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00:01:31.140 There is a mystery afoot. The game's afoot. There are so many things that now our politicians and our city politicians, state politicians, just cannot figure out.

00:01:43.800 And I brought together two of the, well, the only minds that I can pick on this morning and see if we can get something out of their brain.

00:01:53.020 So, you know, they're not scholars, but they have mouths. So here they are, Stu and Pat, to join me on this really fact-finding mission.

00:02:05.680 A blue ribbon panel, you would really say.

00:02:09.600 Okay. So there is a problem in grocery stores, and it's that prices are too high, and people are having a hard time making ends meet.

00:02:22.640 And so the president is doing something about it.

00:02:26.000 And yesterday, he talked about the people who are suffering from high inflation, and he called out the villain in this whole thing.

00:02:40.700 What is the cause of grocery stores charging more for their products?

00:02:48.120 Ooh, I would say inflation due to government spending.

00:02:53.180 Okay. Now, remember, this is not an educated panel. None of us have doctorates or degrees or anything else.

00:02:59.700 Okay. Pat.

00:03:01.480 You know, I was going to guess maybe the high cost of gasoline because the food is being delivered, and it costs more to deliver it.

00:03:09.480 Okay. All right. So just the cost of everything that has gone up.

00:03:14.700 Okay. No, I'm sorry. You're both wrong.

00:03:17.200 It is the grocery store abusing and overcharging their shoppers.

00:03:24.220 That's bastards.

00:03:24.900 That's according to President Biden.

00:03:26.100 Wow.

00:03:26.560 Yeah, according to President Biden.

00:03:28.240 All right. Now, here's another mystery.

00:03:30.680 Another mystery.

00:03:31.600 Okay.

00:03:31.880 There is an uptick in Washington State of car thefts.

00:03:40.660 Mm-hmm.

00:03:41.440 It's, yeah, it's up over 500%.

00:03:44.500 It's 503% increase in car thefts in Washington State.

00:03:49.840 They can't figure out exactly.

00:03:51.780 I mean, they have a theory, but I want to see if it's the same theory that you guys have.

00:03:55.620 What is causing the uptick of car thefts in Washington State?

00:04:01.340 Is it rampant crime brought on by maybe too light of sentences that are dished out to felons?

00:04:09.940 Okay. That's a good guess.

00:04:12.100 What about economic desperation by the citizens of these communities where the economy has been ruined?

00:04:19.740 Wow. Okay. No, you guys aren't even, no.

00:04:22.720 No. It is the fault of Hyundai and Kia, and they're considering issuing...

00:04:30.880 The car companies?

00:04:32.040 Yeah. The state would like to have the federal government force them to recall all of those cars because they're just too easy to break into.

00:04:43.300 Really?

00:04:44.020 Because, I mean, I've walked by cars and, you know, lots that have their windows open, and I don't steal them, even though they probably would be easy to steal.

00:04:51.880 But I don't do that because I don't want to commit crimes.

00:04:54.660 Huh.

00:04:55.240 Yeah.

00:04:55.800 Well, it's not a crime if you're just sharing everything, you know.

00:04:58.940 It's just, we're just sharing.

00:05:00.040 Also, what kind of Pollyanna are you?

00:05:02.100 I mean, that's just, that doesn't even make sense, Stu.

00:05:04.220 Really?

00:05:04.640 That you don't want to steal a car.

00:05:06.020 Really?

00:05:06.380 It's better with you.

00:05:07.680 And by the way, it also has done that.

00:05:09.420 Let me just tap down this disinformation here.

00:05:12.700 The new state law in Washington that limits police pursuits that took place, that has nothing to do with it.

00:05:23.200 It is the car manufacturer, and again, it is the grocery store.

00:05:28.200 So we're on, you know, we're not batting 1,000 here.

00:05:31.300 In fact, we're not batting anything.

00:05:32.760 We're striking out.

00:05:33.840 But now, pharmacy closure in a, quote, crime-ridden neighborhood in Boston, what is causing this in Boston?

00:05:45.120 Well, you said it.

00:05:45.840 The crime-ridden neighborhood, right?

00:05:47.480 If these people who are working at the stores had their stuff stolen, that the employees are threatened.

00:05:52.280 Stu, do you have any, I mean, Pat, do you have anything that you could throw on?

00:05:56.720 I mean, this guy didn't really make sense to me.

00:05:57.920 Did they run out of pharmaceuticals?

00:06:00.740 Okay.

00:06:01.300 Maybe they didn't have enough.

00:06:02.120 No, but that's a good guess.

00:06:03.660 Yes, that's a good guess.

00:06:04.400 But it's, no, it's racism.

00:06:05.900 We do have massive shortages.

00:06:06.860 What was it, Glenn?

00:06:07.380 No, it's just racism.

00:06:09.380 It's racism.

00:06:10.160 Oh, wow.

00:06:10.520 It's racism.

00:06:11.200 So they don't like to take money from black people in this particular pharmacy?

00:06:17.500 Well, no, they just, here's, I mean, Ariana Presley from Massachusetts said that it's not the criminal elements that are directly responsible or the, you know, the leftists that, you know, champion the unrest in the streets and everything else.

00:06:31.520 It's the businesses themselves that are pulling up the stakes because, not because of ruin, but because of racism.

00:06:41.400 And I don't think she needed to explain any more than that any deeper.

00:06:45.200 Well, it's important to know what Ariana Presley has to say because I think she's the sister of Ayanna Presley, the congresswoman.

00:06:51.860 Yeah, and I love both of them.

00:06:53.200 I really do.

00:06:54.260 Now.

00:06:54.560 The whole Presley family is one of my favorites.

00:06:56.940 Elvis was great.

00:06:58.400 Yeah.

00:06:58.540 It was.

00:06:59.120 It was great.

00:06:59.500 Um, okay, so Denny's is now leaving Oakland, now leaving Oakland.

00:07:07.820 My gosh.

00:07:08.520 They don't know why.

00:07:10.820 You know, Glenn, these healthy eating keto diets, people just aren't in the mood for pancakes anymore.

00:07:16.040 And that's why they have to leave.

00:07:17.600 Right.

00:07:17.780 Oakland, very healthy city.

00:07:19.580 Yeah, well, they have the Superbird, which is very healthy.

00:07:22.620 It wasn't for all the butter and everything else on it.

