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00:00:15.220 All right, we talk about a few things today.

00:00:19.640 We have Mike Lee on.

00:00:20.960 I don't know if that's going to make the cut,

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00:00:26.620 and it was about John Thune and the Save America Act.

00:00:30.000 The true cost of looking the other way, all of the corruption, what does all of it mean, and why doesn't anybody seem to care?

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00:02:48.700 we have senator mike lee who talks about the same what the hell is going on excuse my language

00:02:55.480 senator mike lee how are you doing great thank you glenn good to be with you as always

00:03:01.380 okay now mike you're the nicest guy i know you're the you're the most senatorial kind of guy i know

00:03:10.180 you don't ever like to kick up dust and dirt you know but i gotta ask you what the hell is going 0.66

00:03:16.840 on who in the senate just does not want this thing to come to the floor and actually have

00:03:23.400 their vote counted come on who you know that's the most curious thing glenn we know that there

00:03:31.920 are three who are opposed to the bill they've been public about that uh senators murkowski

00:03:37.800 mcconnell and tillis what we don't know is who else might be among those reputed to be against

00:03:47.560 bringing up the talking filibuster using the talking filibuster to bring up the save america

00:03:52.240 act to pass the save america act look we've got basically zero chance of passing this

00:03:56.500 without invoking the talking filibuster if we do invoke it we've got a chance

00:04:01.040 now we can't guarantee exactly what it will look like we can't guarantee exactly what the outcome

00:04:06.580 will be but we know we've got a chance a decent chance to pass it if we do it this way in the

00:04:11.680 same way that they had a decent chance of passing the civil rights act of 1964 if and only if they

00:04:17.020 used the talking filibuster they did it passed we should do the same thing here yes it takes work

00:04:22.800 yes there's uncertainty yes it'll be a pain in the neck but you know what that's our job

00:04:27.820 and thank heavens for those who are grateful for the civil rights act of 1964 and the protections

00:04:32.760 that it brought with it,

00:04:33.940 they should all be very grateful

00:04:35.120 that the Senate didn't wuss out then.

00:04:37.520 They should be very grateful

00:04:38.420 that they didn't let a few senators say,

00:04:40.140 well, I'm going to vote against cloture,

00:04:41.600 so don't even try.

00:04:42.720 Or just force a failed, you know,

00:04:46.200 failure theater cloture vote at the front end,

00:04:49.400 and then we'll move on.

00:04:51.180 Thank heavens they didn't do that.

00:04:52.760 They stuck with it.

00:04:53.580 They stuck with it for 60 days.

00:04:56.440 And do you know what happened?

00:04:58.180 It brought people to the table.

00:05:00.200 It made people think.

00:05:01.300 It made people realize they were on the wrong side, the losing side of history, and they ended up negotiating some changes to the bill to save face, and they got the thing passed.

00:05:12.140 We have to do the same thing here.

00:05:13.860 We don't know who the other three other people are other than those initial three who have, you know, identified themselves as against the bill.

00:05:20.880 I strongly disagree with them, but at least they've got the courage to say what they're doing.

00:05:26.300 There are others who are under the cover of night for reasons I don't understand and not required to identify themselves instead, take pot shots from the cheap seats and say, we don't want to do it.

00:05:38.800 But let's see, people feel differently and we ought to do this.

00:05:42.940 The American people are with us on this, Glenn.

00:05:45.280 It doesn't come this way very often.

00:05:47.360 These ships don't pass this way very often where we've got the House, we've got the Senate, we've got the White House, and we've got 85 percent of the American people on our side.

00:05:54.940 only congressional democrats uh and a few miscellaneous others are against this so let's

00:06:00.580 take advantage of it and don't let these people hide in silence in secrecy and not even identify

00:06:07.180 themselves much less articulate their reasons for not wanting to do it this is absurd

00:06:11.580 so um jonathan martin at politico uh came after me the other day and he said how can one spend

00:06:21.500 decades in and around american politics and not understand the basic macro politics of midterm

00:06:26.940 elections he was taking me on because i said it'll be the death of the republic and it might be the

00:06:31.940 death of the republicans if if they don't take this up and pass it and my producer ricky you

00:06:38.880 know tried to answer some of his questions uh uh you know because you know sometimes sometimes

00:06:45.940 people care more about policy uh principles than politics um and he seemed to miss the

