The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Nick Rekieta & Frank Siller ｜ 11⧸11⧸21

00:00:00.000 Great show today. Right out of the box, we talk about Rittenhouse and go over the trial from yesterday and all week.

00:00:07.920 It's an incredible story that the rest of the media seems to be missing.

00:00:13.360 Also, celebrate Veterans Day. A couple of really amazing stories to share with you all on today's podcast.

00:00:30.000 Nick is with us now. Hi, Nick. How are you? Howdy, Glenn. I'm great. How are you? Very good. Great to have you on.

00:00:40.540 Thank you so much for joining us. So my pleasure. Let's get your reaction.

00:00:45.820 I've got several things to play for you, and I think you have the list so you can you can call these things out on the things you want to comment on.

00:00:53.720 But also, I'd like to hear just your have you ever seen anything like this trial before? Ever?

00:01:02.940 No, it's it's wild, Glenn. You know, I went into this trial expecting kind of a standard approach by the prosecutor and the defense.

00:01:13.360 And we've seen just some weird plays by both of them, which is the prosecutor is blowing my mind here because he opened up kind of strong with a decent opening statement.

00:01:27.940 But as the days went on, you could see his narrative crumble.

00:01:31.380 And I think the the big problem for him is that he has to know that the facts on this are on the side of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:01:38.380 And they always have been. So, I mean, he is the guy who decides whether or not this moves forward.

00:01:46.280 Was it all just political or mob pressure?

00:01:51.360 I think the political environment plays a big part, a big part in why this this case was brought.

00:01:58.300 But to give Binger a little bit, Binger being the lead prosecutor on the case, he is an assistant district attorney.

00:02:04.600 So this is delegated down from the district attorney of the county.

00:02:08.860 But he I mean, he can refuse it. He can make some recommendations.

00:02:12.300 He can look at this and say, hey, boss, you know, I don't know if this is the best case to be bringing.

00:02:17.500 We might just get raked over the coals here.

00:02:19.940 So, Nick, do you believe he he knew going in?

00:02:24.000 We've got a really weak. Do you think that he knew on cross examination?

00:02:28.860 They would be like, no, I think he feared for his life because I was pointing a gun at him.

00:02:33.380 I mean, did he know that his own witnesses would take his case apart?

00:02:40.580 I think he did to some degree.

00:02:44.260 You have to write.

00:02:46.020 We've watched the we've watched the videos.

00:02:48.360 And when these videos first came out, you know, I looked at them personally and I said, that looks that looks a lot like self-defense.

00:02:55.080 That looks like a really good case of self-defense.

00:02:57.280 And then when you read the complaint that they filed and you realize that they're there, the first part of the complaint was written based on the eyewitness account of Richie McGinnis, who works for Daily Caller.

00:03:11.020 And you read it and it's like this looks like this was written by a defense attorney making a self-defense case.

00:03:17.000 And then we're all just baffled at why.

00:03:18.960 Why would you bring this?

00:03:20.620 Because you're going to have to call Richie McGinnis.

00:03:23.740 You're going to have to call Ryan Balch.

00:03:25.840 You're going to have to call these guys who are out there either on Kyle's side or politically disposed to him.

00:03:31.980 And their narrative of the case screams self-defense.

00:03:37.500 I'm blown away by it.

00:03:38.940 Let me let me ask you to the other, I think, big thing on the other side is calling Rittenhouse to testify.

00:03:48.360 I mean, everybody thinks that he was way ahead.

00:03:51.860 You you don't usually do that when you're ahead.

00:03:56.280 Why did do you think the defense call him as a witness?

00:04:00.400 And how do you think he did?

00:04:03.820 Well, I first I agree.

00:04:05.800 You typically don't want to call someone a defendant to the stand.

00:04:10.780 They have a Fifth Amendment right not to be called.

00:04:12.940 You can't force them to go.

00:04:15.280 If they want to go up, they can force themselves onto the stand.

00:04:19.300 Their attorney can't stop them.

00:04:21.200 I don't know if this was Kyle's decision or or the attorney Mark Richards decision.

00:04:26.140 But the the one mitigating circumstance really is in a case where you're affirming self.

00:04:33.480 You're making affirmative defense of self-defense because you may have to testify to some facts about your state of mind or things that maybe only you saw.

00:04:42.840 But in this case, we have so much from all of the other witnesses that basically just on just based on the prosecution's witnesses alone, you've made the elements of self-defense pretty clear through the evidence that's already there.

00:04:58.940 So it was a it was a big gamble to put him on the stand.

00:05:03.860 Overall, I think he did well.

00:05:06.320 I let me change that.

00:05:07.920 Sorry.

00:05:08.220 I think he did exceptionally well being an 18 year old kid grilled by an attorney for several hours.

00:05:15.700 How did they how do you think with a jury did the the crying play?

00:05:19.880 Because, you know, I heard a lot.

00:05:21.540 Everybody on the left is saying that it was fake.

00:05:23.640 It did not seem fake to me.

00:05:25.400 He seemed like he seemed like, you know, somebody who just found out their parents had died.

00:05:30.380 I mean, he seemed genuine to me.

00:05:35.320 Do you think the jury felt that way?

00:05:38.460 I I think their preconceptions are going to play pretty heavy into how they how they felt.

00:05:44.900 But it was hard to watch that section of his testimony.

00:05:49.340 And I agree.

00:05:50.820 It did not look fake at all.

00:05:52.200 It's it's hard to fake the sort of hyperventilative reaction that he had.

00:05:58.800 And some of the people on our panel were suggesting that it looks a lot like post-traumatic stress.

00:06:05.400 You know, big time through.

00:06:07.620 You could see it.

00:06:08.880 And it built up over several minutes before he actually broke down.

