The Glenn Beck Program - February 18, 2025


Best of the Program | Guests: Sean Spicer & Ezra Levant | 2⧸18⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

167.46974

Word Count

7,600

Sentence Count

646

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

28


Summary

Glenn Beck and Sean Spicer talk about the chickens coming home to roost. Also, why the overreaction and freak out over the government cuts? What happened to the $4.7 trillion that the Treasury can't track?


Transcript

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00:00:04.100 about something that happened in 2021. That is, the chickens are coming home to roost today.
00:00:13.120 Also, why the overaction and freak out over the government cuts?
00:00:16.840 What happened to the $4.7 trillion that the Treasury just isn't able to track?
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00:01:54.500 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. My gosh, everything is in chaos. Nobody's
00:02:12.900 getting food. The price of bacon. Have you noticed? I, uh, can you even afford gas now? My gosh,
00:02:24.140 the schools are in disarray. Our children aren't being educated. What do we do with the homeless
00:02:31.320 population that's about to be beaten to death because they're, they're people in America are
00:02:37.740 so transphobic, but there's no classes to learn. Don't hate trans people. What are we going to do?
00:02:45.800 And, and what, and what is Elon Musk doing? Oh man, he went into the, uh, he went into the treasury
00:02:53.860 and, uh, he started having his people work with the treasury people. And it was actually the treasury
00:03:01.020 people that found, um, well, $4.7 trillion in payments that don't have any, you know, don't have
00:03:10.880 any code or anything. So it's almost untraceable to see where that $4.7 trillion went. Don't worry
00:03:18.520 about it. What? What? It's these doge people that just keep hyping everything and saying that there's
00:03:26.000 problems. There's no problem there. $4.7 trillion that we just can't identify where it went. What do
00:03:32.320 you want a record now? My gosh. Keep calm and carry on. Yeah. You ever hear that? Just so what?
00:03:39.160 There's $4.7 trillion. It just keep calm, keep going. Everything's going to be fine.
00:03:47.300 So now people are paranoid in Washington. Listen to this story. Dad, uh, Stu, this is, this is sad.
00:03:55.180 This is very sad. Government employees are reporting. Can we have any sad music, Sarah? Government
00:04:01.500 employees are reportedly plagued with anxiety over the Department of Government Efficiencies,
00:04:07.080 DOGE, the access to various computer systems, fearing surveillance of their communications.
00:04:13.740 Some employees are paranoid that their conversations, their emails, their texts could be surveilled
00:04:18.180 with some purchasing Faraday bags to block electromagnetic signals or to inhibit potential
00:04:26.700 surveillance. One employee at the General Services Administration, responsible for
00:04:31.480 government procurement procurement, say they no longer carry a work out, a phone outside of
00:04:37.500 the office. I used to carry my work phone around with me everywhere after hours on the weekend in
00:04:42.260 case anything was, anything was needed. But now I won't take it out of my office. Now the GSA says it
00:04:51.060 doesn't have a plan to surveil its employees, but people are worried that they're being surveilled now.
00:04:58.060 Now I, I don't, I mean, I, I mean, I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but
00:05:05.520 the government's been listening to you and everybody else for a very long time. What you're just coming
00:05:12.500 around to this. I think the government might be listening. No, no way. Now add to that anything in
00:05:21.980 your emails or whatever could just be taken without a search warrant. Your GPS location could just be
00:05:30.240 given. Your banking records could be given to the FBI. Yeah, that's right. It could happen to you, but
00:05:37.940 only if you're on the right and were in Washington on January 6th. That was the only way that could happen.
00:05:45.900 So you were safe. You were totally safe. Or are you, this is a reason to make sure the government
00:05:55.800 is transparent. I don't think there's anybody that wants to be surveilled by the United States
00:06:01.060 government. That's kind of been one of our points lately. You know what I mean? We've been saying that
00:06:05.180 for a while, Hey, they could become really dangerous because they have all of our information.
00:06:12.640 And you were like, no, that's not going to happen. I mean, I mean, unless you're for Trump,
00:06:20.420 but that's crazy. Oh, okay. Okay. So yesterday, anti-Trump critics have called for another boycott
00:06:29.400 against the co-founder of Airbnb. He's decided to, to join Doge. I don't know what he's doing. Maybe
00:06:38.660 putting people up. I don't know. I don't know. $4.7 trillion missing. Maybe he can get a slice of
00:06:44.520 that. I don't know. But, uh, he came out and he said that he was, you know, he was going to go ahead
00:06:50.320 and, uh, and, uh, and volunteer time for Doge. Okay. Great. Oh my gosh. No, not great for the
00:06:59.780 people. I mean, the people who are the elites in Washington, you know, the ones that are having
00:07:04.560 to sacrifice right now, right now might, might lose their cushy government job. I mean, they've had a
00:07:10.340 job. They've, they've been promised a job for life. You know what that's like, right? Never having to
00:07:16.800 worry about your job. Never having to worry about even a review because really everyone around you
00:07:23.280 sucks. Oh man. And they might lose. Where's the sad music, Sarah? I need some more sad music for the
00:07:29.660 government employees that might lose their job. Oh gosh, darn it. Can you imagine not knowing if you
00:07:38.540 could keep your job a new buy? Try this out for size. You probably can't relate to this, but a new boss
00:07:44.600 comes into your place of work and you don't know if he's going to like you, not like you, change
00:07:50.900 direction. You could just lose your job. I know you can't relate to that, but for the very first time
00:07:58.260 in American history, these poor employees of the government who were promised a job for life and
00:08:07.260 pension better than any kind of pension you could ever get, they now question whether this new boss
00:08:15.640 of theirs might fire them. I don't know how they deal with it. I don't know how they deal with it.
00:08:24.420 Oh my gosh, the stress they must be under. Just horrible, huh? By the way, Department of Education
00:08:32.900 has canceled $600 million in woke teacher training grants. You've got to be kidding me.
00:08:41.280 So wait a minute. Are you telling me nobody's going to be teaching our teachers
00:08:45.880 that little Susie could have a dinky sewed on to her body so she could be a boy? Nobody's going to teach
00:08:56.620 that? What was sewed on again? A dinky. Okay. Put it right there. And nobody's going to teach that
00:09:02.640 to the teachers. So the teachers won't be able to teach that to the kids. Oh my gosh, this is chaos,
00:09:09.340 people. This is chaos. Kind of like, see, I know you can't, I know you can't relate to this kind of
00:09:18.040 chaos, but the teachers are now going to have to go into school and what they've known to be true
00:09:23.960 their whole life, you know, that gender is fluid. That a boy could be a girl. That, you know,
00:09:32.920 trans is cool. That drag queens, I mean, they grew up their whole life knowing that drag queens were
00:09:40.340 cool for kindergartners. Okay. They knew it their whole life. And then all of a sudden Trump gets in
00:09:45.740 and everything changes overnight. Now, all of a sudden you can't relate to this kind of chaos in
00:09:52.740 your life because this kind of chaos has never happened to you where you believe something
00:09:56.700 your entire life. You think everybody believes something for their entire life. And then a group
00:10:02.020 of people get into power and they're like, no, there's no such thing as kids being able to change their
00:10:11.880 gender. Imagine what these teachers are going through. The chaos in their life.
00:10:24.900 Man.
00:10:28.700 And what is Doge doing? What are they doing? Really? Honestly, what are they doing?
00:10:33.520 Let me give you this story. The Washington, D.C. non-profit.
00:10:37.820 A non-profit, the Amica Center for Immigration Rights, has been running advertisements on Facebook
00:10:48.960 soliciting donations to disrupt Trump's deportation machine. Stop Trump's deportation dystopia.
00:10:57.540 We'll see you in court, Mr. Trump.
00:11:01.420 Now,
00:11:03.540 you might not have ever heard of this NGO, but the federal government has heard about it.
00:11:12.720 In fact,
00:11:13.940 they received just last year
00:11:17.680 $9 million
00:11:18.700 as a subcontractor to provide
00:11:21.600 legal services through the Department of Justice
00:11:23.740 Legal Orientation Program.
00:11:25.480 So this is like a quasi-government agency.
00:11:28.840 Here's the good news, okay?
00:11:31.560 You're gonna love this.
00:11:33.740 You've never heard of this group before.
00:11:36.220 You might think,
00:11:37.600 hey, I don't know.
00:11:39.020 I mean, didn't they promise us at one point
00:11:40.800 we wouldn't take federal tax dollars
00:11:42.880 to pay for abortions?
00:11:45.280 No, they never promised that.
00:11:46.900 What are you talking about?
00:11:47.900 You've got a faulty memory.
00:11:50.340 I don't know.
00:11:51.220 I'm kind of against
00:11:52.720 illegal immigration.
00:11:54.120 Why are my tax dollars going
00:11:56.340 to fight against the law?
00:12:00.160 Are you a doge person?
00:12:04.760 Are you somebody who likes Elon Musk?
00:12:07.980 Are you somebody who doesn't understand
00:12:09.880 that the biggest threat to the planet,
00:12:12.500 an existential threat,
00:12:14.660 will be dead in
00:12:16.200 10 minutes?
