The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Barry Loudermilk & Carol Roth ｜ 3⧸13⧸24

00:00:00.000 There is a lot on today's show that you need to hear.

00:00:03.320 First of all, crime is exploding everywhere,

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00:00:14.880 Also, TikTok, that controversy is going on.

00:00:18.740 The Congress voted to ban TikTok.

00:00:22.300 Barry Loudermilk is with us.

00:00:23.740 He's talking about the January 6th committee,

00:00:26.660 Steve Baker and all the corruption in Washington.

00:00:29.500 And we have a fascinating conversation with Carol Roth.

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00:02:24.180 The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:29.520 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:32.440 We have Barry Loudermilk on with us.

00:02:35.060 Barry is a congressman from the great state of Georgia.

00:02:39.140 He is on the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight that is currently working to clean up the mess of Liz Cheney and her January 6th committee.

00:02:50.620 Barry joins us now.

00:02:51.840 Barry, I've got several things I want to cover with you.

00:02:53.920 But let's start with the Liz Cheney thing.

00:02:55.860 You told me on the phone once, and I read it in your report, that they were informed that they had to turn over all of the records, all of the testimony, and they didn't.

00:03:12.860 In fact, they tried to delete it.

00:03:14.960 Then they said they didn't know about any other files.

00:03:17.680 Then when you found the files, they were locked and they said, oh, we don't know anything about a password.

00:03:22.140 That's correct.

00:03:27.140 And you're right, Glenn.

00:03:29.360 Is it a, is it a, I mean, has that happened before?

00:03:33.920 I mean, is this normal when you switch?

00:03:38.380 No, it is not normal.

00:03:40.160 And there are clear rules in the House of Representatives of what should be preserved, what has to be preserved, and what you don't have to preserve.

00:03:48.660 If, let's say, there was, you interviewed somebody that was totally irrelevant, they had nothing to say, and you're just like, whoops, we should have never even talked to you.

00:03:59.580 That's something you probably don't have to preserve, especially if you didn't use their testimony.

00:04:05.160 But anything that's relevant or exculpatory, then, or even, let's say, the transcript or the videos of your interviews are something you definitely have to keep.

00:04:19.860 And we know for a fact, because they admitted, they discarded the thousands of videos because every person they interviewed, they videotaped.

00:04:29.560 And this is extremely important.

00:04:32.280 And of all the information that they didn't keep or they hid or they deleted, these are the most critical.

00:04:41.440 And they totally got rid of all of those videotapes and admitted that they did because they said, hey, you've got the written transcripts of these.

00:04:51.960 Well, first of all, we didn't have all the written transcripts.

00:04:55.920 They sent some to the White House, some to Homeland Security, which we're still working on getting.

00:05:01.020 And there were some documents, and we still don't know what those are, that they deleted from the hard drives.

00:05:07.080 They told us they were giving us four and a half terabytes of digital data.

00:05:11.600 We got less than three terabytes.

00:05:13.300 That's why we started, that's why we hired a forensics team to look at these hard drives.

00:05:17.560 Maybe there's something corrupt.

00:05:18.860 Maybe there's something missing.

00:05:20.160 And that's where they recovered these password-encrypted documents that have been deleted.

00:05:25.340 And you're right.

00:05:26.000 When I asked the chairman, he says, I don't even know what you're talking about, much less no password.

00:05:30.200 So, Barry, if I did this and I was under investigation and I did this, I would immediately go to jail.

00:05:40.020 Obstruction of justice.

00:05:41.360 I would go to jail.

00:05:42.140 All of us would.

00:05:43.620 But nobody in Congress ever seems to worry about that.

00:05:46.240 There doesn't seem to be anything that sends anyone to jail.

00:05:51.200 Why?

00:05:52.900 Well, we're going to see what is available.

00:05:57.700 One argument is the speech and debate clause.

00:06:00.040 But that is to protect you from lawsuits or legal action for what you do in the course of your business being a legislator.

00:06:12.740 I've already been threatened with being subpoenaed or sued just for revealing the truth.

00:06:20.080 But I'm protected under the speech and debate clause because we have a real legislative purpose in what we're doing.

00:06:26.840 Correct.

00:06:27.040 The Congress and the Senate and the president need protection as they are pursuing their job.

00:06:35.660 So if you want to make a claim on the floor, you can make a claim and nobody can sue you, et cetera, et cetera.

00:06:41.780 But we're not talking about that.

00:06:43.480 We are talking about the willful destruction of things the people of the United States paid for.

00:06:51.340 We paid millions of dollars.

00:06:54.000 And if they don't classify things to keep us away from it and to keep many of you guys who have oversight away from it, then they just seem to destroy it.

00:07:04.520 That can't stand.

00:07:05.700 It cannot.

00:07:07.440 And we this is kind of treading new territory.

00:07:10.100 I don't know that anything to this level, not I shouldn't say hasn't happened before, but never been exposed.

00:07:18.620 And so there's there's so much more investigation that we're doing.

00:07:24.020 I don't want to really opine on what could happen in the future, because we may uncover a whole lot more that even adds on to just how how obstructive that they really were.

00:07:34.740 And you also have the issue of, well, you have most of the members of that committee are still in Congress, but you do have Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and some others that are not.

00:07:47.860 They're not currently protected by some of those same things.