00:07:24.900 But, uh, Pat, any?

00:07:28.520 Uh, I would, you know, I'd have to guess because I think you put your finger on it when you introduced this in a high crime area.

00:07:35.240 Is it all the crime that has caused them to.

00:07:37.840 Why would you say that?

00:07:38.760 It is, is it, you're saying that because it's in a minority area?

00:07:42.420 Is that what you're saying?

00:07:43.140 No, I'm saying it because you mentioned it was a high crime neighborhood.

00:07:46.060 You have proved their point.

00:07:48.060 It is racism.

00:07:49.540 Oh, wow.

00:07:49.820 Now, fentanyl.

00:07:52.420 Fentanyl.

00:07:54.060 Apparently, drug use has gone through the roof and overdose deaths from, you know, synthetic opioids driven by fentanyl has jumped 533% in Oregon.

00:08:12.300 And what do you suppose caused that?

00:08:16.340 The rain.

00:08:17.120 I think it was probably the rain.

00:08:18.260 People are so depressed by.

00:08:20.140 See?

00:08:20.820 Yeah.

00:08:21.280 It shows people can lurk.

00:08:21.980 By the weather there in Oregon that they've, they've got to be on fentanyl to get through it.

00:08:27.700 Yeah.

00:08:28.100 Because I was going to say open borders, the China just manufacturing this stuff, seemingly targeting our people. 0.96

00:08:34.120 Oh, what's next?

00:08:35.000 What's next?

00:08:35.620 You're going to bring up that they, oh, oh, you know, and they also legalized all drugs as well.

00:08:40.660 I was going to get to that.

00:08:42.420 Yeah.

00:08:42.640 Yeah, my gosh.

00:08:44.840 My gosh.

00:08:45.360 No, no.

00:08:46.900 They still haven't found a reason for that one, but they're very concerned.

00:08:51.160 They're very concerned about it.

00:08:53.120 And by the way, those are not.

00:08:54.700 It could be the rain.

00:08:55.460 It's all I could have been right.

00:08:56.920 Yeah.

00:08:57.260 Yeah.

00:08:57.480 It's a mystery at this point.

00:09:00.020 Now, you know, they're not really overdoses because these are illegal drugs.

00:09:07.180 So it's not like, hey, man, I got some fentanyl for you.

00:09:09.940 I got it at the pharmacy as they were giving their big going out of business sale.

00:09:15.940 Okay.

00:09:16.720 These are these a lot of these are drugs that are just laced with fentanyl.

00:09:21.180 This would be called not a drug, but poison, which would then make the people selling that and bringing it across the border murderers, not over prescribers.

00:09:35.160 So I just again, I'm it's old.

00:09:38.140 Interesting theory.

00:09:39.240 Yeah.

00:09:39.420 Yeah.

00:09:40.080 I'm a doctor, but they're not a doctor.

00:09:42.440 So so we don't really know if that's true at all.

00:09:46.900 You know, does it does it get to a point at any time where people just stand up and go, this is bullcrap.

00:09:53.400 For instance, yesterday, did you see Joe Biden working and and and and consoling the parents of people who have lost a family member, gold star families?

00:10:06.040 And he actually again said, you know, I understand what you're going through, my son died in Iraq and nobody said anything.

00:10:13.400 And I thought to myself, when will a gold star family say, Mr.

00:10:18.960 President, your son died in a hospital in America from cancer, not from being wounded or killed in Iraq.

00:10:28.820 He died of cancer.

00:10:31.480 Don't insult us.

00:10:33.240 When is somebody going to just say that to him?

00:10:35.780 Oh, it's how can it not?

00:10:37.880 I mean, we've heard some rumblings that these families have been upset, but after the fact, after the fact.

00:10:43.360 Oh, after the fact.

00:10:44.320 Yeah.

00:10:44.620 I want somebody to say it to his face.

00:10:46.360 It needs to be.

00:10:47.440 And I will say this, like we can put this on gold star families if we want.

00:10:50.940 I mean, they're dealing with very difficult things.

00:10:52.960 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:10:53.440 But how about a damn journalist asking it?

00:10:56.120 How about next time you get Joe Biden for a sit down interview?

00:10:58.680 Your first question is, why do you keep saying your son died in Iraq?

00:11:02.340 And let's say this, too.

00:11:04.600 Even if he did, even if he had died in Iraq, it's not about you.

00:11:09.200 Right.

00:11:10.120 It's not about you.

00:11:11.300 And he makes it about him every single time.

00:11:15.020 Every time.

00:11:15.460 Incorrectly.

00:11:16.220 You could say, you could say, I know, I can imagine what you're going through.

00:11:23.580 I lost my son at an early age as well.

00:11:26.920 It was from cancer, but I know it doesn't compare.

00:11:32.140 And that would be appropriate.

00:11:33.720 Yeah.

00:11:33.960 But to say your son died in Iraq and I know how you're feeling, it is so insulting.

00:11:41.840 It's incomprehensible he's not getting called out by this.

00:11:44.100 I mean, every single question, like he keeps doing it.

00:11:48.140 How many of these stories, Pat, we went over this one day.

00:11:50.700 How many stories has this guy told that the mainstream media has corrected?

00:11:55.660 Yeah.

00:11:56.240 Numerous times.

00:11:57.280 Yes.

00:11:57.580 But they don't ask him about it.

00:11:59.060 They don't go to him and say, Mr. President, you keep telling a story about your Amtrak experience

00:12:04.000 that everyone knows is false.

00:12:06.160 Why do you keep doing it?

00:12:07.440 Right.

00:12:08.260 The Xi Jinping story that he tells over and over and over.

00:12:11.560 Not true.

00:12:12.160 But you know, those to me don't matter as much.

00:12:16.980 No, it's true.

00:12:17.540 As the Gold Star family.

00:12:18.880 As the Gold Star family.

00:12:20.040 That one is just so unbelievably callous and offensive.

00:12:24.200 Despicable.

00:12:24.680 And it wouldn't be the same as a journalist saying that to his face as it would be a grieving

00:12:32.300 father or mother, who he mutters that to.

00:12:36.180 I mean, I think America would cheer at that.

00:12:39.600 I really do.

00:12:40.820 I really do.

00:12:41.340 The media wouldn't.

00:12:42.360 But I think Americans would say, good.

