The Glenn Beck Program - September 29, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Matt Walsh, Paul Merski, & Tulsi Gabbard ｜ 9⧸29⧸21


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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!

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00:00:00.540 Why does anybody believe anybody on TV or in the White House or in Congress?
00:00:06.840 It's beyond me.
00:00:08.280 We 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.
00:00:19.360 They never gave that advice.
00:00:21.080 What does it mean?
00:00:22.580 Who's going to pay for anything anymore?
00:00:24.960 We talked to Marshall Blackburn about that towards the beginning of today's podcast.
00:00:31.380 Also, 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.
00:00:53.320 Oh, OK.
00:00:56.140 Also, some banking information that you really need to understand.
00:01:00.780 And Tulsi Gabbard talks about the border and so much more all on today's podcast.
00:01:14.740 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:18.800 Here's what the guy who wants to be governor of Virginia said about schools and parents last night.
00:01:29.680 You believe school systems should tell children what to do.
00:01:32.820 I believe parents should be in charge of their kids' education.
00:01:36.200 Mr. McCullough, 30 seconds.
00:01:37.100 So, first of all, this shows how clueless Glenn Youngkin is.
00:01:44.020 He doesn't understand what the laws were because he's never been involved here in helping Virginia.
00:01:48.780 But it was not.
00:01:49.880 The parents had to write to veto bills, veto books, Glenn, not to be knowledge about it, also take them off the shelves.
00:01:56.700 And I'm not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision.
00:02:01.560 So, yeah, I've stopped the bill that I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.
00:02:09.800 Wow.
00:02:10.840 Wow.
00:02:11.680 So, I've been talking about, you know, cowboy, being a cowboy.
00:02:16.220 And a cowboy is just let your yes be yes, your no be no.
00:02:19.740 That's hard to do in today's world because everybody else changes what they said.
00:02:24.440 For instance, Loudoun County changed a rule because Matt Walsh said, I'm going to come and speak at that school board meeting.
00:02:35.000 And Loudoun County changed the rule so he couldn't and said, no, no, no, you have to live here.
00:02:42.320 You have to have at least a lease of a house and you have to present that.
00:02:46.640 So, Matt went and found a workaround and he went and got a lease and he signed a lease on a house so he could speak at the school board.
00:02:55.640 And then they only allowed 60 seconds for people to speak.
00:02:58.920 Here's what he said last night.
00:03:00.440 Listen.
00:03:01.120 I would thank you all for allowing me to speak to you tonight, but you tried not to allow it.
00:03:04.340 Yet here I am.
00:03:05.040 Now, you only give us 60 seconds.
00:03:06.240 So, let me get to the point.
00:03:07.180 You are all child abusers.
00:03:08.960 You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult,
00:03:13.040 a cult which holds many fanatical views, but none so deranged as the idea that boys are girls and girls are boys.
00:03:18.640 By imposing this vile nonsense on students to the point even of forcing young girls to share locker rooms with boys,
00:03:24.160 you deprive these kids of safety and privacy and something more fundamental, too, which is truth.
00:03:28.740 If education is not grounded in truth, then it is worthless.
00:03:31.920 Worse, it is poison.
00:03:33.360 You are poison.
00:03:34.420 You are predators.
00:03:35.880 I can see why you try to stop us from speaking.
00:03:37.620 You know that your ideas are indefensible.
00:03:39.740 You silence the opposing side because you have no argument.
00:03:42.080 You can only hide under your beds like pathetic little gutless cowards hoping we shut up and go away.
00:03:48.380 But we won't.
00:03:49.420 I promise you that.
00:03:51.040 Thank you for your time, and I'll talk to you again very, very soon.
00:03:54.400 Matt Walsh is here to talk about what he felt last night at the meeting.
00:03:58.840 Hi, Matt.
00:03:59.220 How are you?
00:04:00.600 Hey, Glenn.
00:04:01.260 Doing well.
00:04:02.280 So, tell me about last night.
00:04:06.340 Yeah, well, we had a rally outside the building to begin with,
00:04:09.740 and there's just a great turnout, a lot of energy there, and this is happening, of course, not just in Loudoun County.
00:04:15.700 This is happening all across the country.
00:04:17.060 I think parents are waking up to the fact that we cannot, at this point, what Terry McAuliffe says,
00:04:21.680 we cannot just cede the next generation over to the state and let them decide what values our kids are told,
00:04:29.500 what ideas are going to be in their heads, what kind of people they're going to be.
