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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to Monday's podcast. Really great one for you today as we get ready for a really

00:00:06.940 good show on Thursday on television. We're going to expose Joe Biden and probably expose Joe Biden

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00:00:33.020 we tell you on today's show that the Ukraine is saying, why don't you want any of this

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00:00:58.820 bit about AOC because AOC became a different person this weekend and she became Hillary Clinton and it is

00:01:10.660 so insulting. Also, Selena Zito on what is what is at the heart of the average Democrat, not the 0.63

00:01:18.920 Democratic Party, not the ones who are in control and the leadership. But what are the people in the

00:01:24.000 center of the country who vote Democrat? What are they attracted to? Also, we talk about the Supreme

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00:03:04.320 it. Home title lock dot com. AOC. I don't know if you saw AOC this weekend, but AOC all of a sudden

00:03:12.160 had a new accent. Really? Oh, you didn't see it? Oh, this is exciting. Oh, this is good stuff,

00:03:18.920 Stu. You're going to love this. She's become Hillary Clinton. So we have that coming up in

00:03:25.400 just a second. Also, let's talk. Let's start here on the border. Things on the border are getting worse

00:03:30.760 and worse and worse. And the media is in full fledged denial. Did you see the story today about

00:03:37.040 how and we'll get to it later, how the New York Times, CNN, NPR, they are all refusing to say

00:03:44.720 anything about socialism in any of their stories in regards to Venezuela? They won't use the word

00:03:53.400 socialism, specifically the New York Times. I know the Washington Post did a really good story

00:03:58.900 we highlighted here that was went in depth and talked about socialism. It's a it's it's pretty

00:04:04.940 amazing what they will do to not talk about the real story. Now, how many of them are talking about

00:04:10.540 the humanitarian crisis that is on the border? We said one was coming. The president said one was

00:04:16.860 coming. It was easy to see. It's so easy to just take people at their word, see what's going on,

00:04:23.360 see who's involved and be able to predict the future. When when people say they're going to

00:04:28.280 disrupt you, when people say they're going to kill you, when people say they're you got my stuff,

00:04:33.280 I'm coming for it. You should pay attention to that person, especially if they have the means or

00:04:38.680 people are helping them with the means. They will do it. So now we have this humanitarian crisis and

00:04:45.740 what's her name? Kirsten Nielsen was let go over the weekend by the president. 0.78

00:04:54.240 It's kind of sad. I feel kind of bad for her. I mean, in some ways, she was going for a meeting

00:04:59.500 and had no idea she was going to be let go. Yeah, she was going in to present a plan as to how to

00:05:04.640 you know, to return to normalcy at least and read, you know, go back to the old numbers because

00:05:10.080 these are all new numbers. I mean, looking back at the last few years, even you see that, you know,

00:05:14.900 the typical average month for border apprehensions is, you know, 30 or 40,000. It is crept up above

00:05:25.020 that a couple of times. For example, if you look at 2014, we talked a lot about this is when you went to

00:05:31.120 the border, Glenn. Remember that big crisis, even the 60,000, I think even the media, uh, admitted

00:05:37.480 that was a huge crisis and that was a 60,000 per month for a couple of months. Well, last month was

00:05:43.460 70,000. And so that was a very high, you know, anything above anything we've seen for five or six

00:05:50.000 years. Uh, this next month, which the official numbers get released this week is going to be over

00:05:55.940 100,000. So we're talking about potentially double the worst months of the past decade and will be a

00:06:03.420 record. And this is what we know of. This is what we just, yeah, this is just apprehensions. Yeah.

00:06:07.520 This is what we know of. We're well into a million people a year, well into maybe we may be, uh, you

00:06:15.300 know, a million and a half to 1.8 million people a year coming into our country. Yeah. They basically

00:06:20.900 treat apprehensions as a proxy for how many people are actually crossing. So the more people they

00:06:25.720 catch, they assume more people are getting in that aren't being caught. And that certainly makes

00:06:30.280 logical sense. But as that number goes up, uh, you know, you're getting too huge, huge. I mean,

00:06:35.980 cause you got to believe we all know that it's not exactly difficult to get across the border right

00:06:41.220 now. That's the problem. So the fact that they're catching a hundred thousand people means you're

00:06:45.660 right. Maybe it is, you know, two and 300,000 every month that are getting in, uh, without being

00:06:50.620 caught. Not to mention the people who are coming here other ways, as far as overstaying visas and,

00:06:56.000 and coming through different ports of entry. So it is a, I mean, it is a, if it's, this is not a

00:07:00.740 crisis, these, these things don't exist. And the, the, the system itself is being completely overrun.

00:07:06.840 Uh, the Republicans and Trump tried to put together a proposal to say, Hey, let's expand all this,

00:07:11.320 give us more detention centers. So we don't have to stick people under bridges, give us more judges so we

00:07:15.620 can actually process these things. And they, you know, the left rejected it. So now this crisis that

00:07:23.040 could have at least had a plan to be solved has no, uh, no real solution in the future that anyone can

00:07:30.620 see because the Democrats essentially shoot down every single idea to try to solve it.

00:07:35.360 It is crazy what's going on. Now they're saying that, um, uh, Nielsen is going to be

00:07:41.400 hounded at her next job that they're going to, that the left is, she was so bad for the border.

00:07:46.900 Really? Really? She was that bad for the border. I mean, I think she was bad on the border because 1.00

00:07:51.920 we have this situation, but I don't really blame anybody. I don't blame, I don't blame the president.

00:07:57.340 I don't blame the administration on this. I blame Congress. I blame the Republicans and the

00:08:01.560 Democrats on this. Yeah. I mean, Nielsen, it's, she's in a tough spot here because she was,

00:08:05.340 very, very loyal to the president, tried to execute everything that he did, all, all reporting,

00:08:10.580 all reporting points that direction. The issue, she's very, she's trying to do as much as she

00:08:16.740 could via the rules and you know, the, the rules are restrictive. So, you know, Trump wants to get

00:08:22.500 somebody who's more aggressive on that. Whether anyone could have stopped this, I don't know.

00:08:27.620 I feel bad for her, but you know, here's, here's what we've, we've moved into a new age.

