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00:00:17.840 Hello, America.

00:00:18.700 Well, it's another day and a thousand stories to cover.

00:00:23.040 We're going to start with the firing of the interim attorney general.

00:00:28.440 So, was Donald Trump right to do it?

00:00:32.340 The answer, right now.

00:00:36.740 I will make a stand.

00:00:39.380 I will raise my voice.

00:00:41.660 I will hold your hand.

00:00:44.080 Because we are one.

00:00:45.900 I will beat my drum.

00:00:48.100 I have made my choice.

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00:00:58.440 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:04.660 Hello, America.

00:01:05.600 Welcome to the program.

00:01:06.320 Glad you're here.

00:01:07.300 Last night I turned on TV.

00:01:08.580 I'm in Los Angeles.

00:01:10.240 And I thank you so much for listening today.

00:01:13.060 But I got in last night.

00:01:14.780 I don't even know what time it is.

00:01:17.180 And turned on the television.

00:01:19.140 And Donald Trump had just fired the interim attorney general.

00:01:24.040 And they were calling it the Monday Night Massacre.

00:01:27.520 Now, in case you don't know what the Monday Night Massacre is referring to.

00:01:30.620 Which, by the way, is crazy.

00:01:33.180 Crazy to compare it to the Saturday Night Massacre.

00:01:37.360 This comes from the Nixon administration.

00:01:40.240 It is absolutely amazing to me how the press is so out of control.

00:01:49.960 They are hurting themselves even more.

00:01:54.500 To refer to what happened last night as the Monday Night Massacre.

00:01:59.200 To immediately, within minutes, within minutes, compare it to what Richard Nixon did is obscene.

00:02:09.060 What happened on the Saturday Night Massacre is Richard Nixon was being investigated for Watergate.

00:02:15.400 In fact, his appointees would not fire the special investigator.

00:02:21.800 They had a special investigator to look in to see if Nixon was indeed a crook.

00:02:28.480 And he said to his Justice Department, you have to fire the independent investigator.

00:02:34.100 And they said, no.

00:02:36.620 And he said, I'm telling you, I'm the President of the United States.

00:02:39.140 You'll fire them.

00:02:39.760 And they said, Mr. President, it is independent.

00:02:43.160 We will not fire them.

00:02:45.400 Now, what's the difference?

00:02:48.680 Here's what happened last night.

00:02:50.760 The Muslim ban goes into effect.

00:02:54.000 And the Justice Department is the one that has to police the ban.

00:03:00.440 Are you doing it?

00:03:01.240 Are you doing the right thing?

00:03:02.700 Are you following the law?

00:03:04.360 Which, by the way, the problem is the law is an executive order.

00:03:10.700 Are you following the law?

00:03:12.200 The interim attorney general says no.

00:03:18.760 Now, not on legal reasons.

00:03:21.580 The Saturday Night Massacre, it was on legal reasons.

00:03:25.000 This wasn't a legal reason.

00:03:28.620 She said her morals told her she couldn't do that. 0.96

00:03:33.600 Not the law.

00:03:34.760 Her morals.

00:03:36.560 What else is the difference?

00:03:38.980 The difference between the Saturday Night Massacre and the Monday Night Massacre was that she wasn't appointed by the President.

00:03:48.720 Here's a woman who was appointed by Barack Obama.

00:03:55.580 Here's the temptation.

00:03:57.320 A lot of people like to make a name for themselves when they have the opportunity at the very end of an administration to go out in flames, to go out as the hero.

00:04:12.600 And I think that's what she did.

00:04:15.100 She saw an opportunity, and I guarantee you she is going to be a hero of the left.

00:04:21.460 This was a purely political and career move.

00:04:26.060 That's all this was.

00:04:28.160 There was nothing legal about it.

00:04:30.960 But her job is to enforce the law. 1.00

00:04:37.480 Now, if she wants to have some sort of moral reason to do that, she can do that.

00:04:42.920 But don't confuse that with something that happened in the 1970s that was about deep corruption and legal reasons.

00:04:54.080 So, last night, I tweeted something.

00:04:58.920 I don't even remember.

00:04:59.780 Stu, maybe you can look up my tweet.

00:05:01.240 Because I was talking to Stu this morning, and we haven't even had a chance to talk about this yet.

00:05:05.500 He said, I gather you're against him firing the Attorney General last night.

00:05:11.180 And I said, no.

00:05:12.120 And he said, oh, I read your tweet.

00:05:14.420 I imagine what he's saying.

00:05:15.160 Yeah, it was the one about you talking about them being betrayed.

00:05:20.120 Read the tweet.

00:05:20.900 You were betrayed.

00:05:21.600 This PR is unlike anything I've ever seen from the White House before.

00:05:25.080 Principles over parties.

00:05:26.260 Return to the balance of constitutional powers.

00:05:28.660 Yes, okay.

00:05:29.580 This is the problem with 144 characters.

00:05:31.580 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:32.420 The problem I had was read this PR, this press release.

00:05:37.740 Read it from start to finish.

00:05:39.700 The entire government is now starting to speak and reflect the actual language of Donald Trump.

00:05:48.580 Either that, or he's writing the press releases, which I hope to God he has other things to do.

00:05:55.320 But listen to the language of this.

00:05:59.500 Do you have it, Stu?

00:06:00.460 I can get it.

00:06:01.480 Oh, okay.

00:06:01.800 I'm sorry.

00:06:02.160 I thought it was connected to the tweet.

00:06:03.960 It was.

00:06:04.620 Yeah.

00:06:04.800 No.

00:06:05.000 Hold on one second.

00:06:06.300 Yeah.

00:06:06.740 White House statement here.

00:06:07.960 It's loading.

00:06:11.060 There we go.

00:06:12.400 All right.

00:06:12.900 White House statement.

00:06:13.780 The acting attorney general, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing

00:06:18.040 to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.

00:06:21.520 This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office and the

00:06:27.460 Legal Council.

00:06:28.680 Ms. Yates is an Obama administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal

00:06:33.120 immigration.

00:06:33.980 It's time to get serious about protecting our country.

00:06:36.360 Calling for tougher.

00:06:36.940 It does sound like Trump.

00:06:37.880 It sure does.

00:06:38.360 Calling for tougher vetting for individuals traveling from seven dangerous places is not

00:06:42.780 extreme.

00:06:43.440 It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.

00:06:45.520 Okay, stop.

00:06:46.240 So I agree with him.

00:06:48.080 This is reasonable.

00:06:49.260 This is not a ban.

00:06:51.100 However, the problem is he wants both sides.

00:06:55.540 When he signed it, he said it was a ban.

00:06:59.300 As he was signing it, he said, I'm doing the Muslim ban.

00:07:03.120 He used the word ban.

00:07:05.000 So why?

00:07:08.000 Why would you do that?

00:07:09.220 Because everyone is playing populist politics.

00:07:13.420 Why did she refuse to move and put herself in a position where she knew she had to be

00:07:20.620 fired because she knew she would be popular with her side?

00:07:24.960 Why did he use the word ban when it is a pause?

00:07:30.000 If you don't want to inflame things, what you do is you're signing this.

00:07:33.960 You say, look, this is I want to make it clear.

00:07:36.340 This is not a ban.

00:07:37.120 This is a pause.

00:07:38.280 All I'm doing is pausing so we can look into how we're vetting people and make sure we're

00:07:44.820 safe.

00:07:45.280 That's what you do.

00:07:46.440 But everyone is playing into populism.

00:07:50.080 And so he immediately said, it's a ban.

00:07:53.200 But then he later said, it's not a ban.

