The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Sen. Mike Lee & Ambassador Monica Crowley ｜ 6⧸12⧸25

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00:00:30.000 Big show today.

00:00:30.800 Senator Mike Lee discusses the big, beautiful bill and what he's put into it, and I think you're really going to like it.

00:00:35.600 Also, Senator Lee attempting to force the federal government to sell some of the land that they own and refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:00:43.200 Jason Buttrell joins us also to discuss potential military strike on Iran.

00:00:47.100 Will we be at war this weekend?

00:00:49.080 And Monica Crowley joins us to discuss military parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army and the No Kings rally scheduled for Saturday.

00:00:57.360 All on today's podcast.

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00:02:34.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:46.160 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:48.240 And we say that to Senator Mike Lee.

00:02:52.500 Hello, Mike.

00:02:53.100 How are you?

00:02:54.220 I'm doing great.

00:02:55.000 It's good to be with you as always.

00:02:57.200 So how's that whole big, beautiful bill thing coming?

00:03:00.560 Well, it's definitely big.

00:03:02.160 We're working on making it more beautiful and trying to get it into a position where it does the job.

00:03:08.360 But we've done our part.

00:03:10.020 Yesterday is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

00:03:13.500 We released our title, which is going to help restore American energy dominance and reduce the deficit and unlock some of our federal land.

00:03:22.300 It's been neglected for affordable housing, streamline domestic production of energy and repeal the wasteful Green New Deal spending.

00:03:32.020 All of this is going to help us deliver lower energy costs and more housing, greater prosperity for American families.

00:03:37.640 So it's a good thing.

00:03:38.220 OK, so this is this is something that you're adding.

00:03:41.220 You want to add into the bill or did you add it in?

00:03:45.180 Yeah, we added it into the bill yesterday to address that.

00:03:49.920 You know, we've got a nationwide shortage of housing, a shortage estimated by some to be over seven million affordable homes.

00:03:57.960 Nearly one out of every three acres in America, meanwhile, is owned by the U.S. government.

00:04:02.880 In states like Utah, it's even more extreme.

00:04:05.460 Almost 70 percent of our land is controlled by people in Washington, D.C.

00:04:10.240 Effectively, none of this land can be used for housing.

00:04:13.600 Now, in the West, where federal land is so prevalent, that means the federal government is depriving our communities, our families of needed land for housing.

00:04:22.380 And that's inhibiting growth.

00:04:23.720 So President Trump has recognized that connection between federal land ownership and the housing crisis, which is why he pledged to, in his words, open up portions of federal land for large scale housing construction.

00:04:39.140 And so what happens what happens with the land?

00:04:44.020 Do they does the government give it back to the states?

00:04:47.560 Does the government sell the land and keep the profits?

00:04:51.540 What happens there?

00:04:53.720 Yeah, the government sells the land.

00:04:55.840 This proposal is estimated to generate about $10 billion over the next 10 years.

00:05:01.560 It would sell the land.

00:05:03.140 And it's not all of it.

00:05:04.680 In fact, it's a tiny, tiny fraction, just a fraction of 1 percent of federal land.

00:05:10.260 And it can't be in a national recreation area, national park, wilderness area, monument, anything like that.

00:05:16.640 It's just garden variety land that's in or immediately outside municipal boundaries,

00:05:22.340 a place where people already live, a place where it's accessible to utility connections and things like that, where people could build houses.

00:05:30.460 It'd make a big difference.

00:05:31.540 Let's go to the Green New Deal handouts. 0.74

00:05:37.020 This is something that you're repealing all of those handouts in this part of the Big Beautiful Bill now?

00:05:44.700 Yeah, so there are parts of these that come through my committee's jurisdiction, and we're getting rid of those.

00:05:52.160 A much bigger portion of those comes through the Senate Finance Committee's jurisdiction.

00:05:57.980 And one way or another, Glenn, we're going to get rid of those.

00:06:03.520 Some of them will be phased out over the next three and a half years.

00:06:08.840 Others will start to go away much faster.

00:06:11.400 The bottom line is when the House and Senate Democrats passed the Green New Scam legislation to which they assigned the Orwellian name of the Inflation Reduction Act, which is really quite the opposite of that.

00:06:27.380 They did that without a single Republican vote.

00:06:30.360 And they did that in order to incorporate sort of their climate change religion into our national ethos.

00:06:38.120 They did that without a single Republican vote.

00:06:41.480 We should not have a single Republican voting to extend those, and that's why we're getting rid of them.

00:06:48.060 Those things create market distortions.

00:06:50.160 They change the incentives in a way that makes us more vulnerable with our energy grid, that things that result in irrational, inefficient decisions.

00:07:01.360 We're getting rid of all of it.

00:07:02.540 So, Mike, I was glad to see in this portion of the bill that you guys have worked on and are putting in now or put into the big, beautiful bill, the refilling of the Strategic Oil Reserve.

