The Glenn Beck Program - September 28, 2018


Best of the Program with Arthur Brooks ｜ 9⧸28⧸18


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Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly and Arthur Brooks join me to discuss the latest in the scandal surrounding the Brett and Christine Blasey Ford hearings and the impact it has on the country. Is America worth saving?

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00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand.
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. 1.00
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, 0.66
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 0.99
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. 1.00
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. 0.96
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. 0.64
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 0.99
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 1.00
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 1.00
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 0.94
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 0.99
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 0.95
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. 0.82
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
00:28:31.880 Glenn Beck
00:28:32.200 program and
00:28:33.000 we really
00:28:33.420 want to thank
00:28:33.880 you for
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00:28:51.840 In my
00:28:52.220 book,
00:28:52.680 Addicted
00:28:52.920 to Outrage,
00:28:53.780 there are
00:28:55.140 lots of
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 0.98
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 0.99
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 1.00
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 0.69
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 1.00
00:40:58.860 kids, every kind of
00:40:59.800 kids should have the 0.62
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.
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