00:08:32.920 She's now going to be threatened at her next job. The left is already targeting anybody who hires her 1.00

00:08:41.820 is going to pay for it. How horrible is that? Here's somebody who goes and serves our country,

00:08:50.320 plays by the rules, does everything right. And you want to destroy them. I mean, it is, we are turning

00:08:59.860 into Nazi Germany. We are clearly turning into Nazi Germany. I mean, we, we are. Nazi Germany had other

00:09:07.620 determining factors, as you know. I know, but it didn't, it wasn't Nazi Germany overnight. No,

00:09:13.220 the little baby steps. It's little baby steps. And we keep taking these baby steps. We're devaluing

00:09:19.720 life. We're saying infanticide. The Congress has changed, has turned down a bill to vote against

00:09:27.820 infanticide 25 times, 25 times since they, since they took over Congress, 25 times they've turned it 0.61

00:09:37.020 down. Just the 25 though. We're, you know, sometimes you're just not sure. Do we want to kill the

00:09:42.580 babies? Do we not? You now have, you now have the government, uh, and mainly the Democrats going 1.00

00:09:49.920 after Google and everyone else and saying, Hey, work with us, work with us. You now have, uh, uh, uh,

00:09:56.860 what's his name? Zuckerberg saying, I want more government interference. I want more government

00:10:03.760 regulation. You're starting to see that, that system of information merged now with the United

00:10:12.440 States government. That's another step. You, you have, you have the targeting of innocent

00:10:19.780 people. She, she didn't do anything wrong. What has she done wrong? If you go against it,

00:10:27.000 they'll destroy you. That's another step. We just keep marching. I mean, soon we're going

00:10:33.200 to be showing up in black uniforms with black boots and everybody's going to be like, Oh, those

00:10:36.900 are really nice. Do you go boss? Make those. I mean, we are just marching toward it. And

00:10:42.500 I, you could also make the point that, uh, socialism was a nice part of the, uh, no, no, no, no.

00:10:48.560 Hitler wasn't a socialist. Oh, he wasn't. No. I know Vox said that last week, uh, which I

00:10:53.580 was fascinated to understand because this is their, their thing is like, you know, and you

00:10:57.640 point out, okay, well, uh, you know, that's the, you know, it's the national socialist party

00:11:01.880 and indicates that potentially they had some thought. However, that is of course a much

00:11:06.820 larger conversation. I mean, Hitler said a lot of things that he was not, and you could

00:11:11.460 go into really investigate that. So he decided, you know, maybe it's time to actually put this

00:11:16.140 down in one place that, you know, what is Hitler really a socialist? Well, uh, yes. It started 0.72

00:11:21.660 out as a two page thing and I think it ended at like about 20. Yeah. It's on the blaze.com

00:11:25.960 by the way. Uh, if you want to go check it out and we're going to, we're going to go through

00:11:28.860 it, uh, today a bit. I can't take this argument. I can't, I just, how, how are you missing

00:11:35.840 the national socialist? The only difference between the communists and the national socialists

00:11:42.760 are the communists were international socialists and the Nazis were national socialists. Yeah.

00:11:50.780 And if you know anything at all about history, you know, well, and most people don't, you know

00:11:56.700 that, uh, Benito Mussolini is the guy who said, you know, I'm fighting in, and in World War

00:12:03.740 One and nobody's fighting for the international workers. They were fighting for their friends.

00:12:09.440 They were fighting for their country. They were fighting for the, the workers of their

00:12:12.980 country. They weren't fighting for an international purpose. When it comes down to it, you're fighting

00:12:17.100 for you and your nation and we should do socialism. We just shouldn't do it internationally.

00:12:23.640 That's how fascism was born. Right. I mean, the, the, you know, Goebbels said the difference

00:12:29.760 between communism and the Hitler faith was quote, very slight. I mean, they, they, they did 0.99

00:12:34.460 this, they said, you know, uh, I mean, oh, the Nazi flag is surrounded. The Nazi symbol is

00:12:41.340 surrounded by red because Hitler said, we want to show that the, the reds, the communists, that 0.96

00:12:49.160 we have most things in common. They were friendly. They voted the same way for years and years

00:12:54.080 and years before. I mean, it's, it's blatantly obvious that it's true. However, there's this

00:12:58.760 sort of revisionist idea that to save socialism, they have to make a case that he's not. And

00:13:05.120 there was infighting. I mean, this is very well documented that, you know, Goebbels was

00:13:08.880 more of a socialist than Hitler was. And he prioritized socialism over, um, nationalism. 0.84

00:13:17.500 I mean, and, and, you know, Hitler, I think it's fair to say, number one, a lot of his 1.00

00:13:21.920 priorities went down the train because he's number one thing was killing lots of Jews.

00:13:25.740 So he sacrificed a lot of the things that he believed in for that, including things like

00:13:30.040 environmentalism. I mean, Hitler, the Nazi party was one of the biggest, really the first 0.94

00:13:34.460 environmentalist parties. Um, now when they were environmental, big, I mean, big animal

00:13:39.720 lovers, animal rights to this day, modern environmentalists look back at what they did

00:13:44.640 in Germany and say, it said, it was actually eco, ecologically beneficial to Germany. Now,

00:13:52.280 once they started getting in wars, they started rolling tanks over lots of trees and they let

00:13:56.240 a lot of those environmentalist principles go. Some of that happened with socialism and they

00:13:59.760 didn't follow the doctrine of the day all the way through the regime, but that was absolutely

00:14:05.480 part of their plan. The biggest argument is that he just took over. He wasn't democratically elected.

00:14:11.860 Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the way it always ends. Sure. That's the way it always ends. At

00:14:17.040 some point, I mean, look at Chavez, Chavez laid the groundwork, socialism. Then the next guy was

00:14:25.980 elected. Then it started, they started having trouble. And so they were like, we got to take

00:14:31.200 over. And so they just either rig the elections or they suspend the elections. That's what happens

00:14:38.140 every single time. This, this democratic bull crap is just that it's, it's enough to get the 0.99

00:14:46.140 socialist elected. And then when there's trouble, they suspend them or, or fix them. Yeah. And eventually 0.98

00:14:54.360 there becomes inter-party squabbles. And then that happened with the Nazis where some, the people

00:14:58.800 who are super pro-socialist, well, it was, if it, it was someone else with a power base other than 0.97

00:15:03.800 Hitler, he killed them all. Right. Like eventually you get to that point. That doesn't mean that Hitler 0.98

00:15:08.300 didn't like socialism. The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:13.740 Hi, it's Glenn. If you're a subscriber to the podcast, can you do us a favor and rate us on

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00:15:30.060 on iTunes. Thanks. Selena Zito joins us. She's the coauthor of the great revolt, a must read for

00:15:36.940 anybody who wants to understand politics and what's really going on in America today. And she wrote an

00:15:42.440 article in the New York post, how, uh, Pete, is it booted, booted edge, booted edge, how do you say

00:15:49.420 it? It's like saying it's twice. Okay. Booted edge, booted edge. I can't say it. He can't be president.

00:15:57.380 Okay. So Pete, so mayor Pete, uh, he, um, uh, you wrote how he could hurt Trump in the rust belt.

00:16:05.060 First of all, explain who this guy is for most people who, who may not know him.