00:07:17.980 We are – last night, and I know you're aware of this.

00:07:21.020 You have to be.

00:07:22.020 Last night, we made moves that usually only happen right before war.

00:07:26.980 We brought all of the families home from all of the bases in the Middle East. 1.00

00:07:31.780 We told all of the – I think we closed or just at least reduced the staff of many of the embassies around in the Middle East.

00:07:42.840 There's talk that Israel is going to strike Iran.

00:07:47.480 If that happens, I mean, we could go into war.

00:07:49.700 We could have $200 a barrel oil if this thing went poorly, and we have almost no Strategic Oil Reserve.

00:08:01.060 It's yet another reason for us to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:08:06.900 It's also another reason, Glenn, why we've got to open up our own energy capacity in the United States, including our own oil and gas production.

00:08:16.860 We've got a lot of oil.

00:08:19.620 We've got a lot of gas.

00:08:20.740 We've got a lot of other great natural resources that we use for energy, for manufacturing, and all sorts of things.

00:08:26.340 All this stuff has been stymied by a federal permitting process that has gotten out of control, and we're doing everything we can to streamline that process.

00:08:35.120 So that, too, can become part of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, you might say, not just the official SPR, but also the reserve.

00:08:46.380 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:08:47.700 We open up ANWR.

00:08:49.300 We open up other federal lands that have a lot of oil and gas.

00:08:54.480 We'll be in much better shape.

00:08:55.660 You know, it's so curious to me that all of the people who have been strongest in pushing this global warming agenda are now totally silent when the AI needs so much energy, and they're like, we have to have coal plants, we have to have nuclear power plants.

00:09:15.700 And all of a sudden, those things are okay again with so many.

00:09:20.480 But please address this with the audience, how essential it is that we do not play the same games.

00:09:29.360 We are running out of time to be able to produce massive amounts of energy that we're going to need within the next three years.

00:09:36.920 Yeah, exactly.

00:09:39.120 As my friend Alex Epstein points out in books that he's written, including one called Fossil Future, he points out that we need energy.

00:09:49.520 And if you're worried about climates changing, and climates do change, the best thing we can do to address weather-related crises and things like that is to continue to utilize clean, abundant, affordable sources of energy.

00:10:05.960 That's how human beings survive.

00:10:08.460 That's how human beings will continue to thrive and prosper in the future.

00:10:13.540 And so we shouldn't go off on any more of these larks, any more of these, you know, it's essentially a secular religion to those who have been pushing climate alarmism.

00:10:24.620 And we've got to reject that and stop forcing people into this.

00:10:29.200 Look, if somebody wants to try to avoid using any source of power that doesn't come from a unicorn, a windmill, or a solar panel, fine.

00:10:39.540 But don't force the rest of us to accept your false religion. 0.99

00:10:45.240 Let me go to NPR and PBS.

00:10:49.340 Is this in the Big Beautiful Bill?

00:10:50.960 I have yet to see a title that deals with them directly.

00:10:57.400 I have heard that we are likely to defund them.

00:11:01.220 And it's got to happen because these are entities that are federally funded.

00:11:07.240 I've been saying for a long time, government-funded propaganda is wrong.

00:11:11.700 There's all kinds of propaganda out there.

00:11:13.420 It's a natural outgrowth of the First Amendment.

00:11:16.360 But government-funded propaganda is a particular type of evil that we should avoid.

00:11:24.160 And I understand people have – most Americans have decades' worth of exposure to PBS and NPR.

00:11:31.520 And most people, regardless of their political background, can point out good things that PBS and NPR have produced over the years.

00:11:39.340 Increasingly, what we've seen is that those entities are becoming less and less inclined to provide a fair, objective set of messages to the American people.

00:11:51.800 And increasingly, they are hell-bent on making sure that a far-left agenda is being portrayed, communicated through these government-funded networks.

00:12:03.860 They have every right to say whatever they want.

00:12:06.320 They have to say whatever they want within the laws of what our broadcast regulations allow, of course.

00:12:13.900 But they do not have a right to do so with government funding.

00:12:18.160 It's bad enough the American people have to work months out of every year just to pay their federal taxes.

00:12:23.200 They shouldn't, on top of that, have to pay those federal taxes so that some of them can be used to distribute messages that they regard as wrong, as corrupting, as taking us down the wrong direction politically, which, of course, they do.

00:12:37.040 By the way, anybody who says they're killing Big Bird, Big Bird has quite an operation behind him.

00:12:44.020 I've never seen anything more successful than Sesame Street in the, you know, toy store.

00:12:51.540 They're fine.

00:12:52.560 They can make money on their own.

00:12:54.340 Last thing, Mike, did the spat between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, did that help or hurt this bill?

00:13:05.920 You know, in the end, it's hard to say what impact it'll have on that, in part because the book isn't closed on this bill.

00:13:16.340 The bill is not even fully written yet, much less passed.

00:13:21.080 And so that's hard to say.

