30:40.660 we're dealing with is the

00:30:41.720 thrift savings plan where

00:30:42.820 the Chinese are still 1.00

00:30:43.960 seeking to access Western

00:30:46.160 capital.

00:30:46.780 And so in the thrift savings

00:30:47.720 plan of the United States,

00:30:48.800 which is all of our

00:30:49.660 pensioners and retirees and

00:30:51.740 veterans and so forth,

00:30:53.260 that's going to be invested

00:30:54.240 in the MSCI International

00:30:56.220 Index, which is heavily

00:30:57.300 weighted to China, much

00:30:58.560 against the patriotic

00:30:59.980 veteran who doesn't want

00:31:02.120 his money going into

00:31:03.380 Chinese stocks.

00:31:04.200 As long as they continue

00:31:05.360 to access Western

00:31:06.320 capital, they're probably

00:31:08.720 not pulling the plug yet.

00:31:10.200 They're just preparing

00:31:10.920 for it.

00:31:11.620 And that is a massive push

00:31:13.480 to take billions and

00:31:14.760 billions of dollars from

00:31:16.280 our thrift savings plan and

00:31:17.640 put it into Chinese

00:31:19.640 companies.

00:31:20.700 It will be very painful

00:31:22.220 when they switch over.

00:31:23.920 It will be more painful

00:31:25.120 for us than them if they

00:31:26.640 succeed.

00:31:27.640 Their economy,

00:31:28.480 unfortunately, or

00:31:29.320 fortunately for us,

00:31:30.200 their economy is not the

00:31:31.660 powerhouse juggernaut that

00:31:33.100 it once was.

00:31:33.920 They're struggling.

00:31:35.300 And President Trump, as

00:31:36.660 the first president in my

00:31:37.740 lifetime, actually stood up

00:31:39.120 to the Chinese.

00:31:39.820 So this is a war and we're

00:31:41.120 finally beginning to

00:31:42.100 recognize it.

00:31:43.340 There's no other signal we

00:31:44.960 need to realize that they're

00:31:46.380 fighting an economic war

00:31:47.600 against us.

00:31:48.140 We've seen everything we

00:31:49.180 need to see.

00:31:49.840 And what you're mentioning

00:31:50.680 here about currency that

00:31:53.280 they're pushing around the

00:31:54.540 world to the tune of

00:31:55.380 trillions just boggles my

00:31:56.860 mind.

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00:32:34.140 OK, so we've been hearing a

00:32:35.580 lot about wealth tax, and I

00:32:37.500 don't even think most people

00:32:38.400 even know what a wealth tax

00:32:39.740 is.

00:32:40.020 And they stop listening

00:32:40.800 because it's only going to

00:32:41.640 affect, they say, only going

00:32:43.180 to affect those people making

00:32:44.240 a, you know, or have a

00:32:45.440 billion dollars or more.

00:32:48.220 But it's going to be a tax on

00:32:49.780 everything they own.

00:32:51.300 So their art, the money they

00:32:53.180 gave to their kids, you know,

00:32:55.980 all of it, all of it.

00:32:58.100 And so it doesn't seem to be

00:33:01.680 constitutional at all, but

00:33:05.380 everybody is loving it because

00:33:07.620 it doesn't affect them, and

00:33:08.960 it's going to raise all this

00:33:09.960 money, but it's unconstitutional.

00:33:13.360 Kyle Salmon is the senior

00:33:15.060 contributor for The

00:33:15.820 Federalist.

00:33:16.560 He has a podcast.

00:33:17.840 He's a co-host of

00:33:18.500 Conservative Minds.

00:33:19.520 Welcome to the program,

00:33:20.420 Kyle.

00:33:20.660 How are you?

00:33:21.640 Good.

00:33:22.340 Thanks for having me on,

00:33:23.100 Glenn.

00:33:23.300 You bet.

