The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program with Arthur Brooks

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00:00:06.140 Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.

00:00:08.800 It's Friday, what a week this thing has been.

00:00:11.840 Total nightmare, and today we delve into, so what happened this week?

00:00:18.280 Who won? Who won?

00:00:20.620 We opened the show with that question, who won?

00:00:23.580 And it came from my children last night.

00:00:26.560 What are the ramifications of all of this?

00:00:29.120 How come the FBI wasn't called in?

00:00:31.760 I mean, don't they find out the truth?

00:00:33.500 No. No, they deliver a dossier.

00:00:36.980 You want the FBI in?

00:00:38.480 Do you trust?

00:00:39.420 Does Ford trust the FBI with a dossier to keep those allegations secret?

00:00:47.020 Because anybody can say anything.

00:00:49.800 They only gather voices, and then the Senate would have to call them forward.

00:00:54.460 Do you think that that dossier is safe in the hands of anyone in Washington, D.C.?

00:01:00.840 Honestly, do you?

00:01:03.580 It's the same kind of dossier that said Donald Trump was taking golden showers in Moscow.

00:01:09.560 They didn't keep that secret, did they?

00:01:11.300 Also, Bill O'Reilly joins us.

00:01:14.320 He is great and right, spot on today.

00:01:19.400 And Arthur Brooks joins us for a look at the country.

00:01:25.100 Is America worth saving?

00:01:27.200 The one question we're not asking.

00:01:30.440 Is all of this worth saving?

00:01:32.700 If so, why and how?

00:01:37.900 All on today's podcast.

00:01:45.820 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:51.800 It's Friday, September 28th.

00:01:54.840 Glenn Beck.

00:01:56.380 I was home yesterday with my children.

00:01:58.540 They're homeschooled.

00:02:06.020 My wife, my wife kept saying, please turn down the television, honey, because the kids have to pay attention.

00:02:16.500 I had the Kavanaugh hearings on.

00:02:22.760 Normally, if the news is on, the kids are not paying any attention at all.

00:02:26.000 They can do anything if the news is on.

00:02:30.420 But yesterday, it was compelling.

00:02:34.700 I said to my wife, I think the kids need to watch this.

00:02:37.300 This is history.

00:02:38.180 This is our country at a pivot point.

00:02:44.360 What we choose to do today and tomorrow and the next day,

00:02:49.480 based on what happened yesterday,

00:02:53.260 this is a fork in the road.

00:02:55.220 My kids watched the horror show.

00:03:01.700 They both said to me separately,

00:03:03.540 I don't understand the process.

00:03:05.200 I don't understand.

00:03:06.300 How is this even working?

00:03:11.320 I tried to explain it, but I couldn't.

00:03:14.000 Because it made no sense at all.

00:03:17.080 You have a prosecutor asking questions,

00:03:19.780 line of inquiry,

00:03:20.880 and then we go to five minutes of fluff,

00:03:23.240 and then back to her.

00:03:24.500 She can't make a point.

00:03:25.780 We can't find any information.

00:03:27.640 My kids ask me,

00:03:28.840 what is the evidence?

00:03:32.480 There is no evidence.

00:03:34.900 It's her or him.

00:03:36.500 Because my kids had to finish their homework,

00:03:43.600 and it lasted all day.

00:03:45.840 I turned it off and turned it on in another room.

00:03:54.020 Both my kids separately asked me last night.

00:03:57.560 It's a quote.

00:03:58.400 Who won?

00:04:01.500 That bothered me.

00:04:03.680 Who won?

00:04:07.360 Out of the mouths of babes.

00:04:12.400 I was singing that last night as I turned on cable news.

00:04:16.640 Cable news.

00:04:18.260 It wasn't news.

00:04:20.420 It was sports.

00:04:21.260 It was ESPN.

00:04:26.020 Who blocked?

00:04:26.980 Who tackled?

00:04:28.240 Who had the touchdown?

00:04:32.120 I'm sick to my stomach.

00:04:36.860 Is anyone thinking of the ramifications in Washington?

00:04:40.520 Is anyone in Washington thinking about what this means for the Republic?

00:04:45.820 It was an embarrassment.

00:04:49.140 I can't call myself an American if this is what the American people want.

00:04:54.280 But I will tell you,

00:04:56.420 I cannot believe I'm wrong on this.

00:05:00.420 This is not reflective of the American people.

00:05:06.760 I don't know who won.

00:05:10.300 But I will tell you who lost.

00:05:12.340 All of us.

00:05:17.480 All of us lost yesterday.

00:05:21.560 Our children lost yesterday.

00:05:26.440 I think yesterday is the first day that I could say,

00:05:33.520 Mr. Franklin,

00:05:35.120 I don't think we're capable of keeping this Republic.

00:05:39.580 It's Friday,

00:05:45.160 September 28th.

00:05:46.440 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:05:51.800 Anybody notice yesterday how the Republicans behaved?

00:05:58.080 Now I'm not going to give them extra points because honestly,

00:06:03.360 the way they,

00:06:04.300 the only reason why they didn't question Ford themselves is because quite

00:06:09.640 honestly,

00:06:10.500 the most pessimistic part of me says,

00:06:15.300 because they were cowards,

00:06:16.660 because they didn't want to be asked them.

00:06:19.660 They don't,

00:06:20.160 they didn't want to be the ones on film,

00:06:23.120 on television,

00:06:24.120 asking a question that would then be taken and twisted into something angry,

00:06:31.380 anti-women,

00:06:32.880 pro-rapist.

00:06:34.460 So what did they do?

00:06:36.860 They got an ordinary looking woman who was very qualified to ask all of the

00:06:42.120 questions.

00:06:43.160 So what happens on cable news last night?

00:06:46.640 What happens on cable news last night is we don't know where she was going.

00:06:50.360 We don't know why she was,

00:06:51.560 what she was even building up to.

00:06:53.240 Of course not.

00:06:54.460 Because this system was not designed to do what they did yesterday.

00:07:00.960 See what this system is,

00:07:02.520 has been designed to do.

00:07:04.080 Now this is not its original design,

00:07:06.040 but what it's been designed to do lately is just give political candidates airtime so

00:07:12.100 they can position themselves with their voters.

00:07:15.280 That's all this system is for.

00:07:17.640 It's not a search for truth.

00:07:19.700 They weren't looking for the truth last night.

00:07:21.660 And if I hear one more damn person say about the FBI,

00:07:24.500 the FBI does not deliver truth.

00:07:27.460 They deliver raw data.

00:07:32.120 So they deliver all the he said,

00:07:34.140 she saids.

00:07:34.960 Well,

00:07:35.780 we have all of that.

00:07:36.840 What we're looking for here is evidence.

00:07:39.200 And there is no evidence.

00:07:41.660 There's no evidence.

00:07:48.300 So the Republicans,

00:07:49.980 they get up

00:07:50.600 and they treat Ford with respect.

00:07:57.740 I'm tweeting.

00:07:59.460 I'm tweeting the whole time.

00:08:01.300 I am making sure I am on my best behavior

00:08:06.340 because that's what the country needs.

00:08:10.800 Best behavior.

00:08:13.740 Not as a media person,

00:08:16.000 but also as a dad.

00:08:18.080 I didn't say this woman is making all this stuff up.

00:08:21.940 I said,

00:08:22.980 this woman says this man

00:08:25.780 pinned her down

00:08:29.480 and tried to take her clothes off.

00:08:33.140 when dad?

00:08:37.080 36,

00:08:37.640 37 years ago.

00:08:38.700 We're not even sure of the year.

00:08:40.300 We're not sure of the year.

00:08:42.400 No,

00:08:42.880 we're not sure of the month.

00:08:44.180 We're not even sure of the day.

00:08:47.240 Well,

00:08:47.640 where did it happen?

00:08:48.600 We don't know that.

00:08:50.520 Well,

00:08:50.920 does anybody else say that it happened?

00:08:53.020 She said that there were four other people there.

00:08:55.100 All four of them have said

00:08:56.720 that didn't happen.

00:08:59.420 Now,

00:09:00.000 it'd be very easy for me

00:09:01.420 to then say,

00:09:02.620 see,

00:09:03.240 she's lying.

00:09:07.060 Instead,

00:09:08.220 I expressed

00:09:10.000 her viewpoint

00:09:11.200 that it is

00:09:12.840 something that they may not have remembered

00:09:15.280 because it was normal for them.

00:09:19.280 When the press was

00:09:20.940 fawning over her crying,

00:09:23.680 I did not utter

00:09:26.200 to my children,

00:09:27.640 no,

00:09:28.240 she's not crying.

00:09:29.940 Has anybody seen her

00:09:31.400 wipe a tear?

00:09:35.320 I,

00:09:36.120 I said yesterday

00:09:37.560 to my kids

00:09:38.480 and to the public

00:09:39.500 that I could feel her fear

00:09:42.200 and I could understand it.

00:09:44.900 She was in a very

00:09:47.220 dicey situation yesterday.

00:09:50.920 And I felt for her.

00:09:52.600 And I listened to her.

00:09:57.980 I went

00:09:59.220 with an open mind.

00:10:01.740 And here's what I found

00:10:03.400 about Ford.

