The Glenn Beck Program - January 30, 2020


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Peter Schweizer, Senator Tom Cotton & Dave Isay ｜ 1⧸30⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

162.80847

Word Count

9,021

Sentence Count

705

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Glenn Beck is joined by Peter Schweizer and Dave Isay to discuss Nigel Farage's speech at the EU, the coronavirus, and a story from Julio Diaz about the country coming together and how hard it is.


Transcript

00:00:00.540 Hey, welcome to another great show. This one is really jam-packed. We have Brexit out with a bang tomorrow.
00:00:08.200 Nigel Farage was giving a speech yesterday at the EU, and it is, I mean, it's the American Revolution without any guns.
00:00:17.140 It is the speech that will be heard around the world and all the way through the European Union, and you have to listen to it all the way to the end.
00:00:24.900 It's amazing. Also, we have Peter Schweizer on. Now, Peter is just a great journalist. He's a researcher.
00:00:34.560 He's got a new book out, Why the GOP Should Call Hunter Biden as a Witness.
00:00:40.620 I asked him, you know, what questions should we ask? What facts do we have on this? Great interview.
00:00:47.140 Tom Cotton talks about the coronavirus in a segment that you cannot miss.
00:00:52.920 Also, our guest, Dave Isay. We talk about the country coming together and how hard it is.
00:00:59.780 And he shares with us a story from Julio Diaz.
00:01:05.340 It is completely inspirational. You want to feel good? Make sure you grab that segment all on today's podcast.
00:01:11.900 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:26.760 I can't wait. I saw this this morning and I'm like, I love, love the British.
00:01:34.100 Nigel Farage, they have become more American than us.
00:01:40.800 They are they have just done to the EU what we did, except they did it without a war and they did it with all kinds of pressure and all kinds of doomsday stuff.
00:01:51.020 Well, Brexit happens tomorrow at, I think, 11 p.m.
00:01:56.480 And Nigel Farage, who has been fighting this battle since the day he got into the EU, gave one of the best speeches I've ever heard.
00:02:09.040 I want to play the whole speech.
00:02:11.500 And you've got to make it to the end because it's, I mean, you couldn't write it.
00:02:20.100 You couldn't write it.
00:02:21.660 What the EU does at the very end is incredible.
00:02:27.340 It makes the point.
00:02:30.080 And this is the shot heard around the world.
00:02:32.680 I want you to listen to this speech.
00:02:35.200 So this is it, the final chapter, the end of the road, a 47-year political experiment that the British, frankly, have never been very happy with.
00:02:44.820 My mother and father signed up to a common market, not to a political union, not to flags, anthems, presidents, and now you even want your own army.
00:02:57.440 For me, it's been 27 years of campaigning and over 20 years here in this parliament.
00:03:03.900 I'm not particularly happy with the agreement we're being asked to vote on tonight.
00:03:09.060 But Boris has been remarkably bold in the last few months.
00:03:15.060 And, Ms. von der Leyen, he's made it clear, he's promised us there'll be no level playing field.
00:03:22.100 And on that basis, I wish him every success in the next round of negotiations.
00:03:28.240 I really do.
00:03:29.780 But the most significant point is this.
00:03:32.360 What happens at 11pm this Friday, the 31st of January, 2020, marks the point of no return.
00:03:42.580 Once we've left, we are never coming back.
00:03:46.560 And the rest, frankly, is detail.
00:03:48.860 We're going.
00:03:49.680 We will be gone.
00:03:50.580 And that should be the summit of my own political ambitions.
00:03:56.340 I walked in here, as I've said before, you all thought it was terribly funny.
00:04:00.440 You stopped laughing in 2016.
00:04:03.680 But my view has changed of Europe since I joined.
00:04:07.600 In 2005, I saw the constitution that had been drafted by Giscard and others.
00:04:14.560 I saw it rejected by the French in a referendum.
00:04:17.700 I saw it rejected by the Dutch in a referendum.
00:04:21.140 And I saw you in these institutions ignore them.
00:04:25.640 Bring it back as a Lisbon Treaty and boast you could ram it through without there being referendums.
00:04:31.500 Well, the Irish did have a vote and did say no and were forced to vote again.
00:04:36.520 You're very good at making people vote again.
00:04:39.940 But what we've proved is the British are too big to bully.
00:04:44.060 Thank goodness.
00:04:46.820 So I became an outright opponent of the entire European project.
00:04:53.880 I want Brexit to start a debate across the rest of Europe.
00:04:57.200 What do we want from Europe?
00:04:58.360 If we want trade, friendship, cooperation, reciprocity, we don't need a European Commission.
00:05:05.880 We don't need a European Court.
00:05:08.220 We don't need these institutions and all of this power.
00:05:12.000 And I can promise you, both in UKIP and indeed in the Brexit Party, we love Europe.
00:05:19.120 We just hate the European Union.
00:05:21.620 It's as simple as that.
00:05:23.140 So I'm hoping this begins the end of this project.
00:05:29.080 It's a bad project.
00:05:30.680 It isn't just undemocratic.
00:05:32.620 It's anti-democratic.
00:05:34.300 And it puts in that front row.
00:05:36.200 It gives people power without accountability.
00:05:40.260 People who cannot be held to account by the electorate.
00:05:43.880 And that is an unacceptable structure.
00:05:46.740 Indeed, there's an historic battle going on now across the West, in Europe, America and elsewhere.
00:05:52.820 It is globalism against populism.
00:05:57.720 And you may loathe populism, but I'll tell you a funny thing.
00:06:01.400 It's becoming very popular.
00:06:02.740 And it has great benefits.
00:06:07.440 No more financial contributions.
00:06:09.660 No more European Court of Justice.
00:06:12.140 No more common fisheries policy.
00:06:14.440 No more being talked down to.
00:06:16.360 No more being bullied.
00:06:18.540 No more Guy Verhofstadt.
00:06:20.920 I mean, what's not to like?
00:06:24.100 I know you're going to miss us.
00:06:26.080 I know you want to ban our national flags.
00:06:28.780 But we're going to wave you goodbye.
00:06:30.540 And we'll look forward in the future to working with you as sovereign.
00:06:36.680 They cut his mic.
00:06:38.220 Now listen.
00:06:38.720 If you disobey the rules, you get cut off.
00:06:41.860 Could we please remove the flags?
00:06:47.080 Mr. Farage.
00:06:50.020 Could we remove the flags, please?
00:06:52.240 That's it.
00:06:52.780 He's all over.
00:06:53.740 Finished.
00:06:56.040 He's gone.
00:06:57.520 Could I please ask for quiet?
00:07:00.540 I'm really...
00:07:09.800 Please sit down.
00:07:10.900 Resume your seats.
00:07:11.960 Put your flags away.
00:07:13.060 You're leaving.
00:07:13.720 And take them with you.
00:07:14.960 If you are leaving now.
00:07:16.340 Is that not crazy?
00:07:22.400 Can I just say...
00:07:23.600 If I may say, just in a slight reference, the word hate was used in the last contribution.
00:07:31.460 And I really think, given what we listened to prior to this, that we should not hate anyone or any nation or any people.