00:13:22.600 I will say this, just on a personal level, it was saddening for me to see it.

00:13:28.940 There was an energy that came about through that bromance.

00:13:32.900 I really liked the duo of Trump and Musk.

00:13:36.000 Me too.

00:13:36.200 I thought it gave a lot of momentum to the cause of government reform.

00:13:42.280 And, you know, maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I would love to see those wounds healed.

00:13:48.860 And I'd love to see that team get back together at some point.

00:13:52.080 Yeah, I, you know, it looks like the president, you know, president yesterday or the day before said some really nice things about Elon Musk.

00:13:59.980 And Elon Musk came out and said it was inappropriate.

00:14:03.220 It was over the top of what I did.

00:14:04.640 And so, you know, maybe there's a there's a chance.

00:14:06.860 But is this bill going to pass?

00:14:09.100 And if so, how long before we see a up or down vote?

00:14:14.040 Yeah, look, I suspect that some version of this bill is going to pass.

00:14:18.120 So I will reiterate, as I told you and others in the past, the bill, as it was passed in the House, will not pass.

00:14:25.220 That will not become law, in part because it just doesn't do enough when you're raising the debt as much as they're trying to raise it here.

00:14:33.820 And when you're dealing with an almost thirty seven trillion dollar debt and you've got an opportunity to pass something with Republican votes and only Republican votes, you can do better than that.

00:14:42.880 You have to do better than that, because our debt is going to eat us alive unless we stop our debt from eating us.

00:14:49.280 So we're doing everything we can to save additional money to bring down our annual deficits substantially in this, because under the House passed bill, it would more or less perpetuate two trillion dollar annual deficits.

00:15:05.440 That's just not sustainable.

00:15:06.740 Our debt's growing faster than our economy.

00:15:08.980 And that's a killer.

00:15:10.020 Mike Lee, the senator from the state of Utah.

00:15:16.020 Always good to talk to you, Mike.

00:15:17.780 Say hi to the family for you, William.

00:15:19.680 We'll be with you.

00:15:20.280 Thanks so much, Mike.

00:15:21.380 All right.

00:15:21.740 You bet.

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00:16:17.340 Now let's get to work.

00:16:18.500 I want you to think back on what it felt like on September 12th.

00:16:23.400 You remember that?

00:16:24.340 We at one point did the 9-12 project because I wanted to remind people what it felt like when we all stood together.

00:16:31.460 It was the day after the bombings of the World Trade Center.

00:16:34.260 I can't believe I actually have to refresh people's memories, but there are so many people now in the audience that didn't live through it, didn't know.

00:16:41.400 But the World Trade Centers came down and we were shell-shocked and all of us knew we were going to war.

00:16:49.780 All of us knew this is a problem.

00:16:52.400 Never seen that before.

00:16:53.680 In the days when we never said, well, never seen that before, we saw something we didn't expect.

00:17:01.500 And that first day we were freaking out.

00:17:03.580 The second day we came together and we were strong and we stood in our principles, but we realized this thing is so fragile.

00:17:12.280 It could come apart any moment.

00:17:15.220 If somebody really wanted to take us down, they could do it, especially if it was a coordinated effort.

00:17:22.080 Luckily, 9-11 wasn't necessarily a global coordinated effort.

00:17:27.240 I mean, I think there was more coordination than anybody wants to talk about, but it still was not like it is now.

00:17:34.020 With everything that is going on in the world right now, with everything that is coming, the L.A. riots, the no kings, which I hope are not riots, but just demonstrations on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

00:17:47.020 These protests and riots, well-funded, all-left, radical, revolutionary stuff happening in our streets.

00:17:54.920 Israel, we found out last night, is on the verge of striking Iran.

00:17:59.720 Can we play what the president said just yesterday about his negotiations with Iran?

00:18:06.000 Do you think you're going to be able to stop Iran from enriching its... 0.95

00:18:11.660 I don't know.

00:18:12.260 I did think so.

00:18:13.920 And I'm getting more and more less confident about it.

00:18:18.700 They seem to be delaying, and I think that's a shame.

00:18:22.160 But I'm less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago.

00:18:26.320 Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made.

00:18:33.620 I would have said a deal would be made.

00:18:35.380 Something happened to them?

00:18:36.480 No, I don't know.

00:18:37.400 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:18:38.480 Like China talked them out of it?

00:18:39.700 Maybe I have instincts about things.

00:18:41.120 You think China talked them out of it?

00:18:42.340 No, I don't think China has anything to do with it.

00:18:44.400 I just think maybe they don't want to make a deal.

00:18:47.780 What can I say?

00:18:48.860 And maybe they do.

00:18:50.800 So what does that mean?

00:18:51.500 There's nothing vital.

00:18:52.700 What happens then?

00:18:53.400 Well, if they don't make a deal, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

00:18:58.260 Right.

00:18:59.180 If they do make a deal, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon too.

