The Glenn Beck Program - February 19, 2024


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Kirk Cameron & AG Ken Paxton ｜ 2⧸19⧸24


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Glenn and Stu talk about the truckers boycott of the New York City subway system and the impact it could have on the economy. They also discuss the Supreme Court decision to fine Donald Trump $350 million for his part in a conspiracy to defraud the United States.

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00:00:40.940 We talked to a few truckers today about them not going to New York.
00:00:46.320 How do you feel about that?
00:00:47.900 I mean, it's going to make an impact if they actually are able to keep it together.
00:00:52.560 They only do it for basically a week to send a message, and if they do that...
00:00:57.300 Why would they only do it for a week?
00:00:59.200 I mean, I guess...
00:01:00.060 I think they're trying to hit a limited goal.
00:01:02.460 And this is something we have learned with the Bud Light protests and such.
00:01:06.340 Focus.
00:01:07.100 Focus.
00:01:07.660 Don't...
00:01:08.140 What about every other beer in the world?
00:01:09.820 What if we do all those?
00:01:10.700 Yeah, I know.
00:01:11.440 You could.
00:01:12.400 But if you do that...
00:01:13.620 Focus.
00:01:13.720 You've got to focus and stay on a mark here.
00:01:16.520 Yeah.
00:01:16.780 You know, it's when you're coming down, the little trench there, and you're going toward
00:01:21.740 the place where there's a big hole that inexplicably leads to something that blows up the Death Star.
00:01:26.240 Yeah.
00:01:26.520 Keep your focus.
00:01:27.800 Focus.
00:01:28.520 Focus.
00:01:29.120 Focus.
00:01:29.260 Keep going.
00:01:30.120 Keep going.
00:01:30.700 But I do think it's interesting that this could...
00:01:33.380 Because, I mean, at the very least, it will be impactful to New Yorkers who will see their
00:01:37.160 prices go up even farther.
00:01:38.620 They may see supply chain disruptions.
00:01:40.940 And at some point, you have to come back and fight fire with fire.
00:01:44.140 It's still...
00:01:45.320 Unlike, I think, the attacks on Trump, these are much more respectable.
00:01:51.980 It's a respectable fire.
00:01:53.180 It is.
00:01:53.500 You have to use what power you have.
00:01:55.700 Yeah.
00:01:56.060 And it's not even disobeying.
00:01:58.600 It's not, you know, civil disobedience.
00:02:00.840 It's just like, I'm not going to do that job.
00:02:02.960 And truckers are so wanted right now.
00:02:06.200 Right now, maybe they can hold this going for a while.
00:02:09.740 We'll see.
00:02:10.360 A lot of truckers said, first time, I heard about it over the weekend, didn't know if it
00:02:14.500 was actually real until they were listening to the podcast today.
00:02:17.740 So we'll see.
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00:03:27.940 Now, here's the podcast.
00:03:40.380 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:03:45.680 Well, hello, Stu.
00:03:47.020 How are you?
00:03:47.940 I'm wonderful, Glenn.
00:03:49.200 Everything's going perfectly in the country.
00:03:51.340 It's going to be interesting to just sit back and watch how this all works out, isn't it?
00:03:55.060 Yeah, we're probably going to be happy ending, too.
00:03:57.000 New York judge fined Donald Trump and the Trump Organization $350 million on Friday.
00:04:03.800 According to the New York Times, Justice Arthur Engeron ruled the former president is liable
00:04:09.920 for conspiring to manipulate his net worth.
00:04:13.580 Now, let me just say, this is what happens all the time.
00:04:20.820 This is something that is a victimless crime because the bank even testified.
00:04:30.220 We know that.
00:04:31.140 People do that all the time.
00:04:32.540 That's why we have a whole division that goes and verifies.
00:04:36.580 We'd be a pretty bad bank if we just took everybody's word for it.
00:04:40.860 We have a service that goes out and verifies, and then we come back and say, all right, is
00:04:46.720 it this?
00:04:47.220 Is it that?
00:04:47.920 And then they look at the person borrowing the money.
00:04:50.620 In Donald Trump's case, they testified he has always been a great risk, and he paid
00:04:56.960 the entire loan off.
00:04:58.680 So there is no victim here.
00:05:01.760 But they decided to prosecute anyway, and they did it just to run his bank account and
00:05:11.460 make sure that he doesn't have enough money to run for president of the United States.
00:05:15.920 This is really sick on what's going on in this country.
00:05:20.540 Now, Hochul has come out and said, New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry
00:05:24.840 about because they're very different than Donald Trump.
00:05:27.680 Yeah, they're not running for president against the progressives.
00:05:32.820 She said she all but admitted that her attorney general, Letitia James, the civil case on Donald
00:05:38.400 Trump was a partisan affair in an interview with a local radio host.
00:05:42.640 Hochul told other New York business owners that they have nothing to worry about, and they
00:05:47.820 will not be targeted by the attorney general's office.
