The Glenn Beck Program - June 04, 2026


Best of the Program | Guests: Sharyl Attkisson & Vickie Paladino | 6⧸4⧸26


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The third temptation is coming out of the former Soviet Union that is infecting our churches and our podcasters on the right, and you need to recognize it. But the good news is, you've already seen this movie before. And you ve already recognized it and seen it for what it is. It's changed faces and approach, but it is the same sin underneath.

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00:00:00.000 All right. This is a great podcast for you today. We have Vicki Palladino on from New York. She's
00:00:06.040 a city councilwoman in New York City. It's nuts in New York City. She's a straight talker. Also, 1.00
00:00:14.020 Cheryl Atkinson on what's happening behind the scenes at CBS and 60 Minutes, some real insight
00:00:19.820 there. And the third temptation. There is something that is coming out of the former
00:00:27.260 Soviet Union that is infecting our churches and our podcasters on the right, and you need to 0.99
00:00:33.580 recognize it. But the good news is you've already seen this movie before, and you've already 1.00
00:00:38.260 recognized it and seen it for what it is. It's changed faces and approach, but it is the same
00:00:44.780 sin underneath. It's the third temptation. We begin there on today's podcast.
00:00:57.260 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
00:01:08.800 okay yesterday i started telling you about this trip there's a story at glenbeck.com
00:01:17.060 it is a must read i don't tell you that very often that these are things that you must read
00:01:23.240 this is one. You must be aware of this. This is the line that will decide, I believe,
00:01:31.280 one of the crucial lines will decide whether you're on the right side or the wrong side.
00:01:35.460 Even the very elect are going to be misled, okay? And it's going to get harder and harder to see
00:01:41.820 the truth. So let me recap. Yesterday, I told you one of the most followed conservative voices in
00:01:47.980 America, Candace Owens, announced a quiet family vacation in Russia. She was going to go see the
00:01:52.620 cathedrals she was saying it's a little faith tourism with her husband nothing wrong with that
00:01:56.720 and a handful of researchers did something that i said yesterday was almost embarrassingly simple
00:02:01.940 they just read the program um a program uh she was listed in uh as a speaker at the kremlin's
00:02:12.260 flagship forum um you know one of vladimir putin's headlines a few names uh down from vladimir putin
00:02:21.420 is the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugan.
00:02:25.660 Now, on that same roster is Candace Owens,
00:02:28.900 and she said she was going to meet Alexander Dugan
00:02:31.100 and maybe talk to him, yada, yada.
00:02:33.040 This is really bad, really bad.
00:02:35.520 The thread the researchers pulled didn't lead to her, however.
00:02:38.500 It led back to him, the man they call Putin's brain,
00:02:41.440 who wrote back in 1997,
00:02:43.600 the way to break America was to feed divisions
00:02:46.640 and flatter its urge to retreat from the world.
00:02:51.420 Then he also casts Russia as the holy restrainer 0.53
00:02:55.060 in a final war against the satanic West. 0.97
00:02:59.740 And that satanic West and the Jewish antichrist 0.97
00:03:04.040 that will come from apparently America or siding with us 0.98
00:03:07.060 is going to be fought by Russia, 0.98
00:03:10.520 the right Christians that have teamed up with Islam. 0.96
00:03:15.500 And I told you how this idea written in Moscow
00:03:19.440 can end up in your earbuds in Ohio
00:03:21.500 listening to a podcast
00:03:22.500 and it's called narrative laundering.
00:03:24.500 You strip the fingerprints off the message
00:03:26.620 and you slip it in the mouth
00:03:28.600 of somebody you already trust
00:03:29.960 so it doesn't sound like it's foreign.
00:03:31.680 It sounds like home and voila, okay?
00:03:34.660 The payload was a single engineered question.
00:03:37.840 Does your faith come first or your country?
00:03:41.140 Which I told you yesterday is a false choice
00:03:44.340 built to set the two great loves
00:03:48.360 of a Christian patriot at war with each other.
00:03:51.860 And the most uncomfortable part was where it gets in.
00:03:57.140 Not through an enemy in a foreign uniform,
00:04:00.200 but through allies waving our own flag
00:04:02.280 and quoting our own scriptures.
00:04:03.920 It was built to fool people exactly like you and me.
00:04:08.660 Luckily, I have been watching this guy,
00:04:11.520 Alexander Dugan, for years.
00:04:13.600 I've been warning you for years.