00:06:15.120 So if if he faked it, I mean, Hollywood needs to hire this kid immediately.

00:06:19.200 Exactly.

00:06:20.880 I don't think it was fake at all.

00:06:23.360 And I for the first time, at least my reaction was this kid's gone through hell.

00:06:30.120 And it's one thing.

00:06:31.840 It's one thing to think about what the media has put him through and everything else.

00:06:35.660 But for the first time, I really felt the fear that he felt and the the effect after the event that it still plays on him of being surrounded by a crowd. 0.98

00:06:50.760 All of them saying, get him, kill him. 0.97

00:06:53.040 Yeah, absolutely. 0.98

00:06:56.020 And, you know, I've talked to some people that have had some closer ties to this case.

00:07:03.140 Attorney Robert Barnes, who has also been on the panel as we've been watching along.

00:07:08.880 And he suggested, you know, Kyle, for his for the first couple of weeks as he's in jail, you know, he's he's having vomiting issues.

00:07:17.160 He's he's clearly did not do well with this incident.

00:07:22.700 And who would?

00:07:23.660 Right.

00:07:23.880 You're being chased by a maniac amidst a riot.

00:07:27.560 He's screaming at you, trying to take your gun.

00:07:30.440 And that came through on the testimony, I think, as well.

00:07:34.520 You can hear him.

00:07:35.620 He tried to take my gun.

00:07:37.040 I didn't want to kill him.

00:07:39.000 How why did he try to take my gun?

00:07:41.280 I just wanted to get away.

00:07:43.140 Here's a play cut six here.

00:07:45.400 Here he is.

00:07:46.260 I never wanted to shoot him.

00:07:47.900 Listen, I would have let Mr.

00:07:49.920 Rosenbaum get my gun. 0.99

00:07:51.120 He would have killed me.

00:07:52.540 But you had already pointed your gun at him.

00:07:55.200 Yes, because he was chasing me.

00:07:57.360 Did you want him to think that you were going to shoot him?

00:08:01.240 No, I never wanted to shoot Mr.

00:08:03.080 Rosenbaum.

00:08:04.320 Why'd you point it at him if you didn't have any intention of shooting?

00:08:07.660 He was chasing me.

00:08:09.240 I was alone.

00:08:10.520 He threatened to kill me earlier in that night. 0.60

00:08:15.260 I didn't want to have to shoot him.

00:08:18.220 But you understand how dangerous it is to point a gun at someone, don't you?

00:08:23.820 I pointed at him because he kept running at me and I didn't want him to chase me.

00:08:29.300 This is an amazing thing because, you know, if you've taken any classes on shooting, you 0.93

00:08:35.300 never point a gun to some at somebody unless you intend on shooting and killing them.

00:08:39.580 However, I've always found that to be counterintuitive because if you don't want to shoot somebody, you do want to show them that you might. 0.95

00:08:50.560 You know, you want them to feel like he could shoot me.

00:08:53.300 He's willing to do it.

00:08:54.720 And so you're like, back off, put the gun up, back off.

00:08:59.240 And this prosecutor is, is, I guess, just trying to make everybody believe that you would never point.

00:09:06.360 It's unreasonable to point a gun without shooting.

00:09:10.860 Yeah.

00:09:11.380 And, and they, you know, they, they train that way in, uh, carry classes and self-defense classes because you have to be prepared to pull the trigger.

00:09:20.320 Correct.

00:09:20.600 But most people don't want to ever pull the trigger.

00:09:23.780 I mean, that one, even if you're a cold, uh, you know, just rationale based person, you're going to say, if I pull this trigger, I'm going to have to go through what Kyle's going through.

00:09:33.780 Correct.

00:09:34.080 And that would be very inconvenient for, for a sociopathic point of view.

00:09:39.040 That's what you've got.

00:09:40.040 But, but most people, you know, they don't, they don't ever fathom themselves killing someone.

00:09:44.300 And so the, the typical response is, you know, you have the display of the gun, either in a holster or you reach for it.

00:09:50.920 Then you brandish.

00:09:52.180 And, and that is the threat.

00:09:54.040 We're talking, um, about the, um, uh, the Rittenhouse trial.

00:09:58.300 And before we went to break, I said that I, at least I felt there was multiple, multiple times that Rittenhouse credibly said, well, no, I, I didn't shoot him.

00:10:12.540 At that point, because he wasn't threatening me as hands up or he was, you know, they backed off, which I thought showed that he was not out just to kill people.

00:10:23.380 He was only shooting at people who were a threat to him.

00:10:27.440 Yeah, Glenn, that's, uh, I mean, it's a great point.

00:10:32.540 It's, uh, ironically, a point the prosecution has made several times throughout the case, pointing out, pointing out all these times that this kid showed remarkable restraint.

00:10:44.560 Um, and, and even with the, the very first encounter with Joseph Rosenbaum, uh, who has thrown a bag at him, um, and the, the prosecution is trying really hard to make sure, you know, there, there was definitely nothing deadly in the bag as if Kyle would know this at this point.

00:11:00.940 And as if that actually matters, um, he's, he's thrown a bag at him.

00:11:05.420 He's running full speed.

00:11:06.360 Kyle turns around, uh, with the gun and, and Rosenbaum kind of almost takes a little bit of a pause.

00:11:12.940 He stutter steps, uh, but then he, he proceeds on Kyle, instead of just shooting, which he may have even been justified in doing at that point, he turns around and runs, uh, until he can run no further.

00:11:26.220 And Rosenbaum has caught up to him.

00:11:27.960 And that's at the point when he shoots, it was remarkable restraint.

00:11:31.540 Right.

00:11:31.720 And he said, even when he was surrounded by the crowd and some of them were advancing, he held up his gun.

