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00:00:17.480 of it we have the ceo of beth bed bath and beyond who is you know taking on gavin newsom also on

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00:03:00.180 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program marcus limonis he is the chairman executive

00:03:15.940 chairman of bed bath and beyond and he's currently in a some sort of a fight if you will i don't think

00:03:21.880 he's fighting it he's i think he's reacting uh like a gentleman and a businessman with his responses

00:03:28.240 to governor newsom but he's in this argument with governor newsom because he said yesterday bed bath

00:03:34.480 and beyond just cannot do business in california anymore it's just too expensive it's it's just

00:03:40.600 too over regulated and no longer makes sense for bed bath and beyond welcome to the program uh marcus

00:03:46.840 good morning how are you i'm very good i'm very good um i just want to point out before we go because i

00:03:54.480 i think this is important to say because you started yesterday saying this is not about politics

00:04:01.320 and i just want to point out that you're not a trump supporter um you know in 2017 you came out and i'm

00:04:09.100 not going to go through it because you went back and forth and corrected and everything else but you

00:04:13.900 know you criticized what donald trump said uh in charlottesville when it was thought that he had said

00:04:21.760 you know hey and the nazis are pretty good too which we now know because the full audio and video

00:04:27.540 is out and we can show that that's not what he was talking about at all but you came out as did a

00:04:33.960 whole buttload of other ceos and said you know if that's what you believe then you know please uh we

00:04:41.660 don't necessarily want you shopping here so it's not that you are doing this because you're a big trump

00:04:48.840 supporter i when i saw your name attached to this i thought no no this is about business because he's

00:04:55.000 not on either side here on this yeah i'm not on either side but i will say yeah it's kind of accurate

00:05:02.140 um from a historical standpoint it's not accurate from a modern day standpoint i think as time has

00:05:07.380 gone on and the facts have been revealed and things have played out and moves have been made by this

00:05:13.280 administration that i think advanced business and advanced the american uh uh you know uh citizen

00:05:20.720 in a way that i think it puts us back on track i would say that i feel very differently today than

00:05:26.520 i used to and that's really not an emotional reaction that's an intelligent reaction of just

00:05:31.320 looking at what the administration is doing to try to uh deregulate business not to the disadvantage

00:05:38.540 of a worker and not to the disadvantage of anybody but to the advantage of capitalism in our country

00:05:45.140 and to the advantage of investing in american business and you know just as a reminder glenn and

00:05:50.360 you and i met a long long time ago uh when i had the prophet at cnbc that that you know my other

00:05:57.180 business is camping world and i've been through hell and back trying to defend the flag uh from the same

00:06:03.620 kind of ideology that i'm seeing out of california which is your flags are too big they're they're

00:06:10.140 not approved and uh you know anybody does a little research they'll see that you know cities have

00:06:15.520 sued me cities have threatened to take me to jail and the flag still hasn't come down so what you'll

00:06:20.100 find with me is that i try to be really pragmatic i also happen to be a resident of chicago and if

00:06:26.560 anybody wants a preview to the movie of what's going to happen in new york city come come to my

00:06:31.220 apartment on michigan avenue and i'll give you a preview to what's happened and how socialism uh is

00:06:37.100 is just crushing not only my personal property but other businesses around so i would say as one gets

00:06:42.820 smarter and one gets older and one learns more and one listens uh you know you evolve as a human and

00:06:48.300 and uh i want to make sure that that we're clear about that i have to tell you i thought it doesn't

00:06:54.840 change my point of view that this is about business but i'm so glad you cleared that up because

00:07:00.180 you know that that's that's all people should be striving for is when there are new facts available

00:07:06.920 you will actually say oh wait a minute i didn't see that i didn't know that or you know things are

00:07:13.480 changing i was wrong and that that's so rare so thank you for for that yeah so you know let me give

00:07:21.580 you let me give you another slam uh from the left or from you know the people on you know twitter and

00:07:27.620 even gavin newsom oh this is you were out of business and this is just a business move to get

00:07:32.680 your name out there yeah that's the only reason why you're taking california on well let's talk

00:07:38.600 about that so number one um you know i took over a company called overstock about a year and a half

00:07:45.640 ago and overstock was a business that's been out there a long time uh and they bought the intellectual

00:07:51.880 property in the fall of 23 from the bankrupt estate of bed bath and beyond and the reason that i took