00:04:15.340 he is about to set he is i shouldn't say about he is on center stage now in much of the right
00:04:23.040 and in christendom so i want to show you today i want to take it from a different angle i want to
00:04:29.600 show you the same thing but from a different angle because people in this audience already
00:04:35.040 diagnosed this disease once before you just didn't know you were being trained to recognize it so
00:04:41.240 let me help you recognize what you're facing by showing you what you've already recognized
00:04:46.080 do you remember when uh we started talking about barack obama in 2007 and 8 and we found jeremiah
00:04:52.600 right and we heard crazy things coming from the pulpit with jeremiah right we did our homework
00:04:58.600 what is that that's liberation theology okay it swept through the church in the last century but
00:05:04.980 you, hopefully, were not fooled. You saw it for what it was, Marxism in a cassock. The cross
00:05:13.260 traded for the hammer and sickle. Salvation redefined as revolution. Remember, it takes the
00:05:20.080 gospel from a personal salvation goal to a collective salvation goal. God doesn't save us
00:05:29.700 collectively he saves us individually and when you get this when you get liberation theology the
00:05:36.900 kingdom of god collapses into a five-year plan and the gospel is reduced to a means and a political
00:05:42.760 ends okay you knew that a faith bent into a weapon for the class struggle uh struggle had
00:05:51.440 to it had already stopped being faith and it had to be stopped because it's not faith
00:05:57.280 Even the Vatican said so.
00:05:59.920 Cardinal Ratzeninger himself warned that you can't borrow, you know,
00:06:05.460 categories of marks and still be preaching Christ.
00:06:09.040 You can't. 0.96
00:06:10.220 So you are right.
00:06:11.700 You got liberation theology.
00:06:13.860 Hold on to that clarity for one more minute because you're going to need it.
00:06:17.180 Because the same offer has just come back around.
00:06:20.480 Now, new and improved.
00:06:22.280 And this time it's not coming from the left.
00:06:24.540 it's coming from the right and it's coming for you and it's not arriving with a red star
00:06:31.160 it arrives under a golden dome it doesn't say seize the means of production it says
00:06:38.120 restore the christian civilization it doesn't quote marks it quotes our church fathers
00:06:44.420 and it is aimed with great precision at the one group who would never fall for the left-wing
00:06:52.440 version at the faithful, the traditional, the patriotic Christian who has spent his whole life
00:06:59.120 resisting exactly this kind of maneuver from the other direction. So here's what you have to see
00:07:06.640 because you of all people are equipped to see it. It's exactly the same heresy. Liberation theology
00:07:14.800 politicized the faith and dragged it left. This new thing politicizes the faith and drags it to
00:07:20.460 the right, but the sin underneath is identical. Taking the kingdom that is not of this world
00:07:28.920 and nailing it to a kingdom that is of this world. Remember, this new philosophy is you got to get in
00:07:37.440 with the Russians. You got to get in with a Christian prince because only this kingdom of 0.96
00:07:44.440 the world will save the next kingdom. You know that's garbage. And the moment you turn the 1.00
00:07:51.140 internal into a tool of the temporal, you've handed someone else the handle. And in this case,
00:07:58.940 the someone holding that handle sits in Moscow. The liberation theologians thought they were
00:08:05.880 using Marxism. Marxism was using them. And I'm telling you that the man selling the czar to the
00:08:11.380 rescue of christendom are running exactly the same play and the faithful are meant to be the
00:08:16.880 instrument not the author let me tell you something that cynics will never say to you
00:08:25.040 i respect you too much to flatter or to lie to you and here's what everyone who will stand against
00:08:34.020 this will not say, and it must be said. This new theology that is coming out, extraordinarily
00:08:43.780 dangerous, is going to capture a lot of people, including people like you and me, because it's
00:08:52.180 grievance. It starts on grievance. They're not wrong about the culture. There is something in
00:08:59.240 our culture, our entertainment, our schools, our screens, our institutions, that has set itself
00:09:05.320 against Christ, not always in name, sometimes in name, but always in spirit, in its teachings,
00:09:11.740 in its trappings. And the ache that you feel that you are looking at anti-Christ stuff coming from
00:09:20.900 our culture, that's not paranoia. And it's not nostalgia. It's like, oh, I remember Leave it
00:09:26.520 a beaver they would have never done no no this is this is discernment screaming at you and the
00:09:31.800 disease is real which is exactly why the counterfeit is so dangerous remember the author of
00:09:40.640 all lies he doesn't make things out of whole cloth a lie that works is never built on a false
00:09:47.320 diagnosis. It's built on a true diagnosis, welded to a cure that is poison.
00:09:58.440 You will see, and I've got a monologue on this maybe next week. I just, I'm running out of time
00:10:03.840 this week, but I was thinking about this yesterday and I started doing some research on all of the
00:10:09.560 people that have diagnosed the sickness but it was the medicine that was poison okay 0.51
00:10:16.200 liberation theology was right the poor were crushed this movement is right the culture is evil
00:10:25.180 but a correct diagnosis is the bait as it always is so let me name the cure for what it what it is
00:10:34.060 in the oldest terms we have.