00:33:23.620 So you wrote a very good

00:33:26.260 article in The Federalist

00:33:27.460 about why Elizabeth Warren's

00:33:29.280 wealth tax is completely

00:33:30.380 unconstitutional.

00:33:31.660 But can you explain it in

00:33:35.500 simple layman's terms, why

00:33:38.940 and what a direct tax is?

00:33:42.440 You know, just kind of break

00:33:43.380 this down for us.

00:33:45.260 Sure.

00:33:46.180 And the distinction, I mean,

00:33:47.620 between direct tax and

00:33:48.620 indirect tax is one that

00:33:49.680 doesn't come up very much.

00:33:50.600 But it was something discussed

00:33:52.720 at the Constitutional

00:33:53.620 Convention, because the

00:33:55.000 Founding Fathers, the

00:33:56.340 government they were living

00:33:57.380 under, the Articles of

00:33:58.220 Confederation, did not have 0.98

00:33:59.700 the power to tax.

00:34:00.900 They had to just ask the

00:34:01.800 states for money and hope

00:34:03.240 they got it.

00:34:04.440 So a lot of times they

00:34:05.300 didn't get it, because the

00:34:06.040 states didn't want to pay

00:34:07.200 it.

00:34:07.720 So when they wrote the

00:34:08.660 Constitution, they thought,

00:34:10.420 well, okay, we need to be

00:34:11.120 able to tax directly so

00:34:12.600 Congress can levy a tax and

00:34:13.880 we can pay for the Army and

00:34:15.000 the Navy and everything else

00:34:15.860 we need to pay for.

00:34:17.260 But they didn't want to give

00:34:18.120 them too much power to tax.

00:34:19.280 They didn't want them to

00:34:20.100 overwhelm the states and

00:34:21.600 take away all of the

00:34:22.840 people's money and put

00:34:24.900 themselves in a worse

00:34:25.520 situation.

00:34:26.080 So they split the

00:34:26.980 difference and said that

00:34:29.100 Congress could tax, but

00:34:30.160 they couldn't do any

00:34:30.820 direct tax unless it would

00:34:32.780 be apportioned by

00:34:33.980 population.

00:34:35.620 So what does that mean?

00:34:38.300 At the Constitutional

00:34:39.360 Convention, Rufus King of

00:34:40.480 Massachusetts asked, what 0.56

00:34:42.140 is the precise meaning of

00:34:43.100 direct tax?

00:34:43.680 And according to

00:34:44.200 Madison's notes, nobody

00:34:45.660 answered and they moved

00:34:46.380 on.

00:34:46.580 Okay, good.

00:34:49.920 So even in the beginning

00:34:51.080 it was sort of a

00:34:51.660 compromise language, but

00:34:52.660 as we moved on it kind of

00:34:54.260 took on the idea that a

00:34:56.000 tax on people or property

00:34:57.540 is a direct tax.

00:34:59.220 A tax on sales or imports

00:35:02.080 is an indirect tax.

00:35:04.080 So Congress always has taxed

00:35:05.960 imports or had the ability

00:35:07.420 to tax imports.

00:35:08.400 I mean, that's tariffs and

00:35:09.820 we've had that since the

00:35:10.520 beginning.

00:35:10.760 Alexander Hamilton came up

00:35:14.640 with the whiskey tax, which

00:35:15.800 caused a little stir in the

00:35:17.460 West, but it was definitely

00:35:18.700 constitutional because it was

00:35:19.740 a tax on the sale of whiskey.

00:35:22.840 But they could not tax

00:35:25.100 property directly, was the

00:35:26.740 idea, unless they apportioned

00:35:29.620 that tax among the states so

00:35:31.020 that each state paid its share

00:35:33.000 according to population, not

00:35:34.240 according to property.

00:35:35.660 Effectively, this made property

00:35:36.940 taxes impossible because it

00:35:37.940 wouldn't make any sense.