00:07:57.540 it over is that the company had lost its way it was losing a lot of money and i made a commitment to

00:08:01.980 the shareholders that we would get back to profitability and as part of that bed bath and

00:08:06.240 beyond is a significant underpinning of that and so i needed to remind both governor newsom and other

00:08:13.160 folks who uh you know were celebrating the fact that bed bath and beyond had gone out of business

00:08:19.560 were celebrating the fact that bed bath and beyond had filed bankruptcy and it is true it's a fact it

00:08:24.560 did happen as i told hannity last night it happened uh the reality of it is is that uh america's built on

00:08:30.880 uh the modern day comeback and we've invested hundreds of millions of dollars in bed bath we run a billion

00:08:36.960 dollar online business we bought a business called kirklands uh that's out of jackson tennessee a family

00:08:42.860 business and we're using those 300 stores to convert 414 of them are in california i was disappointed

00:08:49.480 to see governor newsom um in my opinion just from a level of professionalism instead of saying

00:08:54.540 you know what i don't agree with your points and i think you're doing this for the wrong reasons and

00:08:59.240 whatever he wanted to say however comma i'd love to figure out how you and a bunch of other business

00:09:04.020 leaders can tell me uh as the governor of the fourth largest economy in the world which he likes to

00:09:09.240 remind us every single day um how to make it the third largest economy and what i could do what what

00:09:15.540 things are out there that i'm willing to compromise on or that i'm willing to help understand that will

00:09:20.060 drive investment back into my state that will drive capital uh back into my state that will fill

00:09:25.860 commercial real estate that's empty back into my state to appreciate uh commercial properties

00:09:31.040 residential properties and to drive value because as a governor of a state my job is to protect my people

00:09:36.400 i get it fine right uh but also to create positive cash flow for my state which means i i generate more

00:09:44.240 than i than i uh than i spend but i don't want to do it on the backs of just creating another

00:09:48.920 you know nonsensical tax i didn't get that and that's really what has made me uh convinced

00:09:56.720 that governor newsom is not doing things for the benefit of california he's doing things because he

00:10:02.580 thinks that his so-called base is going to rally around his nonsense so can you uh have you heard from

00:10:10.200 other ceos in the last 24 hours you heard from anybody else in california you don't have to name

00:10:15.900 names but yeah i won't saying the same thing i have i've heard i've heard from very very significant

00:10:22.400 tech leaders in the state of california uh asking if there's a way for them to set up a meeting with

00:10:28.240 governor newsom and myself of course the answer is yes but they all acknowledge uh the silliness

00:10:34.220 behind uh avoiding capitalism and rejecting capitalism as it's this dirty word and everybody

00:10:41.480 that wants to make money or who's experienced success is a bad person and that seems to be the

00:10:46.520 theme that's coming out of the governor's office particularly with his i guess this is intern run

00:10:52.600 uh press room twitter account or whatever it's called these days so this is not a final decision

00:11:01.580 with you he could do something to change your mind i think if governor newsom was was was really

00:11:09.380 thinking about a political run and running a state that he believes um is the superior state in the

00:11:16.480 country he would invite myself but maybe not me maybe i'm not qualified to be in a room with him

00:11:21.900 but other ceos to say hey i'm hearing this and i want to learn and i want to change much like i said to

00:11:29.360 you at the beginning of our conversation what facts do i not have and how can you convince me

00:11:33.700 how i can do better how i can learn more that's the sign of a good leader that's a leader that i want

00:11:38.740 to follow and that's i think even if you just take a look at our current presidents i think he's got a

00:11:44.180 different tone in his second term than he does his first term and i couldn't be convinced otherwise

00:11:47.880 it feels far more collaborative and that's what i'm looking for um the um let me play the

00:11:55.960 opposite uh side here for a second and say what trump is doing i i see the regulation i see what

00:12:02.080 he's doing to business and it is thank god it is a it's i can finally breathe again as a businessman

00:12:07.720 um however if i'm in your business i would assume you get a lot of material a lot of a lot of your

00:12:15.340 products from china how is the how are the tariffs affecting you we diversified the sourcing of our

00:12:22.220 products and the one thing that that when i came in um made it a bit of a mandate and it's a balance

00:12:28.420 between providing value to our shareholders and doing what i think is right you know i come from