00:07:38.640 Oh, isn't that great?
00:07:40.460 That's wonderful.
00:07:40.900 Except the loathing in your voice.
00:07:43.500 Yeah.
00:07:43.960 And he said, you know, he hates the European Union, the body, the government.
00:07:50.920 Yeah.
00:07:51.320 He didn't hate the countries.
00:07:52.780 He's standing up for the countries.
00:07:54.400 And for him to say, we're sovereign again, and we wave you goodbye with the flags, and for that union to then say, their response is, remove the flags.
00:08:06.480 We're shutting you down.
00:08:07.540 You don't have a voice until you remove that flag.
00:08:10.700 Oh, my gosh.
00:08:11.780 They made every point for him.
00:08:13.640 The microcosm of the entire arrangement.
00:08:16.100 Yeah, and it's a microcosm.
00:08:17.940 Everything he said, that is the American founding.
00:08:22.340 That is the American revolution breaking away from the corrupt mothership.
00:08:30.060 They did it without a shot, but I'm telling you, that speech is the shot that will be heard all around the world.
00:08:38.380 That speech will be the shot that will be heard all over Europe, and people will be emboldened to leave.
00:08:46.100 It is – I saw this great political cartoon this morning that had the EU, that woman, standing behind a podium, and she was on like a wood plank over a cliff.
00:08:58.800 And she had the EU podium and the EU flag behind her, and she was standing there lecturing, and you saw all the EU members on the opposite end of the plank, but they were on the cliff.
00:09:11.220 They were on the ground.
00:09:12.940 She was the one teetering on the cliff, and it showed Britain walking off that board and on the ground.
00:09:23.020 What it was saying was, you start losing, and that thing just teeters off the cliff.
00:09:30.100 And they're going to start seeing members doing this, and it's going to be a power grab.
00:09:37.480 I mean, look at what they've said was going to happen if the EU is lost in Great Britain.
00:09:44.660 Do you hear any panic in the markets at all about this?
00:09:48.200 No.
00:09:48.700 Nothing.
00:09:49.540 Nothing.
00:09:50.120 No.
00:09:50.380 I mean, we'll see, obviously.
00:09:51.760 But, I mean, this is – they were all promising it.
00:09:53.920 They said it was going to be cataclysmic immediately.
00:09:56.440 And this is what happens with a lot of these big issues.
00:09:59.420 They become these big political back and forth where everything is going to be the end of the world.
00:10:06.140 And then the thing comes, and it happens, and it's not the end of the world.
00:10:09.900 But the people who warned you last time never pay the price for that.
00:10:13.320 They never lose credibility.
00:10:14.900 You know, every global warming deadline that we pass without the thing that they said was going to happen.
00:10:20.360 It never loses credibility.
00:10:20.980 They never lose credibility.
00:10:22.240 The next time they predict doom, it's always just as credible and just as urgent as last time.
00:10:27.360 Let me give you this.
00:10:28.780 It's not just global warming.
00:10:30.720 Look at how, like Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, all of these people that told us they were going to fix health care with Obamacare.
00:10:38.880 This was the fix.
00:10:39.820 And we told you at the time, this will make things worse.
00:10:44.680 It will make things worse.
00:10:46.360 And that's what they want because they will have one president in between, and then they will all start campaigning saying, this health care system has got to go.
00:10:55.540 It's the worst.
00:10:56.760 We've got to fix it.
00:10:58.220 They said they fixed it last time.
00:11:01.860 They had all the power to fix it.
00:11:05.700 They said they fixed it.
00:11:07.580 Now they're saying it's the worst ever, and they have to fix it again.
00:11:14.540 Why don't these people ever lose credibility?
00:11:17.700 When do people wake up and say, wait a minute, you're the people who said fix it by doing this.
00:11:24.060 We did this.
00:11:25.620 And now what?
00:11:27.180 You're saying this is the worst health care system ever, and now we have to fix it again?
00:11:31.020 It used to take a long time.
00:11:32.440 Now we're the next president, the next term.
00:11:34.960 These things were happening.
00:11:35.620 They were all saying it was wonderful and had to be protected at any cost, and now they're all saying it's terrible, talking about Obamacare.
00:11:42.720 One term later, now they need a whole new plan.
00:11:45.840 And half the country's like, yes, they should get another chance at that because they only destroyed it last time.
00:11:52.020 That's insane.
00:11:53.080 It is insane.
00:11:53.620 It's insane.
00:11:54.260 And that's what people are waking up to now.
00:11:56.860 They're seeing that we don't need you, just like Brexit and the European Union.
00:12:02.840 England will become stronger.
00:12:05.160 England will show it can stand on its own two feet.
00:12:08.400 And that's what the American people need to do again.
00:12:11.820 They need to show the federal government, every state, every community, every household,
00:12:16.900 we can stand on our own.
00:12:20.440 We're not, I don't care what you say about the flag.
00:12:23.080 I don't care what you say about men can have babies.
00:12:26.660 No.
00:12:28.280 That's not why our forefathers founded this country.
00:12:32.740 That's not the constitution that we signed up for.
00:12:36.940 No is the answer.
00:12:38.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:12:54.560 Hey, it's Glenn.
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00:13:15.260 Thanks.
00:13:15.840 I'm kind of excited.
00:13:16.620 Tulsi Gabbard, I think, is joining us on Monday, on Monday's show while I'm in Washington.
00:13:21.820 And I'm anxious to talk to her about a couple of things.
00:13:24.940 Do you know that she has 8%?
00:13:26.600 Look this up.
00:13:29.440 Okay.
00:13:29.840 New, um, in, uh, in New Hampshire.
00:13:34.460 I think she's running around 8% in at least one poll.
00:13:38.540 She's had a couple of polls up there.
00:13:40.520 That are really good.
00:13:41.420 In New Hampshire, yeah.
00:13:42.020 And she's not allowed on the debate stage.
00:13:44.300 They're not going to let her debate.
00:13:45.700 The Democratic Party are just like, no, no, 8%.
00:13:49.340 No, that's not enough.
00:13:50.820 Yeah, they have all sorts of rules.
00:13:52.460 Although the last one, she had a chance to make, and she said, no, I'm not going.
00:13:57.900 I'm not going to show up even if I do make it.
00:13:59.840 Yeah.
00:14:00.320 So, that's an, I mean, obviously, like, the party hates her.
00:14:04.340 Hates her.
00:14:04.900 This goes back to 2016, where she became a big proponent of Bernie instead of Hillary,
00:14:11.900 which you're not supposed to do.
00:14:13.280 So, now, Hillary hates, of course, Bernie and Tulsi.
00:14:16.620 Right.
00:14:17.420 You know, Tulsi has been talked about as potentially a cabinet-level person in a couple of these
00:14:24.080 administrations as well, but she's not loved by the party at the moment.
00:14:28.720 But, hey, she keeps going on, you know, she keeps talking to people like you.
00:14:31.660 That's not going to help her.
00:14:32.680 That doesn't help anybody get liked.
00:14:34.780 Wait a minute.
00:14:35.540 Hold it to just to say, wait a minute.