00:12:18.400 We'll all be dead
00:12:19.860 if we don't take care
00:12:21.780 of global warming
00:12:22.640 in the next, well,
00:12:23.680 about nine and a half minutes now.
00:12:25.400 Hurry up.
00:12:28.680 You're one of those people.
00:12:30.680 And
00:12:31.160 you're for Elon Musk.
00:12:34.180 You know,
00:12:34.980 a guy who believes
00:12:36.080 the same things
00:12:36.800 that you believe
00:12:37.940 about global warming
00:12:38.920 and has done more,
00:12:39.800 you know,
00:12:41.040 for global warming
00:12:41.920 than anybody else alive
00:12:43.500 on the planet.
00:12:44.020 But I see why you hate him so much.
00:12:47.260 Because of things like this,
00:12:49.760 he's going to make sure
00:12:50.960 that every dollar
00:12:52.400 that you pay into tax,
00:12:54.980 which I know you love
00:12:55.860 because it's patriotic,
00:12:57.060 right?
00:12:57.420 Am I right?
00:12:58.800 Hey,
00:12:59.140 do your patriotic duty.
00:13:00.640 Pay tax.
00:13:01.260 And you love high taxes.
00:13:03.240 You personally love them,
00:13:05.520 right?
00:13:05.940 It's not,
00:13:06.880 no,
00:13:07.100 tax somebody else,
00:13:08.060 not me.
00:13:08.540 No, no, no.
00:13:09.040 Not with you.
00:13:09.880 You love taxes.
00:13:11.980 And you just want them
00:13:13.600 as high as they can possibly be.
00:13:16.020 He's just making sure
00:13:17.580 that the tax dollars
00:13:19.880 aren't going to something
00:13:21.740 that you
00:13:22.820 don't necessarily
00:13:24.600 agree with
00:13:25.940 because it's unconstitutional,
00:13:29.760 you know?
00:13:31.120 Like,
00:13:32.120 right?
00:13:33.160 You're for this one.
00:13:34.520 You're for this one.
00:13:35.680 You want,
00:13:36.120 because that one makes sense.
00:13:38.140 But can you imagine
00:13:39.400 if those tax dollars,
00:13:41.020 nine million dollars,
00:13:42.320 Donald Trump,
00:13:43.000 use that to prop up,
00:13:45.480 you know,
00:13:46.400 a pro-Second Amendment
00:13:48.740 NGO?
00:13:49.800 Ha!
00:13:50.220 That would be crazy.
00:13:51.660 We'd have to stop that
00:13:52.720 right now,
00:13:53.260 wouldn't we?
00:13:57.200 This is incredible
00:13:58.900 what they are doing.
00:14:01.560 They have zero credibility
00:14:03.980 on any of this,
00:14:06.080 any of this.
00:14:06.960 how do you defend
00:14:10.060 this,
00:14:13.060 just this,
00:14:13.640 just this,
00:14:14.080 nine million dollars?
00:14:16.740 Well,
00:14:17.280 nine million dollars.
00:14:18.600 I don't know if you know this,
00:14:19.480 but nine million dollars
00:14:20.440 here,
00:14:20.800 there,
00:14:20.960 and everywhere
00:14:21.400 kind of adds up.
00:14:23.260 Usually adds up to,
00:14:25.020 oh,
00:14:25.300 my gosh,
00:14:26.200 where did I pull this number up?
00:14:27.480 4.7 trillion dollars
00:14:29.420 that the Treasury
00:14:30.220 just has no idea
00:14:31.280 where they put that.
00:14:32.020 look,
00:14:36.140 the world is easy
00:14:38.440 to explain.
00:14:40.040 Our government
00:14:40.660 and what's happening
00:14:41.800 is really easy
00:14:44.080 to explain.
00:14:45.400 So I'm going to slow
00:14:46.100 the train down a bit.
00:14:47.940 I'm going to explain it.
00:14:51.240 Why don't we just,
00:14:51.880 why don't we just imagine
00:14:53.400 for just a second
00:14:54.260 that our government
00:14:55.560 is a restaurant,
00:14:59.060 a bustling restaurant,
00:15:00.200 where every section
00:15:02.060 in the restaurant
00:15:02.920 plays a vital role
00:15:04.720 because they want
00:15:06.580 to create
00:15:07.120 a memorable
00:15:07.700 dining experience
00:15:08.820 and make the people happy.
00:15:10.800 At the heart
00:15:11.920 of the kitchen
00:15:13.320 is the chef
00:15:14.920 in this restaurant.
00:15:16.700 That would be called
00:15:17.440 the president.
00:15:18.480 He's the chef.
00:15:19.680 He crafts the menu
00:15:20.960 and oversees
00:15:21.740 the culinary creations
00:15:23.700 all in line
00:15:24.800 with the original purpose
00:15:26.100 of the restaurant.
00:15:27.680 So if it's an Italian
00:15:28.580 establishment,
00:15:29.200 he can't put goulash
00:15:30.520 on the menu.
00:15:31.680 That wouldn't be good.
00:15:33.420 Every four years,
00:15:34.840 the diners,
00:15:35.640 the citizens,
00:15:36.600 if you will,
00:15:37.280 the diners
00:15:37.960 have the opportunity
00:15:39.040 to review
00:15:40.020 the chef's performance
00:15:41.260 and say,
00:15:41.820 yeah,
00:15:42.860 you know,
00:15:43.320 I don't,
00:15:43.760 I don't like his fare.
00:15:46.120 I don't think it's good.
00:15:47.060 It's not good
00:15:47.500 for the restaurant.
00:15:48.160 After all,
00:15:49.040 we, the people,
00:15:49.720 the diners,
00:15:50.400 own the restaurant.
00:15:52.940 So in the dining area,
00:15:54.540 the servers,
00:15:55.540 our elected members
00:15:56.440 of Congress,
00:15:57.120 interact directly
00:15:58.060 with the patrons.
00:15:59.480 They're elected
00:16:00.220 every two years.
00:16:01.220 They're hired
00:16:01.580 every two years.
00:16:02.420 Everybody in the restaurant,
00:16:03.600 all the patrons
00:16:04.120 have to say,
00:16:04.700 you know what?
00:16:05.160 I like him.
00:16:05.780 I don't like him.
00:16:07.120 Replace him.
00:16:07.880 But the servers do that
00:16:09.040 because they're attuned
00:16:10.260 to the immediate needs
00:16:11.420 and the feedback
00:16:12.220 of the diners.
00:16:13.260 Now,
00:16:13.380 they can relay compliments
00:16:15.300 and concerns
00:16:15.980 to the chef,
00:16:16.920 suggesting adjustments
00:16:18.080 or new dishes
00:16:19.040 based on patrons' desires.
00:16:20.700 However,
00:16:22.300 they do not step
00:16:23.720 into the kitchen
00:16:24.700 to alter recipes
00:16:26.260 or dictate cooking methods
00:16:28.760 or tell the chef
00:16:31.640 who to hire and fire.
00:16:33.400 Their role is to represent
00:16:34.880 the diner's voices
00:16:35.860 and ensure their satisfaction.
00:16:38.540 The chef, in turn,
00:16:39.880 selects his own kitchen staff,
00:16:42.440 the sous chefs,
00:16:43.460 the line cooks,
00:16:44.220 the dishwashers,
00:16:44.980 without any interruption
00:16:46.200 from the dining room.
00:16:47.080 And the same can be said
00:16:49.040 for the chef.
00:16:50.660 He can't interrupt
00:16:51.560 and tell which servers
00:16:52.640 are hired or fired
00:16:53.740 or which are assigned
00:16:54.680 to which tables.
00:16:55.720 That's not his job.
00:16:57.740 Now,
00:16:58.220 the servers don't influence
00:16:59.740 the chef's hiring decisions
00:17:01.020 and vice versa.
00:17:02.660 It's a clear boundary,
00:17:04.620 front of house,
00:17:05.440 back of house.
00:17:06.700 That way,
00:17:07.160 the whole thing
00:17:07.740 runs smoothly.
00:17:09.300 Now,
00:17:09.980 just to make sure
00:17:11.200 that this Italian restaurant
00:17:12.840 remains an Italian restaurant,
00:17:15.840 you've got a critic
00:17:17.440 who comes in
00:17:18.580 once in a while
00:17:19.980 when there's a problem
00:17:20.860 or a dispute
00:17:21.720 and when they start happening
00:17:23.980 between the kitchen
00:17:24.800 and the dining area,
00:17:26.820 the role is to assess
00:17:28.380 whether the chef
00:17:29.520 and the servers
00:17:30.160 are adhering
00:17:31.080 to the restaurant's
00:17:32.660 founding recipes
00:17:34.020 and standards.
00:17:35.200 Are they holding that true?
00:17:36.820 They don't rewrite the menu
00:17:38.300 or manage the staff.
00:17:39.660 Instead,
00:17:40.200 all they do
00:17:41.180 is just say,
00:17:42.100 yep,
00:17:42.340 that was what was on the menu
00:17:43.920 and looks like
00:17:44.720 he's creating that.
00:17:45.840 Recently,
00:17:48.120 there's been a stir
00:17:49.540 in our governmental restaurant.