00:06:52.800 point entirely when he he replied um he said midterms are historically difficult for the

00:06:58.940 party in power there's nothing to do whether a voter id passes you know six months before the

00:07:04.220 election stop with the apocalyptic nonsense and learn some basic history i'm not sure what history

00:07:09.540 he's looking for other than yeah um midterms are tough for the party that's in but he seems to miss

00:07:16.240 that i really believe the voters that go out and actually vote the base of your party that care

00:07:24.620 um are tired of this back and forth political nonsense and they're saying here's a principle

00:07:34.460 that you have the chance to actually pass that everybody in america is for mike tell me are you

00:07:41.260 or is anybody in in the senate concerned that maybe by not doing these things you will lose

00:07:49.600 your base and people are not going to go out and and fight and even fight the traffic to go out and

00:07:58.280 vote vote for you people and i'm sorry to lump you in on that but the gop they're not going to

00:08:04.040 go out and vote for you because you don't stand for anything this is the biggest clear victory

00:08:11.240 i have ever seen and the gop is not going to take advantage of it and they won't tell us why and

00:08:19.180 they don't even want to be on record on which ones vote for it which ones vote against something's

00:08:24.400 terribly wrong here yeah no because we're addicted to comfort we're addicted to convenience

00:08:31.000 we meeting the Senate as an institution. We've gotten so accustomed to predictability and ease

00:08:38.540 and comfort and being able to plan ahead and saying, well, I want to be on this city on this

00:08:44.900 day. I want to give a speech here on that day. Sometimes you have to do things in this job that

00:08:51.040 are difficult. Sometimes you have to take a lot of votes. Sometimes you have to give a lot of

00:08:54.820 speeches. Sometimes you have to devote a lot of time at inconvenient times in order to do things

00:08:59.960 before you run out of time we're about to run out of time and yeah that that reporter is right

00:09:05.960 things can be very difficult for the party that's got the majority in both houses of congress and

00:09:12.440 the white house and that's all the more reason why we've got to do everything we can to make

00:09:16.620 sure our elections are secure and do everything we can to make sure that our base shows up and

00:09:22.860 they're not going to show up unless we fight their battles unless we make clear that we're with them

00:09:28.560 this one should not be hard glenn there are things in this job that are hard that are really hard

00:09:34.240 this isn't one of them and i i i literally do not understand this has been one of the more

00:09:41.260 perplexing things in 15 years in the united states senate that i've seen i literally don't

00:09:47.640 have a legitimate explanation for this uh i i mean i get it the radical left hates this bill

00:09:53.940 to hit it with a white hot passion and we can all make an educated guess as to why they hate it

00:10:01.980 but regardless that doesn't mean that the rest of us who are not part of the radical left have to go

00:10:06.640 along with it and so i it just i i'm dumbfounded by the fact that we as senate republicans

00:10:11.540 are resisting this now all that said uh look if we move forward and i i've i've spoken to uh

00:10:21.680 senator thune the senate majority leader as recently as last night about this and we'll

00:10:27.340 move to it and we'll debate it regardless of whether he wants to call it a talking filibuster

00:10:33.160 i don't care what he calls it but we've got to get onto the bill and we've got to not move right

00:10:40.300 ahead to filing cloture and going forward with the what would at this point be a failed cloture

00:10:46.120 vote we've got to make them speak we've got to make them call the floor we've got to make them

00:10:50.800 defend their indefensible position in front of the American people under the white hot lights

00:10:56.460 of the Senate floor. And we got to make them do it for a significant amount of time. I don't know

00:11:02.240 how much time it's going to take, but you subject them to that for enough time. And I'm very

00:11:08.840 confident some of them are going to start to see the light on this. Some of them are going to start

00:11:14.940 coming to the negotiating table on this because they don't want to have to defend the indefensible

00:11:19.980 very long. So Thune says he'll bring it to a vote. But what does that mean? Does that mean

00:11:27.360 the cloture thing? Well, if it means he's going to bring it up, we'll have a motion. See, that's

00:11:36.160 the beauty of this bill, the procedural status of the bill. It's coming over from the House

00:11:42.940 of Representatives in the form of a message. There are all these weird rules that relate to

00:11:47.620 the interplay between the House rules and the Senate rules.

00:11:50.420 The House sends us a bill in the form of a message.