00:11:37.320 And if they put their hands up and stopped, he didn't shoot.

00:11:40.860 I mean, it shows that he was thinking all the way through, which, you know, he talked about almost tunnel vision at the end.

00:11:48.520 Uh, that guy was under incredible stress and yet he was still functioning, uh, you know, and, and, uh, doing the right thing.

00:11:58.220 Uh, Nick, there was, there was a back and forth.

00:12:00.740 I wanted to get your thoughts on because I didn't even understand a couple of times where the prosecution was even going with some of these lines of questioning.

00:12:06.580 At one point they asked Rittenhouse, do you think the protesters were hostile to you?

00:12:11.900 And he says, no, they generally weren't.

00:12:14.000 Then he said, why did you bring your gun then?

00:12:16.440 And he said, well, I mean, I wanted to protect myself in case someone was going to attack me.

00:12:20.800 And then they'd follow up.

00:12:21.720 Well, why did you think they were going to attack you specifically?

00:12:24.800 And he would say, I don't, I didn't think they were going to attack me specifically, but I wanted to be, uh, protected.

00:12:29.780 Well, well then why did you bring your gun if you didn't think that they were going to protect you or attack you specifically?

00:12:34.800 And it's like, you know, I, I don't think I'm going to get into a car accident every day, but I still get car insurance in case.

00:12:40.360 I think, I think they were trying to get Rittenhouse, a 17, 18 year old kid to go, well, because I was white.

00:12:50.600 I think they were trying to get him to say something that they could turn race into the, I could be wrong, Nick.

00:12:57.780 Well, uh, I, I think there's a couple angles here and, and one of them, it goes back to the bad facts for the prosecution.

00:13:06.540 I think you might be, uh, the, the race thing could be in there for sure.

00:13:11.420 Just general politicizing, polarizing statements, uh, would, would maybe prejudice Kyle in the eyes of some of the jury members from a legal perspective of what they're trying.

00:13:23.740 And, and, and you have to put yourself in the mind of a dishonest person, uh, thank God I'm a lawyer and can do this, but, um, you have to, you have to be able to, to do this under Wisconsin self-defense law.

00:13:37.600 Uh, and, uh, generally speaking, this is kind of a rule in self-defense, but if you provoke the encounter, uh, and use that as an excuse to use self-defense, then it'll defeat your ability to, to invoke that.

00:13:50.980 So what I think Binger is trying to do here is get Kyle to say, I knew the crowd was hostile and then paint the narrative that he wanted to go out there knowing they would attack him.

00:14:01.700 So he's got the gun, he's walking around and that this somehow invokes the provocation that would defeat his self-defense claim.

00:14:11.020 Typically provocation requires an act rather than just a presence with a gun, but Binger is trying to paint that.

00:14:17.500 And I think we're going to see him try and use that in his closing argument, uh, to say, you know, he was out there provoking, he put out fires, he was providing medical aid and, and, and other people didn't want that. 0.58

00:14:28.720 It's a ludicrous position. Uh, but I think that's where he's going with it.

00:14:34.020 So how has the judge been? Cause I, I actually like him. I think he's been a very, no nonsense.

00:14:41.180 The left hates him. If you're looking at political and not necessarily, if you're looking for social justice and not actual justice, you don't like this guy, which is, which is right.

00:14:53.800 Is he a hard ass that just has a, you know, a point of view or is he really towing the line on the law?

00:15:02.080 He's, uh, he's been pretty fair and consistent. Um, and, and for me, uh, when I think about a judge, what I want is someone who is fair and consistent, you know, even, even if they're consistently bad, um, in this case, I think this judge is phenomenal. 0.79

00:15:18.500 Um, he's going to the actual, uh, statutes. He's, he's pulled out commentary books and read them to make sure he gets his rulings.

00:15:26.420 Right. This guy is being very, very careful on his, on his rulings and how he manages his courtroom.

00:15:32.860 And if anybody thinks he's being, uh, biased in a particular way, it's because, uh, the attorney on that side has been acting in a particularly egregious manner.

00:15:44.520 Um, I think you played a clip right at the beginning of the show where the judge was dressing down Binger for flagrantly violating Kyle's constitutional right.

00:15:53.660 Which one and how?

00:15:54.940 Uh, the, his fifth amendment right to not speak. Uh, one of the first things Binger did when he got, uh, Kyle on cross examination is that he, he stood up and said, you know, you, you had the opportunity to speak before this.

00:16:09.980 And that is a huge note. Every prosecutor knows you cannot go down this line because you cannot draw any inference from a person exercising their constitutional right to remain silent.

00:16:23.120 And, and, and him trying to elicit that in front of the jury bordered on having the case thrown out immediately.

00:16:30.480 And the, he also tried to introduce things that the judge said he couldn't introduce, right?

00:16:38.040 Right. They had some pre-trial motions. They're called motions in limine.

00:16:41.980 And, uh, they, they excluded the, um, these two incidents that Kyle was involved in prior to the event and one meeting at a bar that Kyle, um, was photographed at after the event.

00:16:55.840 The, the latter one, because it has no relevance on what Kyle's state of mind was at the time, because it was four months later.

00:17:02.540 Um, the other two on similar grounds. Um, but the judge didn't want those two acts, which are not directly related to prejudice, the jury's opinion of Kyle.

00:17:13.620 And he ruled that they could not bring them in. Now, the prosecutor claims that he thought that they had opened the door to that with other testimony.

00:17:21.760 And the judge said, I've ruled on this. If you wanted to bring it up, you needed to come to me and ask the court for permission before trying to prejudice him in front, in front of the jury.

00:17:31.580 So how does this end, Nick?

00:17:34.720 Um, well, there's, there's two ways, uh, you know, it can either go all the way to the, the jury decision, um, or, uh, the judge can make a ruling on the case.

