The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Jim Jordan & Eric Schmitt ｜ 11⧸2⧸21

00:00:00.000 Hey, great show for you today on the podcast, the Bill Maher segments right back to back

00:00:06.860 with our guest, Rand Paul, to talk about these vaccine mandates and Fauci and what the future

00:00:13.800 is.

00:00:14.640 Kaepernick comparing the NFL to slavery.

00:00:17.000 We actually had a call from somebody who really thought that he was on the right track on

00:00:23.580 that.

00:00:24.180 And the Joe Rogan effect, standing with people you can't believe you're standing with.

00:00:29.120 What is that effect?

00:00:31.760 All on today's podcast.

00:00:40.740 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:48.000 Jim Jordan from Ohio, the House ranking member for the GOP, author of Do What You Said You

00:00:54.420 Would Do.

00:00:56.080 Welcome, Jim.

00:00:56.980 How are you, sir?

00:00:57.920 I'm doing fine, Glenn.

00:00:58.900 Good to be with you.

00:00:59.860 Great to have you here.

00:01:01.440 And thank you for fighting the good fight.

00:01:04.180 Me too.

00:01:04.900 I watch your clips and I'm like, oh, thank God somebody is saying this.

00:01:10.120 Are we losing as badly as it feels like we're losing?

00:01:16.760 Yeah.

00:01:17.320 I mean, look, the Democrats haven't done anything that's been helpful to the country.

00:01:21.160 Every policy.

00:01:21.680 We, you know, I said we went from energy independence to the spectacle of the president of the United

00:01:26.140 States begging OPEC to increase production.

00:01:28.020 We went from a secure border to chaos.

00:01:29.940 We went from safe streets to violent crime because they defund the police in every major

00:01:34.680 urban area.

00:01:35.320 We went from respect around the world to the debacle that was the Afghanistan exit. 1.00

00:01:39.620 There's no one on you can go.

00:01:40.460 So, yeah, we're not winning, but I think we might win today.

00:01:43.640 We might win today in Virginia.

00:01:45.220 Yeah.

00:01:45.520 And that'll be a good sign.

00:01:46.800 And I think this, I really think this memo from the attorney general a few weeks ago that

00:01:53.280 became public where he's going after parents of school.

00:01:55.440 I think that's sort of the last straw in Americans are like, we've had it with the attacks on

00:01:59.200 our freedom.

00:01:59.960 We're going to start pushing back.

00:02:02.000 And if Glenn Youngkin wins tonight, I think that's a huge sign that the country is about

00:02:06.660 to turn things around.

00:02:08.020 Yeah.

00:02:08.740 We are, we're standing, even if he doesn't win tonight, because I don't know about the

00:02:13.720 vote, but even if he doesn't win tonight, people shouldn't get discouraged because I'm

00:02:18.900 seeing them stand up more and more and more.

00:02:21.780 I mean, the courts just reversed the mandate thing in Chicago for the police, which is

00:02:28.080 a blessing for Chicago.

00:02:30.160 They must have been freaked out of their mind with even less police officers on the street.

00:02:34.720 But people are, people are starting to find their voice, which I haven't seen before.

00:02:40.460 Yeah, no, I, I, I think you're right.

00:02:42.780 And, and frankly, it's because it's been for now over a year of government assaulting people's

00:02:49.180 First Amendment liberties.

00:02:50.200 Every, I told a group the other day, every single right we enjoy under the First Amendment

00:02:53.620 has been assaulted.

00:02:54.820 Your right to practice your faith, your right to petition your government, right to assemble,

00:02:57.920 right, freedom of press, freedom of speech.

00:02:59.940 And America is beginning to push back.

00:03:04.000 And the good news is freedom is contagious.

00:03:06.580 Courage is contagious.

00:03:07.600 One person stands up, then three people standing up.

00:03:10.300 And moms at school board meetings stand up. 0.99

00:03:11.900 And on and on it goes.

00:03:13.140 And I think you're seeing sort of reawakening and embracing of freedom starting to happen

00:03:19.480 again in this country.

00:03:20.280 And that is, that is a good sign.

00:03:21.960 Do you, do you see the, the president's bills passing?

00:03:26.160 Are they going to pass?

00:03:26.900 Well, so think about it.

00:03:30.320 Oh, you're breaking up.

00:03:32.240 You're breaking up.

00:03:33.360 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:03:33.760 You there, Glenn?

00:03:34.680 Yeah, I can hear you now.

00:03:36.140 Yep.

00:03:36.260 So, so four different times, the Speaker House has said, today's the day of the vote.

00:03:40.580 And so she's 0 for 4.

00:03:41.920 And twice she's brought the, the president of the United States to Capitol Hill, and he's

00:03:45.900 0 for 2.

00:03:46.820 So let's, let, you know, the odds seem to be moving in our direction.

00:03:50.400 So hopefully you don't get the votes for this thing.

00:03:52.420 Hopefully, hopefully it doesn't pass.

00:03:55.140 And it's not just the crazy $3 trillion in spending.

00:03:57.900 It's the policies contained in the legislation.

00:04:00.520 I know.

00:04:00.880 It's the Green New Deal stuff. 0.96

00:04:02.380 It's the tax increases.

00:04:03.400 I told, I told this, I was speaking, I said, think about the Democrats' economic plan.

00:04:07.400 The Democrats' economic plan is basically lock down the economy, spend like crazy, pay

00:04:10.900 people not to work.

00:04:11.940 And then for everyone who has been working, oh, we're getting ready to raise your taxes.

00:04:16.320 Such a deal.

00:04:17.620 So bad.

00:04:18.600 So let's hope this stuff, yeah, let's hope this stuff doesn't pass.

00:04:21.540 You wrote the book, Do What You Said You Would Do.

00:04:23.960 It seems like obvious advice, but how come people don't do that when they go to Congress?

00:04:31.340 Because it's so easy to get here and just go along.

00:04:33.700 And the whole town is rigged against doing what you told the voters back home, what families

00:04:37.660 and taxpayers and small business owners want you to do.

00:04:39.520 The whole town is rigged against it.

00:04:41.220 The bureaucracy is against it.

00:04:42.920 The mainstream press is against it.