00:07:56.940 Well, which one is it?

00:07:58.200 And he knows which one it is.

00:07:59.640 It's not a ban.

00:08:00.960 But he wants to play in to his crew that wants the ban, that want that tough stand.

00:08:08.900 He's no longer playing or he hasn't ever.

00:08:12.680 But the president is no longer playing into the center.

00:08:15.800 He's continuing to do what Barack Obama did.

00:08:18.720 He is not trying to embrace the entire American public.

00:08:23.080 He's embracing the people who think like him.

00:08:26.300 She was embracing the people who look like her or or or think like her.

00:08:32.320 That's what happened.

00:08:33.460 And that's I heard last night on CNN, I watched, oh, I watched all the networks last night

00:08:40.600 and I could not take it.

00:08:43.860 You can see if you read my tweets by the end, I'm just I'm losing my mind.

00:08:48.580 But I actually heard.

00:08:51.020 Who was it?

00:08:52.780 Who's the guy that does that globalist thing on CNN?

00:08:56.280 That's hard to narrow that down.

00:08:59.020 Fareed.

00:08:59.500 Oh, Fareed Zakaria.

00:09:00.840 Zakaria.

00:09:01.500 OK.

00:09:01.600 Zakaria and Alan Dershowitz were were going back and forth and yelling at each other.

00:09:09.340 And I shouldn't say that Dershowitz wasn't.

00:09:11.820 But they Dershowitz was saying, look, I'm not a fan of Donald Trump, but what he did here

00:09:18.740 was legal.

00:09:19.740 It was right.

00:09:20.500 She was, you know, yada, yada, yada. 0.97

00:09:24.360 Zakaria at one point.

00:09:26.220 And in the middle of Dershowitz just explaining said, I'm not even listening to you, Alan.

00:09:31.760 I'm not listening to your explanation anymore.

00:09:33.660 I'm just not listening to you, Alan.

00:09:34.960 Alan Dershowitz is one of the brightest attorneys on the planet, and I don't agree with him

00:09:44.020 all the time.

00:09:44.540 But he has he has proven himself to be fairly reasonable on almost any topic.

00:09:50.660 Again, I don't agree with him, but he's reasonable.

00:09:53.820 For someone like Farid to interrupt and just say, I'm not listening to you, that's when

00:10:01.100 I turn the TV off.

00:10:02.960 I'm like, nobody's listening to each other anymore.

00:10:05.640 I was I was watching Fox.

00:10:08.100 What did Fox do?

00:10:10.080 Fox was the language of Fox made made me or people like me feel pretty good.

00:10:17.500 I'm like, yeah, get them.

00:10:19.000 I had to turn it off because I'm like, this is not helpful.

00:10:24.420 This is not helpful.

00:10:27.900 And I honestly, I looked at my wife last night.

00:10:30.260 I said, is it just us?

00:10:33.740 Is it just us that sees how close to the edge we are?

00:10:39.040 And if we don't start listening to each other, if we don't start calming things down and not

00:10:48.320 saying that it was a massacre last night, it was not a massacre.

00:10:58.260 Let me give you this.

00:11:01.860 Read.

00:11:02.700 Let's see if I can find it.

00:11:03.640 Try this on for a second.

00:11:04.480 In an article published Sunday on Medium, if you don't know what Medium is, Medium is

00:11:10.380 a really very smart blog site.

00:11:15.520 It's like it's Facebook for people who have patience.

00:11:22.100 OK, it you can go and you can write posts, but it's not designed for clicks.

00:11:28.160 It's designed for reading time.

00:11:30.200 So it'll tell you this is a five minute read.

00:11:32.320 This is a 10 minute read and they instead of tracking clicks and shares and everything

00:11:37.720 else, what they track is how long you've spent on that article.

00:11:42.960 And so if people read the entire article and spend time with that article, that article

00:11:47.880 is moved up.

00:11:48.760 It shows that it's it's engaging people and they're thinking and reading it.

00:11:53.740 So it's a very different website.

00:11:57.700 But it is it's it's much more geared toward, I think, a Silicon Valley kind of mindset.

00:12:04.880 So it's it's it has very interesting points of view.

00:12:10.200 Article published Sunday on Medium.

00:12:13.000 Google privacy engineer Yotan Zunger examined the details of what he believed was a sordid

00:12:21.000 conspiracy among President Trump and his inner circle, which will lead to an eventual coup d'etat.

00:12:27.220 Now, listen to this.

00:12:29.400 First, he cited CNN writing.

00:12:32.400 It's notable that this that the DHS lawyers objected to this ban, this Muslim order, specifically the exclusion of green card holders as illegal and also press that there be a grace period.

00:12:46.500 So people currently out of the country wouldn't be stranded.

00:12:49.400 And they were personally overruled by Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.

00:12:53.340 Also notable is that career DHS staff up to and including the head of Customs and Border Patrol were kept entirely out of the loop as the until the order was signed.

00:13:06.180 Next, he cites the Guardian writing the mass resignations of nearly all senior staff of the State Department on Thursday were not, in fact, resignations, but a purge ordered by the White House.

00:13:17.800 This leaves almost no one in the entire senior staff of the State Department at this point.

00:13:24.260 It leaves the State Department entirely unstaffed during these critical first weeks when orders like the Muslim ban, which they would resist normally, are coming down.

00:13:35.640 He then added that DHS agents were still detaining and still deporting individuals even after two major court rulings that said they can't do that.

00:13:47.800 Some of what Zunger writes is true, the story goes on, in so much as it comes from CNN and other reputable outlets.

00:13:57.260 But it appears to be an extrapolation or interpretation of the news.

00:14:03.220 However, in the end, Zunger seems to believe that all the chaos means one thing.

00:14:09.080 The administration is testing the extent to which the DHS and other executive agencies can act and ignore orders from other branches of the government.

00:14:20.860 This is as serious as it can possibly get.

00:14:24.080 All of the arguments about whether Order X or Y is unconstitutional means nothing if elements of the government are executing them and the courts are being ignored.

00:14:33.640 Yesterday was a trial balloon for a coup d'etat against the United States.

00:14:38.220 It gave them useful information.

00:14:41.600 He also wrote that the orders are being made via the inner circle of Trump, Bannon, Miller, Priebus, Kushner, and possibly Flynn,

00:14:48.280 and that the gutting of agencies and the shuffling of the National Security Council represents something nefarious.

00:14:54.720 He speculated that Trump will want his personal security to take a higher position, writing,

00:14:59.140 Keith Schiller should continue to run the personal security force, which would take over an increasing fraction of the Secret Service's job.

00:15:09.020 He concluded,

00:15:09.680 Zunger has chosen to view the absolute chaos of the last 72 hours as a trial balloon for a coup d'etat against the United States.

00:15:34.820 Nothing is out of the realm of possibility, and Trump's rhetoric suggests he views governing with a more centralized eye than most.

00:15:43.040 However, there is another possibility that bears mentioning.

00:15:47.340 By the way, this comes from Ben Shapiro's website.

00:15:50.840 I want to explain this and show what the other probable explanation is after this.

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00:18:41.420 So I read the Daily Wire almost every day, and this story that is showing what some on the left are now starting to say.

00:18:48.680 It's the conspiracies of, you know, a coup d'etat that he's going to become an authoritarian dictator, and this is a trial balloon.

00:18:55.920 This is amazing to me, especially since they are so non-self-aware that that was ridiculous and horrible to say about a human being just, oh, I don't know, six weeks ago.

00:19:10.520 Now, of course, you can say anything about this president.