00:10:37.120 Okay, so somebody has diagnosed the problem, right?
00:10:39.980 Now they're giving you a solution.
00:10:42.720 Let me name the cure for what it is.
00:10:45.300 There is a moment in the wilderness
00:10:47.120 when Satan takes Christ up to a high place
00:10:51.240 and shows him all the kingdoms in the world
00:10:53.460 and all their glory, and he makes him an offer.
00:10:56.300 All of this I'll give to you, the power, the victory,
00:10:59.080 the restored dominion, just bow down to me.
00:11:04.060 that is the offer on the table right now
00:11:10.160 to all of Christian civilization. 1.00
00:11:12.660 It will all be handed back to you. 1.00
00:11:15.960 Your enemies routed, your culture war won,
00:11:18.780 not in a generation of patient labor, 0.51
00:11:21.540 but in a stroke, all of it.
00:11:23.800 You just bow to me.
00:11:26.120 You just bow to the strongman. 0.95
00:11:28.440 You just bow to Mother Russia. 1.00
00:11:30.960 You bow to the Christian empire. 1.00
00:11:33.260 Trade your birthright of ordered liberty for a guarantee of victory. 0.98
00:11:39.840 Christ was shown that exact deal, and he refused it.
00:11:45.760 Not because the kingdoms weren't real, but because the price was everything that mattered.
00:11:51.920 You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.
00:11:58.140 not the czar not the empire not the man who promises to do the fighting for you i don't
00:12:04.380 care if it's putin or trump we do not need a christian prince we need christians that
00:12:10.960 understand what it means to be a christian and the power of christ alone and the power of living
00:12:17.560 your life the right way and living your life more like him and serving him understand what
00:12:24.500 the rescue actually does. It's not saving anything. The rescue from Christ does. A church
00:12:34.920 taken into the arms of the state is not a rescued church. It's a captured one. Look east and you'll
00:12:42.860 see the autopsy. A faith made into a department of government. It's shepherds reading the regime's 0.97
00:12:50.080 grip, the gospel reduced to a flag. That is not Christianity protected. That is Christianity
00:12:55.680 stuffed and mounted on your wall. A faith that you are forced to profess is not a faith at all. 0.91
00:13:02.140 And a kingdom handed to you by Caesar was never the kingdom of God. Render unto Caesar what is
00:13:08.560 Caesar's. Render unto God what is God. The whole con depends on you forgetting where that line 0.83
00:13:17.080 is drawn. It depends on you being so overwhelmed by the evil in this culture, the culture that
00:13:24.140 has turned against Christ, and it has, and us being afraid, us not recognizing the power of
00:13:31.260 our own Christianity, the power of our own Christ and Savior, that we'll look to a man to fight it,
00:13:38.180 A man who does not believe in individual rights.
00:13:45.540 Everything, everything in the gospel is about the individual.
00:13:50.000 Everything, nothing is about the collective.
00:13:52.920 This is all about the collective and not the individual.
00:13:58.100 So how do we fight?
00:14:00.560 Well, we fight the American way.
00:14:03.620 Because the people who founded this country already handed us the best weapon.
00:14:07.680 they forged it for exactly this hour our founders were not naive about virtue they knew a free
00:14:15.500 republic can't run on machinery and we let the machinery run john adams said it our constitution
00:14:22.320 was made only for a moral and religious people holy and adequate government uh for uh for any
00:14:27.900 other washington in his farewell said religion and morality the indispensable supports for
00:14:33.160 political prosperity. They both agreed with your diagnosis two centuries ago. A free people must
00:14:42.800 be a good people or they won't be free. But then they did the thing the czars and the commissars
00:14:49.200 would never understand. They secured the faith by refusing to let the government own it.
00:14:56.440 no established church free exercise for every conscience religion in america grew strong
00:15:04.720 precisely because it stayed free de tocqueville came looking for a secret and found it he said
00:15:12.060 it was in our churches europe was withering under the protection of the state while free churches
00:15:17.460 in america were on fire state religion is a hothouse that kills the plant liberty is the
00:15:24.820 open field where it grows wild and deep. It'll never come from the government. Heck, it barely
00:15:30.700 comes from our churches. It comes from the individuals reading their scriptures and
00:15:35.640 personally connecting to Christ. The Russian model is the old European error with a volume 0.91
00:15:43.660 turned all the way up to scream, marry the altar to the throne. Watch the throne devour the altar. 0.98
00:15:51.400 America, we tried something braver
00:15:54.580 We bet that faith held by free men
00:15:56.740 By persuasion and conviction
00:15:58.500 Not by decree
00:15:59.460 Would outlast any empire
00:16:01.140 And we've done it for 250 years
00:16:04.260 That bet is paid
00:16:05.380 Now we just need to replenish
00:16:08.660 We just need to renew it
00:16:10.680 We just need to go back
00:16:13.440 To God
00:16:15.740 We need to humble ourselves as individuals
00:16:21.380 that's the road not a kingdom handed down from above but a renewal built from below free churches
00:16:30.100 strong families schools that actually shape persuasion instead of coercion the slow unglamorous
00:16:37.400 deeply american work of governing ourselves starting with the hardest government at all
00:16:43.180 the government of our own appetites you want to push back on the culture gone anti-christ you
00:16:49.480 don't need a czar. You need a revival. And no government on earth will ever command a revival.