00:14:38.680 So, hopefully she'll be on, because I want to talk to her about that.
00:14:41.580 And I also want to talk to her.
00:14:43.540 You know, Clinton has now refused to be served twice in the lawsuit.
00:14:51.200 She's having the Secret Service do her dirty work, but the servers will come to serve her
00:14:57.440 with a summons for, you know, for this lawsuit litigation.
00:15:01.280 And every time the Secret Service steps in the way, and they're like, I'm sorry, I can't accept this,
00:15:06.560 and she's not available right now.
00:15:11.360 Really?
00:15:13.300 Wow.
00:15:13.980 That's...
00:15:14.340 I feel like the role of the Secret Service, right?
00:15:16.400 No, it really doesn't.
00:15:17.860 And I bet they hate doing it for her.
00:15:20.020 Oh, I'm sure.
00:15:20.920 I'm sure.
00:15:21.440 They probably hate doing anything for her.
00:15:23.320 I think so.
00:15:24.160 I mean, can you imagine having to deal with that every day?
00:15:28.040 You know, she is so privileged, you know, so sure she should have more than she has,
00:15:37.340 including the White House, right?
00:15:38.700 I mean, she's obviously convinced it was stolen from her twice.
00:15:42.340 So, can you imagine how entitled a person like that is?
00:15:47.380 So, can I switch the subject still on the Democratic Party and the next president?
00:15:51.100 But, you know, I can't make up my mind on Joe Biden.
00:15:57.120 Does he want the job or not want the job?
00:15:59.300 It's hard to tell.
00:16:00.180 Right?
00:16:00.360 Because yesterday we were talking about this, and he had come out and said...
00:16:04.360 And do we happen to have the audio?
00:16:05.880 I know we played it yesterday on the News and Why It Matters, but do we have the audio of him
00:16:09.340 where he's like, look, I'm old.
00:16:11.960 I'm old.
00:16:13.340 We had this video yesterday, and he's talking to, you know, constituents in Iowa.
00:16:19.840 And it's one thing to make a joke about, hey, you know, I've got to get the right vice president
00:16:25.860 because I'm old.
00:16:27.220 But then people laugh, and he's like, no, no, no, I'm serious.
00:16:32.520 When you hear this, you're like, I think he's really trying to say something here.
00:16:37.860 You know, I don't know what it is, but I think he's trying to say something.
00:16:41.060 Listen to this.
00:16:41.780 Listen to this audio.
00:16:42.540 I can think of at least eight women, at least four or five people of color, that I think
00:16:51.220 are totally qualified to be vice president of the United States.
00:16:54.600 But for me, it has to be demonstrated that whoever I pick, there's two things.
00:16:59.860 One, he's capable of needing to be a president because I'm an old guy.
00:17:04.640 Okay?
00:17:05.080 You're laughing.
00:17:06.060 No, I'm serious.
00:17:07.100 No, no.
00:17:07.420 I mean, he just keeps trying to convince them not to laugh at his funny moment.
00:17:21.980 It gets to the point to where you're like, he's just serious.
00:17:24.860 Look, no, it's serious.
00:17:26.040 In fact, I've got to show you this CAT scan I just had.
00:17:29.440 Okay?
00:17:29.700 I mean, let me hold it up to the light here.
00:17:31.660 If you look, that shadow, very disturbing.
00:17:35.240 Very disturbing.
00:17:35.980 We don't know what it is right now.
00:17:38.120 No, no, no.
00:17:38.760 Don't laugh.
00:17:39.280 No, don't laugh.
00:17:39.880 It could be a tumor.
00:17:41.500 It could be cancer.
00:17:42.540 It could be tuberculosis.
00:17:44.200 We don't know.
00:17:45.540 So I really...
00:17:46.460 No, no, no.
00:17:46.840 Don't laugh.
00:17:47.540 I need a vice president that could replace me at the drop of a hat.
00:17:51.280 It's like, what are you doing, man?
00:17:53.660 What are you doing?
00:17:55.220 Well, yesterday, he apparently really wanted the job because he said he's thinking about
00:18:01.760 making Michelle Obama his vice president and appointing Barack Obama to the Supreme Court.
00:18:13.120 So today you want the job, Joe?
00:18:15.040 Is that what's happening?
00:18:16.780 You're putting together some literal dream team that you think everybody will race to you under?
00:18:22.620 I mean, which is it, tuberculosis or tuberculosis for the Constitution?
00:18:30.180 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:18:41.260 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
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00:18:52.000 Peter Schweizer is, or Schweizer, he's added T to his name.
00:18:56.760 Peter Schweizer is the author of Profiles in Corruption.
00:19:00.720 He also wrote another book about corruption called Secret Empires.
00:19:04.180 And we wanted to talk to him about witnesses in this trial.
00:19:09.880 Peter, who should be called as a witness for the defense of Donald Trump?
00:19:16.780 Well, I think if you're interested in corruption, you need to call Hunter Biden.
00:19:22.240 You need to call his business partner, Devin Archer.
00:19:24.960 And I think you need to call Joe Biden, because the nexus of the question here is,
00:19:29.800 was Donald Trump's request of the Ukrainian leader, Zelensky, legitimate?
00:19:36.300 And I think it was.
00:19:37.860 Democrats want to poo-poo it.
00:19:39.460 They want to pretend nothing happened.
00:19:40.960 But if the request is real and genuine, and I think the evidence indicates that it is,
00:19:46.360 he was actually doing his responsibility, which was looking after billions of dollars in taxpayer money
00:19:53.420 that disappeared, disappeared by people who were paying the son of the vice president of the United States.
00:20:01.240 So, Peter, how reliable of a—do you watch the show?
00:20:12.100 What is it?
00:20:12.920 It's not Billions.
00:20:13.960 What is the show, Stu, that's like basically the—
00:20:16.240 Succession.
00:20:16.940 Succession.
00:20:17.580 Have you seen Succession?
00:20:20.380 I have not.
00:20:21.420 I have not, Glenn.
00:20:22.180 Okay.
00:20:22.560 So it's an HBO show, and it's basically the Murdoch family.
00:20:27.020 Um, and, uh, you know, it's fictionalized.
00:20:30.380 And the Murdochs are—or what's the name of them in the—
00:20:35.020 Uh, Roy.
00:20:36.040 Yeah, the Roy family.
00:20:37.080 The Roy family, totally corrupt.
00:20:39.800 You know, they'll have people off, et cetera, et cetera.
00:20:42.580 The son is just like Hunter Biden.
00:20:45.760 He is a drug addict.
00:20:47.620 He has all kinds of issues.
00:20:50.460 He's always in, uh, in trouble.
00:20:53.100 But when he pulls his stuff together, he can put on a good show and become very believable
00:21:01.640 and very credible.
00:21:03.460 How—how sure are you that Hunter Biden is a guy that would crack and just wouldn't put
00:21:10.320 on a sympathetic, uh, sort of performance and be able to shift everything the other way?
00:21:16.860 Well, look, I mean, you—you don't know.
00:21:19.820 But what we know this is what we have on paper.
00:21:22.800 And what we have on paper is—is very, very simple.