00:17:45.680 Uh, the defense is in the process of filing a motion to, uh, dismiss and, or a motion for a mistrial, uh, and asking for a dismissal with prejudice.

00:17:55.600 I believe they will also file a motion to dismiss at the close of the case based on the fact that, uh, the prosecution simply hasn't made the case, um, for any of the, any of the major charges.

00:18:08.660 Um, so if the judge rules on it and dismisses it with prejudice, it's gone, it's done.

00:18:14.560 Kyle cannot be brought back into court for these charges.

00:18:17.380 If the jury goes, they can either, uh, render one of basically one of three verdicts.

00:18:22.720 You've either got not guilty, which is a unanimous decision, or you've got, uh, guilty, which is unanimous, or you have a mix of votes, which will result in a mistrial.

00:18:32.520 And in that case, theoretically, the state could bring the charges back against them.

00:18:37.320 So if he is, if the judge dismisses it, it's done, but can't they dismiss it with prejudice?

00:18:44.480 Can't he call for a mistrial with prejudice?

00:18:49.220 Yes.

00:18:50.000 Yes.

00:18:50.320 And that's, that's what they're, that's what they're gunning for.

00:18:53.080 And it's based on that constitutional violation.

00:18:55.320 And they've got some good stuff on the record.

00:18:57.240 The judge said to, uh, Binger, he says, when you said you brought this in good faith, I don't believe you.

00:19:03.820 And bad, a finding of bad faith is one of the prongs of the test to have a dismissal with prejudice under Wisconsin law in criminal court.

00:19:15.900 Um, if you were the judge, how would you rule?

00:19:18.780 What would you do?

00:19:20.520 I would have dismissed this case already.

00:19:24.420 Um, and certainly, uh, would have, would be the, the constitutional violations to me, if, if they don't merit dismissal, they merit sanctions for, uh, for Binger.

00:19:36.420 I mean, this is something, again, every prosecutor knows this.

00:19:40.680 They know you can't do this.

00:19:42.380 And, and he did it in, um, flagrant violation of the court.

00:19:46.100 And then he tried to weasel his way out of it.

00:19:47.880 Oh, judge, I'm so sorry.

00:19:49.680 Right.

00:19:50.020 I didn't mean it in this.

00:19:51.200 Oh, it, his tone was so grating.

00:19:55.700 Okay.

00:19:56.260 I can't have an attorney on that, uh, is in Minnesota and not ask, Hey, how's Keith Ellison working out for you guys?

00:20:04.240 Oh, he is just a joy.

00:20:09.840 What a nightmare.

00:20:11.900 What a nightmare.

00:20:13.020 He has been.

00:20:15.300 Then we'll, we'll leave it at that.

00:20:17.540 Oh, go ahead.

00:20:17.980 No, no, no.

00:20:19.120 That's good.

00:20:20.120 Nick, I'd love to have you on again.

00:20:21.660 Thank you so much, uh, for, uh, coming on and, uh, and, and all that you do.

00:20:26.720 You have big fans here at the studios.

00:20:30.360 Well, thank you guys.

00:20:31.500 It's, uh, you, you have a big fan here actually.

00:20:34.440 So you're pioneering with blaze TV.

00:20:37.040 Um, you know, it, it was one of the inspirations for me venturing out on my own to, to start a show as well.

00:20:43.100 Ah, good for you.

00:20:44.360 Well, we should talk sometime.

00:20:45.960 Uh, good, good, good to talk to you, Nick.

00:20:48.300 Thank you so much.

00:20:49.660 That is, uh, have a good one.

00:20:51.360 You bet.

00:20:51.660 That's, uh, Nick Riccata.

00:20:53.220 Uh, he is a, uh, now a YouTube commentator, uh, and he gets, you know, fellow attorneys and other people on just to comment on these live trials.

00:21:03.020 And, uh, they're, they're quite entertaining, quite entertaining.

00:21:11.600 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:21:13.540 And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:21:22.980 The truth is extraordinarily dangerous.

00:21:28.260 The truth shall set you free.

00:21:31.220 Yes, it can.

00:21:33.020 The truth shall set you free, but it will make you miserable at first.

00:21:38.440 And what does that mean?

00:21:40.260 It means when you tell the truth, you have a decision to make.

00:21:44.740 If you are truly seeking the truth, it's going to show you things that you may not like.

00:21:52.820 For instance, if you were honestly seeking the truth with the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

00:21:57.580 You would now say, wow, and seeing the testimony and seeing the prosecution.

00:22:04.200 And it's not what we thought it was.

00:22:09.620 But that would make people miserable.

00:22:12.620 And here's what I mean by that. 0.99

00:22:14.100 If you've been on television saying this guy is a racist, racist, racist, racist, racist. 1.00

00:22:20.840 He was just a brazen, wanton killer. 1.00

00:22:23.800 Now you would have to go on the air and say, crap, I'm I was wrong. 0.99

00:22:30.420 In today's atmosphere, if you changed your mind, changed your opinion based on the facts and you're on that side and sometimes on the right.

00:22:43.240 But you're in trouble because now everyone will reject you because they won't listen to the facts because the facts don't matter anymore.

00:22:53.980 It's the agenda, not the facts.

00:22:57.740 That's not the scientific method.

00:22:59.920 That's not the American method.

00:23:02.840 And so we all have a choice every day when we hear news and it's different than what we believe.

00:23:11.100 Are we going to pursue that to see if there's any truth in that?

00:23:16.100 And if there is, will we be able and willing to embrace that truth?

00:23:21.880 That's the problem with our society.

00:23:24.320 Everybody wants to be right.

00:23:26.400 Both sides demand.

00:23:30.100 That they are right and the other is wrong.