00:04:31.960 So, I think this is kind of an awakening that's happening.
00:04:34.420 I do think it's kind of a larger movement, and that's what we saw yesterday in Loudoun County.
00:04:40.420 And it was, you know, I thought lining up to go speak, this is supposed to be a public school board meeting for the public,
00:04:47.180 and you hear the word public, and you think, well, the public can come and just have their voices heard
00:04:51.560 and at least sit in the room and listen to what's being said, but they keep everybody outside.
00:04:58.620 No one's allowed to go inside the building.
00:05:00.260 They even keep most of the media outside.
00:05:02.800 They let a few cameras in, and they make everyone line up outside.
00:05:06.420 You've got to provide your proof of residency, show your ID, and you've got to take everything out of your pocket.
00:05:11.160 They do like a TSA-style screening.
00:05:13.540 So, this is already, I mean, if they did this outside of a voting booth,
00:05:16.040 of course, we would be hearing the cries of racism, the kingdom come, but it's, you know,
00:05:21.380 so to talk, to speak at a public school board meeting, it has to be more secure than voting in a state.
00:05:28.440 And they make you wear the mask, and if my voice sounded muffled there, it's because they make you wear the mask,
00:05:33.480 and you line up on it, you know, they give you these little dots you line up on,
00:05:36.940 and you wait for your turn to go before the Royal Highnesses on the school board,
00:05:40.340 and they give you exactly 60 seconds, and at 60 seconds, they cut the mic, and that's all you have.
00:05:44.760 And the irony is that before I came, they accused me of being an outside agitator,
00:05:48.880 and they said, well, we don't want him and outside agitators, because we just want to hear from the parents.
00:05:52.840 We want to hear community members.
00:05:54.640 Oh, you want to hear from community members and parents?
00:05:56.440 That's why you give them 60 seconds and you cut the mic?
00:05:59.300 I can tell you, I speak for a living.
00:06:01.260 It's very difficult to say anything worthwhile in 60 seconds, and unless you do this for a living.
00:06:08.580 Right.
00:06:10.520 But people go to speak at school board meetings.
00:06:12.660 These are not trained professional speakers.
00:06:14.840 These are just parents who have questions and have concerns that they want to voice,
00:06:18.740 and I'm just listening to this absurdity of one parent after another getting up there.
00:06:22.620 They can barely get one thought out, and then they're just cut off and sent out of the room.
00:06:27.260 I thought it was disgusting, honestly.
00:06:29.560 I've never seen anything like it.
00:06:30.780 So what do you think is going to happen?
00:06:33.080 I mean, I certainly think in Loudoun County, that school board is going to have some problems come next election day for them.
00:06:43.120 Which is when?
00:06:43.840 Which is coming up in November, I believe.
00:06:48.040 Okay.
00:06:49.740 But 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.
00:06:57.800 Because the people in this school board and so many school boards across the country, just as we heard in the clip from Terry McAuliffe,
00:07:03.560 they really just believe that they know better than we do about what our kids should be taught and what values our kids should hold.
00:07:11.060 And so they think that they have the moral high ground in silencing parents and saying,
00:07:18.120 shut up and go away, because we know what your kids need. 1.00
00:07:21.820 And 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.
00:07:27.800 That's one of the things Loudoun County thinks kids really need.
00:07:30.140 It's disgusting.
00:07:31.880 So, Matt, what was the crowd like outside?
00:07:36.900 Were there people that were not, you know, might have been even Biden supporters, you know, and voted for Biden?
00:07:47.280 Or is this Republican, Democrat?
00:07:50.700 Or are you seeing this grow beyond the partisan debate?
00:07:55.540 I mean, I really haven't.
00:07:57.600 I've been at a few of these school board meetings in different states over different issues.
00:08:01.940 You know, in Tennessee, it was over the mask issue.
00:08:04.100 And I've talked to a lot of people at these events and outside of the events, too, as I know you obviously have.
00:08:10.520 And what I have noticed is, yeah, I mean, there's a very this is at the core.
00:08:14.560 The people that I think are organizing these things and keeping it moving, I think, are tend to be conservative, tend to have those values.
00:08:20.900 But 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.
00:08:34.580 And that's the case with with the masking issue.
00:08:36.600 It'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.