00:21:26.160 And I think the questions you need to ask Hunter Biden are, what exactly were you being paid for?
00:21:32.620 Um, why was it that you were hired by, uh, the Ukrainians literally within three weeks
00:21:39.320 of your father being appointed point person, uh, for Ukraine policy?
00:21:44.380 Uh, we have your bank statement here.
00:21:46.420 We have it.
00:21:47.180 We got it from a court trial involving Hunter Biden's business partner, Devin Archer, who
00:21:51.860 was in—in charge with a fraud in New York.
00:21:55.000 We had a researcher actually attend that court case, talk to the prosecutors, got access to
00:21:59.500 a 400-page J.P. Morgan financial document upon which it shows Hunter Biden taking out large
00:22:07.260 amounts of cash out of this account.
00:22:09.380 Flowing into that account, Glenn, you not only have $83,333 a month, which works out to
00:22:16.400 a million dollars a year.
00:22:17.500 You also have money from Kazakh oligarchs.
00:22:21.160 You have money from anonymous Swiss bank accounts.
00:22:23.600 There's $1.2 million from an anonymous Swiss bank account.
00:22:27.180 Where's that money coming from?
00:22:28.420 Who's paying you?
00:22:29.680 Why are they paying you?
00:22:31.580 Um, you know, he can certainly try to create a sympathetic, uh, feel.
00:22:36.260 Uh, but at the end of the day, you have to answer those questions.
00:22:40.160 Those are deals that he got while his father was vice president, not before and not since.
00:22:46.040 And I think if you walk the American people through that, it becomes very, very obvious
00:22:49.840 about what's going on.
00:22:50.960 So tell me about the other oligarch, uh, the money that is, is showing up this mysterious
00:22:56.440 money.
00:22:56.960 Where is this oligarch?
00:22:58.760 Who is he?
00:22:59.580 Any idea on the Swiss bank account?
00:23:01.720 What does that tie to?
00:23:04.440 Yeah.
00:23:05.260 Um, so there, I mean, there's, there's oligarchs galore when it relates to Hunter Biden.
00:23:10.000 In Ukraine, you have two of them.
00:23:11.880 He's Lachewski, uh, who is, uh, widely known to be collected, connected with Burisma.
00:23:17.440 Uh, and, and he is a former oil and gas minister in Ukraine who literally deeded himself and
00:23:24.780 his company, Burisma, uh, all these plots that made the company so wealthy, um, and highly
00:23:31.020 corrupt.
00:23:31.420 He's from the old Yanukovych government, the pro-Russian government, the other oligarch
00:23:35.700 involved in Burisma.
00:23:36.960 Um, and a lot of, uh, Ukrainian, uh, uh, anti-fraud groups, uh, believe that he is, uh, intimately
00:23:43.360 involved in this as well, uh, is a oligarch named Kolomoisky.
00:23:47.760 Uh, Kolomoisky, here's the interesting part, the wrinkle.
00:23:51.300 Put this in context, Glenn, of the phone conversation that Donald Trump had with Zelensky.
00:23:57.100 Kolomoisky was the chief financial backer of Zelensky.
00:24:01.580 Now, Zelensky claims that he is an anti-corruption candidate, and, uh, uh, some of the witnesses
00:24:09.060 in the, um, house trial, uh, from the State Department and the embassy said, yeah, you
00:24:13.440 know, we, we think this guy's going to be a good anti-corruption guy.
00:24:16.880 The problem is his chief financial backer, Kolomoisky, is neck deep in corruption.
00:24:22.540 Uh, he was the head of Privat Bank, uh, the largest bank in Ukraine, through which more
00:24:28.020 than a billion dollars, that's with a B, more than a billion dollars in USAID just literally
00:24:33.480 disappeared.
00:24:34.360 I mean, it melted through the ground of the bank and disappeared.
00:24:38.300 So those are the individuals that are working with Hunter Biden, um, and, and Burisma in Ukraine.
00:24:44.720 Then you go to Kazakhstan.
00:24:47.000 You've got a Kazakh oligarch who sends $145,000, puts it into this account.
00:24:52.460 Again, it's all there on paper, um, and then, uh, uh, that's money that, that, uh, uh, you
00:24:58.800 know, Hunter Biden is taking out.
00:25:00.880 This guy is named Rakashev, um, and he is the son of the, sorry, the son-in-law of the
00:25:07.000 former defense minister of Kazakhstan, a highly corrupt individual involved in all sorts of
00:25:12.440 crony behavior in Kazakhstan elsewhere.
00:25:14.680 Uh, and we actually have a picture, Glenn, which I'm glad to share with you, a picture
00:25:18.540 of Hunter Biden with, um, Rakashev, this oligarch, also in the picture, Vice President Joe Biden.
00:25:27.520 Clear evidence that these oligarchs were getting access to the Vice President of the United
00:25:32.380 States and paying his son.
00:25:34.580 Okay, so wait a minute.
00:25:35.800 He is the defense minister, uh...
00:25:39.360 The son-in-law, the son-in-law of the defense minister, yes.
00:25:41.900 The son-in-law of the defense minister.
00:25:44.680 Okay.
00:25:45.580 Yes.
00:25:46.360 And, and how is he making his money?
00:25:50.120 Well, he is, as in Kazakhstan, a lot of it has to do with natural resources, it has to
00:25:54.980 do with real estate, uh, but Kazakhstan, again, when you look at groups like Transparency
00:26:00.040 International, uh, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are right down there at the bottom for corruption
00:26:06.320 with countries like Nigeria.
00:26:08.520 Um, and he's been implicated in all kinds of issues related to human rights and, and abuse
00:26:13.860 of power.
00:26:14.460 Uh, the point is, Glenn, that, that I made over and over again is that, you know, Hunter
00:26:18.480 Biden's not doing deals in the United Kingdom.
00:26:21.220 He's not flying to Japan and saying, oh, I want to work with a, with a high-tech startup.
00:26:26.340 He's working with oligarchs that, that are connected politically in these countries, these highly
00:26:31.160 corrupt countries.
00:26:32.100 And he's getting paid, uh, ostensibly for things that he has absolutely zero expertise
00:26:38.260 in.
00:26:39.480 So that's not illegal.
00:26:43.160 Correct.
00:26:43.960 It's not illegal.
00:26:44.780 It is, uh, unethical.
00:26:47.720 And the vice president had been warned about this by the state department, um, that it
00:26:54.380 is unethical on what he is, what he is doing.
00:26:57.380 It, in my opinion, it should be illegal, uh, but it's not.
00:27:02.120 So when you get Hunter Biden up on the stand and you say, so you were taking money from
00:27:07.440 these people and you don't really have any, you know, you don't have any knowledge of,
00:27:13.220 you can't even speak the language.
00:27:15.360 What is it you're doing for a million dollars a year?
00:27:18.060 Uh, why can't he just say, well, because, uh, they wanted to show that this company showed
00:27:25.220 that they were, um, uh, had American, uh, uh, power behind them, American elites behind
00:27:32.700 them.
00:27:32.980 And I'm sure they did just hire me because of my name, but I didn't do anything with my
00:27:38.620 dad.