00:16:57.720 No commissar investments can ever fake one. This road is harder than the other road,
00:17:05.280 but it is the right road. Your soul has a very dear price tag on it. Do not sell it.
00:17:16.200 But do not sell it for cheap tricks and trinkets.
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00:19:25.400 Okay, Cheryl Atkinson, one of the best, if not the best investigative reporter I know. 0.56
00:19:32.040 She is the host of Full Measure. 0.95
00:19:33.880 She used to be on 60 Minutes.
00:19:35.740 She worked at CBS.
00:19:37.420 She has had an amazing story of the government spying on her, her own network coming after her, and surviving all of that.
00:19:51.920 And not just surviving, thriving with that.
00:19:54.140 Cheryl, welcome to the program.
00:19:56.340 Welcome.
00:19:57.300 May I amend one thing you said?
00:19:59.300 I, believe it or not, never worked on 60 Minutes in all those years and all that investigative reporting.
00:20:08.080 I thought you did.
00:20:09.500 I'm sorry.
00:20:10.180 I stand corrected.
00:20:11.340 I thought you did.
00:20:12.060 It's a very segmented organization, and there was somebody at some level that did not want me contributing to 60 Minutes.
00:20:22.300 When there were 60 Minutes, too, before the Dan Rather scandal, Deep Six, that show, I was working on two pieces for that program, and then it got canceled.
00:20:32.460 And then, yeah, never worked on 60 Minutes.
00:20:36.640 Well, I want to talk to you about 60 Minutes and Barry Weiss and what is happening because Barry is trying to change the culture in CBS.
00:20:45.340 I think she's doing a great job.
00:20:46.640 for the first time ever, or at least in a very long time, I actually will look at stories from
00:20:53.600 CBS News and I'll give it a, I'll at least give it a read where before it was just like, I don't,
00:20:59.100 I don't believe anything they say. And I don't agree with everything, but I don't expect to
00:21:03.360 agree with everything that a journalist is going to write. I just would like fair, you know,
00:21:08.360 reporting. So she, um, the, the story is she just appointed a new producer for 60 minutes
00:21:15.200 and Scott Pelley, who, you know, one of the lead guys there, um, he said, you know, this guy's
00:21:22.980 going to kill 60 minutes, blah, blah, blah. There's a big showdown, you know, I guess in the
00:21:27.900 newsroom and he's fired. And now Pelley is upset and making a big deal. The left is upset about
00:21:35.280 all of this i mean uh ben rhodes came out and he was like i can't believe this is just this is
00:21:41.080 incredible ben talk to your brother your brother took pelly off of uh the anchor job because
00:21:47.560 apparently i mean i don't know this but at least david rhodes had real issues with pelly as well
00:21:54.040 do you have any insight on any of this i do i mean scott pelly was not a popular anchor in terms of
00:22:02.380 his skill as an anchor, as well as his personality. And I can't explain why he persisted in the chair
00:22:09.440 for some years anyway, because gosh, quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level
00:22:16.640 above David Rose that they were trying to fix what they call the Scott Pelley problem. And I
00:22:23.460 don't know what keeps somebody in place when they think there's an issue. But one of the issues they
00:22:28.200 had with him was as it was told to me he takes his managing editor role too seriously he was
00:22:34.800 interfering with the correspondent stories in a way that was not productive and the veterans were
00:22:41.040 complaining and long time cbs names that you would recognize were complaining to the high executives
00:22:47.400 about this my experience was when when they named him i was told by higher ups this new show without
00:22:53.800 Katie Couric with Scott Pelley is going to be all about what you do, your investigative reporting,
00:22:58.660 even more so. I was already having a great career there, but they said now with Scott Pelley there,
00:23:04.000 boy, this show is going to be all about what you do. And the very first week, the very first
00:23:09.880 investigative piece, one of the best ones I think I ever did that I offered them, he censored,
00:23:14.820 never aired. And that was the pattern and the story for me, at least, of Scott Pelley at the
00:23:20.440 anchor desk. Was that the Boeing story, the Dreamliner story? No, Boeing was one of it.
