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00:00:30.000 Well, it might be the last episode that has Mike Lee on it because of Sarah, not me, because of Sarah.

00:00:38.500 He was on talking about the Save America Act and Sarah refused to not play Thune the ballless rhino.

00:00:48.440 And I don't think the senator appreciated it.

00:00:51.100 I know I did. You might. You might.

00:00:53.220 But also there is a there was an attack that was planned on the White House, a severe terrorist attack, and it was done planned by Americans. 0.54

00:01:06.300 And you need to know about it because one of them, the leader, was a 19 year old kid who was turned in by his mom, who saw him change over the last few months.

00:01:17.200 You need to hear this story because you, your family members, your kids can fall into this trap easily if you don't know what it is.

00:01:26.620 And from the DOJ, the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dillon, talking about what's happening with your kids in school and what the DOJ and the Department of Education just did to help shut down the Department of Education under Donald Trump.

00:01:42.740 All of that and so much more on today's podcast.

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00:03:04.500 this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:03:11.780 i mean just when you think you've heard it all i've got to talk about iran today we've got to

00:03:21.260 talk about the save america act uh we've got to talk about the attempt on the white house we have

00:03:27.440 harmy dylan coming in with a huge breaking news story uh that she's going to announce on this

00:03:33.160 program about the department of education um what else what else do we what else and then

00:03:39.260 right before i go on jason says to me glenn you do know about the california gay certification

00:03:46.300 that's going on right like what this this gay person 100 approved by the state of california

00:03:55.320 what the hell is gay certificate we're going to get into that as well and housing prices for

00:04:00.260 anybody who is concerned about housing prices i want to talk to you about that coming up in just 0.98

00:04:04.440 a second because there was a really disturbing story out uh earlier this week and so much more

00:04:10.180 we get right to mike lee here as we talk about uh the save america act and so many other things

00:04:16.900 uh senator mike lee is uh joining us now and uh and hello senator how are you i'm doing great

00:04:25.580 Thank you very much, Glenn, and happy semi-quincentennial, which is the other way to say America 250, but it just makes you sound smart.

00:04:32.380 Yeah.

00:04:33.620 Yeah, it does.

00:04:34.780 Or weird.

00:04:36.200 You know what I mean?

00:04:36.800 Or weird.

00:04:37.500 Mostly weird.

00:04:38.360 Like the kid that gets beat up in the playground.

00:04:42.140 You know what I mean?

00:04:42.660 It's been known to happen, especially if you say words like that.

00:04:47.640 Okay.

00:04:49.000 All right.

00:04:49.500 I want to talk to you about what John Thune is doing here with the, no, no, Sarah, no, Sarah, I did not, stop it, stop, Sarah, I did not ask for Thune the ballless rhino, I am sorry, Senator, stop it, sorry, Senator, that's wholly inappropriate and unprofessional, Sarah, shame on you.

00:05:12.640 I want to talk to you about the Save America Act.

00:05:16.520 And John Thune still doesn't seem to be willing to save America.

00:05:21.380 He's still saying that we just can't pass it in the Senate, which is not true, is it?

00:05:26.400 Well, it's true if you assume that you have to have cloture in order to break through a filibuster.

00:05:32.380 The truth is you don't.

00:05:34.200 Now, most of the time, that's the way it happens these days.

00:05:36.840 It wasn't always the case.

00:05:38.040 It used to not be the norm at all in the Senate.

00:05:41.200 Closure votes used to be relatively rare, but they've become the default norm and now increasingly assumed falsely to be the exclusive way to break a filibuster.

00:05:51.100 There are other ways.

00:05:52.020 You have to exhaust those who are delaying the bill.

00:05:54.820 You put the bill on the floor and you debate it until it passes.

00:06:00.020 And that can't happen with every bill, partly because it takes a lot of time to do it and partly because not every bill will work like this.

00:06:08.420 because not every bill has this much support from the American people.

00:06:11.600 We're talking somewhere between 70% and 80% of Americans across party lines,

00:06:16.420 depending on which poll you listen to.

00:06:17.900 Either way, it's a vast supermajority.

00:06:20.340 The only place where you can't get a supermajority for it is here in Washington, D.C.,

00:06:24.280 then that's the problem.

00:06:25.780 But if we put the bill on the floor like they did the Civil Rights Act at 1964,

00:06:30.000 they were down about 30 votes, 30 votes away from being able to achieve cloture in 64 when they did that.

00:06:36.940 And over time, what they saw was that the bill became more popular and those who were opposing it and trying to delay it with a filibuster became less popular.

00:06:45.020 So they started negotiating the terms of their exit ramp.

00:06:48.780 They started negotiating face saving and perfecting amendments.

00:06:51.840 And eventually they got the bill to the point where they could vote for it.

00:06:54.580 That's exactly what we need to do here with the Save America Act.

00:06:57.720 So to say that because we've only got a simple majority support, we're about 10 votes shy of cloture, it doesn't mean the bill can't pass.

00:07:05.060 It just means there's got to be another way to do it.

00:07:07.600 I won't advocate this on every bill, but this is a rare, unique circumstance where it's important to America's future, our election security, and where the American people overwhelmingly support it.

00:07:18.040 This would work, but it does take time, and I hope we'll get there.

00:07:23.840 Yeah, I'm kind of losing hope on this one.