00:35:38.640 Um, why if you had two

00:35:42.540 states that had the same

00:35:43.420 population, say, um, but

00:35:45.760 one of them was rich and one

00:35:46.680 of them was poor, they'd

00:35:48.040 both have to pay the same

00:35:49.260 amount of property tax to

00:35:50.820 the government.

00:35:52.380 But what it would effectively

00:35:53.840 mean is that each poor

00:35:56.160 person in the poorer state

00:35:57.460 had to pay the same amount

00:35:58.640 as the rich people in the

00:36:00.180 richer state, which is sort

00:36:01.860 of the opposite of how taxes

00:36:02.900 even in those days were

00:36:03.940 meant to go.

00:36:04.820 So it had to be apportioned

00:36:06.180 by the state, meaning

00:36:07.520 California and South Dakota

00:36:09.580 would pay the exact same

00:36:11.240 rate and, uh, as a state.

00:36:14.720 Yes.

00:36:15.300 But it, but if, if one was

00:36:18.360 California that had all the

00:36:19.660 rich people there and South

00:36:20.840 Dakota had none of the rich

00:36:21.740 people there, they're 1.00

00:36:22.900 screwed. 1.00

00:36:24.200 Yeah.

00:36:24.740 And that's why Congress

00:36:25.500 never really imposed a tax

00:36:27.180 like that because it would

00:36:28.260 have made no sense and

00:36:29.820 everyone would have been

00:36:30.380 angry.

00:36:30.620 So we, that worked for about

00:36:33.760 a hundred years.

00:36:34.300 And then we get down to the

00:36:35.560 first permanent income tax

00:36:37.420 getting imposed in the 1890s.

00:36:38.920 And people said, Hey, isn't

00:36:39.920 this the same thing?

00:36:41.060 You know, you're taxing income.

00:36:42.540 That's a direct tax.

00:36:43.540 And the Supreme court agreed.

00:36:44.760 And they said, you have to

00:36:45.540 apportion this, which basically

00:36:46.640 meant they were going to

00:36:47.240 repeal it because of the same

00:36:48.540 problems.

00:36:50.180 Then we passed the 16th

00:36:51.920 amendment a few decades later

00:36:53.280 that says you can do direct

00:36:55.320 taxes on income, but all the

00:36:58.260 other direct taxes are still

00:36:59.340 not permitted unless they're

00:37:01.080 apportioned.

00:37:01.820 Well, what is the difference

00:37:02.580 between my income and my

00:37:06.580 stuff?

00:37:07.800 Well, that, that's what the

00:37:08.900 court said in, in, in Pollock,

00:37:10.500 the case that struck down the,

00:37:11.640 the unapportioned income tax in

00:37:13.280 the 1890s, because they said,

00:37:14.600 look, if you have property and

00:37:15.800 we can't tax that directly, now

00:37:17.160 you get income from that

00:37:17.920 property and we can, it doesn't

00:37:19.360 make sense.

00:37:19.780 It's the same thing.

00:37:20.740 Right.

00:37:21.660 Right.

00:37:21.960 Where you can't tax a person

00:37:22.980 directly, but you can tax his

00:37:24.020 income.

00:37:24.400 That doesn't make sense.

00:37:25.360 So that's what that was

00:37:27.360 struck down and it's only

00:37:28.280 legal now because of the

00:37:29.400 16th amendment, which carved 0.79

00:37:30.940 out this one part of direct

00:37:32.360 taxation and left everything

00:37:34.600 else closed.

00:37:35.340 So it's only about income tax

00:37:37.780 and they had to change the

00:37:39.500 constitution to make it that

00:37:41.480 direct tax could only be

00:37:43.320 income.

00:37:44.480 Right.

00:37:45.000 And it's, it's pretty broad.

00:37:46.300 It's income on, you know,

00:37:47.460 any kind of income you get,

00:37:48.600 they can tax and they do, but

00:37:51.000 it's got to be income.