00:10:05.740 Personally,

00:10:06.960 I thought what we saw yesterday

00:10:09.560 was somebody

00:10:13.060 who was very afraid,

00:10:14.760 somebody who was very nervous.

00:10:16.460 But I'm sorry.

00:10:19.780 I didn't connect

00:10:21.260 the emotion of

00:10:23.600 this was the worst experience

00:10:25.560 of my life

00:10:26.420 and I've never been able

00:10:28.020 to get past it.

00:10:29.140 It's why I have

00:10:30.100 two front doors.

00:10:31.920 I was not able

00:10:33.160 to get past it.

00:10:34.000 It didn't

00:10:34.780 seem

00:10:35.800 connected.

00:10:39.240 Now,

00:10:39.840 she was asking for caffeine.

00:10:41.320 I wanted to ask the question,

00:10:43.020 which I think

00:10:44.060 is absolutely appropriate

00:10:45.920 and I'm not trying

00:10:47.080 to throw her under the bus,

00:10:48.900 but in your case,

00:10:51.140 you had to fly here,

00:10:52.440 which you don't like to do.

00:10:53.740 You had to fly here.

00:10:55.500 You are now,

00:10:56.380 your family is under attack.

00:10:58.400 People have come

00:10:59.120 out of the woods.

00:11:00.660 You don't know

00:11:01.300 what this hearing

00:11:02.060 is going to be.

00:11:02.960 I can't imagine

00:11:03.740 you've slept well

00:11:04.760 for a week.

00:11:05.760 Are you under

00:11:06.480 any kind of doctor's

00:11:08.200 orders or medication?

00:11:10.380 Why are you asking

00:11:11.300 for caffeine?

00:11:12.220 I would think

00:11:12.840 that this would

00:11:13.640 keep you wide awake.

00:11:15.620 This is the most

00:11:16.540 important thing

00:11:17.340 you'll ever probably do.

00:11:19.680 Why caffeine?

00:11:21.160 When she said

00:11:21.980 halfway through,

00:11:22.860 I'm sorry,

00:11:23.540 Senator,

00:11:23.940 I can't keep up.

00:11:24.980 My brain's not working

00:11:26.260 fast right now.

00:11:27.780 I wondered,

00:11:28.580 again,

00:11:29.100 are you on

00:11:30.000 any kind of medication?

00:11:31.640 That is not a smear.

00:11:33.500 That's an honest question

00:11:34.880 because she seemed

00:11:36.160 detached to me,

00:11:38.580 recalling the worst

00:11:39.960 time of her life.

00:11:41.640 Her voice,

00:11:42.920 her voice changed.

00:11:45.920 But I didn't see it

00:11:47.080 in her face.

00:11:47.820 I didn't see it

00:11:48.500 in her eyes.

00:11:49.840 Now,

00:11:50.360 that doesn't mean

00:11:51.200 that it didn't happen.

00:11:53.020 I think she was

00:11:54.120 tranquilized.

00:11:55.220 I think she is,

00:11:56.440 she was on medication,

00:11:57.600 which I understand.

00:12:03.320 But if that's true,

00:12:04.820 that would explain

00:12:05.920 why it didn't seem

00:12:07.580 to come from the chest.

00:12:09.000 It seemed to come

00:12:10.060 from her head.

00:12:11.420 Now,

00:12:11.700 maybe others had

00:12:12.460 a different experience

00:12:13.420 with her.

00:12:14.780 But I walked away

00:12:15.840 from it thinking,

00:12:16.780 she's somewhat credible.

00:12:21.360 She should be

00:12:22.360 taken seriously.

00:12:25.840 But I don't know.

00:12:27.940 But I was actually,

00:12:29.800 before Kavanaugh spoke,

00:12:31.680 more open

00:12:32.800 to her

00:12:33.920 having a slam dunk.

00:12:36.060 I wanted to see

00:12:37.580 how he was going

00:12:38.480 to respond.

00:12:41.320 And then I saw

00:12:42.220 him respond.

00:12:45.600 And I'm sorry.

00:12:48.900 But that emotion

00:12:49.940 was real.

00:12:51.080 That emotion

00:12:51.800 came from the heart,

00:12:52.860 not the head.

00:12:56.040 Now,

00:12:56.560 I am willing

00:12:57.160 to say

00:12:57.780 they both

00:12:58.900 believe

00:12:59.600 exactly

00:13:01.220 what they're saying.

00:13:02.180 100%.

00:13:03.800 I have a hard time

00:13:06.180 with somebody

00:13:07.080 saying to

00:13:08.280 the press,

00:13:09.640 saying in a statement,

00:13:12.140 I didn't know

00:13:13.440 for sure,

00:13:14.840 but after I met

00:13:16.140 with my attorneys

00:13:17.100 for six days,

00:13:18.640 I'm 100%

00:13:20.580 sure it was

00:13:21.520 Brett Kavanaugh.

00:13:23.920 Could it be

00:13:24.900 Brett Kavanaugh?

00:13:26.020 Yeah,

00:13:26.400 it could be.

00:13:27.120 Is it?

00:13:29.640 I have no idea

00:13:31.280 because I do

00:13:32.540 believe him.

00:13:38.980 So now we're left

00:13:40.020 with,

00:13:40.520 what are we going

00:13:41.260 to do?

00:13:42.360 Well,

00:13:42.580 what do we do?

00:13:43.780 Yeah,

00:13:44.320 that's the funny thing.

00:13:45.580 That's why

00:13:46.300 you don't air

00:13:47.380 these things

00:13:48.160 in public.

00:13:49.900 That's why

00:13:50.760 you have

00:13:51.600 you have

00:13:53.060 a prosecutor's

00:13:54.060 office

00:13:54.320 who looks

00:13:55.320 at the cops

00:13:55.840 and says,

00:13:56.580 well,

00:13:56.780 you gave me

00:13:57.160 a bunch

00:13:57.540 of raw

00:13:57.920 data here.

00:13:58.640 It means

00:13:59.000 nothing.

00:13:59.940 I know,

00:14:00.400 well,

00:14:00.520 we had the FBI

00:14:01.200 ask all these

00:14:02.000 questions.

00:14:02.920 Well,

00:14:03.180 yeah,

00:14:03.360 you got a lot

00:14:03.840 of questions

00:14:04.340 here,

00:14:04.720 but I don't

00:14:05.260 see any

00:14:05.660 answers.

00:14:06.880 I don't

00:14:07.520 have a case.

00:14:08.800 I'd be laughed

00:14:09.580 out of court.

00:14:12.660 This is why

00:14:13.780 the Democrats

00:14:14.760 did not bring

00:14:15.980 this up

00:14:16.500 two months

00:14:17.060 ago,

00:14:17.380 because there

00:14:18.420 is no answer

00:14:19.580 to this.

00:14:22.700 You know

00:14:23.340 who,

00:14:23.820 you know

00:14:24.460 who the

00:14:26.040 real abuser

00:14:27.380 is here?

00:14:29.880 Senator

00:14:30.520 Feinstein

00:14:31.200 and the

00:14:32.120 rest of

00:14:32.840 her clan

00:14:33.940 who tried

00:14:36.700 to round

00:14:37.240 up and

00:14:37.700 lynch a

00:14:38.420 man based

00:14:40.300 on hearsay.

00:14:46.060 How

00:14:46.680 that letter,

00:14:47.320 how was that

00:14:47.760 letter leaked?

00:14:48.280 We all

00:14:50.020 know the

00:14:51.900 Democratic

00:14:52.460 Party leaked

00:14:53.640 that letter.

00:14:55.000 Why?

00:14:56.720 Because they

00:14:57.500 knew they

00:14:57.840 had nothing.

00:14:59.100 All they

00:14:59.740 had was a

00:15:00.520 smear.

00:15:01.400 Now,

00:15:01.680 they may

00:15:02.160 believe her,

00:15:03.320 and you

00:15:04.120 can believe

00:15:04.700 her.

00:15:06.420 I'm not

00:15:07.240 God.

00:15:08.600 So,

00:15:09.400 I'm at the

00:15:10.300 point where

00:15:10.720 I say,

00:15:11.720 I think it's

00:15:13.160 pretty weak,

00:15:14.360 but who am I

00:15:15.560 to say?

00:15:15.980 I can't

00:15:16.580 judge her

00:15:17.080 emotion.

00:15:18.220 I have a

00:15:19.260 problem with

00:15:19.640 it, but

00:15:19.840 everybody's

00:15:20.360 different.

00:15:21.640 So,

00:15:22.360 I'm not

00:15:22.560 going to

00:15:22.800 judge her.

00:15:25.720 I look

00:15:26.560 at Kavanaugh.

00:15:28.140 I believe

00:15:29.180 him.

00:15:30.300 I believe

00:15:31.020 his emotion

00:15:31.580 was real.

00:15:33.580 I believe

00:15:34.020 this man

00:15:34.600 was,

00:15:35.840 I believe

00:15:36.460 this man,

00:15:37.860 you want

00:15:38.360 to talk

00:15:38.620 about

00:15:38.840 reparations?

00:15:41.240 How do

00:15:42.020 you,

00:15:42.260 how do

00:15:42.740 you repair

00:15:43.380 his life?