00:07:26.280 um you know i know mitch mcconnell the good thing we don't have a song about mitch mcconnell

00:07:31.440 um yeah because i think mitch mcconnell is also trying to do their no sarah i was talking

00:07:39.260 stop sarah i was talking about mitch mcconnell not throwing the ballless rhino please this is

00:07:44.820 wholly inappropriate with the senator on the phone please i mean it stop um so um it looks like he's

00:07:52.000 doing everything he can to torpedo this on the way out as well or is that just my just me look

00:07:58.620 there is one person and one person alone who can make this judgment call the way the senate works

00:08:04.660 the way our set schedule is set up if the senate majority leader is willing to give this a shot

00:08:10.160 it'll work whether mitch mcconnell wants him to or not whether any one member wants him to or not

00:08:15.780 he could do it i at this point we're not counting on mitch mcconnell's vote anyway

00:08:20.780 But we do have a simple majority of Republicans who support the bill.

00:08:25.640 And we also have an American population that I believe will continue overwhelmingly to support this.

00:08:33.420 And it won't really smile all that fondly upon those who are filibustering the bill and eventually they'll negotiate their way out of it.

00:08:41.660 So we've got to give it a shot.

00:08:43.040 Just because it's difficult and time-consuming doesn't mean it's not important.

00:08:46.580 This one's especially important as we approach this election year.

00:08:49.820 I feel like the Republicans have just walked into a trap.

00:08:55.520 You know, if that fish face guy from Star Wars,

00:08:58.380 that's a trap, I would, that's all I'm hearing right now

00:09:01.280 when it comes to the FISA thing.

00:09:02.960 They came after the temporary appointment for the DNI

00:09:08.020 and, you know, then Congress said,

00:09:09.680 well, we're not going to pass FISA.

00:09:11.940 And I said at the time, please, please,

00:09:15.380 take them at their word on that one.

00:09:17.060 Just actually hold them to that.

00:09:18.600 Tell him no, no Save America Act, no FISA.

00:09:23.100 And it looks like that's what he's doing.

00:09:26.400 Does that work?

00:09:27.680 Look, well, first of all, Save America and FISA.

00:09:32.200 I like the idea of looking for creative ways and creative avenues for passing Save America.

00:09:38.060 I've never been confident that attaching FISA to Save America would do anything other than tank both bills.

00:09:45.660 They've got the areas of overlap coupled with the degree of popularity makes those two bills a likely mismatch.

00:09:53.760 And so I'm not sure.

00:09:54.660 But hang on.

00:09:55.300 But, Mike, what I'm but what I'm in thinking is there's no way there's no way these weasels in Congress or in the Senate are going to let the FISA thing go burning down in flames.

00:10:07.680 They love it.

00:10:08.420 All these weasels like I'm not even going to say his name, but TV.

00:10:15.660 VR. No, no, I, stop. These guys absolutely want FISA, and they're not going to let that thing,

00:10:25.240 they're not going to let that go by, do you think? No, that's right, but they do have until March 16th

00:10:33.920 of 2027 to continue normal FISA 702 collection under the existing orders of the FISA court,

00:10:41.520 because of language they slipped in the dead of night in 2018 they can continue collecting till 0.88

00:10:46.120 then so they're in the catbird seat they're fat dumb and happy right now i suspect their plan is 0.93

00:10:51.400 to sort of rope a dope this thing for a while until they can attach it to a spending bill at 0.97

00:10:56.320 the end of the year and hope they can slip it in that way that's why i don't see them panicking a

00:11:01.260 lot on fisa 702 even they were publicly purporting to panic before then um fisa given all the deep

00:11:09.600 state stuff that trump knows is going on what i mean why why do you think he wants this so badly

00:11:15.480 well look 50702 serves a useful purpose i've never disputed that it it does good things for

00:11:24.000 the american people uh when it's used properly the problem is that it's too easy to abuse

00:11:29.040 all we're asking for we're saying you go ahead and reauthorize it but if you want our support for it

00:11:37.260 You've got to require the government to get a warrant from the FISA court before they start doing what we call U.S. citizen or U.S. person queries, where you're searching for a particular person's private communications that were incidentally collected on this FISA 702 database in connection with a foreign intelligence investigation.

00:11:58.900 That's a type of backdoor warrantless search that Americans are increasingly skeptical of.

00:12:07.160 And that's what they need to do.

00:12:08.660 Now, what baffles me is that they're unwilling to even negotiate that.

00:12:11.960 It's a very reasonable request.

00:12:14.160 It's not, it wouldn't be nearly as difficult even as an ordinary court warrant because it's a different context.

00:12:21.680 And it can be substantially narrower than that.

00:12:25.320 But this does need to happen.

00:12:26.680 And if they would do that, there's a huge group of us that would help them pass it tomorrow.

00:12:31.960 What's stunning to me is how defiantly unwilling they are to listen to the American people who are increasingly skeptical of Pfizer-702 without a warrant.

00:12:41.040 I think it's changing, Mike.

00:12:42.560 I think you look at the elections and what's happening.

00:12:44.660 I think these guys who are not listening to the American people, I think they're going to find themselves in real trouble with the base.

00:12:49.980 But maybe that's just me.

00:12:51.200 Last question.

00:12:52.080 Any comment on the – I mean, I know you don't know the – well, maybe you do.

00:12:56.680 The details of the peace deal, and I don't want to speculate because everybody is speculating, and it's just a waste of time in my book, but is there anything that you can tell us that you know that you can share?

