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00:00:14.660 We go to the State of the Union today, and Glenn was there.

00:00:18.720 He's in D.C. as we're doing the show. I'm in Dallas, and Glenn was in the room last night for the State of the Union.

00:00:26.240 He's got a lot of interesting observations of it beyond just the idea of what was said, which Glenn liked quite a bit,

00:00:34.180 but also what was going on in the room.

00:00:36.620 He could tell which congresspeople were scrolling through their Facebook feeds the entire time.

00:00:42.200 That's pretty much the level of detail he has on this, and we'll get into that as well today.

00:00:47.260 We have Mike Lee on the show. He comes by the studio.

00:00:51.040 We have Thomas Massey on. That's the congressperson from Kentucky.

00:00:54.500 You'll remember him recently from the Covington story.

00:00:58.320 He was the representative and did a lot of really good work to make sure the kids with the smirking and the red hat didn't get beat up by the media.

00:01:07.520 He worked really hard for them, and he is the one who took Glenn to the speech last night.

00:01:11.660 Also, Jim DeMint, former senator, is there.

00:01:13.640 And there's a really bad set of news from the Blaze family that Glenn will get into here in the podcast as well.

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00:02:42.480 So there were some really incredible moments in the speech last night.

00:02:50.160 And I don't know what the rest of the media is saying, nor do I care.

00:02:54.740 I'm in Washington, D.C. at our Blaze Washington Bureau.

00:03:01.260 And I had the opportunity to sit in the chamber last night.

00:03:07.300 And it was a bizarre experience.

00:03:09.040 And if we have time, I'll tell you the things that I saw last night.

00:03:15.220 All the way from, do you know what is facing the speaker?

00:03:19.180 Do you know when the speaker or the president is standing there, what's on the wall above the doors?

00:03:26.440 Would you be surprised if I told you a giant medallion, a plaster cast, if you will, of Moses?

00:03:39.200 They have all the great lawmakers.

00:03:42.620 And behind the president was Madison and Jefferson.

00:03:47.220 But when you're standing there and you're looking up, you're looking at Moses.

00:03:52.020 So I've got some interesting things to tell you.

00:03:55.340 And I have some fascinating things to tell you about how radical the left really is.

00:04:04.080 Because it is worse than I thought it was just standing in the chamber.

00:04:11.280 And so we'll get to that.

00:04:12.460 Also, the things that the president did say last night, you know, I know the press is probably going to say,

00:04:18.860 it was a very divisive, you know, when Bill Clinton stood up and he lost the chamber,

00:04:23.440 you know, he was very conciliatory.

00:04:25.860 He was like, hey, boy, there are big governments apparently over.

00:04:30.120 And then he worked together with everybody.

00:04:32.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:33.980 Well, and then George Bush came in, you know, and he said, I've got a strategy for this war.

00:04:39.260 And I know nobody really wants to support it, but we're going to do a surge and just help.

00:04:43.820 So he doubled down, that evil guy.

00:04:47.260 And then Obama came in.

00:04:49.920 And when he lost his midterms, what did he do?

00:04:53.240 He thumbed his nose at the Tea Party.

00:04:56.600 He thumbed his nose at anybody who was trying to derail.

00:05:00.540 I thought the president did a little of both.

00:05:05.200 I thought the president, and it was amazing.

00:05:07.840 I don't know if you could hear it on television, but they hissed him several times.

00:05:13.340 Could you hear that, Stu?

00:05:15.620 No, I didn't.

00:05:16.500 I couldn't really take that.

00:05:17.280 I didn't hear the hissing, no.

00:05:19.200 Oh, my gosh.

00:05:20.100 They hissed at him several times.

00:05:22.660 They groaned several times.

00:05:25.540 Sometimes, like when he said, you know, I think we'd be at war right now.

00:05:32.240 But he said, in my opinion, I think we'd be at war right now with North Korea.

00:05:36.000 You know, sometimes there were some chuckles and things like that.

00:05:41.920 But I thought the president didn't take himself so seriously, at least in the room.

00:05:47.520 I don't know how it translated.

00:05:49.900 But in the room, he was, I thought, conciliatory.

00:05:57.000 I think he tried to come in and say, look, these are the things, we have to work on these

00:06:02.340 things, and we have to work together.

00:06:05.000 And I think he gave the Democrats, I was sitting, because you're sitting next to strangers, and

00:06:11.480 you don't know who's who.

00:06:12.860 You don't know, you know, what anybody's political bent is.

00:06:16.360 So you really don't talk about politics when you're up in the gallery, because you're sitting

00:06:20.360 next to strangers, and you don't want to have a fistfight.

00:06:22.940 And so we were just kind of sitting up there, and a few of us, and I didn't know anybody.

00:06:29.140 And I was just talking to people.

00:06:31.000 I don't know which way they were going, et cetera, et cetera.

00:06:33.580 And I made the comment.

00:06:34.660 I said, you know, if the public and the organizations outside would have given the president a different

00:06:49.500 ushering in, do you think it would have been different?

00:06:54.200 And everybody said, yes, would have been different, would have been, he would have worked together.

00:07:05.080 And I think that's true.

00:07:07.280 And if you look at what he was talking about last night, there are things that they can

00:07:12.340 work together on, but when you're in the room, you can see why the president gets so upset.

00:07:21.900 Because I've never seen this, and I don't know if anybody was covering this, but I saw

00:07:26.860 a few disturbing things.

00:07:28.200 First of all, I've got to get the picture of the row that Ocasio-Cortez was sitting in.

00:07:35.360 Um, she was sitting there with six or eight women and then the, the women behind her as 1.00

00:07:43.060 well.

00:07:43.520 I want to know who those people were.

00:07:45.920 She was sitting in the center and she was sitting at the table.

00:07:49.480 She is running the, at least the freshmen, but I will tell you, I snuck into the party

00:07:57.600 with, um, uh, Nancy Pelosi in her office.

00:08:02.520 Uh, you know, uh, it was with Thomas Massey and he said, they'll just think I'm a freshman

00:08:06.820 senator.

00:08:07.380 They won't know who I am or a freshman congressman.

00:08:09.640 They won't know who I am.

00:08:11.160 Uh, and I'm like, I don't think they're going to know who I am.

00:08:14.240 Uh, and walked in and we were just trying to get to the balcony of the speaker's, uh, place.

00:08:20.180 Because that thing is bigger than, uh, that, that Nancy Pelosi's office is bigger than many

00:08:29.100 houses in America.

00:08:31.040 And it was a party scene.

00:08:33.480 It was actually grotesque.

00:08:35.180 It was a party scene that was, uh, happening in there.

00:08:38.660 And Ocasio-Cortez was right at her side.

00:08:42.220 And I think Nancy Pelosi is keeping her close because she knows how dangerous she is, but

00:08:49.120 I will tell you, they've empowered her so much.

00:08:51.840 She was running a lot of the responses last night.

00:08:55.220 She was in the center and I saw her several times, look around, look behind her, um, and, 0.97

00:09:04.600 and almost seemingly coach on where we're moving and how we're going to react.

00:09:10.580 It was fascinating to watch the woman that if you are looking at her face on the woman

00:09:18.100 on her left, Stu, I don't know who it is.

00:09:21.740 Cause I couldn't see her face, but she had short hair. 1.00

00:09:24.880 She was, you know, you know, maybe 50, 40, 50, um, I think, uh, and we got to know who

00:09:33.740 she is because boy, oh boy, the vibes off of that woman, uh, were, were intense. 0.94

00:09:41.300 These are radicals that are sitting in there.