00:15:46.560 Now,

00:15:47.240 God help

00:15:47.840 him if

00:15:48.200 he's a

00:15:48.520 liar.

00:15:49.960 God help

00:15:50.860 her if

00:15:51.700 she's a

00:15:52.200 liar.

00:15:54.740 But,

00:15:55.440 dear God,

00:15:55.900 help us

00:15:56.520 because we

00:15:58.780 are turning

00:15:59.780 into

00:16:00.540 animals.

00:16:04.900 What's

00:16:05.500 really

00:16:05.720 frightening

00:16:06.120 is people

00:16:07.880 deserve,

00:16:09.160 people

00:16:09.540 deserve

00:16:10.420 in a

00:16:11.220 republic

00:16:11.800 the

00:16:13.800 government

00:16:14.320 that

00:16:15.240 they

00:16:15.460 get?

00:16:17.540 What

00:16:18.060 the hell

00:16:18.660 did

00:16:18.900 yesterday

00:16:19.400 say

00:16:20.300 about

00:16:20.780 us?

00:16:23.700 The best

00:16:24.500 of the

00:16:24.760 Glenn Beck

00:16:25.140 program.

00:16:32.700 Bill,

00:16:33.420 how are

00:16:33.920 things?

00:16:36.600 Busy,

00:16:37.200 Beck.

00:16:37.620 I'm glad

00:16:38.000 you're back

00:16:38.440 on the

00:16:38.720 radio.

00:16:39.200 Thank

00:16:39.520 you.

00:16:40.500 Feeling

00:16:41.020 better,

00:16:41.340 I hope.

00:16:41.780 I am

00:16:42.100 feeling

00:16:42.380 better.

00:16:42.800 Yesterday

00:16:43.160 did not

00:16:43.600 help my

00:16:43.920 blood

00:16:44.140 pressure

00:16:44.500 at all.

00:16:46.020 You know,

00:16:46.360 I watched

00:16:46.700 this yesterday

00:16:47.320 and I'm

00:16:47.600 anxious to

00:16:48.100 hear your

00:16:48.680 view of

00:16:49.640 this.

00:16:50.320 I thought,

00:16:51.160 you know,

00:16:51.920 with an

00:16:52.420 exception of

00:16:53.040 the lack

00:16:53.620 of evidence,

00:16:55.420 the lack

00:16:55.900 of any

00:16:56.420 specific

00:16:57.060 detail,

00:16:58.380 I couldn't

00:17:00.440 come out

00:17:01.180 and say,

00:17:01.880 oh,

00:17:02.260 she's lying.

00:17:03.100 This is

00:17:03.420 clearly a

00:17:04.160 lie.

00:17:04.880 It didn't

00:17:05.600 feel like it

00:17:07.920 came from

00:17:08.420 her heart as

00:17:09.040 much as it

00:17:09.460 did from

00:17:09.800 her head,

00:17:10.320 but she

00:17:11.460 was so

00:17:11.900 afraid of

00:17:13.080 testifying

00:17:13.800 yesterday.

00:17:14.260 I think that

00:17:15.260 kind of

00:17:15.580 jumbled

00:17:15.940 everything.

00:17:16.480 So I

00:17:17.320 don't know

00:17:18.080 if I even

00:17:18.480 got a

00:17:18.760 real read

00:17:19.380 from her,

00:17:20.020 but I'm

00:17:20.660 willing to

00:17:21.300 take it at

00:17:21.980 face value

00:17:22.600 if there

00:17:23.080 was evidence.

00:17:24.680 There is

00:17:25.480 no evidence.

00:17:26.420 And when

00:17:26.620 Kavanaugh

00:17:27.080 came up,

00:17:28.100 I mean,

00:17:29.180 he made me

00:17:29.960 cry two

00:17:31.080 or three

00:17:31.440 times just

00:17:32.600 because of

00:17:33.440 the thought

00:17:33.840 of what

00:17:34.820 his life

00:17:35.320 has been

00:17:35.680 like against

00:17:37.440 a foe

00:17:38.540 that is

00:17:38.880 shadow

00:17:39.440 boxing.

00:17:42.060 Tell me

00:17:42.780 about it,

00:17:43.240 Beck.

00:17:43.940 I know.

00:17:45.580 Okay.

00:17:46.640 So I

00:17:47.740 approach

00:17:48.160 things

00:17:48.440 differently

00:17:48.880 than most

00:17:50.700 media people

00:17:52.080 do.

00:17:53.220 And I

00:17:54.780 watched all

00:17:55.600 of it

00:17:55.880 yesterday.

00:17:56.300 I saw the

00:17:57.020 whole thing

00:17:57.540 because I

00:17:57.980 was on

00:17:58.320 BillOReilly.com

00:17:59.300 tweeting.

00:17:59.760 I wrote

00:18:00.660 a column.

00:18:01.440 I wrote

00:18:02.040 a message

00:18:02.460 of the

00:18:02.800 day.

00:18:03.220 And then

00:18:03.420 I delivered

00:18:03.940 my half

00:18:05.160 hour broadcast

00:18:05.880 last night.

00:18:08.460 I

00:18:09.140 de-emphasized

00:18:11.120 the testimony

00:18:12.720 of Dr.

00:18:13.920 Ford

00:18:14.280 only because

00:18:16.100 I can

00:18:17.080 not say

00:18:18.240 with any

00:18:18.840 certainty

00:18:19.480 what happened

00:18:21.640 to her.

00:18:22.660 And I

00:18:22.960 think that's

00:18:23.360 fair.

00:18:24.360 I can't

00:18:25.180 it's beyond

00:18:26.740 my capability.

00:18:28.880 I can't

00:18:29.260 read her

00:18:29.600 mind.

00:18:30.080 I can't

00:18:30.440 read her

00:18:30.780 heart.

00:18:31.520 I haven't

00:18:32.020 talked to

00:18:32.460 a therapist.

00:18:33.440 Most

00:18:33.680 Americans

00:18:34.160 are like

00:18:34.600 this.

00:18:35.060 I'm not

00:18:35.760 willing to

00:18:36.160 throw her

00:18:36.620 under the

00:18:37.100 bus.

00:18:39.200 Right.

00:18:39.560 I respectfully

00:18:40.180 listen to

00:18:40.820 her.

00:18:41.140 Yes.

00:18:41.700 And then

00:18:42.280 I started

00:18:42.840 to put

00:18:44.060 things

00:18:44.440 together.

00:18:45.920 So the

00:18:47.500 headline of

00:18:48.520 the story

00:18:49.080 is she

00:18:51.160 cannot

00:18:51.600 corroborate

00:18:52.860 her

00:18:53.940 accusation

00:18:54.760 against

00:18:55.400 an American

00:18:56.780 citizen,

00:18:57.560 Brett

00:18:57.740 Kavanaugh.

00:18:58.400 That's the

00:18:59.020 headline.

00:18:59.600 everybody

00:19:01.920 should

00:19:02.180 understand

00:19:02.580 that.

00:19:03.580 Can't

00:19:04.220 corroborate

00:19:05.000 it.

00:19:06.060 And

00:19:06.360 everybody's

00:19:06.960 gone over

00:19:07.480 it.

00:19:07.780 But I'll

00:19:08.500 just tell

00:19:08.860 you one

00:19:09.200 thing.

00:19:10.380 I have a

00:19:11.260 15-year-old

00:19:12.080 son and I

00:19:12.700 discussed

00:19:13.060 this with

00:19:13.600 him.

00:19:14.480 If you're

00:19:15.200 15 years

00:19:16.000 old and

00:19:16.500 you're

00:19:16.700 traumatized,

00:19:18.120 you remember

00:19:19.260 as Dr.

00:19:22.120 Ford did.

00:19:22.740 it, but

00:19:24.120 you also

00:19:24.600 remember

00:19:25.240 details about

00:19:26.560 it.

00:19:27.800 You don't

00:19:28.640 remember who

00:19:29.360 drove you

00:19:29.900 there or

00:19:30.420 who drove

00:19:31.020 you home.

00:19:33.340 Impossible.

00:19:34.400 To me.

00:19:35.440 To me.

00:19:36.560 I'm sure you

00:19:37.160 can get a

00:19:37.460 psychologist to

00:19:38.260 come in and

00:19:38.700 say, oh,

00:19:39.060 no, people

00:19:40.400 black out or

00:19:41.340 whatever.

00:19:41.900 To me,

00:19:43.000 you got to

00:19:44.840 know how

00:19:46.200 you got

00:19:46.560 home.

00:19:46.880 Bill, I

00:19:47.600 have to

00:19:47.860 tell you,

00:19:48.900 there are

00:19:51.040 things that,

00:19:52.440 you know,

00:19:52.920 the only

00:19:53.560 thing I can

00:19:53.980 compare this

00:19:54.540 to is my

00:19:55.200 mother's sudden

00:19:55.800 death.

00:19:56.820 I'm 15

00:19:57.700 years old.

00:19:58.260 My mother

00:19:58.600 suddenly dies.

00:19:59.600 I can tell

00:20:00.380 you where I

00:20:01.700 was when I

00:20:02.360 found out.