00:04:44.600 All the Democrats are against it.

00:04:45.800 And frankly, some of the Republicans.

00:04:47.360 That's why I was so impressed with what President Trump was able to do.

00:04:51.020 Because all those groups were against him.

00:04:52.440 And yet, in spite of all that, he actually did more of what he said he would do than any

00:04:56.460 president, certainly in our lifetime, Glenn.

00:04:58.040 And so it's really, I always tell folks, we make this job way too complicated.

00:05:02.720 What did you tell the voters you were going to do when you ran for the job?

00:05:05.500 If they elect you, go do what you said.

00:05:07.840 Go do what you told them.

00:05:08.740 That's the contract you formed.

00:05:10.080 But people get here and don't do it.

00:05:12.180 So I think your listeners will enjoy the read.

00:05:14.200 I really do.

00:05:14.860 We take them behind the scenes and interactions with the president.

00:05:18.660 I've been fortunate to be involved in every big investigation that's happened here.

00:05:22.540 The IRS, the Benghazi investigation, of course, the impeachment.

00:05:26.060 And so we give them a feel for what it's like behind the scenes and all those investigations.

00:05:30.380 And a lot about the Freedom Caucus.

00:05:31.480 So one of the things, Jim, that I think people are so frustrated on is, what do all these

00:05:39.400 investigations end up doing?

00:05:41.520 Nothing.

00:05:42.140 Nobody ever seems to pay a price.

00:05:45.260 Yeah, well, unless they're Republicans.

00:05:46.780 You know, unless it's Michael Flynn.

00:05:47.820 Unless it's, you know, the bogus investigations, the bogus stuff that was done with the Justice

00:05:51.120 Department.

00:05:51.880 No, you're right.

00:05:52.740 And frankly, it used to be the number one question I get.

00:05:55.500 People walk up to me all the time and say, when is someone going to jail?

00:05:58.440 And they were mostly back during the Mueller investigation and the whole crazy Trump-Russia

00:06:02.720 collusion, false narrative.

00:06:06.020 You're right.

00:06:06.660 But all we can do in Congress, I can't put anyone in jail.

00:06:08.900 All I can do is get the facts out to the American people and hope we have a Justice

00:06:11.840 Department that's actually willing to hold people accountable and not let this double

00:06:16.020 standard continue to happen, which is maybe more than anything, Glenn.

00:06:20.540 And I know you get this from your callers and your listeners.

00:06:24.100 I get it from constituents and folks I see all over the country.

00:06:27.140 They hate the double standard.

00:06:29.200 They hate that, you know, Lois Lerner can do one thing, but we can't.

00:06:31.700 We do the same thing.

00:06:33.100 We're in trouble.

00:06:33.720 Or if Clinton gets away with this and Andy McCabe gets, Garland just gives him all his

00:06:38.500 back pension and pays for his attorney fees, even though he lied several times to the inspector

00:06:43.360 general and lied to the FBI.

00:06:44.840 We don't get that kind of treatment.

00:06:46.960 So it does drive Americans crazy.

00:06:48.960 Well, it should.

00:06:49.820 But the only one...

00:06:50.340 I don't think we want, we don't want that treatment.

00:06:52.460 I think Americans, and this is what the left missed, Americans are fair.

00:06:57.760 They're decent and fair.

00:06:59.040 They want the rules to apply evenly.

00:07:02.660 Yep.

00:07:03.200 Yep.

00:07:03.780 No, it's human nature.

00:07:05.060 And, you know, from the time you're a kid, you're, you know, someone at school gets two

00:07:08.660 cookies, you get one.

00:07:09.680 And you pick the thing.

00:07:10.860 It's just instinctively we get fairness and we want fairness.

00:07:14.620 And it's part of the American system.

00:07:16.000 It's called equal treatment under the law.

00:07:17.760 But when we don't see it happening, it is frustrating.

00:07:20.520 It is wrong.

00:07:21.160 And it shouldn't take place.

00:07:23.320 So what do people do?

00:07:24.520 Let me switch to the, to the virus and the masking and the, all of this craziness about

00:07:31.420 having a vaccine passport.

00:07:33.620 It feels so incredibly unconstitutional.

00:07:39.900 Yeah, I think it is.

00:07:41.460 I think it is too.

00:07:42.480 Where, where is this headed?

00:07:44.620 And how come it hasn't been, you know, headed off at the pass yet?

00:07:50.300 Well, I think here's the good sign.

00:07:52.320 And I, I guess I said this earlier, but, but, you know, Kyrie Irving stands up and says,

00:07:56.640 no, we're not going to go for it.

00:07:57.640 Then you got the Chicago police union.

00:07:58.940 And then you got, you got parents at school board meetings.

00:08:01.340 And then you have healthcare workers in New York.

00:08:03.840 Again, I think you're seeing more and more Americans say, wait a minute, this is not how

00:08:07.380 it works.

00:08:07.780 We know instinctively this is, this is not constitutional.

00:08:10.420 We know it's going to get challenged in court.

00:08:12.080 Once OSHA comes up with their final ruling and is actually, you know, so I think Americans

00:08:16.820 are pushing back.

00:08:18.140 I don't think it is constitutional, but that doesn't seem to stop this administration. 0.99

00:08:22.460 You know, they just continue to do one stupid thing after another, one unconstitutional move 1.00

00:08:26.580 after another. 1.00

00:08:27.660 And again, it's why they're at what, what, what was the 71% of the country thinks Joe Biden

00:08:32.300 has got the country on the wrong track.

00:08:34.240 Oh yeah.

00:08:35.260 Frankly, I'd like to know who these 29% are. 0.98

00:08:38.240 Who thinks we're on the right?

00:08:40.220 Right.

00:08:40.660 I know.

00:08:41.240 I know.

00:08:42.660 So I think Americans are pushing back.

00:08:44.600 And I do think in the end, freedom has a way of winning out.

00:08:48.160 Even if it takes, even if it's difficult and tough and in a long, long road, I think it

00:08:54.480 wins out.

00:08:55.320 And more and more, more Americans are doing the right thing and standing up for, for their

00:09:00.480 first amendment liberties.

