Sen. Mike Lee discusses the Big, Beautiful Bill and what he s added into it. Also, Senator Lee attempting to force the federal government to sell some of the land that they own and refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Jason Buttrell joins us also to discuss a potential military strike on Iran this weekend. And Monica Crowley joins us to discuss military parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army and the No Kings rally scheduled for Saturday.
00:00:30.800Senator Mike Lee discusses the big, beautiful bill and what he's put into it, and I think you're really going to like it.
00:00:35.600Also, Senator Lee attempting to force the federal government to sell some of the land that they own and refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:00:43.200Jason Buttrell joins us also to discuss potential military strike on Iran.
00:00:49.080And Monica Crowley joins us to discuss military parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army and the No Kings rally scheduled for Saturday.
00:01:32.240It launches high-velocity projectiles filled with pepper and tear gas, giving you a non-lethal way to stop people right in their tracks without hesitation and without any regret.
00:01:42.320And you can be up to 60 feet away from them.
00:01:44.820Their new compact launcher is even smaller, easy to carry, you know, whether concealed in your belt or in your purse if you happen to be a woman.
00:02:02.460You don't have to be paranoid to be prepared.
00:02:04.140You just have to love life and do the right thing to defend your life and your family's life and the peace and safety around you all the time.
00:03:10.020Yesterday is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
00:03:13.500We released our title, which is going to help restore American energy dominance and reduce the deficit and unlock some of our federal land.
00:03:22.300It's been neglected for affordable housing, streamline domestic production of energy and repeal the wasteful Green New Deal spending.
00:03:32.020All of this is going to help us deliver lower energy costs and more housing, greater prosperity for American families.
00:03:38.220OK, so this is this is something that you're adding.
00:03:41.220You want to add into the bill or did you add it in?
00:03:45.180Yeah, we added it into the bill yesterday to address that.
00:03:49.920You know, we've got a nationwide shortage of housing, a shortage estimated by some to be over seven million affordable homes.
00:03:57.960Nearly one out of every three acres in America, meanwhile, is owned by the U.S. government.
00:04:02.880In states like Utah, it's even more extreme.
00:04:05.460Almost 70 percent of our land is controlled by people in Washington, D.C.
00:04:10.240Effectively, none of this land can be used for housing.
00:04:13.600Now, 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.
00:04:23.720So 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.
00:04:39.140And so what happens what happens with the land?
00:04:44.020Do they does the government give it back to the states?
00:04:47.560Does the government sell the land and keep the profits?
00:05:04.680In fact, it's a tiny, tiny fraction, just a fraction of 1 percent of federal land.
00:05:10.260And it can't be in a national recreation area, national park, wilderness area, monument, anything like that.
00:05:16.640It's just garden variety land that's in or immediately outside municipal boundaries,
00:05:22.340a place where people already live, a place where it's accessible to utility connections and things like that, where people could build houses.
00:05:31.540Let's go to the Green New Deal handouts.
00:05:37.020This is something that you're repealing all of those handouts in this part of the Big Beautiful Bill now?
00:05:44.700Yeah, so there are parts of these that come through my committee's jurisdiction, and we're getting rid of those.
00:05:52.160A much bigger portion of those comes through the Senate Finance Committee's jurisdiction.
00:05:57.980And one way or another, Glenn, we're going to get rid of those.
00:06:03.520Some of them will be phased out over the next three and a half years.
00:06:08.840Others will start to go away much faster.
00:06:11.400The 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.
00:06:27.380They did that without a single Republican vote.
00:06:30.360And they did that in order to incorporate sort of their climate change religion into our national ethos.
00:06:38.120They did that without a single Republican vote.
00:06:41.480We should not have a single Republican voting to extend those, and that's why we're getting rid of them.
00:06:48.060Those things create market distortions.
00:06:50.160They change the incentives in a way that makes us more vulnerable with our energy grid, that things that result in irrational, inefficient decisions.
00:07:02.540So, 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.
00:07:17.980We are – last night, and I know you're aware of this.
00:07:22.020Last night, we made moves that usually only happen right before war.
00:07:26.980We brought all of the families home from all of the bases in the Middle East.
00:07:31.780We 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.
00:07:42.840There's talk that Israel is going to strike Iran.
00:07:47.480If that happens, I mean, we could go into war.
00:07:49.700We could have $200 a barrel oil if this thing went poorly, and we have almost no Strategic Oil Reserve.
00:08:01.060It's yet another reason for us to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:08:06.900It'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.
00:08:20.740We've got a lot of other great natural resources that we use for energy, for manufacturing, and all sorts of things.
00:08:26.340All 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.
00:08:35.120So that, too, can become part of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, you might say, not just the official SPR, but also the reserve.
00:08:55.660You 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.
00:09:15.700And all of a sudden, those things are okay again with so many.
00:09:20.480But please address this with the audience, how essential it is that we do not play the same games.
00:09:29.360We 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.
00:09:39.120As my friend Alex Epstein points out in books that he's written, including one called Fossil Future, he points out that we need energy.
00:09:49.520And 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.
00:10:08.460That's how human beings will continue to thrive and prosper in the future.
00:10:13.540And 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.
00:10:24.620And we've got to reject that and stop forcing people into this.
00:10:29.200Look, 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.
00:10:39.540But don't force the rest of us to accept your false religion.
00:10:50.960I have yet to see a title that deals with them directly.
00:10:57.400I have heard that we are likely to defund them.
00:11:01.220And it's got to happen because these are entities that are federally funded.
00:11:07.240I've been saying for a long time, government-funded propaganda is wrong.