00:27:40.700 Well, and that's why you want to have, uh, Devin Archer, his business partner, and also
00:27:45.500 vice president, Joe Biden, uh, testify as well.
00:27:49.000 And, and here's the key thing.
00:27:50.420 I mean, we can stay, say completely based on the facts and the evidence at hand that Joe
00:27:56.680 Biden has lied about his knowledge of what his son was doing.
00:28:01.200 He, he has made a blanket statement that's been often repeated that he has had no conversations
00:28:06.760 with his sons or any family members on their commercial business activities.
00:28:12.320 And that's flat out a lie.
00:28:14.780 Um, you know, Hunter Biden himself says he talked to his father about it two days before
00:28:19.800 it was announced that Hunter Biden was joining the board of Burisma.
00:28:23.820 We know based on white house visitors logs that his business partner, Devin Archer was
00:28:28.720 meeting with the vice president in the white house.
00:28:31.320 It's the only meeting he had the entire time according to white house visitors records.
00:28:36.600 So this notion that, that, that, you know, he didn't know anything about it.
00:28:41.100 He had no involvement is a flat out lie.
00:28:43.520 So I think you begin with that premise.
00:28:45.520 Why are you lying or why are you not being honest about the fact that you were aware of
00:28:51.840 what your son was doing?
00:28:53.000 But this is why you also need to get into, uh, I think getting access to documents like
00:28:59.240 transcripts of phone calls.
00:29:00.700 I mean, we, we have the Trump Zelensky transcript of their phone call.
00:29:04.380 We should have access to phone call conversations of Joe Biden's conversations with Ukrainian
00:29:11.180 officials, because look, this is, this is all kind of a, a, a, a stew.
00:29:15.780 Remember Joe Biden gets appointed in February, sorry, in March of 2014 to be point person on
00:29:21.880 Ukraine within three weeks, within three weeks, his son is suddenly on the Ukrainian payroll.
00:29:27.860 Burisma is looking to participate in USAID and other aid programs, energy infrastructure
00:29:34.660 projects with the United States.
00:29:36.940 The officials involved with Burisma have other business interests that, that are involved.
00:29:43.120 And Joe Biden is, is the, the, the, the one vote that matters in determining where eight
00:29:49.580 dollars are going to flow.
00:29:50.940 And that's what I think you have to focus on.
00:29:53.580 The challenge is, is right now we have access to Donald Trump's, you know, telephone call
00:29:58.720 with Zelensky and what they talked about.
00:30:00.500 We don't have access to emails, telephone conversations, any correspondence that Joe Biden
00:30:06.280 had either with his son or with Ukrainian officials.
00:30:09.500 And I think that is important and essential if we're going to have a balanced discussion
00:30:14.640 about this issue.
00:30:15.560 But we do know that we have money and we have transcripts and, and actual letters from members
00:30:25.820 of the State Department to the, to the hierarchy of the, of the anti-corruption bureau, if you
00:30:34.020 will, saying there's no reason to look into Hunter Biden.
00:30:37.380 There's no reason to look into this, uh, this 501c3 or this, this, um, uh, you know, NGO, uh, we, we know
00:30:46.060 there's missing money.
00:30:46.920 We're perfectly comfortable where that money, what happened to that money?
00:30:52.460 So, yeah, I, it, it's, it, it is, it is, uh, so bizarre to me, uh, as to why there is a lack of
00:31:00.900 curiosity by some people as to where, uh, all this money has gone.
00:31:05.680 Um, and, and it's a common thing you get in the developing world, whether it's, it's, uh, uh,
00:31:10.780 Ukraine or other developing world countries, we get very comfortable in dealing with them
00:31:15.600 and accepting the fact, uh, that money is disappearing.
00:31:19.640 And part of the reason, you know, may be that like, look, this, this person's corrupt, but
00:31:24.320 they're at least our ally, but you have an added layer when you've got family members on
00:31:29.360 the payroll of the American official, in this case, Joe Biden, who is supposed to be looking
00:31:35.000 into that.
00:31:35.940 Uh, and I think anywhere outside of Washington DC, people look at this and say, this does
00:31:41.120 not pass the smell test.
00:31:43.300 And it is entirely legitimate, uh, in Donald Trump's phone call was Alinsky to say, look,
00:31:48.740 I'm just asking you to cooperate with my attorney general and share with us information you have.
00:31:55.340 He's not asking him to make up information.
00:31:57.540 He's asking him to share information.
00:32:04.200 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:16.860 So I'm, I'm confused by this, uh, coronavirus because, uh, I'm not panicked.
00:32:23.200 I don't feel like, you know, this is it, but this has all of the earmarks of this is it.
00:32:29.200 This has everything that they've ever said.
00:32:31.380 You know, you know, one of these days we're going to have a pandemic.
00:32:34.080 It's going to sweep.
00:32:35.580 It'll come from an animal.
00:32:37.260 It'll be something that'll jump over to humans.
00:32:39.840 It'll be like the flu.
00:32:41.080 We'll have no vaccine for it.
00:32:42.800 We've never seen it before.
00:32:44.080 And it'll infect people quickly and it'll have a high death rate.
00:32:50.080 Oh yeah.
00:32:50.340 Well that, that seems to be, I don't know this.
00:32:53.220 And yet everybody's like, no, nothing to worry about.
00:32:55.980 You know, and China's just, you know, they just cordoned off 70 million people.
00:33:00.120 So no big deal.
00:33:01.540 Wait, they did what?
00:33:02.520 So what is it that's really happening and what state, what, what, uh, uh, what steps should
00:33:12.360 we be taking and what should we be looking for as a relief or the next sign that maybe
00:33:20.180 this might be a, a bad, uh, flu?
00:33:24.020 Senator Tom Cotton is with us.
00:33:26.460 Senator, how are you, sir?
00:33:28.240 Hey Glenn.
00:33:28.740 Good to be on with you this morning.
00:33:29.940 Thank you.
00:33:30.420 Good.
00:33:30.960 Hey.
00:33:31.280 Yeah.
00:33:32.460 Yeah.
00:33:32.820 You still having the, you jones in a little bit.
00:33:35.520 If I say I'm going to take your cell phone away, you get a little shaky.
00:33:39.620 Well, well, Glenn, uh, we've been in the impeachment trial now for a little over a week.
00:33:45.120 And I can tell you that that is obsessing people in Washington, but at home in Arkansas and really
00:33:51.080 anywhere outside of Washington and around the world, the biggest and the most important
00:33:54.700 news story today and for many, many days to come will be the Corona virus.
00:33:59.300 Um, China is facing a catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl, uh, when communist Russia covered
00:34:07.980 up the nuclear meltdown at the plant in Chernobyl, but in some ways it's worse because communist
00:34:13.560 China covered up a viral outbreak that can become a global pandemic.
00:34:19.220 So we have localized effects the way Chernobyl did.
00:34:22.100 So Tom, everybody is saying all, everybody.
00:34:25.380 I mean, I talked to somebody from the WHO yesterday and they're like, no, you know, China has really
00:34:29.460 been transparent.
00:34:30.320 I mean, we can't know for sure, but they've been pretty transparent.