00:11:53.900 That means that we don't have to take a cloture vote at the front end to get

00:11:58.300 onto the bill.

00:11:59.480 With many bills,

00:12:00.320 you've got to cast a vote on what's called cloture on the motion to proceed.

00:12:05.140 And that takes 60 votes to get us to the point where we can proceed to a

00:12:10.400 bill.

00:12:10.580 We don't have that here.

00:12:12.840 So when he's going to bring it up,

00:12:14.240 getting onto the bill will occur at a simple majority vote threshold.

00:12:18.460 And we just need to debate the bill for a while,

00:12:21.140 for a considerable amount of time without filing cloture,

00:12:24.300 without going to the next step of bringing debate to a close on the bill

00:12:28.560 itself, because that takes 60 votes. We don't have that yet.

00:12:32.420 Following back to our example from the civil rights act of 1964,

00:12:36.020 they were 32 votes shy of cloture.

00:12:39.740 When the bill arrived from the house of representatives in March of 1964,

00:12:43.520 They spent 60 days debating it, and lo and behold, those people who were opposed to it, mostly Democrats, by the way, they started to negotiate after a few weeks of this, and they were eventually able to negotiate some changes that allowed them to save enough face that they were able to and willing to vote for cloture at the end of the process, and as a result, that bill passed.

00:13:07.840 this is one of those moments that's what i don't want to compare the two bills they're different

00:13:12.540 bills but this one should be way easier to pass on that one it's simpler oh my god more popular

00:13:17.480 than that one and so we ought to get i have to tell you it it just pissed me off so much when

00:13:23.260 when thune came out and said yeah well they still needed 60 votes yes they didn't have the 60 votes

00:13:28.640 when they started 60 days later as you said the 34 votes suddenly were found i mean oh it just

00:13:37.580 it's so agonizing. Donald Trump seems to be really clear on, uh, pushing and saying,

00:13:45.460 get this done. They don't seem to care. Thune doesn't seem to care. McConnell,

00:13:50.320 of course, doesn't Murkowski tell us they don't care. Has he done everything he can?

00:13:58.280 Well, uh, look, uh, no, nobody's done everything that they can until they have gone through the

00:14:05.580 steps that we've described and again i don't care what we want to call it if he doesn't like calling 0.98

00:14:10.100 it a talking filibuster i really could not care less what i care about is getting this damn bill 0.90

00:14:14.820 on the floor debating it and debating it for a long time i mean two weeks ought to be the bare 0.97

00:14:22.680 minimum and then reassess at that point where we are and what we need to do to keep the momentum

00:14:28.820 going and what we need to do to bring keep bringing about consensus but the one thing we cannot do

00:14:33.900 is bring it to the floor and then say oh gee we're tired um we want to take a recess it's time for

00:14:42.080 recess we we need to we need to um recess for a couple of weeks for easter and then you know some

00:14:49.020 of us want to go to the bahamas or whatever ridiculous thing they've got planned um that 1.00

00:14:54.200 will result in failure and so i i can't emphasize enough the importance of um continuing

00:15:03.420 to talk about this continuing to encourage your senators regardless of where you think they may

00:15:09.520 be on this whether you think they're staunchly against it or already for it i promise you

00:15:14.500 they need encouragement they need to be told is you need to be in washington you need to not

00:15:20.940 leave washington until this is done and the department of homeland security is funded

00:15:26.500 I've only got about 60 seconds.

00:15:29.360 Mike, is there anything, is there any procedure that allows J.D. Vance to take the leadership role?

00:15:38.740 J.D. Vance can't come to the Senate anytime he wants and immediately assume the position in the presiding officer chair.

00:15:44.600 There is, I've long believed, significant and underutilized authority that comes with sitting in that chair.

00:15:52.220 Just the ability to call the shots from moment to moment to make procedural rulings upon receiving, but not necessarily always guided by the advice of the parliamentarian, the presiding officer, especially if the vice president can do what he wants.

00:16:11.220 But I would certainly welcome the vice president coming to do that.

00:16:16.300 And I would also welcome each and every Republican senator weighing in on this and encouraging Senate Republicans to do the right thing.

00:16:27.840 Look, I I don't want to speak for anyone else. I want to don't want to put words into any senator's mouth.

00:16:35.020 It is not my place to do that. But I will say this. I do think that Jonathan wants to win the November elections.