00:05:51.480 Well, why?
00:05:53.560 If this is a crime, and it's good for Donald Trump, why wouldn't you be checking into all
00:06:00.300 other businesses?
00:06:01.380 Why would you go on the air to say this isn't going to affect any other business?
00:06:06.840 Why?
00:06:09.900 Because she's afraid that other businesses will now know, oh, wait a minute, if I'm on the
00:06:14.980 wrong side, then the state can come after us.
00:06:19.980 This is why America has been successful for so long.
00:06:24.820 We have a justice system that you can count on.
00:06:29.640 You don't have it changing back and forth.
00:06:32.620 You don't have to play the game with the state.
00:06:38.720 Our laws were written into stone, and if you play by the laws, you're fine.
00:06:46.420 They can't get you on a witch hunt like they can in third world countries. 1.00
00:06:53.480 So, you know, if they railroad Donald Trump, they can certainly railroad you.
00:07:01.240 I was just up in Connecticut, and unfortunately, Connecticut, I think, you know, God bless these
00:07:06.920 guys who are still standing up, but there's no way.
00:07:09.380 Connecticut's lost.
00:07:10.920 New York is probably lost.
00:07:13.560 And I'm not one to balkanize the country.
00:07:16.340 I think this is really bad.
00:07:17.660 We have to stay and fight for as long as we can.
00:07:21.040 But there is something to say to fall back and reinforce.
00:07:27.480 I'm going to show you today that in the next four years, Texas will be lost if we don't wake
00:07:36.020 up in Texas right now.
00:07:38.460 Once you lose Texas, you've lost the republic.
00:07:43.060 It's like losing California.
00:07:45.060 Not going to get that one back.
00:07:47.400 If you lose Texas, you lose the country.
00:07:52.440 And it's going to happen before 2024.
00:07:55.580 And I'll tell you why and what to do about it if you're in Texas.
00:08:02.020 But it is time to reinforce.
00:08:05.860 It is, it's, it's also time to take a stand.
00:08:11.240 One of the best things I have heard in a long time, and I'd love to talk to truckers.
00:08:16.020 If you're a trucker and you're going to participate in this, I'm not going to ask your name.
00:08:20.260 Just call us up, 888-727-BECK, if you're one of the truckers that are refusing now to drive
00:08:29.460 to New York City after the $355 million fraud ruling on Donald Trump.
00:08:36.040 A conservative social media influencer and trucker who goes by Chicago Ray posted a video clip
00:08:42.140 in which he claims some of his colleagues are going to stop making deliveries to New York City
00:08:46.480 to protest the ruling.
00:08:48.020 I've been on the radio talking to drivers the past hour, and I've talked to about 10
00:08:52.180 drivers, and they're going to start refusing loads to New York City starting on Monday.
00:08:57.360 So, does that include any drivers that are listening to me now?
00:09:03.180 888-727-BECK.
00:09:05.740 They're going to refuse to make deliveries to New York and maybe other states, but they're
00:09:12.420 starting with New York City.
00:09:13.640 I don't know how far across the country, how many truckers are going to start denying loads
00:09:17.840 to New York City, but I'll tell you what, they can just keep doing this and they'll find
00:09:22.640 out.
00:09:23.460 Trucker said, the bosses aren't going to care if we deny the loads, we'll just go someplace
00:09:28.020 else.
00:09:29.360 Do you know how hard it is to get into New York City?
00:09:33.360 He said, screw that.
00:09:35.620 Boy, I'm editing here like crazy.
00:09:37.640 Crazy.
00:09:38.640 He speaks like a truck driver.
00:09:41.620 He said, 95% of truckers support the former president, which has been viewed now by 4.6
00:09:48.780 million people, received more than 50,000 likes just since Friday.
00:09:53.220 And this story was out yesterday in the New York Post.
00:09:56.360 Um, I, I think this is, this is the way to do business.
00:10:04.600 This is the way to fix things that I said this before.
00:10:08.280 Um, you want to fix Coca-Cola?
00:10:11.540 The Coca-Cola distributors.
00:10:13.280 Those are all local.
00:10:14.660 Those are all local.
00:10:16.200 If somebody says, you know what, I'm not going to take Coca-Cola and calls the local distributors.
00:10:22.540 They're done.
00:10:23.600 Coca-Cola is done.
00:10:24.920 The same thing with New York City.
00:10:28.100 New York City is, I mean, I just talked to somebody who said, you know, they're really
00:10:32.740 starting to change.
00:10:33.820 It's really a different city.
00:10:35.640 And I'm like, yeah, well, yeah, murder rates up.
00:10:37.840 Everything is up.
00:10:39.360 Uh, I wouldn't live there.
00:10:40.720 I don't know anybody who would live there, but it's getting really bad.
00:10:45.000 I'm not going to mention the name of this restaurant, but there was a kind of a cheers
00:10:50.640 kind of bar in New York and, uh, it was run by a Jewish guy and he put up the American flag
00:11:00.100 and the Jewish flag on October 7th.