00:12:45.340 Yeah.

00:12:45.520 Good.

00:12:46.040 He deserved that.

00:12:46.720 Somebody finally said it.

00:12:47.680 He deserved that.

00:12:48.000 Yeah.

00:12:48.240 Yeah.

00:12:48.400 Yeah.

00:12:48.460 So let me start with this.

00:12:58.340 The United States Capitol Police yesterday determined upon the completion of an investigation

00:13:04.040 that there was no evidence that a crime had been committed by a former congressional

00:13:10.420 Democrat staffer.

00:13:11.800 He filmed himself engaging in a sex act with another male inside the Senate hearing room on Capitol Hill.

00:13:20.060 He's not going to be criminally charged.

00:13:23.860 You know what?

00:13:25.020 What do you say about that?

00:13:28.180 I mean, do we have a law against, I mean, did we need a law ever against filming yourself

00:13:35.680 having sex in the Senate hearing room?

00:13:38.100 I mean, I doubt it was the first time, but, well, I mean, it probably happened before,

00:13:46.700 but nobody dared film it and were proud of it.

00:13:52.620 How are you going to send this guy to jail?

00:13:54.780 For what?

00:13:55.820 For what?

00:13:56.360 You want to pass a law?

00:13:57.580 Great.

00:13:59.120 But see, this is why Adams said this system of government won't work for an ill religious 1.00

00:14:07.320 and immoral society because you have to make all the laws.

00:14:11.080 This never happened out in public, at least.

00:14:14.380 We never knew about it, at least, because people knew they'd be shamed.

00:14:19.300 This guy, I bet you, is a hero on the left.

00:14:22.980 I bet this guy is like, oh, man, you're the guy who had sex and filmed it.

00:14:26.740 But that's why this country cannot remain free if we don't self-regulate ourselves.

00:14:35.480 We have Mike Lee in the room with me here in Georgia.

00:14:39.940 Hello, Mike.

00:14:40.520 How are you?

00:14:41.000 Good to be with you, Glenn.

00:14:41.920 Thank you.

00:14:42.380 So your thoughts on?

00:14:44.380 Well, first of all, you totally threw me off there by suggesting it's probably happened before.

00:14:49.060 Just let me live in this blissful ignorance where this is the only time it's ever happened.

00:14:54.720 And I have hearings in there every week.

00:14:58.100 And fortunately, it was not at my desk.

00:15:00.440 It was not at the place where I sit.

00:15:01.940 So let's just leave it at that.

00:15:02.820 Now that you've said that, it might be at your desk.

00:15:05.520 Just take the Clorox wipes and wipe everything down.

00:15:09.540 Not going to happen.

00:15:10.380 No, it's very clean.

00:15:12.100 Didn't happen anywhere else.

00:15:13.480 I am very, very glad that that's the only time it's ever happened.

00:15:16.440 I hope it never happens again.

00:15:17.680 Here's what I can't figure out, though.

00:15:19.340 Why in the Sam Hill did they not have cameras that caught this happening before it occurred?

00:15:25.320 This is a fairly secure room.

00:15:27.460 There are security cameras everywhere.

00:15:30.100 I don't quite understand how it got to this point.

00:15:32.720 It doesn't make it anybody else's fault other than the people who did it.

00:15:36.540 But it's strange.

00:15:38.480 They have cameras in that room.

00:15:40.000 Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:15:40.700 They brought their own.

00:15:41.820 No, but I mean, they don't have cameras in that room?

00:15:44.520 They do have cameras.

00:15:45.500 They have cameras going into the room, out of the room, in the room, all over the place.

00:15:50.480 And so I don't know how this guy thought he was.

00:15:53.200 I don't know how he was so dumb as to think he wasn't going to get caught.

00:15:59.300 Well, but he didn't get caught by the cameras.

00:16:01.540 He got caught because the cameras he brought.

00:16:03.980 Right.

00:16:04.720 To film it.

00:16:05.520 Right.

00:16:05.840 Then displayed the thing, the event, the event, for the entire humanity to see on the Internet.

00:16:17.060 So, yeah.

00:16:17.740 So this doesn't help me feel that the Capitol Police are getting better at their job.

00:16:27.760 Yeah, okay.

00:16:29.460 But in fairness, this probably occurred either on a weekend or in the middle of the night or a combination of the two.

00:16:36.500 And they do have secure entrances and exits, especially during those hours.

00:16:41.840 And so, you know, that particular hearing room probably wasn't a major concern to them.

00:16:46.360 But I still would like to know why they didn't notice it first.

00:16:49.400 Yeah.

00:16:49.640 And I'd like to not talk about special entrances and exits while we're talking about this story.

00:16:55.300 Now, Schumer.

00:16:56.460 I walked right into it.

00:16:57.220 You did.

00:16:57.840 You walked right into it.

00:16:58.940 Schumer says the Ukraine border bill is on track for vote in the Senate next week.

00:17:05.140 You know, this is interesting, Glenn.

00:17:08.360 Because there isn't a bill.

00:17:12.020 We don't have a bill.

00:17:12.880 No, no, no.

00:17:13.020 It's on track for next week.

00:17:14.260 Yeah, it's on track for next week because he has said it's on track for next week.

00:17:18.760 But there is no it.

00:17:19.900 We still don't have the bill.

00:17:21.520 They've been working on this thing for four months.

00:17:24.200 Four months they've been negotiating it.

00:17:26.720 And we still don't have bill text.

00:17:28.380 When you say they're negotiating it, who is negotiating it?

00:17:33.820 It is a tiny handful of individuals.

00:17:36.620 I know, for example, that on the border security portion of it, the primary Republican negotiator is James Langford.

00:17:43.260 And the primary Democratic conference negotiators are Kyrsten Sinema and Chris Murphy.

00:17:50.140 I actually don't know who is negotiating the Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, miscellaneous supplemental aid funding portion of it.

00:18:00.500 I assume that it's the top Republican and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.

00:18:07.460 But they've never been clear on what's in that or exactly who's in charge of that part.

00:18:12.340 But most importantly, Glenn, we don't have the bill.

00:18:15.740 And unless you have the bill, remember, we don't vote on just abstract ideas typically in Congress or if we ever do.

00:18:24.200 It's not a law.