00:09:45.940 Absolute radicals.

00:09:48.000 When, uh, Ocasio-Cortez, when they said certain things like, uh, um, you know, we, uh, let's

00:09:58.520 take the border, uh, we, we have a caravan, they hissed, uh, they booed, uh, or they grumbled,

00:10:07.420 I should say when they did that.

00:10:09.900 She did not stand for any of it.

00:10:13.060 She was staring down the president.

00:10:15.640 I mean, many times when the president was speaking, he would stop.

00:10:20.020 And when he was, he would look at the other side and he said at one point, uh, no, don't

00:10:25.200 sit down.

00:10:25.740 You're going to love this.

00:10:27.200 Um, that was at the very beginning, but several times he looked right at Ocasio-Cortez and he

00:10:35.960 was delivering it to her.

00:10:39.220 Uh, and for instance, when he said, we will never go socialist.

00:10:44.520 I don't know if he said those words or right after he said those words, he looked right 1.00

00:10:49.940 at her and that progressive caucus.

00:10:52.820 Uh, it was, it was phenomenal what was going on, um, inside, but I will tell you, I have

00:10:59.700 thought that the, the progressive caucus, they were radical.

00:11:05.040 You have no idea.

00:11:07.120 You have no idea.

00:11:08.340 I would not want to be the president of the United States, uh, at this point because there

00:11:14.060 is, I mean, to say there's no love between them, uh, is, is a massive, massive understatement

00:11:24.140 when he was talking at the end and he was building, um, I thought a very Reagan-esque look

00:11:34.060 at America.

00:11:34.840 He opened and closed with some of the best stuff, uh, I've, I've heard, um, it sent probably

00:11:42.920 since Reagan, uh, the Democrats did not, um, did not like that.

00:11:51.000 Um, many times I walked, I looked down and they were shaking their head like, oh, this

00:11:57.980 clap trap, this ridiculous America clap trap.

00:12:02.820 It was phenomenal to watch.

00:12:05.760 I said to a, um, a, uh, congressman, a couple of congressmen last night, you need to wire

00:12:12.600 a new camera.

00:12:13.560 You need to put a camera right where I was sitting, right in the center, up on the balcony,

00:12:18.300 front row.

00:12:19.020 I was, I was actually in the last row, but they're very close, but put that camera right

00:12:23.100 there in the front row because you can see.

00:12:25.900 At one point when he was talking about, um, the caravan that was coming, uh, up through

00:12:33.380 Mexico again, they all scoffed, they hissed, uh, Ocasio-Cortez just shook her head and whispered

00:12:42.600 something to her friend.

00:12:44.100 Uh, and they both, they both kind of laughed and shook their head in disgust.

00:12:48.980 And then Ocasio-Cortez lifted up her phone and took a selfie.

00:12:54.640 And he was like, oh my gosh, I can't tell you how many people were scrolling their Facebook

00:13:00.480 pages and they were just not even paying attention.

00:13:03.760 On the other hand, there were a few people, Joe Manchin is one of them that stood every

00:13:10.420 time the Republicans stood.

00:13:12.580 Um, there was a woman and I don't know who she was, uh, who she is.

00:13:17.020 She was in the house and she was wearing, if you were looking from the president's perspective,

00:13:22.160 she would be on his far right and almost under the balcony and, uh, midway.

00:13:29.640 And she was wearing hot pink or a fuchsia colored dress.

00:13:34.100 She stuck out.

00:13:35.160 And I say that because, Stu, I want you to see if you can look at the crowd, find out who

00:13:39.900 that woman was because she was all alone, absolutely all alone standing, uh, at times.

00:13:47.920 Uh, and I'd like to know who she was as well. 0.82

00:13:50.680 Was that Kristen Sinema, the new Senator from Arizona?

00:13:53.800 I believe she was the one that did not wear the white, uh, when everyone else was wearing

00:13:57.420 white.

00:13:57.900 Yeah.

00:13:58.220 And neither did Kamala Harris.

00:13:59.860 Hmm.

00:14:00.040 I think Kamala was wearing black, which was last year's color because last year was all 1.00

00:14:06.440 about me too.

00:14:07.720 And that color was black.

00:14:09.000 And this one is women united in the workforce or whatever. 1.00

00:14:12.360 And that's white.

00:14:15.660 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:17.560 Last night, uh, I was on my way back to the hotel.

00:14:28.340 It was late at night and, um, I got a call, uh, from the head of my company and he said,

00:14:41.000 uh, I've got some really bad news.

00:14:43.260 And I said, Oh, okay.

00:14:48.820 And he said, this is really bad news.

00:14:51.080 Are you seated?

00:14:52.580 And I said, yeah, I'm in the car.

00:14:53.660 I'm on the way back to the hotel.

00:14:56.760 He said, uh, Doc Thompson was killed, um, tonight.

00:15:04.720 And it took me a while to even process.

00:15:12.560 At first it just didn't, what?

00:15:16.520 Apparently Doc Thompson, who did the morning blaze for a long time, uh, at the place, uh,

00:15:22.920 TV and radio, uh, was out jogging last night and he had his, um, earbuds in and he was,

00:15:34.700 was jogging next to the railroad tracks and apparently, um, we think that his headphones

00:15:44.740 were up so loud that he could not hear the train that was coming and it, uh, sideswiped

00:15:51.920 him and killed him.

00:15:57.600 Doc, Doc was one of the more talented and gregarious guys that I know.

00:16:04.700 Um, he was a guy who would come into my office all the time.

00:16:12.440 I got an idea.

00:16:13.580 I got an idea.

00:16:15.240 He was the, the ultimate entrepreneur and he left us.

00:16:23.420 Was it during this last summer, Stu?

00:16:26.340 Yeah, not too long ago.

00:16:27.840 Um, he left us to start his own business and, um, I was thrilled for Doc because that's who

00:16:41.240 he is.

00:16:41.920 He was just an entrepreneur and an idea guy and he loved entrepreneurs and he loved new

00:16:48.800 businesses.

00:16:49.300 And, and, and because of Doc, many businesses are flourishing because he would really take

00:16:57.940 them under his wing and he cared deeply about people who were trying to do business.

00:17:04.980 Um, and he left to start, uh, his own broadcast unit.

00:17:11.440 Uh, and he was the kind of guy who bet on tomorrow and bet, uh, on himself and he leaves behind

00:17:29.020 a wife and two children.

00:17:30.780 Um, there is a GoFundMe cave page.

00:17:36.040 Uh, it's GoFundMe.com slash doc hash or what do you call it?

00:17:42.080 Um, you know, hyphen Thompson.

00:17:46.040 Well, we'll send it out from the social pages here.

00:17:48.840 Go ahead and make sure everyone can get the right link.

00:17:51.180 Yeah.

00:17:51.880 Um, but, uh, if you can, if you can help, here's a guy who believed in the American dream.

00:17:57.760 Here's a guy that for the blaze family, uh, woke so many people up every morning, um, and

00:18:06.260 always just had a positive attitude, um, and a can do spirit.

00:18:12.740 Um, and we are devastated as a family, um, and devastated for his family.

00:18:23.180 And we would ask that if you, um, ever listened to doc or, or appreciated anything that he did,

00:18:32.260 that you would help his family out.

00:18:35.200 GoFundMe.com slash doc hyphen Thompson.

00:18:40.260 And it seems like we're getting a wake up call.