00:07:51.300 But it also gives us the ability of those that are in Congress.

00:07:54.480 We do have certain actions that can be taken within the body.

00:07:58.920 So there's a lot of questions there.

00:08:00.940 And what I've told our team is let's just keep digging.

00:08:03.220 Let's keep investigating.

00:08:04.220 Let's keep going down the path we're going, because right now we have literally informants coming out of the woodwork.

00:08:13.300 Now that they've seen what we're doing is we're doing it in an unbiased manner.

00:08:17.660 We're just trying to get to the truth.

00:08:19.500 And we even have folks who, let's say, would more lean toward Democrats that are coming to us saying, I've got information.

00:08:30.780 I don't like Donald Trump, but I hate the injustice that I see being done.

00:08:35.400 Right.

00:08:35.540 And this isn't all about Donald Trump.

00:08:37.660 This is about the railroading of American citizens like I've never seen before. 0.74

00:08:42.160 It was Jim Jordan yesterday issued a letter on behalf of our journalist, Steve Baker, to the United States Attorney Matthew Graves and is demanding all of the documents and communication internal to know why this guy was treated differently than the New York Times.

00:09:04.540 Are we going to find anything on this?

00:09:07.640 Nobody believes that any of this is going to change a darn thing, which is frightening, quite honestly.

00:09:13.540 Well, I can anticipate what the FBI is going to say, and I've got some personal theories about this, but they're going to say this is an active investigation, so we can't provide you.

00:09:25.280 Of course, of course.

00:09:26.680 Which is potentially, let me just say this, potentially one of the reasons that they've done this is so certain information that he was working on can't be subpoenaed or that won't be provided to Congress.

00:09:42.360 Because that's one theory of why they've gone after him and not the others, because he was on to something.

00:09:47.440 Look, my dad, a World War II veteran, used to tell me all the time, you took the most incoming fire when you were over the target.

00:09:54.920 Correct.

00:09:55.460 So the fact that this has been done to Steve Baker is a red flag to me is he's on to something.

00:10:01.880 Yeah, and I know one of the things he's working on, I believe you do too, and that has to be sewn up.

00:10:10.340 If it's false, then it's false and shouldn't be spoken of.

00:10:14.660 But if it's true, it's one of the worst things.

00:10:18.920 I think it's regime changing, and I use the word regime intentionally.

00:10:22.720 I agree with you on that.

00:10:26.540 And people don't go to these extreme measures to cover up something that isn't real.

00:10:33.940 Yes.

00:10:34.140 I mean, there's got to be there, there, or they're not going to go to this level.

00:10:38.340 Tell me, let me switch subjects again.

00:10:41.740 TikTok, this bill is going through Congress today, and Stu and I look at it, I think, the same way.

00:10:50.480 We're for free speech, and I don't like regulating anybody.

00:10:55.480 However, these guys are intentionally taking us down.

00:11:00.100 However, is this a Trojan horse that can be used against people like us down the road?

00:11:06.160 I'm in the same position as you guys.

00:11:09.900 I think there is something that needs to be done with TikTok, because what people need to understand is this application is owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party for one thing, and it's to disrupt the Americans, our culture, to influence the culture. 0.91

00:11:28.880 But more importantly, is to spy on America.

00:11:33.580 Exactly.

00:11:34.120 Divide us and get information.

00:11:35.800 Look, some of the people who are defending TikTok are already upset about the amount of data big tech is taking from American citizens every day without their knowledge, and in my estimation, unconstitutionally and illegally.

00:11:51.820 But yet they're defending TikTok, who's doing the same thing, and it's going to an enemy of the United States.

00:11:56.880 I know.

00:11:57.000 So we have to be very careful, because I also don't trust the government.

00:12:00.800 I know that we will take any law to the extreme and try to use it.

00:12:05.460 So I think it's important to take the step.

00:12:09.240 And I think under this legislation, which forces the divesture of TikTok from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:12:18.860 And look, I want to protect Glenn Beck and the Blaze and every other, even the liberal media.

00:12:26.160 I would say the same about the Braily Beast, which I despise. 0.99

00:12:30.180 But I don't think that we have to provide that same level of protection to the Chinese Communist Party.

00:12:38.840 What complex times we live in now.

00:12:41.620 It is.

00:12:42.180 It is.

00:12:43.380 It definitely is.

00:12:45.760 And one of the reasons, Glenn, that we're going to such efforts to expose the truth is because we have never before in American history has there been this much distrust of America, of our own government, of the people in the government.

00:13:03.920 And I think as bad as we are, we're still the best it's ever been.

00:13:08.340 And there's nothing we're going through we haven't been through before in this country and overcome.

00:13:11.400 We've got to get our eyes back on our cause of liberty and things that our founders, you know, have envisioned for this country.

00:13:21.420 We have to have a healthy distrust for our government.

00:13:25.100 That's what keeps us free.

00:13:26.740 But the people also have to know that there are still people here that want you to know the truth of what happened, because if we don't know the truth, we won't stop the same thing from repeating itself.

00:13:37.660 And when you look at this thing that Liz Cheney did, it isn't just the false information they put out.

00:13:43.220 But when you look at like Cassidy Hutchins testimony that they took hers hook, line and sinker without even questioning it.

00:13:51.220 Two months later, they interview the driver of the SUV who was supposedly the one that Trump tried to take the steering wheel from.