00:08:43.560 And how do you think Terry McAuliffe's words are going to play in the election?
00:08:50.880 I hope they play very poorly.
00:08:52.900 I 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,
00:08:59.120 I have to assume that you believe yourself to be a competent person who should have some say in what your own kids are taught.
00:09:05.620 But 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.
00:09:12.880 I'm an idiot.
00:09:13.600 Just, yeah, let the state do it.
00:09:15.620 I think that if the state agrees with you or you agree with the state, it's so much easier just to go.
00:09:22.460 Yeah, well, I mean, they're not doing anything crazy.
00:09:26.680 Yeah, it's true.
00:09:27.440 It's true.
00:09:27.880 If they're if they're enforcing what you believe, but you still but you're still you still consider yourself.
00:09:32.900 You still want the state to align with your values.
00:09:34.960 Is 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.
00:09:44.640 And but so I would think that that's not going to play well, which is why you could tell when he said it.
00:09:49.660 He made that comment about parents shouldn't tell teachers what to teach.
00:09:53.420 And then he quickly moved on.
00:09:55.580 You 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.
00:10:02.900 So I don't think it's going to play well.
00:10:04.300 All right.
00:10:05.000 Matt Walsh.
00:10:05.580 Thank you so much.
00:10:06.380 Host of the Matt.
00:10:06.960 Wait, wait, wait.
00:10:07.520 Before we let Matt go, I have to know how long the lease he signed was for.
00:10:12.300 You actually did sign a lease for a house, Matt.
00:10:15.360 Yeah, I did sign a lease for a house and it was for a dollar.
00:10:19.200 I got a very competitive for a dollar.
00:10:20.940 I splurged a little bit more than I wanted to spend for for a woman's basement in the in town there. 0.99
00:10:26.660 And I haven't really decided yet how long I'm going to.
00:10:28.880 Well, I haven't.
00:10:29.340 First of all, I haven't told my family yet that we got to move into a woman's basement. 0.99
00:10:34.720 All right.
00:10:36.360 Matt Walsh.
00:10:36.900 Thank you so much from the Daily Wire.
00:10:39.000 You can also follow him on YouTube.
00:10:41.520 YouTube dot com slash Matt Walsh.
00:10:44.580 Daily Wire is doing some really great things.
00:10:46.340 I encourage you to become a member of the blaze, but I also encourage you to become a member of Daily Wire.
00:10:51.500 They have a very, very important set of voices over there.
00:10:56.540 So look, he followed the rules.
00:10:58.340 He got did.
00:10:59.300 He's a resident of Virginia.
00:11:01.400 I loved his tweet.
00:11:02.500 How do you do, fellow Virginians?
00:11:04.980 And that's how you that's how you introduce yourself to a community.
00:11:12.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:11:24.600 Paul Merckx.
00:11:25.600 He is with the Independent Community Bankers of America.
00:11:30.300 And 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.
00:11:51.620 Welcome.
00:11:52.320 How are you, sir?
00:11:53.840 Great.
00:11:54.520 Thanks for having me on.
00:11:55.540 So, Paul, tell me what the government is doing and why it's important to stand up against it.
00:12:02.500 Well, a lot of people really have a hard time keeping up with what's going on here inside the beltway in Washington, D.C.
00:12:09.940 And we're sounding the alarm bells on this crazy, onerous proposal from the Biden administration, the Treasury.
00:12:19.140 And now Congress is implementing this to have banks, every bank in America and credit union report on people's financial transactions.
00:12:29.900 They 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.
00:12:48.240 And, you know, they may adjust that amount, but they're measuring flows.
00:12:52.840 This is a massive invasion of privacy that we've never seen before.
00:12:58.640 Financial privacy will go right out the window with this new IRS sleuthing and snooping on everyone's financial accounts.
00:13:08.460 I hope they're basically.
00:13:10.020 Go ahead.
00:13:10.740 Go ahead.
00:13:11.020 What 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.
00:13:20.800 And this applies to small businesses as well.
00:13:24.840 So I, I, you know, as I look at this, I hope this isn't what America is going to say.
00:13:33.380 But in the past, America has always said about things like this.
00:13:36.480 Well, I'm not doing anything wrong.
00:13:38.020 Why should I care?
00:13:41.020 Well, that that's a problem because this doesn't matter what your tax liability, what your situation is.