00:13:10.900 I really don't know any details about what this deal has in it.

00:13:16.240 But what I do know, Glenn, is that when Barack Obama made a really bad deal about 10 years ago with Iran in the form of the JCPOA, that moved from a standpoint of American weakness.

00:13:31.060 It resulted in us giving an ungodly sum of money to Iran without any real concessions on Iran's part.

00:13:39.280 And that's how we got to the awful mess where we are today.

00:13:43.540 I know that President Trump has every ability and every intention and every desire to make things better for the American people rather than empowering our enemies.

00:13:52.720 So I look forward to seeing what's in there.

00:13:54.380 I haven't seen it.

00:13:55.300 I don't know its contents, but I look forward to doing so later this week.

00:13:59.580 Yeah, I talked to J.D. Vance yesterday, and he seemed very optimistic that we were going to get the things that the American people, I mean, you know, most of the things that the American people want.

00:14:07.880 the things that President Trump said he has to have,

00:14:11.460 and Trump said that not a dime is going to be given to Iran

00:14:16.320 unless they are playing ball. 0.57

00:14:19.660 I asked him the question, you know, can you trust them?

00:14:23.740 And he said, no, you can't trust them, but you can trust yet verify.

00:14:29.580 That's the name of the game, and I hope and expect and pray

00:14:33.540 that that's what we'll see out of this deal

00:14:35.200 and look forward to seeing it, hopefully as soon as Friday.

00:14:40.780 Yeah. Mike, is there anything the American people can do to help with the FISA thing?

00:14:45.020 I mean, are they listening to phone calls or letters or anything?

00:14:49.080 I always think it's a good idea.

00:14:52.380 If you agree with something to use letters, use phone calls, social media, op-eds,

00:15:01.080 Any way you feel comfortable expressing yourself to make sure that you know that your senators and your representatives at the federal level are aware of where you stand, that can't hurt.

00:15:13.240 And sometimes it can do some real good.

00:15:15.200 You never know exactly the moment at which stuff like that will make a difference.

00:15:20.020 So you have to assume that in this circumstance it might.

00:15:22.820 And I believe this could be one of those moments.

00:15:24.820 he just said however you feel comfortable expressing yourself um you know uh which I

00:15:33.240 think is I'm going to take as a you know kind of a kind of an endorsement of the song about

00:15:38.640 John Thune I I mean I could be misreading that there but no Sarah stop okay Mike thank you very

00:15:45.500 thank you very much I appreciate all right you'll never be on the show again uh but uh thank you

00:15:51.800 very much senator mike lee for the great straight at state of utah this is the best of the glenn

00:16:00.080 beck program and don't forget rate us on itunes

00:16:03.420 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program we have a lot to talk about um

00:16:13.320 who is leaking things at the white house this is getting dangerous because it's now being leaked

00:16:18.400 out of the situation room, which is really bad. I also want to touch base a little bit more on

00:16:22.860 Rupert Lowe's rape gangs. The details coming out of England now are just absolutely shocking and

00:16:29.900 horrifying what the government of England has just overlooked, refused to look at it,

00:16:38.800 and told everybody else, you're the problem. Wait until you hear this story. Also, I want to talk

00:16:43.340 about this story that came out yesterday about starter homes and how expensive they are in

00:16:47.300 America. It's true, but it's half true. It's half true. And I want to give you the full picture

00:16:53.260 because I think this is yet another attempt by the press, probably a Marxist writer that hates

00:17:01.580 America, that is just trying to depress you and convince you nothing is good. There's a lot of

00:17:07.700 stuff that is good and including in homes and buying homes. And I want to share that with you

00:17:11.940 here coming up a little in a little while. But we have more details from a breaking news story

00:17:16.360 that happened yesterday while we were on the air on the south lawn of the white house during the

00:17:20.740 cage fight there was somebody that literally wanted to start a civil war and thank god we

00:17:26.380 caught them i don't know if you heard how we caught them uh but it is a remarkable story of a

00:17:33.300 of an american hero really truly an american hero stopped it and uh okay so this last sunday uh

00:17:41.700 On the lawn of the White House, there was a cage fight, UFC, June 14th, president's 80th birthday, America's 250th, right around the corner.

00:17:51.320 Thousands of people are standing on the lawn of the people's house, and five young men that we know of wanted to turn that lawn into a slaughterhouse.

00:18:01.880 Now, here is the plan, according to the federal complaint that was unsealed yesterday.

00:18:06.300 Drones, small ones, commercial ones, loaded with explosives,

00:18:10.420 flown over the arena and detonated to start panic.

00:18:14.680 As the crowd would run, as it was supposed to be kind of herded,

00:18:19.680 it would be herded and run through certain gates where they had sniper teams ready.

00:18:26.180 This was the plan.

00:18:27.520 Then a second wave was going to try to storm the gate of the White House itself.

00:18:31.600 So set off some explosions, get everybody to run through a certain gate, just start killing people through that gate, and then storm the gates of the White House.

00:18:40.040 This is a coordinated massacre designed in tiers with assigned roles, shooters, shooter locations, even an escape route down the Potomac.

00:18:51.440 Now, I'm going to give you the names.

00:18:53.360 You know, they're presumed innocent, and I honor that, but they are charged, and the names are important.

00:18:57.780 Tyson Proper, 19 years old, out of Danville, Ohio.