00:13:58.960 Right.

00:13:59.520 They didn't even ask him about that event when they interviewed him.

00:14:03.340 You would think of anybody that would ask that he had to interject it himself that that never happened.

00:14:08.840 They also only referenced pipe bomb five times in almost a thousand page report.

00:14:15.020 They're not they're not asking the questions on the pipe bomb.

00:14:18.040 And that doesn't make sense.

00:14:20.880 Five times.

00:14:21.860 But they mentioned Donald Trump 1900 times, 1900 times.

00:14:25.760 And the president of the United States was not even part of the tasking from the resolution that established the committee.

00:14:32.940 The security failure at the Capitol was and they didn't hardly address that whatsoever.

00:14:38.300 This was designed from the beginning to legislatively prosecute Trump and to push a false narrative.

00:14:46.300 You can see it all the way through from the documents that they tried to keep from the American people,

00:14:50.140 which is any exculpatory information that they suppressed, documents that they deleted and the questions they didn't ask people that they were afraid would contradict other information they got that they liked.

00:15:04.700 That is not a real investigation.

00:15:06.860 That is just cherry picking, trying to find whatever will support your predetermined narrative.

00:15:11.680 That's not the way our system is designed here in the United States.

00:15:15.040 So our job is just to put the truth out there to the American people and let them decide, you know, what really happened.

00:15:21.340 Yes.

00:15:21.580 Thank you.

00:15:22.500 Barry Laudermilk.

00:15:23.800 He is from the great state of Georgia.

00:15:26.720 We'll talk again, Barry.

00:15:27.860 Thank you.

00:15:28.380 Keep your head up.

00:15:29.120 All right.

00:15:29.440 All right.

00:15:29.860 Thanks, Glenn.

00:15:30.520 Keep up the door.

00:15:31.500 He's been remarkable on this and he's a pit bull that just is not going to let go.

00:15:39.060 And there's a few of them in Congress like Barry that are really, I mean, I think they have their heart in the right place.

00:15:48.380 Let the chips fall where they may.

00:15:51.180 I just want to know what the truth is.

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00:16:53.860 Now back to the podcast.

00:16:58.520 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:17:02.380 Carol Roth, the author of You Will Own Nothing, former investment banker and good friend of

00:17:10.160 the program, is here to, I guess we should start with the presidential budget that is

00:17:18.540 insane, Carol.

00:17:20.580 It's insane.

00:17:21.500 I keep calling it the budget of horrors because it takes the American dream and it turns it

00:17:28.280 into the American nightmare, Glenn.

00:17:30.880 And there are two pieces I think that we should discuss.

00:17:34.160 One is the just top-line insanity of it, the fact that we are at this precipice where we

00:17:40.520 have this fiscal foundation that is crumbling.

00:17:42.940 We're on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory, yet there is no seriousness about fixing it.

00:17:48.540 So that's one piece we should delve into.

00:17:51.000 The other piece, which I think may be even more important, is that this gives you a glimpse

00:17:56.840 into the democratic agenda, which is incredibly nefarious, and they are trying to come after

00:18:03.160 not just your income, but your wealth.

00:18:05.740 This is in the budget, all of these proposals for straight-up wealth taxes and wealth grabs.

00:18:12.960 And I don't know that enough attention is being given to that.

00:18:16.480 So I wanted to handle both of those.

00:18:19.120 Okay.

00:18:19.220 So let's go with the wealth tax first.

00:18:24.040 How are they coming after wealth?

00:18:26.360 So they are actually, within this budget, proposing a wealth tax.

00:18:32.140 And if you go to one of Biden's quote-unquote fact sheets, I love the fact that they just

00:18:37.120 straight-up lie and they call it a fact sheet.

00:18:39.300 They're repeating one of their favorite lies, which is that billionaires only pay an 8% tax

00:18:45.260 rate, which I'm sure you're thinking you hear that like I am.

00:18:48.280 Wow, that's great.

00:18:49.040 How do I get in on that 8% tax rate?

00:18:51.860 That is a straight-up lie.

00:18:53.800 This tracks back a couple of years when the White House did a study and they looked at

00:18:58.440 all of billionaires' income, including unrealized gains in their stock.

00:19:04.460 That means their stock has appreciated, but they have not sold it.

00:19:08.060 And they said, well, if we were to tax that, what kind of a rate would they be paying?

00:19:12.540 Well, they would be paying 8%.

00:19:14.380 Well, that's not how taxes work.

00:19:15.980 Tax works on income, not on wealth.

00:19:18.660 Tax cannot work that way.

00:19:21.340 If they start taxing somebody's unrealized wealth, that means as your house gains in

00:19:29.060 value, you have to pay that tax.

00:19:32.060 Are they going to pay you back when it dives?

00:19:35.440 No.

00:19:36.460 You can't tax it that way.

00:19:38.640 Of course.

00:19:39.660 And so what they're doing, and this is nefarious, and this tracks what I laid out and you will

00:19:44.640 own nothing, is they're saying, well, we're just going to do this for billionaires, that

00:19:49.260 we're going to go ahead and we're going to start taxing the wealth of billionaires to

00:19:53.360 make it more fair.

00:19:55.560 And once you concede, because a lot of people will go, oh, well, you know, that sounds good.