00:19:03.460 But they're not going to have a nuclear weapon, so it's not going to matter from that standpoint.

00:19:08.300 But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying.

00:19:12.920 It's so much nicer to do it.

00:19:15.060 But I don't think I see the same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal.

00:19:20.680 I think they would make a mistake.

00:19:22.980 But we'll see.

00:19:23.800 I guess time will tell.

00:19:25.520 You have to remember that the president knows he is negotiating at all times.

00:19:31.200 You have to understand when he speaks, he's not speaking to the reporter.

00:19:35.760 And I've known enough presidents, spoken to enough presidents, and I know this one quite well.

00:19:42.280 And I was yelled at by George W. Bush about this very thing.

00:19:45.840 And the president can't say everything that is on his mind because the world is watching and there are analysts all over the world dissecting his every eye movement, let alone his words.

00:19:56.880 And I thought it was interesting to say, I don't know.

00:19:59.820 It seems like something happened to them.

00:20:02.720 But he followed it up with and she talked over it.

00:20:05.280 I just have a good instinct on that.

00:20:07.540 So what he's saying is, I don't have any intel, Iran, on this.

00:20:12.140 I just have a pretty good gut.

00:20:13.460 What is going on with you?

00:20:14.920 Because you've changed.

00:20:16.680 Then she said, is it Iran?

00:20:18.400 No, it's not.

00:20:19.080 It's not China. 0.85

00:20:19.900 It's not involving China at all.

00:20:23.920 I just think they're not interested.

00:20:26.980 So what has changed?

00:20:28.020 He was sending them a message.

00:20:30.420 He knows something that they know now he knows.

00:20:35.380 I have no idea what it is.

00:20:37.860 But remember, it was just a few days ago.

00:20:40.640 He was telling Benjamin Netanyahu, do not strike them.

00:20:43.740 I want a deal.

00:20:44.740 Do not strike them.

00:20:46.880 And I was cheering for that because I don't, I mean, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:20:53.840 But at the same time, we do not, if there is any other way than Israel going in, we need to take that other way. 0.99

00:21:04.220 But President Trump said something happened to them.

00:21:08.140 That, to me, says one of their allies may have stepped to the plate or they know something we don't know about us.

00:21:17.440 Now, Israel is on the verge of striking Iran. 0.60

00:21:20.260 That came out yesterday.

00:21:21.160 The U.S. has just evacuated all non-essential embassy staff, pulled all military families out of the region.

00:21:28.480 That does not happen unless we are preparing for war.

00:21:33.840 That's the only time stuff like that happens.

00:21:36.580 On our own streets, New York, Los Angeles, radical Hamas riots, draped in socialist slogans are growing.

00:21:44.060 They are not spontaneous. 0.88

00:21:45.420 This week, two days ago, the leader of Al-Qaeda, yeah, Al-Qaeda, is calling on Muslims in America to kill Americans with no red line. 0.93

00:21:55.740 That's not a metaphor. 0.92

00:21:57.200 That is direct incitement.

00:21:59.320 That is Al-Qaeda saying, Muslims in America, now, go, go, go.

00:22:03.240 The world has gotten dark quickly, or has it been quickly?

00:22:09.500 Some of us have been pointing this out for a very long time.

00:22:12.440 We just happen to be now in a position where everybody is starting to position their forces.

00:22:17.680 And it is terrifying, but it all comes down to one thing.

00:22:22.700 We forgot.

00:22:24.180 We forgot that evil exists.

00:22:27.060 We forgot what evil looks like.

00:22:28.860 We forgot we have to name evil.

00:22:32.640 We forgot that peace is not the default setting of mankind.

00:22:36.780 It is the exception.

00:22:38.360 We forgot that empires don't fall from things that come from without.

00:22:42.660 They fall from within.

00:22:45.520 Our military is strong, but our will is fractured.

00:22:49.020 Our economy is still the largest, but it's built on debt and digital illusions.

00:22:53.380 Our spirit, our national soul, exhausted, divided, distracted.

00:22:57.280 We don't even know who we are anymore.

00:23:01.240 So, let me go back.

00:23:03.480 Can America remain standing?

00:23:07.160 And here's my answer.

00:23:08.820 Yes.

00:23:10.040 If we remember.

00:23:13.820 If we remember that evil does exist.

00:23:18.420 That there is no such thing as neutral when it comes to evil.

00:23:23.420 If we remember that this nation was not built on comfort.

00:23:28.420 It was built on courage.

00:23:31.440 If we reject the lies that are dividing us by race and faith or class or even political opinion.

00:23:38.740 And remember that we are Americans.

00:23:41.120 And what does that mean?

00:23:43.140 It means we hold certain truths to be self-evident.

00:23:46.340 Those things bind us together deeper than blood.

00:23:49.640 Liberty, responsibility, our God-given rights.

00:23:52.100 Will we survive?

00:23:54.340 Yes.

00:23:55.260 But only if we prepare.