00:16:09.400 So mayor Pete, uh, has been the mayor of South Bend, Indiana since 2011. Youngest elected mayor

00:16:18.700 at 29. Uh, he has, uh, served our country. Um, he, uh, is a Harvard grad. He, what else speaks eight

00:16:28.420 languages. Oh my gosh. Uh, and yeah, I know you feel really dumb when you say, no, I can't,

00:16:33.800 I can't even pronounce his last name. The guy speaks eight languages. He's, he's deeply faithful. 0.82

00:16:40.280 He's what does that mean? Wait, wait, what does that mean? Deeply faithful?

00:16:43.980 Yeah. He takes his faith incredibly seriously. He's a devout Episcopalian. Uh, it's a very much

00:16:50.060 part of his life and, um, and, um, how, how his worldview is held. Now, now remember though,

00:16:57.740 Episcopalians tend to be much, there's a portion of the Episcopalians that are incredibly liberal. So

00:17:03.180 I also think that's an important component to understand about his faith.

00:17:07.240 Yeah. That's a social justice religion, uh, many times.

00:17:11.120 Yes, yes, yes, yes. Um, and, and so he's, he's, he's very accomplished and he made the decision that

00:17:18.760 a lot of millennials make and they come back, not a lot, but a sizeable portion of millennials do

00:17:24.620 come and they come back to their hometown and try to be part of, of fixing of the problem. Uh,

00:17:31.460 and so is he liked, is he liked in town in town? He's definitely liked, but see, he's never had to

00:17:39.040 run on any national issues. He runs as you should always run when you're running for local office,

00:17:46.320 fixing the roads and the bridges and making sure that the garbage is picked up. And does he do a

00:17:52.080 good job at that? Does he do a good job of that? Yeah, absolutely. Um, is, is there a good job of

00:17:58.160 it? Has there been corruption, um, in his town and has he cleaned it up? He has been working on that

00:18:06.320 within his own administration. Uh, no, uh, you know, so, um, yeah, he, uh, in terms of being a good

00:18:16.040 city manager, he does a good job of that. And in my interview, when I interviewed him, I also

00:18:21.640 interviewed the guy who's at the opposite end who has to work with him on things. And they don't

00:18:27.420 always agree, uh, on, on issues. His name was Jeff Ray. He was a Republican mayor from a neighboring

00:18:33.900 town who now runs the chamber. So they have to work together a lot. Uh, so, um, I thought that was an

00:18:40.380 interesting component to put in there because you have to understand how he works with opposing

00:18:46.360 views. Okay. So I saw, I read an article and I have to apologize, uh, for the last hour I've been,

00:18:53.800 I've been misrepresenting his position because I just heard the actual audio and that's not what I,

00:18:59.860 it's not what I read, um, uh, this morning. He is, is he a socialist or a capitalist?

00:19:07.380 Um, well, um, I think he's, he, I think he tries to work, um, walk both lines. So if you,

00:19:18.160 if in my interview with him, well, the thing, here's what he has going for him, Glenn. He doesn't

00:19:24.480 talk down to people. He'll eat a Chick-fil-A and he doesn't have a problem with that. And he's able

00:19:31.480 to talk about faith in an authentic way. Full stop. What he does not have going for him is he's

00:19:40.400 pretty far left. In our interview, he says that, um, he supports a woman's right to have an abortion

00:19:46.660 in the third trimester. He believes that we need to look at raising taxes. He's, um, before a lot of

00:19:53.220 these sort of freebies in terms of, of, um, like healthcare and childhood preschool education. Uh,

00:20:03.120 how about college energy? He's, he also likes to have it both ways on that. He's not very defined on

00:20:10.800 that. And on, in all honesty, in my interview with him, we didn't get in there, but we, we did get in

00:20:16.160 there. And I think this is a really important component, um, is that on energy, he's a solar

00:20:23.800 and a, uh, a wind guy. And I, I, I said to him, I said, look, we had 30% capacity last year.

00:20:31.180 We have all these shale jobs and we have the ability to nuclear capabilities. He was not having

00:20:37.120 anything of, of that. He wants to go full solar and, and, and full wind and be able to develop a

00:20:43.540 battery so that we are able to do that. You would have, you would have a, you would have a solar wind

00:20:49.160 farm, the size of California. Where does he want to put that? I didn't say. Okay. Right in South

00:20:55.740 Bend, I'm sure. Right. Right in South Bend. But here's, here's what's really important here in

00:21:00.940 Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, um, and, and, and other parts of the Midwest and energy jobs are

00:21:08.220 crushing it. I mean, not only are, are, I mean, if you look at my story today in the Washington

00:21:14.840 Examiner, I interviewed the, um, the, the head of the labor council board in the, in the region.

00:21:21.460 Um, and he's the guy who got Connor Lamb elected in my district. And he's the guy who got Pam Iovino

00:21:29.920 elected in that special election last, last week. Why? Because he ran moderate Democrats who are fully

00:21:38.480 supportive of these, um, of these energy jobs. We've got kids that walk out of certain high schools,

00:21:45.780 um, who provide these technical, uh, classes, uh, that are able to walk out and start making $70,000

00:21:53.620 a year in, in, in the Paris of Appalachia, where I live in Pittsburgh, that's a lot of money. And that

00:22:00.760 also strengthens communities. And he, his name is Darren Kelly. And he tells me, look, is, is there,

00:22:07.160 if they come here talking about the new green deal, my guys are not going to vote for him.

00:22:12.600 End of story. End of story. And I think that that is the challenge that I wrote, we wrote about

00:22:18.460 in the great revolt, um, in terms of a 2020 election. So Democrats go full left, they had a

00:22:26.320 problem. So here's the thing that, um, that, uh, I see, uh, about him that, um, I think is appealing

00:22:36.820 if America still is at all the America that I have always thought she was. Um, because I don't think

00:22:45.220 that the democratic voters are haters. I don't think that Republican voters are haters and I think

00:22:52.100 they're really sick and tired of being called names of being taught to hate. They just, they don't want

00:22:59.300 anything to do with it. And when I see this guy, uh, who is gay, um, a, that's a, that's a huge, 0.99

00:23:07.760 that's a huge plus. If he becomes the nominee, that would be, you know, the first gay president and, 0.91

00:23:13.440 you know, it would be historic and blah, blah, blah. It would carry its own numbers with it.

00:23:17.840 Um, at the same time, he he's gay, but he's not, he doesn't hate Chick-fil-A, which I, which I think

00:23:25.540 is so refreshing. He's still talking about faith. It plays a role with him and it seems genuine. Um,

00:23:34.160 and I think that's where Americans are. They may not, they may not agree with religion here and there,

00:23:40.180 but they don't hate God and they don't hate church. Um, you know, he's, uh, he's a guy that

00:23:48.540 doesn't seem to hate America, seems to like America. And he seems genuine where, where you've

00:23:56.100 got Cory Booker and all the rest of them, even AOC is, you know, with her speech this weekend,

00:24:01.420 I think she's becoming a phony. He seems genuine and he's not going to, he's not a puncher. And a

00:24:10.980 lot of people would say that that's a bad thing going against Donald Trump, but I don't think you're

00:24:15.200 going to punch Donald Trump out. You're going to have to, you have to go the opposite way. And I

00:24:20.720 think so far, this is the only guy that I've seen that might be able to do that.