00:23:26.580 That came later. The first one was a story, an expose I did on the travel group called People
00:23:33.340 to People that, as it turns out, was luring high school students into, it was nothing more than a
00:23:39.480 travel agency under the auspices of a nonprofit using the Dwight Eisenhower name and his daughter
00:23:46.160 or granddaughter's, you know, reputation to convince children in high school that they
00:23:52.740 had been chosen to be ambassadors on these amazing global trips when, in fact, they were
00:23:58.660 just using lists.
00:24:01.380 These kids weren't honored or nominated by their teachers, as they claimed, and they
00:24:05.380 were getting kids to go on these trips, and the kids were getting injured.
00:24:09.600 Some of them were getting killed.
00:24:12.120 It was all a big bait.
00:24:13.500 Why was that?
00:24:14.140 Why did he?
00:24:14.620 Did he say why he canceled that or kick that to the curb?
00:24:20.160 One of my producers, listen, I even found a member of Congress had sent letters out under,
00:24:29.100 or there were names out under her name, advocating for this group, telling students you should go.
00:24:35.200 And I learned and exposed that they had forged her name.
00:24:38.220 And I even got her on camera saying so, which she didn't originally want to do.
00:24:41.920 It was a great story.
00:24:42.860 it was never explained to me we call it my producer and i at the time the death by a thousand cuts he
00:24:48.640 would he would want to change this or want to change that well let's not mention the death
00:24:53.240 so let's not do this rewrite it again and you started to understand they would never say there
00:24:58.940 was anything wrong with the story quite the opposite they would say this is a brilliant
00:25:02.160 story this is a great story we're going to save it for next week just do this do that and it would
00:25:07.120 never air and that was the story of people i don't know if it was people connected at a higher level
00:25:12.520 that didn't want these stories to air,
00:25:14.440 you know, that were outside the lobbying CBS.
00:25:18.080 He says that what Barry is doing
00:25:21.400 is censoring the stories,
00:25:24.900 and I think he said that management had instructed me
00:25:31.280 to inject lies into my reporting, yada, yada, yada.
00:25:35.640 Do you believe any of that?
00:25:38.080 No, I don't.
00:25:38.960 I believe that most likely, based on my experience, they were trying to make the stories more balanced and fair.
00:25:47.480 And the culture among some at CBS, and I think it's gotten worse since I left, was not to do so.
00:25:54.280 And I think they don't understand or came to not understand the very basic tenets of journalism, which I worked really hard.
00:26:01.640 Not that I always understood this, but I really tried to grow and understand and listen to criticism over the years.
00:26:06.880 showing the other side of a story even if you strongly believe in one side you're telling does
00:26:12.440 not weaken the story it strengthens the story even if you're a liberal and you're telling a
00:26:17.840 liberal perspective the liberals in the audience actually appreciate knowing what the other side
00:26:22.000 of the argument is and i think barry weiss is simply trying to tug cbs news back a little bit
00:26:28.480 closer to the center but the inmates have been running that asylum for a long time and they're
00:26:33.800 not going to go down quietly you know down this new path is it too late to save the 60 minutes i
00:26:42.740 mean i i read that they were looking to put things now you know online i mean it seems like they have
00:26:48.100 a real plan to bring it into the you know 21st century um and revive it and i don't think losing
00:26:56.820 some of these you know names forever that were associated with television um is not i don't
00:27:03.520 necessarily think that's bad if they can get the formula right which i always thought 60 minutes
00:27:10.300 was always very fair i mean you know you were on 60 minutes you were in trouble because they
00:27:15.960 had the goods on you and it was balanced um you know they would they would say look the other
00:27:21.860 side says this and they would really do their homework i think there's a craving for that kind
00:27:26.780 of work, but can 60 Minutes do it? I think so. I think it's got a huge name. I think the name
00:27:35.260 60 Minutes is bigger than any personality that's been there in recent years. It hasn't been the
00:27:39.640 60 Minutes that we knew, Glenn, since they lost all the originals. So it's always been something
00:27:45.680 that's in transition in the past 10, 20, 25 years. And yes, I think the name survives the
00:27:51.940 personalities, and they still do some, as I heard someone note, many of their stories that are
00:27:57.980 unrelated to these political slants that you're talking about are great stories. They still do
00:28:02.680 good stories and can continue to do great journalism with other people, other producers
00:28:07.800 and other reporters. There's not a short supply of people who want to do great journalism. They're
00:28:13.660 just not allowed to do that the way they used to be at the networks.
00:28:17.340 if you got a call today from barry or the new producer and they said we want you to come back
00:28:25.720 to 60 minutes or why don't you come back to cbs and to do 60 minutes would you even consider it
00:28:31.980 i couldn't now because i'm in contract i'm doing at least one more year of my tv program number one
00:28:39.380 number two i did get a call about a year ago asking about my availability for a leadership role
00:28:46.960 at CBS, CNN, Washington Post, Berkeley School of Graduate Journalism, and ABC.