00:16:48.360 I do think he wants to keep the both chambers of Congress in Republican hands.

00:16:54.520 And based on my most recent conversations with him, including last night, I think he gets the fact that we can't get on this bill and immediately start heading to cloture.

00:17:04.000 let's continue to encourage him to prolong debate on this as long as it takes to get it passed 0.96

00:17:11.080 thanks mike i'm going to say something and mike didn't i think i think thune is a piece of garbage 0.73

00:17:17.260 myself on this um and worthless and uh i would encourage the white house to encourage jd vance

00:17:24.840 to go over and assume the role get this done if they're not going to do it encourage the vice

00:17:33.940 president and the president to have the vice president walk in and say, Thune, sit down.

00:17:40.040 Here's what we're going to do. If that is constitutionally, if he's able to do that

00:17:44.520 constitutionally, it should be done. That did not come from Mike Lee. Mike, thank you so much. I

00:17:49.560 appreciate it. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:57.500 i'm gonna start with some bad news i'm gonna give you some good news and then i'll give you

00:18:05.360 that and then i probably will give you some good news uh but let me give you let me give you some

00:18:10.340 bad news we're talking about the numbers of the uh debt um and our deficit we just released some

00:18:17.380 more numbers that you know were made up numbers when i was a kid we have just run a trillion

00:18:23.160 dollar deficit in the first five months of this fiscal year. Now here's the good news.

00:18:29.360 That's better than it was last year. So we're making some progress, but buried inside of this

00:18:37.020 report is another number that should wake us all up. And that is 79 billion in the first

00:18:42.240 five months, 79 billion. That's what we paid in interest, not in the first five months.

00:18:50.380 we paid that uh in february 79 billion we paid in interest on our debt that is now approaching

00:19:02.540 39 trillion just interest that is you know that's that's more expensive than everything

00:19:11.320 except three other categories social security income security programs and health care okay

00:19:16.460 any civilization that is borrowing money just to pay interest on money it already borrowed at that

00:19:24.340 debt is not going to survive so let me ask you we're 39 trillion dollars in the hole

00:19:30.600 we just paid 79 billion last month for just service of the debt let me ask you those numbers

00:19:37.840 are so huge is your life getting better do you feel like your life is getting better is your

00:19:44.220 airport in your town brand new how about your roads and bridges for all those infrastructure

00:19:49.880 projects that we've done are they better how about your hospital is it new is it expanded

00:19:54.720 lots of extra room you know in the hospital are your children better educated

00:20:00.220 in any way shape or form we've spent 39 trillion dollars can you tell me where that money has gone

00:20:09.740 to make your life better because i don't i don't see the result of it i see it in the military and

00:20:15.540 that's it that's it so where's the money actually going

00:20:20.640 well let's step away from the spreadsheets uh here a bit let's go just looking around poking

00:20:28.120 in cities like los angeles because the answer begins to emerge and it is far uglier than most

00:20:35.960 americans are even prepared to admit maybe maybe or maybe they don't care i don't know but let me

00:20:42.520 start with the hospice scandal that we talked about yesterday in los angeles county this is one

00:20:47.560 county investigators and journalists have now uncovered what appears to be one of the largest

00:20:53.260 hospice fraud schemes in modern american history notice we're hearing it's the largest hospice

00:21:00.400 It's the largest, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, autism scheme.

00:21:07.220 What, what are all of these, what are all these schemes?

00:21:11.200 The largest medical scheme, hospice care, you know, I'd feel a little guilty stealing

00:21:20.020 from the hospice system, you know, final chapter of life, families scatter, gather pain is

00:21:26.240 eased, dignity is preserved, and you're stealing from that? Wow. Medicare pays for that. No,

00:21:35.360 let me rephrase it. You pay for that, your tax dollars, and you pay for that because you have

00:21:41.260 compassion. But in Los Angeles County, hundreds of hospice companies suddenly appeared almost

00:21:49.000 overnight and nobody noticed. Many of them are run out of small little offices and storefronts

00:21:55.500 and residential homes, like 30, 30 of these companies in one little office. Really? And

00:22:02.900 they were enrolling patients who are not dying. In fact, they existed, but they didn't know they

00:22:08.060 were enrolling in this. They weren't terminal. People had no idea they had been signed up for

00:22:13.580 hospice at all. Once somebody is falsely enrolled in hospice, the money then begins flowing from

00:22:20.040 Medicare. To whom? Where? Tens of thousands of dollars per patient. Some patients allegedly

00:22:29.200 cycled through multiple fraudulent hospital providers or hospice providers, like inventory.