00:19:14.860 Daily Wire writes,

00:19:15.880 Trump, Bannon, and Kirshner have provided another possible meaning behind what's happened in the last few days, besides a coup d'etat.

00:19:28.580 They have absolutely no governing experience.

00:19:32.040 Stephen Miller and Reince Priebus have some relevant political experience, but these five men are operating the executive branch as it has never been operated before.

00:19:41.860 Therefore, pandemonium is a possible outcome.

00:19:45.600 It's akin to plucking an intern from the mailroom and making him a CEO of a Fortune 500 company and then giving him four other mailroom interns, one that have been slightly around for slightly longer as his advisors.

00:19:59.620 While all things are possible, it's best to look for what's most probable, and in the first six days, incompetence or basic corruption overruled a brilliantly and systematically executed coup d'etat.

00:20:16.200 Time will further reveal the machinations of this group of men, but for now, it's more than premature to suggest a conspiracy.

00:20:23.820 I read this story to you because the world has gone insane, and the left is going further than anything that we ever said.

00:20:40.840 I mean, remember the people who were full-fledged, Barack Obama is going to take the government, and we're all going to be in prison camps.

00:20:50.640 Do you remember those guys?

00:20:52.200 We all said, no, relax, I don't think that's going to happen.

00:20:56.320 Not too many people on their side are saying, no, relax, that's not going to happen.

00:21:01.480 And certainly, by the press reporting last night that it was the Monday Night Massacre, instead of saying, guys, it's not, relax, is not helping things.

00:21:15.760 Back in a minute.

00:21:20.640 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:21:31.080 And at 8727 BCK is our phone number.

00:21:33.580 I'd like to talk to you.

00:21:34.860 I'd like to hear what you're feeling about what's happening.

00:21:40.600 As I'm watching this as a casual observer, I'm actually siding with, in many ways, with Donald Trump,

00:21:47.520 because this is not a ban, this is a pause, and it is totally reasonable to do a pause.

00:21:54.200 However, the way he has done it is sloppy at best, but the media has gone insane, and so has the left.

00:22:03.540 There doesn't seem to be any restraint from anyone on what's happening.

00:22:11.560 And, hey, here's the good news.

00:22:13.660 He announces the SCOTUS pick tonight.

00:22:16.100 Tonight at 8 o'clock.

00:22:17.260 Don't miss it.

00:22:18.440 And hijinks ensue.

00:22:20.420 So, I got to believe that's going to just, that's going to pet the cat.

00:22:24.440 It's going to really, no, that'll make everything much, much better when he announces his SCOTUS pick.

00:22:29.600 We'll get to that at the top of the hour.

00:22:32.920 More on the pause in Muslim immigration coming up in just a second.

00:22:38.480 But let me introduce you to somebody real quick, because this is somebody who we hired, I don't know, a couple of years ago as an assistant.

00:22:47.460 And she's a veteran.

00:22:49.420 She worked for the Air Force.

00:22:50.520 She was doing something, satellite, knocking out nuclear missiles in space. 1.00

00:22:55.520 I have no idea, but she is, she started out as an assistant, and now she's a manager of some sort, and she walks around, and I'm not kidding you.

00:23:06.000 She now, she'll stop me in the hall, and she'll be like, Glenn, listen, this is what you need to do.

00:23:09.800 And I'll be like, okay, Jessica.

00:23:11.500 So, she's practically running the place now, and Jessica's on the phone with us.

00:23:16.100 Hi, Jess, how are you?

00:23:17.380 Hi, Glenn, how are you this morning?

00:23:19.420 Very good.

00:23:19.900 So, you have tried to talk to me about this contest that we're running about 400 times, and I never, I'll be honest with you.

00:23:28.500 I catch you, I catch you at odd times.

00:23:31.040 You're painting, you're running the halls, you're trying to get to your next shoot.

00:23:35.340 Yeah, okay, that, it was either that or I wasn't really listening.

00:23:39.200 But, so, so tell me, because this is a really exciting thing that we're doing.

00:23:44.320 We're trying to, this is a first step into some things that we're going to be doing here in the future about trying to engage the people who are still in school.

00:23:56.480 We're targeting high school with this and trying to teach history.

00:23:59.640 So, explain exactly what we're doing.

00:24:01.760 Well, perfect.

00:24:02.220 Well, I am the merchandising manager, so you have my title there now.

00:24:05.700 There you go.

00:24:06.020 I'm the merchandising manager there at the studios, and what we're doing this year is we're actually trying to come up with creative ways to engage our audience and also with the rest of America.

00:24:17.840 And one of the things we come up with this year is a contest, an essay writing contest called Before They Were Famous.

00:24:24.300 We all know the stories of our forefathers and who they were and the accomplishments that they made to make our nation what it is today, but who were they before they were famous?

00:24:34.200 And that's what we're doing now.

00:24:36.080 We are challenging high school students to compete for an essay writing contest, and every month it's going to be a different person in history that they get to write about.

00:24:47.060 So, the way that the contest goes is history teachers.

00:24:50.680 So, here's a call to action.

00:24:51.780 We're asking for history teachers to nominate their class.

00:24:55.060 When they nominate their class, us as an organization will pick the teacher that has the most compelling story, and then we will assign the students in their class a person in history.

00:25:07.480 They will then go in, write an essay.

00:25:10.980 We'll give them some criteria.

00:25:12.660 We have, like, six different criterias that they'll rank from, and then we will pick a winner.

00:25:19.180 And that winner has an opportunity to win up to $5,000 in the scholarship form from Mercury One.

00:25:26.360 So, we have teamed up with Mercury One as well.

00:25:29.020 Their essay is going to be published on glenbeck.com.

00:25:32.800 They're going to be able to come to the studios and be able to see our artifacts that we hold there at the studio and also some of the artifacts that Mercury One has.

00:25:42.360 So, we will be able to get them here.

00:25:44.640 We'll cover airfare and hotel.

00:25:47.100 Okay.

00:25:48.160 I read some.

00:25:49.940 Who are we doing it with this first one with George Washington?

00:25:54.860 This first one is George Washington, the farmer, and it is a school in South Texas in the Edinburgh Independent School District.

00:26:05.040 Okay.

00:26:05.320 So, it is a home school.

00:26:06.760 Can any school do this?

00:26:09.980 Yes, and even homeschoolers.

00:26:11.780 Homeschoolers can also.

00:26:12.720 So, if there is a home schooled organization or even as a parent, if you want to nominate, maybe if you're part of like a history club or something in your home school, you can nominate those students as well.

00:26:27.620 Okay.

00:26:27.820 So, the essays that I have read, and I know we're getting stacks of them, but I read a couple of them yesterday, and I love this one from this kid who is a legal immigrant.

00:26:42.580 His family is most of them still in Mexico, but it's a very old-fashioned Mexican family that still the family is getting together, and the roles of the parents and the grandparents still really impact this kid.

00:27:02.940 And he wrote this essay about George Washington being a farmer, and what his family was like, and how he lost his dad, and what the farm meant.

00:27:11.460 Mount Vernon was not just an estate, it was actually a farm, and how he was close to his brother, and all the things that I never knew when I was in high school, never knew.

00:27:19.920 And what was great about this essay was about halfway through, he stopped talking about George Washington and started comparing his life to George Washington's life, and how his family, with the heritage that he has from Mexico, how the strong family values impacted him, he started to see himself in George Washington.

00:27:45.320 Which I thought was an absolute home run, and exactly the kind of thing that we're trying to encourage.

00:27:52.660 So you just go to glenbeck.com, and what are you looking for, before they were famous?

00:27:57.440 You go to glenbeck.com forward slash essay contest, and right now we do have the two people that are competing.