00:34:33.380 That seems like a new thing for China, the communist Chinese.
00:34:37.700 Glenn, China is lying and they have been lying from the very beginning and WHO officials or
00:34:45.260 any other so-called expert that says China has been transparent and open is simply grading
00:34:52.500 them on a curve compared to what they did with SARS in 2003 and handling them kids, kid
00:34:58.260 gloves, hoping that they can maintain access to Wuhan and working with China.
00:35:03.260 But there is no doubt, Glenn, that China is lying.
00:35:06.480 Let me just give you a short timeline.
00:35:08.920 We now know the earliest case of, uh, the Corona virus happened on December one, a full month
00:35:15.140 before China best up to the WHO.
00:35:18.380 It may have been earlier than that.
00:35:19.980 We also know that even once they told the WHO on December 31st, they continue to lie to
00:35:26.700 their own citizens.
00:35:28.380 They said until just last week, it was contained with inside the city of Wuhan, a central Chinese
00:35:33.980 city of 11 million people.
00:35:35.900 Today, it is in every single province in China.
00:35:40.880 We also know by their actions, Glenn, you don't even have to look at their history.
00:35:45.220 Just look at the actions they have taken.
00:35:47.240 They now have quarantined 60 million of their own people, more than the combined population
00:35:52.900 of our entire West Coast.
00:35:54.820 They have canceled school indefinitely.
00:35:57.980 So schoolchildren are not going to school anywhere in China for the foreseeable future.
00:36:02.960 And Hong Kong, which is under Beijing's thumb, has instituted a near total travel ban.
00:36:07.980 Those are not, those are not the actions of a competent government that has control over
00:36:13.820 this growing catastrophe.
00:36:15.480 So, so Tom, what are we doing?
00:36:19.580 Why is, why is the United States, why is British, the British Airways, the only one that has said,
00:36:25.440 you know what, we're not flying in or out?
00:36:27.840 What are we doing as a nation?
00:36:30.340 So, so Glenn, it is much more than British Airways, which announced yesterday, as did Lufthansa,
00:36:36.140 national carrier of Germany.
00:36:37.320 Just overnight, Glenn, Russia closed its entire border with China, the sixth longest border
00:36:43.280 in the world, more than one third larger than the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:36:47.600 Yeah, but that's only because the Russians hate people who are different than them.
00:36:51.740 Well, Glenn, LL announced that they would stop all travel between Israel and China.
00:36:59.680 Air France announced that they would stop flights between China and the United States.
00:37:03.800 So what are we doing?
00:37:05.160 This is what, this is why I have been urging senior administration officials with whom I've
00:37:10.340 consulted repeatedly over the last week, we need to shut down all commercial travel immediately
00:37:16.760 between the United States and China.
00:37:19.140 So, Tom, Tom, hang on just a second.
00:37:21.300 I know, I know, because we're having you on, I know what you were going to say on that.
00:37:26.320 You've already said it, you've been urging, but I also know that Donald Trump is going
00:37:31.100 to get exactly the same treatment that you are.
00:37:33.980 Right now, people are, this is the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard.
00:37:37.880 You're only doing that because, well, you don't like people who are from China.
00:37:42.460 You don't like immigrants.
00:37:43.720 Oh, my gosh.
00:37:46.700 So when you propose this, you know this is going to be turned into a political nightmare.
00:37:54.180 How do you break through all of that crap to get us to move quickly?
00:37:59.060 Glenn, the left or politically correct so-called experts can hurl every epithet they want at
00:38:06.340 me or at Donald Trump.
00:38:07.320 I am trying to protect American lives, and we need an immediate stop to commercial travel.
00:38:13.720 Now, there are some exceptions, of course, to that.
00:38:17.180 For instance, we should allow any American and their immediate family members in China
00:38:21.400 the option to evacuate from China back to U.S. territory under appropriate and elevated
00:38:27.740 monitoring.
00:38:28.380 That's exactly what happened yesterday in California.
00:38:30.860 We should continue to allow that.
00:38:32.300 We should also allow medical experts from the CDC or HHS or our other laboratories to
00:38:40.100 go into China as part of the WHO delegation to try to get to the bottom of what happened
00:38:44.640 in Wuhan so hopefully we can find a vaccine.
00:38:47.740 And we can allow continued trade.
00:38:50.100 I understand that many people are worried about the breakdown of global supply chains.
00:38:55.240 Well, that's fine.
00:38:55.980 We can have shipping containers coming into the Long Beach port.
00:38:59.560 We can have FedEx flights coming into Memphis, but when those crews land, they don't get
00:39:05.260 to go into the hotel and the nightclub.
00:39:07.620 They stay in a quarantined position.
00:39:10.120 That should mitigate the economic impact to our country.
00:39:12.960 But frankly, Glenn, supply chains may start to break down soon anyway because Chinese workers
00:39:18.360 are not going to be able to go to their factories as this contagion continues to grow throughout
00:39:22.780 China.
00:39:23.400 Right now, what we have to focus on is the immediate safety of the American people.
00:39:28.380 And given the number of unknowns about this virus, the time is now to act.
00:39:34.240 Frankly, it's past time to act.
00:39:37.300 So, Tom, I just read a story from an American who is stuck in Wuhan.
00:39:43.600 He was teaching at the university there.
00:39:45.740 He said it is like stepping into a Twilight Zone episode.
00:39:50.320 Eleven million people in this usually bustling 3,500-year-old city is silent.
00:39:55.620 He said there is no one anywhere.
00:39:58.780 No one's working.
00:39:59.720 No one's going anywhere.
00:40:00.720 No one's on campus.
00:40:02.080 People are afraid.
00:40:03.380 They don't know what's going to happen next.
00:40:05.240 People are getting a sore throat and they think, is this the beginning of the end?
00:40:08.800 It's a battle constantly inside of your own head.
00:40:11.860 We know that I saw a report earlier this week that the Chinese have shut down their steel industry.
00:40:21.280 There's two things that are going on right now.
00:40:23.960 People in China can't go to work.
00:40:26.700 If you can't make steel, we can't make cars.
00:40:29.780 If we can't make parts for cars, we can't fix cars.
00:40:32.740 If you can't make Apple products, Apple doesn't have a supply chain.
00:40:38.140 Costco, all of these things are really important to all of us.
00:40:44.660 Just if China goes down and struggles for six months, this is going to make a major impact economically.
00:40:52.220 And I don't mean to sound callous.
00:40:54.120 This is below all of the human toll.
00:40:57.120 But if it spreads here, we are looking at just in the fear of staying home or being quarantined and having to stay quarantined, we're looking at devastating effects.
00:41:11.680 Are we not?
00:41:13.400 Unfortunately, that could be the case, Glenn, especially in China.
00:41:17.180 As I said, one of the most common reasons not to close commercial travel between two nations is the economic impact.
00:41:25.500 We can mitigate that impact by allowing central trade to continue to flow because there's no evidence that the coronavirus can sustain itself on, say, a shipping container or a shipping package on an airplane.
00:41:39.780 However, even if we take those steps, Glenn, the economic impact may be already too severe to mitigate in the first place.