00:22:36.400 The dying turned into billing codes. The elderly turned into profit centers. 0.98

00:22:42.900 Is this a victimless crime?

00:22:47.760 Hospice fraud means that real care is denied.

00:22:53.740 Pain medication is withheld.

00:22:56.320 Proper treatment is delayed.

00:22:58.160 Families misled.

00:23:00.200 And it's not theft of just money.

00:23:04.360 It is the theft of dignity at the end of human life.

00:23:08.400 And when this scandal broke, the response was predictable, wasn't it?

00:23:16.620 Political response was finger-pointing, blame-shifting, anything except what the public deserves.

00:23:22.700 And that is a ruthless housecleaning.

00:23:26.660 Ruthless housecleaning.

00:23:29.680 Now, let's stay in Los Angeles just for a minute because the second story is just as revealing.

00:23:35.520 City of Los Angeles, again, we went from the county now to the city.

00:23:40.300 They have approved $106 million to a nonprofit organization that provides legal services to tenants facing eviction.

00:23:50.760 So now on the surface, helping people who can't afford legal representation sounds compassionate, right?

00:23:57.480 But let's take a look a little closer.

00:24:00.000 The organization receiving the money is LAFLA, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

00:24:08.280 Over the next three years, they will receive $106,572,543.69 from the taxpayer.

00:24:21.880 Lawyers connected to the same organization have repeatedly filed lawsuits that prevent the city from clearing homeless encampments, encampments that are blocking sidewalks, encampments that create unsafe conditions for residents, encampments that make companies and storefronts that are actually paying tax dollars from being able to do business, entire neighborhoods in zones of disorder.

00:24:51.880 The city can't enforce its own municipal codes because the lawyers are constantly suing the city and the city is paying for those lawyers.

00:25:02.720 And those lawyers are billing $1,025 an hour, $1,025 per hour, taxpayer-funded, to obstruct the taxpayer.

00:25:18.280 I mean, the system is a joke.

00:25:20.800 it's a loop government tries to do its job government then funds the lawyers who want to

00:25:27.880 stop it from doing its job lawyers sue the government government pays the settlement

00:25:31.700 crisis continues this is cloward and piven and the bill just keeps growing now step back forget

00:25:38.680 about the corruption in minnesota or new york or illinois or anywhere else we're going to find i'm

00:25:45.120 telling you we're going to find this all over the country but just focus on the headlines of today

00:25:50.420 One story is hospice fraud targeting the elderly and the dying.

00:25:55.000 The second is taxpayer money funding legal warfare that perpetuates urban collapse in the same city and county as the other fraud.

00:26:05.680 And above both of them sits the third number.

00:26:09.840 A trillion dollar deficit in five months.

00:26:14.360 Interest payments that rival entire federal programs.

00:26:18.360 that's the real story because if this level of corruption can happen in just one county

00:26:26.080 in just one city in one set of programs you have to ask the question nobody wants to actually ask

00:26:33.840 reason why Elon Musk was chased out of town what if Los Angeles is not the exemption

00:26:40.280 or the exception what if it is actually the rule what if what if Los Angeles is the model

00:26:47.060 we spend roughly 6.5 trillion dollars every year do you feel that is your life getting easier

00:26:57.920 let's just do the numbers if just 10 of that is lost to fraud waste and corruption that's

00:27:06.780 650 billion dollars if it's 20 that's 1.3 trillion dollars

00:27:16.540 that's the entire deficit

00:27:20.600 this is deeply unsettling it should be

00:27:25.120 if if what we're seeing in places like los angeles reflects the broader system then 20 maybe one-third

00:27:35.420 of the federal deficit every single year may simply be because of corruption, not policy

00:27:43.220 disagreements, not things that they're funding that we all think are crazy, not defense spending,

00:27:47.520 not social security, corruption. It is robbery from you, the taxpayer, the quiet siphoning of

00:27:58.100 money from you through programs that are meant to be compassionate, noble, necessary, until you

00:28:06.200 look closely enough and see the machinery underneath. And how many people were involved

00:28:11.060 for this kind of corruption to happen? How many people turned a blind eye? How many people were

00:28:16.420 told, sit down, shut up, or you'll lose your job? This is the mob. And it's the moral condition 0.90

00:28:24.260 required for it to continue. Hospice is stealing from the dying. Legal rackets profit from

00:28:34.800 homelessness. Cities paying organizations to obstruct the enforcement of basic law and order.