00:17:52.260 The chef has decided
00:17:53.760 to revamp the kitchen,
00:17:56.140 bringing in new staff
00:17:57.400 because it's been
00:17:58.840 wildly inefficient
00:17:59.820 and lacking of good flavor.
00:18:03.520 Goulash is appearing
00:18:04.680 on the menu.
00:18:06.540 However,
00:18:07.040 some of the servers
00:18:07.860 are attempting
00:18:08.600 to stop the chef
00:18:10.460 from hiring
00:18:11.840 and firing his own staff,
00:18:13.840 challenging the chef's authority
00:18:15.360 to manage their own team.
00:18:17.920 Now,
00:18:18.080 the situation,
00:18:18.940 again,
00:18:19.700 akin to the chef
00:18:20.460 trying to dictate
00:18:21.180 which servers
00:18:21.900 should attend
00:18:22.920 specific tables.
00:18:24.980 But this is disturbing
00:18:26.920 the force.
00:18:28.520 I feel like there's
00:18:29.340 a million voices
00:18:30.400 crying out
00:18:31.080 and then suddenly
00:18:31.700 silenced.
00:18:32.480 The restaurant
00:18:37.120 has the servers
00:18:38.760 the chef
00:18:39.680 and the critic.
00:18:41.580 In the early
00:18:42.660 20th century,
00:18:44.200 some proposed
00:18:45.060 a different model
00:18:46.260 for our restaurant.
00:18:48.100 Woodrow Wilson.
00:18:49.300 They suggested
00:18:50.360 that a group
00:18:51.240 of experts
00:18:51.900 should oversee
00:18:52.600 both the kitchen
00:18:53.360 and the dining area
00:18:54.460 believing they knew
00:18:55.500 best what patrons
00:18:56.560 should consume.
00:18:57.400 This sidelined
00:18:59.440 all of the direct
00:19:00.280 feedback from the diners
00:19:01.500 and concentrated
00:19:02.180 the decision-making power
00:19:03.540 leading to a disconnect
00:19:04.740 between the establishment
00:19:05.840 and the owners
00:19:07.140 of the restaurant.
00:19:09.040 In fact,
00:19:09.720 it was never fully understood
00:19:10.860 what they were doing
00:19:11.740 or run by the patrons
00:19:13.340 who only eat there.
00:19:15.680 They're the actual owners.
00:19:17.600 All three,
00:19:18.720 restaurant,
00:19:19.520 chef,
00:19:20.280 the servers,
00:19:21.240 and the critic,
00:19:22.640 were part of a covert plan
00:19:24.760 to hire someone
00:19:25.880 unknown to the patrons
00:19:27.080 who wanted to run
00:19:27.880 the kitchen
00:19:28.320 and serve only goulash.
00:19:30.700 The chef
00:19:31.660 is now making
00:19:32.800 the changes
00:19:33.420 to restore it
00:19:34.500 to an Italian restaurant.
00:19:38.980 That's all
00:19:39.740 that's happening here.
00:19:41.860 If you've ever had
00:19:42.800 an ounce of gun training,
00:19:44.380 you know the age-old rule
00:19:45.600 if you're going to shoot,
00:19:46.700 shoot to kill.
00:19:47.580 You don't shoot
00:19:48.000 somebody in the leg,
00:19:48.760 you never point a gun
00:19:49.640 at somebody
00:19:50.060 that you don't intend
00:19:50.920 on killing.
00:19:52.000 Our president
00:19:52.680 is famously
00:19:53.680 unaware of
00:19:54.540 that rule.
00:19:56.600 What do you do
00:19:57.400 when there's
00:19:57.820 an emergency situation?
00:19:59.120 It calls for action
00:19:59.880 on your part,
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00:20:59.360 All right,
00:20:59.660 let's go to Canada
00:21:00.420 and one of our good friends
00:21:01.740 up in Canada,
00:21:03.660 Ezra Levant.
00:21:04.320 Hello, Ezra.
00:21:04.900 How are you?
00:21:06.480 It's great to be on the show.
00:21:08.260 You know,
00:21:08.460 I love America
00:21:09.220 and I love Canada too
00:21:10.400 and I don't think it's,
00:21:12.560 I don't think I have to choose.
00:21:14.180 I also love Trump,
00:21:15.100 by the way,
00:21:16.240 and so it's been,
00:21:18.020 it's been a bumpy few weeks
00:21:19.840 because Trump said,
00:21:21.020 hey, Canada,
00:21:22.080 fix your border problem
00:21:23.440 or we're going to slap you
00:21:24.300 with tariffs.
00:21:25.080 Yeah.
00:21:25.340 And when you think
00:21:26.300 of open borders,
00:21:27.040 you think the Mexican border,
00:21:28.320 right?
00:21:28.920 And it's true,
00:21:29.700 the vast majority,
00:21:31.180 numerically,
00:21:32.420 of the smuggling of people
00:21:34.060 and drugs
00:21:34.500 is from the Mexican side.
00:21:35.840 But Canada's not perfect.
00:21:37.180 It's getting worse.
00:21:38.460 There's actually more
00:21:39.560 would-be terrorists
00:21:40.820 that are nabbed
00:21:41.800 on the northern border
00:21:42.660 than the Mexico border.
00:21:44.580 A lot of Chinese as well.
00:21:47.460 Exactly.
00:21:48.820 And the cartels
00:21:49.960 are active in Canada,
00:21:51.260 including not just
00:21:52.020 the Mexican cartels,
00:21:53.100 but, you know,
00:21:53.700 there's big meth labs
00:21:54.700 being found in Canada
00:21:56.380 every week.
00:21:57.100 Here's the thing.
00:21:57.660 If you look at the announcement
00:21:58.940 that Trump made,
00:22:00.020 this was back,
00:22:00.880 I think,
00:22:01.100 in November.
00:22:02.160 He said,
00:22:02.660 look,
00:22:03.420 by the time I'm inaugurated
00:22:05.160 on Jan 20,
00:22:06.000 I want you,
00:22:07.700 Mexico,
00:22:08.320 and you,
00:22:08.900 Canada,
00:22:09.200 to basically
00:22:10.340 do the preparatory work
00:22:12.540 to seal the borders.
00:22:14.340 Start working on it now.
00:22:16.360 Or else,
00:22:17.420 I'll slap you with a tariff.
00:22:18.820 So I think a grown-up
00:22:20.080 would say,
00:22:20.660 okay,
00:22:21.000 he wants us
00:22:21.620 to seal the borders.
00:22:23.560 We should probably do that
00:22:24.560 in our own interest anyways.
00:22:26.680 And he's got an or else
00:22:27.740 in there
00:22:28.060 that maybe stings a bit,
00:22:29.220 but let's just do the work
00:22:30.240 because it's in our interest too.
00:22:32.060 Trouble is,
00:22:33.600 Trudeau said,
00:22:35.060 nah,
00:22:35.420 I'm not going to seal the border.
00:22:36.540 I'm not going to crack down
00:22:37.340 on illegal migrants
00:22:38.620 and illegal drugs
00:22:39.400 even though that's something
00:22:40.080 we should do.
00:22:40.700 I'm going to focus on the or else
00:22:42.460 and I'm going to get into
00:22:43.860 sort of a staring contest
00:22:45.280 with an ally
00:22:47.040 ten times bigger than us.
00:22:49.520 Right.
00:22:49.880 And I've watched
00:22:51.060 Trump's announcement.
00:22:52.200 He wants the border fixed.
00:22:54.560 The tariff is the or else.
00:22:56.240 But here's the thing,
00:22:57.100 and I don't know if Trump
00:22:58.120 really thought about this
00:22:59.380 because he's dealing
00:23:00.320 with bigger fish,
00:23:01.440 like he's dealing with Ukraine.
00:23:02.800 He's dealing with Gaza
00:23:04.460 and he's dealing with the economy
00:23:05.960 and the fires in L.A.
00:23:07.380 and getting his nominees
00:23:08.460 through the Senate.
00:23:09.720 So he's dealing with huge things.
00:23:11.000 I don't think he's following
00:23:12.080 the minutiae of Canadian politics
00:23:14.180 because let me tell you one thing
00:23:15.260 I think Trump didn't count on.
00:23:17.800 I mean,
00:23:17.940 Trump's a master negotiator.
00:23:20.220 And the thing about a negotiation
00:23:21.720 is the other guy,
00:23:24.200 you know,
00:23:24.620 you've got to be willing
00:23:26.520 to walk away
00:23:27.120 and you've got to make it
00:23:27.940 so the other guy
00:23:28.800 sort of doesn't want
00:23:30.740 to walk away
00:23:31.300 because his alternative
00:23:32.000 is worse.
00:23:32.500 But here's the thing
00:23:32.960 about Trudeau.
00:23:33.880 I don't know if you remember
00:23:34.620 this, Glenn,
00:23:35.540 but in January,
00:23:37.100 Justin Trudeau announced
00:23:38.280 he was going to resign.
00:23:39.860 Yes.
00:23:40.420 And that's going to take effect
00:23:41.500 on March 9th.
00:23:42.680 That's like three weeks
00:23:44.280 from now.
00:23:45.120 So Trudeau doesn't have
00:23:47.060 the interest
00:23:47.780 of getting a deal.