00:09:01.540 You were great when Viola Garcia was, was being, you know, the letter that was, was given

00:09:12.500 to the white house and then the justice department, um, is anything going to come of this with

00:09:18.180 Merrick Garland?

00:09:20.120 Well, we've asked him to rescind it.

00:09:21.680 And the idea that, you know, one day after that hearing, uh, two weeks ago in the, in

00:09:25.560 the house judiciary committee, when, when Merrick Garland said the only basis for his memorandum

00:09:29.860 was in fact, the original letter sent from the school board association to the president.

00:09:33.200 And then the school board association apologizes the very next day.

00:09:36.420 And I told them some group is, this doesn't happen in DC where a major left-wing group

00:09:40.080 apologizes and it wasn't just your normal apology.

00:09:43.300 They apologize twice in one paragraph.

00:09:45.040 We, we, we, we regret and apologize for the letter.

00:09:47.420 We apologize for the stress this has caused.

00:09:49.120 So this was a full, you know, full backpedal because they saw how bad this was hurting,

00:09:54.400 um, a call up in his race.

00:09:55.820 They saw how wrong this was.

00:09:57.620 Now Garland has yet to rescind the memo.

00:09:59.920 So what we did yesterday is we've sent a letter to every U S attorney in all 94 districts.

00:10:04.780 Cause remember his memorandum said he wanted, he wanted action taken in all the judicial

00:10:09.200 districts around the country.

00:10:10.280 So we sent a letter to them.

00:10:11.300 What are you doing?

00:10:12.380 And, and never forget the day he sends this memorandum on October 4th, accompanying the

00:10:16.680 memorandum was a press release.

00:10:18.720 And the press release said, we're going to get the national security division of the

00:10:21.720 justice department involved, but that's a division that deals with domestic terrorism.

00:10:24.720 So this idea that they weren't treating parents as domestic terrorists is just not, I mean,

00:10:28.840 it's, that's what they were doing as, as indicated by the fact in your press release,

00:10:33.820 accompanying the memorandum on the same day, you're talking about the national security

00:10:37.180 division being involved in the task force to deal with moms and dads at school board

00:10:40.480 meetings.

00:10:40.840 This is frightening what they're doing.

00:10:42.500 And again, this is why parents are saying, no, no, no.

00:10:45.320 When you start telling parents that, oh, government's smarter and knows better about your kids

00:10:50.100 than you do as moms and dads, moms and dads are going to say, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:10:54.440 We're not, we're not buying that baloney.

00:10:56.200 And they are speaking out, standing up and defending the truth and defending their, their rights

00:11:00.860 as parents.

00:11:01.280 So I think this is going to backfire on them big time.

00:11:03.980 And I do think in the end he'll rescind it, but he hasn't yet.

00:11:06.420 We're talking to Jim Jordan, the Republican from, from Ohio and the author of the new

00:11:13.000 book, do what you say you, you do what you said you do.

00:11:16.860 I want to ask you about the, the freedom of speech caucus that you have going on the campus

00:11:23.500 free speech caucus.

00:11:25.360 Yeah.

00:11:26.000 Well, this, this is, I mean, you know how the cancel culture mob and the woke mob, what

00:11:29.860 they're doing to people.

00:11:30.920 And, and, and it's most prevalent sometimes I think on, on college campuses, Mary Weiss,

00:11:35.760 when she, when she resigned from the New York times and she wasn't even on the right, she

00:11:39.380 was actually center left when she resigned and talked about the, the, the cancel culture

00:11:43.060 mindset that dominates so much in mainstream press and so many places, so many institutions.

00:11:47.480 Now she says, if you go against the woke mob, you will face what, what she termed was the

00:11:52.560 digital thunderdome.

00:11:53.920 And I thought, what an appropriate term you will, you will, they will attack you, your family,

00:11:58.320 your employer.

00:11:58.860 Well, on college campuses, they just come after you're not allowed to speak out.

00:12:02.200 You're not allowed to be conservative.

00:12:04.040 And so this is something we're doing with some young, brave students around the country.

00:12:07.780 Kat Kamek, a new member from, from Florida, young, new young member.

00:12:11.120 She's doing a great job with this.

00:12:12.420 Dr. Murphy's doing a great job.

00:12:13.740 So we've got this, this caucus.

00:12:14.920 We're also working on legislation to go after big tech.

00:12:18.580 Specifically, the first bill that we want is to get rid of the, the liability protection

00:12:22.200 they enjoy under its so-called section 230.

00:12:24.320 So there's a number of things we're trying to do that will, that will push back and stop

00:12:28.720 this attack on, as I said earlier, every right we enjoy under the first amendment.

00:12:33.340 And of course, of those five rights we have under the first amendment, you know, the most

00:12:36.840 important one, even more important than your right to practice your faith is your right

00:12:39.860 to speak.

00:12:40.420 Because if you can't speak, how do you really get to practice your faith?

00:12:43.980 How do you really get to, to worship the way you're supposed to worship?

00:12:47.040 So the, the free speech issue is so important.

00:12:50.240 Um, and we're trying to push back on, on what's happening out there in the culture every

00:12:53.480 way we can.

00:12:54.640 Jim Jordan, the author of the book, do what you said you would do.

00:12:58.000 It's available everywhere now, wherever books are sold.

00:13:01.160 Um, and you should pick it up.

00:13:02.900 Uh, Jim is, uh, a leader in the, uh, freedom caucus.

00:13:07.040 He is also the GOP house ranking member.

00:13:09.560 One last question.

00:13:10.580 Have you thought if you take over the house, have you thought about asking Donald Trump

00:13:14.940 to be the speaker of the house?

00:13:17.120 Yeah, that's, that's been talked about.

00:13:18.920 Um, I mean, that's something that the president would be interested in that.

00:13:21.680 That's certainly something I think, uh, that, uh, that, that, that people would, would entertain.

00:13:25.780 But I think mostly what, uh, most likely what's going to happen, he's going to run for president.

00:13:29.320 Kevin McCarthy is going to be speaker and, uh, we're going to have to focus on doing what

00:13:32.700 we told the voters we're going to do.