00:12:33.740 the rv world where we make everything in elkhart indiana and we employ you know tens of thousands

00:12:39.100 of people that that make products in this country but there are parts and pieces that come from

00:12:43.460 overseas and the reality of it is is that until manufacturing in the u.s is is set up and can handle

00:12:49.960 the capacity that in the short term there there is an alternative sourcing and that applies to

00:12:54.900 furniture and lighting and certain textiles coming from around the globe and the tariffs are not great

00:13:00.760 um and i don't think that trump would even try to defend that they're great it's a rebalancing act

00:13:05.680 but but glenn here's the thing that i i mentioned on big money the other day if you're really thinking

00:13:12.000 about the triangulation of how trump is approaching uh rebalancing everything whether it is using energy

00:13:19.600 as the leverage to bring ukraine and and russia to the table or using tariffs to bring other world

00:13:27.080 leaders to the table it's all really done being done in my opinion to recalibrate america's position

00:13:33.380 both politically and financially in a way that that is that maintains our dominance

00:13:39.820 you know i think that is i think you are spot on and you're seeing that with the way he handled ukraine

00:13:47.320 you know he went in tough with the tariffs over in europe and with nato he was tough with them

00:13:52.840 and then he then said you want to support ukraine you can buy this stuff from us but you have to do

00:14:00.900 it but we'll provide it to you and now look at all of the world leaders are at the table america is

00:14:06.220 leading again just not spending all the money and doing all the work we are in the actual leadership

00:14:12.740 position which is remarkable and i think he's doing that in in every uh in every category

00:14:19.700 listen i think i think the one thing that this administration can acknowledge is that the

00:14:25.640 national debt is at a level that nobody believes it should be at and the deficits at a level that

00:14:29.920 nobody believes it should be at and it's a it's a very complicated but but not overly complicated

00:14:36.160 math equation we have a certain amount of money leaving and we have not enough money coming in

00:14:41.040 and the way that you rejigger that is to find the balance and nobody nobody that i know including

00:14:46.880 myself is going to argue that the tariff execution in the last six months has been perfect like i don't

00:14:52.680 even think this administration would acknowledge it's been perfect right and herky-jerky on the

00:14:56.620 markets it's been herky-jerky for business leaders and at some point we all hope and pray that it finds

00:15:02.560 its footing at some point and and i'm not gonna nobody should try to convince anybody that the consumer

00:15:08.620 isn't going to be slightly pinched but the but the balancing act of being slightly pinched on the

00:15:13.720 tariff side is what sort of relief could happen on the variable interest rate side and that's why you

00:15:18.880 see this other piece being triangulated around where's the monetary policy and how could that be

00:15:23.820 you know modified to provide the relief to offset let me ask you are you as a pretty influential

00:15:31.920 business leader are you uh what's your outlook look look like for the first half of next year

00:15:38.420 people are kind of holding back holding their breath not sure what to do are we headed towards

00:15:44.160 better times or same kind of times or worse times do you think i think we're headed towards

00:15:50.540 unfortunately probably a little bit more of the same what may be extracted from that is a little bit

00:15:56.960 of the volatility uh the consumer does have you know a significant amount of debt and they do have

00:16:02.640 a significant amount of pressure on them with the interest rates the balance on the interest rates

00:16:06.860 are you can't just rip them down by two points tomorrow that's going to create chaos you have to

00:16:11.580 stair step it down and you know like in retail or in any business you test and you measure and you test

00:16:17.400 and you measure and i think i think what trump has been saying and what best it's been saying is

00:16:22.760 we just got to get some relief for consumers uh one point one that i want to make uh inflation

00:16:28.500 during the covid period was a function of too much money in the system too much free money in the system

00:16:33.860 and and demand outpacing supply in this particular instance we don't have a demand outpacing supply

00:16:41.360 problem we have a reset of the cost of goods problem and and it's a different type of inflation and

00:16:48.200 some people have said to me that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard there's only one type of

00:16:52.040 inflation and the truth is that's not right inflation driven by demand outpacing supply

00:16:57.340 um is a runaway train inflation because you're resetting and recalibrating prices when supply and

00:17:03.720 demand are relatively tight in nature um is is an adjustment period it's transitory and and you have

00:17:12.420 to really look at the difference between the two and i think the fed needs to understand the difference