00:20:03.080 I can tell

00:20:03.680 you where

00:20:05.720 I, you

00:20:06.720 know, when I

00:20:07.120 first suspected,

00:20:08.140 I can tell you

00:20:08.600 where I was.

00:20:09.140 I can tell

00:20:09.480 you when I

00:20:09.920 was, which

00:20:11.260 class I was

00:20:12.040 in, what I

00:20:12.520 was looking

00:20:13.380 at.

00:20:13.720 I can't tell

00:20:14.100 you the names

00:20:14.500 of the bases

00:20:14.960 and the people

00:20:15.500 around me,

00:20:16.300 but I can

00:20:16.780 remember all

00:20:17.440 those details.

00:20:18.220 I can remember

00:20:19.120 what we had

00:20:20.620 to do that

00:20:21.220 day.

00:20:21.640 I can remember

00:20:22.360 some very

00:20:23.280 clear specifics.

00:20:24.800 There is,

00:20:25.500 there is,

00:20:25.920 it's beyond

00:20:26.780 reason to

00:20:27.860 me to not

00:20:29.340 be able to

00:20:30.540 say it was

00:20:31.400 at this

00:20:32.080 house because

00:20:33.340 that would be

00:20:33.920 part of it.

00:20:34.960 You would

00:20:35.200 remember, you

00:20:35.900 would avoid

00:20:36.580 that house.

00:20:37.180 You and I are

00:20:37.380 logical, linear

00:20:38.320 thinkers, all

00:20:39.700 right?

00:20:39.960 And so that

00:20:40.940 is a major,

00:20:42.460 major piece

00:20:44.900 of our

00:20:46.120 evaluation.

00:20:47.140 But then it

00:20:48.380 gets, it

00:20:49.340 gets a little

00:20:50.060 dicey.

00:20:51.740 And here's

00:20:52.580 really, this

00:20:53.460 is the second

00:20:54.120 headline.

00:20:55.680 Dianne

00:20:56.280 Feinstein

00:20:56.980 is a

00:20:57.880 villain.

00:20:58.860 She

00:20:59.220 orchestrated

00:21:00.540 this whole

00:21:02.340 thing.

00:21:04.280 She directed

00:21:06.180 Dr. Ford

00:21:07.940 to the most

00:21:09.460 radical left

00:21:11.140 law firm in

00:21:12.500 the country.

00:21:15.260 Dr. Ford

00:21:16.400 doesn't know

00:21:17.520 who's paying

00:21:18.160 her lawyers,

00:21:19.360 doesn't know

00:21:20.660 who paid for

00:21:21.380 the lie detector

00:21:22.220 test.

00:21:24.180 Her lawyers

00:21:25.260 told the

00:21:25.980 Senate Judiciary

00:21:26.800 Committee she

00:21:28.120 couldn't go in

00:21:29.020 for an interview

00:21:29.580 because she was

00:21:30.220 afraid to fly.

00:21:32.560 And the

00:21:33.360 woman from

00:21:34.040 Arizona dismantled

00:21:35.660 that immediately

00:21:36.440 by saying,

00:21:37.780 you, Dr. Ford,

00:21:38.700 Ford, have

00:21:39.160 flown all

00:21:40.340 over the

00:21:41.380 world.

00:21:42.380 Did you notice

00:21:43.420 though, Bill,

00:21:43.900 that they

00:21:44.180 didn't, what

00:21:45.300 the commentators

00:21:46.140 were saying

00:21:46.580 yesterday was

00:21:47.820 not that they

00:21:48.540 were, they

00:21:49.840 said the

00:21:50.480 Democrats or

00:21:51.240 the Republicans

00:21:51.820 and this

00:21:52.900 prosecutor, they

00:21:53.560 were trying to

00:21:54.720 undermine her

00:21:55.500 credibility.

00:21:56.380 No, they

00:21:56.840 weren't.

00:21:57.440 They were

00:21:57.820 trying to

00:21:58.440 point out

00:21:59.160 she's being

00:22:00.840 used and

00:22:01.740 manipulated

00:22:02.240 here.

00:22:02.800 I think

00:22:03.940 that she

00:22:04.420 bears a

00:22:05.180 little bit

00:22:05.600 of guilt

00:22:06.020 for this.

00:22:07.480 The

00:22:08.140 Senate Judiciary

00:22:09.180 Committee

00:22:09.640 wanted to

00:22:10.380 interview her

00:22:11.300 to get her

00:22:12.660 on the

00:22:13.160 record so

00:22:14.600 they could

00:22:14.960 investigate

00:22:15.900 her story.

00:22:18.960 Not

00:22:19.680 to nail

00:22:21.200 her to

00:22:21.600 the wall.

00:22:22.640 They wanted

00:22:23.300 to get a

00:22:23.820 timeline and

00:22:24.900 names so

00:22:25.960 they could

00:22:26.360 check them

00:22:27.220 out.

00:22:28.660 She refused

00:22:29.740 to do the

00:22:30.520 interview.

00:22:31.700 And you're

00:22:32.260 telling me

00:22:32.780 that a

00:22:33.200 PhD doesn't

00:22:35.000 know who's

00:22:35.620 paying the

00:22:36.180 lawyers?

00:22:37.460 Doesn't

00:22:38.140 know who's

00:22:38.920 paying the

00:22:39.480 lie detector

00:22:40.120 test?

00:22:41.000 Doesn't

00:22:41.640 know what

00:22:42.180 day the

00:22:42.900 lie detector

00:22:43.600 test was

00:22:44.240 given?

00:22:45.780 She said,

00:22:46.220 well, it

00:22:46.820 was on the

00:22:47.360 day my

00:22:47.740 grandmother

00:22:48.100 died or

00:22:48.980 maybe the

00:22:49.900 day after.

00:22:52.740 You know,

00:22:53.520 it starts

00:22:54.460 not to

00:22:55.680 stack.

00:22:58.380 And

00:22:59.060 anybody

00:23:00.020 in this

00:23:01.280 country who

00:23:02.640 has been

00:23:03.280 accused of

00:23:04.400 anything,

00:23:05.480 and that

00:23:05.660 includes

00:23:06.100 kids in

00:23:07.420 classrooms,

00:23:09.340 all right,

00:23:09.860 which they

00:23:10.820 didn't do,

00:23:13.020 unfairly

00:23:13.860 accused,

00:23:15.020 starts to

00:23:16.420 say,

00:23:17.280 all right,

00:23:18.600 give me the

00:23:19.640 facts.

00:23:20.920 Tell me

00:23:21.720 the facts.

00:23:23.420 They weren't

00:23:24.360 told.

00:23:24.780 so my

00:23:26.200 conclusion

00:23:26.740 was if I

00:23:28.100 were a

00:23:28.560 senator of

00:23:29.420 the United

00:23:29.860 States,

00:23:30.360 I would

00:23:30.920 vote to

00:23:31.400 confirm

00:23:31.900 Judge

00:23:32.480 Kavanaugh

00:23:33.060 because there

00:23:34.560 was simply

00:23:35.240 nothing there

00:23:36.760 to disqualify

00:23:38.440 him.

00:23:40.260 I'm a

00:23:41.000 linear thinker.

00:23:41.900 I'm a

00:23:42.160 logical man.

00:23:43.420 Everybody

00:23:43.720 listening to

00:23:44.480 us right now,

00:23:45.280 ask yourself

00:23:46.020 this question.

00:23:47.220 Was there

00:23:47.920 anything that

00:23:48.880 you saw or

00:23:50.100 heard yesterday

00:23:51.520 that disqualified

00:23:54.860 Judge Brett

00:23:56.880 Kavanaugh from

00:23:57.600 sitting on the

00:23:58.260 Supreme Court?

00:23:59.960 Is a woman

00:24:01.680 standing at an

00:24:02.840 elevator,

00:24:04.000 screaming at a

00:24:05.480 senator that

00:24:06.560 she herself

00:24:07.880 was assaulted,

00:24:09.860 therefore Judge

00:24:10.960 Kavanaugh is

00:24:12.100 guilty?

00:24:12.580 Is that

00:24:14.420 enough to

00:24:15.440 vote against

00:24:16.420 Judge

00:24:16.800 Kavanaugh?

00:24:17.500 Because that's

00:24:18.400 what the

00:24:18.820 senator from

00:24:19.700 Hawaii is

00:24:20.840 saying.

00:24:21.860 That's what

00:24:22.880 Kirsten

00:24:23.560 Gillibrand from

00:24:24.480 New York is

00:24:25.320 saying and

00:24:26.280 Kamala Harris

00:24:27.200 and Dianne

00:24:28.440 Feinstein.

00:24:29.880 They're saying

00:24:31.000 because women

00:24:32.360 have been

00:24:33.380 assaulted in

00:24:35.360 the past,

00:24:36.180 in the right

00:24:36.960 now,

00:24:37.440 whatever,

00:24:38.600 you can't

00:24:39.600 vote for

00:24:40.360 any man

00:24:41.280 who's been

00:24:41.960 accused.

00:24:42.580 Any man.

00:24:45.940 So therefore,

00:24:47.240 anybody can

00:24:50.120 raise an

00:24:50.760 accusation to

00:24:51.680 disqualify

00:24:52.820 anyone from

00:24:55.560 an appointed

00:24:56.180 position or

00:24:57.220 even running

00:24:58.020 for office.