00:19:02.440 Daniel Eskridge, out of Missouri.

00:19:05.080 Abraham Alvarez, out of Nebraska.

00:19:08.740 Brian Rowe and Michael Thomas, out of California.

00:19:12.800 All sound like Americans to me.

00:19:15.440 That's important.

00:19:17.060 Now, behind them, a chat group of around 19 people.

00:19:22.220 What stopped it?

00:19:24.020 How did we find out about it?

00:19:25.920 How did we stop these guys?

00:19:27.780 You ready? You want to talk about American Hero, the leader's mom, Tyson Proper's mom.

00:19:36.740 She called the police on her own son. She had been watching him. She watched him spend $3,000

00:19:44.640 of his graduation money. Graduation money. He bought a shotgun. He bought body armor,

00:19:50.920 ammunition, and extra magazines. She watched him as he kind of disappeared into his phone.

00:19:56.680 And then she did the single hardest thing a parent can ever do.

00:20:00.900 This woman is a hero.

00:20:04.000 She picked up the phone and she said,

00:20:06.560 I think something's wrong with my son.

00:20:11.080 I think he's going to hurt people.

00:20:16.480 You know how hard that is?

00:20:18.980 That woman saved lives this week.

00:20:22.540 Remember her when the rest of this fades.

00:20:25.660 because she is really the hero.

00:20:30.060 So how has he turned?

00:20:32.760 Because it took three months.

00:20:34.300 Group that called itself,

00:20:35.580 and I want you to hear this,

00:20:37.920 the name of the group that approached him

00:20:39.780 was Vanguard of the Old.

00:20:42.540 It started on TikTok back in March.

00:20:45.660 That was three months ago.

00:20:48.520 Then it moved to encrypted apps

00:20:50.600 and then it was Signal and SimpleX

00:20:52.960 and all of it is wrapped in religious language.

00:20:59.140 See if you find any patterns here.

00:21:02.020 Now, it was full of real grievances.

00:21:04.920 And what do I say about grievances all the time?

00:21:07.180 What is the thing that I say that most people

00:21:09.060 who just hate the grievance culture like I do

00:21:11.740 refuse to say?

00:21:14.080 You cannot, you will not solve any of these problems

00:21:18.000 if you will not say these words.

00:21:20.160 A lot of these grievances are absolutely true or based in true facts, okay?

00:21:28.280 The Epstein Files.

00:21:30.280 I don't know what the truth is there, but I know we don't have it.

00:21:34.440 Government corruption.

00:21:36.240 Yep, in spades we have that.

00:21:39.060 Data centers eating up our power and our towns.

00:21:42.220 That is more perception than reality, but perception is reality a lot of the times.

00:21:48.760 So I've stood at the chalkboard

00:21:51.440 and talked to you about these things

00:21:52.980 over and over and over again,

00:21:54.580 which is exactly why I have to do this monologue right now,

00:21:57.900 because the grievance is real.

00:22:00.740 The conclusion, the cure is demonic.

00:22:05.800 Now, here's what the FBI says this group believed

00:22:08.620 in their own words,

00:22:09.700 that the United States, and I'm quoting,

00:22:11.940 needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt.

00:22:16.320 One of them said the whole point of the attack was to jumpstart a revolution.

00:22:22.760 That is, that's John Wilkes Booth gang.

00:22:27.080 That sentence, torn down so it can be rebuilt, also has a modern name because it's an ideology.

00:22:35.260 And it's called accelerationism.

00:22:38.480 Now, I have mentioned this before on a chalkboard a couple of times.

00:22:43.000 But I've never stopped.

00:22:44.920 I wanted to put it up on my chalkboard today because it's really important.

00:22:50.000 This is the thing that I've been trying to warn you about from three or four different directions for the last two or three years.

00:22:57.920 What is accelerationism?

00:23:00.440 There's a problem. 0.95

00:23:02.460 Okay, well, the way to solve that problem is pour gasoline on it and burn it down.

00:23:07.800 It's simple, and that's what makes it so dangerous.

00:23:10.160 It says the system is so corrupt, so far gone, so irredeemable

00:23:14.040 that the most moral thing you can do is make it collapse faster. 1.00

00:23:20.340 That sounds like the 12ers. 1.00

00:23:23.240 Don't reform it, don't repair it, pour gasoline on it and burn it to the ground 1.00

00:23:27.560 because only out of the ashes, only out of the chaos, can the real thing finally be born.

00:23:36.500 Now this comes in a lot of flavors and I've talked about all the flavors.

00:23:40.160 there's a violent neo-Nazi version,

00:23:44.580 groups you may never have heard of,

00:23:47.080 Adam Waffen,

00:23:49.400 then there's the base, 0.66

00:23:50.900 whose whole strategy is to provoke a race war 0.67

00:23:53.420 by making society ungovernable,

00:23:56.400 and whose Bible is a book literally called Siege,

00:24:00.160 then there's the tech version,

00:24:02.220 far less violent,

00:24:03.720 it just wants to slam the gas pedal on AI and AGI and ASI

00:24:08.200 and just let the chips fall where they may.

00:24:11.620 And then there is the philosophical version.

00:24:14.340 Going back to a man named Nick Land,

00:24:17.280 he took a fringe academic idea

00:24:19.560 and turned it pitch black, dark as night.

00:24:24.080 But you strip away the Baskin-Robbins 32 flavors of this

00:24:27.900 and it's the same rotten core in every single one of them.