00:19:59.660 They've got a lot of money.

00:20:00.640 What does it matter to them?

00:20:01.740 Once you give up, that it is okay to do that, that property rights don't matter, that the

00:20:07.620 government has the ability to confiscate your wealth, which is what it is, and that is not

00:20:13.080 constitutional currently, but that is what it is, then they're going to say, well, you

00:20:18.120 know what?

00:20:18.440 We don't have enough and we need to save Medicare and we need to save Social Security, so we're

00:20:23.280 going to come after your wealth.

00:20:25.200 And that is your pension, your 401k, like you said, your house, and this is how we lose

00:20:31.740 everything that creates wealth.

00:20:33.560 So I just have to disagree with you because there's not an example, for instance, Woodrow

00:20:39.260 Wilson coming out and saying that we're going to create a national income tax, but it's only

00:20:45.100 going to be on the millionaires and it will never go higher than 7%.

00:20:49.920 And within two years, it was on the millionaires, a little higher than 7%, it was 95%.

00:20:59.140 And then that wasn't enough money, so they had to go down and now we all have a personal

00:21:06.580 income tax and it never went away.

00:21:09.780 You open this door.

00:21:12.600 It was millionaires in Woodrow Wilson's time.

00:21:15.800 It's billionaires this time.

00:21:17.340 What Carol just said is 100% provably true.

00:21:23.600 Yes.

00:21:24.180 And not only just the straight up wealth tax, but also the inheritance tax.

00:21:30.180 So this is something, again, that I flagged.

00:21:32.500 There's about $84.4 trillion that is set to turn over in the next couple of decades.

00:21:38.480 The big chunk of that is from the middle class and they want access to that money.

00:21:43.140 So another thing that they are throwing in here, Biden says, well, we're going to stop

00:21:47.840 with this, you know, the inheritance, you know, give away.

00:21:51.300 And when you pass money down, yeah, I know.

00:21:53.640 When you pass money down, you know, instead of that going, some portion of that going tax

00:21:58.580 free to your heirs, that we're going to change that.

00:22:00.960 But again, don't worry, guys.

00:22:02.420 This is just for the richest until it isn't.

00:22:06.220 And then on top of this, Glenn, this is even even more fun.

00:22:09.580 They want to raise the capital gains rates.

00:22:13.180 So this is the amount that you pay on money that you put at risk that you've already been

00:22:18.100 taxed on.

00:22:18.880 Right.

00:22:19.080 So this is when you go and you buy a stock or you buy a house and it appreciates in value

00:22:23.840 because you are risking that money and you've already been taxed on it and you don't know

00:22:27.680 if that gain is if there's going to be a gain or if there's going to be a loss, there's

00:22:31.560 a risk involved to incentivize that they have a lower rate for income that's earned on that.

00:22:37.640 Again, just going after people who make a million dollars, but they want to put that at the

00:22:42.840 ordinary income tax rate.

00:22:44.800 What that does, that not only seizes up capital allocation and is going to completely change

00:22:51.800 the opportunities that we have, but again, once that comes down, that is the way that

00:22:57.860 you create wealth as an individual.

00:23:00.060 You have to own assets.

00:23:01.620 You get the opportunity for those to appreciate and you get a break because you've taken that

00:23:05.960 risk.

00:23:06.480 They're trying to take all of this away and everybody's very caught up in the headline number,

00:23:11.840 which is insane, but this is the flash forward.

00:23:16.140 This is a glimpse into what the democratic agenda is going to be.

00:23:19.440 And by the way, Glenn, this is not just the president.

00:23:21.980 This is Congress because because Congress is the one who ultimately is going to pass this.

00:23:26.600 We cannot be voting for Democrats because this is what they want to do.

00:23:30.620 So, let me ask you, the budget came out and his budget for next year, I think is, what was

00:23:38.140 it?

00:23:38.340 7.4?

00:23:40.020 7.3 trillion dollars.

00:23:42.640 7.3 trillion dollars.

00:23:45.620 It was 3 or 4.2 trillion two years ago, three years ago.

00:23:50.760 It's now $7.5 trillion.

00:23:56.400 You know, that's a pretty remarkable number in case anybody doesn't know.

00:24:01.980 But it also said that he's raising taxes by $5.5 trillion.

00:24:08.200 Is that over 10 years?

00:24:10.300 Is that over a year?

00:24:11.920 It wasn't clear.

00:24:13.940 So, the proposal looked like that is over a period of time.

00:24:19.880 However, as we know, these statements, when they put these budgets together, they assume

00:24:25.160 that everything is going to work in the same way.

00:24:28.120 And the proposals that he's put forth to raise taxes will do things that slow down the economy

00:24:34.980 that will actually lead to lower taxes. 0.99

00:24:37.340 Just like when you had the Trump tax cuts, when people said, oh my God, that raised the

00:24:43.680 revenue that was received because that's how this works.

00:24:46.620 There's some fungibility here.

00:24:48.860 And so, you have to do what makes sense.

00:24:50.820 And you want to have those dollars in people's hands making productive decisions in the economy

00:24:55.720 instead of nonproductive wealth transfers between the government.

00:24:59.760 It's a different scenario.

00:25:01.440 So, this estimate that if everything goes perfectly, that they're going to even be able to raise 0.80

00:25:07.600 if all this went through, is kind of silly to begin with.