00:17:17.740 between those two again that's why business leaders should be far more involved

00:17:21.660 uh marcus it's great to talk to you again and i have to tell you i think that's the first time

00:17:26.480 anybody said this inflation is transitory that i've agreed with um really great analysis on that

00:17:31.600 thank you so much marcus limones uh from bed bath and beyond

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00:19:29.220 target has announced that brian cornell is stepping down as the ceo of the retail giant after 11 years

00:19:36.980 and uh and the value of the stock plummeting uh it's down i think 61 percent since its all-time

00:19:44.960 high but its all-time high was covid when the government said you can only shop at target it's

00:19:50.940 the only safe place that in home depot the only safe place on the planet so of course they went

00:19:56.920 through the roof then and they're down um but they're down what 28 since the start of the year

00:20:02.880 not real good now of course everybody on the right is saying that's because that's because they were

00:20:09.800 involved with dei and then everybody on the left is like that's because they got rid of dei

00:20:15.740 oh well you can't have both you can't have both so i don't know what it is uh all i know is

00:20:23.760 oh when did they start doing that dei thing around two to 2022 something like that i feel like that's

00:20:30.720 when it became a story it was right around 2022 2023 and they may have been doing it before then

00:20:36.280 and i know that i talked to women i talked to my wife and she was like no target is the only place i

00:20:44.360 can go and get everything in one stop i'm not i don't care i don't care if the cashier is beelzebub

00:20:52.140 gotta be 41.95 i mean it was like i mean you couldn't get people to stop going to target

00:20:58.560 now i don't know why why what what has happened what's happened i mean i don't shop at target so

00:21:04.580 i don't know have you heard your wife all of a sudden saying you know target really kind of sucks

00:21:09.060 right now no i found it a lot easier to go to seven different stores i it's you know i i assume

00:21:16.600 i it's i think you're right in in that we tend to just tie every news story to the thing we've been

00:21:23.440 talking about you know that's something that everybody seems to do and they're they're managing

00:21:28.620 you know hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of merchandise over thousands of stores

00:21:33.160 like they're probably more than just whether they had a rainbow shirt or not it's probably bigger

00:21:37.320 right bigger than that i mean i would love for that to be true i just don't want to you know

00:21:42.500 dance on the grave unless i know that's true i don't know that's true right um i mean because

00:21:47.700 if you look at their i'm looking at their stock chart right now you know yes it peaked in 2021

00:21:52.600 um that that was yeah i feel like 2023 maybe it was there was a fall after that but it rose back up

00:22:00.160 through 2024 right um it just has it just kind of like crashed after 2025 now that might have been

00:22:05.920 weak holiday sales like i don't know i don't i don't follow it on a day-to-day basis to know

00:22:11.100 exactly when did they get rid of dei because maybe the crash the last time the crash came because

00:22:18.380 everybody on the right was like i'm not gonna shop there and that lasted a couple of months and then

00:22:22.400 their stock rebounded but now maybe when when did they get rid of dei because maybe they got rid of

00:22:27.260 dei and now everybody on the left is like i'm not gonna shop there and everybody will forget about

00:22:31.280 and they go stop shop there but maybe that was just too much of a fall for for them to take

00:22:36.240 i'm looking for the date here this is why you just don't get involved in politics politics change

00:22:43.320 all the time although you know anybody who's looking at the uh i mean celebratory numbers of

00:22:49.460 the democrats right now and how they are just imploding be careful because it's gonna come back

00:22:56.400 around as it always does i remember you know 2008 barack obama and everybody else was like the

00:23:03.220 republicans will never win ever again the republicans are so out of touch they will never ever ever win

00:23:11.080 well look at it now i mean it just comes back so now i don't know if it's gonna i've never the

00:23:17.740 democrats i don't think ever did the damage that the democrats are doing to themselves right now

00:23:25.200 you know holding press conferences with burning cars you know this is mostly peaceful and then

00:23:31.260 shootouts behind them and crime on the streets great i don't know anybody who's done that kind

00:23:38.360 of damage and that's the damage that they're doing right now oh and they're saying they're actually

00:23:43.280 saying this uh it's a mostly peaceful uh protest behind me pay no attention to the cars or the bullets

00:23:50.020 because it's very very safe out here uh you know what we care about is we care about redistricting