00:24:25.060 Right. I mean, Americans love aspiration. They will love to be part of something bigger than

00:24:31.560 themselves. And that's the thing that mayor Pete has going for him. He served his country in

00:24:36.360 Afghanistan. He, so he doesn't, like you said, he doesn't hate his country. He, he respects people

00:24:43.020 of faith. He doesn't, he's not condescending. He's like, you know, he lives in South Bend, Indiana,

00:24:49.400 the same exact town that Hillary Clinton has to go to for an event at Notre Dame university.

00:24:56.820 Because why? I don't need to win over white Catholics. I got this. And he, he doesn't take,

00:25:04.320 you know, these voters for granted. So he has all that in his favor. Conversely, what he doesn't have

00:25:11.520 in his favor are his policies. And we'll see how he navigates that through a primary. And,

00:25:18.980 and if he's able to strike a balance on a lot of these things going left, he could be a formidable

00:25:26.940 force against the president. But his challenge is going through the primaries.

00:25:32.100 I think Selene, it's going to be interesting to see because he's never faced any pushback. I mean,

00:25:35.980 he kind of has come out of nowhere the last couple of weeks and so far has not seen the wrath of 20

00:25:42.100 other Democratic candidates who also want to win this nomination. I mean, do they have places to go?

00:25:47.680 Because they can't beat him up on he's socialist. They are, they're all socialist too, or at least

00:25:51.920 believe in many of the same policies. What, where are they going to attack him?

00:25:55.740 Well, I think they might attack him on being white. It might actually come down to that. A white 1.00

00:26:03.940 male. That's a real sort of problem with the, with the woke crowd. If you saw the slate story about

00:26:13.360 the last week, you saw the first sort of nibbles at that. Um, and which, which they, which they said

00:26:20.780 gay, isn't, uh, intersectional enough. Just being gay doesn't make him a guy that understands the

00:26:29.180 plight. Right. Yeah. I don't know anybody that talks like that. Can I just say that? I don't know.

00:26:37.160 I don't know him either. I have interviewed, you know, hundreds of Democrats and just in the past

00:26:44.920 few weeks. And when I say the word intersectional, they're like, wait, what? Okay. So, so, you know,

00:26:50.960 so, so Selena, let me take a quick break. Come back in a minute. I want to ask you about that. I want to

00:26:55.480 ask you what do you think is really going on? What the heart of the democratic party is when it comes

00:27:05.640 to the people who are actually voting in the center of the country, what are they thinking? And what are

00:27:10.960 they feeling? We'll come to Selena Zito, uh, here in just a second. She, she's the one that got it 0.98

00:27:16.000 right on Donald Trump. And I mean, really right on Trump way early because she talks to people.

00:27:22.500 She's not one of these reporters that just flies in. She actually drives the country and talks to 0.93

00:27:26.840 people. Selena, as you're looking at, uh, the American people and you're looking at the Democrats,

00:27:35.280 they are going further and further left. They're talking about the, the end of the free market

00:27:41.000 system and end to capitalism. Uh, they are going for infanticide now, not just third term,

00:27:49.260 but also infanticide. It seems to me they are overplaying their hand every step of the way,

00:27:56.300 but I don't see the reaction from the Democrats who are in the country who, you know, for instance,

00:28:04.140 you look over to England and, and the people who have been members of the labor party for a long

00:28:09.560 time are like, look, we're becoming antisemitic and crazy. And I want nothing to do with any of this,

00:28:15.000 but I haven't seen people walk away from it yet. What's happening.

00:28:19.820 So it's really, it's really incredibly interesting dynamic, Glenn. So take a look at AOC's, um,

00:28:27.000 election in 2018. She won the primary vote, um, which is essentially where the election is held

00:28:35.340 because it's a democratic district. And she ran, she ran, she won that, um, election, but look who she 1.00

00:28:42.920 won. If you look at the exits, she won white intellectuals. She did not win minorities. She 1.00

00:28:50.220 did not win the working class. So if the democratic party has become, uh, the, the, the party of white

00:28:59.340 intellectuals that is carried by the press, many of whom live in those same zip codes or share those

00:29:08.740 values, but it's in great contrast with working class Democrats, um, and suburban Democrats, suburban

00:29:16.340 Democrats who, uh, um, who, or don't share those same values. What's important to them? Jobs, job

00:29:25.320 creation, their, the, the, the health and welfare of their community, which means infrastructure,

00:29:30.300 uh, and, um, and, and just sort of a sense of, um, peace and prosperity in the country. Those are the

00:29:40.180 important values among working class Democrats and suburban Democrats. When it doesn't, it's not

00:29:46.420 divided by color. You have to remember that a lot of working class blacks and suburban blacks,

00:29:53.800 uh, uh, in the Democrat within the democratic party are also incredibly pro-life. So you do not

00:30:01.860 see them being supportive of the third, uh, trimester abortion and you don't, and, and suburban

00:30:10.500 Democrats who do think they all want medic, which is essentially Medicaid for all, right? Let's be,

00:30:17.420 let's be really honest. It's not Medicare for all. It's Medicaid for all. You know, that impacts

00:30:22.340 their, um, their bottom line, you know, that impacts, they don't want to give their healthcare

00:30:27.620 up to, for everyone to have the same healthcare and for everyone to, and for them to, um, pay

00:30:34.140 for everybody to have the same healthcare. Is, is this just mass delusion on the, on the part

00:30:40.660 of the democratic leadership? They are appealing to what they perceive is the ascending, um,

00:30:50.640 uh, uh, electorate's, um, um, point of view. They believe that this is what women and young 1.00

00:30:58.740 people, this is, this is what, what, um, the Democrat is appealing to. No. Okay. I, I, I didn't

00:31:07.660 think so, but I mean, I just don't, I don't know any of, I don't know anybody that, that believes

00:31:14.680 in these things. Uh, and, and yet I don't see, I don't see Democrats standing up and saying,

00:31:23.460 what the hell is wrong with you people? Well, because look what happens when you stand up

00:31:29.380 and say that you get destroyed. You say that on social media, you say it in a story, you

00:31:35.820 know, I interview people and they'll be like, you know, if I say my name, I'm, this is my life's

00:31:41.080 going to become hell. You know, people are very, very reluctant to say this, but I think

00:31:48.180 when we look at the first results coming out of these primary contests, we're going to understand

00:31:55.620 much better how people feel. Remember this, and this was in our, in the book, the great

00:32:01.200 revolt, 34% of people who voted for Donald Trump didn't count anybody, not their wife,

00:32:06.880 not their kids, not their, their coworkers, anybody. And I think you find the same sort of