00:28:43.760 And what's the reaction from the public? Meh. Shrug a headline another day. What are you going

00:28:52.780 to do about it got news for you republic's not going to stand with that level of indifference

00:28:58.060 it can't can't corruption doesn't begin with greedy officials it begins when a society decides

00:29:04.600 we don't need to look that closely when voters stop demanding answers when outrage is selective

00:29:14.240 when the most vulnerable people in society do you know how poorly history is going to judge us

00:29:21.400 When you have elderly patients, the homeless who are struggling, when you're stealing from the dying and they become revenue streams instead of human beings, oh my gosh, that's the real bankruptcy.

00:29:36.580 Forget about our money.

00:29:38.040 This is a financial bankruptcy.

00:29:39.840 This is moral bankruptcy.

00:29:44.860 Throughout history, lots of countries go bankrupt.

00:29:47.960 They run out of money.

00:29:48.760 most of them run out of money because they ran out of virtue first rome had corruption

00:29:56.400 late stage empires always do rome's real problem was eventually the citizens just didn't care

00:30:03.220 enough to stop it they were fine with the circuses and the cakes are we fine with the

00:30:07.180 circuses and cakes what are the circuses that are happening in your life right now

00:30:10.820 what circuses are happening that the media is pushing what circuses are you seeing

00:30:16.360 on social media every day because we're all watching a circus

00:30:26.720 and we're learning to live with it and we're learning to accept it as the as our treasury

00:30:34.160 is being your bank account is being robbed warning a the world's largest robbery is happening right

00:30:44.520 Now, it is the warning flare so big it should be able to be seen from space.

00:30:52.040 If hospice fraud can flourish in the shadows, if taxpayer money can fund legal warfare against you with your money, if billions can move through programs with no accountability, then the deficit we see on paper is only part of the story.

00:31:07.980 The real deficit is something harder to repair, a deficit of courage, a deficit of attention, a deficit of moral clarity.

00:31:16.700 And unless we rediscover those things really soon, gang, the most dangerous line in the federal budget will not be the interest payments.

00:31:26.000 It will be that silent line item that's been growing for decades.

00:31:30.400 The cost of looking the other way.

00:31:33.900 You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck.

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00:31:40.880 All right. So we are having a special next week. You do not want to miss it. It's happening a week

00:31:46.500 from tonight. Write this down on your calendar. Make a note of it on your phone. Just don't miss

00:31:52.140 it. It's a week from tonight on glenbeck.com slash torch. And it is the blueprints of the

00:32:00.780 destruction of the west the islamic blueprints for the destruction of the west um and we take 1.00

00:32:07.440 you through it and we have all kinds of experts we have done literally probably what three or four

00:32:11.460 months worth of research just for this 90 minute special it's a live documentary um and uh we have

00:32:19.540 really tried to up our game you know he was doing these weekly specials and then we could get them

00:32:24.900 really good but we couldn't get them exactly right because we just never had the time because

00:32:30.340 we were churning them out, you know, every week. And I wanted to take a deeper look so I could go

00:32:36.720 what we call internally a deep dive on certain subjects. And so this first deep dive is on the

00:32:43.700 blueprints of how Islam is planning on taking over. The Islamists are planning on Sharia law 1.00

00:32:50.460 throughout the world. And America is a prime target. Remember, we're the great Satan.

00:32:55.480 um let me you know let me hear let me give you this here is a chicago um islamist

00:33:02.280 um he is a islamic scholar and he is explaining why islamists are coming to america cut seven

00:33:13.740 this is chicago listen islam did not come to coexist and islam is raised high and nothing 0.97

00:33:20.920 is raised above islam we can't think of islam that i came to live with these other religions

00:33:25.760 in the sense that islam is a religion amongst those religions and they have a share with the

00:33:30.560 truth and they have a share of justice islam came to correct all of that islam came to remove all 1.00

00:33:37.540 those religions and it is the only truth and it is the only way to justice now let me ask you

00:33:44.360 If this were being said by a political person that is engaged in advocacy, and he was Christian, and he said Christianity is here, it's above all other religions, and it will wipe out all other religions and replace all other religions, and that is why Christians are here in America, to destroy and correct all other religions. 0.94

00:34:12.960 Do you think the media would be on it?