00:13:49.680 This is really going against your Fourth Amendment rights to privacy and the way the government and IRS is getting around that.
00:13:57.700 They they can't demand this information directly from you against the Fourth Amendment, but they can get it from third parties like banks.
00:14:06.100 We've seen this with, you know, going to phone companies to get your your phone records, which they can't get from you directly.
00:14:14.340 So this is this has got to be stopped.
00:14:17.700 The leadership in Congress is trying to sneak this in the three point five trillion dollar.
00:14:23.960 Is it is it in the reconciliation bill?
00:14:26.340 Absolutely. And we've got to alert Americans and customers of banks that, you know, this new invasion of privacy is about to take hold.
00:14:39.800 And, 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.
00:14:48.920 There's been plenty of IRS leaks.
00:14:51.920 There's been political profiling of people based on their tax returns.
00:14:57.440 You can't trust the IRS with this massive amount of data on every single American.
00:15:04.100 And plus, you have the risk of of a data breach, the IRS being hacked and all your personal transaction information is there.
00:15:11.820 It's a crazy proposal.
00:15:13.320 It's got to be stopped in its tracks.
00:15:15.280 And, you know, we're afraid that, you know, people aren't watching what's in this three point five trillion dollar budget deal.
00:15:23.200 And these are the kind of things that will come back to haunt us.
00:15:25.880 So 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.
00:15:50.920 Well, as we've seen, the IRS has a very poor track record of keeping people's information private.
00:15:58.960 There 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.
00:16:12.540 And really, Americans won't tolerate this profiling of individuals based on their financial transactions.
00:16:21.360 The IRS and the government have no business snooping on people's financial transactions.
00:16:27.700 This is this is the worst type of profiling, you know, stop and frisk people.
00:16:32.580 It's going to lead to more audits.
00:16:34.760 It's going to lead to, you know, the IRS being tripped up with a lot of false positives.
00:16:40.200 I mean, people have various bank accounts and move money around for all kinds of reasons.
00:16:45.100 Some people are taking care of their elderly parents and, you know, use their account.
00:16:49.940 And it's just going to be a dragnet of collecting people's private financial information and turning it over to the government.
00:16:58.200 And then you have to answer for it.
00:17:00.280 If they see anything they don't understand, then you have to.
00:17:03.620 Not only do you have to answer for all the receipts and everything else,
00:17:05.940 you're now going to have to answer for possibly spending that they don't understand or moving things from different accounts.
00:17:14.580 Well, absolutely.
00:17:15.820 And the IRS is is extremely powerful.
00:17:19.000 They could freeze your bank account.
00:17:20.660 They could garnish your bank account.
00:17:22.940 They could demand that the bank send in even more detailed information on your financial transactions.
00:17:30.640 It's amazing already what the banks have to provide to the IRS.
00:17:37.060 Any transaction now over 10,000 has to be reported to the IRS in a currency transaction report.
00:17:44.480 Any suspicious activities, the bank has to legally report to the government, to the IRS.
00:17:51.480 So we don't need this blanket dragnet of sleuthing on every American on their financial transactions.
00:17:59.980 And 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.
00:18:12.380 You're going to push more people out of the banking system that don't don't trust government.
00:18:18.100 So let me ask you one more question.
00:18:21.340 The big banks are for this.
00:18:25.020 And I think the big banks now are kind of in a public private partnership with the Fed and the United States government.
00:18:30.720 But the big banks are for this.
00:18:33.560 This doesn't this cripple small local banks because of just the reporting on all of this will be just so onerous on you guys, wouldn't it?
00:18:45.220 Well, absolutely.
00:18:46.260 It'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.
00:18:58.020 It's preposterous.
00:18:59.420 But, you know, the federal government doesn't care.
00:19:02.180 The Treasury doesn't care.
00:19:04.160 The administration doesn't care.
00:19:05.660 They just want to get after people's money.
00:19:08.220 They want to get after, you know, stopping and frisking people and looking at what they're doing with their financial accounts, profiling them.
00:19:16.900 This is the worst type of policy I've seen in a long time here in Washington.
00:19:21.480 And people have to weigh in.
00:19:23.160 People have to speak up and get to their congressmen and senators and say, we're not going to tolerate this new IRS reporting.
00:19:31.220 And you can do that via banklocally.org slash privacy.
00:19:36.980 You can send a member of Congress your message, banklocally.org slash privacy.