00:37:52.280 It can't be just property.

00:37:53.700 And that's why there is no

00:37:54.600 federal property tax.

00:37:56.020 I mean, we have, you know,

00:37:56.980 in your state or your township

00:37:58.580 or whatever, your school

00:37:59.620 district, you might pay a

00:38:00.460 property tax, but there's no

00:38:02.320 federal property tax.

00:38:03.300 And this is the reason because

00:38:04.300 it, you know, without going

00:38:06.160 through these weird math

00:38:07.700 computations to make it fit the

00:38:09.640 constitution, it's not

00:38:10.740 the constitution.

00:38:11.080 So how is Elizabeth Warren, I

00:38:13.480 mean, besides getting away with

00:38:14.720 it with the American people

00:38:15.560 because they just don't know,

00:38:17.340 how is she planning on pulling

00:38:19.040 this off?

00:38:20.620 She hasn't had a good answer

00:38:21.840 for that.

00:38:22.200 I mean, that's, that's kind

00:38:23.120 of, but John Delaney brought

00:38:24.700 it up in the last debate that

00:38:26.060 he was allowed to participate

00:38:27.560 in and they kind of just moved

00:38:29.860 on from it, but he raises a

00:38:31.220 very good point.

00:38:32.700 This is something that, you

00:38:34.440 know, we've had a hundred plus

00:38:36.520 years of, of direct tax

00:38:38.220 jurisprudence that says you can't

00:38:40.340 just tax property directly.

00:38:42.220 The one thing that I, I mean,

00:38:44.960 one thing that's kind of confused

00:38:45.960 the issue is in the Obamacare

00:38:47.540 case, we were, you remember

00:38:49.200 that, you know, they struck

00:38:51.380 down the, uh, the insurance

00:38:52.880 mandate, but said it could

00:38:53.860 survive as a tax.

00:38:55.860 And in the dissent, uh, Justice

00:38:58.660 Scalia brought up this direct 0.99

00:39:00.040 tax question.

00:39:00.760 So wait a minute, if you're,

00:39:01.540 if you're saying this is a tax,

00:39:03.740 this is a tax on the person

00:39:05.060 not having insurance, that

00:39:06.160 sounds a lot like a direct

00:39:07.400 tax, not an indirect tax.

00:39:09.400 And Justice Roberts kind of

00:39:10.680 shrugged this off and said it's,

00:39:12.380 he lifted a bunch of direct

00:39:13.460 taxes that existed in the 1790s,

00:39:15.620 the first time the court looked

00:39:16.560 at this and said, it's not one

00:39:17.600 of these, so it can't be a

00:39:18.960 direct tax.

00:39:20.740 But that's sort of a backward 1.00

00:39:22.520 reasoning because of course

00:39:23.600 it's not one of those.

00:39:24.440 They didn't have, they didn't

00:39:25.320 even have health insurance in

00:39:26.200 the 1790s.

00:39:26.940 Right, right.

00:39:28.500 Not having health insurance.

00:39:29.640 Right.

00:39:30.960 So that kind of muddied the

00:39:32.320 waters a little bit and

00:39:33.300 perhaps Warren thinks she

00:39:35.320 could, you know, if, if the

00:39:37.240 Democrats succeed in court

00:39:38.340 packing, just, you know.

00:39:40.260 So tell me the, tell me the

00:39:41.440 ramifications because people,

00:39:43.120 it's people with a billion

00:39:44.260 dollars.

00:39:44.840 They have it, they won't miss

00:39:45.860 it.

00:39:46.260 Tell me the ramifications of

00:39:47.560 it.

00:39:48.260 Well, I mean, that's, that's

00:39:49.160 part of it too.

00:39:49.620 It's not just the billionaires.

00:39:51.080 It's, um, it actually starts at

00:39:52.800 if you have 50 million, which is

00:39:54.700 still, it's more than I'll ever

00:39:56.100 have, but it's, you know, it's a

00:39:58.100 lot closer.

