Glenn Beck and Matt Walsh discuss the Virginia School Board of Trustees decision to allow Glenn Youngkin to speak at a Loudoun County School Board meeting. Also, Tulsi Gabbard talks about the border and so much more!
00:00:08.280We start the podcast with the White House confirming that Biden turned down the general's advice to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, even though he just said that never happened.
00:00:22.580Who's going to pay for anything anymore?
00:00:24.960We talked to Marshall Blackburn about that towards the beginning of today's podcast.
00:00:31.380Also, we have Matt Walsh on who gave a blistering 60 second takedown in Virginia at the school board meeting where the guy running for governor just came out last night and said, hey, I'm not going to have parents tell the schools what they can and can't teach.
00:06:49.740But until then, they've made it pretty clear that they just don't care what our opinions are, whether we live in Loudoun County or not.
00:06:57.800Because the people in this school board and so many school boards across the country, just as we heard in the clip from Terry McAuliffe,
00:07:03.560they really just believe that they know better than we do about what our kids should be taught and what values our kids should hold.
00:07:11.060And so they think that they have the moral high ground in silencing parents and saying,
00:07:18.120shut up and go away, because we know what your kids need.
00:07:21.820And in Loudoun County, they think that what the kids need, what little girls need, is for boys to be in a locker room with them watching them undressed.
00:07:27.800That's one of the things Loudoun County thinks kids really need.
00:07:57.600I've been at a few of these school board meetings in different states over different issues.
00:08:01.940You know, in Tennessee, it was over the mask issue.
00:08:04.100And I've talked to a lot of people at these events and outside of the events, too, as I know you obviously have.
00:08:10.520And what I have noticed is, yeah, I mean, there's a very this is at the core.
00:08:14.560The people that I think are organizing these things and keeping it moving, I think, are tend to be conservative, tend to have those values.
00:08:20.900But I've talked to lots of people who are not ideologically right wing at all, but they see what's going on and they are they're disgusted by it and they're terrified that kids are being being subjected to this.
00:08:34.580And that's the case with with the masking issue.
00:08:36.600It's also the case with critical race theory and also gender theory, which I think is even more damaging theory that's being injected into our schools.
00:08:43.560And how do you think Terry McAuliffe's words are going to play in the election?
00:08:52.900I mean, I have to assume that even if you're even if you're on the left and you're a parent and you send your kid to public school,
00:08:59.120I have to assume that you believe yourself to be a competent person who should have some say in what your own kids are taught.
00:09:05.620But I mean, I don't matter what you think politically, I can't believe that there are very many parents who say to themselves who say, oh, no, no, I don't want to have any say at all.
00:09:27.880If they're if they're enforcing what you believe, but you still but you're still you still consider yourself.
00:09:32.900You still want the state to align with your values.
00:09:34.960Is it so you're not I would I would have to assume maybe I'm being too optimistic that you that you still wouldn't want to just see that surrender that to the state completely.
00:09:44.640And but so I would think that that's not going to play well, which is why you could tell when he said it.
00:09:49.660He made that comment about parents shouldn't tell teachers what to teach.
00:09:55.580You could tell he he noticed what he said and he quickly moved on from there to talking about how teachers are heroes and all this kind of stuff.
00:10:02.900So I don't think it's going to play well.
00:11:25.600He is with the Independent Community Bankers of America.
00:11:30.300And I wanted to talk to him because there's a lot of independent banks that are now saying you got to stand with us, please stand with your local banks and stop the the IRS and the federal government from from putting this this new onerous restriction on these banks.
00:11:55.540So, Paul, tell me what the government is doing and why it's important to stand up against it.
00:12:02.500Well, a lot of people really have a hard time keeping up with what's going on here inside the beltway in Washington, D.C.
00:12:09.940And we're sounding the alarm bells on this crazy, onerous proposal from the Biden administration, the Treasury.
00:12:19.140And now Congress is implementing this to have banks, every bank in America and credit union report on people's financial transactions.
00:12:29.900They want to know the inflows and outflows of your savings accounts, checking accounts, loans, any money you're moving into and out of accounts would be tabulated and sent into the IRS, any amount of $600 or more.
00:12:48.240And, you know, they may adjust that amount, but they're measuring flows.
00:12:52.840This is a massive invasion of privacy that we've never seen before.
00:12:58.640Financial privacy will go right out the window with this new IRS sleuthing and snooping on everyone's financial accounts.
00:13:11.020What what they're basically saying is that we assume every American is a tax cheat and we're going to watch all your financial transactions.
00:13:20.800And this applies to small businesses as well.
00:13:24.840So I, I, you know, as I look at this, I hope this isn't what America is going to say.
00:13:33.380But in the past, America has always said about things like this.
00:13:41.020Well, that that's a problem because this doesn't matter what your tax liability, what your situation is.
00:13:49.680This is really going against your Fourth Amendment rights to privacy and the way the government and IRS is getting around that.
00:13:57.700They they can't demand this information directly from you against the Fourth Amendment, but they can get it from third parties like banks.
00:14:06.100We've seen this with, you know, going to phone companies to get your your phone records, which they can't get from you directly.