00:19:43.940 Paul, I've been saying for a while that people should get out of these big banks.
00:19:48.000 I myself do business with a bank and it's owned locally.
00:19:53.220 It keeps all of its loans locally.
00:19:56.160 It doesn't sell them off.
00:19:58.340 It is truly stand on the community's own.
00:20:03.140 You know what I mean?
00:20:04.440 If people want to get out of a bank, they ask me all the time, what do I look for?
00:20:09.120 And I just say local, as local as you can possibly get.
00:20:13.020 Can you give the audience some tips on what to look for in a local bank that keeps them out of this mess?
00:20:20.440 Well, you hit on the key points is that the local bank only does well if the local community does well.
00:20:28.940 The money that's deposited in a local bank is turned around and used to lend out to the local community.
00:20:37.740 So it's all part of a symbiotic relationship to keep that small community healthy.
00:20:43.780 And you can go to banklocally.com and look up a local bank and find one.
00:20:51.520 You know, we have 5,000 community banks located around the country.
00:20:56.480 We're in rural areas and urban areas.
00:21:00.000 And it's important to have that personal relationship with your local bank.
00:21:05.860 They're there to help you.
00:21:06.740 We did, you know, a trillion dollars worth of PPP lending, the Paycheck Protection Program, to help keep businesses afloat.
00:21:17.640 So our banks do over half of all the small business lending in the country.
00:21:24.700 So if you need a local bank, go to banklocally.com and you'll find a local bank you could join up with.
00:21:33.820 Paul, thank you very much.
00:21:34.780 I appreciate it.
00:21:35.480 Paul Mursky, he's Independent Community Bankers of America.
00:21:39.760 It is vital that you speak out against this $600 rule that is being put in.
00:21:48.540 It will weaponize the IRS.
00:21:51.840 It will come back to haunt you.
00:21:53.700 I don't care if you're not doing anything wrong or not.
00:21:56.420 It will come back to haunt each and every one of us.
00:21:59.760 It's a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
00:22:01.900 You have to stand up against it.
00:22:03.540 You 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.
00:22:15.440 It's got to be stopped.
00:22:17.240 It will also really hurt your local bank.
00:22:20.120 And that's where you should have your money.
00:22:22.940 I urge you to put your money into a local bank.
00:22:27.020 Get it out of these banks that are all worried about ESG and their global equity and their partnership with the governments around the world.
00:22:38.140 Get into a local bank.
00:22:40.140 Local, local, local is the answer to protect yourself.
00:22:48.900 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:22:51.780 The open border policies are a threat to all Americans and all American cities.
00:23:04.740 And you need to be aware of how this is going to affect you.
00:23:07.540 That doesn't just come from me.
00:23:09.160 That came from Barack Obama yesterday that this has to stop.
00:23:14.420 Will it?
00:23:15.140 I don't know, because I don't know what the goals of this administration are.
00:23:18.740 I can't figure out the metrics they're using to measure success anymore.
00:23:24.380 Tulsi Gabbard is joining us.
00:23:26.420 She is the first female combat veteran to ever run for president and the first female combat veteran ever elected to Congress.
00:23:33.360 And we welcome her to the Glenn Beck program.
00:23:36.560 Hi, Tulsi.
00:23:37.000 How are you?
00:23:37.940 Aloha, Glenn.
00:23:38.880 I'm good.
00:23:39.340 It's good to talk to you.
00:23:40.340 Good to talk to you.
00:23:41.560 Um, I've been, I've been wanting to talk to you about so many things, uh, lately.
00:23:46.260 There's a lot going on.
00:23:47.200 Yeah.
00:23:47.420 Let's start with the, uh, let's just start with the border.
00:23:49.960 Your thoughts on this.
00:23:52.600 Uh, 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.
00:24:05.420 It needs to end and it is a direct cause for the humanitarian and national security crisis, um, that we've been seeing play out.
00:24:14.240 Uh, 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.
00:24:29.100 Uh, 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.
00:24:44.540 Hey, yeah, we're going to have an open door policy.
00:24:47.120 We'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.
00:25:03.400 Now 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.
00:25:20.680 And this is, this is the hypocrisy of this policy is, you know, for people who want to fly into our country, right. 0.74
00:25:26.920 You've got to have a visa. 0.99
00:25:27.920 Uh, there are no fly lists that their names are checked against.
00:25:31.460 And, 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.