00:18:45.060 Jeff Fisher, uh, who worked on this program and still works for the blaze, worked on this

00:18:50.120 program for 20 years.

00:18:53.000 Um, and a good friend had a heart attack over this holiday.

00:18:58.900 He lived, but it, he had a heart attack that doctors call the widow maker.

00:19:03.400 Most people don't make it.

00:19:04.900 Uh, and there's something, uh, something happens when you start losing contemporaries and doc was

00:19:13.120 younger, uh, than I, than I am.

00:19:16.500 Um, and I urge you to cherish every single moment.

00:19:25.400 And, uh, I know this sounds cliche, but there is nothing more important than your family.

00:19:36.260 Nothing more important than your family.

00:19:39.220 Um, I don't care how important your job is.

00:19:42.560 I've learned this.

00:19:44.660 Take care of your family and spend the time with your kids.

00:19:48.320 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:04.380 Hi, it's Glenn.

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00:20:15.840 Thanks.

00:20:16.140 One of the good guys in Congress is, uh, Thomas Massey, uh, who I was with.

00:20:21.500 I was his guest last night and I appreciate the invitation.

00:20:24.860 Thanks for coming, Glenn.

00:20:26.120 You bet.

00:20:26.480 Glad to have you.

00:20:27.520 Um, can we turn his mic on?

00:20:29.080 I can't hear him.

00:20:30.260 Um, Congressman, can you, uh, what was the most significant thing that you thought happened

00:20:36.120 last night?

00:20:37.080 I think the most significant thing was when the president said the United States will never

00:20:42.500 be a socialist country.

00:20:45.020 And, uh, it, it looked to me like 50% of the Democrats were glued to their seats and not

00:20:50.640 clapping.

00:20:51.320 In other words, they are outright endorsing socialism now about half of their conference.

00:20:57.460 And, uh, you know, four years ago, if you had called Obama a socialist, they would tell

00:21:04.060 you you're a racist. 0.92

00:21:05.240 Oh, no.

00:21:05.920 I, I know that firsthand.

00:21:08.240 I know that firsthand.

00:21:09.740 And now, but now the mask is off and they're openly running as socialists and, and the ones

00:21:15.880 who aren't openly running as socialists, uh, recognize it's a huge part of their primary

00:21:21.620 voting base and don't want to upset the socialists.

00:21:25.940 But I think it points to a big problem with the Democrat party that they have going forward.

00:21:30.560 It's a, you know, the extreme form of what, uh, small government Republicans advocate for

00:21:37.440 is libertarianism.

00:21:38.780 In other words, we just leave everybody alone.

00:21:41.220 Okay.

00:21:41.700 The extreme form of what the Democrats campaign on is communism and socialism.

00:21:48.360 And so they are out, out socialisming each other.

00:21:53.000 I know.

00:21:53.560 And it's, it, what was amazing was it wasn't to placate it.

00:21:59.680 I suppose it is for some to placate, uh, their base, but there are hard core extremists on

00:22:11.720 the left now in Congress.

00:22:12.960 I mean, I was shocked.

00:22:15.740 Another thing that was even more extreme in the reaction was when president Trump called

00:22:20.600 out, uh, the third trimester, like, yes.

00:22:24.480 And later, if you will, which is five seconds later, I guess when he called out, uh, how

00:22:31.460 wrong it was to kill infants who were just born.

00:22:34.380 And I didn't, I didn't see them stand up or clap for that.

00:22:37.760 No, not the, not those hardcore women in the white, in the center. 1.00

00:22:42.000 Some of them, I think almost the whole Democrat caucus, uh, refused to clap when he, I mean,

00:22:49.080 that's, so you're talking about extremism.

00:22:51.340 This is where they've gone in, in two to four years.

00:22:54.820 Yeah.

00:22:55.660 And then the other thing is, uh, and this disappointed me with my own party, uh, when the president

00:23:02.640 said, uh, great countries don't fight endless wars.

00:23:07.640 That to me was an, uh, uh, an obvious bipartisan applause line.

00:23:13.300 I thought so too.

00:23:13.980 And I was like, maybe one of two dozen who stood up out of 435 and clapped for that.

00:23:21.200 I, that concerns me.

00:23:22.740 This is, uh, because it's really Congress's authority and decision of where, uh, to deploy

00:23:29.400 our troops.

00:23:30.660 And, uh, we've abdicated that, uh, and this is a president who might have to be the person

00:23:38.940 who stops these wars.

00:23:40.140 Like that would be his greatest legacy, not creating another social program, like paid

00:23:45.720 maternity leave for men, you know? 0.88

00:23:48.900 And that was crazy.

00:23:49.900 He said so many things last night that they should have, for instance, the end of endless

00:23:55.320 wars.

00:23:56.360 That's where their party has always been.

00:23:58.440 That's, that's what Obama said he was going to do.

00:24:01.200 He promised it, never delivered it.

00:24:03.000 Right.

00:24:03.960 Here's a guy who actually looks like he's going to deliver it and they are not for it.

00:24:09.440 It's crazy.

00:24:11.360 It was stunning to me, frankly.

00:24:14.300 Um, the arrogance, you and I went through Nancy Pelosi's office and, uh, and we kind

00:24:21.200 of crashed that party.

00:24:22.360 Yeah.

00:24:22.840 I mean, we didn't rifle through the desk.

00:24:24.480 You wouldn't let me, but, uh, we went through and it was a huge party.

00:24:28.940 Um, and her office area, I don't even know how big it actually is, but it looks as big

00:24:35.180 as some people's houses.

00:24:36.560 Well, it's, it's a large complex, but that was Paul Ryan's office, uh, you know, just

00:24:41.860 two months ago.

00:24:42.840 Right.

00:24:43.600 And John Boehner's before.

00:24:44.920 The reason why I bring it up is the arrogance, the arrogance that, um, that people who are

00:24:53.260 in Washington can gain quickly.

00:24:55.820 I mean, you come up to that office.

00:24:58.680 Oh yeah.

00:25:00.060 I mean, you are the king of the world.

00:25:02.880 Here's something I didn't show you about the office.

00:25:05.180 That's on the second floor to get to the majority leader's office.

00:25:11.340 You have to go to the speaker's office, get in an elevator and go up a floor.

00:25:15.640 So nobody can go to the number two person's office without walking through the number

00:25:20.980 one person's office.

00:25:22.440 Oh my gosh.

00:25:23.380 And so it's, it's a way that the speaker always keeps a check on the person who's immediately

00:25:30.640 below the speaker.

00:25:31.980 And there, there's so much power that has concentrated into the speaker's office.

00:25:37.640 This is dangerous for Congress.

00:25:40.200 Like we, it's, I've, I've joked that we take one vote and then we're done for two years,

00:25:45.040 which is we vote for the speaker on the first day of Congress.

00:25:47.940 And then the speaker calls all the shots.

00:25:49.980 It didn't used to be that way, but the speaker has all the power.

00:25:54.340 Uh, they control whether you get fundraising donations or not from the packs.

00:26:00.780 The speaker controls whether your bills come up on the floor.

00:26:04.660 Or the speaker even has so much power over the committee chairman that they can tell the

00:26:08.960 committee chairman don't have a hearing on that person's bill. 0.97

00:26:12.440 And they pick, they basically pick who's going to be on what committee.

00:26:17.140 And it didn't used to always be that way.

00:26:19.300 So last night you said something really profound, um, to me, you were wearing, uh, a pin.

00:26:25.320 And if you happen to be watching, it's this pin.