00:39:59.320 And the problem is that's a

00:40:01.040 warrant.

00:40:01.420 She said it's 2%.

00:40:02.540 It's on the, only the very rich

00:40:04.380 are going to pay it.

00:40:05.120 You know, who cares?

00:40:06.820 Right.

00:40:07.200 But that's exactly even down to

00:40:09.420 the percent, what they said about

00:40:10.500 the income tax in 1895.

00:40:11.840 They said it was a 2% tax and it

00:40:15.060 was only on people making $4,000 a

00:40:18.060 year or more, which in today's

00:40:19.660 money is about 116,000.

00:40:21.960 You know, it was less than 1% of

00:40:23.320 the population.

00:40:24.360 And they said, if I were, if I

00:40:25.620 remember right, they said it would

00:40:26.480 never go above 7% and it would

00:40:29.960 never be paid by anybody but the

00:40:32.400 uber rich.

00:40:33.700 Yeah, this was just a rich man's

00:40:35.040 tax, you know, and then people got

00:40:36.460 behind it.

00:40:36.940 They said, well, yeah, look at these

00:40:37.940 guys.

00:40:38.360 This guy owns a hundred factories.

00:40:39.840 He can pay 2%, right?

00:40:41.740 But it's never, it never stops at

00:40:43.660 that.

00:40:43.880 Once they get access to a new form

00:40:45.540 of taxation, it always creeps in and

00:40:48.080 goes more.

00:40:48.860 And especially because something like

00:40:50.960 a wealth tax, and Lawrence Summers,

00:40:54.220 Clinton's treasury secretary, brought

00:40:55.720 this up more than once in response

00:40:57.260 to Warren's plans.

00:40:58.340 It's not going to take in as much

00:40:59.660 money as she thinks.

00:41:00.460 It's people, they've tried it in

00:41:03.180 Europe over the decades and it, it

00:41:05.180 never brings in as much because

00:41:06.500 people hide their stuff.

00:41:08.300 Or then you have things that like

00:41:10.080 the things that regular folks own,

00:41:12.280 you know how much they're worth,

00:41:13.280 you know, but the things that rich

00:41:14.720 people own are sometimes hard to

00:41:15.900 value.

00:41:16.340 And then that, what that turns into

00:41:17.940 is just a, an audit every year

00:41:20.300 because this is an annual tax where

00:41:22.160 she wants 2% every year of all your

00:41:24.980 stuff.

00:41:26.020 Which doesn't that over time just

00:41:27.740 delete, just deplete your

00:41:30.440 stuff.

00:41:31.600 Yeah, I mean, it means you have to

00:41:33.280 earn 2% on all of your investments

00:41:35.940 just to keep them.

00:41:37.280 And some things aren't owned as

00:41:38.580 investments.

00:41:39.200 I mean, sometimes you might, you

00:41:40.860 know, people own a house, it might

00:41:42.060 not go up 2% every year.

00:41:43.620 I think most don't, you know, but

00:41:45.880 you don't own it necessarily for an

00:41:47.520 investment, you know, because it's

00:41:48.600 the place you live, you know, or

00:41:49.960 other things, you know, I mean,

00:41:51.060 things you, you know, art, it can

00:41:53.340 be an investment, but that market is

00:41:54.760 very up and down and art collectors

00:41:57.460 don't always buy because they want

00:41:59.960 appreciation.

00:42:01.180 They buy because they think it's

00:42:01.920 beautiful and they want it on their

00:42:03.020 house.

00:42:04.040 So keeping, yeah, this, this

00:42:05.920 basically says if you don't earn 2%

00:42:07.780 on these investments every year in a

00:42:10.500 way that you can pay to the

00:42:11.660 government, like you earn 2% cash,

00:42:14.400 really, because if you, you know, if

00:42:16.060 your house goes up 2%, it doesn't

00:42:17.560 mean you have that 2%.