00:23:34.460 We can't live like that.

00:23:36.280 You can't live like that.

00:23:37.340 Not on everything.

00:23:39.160 I mean, there are there is truth.

00:23:41.100 There is truth. 1.00

00:23:42.520 And it's not my truth because if it was a society based on my truth, then they would embrace me saying you're a bunch of idiots that believe that there's 99 different genders. 0.99

00:23:55.840 They don't accept my truth. 1.00

00:23:59.000 But that's OK, because.

00:24:01.100 I understand and will embrace the truth.

00:24:04.320 And if some new information based in reason and science would show me there are 99 genders. 1.00

00:24:17.160 I would then have to.

00:24:19.280 If I'm looking for truth, I'd have to say, crap, I hate saying this, but I've been wrong. 0.85

00:24:25.700 There are 99 genders. 0.97

00:24:27.060 Not going to happen.

00:24:28.360 But at least I would be a slave to the truth, not a slave to someone's agenda.

00:24:38.080 When you're armed with the truth, you can empower others to enact change.

00:24:46.180 And let me tell you something.

00:24:47.480 Everyone is looking for the truth.

00:24:49.760 You can't build your house on an economy that is centrally planned and the government is picking and winning, picking winners and losers, not based on anything other than what their agenda is.

00:25:15.300 Because you don't know, I'm convinced Bitcoin would be at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per coin right now if you trusted that the government wasn't going to try to put it out of business.

00:25:27.980 More people would invest in Bitcoin right now because it's working.

00:25:34.580 It's shown itself to be relatively stable.

00:25:39.060 It's not going away unless the government shuts it down.

00:25:46.160 You can't build anything truly lasting if you don't know that the laws and reason is stable.

00:25:57.980 That's why there's so much chaos.

00:26:00.260 Everything is up in the air.

00:26:02.100 What you believe today may be something that you can't say tomorrow and literally tomorrow.

00:26:10.480 How many times in the last five, ten years have we all gotten up in the morning and went, wait, what's that new word?

00:26:16.520 What is that?

00:26:18.920 And we all had to learn it.

00:26:20.780 And we all have to live by it.

00:26:22.440 Why?

00:26:23.500 Because the mob says so.

00:26:24.860 Why?

00:26:27.980 The draconian measures that our government.

00:26:31.980 Is now and the private sector.

00:26:37.140 Government, education and big, powerful, connected to the government, private sector.

00:26:44.640 They are shoving things down our throats and it's got to stop.

00:26:51.140 And it will the minute we stand up and go, no, I'm not going to do that.

00:26:56.660 You don't have to fight back with guns or anything else.

00:26:59.880 You just have to stand up and say, no, not going to do that. 0.96

00:27:03.840 Well, we're going to fire you.

00:27:05.240 OK, my soul's more important than this job.

00:27:10.420 And when there's enough of us saying that, we will begin to connect with each other and we'll start to work with each other.

00:27:16.760 Now, I don't like this truly because it's self-segregation.

00:27:22.340 We're never going to get anywhere if we're segregating.

00:27:24.900 But they are already segregating us. 1.00

00:27:27.300 They are already deeming us idiots, morons, dangers and people that are just so dangerous you can't even work there. 0.99

00:27:34.960 So I don't want to work with them if that's the way they are. 0.99

00:27:39.860 I want to work.

00:27:41.060 I mean, I hire very liberal people on my staff for very important positions, not editorial positions, but positions to where I can ask them, where do we have this wrong?

00:27:56.220 How do you see this?

00:27:58.500 Is this fair, what we're doing?

00:28:01.940 I think that's really important.

00:28:04.060 I like working with diverse minds.

00:28:12.140 That's the way you find truth.

00:28:14.760 But we have to stand up because we need power of numbers.

00:28:22.280 And there's only one way to amass numbers.

00:28:26.040 And it is by, one by one, enlightening millions of people who have blindly marched in lockstep.

00:28:34.060 Or those, inform those who are afraid to step out of line to question what is really going on in our society.

00:28:43.020 The truth will make you miserable at first because it is so powerful.

00:28:51.420 That's why big tech platforms, anyone who dares question, last night I did the setup for next week's two hour live special commercial free on COVID.

00:29:04.620 I have five pages of rules that social media says we cannot violate.

00:29:13.640 And we're not violating them because I'm not going on and going, you know what?

00:29:25.160 There's another horse medicine out there.

00:29:29.080 I'm not doing that.

00:29:31.120 I'm showing you documents from the same sources that say, trust me.

00:29:37.340 I'm showing you, I'm showing you, I'm showing you the documents of how this started, where this came from, and what they did.

00:29:46.680 Crimes or a cover-up.

00:29:50.320 But they're not telling you the truth.

00:29:53.680 You can't do that.

00:29:55.200 Have you noticed how in lockstep?

00:30:01.400 Ask Stephen, do we have, do we have, from last night's show, I played the two prescription drug ads?

00:30:13.080 I don't even remember what, it was for a blood thinner.

00:30:16.540 And let me just ask you this.

00:30:17.860 Because every time you've seen a commercial, every time, they're like, you could be impotent, you might have a heart attack, your head might explode.

00:30:28.520 Ask your doctor for details.

00:30:30.380 Okay?

00:30:31.040 There's no chance, literally, no chance any of those things are going to happen to the average person.

00:30:39.160 Maybe one in every six million people, right?

00:30:42.960 But the government insists that you know about it.

00:30:48.400 So we have ads like this.

00:30:50.080 While taking Xarelto, you may bruise more easily, and it may take longer for bleeding to stop.

00:30:55.180 Xarelto may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines.

00:30:58.880 Xarelto can cause serious bleeding, and in rare cases may be fatal.