00:18:25.440 When we're passing a law like this one, something that spends $106 billion, funds components of conflicts occurring in three different remote locations on the planet,

00:18:37.720 and then undertakes a massive overhaul to our immigration laws, perhaps the most significant of its kind in a generation.

00:18:45.040 Those are not abstract concepts.

00:18:48.260 We can't vote on those under Article I, Section 1 and Article I, Section 7.

00:18:52.420 You can't make abstract concepts into a law.

00:18:56.780 It doesn't work.

00:18:57.300 Well, they'll give you the law and they'll give you about two hours to read it.

00:19:01.660 Right.

00:19:01.940 And that is the problem.

00:19:03.480 You have to have the same language, the exact same language passed by the House and by the Senate and then presented to the president.

00:19:09.120 We still don't have that language.

00:19:11.300 So if you give that to us at the very last minute, remember, this stuff does not read like a fast-paced novel.

00:19:19.000 And this is sufficiently complex.

00:19:20.940 I will not be surprised if it's hundreds of pages long.

00:19:25.300 And it takes time.

00:19:27.280 Even if it were only, I don't know, 100 pages or so, which for all this bill does would surprise me a bit.

00:19:33.380 But even if it's, quote, unquote, only that, immigration law in particular is tricky.

00:19:40.780 Lots of cross-references in a bill like that.

00:19:43.860 It's going to take at least a few weeks for us to understand it.

00:19:47.980 At least a bare minimum would be like a week or two.

00:19:52.400 So here's what I'm concerned with.

00:19:53.980 The president keeps saying, you know, I've been asking.

00:19:57.420 I need the money and I need the powers to do it.

00:20:03.080 I'm not for special powers, emergency powers going to the White House.

00:20:07.300 I don't care if it's Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

00:20:10.220 No more special emergency powers.

00:20:13.300 Enough is enough.

00:20:14.360 Is enough is enough.

00:20:17.020 Is there any reason that he needs extra powers to be able to solve the border?

00:20:23.340 All right.

00:20:23.680 This is a good question.

00:20:24.920 Look, there are things in the immigration code that would be good to tune up.

00:20:32.180 It would probably be good to clarify certain things to make it easier for presidents moving forward to secure the border.

00:20:41.740 That isn't the question.

00:20:43.200 The question is, what does this bill to do to accomplish that?

00:20:47.680 And what else does this bill do to offset whatever good might be in it?

00:20:52.900 And that is where I have the problem.

00:20:54.920 A problem that is compounded by the fact that the president of the United States currently has authority to stop the border crisis.

00:21:04.380 Now, they may not be the most elegant tools around.

00:21:07.700 They might not be the tightest.

00:21:09.300 But he has the exact same statutory framework available to him that Donald Trump had.

00:21:14.640 When he secured the border while he was still in office.

00:21:18.340 Remember, he had massive border surges.

00:21:20.320 That's when the cartels really started cooking up their human trafficking business, which, by the way, travels on the same chassis with the same people as the drug trafficking business.

00:21:31.500 Those people that they've trafficked into the country over the last few years, they've brought in enough fentanyl to kill every American several times over.

00:21:40.920 Anyway, he has the same authority.

00:21:42.900 Now, some people will say, oh, well, no, no, that's not true.

00:21:45.820 That's not true because Donald Trump was using Title 42.

00:21:49.020 Title 42 was based on the COVID pandemic.

00:21:53.460 That's missing the point.

00:21:55.360 He fixed most of the problem.

00:21:57.700 Almost entirely fixed by the time COVID was even a thing.

00:22:00.500 He's got the authority.

00:22:02.320 Moreover, all these authorities that they're abusing, asylum law, immigration parole authority, deferred removal authority, they're all discretionary powers given to the executive branch that you can meet out under certain circumstances.

00:22:20.420 But they're all may shall.

00:22:22.040 They don't have to give anyone asylum, not one person.

00:22:25.020 They can shut down the entire asylum program when they find that we can't keep up with it.

00:22:29.240 He's got the power now.

00:22:30.900 And we're sending the false message by having this discussion that this is for want of adequate legislative authority.

00:22:37.240 That's false.

00:22:37.820 And how much money are we giving to Ukraine at the same time?

00:22:41.320 This is going to be $106 billion in this bill from what we're told.

00:22:44.500 About $62 billion of that will go to Ukraine.

00:22:47.260 Of that sum, $11.75 billion will be set aside just to fund Ukraine's civil government.

00:22:55.800 It's civil servants, their pensions, and things like that.

00:23:00.100 Now, I've raised questions about this.

00:23:02.240 Why are we doing that?

00:23:03.560 And how long does that buy us?

00:23:05.120 A year.

00:23:05.760 We're funding their entire government's budget, their payroll, soup to nuts.

00:23:10.580 We're funding it for an entire year.

00:23:13.100 I asked my colleagues, why would we want to do that?

00:23:16.660 Why is that our thing to do?

00:23:18.820 The answer was, well, fighting a war is expensive, and they need a government while they're fighting a war.

00:23:29.380 That's the kind of thing that substitutes these days, apparently.

00:23:34.060 You know, I could understand that if it was World War II, and we were doing it for England, where we were both in declared war.

00:23:39.900 They were our allies, maybe, maybe, with some sort of vote in Congress and debate that that's what we were going to do.

00:23:51.820 This isn't a war we're in.

00:23:54.420 Right.

00:23:55.280 We have not declared war.

00:23:56.700 We are not combatants in this war.

00:23:58.400 And they're not the most important ally.

00:24:01.040 No, no.

00:24:01.760 And they are also two countries that have, let's just say, had a fairly long history of conflicts against each other.

00:24:10.280 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:24:11.540 Putin, bad guy.

00:24:13.420 And I would like Ukraine to be free.

00:24:17.360 But this is not something that's particularly new.

00:24:22.040 These guys hate each other.

00:24:23.180 There are a lot of conflicts.

00:24:24.840 They do that sort of thing.

00:24:26.160 We can't fight every war all the time.

00:24:28.960 If we do that, we're going to create a lot of problems.

00:24:32.560 And every time we do this, you increase the progressive cause.

00:24:36.020 You increase the total level of government funding with a war. 0.56

00:24:39.760 That doesn't go away.

00:24:41.740 All right.

00:24:42.400 Let me change subjects.