00:23:49.080 He wants his final few weeks
00:23:50.880 as prime minister
00:23:51.700 to be, you know,
00:23:53.860 an epic superhero
00:23:55.320 coming to save Canada.
00:23:56.540 He wants to be Captain Canada
00:23:57.920 fighting against
00:23:59.100 the big bad Trump.
00:24:00.420 He doesn't actually want
00:24:02.440 a deal, Glenn.
00:24:04.420 Because that's boring
00:24:05.720 and that looks like
00:24:06.760 he's taking orders
00:24:07.580 from Trump.
00:24:08.240 If he fights Trump,
00:24:10.440 if he says,
00:24:11.020 no, no, no,
00:24:11.400 I don't want to spend
00:24:12.100 a few billion
00:24:12.760 on border security.
00:24:14.200 I want to get in
00:24:14.980 a hundred billion dollar
00:24:16.240 trade war.
00:24:17.500 See, Trump's not used
00:24:18.620 to negotiating
00:24:19.340 with a guy
00:24:20.520 who actually wants
00:24:21.680 to hurt himself.
00:24:23.240 But why would Trudeau
00:24:24.420 want that?
00:24:25.100 Two reasons.
00:24:25.760 Number one,
00:24:26.920 to change the narrative,
00:24:28.180 he's the Captain Canada
00:24:29.440 saving our country
00:24:30.320 from the big bad Trump.
00:24:31.880 We've got a lot
00:24:32.320 of Trump derangement
00:24:33.040 syndrome over here.
00:24:34.060 But number two,
00:24:35.760 Trudeau has wrecked
00:24:36.680 our economy
00:24:37.260 through taxes
00:24:38.060 and debt
00:24:38.800 and inflation
00:24:39.860 and cost of living.
00:24:41.200 So if Trump actually
00:24:42.520 does bring in
00:24:43.540 punitive tariffs,
00:24:45.120 Trudeau can say,
00:24:45.840 uh-huh,
00:24:46.680 this is on Trump.
00:24:48.100 It's not me.
00:24:48.720 I didn't wreck
00:24:49.280 the economy.
00:24:49.840 Trump did.
00:24:50.540 So the thing is,
00:24:51.380 Trump is dealing
00:24:52.020 with a guy
00:24:52.620 who's acting
00:24:53.540 in bad faith.
00:24:54.660 Justin Trudeau
00:24:55.660 wants a trade war.
00:24:57.600 He wants our countries
00:24:58.880 to fight.
00:25:00.860 So let me ask you this.
00:25:02.320 I've been watching
00:25:03.040 the reaction
00:25:03.620 of some Canadians
00:25:04.800 and they're like,
00:25:05.680 we're not going to become
00:25:06.940 the 51st state.
00:25:08.100 Do you guys understand
00:25:09.180 trolling?
00:25:10.720 Donald Trump,
00:25:11.520 he's calling Trudeau
00:25:12.860 the governor
00:25:13.680 of the 51st state
00:25:15.700 to minimalize him
00:25:17.480 as a mock
00:25:20.000 of Trudeau.
00:25:22.420 We're not thinking
00:25:23.940 about buying you.
00:25:24.780 We're not offering
00:25:25.380 to buy you
00:25:26.040 and we're certainly
00:25:26.620 not sending troops
00:25:27.500 up there to take you.
00:25:29.020 Do the Canadians
00:25:29.960 just not understand that?
00:25:32.140 I think it's a combination
00:25:33.360 because here's the thing.
00:25:35.000 For the last 10 years,
00:25:36.220 Trudeau has tried
00:25:37.180 to denature Canada.
00:25:39.440 Our founding prime minister
00:25:41.160 is named John A. MacDonald,
00:25:42.640 Sir John A. MacDonald,
00:25:43.560 our version of George Washington.
00:25:45.680 He's on our $10 bill.
00:25:47.260 There's statues
00:25:47.860 of him everywhere.
00:25:48.980 Trudeau stripped him
00:25:50.200 off the $10 bill.
00:25:51.720 Trudeau presided
00:25:53.080 over his statues
00:25:54.320 being knocked down.
00:25:55.700 Trudeau has told us
00:25:57.580 that we are a country
00:25:58.860 that committed genocide
00:26:00.140 against Indian people.
00:26:02.640 Trudeau calls us
00:26:03.680 sexist, racist.
00:26:04.820 He says,
00:26:05.800 and he told the New York Times,
00:26:06.900 we have no core values.
00:26:09.200 We're basically a hotel.
00:26:10.660 So he spent,
00:26:11.820 he changed our national anthem.
00:26:14.460 Who asked him to do that?
00:26:16.100 Like he's doing
00:26:16.580 all these things.
00:26:17.860 He went on
00:26:18.480 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:26:20.060 He changed your national anthem
00:26:21.460 from O Canada to what?
00:26:23.760 It's still O Canada,
00:26:24.720 but he changed the words.
00:26:26.560 And like,
00:26:27.000 who asked him to do that?
00:26:28.420 He went on
00:26:29.320 Anderson Cooper's show
00:26:30.340 and Anderson Cooper said,
00:26:31.600 well, tell me
00:26:32.200 what's a Canadian?
00:26:33.260 Okay, that's a question
00:26:34.220 you'd expect
00:26:34.720 a prime minister to answer.
00:26:36.060 He said,
00:26:36.820 well, we're not Americans.
00:26:38.700 That's not,
00:26:39.400 that's not an identity.
00:26:40.480 That's sort of a,
00:26:41.620 that's sort of an attitude.
00:26:42.680 And so here's a guy
00:26:44.300 who for 10 years
00:26:45.400 has derided
00:26:46.620 what it means to be Canada.
00:26:47.780 And he's given away
00:26:48.580 citizenship to millions.
00:26:51.440 So I think Trump
00:26:53.980 in his uncanny way
00:26:55.680 detected within Trudeau
00:26:57.920 a bit of an inferiority complex.
00:26:59.640 Oh yeah.
00:27:00.060 A bit of a weakness.
00:27:01.040 And so that 51st state thing,
00:27:03.800 governor thing,
00:27:04.680 it actually stings
00:27:06.920 because Trudeau
00:27:08.040 has spent 10 years
00:27:08.860 destroying our national identity
00:27:10.200 and Trump must have
00:27:11.720 grokked that somehow
00:27:13.400 because every time
00:27:14.520 Trump says that
00:27:15.440 it actually hurts
00:27:17.200 because we have spent
00:27:19.040 10 years destroying
00:27:20.140 what's made us Canadian
00:27:21.400 and Trump figured it out.
00:27:23.860 So, well,
00:27:24.780 he's very good.
00:27:25.720 He's very good
00:27:26.760 at knowing
00:27:27.360 where people's weaknesses are.
00:27:29.420 I think that's one of his,
00:27:31.120 one of his real skills
00:27:32.800 in negotiating.
00:27:33.440 He knows what the other side
00:27:36.280 is thinking
00:27:36.940 and what they're afraid of.
00:27:39.060 Let me,
00:27:39.860 let me ask you this.
00:27:42.520 Are we,
00:27:43.920 is this going to turn
00:27:45.340 into something?
00:27:47.360 Well, you know,
00:27:48.180 there was some booing
00:27:49.600 and there was a hockey game
00:27:50.440 between our two.
00:27:50.980 No, we're very well aware of it.
00:27:52.740 Yeah.
00:27:53.180 And the booing,
00:27:54.080 I think people are,
00:27:55.780 there's some people
00:27:56.640 sort of startled
00:27:57.360 because the idea
00:27:58.500 of fighting with America
00:27:59.540 is unthinkable.
00:28:00.440 Like we're,
00:28:01.480 you really,
00:28:02.300 you almost can't tell
00:28:03.160 a difference
00:28:03.540 between a Canadian
00:28:04.260 and American
00:28:04.720 other than how we pronounce
00:28:05.820 a few words
00:28:06.700 like a boot,
00:28:08.220 the hoose.
00:28:09.540 Right.
00:28:09.840 How long you'll wait
00:28:10.480 for healthcare.
00:28:11.340 Yeah.
00:28:11.520 There's just a few things.
00:28:13.060 I mean,
00:28:13.560 there are some differences,
00:28:14.400 of course,
00:28:14.800 but I can't think
00:28:15.640 of two countries
00:28:16.260 that are more similar.
00:28:17.160 Right.
00:28:17.340 So the idea
00:28:17.960 that we're in some battle
00:28:19.100 with America,
00:28:19.720 it's confusing
00:28:20.940 to Canadians.
00:28:21.920 But here's the thing.
00:28:22.840 Let me just say
00:28:23.300 a quick thing
00:28:23.680 about the 51st state.
00:28:25.420 You know how California
00:28:26.540 is this huge
00:28:27.720 electoral college
00:28:28.660 that always goes
00:28:29.440 Democrat every time?
00:28:31.140 Let me say this
00:28:31.680 to my brothers
00:28:32.260 in the United States.
00:28:33.480 You do not want
00:28:34.260 another 41 million people
00:28:35.900 who will vote Democrat.
00:28:37.240 Oh,
00:28:37.740 I'm sure.