00:32:12.560 dynamic with Democrats, not that they're going to support Trump, but that they're, they're afraid

00:32:19.320 to come out and say, um, I'm not 16 year old voting. Uh, I'm not for destroying the electoral

00:32:26.040 college. Appreciate it, Selena. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:36.880 Eric Stecklebeck is, uh, with us now. Eric is the director of Christians United for Israel,

00:32:52.160 the Watchman project and the host of the Watchman. Uh, Eric, welcome to the program. Good to talk

00:32:58.460 to you. Glenn, good to be with you. Uh, so, so I want to talk to you about the, uh, the Washington

00:33:04.940 summit that, uh, is coming up in, in July. And I'm such a big supporter of, uh, um, of, uh, all of

00:33:13.020 the work that, um, Christians United for Israel does, um, and you in particular. But first, let me

00:33:19.860 start with any thoughts on what the president just said about the Iranian Republic, Republican

00:33:27.140 Guard being a, an official terrorist organization. Yeah, Glenn, this is a major announcement. First

00:33:34.040 of all, second of all, it's long overdue. Look, I think the best parallel with the Iranian 0.87

00:33:39.080 Revolutionary Guards, IRGC for short, Glenn, I compare them to the Nazi SS. They answered just 0.97

00:33:45.880 like the SS to answer directly to Hitler. The Revolutionary Guards answered directly to Iran's 0.74

00:33:52.140 supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. And just like the SS, the Revolutionary Guards have their own,

00:33:58.240 I guess you would say, economic or financial stakes all throughout Iran. They have, uh, made

00:34:03.900 themselves into a big business where they control shares in the Iranian economy, uh, Iran's oil

00:34:09.440 sector and the Iranian nuclear weapons program. All of this, Glenn, was spearheaded and controlled by 0.55

00:34:14.960 the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. Not only that. Oh, go ahead, Glenn. No, go ahead. Go ahead. Not

00:34:19.340 only that. Yeah. In terms of the terrorism designation that we made today, that the State

00:34:24.060 Department made today, look, the main thing, the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards, they are in control

00:34:30.440 of Iran's external operations throughout the world. That means, Glenn, they are in control, 1.00

00:34:36.080 complete control of Iran's terror apparatus, whether that's in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or yes,

00:34:42.980 right here in the Western Hemisphere, where we've seen Iran and Hezbollah strike over the past few 0.99

00:34:48.040 decades. So the, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps are the power brokers in that regime and the

00:34:55.060 terror masters in Iran. Why'd the president do this today?

00:34:59.720 You know, I think it's long overdue. Number one, if it was the right thing to do, just as a Jerusalem 1.00

00:35:04.320 embassy, the Golan declaration, the right thing to do. Look, a lot of people would say the elections

00:35:10.140 tomorrow, obviously, of the Israeli election, Benjamin Netanyahu, uh, looking for reelection.

00:35:14.820 He's probably, I'm sure, uh, in support of the IRGC being designated as a terrorist entity, but, uh,

00:35:21.940 no matter the timing, it's a good thing, Glenn, and it's long overdue because if we're serious about

00:35:26.360 confronting this Iranian regime and their, their terror tentacles throughout the world, 1.00

00:35:31.540 the Revolutionary Guards is the place to start. They are the head of the snake when it comes to

00:35:36.380 Iran's, uh, terror apparatus. And by the way, the State Department, Glenn, over the past few decades

00:35:41.080 has recognized Iran as the world's number one state sponsor of terror. That's both Democrat 0.58

00:35:45.980 and Republican administrations, but this is the first administration to actually act on it in this

00:35:50.800 way. We have such a turning of the tide, uh, with, uh, Israel internally. You have the president, 0.78

00:35:58.940 um, you know, moving the embassy, the Golan Heights, which is, if anybody's ever been there,

00:36:04.800 you stand at the Golan Heights and you're like, there's no way that Israel could ever let this go.

00:36:09.620 They're dead. If they let that go, it's strategic land. You have to have, it's literal high ground.

00:36:15.360 Um, then Benjamin Netanyahu said the quote occupied territories are not occupied territories. And he

00:36:22.380 said, he's going to give control of, uh, of those, uh, to the Jewish settlements. What does that mean?

00:36:29.660 Well, I think number one with the Golan Glenn, uh, you're absolutely right. Strategic, strategic,

00:36:35.800 strategic. Look, that is the high ground. Whoever controls that controls the high ground in past

00:36:41.280 days before 1967, when Israel seized control of the Golan in a defensive war, by the way,

00:36:47.260 against Syria and Egypt, Syria controlled the Golan. That meant Glenn, they could rain missiles down 0.69

00:36:52.440 on the Galilee below. It's a non-starter for Israel to give that up. Common sense. Number two,

00:36:57.560 I think with the territories, he's talking about Judea and Samaria, uh, the West Bank, Judea and

00:37:03.320 Samaria from an Israeli perspective, number one is absolutely essential from a security sense until 0.97

00:37:09.080 there's a Palestinian authority under Mahmoud Abbas that shows that it's serious about peace,

00:37:15.880 that's serious about recognizing Israel's right to exist. It seems like a, a no brainer for Israel to 0.86

00:37:21.800 hang on to that territory, just from a security perspective. In the past, when Israel disengaged

00:37:26.680 from Gaza, pulled out of Southern Lebanon, unfortunately, Glenn, they were greeted with rockets

00:37:31.240 and missiles. There's also the, the, the important factor. Look at Judea and Samaria is the biblical

00:37:36.840 heartland of Israel. The Jewish people were living there 3,500 years ago. So that's also a strong

00:37:42.440 factor in that decision by Prime Minister Netanyahu. So Eric, we have, uh, uh, we have the election

00:37:48.120 tomorrow. Is he going to win Netanyahu? It's tight. I'll tell you, Glenn, I was talking to some folks,

00:37:54.680 contacts on the ground in Israel, just, just over the weekend, and it's close for sure. I, I'm not,

00:38:01.000 I'm not a prognosticator with it. I would say that Prime Minister Netanyahu has the inside track,

00:38:05.800 uh, what does it mean if he loses? It's going to be very good. What does it mean if he loses?

00:38:11.560 Going to be interesting. I mean, he obviously has had a great relationship with President Trump,

00:38:15.480 number one. Uh, number two, he's been very friendly to evangelicals. From a security perspective,

00:38:20.600 it's unclear. Benny Gantz, who's the main competitor, Glenn, look, the blue and white party in Israel,

00:38:25.800 which is the main competitor going against Prime Minister Netanyahu, three of their top four men

00:38:30.520 are former generals. Benny Gantz, Moshe alone, and Gabi Ashkenazi, you would think they would have

00:38:36.920 a pretty strong stance on security. Uh, I've interviewed Benny Gantz. He's an impressive guy

00:38:42.280 when it comes to security issues. He was the chief of staff for the Israel Defense Forces,

00:38:47.000 just to give people a little bit more background on him. So he's got definitely security credentials.