00:28:56.560 You know, they're all, this is what's talking to me, but good.
00:29:00.840 They want to, I'm talking about the corporate executive level, not the newsroom.
00:29:05.460 As I said, they want to tug their organizations back closer to the middle.
00:29:09.160 They know they have a problem.
00:29:11.140 But as I told the person that I was speaking to about these opportunities,
00:29:15.700 this is going to take somebody I hope Barry Weiss can do it that can stand up and then get the
00:29:22.200 support as the as internally she is murdered you know symbolically by those who don't want to
00:29:29.740 change she's got to stand firm and continue to get the support of the higher-ups despite the
00:29:34.680 publicity that will be generated against her and everything else that's a tough job that I didn't
00:29:40.520 think i could do time wise and everything else i hope she can and i would love to do stories for
00:29:47.540 60 minutes you know in some capacity if i weren't committed to something else because i do i do
00:29:54.060 believe in them and the mission and the program is is awesome and i think it it will survive and
00:29:59.960 i think they're thinking about the way to make it survive and be better which is great i have to
00:30:06.600 tell you um i i was shocked to see barry weiss go to cbs and all the moves that i've seen her make
00:30:15.440 i just think she's doing incredible work i don't agree with everything obviously um but um i think
00:30:22.040 she's doing incredible work yeoman's work i mean i don't know how she i don't know how she does it
00:30:28.460 every day you know there's i know you you know this feeling there's a way you walk into a room
00:30:33.300 every single day where you know all your co-workers hate your guts i worked at cnn i know that feeling
00:30:40.040 it's hard that is really hard that's right she's got to be tough tough tough and i don't know the
00:30:48.300 man that they appointed to lead 60 minutes but just on paper he sounds like a great choice 0.96
00:30:54.020 he's just not vested in the old system and the old people in a way that makes him more objective
00:30:59.420 about the decisions he's going to make for the good of the show and nothing else.
00:31:03.180 You know, there's no other baggage, you know, dragging him down,
00:31:07.040 making him make decisions that might not be the best for what he thinks is the program.
00:31:12.360 Cheryl, thank you so much.
00:31:13.800 Always good to talk to you.
00:31:14.920 All my best.
00:31:15.740 Thanks, Glenn.
00:31:16.600 Thanks.
00:31:17.320 You bet. 0.96
00:31:18.100 Cheryl Atkinson, investigative reporter, host of Full Measure.
00:31:21.060 You can find her on our website at CherylAtkinson.com
00:31:24.920 or on X at Cheryl, spelled with a Y and an S, S-H-A-R-Y-L, I guess I should spell it, Cheryl Atkinson.
00:31:35.200 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:31:46.780 We're just a few months out from the midterms now, and I know the results from that might be
00:31:53.140 not maybe not what we want could be i mean it is really to me this is a coin toss at this point
00:31:58.240 it seemed really bad and now it might seem like maybe the country wakes up through some of this
00:32:03.540 stuff i don't know it's important to realize that change can happen and it can happen for the better
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00:32:44.680 free month of service make the switch today vicky palladino welcome to the program how are you vicky
00:32:50.460 ah good morning glenn how are you i'm good thank you great i just absolutely
00:32:55.600 uh uh so uh so vicky i i read this story earlier this week and i said this guy can't be in
00:33:05.700 congress how is he going to get how are we going to give him any kind of security clearance
00:33:10.600 because of his past fill us in on what you know of him and what your thoughts are all right i'm
00:33:17.500 going to read a little if you don't mind i want to run down only because i want to be extremely
00:33:21.840 accurate uh this guy is known to al-qaeda as an al-qaeda associate has a long relationship as the
00:33:30.020 mastermind of the 1993 world trade center bombings both before and after the bombing he worked with
00:33:39.240 the blind sheik, okay, including defending him in court. He traveled to Bosnia in the 1990s 0.99
00:33:47.900 and worked with an al-Qaeda front group after the October 7th attacks. He traveled then to Gaza
00:34:00.340 where he worked in a hospital which was above a tunnel where the leader of Hamas was found.
00:34:07.340 now in a sane world this would be totally disqualifying then he joined the united states
00:34:15.700 army and he worked as a surgeon how is this possible all right so now blend we've got a
00:34:24.420 democratic party who has totally given up on on this for so many different reasons uh first of
00:34:32.180 all, they're weak. Second of all, did they adapt the attitude that why fight it? We may as well
00:34:38.620 join it. But this guy is in the 12th district in New Jersey. That's the Princeton district.