00:11:11.700There's all kinds of propaganda out there.
00:11:13.420It's a natural outgrowth of the First Amendment.
00:11:16.360But government-funded propaganda is a particular type of evil that we should avoid.
00:11:24.160And I understand people have – most Americans have decades' worth of exposure to PBS and NPR.
00:11:31.520And most people, regardless of their political background, can point out good things that PBS and NPR have produced over the years.
00:11:39.340Increasingly, 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.
00:11:51.800And increasingly, they are hell-bent on making sure that a far-left agenda is being portrayed, communicated through these government-funded networks.
00:12:03.860They have every right to say whatever they want.
00:12:06.320They have to say whatever they want within the laws of what our broadcast regulations allow, of course.
00:12:13.900But they do not have a right to do so with government funding.
00:12:18.160It's bad enough the American people have to work months out of every year just to pay their federal taxes.
00:12:23.200They 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.
00:12:37.040By the way, anybody who says they're killing Big Bird, Big Bird has quite an operation behind him.
00:12:44.020I've never seen anything more successful than Sesame Street in the, you know, toy store.
00:13:36.200I thought it gave a lot of momentum to the cause of government reform.
00:13:42.280And, you know, maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I would love to see those wounds healed.
00:13:48.860And I'd love to see that team get back together at some point.
00:13:52.080Yeah, I, you know, it looks like the president, you know, president yesterday or the day before said some really nice things about Elon Musk.
00:13:59.980And Elon Musk came out and said it was inappropriate.
00:14:09.100And if so, how long before we see a up or down vote?
00:14:14.040Yeah, look, I suspect that some version of this bill is going to pass.
00:14:18.120So I will reiterate, as I told you and others in the past, the bill, as it was passed in the House, will not pass.
00:14:25.220That 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.
00:14:33.820And 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.
00:14:42.880You have to do better than that, because our debt is going to eat us alive unless we stop our debt from eating us.
00:14:49.280So 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.
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00:16:24.340We at one point did the 9-12 project because I wanted to remind people what it felt like when we all stood together.
00:16:31.460It was the day after the bombings of the World Trade Center.
00:16:34.260I 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.
00:16:41.400But the World Trade Centers came down and we were shell-shocked and all of us knew we were going to war.
00:17:15.220If somebody really wanted to take us down, they could do it, especially if it was a coordinated effort.
00:17:22.080Luckily, 9-11 wasn't necessarily a global coordinated effort.
00:17:27.240I mean, I think there was more coordination than anybody wants to talk about, but it still was not like it is now.
00:17:34.020With 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.
00:17:47.020These protests and riots, well-funded, all-left, radical, revolutionary stuff happening in our streets.
00:17:54.920Israel, we found out last night, is on the verge of striking Iran.
00:17:59.720Can we play what the president said just yesterday about his negotiations with Iran?
00:18:06.000Do you think you're going to be able to stop Iran from enriching its...
00:19:25.520You have to remember that the president knows he is negotiating at all times.
00:19:31.200You have to understand when he speaks, he's not speaking to the reporter.
00:19:35.760And I've known enough presidents, spoken to enough presidents, and I know this one quite well.
00:19:42.280And I was yelled at by George W. Bush about this very thing.
00:19:45.840And 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.
00:19:56.880And I thought it was interesting to say, I don't know.
00:19:59.820It seems like something happened to them.
00:20:02.720But he followed it up with and she talked over it.
00:28:31.080I 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.
00:28:45.840So 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.
00:28:56.080Almost 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.
00:29:10.600So 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.
00:29:21.500Now, at this point, we were like, OK, what exactly is going on now?
00:29:27.420Again, 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.
00:29:41.000And 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.
00:30:36.900I 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.
00:30:49.340And 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.
00:30:58.840When 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.
00:31:12.000And if they don't get all of it, it's real trouble.
00:31:15.720Yeah, 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.
00:31:33.040And 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.
00:32:40.400You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:32:48.080While we are sitting here and we are looking at the 250th anniversary coming this weekend.
00:33:04.040There 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.
00:33:18.260That turns the site into a condemning portrayal of the president's legacy.
00:33:24.480According 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.
00:33:37.280The memorial's designers sought to convey in the mid-1900s version of our U.S. democracy.
00:33:43.820Thomas Jefferson had become the face of that endeavor.
00:33:46.420In crafting this image, they selected specific materials, details and excerpts from his writings.
00:33:51.800Studying these choices reveals their motives.
00:33:56.280Mike Litterist said, certainly you need to take a look at the paradox of the author of the lines.
00:34:02.920All men are created equal, who own more than 600 slaves in his life.
00:34:06.900You know, Mike, how come he owned 600 slaves?
00:35:54.800When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another,
00:36:01.300to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station for which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them,
00:36:08.240a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare those causes which impel them to separation.
00:36:15.420We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
00:36:21.500that they're endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights,
00:36:26.120that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:36:28.840And to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,
00:36:31.800deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
00:36:35.240And whenever that form of government becomes destructive of those ends,
00:36:39.060it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,
00:36:41.440and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles
00:36:46.340and organizing its powers in such a form as to them shall seem more likely to affect their safety and happiness.
00:36:55.660This is from the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
00:40:48.360It will figure out what you're looking for and then show you all the possibilities.
00:40:53.040And 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.
00:41:05.080It can only contain the things we put in it, and it has to memorize all of it.
00:41:11.000That's where hallucinations comes from, from AI.
00:41:14.020And you will be able to search the entire language.
00:43:06.960Now 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?
00:43:20.220Because 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.