00:42:18.920 Yeah, you have to have the, you

00:42:20.740 have to have the 2% in cash, which

00:42:23.300 might require you selling an asset

00:42:25.100 to be able to hit that.

00:42:27.280 Right.

00:42:27.820 So it's, it's a very, and then, you

00:42:30.460 know, I mean, we have, we have the

00:42:32.120 state taxes where audits go on for

00:42:34.780 years and these big estate taxes.

00:42:36.480 I mean, I, I began my legal career as

00:42:39.600 a trust and estate attorney and there's

00:42:41.900 a whole lot that goes into those and

00:42:43.680 they only happen once a generation.

00:42:45.740 This would happen every single year.

00:42:47.760 Unbelievable.

00:42:48.860 Unbelievable.

00:42:49.880 All right, Kyle, thank you so much.

00:42:51.280 I appreciate it.

00:42:52.360 All right.

00:42:52.800 Thank you.

00:42:53.280 You bet.

00:42:53.600 We wanted to have him on.

00:42:54.840 He's podcast host, conservative

00:42:56.300 minds.

00:42:57.000 Wanted to have him on because he took

00:42:58.420 this very complex thing and made it

00:43:00.660 pretty simple in the Federalist.

00:43:02.920 And there's just no way to do it.

00:43:05.080 And the ramifications of stuff like

00:43:07.700 this, it fundamentally changes.

00:43:11.100 If they can get away with this, like

00:43:12.700 Obamacare, if they can get away with

00:43:15.640 this, if they can start to say, no, we

00:43:18.100 can have direct taxes like this, they're

00:43:21.840 going to go after everything because

00:43:23.780 they have to.

00:43:25.260 They have to.

00:43:26.360 If they are wanting to spend an extra

00:43:28.320 50 billion, a trillion to a hundred

00:43:31.480 trillion dollars in the next 10 years,

00:43:33.820 they have to have access to everybody's

00:43:36.920 stuff.

00:43:37.820 It's still not going to be enough.

00:43:38.980 No, it's still not.

00:43:39.720 But I mean, they're talking about if you

00:43:41.060 think that it starts at 50 million and it 0.97

00:43:42.900 stays at 50 million, you're nuts.

00:43:44.120 It's going to be, do you have 50,000 in 0.96

00:43:46.260 your bank account?

00:43:46.840 Well, then we need a percentage of that

00:43:47.920 too.

00:43:48.820 And what about your stocks?

00:43:51.000 What about your retirement funds?

00:43:52.460 You don't come after all of that.

00:43:53.900 You don't own anything.

00:43:56.500 You don't own anything.

00:43:58.360 That goes against everything this country

00:44:00.920 has stood for.

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00:44:25.980 Max Lucado is here.

00:44:27.360 And one of the reasons why I'm having

00:44:29.180 him on, I'm just being transparent, is

00:44:30.920 he's friends with Chip and Joanna Gaines

00:44:32.860 and they're my favorites.

00:44:34.500 And I'm a huge fan.

00:44:35.900 And if you ever just want to pass my

00:44:38.720 name out there and say, you know, I

00:44:40.380 have a friend and he'd love to have

00:44:42.100 dinner with you guys.

00:44:43.440 Feel free, Max.

00:44:44.440 I'm just saying, feel free.

00:44:47.740 Those two people, if you watch Chip

00:44:51.000 and Joanna, they have a, what seems to

00:44:54.800 be a happy family because they seem to

00:44:58.540 have fun with each other.

00:45:00.900 They laugh.

00:45:01.580 They love each other.

00:45:02.460 They support each other.

00:45:03.820 In your book, you talk about how it's

00:45:06.440 got to be a five to one ratio, positive

00:45:08.340 to negative.

00:45:10.960 Are you there, Max?

00:45:12.460 Yes.