00:24:43.580 Twenty-six attorney generals have now demanded Biden and the UNRWA the funding that we now found,

00:24:51.780 uh, that ten percent of the people that work for this had ties to terrorism.

00:24:58.640 Some of them actually participated in the Palestinian terrorism of October 7th.

00:25:04.460 Well, of course they did.

00:25:06.580 I mean, look, the only thing that's shocking about that number is that it's that low.

00:25:11.560 And the only reason it's that low is that they're not taking into account all of the true problems with UNRWA.

00:25:17.420 Look, Glenn, UNRWA has for decades been running schools that teach young children, little kids, in their classes,

00:25:28.540 that they need to kill Jewish people, that they, in their words, we need to stab them with knives and run over them with cars. 1.00

00:25:35.500 They are teaching hatred.

00:25:37.580 So Donald Trump cut the funding.

00:25:40.740 Yes.

00:25:41.000 We cut the funding.

00:25:42.020 And Joe Biden brought it back.

00:25:44.100 Uh, he's also, yesterday, let me see here, yesterday, um, he imposed sanctions on four Israelis from the, uh, from the West Bank, if you will.

00:25:57.940 Um, the reason I'm not really sure, they say that they just had, uh, thrown rocks and, uh, clubs at, uh, Palestinians in the disputed territories of the West Bank.

00:26:12.020 Uh, that they had threatened to kill people, et cetera, et cetera.

00:26:17.220 And, you know, I, I want those people to, you know, go to jail and, and, you know, bad behavior on either side is bad behavior.

00:26:24.900 However, the president has now said that, uh, they have to be debanked here in America.

00:26:32.420 They lose their visa and they're not allowed to come into America at any time.

00:26:39.380 Did we do this for Palestinians that had thrown rocks or said bad things?

00:26:45.860 If, if we had done that, it would have made news and it didn't happen because there has been no news to that effect.

00:26:53.120 Sometimes I really want President Biden and his administration to pick a horse and ride it.

00:26:58.960 He pretends to be the friend of Israel, but then when he goes and does stuff like this, it makes me wonder.

00:27:03.660 He's a little bit like the guy who insists on buying a humidifier and a dehumidifier and putting them in the same room to let them have it out.

00:27:11.380 This makes absolutely no sense.

00:27:13.980 I don't know what he's getting at here.

00:27:15.920 On the UNRWA thing, though, I think it's high time for us to have a conversation as a country.

00:27:21.600 I think Congress needs to make sure that this happens.

00:27:24.660 UNRWA is a creation of the United Nations.

00:27:28.040 It's a United Nations agency.

00:27:30.700 Glenn, I can't name a darn thing that the United Nations does that I don't find pretty troubling.

00:27:36.720 I certainly can't think of a darn thing that they do, knowing that we're the, by far, the largest contributor to the UN.

00:27:44.380 Somewhere in the neighborhood of about $20 billion a year.

00:27:47.840 What do we get out of that?

00:27:49.320 And by contrast, what do they do to undermine us and our allies like Israel? 0.95

00:27:54.580 A lot.

00:27:55.160 It's time to defund the UN.

00:27:56.460 Chip, Roy, and I both have bills in the House and the Senate, respectively, in order to do that.

00:28:01.540 It's time to defund the UN.

00:28:02.780 I agree with you.

00:28:03.660 I think that's going to be hard to do in the current circumstances.

00:28:06.340 However, I think current circumstances are going to change.

00:28:09.820 There is a huge change coming to the world soon.

00:28:13.080 It just depends which way it swings.

00:28:14.860 You know, we have absolutely destroyed Boeing, one of the greatest engineering firms in the world.

00:28:21.200 They've destroyed themselves, quite honestly.

00:28:24.940 And they care more about wokeness, et cetera, et cetera.

00:28:28.160 But there's something else going on with the FAA, the tower control people, the people who are actually making sure that our planes don't hit each other.

00:28:38.520 There's a problem there, Mike?

00:28:40.240 Yeah, there's a problem in that they're violating federal law.

00:28:43.820 And because it's a government entity, also going against the Constitution, we have provisions of the Constitution, and we also have laws that say that you can't treat people differently on the basis of race.

00:28:58.180 Absent very unusual circumstances, there's a bona fide occupational qualification.

00:29:04.340 You're casting somebody for a role in the play, and it's a government actor, and they need to be of a particular background because that's what the character is.

00:29:12.200 Absent that, race should never factor into the equation.

00:29:16.680 It's not something that we use to hire people or not hire them.

00:29:20.960 And so when they do this, it causes problems, and it carries ramifications for safety.

00:29:25.200 In what ways?

00:29:25.860 I have 60 seconds.

00:29:26.860 In what ways?

00:29:27.700 If it's just race, but they have the same qualities as somebody else, why is this making our air less safe? 0.84

00:29:35.520 Well, because the FAA specifically has adopted criteria designed to make sure that they are not hiring people who have the same qualifications.

00:29:48.080 That's the problem.

00:29:48.920 Now, if it were used only as a tiebreaker, that's a different thing.

00:29:52.560 But it's not here.

00:29:53.480 They've come up with this set of criteria designed to make sure that they're not making these decisions on the basis of time-honored criteria that determine your qualifications.

00:30:04.240 I've got to tell you, I think my great-grandchildren will not believe that we had air travel the way we have it now if we don't turn this around.

00:30:13.720 As I said years ago, hey, you'll learn your lesson when airplanes start to fall out of the sky.

00:30:18.460 Well, we're there, gang.

00:30:20.180 We're there.

00:30:20.580 Thank you, Mike Lee, Senator from Utah.

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00:30:31.980 Hello and welcome to Friday.

00:30:33.700 It's the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:34.700 Bridget Phetasy is joining us.

00:30:36.320 She's a spectator columnist and contributing editor there.

00:30:41.040 She's also the host of the weekly dumpster fire.

00:30:43.620 Love the name of this.

00:30:45.200 The weekly dumpster fire on YouTube and Walk-In's Welcome podcast.

00:30:48.980 She is somebody that, if you've not heard before, she's very, very funny.

00:30:55.660 She is also, I would say, rather new, if you will, to common sense.

00:31:05.680 She used to be way, way left. 1.00

00:31:08.740 Not so much anymore.

00:31:10.040 Not so much anymore.

00:31:11.200 In fact, she's sobered up about 10 years ago.