00:26:28.460 Uh, it is, um, uh, the congressional pin.

00:26:32.800 Yours is, uh, 116.

00:26:35.300 They're all numbered.

00:26:36.540 And, you know, the police move out of your way.

00:26:39.860 You are, you are the king when you have this pin.

00:26:43.860 And it's making me nervous that you're holding it.

00:26:45.980 And I'm not because I call it precious.

00:26:50.460 It is too.

00:26:51.920 It is.

00:26:52.640 And you, you, you weren't wearing it, uh, for the, when I first met you last night.

00:26:57.520 Uh, and then when we start walking over the Capitol, you put it on, uh, and you actually

00:27:03.000 apologized for putting it on.

00:27:05.740 Because when you put this pin on, it goes to your head.

00:27:09.460 And this is what happens to 434 members of the house.

00:27:14.220 The Senate has a pin too.

00:27:15.880 But you, when you put this on, the police get out of your way.

00:27:19.500 The tourists take note.

00:27:21.580 Uh, the staffers won't speak in an elevator if they see somebody with a pin on.

00:27:27.460 And it's, you start to feel those reactions, how people react to you.

00:27:32.200 They react to you differently.

00:27:34.260 And, uh, it changes your thought process.

00:27:36.660 So just like if a hobbit, you know, if you're a Lord of the Rings fan, when a hobbit puts

00:27:41.940 on the ring, it starts corrupting them.

00:27:44.320 And the same thing happens when you put on this congressional pin.

00:27:47.880 And so I try not to wear it.

00:27:49.540 Now, last night there were extra guards who, uh, aren't normally at the Capitol and I

00:27:55.240 didn't want to get face planted into the granite.

00:27:59.080 Uh, they are serious.

00:28:01.320 Oh, last night they were everywhere.

00:28:03.500 Yeah.

00:28:03.700 I mean, I don't think I've ever been to anything with so many police and secret service.

00:28:09.320 I mean, they were everywhere deep.

00:28:12.500 I mean, they were lined up deep.

00:28:14.600 I got to tell you this as, uh, so there's a designated survivor.

00:28:19.540 Right.

00:28:20.200 Uh, it was Rick Perry last night, I think.

00:28:22.260 Was it?

00:28:22.800 Well, as people filtered into the room, certain cabinet members, I'm not going to say who

00:28:27.680 I was like, that's not the designated survivor.

00:28:32.780 He's here.

00:28:33.680 So he's not the designated.

00:28:35.620 I'm not going to tell you which of the cabinet members I felt that way about.

00:28:38.900 It was, it was amazing.

00:28:41.340 I've never, um, you know, cause we were in what an hour early.

00:28:46.940 Yeah.

00:28:47.100 Um, and so the people who are right up next, the ones are always taking their photos with

00:28:53.700 the president and everybody else.

00:28:55.700 Right.

00:28:56.380 They'll, those are not assigned seats.

00:28:58.220 You go in, anyone can sit anywhere except, except for the leadership.

00:29:02.780 Um, and, uh, so those people get in four hours ahead of time and they have to sit there.

00:29:09.760 You can't put your name on a seat and walk away.

00:29:12.420 So there are congressmen that show up and sit down for four hours just to be in that frame

00:29:18.440 with the president.

00:29:19.640 That's crazy.

00:29:21.560 That is crazy.

00:29:24.020 And so they come in, Nancy Pelosi comes in about 45 minutes, actually, I think 30 minutes

00:29:29.800 before, um, and the room begins to change and they start to, uh, you know, introduce everybody

00:29:37.820 and they, you know, here's the cabinet and here's the Supreme court.

00:29:42.260 Um, and I think it's a cabinet that's introduced last, right before the president comes in.

00:29:48.300 I know the vice president's been in there for half an hour.

00:29:51.760 And, uh, when I went in, I noticed that the Republicans were, uh, typical Republicans,

00:29:59.540 you know, we were all kind of just, uh, uh, just kind of stick in our butt kind of people.

00:30:05.440 You know what I mean?

00:30:06.240 Where we were quiet and it was, it was, it was appropriate behavior.

00:30:10.680 The Democrats, especially the new women, good progressive caucus.

00:30:14.940 Oh my gosh.

00:30:16.220 That was like a, that was a college party.

00:30:19.000 It was like a, to me, it felt like a reunion.

00:30:22.860 Um, they, their attitude was, they were giddy to be there.

00:30:28.940 They taking selfies all over.

00:30:31.080 Oh my gosh.

00:30:31.900 Now I might sneak a picture once in a while on the floor, but I mean, they were openly,

00:30:37.580 you know, posing and it was kind of like a party atmosphere over there.

00:30:42.960 Ocasio-Cortez took a selfie when the president was talking about the caravan on the border.

00:30:48.600 That's when she was taking a selfie.

00:30:50.000 It was unbelievable.

00:30:51.060 But the other thing I noticed is everybody says they don't like the president.

00:30:56.420 Okay.

00:30:56.860 But in that three minute period, four minute period, um, before the president walks out,

00:31:05.660 you could feel the room anticipate the arrival of the president.

00:31:10.480 Oh yeah.

00:31:10.860 It got quiet.

00:31:12.820 Uh, it was, it was just different.

00:31:16.420 You could tell.

00:31:17.280 I mean, the power of the president, even this president who they claim to hate and have

00:31:22.760 no respect for, it changed the temperature of the room when they knew he was the next

00:31:27.880 one.

00:31:28.420 Well, it's one of the cards the president gets to play is the state of the union and they

00:31:33.300 have to sit there and they have to be filmed when they react to the president.

00:31:37.580 Now the Democrats will get to play their card starting today that when I leave the studio

00:31:43.380 here, I'm going to a hearing in the oversight committee that I serve on with Jim Jordan

00:31:48.060 and Mark Meadows, and that's going to be gavel to gavel, go after this administration.

00:31:54.740 Uh, and that's the card they get to play starting today.

00:31:58.220 And all those hearings, you know, for the last six years that I've been in Congress and

00:32:02.680 the oversight committee, you couldn't find an NBC camera or a CNN camera.

00:32:07.480 There were Fox cameras.

00:32:08.780 Well, now the Fox cameras are gone and there will be, uh, MSNBC and CNN cameras in the

00:32:15.040 oversight committee and they'll, they will use that.

00:32:18.040 I sometimes call it the theater committee because you have to muster your righteous indignation

00:32:23.720 and walk in there and ask people, how could you, when did you first know, what were you

00:32:28.180 thinking?

00:32:28.860 Right.

00:32:29.720 Um, but that's going to be their bully pulpit.

00:32:32.620 Now they're bully gavel.

00:32:34.020 If you will.

00:32:34.400 The president, um, the president addressed that, you know, investigation, investigation,

00:32:39.360 uh, and that caucus with Ocasio-Cortez, just that those group of people, Ocasio-Cortez turned

00:32:47.760 around and, and shook her head like, I, can you believe this guy?

00:32:51.520 And smiled like, we are gonna get him.

00:32:55.840 Yeah.

00:32:56.240 That's unfortunate because I think he did start out with a tone.

00:32:59.960 I did too.

00:33:00.380 Of, of, uh, bipartisanship and cooperation.

00:33:03.520 He said country over party, the Democrats after about four seconds were shamed into standing

00:33:10.620 up for that, uh, you know, for that statement, country over party, which I thought's something

00:33:15.940 anybody could be for.

00:33:17.460 Um, real quick.