00:45:12.840 Okay.

00:45:13.160 And you talk about how you have to have,

00:45:15.880 you know, you have to have more positive

00:45:19.560 going out than negative.

00:45:21.780 Talk about families and relationships.

00:45:25.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:45:26.880 You're right about Chip and Joanna.

00:45:28.720 They're just splendid people.

00:45:30.280 I wish I knew them better, but I know

00:45:32.300 Chip better than I know Joanna.

00:45:34.360 So you, I mean, you know Chip enough to

00:45:36.520 say, hey, you should get together with my

00:45:38.040 friend Glenn, right?

00:45:39.260 I'll do it.

00:45:39.920 I'll do it.

00:45:40.420 I'll do it right now.

00:45:42.100 Okay.

00:45:42.660 All right.

00:45:43.140 Anyway, Max, go ahead.

00:45:45.200 You know, this whole issue of happiness,

00:45:48.700 the big idea is that we, we find, we can

00:45:52.400 find happiness by making other people

00:45:55.000 happy.

00:45:55.780 That's, that's really what we cherish

00:45:58.460 about people who have a genuine

00:46:00.740 happiness.

00:46:01.380 They, they haven't found it because they

00:46:03.360 won the lottery.

00:46:04.540 They haven't found it because they found

00:46:06.660 a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

00:46:08.920 They found it because they discovered

00:46:10.740 that the secret to happiness is, is

00:46:12.960 making other people happy.

00:46:14.480 And you cited some really fascinating

00:46:17.260 research.

00:46:18.020 And that is that healthy, happy marriages

00:46:20.240 have a five to one ratio of encouraging

00:46:23.880 words over negative wounds, negative

00:46:27.660 words.

00:46:28.580 The truth is words can wound people.

00:46:31.640 Words can bless people.

00:46:33.100 Some people's words are like water on an

00:46:35.680 oak tree.

00:46:36.200 Some people's words are, are like a poison

00:46:39.200 or some type of toxicity on an oak tree.

00:46:42.720 And, um, and so what, what I urge people

00:46:45.580 in this book is look at the ways that you

00:46:48.280 can make other people happy because you, you

00:46:52.080 set out today to make five or 10 people

00:46:55.160 happy.

00:46:55.520 You just set out today to, to give them

00:46:57.740 words of encouragement, to bless them, to

00:47:00.420 compliment them.

00:47:01.360 And you'll be amazed how the, the clouds

00:47:04.900 part in your own sky.

00:47:06.860 And, uh, and it really will, you really

00:47:09.300 will find that it's more blessed to give

00:47:11.980 than it is to receive.

00:47:13.480 You know, that sounds like such, you

00:47:15.980 know, dime store, um, uh, you know,

00:47:18.820 advice too simple.

00:47:20.640 Right.

00:47:21.120 But it is true. 0.90

00:47:22.120 I am convinced Max that, you know, we

00:47:25.620 are arguing so much about how bad things

00:47:29.000 are in our past and everything else.

00:47:30.840 If we just said, you know what, let's put

00:47:32.420 that on the table for a while.

00:47:33.520 Let's put that on a back burner for a

00:47:34.680 while.

00:47:35.260 There are 50 million slaves right now 0.84

00:47:38.040 enslaved in the world.

00:47:39.120 Let's, let's work together to get those

00:47:41.560 people out of bondage.

00:47:42.880 I think we would forget about all of our

00:47:46.040 problems quickly.

00:47:46.980 And the people we thought we were, you

00:47:49.720 know, enemies with would soon become our

00:47:52.260 friends because we were not focused on

00:47:55.660 us.

00:47:57.860 That is absolutely the truth.

00:48:00.340 And, and that's a, that's a biblical

00:48:01.860 truth.