00:38:51.880 Uh, so unclear how things change from a security perspective. Will he be less aggressive,

00:38:56.920 more aggressive, taking on Iran, for instance? What about Gaza? Gaza continues to flare up. It

00:39:02.680 seems like every few weeks, Glenn, with Hamas, that's a persistent problem. Then we have Southern 0.92

00:39:07.320 Lebanon, where Hezbollah, that Iranian proxy, has some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at every inch

00:39:14.760 of Israel. So whoever the next prime minister is, has a tall order for sure. But at the same time,

00:39:19.640 Israel's making great strides internationally, Glenn, and new relationships in India, in Africa,

00:39:25.400 in Latin America. So the security, the security challenges remain, but some exciting things

00:39:29.640 happening, positive things as well. The blue and white party, how are they, are they, are they more

00:39:35.400 socialists, less social? Are they friendly to the West as, as Benjamin Netanyahu and the Christians? 0.98

00:39:43.960 What, what do they stand for? Do you know? Yeah, I think middle of the road, Glenn, uh, truly,

00:39:49.320 I would say a moderate party, uh, from an Israeli perspective, definitely not on the socialist

00:39:53.880 left end of the spectrum. That would be the labor party in Israel, which is really

00:39:57.560 struggling right now. Uh, but I would say middle of the road, when it comes to more social, uh,

00:40:02.520 culturally, you would think they'd be more hawkish from a security perspective. Since again,

00:40:07.160 they do have three generals among their top, uh, three members there. Um, in terms of the West,

00:40:12.920 absolutely. They'll be friendly. I've interviewed, uh, Moshe alone and Benny Gantz, who are two,

00:40:18.120 Benny Gantz is obviously the top guy. Uh, Moshe alone's kind of second or third in that blue and white

00:40:22.920 party, both very friendly to America, to the West, uh, friendly to Christians in my experience,

00:40:29.080 for sure. Uh, Prime Minister Netanyahu has had a uniquely, uh, close relationship with the

00:40:34.120 evangelical community in the United States, but look, Gantz and Yalon in my experience have been

00:40:38.680 friendly as well. So, um, I, you know, I think Netanyahu has the inside track. I might be wrong,

00:40:44.840 but it seems like he's got the inside track right now, but at the end of the day, it is going to be

00:40:49.000 very, very close. This might be a Prime Minister Netanyahu. Look, he's been in power since February,

00:40:53.800 2009. This will probably be his closest election yet, I would say, because Gantz is a formidable

00:41:01.320 opponent with that, with that military background. Uh, we're talking to Eric Stackelbeck, um,

00:41:06.600 from ericstackelbeck.com. He is a good friend of the program. He is a, a guy who has been watching

00:41:13.480 this for, for decades now. Um, that's weird to say that, isn't it, Eric? Uh, and, uh, you go way

00:41:20.840 back. I know. And you're with Christians United for, uh, Israel's Watchmen project. You're the host

00:41:26.200 of the Watchmen, which is, uh, seen Friday nights at 10 30 Eastern on TBN. Um, uh, tell me about the,

00:41:32.600 uh, the, uh, CUFI, uh, summit that's happening in July. Yeah, Glenn, you've spoken at the summit

00:41:39.080 before. This is the big one for, for, uh, uh, and we loved having you, you know, it's, uh, it's the

00:41:44.280 big one from a pro-Israel perspective, uh, some 5,500, maybe 6,000, uh, pro-Israel Christians and

00:41:52.200 Jews will pack the Washington Convention Center in DC, in the heart of the nation's capital, uh, and 0.97

00:41:57.640 advocate for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. Uh, we've had in the past two years, Vice President

00:42:05.160 Pence in 2017. Last year, Ambassador Nikki Haley were the keynotes. This year, Ambassador David

00:42:11.000 Friedman, who's our first ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Wow. He'll be speaking. Dennis

00:42:16.040 Prager will be there. Of course, CUFI's founder and chairman. The one and only Pastor John Hagee will

00:42:21.240 be speaking. And some, some very special guests for sure. Uh, Prime Minister Netanyahu, or whoever the

00:42:26.440 Prime Minister is, uh, will deliver a satellite address, uh, to the summit. We'll have some special

00:42:32.040 guests from the Trump administration as well. We can't announce them yet, but, uh, they're coming.

00:42:36.120 So it's going to be big. And I think the key thing, Glenn, is not only will we get together

00:42:39.800 and we'll voice our support for Israel and the strong U.S.-Israel relationship, but a key thing

00:42:45.560 about it is we lobby on Capitol Hill. You have thousands of pro-Israel Christians will fan out

00:42:52.840 on the Tuesday of the summit. By the way, the date's July 7th, 8th, and 9th, uh, coming up in just three

00:42:58.200 months. But look, we will go to every member, all, all 50 states, and we will lobby them, uh,

00:43:04.760 in support of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and, and legislation, Glenn, that benefits U.S.,

00:43:10.360 the U.S. and Israel from a security perspective. Look, the tail, we've lobbied in the past on moving

00:43:15.400 the embassy to Jerusalem. Also, the Taylor Force Act, real quick, it passed into law last year.

00:43:21.080 Basically, that holds the Palestinian Authority accountable for support of terrorism. I don't know,

00:43:26.600 listeners might not know, they might know, that when someone is killed, when a Jew or an American,

00:43:32.040 Taylor Force was an American, when they're killed by a Palestinian terrorist, that terrorist and his 1.00

00:43:37.400 family receive a lifetime stipend from the Palestinian Authority. We call it pay to slay. And by the way, 1.00

00:43:45.400 in years past, U.S. taxpayer dollars were going to the Palestinian Authority and going into the

00:43:50.680 pockets of these folks. That's all finished now, but we lobbied for that. So a lot of exciting things

00:43:55.720 going on during the summit. Uh, we encourage everyone to come go to CUFI, that's CUFI.org,

00:44:01.240 and you can learn more.

00:44:04.680 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:17.560 I want to share with you one of the more disturbing stories I've read in USA Today in quite some time.

00:44:22.920 Conservatives' takeover of the Supreme Court stalled by John Roberts' Brett Kavanaugh bromance is the headline.

00:44:30.600 Ugh. No.

00:44:32.440 The conservative takeover of the Supreme Court that was anticipated following Donald Trump's two

00:44:37.800 selections has been stalled by a budding bromance between the senior and junior justices.

00:44:43.560 No.

00:44:44.040 Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's newest member, Brett Kavanaugh, have voted in tandem on

00:44:52.200 nearly every case that's come before them since Kavanaugh's joined the court in October.

00:44:57.720 They've been more likely to side with the court's liberal justices than other conservatives.

00:45:03.640 The two justices, both alumni of the same District of Columbia-based federal appeals court,

00:45:08.920 have split publicly only once in 25 official decisions.