00:28:38.600 Oh,
00:28:39.060 we've made that point.
00:28:40.880 We've made that point.
00:28:42.180 That's right.
00:28:42.640 I myself
00:28:43.600 would be a Trump supporter
00:28:45.000 in a heartbeat
00:28:45.580 and maybe the province
00:28:46.780 of Alberta
00:28:47.780 where I'm from would.
00:28:48.700 Right.
00:28:48.820 And by the way,
00:28:50.240 I know you have
00:28:50.900 some challenges
00:28:51.480 with French,
00:28:52.400 sorry,
00:28:52.900 Spanish bilingualism.
00:28:54.000 You know a quarter
00:28:54.600 of our country is French.
00:28:55.820 Oh,
00:28:56.200 we know.
00:28:56.840 So,
00:28:57.320 I mean,
00:28:57.880 get ready for French
00:28:59.020 to be spoken
00:28:59.980 in your Congress.
00:29:00.740 I'm just saying,
00:29:01.500 you know,
00:29:01.960 there's probably
00:29:02.340 a few details
00:29:03.280 you didn't think about,
00:29:03.920 but let me tell you
00:29:04.580 what actually matters.
00:29:07.800 I don't know
00:29:08.240 if you know,
00:29:08.640 but our free trade agreement
00:29:10.460 that Trump renegotiated
00:29:11.820 with Canada,
00:29:13.060 it already gives you
00:29:14.120 everything you want.
00:29:15.180 We have 170 billion
00:29:18.420 with a B
00:29:19.080 barrels of oil
00:29:20.760 in our oil sands
00:29:22.060 and you have access to it.
00:29:23.900 You have preferential
00:29:25.060 access to it.
00:29:26.560 And so when Trump
00:29:27.200 talks about slapping
00:29:28.060 that with a tariff,
00:29:29.220 my phrase is,
00:29:30.380 how's that American first?
00:29:31.920 You're the customer.
00:29:33.320 You need that oil
00:29:34.160 to displace
00:29:34.940 the conflict oil
00:29:36.120 you're buying from OPEC.
00:29:38.140 How about
00:29:38.920 instead of
00:29:40.040 slapping oil
00:29:41.400 with a tariff
00:29:41.980 since that's just
00:29:42.780 going to your refineries,
00:29:43.820 we're the number one
00:29:44.460 source of American
00:29:45.160 oil other than America?
00:29:46.500 You make about
00:29:47.000 half of your own oil
00:29:48.000 in Texas
00:29:48.920 and other places,
00:29:49.780 but the other half,
00:29:51.520 we're your number one source.
00:29:52.780 Then comes Mexico,
00:29:53.760 then Saudi Arabia.
00:29:54.760 How about
00:29:55.120 replace that OPEC oil
00:29:56.360 with more Canadian oil?
00:29:59.960 And I know
00:30:00.300 Donald Trump's
00:30:01.020 a deal maker,
00:30:01.740 art of the deal.
00:30:02.360 Well, how about
00:30:02.860 do a 50-year deal
00:30:06.400 with Canada?
00:30:07.060 You could buy
00:30:07.700 every one
00:30:09.160 of those
00:30:09.520 170 barrels of oil,
00:30:11.980 170 billion,
00:30:12.900 and that would last
00:30:13.960 you 50 years
00:30:15.100 you would be able
00:30:16.000 to displace
00:30:16.620 every single
00:30:17.480 foreign barrel
00:30:18.340 of crude.
00:30:19.520 $13 trillion deal.
00:30:21.780 That's a bigger deal
00:30:22.680 than Greenland.
00:30:23.840 You have access
00:30:24.820 to that oil.
00:30:25.780 It's yours.
00:30:27.280 But most of the
00:30:27.940 companies operating
00:30:29.020 there are
00:30:29.940 American-owned.
00:30:31.060 Even the Canadian
00:30:31.740 companies,
00:30:32.260 they're all listed
00:30:32.740 on your American
00:30:33.320 stock exchanges.
00:30:34.160 You own
00:30:34.900 the companies
00:30:35.960 that are making
00:30:36.600 the money.
00:30:37.040 It's American
00:30:37.680 all the way down.
00:30:38.700 And you don't
00:30:40.900 want China
00:30:41.420 to get access
00:30:42.100 to that oil.
00:30:42.780 China's poking
00:30:43.460 around Canada's
00:30:44.260 oil sands.
00:30:45.180 What does China
00:30:46.160 want?
00:30:46.520 China wants you
00:30:47.180 to push Canada
00:30:47.880 away.
00:30:48.380 Don't.
00:30:49.060 Don't, don't,
00:30:49.840 don't, don't do it.
00:30:51.520 And I just,
00:30:53.060 I think that
00:30:53.980 Trump is shooting
00:30:55.340 at Trudeau
00:30:55.980 but hitting us.
00:30:56.800 Don't do that.
00:30:57.320 I have a creative
00:30:58.040 way to get back
00:30:58.800 at Trudeau,
00:30:59.340 but don't do it
00:31:00.060 by attacking Canada.
00:31:01.480 What's your creative
00:31:02.140 way?
00:31:03.460 Well, I'll tell you.
00:31:04.180 I mentioned before
00:31:05.580 that Justin Trudeau
00:31:06.420 said Canada
00:31:07.080 has committed
00:31:07.880 a genocide
00:31:08.720 against our
00:31:10.080 native peoples.
00:31:11.060 But he says
00:31:12.100 that in the
00:31:12.660 present tense.
00:31:14.060 He says we
00:31:15.240 are committing
00:31:16.140 a genocide.
00:31:16.780 Really?
00:31:18.140 That sounds
00:31:18.800 like a crime
00:31:19.360 against humanity.
00:31:20.320 What if Trump
00:31:21.180 were to issue
00:31:22.780 an executive
00:31:23.300 order saying
00:31:23.920 taking notice
00:31:24.800 of Justin
00:31:25.820 Trudeau's
00:31:26.220 confession
00:31:26.760 that he is
00:31:27.740 presiding over
00:31:28.600 a genocide.
00:31:30.160 We hereby put
00:31:30.840 sanctions on
00:31:31.480 Justin Trudeau
00:31:32.260 and his
00:31:32.960 cabinet.
00:31:34.180 They may not
00:31:34.840 enter the
00:31:35.220 United States.
00:31:36.160 They may not
00:31:36.700 fly over our
00:31:37.360 country.
00:31:37.800 They may not
00:31:38.220 do that.
00:31:38.560 So just like
00:31:39.440 Trump is doing
00:31:40.760 with that
00:31:41.180 international
00:31:42.180 criminal court
00:31:43.540 that wanted
00:31:44.500 to arrest
00:31:45.000 Netanyahu,
00:31:45.980 if you smack
00:31:46.880 Justin Trudeau
00:31:47.700 around,
00:31:48.280 he loves going
00:31:48.980 to New York.
00:31:49.500 He goes down
00:31:50.000 to New York
00:31:50.380 and parties
00:31:51.000 and he sort
00:31:52.120 of does what
00:31:52.780 happens in Vegas
00:31:53.780 stays in Vegas.
00:31:54.700 Trudeau loves
00:31:55.500 going to America.
00:31:56.940 If you took
00:31:57.800 that away from
00:31:58.500 him,
00:31:59.080 Trudeau would
00:31:59.640 be floored.
00:32:01.340 Go after
00:32:02.040 Trudeau.
00:32:02.440 You want to
00:32:02.820 punish Trudeau?
00:32:03.420 Me too.
00:32:04.180 I got some
00:32:04.680 ideas.
00:32:06.420 But don't
00:32:06.800 see the
00:32:07.220 Ukrainians.
00:32:08.860 Get all the
00:32:09.620 oil you want.
00:32:10.360 Let's be good
00:32:10.940 friends.
00:32:11.360 And by the way,
00:32:11.840 you do a $13
00:32:12.540 trillion deal to
00:32:14.000 buy all our
00:32:14.600 oil for 50
00:32:15.480 years.
00:32:16.280 Now we got
00:32:16.800 some money to
00:32:17.340 build up our
00:32:17.960 own forces and
00:32:19.080 be your best
00:32:20.040 buddies again like
00:32:20.760 we were on D-Day.
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00:32:30.260 My friend Sean
00:32:31.120 Spicer, how are
00:32:31.800 you, sir?
00:32:33.220 I'm fantastic.
00:32:34.480 How are you?
00:32:35.140 I'm so good.
00:32:36.240 I'm so good.
00:32:37.120 I don't want you to
00:32:37.820 tell the end of the
00:32:38.560 story yet.
00:32:39.280 I want you to start
00:32:40.000 at the beginning.
00:32:42.980 What happened when
00:32:44.380 you left the White
00:32:45.380 House and Biden
00:32:46.440 took over as
00:32:47.800 president?
00:32:49.160 I'll make you
00:32:49.880 back one step
00:32:50.420 further.
00:32:50.900 Okay.
00:32:51.260 So I stepped
00:32:51.940 down as White
00:32:52.460 House press
00:32:52.800 secretary and the
00:32:53.500 president has
00:32:54.040 always been kind
00:32:54.860 and offered to
00:32:56.520 appoint me to a
00:32:57.180 couple of boards.