00:33:18.460 I want to, I want to say this to you and it goes to the budget.

00:33:22.340 I've got about a minute.

00:33:23.460 He, but he was talking about the intermediate nuclear missiles and he said, perhaps we can

00:33:29.540 negotiate a different agreement adding China and others.

00:33:32.100 Perhaps we can't, which in case we will outspend and innovate all others by far.

00:33:39.220 Terrifying line.

00:33:40.480 I did not stand up and clap.

00:33:42.080 I mean, that was the model of the Soviet union was to outspend the United States and they 0.96

00:33:47.040 collapsed because of it.

00:33:48.860 So, uh, now the, the missile treaty that we have with Russia does cause us to spend more

00:33:55.460 money when trying to keep up with China.

00:33:57.960 Uh, I had this explained to me when I was in Korea last year by the generals over there.

00:34:02.680 Uh, we've got this thing that ties our hands with Russia. 0.51

00:34:05.580 We can't deploy intermediate missiles.

00:34:08.100 And, uh, so we can't even cover all of China.

00:34:11.000 But you are, um, you, you and I both were disturbed that there was no mention of $22 trillion.

00:34:21.060 None.

00:34:21.640 What you did not hear anything about the debt or the deficit in this state of the union.

00:34:26.460 You're not going to hear about it in the hearings that the Democrats have.

00:34:29.920 This is, we're going to be in the dark for two years here.

00:34:32.720 Not that, you know, we were fiscal conservatives before.

00:34:36.100 Right, right.

00:34:37.140 But, uh, but this, this president didn't campaign on balancing the budget and this is the problem.

00:34:42.560 And he believes in debt.

00:34:43.320 And he can get away with this because the people are not upset about the debt enough.

00:34:46.920 They should be.

00:34:47.560 I know.

00:34:48.320 Thomas, thank you so much.

00:34:49.620 Congressman Thomas Massey, um, really, truly one of the good guys who, uh, uh, my precious

00:34:56.440 has not taken his soul yet.

00:34:58.940 You were, you were the hottest date at the state of the union.

00:35:01.480 Thanks for coming.

00:35:02.320 Thank you.

00:35:02.720 I appreciate it.

00:35:03.320 God bless.

00:35:06.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:21.780 Senator Jim DeMint, welcome to the program.

00:35:24.480 How are you, sir?

00:35:25.360 Glenn, I'm doing great.

00:35:26.660 It's great to be back with you.

00:35:28.260 And I'm glad you got to experience the state of the union in person in the gallery last night.

00:35:32.920 It's a, it's, it's quite an experience.

00:35:36.640 Yeah.

00:35:37.080 It was very, very different than what it feels like on TV.

00:35:41.540 It was at just me.

00:35:43.860 No, there's a whole lot going on where people sit, who they sit next to a lot of trying to

00:35:49.480 out to, to do interviews afterwards.

00:35:51.660 I mean, there's just a whole lot of things going on in addition to the president giving

00:35:58.300 the speech.

00:35:59.920 All right.

00:36:00.520 So Jim DeMint, chairman of the conservative partnership Institute.

00:36:04.460 Um, Jim, what is, what was the takeaway?

00:36:07.020 Did you think anything historic happened last night?

00:36:11.620 Well, as an American, as a conservative, and as someone who values common sense, and you

00:36:17.060 mentioned that right before I came on, I thought it was an inspiring speech.

00:36:23.420 And I think you mentioned, uh, self-deprecating that the Trump did take it down a notch and

00:36:29.760 that's hard for him to do, but it was very genuine in the sense of trying to get people

00:36:35.800 to work together.

00:36:36.700 And if you watch closely on a lot of points, he had the Democrats, even the women dressed

00:36:43.240 in white were, were clapping with him that they could not stay in their seats for some

00:36:48.320 of the things that he brought up.

00:36:49.840 So I was really proud of him.

00:36:51.940 I was proud, proud of the American and, and, and I hope that a little of that will take root

00:36:57.120 with, um, both the Republicans and Democrats.

00:37:01.220 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:37:02.520 I mean, being in the room, uh, the, especially the women in white, the, the first row with

00:37:08.860 Casio Cortez, I mean, it was as radical as it gets.

00:37:12.540 There are radicals, uh, in the, uh, in the democratic party now.

00:37:17.480 I mean, I saw some things that I'm going to talk about later that I, I just just, I was

00:37:22.200 shocked by.

00:37:22.960 I did think there was a historic moment last night and that came towards the end when,

00:37:28.320 uh, the president said, uh, let me see if I can find it here.

00:37:34.660 Um, yeah, shoot.

00:37:37.220 I had it pulled out.

00:37:38.340 Here it is.

00:37:38.880 He said, here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country.

00:37:46.220 America was founded on liberty and independence, not government coercion, domination and control.

00:37:52.380 We are born free and we will stay free tonight.

00:37:56.220 We renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.

00:38:01.440 Um, it was historic to me, not just because he said it, but because he felt he needed to

00:38:07.800 say it and a good number of Democrats did not clap or stand for that.

00:38:14.160 You're right.

00:38:16.920 It needed to be said.

00:38:18.040 I was proud of him for saying it.

00:38:20.420 And I mean, he's willing to take issues head on, Glenn.

00:38:23.620 I mean, and you know, he brought up the life issue in a context that was better than anyone

00:38:28.900 I've ever heard.

00:38:30.100 And he's not afraid to bring God into the picture.

00:38:33.440 And so to me, I mean, Trump is somewhat of an enigma.

00:38:37.240 If you, if you look at, um, I guess all of his background and everything, but I just couldn't

00:38:43.320 be more inspired and proud that he is hitting the notes, the points that are so common sense

00:38:51.620 to take America forward.

00:38:53.300 And I, and I saw some polls this morning that indicated about 75% or so approved of the speech.

00:38:59.960 And, um, and I hope if it doesn't take hold in Congress, I hope it will take hold with

00:39:06.860 the people, Glenn, because what he said is very needed.

00:39:10.660 The opportunity in front of us and the energy field and the move ahead with our economy is

00:39:15.680 is real.

00:39:16.640 None of this was make believe the statistics about how the last two years have gone economically

00:39:23.260 and the things that have been accomplished are real, but they're just the tip of the iceberg.

00:39:28.600 Imagine what we could do if Congress could work together.

00:39:32.320 I was, uh, again, um, shocked at how the Democrats reacted, uh, to those job numbers.

00:39:41.960 He said on Friday, it was announced that we added another 304,000 jobs last month alone,

00:39:47.440 double what was expected.

00:39:49.600 An economic miracle is taking place in the United States.

00:39:52.420 And the only thing that can stop us are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations.

00:39:58.600 First of all, when they talked about, when he talked about, um, the numbers of Hispanics

00:40:04.480 and African-American and women in the workforce, they did not react well to that.

00:40:11.620 And I was shocked.

00:40:12.440 How do you not, how do you not stand and applaud that?

00:40:15.400 That's, that's a victory for all of us.

00:40:17.780 Um, uh, but then he, when he ended it, go ahead.

00:40:21.560 No, I'm just saying the Democrats, the left are building their whole platform on, on victims.

00:40:28.100 And when the president breaks that paradigm and talks about policies that help minorities

00:40:34.600 that move our country forward.

00:40:36.280 And more than anything, the president is taking the working class Americans, even union members

00:40:41.860 away from the Democrats.

00:40:43.420 And, and they're having to, I mean, they're going apoplectic, as you can see, they're moving

00:40:48.820 to the left.