00:31:02.440 Get help right away if you develop unexpected bleeding, unusual bruising, or tingling.

00:31:06.780 If you have had spinal anesthesia while on Xarelto, watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle-related signs or symptoms.

00:31:13.560 Yeah, okay, all right, okay, I got it, I got it.

00:31:16.420 And when you don't, when you're not this clear, and you're using a new drug,

00:31:22.100 sometimes there's another commercial that comes a few years later, and it sounds like this.

00:31:28.000 Attention, Xarelto and Pradaxa has been linked to internal bleeding.

00:31:31.800 If you were hospitalized for internal bleeding, or you'll love...

00:31:34.400 Why is it, why is it the government insists on telling us things, in that case, looks like there was probably more of a chance of internal bleeding than they expected,

00:31:45.540 but they insist on telling us that if you take no-dose, you might go impotent, when probably not.

00:31:55.020 But we have a few cases of people that are getting sick from the vaccine.

00:32:04.020 I can't remember which one it is, but there's six people, six people that got sick from the...

00:32:09.620 Well, that's about the kind of thing that they usually put a warning label on.

00:32:15.980 But I can't even talk about that on social media without being labeled giving you misinformation.

00:32:23.140 No. I'll tell you, there were six people that had this reaction.

00:32:29.300 Take this drug and you could go impotent or you could bleed to death.

00:32:34.080 Okay? Most likely you're not going to.

00:32:38.040 But why is the media in lockstep?

00:32:43.440 Why is everyone in lockstep?

00:32:46.800 This is perfectly safe. Nothing's going to happen.

00:32:49.860 Well, wait a minute. There's some pilots that have been having some heart palpitations

00:32:54.820 and that's causing them to lose their job. 0.96

00:32:57.720 That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. 0.98

00:33:00.440 No. Okay. I know it's a handful of people, but... 0.96

00:33:04.120 Don't we care about the handful of people?

00:33:06.520 Shouldn't we at least talk about the impotency?

00:33:10.860 I'm just saying.

00:33:12.460 Shouldn't we at least have that information?

00:33:15.760 That's the truth.

00:33:17.660 That's the truth.

00:33:18.580 And that's what we're used to in America.

00:33:20.800 In fact, we are...

00:33:22.100 When it comes to drugs, we are used to the exact opposite of what we're doing now.

00:33:26.680 We all hate the commercials where it's 30 seconds of,

00:33:31.020 you might die tomorrow. 0.88

00:33:33.480 You're like, yeah, but you wouldn't be selling it if it was a good shot 0.83

00:33:37.840 we're all going to die tomorrow from taking this.

00:33:40.140 Can we truly be a free country if we remain in the grips of lies and fear of telling the truth?

00:34:02.240 I can tell you right now, we cannot survive.

00:34:09.920 And I mean that as the Glenn Beck Program and Blaze TV.

00:34:13.920 We will not survive unless we have you.

00:34:18.920 We need you.

00:34:23.380 When I come in every day, I work really hard and I pray on the show.

00:34:29.700 I do everything I possibly can to not waste your time and not give you stories to entertain you.

00:34:39.240 Believe me, I mean, if anybody used to listen to the show in the old days,

00:34:43.020 believe it or not, this show was very, very funny.

00:34:47.900 The times call for, hey, you need to understand this.

00:34:52.980 And I ask you to pass on the clips.

00:34:56.360 Right now, we are being so throttled by YouTube, by Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, all of it.

00:35:05.220 I mean, literally, literally, the audience, you catching something or YouTube,

00:35:14.180 you check out a Glenn Beck video on YouTube and it suggests another Glenn Beck video?

00:35:20.020 Highly unlikely.

00:35:24.360 We need you.

00:35:27.520 Join the chorus of voices that are speaking out.

00:35:30.780 Share the truth.

00:35:31.840 And free the Americans that are living in prison.

00:35:36.640 Honestly, fear concocted in a lab spread by the government and perpetuated by the media.

00:35:45.560 You see, the truth is kind of like a virus.

00:35:48.840 Once the truth is out, it can't be stopped.

00:35:51.480 It is contagious.

00:35:54.280 It can be spread from one person to the next until everyone is exposed and we have herd immunity.

00:36:01.840 Next week, on next Wednesday night's Glenn Beck program, two hours commercial-free, solid wall-to-wall truth that will set you free.

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00:37:24.100 Curtis Donald Feistinger.

00:37:27.000 Sergeant Gregory DeWayness Feiron.

00:37:31.500 Captain Arthur Lejean Felder.

00:37:35.620 I don't know.

00:37:36.300 I mean, how long does it take you to read 7,000 names?

00:37:40.440 Specialist Dustin James Feldhaus.

00:37:43.360 I'm not sure if anything has ever been done like this before.

00:37:47.840 And to my knowledge and to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation's knowledge, this is the first time it's been done for the war on terror, for sure.

00:37:58.360 Frank Siller is with us.

00:37:59.300 He's the chairman and CEO for Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

00:38:02.820 Frank, how are you, sir?

00:38:05.120 I'm good, Glenn.

00:38:06.140 Thanks for having me on today.

00:38:07.400 And I couldn't be more proud as a chairman of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation to take on this responsibility.

00:38:13.560 I feel like it's an obligation and something that we're very proud to read all 7,070, 7,070 names that gave their lives for our country since the war on terror started in 2001.

00:38:28.140 Where I lost my brother on September 11, 2001, where he ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Glenn.

00:38:34.580 He was a firefighter.

00:38:35.920 He strapped 60 pounds of gear on his back and ran through that tunnel up West Street into the South Tower, up those stairs.

00:38:42.280 And while saving other people's lives, he gave up his own.

00:38:45.360 And we started a foundation in his honor and all those who perished that day.