00:34:46.100 That is where my Ivy Tower, I call them Ivy Tower liberals. That's where they live. This is a very,
00:34:52.860 very wealthy part of New Jersey. And he won it. And because it's so blue, chances are he's going
00:35:01.180 to maintain a seat in the united states congress but there's other things i want to talk about
00:35:07.100 let me give you some time it's your show good no no i i just want to know so what do you do about
00:35:13.340 that well i think we could start first with the republicans making this an extreme uh serious case
00:35:20.780 while they run for these midterm elections republicans need to understand that this needs
00:35:26.980 to become part of the everyday conversations. We are allowing terrorists into our congressional
00:35:36.900 body. And are you aware, and I'm sure the listeners are not aware, I wasn't aware until 0.84
00:35:42.360 yesterday, that if the Democrats succeed in taking over the House in the midterm elections,
00:35:51.200 they will appoint this guy if the republicans maintain their uh by one or two seats if we hold
00:35:59.600 this we do not have to appoint this guy he does not have to come in and sit in congress
00:36:05.900 i don't think many people know that but we have the ability not to seat him
00:36:11.000 i i have to tell you what you know i just got back from europe and i saw how this is happening 0.99
00:36:19.340 to europe where you know you have these islamists that are just taking over the cities taking over 0.96
00:36:25.740 you know the parliaments um and everybody's just turning a blind eye to it i can't believe 1.00
00:36:32.560 on the 20th year of the 25th anniversary of 9-11 new jersey todd beamer's home district
00:36:39.960 um crazy we've just i mean i i said earlier today vicky i i i you could make a case that
00:36:50.880 osama bin laden has either won or is winning oh yeah absolutely i i couldn't agree with you more
00:36:58.300 on that when we look at our constitution you know it's not a suicide pack our our constitution
00:37:04.900 and yet we have uh people who don't want to challenge this in any way shape or form that
00:37:12.440 sits in government right now how is this possible uh i'm going to tell you something the people are
00:37:18.720 getting furious who are the people the people are you and the people are me and the people like us
00:37:23.960 we're not going to tolerate much more of this glenn uh this is we're in a very dangerous place
00:37:29.740 and i think what does that mean to you vicky what does that mean to you you're not going to tolerate
00:37:34.120 much more of this what does that mean well you know what uh there's going to be problems we have
00:37:41.160 here in new york city zoran as our mayor and we're watching what's happening i mean for example
00:37:48.180 zoran appointed to uh that one of the uh unindicted co-conspirators of the 1993 world
00:37:56.840 Trade Center bombing, sits as our chief counsel right now in City Hall. This is what's going on
00:38:04.800 in New York City. He's canceled block parties and permits for block parties to celebrate the
00:38:12.440 250th anniversary of this great nation that we live in. And I have to say, people are getting
00:38:20.720 more than fed up. We're watching prayer mats getting laid out in front of the very first
00:38:26.980 firehouse that responded on 9-11. And this is mockery. They are mocking us. And you made a
00:38:34.380 very good point when you said, in a sense, are they winning? Well, right now, if you look around,
00:38:41.080 you know, the Republicans are holding on tight, as tight as they can. And yet we cannot pass
00:38:49.580 the SAFE Act. How is that possible, Glenn? How can we actually find asking for voter ID
00:38:56.600 an invasion of somebody's privacy? Why didn't this pass months ago with flying colors?
00:39:04.460 Why? People are weak. They are willing to accept this and use our constitution
00:39:11.200 and what our forefathers fought for and understood
00:39:17.220 and had foresight to see what we could not see
00:39:21.320 until we're in it right now, this is bizarre.
00:39:25.040 We're not existing in a sane world, Glenn.
00:39:28.020 This is insanity.
00:39:29.940 I know, but thank God I'm not living where you are.
00:39:32.620 I mean, you're up in city council of New York City.
00:39:38.120 Yeah, and anybody who talks about...
00:39:41.200 Go ahead. No, I'm saying anybody who speaks out, as I have. Look, I feel myself as a truth teller.
00:39:48.900 People need to know an educated voter is the best voter that we've got.
00:39:54.280 And they're able to make decisions. You know, those that are so far left and off a cliff,
00:39:59.820 you can't bother with those folks. You got to hit the Democrats and the independents
00:40:04.220 who are equally as fed up as we are here in New York. Anyway, we have to go after those folks.
00:40:10.620 we have to educate you feel that you you feel that there are i mean because there's a a great
00:40:15.760 debate happens almost every day within my own audience they're like glenn there's no democrat
00:40:20.440 left that is they're all crazy and i'm like no i don't think that's true i think they just have
00:40:25.760 okay given up any go ahead given up not showing up to polls to vote uh the way they should uh
00:40:36.300 you know, we have to, in my district, for example, it's a district 19. I am in charge of 175,000
00:40:44.580 people. Uh, this is an eight to one Democrat seat. And I am the first Republican that any of
00:40:51.220 them have ever voted for. Uh, blue dog, blue dog Democrats said, Vicki, I'm voting for you.