00:40:49.920 Uh, I just hope not much of the country will follow them.

00:40:53.380 I can't imagine doing that, but the facts don't matter to the left.

00:40:57.400 And that means the media as well.

00:40:59.460 So the ability of the American people to know what the president said last night, I'm sure

00:41:04.580 a few million watched it, but most will know what he said by the way the media, um, interprets

00:41:10.840 it, so we've got a lot of work to do to just help America understand that, that the, that

00:41:17.460 the free enterprise, uh, common sense, traditional value policies make their life better.

00:41:23.860 And I'm committed to that.

00:41:25.480 I know you are.

00:41:26.380 And, and I'm just, um, pretty excited that we've got a president who's willing to, to

00:41:31.400 tackle these things head on.

00:41:33.880 So Jim, tell, tell people what you're doing now.

00:41:36.740 Because you were, you were at the Heritage Foundation, you were a senator and one of the

00:41:42.280 best, uh, in the Tea Party era, you were one of the first adopters, um, and you know,

00:41:48.580 you were looking for help, uh, and you saw the Tea Party as the Calvary, I think.

00:41:53.560 Um, uh, but you, then you went to the Heritage Foundation and now you're a conservative partnership

00:41:58.880 institute.

00:41:59.860 Explain what that is and what you do.

00:42:01.520 Well, Glenn, what I've seen is, uh, groups, uh, movements like the Tea Party can help elect

00:42:07.400 mass waves of good people, but then the swamp, the establishment, even the Republican Party

00:42:12.820 tears them down.

00:42:14.780 I left Heritage to build an organization that supports conservatives on the inside of Congress

00:42:20.340 and inside the government, the administration.

00:42:23.060 So what we do at the conservative partnership, we get congressmen and senators together, uh, develop

00:42:28.480 camaraderie, help them develop consensus.

00:42:30.540 We do a lot of staff training so that when good people come, they don't end up with bad

00:42:35.720 staff that's steering them in the wrong direction.

00:42:37.820 And, and that happens 80% of the time.

00:42:40.520 So we, we've got a job bank.

00:42:42.620 We try to get good people around good people and just get them together.

00:42:45.800 I mean, the place isolates you, it carves you out of the herd.

00:42:49.660 And then before you know it, you're just part of the wallpaper up there.

00:42:53.460 And I've just seen so many people that I helped elect just go the wrong way.

00:42:58.200 And so my commitment for the rest of my time is just to build a support system that gets

00:43:04.540 the backs of the people who are trying to do the right thing.

00:43:07.380 Jim, I will tell you that, um, uh, I, I, I rode the tram for the first time in the tunnels

00:43:14.960 underneath.

00:43:16.220 Um, and it's like, it's, it's like, uh, you know, 1962 Disneyland.

00:43:21.100 It's bizarre and surreal.

00:43:23.340 This little tram that takes, you know, senators and, and house members to the Capitol, which

00:43:29.040 is literally a block and a half away.

00:43:32.060 Um, but it takes them, uh, you know, for about a three or four minute ride on this tram.

00:43:38.000 Um, and then I went upstairs and I was in Nancy Pelosi's office for a few minutes and I saw the,

00:43:44.200 the unbelievable shindig that was going on, um, in, in her office and the, the detachment.

00:43:53.880 And I almost, I mean, you know, me, Jim, I love the secret service.

00:43:58.160 I almost came to fisticuffs with a secret service agent last night.

00:44:01.880 I, I mean, I have, I have never been offended by a secret service agent before.

00:44:07.700 Um, and I had a stare down after like a fourth encounter with this guy, um, because he kept

00:44:15.540 telling me, stop taking notes during the state of the union in the gallery.

00:44:19.940 And, uh, first of all, the rules also state that no applause in the gallery.

00:44:24.580 So I think we were letting go of the rules.

00:44:26.680 Um, and I, I went in, I could not have a cell phone.

00:44:31.300 I wasn't supposed to have anything that could record anything.

00:44:34.620 I, I would, no communication devices.

00:44:36.940 And yet here was Congress beneath us and they were, they were taking selfies.

00:44:42.700 They were, uh, on their Facebook pages.

00:44:45.880 They were surfing the web.

00:44:47.700 They were talking during this thing.

00:44:50.940 They were booing and hissing.

00:44:52.420 And this guy comes to me and says, don't take notes.

00:44:55.380 And, and I thought all I could think of was these people work for me and everybody else

00:45:02.200 in the gallery.

00:45:03.180 You shouldn't be worried about us.

00:45:04.980 You should be worried about them.

00:45:06.860 Why am I the outcast here?

00:45:09.140 I, I, I just had a real problem.

00:45:11.300 How flipped the system is.

00:45:13.340 Well, well, they make the rules, but they don't expect to follow them.

00:45:18.300 And that's part of the problem.

00:45:19.360 Exactly right.

00:45:20.720 They're kind of looking down on the rest of us.

00:45:23.820 Not all of them are that way.

00:45:25.760 No, no, I know that.

00:45:26.700 No problem to, to, to cause distress.

00:45:28.960 And, uh, uh, maybe it's always been that way.

00:45:32.400 But, um, um, anyway, I'm glad you got a chance to experience the secret service by and large

00:45:38.880 or, uh, overworked and they're great, but they, they, they, no, they're great, but they

00:45:44.340 don't apply the rules equally.

00:45:46.100 Um, I can tell you that.

00:45:48.160 Yeah.

00:45:48.680 I, I, and I will tell you that I did ask for forgiveness, uh, you know, in my prayers at

00:45:53.520 night when I got back because I shouldn't have, I mean, I got into a stare down with

00:45:58.780 it.

00:45:58.880 It was not, it was not pretty, not one of my finer moments.

00:46:01.680 And I, I should apologize to him.

00:46:03.700 If I had his name, I would apologize to him, but, um, I just couldn't take these ridiculous

00:46:09.180 rules on the people and none on them.

00:46:12.020 Um, Jim, thank you so much.

00:46:13.740 God bless you.

00:46:14.420 God bless the work that you're doing.

00:46:15.700 You can follow Jim DeMint at Jim DeMint.

00:46:19.060 Um, thank you so much, Jim.

00:46:20.500 We'll talk to you again later.

00:46:24.200 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:46:29.240 We welcome, uh, to our studios in Washington, D.C.

00:46:33.960 Senator Mike Lee.

00:46:35.320 How are you, Senator?

00:46:36.120 Doing great.

00:46:36.600 It's good to be with you, Glenn.

00:46:37.420 Yeah.

00:46:37.840 Uh, so I was in the gallery last night.

00:46:39.820 It takes on, the State of the Union takes on a different feel when you're actually there.

00:46:44.240 It does.

00:46:44.980 Absolutely electric.

00:46:45.920 And last night was no exception.

00:46:47.140 Yeah.

00:46:47.440 Uh, and I was, I wouldn't necessarily call it electric, but, um, uh, but, uh, sitting up

00:46:54.860 in the gallery, I was facing the president.

00:46:56.980 I was 50 yard line facing the president.

00:46:58.780 I could see what everybody was doing with their cell phones and I could see who was engaged

00:47:03.460 who wasn't.

00:47:04.480 It, there needs to be a camera from behind, um, and focused on, you know, all of the, the

00:47:12.280 senators and all of the, uh, house members because it really takes on a different view

00:47:18.600 when you're watching who's telling who, what, and who's whispering something and how they're

00:47:25.100 really reacting.