00:34:17.640 Do you think the media would be on it?

00:34:20.900 The answer is, of course they would.

00:34:23.540 Of course they would.

00:34:24.780 They seem to be able to handle any kind of religious extremism

00:34:29.540 unless it's just ordinary Christians who are like,

00:34:34.780 we're going to have a prayer meeting in the Capitol.

00:34:39.340 Let me give you something else.

00:34:42.960 new york city's first muslim mayor mamdani hosted a traditional iftar dinner on thursday

00:34:52.180 in the historic blue sorry sorry yeah oh sorry sorry yesterday um i got my days all screwed up

00:35:00.560 anyway in the blue room with uh muslim influencers featuring prayer rugs and floor to floor you know

00:35:07.800 floor seating amid all the american flags in the george washington portrait and everything else and

00:35:12.040 i want to play a video of what happened at this iftar dinner wednesday uh in the blue room here

00:35:21.160 it is we'll make some of that a moment where you're asking yourself how you can reconnect

00:35:31.420 okay so what's happening here

00:35:49.000 um he's having this prayer prayer dinner with um everybody not a problem

00:35:58.540 except he was just recently do we have the video of him speaking at the mosque

00:36:05.720 just recently he was speaking at a mosque that's been linked to the uh what is it the

00:36:13.560 alavi foundation which the doj has accused being a front for the iranian government he just spoke

00:36:21.320 there and if we have the audio can you play the prayer here's the audio last ramadan i

00:36:28.520 I was with many of you here at the procession on the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali .

00:36:38.040 It is a privilege to be here with you once again.

00:36:40.740 I stand before you as the first Muslim mayor in our city's history.

00:36:45.760 And this year as the first Jummah that I have attended in that new position.

00:36:49.140 It's a snappy number that they perform.

00:36:58.680 Okay, so what is that?

00:36:59.560 What is the Imam reciting here?

00:37:02.220 You know, it's not a Frank Sinatra hit.

00:37:05.200 It is something called the sword verse.

00:37:09.180 It's from the Quran. 0.93

00:37:11.900 It's the verse that calls for the death of all infidels by the sword. 1.00

00:37:17.660 and mom donnie is standing there listening to this knowing what it is

00:37:24.440 okay jason you just finished up some of the interviews and the pre-interviews that we

00:37:32.900 have for uh the special next week and these are all experts on this um and you asked him about

00:37:41.060 Mamdani. What was the general feeling on him? Some of the experts that we interviewed for this,

00:37:49.080 some of them were Muslims as well, like more on the line of like reformist Muslims. They're all

00:37:53.900 against political Islam. But not only between the Muslim experts that we talked to and the others,

00:38:00.400 every single one of them that I asked said that, yes, he is an Islamist. Yes, there is something

00:38:05.800 else going on here and i did not expect that at all well if you remember right who was it sarsour

00:38:12.300 linda sarsour who is a deep islamist or involved with deep islamist um she said how do you think

00:38:22.360 he got in he got in with our money and and he is going to be executing our philosophies uh or there

00:38:30.540 will be hell to be paid so i mean she admitted that that's how he got in and everybody is

00:38:36.960 listen to how okay so he just had the the prayer rug meeting let me see if i can get the um this

00:38:44.420 is from the new york times in february mamdani ushers in a new tradition ramadan in city hall

00:38:51.800 ramadan also comes at a particularly fraught time for muslim immigrants who fear being targeted by

00:38:57.720 federal agents while gathering for prayers or iftar dinners. Show me the iftar dinner that has

00:39:07.000 been targeted by federal agents, because I'll stand with you. I'll stand with you. Show me one.

00:39:15.880 Show me one, New York Times. But the allies of Mr. Mamdani are hoping this year's Ramadan could 1.00

00:39:23.160 inspire more pride among the city's Muslims, who after the September 11th attacks

00:39:28.340 have had to contend with heightened surveillance, harassment, and increased Islamophobia.