00:24:59.200 Bill, your

00:25:00.040 thoughts on

00:25:00.860 Kavanaugh.

00:25:01.800 He's being

00:25:02.260 described

00:25:02.760 everywhere in

00:25:03.880 the press as

00:25:05.400 angry and

00:25:06.400 hostile.

00:25:08.580 Well, that's

00:25:10.480 not how I

00:25:11.620 saw him.

00:25:12.120 I saw him

00:25:13.060 as indignant

00:25:14.120 and fed

00:25:16.860 up.

00:25:18.960 But, you

00:25:19.680 know, spin

00:25:20.260 is spin.

00:25:21.620 It was a

00:25:22.360 vicious

00:25:23.440 cartoon in

00:25:24.760 my local

00:25:25.380 newspaper,

00:25:25.920 Newsday on

00:25:26.500 Long Island,

00:25:27.100 which is,

00:25:27.580 you know,

00:25:27.940 the usual

00:25:29.400 knee-jerk

00:25:30.760 liberal paper

00:25:31.640 about Kavanaugh,

00:25:33.300 you know,

00:25:33.740 looking menacing

00:25:35.180 and all of

00:25:36.720 this, and

00:25:37.060 next to him,

00:25:38.460 Dr. Ford

00:25:39.240 crying, you

00:25:40.540 know, that

00:25:40.800 kind of stuff.

00:25:41.200 No, she was

00:25:41.520 not crying.

00:25:42.440 There was not

00:25:42.980 one tear.

00:25:43.740 No, this was in

00:25:43.820 the political

00:25:44.280 cartoon.

00:25:44.980 Okay, all

00:25:45.480 right.

00:25:45.900 All right, so

00:25:46.420 the, you know,

00:25:47.640 I know.

00:25:49.380 The best moment

00:25:50.520 that Kavanaugh

00:25:51.460 had was when

00:25:52.200 he talked about

00:25:52.720 his 10-year-old

00:25:53.340 daughter suggesting

00:25:55.220 that they pray

00:25:58.100 for the woman.

00:25:59.700 And I thought

00:26:01.800 Kavanaugh was

00:26:02.420 very smart

00:26:03.240 to come out

00:26:05.200 blazing because

00:26:06.660 you have to

00:26:07.460 understand one

00:26:08.120 thing, and this

00:26:08.900 is the only

00:26:09.480 thing that's

00:26:10.000 going to save

00:26:10.800 America.

00:26:11.680 Because in your

00:26:12.360 opening remarks,

00:26:13.180 you were right.

00:26:14.660 I mean, we're

00:26:15.160 living now in a

00:26:16.060 time where we're

00:26:16.980 on a cliff.

00:26:18.160 We can go over.

00:26:19.940 If Americans

00:26:20.800 say, hey, you

00:26:22.080 know, I'm going

00:26:22.520 to support a

00:26:23.200 party that's

00:26:24.520 going to destroy

00:26:25.380 anyone they

00:26:26.180 don't like,

00:26:26.980 I'm going to

00:26:27.640 support that

00:26:28.280 party and give

00:26:28.880 them power.

00:26:30.540 This is Stalin

00:26:31.180 now.

00:26:32.440 His whole thing

00:26:33.180 changes.

00:26:34.760 But Kavanaugh

00:26:35.480 came out and

00:26:36.600 he was very

00:26:37.360 raw in his

00:26:39.540 defense saying,

00:26:41.360 you destroyed

00:26:42.240 me.

00:26:43.060 And even if he

00:26:43.760 gets confirmed,

00:26:44.620 this will never

00:26:45.160 go away.

00:26:46.740 Right.

00:26:47.120 And his wife

00:26:48.500 and daughters

00:26:49.040 will be traumatized

00:26:49.900 forever as well.

00:26:50.960 So you did it.

00:26:52.680 And you did it

00:26:53.600 for political

00:26:54.140 reasons because

00:26:54.940 I'm innocent.

00:26:56.280 Very powerful.

00:26:57.420 Now, what I'm

00:26:58.900 feeling and

00:26:59.600 seeing in my

00:27:01.380 community is

00:27:02.240 anger and a

00:27:04.020 backlash against

00:27:06.160 the left wing

00:27:08.340 media, which is

00:27:09.260 as dishonest as

00:27:10.260 it's ever been in

00:27:11.040 this country, and

00:27:12.640 the Feinstein,

00:27:14.400 Schumer led

00:27:15.100 Democratic Party.

00:27:16.360 I'm seeing that

00:27:17.600 here.

00:27:18.020 And I live in a

00:27:18.520 pretty diverse

00:27:19.020 community, not a

00:27:20.640 conservative place.

00:27:21.860 anger overrides

00:27:24.280 every other

00:27:25.280 emotion when

00:27:26.780 it comes to

00:27:27.320 voting and

00:27:27.800 politics.

00:27:29.020 Let me repeat

00:27:29.540 that.

00:27:30.320 Anger overrides

00:27:31.460 everything else.

00:27:34.120 Dr. Ford will

00:27:34.840 be forgotten.

00:27:35.800 Nobody's going to

00:27:36.480 remember Dr. Ford

00:27:37.660 unless she

00:27:38.900 continues a

00:27:39.580 crusade in

00:27:40.960 two months.

00:27:42.000 But Kavanaugh,

00:27:42.980 they're never

00:27:43.340 going to forget.

00:27:44.000 And the

00:27:45.540 anger about

00:27:47.180 attacking him

00:27:48.460 and his

00:27:48.740 family is

00:27:50.660 now at, I

00:27:51.620 think, a

00:27:52.100 record level.

00:27:52.960 I saw the

00:27:53.740 overnights just

00:27:54.620 for the cable

00:27:55.260 news, Fox

00:27:56.500 News doing

00:27:57.020 record ratings

00:27:58.000 because people

00:27:59.660 are coming in

00:28:00.500 there who

00:28:01.000 support Kavanaugh.

00:28:03.000 The others,

00:28:04.080 CNN and

00:28:04.620 MSNBC, are

00:28:05.380 far behind.

00:28:06.200 So the

00:28:08.060 anger is

00:28:09.060 being galvanized

00:28:10.400 and will

00:28:11.920 it show up

00:28:12.840 in the

00:28:13.040 midterm

00:28:13.360 elections?

00:28:14.240 I think it

00:28:15.060 might.

00:28:15.820 I think it

00:28:16.100 might too.

00:28:16.440 Because I

00:28:16.620 fully expect

00:28:17.480 another attack

00:28:19.760 either on

00:28:21.320 Kavanaugh or

00:28:22.200 President Trump

00:28:23.080 coming before

00:28:25.300 the vote.

00:28:30.660 This is the

00:28:31.460 best of the

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00:28:32.200 program and

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00:28:53.780 there are

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00:28:55.940 examples of

00:28:57.240 why we

00:28:58.800 should really

00:29:00.320 be talking

00:29:00.780 about something

00:29:01.320 entirely

00:29:01.940 different.

00:29:02.960 Why we

00:29:03.340 should be

00:29:03.740 talking about

00:29:04.200 how do we

00:29:04.560 strengthen

00:29:05.620 this?

00:29:06.200 and spread

00:29:07.180 this around

00:29:07.760 the world.

00:29:09.160 Right now,

00:29:10.300 our dialogue

00:29:10.920 is America

00:29:11.540 sucks,

00:29:12.200 nothing is

00:29:12.660 good,

00:29:12.960 everything is

00:29:13.560 bad,

00:29:13.920 and that is

00:29:14.480 absolutely not

00:29:15.620 true.

00:29:16.580 In the middle

00:29:17.640 chapter of

00:29:18.620 the book,

00:29:19.840 I ask this

00:29:21.360 question.

00:29:22.540 Is this

00:29:23.580 worth saving?

00:29:25.300 Nobody's asking

00:29:26.020 this.

00:29:26.480 We're talking

00:29:27.080 about getting

00:29:27.680 rid of capitalism,

00:29:28.820 changing our

00:29:29.400 whole system,

00:29:30.700 changing everything

00:29:31.620 about it.

00:29:32.440 It doesn't work.

00:29:33.360 no one is

00:29:34.440 asking the

00:29:35.180 question that

00:29:36.040 must be

00:29:36.720 asked first,

00:29:37.900 is this

00:29:38.800 worth saving?

00:29:40.280 Is America

00:29:41.440 and the West

00:29:42.160 good or

00:29:43.180 bad?

00:29:44.240 It can be

00:29:45.260 both,

00:29:46.100 because people

00:29:47.380 are both.

00:29:49.540 But is it

00:29:50.620 on the whole,

00:29:52.780 has it helped

00:29:53.640 more people

00:29:54.360 or hurt

00:29:55.160 more people?

00:29:56.300 We're not

00:29:56.880 having that

00:29:57.300 conversation.

00:29:58.200 We are having

00:29:58.780 it now.

00:29:59.300 Arthur Brooks

00:29:59.960 is the

00:30:00.460 president of the

00:30:01.540 American

00:30:01.840 Enterprise

00:30:02.460 Institute.