00:28:06.920 We have both of their articles on there, so we want you to go on there, read both of the articles, and vote for your favorite.

00:28:13.080 Voting ends at the end of next Monday, and then we'll be able to announce who the winner is.

00:28:19.600 From there, we also have a George Washington Farmer t-shirt.

00:28:23.720 30% of the proceeds are going to go back to the Mercury One Education Fund, and Mercury One, in turn, will give the student a scholarship.

00:28:32.260 Great. Thank you so much, Jessica. I appreciate it.

00:28:34.280 Thank you.

00:28:35.100 Glennbeck.com, you can see that now.

00:28:36.620 All right, Stu, what were your impressions last night on the firing of the attorney general and the way the press and the left is handling this?

00:28:47.260 Well, I mean, obviously, them flipping out is bizarre.

00:28:50.780 You know, I don't think that there's any argument to keep someone in place who's acting that way.

00:28:59.580 That's not to say that she should do it, even.

00:29:03.600 I mean, like, you know, I was thinking about this.

00:29:05.540 If I was attorney general for some bizarre reason.

00:29:09.520 It would have to be bizarre.

00:29:11.040 Jeffy would have to be president.

00:29:12.620 A huge clerical error that made Jeffy president, and then he named me attorney general because he was the only person that he knew who would actually talk to him.

00:29:20.760 And I, yeah, that's right, Jeffy.

00:29:22.780 And I went in there, but let's say Obama was president.

00:29:27.000 He was coming into office, and I had worked for Jeffy in the previous administration.

00:29:31.080 And Obama came in as president, and he passed DACA, for example.

00:29:35.720 He passed an executive order that I believed was illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional.

00:29:44.040 Well, I wouldn't freaking do it either.

00:29:46.420 I wouldn't.

00:29:46.920 I would absolutely.

00:29:48.200 Now, my path to this would probably be I would just step down because I would not want to do it.

00:29:54.540 And maybe when I was out of office, I would write exactly why I was doing it.

00:29:59.720 I would not do what she did, which was release a letter and make sure the media all knows about it and just say, well, I'm going to continue to take my paycheck but not do the job.

00:30:10.240 No, all she was doing is trying to make a name for herself. 1.00

00:30:13.520 This was a purely political move on her part to be a darling.

00:30:19.920 Now, if you disagree with it, that's fine, but you don't handle it this way.

00:30:25.900 And if it was a legal problem, if she said, look, as the interim attorney general, legally, this is wrong.

00:30:35.560 I will not do it.

00:30:36.340 Then there's a scandal.

00:30:38.720 But for somebody to say, I politically am on the other side of the aisle and I just won't do this, the only story there is people disagree.

00:30:49.280 And that is the general gist of her letter is seemingly a moral or political stance.

00:30:56.440 She does say that she's not convinced that the executive order is lawful.

00:30:59.380 That's different than it is not.

00:31:02.540 You don't quit on, I'm not convinced that it's lawful.

00:31:07.340 You're the acting attorney general.

00:31:09.320 You go and you get advice.

00:31:11.440 Is it lawful?

00:31:12.680 As you are doing it or you say, I need more advice.

00:31:18.400 I need the advice of our attorneys.

00:31:21.260 I mean, you just, everything she did was political last night, politically motivated.

00:31:27.380 Well, yeah, obviously she knew she wasn't keeping this gig.

00:31:30.000 She knew she could make a statement or she could leave in an invisible fashion like everybody else is going to.

00:31:37.060 And, you know, there's already reports that she's being recruited by the Democrats to run for either governor or Senate in Georgia.

00:31:43.200 So it's, you know, it's no surprise.

00:31:45.580 She made this big stance.

00:31:46.700 She's the darling of the media.

00:31:48.140 She's the darling of everybody on the left.

00:31:50.040 And I don't know.

00:31:50.620 I mean, you know, this is what people do these days, right?

00:31:54.200 I mean, this is so I'm not at all surprised by it.

00:31:56.980 However, I don't think she should be necessarily vilified for not doing something she believes is wrong.

00:32:02.540 I mean, the same way that if I was in there and some socialist came into office, Bernie Sanders won and he started passing executive orders.

00:32:08.480 I wouldn't freaking do it either.

00:32:09.780 But I would just leave the job and not make a big deal out of myself.

00:32:13.580 Or I might make a big deal out of myself.

00:32:17.080 But the press's job is to say, look, this is what's really happening here.

00:32:21.660 Yes.

00:32:22.220 Not to all of a sudden say, Mother Teresa, is that you?

00:32:27.260 Right.

00:32:28.020 It is absolutely unbelievable.

00:32:30.640 It's unbelievable.

00:32:31.260 And I can't even I honestly don't understand the other side of the argument when it comes to people, you know, being critical of Donald Trump on this.

00:32:40.380 Of course, he freaking fired her.

00:32:43.000 What else would you do?

00:32:44.620 You are coming into an administration where your top highest profile proposal is being is being, you know, derailed by someone else who was employed by the previous administration.

00:32:58.760 Who's a couple of weeks away from not being in place.

00:33:01.760 So you have an interim person come in for a couple of weeks that will execute what you want to do.

00:33:06.300 Now, that's the same thing as if you had if you're if you're a basketball coach and the pregame press conference, you know, your your shooting guard says, yeah, by the way, today, I'm just not going to run any of the plays.

00:33:17.400 I'm just I don't think these plays are smart.

00:33:19.660 And I'm not, you know, I'm just not going to, you know, I'm not going to do it.

00:33:22.580 I'm not going to pass.

00:33:23.200 I'm going to take every shot I want to.

00:33:24.500 Well, of course, that you wouldn't put him in the game and they would be released in a couple of days if they didn't change their tune.

00:33:30.380 That is a completely sensible thing for someone to do.

00:33:34.240 Now, it is up to there are many checks and balances here that if this order does turn out to be unconstitutional or unlawful, there are roads to go down.

00:33:44.520 And there are plenty of lawsuits already in progress that will attempt to prove that.

00:33:49.600 But you don't just you don't just say, well, I you know what?

00:33:52.800 I'm flippantly tossing away my job duties because I don't like X, Y or Z.

00:33:58.660 And, you know, the one thing you can say about what is it, Sally Yates, Obama's attorney general is, you know what?

00:34:05.940 It's consistent with what the Obama administration did throughout his second term.

00:34:10.220 He every time he didn't like something, he didn't wind up doing it.

00:34:13.740 And so you can understand why she would think this is an acceptable thing to do, but it's not in this country and it shouldn't be.

00:34:18.960 So quickly, I I asked a constitutional attorney friend of mine, I said, because everybody was starting to say we're in a constitutional crisis.

00:34:28.380 I don't see that. So I wrote him and I said, hey, is this a constitutional crisis out of our way?

00:34:32.940 I want to read exactly what he wrote. I don't see this as a constitutional crisis kind of moment.

00:34:37.360 I've been wrestling with a statutory text all week, and I am convinced that there's at least a plausible legal theory underlying the executive order.

00:34:44.360 I can't be absolutely certain that it's the best policy to pursue right now, but it's no worse and potentially better than the failed policy we've had for the last eight years.

00:34:53.420 The best thing that can be done right now is to have people calm down.

00:34:57.160 This is a temporary program and one based on an executive order that appears to find support in the underlying statute.

00:35:03.980 Whether you like the policy or hate it, it doesn't amount to a constitutional crisis.

00:35:09.160 I know I know the left desperately wants it to be that way.

00:35:12.800 They really want a constitutional crisis.

00:35:15.420 If it were that, they'd be ecstatic because then they think they would have to deal with the reality of a legitimately elected president who scares them to death.