00:23:57.500 Not in fear, but in faith.

00:24:00.920 Not in panic, but in resolve.

00:24:05.840 Because what's coming?

00:24:08.660 Well, it's not chaos for the sake of chaos.

00:24:12.380 It is an entire realignment of the world.

00:24:15.780 And we have to decide right now.

00:24:19.500 Are we willing just to be swept away?

00:24:23.520 Or will we stand and stand firm and unshakable?

00:24:27.400 Because we truly believe that there are certain truths that are unchangeable.

00:24:36.120 That no one can change them.

00:24:38.200 They were gifts to us from God.

00:24:40.280 And those gifts come with responsibilities.

00:24:42.640 And if we remember those things and then say, you know, is that worth fighting for?

00:24:50.600 Is that worth living for?

00:24:52.380 Is that worth struggling for?

00:24:56.880 Pray for peace, but prepare for fire.

00:24:59.280 And never, ever forget the most important thing I can tell you today.

00:25:08.240 Never forget this.

00:25:09.580 No matter what you hear on TV, hear from any kind of anybody.

00:25:15.240 When the world goes dark, it only takes one torch to light the way.

00:25:22.500 One.

00:25:23.100 Light yours.

00:25:28.280 All right.

00:25:29.140 We're going to go through everything that is happening with Iran and with Israel.

00:25:34.160 What the options are.

00:25:35.080 What those look like.

00:25:37.160 Because I, you know, if Iran responds the way they might respond, the world is going to get involved. 0.81

00:25:47.320 They have to.

00:25:48.480 And we'll explain that here in just a second.

00:25:50.220 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:57.080 And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

00:26:02.120 Stuart, do you have any idea what it's like?

00:26:04.140 I mean, Jason is up this week and he's staying up at the ranch.

00:26:08.900 And do you have any idea what it's like to have me and Jason in the same house for a week?

00:26:14.120 It's not a happy place.

00:26:15.580 No, many visions of global apocalypse have been discussed.

00:26:22.460 Yeah.

00:26:22.560 I was working yesterday on what's, you know, what's happening with Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:26:28.420 I just had finished the show.

00:26:30.140 What is happening on the streets of Los Angeles and everything else.

00:26:33.620 And I'm sitting there.

00:26:34.420 I'm a little exhausted.

00:26:35.200 And he comes up.

00:26:36.340 Have you heard the news?

00:26:37.880 Like, no.

00:26:39.000 What? 0.99

00:26:39.360 I think Israel's going to bomb the snot out of Iran. 1.00

00:26:44.100 Could be tonight. 0.98

00:26:44.860 Could be tonight.

00:26:45.500 You know what that means?

00:26:46.360 No, I don't think I.

00:26:47.800 It means total collapse.

00:26:49.140 It's going to be ugly.

00:26:50.080 Dogs and cats are going to be tearing each other's eyes out. 1.00

00:26:53.100 And, you know, and it's a very good.

00:26:56.040 It's a very good possibility.

00:26:57.920 Kamala comes back and she's the president of the United States. 0.58

00:27:00.380 It's going to be that bad, Glenn.

00:27:02.100 I'm like, OK, thank you.

00:27:03.360 And I'm not going to sleep.

00:27:04.660 Sounds like a fun time.

00:27:05.780 Sounds like this is why you moved into the mountains, though, right?

00:27:07.860 I mean, if you're in the mountains.

00:27:09.540 To get away from Jason.

00:27:10.940 Right.

00:27:11.900 Well, OK.

00:27:12.620 So, Jason, let's take me through this.

00:27:14.340 Because yesterday, the government did some things that they don't ever do.

00:27:19.640 At least I haven't seen them do.

00:27:21.720 Unless war is pretty imminent.

00:27:24.100 Right?

00:27:25.140 Yes.

00:27:25.820 Can I start with maybe the possible upside, though?

00:27:28.380 Yeah.

00:27:28.620 Before we freak everybody out.

00:27:29.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:30.220 So the possible upside is, as we were watching all the developments yesterday, so was Iran.

00:27:35.200 Iran, so were their people, especially because negotiations between us and the Iranians is still going on.

00:27:42.460 In fact, I think they're supposed to meet Sunday because the original ultimatum that Trump gave Iran was, I think it was 60 days.

00:27:51.200 It's supposed to run out, I believe, today.

00:27:53.780 So this is the negotiation of negotiations.

00:27:56.580 Like, this Sunday's big.

00:27:57.980 OK.

00:27:58.420 So this all might be a kabuki theater to get them to the table.

00:28:03.300 You saw Trump.

00:28:04.040 I mean, even Trump's interview.

00:28:05.380 I mean, he is a master negotiator.

00:28:07.300 Oh, yeah.

00:28:07.680 And strategist on these things.

00:28:08.860 So this could be, look, hey, this is what you're playing with.

00:28:11.980 You didn't give this to me last night.

00:28:14.080 Well, I got to save some for it.