00:40:58.360 And I won, uh, out of my three times running, uh, two times was a landslide. First time they
00:41:05.940 didn't know me so well then I put myself in the belly of the beast and I educated the Democrats
00:41:11.540 and it was very important that they understand that there's a sense of common sense still left 0.87
00:41:18.200 but these young people who have taken over our city that's a different story uh because they're
00:41:25.640 only passers-by they're not people who are going to put their roots here and stay here we've got
00:41:31.680 of vested interest in this city uh this guy won this young man has won uh and much to our dismay 0.99
00:41:40.180 he puts on that big stupid grin and he's winning over people every single day every single day 0.99
00:41:47.980 he's winning over people well i hope you're right i can't understand how you know the blue dog 1.00
00:41:56.980 democrat the person that was the average working guy cannot relate to your average college professor
00:42:03.460 and the republicans have always been seen as well they're in with big business big business is a
00:42:09.480 piece of cake compared to the college professors if you want to talk about people of that are in
00:42:13.940 and out of touch um but the big business is now all on the left all big special interest is on
00:42:20.980 the left uh and you have uh you know all the elites all the eggheads on the left and i don't
00:42:27.360 understand why more people don't see no no this is the working class this is the average person
00:42:33.880 against the elites and they're pretty much all on one side right now good you know we also have a
00:42:40.840 media this is media driven propaganda just like in communism you know they don't hear the other
00:42:49.620 side our side they're focused on one thing orange man bad trump bad republican bad uh they're going
00:42:58.660 to do this to you they're going to do that to you and now when you back up that propaganda
00:43:03.580 with the the gazillions of different forms of media that people have to watch and uh you've
00:43:12.220 got the likes of uh hasan uh what's his name yeah yeah uh piker uh and you've got these other folks
00:43:21.460 that have got multi-billion you know million hundreds of millions of followers then you got
00:43:26.440 your average abc for us here abc nbc cbs you know the average joe comes home from work and they're
00:43:34.120 they're flipping on their tv to watch the six o'clock news here in new york and they're listening
00:43:39.240 to CBS, NBC, our regular network news. They're not going right away to cable. They might be in
00:43:46.780 their kitchen preparing dinner. They're not watching Fox or they're not watching you or
00:43:52.200 they're not watching Newsmax or any of the News Nation, any of the center. They're listening to
00:43:58.640 just regular news that they've trusted for years and years and years. And now you're hearing your
00:44:05.100 trusted news people telling you all false information totally false information there
00:44:12.360 might be a dabble or two of truth to it but they they don't elongate on it they stay stay focused
00:44:19.880 on 30 second news bites 30 second news bites and people are brainwashed every single day you pick
00:44:28.520 up the newspaper you've got the you've got the new york times you've got the daily news here in new
00:44:35.200 york you've got your other newspapers this is what people are reading so you have voices like yours
00:44:41.500 voices like mine other voices very similar to ours who are fighting left and right and pardon the pun
00:44:49.840 uh to try to get this message out uh so we've got a big election coming up in new york for for the
00:44:57.620 governor and i'm going to give bruce blakeman a big plug now and i'm going to tell everybody
00:45:03.060 that if we do not replace the new york state governor this race in november and we don't cut
00:45:09.860 the snake's head off we are in serious trouble she has taken a knee to zoran hochel now we've
00:45:17.460 watched it for the past year and we're going to only watch it get worse and worse we'll have to
00:45:24.520 have him on what's his name again uh bruce blakeman okay thank you all right good thank
00:45:34.540 you i appreciate it vicky palatino she is a palatino she is the new york city councilwoman
00:45:39.840 uh on the new jersey 12th district uh the guy who is
00:45:45.560 not a good guy not a good guy uh and i don't know how we can have him in our congress
00:45:54.140 when he has had fingerprints all over the World Trade Center bombing and Al-Qaeda.
00:46:01.900 Not good. Just not good.
00:46:04.600 Hey, just a programming note on a couple of things.
00:46:07.280 I am joining Moms for Liberty aboard the legendary USS Midway.
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00:46:18.660 uh i'm giving the keynote uh like i did up in uh new york at the statue of liberty this time
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00:46:45.460 it just it just doesn't happen i cannot remember the last time i did something publicly in
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00:46:58.400 they're just like water please water uh i remember i did a an event in san francisco once at the
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00:47:48.660 I want to talk to you a little bit about what I sense coming our way.
00:47:54.740 um there is a change that is afoot um and i i felt it when i was in europe and i feel it now
00:48:07.680 every day i'm watching the news and i think the maps could be changing soon at least the maps of
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