00:25:11.180 And it still doesn't cover the spending.

00:25:14.040 And that's the part that's really scary.

00:25:15.700 Like you said, the headline that he has goes up to $45.1 trillion within a decade, which

00:25:22.020 is actually lower than the CBO's projections, which I think are conservative.

00:25:26.500 So, this is complete fantasy land.

00:25:29.200 But it just shows that there is no fiscal responsibility.

00:25:32.980 There's nobody who's coming in to say that we're going to change this.

00:25:35.780 And this means that we're going to be dealing with ongoing inflation, ongoing taking away

00:25:42.820 of your purchasing power in a best-case scenario.

00:25:47.080 I don't think Donald Trump is, I mean, you know, he's not worried about debt because he

00:25:53.840 believes you do the things that, you know, increase your revenue.

00:25:58.540 And then you don't have to worry about debt.

00:26:00.980 But this debt, at what point, Carol, does this fall apart?

00:26:08.940 At what point?

00:26:10.000 We have the largest debt ever accumulated on human earth.

00:26:14.980 Yes.

00:26:16.320 Of all time.

00:26:19.000 All the countries.

00:26:20.220 We're number one.

00:26:20.860 Right.

00:26:21.080 We should all realize this.

00:26:23.320 And realize it is absolutely impossible to pay this debt back.

00:26:28.740 What is the real cost of this?

00:26:31.180 How long do we have before everything is crushed by it?

00:26:36.180 Well, like I said, it's not impossible to pay it back.

00:26:39.340 You hit the nail on the head when you talked about increasing revenues.

00:26:42.780 What we need is an increase in productivity.

00:26:45.620 And we need it fast.

00:26:47.180 And we need it with a furious pace.

00:26:50.000 Unfortunately, we don't have a president.

00:26:52.020 And we don't have a Congress that is removing barriers and doing the things that is going

00:26:56.420 to create this, you know, so-called productivity miracle.

00:27:00.240 OK.

00:27:00.360 So in the absence of having that productivity or, God forbid, some mass event that, you know,

00:27:06.600 impacts the population where all of a sudden they don't have to pay out these promises

00:27:10.260 anymore, what they're going to be left with is just issuing more debt.

00:27:14.860 And unfortunately, you don't have the ability for people to continually absorb that at any

00:27:20.800 particular given price based on where we are debt to GDP.

00:27:24.800 We don't have that much wiggle room.

00:27:27.020 I wish I could tell you the exact number.

00:27:29.000 There's there's not this exact spot where we got to X.

00:27:32.660 But we are certainly, you know, I was saying we were inching closer to this and people were

00:27:37.540 saying we're not inching towards it.

00:27:38.980 We're like running full speed.

00:27:40.400 Yeah, we're running full speed ahead.

00:27:41.760 We need to get serious.

00:27:44.080 And unfortunately, anytime somebody tries to have this realistic conversation, there's

00:27:48.680 always the political talking points because people don't want to hear it and they want

00:27:52.720 what was promised to them.

00:27:54.000 But you cannot get what was promised to you and have it mean the same thing.

00:27:59.300 They are going to basically inflate, inflate, inflate.

00:28:03.120 And so you may get your quote unquote million dollars and find that your million dollars,

00:28:08.640 you know, equates to buying a loaf of bread one day.

00:28:11.380 And unfortunately, that's the path that well, I tell you, you know, who we owe this money

00:28:14.920 to is the Federal Reserve, which is the banks, the banks in America.

00:28:19.740 We own apparently all this money to now they're the major funder for everything we're doing.

00:28:25.980 Um, why don't they just, well, because it's on every citizen's head, it's on every citizen's

00:28:33.520 head.

00:28:33.960 So what's going to stop them when it comes time to collect to say, you're sorry, you're

00:28:39.040 going to have to give me your house.

00:28:40.680 Well, and that's why it's so scary for us to see this flash of what's in front of us

00:28:45.760 seeing in the budget, these proposed wealth taxes, they are telegraphing to you that this

00:28:51.900 is part of the plan.

00:28:53.440 This is the way that they are going to get themselves out of the promises that they've

00:28:57.680 made that they cannot fulfill.

00:28:59.800 They are going to come and take your money and say that it's for your benefit and they're

00:29:03.800 saving Social Security and they're saving Medicare and the government is here to help

00:29:07.540 you.

00:29:08.080 Well, we've seen what the government help has done to the middle and the working class over

00:29:12.460 the past several years.

00:29:13.820 We literally cannot afford any more government help.

00:29:17.520 They are showing you this.

00:29:19.120 You need to wake up everybody that you know, even the people who don't believe it, they

00:29:24.620 don't understand.

00:29:26.040 Glenn and I will talk to wear blue in the face and try to explain this over and over again.

00:29:30.540 I will do videos.

00:29:31.400 We'll do explainers.

00:29:32.360 We'll write up pieces.

00:29:33.940 But people have to understand that at the end of the day, there's only so much math.

00:29:39.740 We've talked about this before.

00:29:41.080 Only so many ways that you can raise revenue.

00:29:43.480 Only so many ways you can pay for things.

00:29:45.440 There are certain promises at the end that equation has to balance and it is way out

00:29:50.620 of whack right now.

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00:30:01.120 All right.