00:11:02.140 And a lot of his patrons, uh, said, you know, this is outrageous.
00:11:07.980 How dare you?
00:11:09.660 You know, we're not coming here again.
00:11:11.500 And he said, fine.
00:11:12.460 And they're still up.
00:11:15.200 And it's now becoming this conservative cheers.
00:11:18.840 It's kind of becoming where all the conservatives are hanging out.
00:11:22.420 The problem is there's not enough conservatives in Manhattan to keep that place going as, as
00:11:28.280 it was before when everybody would come, but it's time that the other side feels the effects
00:11:37.380 of, of what they're trying to do.
00:11:41.100 California is doing, passing all kinds of laws that are going to affect us.
00:11:46.180 Well, I don't want to play by the California laws.
00:11:49.960 That's why I don't live in California.
00:11:54.380 I'd like to have the sunshine.
00:11:56.460 I'd like to have the weather.
00:11:58.280 I'd like to have the beach.
00:12:00.960 I don't because their people that they vote in are insane.
00:12:08.300 So let California be California.
00:12:11.040 They can do whatever they want, but they've learned that if they pass bills, then it will
00:12:16.580 affect other businesses.
00:12:18.220 And it is time for those businesses to say, well, then I'm not going to do, I'm not going
00:12:24.360 to do work in California.
00:12:25.740 What would happen if one refinery said, you know what?
00:12:29.900 I'm not going to make gas for California.
00:12:32.120 This blend that they have done, I'm not doing it anymore. 1.00
00:12:35.580 We can save so much money and I'll apply that money to make our gas from our refinery for
00:12:41.800 the rest of the country cheaper.
00:12:43.640 You think that refinery would have a hard time?
00:12:48.700 I don't think so.
00:12:50.980 I don't know because I don't know the numbers.
00:12:52.840 The same thing with the truckers.
00:12:58.660 They're going to get truckers to do it. 1.00
00:13:00.840 But who?
00:13:02.260 And how much will it cost?
00:13:03.780 Now, the truckers are going to be called all kinds of names, but you know what?
00:13:10.840 It's time somebody stands.
00:13:14.140 It is time people that can make a stand peacefully and peacefully resist.
00:13:21.460 And that's what the trucker boycott would be. 0.74
00:13:23.440 Peaceful resistance.
00:13:24.820 I don't have to take your loads.
00:13:27.160 And what will happen?
00:13:28.400 The government will become more oppressive.
00:13:33.200 Yes, you have to take the loads.
00:13:35.500 And what will that do?
00:13:36.980 Wake even more people up.
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00:14:47.180 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:14:52.180 Kirk Cameron is in with us again.
00:14:53.960 He's actor and producer, and he's got something to announce today.
00:14:58.400 Hi, Kirk.
00:14:58.840 How are you?
00:14:59.380 Hey, doing great.
00:15:00.240 Good.
00:15:00.520 Great to see you.
00:15:01.140 Good to have you.
00:15:01.800 Thank you.
00:15:03.080 I'm hearing you talk about the rebuilding of parallel economies and channels for the
00:15:09.260 rebuilding of society and the restoration of family and this country.
00:15:14.920 And I'm so excited to be talking with you because you've done such a great job of that
00:15:18.960 right here with Mercury and Blaze and all of that.
00:15:22.400 And I feel like I may be on the brink of maybe one of the most important projects I've ever
00:15:26.760 worked on, and that is I've partnered with Brave Books, and together we are making a brand
00:15:32.220 new, one-of-a-kind children's television program.
00:15:36.280 Love it.
00:15:36.500 So the power of story is just unbelievably strong, and some of the new studies and articles
00:15:43.000 that I've just been reading about is unbelievable.
00:15:45.880 You know, numbers of children who are now identifying themselves as either gay, lesbian, transgender,
00:15:52.960 bisexual, non-binary, queer is now up like 4,000%.
00:15:57.580 It's doubled in Gen Z from the millennial generation, and it's just spiking crazy. 0.99
00:16:03.100 And it's because of the story that they are hearing all the time.
00:16:08.000 So check out this interesting study.
00:16:09.980 They took 140 undergraduate college students, broke them into two groups, and said, you guys
00:16:14.260 read Twilight, the book series about vampires, and you guys read Harry Potter, Sorcerer in
00:16:19.820 the Stone about witchcraft and magic.
00:16:22.800 And after about a half an hour, they asked them these questions.
00:16:25.520 And the people who read the Harry Potter, they rated themselves higher in their abilities
00:16:33.680 toward telekinesis than the rest of the general population, the ability to move stuff with
00:16:38.740 their mind.
00:16:39.240 And those who had read Twilight believed that the length of their teeth was longer than the
00:16:47.220 length of the general population's teeth.