00:13:34.260 Stopping this nonsense from, uh, from the Biden administration and the Democrats that

00:13:39.140 control the government.

00:13:40.480 Um, but I think president Trump's going to run for president.

00:13:43.160 I've already said I'm for him a hundred percent.

00:13:45.120 I'm for him a hundred percent.

00:13:46.200 We need him back in there again, you know, talk about doing what you said you would do.

00:13:50.840 He said he would cut taxes.

00:13:51.940 He did.

00:13:52.260 He said he reduced regulations.

00:13:53.360 He did.

00:13:53.700 He said he'd get out of the Iran deal.

00:13:54.860 He did.

00:13:55.200 He said he'd get out of the Paris deal.

00:13:56.260 He did.

00:13:56.780 He said he put the embassy in Jerusalem.

00:13:58.180 He did.

00:13:58.540 He said he put conservatives on the court.

00:13:59.900 I mean, you can just go down the list.

00:14:01.940 No one's ever done it.

00:14:03.540 When we go to the white house with president Trump, they had the big whiteboard there in the

00:14:07.200 West wing and they had every single campaign promise they made.

00:14:10.680 And then they put a check mark when they got it done.

00:14:13.040 That's how you're supposed to govern.

00:14:14.440 That's how you're supposed to lead in this great country.

00:14:17.200 And we have way too few people who are willing to actually say one thing at the election and

00:14:21.460 then get in office and do that very thing.

00:14:23.320 He was willing to do it.

00:14:25.000 And what a contrast the American people now see between what he did and this Biden guy.

00:14:30.140 Oh, yeah.

00:14:31.240 Congressman Jim Jordan.

00:14:32.420 Thank you so much.

00:14:33.160 Appreciate it.

00:14:33.740 The name of the book is Do What You Said You'd Do.

00:14:38.420 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:14:40.940 Our politics, I don't think, have changed.

00:14:47.580 But who we see engaging in similar thinking and truth telling has changed.

00:14:53.760 Yeah.

00:14:54.220 Right?

00:14:54.960 Who...

00:14:55.720 Ten years ago, you and I would have...

00:14:58.680 We would have never thought of being at the same table because we're on opposite sides.

00:15:02.400 But we're really not.

00:15:03.520 This is from a podcast with Heather Haying and her husband that are what I always thought were far, far left.

00:15:14.720 But they actually are not.

00:15:17.440 The far, far left is killing them now.

00:15:20.600 They were professors up in Oregon.

00:15:23.720 And this is what makes Strange Bedfellows.

00:15:27.900 The adversity that we're going through, it breaks people out of these categories because you have to examine what people are really for.

00:15:38.980 And so there's a...

00:15:40.460 There's this time where we are going to find ourselves standing together with people that you wouldn't expect.

00:15:46.600 You know, Nicki Minaj, for a brief moment, we were fighting for the same thing.

00:15:54.700 Now, it was a brief moment, but it was a moment.

00:15:59.760 All of a sudden, your ideological opposites are suddenly your allies.

00:16:05.060 And that's...

00:16:06.600 When they stick around and when you stick around, it's because you're bonded together for a cause.

00:16:12.600 Because there's something worth fighting for together.

00:16:15.160 And when it comes to Heather Haying, it is freedom of speech and diversity of thought and being able to express yourselves.

00:16:27.880 That's quintessential.

00:16:32.800 There is something that I'd like you to prepare for, and that is the welcome wagon.

00:16:42.360 You remember what a welcome wagon was?

00:16:44.480 I don't think they have them anymore, but a welcome wagon used to be when you'd move into a neighborhood.

00:16:49.860 The neighborhood would all get together, and somebody was selected to bring the welcome wagon over.

00:16:55.620 And it was food and just kindness from the whole neighborhood.

00:17:01.840 And everybody would get to know each other.

00:17:06.140 Because if you were in the neighborhood, and this is the one I want to really emphasize, if you're in the neighborhood, chances are you're friendly.

00:17:16.480 Now, that's not always true. 0.98

00:17:17.640 There are people in the neighborhood that are bat crap crazy.

00:17:20.100 But we have to look for people that are in the neighborhood. 0.98

00:17:26.640 What is the line for Americans?

00:17:28.940 What is the final piece of adversity that will bring us together as the strangest of bedfellows?

00:17:39.220 It may be happening right now.

00:17:41.340 I think we're at the beginning of it.

00:17:42.900 When rappers, listen to this, when rappers, Republicans, actors, environmentalists, truck drivers, NBA players, liberals, millionaires, moms, pop stars, sports anchors, comedians, and historians are all on the same team,

00:17:59.660 you're starting to have a pluribus unum, they're starting to stop arguing about the things that don't matter and start standing together for the things that do.

00:18:15.120 I have a name for it.

00:18:16.260 I just made it up, but it's the Joe Rogan effect.

00:18:18.760 The Joe Rogan effect describes the countless Americans that have just come up to a line where they're just not going to cross.

00:18:31.500 Regardless of politics, career, background, anything, they're just like, nope, not going there.

00:18:37.260 And Joe Rogan has come up to that line himself with the vaccine mandates, and he's just not going to cross it.

00:18:43.500 If they can figure out a way to force you into carrying papers, into carrying something that lets you enter businesses, or lets you do this, or lets businesses open,

00:18:54.860 as soon as you give politicians power, any kind of power that didn't exist previously, historically, they don't relinquish that power.

00:19:03.820 They find new reasons to use it.

00:19:06.560 So he has come up to that line.

00:19:08.040 Remember about a year ago I said, where is your line?

00:19:11.200 What is the line that you won't cross?

00:19:12.620 Many Americans are finding it right now.

00:19:14.700 Too many are missing the opportunity, and it's going to put them too far down the field, I fear, to turn around at some point.

00:19:22.820 But others are finding their line.

00:19:24.440 Dave Chappelle has come up with his line.

00:19:27.020 It's the pressure to apologize for his comedy special, and he said, I will not cross it.

00:19:32.720 You will not summon me.

00:19:34.400 I am not bending to anybody's demands.

00:19:37.780 Jonathan Isaac of the Orlando Magic reached the line he won't cross with the mandates.

00:19:44.640 At this point in time, it is going to take courage.