00:32:57.840 He appointed me
00:32:58.580 to two of them.
00:32:59.320 One of them was
00:33:00.020 the White House
00:33:00.500 Commission on
00:33:01.140 Fellows.
00:33:01.540 I was a
00:33:01.860 commissioner there.
00:33:02.820 And then he also
00:33:03.540 was kind enough to
00:33:04.700 make me one of
00:33:06.160 his appointees to
00:33:07.220 the board of
00:33:08.280 visitors to the
00:33:08.840 U.S.
00:33:09.060 Naval Academy.
00:33:09.880 So I was sworn
00:33:10.400 into office.
00:33:11.660 Joe Biden comes
00:33:12.480 into office.
00:33:14.180 And so on
00:33:15.620 January 20th,
00:33:16.920 myself and all
00:33:17.960 of the White
00:33:18.480 House commissioners
00:33:19.720 at that
00:33:20.200 fellowship committee
00:33:20.940 resigned because
00:33:22.100 it's a White
00:33:22.780 House commission
00:33:23.320 and the new
00:33:24.100 president has a
00:33:24.980 right to have
00:33:25.700 people for White
00:33:26.900 House commissions.
00:33:27.560 Fair enough.
00:33:28.700 Well, September
00:33:30.420 1st, I get an
00:33:31.800 email of 2021 and
00:33:33.160 it says, Dear
00:33:33.660 Mr.
00:33:33.940 Spicer, thank
00:33:34.500 you for your
00:33:34.900 service in the
00:33:35.540 U.S.
00:33:35.900 Naval Academy
00:33:36.460 Board of
00:33:36.900 Visitors.
00:33:38.620 By 6 o'clock
00:33:39.760 tonight, please
00:33:41.260 submit your
00:33:41.800 resignation or you
00:33:42.760 will be fired.
00:33:44.120 And I thought,
00:33:44.600 whoa, what?
00:33:46.080 Now, just for
00:33:46.960 context, remember,
00:33:47.680 Glenn, September
00:33:48.780 1st, my term
00:33:50.240 ended November
00:33:51.220 1st, 60 days
00:33:52.680 later.
00:33:53.120 I was like, you
00:33:53.860 couldn't wait 60
00:33:55.100 days just to have
00:33:56.260 it for free?
00:33:57.200 So I was like, I
00:33:58.860 had been sworn in
00:33:59.540 office.
00:34:00.360 My term was, you
00:34:01.260 know, ended that
00:34:01.780 time and I
00:34:02.380 obviously wasn't
00:34:03.180 going to get
00:34:03.500 reappointed.
00:34:04.300 Biden had his
00:34:04.940 right to appoint
00:34:05.560 his people.
00:34:06.120 Great.
00:34:06.860 So it turns out
00:34:07.760 that he fired
00:34:08.360 everybody.
00:34:10.140 Myself from the
00:34:10.980 Naval Academy
00:34:11.600 Board, Russ
00:34:12.340 Vogt from the
00:34:13.000 Naval Academy
00:34:13.620 Board, and then a
00:34:14.880 guy named H.R.
00:34:15.840 McMaster for the
00:34:16.840 West Point
00:34:17.340 Board, who, by
00:34:18.280 the way, H.R.
00:34:19.120 McMaster, you
00:34:19.680 remember, was a
00:34:20.160 national security
00:34:20.800 advisor to Trump,
00:34:21.960 three-star Army
00:34:22.840 General, who was a
00:34:23.840 graduate of West
00:34:24.600 Point, a
00:34:25.080 distinguished
00:34:25.420 professor at
00:34:26.160 West Point, and
00:34:27.120 the Friday after
00:34:28.340 that Tuesday
00:34:29.440 email was going to
00:34:30.880 be honored at
00:34:31.520 West Point as a
00:34:32.480 distinguished alumni
00:34:33.600 in their awards
00:34:34.880 ceremony.
00:34:35.680 So anyway, he
00:34:36.920 fires us September
00:34:38.120 1st.
00:34:38.520 I don't resign.
00:34:39.520 I said, I'm not
00:34:40.480 resigning.
00:34:41.100 You can fire me if
00:34:41.960 you want.
00:34:42.360 And then Stephen
00:34:43.560 Miller in America
00:34:44.540 First came to me
00:34:45.480 and said, we have
00:34:46.060 an idea.
00:34:46.980 I said, okay, what's
00:34:47.880 the idea?
00:34:48.220 He goes, we want to
00:34:48.840 sue Biden.
00:34:49.860 Now, Glenn, I'm not
00:34:50.860 a lawyer.
00:34:51.620 And I said, guys, I
00:34:52.720 watch a lot of law
00:34:54.380 and order, but how
00:34:55.700 in God's earth, if we
00:34:56.800 sue the guy in
00:34:57.800 September, I mean, my
00:34:59.560 term ends November
00:35:00.620 1st, we're never
00:35:02.100 going to get back on
00:35:03.080 the board.
00:35:03.840 And they said, no,
00:35:04.700 no, no, let's go
00:35:05.880 to court and make
00:35:06.860 Joe Biden argue
00:35:08.660 that he has the
00:35:10.200 absolute authority to
00:35:11.560 fire anybody.
00:35:12.920 And because we're
00:35:13.860 not going to win
00:35:14.380 the case, they'll
00:35:15.140 they'll rule against
00:35:15.920 us.
00:35:16.360 And I was like, oh,
00:35:17.320 this is brilliant.
00:35:18.700 The only people, but
00:35:20.540 here's the kicker.
00:35:21.340 The only people who
00:35:22.880 were willing to put
00:35:23.660 their name on that
00:35:24.640 lawsuit are myself
00:35:25.740 and Russ vote of
00:35:27.080 all of the other
00:35:27.860 people that were so
00:35:29.160 honored that
00:35:29.900 President Trump had
00:35:31.300 appointed them.
00:35:32.280 And they went to
00:35:33.160 everyone and said,
00:35:33.580 hey, will you sign
00:35:34.260 on to this?
00:35:34.860 And they said, oh,
00:35:35.800 thanks.
00:35:36.140 We're busy.
00:35:37.100 Russ vote.
00:35:37.600 So the case became
00:35:38.400 Spicer et al v.
00:35:39.840 Biden.
00:35:40.180 It goes up to
00:35:41.620 the court.
00:35:42.400 The court says the
00:35:43.220 president has the
00:35:43.920 absolute authority to
00:35:44.920 that.
00:35:45.200 We appeal the
00:35:45.940 decision.
00:35:46.780 It goes to the
00:35:47.620 appeals level.
00:35:48.440 And the court
00:35:49.500 again reaffirms the
00:35:50.980 decision that Joe
00:35:52.020 Biden and the
00:35:52.740 president of the
00:35:53.420 United States have
00:35:54.480 the absolute
00:35:55.060 authority to fire
00:35:56.520 anyone.
00:35:57.000 And the media
00:35:57.700 started calling Glenn
00:35:58.780 and they go, you
00:35:59.380 lost the case.
00:36:00.440 And I said at the
00:36:01.100 time, did I?
00:36:02.500 Donald Trump gets
00:36:07.220 elected and this is
00:36:08.760 where it gets really
00:36:09.500 fun.
00:36:09.880 You'll love this.
00:36:10.600 And now you know
00:36:11.740 the rest of the
00:36:12.920 story.
00:36:13.560 Here it comes.
00:36:14.460 Thank you, Paul
00:36:15.100 Harvey.
00:36:15.860 So, so, so the
00:36:17.020 New York, I write
00:36:17.700 this story in the
00:36:18.780 op-ed for the New
00:36:19.840 York Post saying,
00:36:20.540 hey, guess what?
00:36:21.340 Spicer v.
00:36:22.100 Biden has given
00:36:22.980 President Trump the
00:36:23.860 authority to fire
00:36:24.620 anyone he wants.
00:36:25.860 I hope that
00:36:26.340 President Trump
00:36:26.900 executes it.
00:36:27.960 And the White
00:36:28.520 House is tweeting,
00:36:29.620 you know, sending me
00:36:30.340 messages back.
00:36:31.220 Guess who we just
00:36:31.700 fired?
00:36:31.960 Guess who we just
00:36:32.500 fired?
00:36:32.840 And I'm living in
00:36:33.540 his glory.
00:36:34.300 Well, I write this
00:36:35.000 piece for the New
00:36:35.680 York Post explaining,
00:36:37.600 hey, here's what we
00:36:38.800 did.
00:36:39.240 Here's the legal
00:36:39.940 basis.
00:36:40.580 All of these people
00:36:41.200 who are about to
00:36:41.720 get fired by Trump
00:36:42.480 should thank President
00:36:44.280 Biden for this.
00:36:45.260 Now, here's where it
00:36:46.200 gets fun.
00:36:47.080 The New York Post in
00:36:48.020 the editing process
00:36:49.220 says to me, okay,
00:36:50.220 well, was it just the
00:36:51.300 service academies?
00:36:52.100 And I said, no, they
00:36:52.760 had the right to fire
00:36:53.500 anyone.
00:36:53.880 And they said, well,
00:36:54.740 give us some
00:36:55.260 examples.