00:16:49.020 And so what that's telling us is story has not only the power to ignite your imagination,
00:16:54.300 but teleport you into other realms of belief and shape your reality.
00:17:00.440 And then you want to identify with the characters you like.
00:17:04.160 And that's what these kids are doing.
00:17:06.080 Hollywood has given our generation a national identity crisis and put ideas in their mind and
00:17:14.120 tapped into people's instinct to want to emulate those heroes.
00:17:20.420 And if we're not controlling the stories, if we're not at least telling the best stories,
00:17:24.480 we're not giving our kids a chance.
00:17:26.020 So we think it's important to be the ones telling the stories to our children.
00:17:30.860 That's why God gave children to parents, not to Hollywood, not to public schools, not to
00:17:35.780 the government.
00:17:36.280 And we need to tell the stories.
00:17:37.760 And that's why I'm leaning in to this brand new children's show.
00:17:40.780 If you don't think that stories matter, ask yourself, why is the number one priority to
00:17:47.920 destroy the American heritage story?
00:17:51.240 Why?
00:17:52.160 Because it's how we survive.
00:17:55.320 You can talk about anything, but you tell a great story.
00:18:00.780 You identify with it.
00:18:02.420 You begin to live it.
00:18:04.220 You understand the world around you.
00:18:06.640 The American story has been dismantled.
00:18:09.140 And now the human story is being dismantled.
00:18:12.040 So what's the name of the show?
00:18:14.480 So this show is called Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk.
00:18:20.120 And it's so cool because it's a live action children's show.
00:18:24.120 So think of like the timeless biblical moral values of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, only greatly
00:18:32.740 modernized, high energy, with embedded, beautiful, animated stories inside, together with humor
00:18:42.440 and surprise guest stars at every turn with every episode.
00:18:47.440 So what is the age you're targeting?
00:18:51.220 This is for little kids.
00:18:52.800 I would say from like three and four up to like seven and eight.
00:18:57.380 So this is to go directly against Sesame Street?
00:19:02.920 This, in fact, we've got one of the puppeteers who created Iggy the Puppet, who worked on Sesame
00:19:08.420 Street with Jim Henson and the Muppets.
00:19:10.160 Wow.
00:19:10.560 And is one of the guys who is an apprentice to the creator of Elmo.
00:19:15.140 And so we've got this phenomenal team.
00:19:18.400 And so, like I said, it's a mixture of live action together with Muppet Puppet stuff and
00:19:23.340 animation.
00:19:24.460 And the animation is going to be telling stories that take place on Freedom Island.
00:19:30.560 And they're teaching lessons about First and Second Amendment.
00:19:34.220 They're teaching lessons about the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, kindness, peace.
00:19:37.780 Also, gender reality and the dangers of socialism and CRT.
00:19:41.880 These are all embedded into this television show, which is unique to our generation because
00:19:48.220 Mr. Roger didn't have to warn children about and explain to them that elephants cannot be
00:19:54.260 birds.
00:19:55.300 But we do.
00:19:56.180 We do.
00:19:57.180 Right.
00:19:57.520 Because we have a vulture named culture in our stories that are warping reality for the
00:20:05.780 animals on Freedom Island and getting them to identify in ways that will destroy their
00:20:11.580 family and their community.
00:20:13.320 And so children are going to learn these principles.
00:20:15.160 They're going to be pulled together into family time.
00:20:17.460 And families are just going to love it.
00:20:18.940 I think this could be the most important project that I've worked on.
00:20:21.540 I think it is.
00:20:22.580 Where do you watch it?
00:20:24.360 Well, we're going to record the first two seasons.
00:20:27.960 And then we're going to air five of them on YouTube, Rumble, everywhere where it's free.
00:20:34.460 And then we're going to invite people to come into the family and see all of the episodes.
00:20:38.980 And in order to do this, we've got to raise funds to pay for this.
00:20:42.760 We want to do what The Chosen did. 0.97
00:20:44.120 We don't want to tie ourselves to Hollywood or to some big streaming platform that's going
00:20:48.420 to have strings attached to their money.
00:20:51.020 Answer to the audience only.
00:20:52.860 That's right.
00:20:53.400 We want to build this ourselves.
00:20:54.840 And so we need to raise the funds.
00:20:57.420 We need to make it.
00:20:58.320 I'm all in.
00:20:59.200 We've got the team.
00:21:00.220 We know just what to do.
00:21:02.020 And we're now announcing it today on your program that we are launching a children's
00:21:07.240 show called Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk.
00:21:09.960 And so how do you get involved?
00:21:12.740 How do people?
00:21:14.520 Yes.
00:21:15.060 So people can get involved.
00:21:16.420 Go to watchbrave.com.
00:21:19.200 Watchbrave.com.
00:21:21.320 Brave Books and I, we're the ones who've been going to the libraries, reading the kids'
00:21:24.840 books, Contra, The Drag Queen Story Hours.