00:35:24.040 More importantly, they wouldn't have to deal with the reality that people elected that man.

00:35:29.540 But their dislike of this situation and their longing for a constitutional crisis does not turn this situation into one.

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00:36:58.600 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:04.940 Mercury.

00:37:07.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:09.420 Welcome to the program.

00:37:10.340 Let me quickly go to Joe in Florida.

00:37:11.700 Hello, Joe.

00:37:12.120 You're on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:14.520 Hey, Glenn.

00:37:14.980 Thanks.

00:37:15.740 I'm just watching the left cringe over this swing back towards Trump's version of statism.

00:37:21.080 It kind of seems like, you know, the constituencies of certain politicians have the ability to hold them accountable.

00:37:27.860 But that's not the focus of most voters.

00:37:31.140 It seems like everyone is so focused on, you know, both sides are focused on pointing out the fraud and the problems.

00:37:37.520 On the other side, it's like, you know, a group of parents just screaming about somebody else's kids and not watching their own kids themselves, even though they actually have some control over their own kids.

00:37:46.560 But instead, everybody is so, you know, obsessed with the other side.

00:37:49.700 And, you know, the biggest argument from the left over the last election was Hillary's not that bad. 0.99

00:37:55.320 You know, it wasn't telling themselves.

00:37:56.860 It was just all focusing on, you know, the other guy's work rather than, you know, kind of checking themselves.

00:38:03.120 I know.

00:38:03.480 Joe, thank you so much.

00:38:04.900 I really think it's time for us to take the beam out of our own eye and step up and be people of principle and of conviction and police our own self.

00:38:15.940 They need to police themselves.

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00:38:54.560 Ah, just as the country is settling in for a long winter's nap and everybody is joyful and happy,

00:39:02.420 nobody is protesting on the streets as the media is calm and there is peace in our world.

00:39:10.260 Tonight, Donald Trump announces his SCOTUS pick.

00:39:14.700 Now, if we get what we want in a SCOTUS pick, it's really not going to make the left happy.

00:39:25.600 Imagine what they're going to do when they actually have something real to complain about.

00:39:33.520 Because so far they've just marched because he became president.

00:39:38.560 And then because the press told them that this executive order was something that it wasn't.

00:39:45.820 Really, what happens when Scalia is brought back from the dead?

00:39:51.320 Hopefully, that's what happens and we find a new Scalia tonight at 8 o'clock.

00:39:57.800 We have an article explaining all of the picks and what it might mean with each of them at glennbeck.com.

00:40:06.140 And I want you to read it and share it with friends because there's some important information.

00:40:09.800 I'm going to share it with you right now.

00:40:11.540 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.

00:40:19.520 Because we are one, I will beat my drum.

00:40:23.740 I have made my choice, we will overcome.

00:40:28.300 Because we are one.

00:40:30.020 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:40:34.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:37.760 President Trump may just be the master media manipulator that he believes he is after all.

00:40:46.300 I have to tell you, I am watching this in awe and sometimes aghast from both sides.

00:40:59.240 I am just watching this as a casual observer of history and I can't believe what I'm seeing.

00:41:07.800 And I haven't figured it out yet.

00:41:09.960 It could be that Donald Trump is the best watch the other hand guy I've ever seen.

00:41:18.100 Remember, we used to say that about Barack Obama.

00:41:21.020 Yeah, right, right, right, stop arguing about that.

00:41:23.100 What is the other hand doing?

00:41:26.520 We'll see.

00:41:27.440 But also, he is overwhelming the system.

00:41:33.500 Exactly what happened last time with Barack Obama to the right, Donald Trump is doing to the left.

00:41:43.060 There's no way you can keep up with all of this.

00:41:47.780 Tonight at 8 o'clock, he's announcing his SCOTUS pick.

00:41:50.700 In typical Trump fashion, don't miss, must-see TV, Wednesday night.

00:41:58.460 Is it Wednesday today?

00:41:59.660 Is it Tuesday?

00:42:00.420 Tuesday, yeah.

00:42:01.240 It is Tuesday?

00:42:01.860 It is Tuesday, at least for the whole day.

00:42:04.320 Wow.

00:42:05.860 This has only been, really?

00:42:07.640 Yesterday was only 24 hours?

00:42:09.620 It seemed like 48.

00:42:12.380 So, tonight, don't miss it.

00:42:15.760 Ensuring as many eyeballs as possible are on him tonight.

00:42:19.220 According to the sources close to our program, out of the 21 candidates that Trump has released prior to the election, it's down to three, and more likely, it's between two of the three men.

00:42:33.380 But here are the three finalists and what their nominations could mean to the future of the Supreme Court.

00:42:38.080 Coming in at number three is William Pryor, the partisan, if you will.

00:42:45.860 He is right of Alito and left of Clarence Thomas.

00:42:50.580 Pryor is the judge from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

00:42:56.000 He is the oldest of the possible choices, but he's still only 54.

00:43:00.200 He still has a long career ahead of him on the bench.

00:43:03.520 However, he is by far the most outspoken of the three and definitely the least liked by the Democrats.

00:43:14.420 Choosing Pryor would fit the mold of Trump about not caring about what anybody says, but the president would be in for a fight if he was going to get him confirmed.

00:43:22.800 Chances are he'd get him through, but he would expend an awful lot of political capital, which remains to be seen, if that even matters for this administration.

00:43:35.080 One sticking point for the evangelicals was when he, as Attorney General of Alabama, had Judge Roy Moore ousted for refusing to obey a federal court order and remove the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building.

00:43:48.980 Pryor said, at the time, I'm just following the court's order, but this was a knock on him for the far right, and they have held on to that, as well as his recent support for transgendered rights.

00:44:02.820 He is not afraid to say what he believes, which is why the left calls him a bomb thrower and considers him a cultural warrior.

00:44:09.760 Many on the right see him as a rising conservative star, and he is a fierce critic of Roe v. Wade.

00:44:18.240 He has upheld the Georgia voter ID law and is called for sectarian prayers for opening a local commission meeting, constitutional. 0.98

00:44:29.200 He is probably not Scalia in waiting, but who is?

00:44:33.500 He is more in the mold of Alito, but all of this may be moot if the reports are correct, because he is, out of the three, the one who is really on the outside looking in.

00:44:47.840 Second one, the centrist, Thomas Hardiman.

00:44:53.340 He is left of Roberts.

00:44:56.100 Wow.

00:44:57.820 Let's think about that one for a second, Stu.

00:45:00.360 Left of Roberts.

00:45:01.720 Yeah, I've been thinking about it.

00:45:02.680 Yeah, and right of Kennedy.

00:45:05.140 And you might say to yourself, why the heck would Donald Trump appoint a centrist?

00:45:10.240 Well, I mean, you know, there's a lot of reasons for it, but the one that they're talking about now, as far as the way these games work, is the rest of the court, they believe, will take a signal as to who Trump nominates here as to how Trump is going to treat this situation.

00:45:27.660 So if he goes for someone who's really right wing and crazy, then people like Kennedy might say, well, I don't want to retire and let him name another crazy person to the bench.

00:45:38.060 So they're thinking, and again, this is all crazy inside the beltway speculation, but the thought is, if he were to name a centrist, then Kennedy would feel more comfortable in his departure.

00:45:50.960 And then if he departed, they could name a conservative to replace him.

00:45:56.600 And I know that's a lot of...

00:45:59.220 You know what that sounds like?

00:46:00.280 Honestly, you know what that sounds like to me?

00:46:01.640 If I were sitting in the seat of the Oval Office, I would say, progressive BS-er, get behind me.