00:23:56.420 because we know that we know that's exactly where the people are redistricting well no guess again

00:24:04.220 so uh this is interesting guys it was 2023 was the conservative i mean pushback on all of the

00:24:12.960 kind of craziness going on at target and that did seem to lead to a dip in the stock price but it

00:24:18.380 recovered yeah 2020 so they there was a new boycott by the left a 40-day boycott that they started in

00:24:27.840 march it looks like um to try because they were upset that they got rid of the dei this is your i

00:24:35.300 mean your your summary of this is so apt because it's just like don't get involved in this stuff

00:24:39.640 just freaking sell things stay out game just make stuff and sell it just leave it alone like leave it

00:24:45.920 because i mean it is hard i do i see you know we've had so many of these controversies over the

00:24:52.060 years and you do see how hard it must be as a company to deal with this nonsense because you get

00:24:59.400 targeted you know these things happen to you and if you're not an ideological thank you company

00:25:05.280 that has a belief in something and you're just kind of floating out there and being like trying to

00:25:10.520 react to whatever way the wind is blowing it's got to be really hard to manage you know it's not easy

00:25:15.840 uh to to do that being said that's why you don't get into it right like you got to know that you look

00:25:23.060 you're an american company you reflect american values what your consumers want and then you leave

00:25:28.100 it keep it they keep it nice and simple after that you don't need to make just know who you are

00:25:32.040 you know what nobody is popular nobody have you ever known anybody that everybody really kind of liked

00:25:38.040 after a while if once you figure out oh man they don't believe any of that crap they're just doing

00:25:43.680 that to be in the cool kid camp those people never last those people are not cool you know the people

00:25:49.440 who are cool who know who they are i've said this a million times i think the sexiest thing a woman can

00:25:54.900 do is just know who she is know absolutely who she is and doesn't care doesn't care about what anybody

00:26:02.880 else thinks this is what i am yeah i'm a mom uh-huh i'm a mom i'm a stay-at-home mom if that's what

00:26:09.840 she is great i find that very attractive um and i mean i'm not hitting on stay-at-home mom you know

00:26:18.100 what i mean um but nobody likes nobody likes somebody who is just going with the wind you're a weasel

00:26:25.260 you're a kiss spot that's all you are anyway um did you see the thing on cracker barrel as well

00:26:33.000 while we're here on companies yeah cracker bell changing their logo barrel has changed their logo

00:26:39.260 and did they really i mean they got rid of the guy sitting next to the cracker barrel but other than

00:26:47.120 that it's the same logo i'm pretty sure you know i wouldn't have noticed a difference i would have

00:26:53.360 noticed the guy and the barrel gone but if that was just there i would have liked that no that's

00:27:00.040 not a change they augmented it some they deleted some things in it but oh my gosh this is trending

00:27:05.800 on social media like crazy everybody's like they've sold out they've sold out because they got rid of

00:27:10.760 the barrel really seriously there it is yeah i mean it's a little different maybe the font's a little

00:27:18.520 different uh not there's not much of a difference yeah there's not much of a difference yeah but play

00:27:24.100 play the uh play the uh news report on this honestly the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive that

00:27:32.320 people like what we're doing i'll give you another soundbite i actually happened to be in orlando last

00:27:36.660 week with all of our managers we bring them together and once every other year and the number one

00:27:42.320 question that i got asked michael was how can i get a remodel when can i get a remodel how do i get on

00:27:46.800 the list oh really so because the the feedback and the buzz is so good not only from our customers

00:27:51.680 but from our team members they want to work in a in a wonderful restaurant so we're doing everything

00:27:57.180 for our guests and our team members okay stop this is a lie this is a lie i don't believe anybody

00:28:01.620 i don't believe anybody customers maybe the managers and people who are really really deep into

00:28:07.600 cracker barrel but i don't believe any customer is ever like you know

00:28:11.420 you know i'm just going to ask the manager when are you going to come up with a new logo because

00:28:17.780 i want the t-shirt i mean nobody is doing that nobody is doing that okay so i don't buy that at

00:28:23.820 all um but you know what i think this is you know i think people are maybe if they are if they are

00:28:29.920 upset about the guy sitting next to the barrel the cracker barrel i mean first of all nobody knows

00:28:34.460 what a cracker barrel is anymore but um the guy sitting next to a cracker barrel i think that could