00:24:31.700 The world and society is not worth saving. 0.99

00:24:35.760 Burn it.

00:24:37.280 Because out of the ashes, something better will rise.

00:24:41.500 Okay, that's not true, and that never happens that way.

00:24:44.940 But if the logic sounds familiar to you, it should.

00:24:48.240 Because I have been warning you for the better part of a decade,

00:24:51.920 and especially in the last three weeks, of the Russian named Alexander Dugan.

00:24:56.400 Dugan does not wear the accelerationist label.

00:25:00.040 He has his own label.

00:25:02.060 It's fourth political theory, Eurasianism.

00:25:05.320 But if you listen to the music underneath the words, it's exactly the same song.

00:25:12.540 Dugan looks at the liberal Western order, everything that has been built since the

00:25:17.160 Enlightenment, since people said, no, I have my own independent right, and I was endowed

00:25:25.200 with certain inalienable rights.

00:25:27.340 He says this is decadent.

00:25:29.460 It's finished. 1.00

00:25:30.460 It deserves to die. 1.00

00:25:31.720 And chaos is the womb of the new world. 1.00

00:25:35.320 He does not want to fix the West.

00:25:37.340 He wants to destroy it.

00:25:39.500 And he is patient.

00:25:41.160 He is sophisticated. 0.79

00:25:42.520 And he is laundering that idea into Christian language,

00:25:46.220 into conservative language,

00:25:47.740 into anti-establishment language

00:25:49.560 until good people who are angry for good reasons

00:25:53.100 start nodding along to a man

00:25:55.160 who wants their entire civilization in the grave.

00:25:58.320 And that is happening.

00:26:00.940 That is who these kids were.

00:26:03.020 the vanguard of the old just wrapped their nihilism in religious uh phraseology dugan

00:26:10.600 wraps his in philosophy the neo-nazis wrap theirs in race the grievance changes the wrapping changes

00:26:17.960 but the core never changes tear it all down that's why the ends never justify the means 0.78

00:26:25.440 because it always ends in chaos now here's the terrible genius of it accelerationism

00:26:32.740 it almost never starts with a monster it starts with somebody who is absolutely

00:26:39.280 right about something right yes yes yes you get it look at the corruption yes epstein's friends

00:26:48.900 they did get protected yes you're right it is broken and i can't see a way out the lie is not

00:26:56.020 in the grievance the lie is in the leap from yes you're right it is broken to this is irredeemable

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00:28:58.220 four relief. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I'm thrilled to have Harmeet Dillon

00:29:03.200 join me here in just a second. She is the assistant attorney general. She's in charge of the civil

00:29:07.920 rights division of the DOJ. And boy, there are a lot of people hot under the collar with her and 1.00

00:29:13.880 the DOJ and Donald Trump because 0.95

00:29:16.480 they're dismantling

00:29:18.720 the Department of Education. For me,

00:29:20.720 I'm a little disgruntled. It's not

00:29:22.140 happening fast enough.

00:29:24.280 But the progress that was

00:29:26.540 made with this one announcement

00:29:28.400 is huge and

00:29:29.900 the left is very

00:29:32.520 very upset because it's

00:29:34.420 going to put the

00:29:36.300 most vulnerable children at risk.

00:29:38.840 I know. I know. I've heard this song

00:29:40.440 before. We hate children. We all want them to starve

00:29:42.600 or die. Yeah, not true. So what was done? Harmeet's going to explain it to us here in just a second 0.95

00:29:49.540 and why it was done by our DOJ and then talk about some other civil rights things that only 0.87

00:29:55.120 she can really, she's such an authority on this and such an amazing woman. Harmeet Dillon joins

00:30:00.240 us in 60 seconds. Okay, so here is the headline. The DOJ Civil Rights Division and the Department

00:30:06.060 of Education forge a new interagency agreement to restore parents' rights and advance the plan

00:30:11.700 to shuttering the Department of Education.

00:30:14.100 Oh my gosh, I could spend all day.

00:30:15.680 I'd like to take that sentence out on a date.

00:30:19.000 Harmeet is with us now.

00:30:20.060 Harmeet Dillon, welcome to the program, Harmeet.

00:30:22.500 Thanks for having me back, Glenn.

00:30:24.580 You bet.

00:30:25.140 So tell me exactly what you did.

00:30:29.320 What was the problem you were trying to solve?

00:30:31.100 What you did that made everybody so upset?

00:30:34.400 Well, this is certainly above my head

00:30:36.200 in terms of the decision-making,

00:30:37.720 but really excited to be part of bringing it forward.

00:30:41.040 And the plan was, of course, all along to wind down most of the functions of the Department of Education in terms of day-to-day work and hand them over to the subject matter experts.

00:30:50.080 So a significant part of the Department of Education's portfolio has gone over to HHS, and Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is taking over the legal investigative functions that help enforce some of our important federal civil rights laws that, yes, protect America's children from abuse, from exploitation, and from discrimination.

00:31:14.200 And, you know, since that's what we do here at the Department of Justice, we investigate,

00:31:17.640 we prosecute, we bring people to accountability.

00:31:21.000 And because we were usually the endpoint of the process all along, now we've cut out the

00:31:26.400 middleman, which is Department of Education investigators and lawyers doing the investigations

00:31:30.800 and then handing over the results to us.