00:36:56.720 And so I've got the
00:36:57.580 list of boards and
00:36:58.460 commissions that the
00:36:59.160 president can appoint to.
00:37:00.700 There's like a
00:37:01.720 couple hundred or two.
00:37:02.560 And I start reading
00:37:03.600 one of the editors.
00:37:04.740 I said, well, they
00:37:05.240 could fire, you know,
00:37:05.920 there's the
00:37:06.220 Battlefield Commission,
00:37:07.320 there's the Truman
00:37:07.940 Scholarship, there's the
00:37:09.500 Kennedy Center.
00:37:10.320 She goes, oh, put that
00:37:11.560 in the op-ed.
00:37:12.100 Put that.
00:37:12.480 People will identify
00:37:13.360 with that.
00:37:13.980 And then we went and we
00:37:14.760 added a couple other
00:37:15.580 examples to the op-ed.
00:37:16.700 So the op-ed gets published
00:37:19.020 in the New York Post and
00:37:20.180 it gets a lot of
00:37:21.340 coverage, whatever.
00:37:22.780 And President Trump
00:37:23.460 continues to fire people.
00:37:24.860 And when they fire the
00:37:26.500 board of the Kennedy
00:37:27.740 Center, the Washington
00:37:29.340 Post calls, you know,
00:37:30.860 the spokesman for the
00:37:31.840 Kennedy Center and he
00:37:32.600 says, are you going to
00:37:34.640 be opposing President
00:37:35.740 Trump firing you?
00:37:36.940 And on the record, the
00:37:39.140 spokesman for the
00:37:39.860 Kennedy Center says, we
00:37:41.160 can't.
00:37:42.540 Spicer v.
00:37:43.400 Biden sets the
00:37:44.400 precedent for this, gives
00:37:45.440 the president the
00:37:46.120 authority to do this.
00:37:47.500 So now here's the
00:37:48.460 kicker.
00:37:49.020 The Washington Post
00:37:49.920 called me and says,
00:37:51.140 what do you think about
00:37:52.600 what the Kennedy Center
00:37:53.520 is saying?
00:37:54.060 Now, I have a hard
00:37:54.900 enough time keeping up
00:37:55.820 with President Trump.
00:37:56.940 I don't focus on what
00:37:58.620 the Kennedy Center is
00:37:59.660 saying.
00:38:00.100 I'm sorry, that's
00:38:00.800 really not my thing.
00:38:02.120 So I said, I don't
00:38:04.680 know.
00:38:04.900 And they go, are you
00:38:05.540 serious?
00:38:05.920 You don't know that
00:38:06.820 they just cited your
00:38:08.240 case as the reason that
00:38:09.840 they can't oppose or
00:38:11.400 or object to what
00:38:13.540 President Trump just
00:38:14.340 did.
00:38:14.520 And I said, oh, my
00:38:15.400 God, that's amazing.
00:38:16.500 I'm glad to have
00:38:17.120 played a small part.
00:38:18.380 A day later, the
00:38:19.560 reporter calls me back
00:38:20.580 and says, I went and
00:38:22.180 read all of the court
00:38:23.620 documents.
00:38:24.920 And you're right.
00:38:26.160 And I said, of course,
00:38:26.940 what do you mean?
00:38:27.780 Yeah, I wasn't lying to
00:38:29.040 you.
00:38:29.320 And he said, I've got to
00:38:30.380 write this big story.
00:38:31.280 And I said to my team at
00:38:32.340 the time, my family, I
00:38:33.280 was like, oh, my God,
00:38:34.700 this is not going to go
00:38:35.780 well.
00:38:36.100 The Washington Post
00:38:36.880 wants to write a story
00:38:37.980 about Spicer v.
00:38:38.960 Biden and why it's
00:38:40.000 given the president
00:38:40.580 the authority.
00:38:41.060 And then I get a text
00:38:43.160 and it says, hey, we're
00:38:43.840 running, we're putting
00:38:44.620 the story up.
00:38:45.360 And I go, oh, like
00:38:46.900 these don't these things
00:38:47.880 don't end well for
00:38:48.820 people like me and
00:38:49.800 people like you.
00:38:50.720 It's like you don't get
00:38:51.860 that.
00:38:52.080 It's like getting a call
00:38:52.820 from the IRS.
00:38:53.660 Yeah.
00:38:53.840 It doesn't go well.
00:38:54.580 And they go, hey, I'm
00:38:55.520 from the Washington Post
00:38:56.740 and I'm writing a story
00:38:57.780 about Glenn Beck.
00:38:58.860 Yeah.
00:38:59.320 Thank you.
00:39:00.080 Yeah.
00:39:01.060 So I click on the
00:39:03.020 story and I'm reading
00:39:04.040 and I'm like, OK,
00:39:05.480 OK,
00:39:06.780 OK.
00:39:07.740 Like, when's the bad
00:39:09.140 part coming?
00:39:09.760 And the only part
00:39:10.960 is I normally
00:39:11.860 you know, there's
00:39:12.940 that phrase, Glenn,
00:39:13.860 where people say that
00:39:14.760 they they hate
00:39:15.560 watch MSNBC or
00:39:16.920 something.
00:39:17.280 Yeah.
00:39:17.440 Yeah.
00:39:17.680 And I hate I hate
00:39:18.940 read the comments.
00:39:19.980 I had to do it.
00:39:21.020 I had to do it.
00:39:21.860 I normally will not
00:39:23.580 read the comments.
00:39:24.420 I don't read the
00:39:24.900 Twitter replies,
00:39:25.800 whatever.
00:39:26.220 But I read the
00:39:27.040 comments and these
00:39:28.080 snowflakes.
00:39:29.040 They're so offended.
00:39:30.880 They're like Sean
00:39:31.980 Spicer's an evil
00:39:32.980 person pursuing the
00:39:34.280 president.
00:39:34.600 I'm like, wait a
00:39:35.040 second.
00:39:36.020 You have to
00:39:36.860 understand the
00:39:37.360 context.
00:39:38.480 Never in the
00:39:39.480 history of the
00:39:41.180 United States
00:39:42.700 had any president
00:39:44.160 ever removed
00:39:45.880 somebody from a
00:39:46.620 service academy
00:39:47.420 board prior to
00:39:48.960 their term being
00:39:49.720 done for anything
00:39:50.880 less than
00:39:51.380 malfeasance.
00:39:52.040 And even that we
00:39:52.740 can't find an
00:39:53.460 example.
00:39:54.320 Never.
00:39:55.500 Joe Biden was so
00:39:56.760 petty.
00:39:57.540 And the point is
00:39:58.700 they're mad at me.
00:40:00.320 The comments,
00:40:01.180 there's like
00:40:01.500 thousands of
00:40:02.280 comments when you
00:40:02.920 click on the
00:40:03.300 Washington Post
00:40:03.840 story.
00:40:04.080 And I posted
00:40:04.580 it on all my
00:40:05.040 social media
00:40:05.600 stories if
00:40:06.060 someone wants
00:40:06.400 to go read
00:40:06.760 it.
00:40:07.360 And I was
00:40:08.120 like, wait a
00:40:08.500 second.
00:40:08.940 You're mad at
00:40:09.780 me.
00:40:10.820 They're like, I
00:40:11.780 can't believe you
00:40:12.700 did this.
00:40:13.240 And I'm like, wait,
00:40:13.820 wait, wait.
00:40:14.120 I did nothing.
00:40:15.260 I literally had 60
00:40:16.540 days to go.
00:40:17.200 I'm sure I would
00:40:17.700 have gotten some
00:40:18.160 little, you know,
00:40:19.300 medallion from the
00:40:20.300 Naval Academy said
00:40:20.920 thanks for your
00:40:21.460 service.
00:40:21.960 Be on your way.
00:40:23.520 And yet, here they
00:40:25.160 are, like all
00:40:26.720 these snowflakes
00:40:27.580 putting comments in
00:40:28.620 the Washington Post
00:40:29.260 that like, I'm the
00:40:30.180 bad guy.
00:40:31.340 Because why?
00:40:32.220 Because I stood
00:40:33.720 up and said, hey,
00:40:34.840 you want to argue
00:40:35.640 that you have to do
00:40:36.300 this and give a
00:40:37.240 future Republican
00:40:38.260 president.
00:40:38.900 Now, at the time,
00:40:39.680 myself and Russ
00:40:40.300 Vogt had no idea
00:40:41.080 that President Trump
00:40:41.660 hadn't even declared
00:40:42.480 for re-election yet.
00:40:43.820 But we thought to
00:40:44.800 ourselves, hey, you
00:40:45.460 know what?
00:40:45.880 We'll stand up.
00:40:46.740 Now, like I said, I
00:40:47.960 watch a lot of law and
00:40:48.860 order, but that's my
00:40:49.960 legal prowess here.
00:40:51.000 So the idea that
00:40:53.440 this case now, which
00:40:55.200 we thought at the
00:40:56.160 time, hey, let's try
00:40:57.140 it, has now become
00:40:58.820 the basis for which
00:41:00.060 President Trump can
00:41:00.900 run around and say
00:41:01.540 you're fired, legit,
00:41:03.500 is amazing.