00:14:14.340So this is this has got to be stopped.
00:14:17.700The leadership in Congress is trying to sneak this in the three point five trillion dollar.
00:14:23.960Is it is it in the reconciliation bill?
00:14:26.340Absolutely. And we've got to alert Americans and customers of banks that, you know, this new invasion of privacy is about to take hold.
00:14:39.800And, you know, Glenn, you know, the IRS doesn't have a very good track record of keep keeping people's personal information private as well.
00:15:15.280And, you know, we're afraid that, you know, people aren't watching what's in this three point five trillion dollar budget deal.
00:15:23.200And these are the kind of things that will come back to haunt us.
00:15:25.880So this is this would allow the IRS to have information that if you wrote a thousand dollar, eight hundred or six hundred, six hundred dollar check to the GOP or the DNC, the IRS would then have that information and that you could become on a list if you are donating to people and you're writing a check for it.
00:15:50.920Well, as we've seen, the IRS has a very poor track record of keeping people's information private.
00:15:58.960There is just a big leak with ProPublica on wealthy Americans tax returns was was turned over to the press so the IRS cannot be trusted.
00:16:12.540And really, Americans won't tolerate this profiling of individuals based on their financial transactions.
00:16:21.360The IRS and the government have no business snooping on people's financial transactions.
00:16:27.700This is this is the worst type of profiling, you know, stop and frisk people.
00:17:22.940They could demand that the bank send in even more detailed information on your financial transactions.
00:17:30.640It's amazing already what the banks have to provide to the IRS.
00:17:37.060Any transaction now over 10,000 has to be reported to the IRS in a currency transaction report.
00:17:44.480Any suspicious activities, the bank has to legally report to the government, to the IRS.
00:17:51.480So we don't need this blanket dragnet of sleuthing on every American on their financial transactions.
00:17:59.980And another thing that, you know, is is troubling is that, you know, a lot of people that recently came from, you know, dictatorship type governments don't trust government or the financial system already.
00:18:12.380You're going to push more people out of the banking system that don't don't trust government.
00:18:46.260It's going to be a very burdensome, costly, you know, to implement the computer systems, the monitoring that the personnel you need to keep track of all this.
00:19:05.660They just want to get after people's money.
00:19:08.220They want to get after, you know, stopping and frisking people and looking at what they're doing with their financial accounts, profiling them.
00:19:16.900This is the worst type of policy I've seen in a long time here in Washington.
00:22:03.540You can go to banklocally.org slash privacy and send a message to your member of Congress and the Senate that this must not be in any bill.
00:22:17.240It will also really hurt your local bank.
00:22:20.120And that's where you should have your money.
00:22:22.940I urge you to put your money into a local bank.
00:22:27.020Get it out of these banks that are all worried about ESG and their global equity and their partnership with the governments around the world.
00:23:52.600Uh, look, Glenn, we cannot have a secure country unless we have a secure border and the Biden and Harris administration's open door policy, uh, at the border is a disaster.
00:24:05.420It needs to end and it is a direct cause for the humanitarian and national security crisis, um, that we've been seeing play out.
00:24:14.240Uh, you know, there, there's, there's a direct correlation between the changes in policy that this administration made through executive order very shortly after taking office, uh, and the results that we are seeing.
00:24:29.100Uh, you know, uh, you know, uh, I've, I've heard from some folks saying, well, you know, some people got deported or some people got sent back home, but you've got to pay attention to the fact that through the campaign, uh, the very presidential campaign, there was a very clear message sent.
00:24:44.540Hey, yeah, we're going to have an open door policy.
00:24:47.120We've seen how at a practical level, uh, I think the, the, uh, Department of Homeland Security secretary said, uh, yesterday or the day before that, uh, of all of those, uh, tens of thousands of people who were, uh, under the bridge in Del Rio.
00:25:03.400Now we're seeing, uh, what is anywhere between 10 and 20,000 people who are now, uh, in the United States, uh, with, you know, some vague message of a notice to appear and not knowing where they are or where they've gone and, and, and without any kind of vetting.
00:25:20.680And this is, this is the hypocrisy of this policy is, you know, for people who want to fly into our country, right.
00:25:27.920Uh, there are no fly lists that their names are checked against.
00:25:31.460And, uh, oh, by the way, you also have to get either a COVID vaccine or a COVID test if you're coming from another country.
00:25:38.000Um, but for those who want to bypass all of those requirements, the message that is sent and is loudly received around the world is, hey, just go south of the border.
00:26:25.680This goes to the core problem here, Glenn, of, of, uh, leadership.
00:26:32.740And I've, I've known Joe Biden for a long time.
00:26:35.320I consider him a friend and it, it, uh, the, the reality though is, is what he's doing here, uh, is wrong.
00:26:43.220And on a whole host of issues we're seeing under this Biden Harris administration, that our country is rapidly, rapidly moving, uh, in the wrong direction.
00:26:52.720Whether you're talking about this absolute tragic failure of a, uh, execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:26:59.580But then you, you and I have spoken before, I think the withdrawal is the right thing to do should have happened a long time ago.