00:46:08.440 It sounds like something that a progressive would say to an incoming president who really is trying to get the president to pick a centrist.

00:46:18.300 Look, I'm telling you, if you do this this time, what will happen next time is...

00:46:23.280 I mean, that just sounds like bullcrap.

00:46:24.860 Right, but the question is, which progressive are you talking about?

00:46:28.040 If that progressive happens to be Anthony Kennedy, then it might be a viable thing.

00:46:33.060 I would not risk it.

00:46:34.700 I mean, you're...

00:46:35.320 I wouldn't either.

00:46:36.040 If you lose a Scalia and replace him with someone who's, as this article talks about, left of Roberts, you're in for some trouble there.

00:46:46.840 That is not a...

00:46:47.740 That's not a good sign.

00:46:48.620 And if Kennedy doesn't step down, you have no conservative rulings, potentially.

00:46:53.460 I mean, that's a huge problem, especially...

00:46:56.040 You'd think with Trump, too, with all of his aggressive sort of things with executive orders and all these big changes he wants to make,

00:47:02.860 the last thing he wants to do is put the Supreme Court up to risk.

00:47:05.200 It was obviously a reason that a lot of people who were very skeptical of him voted for him anyway.

00:47:10.100 So, I mean, going for a centrist here is risky.

00:47:13.400 The one thing about this, and, you know, which is...

00:47:16.000 We mentioned it, I think, yesterday, is that he works with Trump's sister.

00:47:20.680 Trump's sister knows him very well, and...

00:47:23.920 I bet you this is the guy.

00:47:25.480 I mean, it seems...

00:47:26.620 I bet you this is the guy.

00:47:27.400 That's a big in.

00:47:28.480 Yeah, that's a huge in.

00:47:29.980 Because that was his initial reaction, right?

00:47:31.340 I would name my sister, she'd be a great judge. 0.52

00:47:33.460 And then, obviously, like, over time, he kind of realized that that was just reactionary.

00:47:36.840 But here's the kind of way you can do it.

00:47:38.580 He's got to have inside information on this person from his sister.

00:47:41.460 He's going to know...

00:47:42.140 He's going to be...

00:47:42.720 Now, assuming his sister likes him, maybe his sister hates him.

00:47:45.060 But he's lasted this long on this list.

00:47:47.180 You think he's got to be fairly well-liked.

00:47:49.520 They've sided together on a lot of major decisions.

00:47:54.320 So, you know, this one's...

00:47:55.880 It's interesting.

00:47:56.960 He was not really one of the ones talked about up into the last couple of weeks.

00:48:01.420 And it is not...

00:48:02.040 I bet you it's him.

00:48:02.380 So, I mean, it could be.

00:48:03.640 I'll bet you it's him.

00:48:04.560 That's a good bet.

00:48:05.000 That's exactly...

00:48:06.040 This is exactly the kind of guy that every Republican president always nominates.

00:48:12.720 I know, but that's what's supposed to be...

00:48:14.180 So, let me tell you about him.

00:48:14.220 Not supposed to be what Trump does, right?

00:48:15.840 I know, I know, I know.

00:48:16.900 So, maybe it won't.

00:48:17.640 All right.

00:48:18.040 So, the name, again, is Thomas Hardiman.

00:48:21.200 I hope this isn't the guy.

00:48:23.540 More moderate than the other choices.

00:48:25.760 He's left of Roberts, right of Kennedy.

00:48:30.800 Many conservatives are wary after Kennedy and Roberts haven't turned out the way they hoped.

00:48:37.860 He is only one of the candidates or sitting members of the bench without an Ivy League pedigree.

00:48:42.160 He grew up in public schools, blue-collar family, went to Notre Dame, or Notre Dame,

00:48:46.260 and put himself through law school at Georgetown by driving a cab.

00:48:50.100 Is he the Catholic of the group?

00:48:53.980 Can you find out if he's Catholic?

00:48:55.560 Sure.

00:48:55.760 He fits the bill with pro-life stance.

00:48:59.520 He's strong on the Second Amendment, but he is seen as government-friendly.

00:49:04.380 He has sided with Big Brother on censorship issues.

00:49:07.860 He's 51 and would have influence for decades to come.

00:49:12.500 He might be the most confirmable of the three, having been confirmed 95 to 0 on the appellate court,

00:49:19.520 receiving votes from Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein.

00:49:24.920 Feinstein.

00:49:26.060 Steen.

00:49:26.620 Stein.

00:49:26.880 He's a former trial judge who has been serving on the Third Court of Appeals in Philadelphia,

00:49:34.160 happens to be the same court as President Trump's sister.

00:49:36.600 He receives a glowing recommendation from her, and he is thought to have significant influence on her brother.

00:49:48.900 However, this may be the nominee.

00:49:52.440 The number one pick, according to GlennBeck.com, is Neil Gorsuch.

00:49:58.640 He's a libertarian.

00:50:00.360 He is, listen to this, right of Scalia and left of Clarence Thomas.

00:50:07.860 I'm comfortable with that.

00:50:09.120 If that description is accurate, I am comfortable with that.

00:50:11.960 I am so comfortable with it.

00:50:13.640 This would be the guy.

00:50:15.240 Out of these three, this would be the guy.

00:50:17.180 Anyway, Gorsuch is not a name many people knew outside of political junkie circles.

00:50:22.080 He has quickly risen to the top of the list over the past couple of weeks.

00:50:25.320 He's 49 years old, so he has the best chance, theoretically, of having the longest-lasting influence.

00:50:32.420 He is pro-life.

00:50:34.280 He has cited against assisted suicide, but he has yet to rule on an abortion case.

00:50:39.920 But they believe, because he has stated pro-life and he has gone against assisted suicide, which I don't understand how a libertarian does that.

00:50:48.420 A libertarian should be pro-life if they think it's murder, which I do, so should be protecting the rights of the unborn child, but then to protect the rights of the living should be able to say,

00:51:07.120 what you do with your own life is your business.

00:51:11.480 And I don't know that he's—I think they're describing him as a libertarian.

00:51:13.820 I don't know that he's stated that I am a libertarian.

00:51:17.640 Yeah, well, I doubt he's stated he's a libertarian.

00:51:20.560 You're not going to get elected.

00:51:21.620 This might help win some votes from the Democrats, while conservatives can still feel relatively comfortable on where he stands.

00:51:28.860 His lack of record makes him less likely to be borked than the prior nomination could. 0.97

00:51:34.980 I will tell you that where we get in trouble is people saying, hey, he doesn't have a record on these things, and so we guess on what their record is going to be.

00:51:44.560 Yeah, that is an issue.

00:51:45.640 And by the way, also a big issue with Hardiman.

00:51:47.380 I mean, I think his record's even thinner than Gorsuch.

00:51:51.460 You know, I mean, they're both on the younger side as far as justices go, so they don't necessarily have the, you know, really long record of an older judge.

00:52:00.580 But, I mean, you look at the—there's a sentence in the longer profile of Hardiman, which says he's never had any abortion rulings either.

00:52:09.160 So the only one—I mean, you can be pretty darn sure that Pryor is going to be on the right side of that one, of these three.

00:52:18.100 And I think Gorsuch, reading it in context, I mean, he is ruled in cases that would—you know, one of the big things about Gorsuch, which I liked, was this was the guy we talked about who is—he doesn't seem to be friendly to things that aren't in the Constitution.

00:52:32.160 The dormant clauses, like the dormant privacy clause, which leads to abortion, or the dormant commerce clause.

00:52:39.920 And that's why there's a large indication that he would be pro-life, but it's true.