00:41:48.240 Because if those factories are shut down in China because China has been so incompetent and deceitful in addressing this outbreak, it doesn't matter to begin with.
00:41:56.780 That's why we should take the actions now to protect the health of our people.
00:42:01.020 And, Glenn, I just want to say, because I know you've got a lot of listeners around the world to include the 75,000 to 110,000 Americans who are in China today.
00:42:08.380 If you are in China, especially if you are in Wuhan, contact our consulate.
00:42:15.460 Tell them what your position is and see if they can help you get out of the country.
00:42:20.640 In fact, there's a new email address I just saw on the newswire, coronavirusemergencyuscatstate.gov.
00:42:27.880 If you're in China and you are an American citizen with a passport and you want help getting out, coronavirusemergencyuscatstate.gov.
00:42:37.360 If you're an American who's thinking about traveling to China, do not go.
00:42:41.740 Do not go to China.
00:42:44.980 What about anywhere else in the world?
00:42:47.200 We're okay so far?
00:42:48.260 I mean, I'm afraid, Glenn, that in the days ahead, we will see confirmed cases pretty much all around the world.
00:42:59.580 You know, we already have seen confirmed cases in most of China's neighboring nations.
00:43:05.200 And I think that's only going to continue, again, because China lied to its own people and lied to the world for so long.
00:43:12.160 If they had simply fessed up at the beginning and said, this is a novel virus, we need help containing it, then we might have stopped this outbreak for the benefit of the Chinese people as well as our people.
00:43:24.640 Communism.
00:43:26.100 Communism.
00:43:26.840 This is why I say communist Russia had a catastrophe with Chernobyl because of its own incompetence and deceitfulness.
00:43:35.020 Communist China now has a Chernobyl-level catastrophe on its hands, although it's worse than Chernobyl because a nuclear meltdown is localized, whereas a pandemic spreads around the world.
00:43:48.840 Are you talking to scientists, epidemiologists, getting counsel from them on this that's different than what we're necessarily hearing in the press, which isn't really a lot?
00:44:03.500 I have, Glenn.
00:44:06.760 I can't say there's all that much difference, in part because we're still at the beginning stages of understanding the virus.
00:44:12.340 We could have been at this stage eight weeks ago.
00:44:14.820 But here's some of the things we do know, Glenn.
00:44:16.640 We do know that it could have a very long incubation period, as long as 14 days, which was much longer than SARS.
00:44:23.300 We do know that individuals who are asymptomatic could be contagious, unlike SARS.
00:44:29.200 That combination is deadly because you can screen as many people you want on an airplane and in many ways as you want.
00:44:38.220 But if they are asymptomatic and they don't have a fever and they don't have a cough and they're not ingested, but they are contagious, you have no idea.
00:44:45.900 The only way to stop it is to stop them from coming in the first place.
00:44:49.200 Okay.
00:44:49.720 Senator, I've got to go here and let you go back to work.
00:44:52.580 But real quick, is there anything people can do?
00:44:55.040 Practice good hygiene like you always would.
00:44:58.780 No, no, no.
00:44:59.100 I mean to help you get the air travel to stop.
00:45:04.380 Email, call your senator and congressman.
00:45:06.480 Ask them to advocate with the administration that we need to take a temporary targeted pause in all commercial travel between the United States and China.
00:45:15.700 Thank you very much.
00:45:16.480 I appreciate it.
00:45:17.120 Senator Tom Cobb.
00:45:17.800 Thanks, Glenn.
00:45:18.060 You bet.
00:45:18.600 All right.
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00:45:46.460 I would hope, Dave, I could call you a friend of mine.
00:45:49.160 We've gotten to know each other over the last couple of years.
00:45:52.220 He is the founder and president of StoryCorps, which is this great, great thing that really only liberals know about because it's on NPR and it's available for everybody.
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00:46:13.160 And if you don't mind me asking before we get into the story, you're doing something.
00:46:17.520 I think it's in Birmingham that I've been trying to go to.
00:46:21.380 It's happening next week.
00:46:23.600 And can you explain what that is, Dave?
00:46:26.960 Sure.
00:46:27.440 Hi, Glenn.
00:46:27.960 It's great to be on again.
00:46:29.820 And, yeah, you've been a great friend to StoryCorps and to One Small Step.
00:46:33.160 So, you know, we have StoryCorps is this massive project where people interview their grandparents or their parents, and all the interviewers go to the Library of Congress.
00:46:44.340 We've done 600,000 participants across America, really just celebrating the wisdom of humanity.
00:46:50.260 And I came to you a couple years ago when we came up with this crazy idea to kind of change StoryCorps a little bit for the times and put strangers together across the political divides into StoryCorps booths just to look each other in the face, not to talk about politics, just to remember that that person is a human being because of this kind of culture of contempt that we live in.
00:47:11.980 And you've been an incredible supporter and friend as we've tested this thing, because our Hippocratic oath, you know, is that we're not going to do any harm to anybody who comes to StoryCorps.
00:47:21.180 We're a nonprofit public service.
00:47:23.120 We're here to help people.
00:47:24.260 We're here to help the country.
00:47:25.340 And, in fact, what happens in the booth is pretty remarkable.
00:47:29.140 As you know, it's hard to hate up close.
00:47:30.940 So we have an event next Friday night, February 7th, in Birmingham.
00:47:37.340 And I know that Birmingham is a strong town for your show, for Glenn Beck fans.
00:47:43.820 It's at the Alice Stevens Center.
00:47:46.040 And it's going to be a night of just everyday people coming together and a night of hope and reconciliation and starting to chart a path forward for the country where it's liberals and conservatives together, not to talk about politics, but just to remember our shared humanity.
00:48:03.140 I will tell you, Dave, I'm still trying to get there.
00:48:05.740 I know my office, but I'm still trying to get there because I so believe in what you're doing.
00:48:11.520 You know, there's a lot of people that, on both sides, that say, you know, I want to bring people.
00:48:15.640 But they don't.
00:48:16.360 They really don't.
00:48:17.720 They still want their agenda.
00:48:19.960 And the one thing I've learned about you, Dave, that impresses me from the first day until today, I have never seen you do anything that would violate the spirit of what you've talked about with me privately.
00:48:36.180 And that is, Glenn, we really don't care.
00:48:38.280 I mean, it doesn't matter our political backgrounds.
00:48:41.900 We have got to come back together.
00:48:44.400 And I think there's a lot of people that feel that way.
00:48:48.180 I think there are, too.
00:48:51.120 And, I mean, when we first met, and it was just a couple of years ago, things were better than they are now, which is hard to imagine.
00:48:57.220 You know, and I think that we're looking at an extinction-level threat to our country, and I know you feel that way as well, if we can't begin to see the humanity in people we disagree with.
00:49:06.820 I mean, no one has ever changed someone's mind by calling them a moron or an idiot or a Nazi or whatever it is.
00:49:13.080 We just drive ourselves further into our corners, and that's not what this country is.
00:49:16.940 And I think, I mean, it's just time to say enough.
00:49:19.020 It's enough.
00:49:21.060 You know?
00:49:21.600 And so we're offering, because you were one of the first partners on this project, we're offering.