00:31:13.320 She's with us now.

00:31:13.960 Bridget, what did you say in my office when I said to you, you're living, I can't believe

00:31:19.200 this, you're sober, you've got a child, you're married, you're living in a suburb here in

00:31:25.000 Texas.

00:31:25.820 You remember what you said to me yesterday?

00:31:27.640 Yeah.

00:31:27.920 I mean, I just celebrated 10 years.

00:31:30.820 And if you had told me when I, right before I got sober, that I would get sober.

00:31:35.120 I was in Los Angeles, wearing hot pants, running around, you know, being an empowered female.

00:31:42.780 Right.

00:31:43.320 And if you had told me that I would have ended up in a Texas suburb as a mom, I would have

00:31:49.880 just kept on drinking.

00:31:54.360 I would have been like, what drugs are you on?

00:31:56.960 Give me more.

00:31:57.760 By the way, it's the beginning, we haven't mentioned yet, it's the beginning of Black 0.96

00:32:03.340 History Month.

00:32:04.380 And so today we salute all of those great leaders in Black history, Justin Trudeau, the

00:32:12.180 former governor of Virginia, and our first Black president, Bill Clinton.

00:32:18.040 Good job.

00:32:20.360 Bridget, how are you?

00:32:22.060 I'm going to change my bio to new to common sense.

00:32:27.760 Great intro.

00:32:30.000 Yeah.

00:32:30.540 Well, I mean, it's kind of true, don't you think?

00:32:32.580 It is.

00:32:32.740 It is.

00:32:33.260 Yeah.

00:32:33.760 Yeah.

00:32:34.260 It's amazing.

00:32:35.580 So I read your article, I think it was in The Spectator the other day, that said, we're

00:32:43.640 too fat for civil war.

00:32:46.020 I just love that.

00:32:47.940 Because I was thinking, man, I think we're headed for civil war.

00:32:50.340 And then I see you saying, too fat, way too fat.

00:32:54.500 Can you imagine?

00:32:55.680 I mean, you're a history buff.

00:32:56.920 You know exactly what all of those soldiers during the Civil War endured and went through

00:33:02.840 and how they had to travel with packs for miles and then run uphill into battles in the

00:33:09.440 rain.

00:33:10.520 When you look at the stats, it's crazy.

00:33:12.880 The average American, I think it's something I am not.

00:33:15.640 Someone has to fact check me on this, but I believe if you walk 20 minutes, you're in

00:33:21.020 the upper percentage of Americans who are in shape.

00:33:25.480 20 minutes.

00:33:26.100 We really are.

00:33:26.800 We're turning in.

00:33:27.840 I'm chief among them.

00:33:29.180 We're turning into those people on WALL-E.

00:33:31.820 Yeah.

00:33:32.200 They're just sitting in the chairs.

00:33:33.620 It's like, I don't know, we're putting pack.

00:33:36.000 Yeah.

00:33:36.660 We are.

00:33:37.340 And people will be online in their, you know, studios and being all, we're headed for civil

00:33:44.700 wards.

00:33:45.440 Like, if you've been to Disneyland trying to imagine all those people in combat, it's not

00:33:52.960 happening.

00:33:53.360 The truth is, the enemy might run out of ammunition because I don't know if it could penetrate

00:33:57.480 all of our bodies.

00:33:59.180 Just, you know.

00:34:00.540 Yeah.

00:34:01.240 I just, I'm not seeing it.

00:34:04.200 I have heard several people kind of say, you know, it's time for a civil war.

00:34:09.400 And I just look at them like, are you out of your mind?

00:34:12.760 Have you ever seen civil war just on television from other countries?

00:34:18.880 It's never good.

00:34:20.020 Well, what's wrong with balkanizing?

00:34:22.100 Have you seen the Balkans?

00:34:24.200 I don't want to live there.

00:34:26.540 But can, it's again, like, play the tape forward for me.

00:34:29.900 Whenever people say this, I need them to play that tape forward.

00:34:33.480 What does this look like?

00:34:34.720 It's not like we just have red states and blue states.

00:34:37.620 Maybe we have blue cities and red states.

00:34:40.640 Is this rural versus urban?

00:34:43.840 You know, and I was saying in the piece, what are the letters home going to be like?

00:34:47.180 We lost the battle for the River Ranch Costco.

00:34:50.240 I mean, what are we fighting?

00:34:53.040 How do we, what is it over?

00:34:55.280 How do we know that it's ended?

00:34:57.080 It's, I need, I need people to answer these questions for me.

00:35:01.180 You know, have you heard the people that are like, you know, the problem with the world today is modernity.

00:35:06.700 And I'm like, you mean like antibiotics?

00:35:10.680 Like electricity, heaters, that kind of modernity?

00:35:14.160 You know, we've got to go back before modernity, you know, back to a time before the Enlightenment.

00:35:20.640 No, I don't think we do.

00:35:22.360 I think you might be romanticizing what it's like to take a crap outside every night.

00:35:28.020 It does feel, you know, Instagram is very much has its finger on the pulse of the kind of basic person that I am and that most people in America are.

00:35:42.260 And there's a great meme that goes around that's like when you want a homestead, but you also like getting things from Amazon in two days.

00:35:49.220 You know, and you're like telling your husband, I'm going to get chickens and I'm going to grow my own food.

00:35:54.180 And he's like, okay, but you still want that.

00:35:57.280 You still want those seeds and like, you know, by the end of the day.

00:36:01.460 Yeah, I follow somebody.

00:36:03.940 My wife just turned me on to him a couple of months ago.

00:36:06.540 I can't remember what the, but they're up in Montana, I think.

00:36:12.760 And they're, they have eight children and the children churn the butter.

00:36:19.440 And it's, it's crazy.

00:36:21.300 Now they have this beautiful house, you know, and they chose this.

00:36:27.140 They were like, you know what?

00:36:28.200 We're rich enough.

00:36:29.120 Let's make our own butter.

00:36:30.340 I don't, I don't choose that ever.

00:36:33.340 But it's, it's crazy how people, and it's, it, in some ways it makes sense.

00:36:39.180 I don't trust our food system anymore.

00:36:41.680 Not the system, but I mean, I don't trust the, I don't trust the big food corporations anymore.