00:21:28.120 We've been challenging Scholastic and their pornographic woke machine that is indoctrinating 1.00
00:21:34.740 kids, finding alternatives for schools and their book fairs.
00:21:38.860 And now Brave and I are making this TV show.
00:21:41.580 So if you want to help us, we need your help.
00:21:43.760 We can't do it without you.
00:21:44.620 Go to watchbrave.com.
00:21:46.980 I tell you, it feels like we get our head handed to us almost every day.
00:21:53.340 Something else.
00:21:54.580 And they have infiltrated everything.
00:21:57.380 And they laid quiet for a long, long time.
00:22:00.620 But when you look at, especially in this industry, your industry, my industry, the last 10 years,
00:22:08.300 people have not been sitting on their laurels and doing nothing about it except whining.
00:22:13.460 It's the reason why that they are talking so much about disinformation and misinformation
00:22:18.740 and trying to, you know, silence people like you, silence people like me.
00:22:23.380 Anybody who disagrees with the administration or the woke left, they're going to try to destroy.
00:22:30.740 Look at the difference between what we were producing 15 years ago and what we're able to produce now.
00:22:40.120 It's totally different.
00:22:42.100 I mean, I think we've looked at these defeats and these setbacks, and we don't take enough time to go,
00:22:50.360 yes, but look what God's doing.
00:22:52.640 Look what is happening.
00:22:54.380 Yes.
00:22:55.340 Yes, boy, I agree.
00:22:59.960 You mentioned setbacks.
00:23:01.700 When I look at history, I see that it is often during the times of the setbacks that people, you know,
00:23:10.040 they grab their head and they say, what have we done?
00:23:13.000 Oh, my gosh.
00:23:14.240 I didn't think this would happen this quickly, this fast.
00:23:17.300 Well, you know, it's been kind of a slow fade for a while.
00:23:19.880 And now all of a sudden, the light bulb goes on and people say, we've got to do something.
00:23:23.620 And I think that Great Awakenings have happened about every 50 years.
00:23:29.180 You go back and you look through history.
00:23:30.540 We've had a couple in this country already.
00:23:32.300 And they happen during times of moral decline, spiritual apathy, political corruption, and economic collapse.
00:23:39.860 I think we're there right now.
00:23:42.060 What if this national setback is really a divine setup for a spiritual comeback led by the family of faith?
00:23:51.620 It has to be.
00:23:53.260 It has to be.
00:23:54.540 I mean, you know, Billy Graham told me once, he said, Glenn, I said, where's the next Billy Graham?
00:24:01.040 Billy?
00:24:02.120 Where's the next Abraham Lincoln?
00:24:03.780 Where's the next George Washington?
00:24:05.200 He said, Glenn, it's not going to happen that way.
00:24:07.100 He said, the Lord's going to talk to individuals this time.
00:24:10.520 He's tired of people like me getting credit, he said.
00:24:13.260 So you're going to talk to individuals.
00:24:14.680 And they're all just going to do their little part.
00:24:17.620 And he said, pretty soon the lights come on and you will see a mosaic of something that could have only been done by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
00:24:27.200 Isn't that amazing?
00:24:27.920 Oh, man, I love that.
00:24:29.360 I love that visual illustration right there.
00:24:33.100 And I believe it.
00:24:34.760 God often, as I look through the scriptures, seems to use nobody's from nowhere with nothing to offer but a heart fully surrendered to him.
00:24:42.960 And they do their thing in the corner and then God amplifies it in the open.
00:24:47.720 Yeah.
00:24:48.720 You know, it's amazing.
00:24:50.360 You look at Joseph, you know, the runt of the litter and he gets thrown into a pit and sold as a slave and he ends up in prison.
00:24:56.360 And then he's second in command to the whole world and saves everybody.
00:24:59.960 Right.
00:25:00.460 You know, or King David, whatever.
00:25:02.820 I've seen it in my own life where I try to do it my way.
00:25:07.420 And God will let you when you think you can do it yourself.
00:25:09.820 He'll let you and then you'll figure it out eventually.
00:25:13.480 And everything that I did that was bad that I thought God could never forgive me for.
00:25:19.780 He's made those things in some ways a strength that I understand people who are in that place in their life.
00:25:28.360 I can speak to those people in a completely different way.
00:25:31.960 And it's amazing to me how, God, there's just no waste.
00:25:36.820 And anybody who's saying that, well, I can't be redeemed or I have nothing, you really do.
00:25:44.480 You really do.
00:25:45.420 You just have to surrender.
00:25:47.120 Yeah, I think so, too.
00:25:48.720 I'm still learning that.
00:25:50.180 I'm 53 years old.
00:25:51.500 I've been in Hollywood my whole life.
00:25:52.700 And as a producer and as a writer, I tend to try to determine outcomes of the audience so that we're successful with our projects.
00:26:04.440 And I'm realizing that I'm really, God is a much better script writer than I am.
00:26:08.960 He's much better at producing and determining outcomes than I am.