00:30:01.620 I wanted to talk to you about crime and things that are happening in our cities, and I have

00:30:06.180 quite a few examples of it.

00:30:07.780 But first, I have to give you an update on something that I talked about on Friday.

00:30:11.380 On Friday, I told you that we were at Mercury One and my history collection, we had just

00:30:22.060 purchased a very, very rare uniform, prisoner uniform, from a prisoner's family in Auschwitz.

00:30:35.940 It's very rare because it was the hat, the pants, the cloak, all matching numbers.

00:30:42.000 We know exactly who it was.

00:30:43.680 The guy survived.

00:30:45.320 And it was just sold in auction.

00:30:49.680 We bought it at an auction in Poland.

00:30:53.580 And it was sent to us via Federal Express.

00:30:57.740 Now, as we find out now, it was actually the problem of the auction house.

00:31:07.220 They misnumbered or sent the wrong information with it.

00:31:11.100 So when it went through customs, it was stopped.

00:31:14.060 And then we got a notice, I think on Thursday, that it had been lost in the system.

00:31:20.820 And needless to say, that was not a good thing.

00:31:24.140 Irreplaceable comes to mind.

00:31:25.620 This is extraordinarily rare and important because it's not a Jewish star. 1.00

00:31:34.040 It is a political prisoner.

00:31:36.800 This guy was in with the red star.

00:31:40.240 Sorry, the red triangle.

00:31:42.740 And that means that you were against Hitler and you were either for capitalism or communism.

00:31:48.400 And you had to go away because you just wouldn't shut up.

00:31:51.000 Friday, I just asked if you would pray for its whereabouts.

00:31:58.640 Well, the chairman of the board of FedEx, somebody or he, somebody in his office or maybe him, heard me talk about it and reached out immediately, put us in charge with the client manager.

00:32:14.100 And this is something that you get.

00:32:15.340 If you have something that is lost or stolen, you reach out and ask for client managers.

00:32:22.540 Reggie Whitley was assigned to this case and he found it.

00:32:27.800 And I got to tell you, this is so important because I was thinking last week, how do I ever send a package?

00:32:38.440 Because I had just sent a package of some other rare piece that needed repair.

00:32:45.180 I had flown it myself.

00:32:47.440 I had gone to New York just to deliver it, to make sure it was safe.

00:32:52.180 I gave it to people that I didn't know were going to send it overseas and they did.

00:32:58.420 And they sent it UPS.

00:33:00.560 And what can Brown do for you?

00:33:03.080 I don't know.

00:33:04.140 Lose or steal, you know, precious items.

00:33:08.880 When I found out about it, the response was, yeah, that's happening a lot lately.

00:33:16.720 That's happening a lot lately?

00:33:20.060 Can you stop that from happening?

00:33:23.820 Because I ship with you from time to time.

00:33:28.040 So nothing happened.

00:33:31.200 And that is in somebody's pocket or on their shelf or I don't know where.

00:33:37.880 Because they're having a problem with theft, at least with this one merchant.

00:33:46.800 FedEx got on it immediately.

00:33:49.820 It wasn't stolen.

00:33:50.980 And that's what I was afraid of because of the last experience I had with UPS, that it was stolen.

00:33:57.500 And I thought, this thing's going to be, nobody will know what this is.

00:34:03.060 This will be destroyed.

00:34:03.900 And it is a tremendous piece of history.

00:34:07.700 So thank you, FedEx.

00:34:10.060 I know exactly who we will trust to send anything for repairs or from auction houses or anything.

00:34:18.760 Thank you for giving me some semblance of trust in something in today's world.

00:34:26.240 Thank you to the chairman and also Reggie Whitley, the client manager.

00:34:31.480 Here it is, by the way.

00:34:32.900 This is just the tunic.

00:34:35.600 If you're watching us on Blaze TV, you've seen these in, you know, every film.

00:34:40.640 And it has the red triangle and 3-1-2-5-9.

00:34:50.920 Just a tremendous piece of history that was about to be lost.

00:34:56.180 All right.

00:34:58.760 I want to talk to you some more about crime and theft and what's happening in our country.

00:35:04.540 However, every day I like to start my day with some scripture reading and some prayer.

00:35:11.040 And today was Ephesians 4.28.

00:35:14.740 And Stu, listen to this.

00:35:16.900 The thief must stop stealing.

00:35:18.900 Instead, he should make an honest living by his own efforts.

00:35:22.560 This way, he'll be able to share with those in need.

00:35:25.020 And I could have stopped reading there, but I, no.

00:35:29.460 Let no harmful language come from your mouth.

00:35:32.340 Only good words that are helpful in meeting the need.

00:35:36.180 Words that will benefit those who hear them.

00:35:38.260 Don't cause grief to God's Holy Spirit, for he has stamped you as his property until the day of final redemption.

00:35:45.380 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, violent assertiveness, and slander, along with all spitefulness.

00:35:51.720 Instead, be kind to one another, tenderhearted, and forgive one another, just as God in Christ has forgiven you.

00:35:57.620 So, I read that, and I thought, good night, everybody.

00:36:05.460 What can you say?

00:36:07.100 What can you possibly say?

00:36:09.080 But I'm going to say it and try to remember to be not bitter, enraged, angry, no assertiveness, and slander.

00:36:18.860 This is going to be impossible to do.