00:28:41.100 be have you gone into a mcdonald's lately that's not mcdonald's it's just not mcdonald's i mean i like

00:28:51.740 it but it's not mcdonald's and you know with everything changing i think there are some people

00:28:57.620 and cracker barrel is one of these things it's nostalgic i mean it's meant to be nostalgic

00:29:03.000 cracker barrels weren't really around when i was a kid um so it's meant to be nostalgic and it

00:29:11.060 the whole thing is nostalgia um and and a lifestyle an american lifestyle and so with cracker barrel i

00:29:20.080 can see people getting upset and going hey wait a minute wait wait wait wait wait let's not change

00:29:24.220 this too let's i can we can we just leave things alone for just a while because everything else in

00:29:30.240 life is changing and i i do believe that maybe cracker barrel is in this this carve out of leave

00:29:37.940 it alone leave it alone um but everything else is becoming did you see the what is the what's the

00:29:46.760 logo now that uh or the is it mcdonald's that is just having the m on the side of the i mean it's

00:29:55.620 very small you seen that yeah a lot of the like that's been i've seen that complaint around too

00:30:00.760 that like you know there was a time where you know all the characters were all over the building

00:30:05.400 and the colors were all over the building and it was this exciting fun place for kids to go and now

00:30:10.220 it's just this sort of like bland minimalist so but you know what that is you know what that is um

00:30:16.840 millennial not millennials um z in particular they do not like brands they don't like corporate

00:30:25.040 brands that that time is over you remember when i mean it wasn't too long ago that if it was a

00:30:31.080 brand i mean do you remember when the ralph lauren polo pony was little and then it became like half of

00:30:37.380 the shirt was polo pony and you're like okay ralph slow down calm down just a little bit um logos were

00:30:45.940 so overdone that uh now youth they don't they don't like that corporate thing they don't like it so

00:30:53.980 i can see that for the youth times are changing you know i've been thinking about this a lot lately we

00:30:59.540 are living in a time that is is as dramatic as it was when the car came in the horse and buggy was

00:31:09.040 gone electricity started uh you know uh refrigeration was there that is the kind of change we're living in

00:31:16.820 and we're the ones who are like you know yeah i used to plow those fields by hand and anybody who

00:31:24.640 doesn't strap it to the back of a horse they don't know what life is that's who we are uh because

00:31:33.280 everything is is changing this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:31:39.100 you know sometimes i really wish that the commercial breaks what's happened during the

00:31:54.100 commercial breaks it would could be heard on the air and then there's days like today that i don't i

00:31:57.920 mean it was a full-fledged cracker barrel brawl i mean it was a mostly peaceful brawl in the way that

00:32:04.880 the cnn you know riots are mostly peaceful it was pretty ugly and we're going to be out of time so

00:32:10.440 we're going to pick that up tomorrow come come for me again with your knife stew i'm on the side of

00:32:17.620 the people cracker barrel anyway uh jack hibbs is with us he's from calvary chapel chino hills he's

00:32:24.940 the founding senior pastor author of called to take a bold stand and he's been doing that for a

00:32:30.720 while now uh he's really been doing that the book comes out next uh next month september 16th

00:32:37.140 um welcome to the program jack how are you glenn thank you and uh thanks for the plug regarding

00:32:44.400 the book i just didn't have any idea that gavin newsom would help me get this book to the front of

00:32:50.040 the line with all the antics in sacramento i know it is it is crazy you have been you know we're just

00:32:57.500 talking to uh chip roy who's now running for texas attorney general he was in congress during covid and

00:33:03.820 guy was a pit bull uh and stew and i were saying you know imagine if he would have been governor

00:33:09.000 when when this was going on you know in california with covid you were probably

00:33:15.420 the one of the major people standing that really made a difference i mean you did that power didn't

00:33:23.480 scare you at all yeah no listen i mean it uh we had to stand glenn and and you know this jesus said i

00:33:31.480 i've set before you an open door that no man can shut he spoke that to the churches in the book of

00:33:37.960 revelation and i frankly i had no authority to shut the doors of the church it's his church

00:33:44.140 and so we just we kept preaching we kept teaching and lo and behold for for well over two years uh we

00:33:51.040 were the the the most populated church for a two-year period of time glenn we were seeing anywhere from