00:38:49.080 And to do this work here today, we couldn't be more proud.

00:38:52.420 I tell you, Frank, you guys are remarkable.

00:38:54.620 You're one of the best charities out there, I think, what you do for veterans and everybody else because of all of those who died in the World Trade Center.

00:39:04.240 As you were talking, I am actually grateful that I was alive to see the way America was at least for about a month after the World Trade Center.

00:39:17.840 I mean, it's remarkable where we are now, where our police get no respect.

00:39:23.340 They're villains.

00:39:24.480 Everybody seems to be a villain now.

00:39:26.980 When we went from, man, and they were true heroes like your brother who ran up the stairs when everyone else was running down.

00:39:37.620 I miss that respect for real heroes.

00:39:41.260 Well, I couldn't agree with you more, but I will say that being here and watching the reaction that we're getting from so many great Americans who love this country is really moving.

00:39:56.960 I walked this year for the 20th anniversary to honor my brother.

00:40:01.120 I walked from the Pentagon to Shanksville to Ground Zero, 537 miles.

00:40:05.520 And while I was doing it, I walked through a lot of small towns, and it was beautiful to watch all the families coming out in different parades that we had and see young kids being taught in the stories of 9-11 and the stories of all these great heroes that died ever since.

00:40:21.200 So I saw an America that gave me great hope, that most of the people in America still love America and are willing to die for it.

00:40:31.420 And all too often they do die for it.

00:40:33.660 Let it be our first responders or our military.

00:40:36.220 And today we're going to make sure that we recognize all 7,070.

00:40:40.640 And Glenn, you know, today we thought it was so important.

00:40:43.780 Our foundation does a lot of good work.

00:40:45.640 But today we delivered 35 mortgage-free homes to Gold Star families today, on this day.

00:40:53.120 So we're proud that we built some of these homes and some we paid off the mortgages.

00:40:57.280 But to deliver 35 of them on a day like today, we felt like it was an important day to not just to honor them, but to do good work.

00:41:06.140 Frank, can I, is there any way, I would love to partner with you guys.

00:41:09.680 I would love to be a part of what you do.

00:41:12.800 I love the fact that you're giving these houses away.

00:41:16.320 I mean, really, you guys are salt of the earth, right mindset, and you do it right.

00:41:23.860 If there's anything I can do to ever help or be involved, I would love to be involved with you guys.

00:41:29.580 Well, you're doing it today, but we could do it more often.

00:41:32.740 But here, look, we get it done.

00:41:34.260 The fire department says many hands make slight work.

00:41:37.480 Look, we ask people to donate as little as $11 a month, and that $11 a month adds up.

00:41:44.180 And that's why, you know, we delivered 35 today, but we did 200, 200 mortgage-free homes this year.

00:41:50.380 200.

00:41:51.100 Holy cow. 0.89

00:41:51.540 That costs a lot of money, and thank God we have a lot of people who joined us on this mission, but they know their money is going to this.

00:41:58.780 I don't get paid.

00:41:59.800 We do over 93 cents of every dollar goes to our programs, and people, you know, trust us.

00:42:05.460 The foundation bears my brother's image and his name, and we'll always hold it to the highest standards.

00:42:11.960 And today, you know, I know he's smiling down at heaven saying, Frank, thank you for remembering all these 7,000 men and women that joined.

00:42:19.720 Many of them joined our military because of what happened on 9-11, and now we're paying tribute and honoring them here today.

00:42:27.920 Frank, if you don't mind, I want to play a couple of people who you have changed their lives.

00:42:34.780 Tunnel to Towers have changed their lives.

00:42:37.160 This is the Jenny Taylor family.

00:42:38.720 Listen to this.

00:42:40.560 My dad was really, really special, and I love my dad a lot.

00:42:46.560 I'm proud of him, and that even though he isn't here with us, but he died as a true hero.

00:42:53.700 I miss everything about him.

00:42:55.140 In the moment that the officers and I had to come see the children, my biggest reaction was, I don't have seven arms.

00:43:06.060 I have seven children who just lost their father, and I don't have seven arms to wrap around them.

00:43:11.020 I'm Frank Silla, chairman of the Stephen Silla Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

00:43:14.540 Our foundation is committed to delivering mortgage-free homes to fallen military and first responders who die in the line of duty.

00:43:21.960 To not have to worry financially is a huge peace of mind.

00:43:25.900 It means a lot to know that this is our same home, that we have all the memories in here.

00:43:32.560 You can donate to Tunnels, then the number two, TunnelsToTowers.org.

00:43:41.260 I mean, do you have the best job out there, Frank?

00:43:45.640 Yes.

00:43:46.200 I mean, that must just be great.

00:43:49.940 So Jenny Taylor, you just heard, she was the first one to read her husband's name today.

00:43:54.360 As a matter of fact, one of her seven children read their father's name today.

00:44:00.680 So the one that you just heard there.

00:44:02.300 So people know they can go to T2T.org, make it a little bit easier than Tunnels to Towers.

00:44:09.520 So T2T.org, that's it, T2T.org.

00:44:16.840 And yes, I couldn't be more proud to be the chairman of this foundation, but we're just a conduit of doing good.

00:44:23.380 St. Francis of Assisi said, brothers and sisters, while we are here, while we have time, let us do good.

00:44:28.980 That's the whole premise of our foundation.

00:44:31.340 We're not going to waste any time.

00:44:32.700 There's so much work that has to be done.

00:44:34.360 We better get out there and take care of all these families. 0.83

00:44:36.400 We did it today, but there's a lot more work that has to be done.

00:44:39.480 I want you to hear Richard Urash.

00:44:42.180 September 1, 2006, my Bradley fighting vehicle that I was riding in was hit with an IED while we were driving down a road in Iraq.