00:19:46.700 It is going to take boldness to stand up for what it is that you believe in, to say it proudly and to say it loudly.

00:19:52.740 If you listen to this program, you heard, believe it or not, the rap artist Bryson Gray tell you on this program that when you've reached your line, it's time to stand up.

00:20:06.500 It's time for us to, like, stand up and stop allowing and succumbing to what's going on in this country.

00:20:12.860 What's great about this is it brings me back to this woman that we, my family and I met in Poland.

00:20:22.420 I've told you the story a million times that said the righteous didn't suddenly become righteous.

00:20:27.020 They just refused to go over the cliff with everyone else.

00:20:31.060 They just refused to go over the cliff.

00:20:33.480 The Rogan effect is when you get to the cliff and you're like, okay, this is madness.

00:20:42.640 I'm not going with you.

00:20:45.400 Then after everybody else has jumped off the cliff, you look around and see, holy cow, I'm standing with you.

00:20:51.540 You didn't jump off the cliff either.

00:20:54.620 That's what this is.

00:20:56.860 You're starting to see the people that won't jump off the cliff and sometimes they're surprising.

00:21:03.480 It's people who believe differently, live differently, think differently, dress differently. 0.98

00:21:09.860 But the one thing we all have in common is we didn't go over the cliff.

00:21:14.100 And for that reason, we're now a team.

00:21:18.260 And each in our own way, we're trying to persuade others, don't go over the cliff.

00:21:23.080 But they will.

00:21:24.160 Some will.

00:21:24.960 Some won't.

00:21:25.540 Not going over the cliff makes you part of this team.

00:21:37.060 And Joe Rogan is not the only one.

00:21:39.480 I've had several of these people on this show.

00:21:42.540 And that's good news.

00:21:44.680 Good news.

00:21:45.480 Because this is the kind of momentum on the side of liberty like we haven't seen in America for quite some time.

00:21:53.120 It's not a political stake.

00:21:57.440 It's not a party.

00:21:59.740 It's not even people that generally agree on a lot of stuff.

00:22:05.740 It's just that we agree on the things that matter.

00:22:08.960 See, we're always going to argue about things.

00:22:12.740 That's what people forget.

00:22:15.020 You're going to get your feelings hurt.

00:22:17.600 Life isn't fair.

00:22:19.400 Things don't always work out the way you want them.

00:22:22.160 And if you're being raised in a world and you believe those things not to be true, that you're always going to have fair play.

00:22:30.380 You're never going to be insulted.

00:22:32.400 You're never going to have your feelings hurt.

00:22:34.020 You are in for a long, long life of misery.

00:22:43.980 But we were always raised that life isn't fair.

00:22:50.300 You're not going to always get the trophy.

00:22:53.940 You're not all that special.

00:22:55.740 You might be.

00:22:57.100 But there's a lot of stuff that makes you ordinary.

00:22:59.280 Usually, people who are extraordinary, it's only in one little area.

00:23:06.000 The rest of them is perfectly ordinary.

00:23:13.880 These people who don't agree with each other are starting to stand together.

00:23:20.900 And that is E Pluribus Unum.

00:23:23.580 From many, one.

00:23:29.400 Well, what brought us together in the first place?

00:23:33.960 The idea that everybody's the same.

00:23:38.560 That you have an equal shot.

00:23:42.800 That God built us with these rights that nobody can take away.

00:23:48.680 And that it's up to you to take those things that you have and make the best of them.

00:23:55.980 And sometimes people are going to win.

00:23:58.380 And sometimes people are going to win unfairly.

00:24:02.320 But you just keep going.

00:24:06.480 And a government should protect those people who are trying to do the right thing and living by those few rights and responsibilities.

00:24:14.320 That's our unum.

00:24:18.120 That parents should have the right to say to the teachers,

00:24:22.900 No, you're not teaching that to my child.

00:24:24.440 No.

00:24:26.140 No, you might teach that to other children.

00:24:27.920 But not my child.

00:24:28.820 And I have a right to say what I believe with my child.

00:24:34.300 It's my child.

00:24:35.340 Not the government's.

00:24:36.300 Not the public's.

00:24:37.900 Not a part of the collective.

00:24:40.260 He or she is mine.

00:24:41.300 That's worth standing up for.

00:24:47.640 That's worth feeling alone for.

00:24:52.120 That's worth fighting for.

00:24:53.660 People have died for less than that.

00:24:59.360 The point is here.

00:25:01.520 You're not alone.

00:25:02.560 And you're not standing there with a bunch of people who all voted for Trump.

00:25:09.040 Or who all like the flavor of chocolate for their ice cream.

00:25:13.380 You're standing around probably the most diverse group of people.

00:25:19.980 In both color.

00:25:23.720 Background.

00:25:25.220 And philosophies.

00:25:26.720 You are probably in the most diverse group in all of America today.

00:25:36.060 If you found your line and you just won't cross it.

00:25:43.640 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:46.420 Eric Schmidt is running for U.S. Senate.

00:26:04.540 He is also the Missouri Attorney General.

00:26:09.060 I'd love to have you in the U.S. Senate. 0.54

00:26:11.500 But where does that leave Missouri?

00:26:13.940 Missouri, you have somebody good to replace you as the Attorney General?

00:26:17.880 There'll be a long line of people on that job, I'm sure.

00:26:20.380 You were here in Texas just a couple of weeks ago.

00:26:23.960 And you were here because you were supporting a lawsuit against the Biden administration of Texas.

00:26:31.600 Tell me about that lawsuit first on the border.

00:26:33.760 Yeah.

00:26:33.940 So we went to El Paso with the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and announced our lawsuit for Joe Biden to finish the wall.

00:26:40.600 The fact is $3.8 billion was appropriated by Congress.

00:26:45.020 The president has no authority to not spend that money on the border wall.

00:26:51.040 Right.

00:26:51.180 Under the take care clause of the Constitution, he swears an oath to uphold the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws of the country.

00:26:58.660 So there's a constitutional argument, to be sure.

00:27:02.420 There's also an administrative law argument that basically this is arbitrary and capricious, their decision not to do it.