00:31:32.560 We're taking it all in-house for the Department of Education and doing that work for them

00:31:37.680 from soup to nuts.

00:31:38.620 Of course, they have the ultimate authority at the end of the day by statute, but 99%

00:31:43.220 of the work is going to be done here on that.

00:31:45.220 And that includes enforcing an important statute called FERPA.

00:31:49.220 And FERPA protects children and parental rights from illegal gender ideology being forced

00:31:55.620 down their throats and requires them to have opt-outs. 0.80

00:31:58.640 And I could talk about some of the important challenges that we're facing with the different

00:32:02.280 states that are simply ignoring this law and abusing children.

00:32:06.560 Why don't you go there?

00:32:07.660 because I think this is really important

00:32:09.220 because they're going to say,

00:32:10.040 this is hurting children.

00:32:11.680 No, this is protecting children

00:32:13.340 and the relationship with their parents

00:32:15.640 and the parents' rights to be able to say what that,

00:32:18.680 because people will go into schools now

00:32:20.120 and you can't even have access

00:32:21.760 to what they're learning in school.

00:32:23.360 What are you teaching my child?

00:32:25.200 None of your business.

00:32:26.460 This actually helps solve that, doesn't it?

00:32:29.460 Oh, 100%.

00:32:30.080 This law has been on the books for a while,

00:32:31.860 but here's what's really happening with it.

00:32:33.900 So Glenn, under natural law, of course,

00:32:37.220 Parents have the ultimate authority. They're the ultimate sort of government, if you will,

00:32:42.060 over the family. And the United States Supreme Court has recognized this. A couple of recent

00:32:46.000 cases, the Mirabili case and the Mahmoud case, reinforce that parents have the ultimate authority

00:32:52.020 of what their children are taught and specifically with these sensitive issues like sexual activity

00:32:58.000 and sexual orientation, gender identity stuff. And schools are just blatantly ignoring this

00:33:04.220 federal law and natural law, of course, and they're just doing it behind parents' backs.

00:33:08.620 So first of all, many school districts like the entire California system and a couple of other

00:33:12.800 states, they claim that so-called SOGI, sexual orientation, gender identity instruction,

00:33:19.540 is not sex education. And so it doesn't fall under the opt-out provisions of FERPA. Not so,

00:33:26.840 according to us, and we believe very clear Supreme Court precedent. And so what they're doing,

00:33:32.740 In addition to that is even if a state allows an opt out like technically out of sex education, they're permeating this LGBTQ instruction into English classes, into other forms of instruction so that it's under the radar. 0.56

00:33:50.000 So you may think that you're opting your child out of sex education, but in fact, by law in Illinois, for example, they're being taught the history of LGBTQ activism in this country. 0.74

00:34:01.560 They're being taught, no doubt, in English classes and other areas, other forms of sexually inflected programming. 0.52

00:34:08.480 I don't know why they can't just sort of be straightforward about it.

00:34:11.280 We know why, because they're trying to do this behind parents' backs.

00:34:14.140 Some schools, like in California, they maintain separate records for parents and then separate records privately for the children if they're going through gender transitions, so to speak.

00:34:26.840 So they're hiding that from children.

00:34:28.720 It's illegal.

00:34:29.340 And before I came to this job, Glenn, in the Department of Justice, I sued school districts in California for doing this.

00:34:35.180 This is not a myth. This is happening to thousands of children.

00:34:38.060 And so, you know, when you read these cases of these parents who wake up one day and they have a meeting with the school and they're told that their child is transitioning and you blame the parents, don't blame the parents.

00:34:49.100 This was happening behind the parents' backs and then it was sprung on them.

00:34:53.320 And so children have separate wardrobes they're keeping at school, separate names, separate identities.

00:34:58.140 Grooming is occurring of these children during lunch sessions as opposed to after school,

00:35:02.520 so the parents don't need to sign permission slips to know about it.

00:35:05.340 And it's outrageous.

00:35:06.500 It's causing an epidemic of grief and harm and putting these children in more suicidal

00:35:10.900 risk, not to mention being completely unnatural and a violation of parental rights.

00:35:15.560 And so we're standing up for these rights.

00:35:17.800 We are the right place to enforce these federal statutes.

00:35:21.360 And we're so pleased to work with Linda McMahon and the others at the Department of Education

00:35:25.340 to help improve the enforcement of these federal civil rights laws and fast-track it.

00:35:29.760 So what do parents need to do?

00:35:32.360 Well, parents need to be very hands-on as to what their children are being taught at school.

00:35:36.220 They need to review the curriculum.

00:35:37.800 They need to show up at parent-teacher association meetings.

00:35:40.680 They need to be very active about it.

00:35:42.540 And they need to watch for any signs that their children are acting weird or hiding things from them.

00:35:47.680 And they need to go to these schools and insist on knowing what is being taught

00:35:51.100 and, frankly, being willing to make some noise.

00:35:53.460 Now, the good news is, since since I've been in the field, there are a lot more conservative lawyers out there who are willing to stand up for parents and parental rights.

00:36:01.300 And so there are resources out there. They have to be prepared to make noise and file lawsuits if necessary.

00:36:07.160 And this is what is making change in this country. That's how those lawsuits came about.

00:36:12.160 Occasionally, teachers will stand up and say, I refuse to hide things from parents.

00:36:15.600 And the Supreme Court has said very clearly it's illegal for schools to hide from parents what's going on with respect to any of these sexual type issues.