00:27:20.200You look at our economy, you look at inflation, uh, in all of these different areas, you know, civil liberties, privacy, these now travel lists with the vaccine mandates.
00:27:29.300I mean, each of these, you can look at and see, uh, sadly, how our, um, constitutional rights are being violated and, uh, constitution is not being upheld, uh, and how we're not, we're not living up to the principles and values that, that, uh, make this country as great as it is.
00:27:49.940Tulsi, I have to tell you the reason why I like you is we may disagree on things and there might be things that you think I believe that are crazy and, and vice versa.
00:27:59.300But we respect each other, that we know that each of us are trying to do the right thing for America.
00:28:05.820Um, and, and I know, I hope, you know, that if Donald Trump were doing all of these things, I'd be on the air saying the guy's a dictator.
00:28:15.780He, we're moving, uh, we're moving, uh, against the constitution.
00:28:19.260We're destroying ourselves economically, uh, and in every other way, are there honest people that, you know, that voted for, for Joe Biden, who are now starting to see this is everything both sides have warned against.
00:28:37.620Uh, of course, and I, and I think there are many more Americans who don't care about left versus right, Democrat versus Republican, but people who care about our country and who are deeply concerned about the direction, uh, that we are headed and who can't make sense of, of the policies, uh, that, that we're seeing being put forward.
00:29:01.600And what this really comes down to is, is sadly people in positions of power in our country who are putting their own political ambition or selfish interest ahead of the interest of our country and the American people.
00:29:17.960And that's what's so heartbreaking is seeing, uh, their willingness to sacrifice the wellbeing of our country, uh, for their own interests rather than the other way around sacrificing their own interests for the interest of the country.
00:29:30.280I was talking to a Senator today and she said, you know, in, in talking to the three generals yesterday, if they're telling the truth, then, then why did Biden make this decision?
00:29:42.240It's his right to make the decision in Afghanistan.
00:29:45.180Um, but I, I, what, what's the motive here?
00:29:48.760And if I, if just looking at this, this is not incompetence.
00:29:53.580It can't be because if it was incompetence once in a while, something would fall in America's favor or in freedom's favor.
00:30:01.080Um, this is just, um, the, the, the most comprehensive destructive policies that I've, I've ever witnessed.
00:30:12.240Can you come up with a reason that's not nefarious that all these things are happening?
00:30:19.460Uh, I, I, you know, it does, it goes, it goes to leadership and it goes to what are our leaders, uh, the Biden Harris administration and leaders across, uh, across our, our national leaders is, is what's your objective.
00:30:34.420And that's how I approach these, these challenges and these problems that we're facing with kind of a military mindset is, Hey, what, what is our objective?
00:30:58.780When, when you see, uh, you know, one thing we haven't mentioned, for example, is when you see how, uh, the policies coming from this administration are further dividing our country through the use of, of race and identity politics, everything is becoming racialized.
00:31:16.020You can't see anything through the lens of, of what Dr. King talked about, you know, judging people on the, the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, looking at issues for what they actually are.
00:31:28.200Uh, and instead you have a, you know, if, if anyone, uh, dares to, uh, criticize the policies or the actions or decisions of, of Kamala Harris, for example, they're accused of, uh, being racist or sexist.
00:31:41.560And, and, and so, so many of these things, we can't even have real dialogue around, um, for fear of, uh, many people are afraid of being canceled or being called these names or being given these attributes and, and, and saying, well, this is, this is who you are and you don't, you don't actually care.
00:31:59.340Uh, and this is, this is part of the problem.
00:32:01.540If you were in Congress today as a Democrat, which you were, um, I'm not sure if you still are, you are an independent, I think.
00:32:13.060So if you are speaking up and trying to bring about these changes, what would you, what would your advice be to the people who are in Congress now looking at this $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
00:32:28.220Take the provisions that are in that bill, break them up, put them forward, each standing on their own and allow the American people and their representatives to debate each of these proposals.
00:32:40.580Uh, on their merits and pass them accordingly.
00:32:45.140Uh, you know, when there, and there, there are some, there are some good provisions in that bill that I would agree with.
00:32:50.640And there are a whole lot that I don't think are worth spending American taxpayer dollars on, but the American taxpayer doesn't really get a choice.
00:32:58.760When all they're given is it's all or nothing.
00:33:01.880And obviously it's a political tactical decision for them to do this, to be able to force down the throats of the American people, this massive $3.5 trillion spending bill that's got everything under the sun in it.
00:33:14.820So they don't get a say, you know, people can vote for or against it saying, well, you know, Hey, I'd like this thing, or I didn't like that thing.
00:33:21.780And, uh, and, and just the cost and consequence of, of taking this approach is, is too great.
00:33:28.700I don't know, Glenn, uh, I, I, I don't, I don't see how they're able to not only find some agreement between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate on this, uh, what to speak of the differences, uh, that, that are playing out between, uh, Democrats themselves, uh, right now, especially, uh, in the house.
00:33:58.560You are full of common sense and, uh, I wish we could get back to a world and we have to get back to a world where we can disagree, but we don't have to be disagreeable.
00:34:08.820We can, we can still walk away friends.