00:52:43.620 I mean, the record's not extensive on the top.

00:52:45.400 If you look at his record that we know, and there are some disturbing things in there, but if you look at the record of the things that we know, he has the best chance, I think, of being game-changing for the Supreme Court.

00:52:59.960 Let me finish. Let's see.

00:53:02.800 Let's see.

00:53:03.520 He has sided with Hobby Lobby.

00:53:05.240 He also sided with Little Sisters of the Poor in upholding their right to follow their religious belief when it came to mandatory birth control for the nuns.

00:53:12.560 And he's believed to have the libertarian streak of Scalia and the style of Roberts.

00:53:20.120 He has stated that he's an originalist, meaning he believes in the interpretation of the Constitution as written rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

00:53:32.020 It's amazing there's another side to that argument.

00:53:34.340 I know.

00:53:34.580 It's how they're written or how you think it might be because of your political views.

00:53:38.440 Which one do you think?

00:53:39.320 How should we rule on this?

00:53:40.980 Right.

00:53:41.420 Ugh.

00:53:42.560 So we don't know, you know, there's speculation that Justice Roberts was blackmailed at the last hour.

00:53:50.260 That is something that I would really like to hear some, if there are any good facts on that one, because that ruling from Justice Roberts was just bizarre.

00:54:00.980 Bizarre.

00:54:01.740 Bizarre.

00:54:02.260 And the fact that he showed up with puffy red eyes and it was obvious that he rewrote it in the middle of the night because of the way it was written.

00:54:12.040 It shows that he was actually on the other side and it shows that he was actually on the other side and then just changed things, but it was rushed so quickly he didn't change all of it.

00:54:19.520 It was just bizarre.

00:54:20.420 But anyway, he is a champion of small government conservatism like Antonin Scalia.

00:54:29.500 Chances are the nominee will stand in the vast shadow of his legacy and never clip the works he was able to accomplish.

00:54:35.200 That being said, there will be a nominee and it appears to be one of these three.

00:54:40.480 According to conservative circles, Hardiman is the least liked prior is beloved by some questioned by others.

00:54:49.500 And when the dust settles, Donald Trump lands on Neil Gorsuch.

00:54:53.800 Conservatives could do much worse.

00:54:56.060 But let's see what happens.

00:54:59.100 Yeah, that's all up on glenbeck.com, by the way.

00:55:00.840 You can read that whole analysis.

00:55:02.100 And this is assuming, by the way, the reports are right.

00:55:04.540 Who knows?

00:55:04.980 Maybe Trump goes a totally different direction.

00:55:06.760 Yeah.

00:55:06.980 And it will be interesting because this is the one that the religious community said this is the most important.

00:55:12.000 And they put all of their eggs in this basket and have been telling him, we want our pick.

00:55:17.080 And it is not Hardiman.

00:55:19.120 Let's see if it's paid off.

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00:57:42.380 All right.

00:57:44.200 I want to spend some time on a story that,

00:57:50.440 it is amazing to me in a couple of ways,

00:57:53.940 and I have not heard,

00:57:55.520 I've not heard anybody say what I have to say about this story,

00:58:01.160 and I find it interesting that nobody is saying it.

00:58:04.620 Here it is from NBC News.

00:58:06.640 In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump,

00:58:11.440 two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday.

00:58:14.760 One, a member of SEAL Team 6,

00:58:17.020 and the other, an eight-year-old girl,

00:58:18.940 a daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki,

00:58:22.760 the New Mexican-born al-Qaeda leader who himself was killed in a U.S. strike five years ago.

00:58:29.540 Notice it doesn't say,

00:58:30.920 by Barack Obama.

00:58:32.040 In the raid in southern Yemen,

00:58:34.860 conducted by the super-secret Joint Special Operations Command,

00:58:38.920 it was intended to capture valuable intelligence,

00:58:41.140 specifically computer equipment,

00:58:42.840 according to senior U.S. military officials.

00:58:45.400 Three al-Qaeda leaders were killed,

00:58:47.160 according to U.S. officials.

00:58:48.800 Contrary to earlier reporting,

00:58:50.360 the senior military official said,

00:58:51.800 the raid was Trump's first clandestine strike,

00:58:54.500 not a holdover mission approved by President Barack Obama.

00:58:57.900 The mission involved boots on the ground at an al-Qaeda camp near Al-Baeda in south-central Yemen.

00:59:05.060 Almost everything went wrong, the official said.

00:59:08.060 The MV-22 Osprey experienced a hard landing near the site,

00:59:12.700 injuring several SEALs, one severely.

00:59:15.080 The tilt-rotor aircraft had to be destroyed.

00:59:17.660 A SEAL was killed during the firefight on the ground,

00:59:20.200 as were some non-combatants, including females.

00:59:23.540 General Defense Secretary James Mattis

00:59:26.680 had to leave one of Washington's biggest annual socials events

00:59:29.160 to deal with the repercussions, according to the officials,

00:59:31.620 and he did not return.

00:59:32.620 All right, there's a little bit left of this story,

00:59:36.800 but hopefully you just heard in this story

00:59:40.980 something that leapt out to me.

00:59:44.740 We'll get to that when we come back.

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01:00:09.380 All right, NBC News.

01:00:13.500 American girl and a Navy SEAL die in first Trump-era U.S. military raid.

01:00:19.100 All right, so I want to take you through this.

01:00:21.580 There's two important things out of this story that jump out to me.

01:00:25.400 Let's see if Stu or Jeffy,

01:00:28.780 did anything jump out at you about the story that I was reading?

01:00:34.300 Well, I mean, you mentioned they didn't talk about the Obama administration

01:00:39.460 and the first raid of the Trump era.

01:00:42.500 They're obviously trying to make this into a political thing

01:00:45.940 and put some blame there.

01:00:48.220 So let me just say it this way.

01:00:50.200 Let me just ask you this question.

01:00:51.540 Stu, when was the last time you saw or heard or saw a story on NBC News

01:00:57.960 about a raid that the SEAL teams did that went poorly or even went well?

01:01:07.220 When's the last time you read one of those?

01:01:09.860 They're pretty rare.

01:01:10.800 They sure are.

01:01:11.700 Especially in this sort of detail.

01:01:13.380 We do hear occasionally about things that go,

01:01:16.620 certainly Osama bin Laden we heard about things going right. 0.89

01:01:19.300 Right.

01:01:19.620 We heard about Benghazi going poorly,

01:01:21.940 but reluctantly we heard about that.

01:01:25.080 Yep.

01:01:25.500 Right?

01:01:25.920 Yep.

01:01:26.580 I have not heard about a story like this in, I don't know, eight years.

01:01:33.560 I mean, we were hearing about them all the time under George W. Bush.

01:01:36.460 Then they just disappeared.

01:01:37.320 This is one guy, one Navy SEAL being killed,

01:01:41.700 and it is directly attached to the president.

01:01:46.720 So they are directly saying, this is Donald Trump.

01:01:51.720 Donald Trump approved this and it went wrong.

01:01:54.040 Right.

01:01:54.660 All right.

01:01:55.180 So that's the first thing that jumps out is welcome back.

01:01:59.100 Welcome back, press, to caring about our soldiers in the war.

01:02:02.560 A SEAL team six and the other was an eight-year-old daughter of Anwar Al-Awlaki.

01:02:10.420 Now, what jumps out at you about that one?

01:02:14.420 Well, first of all, there's the, you know, sadness.

01:02:18.760 I mean, there's an adorable picture of her and she's eight.

01:02:21.700 And I mean, as much as obviously she's the daughter of a terrorist,

01:02:25.040 it's still soul crushing to see a child have to, you know, go that way.