00:36:20.360 The Missouri AG, who is a friend of the program, Andrew Bailey, has said that a 15-year-old suspect should be tried for murder, and maybe an adult, instead of juvenile.

00:36:37.480 You have the video?

00:36:38.840 I don't know if I want to see it.

00:36:40.140 Play a little bit of it.

00:36:41.220 You've seen this.

00:36:42.120 It's gone around.

00:36:43.460 It's from a teenage fight.

00:36:45.320 Two teenagers.

00:36:46.140 Yeah.

00:36:46.400 I don't want to see it.

00:36:46.940 That's enough.

00:36:48.700 Terrible.

00:36:49.180 Terrible.

00:36:49.700 Bashing her head into the concrete over and over and over again.

00:36:53.920 Okay?

00:36:54.940 These are high schoolers.

00:36:57.100 High schoolers.

00:36:59.360 She was transported to the hospital in critical condition.

00:37:03.340 The suspect was arrested.

00:37:04.900 She's been held by the St. Louis County Family Court on assault charges.

00:37:10.180 In a statement, the AG said, this is evil and a complete disregard for human life, and it has no place in Missouri or anywhere.

00:37:17.740 The criminal should be charged and tried as an adult.

00:37:22.260 If the victim dies, that offense should rise to homicide.

00:37:27.260 Well, he's right.

00:37:30.900 Amen.

00:37:31.200 But why is this happening?

00:37:34.620 There is a split in our souls right now.

00:37:41.580 There are people that just do not care.

00:37:46.200 They don't care about human life.

00:37:48.520 They have no empathy for anyone.

00:37:52.260 It is the spirit of an antichrist.

00:37:57.440 I mean, it is the opposite of everything that is good.

00:38:04.700 Why?

00:38:05.820 Why is that happening?

00:38:07.980 By the way, there was an adult parent that was there at the fight and did nothing.

00:38:13.260 That person should be tried.

00:38:16.560 Only one teenager stepped up and tried to stop the fight, and they were pulled away by the other teenagers. 0.76

00:38:24.920 So that's a sick group of teenagers.

00:38:28.480 All of them should be tried for something.

00:38:31.720 But the one who did it should be tried as an adult, because these crimes are not kiddie crimes anymore.

00:38:46.700 They're brazen and ugly and heinous.

00:38:53.740 The way they are carried off without any regard, it's heinous.

00:38:59.560 Let me give you another story.

00:39:00.920 Retail giant that runs the Fulton Transit Center in lower Manhattan wants out of its deal with the MTA.

00:39:07.140 Because crime is scaring all the tenants away.

00:39:11.960 They say they shouldn't be held to this lease anymore,

00:39:15.820 because no one wants to come in and experience theft, property damage, bodily harm, or threats.

00:39:23.820 And they say they can't get people to even work there, let alone come shop there.

00:39:28.640 So we want out of the lease.

00:39:31.660 Taco Bell, multiple locations in Oakland.

00:39:35.640 They're shutting down.

00:39:37.180 They first shut down the indoor, you know, eatery.

00:39:43.420 It was only for drive-thru.

00:39:45.640 Then somebody broke in, took a chain, put it around the safe, and pulled it through the window with their car.

00:39:56.480 One place has been robbed once a month for the last four months.

00:40:00.900 So then that place started taking just, you know, just credit cards.

00:40:07.620 There's no cash.

00:40:08.640 No cash in our Taco Bell.

00:40:10.400 That didn't stop.

00:40:12.120 They started writing, they started getting the people who were in line and robbing them.

00:40:19.560 And the people are a little sick of it.

00:40:21.500 Knife-wielding New York City bandits steal more than $200 in paper towels.

00:40:33.220 They walked into a drugstore.

00:40:36.560 It's 10 o'clock in the morning.

00:40:38.480 They pull 20 packs of paper towels off the shelves, and somebody inside tries to stop them.

00:40:47.480 One of them pulls out a knife and says, back off.

00:40:51.500 They do.

00:40:52.800 They're caught a couple of streets later.

00:40:56.180 The guy with the knife was let go.

00:41:00.780 The homeless man who was the partner, he was arrested.

00:41:04.540 Don't know if he's out on bail.

00:41:06.000 Well, there's no bail, so he's probably definitely out.

00:41:10.400 Then you have a San Diego mom, California mom of three,

00:41:15.160 that has been accused of masterminding an organized crime ring

00:41:19.920 that stole nearly $8 million worth of makeup

00:41:25.060 from stores like Ulta, TJ Maxx, and Walgreens,

00:41:32.620 and then resold it.

00:41:35.420 If you look at the picture of this story, Stu, that's her garage.

00:41:40.860 Look how amazingly well stocked it is.

00:41:44.660 Yeah.

00:41:44.960 Okay.

00:41:45.140 She has texts back and forth to all of her gang,

00:41:50.180 and she's like, I got orders coming in.

00:41:53.180 She was selling it all on Amazon.

00:41:56.140 Amazon worked with the FBI.

00:41:59.300 She's in jail. 0.52

00:42:00.820 But my wife, who spends approximately 47% of her days 1.00

00:42:04.760 in makeup stores, was at a makeup store locally

00:42:09.040 with my daughter, and they were looking at stuff,

00:42:12.680 and two women walked in with giant black plastic bags 1.00

00:42:17.160 and filled the plastic bags in front of all of the employees

00:42:21.020 with makeup and then just walked out.