00:47:25.840 And when they're taking selfies at really inappropriate times, it was amazing.

00:47:30.060 I can imagine.

00:47:31.480 I'd like to sit up there sometime just to get that perspective.

00:47:34.060 It was amazing.

00:47:35.100 Um, I thought the speech last night may have definitely the best speech I think I've heard

00:47:40.200 him give.

00:47:41.180 Um, and I think it may be one of the most inspiring speeches I've heard in, uh, in, uh, a State of

00:47:50.160 the Union.

00:47:50.640 Um, I'm trying to remember Bush maybe after 9-11, but I don't think so.

00:47:55.660 I think you go back to Reagan on that soaring kind of, this is who we are kind of thing.

00:48:01.500 Yeah, I think that's right.

00:48:02.140 This is the best State of the Union I've heard in a long time, certainly been since I've been

00:48:05.740 in office and really for quite a while before then.

00:48:08.360 Yeah.

00:48:08.680 He knocked it out of the park.

00:48:09.660 It was terrific.

00:48:10.300 Um, what are you expecting out of this?

00:48:13.660 Anything?

00:48:13.960 First of all, was there anything historic that happened last night that he said or anything

00:48:20.080 historic?

00:48:20.860 Yes.

00:48:21.260 Here's what I think is the single most historic takeaway.

00:48:24.120 When the President of the United States said, hey, you know, we should be concerned about

00:48:29.360 the killing of babies who have been born and are breathing.

00:48:33.440 And virtually half of the chamber in the House of Representatives, half of the senators, virtually

00:48:40.760 half of the representatives sat there, silent, stone-faced, refusing to respond in any way.

00:48:48.640 That was historic.

00:48:49.940 Not necessarily in a good way, but it was historic nonetheless.

00:48:53.160 It's a chilling reminder of how far our government has drifted from what normal people of ordinary

00:48:59.600 moral sensibilities know is right.

00:49:01.120 Um, I, I think they are so far out of touch with, uh, the Democrats in the art land, the

00:49:07.880 Democrats around the country, at least the Democrats that I know.

00:49:10.960 And I don't think the Democrats, um, really understand how radical these people really are.

00:49:17.700 And, and I tell you, Mike, I, I look at this every day and I talk about the radicals.

00:49:22.220 I've been talking about, you know, the socialists for a long time.

00:49:25.540 I don't think I really realized how radical they were until I sat in that chamber last night

00:49:31.040 and I watched them react when the cameras were not on them.

00:49:35.600 They mocked, they laughed, uh, they poked at each other.

00:49:41.420 It was almost like a college reunion, um, uh, atmosphere.

00:49:46.860 Um, and when he was talking about serious, serious issues, the, the, the, the border issue and the

00:49:55.800 caravan, they mocked him the whole time in the chamber.

00:50:00.280 Um, when they, when he talked about abortion and what was happening, um, they were poking

00:50:06.680 each other and rolling each other, rolling their eyes at each other.

00:50:09.900 It was obscene.

00:50:12.420 And I think if the average Democrat would have sat where I was sitting last night, uh, I

00:50:18.540 think they would have realized, oh, these people, I mean, the mask is fully off when they don't

00:50:24.720 think the cameras are there.

00:50:26.000 And I actually felt bad for you and the president and everybody else that was, that goes into this

00:50:32.180 every day, because you're not dealing with honest brokers.

00:50:35.280 You're not dealing with people who are, who they say they are. 0.98

00:50:40.480 That's exactly right.

00:50:41.920 Setting aside for a minute, those who would consider themselves Republicans or libertarians

00:50:46.440 or even independents, just the rank and file Democrat out there, I think has got to be a

00:50:51.040 little bit shocked by this more than a little bit shocked, uh, because when it was about them,

00:50:56.820 they were celebrating when the cameras were on them, they were cheering or doing whatever

00:51:01.320 they could to draw attention to themselves.

00:51:04.020 It was about them when it was about the most vulnerable among us, babies who have been

00:51:10.020 born, who are in the most defenseless, vulnerable position imaginable.

00:51:15.060 They sat there stone cold silence and their silence was deafening on that.

00:51:19.880 It was, you know, I think there was a turning point, uh, and it was a warning, I think to the

00:51:24.980 American people and to Democrats, but they missed it.

00:51:27.840 Um, when we heard, um, when we heard the democratic party at their convention, deny God three times,

00:51:35.840 remember that vote?

00:51:36.580 And I thought it was significant that they took three votes and they denied him three times.

00:51:42.920 Maybe they'll be like Peter and repent later and decide maybe we shouldn't have done that.

00:51:47.540 Right.

00:51:47.780 So I thought that was an important turning point, but that was a turning point for if you were religious,

00:51:54.420 you know, that meant something to you.

00:51:56.780 Um, but this is the fruit of that tree.

00:52:00.060 And when they denied that a baby born should be saved, when they denied that that was life,

00:52:10.280 that was worth preserving a baby, not, we're not talking, we're not even talking in the womb.

00:52:16.320 We're talking now been born and, uh, and is disabled, or they tried to kill it through abortion 1.00

00:52:24.360 or just minutes before their birth.

00:52:27.740 It's obscene.

00:52:29.380 And when they didn't stand for that, and when the president of the United States has to say,

00:52:34.740 we are disturbed by the growth of socialism and, uh, this country will never be socialist.

00:52:42.960 Four years ago, they were mocking anyone who said they were socialist.

00:52:48.600 Now they didn't clap or stand to say, yeah, you're right.

00:52:52.800 America's never going to go socialist.

00:52:55.360 They were, they were not happy with that.

00:52:58.400 And, and look, Glenn, I, I avoid ad hitlarum references like the plague.

00:53:03.100 I do too.

00:53:03.600 If I only knew what ad hitlarum or hitlarian references, uh, to, to Adolf Hitler. 0.66

00:53:10.500 Okay.

00:53:10.780 Hitler. 0.57

00:53:11.020 I avoid that like the plague.

00:53:12.840 Yeah.

00:53:13.400 But at some point in a society, the minute we start talking about killing those who were

00:53:20.360 not willing to recognize as people.

00:53:22.060 And in this case, a breathing, breathing, living human being who has been born, we need

00:53:27.860 to ask ourselves, how did we get here?

00:53:29.800 And how do we get out of this situation?

00:53:32.260 How do we make sure that those people are protected?

00:53:34.560 That's just wrong.

00:53:35.620 I keep, when I woke up this morning, I kept thinking maybe there was a misunderstanding.

00:53:39.940 Maybe that side of the aisle couldn't hear the audio feed.

00:53:42.060 Maybe they misunderstood him.

00:53:43.300 Uh-uh.

00:53:43.860 I would like to believe that there was some misunderstanding that can explain this.

00:53:47.480 There wasn't.

00:53:48.000 If not, we've got a big problem on our hands.

00:53:51.260 I don't think it's with the American people because I don't think the American people are

00:53:54.220 with them.

00:53:54.680 Well.

00:53:55.040 But I think it's with those who have been elected and those who were in that chamber

00:53:58.120 last night.

00:53:58.620 Let me give you, let me give you, um, some perspective.

00:54:03.140 I gave a speech, I don't even remember where it was, about seven years ago.

00:54:07.880 And I had done research, um, on the most vulnerable among us and, and how Hitler, um, got there.

00:54:18.360 Okay.

00:54:18.580 How did you get to the gas chamber?

00:54:20.640 How did you take a group, a good group of, of people?