00:39:36.500 You got to be kidding me. That includes Mr. Mamdani. He has endured such hell. That man

00:39:43.020 has endured such hell that he has had to go vacation at his parents' very wealthy compound

00:39:49.180 in other countries. He has come back only to be so oppressed that he becomes the mayor of New York

00:39:55.560 City. Oh my gosh, what a horrible life this man has led. He's faced an onslaught of faith and

00:40:04.720 ethnicity-based attacks during the mayoral campaign. He has expressed concern that current

00:40:12.820 political climate has made Muslim New Yorkers less safe. Right. You mean kind of like those 1.00

00:40:18.540 Muslim New Yorkers that just tried to kill a bunch of protesters. Oh, no, wait. Those were 0.99

00:40:25.100 anti-Muslim protesters that they were trying to kill. This period of piety as mayor could 0.92

00:40:32.960 present the opportunity to showcase the realities of fasting and living one's faith as a political

00:40:39.520 leader. New York Times, show me the other time that a Christian has had their political views

00:40:49.180 as a political leader, their religious views, married in that you said, you know, the realities,

00:40:55.540 we should showcase the realities of fasting and living one's Christian faith as a political

00:41:02.580 leader you can't show me either of those things because you never ever do that i can't take it

00:41:12.380 and that's in a nutshell um what this special is going to be like if i don't learn to maybe i

00:41:21.040 maybe i'll need a tranquilizer dart just off the stage and somebody like ricky who has more control

00:41:27.420 can just shoot me with a dart in my neck halfway through the show because I think I might lose it 0.95

00:41:33.480 burn a launcher coming in hot oh my gosh oh my gosh this is this when when America 0.99

00:41:44.000 when will the majority of us stand up and say I don't hate anybody I don't hate anybody but you're

00:41:53.700 not taking over our culture you're not taking over our country if you want to believe that

00:42:00.960 believe that but you're not jamming it down our our i was going to say our necks you try the 0.99

00:42:08.160 throat but if you have a head they'll just jam it down your neck after they behead you with it 0.98

00:42:13.880 no it is absolutely incompatible with western society it is incompatible you know let me 0.98

00:42:22.980 let me just give you something let's just go through the 10 commandments here and we go

00:42:29.120 through the 10 commandments judeo-christian belief no gods no gods you'll have no gods before me

00:42:35.460 we believe that okay as christians now you may not because you may not be a christian you may

00:42:40.140 not believe in you know religion or whatever but judeo-christian values which is what we're based

00:42:45.940 on. And by the way, that doesn't mean necessarily, you know, uh, you can't have Ralph, your Wednesday

00:42:52.880 God. It means what gods do you serve your mortgage, your job, your reputation? What is it that you

00:43:00.540 serve? Cause that whatever it is that you spend all your time on all your attention on, that's

00:43:06.220 the God you serve. Okay. So, so is Islamists believe it too, except, I mean, it's a little 0.91

00:43:15.000 different because they believe in genies and gins. Now, as a recovering alcoholic,

00:43:22.860 I believe in gin too, but it's not the same kind. No graven images. Yep. We both believe that.

00:43:33.420 No use of God's name in vain. We believe that. They don't. Remember the Sabbath. Yep. Honor

00:43:40.220 your father and mother yep thou shalt shall not murder yep except if you're an infidel if you're 1.00

00:43:48.980 an infidel then i can murder you you shall not commit adultery yep well actually not for everybody 0.98

00:43:57.940 guys can have as many wives as they want i mean you know what if that's an infidel and she just 1.00

00:44:04.140 looks sexy because she's trying to trick me might be a genie she's trying to trick me into it i 1.00

00:44:10.140 can rape her but that's not adultery that's just her sin not mine thou shalt not steal yep well 1.00

00:44:17.320 not the not the islamist uh you know if you're an infidel i can steal from you shall not bear 1.00

00:44:22.920 false witness yep well unless you're an islamist and then you know i can lie to you you know if 0.96

00:44:30.540 you're an infidel you shall not cover your covet your neighbor's house yep except for well the 1.00

00:44:38.760 infidels. So you see, it's not really the same thing. It's not the same God. God has standard 0.55

00:44:47.480 rules. Not, hey, if you believe in me, then you're good. If you don't believe in me, you could rape

00:44:54.540 them. Sure. Incompatible with Western civilization. Don't miss the special. It might be my last 1.00

00:45:01.960 special. Don't miss my special. It is at glennbeck.com slash torch. Sign up for it right

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