00:36:46.620 Uh, and, you know, there is a healthy thing to say, we've really screwed this up and this

00:36:54.100 society is not necessarily good, you know, um, but you don't just flush the whole thing

00:37:00.780 down.

00:37:01.160 Yeah.

00:37:02.360 And there is a lot of romanticizing.

00:37:04.640 It's, it's very, you know, go read little house on the prairie at the very least or something.

00:37:10.660 I, there was a whole chapter in one of the books that's dedicated just to their spring

00:37:15.860 cleaning and entire chapter of the book.

00:37:18.400 I know there's an entire chapter of the whole book, just about Christmas where they got

00:37:24.020 like a sugar cube.

00:37:25.380 Yeah.

00:37:27.060 They were so excited.

00:37:28.380 I remember reading that to my kids and I'm like, and we, we would just take a couple of

00:37:33.260 nipples off the sugar cube and then we'd put it away for a few days.

00:37:36.820 This is what you want guys.

00:37:38.360 No, no, it's not.

00:37:41.020 No, we would get skinny enough to fight a civil war.

00:37:44.900 Yeah.

00:37:45.740 For all the wrong reasons, I think.

00:37:48.040 So, uh, so how's motherhood?

00:37:50.160 How's your child?

00:37:50.700 I love it.

00:37:51.420 Um, 21 months.

00:37:54.380 She's a joy.

00:37:56.180 I, it's so, it's so interesting to me how, and perhaps this is just getting older, but I

00:38:04.300 spent so much time wanting to be cool and different and edgy and all of these things that I was

00:38:11.160 chasing.

00:38:11.560 And I was sitting in my house looking at seven roofs.

00:38:16.080 Cause I'm in a very basic suburb, which I, again, had you told me I'm in a very working

00:38:21.720 class suburb.

00:38:23.420 Um, and I'm looking at all these.

00:38:25.760 I think you could have killed yourself if I would have told you that and that you would

00:38:29.280 be friends with me.

00:38:30.300 You would be, you'd be like, I'm going to Canada for made, uh, okay.

00:38:37.660 I just got off myself.

00:38:39.600 But I was looking at this thinking just how much beauty there is in being basic as, you

00:38:47.640 know, the kind of term is now.

00:38:49.280 And there's so, I feel so content as long as my, and having a relationship that is loving

00:38:57.340 and stable.

00:38:58.240 I, I mean, my biggest asset and superpower I think is my husband.

00:39:03.620 He is, uh, such a rock for me.

00:39:06.680 And again, if you had ever told me that these words would be coming out of my mouth, I would,

00:39:13.360 I would.

00:39:13.740 Cause you were like an Uber feminist. 1.00

00:39:15.440 I mean, I was, you know, there's all this talk about like polyamory right now.

00:39:20.460 And, uh, you know, this is the media is pushing all of these things that, you know, you've got

00:39:24.800 to have.

00:39:25.340 And I, I was definitely one of those people who tried it out.

00:39:30.240 Oh, I was experimental.

00:39:33.460 You know, I was, I was kind of in a, you're very lonely.

00:39:38.080 You don't really have a, a team leader or somebody that's out there pitching for you,

00:39:43.540 you know, is there, no, there's no one.

00:39:46.480 I mean, am I allowed to say that slut there's no one, there's no one use the word slut. 1.00

00:39:52.400 Okay.

00:39:52.600 I don't know.

00:39:53.320 I don't know.

00:39:53.800 It's allowed.

00:39:54.640 Um, I'm used to podcasting where you can say anything.

00:39:57.860 I, I, I don't know when I look at politicians, particularly this election, for example, I don't

00:40:04.660 know who's talking to the reform sluts of the world. 0.99

00:40:07.880 And we, we are legions.

00:40:12.300 There are dozens of us, but seriously, look at, if you, again, look at Instagram, which

00:40:21.320 obviously the algorithm is targeting, I'm a geriatric mommy, so it's really targeting me.

00:40:27.360 And, but there's, again, many old elderly moms, you're barely 70, but it's, you see all these 0.98

00:40:42.020 videos that go viral of women doing their, like, they'll be cleaning and then they'll 0.86

00:40:46.840 be doing their club dance.

00:40:48.300 They'll break into their club dance while they're cleaning.

00:40:50.380 Or they'll, they'll say one of my favorites that goes around to somebody when they're

00:40:55.120 trying to make some, some macaroni and cheese, and then they flick the macaroni and cheese

00:41:00.260 bag, like a bag of drugs, like only druggies would know.

00:41:04.060 And it's hilarious.

00:41:05.040 And it goes around and I'm, and I'm always like, you know, the, the, I do sometimes think

00:41:09.760 the, the right has a woman problem because the, the rhetoric around woman is women. 1.00

00:41:15.860 There's a lot of people who used to be party girls who are living in the suburbs now.

00:41:21.260 Who's talking to them on the right?

00:41:23.580 And no one's talking to them on the left either because they've.

00:41:25.860 Well, I think I'm talking to the.

00:41:27.200 You do.

00:41:27.640 I mean, my parties.

00:41:28.520 You're talking to me.

00:41:29.260 Really bad.

00:41:30.580 Yeah.

00:41:31.040 But I, I'm talking to a party girl right now.

00:41:33.500 Yeah, you are.

00:41:34.040 You are.

00:41:34.780 You're, you're giving me a platform.

00:41:36.120 So what does it take.

00:41:38.040 Representation matters, Glenn.

00:41:39.480 That's right.

00:41:40.140 That's right.

00:41:40.860 Let me take a quick break.

00:41:41.780 Cause I don't, I, do you have the hour you can spend with us?

00:41:44.260 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:44.860 Okay.

00:41:45.080 So there are two kinds of people, uh, I think, well, there's three kinds of people.

00:41:49.780 There are people that listen to, uh, Taylor Swift and they have become a little, a little

00:41:58.920 obsessive about just a little obsessive about it.

00:42:02.380 Then there are people like I fit into this category.

00:42:05.020 I respect her.

00:42:05.860 I don't necessarily listen to her music, so I don't know much, but I think she's a brilliant

00:42:09.220 business person and I have no problem.

00:42:11.260 And then there's people like Stu who are just like, why am I watching you on Sunday during

00:42:17.300 football?

00:42:17.960 Well, that's it.

00:42:18.840 Yes.

00:42:19.260 I am that person.

00:42:20.200 I want to see football on, on NFL broadcast.

