Glenn Beck and J.D. Vance discuss the latest in the war in Ukraine, a man who claimed to be a member of the Ukranian military, and why we should be worried about it. Glenn also talks about how the U.S. government is trying to kill people for exercising their First Amendment rights.
00:00:00.260What a day. What a show. It's almost the big show. I mean, it could be the pre-big show, but I mean, this could be counted as a big show, a really big show.
00:00:09.560It's a moderately sized program for us.
00:03:00.140Russian propagandists are anybody from – if you judge by the standards of the American media, anybody from Tucker Carlson to yours truly.
00:03:07.620Many friends of mine in the American media have been accused of being Russian propagandists.
00:03:12.300So, is that an explicit threat to anybody who challenges the party line in Ukraine?
00:03:54.620So, are we actually dealing with a person who used to be employed by the U.S. government, went over to Ukraine, and now is threatening to kill people for exercising their First Amendment rights?
00:04:04.780Because that's what it looks a lot like to me.
00:04:07.340And we need to get to the bottom of this.
00:04:08.740This, in my view, I'm selfish about this, Glenn, should be the biggest story in American media.
00:04:13.960This guy, I guess, pretending to be a woman, or, you know, I don't know which direction this runs.
00:04:21.720Pretending to speak and threaten people for exercising their First Amendment rights, it is crazy.
00:04:29.500If this is an official spokesperson, why are we sending a dime to Ukraine?
00:04:37.120They are threatening American citizens.
00:04:40.800And, by the way, I don't understand because, you know, the left – well, no, the left has always traditionally hated anti-war people, haven't they?
00:05:19.780Well, we know Zelensky's arresting Christian priests, and now his spokesperson is threatening American citizens with violence for exercising their rights.
00:05:28.680We're told it's a war for democracy, and yet they've suspended elections indefinitely.
00:05:32.860At what point do we look around and say, we're not funding a war for democracy, we're funding something else entirely?
00:05:40.860Let's have an honest conversation about what that is.
00:06:40.140But whatever we're funding, here's what I'm sure about, Glenn.
00:06:43.900We're certainly funding a very deadly war with no insight.
00:06:48.260We're funding a war that is destroying one of the most important culturally nations in Eastern Europe.
00:06:54.620We're funding a war that is enriching a lot of Americans and a lot of defense contractors in the United States of America.
00:07:01.600And I still am not clear on what our actual interest is.
00:07:04.820On top of that, we're exhausting weapons supplies that we may need, God forbid, if there's a war in another part of the world, like, for example, East Asia.
00:07:12.940So this has just gotten completely out of control.
00:07:16.180Zelensky is going to be in D.C. on Thursday.
00:07:18.140We'll see if anybody lets me get close to him because, you know, I've sort of gone back and forth on what I would actually ask him.
00:07:25.360And I think what I would ask him is the last time you were in town, we were told that the counteroffensive would be a major inflection point.
00:07:32.860And now we're being told we need to buckle in for the long haul.
00:07:36.620Is that another $100 billion, another $500 billion?
00:07:39.900How much are American taxpayers expected to fund this thing when, to your point, Glenn, we know that a lot of this is ultimately going to get fundled to the American or, I should say, the international corporate class that seems to actually rule the world?
00:08:45.360And China, we just found out, is the leader in 19 higher tech fields, including battery operations and the production of batteries and the production of EVs, where they're already dominant.
00:09:06.020What are the unions and everybody else doing to our factories?
00:09:11.020Well, look, first of all, we're subsidizing an industry, to your point, that the Chinese dominate.
00:09:28.860So every time we subsidize an EV, what we're really doing is subsidizing the destruction of a gas-powered automobile job with a Chinese EV job.
00:09:48.600And, yeah, look, a lot of their demands are excessive.
00:09:51.260But we have to remember this is a negotiation.
00:09:53.800And what I'd encourage all of my fellow conservatives out there is to remember the real lesson of the last 40 years.
00:09:59.980My view of that lesson is when we ship our industrial base to China, American consumers lose, American workers lose, and the American people become weaker.
00:10:29.500These car companies aren't going to benefit in the end.
00:10:31.960It's a lose-lose proposition for everybody.
00:10:34.860So, look, I think the workers, some of their demands are reasonable.
00:10:38.440I think some of their demands are the things that you do when you go into a negotiation.
00:10:42.520You sometimes ask more than what you think you're going to get.
00:10:44.680But the core issue here is, look, when you ask who has been the biggest advocate of EVs and the transition to EVs, Glenn, it has been the big three automakers themselves, the corporate leadership, and also the union leadership.
00:12:53.940And most importantly, we are destroying our – we go to war.