00:42:24.000 And everyone was like, what the hell just happened?

00:42:27.680 We were not allowed to do anything.

00:42:29.080 That was what the employees told her.

00:42:30.820 It's amazing.

00:42:31.880 So why is all of this happening?

00:42:34.180 Now let me tell you two stories about citizens

00:42:38.060 who are doing something about it.

00:42:40.840 And then I'll explain why do we have to go there?

00:42:46.040 What's this all about?

00:42:49.240 In Connecticut, in Hartford, Connecticut,

00:42:52.380 armed citizens have formed a group called

00:42:55.620 the Self-Defense Brigade and have started to patrol

00:42:59.140 the violent areas of Hartford, Connecticut.

00:43:02.380 The mayor doesn't like it.

00:43:05.520 Cornell Lewis, the founder of the Self-Defense Brigade,

00:43:08.380 said, we're legally armed and we're just patrolling.

00:43:12.140 The people on Garden Street came to us

00:43:14.700 and asked for our help.

00:43:16.380 Garden Street has a lot of gun violence,

00:43:19.140 and the group members legally carry

00:43:22.240 as they walk around the violent parts of the city.

00:43:24.820 The Self-Defense Brigade on Saturday

00:43:27.320 was patrolling and even cleaning up Garden Street

00:43:31.860 in Hartford's North End.

00:43:33.800 It's important that we come out here

00:43:36.560 because we believe we have to keep the community safe

00:43:38.980 and keep the community clean.

00:43:42.440 I'm going to come back to this story in just a second.

00:43:45.140 Let me give you what they're doing on the other coast.

00:43:47.800 Business owners, prompted by Jose Ortiz,

00:43:51.900 the owner of La Perla Puerto Rico Cuisine,

00:43:55.820 told the local news that his restaurant

00:43:58.560 has been robbed at gunpoint twice

00:44:00.600 in just the past two years.

00:44:03.320 He says business has dropped by 25%

00:44:05.740 because customers don't feel safe in the area.

00:44:08.500 We're not the only ones, he said.

00:44:10.220 We're all in the same boat all across the city of Oakland.

00:44:13.420 The city needs to immediately, effectively

00:44:15.480 do something about it.

00:44:17.460 The order to pressure the city

00:44:18.920 to address the crime problem,

00:44:21.180 he is now saying he's trying to get other businesses

00:44:23.680 in Oakland to agree to stop paying their taxes.

00:44:27.280 We're proposing not paying taxes to the city

00:44:30.020 until they give us the services that we deserve

00:44:33.180 and are paying for.

00:44:35.560 He's right.

00:44:37.280 He's right.

00:44:39.640 However, that one's going to be hard.

00:44:43.080 Let me go back to Connecticut.

00:44:48.360 The mayor is against these people

00:44:50.440 and is saying that they shouldn't be there.

00:44:54.660 They have no right to do that.

00:44:56.020 We're taking care of the city.

00:44:57.380 Well, you're obviously not taking care of the city.

00:45:01.240 So what is the important part of this?

00:45:04.980 The important part is in this sentence.

00:45:07.720 It was important to come out here

00:45:08.920 because we believe we have to keep the community safe

00:45:11.320 and keep the community clean.

00:45:14.880 They are cleaning up the city on Saturday afternoons

00:45:18.300 and then walking the city at night

00:45:22.960 to make sure it's safe.

00:45:26.080 Cleaning the city.

00:45:27.360 Nobody cares about anything.

00:45:30.940 There is nothing of value anymore.

00:45:34.560 Whether it's human life,

00:45:37.000 whether it's stuff,

00:45:40.140 whether it's relationships,

00:45:43.000 there's no meaning to anything.

00:45:45.960 We have to find meaning in things.

00:45:50.760 Our whole country has become like tenement buildings

00:45:55.540 and they go down because nobody really owns them.

00:45:59.780 Nobody owns them, so nobody really cares.

00:46:02.360 Why is the city or why is this slumlord not fixing this? 1.00

00:46:06.980 Well, because he doesn't have your help.

00:46:09.300 People will usually take care of things that they own.

00:46:14.240 I'm not sure that's true anymore.

00:46:19.800 We have to restore meaning.

00:46:23.160 And the best way to keep our places safe

00:46:26.660 is the broken windows theory.

00:46:30.720 You're more likely to throw a rock through a window pane

00:46:34.860 on a house that is decrepit and all broken.

00:46:37.660 The average person will do that

00:46:39.760 if they see all these things broken

00:46:41.380 and nobody cares about it.

00:46:43.020 But the average person will never pick up a rock

00:46:45.200 and throw it through a window of someplace that's nice.

00:46:49.480 It's the broken windows theory.

00:46:51.180 You start with the small stuff.

00:46:54.300 In our case, places like Oakland,

00:46:57.120 you've got to find a way to convince cops

00:46:59.640 to come back to work for you.

00:47:01.400 I don't know why they would,

00:47:02.880 but somehow or another,

00:47:05.160 you have to hire more people.

00:47:07.840 Because I know I wouldn't pay my taxes

00:47:11.080 if that's the kind of service I was getting.

00:47:13.120 Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.

00:47:15.340 Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na! 0.99

00:47:16.440 Thank you.

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