00:42:24.120 I don't want to necessarily see Taylor Swift.

00:42:25.820 That being said, I'm not anti Taylor.

00:42:27.760 So I don't care.

00:42:28.620 Like, I know, I know, I know, but you know, you do it.

00:42:32.820 It's, it's, it's, I mean, this is brilliant programming.

00:42:34.720 They've taken, uh, the NFL and they've merged it with the Hallmark channel.

00:42:42.080 That's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful combination.

00:42:46.000 It's a love story.

00:42:47.640 Uh-huh.

00:42:48.320 A love.

00:42:48.820 It's, it's, it's such an old trope.

00:42:51.940 What do you mean?

00:42:52.760 Like the, the, the, the jock and the, you know, the cool girl, like the, the beautiful

00:42:58.260 cheerleader type and the, and the jock.

00:43:01.060 We've seen this.

00:43:01.880 So which category are you in?

00:43:04.000 Oh, I think she's a psyop. 1.00

00:43:05.160 No, I'm just kidding.

00:43:10.020 I don't, I don't.

00:43:11.480 I think, I think that is hilarious.

00:43:13.280 I do, I posted a meme the other day on my Twitter feed where, do you guys remember that

00:43:20.040 everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi meme that went around?

00:43:22.760 It was a book cover.

00:43:23.780 I posted it with Taylor Swift and it said everyone who disagrees with me is a psyop because it's

00:43:28.820 like the other side of this.

00:43:32.480 Like maybe people just don't agree with you guys, but she, I think it's, I don't know.

00:43:37.920 I find her very wholesome.

00:43:39.420 She's, she, maybe it's just as I've become basic.

00:43:42.360 She's wholesome.

00:43:44.800 She speaks to the suburban mobs. 0.90

00:43:47.720 Do you guys hate suburban mobs?

00:43:50.200 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:43:52.580 I just, I don't know if, I mean, in today's world, yes, maybe we hold her up as wholesome.

00:43:58.460 You know, back in, back in the good old days of the Salem witch trials, maybe not so much.

00:44:05.760 They were churning butter back then.

00:44:08.020 Yeah, they were.

00:44:09.000 They were.

00:44:09.180 I mean, this is the, this is the trad wife content that always cracks me up.

00:44:13.180 You'll see these like trad wives and they have a lot of cleavage showing and they'll be like, 1.00

00:44:18.600 I'm a trad wife.

00:44:19.500 I'm like, I don't think trad wives are showing their ta-tas on TikTok. 0.99

00:44:24.640 You know, I call me crazy.

00:44:29.860 I don't, I don't think that's what it is.

00:44:32.820 The, we're never good.

00:44:34.020 And we never seem to be able to find the middle.

00:44:36.600 You know, we're, we're always one way or the other.

00:44:40.340 And it's like, can, can, I mean, are we alone?

00:44:44.280 Is, is the majority of America still normal?

00:44:47.020 Normal?

00:44:47.760 Yes.

00:44:48.680 I live amongst normies.

00:44:51.180 People in media.

00:44:52.020 You live in Austin.

00:44:53.660 No, I don't.

00:44:55.360 I live in a suburb of Austin.

00:44:57.400 So I do not live in Austin because it is very normal.

00:45:02.760 It is a very normal whole, like, it's actually crazy.

00:45:06.960 My neighbors brought me brisket.

00:45:08.980 You know, I, there, I was reading, I was saying the other day,

00:45:13.560 I know I'm getting older because I was reading the bylaws for my HOA.

00:45:20.260 And that is not the joke.

00:45:21.740 The joke is that I was agreeing with them.

00:45:26.840 I'm like, yeah, there only should be an American flag.

00:45:31.680 That's right.

00:45:32.420 I don't want any of these signs.

00:45:33.780 I don't want to know my neighbor's politics.

00:45:35.660 And largely I don't.

00:45:36.820 We make each other cookies and help each other out.

00:45:39.420 And there's a very community feeling to it.

00:45:42.640 And that feels normal, you know, like a sense of normalcy and,

00:45:47.320 and people have each other's backs and it doesn't, it didn't.

00:45:51.540 I came from West Los Angeles.

00:45:53.900 It was insane.

00:45:55.340 It was, it was like Mad Max there.

00:45:57.980 You know, it was very, this is, is so different.

00:46:01.960 And people, I don't know, they're, they, they have football parties

00:46:06.160 and they're, it doesn't, it still feels like there is a very large portion

00:46:12.100 of America that's normal.

00:46:13.720 I don't think this election in particular inspires very much passion

00:46:18.740 out of anyone.

00:46:21.020 I mean, maybe it's a good thing.

00:46:22.360 I think there's a lot of people that are passionate.

00:46:25.440 I think there's a lot of passion for and against Donald Trump.

00:46:28.520 That is where the passion lies.

00:46:30.360 It's like, there's no passion whatsoever for Joe Biden.

00:46:34.540 I need to meet these people who are like passionate Biden supporters.

00:46:39.380 They must, they can't be 0%.

00:46:41.580 Someone exists.

00:46:42.840 Someone's got to.

00:46:43.660 Her name is Jill.

00:46:44.840 No, I honestly, I don't even think Dr. Jill is passionate about it.

00:46:49.220 She's like, whatever.

00:46:50.380 Do you think that with some of this, like the PSYOP stuff is a good example of this.

00:46:53.420 Like, there was a conversion at some point where, from the idea that people would post

00:46:59.220 things on the internet to make them popular, right?

00:47:01.480 They wanted likes, right?

00:47:02.960 And like the new Twitter algorithm, right?

00:47:04.780 Is interactions.

00:47:06.560 It doesn't necessarily reward you for being popular or well-liked or saying things that

00:47:10.740 people agree with.

00:47:11.920 It also rewards you.

00:47:13.240 Like if you say the dumbest thing on the internet that gets retweeted and mocked 50,000 times.

00:47:18.420 Right.

00:47:18.560 And I feel like now we're kind of at that point where people are like incentivized to

00:47:22.360 just take the craziest stand they can think of because that's what gets you to the cloud.

00:47:27.580 Yeah.

00:47:28.360 Yeah.

00:47:29.060 Unless, unless there's a lot of people that actually believe the craziest things they can

00:47:35.380 think of, which in today's world is a real possibility.

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