00:36:22.840 are frankly any issue parents are the ultimate authority of what their children are taught in

00:36:26.960 the schools if the if teachers are hiding or administrators are hiding stuff will they go to

00:36:31.600 jail well jail is is probably not the place that happens for as an outcome unless there's sexual

00:36:40.020 assault or something like that involved but certainly what is the liability what would be

00:36:45.160 the punishment that would firing civil liability for school districts uh you have to understand

00:36:51.680 that what's happening in some of these cases is entire states. Like I'm investigating Illinois,

00:36:56.700 Michigan, California. Entire states have state laws that put teachers kind of in an awkward

00:37:02.120 position. State law requires them to do X, Y, and Z. We say that's illegal. So we're taking the

00:37:07.040 burden off of those teachers by doing Title IX investigations that look at risks of girls having

00:37:13.960 boys in their locker rooms and so forth and in the sports, as well as this FERPA that I just

00:37:19.340 mentioned, and ultimately there's going to be litigation in some of these jurisdictions,

00:37:22.920 and ultimately a court will force these schools to stop doing what they're doing. But make no

00:37:28.200 mistake, what's happening is these liberal states, you know, the states I mentioned,

00:37:33.020 you can add to that mix, Minnesota, Washington State, Oregon, some of these other jurisdictions

00:37:37.740 are bent on forcing this sexual material on children. Children in Illinois as young as

00:37:46.840 five to seven are being taught about gender identity, 11 and 12 year olds are being taught 0.98

00:37:51.860 about anal sex. You know, none of this is appropriate without parent sign off. And I 0.97

00:37:57.840 argue it's not appropriate at all for those ages. But you know, that's up to parents,

00:38:01.000 but it's being hidden from parents. And so we're putting a stop to it.

00:38:04.200 Let me ask you, let's switch gears here. There was a story came out from Chris Rufo yesterday.

00:38:09.060 I'm quoting, California has hired teams of bureaucrats to run the state's gay certification

00:38:14.800 program. I don't even know what that is. Making lists and pressuring utilities to spend 1.5%

00:38:21.280 of their supplier budgets on gay certified companies. Is this legal? I mean, that sounds, 0.99

00:38:26.920 I don't care if it's gay or straight or white or black or whatever. That doesn't seem legal

00:38:31.940 in America. Okay. So I agree that it's illegal. The question is who can sue and what's the

00:38:41.220 statutory basis. So this is something I'm looking at, but I want to put it in context. It's actually

00:38:45.620 a much bigger problem than what you just described. Everyone's kind of lampooning. You have to get

00:38:50.020 three friends to sign up and agree that you're gay, and then you get certified as gay. But 0.64

00:38:54.160 actually, this is part of a broader DEI initiative where they have minority set-asides based on race,

00:39:00.720 based on gender, based on other factors. And this was the vogue in California. If you wanted to be

00:39:06.580 a law firm, for example, getting work with a public utilities commission or PG&E or one of

00:39:13.020 these other Southern Cal Edison, you had a big leg up if you could prove that you have partners in

00:39:19.240 your firm who are black and they're going to be doing the work. They were giving away bond 0.94

00:39:24.300 underwriting to the tune of billions of dollars based on minority identity of bankers and law

00:39:30.720 firms. Same for gender. And I mean, how does that help the taxpayer get the best services? How does

00:39:40.740 that help the rate payer, everybody who consumes utilities in the state of California, get the best

00:39:46.200 rates? It doesn't. Obviously, when you have set asides and special contracts like that, you have

00:39:50.560 inflation because people know that their status is a commodity that they can actually sell because

00:39:57.400 it's being forced on the state and on the ratepayers. So I think this is illegal. So we're

00:40:01.980 definitely looking into what can be done about it by the Department of Justice. But the other

00:40:06.040 people who could do something about it, in some instances, can be private parties who weren't

00:40:11.300 picked for a contract because they don't have the correct boxes checked. I don't know who somebody

00:40:17.200 sleeps with is relevant to their provision of utility-related support services. That's rhetorical.

00:40:23.440 I think we know it isn't. It's nonsense, and it needs to stop, and it's illegal.

00:40:27.820 Okay, one last. Being reported, DOJ trying to halt the first U.S. reparations program for black people. 0.56

00:40:35.120 Federal government said they asked a judge to halt the United States' first reparations program

00:40:40.240 offered black people in a small Illinois city $25,000 for 20th century race-based housing discrimination,

00:40:46.480 joining an existing lawsuit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:40:48.700 It is the first and only of its kind in the U.S., allotting $20 million to black residents.

00:40:52.840 Their direct descendants who lived in the city between 1919 and 1969 suffered housing discrimination because of city ordinances, policies, or practices.

00:41:01.500 The city has already distributed over $7 million, blah, blah, blah.

00:41:05.420 Why is this illegal? 0.97

00:41:08.200 Or why do you hate black people so much? 0.97

00:41:11.100 It's illegal. 0.79

00:41:12.160 I love all Americans.

00:41:14.020 All Americans are entitled to civil rights.