00:54:23.740 Germans were not bad.

00:54:25.320 They were a lot like us.

00:54:27.300 I mean, we were a very Germanic nation, especially back then.

00:54:31.460 Um, they loved their families.

00:54:33.280 Yeah.

00:54:33.560 They took care of their, their own children, their pets, their neighbors.

00:54:36.880 Yeah.

00:54:37.180 How did that happen?

00:54:39.400 So I started doing research and, uh, it started with a baby called baby now, or it started

00:54:44.300 out as compassion.

00:54:45.660 And, um, long story short, they started killing the most vulnerable.

00:54:50.820 They started killing babies.

00:54:52.460 But when, when they did it, you had to have three signatures from three different doctors.

00:54:59.860 Um, and all the way to the end of the war, you still had to have three signatures.

00:55:05.020 We've just reduced that to one.

00:55:07.180 Even the Nazis said three signatures are required for the death of, of an individual.

00:55:13.880 The next thing that happened, this is very early.

00:55:17.320 They start killing these babies, just like we're now talking about.

00:55:21.320 They start killing these babies.

00:55:23.040 The German people find out.

00:55:24.820 Now, these are the people who voted for Hitler.

00:55:27.240 They voted for Hitler and they were all socialists. 0.53

00:55:32.560 The people stood up and pushed back.

00:55:36.380 It's the only time that I can find where they really pushed back and got Hitler to change, 0.85

00:55:41.060 at least on the surface.

00:55:42.760 And they pushed back and they stood up in such force that they said, we, this is not us.

00:55:49.620 That Hitler had to give a speech where he said, you're exactly right. 0.99

00:55:52.860 We're going to stop this.

00:55:54.320 I'm stopping this immediately.

00:55:55.720 And that's when it went undercover.

00:55:57.800 And he started the T4 program where they just hid it from the people.

00:56:01.860 But even the people who voted for Hitler stood up.

00:56:05.240 Where are we, Mike?

00:56:07.300 I hope we are those people who will push back and who will say, this is not okay.

00:56:11.980 There are some things that our laws should prohibit.

00:56:14.900 One of the most fundamental rules of any civilized society is that we prohibit the unlawful taking

00:56:21.660 of a human life.

00:56:23.360 So just to be clear again here, we are not talking in this instance about abortion.

00:56:27.900 You and I both have views on abortion that are different from what many Democrats in this

00:56:33.200 country think.

00:56:33.740 We are talking here about a child who has been born, who has taken his or her first breath.

00:56:40.880 If we, the people, stand up strongly to our own government and make clear to our society,

00:56:47.040 we want to protect these individuals, which I believe the overwhelming majority of Americans,

00:56:51.000 Republicans, Democrats, and everything else believes, then I think we can stand up for life

00:56:56.040 here.

00:56:56.220 So the problem is, and I saw it with these radicals in the Progressive Women's Caucus,

00:57:03.740 last night, they mock it, and they roll their eyes when you bring it up.

00:57:10.000 And what you're seeing on social media is that the Democrats are saying, they're lying

00:57:14.820 to you.

00:57:15.520 That's not what we're talking about.

00:57:18.020 They're lying to you.

00:57:19.760 We're talking about just cleaning up some language, old language.

00:57:24.600 There's nothing new in these bills, and they are denying it to their own people.

00:57:29.580 And because we're so polarized, the left is believing their own people who are lying to

00:57:38.440 them.

00:57:39.280 But this, Glenn, is the kind of legal issue where one need not get wrapped around the

00:57:44.400 axle.

00:57:44.800 In other words, this is the kind of legal issue where definitions can remain simple.

00:57:49.680 The English used can be plain.

00:57:52.580 And where we can make clear, if what you're talking about is terminating a pregnancy, there

00:57:59.260 is a different way of phrasing that.

00:58:01.000 Right.

00:58:01.160 But if you're talking about wanting to make sure that you can kill a human life after

00:58:05.620 that human has been born and taken its first breath, that's something terribly different.

00:58:10.060 This is why Patty Murray in the Senate was so shameful, because she stood up after Ben

00:58:16.460 Sasse said, we just want, you cannot kill a baby after birth.

00:58:20.680 You can't do it.

00:58:22.460 And she said, this is such a sham there.

00:58:24.840 This is not what that bill means.

00:58:26.400 And so I'm stopping the vote.

00:58:28.420 Well, why would you do that?

00:58:30.820 If that's not what it means, you would stand up and say, that's not what it means.

00:58:34.260 And to prove it, let's take this vote because we're all against it, too.

00:58:40.020 That's exactly right.

00:58:40.940 And that's one of the reasons why we've got to keep pushing for a vote on Ben Sasse's

00:58:45.440 bill.

00:58:46.520 Ben is a hero for bringing this issue forward, for filing that legislation.

00:58:50.540 And I think we need to pass it.

00:58:51.860 In order to pass it, we've got to continue to demand, insist on a vote over and over

00:58:56.580 and over again, because this is what it means.

00:58:59.380 It means exactly what it says it means.

00:59:01.440 There is no ambiguity in that bill.

00:59:04.340 And we need to pass it.

00:59:05.420 OK, I've only got about a minute here before I have to take a break.

00:59:08.520 Let me ask you this last question.

00:59:11.400 I believe the president is going to go for the national emergency thing and do something

00:59:15.980 to get something on the border.

00:59:18.900 What does that mean?

00:59:19.940 Is that even constitutional?

00:59:21.140 Whether he has authority to do this depends on what the source of his authority is.

00:59:29.240 Under a line of cases called Youngstown, Sheet and Tube versus Sawyer and Dames and Moore

00:59:33.060 versus Regan, we have to look at whether or not there's a statute that designates, that

00:59:37.140 authorizes the president to take a particular action.

00:59:39.340 Is there one?

00:59:39.920 I think there might be, if he chooses to take the appropriate path.

00:59:44.140 I think the most defensible path for him to do that is found in Title 10 of the U.S. Code,

00:59:48.880 10 U.S.C., Section 284B7.

00:59:51.960 What that says, essentially, is that...

00:59:53.480 I love you.

00:59:53.860 Well, hey, you know...

00:59:54.940 I know that's what you do, and I love you.

00:59:56.600 You're great at it.

00:59:56.800 In the small town of Alpine, Utah, we speak of little else.

01:00:00.640 This says, basically, that the president may establish a fence along an international

01:00:05.700 boundary where necessary to stop the unlawful international trafficking of drugs.

01:00:12.240 That, to me, appears to be pretty clear.

01:00:14.660 Appears to give him pretty clear authority.

01:00:16.280 If he uses that, I think he's on fairly solid ground.

01:00:19.200 I'd still rather it go through Congress, but if he wants to use executive authority, that

01:00:22.660 is one of the better places to look.

01:00:24.140 Are you advising him on this at all?

01:00:27.220 No, I'm not.

01:00:28.060 The White House has...

01:00:29.420 I've reached out to the White House multiple times.

01:00:31.420 They're keeping their own counsel on this.

01:00:34.060 I'm sure they've got their reasons for doing that, but we'll see what happens.

01:00:37.840 Mike, thank you so much for everything that you do.

01:00:40.280 And everybody I talked to last night were fans of yours.

01:00:44.480 You're one of the few that are really fighting the good fight and are not...

01:00:49.320 Haven't changed.

01:00:50.840 And I appreciate that.

01:00:52.220 God bless you.

01:00:52.800 Thank you, Glenn.

01:00:53.520 Thank you.

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