00:12:59.160We need those workers and those Ford factories and those GM factories.
00:13:04.080We've got to have those or we're not going to be able to do anything.
00:13:08.200It's the reason why we could go from training with broomsticks in 1938 to outmaneuvering the German war machine by 43 because of those factories and those workers.
00:13:25.140We are cutting ourselves off at the knees every single day in every way and every place.
00:13:32.120Yeah, and Glenn, we have an economy that's way too built around debt and way too built around financial services and globalization, not enough around making real things.
00:13:41.800This is, I think, the fundamental inside the last 40 years.
00:13:44.600We don't make enough of our own stuff.
00:14:30.360And are we going to – is Congress going to stand and say enough is enough, or are we going to buckle again?
00:14:38.040Well, we have no idea what we're spending on.
00:14:39.980I think the COVID point is the important one, Glenn.
00:14:42.740You hear a lot of people talk about entitlements in these conversations.
00:14:46.540And look, we can have that conversation, but let's focus on the immediate problem.
00:14:50.640In 2020, our government – excuse me, 2019, we spent about $4.5 trillion.
00:14:56.000If we spent just that amount of money this year, we'd have close to a balanced budget in this country in 2023.
00:15:01.560But we're going to spend north of $6 trillion.
00:15:03.540We allowed COVID to blow up the federal budget, and there's really been no sustained effort from Republicans to try to put that genie back in the bottle.
00:15:12.200You asked the question, are we going to buckle?
00:15:13.680Obviously, this is a House question more than a Senate question because Chuck Schumer runs the chamber on our side.
00:15:27.180I don't think that they're going to balance the budget in the next two years, but we need to get something out of this, right?
00:15:33.960If we're going to give the Democrats something, whether it's defunding the weaponized DOJ, whether it's doing something, all these ridiculous mask mandates that they're talking about bringing back.
00:15:45.780My personal – I think the most important issue in the country is actually not the debt.
00:15:51.780If we don't get control of our own border, we don't have sovereignty, we don't have a real nation, maybe we can get something there.
00:15:58.080But if we fold as a Republican Party and we get nothing in response for it, then I think our voters are going to be pissed, and they have every right to be so.
00:16:58.540Well, because if you sell one gun and you're profiting on it, you need to conduct a background check, and those records are going to be possessed by the ATF, and then they're going to be digitized and put into a searchable database, which, gosh, that sounds like gun registry, doesn't it?
00:17:27.860He's the Federal Affairs Director, and he's up on this.
00:17:31.200Aidan, that sounds like something that's illegal.
00:17:35.780Well, this is a total infringement on your Second Amendment rights.
00:17:41.320The law does not give Biden the authority to implement backdoor universal background checks or backdoor registration checks, but he's sure doing it anyway.
00:17:56.760Well, the Biden administration is going through the rulemaking process.
00:18:01.080So, we have the Congressional Review Act where Congress can strike down this rule, and we already have a congressman, Andrew Clyde, who's preparing to use that process to strike down this rule.
00:18:11.640But, of course, Gun Owners of America also plans to file a lawsuit and take this rule change down in court, but we have to wait until the final rule is published.
00:18:23.440Right now, it's the proposed rulemaking phase, and it's time for the public to comment and tell the ATF why they shouldn't implement that final rule.
00:18:32.060So, just so people understand that there's no such thing as a coincidence, what made this rule change possible?
00:18:43.340Well, last summer, folks might remember that a bunch of Republicans got together with every Democrat and passed the biggest gun control in decades.
00:18:53.740It was called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and there were a dozen things wrong with that gun control bill.
00:19:00.020And Gun Owners of America, we opposed it.
00:19:02.580We told Congress what was wrong with each thing.
00:19:05.780And one of the things we mentioned was, if you change the definition of what it means to be a gun dealer, they're going to weaponize it against us.
00:19:12.940And we knew Obama tried to do this on his last stay in office with an executive order, and Trump reversed it.
00:19:18.780So, as soon as they touched that definition, of course, Biden was going to do the exact same thing.
00:19:23.940And, gee, isn't this Senator Cornyn's compromise?
00:19:28.900Yes, and in fact, this definitional change is his little baby, his personal mission when he went to the negotiating table.
00:19:35.480Let's to make this change, as if what we really needed was more government regulating your private business.
00:19:42.520It is remarkable to me that this guy is from the great state of Texas.
00:20:18.700It'll give you a model to submit to the ATF, and that will help us down the road when we file a lawsuit.
00:20:25.940We'll be able to say 100,000 gun owners, 200,000 gun owners said that this is unconstitutional for X, Y, and Z, and the judge will take that into consideration.