00:26:12.320 I just have to play my role well.
00:26:14.060 If I could, if I learn that lesson, I think I'm going to have a better marriage.
00:26:17.540 I think I'm going to be a better dad.
00:26:18.720 And I think I can do more for my country.
00:26:20.280 And it's a lot easier.
00:26:21.320 It's so much easier than fighting for your way.
00:26:24.820 That's right.
00:26:27.920 You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck.
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00:26:35.400 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, welcome to the program, sir.
00:26:39.420 How are you?
00:26:40.440 I'm doing well.
00:26:41.240 Thanks for having me back.
00:26:42.100 Yeah, we have so many things to talk about.
00:26:45.880 But I think the most important thing that I want to get to first is the Court of Criminal Appeals.
00:26:52.260 Texas is a weirdo state.
00:26:54.280 And most states, I think 48 of them, don't have this.
00:27:00.060 It's like a Supreme Court, if I'm not mistaken.
00:27:04.160 But what is its jurisdiction?
00:27:06.380 What do they do exactly?
00:27:08.600 So we're very, you are, we're a little weird.
00:27:10.900 I think there's only one other state like us that has a bifurcated system.
00:27:14.620 We're half, well, some of the cases go to the Texas Supreme Court, all the civil cases.
00:27:19.940 And if you have on your final appeal for a criminal case, it's the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
00:27:24.920 So it's split.
00:27:25.920 And most Texans are not aware of this nine-member court that is all Republican.
00:27:31.500 And most Republicans, even the most educated, don't know who's on that court.
00:27:37.080 So this is becoming very, very important.
00:27:40.040 And especially, and you'll know this in really deep red states, states like Utah, just because it says Republican does not mean they're Republican.
00:27:51.160 In Texas, a lot of times Democrats just switch to Republican because they know they can get elected with an R behind their name.
00:27:59.320 And then you also have these horrible Republicans who are, you know, Republican in name only, as we know to be rhinos. 0.80
00:28:09.300 And that's who's really on, there's some that are good, but there's a few of these guys on this court.
00:28:15.800 And it is stopping the attorney general's office now from prosecuting any kind of election fraud, which is a new thing, is it not, Ken?
00:28:28.600 Yeah.
00:28:29.100 So this statute was passed by the legislature legally under their constitutional role to pass legislation and direct the attorney general to do whatever they wanted to do.
00:28:38.040 And they did that in 1951.
00:28:40.280 We prosecuted, literally, we had almost 1,000 cases being prosecuted when they struck this down two years ago.
00:28:47.160 It was suddenly struck down out of the blue, and they made the argument that it was unconstitutional, violation of separation of powers, because I'm the executive branch, for me as attorney general to be in court.
00:28:57.060 But if they're right, every court prior to them, every case, really every attorney general in the country is violating the Constitution and has since the founding of our country, if this nine-member court that voted 8-1 suddenly out of the blue to strike this law down.
00:29:14.420 How did that happen?
00:29:16.400 I think, honestly, it's nine members.
00:29:19.320 Nobody knows who they are.
00:29:20.300 We have one good one, Kevin Ury, and they waited until two days after the filing deadline two years ago to run against them, so we could not put up candidates last time.
00:29:29.700 So they got a two-year pass.
00:29:31.340 They thought we'd forget about it.
00:29:32.220 They thought they'd have me out.
00:29:34.180 And because George Soros has put his DAs in the liberal counties, I believe he is funding, along with a group called Texans for Lawsuit Reform, funding these candidates to ensure that we can't prosecute voter fraud in Texas.
00:29:48.180 Okay, so there's a three-pronged approach going on here in Texas to turn Texas blue.
00:29:56.160 The first thing is George Soros coming in and getting the DAs in all of the big counties.
00:30:03.340 The second thing is get rid of our attorney general and get somebody that won't fight back.
00:30:10.060 And the third thing is the Court of Appeals, and I could probably flip those last two and make the Court of Appeals and then coming after you and trying to get you out as the final step.
00:30:24.660 They've already got now the first step done.
00:30:28.560 They have the Court of Appeals now.
00:30:30.380 They failed on getting rid of you.
00:30:33.360 But if this doesn't change in the Court of Appeals, you can't bring up any fraud charges for anything in Houston, Dallas, or wherever it is.
00:30:47.960 But these main DAs are the only ones that can bring up fraud charges.
00:30:53.920 Well, if they're Soros people, that's not going to happen.
00:30:57.960 And they are Soros people.
00:30:59.300 I've watched Soros unelected Democrats that were prosecuting all kinds of different crimes.
00:31:04.860 He came in and put progressives in who won't prosecute much of anything, including voter fraud.
00:31:09.520 So they've got that piece in place.
00:31:11.220 I believe right now they have Court of Criminal Peals in place.
00:31:13.520 And they're coming after me again.
00:31:15.460 I have another trial, just like Trump in April, that has been sitting there for nine years.