00:27:09.420 Because when the Trump administration moved forward with that wall, they gave a lot of great evidence in the record as to why walls are important.

00:27:16.000 And traveling with those Border Patrol agents, it's amazing, Glenn.

00:27:20.600 You go from no wall to some wall to a haphazard wall to a permanent wall to no wall.

00:27:26.480 All the while, there are materials 20 feet away for a 30-foot-high permanent wall.

00:27:33.900 And Missouri's interest in this is, just like it was with the Remain in Mexico lawsuit that we filed with Texas that we won at the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision.

00:27:42.160 Now, amazingly, we have to go back to court to enforce that.

00:27:46.320 Jeez.

00:27:46.820 It's amazing.

00:27:47.500 This is the really bad thing about this administration.

00:27:50.040 Yeah.

00:27:50.300 Usually the administration, I mean, first of all, the president's job, the veto, is supposed to be for something he thinks is unconstitutional, not something he doesn't like, something that is unconstitutional.

00:28:03.840 Instead, he is supporting things that they say are unconstitutional.

00:28:09.760 But let's give it a whirl.

00:28:10.860 Let's see what the Supreme Court says.

00:28:12.780 But then when they come back and say it's unconstitutional, they don't change their behavior.

00:28:17.620 Right.

00:28:17.760 We've got to go back in court now and enforce that.

00:28:20.300 And it is unprecedented.

00:28:22.080 And it goes to show you, I think, how far the left is willing to go.

00:28:27.300 And they are playing for keeps.

00:28:28.940 But you don't have to look very far in the Senate right now.

00:28:31.580 You're a senator or two away from adding states to the union, packing the Supreme Court, federalizing our elections.

00:28:39.240 I mean, they mean business.

00:28:40.280 Yeah, they do.

00:28:41.200 And so that's why I think it's very important for the attorneys general across the country to step up in our system of federalism.

00:28:47.980 Which, by the way, the founders knew very well human nature.

00:28:52.400 And they devised a system of government that spread out power, diffused it to no one branch, no one person ever got too powerful.

00:28:58.520 They're supposed to jealously guard it. 0.97

00:29:00.440 And the states play an important role in that, too.

00:29:02.440 Right.

00:29:02.640 The states created the federal government, a government of limited powers.

00:29:06.740 By the way, one of those limited powers is securing the border.

00:29:11.140 And so it's up to the states now to push back and say, you need to do your job.

00:29:14.960 You have the money, $3.8 billion, to finish this border wall.

00:29:18.400 Go do it.

00:29:18.860 There is a policy in place that can protect our southern border, the remain in Mexico policy that we want in the Supreme Court.

00:29:24.620 Now go implement that.

00:29:26.280 And by the way, all that, Glenn, is meant to protect individual liberty, right?

00:29:29.980 It diffuses power so individuals can live their lives.

00:29:33.060 Correct.

00:29:33.720 We're talking to Eric Schmidt.

00:29:34.960 He's the Missouri attorney general.

00:29:37.340 The problem is, is that everything at the federal level, all of the checks and balances seemingly have broken down.

00:29:46.000 And so it's now on the states.

00:29:47.800 It's on you guys in particular, the attorney generals.

00:29:51.400 I had somebody, one of my very, very cynical producers, who wasn't so cynical, you know, just a few years ago, say, what good do these attorney generals do?

00:30:04.200 I mean, it's a it's a press conference and then nothing happens.

00:30:07.900 Well, unfortunately, the courts move a little bit slower, slower than we'd like to.

00:30:12.240 But I think we're starting to see those results.

00:30:14.780 And so the truth is, I mean, he's been in office for less than 300 days.

00:30:18.480 Amazingly, it feels like a lot longer than that.

00:30:20.800 But it does feel like a culture in our country is slipping away.

00:30:23.600 And I think it is up to the AGs right now to push back.

00:30:26.300 We're getting some wins.

00:30:27.300 The the federal leasing are the the drilling on federal lands.

00:30:31.280 We won that lawsuit.

00:30:32.400 We've got the Keystone XL pipeline in the mix.

00:30:34.860 Missouri.

00:30:35.260 Wait, wait, wait.

00:30:35.840 What does that mean?

00:30:37.040 Meaning that Biden on day one, there are two, I think, two major policy priorities for him on day one, energy and immigration.

00:30:46.780 So what he did was is he came in on day one and tried to undo everything.

00:30:50.720 And all the successes that President Trump had.

00:30:52.720 Right.

00:30:53.180 Cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:30:54.940 He created a working group called well to to analyze what the quote unquote social cost of greenhouse gases is.

00:31:03.140 Now, here's this is like Nostradamus, not Newton.

00:31:06.580 Right.

00:31:06.900 They predict into the future.

00:31:08.860 John Kerry, the climate czar, leads this group.

00:31:10.920 I'm not making this up.

00:31:11.980 Leads this group, predict hundreds of years into the future what migration patterns and warfares look like.

00:31:18.880 And they attribute all of that cost to greenhouse gases.

00:31:21.440 Right.

00:31:22.000 Pull it back into real time, present day value and then charge these agencies to go tax and regulate agriculture manufacturing.

00:31:29.540 And we've got a lawsuit to fight that, too.

00:31:31.780 And by the way, that's going to seep into all these regulatory actions.

00:31:34.360 Anyway, you see some of this rhetoric that's being spouted off by Biden over in Europe right now as they applied to fly in their private jets there and have their cars idling for them.

00:31:43.880 This is the next round of executive actions and continual emergency orders like we're seeing with the vaccine.

00:31:50.620 He said yesterday that he is issuing an emergency order on on climate change.

00:31:57.900 Yeah.

00:31:58.020 And I was just having this debate with somebody just the other day about what he it doesn't stop with the covid-19.

00:32:06.420 It doesn't stop.

00:32:07.820 If you allow them this amount of play, the next thing that is a health hazard is climate change and gun control.

00:32:17.880 Absolutely.

00:32:18.160 And you've got J.B. Pritzker in our neighboring state already rattling that saber a little bit, talking about a public health crisis and emergency orders.

00:32:26.840 This stuff.

00:32:27.460 That's why.