00:30:03.500 He's a guy

00:30:04.060 who grew up

00:30:04.760 in Seattle.

00:30:05.500 I grew up

00:30:06.060 in the

00:30:06.300 Seattle area.

00:30:07.540 He remembers

00:30:08.400 the first time

00:30:09.180 he saw

00:30:09.660 poverty,

00:30:10.320 and I think

00:30:10.800 it's the

00:30:11.660 first time

00:30:12.020 I really

00:30:12.500 saw poverty

00:30:13.220 as well.

00:30:14.240 I think

00:30:14.700 it was

00:30:14.980 probably

00:30:16.040 the Michael

00:30:16.660 Jackson,

00:30:17.440 that fundraiser,

00:30:19.340 We Are the

00:30:19.760 World,

00:30:20.200 where we were

00:30:20.880 trying to

00:30:21.140 raise money

00:30:21.540 for Ethiopia,

00:30:22.600 and we saw

00:30:23.440 these kids

00:30:24.080 with the bloated

00:30:24.720 stomachs and

00:30:25.460 the flies on

00:30:26.160 their face.

00:30:26.760 We had never

00:30:27.360 seen anything

00:30:27.840 like that.

00:30:29.500 That was a

00:30:30.160 pivot point for

00:30:30.860 Arthur Brooks.

00:30:31.540 In his life.

00:30:32.200 Arthur,

00:30:32.480 welcome to

00:30:32.780 the program.

00:30:33.700 Hey,

00:30:34.020 Brother Glenn,

00:30:34.720 how are you?

00:30:35.320 Very good.

00:30:35.940 I've talked to you

00:30:36.080 in months.

00:30:36.800 How are you doing?

00:30:37.520 I am great.

00:30:39.100 I am great.

00:30:40.160 I wanted to get

00:30:41.220 you on because

00:30:41.980 we do not

00:30:43.360 talk about

00:30:44.220 what capitalism

00:30:45.980 and what this

00:30:47.760 country has

00:30:48.900 done,

00:30:49.920 what the

00:30:50.260 Western way

00:30:50.880 of life has

00:30:51.440 done,

00:30:51.900 and we are

00:30:52.460 just allowing

00:30:53.600 it to be

00:30:54.100 thrown out

00:30:54.500 the window.

00:30:55.620 And you make

00:30:56.260 compelling case

00:30:57.120 because you

00:30:57.760 didn't come

00:30:58.160 at this with

00:30:58.680 politics in

00:30:59.340 mind.

00:31:00.160 No,

00:31:00.340 I don't.

00:31:00.820 And a lot

00:31:01.680 of the things

00:31:02.020 that we're

00:31:02.240 talking about

00:31:02.760 today,

00:31:03.020 I was listening

00:31:03.480 to the last

00:31:03.900 segment of

00:31:04.360 your great

00:31:04.720 show,

00:31:05.680 and you're

00:31:06.560 talking about

00:31:07.460 this big war,

00:31:08.920 this big cultural

00:31:09.760 battle that we're

00:31:10.420 having in this

00:31:10.900 country.

00:31:11.380 So whether it's

00:31:11.900 about the

00:31:12.280 Kavanaugh hearings

00:31:13.100 or about the

00:31:14.200 Trump administration

00:31:14.960 or about capitalism

00:31:16.780 in general,

00:31:17.820 these are really

00:31:18.500 kind of proxy

00:31:19.340 cultural battles

00:31:20.260 that we're having

00:31:20.800 in our country

00:31:22.140 today.

00:31:22.500 It's a culture

00:31:23.100 of outrage.

00:31:23.640 You've talked

00:31:24.260 about this a lot.

00:31:25.720 You've done

00:31:26.420 yeoman's work

00:31:27.380 on this important

00:31:27.980 topic,

00:31:28.380 and it's

00:31:28.640 important for

00:31:29.100 all of us

00:31:29.540 to remember

00:31:30.020 we are so

00:31:31.120 unbelievably blessed

00:31:32.460 in this country.

00:31:33.760 We live in a

00:31:34.540 peaceful society.

00:31:35.820 I mean,

00:31:36.340 you'd go on

00:31:37.480 social media

00:31:38.440 if you dare,

00:31:39.540 you know,

00:31:39.780 if you can

00:31:40.500 stomach it,

00:31:41.700 and listen to

00:31:42.300 people saying

00:31:42.880 the most vile,

00:31:43.940 ghastly things

00:31:44.580 to each other,

00:31:45.060 but let's remember

00:31:46.020 there's going to be

00:31:46.580 no knock in the

00:31:47.420 night,

00:31:47.700 there's going to be

00:31:48.180 no jackbooted

00:31:49.060 thug,

00:31:49.500 nobody's going to

00:31:50.060 take you off to

00:31:50.680 prison.

00:31:51.080 God bless this

00:31:52.040 country,

00:31:52.960 and we have to

00:31:53.500 stop taking

00:31:54.280 for granted

00:31:54.940 the fact that

00:31:55.480 we live in a

00:31:56.040 democratic,

00:31:56.820 peaceful society,

00:31:57.860 and we have to

00:31:58.720 stop trashing

00:31:59.640 each other all

00:32:00.340 the time and

00:32:00.840 having these

00:32:01.220 dumb proxy wars.

00:32:02.600 It's completely

00:32:03.180 unproductive.

00:32:04.280 So right now,

00:32:05.480 you know,

00:32:06.100 the big ideas

00:32:07.380 are being trashed,

00:32:08.640 the ideas of

00:32:09.840 freedom of speech

00:32:11.160 because,

00:32:12.480 you know,

00:32:12.580 you have to have

00:32:13.000 a safety space,

00:32:14.780 all of these,

00:32:15.480 all this nonsense,

00:32:16.980 but also

00:32:17.860 capitalism itself.

00:32:19.720 When you saw

00:32:20.640 the pictures

00:32:21.800 back in the

00:32:22.460 80s of those

00:32:23.300 starving Ethiopians,

00:32:24.980 it bothered you

00:32:26.320 and you actually,

00:32:27.360 that set your

00:32:28.440 feet on the

00:32:29.700 course of trying

00:32:30.400 to find out

00:32:31.080 what happened

00:32:31.580 to them,

00:32:31.940 right?

00:32:32.460 It did.

00:32:33.160 I mean,

00:32:33.340 the fact that

00:32:33.860 I'm a political

00:32:34.340 conservative today

00:32:35.140 has everything

00:32:35.760 to do with the

00:32:36.420 fact that I

00:32:36.980 share the

00:32:37.500 objectives of

00:32:38.240 most of my

00:32:38.860 left-wing friends

00:32:40.560 and family,

00:32:41.340 that I care about

00:32:42.180 poverty the most,

00:32:43.700 and I started to

00:32:44.480 look for the way

00:32:45.340 that you can wipe

00:32:46.020 out poverty.

00:32:46.800 Everybody listening

00:32:47.440 to us,

00:32:47.860 Glenn,

00:32:48.260 believes in

00:32:49.660 their

00:32:50.300 obligation,

00:32:51.460 in fact,

00:32:51.820 their privilege

00:32:52.560 to lift up

00:32:53.240 their brothers

00:32:53.660 and sisters

00:32:54.280 at the margins

00:32:55.160 of American

00:32:55.760 society and

00:32:56.680 society around

00:32:57.720 the world.

00:32:58.300 What really

00:32:58.900 matters is

00:32:59.840 what works,

00:33:00.660 what system

00:33:01.320 works while you

00:33:02.020 sleep.

00:33:02.520 I became a

00:33:03.000 proponent of

00:33:03.700 the American

00:33:04.040 free enterprise

00:33:04.580 system as a

00:33:05.840 gift to the

00:33:06.320 world because I

00:33:07.440 wanted to do

00:33:08.080 more to help

00:33:08.780 my brothers and

00:33:09.340 sisters,

00:33:09.740 and I found

00:33:10.060 that there was

00:33:10.380 one system

00:33:10.880 that pulled

00:33:11.260 people up,

00:33:11.800 but the billions

00:33:12.440 all around the

00:33:13.040 world.

00:33:13.720 These are big

00:33:14.580 issues that we

00:33:15.120 need to be

00:33:15.500 talking about in

00:33:16.300 America today and

00:33:17.200 how we can do

00:33:17.860 this better.

00:33:18.900 Can you give me

00:33:19.220 some of the

00:33:19.620 stats,

00:33:20.300 Arthur?

00:33:20.740 I don't know

00:33:21.640 if you have

00:33:21.960 them off the

00:33:22.360 top of your

00:33:22.680 head.

00:33:22.980 Oh, I do.

00:33:23.500 Oh, absolutely.

00:33:24.460 So from 1970

00:33:25.740 until today,

00:33:27.840 when you and I

00:33:28.840 were really

00:33:29.980 little kids,

00:33:31.340 that was when

00:33:32.560 the world

00:33:33.100 started to open

00:33:33.780 up and people

00:33:34.360 started to see

00:33:35.060 what was going

00:33:35.520 on.

00:33:35.840 So it was really

00:33:36.220 in the 70s

00:33:36.920 that people saw

00:33:37.460 that Ethiopian

00:33:38.220 famine.