00:28:16.500 I mean, I was awake all night.

00:28:18.620 And you're like, oh, yeah, but it's probably a negotiation.

00:28:21.460 He was like, Tanya, get the food supply.

00:28:24.200 Let's go.

00:28:24.580 All right.

00:28:27.040 So it might be.

00:28:28.720 But do we do we make these moves?

00:28:31.080 I mean, that is a master negotiator, but that's an expensive move and a big move to pull everybody out of the embassies and to pull all of the families out from the military bases.

00:28:44.100 Yeah. So that is very big.

00:28:45.840 So in a single 24 hour period, we had the Pentagon authorizing the voluntary withdrawal of dependents and family members from some of these locations within the Middle East.

00:28:56.080 Almost immediately after that, another I don't know if you call this a leak or release came out that we were sending out emergency information to all of the diplomatic facilities, embassies within striking range of Iran.

00:29:10.600 So you're talking about like Northeast Africa, all the Middle East, all those areas saying put together a comprehensive emergency plan and then send a diplomatic cable back to us to let us know what that plan is.

00:29:21.500 Now, at this point, we were like, OK, what exactly is going on now?

00:29:27.420 Again, at the same time, we get Senator Cotton saying that Pete Hegseth confirmed to them inside Congress saying that, OK, now Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.

00:29:41.000 And then Sky News right after that said, yes, for the first time, the U.N. is admitting to us that for the first time in over 20 years, Iran is just not they're not they don't care about any of the, you know, the proliferation, anything.

00:29:55.440 They're just going all out good.

00:29:57.340 This was all spewing out immediately within 24 hours to help me.

00:30:03.560 You've already run away to, you know, outside of all civilization.

00:30:07.620 I don't know what more help you can get.

00:30:09.460 I mean, you have a shovel I need.

00:30:11.220 I can tunnel into the I can tunnel in.

00:30:13.680 You know, remember the when the what was it?

00:30:15.260 The dwarves, you know, they they tunneled into that mountain in one of the, you know, the Lord of the Rings thing.

00:30:20.820 And they were in that mountain with the dragon and stuff.

00:30:22.660 I think we could do that.

00:30:23.740 You just get some shovels.

00:30:24.740 Let's go.

00:30:25.420 Go.

00:30:27.280 So I know you were up until the sun rose in Tehran because you were monitoring it because you were waiting for the skies to light up.

00:30:36.500 Yeah.

00:30:36.900 I said this morning that I think if there is a strike, it will happen after the stock market closes on Friday because this would cause massive disruption.

00:30:49.340 And let's just talk about first before we get into what the response would be and what we would have to do and what other countries would have to do.

00:30:58.840 When Israel goes over, they're saying they're going to bomb the nuclear facilities, but we don't think they have enough to build a bomb yet.

00:31:09.280 But there's a chance.

00:31:12.000 And if they don't get all of it, it's real trouble.

00:31:15.720 Yeah, you best not miss if you're there's multiple, multiple nuclear sites within Iran, just off the top of my head, I can think of six to nine, I believe that they would have to at least have some kind of strike on some of the facilities are so well entrenched because they've been planning this for a long time.

00:31:33.040 And to defend specifically against an attack like this, they're so dug under the ground and protected and hardened that you're probably talking about multiple strikes at a single target.

00:31:44.520 Right.

00:31:44.760 So this we're talking about like this, it's not going to be like a single strike.

00:31:47.480 This is like this, in a way, it's kind of like Top Gun 2.

00:31:52.660 Yeah.

00:31:52.920 Where they were going after and they had to, you know, they had to first land a bomb and then another one had to follow into that hole.

00:32:00.040 Yeah.

00:32:00.320 Right.

00:32:00.620 Because it was all buried so deeply.

00:32:02.500 Yeah.

00:32:02.780 I mean, it's this is going to be precision stuff.

00:32:05.460 Precision stuff, Top Gun 2, but probably spread out over a week of multiple dangerous runs like that.

00:32:12.180 Oh, my gosh.

00:32:12.460 Oh, my gosh.

00:32:13.180 You're looking at.

00:32:13.780 Yeah.

00:32:13.880 It's more than just a single night operation.

00:32:15.760 It would go on for several days.

00:32:19.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:32:21.020 OK, so now.

00:32:24.700 How does Iran respond?

00:32:28.760 That's the question.

00:32:30.540 Yeah.

00:32:31.940 Immediately counterattack with a strike like what we saw.

00:32:35.000 What was that a few months ago?

00:32:36.360 Something similar to that just to start.

00:32:38.660 And then the scary stuff happened.

00:32:40.400 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:48.080 While we are sitting here and we are looking at the 250th anniversary coming this weekend.

00:33:04.040 There is a new story out about the Jefferson Memorial, where the National Park Service is nearing completion of a revelation, a renovation of the Jefferson Memorial.

00:33:18.260 That turns the site into a condemning portrayal of the president's legacy.