00:32:27.880 So in Missouri, I have been very aggressive, not just pushing back against the federal government overreach, but also these local petty tyrants.

00:32:35.920 Right.

00:32:36.400 In St. Louis County, the county.

00:32:37.920 It's the largest county.

00:32:38.760 It's a million people.

00:32:39.500 The county executive has tried to, on his own, issue a mask order.

00:32:42.440 We fought him in court and won to stop the forced masking of a million people.

00:32:47.920 Right.

00:32:48.840 This is a much larger debate.

00:32:50.960 This is about who we are.

00:32:52.760 This is about who we've been and who we're going to be.

00:32:54.880 We've been the freest country in the history of the world.

00:32:58.080 It's been an exception.

00:32:59.600 That's when we talk about American exceptionalism.

00:33:01.640 Right.

00:33:01.880 Our founders believed that everybody has a right to pursue their dreams.

00:33:06.340 Right.

00:33:06.740 And that they knew human nature and that tyrants throughout the course of human history and even today try to accumulate and aggregate and exert power and control.

00:33:15.980 And we're living it.

00:33:16.960 And we've got to fight back on every front.

00:33:18.860 I said on a video that went viral that I don't want to live in some futuristic biomedical dystopian medical state.

00:33:26.200 I don't.

00:33:26.680 And so my job right now is to fight back on every front with everything I've got to protect individual rights and liberty.

00:33:32.720 So let's talk about what you're doing with the mandates, because we got a call from some 3M plant workers in your state.

00:33:42.740 Yep.

00:33:43.660 And they're like, look, we I mean, we're going to lose our job.

00:33:47.700 And where are we going to work?

00:33:50.140 Where are we going to work if these mandates happen? 0.82

00:33:53.300 So what what are the states doing?

00:33:56.460 What are you doing to stop this?

00:33:58.840 So there's two fronts here.

00:34:00.360 The first one opened up last week.

00:34:02.960 Missouri led a 10 state coalition against the federal contractor mandate vaccine mandate, which is an enormous power grab by the federal government and could, according to the Department of Labor, affect about 25 percent of workers who have some connection connection to a federal contract, even though they're not working on anything related to any federal dollars.

00:34:25.780 But again, this is about you will obey.

00:34:29.820 You can work today.

00:34:30.860 You can't work today.

00:34:31.600 You're fired.

00:34:32.340 Do what we say.

00:34:33.060 Put the mask on.

00:34:34.040 Take them.

00:34:34.500 Take the vaccine.

00:34:35.520 And again, I think it fits into a much larger picture.

00:34:38.420 Right.

00:34:38.660 And so.

00:34:39.940 So we're fighting.

00:34:40.800 Missouri's leading on that.

00:34:41.780 We anticipate the employer mandate coming in a matter of days.

00:34:45.760 So you can't file anything for like against 3M or against, you know, all companies doing this until they're actually.

00:34:53.860 So there's something.

00:34:54.480 Yeah.

00:34:54.840 So once that order is actually issued for the employer mandate.

00:34:59.180 Right.

00:34:59.820 Once that order is issued, then we have the ability to sue.

00:35:03.480 Right now, what he's doing, Joe Biden's doing is he said this weeks, month over a month ago.

00:35:09.260 Yeah.

00:35:09.540 We're going to do it.

00:35:10.360 And I think he's applying a lot of pressure to these entities before he actually issues and you don't have a right to stop.

00:35:15.580 Correct.

00:35:16.760 But he's trying to pressure these businesses into doing it, which is cynical at best.

00:35:21.060 And and again, about power and control.

00:35:26.320 And I think they're also waiting because they know they're going to lose.

00:35:29.560 It could be that they're waiting because it's Virginia race to who knows is.

00:35:33.340 I mean, all these things are incredibly unpopular.

00:35:35.860 People see it for what it is, which is the heavy hand of government forcing people.

00:35:40.360 To do things that in their own good conscious might not do.

00:35:43.700 I think people ought to be able to make these decisions.

00:35:45.780 It's like the the forced masking of five year olds.

00:35:48.900 I know parents.

00:35:49.940 And now the vaccination of five year olds.

00:35:52.000 Yeah.

00:35:52.100 Parents can make these decisions.

00:35:53.700 And by the way, the the left has dreamed of this scenario for a long time.

00:35:59.200 Right.

00:35:59.680 To have the state enter our lives in every conceivable way and continue to get bigger and bigger.

00:36:03.880 And I think that as a conservative, the the maximum amount of space between the state and

00:36:09.500 the individual so they can pursue their dreams, make their choices is the right place for us

00:36:13.960 to be.

00:36:14.300 And we have to fight for it's never been in more danger than it is right now.

00:36:17.700 There's no doubt about it.

00:36:18.700 We're talking to Eric Schmidt.

00:36:19.960 He is the Missouri attorney general and a candidate for the U.S.

00:36:23.500 Senate.

00:36:23.940 More with him.

00:36:24.780 I want to get into the details of this Google lawsuit that really kind of came out yesterday

00:36:31.100 that are stunning.

00:36:33.160 If those things are true, it's stunning what Google is actually doing.

00:36:39.040 All right.

00:36:39.640 So we're talking to Eric Schmidt, the Missouri attorney general and U.S.

00:36:45.060 Senate candidate.

00:36:45.640 I want to talk to you a little bit about the the Google lawsuit.

00:36:51.120 By the way, not to be confused with the Eric Schmidt from Google.

00:36:53.780 Right.

00:36:53.900 Yeah, I know.

00:36:54.440 I know.

00:36:55.000 I know.

00:36:56.900 The the the lawsuit, we've heard talk about it for a for a while that it was coming.

00:37:05.520 And yesterday is at least the first time I saw it.

00:37:08.620 Was it just was it just filed?

00:37:10.740 No, it's been filed.

00:37:11.460 I think more details are starting to come out about the allegations for sure.

00:37:15.540 So I'm I'm looking at it and it's like one hundred and seventy pages and the the things

00:37:22.940 they're doing, the antitrust things that they appear to be doing, the way they are just

00:37:29.380 manipulating, lying and controlling of so much online is terrifying.

00:37:37.160 It is.

00:37:37.840 And I think this is the, you know, the tyranny of big tech is a real thing.