00:31:19.940 And the Court of Criminal Appeals moved me out of my home county, which is Republican, to Harris County, which is Democrat, and Democratic judges all the way up, and obviously a Democratic jury.
00:31:29.380 And why did they do that?
00:31:30.380 Because after nine years, they decided they still need to get rid of me because the impeachment didn't work.
00:31:34.820 The election, the attempted knocking me out in the election, and even having the federal government come after me, none of that's worked.
00:31:41.300 It is amazing to me, this legal warfare.
00:31:46.460 And I heard about this maybe eight years ago, that they were starting to look into ways to go against anybody who stands against them with the court system.
00:31:58.300 And I thought, well, that's interesting, but we have judges and we have juries and everything else.
00:32:03.700 It doesn't matter.
00:32:04.940 If they pick the court, it doesn't matter.
00:32:07.160 That's exactly right.
00:32:09.080 And think for this, for these criminal cases, they've moved me into Harris County, where my chances are much less at winning.
00:32:17.940 And especially, you know, if we have a Democratic jury pool and Democratic judges, and then the Court of Criminal Appeals has the final say, I would say my chances aren't very good.
00:32:27.240 I think they've done the same thing to Trump.
00:32:28.700 They put him in very liberal places like New York or Fulton County, where the process is slanted against you heavily.
00:32:36.360 And it makes it – and it's also obviously very expensive.
00:32:39.240 Trump has resources that I don't have.
00:32:41.080 So that's the other thing.
00:32:42.140 They try to drain you financially so that you cannot fight.
00:32:45.660 And unfortunately, it's not just the Democrats.
00:32:47.120 This is the Karl Rove, you know, slash Bush wing of our party, and it involves the Dick Weakleys of the world with Texans for Lawsuit Reform and other liberal groups that seem like they're Republican, but they're not on our side.
00:32:59.720 So the Texas for Lawsuit Reform, correct me if I'm wrong, used to be conservative.
00:33:06.520 It was a conservative group.
00:33:08.640 But now the billionaires are involved, and Dick Weakle is one of them.
00:33:12.980 He's a construction guy, if I'm not mistaken.
00:33:15.300 And he and Karl Rove and another guy – gosh, what's his name?
00:33:22.880 Dennis –
00:33:24.060 Calabrese.
00:33:25.060 Calabrese.
00:33:27.060 These three kind of really make the meat of the Texas lawsuit reform.
00:33:34.500 One goes out, raises a lot of money – a couple of them do, actually.
00:33:38.540 The other guy is the strategist, and if I'm not mistaken, didn't Calabrese – didn't he go – he was part of the no-bail action, wasn't he?
00:33:48.580 Yeah.
00:33:49.100 So he was helping work with the – I think it's called the Truman Foundation – oh, no, the Arnold Foundation.
00:33:54.560 Yeah.
00:33:54.960 Very progressive group on criminal matters, and he was working with them until he was accused of tax evasion and went to federal prison.
00:34:01.500 But then he also was sued by the Arnold Foundation for taking some of their money, and there was a judgment against him for, I think, $8.5 million.
00:34:09.080 And then suddenly that judgment gets paid, and he's back working with Dick Weakley and Texas for a lawsuit reform.
00:34:14.100 Who paid that $8.5 million judgment?
00:34:17.740 I have no idea.
00:34:18.780 It was all –
00:34:20.420 Maybe it was Hunter Biden's art friends.
00:34:23.660 You can guess.
00:34:24.820 Yeah.
00:34:25.080 Okay, so he goes back to work.
00:34:28.460 Now, he's for embezzlement.
00:34:31.000 He's a criminal for embezzlement.
00:34:34.080 He was part of the move to get all of these – all the bails dropped.
00:34:39.300 Why is a so-called conservative group and conservative like Dick Weakley – why are they bringing him in?
00:34:49.340 Well, that's a good question, except if you look at where they're headed now.
00:34:52.460 I mean, they've focused on taking out Republicans.
00:34:55.200 They tend to fund now.
00:34:57.000 They'll fund Republicans, but they give them so much money that they're beholden to them.
00:35:01.420 And they're not necessarily a conservative group anymore.
00:35:03.800 Their original purpose was to stop lawsuit abuse.
00:35:07.000 And now they've branched into all kinds of things.
00:35:08.940 They're supporting – they're putting millions of dollars behind the speaker who's controlled by the Democrats.
00:35:14.860 And then they give all of his people millions of dollars, and they control the Texas legislature.
00:35:22.100 And it ends up not representing the voters because now the voters – they don't even need their money.
00:35:27.120 The House members don't even need their money because so much of it's coming from Texans for lawsuit reform 0.57
00:35:31.360 and a group called ART, Associated Republicans of Texas, which Karl Rove is very involved with.
00:35:36.200 So they all work together.
00:35:38.680 Karl Rove, we know him quite well.
00:35:41.000 He's always a great helper.