00:33:24.480 According to the City Journal, the project aims to completely renovate the basement exhibit level of the memorial to provide more perspectives as it shares Thomas Jefferson's multifaceted story.

00:33:37.280 The memorial's designers sought to convey in the mid-1900s version of our U.S. democracy.

00:33:43.820 Thomas Jefferson had become the face of that endeavor.

00:33:46.420 In crafting this image, they selected specific materials, details and excerpts from his writings.

00:33:51.800 Studying these choices reveals their motives.

00:33:56.280 Mike Litterist said, certainly you need to take a look at the paradox of the author of the lines.

00:34:02.920 All men are created equal, who own more than 600 slaves in his life.

00:34:06.900 You know, Mike, how come he owned 600 slaves?

00:34:09.640 Why did he?

00:34:10.580 Why didn't he sell them?

00:34:13.720 Yeah, I'm waiting for an answer from anybody in the audience.

00:34:17.440 Anybody.

00:34:18.620 Why did he have 600 slaves?

00:34:20.640 Why didn't he sell them?

00:34:22.460 Why didn't he release them on his death?

00:34:25.420 That's the kind of stuff I bet they're not going to have in the basement.

00:34:27.620 The renovation is funded in part by a $10 million grant from David Rubenstein.

00:34:33.300 The NPS press release said, Rubenstein previously funded exhibits about slavery at Montpelier,

00:34:39.140 the home of James Madison, and Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.

00:34:43.100 In 2019, Rubenstein said he donated the project so when people go, they can actually learn about Jefferson.

00:34:49.960 In a piece announcing his donations, Smithsonian Magazine called Jefferson a man of huge contradictions.

00:34:56.080 No, not really.

00:34:57.420 The memorial renovation will focus on reinterpreting Jefferson,

00:35:01.920 particularly in light of the allegations that Jefferson had four illegitimate children with Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves.

00:35:09.660 Now, the magazine, and everybody else ignores, in all of the major studies, none of them have come to that conclusion.

00:35:15.680 At the very worst for Thomas Jefferson, they say, we have examined the DNA and it is not possible.

00:35:25.140 Why isn't it possible?

00:35:26.940 Because all of the documents of Thomas Jefferson's time shows that it was his brother who was being scandalous with the slaves,

00:35:38.660 not Thomas Jefferson, so they don't know.

00:35:43.040 But that doesn't stop anybody from carving that into stone.

00:35:46.800 By the way, if you really want to understand Thomas Jefferson, how do you understand a man who owns slaves?

00:35:53.460 And then wrote,

00:35:54.800 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another,

00:36:01.300 to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station for which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them,

00:36:08.240 a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare those causes which impel them to separation.

00:36:15.420 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

00:36:21.500 that they're endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights,

00:36:26.120 that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:36:28.840 And to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, 0.60

00:36:31.800 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

00:36:35.240 And whenever that form of government becomes destructive of those ends,

00:36:39.060 it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,

00:36:41.440 and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles

00:36:46.340 and organizing its powers in such a form as to them shall seem more likely to affect their safety and happiness.

00:36:55.660 This is from the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

00:37:02.080 He goes on to say,

00:37:03.580 The history of the present king of Great Britain has a history of unremitting injuries and usurptations,

00:37:09.580 among which appear no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest,

00:37:16.740 but all have in a direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over these states.

00:37:22.360 And to prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world.

00:37:26.920 And so they listed all of their grievances.

00:37:29.760 And they were all one or two lines.

00:37:32.560 The king did this.

00:37:33.780 We tried to do this.

00:37:35.140 And he stopped us by doing this.

00:37:36.820 All one or two lines.

00:37:38.440 Except for the last usurptation.

00:37:41.400 In Thomas Jefferson's own handwriting.

00:37:43.900 He, the king, has waged cruel war against human nature itself,

00:37:50.700 violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him,

00:37:57.140 captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, 0.62

00:38:00.020 or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.

00:38:03.980 This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, 1.00

00:38:09.220 is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain,

00:38:12.940 who is determined to keep an open market where men should be bought and sold.

00:38:19.640 He is prostituted as negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this commerce.

00:38:25.860 And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die.

00:38:31.460 He is now exciting those very people, the slaves, to rise up in arms among us 1.00

00:38:37.500 and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them of

00:38:42.100 by murdering the people upon whom he has also obtruded them,

00:38:46.600 thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people

00:38:52.060 with crimes he urges them now to commit against the lives of another.

00:38:58.720 Thomas Jefferson was passionate, passionate about this.

00:39:05.180 I'm going to leave it at that, and maybe you can figure out why this didn't go into the final draft.

00:39:14.140 Was it Thomas Jefferson's fault?

00:39:15.840 Because he wrote that while he was alone in a room himself.

00:39:20.220 Why would every other line be one or two, but this one is a massive paragraph, half a page?

00:39:27.620 Why?