00:41:16.480 and that is kind of our default position in this government. People find it radical, frankly,

00:41:23.180 what I'm saying, that all Americans are entitled to equal protection of the laws and equal civil

00:41:27.260 rights. So it's not that small a city. Evanston, Illinois is 75,000 population. And this law is

00:41:34.260 talking about making people whole for stuff that happened five generations ago. I wish. My mom was

00:41:39.600 a refugee. I mean, should I be getting reparations from the British for that? Arguably, perhaps. But

00:41:46.280 it was a long time ago. And I think it is illegal in today's day and age to take tax dollars from

00:41:53.220 all taxpayers and hand them to a protected class who did not suffer discrimination themselves,

00:41:58.220 to be very clear. This law is like if your parents lived in this city during a time period

00:42:05.180 100 to 50 years ago or 120 to 50 years ago, we're going to assume that you suffer discrimination

00:42:12.220 and we're going to pay you on the basis of that. That's ridiculous, and it's un-American. It's 0.96

00:42:17.000 pitting people against each other. You can imagine what kind of record-keeping shenanigans there are

00:42:21.980 going to be for people to make these claims. But what law is it breaking?

00:42:26.780 It's breaking the Civil Rights Act. It's breaking equal protection. It's fundamentally at odds with 0.98

00:42:32.700 our Constitution to treat people differently on the basis of race. That's what's happening here.

00:42:37.360 They're giving away money if you are, one, Black, and two, are a subset of Black and can prove that your ancestors lived in the city during a time period. 0.59

00:42:46.560 There's no rational reason for that. 0.59

00:42:49.440 And any kind of race-based classification system is subject to strict scrutiny under our constitutional analysis.

00:42:57.220 This cannot survive strict scrutiny because it does not remedy some current issue where there's discrimination based on race currently.

00:43:05.240 And all the Supreme Court precedents in recent years have moved away from this affirmative action slash DEI lens of looking at things based on past discrimination and the focus is on current discrimination.

00:43:19.120 So, yes, if someone denies you housing today because you're black, you absolutely should sue.

00:43:24.620 You should contact me because I'll be happy to take up that lawsuit for you.

00:43:28.040 But if it happened 100 years ago, you know, the clock has run on that.

00:43:34.080 I'm sorry. It is time for people today to live on their own merits.

00:43:38.300 So, Harmeen, I got to say, I love you. I think you're doing a fantastic job. Thank you for the

00:43:43.900 announcement. Thank you to Linda McMahon for what she's doing as well on this. Don't get

00:43:52.360 discouraged. Keep fighting. I know you're not, but don't get discouraged. Keep fighting because

00:43:55.800 you can see in what they're doing, they have not changed course. And if anything, they have

00:44:01.220 doubled down. This has made them only more insistent that they are going a different direction.

00:44:09.160 And I think if we lose the next elections, we're in real trouble because they're going back with

00:44:14.760 a vengeance. With a vengeance. I agree. Thank you. Appreciate it. You bet. The Bill of Rights

00:44:22.820 has never been catchier.

00:44:24.880 Sing along at Torch250.com.

00:44:30.600 Ricky, I cover everything I needed to cover with Harmeet.

00:44:35.220 Oh, yeah.

00:44:36.120 There's the story that's trending right now

00:44:38.640 that I am not quite sure the Civil Rights Division

00:44:41.280 is ready to pick up, but I wish they would,

00:44:43.860 with the San Francisco Giants players who are Christians

00:44:46.820 and their polite protest and having to wear a pride hat

00:44:52.720 while they play baseball and they're just putting little Bible verses on the hat,

00:44:56.300 they're getting threats from the MLB that they have to stop.

00:44:59.980 This is in violation of their terms.

00:45:01.340 So I actually wanted to ask you, since we didn't have time to ask her,

00:45:05.680 is there a violation of their constitutional rights in the First Amendment

00:45:10.000 to put the Bible verse on the hat if the MLB is a private organization?

00:45:14.640 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:45:15.600 They are at work wearing a uniform,

00:45:19.160 and you're not making changes to those uniforms at all.

00:45:22.720 I mean, those uniforms, a lot goes into them.

00:45:26.000 They sell positions on the uniforms, et cetera, et cetera,

00:45:28.920 and I guarantee you it's not property of the player.

00:45:31.660 It's property of Major League Baseball or at least the team.

00:45:35.280 So I don't think they have a right to do that.

00:45:38.500 You know, you have a right to express yourself, but I hate to say it,

00:45:42.940 and Harmeet, I had it down on my list of things to talk to her about.

00:45:46.060 I overlooked it for some reason,

00:45:47.900 but I'm pretty sure they don't have a right to do that,

00:45:50.520 And I hate saying that, but to be fair, I don't think the constitution.

00:45:55.080 What's the solution? Quiet, like don't play the game.

00:46:00.260 Yeah. Don't pay the, play the game. I mean,

00:46:01.940 you're going to pay for it one way or another,

00:46:03.420 but it depends on how much you, you believe in it. So don't play the game.

00:46:08.400 You know, call in sick, whatever it is. But you run great risk there.

00:46:13.440 But do you believe in it or not? Do you think it's wrong?

00:46:16.940 You don't have a right.

00:46:18.720 I mean, I wouldn't want people to be able to have the right if it's my company.

00:46:24.140 I wouldn't want people to take my uniform and put some political slogan or God slogan on there if it's not part of my uniform.

00:46:32.580 That's something we can decide as a company.

00:46:34.520 And so everybody's just going to have to decide what price are they willing to pay for their belief.

00:46:42.220 And if you want to do anything in your private world, you've got every right to do it.

00:46:48.080 But if you're wearing an officially sanctioned uniform at work, you don't have that right.

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