00:49:28.720 It's going to be an amazing night.
00:49:30.840 We're going to have people actually from some of the stories that we're playing today on the show.
00:49:35.700 But the first 50 Glenn Beck listeners who write to One Small Step at StoryCorps, which is S-T-O-R-Y-C-O-R-P-S dot org, will get complimentary tickets to the event.
00:49:47.940 Again, it's at the Alice Stevens Center.
00:49:50.180 Jimmy Hall and the Southern Cultural Revival will be playing.
00:49:53.160 It's going to be, it's just going to be, it's a missionary work kind of night.
00:49:58.560 It's going to be an amazing night.
00:50:00.040 And there's no politics involved, right?
00:50:03.960 That's right.
00:50:04.460 Okay.
00:50:05.500 And if you want to make a difference and you're not the kind of person that's like, I'm going to go to this and I'm going to wear my Trump hat, don't, please don't, please don't do that.
00:50:17.220 And the left is being told the same thing.
00:50:20.260 And it's not the left.
00:50:20.980 It's just Americans, both left and right.
00:50:23.980 You know, Democrat, Republican, independent, everybody is trying to come together.
00:50:29.220 This is a room full of people and it's a, you know, kind of, as Dave says, one small step, one, one night where everybody's just going to celebrate, you know, what we really are supposed to be and find roads to each other.
00:50:45.860 And Birmingham is one of the first places to do it.
00:50:48.600 I'm trying to be there.
00:50:49.860 I can't make any promises, but I really want to be there.
00:50:52.420 And I would love for you to join.
00:50:55.600 If you are anywhere in that area, please just write to onesmallstepatstorycore.com.
00:51:05.480 Or is it .org?
00:51:06.020 .org.
00:51:06.520 .org.
00:51:06.820 .org.
00:51:07.280 And again, this is, this is a charged event, but Glenn Beck listeners, the first 50 can come in complimentary.
00:51:14.580 You know, as you were talking, it was reminding me of the story about, about Lincoln, which I don't think is all that well known.
00:51:20.360 But in the Civil War, Lincoln was giving a speech and he started talking about Southerners as fellow human beings who are dead wrong.
00:51:27.580 And somebody in the audience, a woman in the audience said, you know, how can you, how can you just call them human beings?
00:51:33.780 They're animals.
00:51:34.680 They have to be destroyed.
00:51:35.660 And Lincoln said, don't I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends, right?
00:51:40.240 So, I mean, every, every bit of knowledge, everything we know about how humans have, have evolved and interacted with each other speak to the danger of, of seeing people as less than human, which is what we're doing.
00:51:54.780 I mean, when we start using, you know, terms, when, when we start thinking of our, of our fellow Americans as somehow less than human, you know, you know what happened to Rwanda.
00:52:04.980 You know what happened in Nazi Germany, you know, we can't, we cannot do this.
00:52:10.780 So, so it's time.
00:52:12.080 And I'm very grateful to you for being at the forefront of this.
00:52:14.700 So we have only about two minutes.
00:52:16.900 I don't even know if we have time.
00:52:18.020 Can we play the, the Julio Diaz segment?
00:52:22.940 How long is that, Sarah?
00:52:23.780 Do we have time?
00:52:24.840 Okay.
00:52:25.080 So we have time.
00:52:25.720 It's a couple of minutes.
00:52:26.520 Listen to this.
00:52:27.060 This is story core.
00:52:28.200 So I get off the train, you know, I'm walking towards the stairs and this young teenager pulls out a knife.
00:52:35.180 He wants my money.
00:52:36.400 So I just gave him my wallet and told him, here you go.
00:52:39.420 He starts to leave.
00:52:40.700 And as he's walking away, I'm like, hey, wait a minute.
00:52:42.960 He forgot something.
00:52:44.160 If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.
00:52:49.320 So, you know, he's looking at me like, what's going on here, you know?
00:52:52.640 And he asked me, well, why are you doing this?
00:52:54.440 And I'm like, well, I don't know, man.
00:52:56.440 If you're willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money.
00:53:01.580 I mean, all I wanted to do was go get dinner.
00:53:03.600 And if you really want to join me, hey, you're more than welcome.
00:53:06.700 So I'm like, look, you can follow me if you want.
00:53:09.200 You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help.
00:53:12.740 So, you know, we go into the diner where I normally, we sit down in the booth and the manager comes by.
00:53:17.840 The dishwashers come by.
00:53:19.480 The waiters come by to say hi, you know.
00:53:21.720 So the kid was like, man, but, you know, everybody here, do you own this place?
00:53:26.360 I'm like, no, I just eat here a lot.
00:53:28.600 He's like, but you're even nice to the dishwasher.
00:53:30.540 I'm like, well, haven't you been taught you should be nice to everybody?
00:53:34.200 So he's like, yeah, but I didn't think people actually behave that way.
00:53:37.980 So I just asked him in the end.
00:53:39.280 I'm like, you know, what is it that you want out of life?
00:53:41.700 He just had almost a sad face.
00:53:44.360 Either he couldn't answer me or he didn't want to.
00:53:46.040 So the bill came and I look at him and I'm like, look, I guess you're going to have to pay for this bill because you have my money and I can't pay for this.
00:53:55.360 So if you give me my wallet back, I'll gladly treat you.
00:53:58.800 He didn't even think about it.
00:53:59.960 He's like, yeah, OK, here you go.
00:54:01.720 So I got my wallet back and I gave him $20 for it.
00:54:05.540 You know, I figure maybe it'll help him.
00:54:08.140 I don't know.
00:54:09.360 And when I gave him the $20, I asked him to give me something in return, which was his knife.
00:54:17.780 And he gave it to me.
00:54:20.120 You know, it's funny because when I told my mom about what happened, you know, no mom wants to hear this.
00:54:24.880 But with her, she was like, well, you know, you're the type of kid that I always someone asked you for the time.
00:54:30.500 You gave them your watch.
00:54:31.580 And I figure, you know, you treat people right.
00:54:35.000 You can only hope that they treat you right.
00:54:37.320 It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world.
00:54:41.900 What a great story.
00:54:44.480 What a great story.
00:54:46.820 I mean, it's real.
00:54:47.880 And it's true.
00:54:49.220 Yeah, it's true.
00:54:50.520 This guy's a social worker in the Bronx.
00:54:52.020 This is who we are.
00:54:52.780 This is America.
00:54:53.440 It is.
00:54:54.380 And it goes back to our basic principles.
00:54:56.440 I don't care if you learned it from from, you know, Gandhi or Jesus or whoever.
00:55:01.040 It doesn't matter.
00:55:02.420 I mean, him actually.
00:55:03.780 That's what Jesus said.
00:55:05.020 Somebody wants this.
00:55:06.580 Give him your coat.
00:55:07.580 Give him your give him your shirt.
00:55:09.620 And that's what happens when we behave the way we're supposed to behave.
00:55:14.860 Thank you so much, Dave.
00:55:16.740 Thanks, Glenn.
00:55:17.460 Take care.
00:55:17.900 Talk to you soon.
00:55:18.560 You bet.
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