00:48:02.520 And it's increasingly being borne out by,

00:48:05.340 uh, by research in, in the first chapter

00:48:08.300 of the book, I talk about what I thought was

00:48:10.300 really a fascinating piece of research in

00:48:13.340 which, um, in which volunteers, uh, were, uh,

00:48:18.020 were, were attached to an MRI scanner and

00:48:21.320 they were asked to imagine, uh, Glenn, not

00:48:24.280 even do, but just to imagine doing good

00:48:26.820 things for other people.

00:48:27.940 And when they imagined it, that part of our

00:48:31.240 brain that is called the pleasure center, just

00:48:34.120 lit up like Christmas trees and, and just a

00:48:37.640 thought of doing something good for somebody

00:48:40.360 generated the same, uh, response that a good

00:48:44.120 meal or a hobby, uh, or a beautiful walk on, you

00:48:48.200 know, in the, in, in, in, on a trail on a blue,

00:48:50.880 blue sky day, it, it generated that level of

00:48:53.900 happiness.

00:48:54.680 So the point is you don't have to change your

00:48:58.280 circumstances to find happiness.

00:49:00.780 That's the big lie.

00:49:02.300 And that is, if I can get my circumstances,

00:49:04.260 right, then I'll be happy.

00:49:06.100 All we need to do is go from the posture of

00:49:09.760 everybody take care of me to the posture of

00:49:12.880 I'm going to try to serve other people.

00:49:15.440 Uh, I heard a speaker, actually I did.

00:49:17.660 My wife heard a speaker just over the weekend, uh,

00:49:21.200 bemoan what you were talking about.

00:49:23.080 And that is the, the decrease in, in church

00:49:25.620 attendance.

00:49:26.100 And I'd love to explore that with you.

00:49:28.440 It's, it's a disturbing fact.

00:49:30.540 And he said, I wonder how much of that is the

00:49:32.920 fact that we live in a society where if your

00:49:36.000 coffee isn't exactly the way you want it, you

00:49:39.520 walk it back up to the counter and they'll make

00:49:42.120 you a brand new one and give you a apology.

00:49:44.020 Or if your pizza is not the way you want it, they'll,

00:49:46.440 they'll send a team to your house and bring you a

00:49:48.840 new pizza.

00:49:49.340 And he said, I wonder if we've created an

00:49:52.100 attitude in, in churches of all sorts that, uh, if

00:49:56.580 you don't like the temperature or the song or

00:49:59.040 something the preacher said, then, you know, that

00:50:01.600 needs to be fixed to serve me.

00:50:04.060 It's, it's, it's a, it's a consumer mindset that, that

00:50:08.960 is taken into churches and consequently no church is

00:50:13.160 perfect, especially mine.

00:50:15.300 And so people are saying, well, they're not, they're not

00:50:17.840 meeting my expectations.

00:50:19.840 And, uh, and, and as a result, the attendance is at

00:50:23.020 an all time low.

00:50:23.960 I would like to actually explore that.

00:50:26.680 Uh, let me take a break here, but I, before we do, let

00:50:29.880 me just throw this out.

00:50:31.520 My son, uh, said to me Sunday morning, we're going to

00:50:35.080 have to go to church.

00:50:36.140 And he said, dad, why do we have to go to church?

00:50:38.120 I'm so tired.

00:50:39.040 Why do we have to go to church?

00:50:39.940 And I said, because we have to say thank you for all the

00:50:42.940 things that have gone right this week and all the

00:50:45.220 blessings that we have.

00:50:46.580 We have a lot to be grateful for.

00:50:49.260 And I, I, I, I wonder if we have forgotten that this

00:50:57.240 isn't our time to have things made right for us.

00:51:01.920 This is our time to go with gratitude and to hear what

00:51:06.560 he's trying to tell us.

00:51:08.080 Okay.

00:51:08.340 Here's what you do next.

00:51:10.240 I don't know if we, we have that attitude.

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 22, 2019

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Kevin Freeman, Kyle Sammin & Max Lucado ｜ 10⧸22⧸19

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