00:20:35.940So, that's the next step that, like I said, we're also going to be fighting this in Congress.
00:20:40.680But, unfortunately, the way things are, Biden's issued a rule.
00:20:45.120He's abusing his executive authority, and it's a bit of a waiting game until this becomes finalized in a few months.
00:20:52.060And for those who don't know, why is this such a bad deal to have them have a registry?
00:20:58.680Well, so, universal background checks might sound nice in theory, right?
00:21:04.160Who wants a criminal to get a hold of a gun?
00:21:06.340But there are a million ways that criminals always circumvent the background check system,
00:21:11.340and less than 10% of criminals in jail actually obtained a gun legally.
00:21:16.460But universal background checks are only enforceable with a gun registry.
00:21:21.320To know who did and didn't run a background check, you have to know who owns what gun.
00:21:26.300And if you own a gun and it wasn't registered to you, then it must have been transferred without a background check.
00:21:31.040So, this all plays in to something else that Joe Biden has also been doing, which is turning the Forms 4473, which you filled out if you bought a gun at a gun store,
00:21:43.400into permanent gun registration forms, and then sending those to a database in West Virginia.
00:21:52.600Well, in part, it's been going on for a long time.
00:21:56.680When a gun store goes out of business, all of their records are supposed to be sent to the ATF.
00:22:01.880And using that statute, which has been around for decades, the ATF has compiled over 900 million records in this database in West Virginia.
00:22:12.780So, almost 1 billion records of gun owners, the guns they own, their serial numbers.
00:22:18.320And now, the Biden administration, last August, changed another rule and said those records can no longer be destroyed by a gun store once they become 20 years old,
00:22:30.420which was the previous way of ensuring that most gun records didn't end up in this database.
00:22:35.960A permanent, complete gun registry was never created.
00:22:39.380But now, that means there is a record of every single firearms transaction going back to August of 2002.
00:22:50.500Every gun that was ever sold at a gun store with a background check has a 4473 with the name, the Social Security number, and the serial number of the gun that that person bought.
00:23:01.940Okay. Again, talk to the people who don't know anything about guns that are listening and they go, well, that's not so bad.
00:24:29.720Our founding fathers, when they wrote the Second Amendment, recognized that it was necessary to the security of our free state.
00:24:35.640Our freedoms are able to be retained by the people because we have this check on the government.
00:24:43.060But if the government has the ability to take your firearms in a moment because they have a billion records in a gun registry that needs to be destroyed,
00:24:51.280well, that is a threat on your Second Amendment.
00:24:54.660And that undermines the security of our free state.
00:25:23.780Yeah, well, you can say that all you want.
00:25:25.640But until you put into action by standing up, letting your voice be heard, telling all your friends, all the gun owners that you know, this is what's happening.
00:25:37.640Because did you know this was happening?
00:25:53.000I can guarantee you that the GOP has not sat down and had a group of constitutionalists sit down and say, OK, what is it that they've just done that we need to undo?
00:26:54.400But don't tell me that small arms don't make a difference.
00:26:59.080And I don't ever want to fight the United States government ever.
00:27:03.260But if if they go rotten, if they go, I mean, if we're in the Weimar Republic years and all of a sudden we go into what comes next.
00:27:14.420Yeah, I would say we shouldn't probably turn in our guns.
00:27:16.880It would probably be a bad thing because history may not repeat itself exactly, but it does rhyme.
00:27:22.120The Constitution, the more we go down this road and you haven't learned the Constitution, I haven't learned the Constitution, we don't understand the Bill of Rights, the more we're going to lose.
00:27:38.920It really is amazing, too, that I don't I think because we've been so blessed in this country to have a Constitution that has lasted this long and been taken seriously for most of the time the country's existed.
00:27:53.660Right. Like and I think recently a lot of us have had to wake up to the fact that, you know, they're doing stuff like the student loan thing is a great example of it.
00:28:03.220Just doing it. Just doing it. And you're just like, wait a minute.
00:28:05.420What about the Constitution? And you realize their answer to that is so what?
00:28:10.900That's basically their their comeback.
00:28:14.200And and when they say and a bunch of times, you realize that you realize how quickly this gets all slip away.
00:28:22.280Right. Yeah. There's it is just a piece of paper.
00:28:26.360Right. And the Republicans, many of them say, look, I yeah, I know.
00:28:30.360I know the Constitution. I love the Constitution, but we have things to do once they say.
00:28:34.560But I love the Constitution. But no, no, there is no.
00:28:38.960But we follow the concept. All of our problems, all of our problems, every story we should do this show,
00:28:46.940every story, I could connect it to one of the things in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution that is being violated.
00:28:56.060Every story that comes out, I show it to you, show it to you.