00:25:38.000 Um, 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.
00:25:48.600 Come right across.
00:25:49.340 Tulsi, I, I, I, I don't know how, I don't know how this administration is judging things anymore.
00:25:56.400 Every, every, everything that is supposedly good for America seems bad for us.
00:26:01.460 The good guys are the bad guys.
00:26:04.020 I mean, we're, we're now saying that the Taliban are our partners, which is absolutely, um, obscene.
00:26:10.740 The border patrol has been accused of whipping people.
00:26:14.300 And when it comes out that that's not what was happening, the president still went on and said, there's going to be a high price.
00:26:21.480 It's not going to stand.
00:26:22.440 Those people will pay.
00:26:23.560 My gosh, what is happening?
00:26:25.680 This goes to the core problem here, Glenn, of, of, uh, leadership.
00:26:32.740 And I've, I've known Joe Biden for a long time.
00:26:35.320 I consider him a friend and it, it, uh, the, the reality though is, is what he's doing here, uh, is wrong.
00:26:43.220 And 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.
00:26:52.720 Whether you're talking about this absolute tragic failure of a, uh, execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:26:59.580 But 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.
00:27:04.740 Yes.
00:27:05.060 But the way that they have carried this out, um, you know, it is, it's, it's a betrayal to our men and women who serve there.
00:27:14.160 It's a betrayal to those who worked with them.
00:27:16.120 It's been an abject failure.
00:27:17.600 You look at what's happening.
00:27:18.440 Everybody.
00:27:19.480 Abject failure.
00:27:20.200 You 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.
00:27:29.300 I 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.
00:27:49.940 Tulsi, 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.
00:27:59.300 But we respect each other, that we know that each of us are trying to do the right thing for America.
00:28:05.820 Um, 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.
00:28:15.780 He, we're moving, uh, we're moving, uh, against the constitution.
00:28:19.260 We'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.
00:28:37.620 Uh, 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.
00:29:01.600 And 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.
00:29:17.960 And 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.
00:29:30.280 I 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?
00:29:42.240 It's his right to make the decision in Afghanistan.
00:29:45.180 Um, but I, I, what, what's the motive here?
00:29:48.760 And if I, if just looking at this, this is not incompetence.
00:29:53.580 It can't be because if it was incompetence once in a while, something would fall in America's favor or in freedom's favor.
00:30:01.080 Um, this is just, um, the, the, the most comprehensive destructive policies that I've, I've ever witnessed.
00:30:12.240 Can you come up with a reason that's not nefarious that all these things are happening?
00:30:19.460 Uh, 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.
00:30:34.420 And 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?
00:30:41.560 What are we trying to accomplish?
00:30:43.420 And then you can figure out what's the best way to accomplish and to achieve that objective.
00:30:49.160 But I, I just, I think that they have a different objective than America does.
00:30:56.320 Well, and that's the problem.
00:30:57.820 That's the problem here.
00:30:58.780 When, 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.
00:31:16.020 You 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.
00:31:28.200 Uh, 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.
00:31:41.560 And, 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.
00:31:59.340 Uh, and this is, this is part of the problem.
00:32:01.540 If 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.
00:32:09.180 Um, but if I'm, I'm still a Democrat.
00:32:11.560 I'm still a Democrat.
00:32:12.440 Okay.
00:32:13.060 So 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?
00:32:28.220 Take 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.
00:32:40.580 Uh, on their merits and pass them accordingly.
00:32:45.140 Uh, you know, when there, and there, there are some, there are some good provisions in that bill that I would agree with.
00:32:50.640 And 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.
00:32:58.760 When all they're given is it's all or nothing.
00:33:01.880 And 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.
00:33:14.820 So 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.
00:33:21.780 And, uh, and, and just the cost and consequence of, of taking this approach is, is too great.
00:33:27.640 Is it going to pass?
00:33:28.700 I 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.
00:33:51.300 So, um, we'll see Tulsi Gabbard.
00:33:55.180 Thank you.
00:33:55.780 It's always a pleasure to have you on.
00:33:57.160 I wish we could have you on more.
00:33:58.560 You 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.
00:34:08.820 We can, we can still walk away friends.
00:34:11.280 Tulsi.
00:34:11.540 Thank you so much.
00:34:12.900 Thank you, Glenn.
00:34:13.740 Talk to you soon.
00:34:14.420 Bye-bye.