00:35:43.800 All right.
00:35:44.440 So who are the judges that are going up for election this year?
00:35:48.800 And this is going to be a tough one because nobody knows what the Court of Criminal Appeals is.
00:35:53.840 When you look at judges, you don't know – you don't know how – who these judges are nine out of ten times.
00:36:01.460 And people will look and they'll go, I don't know.
00:36:03.740 It's a Republican.
00:36:05.900 It's an independent.
00:36:07.180 And I don't know, I'll vote for – and you just guess.
00:36:11.820 So you've got three people coming up, and Texans have got to know these names.
00:36:17.820 That's exactly right.
00:36:18.800 I think this is the most important election I've ever been involved in.
00:36:21.740 I mean, even my election.
00:36:23.180 These three judges, if we can't turn this court, we will not be able to prosecute voter fraud,
00:36:28.260 and we will be Georgia, we will be Arizona, we will be Wisconsin.
00:36:31.460 We will have the same result.
00:36:32.520 I was able to stop that with my great team last time, but this is where we're headed in the next couple of years
00:36:39.020 if no one that cares about voter fraud actually gets to prosecute it.
00:36:44.080 And so Gina Parker, the three people that we want to elect, Gina Parker, Lee Finley, and David Schenck.
00:36:50.740 And I'm going to repeat them one more time.
00:36:51.720 Gina Parker, David Schenck, and Lee Finley.
00:36:55.460 And voting starts February 20th, which is this coming Tuesday, early voting, and March is the final election.
00:37:03.100 So this is really critical that people on your show from Texas spread the word.
00:37:07.160 And if you're not from Texas, realize if we don't hold on to Texas, I mean, we are in trouble nationally.
00:37:13.260 We can't win elections nationally.
00:37:15.460 This is the number one thing that people say to me.
00:37:18.400 You know, Glenn, if we can't go after voter fraud, if we can't clean it up,
00:37:23.200 but I mean clean it up on our side if there is any, or their side, just fair voting.
00:37:29.100 If we can't prosecute this, if we can't go after it, then we have no trust in the elections.
00:37:35.240 And how do you have a republic?
00:37:37.420 Well, you don't.
00:37:38.860 You don't.
00:37:40.120 In Texas, this is the solution to this.
00:37:44.260 If you can get three people, Gina Parker, Lee Finley, and David Schenck,
00:37:48.900 if you can get those three onto the Board of Criminal Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals,
00:37:55.160 there's a chance that this thing can be overturned.
00:37:59.360 And the attorney general, didn't you have almost like 400 cases of voter fraud here in Texas going on?
00:38:05.900 So we had over 600 counts that we were prosecuting at the time they struck it down.
00:38:10.040 All those got dismissed.
00:38:11.060 We had 392 investigations that had to be halted because of this decision out of the blue with no,
00:38:18.280 you know, totally surprising us.
00:38:20.060 So, no, we are not prosecuting.
00:38:21.500 There's not a single case that I know of in Texas now being prosecuted,
00:38:23.980 not a single voter fraud case by a single DA in this state.
00:38:28.020 Maybe there's one, maybe there's two, but I can guarantee you,
00:38:30.460 they are not, this is not being prosecuted in Texas anymore.
00:38:33.900 God, that's bad.
00:38:37.000 That's really bad.
00:38:38.320 That's really bad.
00:38:39.240 But we can fix it.
00:38:40.100 If this election goes the right way, then we'll still be down 5-4,
00:38:43.540 but we'll be sending the message, so let's let you fix this,
00:38:46.880 and the Court of Criminal Appeals will realize we're coming to get the next ones if they don't fix this decision.
00:38:51.740 Well, the same money behind these guys, if this is accurate,
00:38:55.040 would be the people behind the Speaker of the House who is just a nightmare, a nightmare.
00:39:01.100 That's exactly right.
00:39:01.940 That's exactly right.
00:39:02.620 And you're going to see money spent on these races for the first time by the other side
00:39:06.460 because they know that we're getting the word out.
00:39:08.780 And so you're going to see these TV ads supporting these incumbent Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges.
00:39:13.700 I've never seen money spent in these races, but we're going to see it.
00:39:16.620 And Texans for Lawsuit Reform and other groups affiliated with them are going to be involved.
00:39:21.520 Stu, we need something like a jingle for Gina Parker, Lee Finley, and David Shank.
00:39:28.280 We need something.
00:39:30.640 I don't know how.
00:39:31.900 I don't know how you make those names stick, but we need a jingle that we can play every day.
00:39:36.820 I'll work on it.
00:39:37.800 Yeah.
00:39:38.180 You'll work on that?
00:39:39.180 Okay, good.
00:39:39.860 We'll work on it too, Ken.
00:39:41.240 I don't know how.
00:39:42.220 You, as an audience, can somebody come up with something catchy that helps people remember?
00:39:47.380 Because you've got a week.
00:39:48.900 Na, na, na, na.