00:37:42.940 And in my view, if you want to take a step back, originally, you know, when the Internet

00:37:49.160 was the first came into the public consciousness, it was sort of this big IBM machine.

00:37:56.260 Right.

00:37:56.700 This is this supercomputer somewhere, which certainly connoted the connotations were that

00:38:04.020 it was centralized.

00:38:05.640 Right.

00:38:06.880 Then you see in the 90s, this kind of democratization.

00:38:10.820 Right.

00:38:11.320 Which is kind of my view of what the Internet should be.

00:38:14.000 People have access to information and people can freely communicate.

00:38:18.880 It is a platform.

00:38:19.740 And by the way, that's when those Section 230 protections came into play in 1996, because,

00:38:25.180 hey, if you're just going to be a platform for people to put their ideas out, we're not

00:38:29.020 going to hold you accountable like a publisher.

00:38:30.860 Right.

00:38:31.660 Right.

00:38:32.360 Now things have changed.

00:38:34.340 Now we see the centralization again by a few companies that control a massive more information

00:38:41.120 that the world has ever had at its fingertips in the history of mankind.

00:38:45.120 Ninety percent of the searches are controlled by Google.

00:38:47.420 And if you think about that, that is immense power.

00:38:50.740 And when that power is utilized in a way that Google is utilizing it, it's very scary.

00:38:54.800 Yeah, they're they're they're not only violating privacy, they're colluding with Facebook to

00:39:02.120 thwart investigations into them from the federal government, if I'm not mistaken.

00:39:08.960 And they are they are telling people that are doing business with them that you're going

00:39:16.240 to get this data and et cetera.

00:39:17.940 But they're not giving that data to people.

00:39:20.020 They're they're consuming all that data.

00:39:22.700 Correct.

00:39:23.300 And the algorithms.

00:39:25.000 If you are paying to be, you know, advertising.

00:39:29.200 Yeah.

00:39:29.440 On Google.

00:39:30.200 And you're on and you maybe you're not a favored industry or company and you end up on page

00:39:35.640 12, not page one.

00:39:37.240 It's over.

00:39:38.080 Right.

00:39:38.680 What is it?

00:39:39.120 What is it?

00:39:39.420 Nobody gets to see behind the curtain with, you know, in the land. 0.99

00:39:42.580 I don't think I've made it past three and that's what I was really looking for something.

00:39:46.680 I'm sure I've seen search results for me, too.

00:39:48.640 I'm sure that I end up on.

00:39:49.740 Yeah.

00:39:49.940 You know, the bad stories are at the front of the line.

00:39:51.960 Yeah.

00:39:52.100 Yeah.

00:39:52.460 But but yeah, this the the the antitrust essentially, if you wanted to boil it down into layman's

00:39:58.380 terms, is that they have created an anti-competitive atmosphere, right, by using their power, particularly

00:40:06.300 with the deals that they have with Apple, with Verizon or not Verizon, but Microsoft,

00:40:14.220 Microsoft, basically be the preferred search engine.

00:40:18.080 Right.

00:40:18.500 And they will do anything to maintain the position at the top of the heap.

00:40:23.160 And the practices that they're employing to do that are anti-competitive and violate antitrust

00:40:27.300 laws.

00:40:27.620 And so for me, again, that's Google.

00:40:30.160 But I think as it relates to big tech, this is a one of the most important issues that

00:40:35.340 not a lot of people are talking about, but that think about it.

00:40:38.980 We've got supercomputers in our hands.

00:40:40.620 There's more power in these iPhones than sent people to the moon in the late 1960s.

00:40:45.040 Right.

00:40:45.720 And if you've got people who, by the way, have made a decision, Google made a decision to

00:40:51.140 work with the Chinese military, with AI, machine learning.

00:40:56.240 And woke with us.

00:40:57.240 But we're woke enough, I guess, not to do it with the United States of America.

00:41:01.320 So there's a lot on the line here.

00:41:02.780 So we're committed to moving this lawsuit forward.

00:41:07.340 And it's a powerful tool.

00:41:08.600 Now, these things, antitrust cases take a long time.

00:41:11.200 But the discovery that could come from all of this, I think, would be telling, too.

00:41:15.460 And I think Google's afraid of that.

00:41:16.660 It is, it's, it's, it's quite a, a read.

00:41:22.240 You should read it.

00:41:23.020 It's, again, about 170 pages.

00:41:25.200 But how many states are involved in this?

00:41:26.720 Well, I think all in all, there's a couple of different lawsuits.

00:41:28.580 It's pretty bipartisan.

00:41:29.680 Now, interestingly, different states come at this for different reasons.

00:41:34.260 You know, it's, it's really an interesting kind of when the political spectrum looks more

00:41:38.920 like a circle than linear.

00:41:40.440 I think that's kind of what you got here.

00:41:42.120 Yeah.

00:41:42.320 So, um, one last thing they're putting through, I've got one minute, uh, they're putting through

00:41:46.820 a new FCC commissioner, uh, and we're very concerned about freedom of speech, especially

00:41:53.420 on public airwaves.

00:41:55.740 Um, you are one of the, the, uh, attorney generals that will stand for broadcasters.

00:42:03.060 Absolutely.

00:42:03.720 And like we did, by the way, for second amendment rights and that, that nominee got spiked,

00:42:07.680 right?

00:42:08.540 Uh, we were the, we pushed back against Merrick Garland for sickening the DOJ and, uh, the

00:42:13.800 FBI on parents.

00:42:14.920 So we'll be on that front line again.

00:42:16.720 Nothing could be more important than the free expression of ideas.

00:42:19.320 It's the, it's the pressure release valve for our Republic.

00:42:22.680 Eric Schmidt and important, as he said, to point out, not the one from Google.

00:42:26.680 Uh, he is the Missouri attorney general and running for us Senate.

00:42:31.540 You can find his, uh, information at Schmidt for Senate.com.

00:42:36.760 That's Schmidt for Senate.com.

00:42:39.600 Eric, thank you so much for all you do.

00:42:41.220 Great to be with you.

00:42:41.760 God bless.

00:42:42.140 Na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 02, 2021

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