00:39:28.920 If he didn't care, if he was such a sphinx, 1.00

00:39:31.960 if he's so complex that we just can't figure him out.

00:39:37.120 You could figure him out.

00:39:38.900 All you need is the facts.

00:39:42.700 And they're all available.

00:39:44.140 They're all right there.

00:39:47.000 You know, yesterday I announced that I'm going to be expanding my mission a great deal coming in January.

00:39:56.240 And I'll tell you more about it, but part of it is the reason why Monica Crowley just said,

00:40:02.420 I know you have warehouses full of, you know, artifacts of American history.

00:40:06.980 I'm not quite accurate, but it feels like it at times.

00:40:13.220 I've been collecting it to be able to share it with you.

00:40:17.480 And that has never been open to the public.

00:40:20.000 We do it now on a reservation-only basis, and you're only allowed to see 1% of the collection.

00:40:26.920 It's massive.

00:40:27.880 But we've been doing things over the last three years, digitizing, scanning, everything.

00:40:37.380 We have now almost completed a system that is totally searchable.

00:40:44.100 You don't have to know what you're looking for.

00:40:46.760 It's searchable by vectors.

00:40:48.360 It will figure out what you're looking for and then show you all the possibilities.

00:40:53.040 And hopefully, when we're finished, it will point you right to the answer you're looking for without any hallucinations because it's a wired-off system.

00:41:05.080 It can only contain the things we put in it, and it has to memorize all of it.

00:41:11.000 That's where hallucinations comes from, from AI.

00:41:14.020 And you will be able to search the entire language.

00:41:16.620 I don't care if you speak Swahili. 0.84

00:41:19.220 It will translate it into Swahili.

00:41:22.280 When we're done, it will also, you can say, I'm 8.

00:41:26.400 I don't understand that.

00:41:28.180 And it will break it down to your level and your language.

00:41:32.120 If you want to know more about this, be the first to find out.

00:41:38.300 Just go to glennbeck.com and sign up for our daily newsletter.

00:41:42.500 I will use that mailing list to alert you because we're going to need your help.

00:41:49.280 You know, I said yesterday that I had this same exact feeling, this prompting, this push back in 2009 and 10 about the media.

00:42:02.460 And that led me to start Blaze, which totally changed the media.

00:42:07.340 Nobody was doing anything online.

00:42:09.560 It was nobody of note.

00:42:11.940 Nobody took it seriously.

00:42:13.620 Nobody thought about doing anything live online.

00:42:16.400 It wasn't even possible at the time.

00:42:17.960 But we did, and now look at what, now look at the world.

00:42:21.000 Look at what's happening.

00:42:23.280 And that was because of you we were first through the door.

00:42:27.220 And I think what we have that I've been building now with my team offside, in fact, they're all around the world.

00:42:39.960 We have one team in one hemisphere and one team in the other hemisphere.

00:42:42.860 So we literally don't sleep.

00:42:45.960 The work goes on 24 hours a day.

00:42:48.340 And I'm going to need your help and your advice and your counsel.

00:42:56.700 But if you want to be a part of it and you want to know more about it, we will have details coming soon.

00:43:02.300 And you can find them at glennbeck.com.

00:43:05.080 Just sign up for our newsletter.

00:43:06.960 Now that you've tortured journalists and sent them to Google and chat GPT to get the answer, can you reveal why Thomas Jefferson did not release his slaves upon his death?

00:43:20.220 Because no matter how many times he tried in Virginia, because he went to Virginia, his state capital, and he ran and became a state legislator of some sort.

00:43:33.660 I don't remember his exact title.

00:43:35.540 He tried to change the law over and over and over again.

00:43:39.140 But he couldn't change it.

00:43:41.080 They wouldn't change it in Virginia.

00:43:42.440 Even though they voted for that part of the Declaration of Independence, they wanted that in the Declaration of Independence.

00:43:49.740 There were only two states that said no to that.

00:43:52.680 And it needed to be a unanimous declaration.

00:43:56.120 And so it was Georgia and North Carolina that voted against that.

00:44:01.540 And he went and he tried to do it over and over again in his own state.

00:44:06.400 Made some progress in some areas, not progress in others.

00:44:09.140 But he could not release them because one thing he couldn't get done is slaves were viewed by the banks as property.

00:44:20.340 And if you were in debt, you couldn't just give away your property.

00:44:25.040 That debt had to be paid to your debtors.

00:44:28.520 Just like now.

00:44:29.940 You go declare bankruptcy.

00:44:31.820 They've got to take what you have and divvy it up.

00:44:35.480 And so you couldn't sell your slaves.

00:44:37.960 You couldn't release your slaves because they had real value.

00:44:42.180 And your debtors were looking for their money.

00:44:45.620 And he was millions at the time, millions of dollars in debt.

00:44:49.880 So he wasn't, no matter what he tried, he wasn't able to do it.

00:44:55.500 But he fought for that right for everybody in Virginia, not just him.

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