00:33:57.220 13 to 15 000 adults on a sunday morning because people didn't have their churches open so they

00:34:04.280 they came to our church and we were grateful to teach them all right you're you're on today because

00:34:11.000 you said something yesterday that i found astounding it's about something called ab495 i'm gonna have to

00:34:15.940 have you explain that here in a second but uh you went online and you said if this passes and he signs

00:34:21.660 it in you as a californian you have to take your kids and move out of the state that's quite a statement

00:34:30.180 yeah listen it made me sick to say it it's 100 true it's the last thing a pastor wants to say to

00:34:36.900 this congregation but it's that bad as i explained the bill in a moment to you it is that bad and it's

00:34:43.880 not my opinion i've been counseled by legal on how bad it is and so when i said to the congregation

00:34:49.620 yeah if you've got a kid in school you got to get out if newsom does not veto this bill

00:34:54.960 you've got to get your kid out of california for their own safety it's that bad okay so

00:35:02.760 the the left the media is saying no he's making all this up it's not explain what's in the bill and

00:35:08.840 let me play pushback on a couple of places yeah absolutely um so number one it's assembly bill

00:35:16.140 495 and here's the deal it's known as the compassion bill it's a bill that celeste rodriguez

00:35:23.420 and the entire democrat legislature of california crafted and now these are my words my these words

00:35:30.580 are my own back the next words it's a bill designed to stop the bad orange man because it's all about

00:35:39.800 ice and its operations in california and here it is if an illegal alien is is abducted by ice

00:35:48.720 and their child is in a in a state school or a private school or even a daycare center

00:35:56.240 then this bill would allow an individual listen any individual can go to the website print out the

00:36:05.880 affidavit from their home they're going to be asked a question did you attempt to reach the parents or

00:36:13.000 the custodians or guardians of this child yes or no whatever they check then they sign their name

00:36:21.200 they write their name no address is required there's no driver's license required there is

00:36:28.580 no social security number required there's no there's no phone number required the person checks

00:36:33.720 the box signs the name and then writes down the child's name that they are uh withdrawing from the

00:36:39.960 school for the child's own safety under the whole ruse that their parents or parent was captured by

00:36:48.220 ice here's the crazy thing beck glenn is that in california the the california education code we

00:36:57.800 already have this it's it's california education code 234.7 in the event of a child not being able

00:37:04.180 to be picked up or taken into the care of a family member be it by accident by death whatever

00:37:09.900 we already have this law so the reason we are freaking out about this law and making it loud

00:37:16.080 is the fact that who is that person who downloads and prints out that affidavit it can be anybody

00:37:23.140 they the bill literally states they don't have to be a relation it can be anyone who's possessing

00:37:29.880 this affidavit that is downloadable and printable at your own home so theoretically glenn somebody could

00:37:37.280 be um down the street from your grandkids or from your children and they can see that you go to work at a

00:37:43.660 certain time of day they know that your kid goes to a certain school they can go to that school with

00:37:49.640 that affidavit extract your child out here's the punch line because it's an affidavit the school

00:37:56.560 cannot refuse the requester of that child when you glenn go back to pick up your child at the end of the

00:38:04.220 day the school is under no obligation to tell you who it was or where they went and that's why we've got

00:38:12.380 and i'm not going to name the names yet but we've got great legal minds that are nationally recognized

00:38:17.320 that have reviewed this bill and glenn this is so important they said in almost everything we do the

00:38:24.240 devil is in the details the fine print they said not this one this let this this bill is so vague

00:38:32.060 that it would be hard to defend uh a parent trying to get their child to find their child because it is

00:38:39.840 so loosely and so broadly written so vague and glenn we've been told that is the worst thing that you

00:38:46.020 can have happen in california's government because our legal system the judges you name it it is a

00:38:52.140 dangerous bill assembly bill four nine five

00:38:55.060 how well do people in california know this bill

00:39:02.300 well i gotta tell you tuesday we called an impromptu rally at the state capitol and we had

00:39:09.860 6500 plus people show up so the sergeant of arms told us that's the largest gathering regarding

00:39:17.680 legislation concern in 30 years so yeah good question glenn thank you uh i i'm grateful to to

00:39:27.120 agencies like um newsmax and fox and kfi radio here in los angeles but was cbs there was nbc there

00:39:35.580 no so it's all been grassroots when people are finding out about it and reading about it uh the