00:33:38.960 I went to

00:33:39.480 India for the

00:33:40.160 first time when

00:33:40.600 I was 19 years

00:33:41.540 old in 1983.

00:33:42.880 I saw starving

00:33:43.580 children.

00:33:44.620 It was ghastly.

00:33:45.500 From 1970

00:33:46.540 until today,

00:33:47.400 80% of the

00:33:48.720 world's poverty

00:33:49.440 has been

00:33:49.800 eradicated.

00:33:50.780 Starvation-level

00:33:51.440 poverty has

00:33:52.000 been eradicated.

00:33:52.780 Now, 70%

00:33:53.480 of Americans

00:33:54.000 actually think

00:33:54.740 that poverty

00:33:55.140 is getting

00:33:55.480 worse.

00:33:56.500 And the

00:33:56.640 reason is

00:33:57.040 because it's

00:33:57.560 never front

00:33:58.700 page in the

00:33:59.360 New York

00:33:59.600 Times or

00:34:00.120 any of the

00:34:00.460 newspaper,

00:34:01.180 millions saved

00:34:02.260 from poverty.

00:34:03.140 I mean,

00:34:03.260 that's not a

00:34:04.260 news story.

00:34:04.920 You only see

00:34:05.560 the things that

00:34:06.040 are going

00:34:06.280 wrong.

00:34:06.920 But the

00:34:07.240 truth is that

00:34:07.800 2 billion of

00:34:09.020 our brothers and

00:34:09.660 sisters have

00:34:10.120 been pulled out

00:34:10.620 of starvation-level

00:34:11.260 poverty, Glenn,

00:34:12.020 since you and

00:34:12.480 I were kids.

00:34:13.340 And there was

00:34:13.800 one thing that

00:34:14.720 did that,

00:34:15.240 and that was

00:34:15.560 democratic capitalism,

00:34:16.540 and that is

00:34:17.240 America's export

00:34:18.320 to the world.

00:34:20.500 I don't think

00:34:21.720 you would disagree

00:34:22.300 with me,

00:34:22.880 Arthur, that we

00:34:24.300 are not using

00:34:25.220 the first half

00:34:26.780 of Wealth of

00:34:27.340 Nation's moral

00:34:28.020 sentiments.

00:34:29.120 We think that

00:34:32.220 capitalism is

00:34:33.260 just going to

00:34:33.640 be good no

00:34:34.160 matter who's

00:34:35.580 wielding it,

00:34:36.500 and it's just

00:34:37.260 going to produce

00:34:37.780 wonderful things.

00:34:38.640 No, it,

00:34:39.640 as Adam Smith

00:34:40.400 lines out,

00:34:41.680 it can produce

00:34:42.400 really bad

00:34:43.020 things as well.

00:34:45.020 Capitalism

00:34:45.460 depends on the

00:34:46.160 people who are

00:34:46.700 wielding it,

00:34:48.960 but also

00:34:49.820 depends on

00:34:51.180 what our

00:34:51.780 goals are.

00:34:53.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:34:53.960 And it's corrupt

00:34:54.720 now.

00:34:55.180 Would you agree

00:34:55.660 with that?

00:34:56.200 Yeah, well,

00:34:57.100 it's because the

00:34:57.480 problem is it's

00:34:58.080 not capitalism.

00:34:59.020 A lot of what

00:34:59.380 we see today,

00:35:00.740 wired deals,

00:35:01.860 cronyism,

00:35:02.660 all the special

00:35:03.340 stuff that's

00:35:03.860 going on with

00:35:04.360 powerful people

00:35:05.100 in Washington,

00:35:05.820 D.C.,

00:35:06.300 and in every

00:35:07.020 state capital

00:35:07.680 around the

00:35:08.140 country,

00:35:08.600 that's actually

00:35:09.420 not

00:35:09.920 competition.

00:35:10.780 That's trying

00:35:11.120 to shut

00:35:11.580 competition

00:35:12.200 down on

00:35:13.000 behalf of

00:35:13.480 powerful people.

00:35:15.000 So competition

00:35:15.820 is good,

00:35:16.680 competition in

00:35:17.320 politics and

00:35:18.060 in economics

00:35:18.760 and in the

00:35:19.200 competition of

00:35:19.780 ideas.

00:35:20.400 The fact is

00:35:20.800 that the

00:35:22.120 Glenn Beck

00:35:22.540 show is part

00:35:23.220 of the

00:35:23.400 competition of

00:35:24.120 ideas in a

00:35:24.840 free and

00:35:25.120 democratic nation.

00:35:26.040 It's very,

00:35:26.620 very important.

00:35:27.620 Anybody who

00:35:28.080 wants to shut

00:35:28.740 down competition

00:35:29.780 on behalf of

00:35:30.740 powerful people

00:35:31.560 is not a

00:35:32.640 competitor,

00:35:33.380 doesn't believe

00:35:33.980 in capitalism,

00:35:34.820 doesn't believe

00:35:35.360 in democracy,

00:35:36.140 and doesn't

00:35:36.480 believe in the

00:35:36.900 free exchange of

00:35:37.560 ideas.

00:35:37.940 To compete

00:35:39.000 means to do

00:35:39.580 it better

00:35:40.120 than the

00:35:40.520 other guy

00:35:41.160 fairly,

00:35:42.500 peacefully,

00:35:43.200 and respectfully,

00:35:44.180 and to win

00:35:44.960 over an

00:35:45.520 audience.

00:35:46.140 And that's

00:35:46.820 really what we

00:35:47.340 ought to be

00:35:47.580 doing,

00:35:47.820 and that's

00:35:48.080 what we're

00:35:48.420 moving away

00:35:48.840 from.

00:35:49.220 Okay,

00:35:49.460 so Arthur,

00:35:49.960 I'm going to

00:35:50.240 take a quick

00:35:50.640 break,

00:35:50.860 and I want to

00:35:51.240 come back

00:35:51.600 with a

00:35:51.880 question that

00:35:52.340 I cannot

00:35:52.880 find a

00:35:53.420 satisfactory

00:35:53.880 answer on.

00:35:54.600 I am a

00:35:55.500 big believer

00:35:57.080 in capitalism.

00:35:58.480 However,

00:36:00.840 throughout history,

00:36:03.420 some people,

00:36:04.520 like Vanderbilt,

00:36:05.280 etc., etc.,

00:36:05.920 they get so

00:36:06.720 much money,

00:36:07.440 they have so

00:36:08.180 much power,

00:36:09.300 that they are

00:36:09.800 controlling things,

00:36:11.060 and it just

00:36:12.440 seems to

00:36:13.180 spiral out of

00:36:14.500 control when

00:36:15.940 you have,

00:36:16.880 you know,

00:36:17.800 just a lock

00:36:19.020 on this wealth,

00:36:19.800 and we are

00:36:20.380 creating people

00:36:21.840 through Google,

00:36:22.620 etc., etc.,

00:36:23.240 that are doing

00:36:24.080 the same thing.

00:36:25.000 How do you

00:36:25.460 balance the

00:36:26.140 power?

00:36:27.000 How do you

00:36:27.680 make sure?

00:36:29.140 Who can

00:36:29.920 compete against

00:36:30.820 Google?

00:36:32.180 Arthur Brooks

00:36:33.040 from ArthurBrooks.com.

00:36:35.300 Make sure you

00:36:36.100 listen to his

00:36:36.680 podcast,

00:36:37.460 The Arthur Brooks

00:36:37.940 Show.

00:36:38.580 Really smart guy,

00:36:39.500 really good guy,

00:36:40.260 musician,

00:36:41.520 grew up in,

00:36:43.280 you know,

00:36:43.620 in the Pacific

00:36:44.120 Northwest.

00:36:45.900 It kind of

00:36:46.400 sounds like he

00:36:46.860 kind of had,

00:36:47.520 you know,

00:36:47.860 a typical

00:36:48.260 Seattle hippie

00:36:49.060 kind of family,

00:36:50.260 and went around

00:36:52.160 the world.

00:36:52.640 It's in a

00:36:53.860 documentary.

00:36:54.540 I think the

00:36:54.860 documentary is

00:36:55.580 called,

00:36:56.040 what's it called,

00:36:57.560 Arthur?

00:36:58.260 The Pursuit.

00:37:00.020 And he's got a

00:37:02.000 fascinating life,

00:37:02.780 and was just

00:37:03.180 really searching

00:37:03.660 for answers.

00:37:04.840 Came to find

00:37:05.680 that capitalism

00:37:06.680 is what solves

00:37:09.040 all these problems

00:37:09.940 that we have,

00:37:10.600 and has made

00:37:11.160 huge,

00:37:11.920 huge increases

00:37:13.340 in happiness

00:37:14.800 around the world,

00:37:15.740 and health.