00:44:52.500 The IED went through the bottom of my vehicle and hit our fuel tank.

00:44:56.860 And the fuel tank basically was inches away from where I was sitting and covered me and my buddies who were in the vehicle with me in fuel and instantly on fire.

00:45:06.400 I lost my leg because when I escaped out of the top of the vehicle, I jumped off and couldn't see anything around me because my face was on fire.

00:45:15.100 So when I landed, 10-foot jump, I couldn't brace myself for the landing.

00:45:19.320 So when I hit, my leg broke.

00:45:21.540 And I snapped my leg and I ended up with an amputation below my right knee.

00:45:24.880 And then I, crazy thing, I rolled into a canal that was there that I didn't know was there.

00:45:31.580 And it put the fire out.

00:45:33.300 I can't even believe my eyes.

00:45:35.000 So beautiful.

00:45:35.800 Oh my gosh.

00:45:38.940 Thank you.

00:45:39.560 This is insane.

00:45:42.020 My life's going to be changed in the way that I'm going to have more independence in general.

00:45:47.100 It's going to come to the point where I'm not even thinking about things anymore.

00:45:49.820 I'm just doing them.

00:45:51.260 Where now you have to think about what you're going to do, how you're going to do it.

00:45:54.080 And eventually I think I'm going to get to the point where I don't have to think about those things.

00:45:56.900 I'm just going to be able to do those things.

00:45:58.320 He read the names today of some of the fallen soldiers, right?

00:46:05.940 Some of the buddies.

00:46:06.920 Yeah, some of the buddies that he lost, even though he survived, he lost other men and women around him.

00:46:13.640 And so, yeah, you were listening to the day we gave him his smart home.

00:46:17.280 We built mortgage-free, specially adapted smart homes for our country's most catastrophically injured service members.

00:46:24.460 We've done over 100 of them all around the country.

00:46:26.880 But these are guys that have paid, given multiple limbs, paraplegics, quadriplegics.

00:46:32.480 Just looking at Richard, he is, I mean, he gave everything.

00:46:38.480 He gave everything.

00:46:39.680 Everything.

00:46:40.340 Yeah.

00:46:40.660 And he's got the best attitude in the world.

00:46:42.520 But he helps us.

00:46:43.520 He goes all over the United States and helps us because he wants to help the next family and the next hero that, you know, has paid a big price for our freedom.

00:46:52.840 So he's a tremendous human being.

00:46:55.340 And most of these widows and Gold Star families and these heroes that, you know, catastrophic collegiate service members, they all join us. 1.00

00:47:03.420 And they want to pay it forward to the next family.

00:47:06.480 So we are really blessed that we bring all these people together.

00:47:11.240 And, you know, in a day like today on Veterans Day, I mean, thank God for all our veterans.

00:47:16.060 They're willing to die for us every single day.

00:47:18.180 And all too often they do.

00:47:20.980 And when they do, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation is going to be there for their families that are left behind.

00:47:25.080 That is our promise.

00:47:26.380 I, as God is my judge, I, any, any family that serves our country and you die and you leave behind a young family, we're going to take care of your family that's left behind.

00:47:36.980 And, and, and we do it because of the, the generosity of Americans.

00:47:40.780 I know Americans are the most generous, just most generous people in the world.

00:47:45.260 Greatest country in the world, but the most generous people in the world.

00:47:48.640 And together we're going to take care of all these families.

00:47:51.220 That is our promise.

00:47:52.100 And we do it for fallen first responders.

00:47:54.580 Cause you started the whole, one of the questions was the police officers are not, you know, spitting on them. 0.99

00:48:00.180 We should kiss the freaking ground they walk on. 0.99

00:48:02.420 And, and, but we're going to take care of every single police officer or first responder that die in the line of duty that leave young kids behind also. 0.98

00:48:10.460 So that's our promise at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

00:48:13.180 And we pray that people just join us and we can get this done together.

00:48:17.100 Frank, will you do me a favor, please include me on a list of allies.

00:48:20.960 I want to help you raise money.

00:48:22.380 I want to help you do what you do.

00:48:23.900 What did you do before this?

00:48:25.700 What was your job?

00:48:28.240 I, I was a bit of an entrepreneur.

00:48:30.280 I built houses.

00:48:31.260 I was a spot builder.

00:48:32.600 I never really made money at it, to be quite frank with you.

00:48:36.040 Uh, because, uh, I, I also put too many extras into the house because I was a soft touch.

00:48:42.780 But, uh, uh, but the truth of the matter is, uh, I think the man upstairs, uh,

00:48:47.100 upstairs was prepare me to make sure I built these houses all over, all over America.

00:48:51.800 So, uh, we're, we're blessed.

00:48:53.520 But I, I was also into retail.

00:48:55.280 So I have a bit of a business background.

00:48:57.740 Well, I, uh, you are right.

00:48:59.500 God prepared you for this calling and it is an amazing calling.

00:49:03.340 Thank you so much, Frank.

00:49:04.680 God bless you.

00:49:05.520 And, and everybody that is involved.

00:49:07.740 Thank you.

00:49:08.500 Namadana.

00:49:09.260 Namadana.

00:49:10.320 Namadana.

00:49:11.120 Namadana.

00:49:12.040 Namadana.

00:49:13.740 Namadana.

00:49:14.820 Namadana.

00:49:15.640 Namadana.

00:49:17.020 Namadana.

00:49:17.600 Namaya.

00:49:18.380 Namadana.

00:49:31.280 Namada.

00:49:31.780 Namam.

00:49:32.380 Namadana.

00:49:32.740 Namadana.

00:49:33.780 Namadana.

00:49:34.560 Namada.

00:49:34.780 Namadana.

00:49:35.780 Namadana.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 11, 2021

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