00:41:04.940 And I'm just, I'm
00:41:05.620 like, the Post wrote
00:41:07.300 in the story that I
00:41:08.040 was giddy.
00:41:08.800 I think that's an
00:41:09.640 understatement.
00:41:10.360 I am so ecstatic that
00:41:12.500 not just that President
00:41:13.440 Trump can execute on
00:41:14.620 this strategy, and
00:41:15.740 that it was Joe
00:41:16.460 Biden that set the
00:41:17.800 president and gave us
00:41:18.960 this gift is such
00:41:21.360 sweet, poetic justice.
00:41:23.240 You know, whenever
00:41:23.680 anybody tries to force
00:41:25.380 their way, it never
00:41:26.980 ends well.
00:41:28.280 Never ends well.
00:41:29.420 But think about this.
00:41:30.180 They tried to de-platform
00:41:31.440 Trump.
00:41:31.820 They censored him.
00:41:32.580 They took him off the
00:41:33.240 ballot.
00:41:33.700 They sued him civilly
00:41:34.580 and criminally.
00:41:35.360 And it just, it's
00:41:36.120 backfire, backfire,
00:41:37.140 backfire.
00:41:37.780 Learn your lesson,
00:41:39.220 folks.
00:41:40.180 Like, I just, to me,
00:41:41.960 I get such a kick out
00:41:43.200 of this because these
00:41:43.960 dum-dums keep thinking
00:41:45.560 if we just go after
00:41:46.600 him one more time,
00:41:47.500 it'll work.
00:41:48.020 And it doesn't.
00:41:49.560 So what is the
00:41:50.400 strategy now?
00:41:52.020 Do you think they
00:41:52.580 have?
00:41:53.140 I mean, because none
00:41:54.680 of this is working.
00:41:56.600 I hope that it's
00:41:57.760 continue.
00:41:58.280 I mean, I just love
00:41:59.420 the fact that they
00:42:00.200 keep, they double
00:42:01.320 down on stupid.
00:42:02.500 And they're like,
00:42:03.180 what if we just try
00:42:04.320 it one more time?
00:42:05.820 And I'm like, God
00:42:06.940 bless you.
00:42:07.820 But the idea is just
00:42:08.820 at some point, you
00:42:10.200 know, you take, I
00:42:11.360 was, I was, take
00:42:12.380 the loss and just
00:42:13.360 say, let's regroup,
00:42:15.120 let's retreat.
00:42:15.800 He's not running
00:42:16.420 again.
00:42:17.100 Maybe we stop making
00:42:18.240 it about him and
00:42:19.140 we think about what
00:42:19.880 we're for.
00:42:20.780 I don't tend to give
00:42:21.680 a ton of advice to
00:42:22.520 the Democratic
00:42:22.880 Party, but at some
00:42:24.160 point recognize it
00:42:25.180 for 10 years.
00:42:26.060 You've tried to say
00:42:26.780 that Donald Trump's
00:42:27.680 the problem.
00:42:28.300 We're going to come
00:42:28.760 up against them and
00:42:29.860 it hasn't worked.
00:42:30.840 So maybe, just maybe,
00:42:33.760 you try to rethink
00:42:34.900 this whole strategy.
00:42:36.900 So I, I, look, I
00:42:38.220 don't really care if
00:42:39.320 that's their problem,
00:42:40.200 not my, uh, I, uh,
00:42:41.840 you know, I performed
00:42:43.100 at the Kennedy
00:42:43.720 Center 10, 12, 15
00:42:46.240 years ago.
00:42:47.060 Uh, and it was like,
00:42:48.460 it almost took an
00:42:49.240 act of Congress, uh,
00:42:50.400 to make that happen.
00:42:51.220 I mean, you can, you
00:42:52.400 can rent out the
00:42:53.140 Kennedy Center and do
00:42:54.200 whatever you want on
00:42:54.900 there.
00:42:55.280 Well, they had a
00:42:56.500 problem with me.
00:42:57.340 Uh, and they told
00:42:59.420 me at the time I
00:43:00.480 was the first show
00:43:02.500 ever done at the
00:43:03.720 Kennedy Center that
00:43:05.080 displayed the American
00:43:06.800 flag on stage.
00:43:08.620 I found that
00:43:09.520 incredible, but I
00:43:11.060 don't care what
00:43:11.680 happens at the
00:43:12.320 Kennedy Center.
00:43:13.120 It doesn't matter to
00:43:13.920 me, but the left
00:43:15.380 is freaking out.
00:43:17.220 They're just
00:43:18.020 freaking out.
00:43:19.620 The, the, what I
00:43:20.500 see, here's the
00:43:21.160 thing.
00:43:21.380 There's a bigger arc
00:43:22.680 that I think is
00:43:23.400 taking place in the
00:43:25.440 first term.
00:43:26.360 We were somewhat
00:43:27.000 apologetic.
00:43:28.020 We were like, yeah,
00:43:28.580 you know, that
00:43:29.200 remember, just think
00:43:30.320 about this.
00:43:30.740 And remember the
00:43:31.180 Kennedy Center is
00:43:31.860 just one thing.
00:43:33.020 So president Trump
00:43:33.900 can keep firing
00:43:34.600 everybody.
00:43:35.200 But, but the, the,
00:43:36.500 when in 2017, we
00:43:37.580 came into office,
00:43:38.700 the Kennedy Center
00:43:39.340 honors, right.
00:43:40.300 Which is supposed to
00:43:40.980 be this annual thing
00:43:41.900 where all these
00:43:42.300 leftist awards and
00:43:43.620 they celebrate each
00:43:44.520 other.
00:43:44.860 They said, we won't
00:43:46.100 come if Trump shows
00:43:47.140 up.
00:43:47.400 And so Trump was
00:43:48.140 actually magnanimous
00:43:49.460 and said, you know
00:43:49.940 what?
00:43:50.700 I just, you guys go
00:43:52.180 on, have your event.
00:43:53.240 I won't go.
00:43:54.380 Okay.
00:43:55.020 And, and I think
00:43:55.940 that there was a lot
00:43:56.580 of feeling around
00:43:57.460 and trying to
00:43:57.880 understand the
00:43:58.560 trappings.
00:43:59.180 And, and like I
00:44:00.460 said, I, it was, it
00:44:01.920 was just, it was
00:44:02.660 new.
00:44:03.280 What do we do?
00:44:04.180 How do we approach
00:44:04.880 this?
00:44:05.300 This term, he says,
00:44:06.600 screw it.
00:44:07.440 You're all fired.
00:44:08.820 I'm taking over the
00:44:09.960 board.
00:44:10.400 I'm in charge.
00:44:11.220 I'm putting my people
00:44:11.980 and I love it.
00:44:12.720 This idea that we have
00:44:14.760 learned.
00:44:15.780 And this is what I mean
00:44:16.560 about the arc.
00:44:17.540 It's that, don't be,
00:44:18.920 don't be, you know,
00:44:20.140 don't be afraid.
00:44:21.120 Don't be apologetic.
00:44:22.280 Fight.
00:44:23.060 Go out there.
00:44:24.200 Why are we ceding
00:44:25.200 ground at the Kennedy
00:44:26.060 Center?
00:44:26.820 Why is it that Glenn
00:44:27.760 Beck is the only person
00:44:28.740 that puts an American
00:44:29.440 flag on it?
00:44:30.160 Why aren't we saying,
00:44:31.020 you know what?
00:44:31.600 Let's bring in more
00:44:32.460 people who do that.
00:44:33.600 Let's be proud.
00:44:34.880 Let's be patriotic.
00:44:36.300 Let's use this
00:44:37.100 institution to celebrate
00:44:38.200 America.
00:44:38.640 But I don't understand
00:44:39.860 like the mentality is
00:44:41.600 so different now.
00:44:42.900 It's let's fight.
00:44:44.860 Let's do this.
00:44:46.240 I think it's,
00:44:46.720 this is,
00:44:47.720 I think it's,
00:44:48.380 I love it.
00:44:48.720 I think it's absolutely
00:44:49.740 fantastic.
00:44:50.460 I thank you for what
00:44:51.520 you did.
00:44:51.940 And you know,
00:44:52.620 the only thing that
00:44:53.200 would make it better
00:44:53.860 is if you or I were
00:44:55.220 on the board of the
00:44:56.000 Kennedy Center and we
00:44:56.880 could announce that
00:44:58.160 Lee Greenwood's
00:44:59.180 residency was now
00:45:00.540 taking place at the
00:45:01.660 Kennedy Center.
00:45:03.860 I think you get
00:45:04.860 like, just so you
00:45:05.540 know, I, now that
00:45:06.420 you've like, that's
00:45:07.180 definitely not going to
00:45:08.320 be the last time
00:45:09.040 that we hear that.
00:45:09.840 You can take credit
00:45:10.540 for it, but I have
00:45:11.840 a feeling Lee would
00:45:13.640 be leading the
00:45:14.540 residency of like
00:45:15.760 several other
00:45:16.600 country artists
00:45:17.380 that come into
00:45:18.140 play there.
00:45:19.840 Thank you so much.
00:45:20.800 I appreciate it.
00:45:21.600 Sean Spicer.
00:45:22.400 You bet, sir.