00:39:44.640 routing i mean they are getting involved here's the cool thing glenn people showed up they were

00:39:49.680 respectful but they were loud they were smiling but they they made their point we had a series of

00:39:55.740 of speakers uh attorneys and lawmakers and bottom line is this the bill has now been placed in

00:40:02.480 suspension which means uh they they pulled it from its progress they're going to reconsider the bill

00:40:09.180 doesn't mean they're stopping it they're reconsidering the bill they're going to review the bill it could

00:40:14.660 either die in suspension it by august 29th it will either die in suspension or they'll advance it to

00:40:21.460 the senate and then the senate will rubber stamp it because they're all democrats i'm sorry if i'm

00:40:26.120 offending any of your listeners right now california is a democrat stronghold they have a super majority

00:40:33.100 they don't even put things to our vote anymore it's no longer we the people in california they rubber

00:40:38.780 stamp things through they get it to newsom and here's what i'm concerned about i hope it dies in

00:40:43.800 in in suspension glenn for this reason they're getting so much heat we've had four democrat

00:40:51.140 senators tell us this publicity that crowd on tuesday is killing us hey that's good news but i don't want

00:41:01.060 it to go to newsom's desk because you know what that slide dog will do he may veto it and then come

00:41:07.780 out and say see how big of a moderate i am i put this bad bill away so vote for me in 2028 glenn we're

00:41:14.760 going to make sure that the democrats of california and newsom at the front of the line wears the

00:41:20.260 scarlet letters of ab495 what are your plans now in the next two weeks next two weeks we got people

00:41:30.220 praying we've got a website called real impact.us please everybody go to it you can get

00:41:37.740 your marching orders there real impact.us it's going to show you the progress of the bill it's

00:41:43.860 going to show you who to call what state senator is your state senator give them a call tell them

00:41:49.680 oppose it kill it we are we we just didn't rally glenn we gave people that day after the public

00:41:58.320 speakers we then immediately held a 30-minute class at the at the state capitol steps this is where

00:42:06.200 you go to your legislator this is how you lobby them and let's go and hundreds and hundreds of

00:42:13.240 people went to their state legislator on tuesday and demanded that their senator and their assembly

00:42:20.040 person speak up against the bill it was absolutely epic again largest crowd in 30 years at the

00:42:26.700 california state capitol well jack thank you for everything that you're doing i i can't imagine what

00:42:36.240 it's like to live in california where it seems like every day they're doing something else to injure

00:42:42.440 the people and the families of california it's why i live in texas i'm moving to florida i'd live in

00:42:49.520 either one of those states but man i could never live in california and i've always wanted to live in

00:42:53.960 california it was a beautiful beautiful state um and now it's just it's it's an insane asylum

00:43:00.760 yeah glenn it is and you know in fact just flying up there you you know the state well flying up there

00:43:07.520 uh so we we left john wayne airport absolutely gorgeous we flew up the central valley incredible

00:43:14.240 crop fields growing beautiful i could see half dome and el capitan to my right we could see the fog along

00:43:20.680 the california coastline to the left coming into sacramento again everything's beautiful growing

00:43:26.380 fantastic until you get close enough to the ground to see the devastation that newsom has allowed to

00:43:33.120 happen to our cities to our towns and even though we're still growing crops in california that is in

00:43:39.460 spite of his wickedness to cut off water to our growers to make life here as miserable as possible

00:43:46.120 and this guy wants to run for president people need to wake up glenn nationally and rally with us

00:43:53.260 because if you don't like california people you need to help us because newsom is coming for america

00:44:00.500 and he's the worst possible thing but glenn i'm concerned because he's tall dark and handsome so to

00:44:06.240 speak right he's got the hair he's got the voice he sounds like batman he's cool looking until you

00:44:12.600 listen to his policies the guy's diabolical and we must stop this advancement of wickedness

00:44:18.100 i will tell you i don't think the rest of america is falling for him but then again

00:44:23.400 then again i didn't think that he could have a social socialist and islamist uh run and win in

00:44:28.540 new york so what do i know jack thank you so much again everything that you do um you can go to

00:44:33.920 jack hibbs.com what is the what is the other website you just gave me yeah real impact like like real

00:44:40.920 reality real impact like a punch impact.us real impact.us thank you very much jack appreciate it

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