00:37:17.240 So,

00:37:18.140 my problem here,

00:37:19.400 and the

00:37:20.440 only loose

00:37:21.500 end I can't

00:37:22.200 tie up,

00:37:23.200 is people

00:37:24.200 like Rockefeller

00:37:25.160 that have,

00:37:26.260 you know,

00:37:26.460 they do something

00:37:27.080 because,

00:37:27.680 you know,

00:37:28.200 they discovered

00:37:29.860 oil,

00:37:30.340 and they were

00:37:31.080 smart enough

00:37:31.620 to put it

00:37:31.980 all together,

00:37:32.560 and they

00:37:33.320 accumulate

00:37:33.780 this power,

00:37:34.780 and then

00:37:35.220 with all

00:37:36.020 of that

00:37:36.360 money

00:37:36.740 comes corruption,

00:37:38.080 and they

00:37:39.040 start to

00:37:39.420 control

00:37:39.940 everybody

00:37:40.440 else's

00:37:40.960 lives,

00:37:41.600 and start

00:37:42.840 making all

00:37:43.320 the decisions

00:37:43.840 because they

00:37:44.780 have all

00:37:45.180 of this

00:37:45.480 money.

00:37:46.160 How do

00:37:46.500 you reconcile

00:37:48.720 that?

00:37:49.740 Because I don't

00:37:50.340 want to take

00:37:50.840 money away

00:37:51.320 from people.

00:37:52.480 Right.

00:37:52.980 No,

00:37:53.220 I got it,

00:37:53.660 Glenn,

00:37:53.900 and,

00:37:54.300 you know,

00:37:54.480 it is distressing

00:37:55.340 when you see

00:37:55.920 something like

00:37:56.580 a family

00:37:57.140 where there

00:37:57.800 was a patriarch

00:37:58.500 that was a

00:37:59.020 good entrepreneur,

00:38:00.040 but then kind

00:38:00.520 of built a

00:38:01.160 moat around

00:38:01.740 the castle,

00:38:02.660 and that kept

00:38:03.580 a bunch of

00:38:04.300 wealth in the

00:38:04.780 family for six

00:38:05.560 generations,

00:38:06.320 and made it

00:38:06.640 harder for other

00:38:07.380 people to rise

00:38:08.120 through current

00:38:08.600 capitalism.

00:38:09.520 That's a big

00:38:10.200 problem.

00:38:10.780 That's actually

00:38:11.220 not capitalism.

00:38:12.500 That's a

00:38:12.800 different system.

00:38:13.700 That's a,

00:38:14.120 those basically,

00:38:14.920 that's a system

00:38:15.460 of wired deals

00:38:16.560 that you could

00:38:16.920 find in any

00:38:17.720 socialist system,

00:38:18.920 any monarchy,

00:38:19.980 any place all

00:38:20.740 around the world.

00:38:21.800 And that's

00:38:22.180 something that we

00:38:22.720 have to fight,

00:38:23.440 whether it's

00:38:23.820 capitalism or

00:38:24.720 whatever ism,

00:38:26.560 whatever economic

00:38:27.320 system that we've

00:38:27.960 got.

00:38:28.340 We have to

00:38:28.960 democratize

00:38:29.960 opportunity.

00:38:30.780 The problem is

00:38:31.560 not that we've

00:38:32.060 got very rich

00:38:32.760 people.

00:38:33.420 The problem is

00:38:34.160 people have a

00:38:34.960 hard time rising,

00:38:36.120 and we have to

00:38:36.740 be putting our

00:38:37.640 resources and our

00:38:38.520 energy and our

00:38:39.240 law and our

00:38:40.100 initiative toward

00:38:41.160 people that are

00:38:42.000 at the bottom,

00:38:42.800 not so they can

00:38:43.520 all get to the

00:38:44.300 top, but so that

00:38:45.060 they can get to

00:38:45.620 the middle.

00:38:46.380 The essence of

00:38:47.080 the American

00:38:47.480 experience, the

00:38:48.340 moral basis of

00:38:49.680 the American

00:38:50.020 experience is that

00:38:50.940 the, you know,

00:38:52.080 three generations

00:38:52.780 ago, the

00:38:53.240 Brooks's and the

00:38:54.020 Beck's, who were

00:38:55.640 just like scratching

00:38:56.480 out potatoes

00:38:57.260 someplace, they're

00:38:58.960 nothing more than

00:38:59.680 ambitious riffraff

00:39:01.160 who came to this

00:39:01.920 country and wanted

00:39:02.840 to get to the

00:39:03.420 middle and support

00:39:04.020 themselves and their

00:39:04.640 families.

00:39:05.040 And we have to be

00:39:05.660 warriors for a

00:39:07.100 system that makes

00:39:07.800 sure that people can

00:39:08.820 go from the bottom

00:39:09.640 to the middle.

00:39:10.960 You know, right now,

00:39:11.700 it's a very

00:39:12.160 distressing thing.

00:39:13.500 You know, you go

00:39:13.840 to any good Ivy

00:39:14.720 League university

00:39:15.320 and you're going

00:39:15.720 to find that

00:39:16.160 there's a system

00:39:16.640 of preferences

00:39:17.280 for legacies.

00:39:18.980 You know, if you

00:39:19.340 went to a

00:39:19.840 university, it's

00:39:20.620 maybe four or

00:39:21.140 five times more

00:39:21.760 likely that your

00:39:22.360 kid is going to

00:39:23.040 get into that

00:39:23.600 great university,

00:39:24.360 which all that is

00:39:25.100 is just saying you

00:39:26.240 got into the

00:39:26.980 lucky genetics

00:39:27.720 club.

00:39:28.800 You know, that's

00:39:29.280 actually not

00:39:30.300 compatible with a

00:39:31.880 system of American

00:39:32.660 opportunity, with a

00:39:33.700 system of equal

00:39:34.640 dignity of experience.

00:39:36.320 And so that's

00:39:36.820 actually what we

00:39:37.500 need to be thinking

00:39:38.060 about.

00:39:38.560 Don't worry about

00:39:39.120 Google.

00:39:40.240 Worry a lot more

00:39:41.240 about the fact

00:39:41.740 that people at

00:39:42.320 the periphery, at

00:39:43.220 the bottom of our

00:39:44.040 society can't rise

00:39:45.820 today.

00:39:46.400 That's a really

00:39:47.340 un-American thing.

00:39:48.360 And why can't

00:39:48.820 they rise?

00:39:49.720 They can't rise

00:39:50.780 because we have a

00:39:51.660 discriminatory system

00:39:52.840 of unequal

00:39:53.600 education where poor

00:39:54.940 kids are locked

00:39:56.460 into public education

00:39:57.640 systems.

00:39:58.140 Their parents don't

00:39:59.020 have choices,

00:40:00.160 number one.

00:40:00.700 Number two is we

00:40:02.040 don't have skills

00:40:02.780 training in our

00:40:03.500 communities.

00:40:03.920 We tell people that

00:40:04.920 if they don't go to

00:40:05.440 college, they're

00:40:06.120 somehow losers.

00:40:07.040 We don't have

00:40:08.100 vocational and

00:40:09.120 technical education

00:40:10.020 systems, which is

00:40:10.740 the ultimate

00:40:11.340 education reform.

00:40:12.400 We don't have an

00:40:12.860 apprenticeship system

00:40:13.780 in this country.

00:40:14.700 And most importantly,

00:40:15.640 Glenn, we don't

00:40:16.680 culturally value the

00:40:18.700 skills that come from

00:40:19.940 actually not going to

00:40:21.180 college, where people

00:40:22.020 actually have work

00:40:22.880 skills when they can

00:40:24.460 get ahead.

00:40:24.840 If we do those

00:40:25.760 things, we can really

00:40:27.140 recreate the

00:40:27.680 opportunity in society.

00:40:28.640 How did the

00:40:29.340 apprentice system go

00:40:30.360 away?

00:40:31.480 It went away for a

00:40:32.760 bunch of different

00:40:33.340 reasons.

00:40:34.000 But part of it had to

00:40:35.200 do with the fact that

00:40:36.080 back until the

00:40:37.740 1960s, there was a

00:40:39.060 parallel tracking

00:40:40.140 system in America

00:40:41.200 where white kids

00:40:42.780 would be tracked

00:40:43.300 toward college and

00:40:44.200 black kids, especially

00:40:45.340 in the South, would

00:40:46.020 be tracked toward the

00:40:46.960 trades.

00:40:48.100 And you and I know

00:40:49.220 that one of the great

00:40:50.120 advances in American

00:40:50.960 society was the

00:40:51.760 civil rights movement

00:40:52.620 where we did away

00:40:53.420 with stuff like that.

00:40:54.320 Unfortunately, there

00:40:55.040 were some things where

00:40:56.000 we threw the baby out

00:40:56.760 with the bathwater.

00:40:58.020 White kids, black

00:40:58.860 kids, every kind of

00:40:59.800 kids should have the

00:41:00.660 opportunity to succeed

00:41:02.520 through hard work and

00:41:03.500 skills and personal

00:41:04.320 initiative without going

00:41:05.780 to college.

00:41:06.460 It's amazing, Arthur,

00:41:07.320 that it's that early.

00:41:09.320 I think of

00:41:09.740 apprenticeships and I

00:41:10.740 think, you know, you're

00:41:11.820 going back to Charles

00:41:14.000 Dickens' time since

00:41:15.260 we've seen it.

00:41:15.820 It's amazing that

00:41:16.440 those that really

00:41:17.620 disappeared in the

00:41:18.500 60s and 70s.

00:41:19.760 Back with more Arthur

00:41:20.680 Brooks and Is America

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The Glenn Beck Program - September 28, 2018

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