00:45:13.960 Their partnership has extended, though less reliably, to orders the courts have issued on

00:45:19.240 abortion funding, immigration, the death penalty, in the six months of Kavanaugh's bitter

00:45:25.080 Senate confirmation battle that ended in a 50-48 split.

00:45:29.160 Roberts and Kavanaugh have obvious reasons for their reluctance to join the court's three

00:45:33.240 other conservatives in ideological harmony.

00:45:35.560 They do?

00:45:36.520 Yeah, yeah, listen to this.

00:45:37.720 The chief justice's voice concerned about the court being viewed as just another political

00:45:42.680 branch of the government.

00:45:43.800 Oh, so the answer to that is to play politics and try to, you know, show some sort of future,

00:45:50.840 you know, history can look back at us and say, we did the right thing.

00:45:56.200 We went left when we could have gone right.

00:45:58.680 That sort of posturing, not at all part of the job description of a Supreme Court justice,

00:46:03.880 is the right thing to do.

00:46:05.880 I got it.

00:46:06.440 Kavanaugh, a former top White House official under George W. Bush, who was accused of a

00:46:11.160 sexual assault in 1980s during his confirmation, may be just laying low.

00:46:15.160 Justice Kavanaugh seems to share some of the chief justice's institutional concerns.

00:46:19.560 Oh.

00:46:20.280 But I also think he cares about his own perception as an even-handed judge.

00:46:25.560 Oh, no, not another Roberts.

00:46:28.360 Yep.

00:46:28.760 No, no, no.

00:46:30.040 Yep.

00:46:31.640 I'm very worried about Kavanaugh.

00:46:33.160 I am too.

00:46:33.720 I mean, Roberts is a lost cause.

00:46:35.320 Yeah, he wasn't on the list.

00:46:36.600 Yes.

00:46:36.760 Can we make this point yet again?

00:46:37.880 Yes.

00:46:38.280 The initial list that Donald Trump put out had 21 Supreme Court justice possibilities

00:46:43.000 during the election.

00:46:44.920 When he was elected, and a big portion of him getting elected was because of this list.

00:46:49.160 It made a lot of conservatives.

00:46:50.440 We heard people call in droves saying, this is the reason I'm voting for Donald Trump.

00:46:55.000 This was all approved by the Federalist Society.

00:46:56.920 They went through a real process with it.

00:46:59.160 He got elected, and they picked Neil Gorsuch, one of the best justices on the list, I thought.

00:47:03.840 I thought it was a great pick.

00:47:05.200 And he's been great.

00:47:06.180 And then, after that, with very little fanfare, they added five names to the list.

00:47:13.280 One of those names was Brett Kavanaugh.

00:47:15.720 And I have no evidence to think that she would be bad, per se.

00:47:21.160 But another one of those was Amy Coney Barrett. 0.99

00:47:23.600 And the idea that we now have to pick off of this list, there's still 20 names on the

00:47:29.100 original list that are not Supreme Court justices.

00:47:31.400 Why we can't pick one of them when we have new Supreme Court justices, I don't know. 0.89

00:47:35.860 But that's another thing that makes me nervous about Barrett, despite she also doesn't have

00:47:39.980 a very long track record.

00:47:41.160 She seems great.

00:47:42.580 But Kavanaugh didn't seem great.

00:47:44.360 I mean, we were not excited about Kavanaugh as a pick.

00:47:47.360 I was very defensive of him as being falsely accused or having his life run over by,

00:47:53.600 accusations with no evidence.

00:47:54.560 But I was not a fan of him.

00:47:55.720 But he makes me very nervous.

00:47:57.280 Very nervous.

00:47:57.500 And the initial indications are not positive on Kavanaugh.

00:48:00.240 So, listen to this.

00:48:01.560 Now, remember, this is USA Today.

00:48:04.040 This is USA Today.

00:48:05.300 Mm-hmm.

00:48:06.620 Similarities between the two men are striking.

00:48:08.520 Despite their decade apart in age, Robert, 64, is an earnest and soft-spoken, but pointed

00:48:14.220 in his questions to both sides during oral arguments.

00:48:17.460 Kavanaugh, 54, is more demonstrative, but he tempers that with an inquisitive, open-minded

00:48:23.680 manner.

00:48:25.180 Whatever their reasons, the Chief Justice and the newest Justice together have provided

00:48:29.260 ballast for a court in transition.

00:48:32.520 Following Kavanaugh's replacement of retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, Roberts has become

00:48:37.840 the court's swing vote, and Kavanaugh often appears to be his wingman.

00:48:42.180 Example include the court's action last October, giving those challenging citizenship question

00:48:49.320 in the 2020 census, additional information about the plan, its refusal in December to

00:48:54.200 consider Republican-led states' efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.

00:48:58.540 It's ruling in February that Texas cannot execute a prisoner who claims to have an intellectual

00:49:02.780 disability.

00:49:03.900 In all three of those actions, Associates Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

00:49:08.660 Associate Justice Samuel Alito made known his opposition in two of them.

00:49:14.300 Roberts and Kavanaugh appear to have voted with the court's liberals, though the breakdown

00:49:18.080 was not made public.

00:49:19.760 Their differences have been rare, but noteworthy.

00:49:23.020 In addition to one public vote to a criminal procedure case, Roberts sided with the liberals

00:49:27.940 intemporarily blocking a Louisiana abortion restriction, while Kavanaugh would have let them 0.96

00:49:34.440 go into effect.

00:49:35.360 And while they refused to hear New Jersey County's effort to include churches in a historic preservation

00:49:40.740 program in a Washington State high school coach's plea to conduct prayers on a football field,

00:49:46.360 Kavanaugh warned of the need to protect religious liberty.

00:49:49.720 Kavanaugh, perhaps is seeking a low profile, has voted with the majority in almost every case

00:49:55.760 so far, unless he is the author, which usually means just signing on to the opposition or the

00:50:01.220 opinion, but often writes separately to explain his vote, a habit he picked up at the U.S.

00:50:06.340 Court of Appeals.

00:50:07.740 Kavanaugh has always had more of a moderate streak, even on the D.C.

00:50:11.620 circuit, says Josh Blackman, South Texas College Law Associate Professor who follows

00:50:16.760 the Supreme Court.

00:50:17.640 Oh, great.

00:50:18.260 He feels the need to explain himself, that he's not that right wing.

00:50:22.740 Oh, because this is, you know, as a Supreme Court justice, you'd hope that the unfair treatment

00:50:27.760 Kavanaugh received in his hearing would not change him at all.

00:50:33.620 But as a human being, we all know that going through an experience like that will probably

00:50:38.120 change you one of two ways.

00:50:39.720 Number one, if you want to assign this to Clarence Thomas, the Clarence Thomas way, which

00:50:44.620 is you get falsely accused of something, you get beat up in the press for a million years,

00:50:47.800 and you become rock ribbed.

00:50:50.080 You are never going, you are going to go and never, ever try to please the media, try to

00:50:57.540 please the historians.

00:50:58.760 You are going to keep your, you're going to go with the Constitution 100% of the time,

00:51:03.300 even if you're the only vote and it looks super mean.

00:51:06.160 That's the Clarence Thomas way, if you want to summarize it that way.

00:51:09.240 The other way is this sort of John Roberts way, where you are now to show that you swear

00:51:15.440 you're not super mega right wing like he were portrayed, you start, you know, siding with

00:51:20.480 the left a little bit more often, and you start going that way.

00:51:23.480 Early indications, I will say they're somewhat mixed.

00:51:26.980 As you pointed out, the case on abortion in Louisiana was a good ruling by Kavanaugh, but

00:51:33.000 I wonder if what we wind up with here is someone who's constantly trying to please the future

00:51:39.900 historians, and that is a disastrous formula.

00:51:42.980 Good news, next term beginning in October may include major cases on abortion, immigration,

00:51:48.960 gay rights, and gun control.

00:51:51.520 Also, the third debate in the court over Obamacare.

00:51:55.240 And for justices in their 50s and 60s with lifetime appointments, there will be many, many

00:52:00.800 years, perhaps even decades, in which to evolve or stand firm.

00:52:07.320 Yeah.

00:52:07.760 And this is another thing where you hear this from the media all the time.

00:52:10.180 Remember the fear when Kavanaugh was going through?

00:52:12.380 It had nothing to do with whether Kavanaugh was touching women in high school.

00:52:15.700 I mean, it had nothing to do with that.

00:52:16.840 It was about, hey, what is this guy going to do if it's a right wing court?

00:52:19.560 They're going to overturn, you know, Roe versus Wade and all of these other things and

00:52:25.240 make it seem as if it's going to be the most conservative Supreme Court ever.

00:52:29.160 And we kept pointing out, have you watched John Roberts for 10 seconds?

00:52:33.540 There is no chance that John Roberts, given the opportunity, would come down on the right

00:52:38.620 side of Roe versus Wade. 1.00

00:52:39.560 He sucks. 0.99

00:52:41.140 So what you do if you get Kavanaugh to be on the right side of something like that is 1.00

00:52:45.040 you get to four votes, not five, four.

00:52:48.300 There is no way Roberts is going to take a stand against a big, you know, sort of cultural 0.86

00:52:53.900 issue where he believes he will be on the wrong side of history on it later on.

00:52:59.840 I mean, the chances of that happening are so minuscule and neither one of them have shown

00:53:03.800 any bravery in this sort of area.

00:53:06.460 So the idea that this is really in doubt is such a far fetched sort of like fever dream

00:53:13.800 of liberals to get people out to vote.

00:53:17.100 It's like they're just like, well, this is the handmaid's tale.

00:53:19.760 It's like this is not the handmaid's tale.

00:53:21.840 John Roberts is essentially one of you on controversial issues.

00:53:25.280 He's been wrong on all of these things.

00:53:27.520 He continues to try to please the media and historians.

00:53:31.500 You know, the new book shows that he changed his vote on Obamacare because he knew how important

00:53:36.560 insurance was to businesses.

00:53:38.380 The hell does that have to do with the Constitution?

00:53:40.780 Your job is to get in there and rule on what is constitutional and what is not.

00:53:44.480 We did not.

00:53:45.540 We did not hire.

00:53:47.680 We don't pay those people to be politicians. 0.88

00:53:49.960 No.

00:53:50.080 To think things through, to noodle things through on what's best for society.

00:53:55.040 Their only job is to find out if it is constitutional or not.

00:54:00.760 Period.

00:54:01.700 That's their job.

00:54:03.700 It's like going into McDonald's and, you know, the guy won't give you the burger, but he will

00:54:14.160 give you all kinds of advice on how to fix your car.

00:54:16.720 Look, dude, I'm not going to serve you until you fix your car this way.

00:54:19.600 And you know what?

00:54:21.200 That outfit just doesn't work on you. 1.00

00:54:23.780 Shut up. 1.00

00:54:24.440 McGriddle me. 1.00

00:54:25.180 Yeah, give me a McGriddle and a shake.

00:54:27.060 That's all I want from you.

00:54:28.820 That's what we need to start to say to the Supreme Court.

00:54:32.120 Yeah.

00:54:32.460 We want to know, is this constitutional or not?

00:54:36.000 They actually traded rulings on Obamacare.

00:54:40.540 Roberts wanted to side with the left wing, but didn't want to give up all this ground.

00:54:44.700 So he actually got two liberal justices to come over and rule against the Medicaid part

00:54:50.960 of it.

00:54:51.560 So that's why it was a seven to two ruling and why two liberals oddly voted for the conservative

00:54:57.500 approach to Medicaid expansion.

00:54:59.520 They actually traded their opinions.

00:55:03.480 Roberts said, I won't overturn it if you come over to me with Medicaid.

00:55:07.080 I mean, that is not the way this is supposed to work.

00:55:09.120 Rule on the Constitution, period.

00:55:12.340 Let the chips fall where they may.

00:55:14.260 And for some reason, we have lost and we have now just gained another legislative branch.

00:55:19.800 Yep.

00:55:20.280 And that is not what we want.

00:55:22.120 Nope.

00:55:22.400 They're making laws all the time. 0.93

00:55:24.040 They're trading favors. 0.90

00:55:25.420 It's ridiculous. 0.76

00:55:26.220 It is an unelected legislative branch now. 0.75

00:55:29.240 And you know, the worst thing, and there's a lot of bad things that FDR did.

00:55:32.820 Worst thing FDR did?

00:55:34.420 Take the Supreme Court out of the basement.

00:55:35.820 Supreme Court was in the basement.

00:55:39.060 This is how little the Supreme Court meant to the country for decades. 0.95

00:55:48.040 When they built the Capitol, they realized, oh, crap, we didn't think about the Supreme 0.98

00:55:53.560 Court. 0.97

00:55:54.400 Oh, well, you know that place down by the boiler?

00:55:57.860 Just open that up a little bit and give them a room in the basement.

00:56:02.280 It's like where Milton from office space was hid.

00:56:05.200 Yes, I mean, that's who they were.

00:56:08.840 And they gave them this big, huge building and made them so important.

00:56:13.160 And FDR did it for a reason.

00:56:15.940 And when the guys who were used to being in the basement, when I'm not buying into this,

00:56:20.780 what did he do?

00:56:21.460 He said, I'm going to pack the Supreme Court.

00:56:24.440 I mean, we've lost touch of what the Supreme Court is supposed to be, and it is certainly

00:56:33.160 not supposed to be another legislative body.

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The Glenn Beck Program - April 08, 2019

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