01:02:29.880 But the other part of it is, of course, Trump talked about in the campaign that theoretically he would be interested in killing family members of terrorists to teach them a lesson.

01:02:39.860 Now, there's no indication that this is part of that policy or that suggestion, but that is surely what they would tie it to.

01:02:47.700 Boy, no kidding.

01:02:49.420 Right.

01:02:49.860 So it says, it says here.

01:02:51.760 Did I win?

01:02:52.720 Yeah, you got it.

01:02:53.700 The senior military official said the eight-year-old girl, actually, I didn't listen to a damn thing that you were saying.

01:02:58.300 Then why did you ask?

01:02:59.680 Stop asking.

01:03:00.660 Just read.

01:03:01.580 I'm riddled with ADT, ADD, ADD, ADD, and I'm just, I was distracted by something.

01:03:08.880 Okay, anyway.

01:03:09.800 So, but I think I heard enough of your blabbering that I think you got it right.

01:03:13.880 Well, thank you.

01:03:14.540 Listen to this.

01:03:15.280 Senior military official said the eight-year-old girl was known as Nora, among the noncombatants killed in the raid, which also resulted in the death of several Yemeni women.

01:03:25.080 U.S. officials say some of the women who were killed were combatants and had opened fire on the SEALs as they approached the al-Qaeda camp.

01:03:32.220 The girl's grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, Yemen's former agricultural minister, told NBC News a different story.

01:03:40.520 He identified his granddaughter as the dead girl from a photo taken at the scene of the raid, but based his description on what happened at the camp, on conversations with what he characterized as Yemeni sources.

01:03:50.320 My granddaughter was staying for a while with her mother, so when the attack came, they were sitting in the house, and a bullet struck her in the neck at 2.30 past midnight.

01:03:58.440 The other children in the same house were also killed.

01:04:01.300 He said the girl died hours after being shot.

01:04:03.800 The SEALs entered the house and killed everybody in it, including all the women, and then they burned the house.

01:04:08.640 There's an assumption that there was a woman in the house from Saudi Arabia who was killed with al-Qaeda.

01:04:14.400 All we know is that she was the children's teacher.

01:04:18.220 So what is he doing here?

01:04:19.540 He says,

01:04:20.320 Here's the problem.

01:04:21.600 Go ahead.

01:04:22.380 He's trying to obviously make it into an emotional story, not the way the Americans are going to tell you.

01:04:27.960 This was an innocent family who happened to be related to someone who they might not like, but was killed a couple years ago.

01:04:37.580 So this is a terrible tragedy, and Americans are just killing family members for no reason. 0.51

01:04:42.460 And why should we believe him?

01:04:46.640 Well, we shouldn't.

01:04:47.780 I don't mean us in America.

01:04:49.120 I mean, the rest of the world and anybody who just is in a neutral position.

01:04:54.200 Let's just say in a neutral position on this.

01:04:56.000 Why would his word seem credible?

01:05:00.040 Well, he's got Yemeni sources.

01:05:01.520 I will say that.

01:05:03.000 I don't think that was it.

01:05:04.140 That's not what I'm looking for.

01:05:04.960 Okay.

01:05:05.160 Everything that is coming out of the United States right now is a lie.

01:05:11.440 We are broadcasting to the rest of the world.

01:05:15.320 You cannot believe anything anyone says in government.

01:05:20.640 And you can't even believe our media.

01:05:23.520 That's what we're broadcasting around the world.

01:05:27.600 All of these arguments, they're going all around the world.

01:05:31.060 They're going to all of the leaders, all the financial experts, all of the people who are thinking about investing in the United States, all of the people who are thinking, you know what?

01:05:41.480 Maybe I should go over.

01:05:42.680 Or maybe I should side with the United States.

01:05:44.600 Or you know what?

01:05:45.180 The United States has always been somebody I can rely on.

01:05:48.700 They're seeing live.

01:05:51.700 It's not like, you know, it's not like Vietnamese television.

01:05:57.400 We're broadcast everywhere.

01:06:00.240 CNN is everywhere.

01:06:03.140 And so the rest of the world is watching us and going, you can't believe anything the government is saying.

01:06:09.120 You can't believe a darn thing.

01:06:11.660 The American people even know it.

01:06:13.800 They're even saying it.

01:06:14.620 Look, they're in the streets.

01:06:16.280 By the millions, they're in the streets saying, this guy's a liar.

01:06:20.660 So he doesn't have to work so hard to be credible anymore.

01:06:25.120 We've already made anyone who says something that the United States did that is bad, we've made them credible.

01:06:33.160 But there's one more piece.

01:06:35.320 And that is, I think, what you stated.

01:06:38.680 Donald Trump said, our military is going to go kill the families.

01:06:43.020 That is what you said, right?

01:06:45.800 That is, yes.

01:06:46.400 Thank you for absorbing that.

01:06:48.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, good, good.

01:06:48.640 I knew that.

01:06:49.080 I was just pretending that maybe I didn't know.

01:06:51.620 So that's what he said.

01:06:53.180 This is evidence to them that that's exactly what we're doing now.

01:06:59.280 Now, our side is, we didn't go in to kill her.

01:07:03.640 That's ridiculous.

01:07:04.800 She happened to be there.

01:07:06.200 She was visiting, and we didn't know that.

01:07:09.000 And she happened to be one of the people that was killed.

01:07:11.800 But that's not what al-Qaeda is saying today.

01:07:14.600 They are coming out now and saying that Donald Trump said, we're going to kill the families,

01:07:19.540 and this is the third al-Aki that we have killed now.

01:07:24.560 We killed him.

01:07:26.020 We killed his son.

01:07:27.540 And now we killed his daughter.

01:07:30.280 The United States, the military, they are killing the families.

01:07:34.180 May I guess that there is probably a third of the audience, maybe more, that just said, good.

01:07:48.180 That's not what we want people to believe about our military.

01:07:50.720 That is a overcorrection from us being so politically correct and not calling bad guys bad guys

01:08:03.780 and not killing the bad guys, but playing footsie with them and trying to say, let me hear about your childhood.

01:08:10.980 Your feeling of good is an overcorrection.

01:08:16.080 It's not where you would have been maybe 10 or 15 years ago.

01:08:23.880 10 or 15 years ago, you most likely would not have said that with the same passion that you're saying it now.

01:08:30.380 You're saying it now because you don't believe anybody is actually serious about killing the bad guys.

01:08:35.980 All we have to do is kill the bad guys and call the bad guys by name.

01:08:42.900 We need to say, not Muslims are bad, because Muslims aren't bad.

01:08:49.880 We can't say that Islam is bad, because I know a lot of people who are Islamic who are good.

01:08:59.940 It's Islamism that is bad. 1.00

01:09:02.700 Islamism is the idea that Sharia law gives you the right to control other people, kill people for your family's honor. 1.00

01:09:17.420 Mutilate women because they need to be mutilated. 1.00

01:09:22.340 Beaten because they need to be beaten.

01:09:24.440 Because Allah will allow you to do that.

01:09:27.520 Don't educate.

01:09:28.940 Enslave your enemy.

01:09:30.340 That's Islamism. 1.00

01:09:32.260 And that is wrong.

01:09:35.400 That's what America needs to understand.

01:09:37.920 And I think they do.

01:09:40.340 And those who don't, you can explain it to them and say, here's how you know the difference between a good guy and a bad guy.

01:09:48.880 And it's really simple.

01:09:50.280 And most of the people in the Middle East are infected with this ideology of Islamism. 0.81

01:10:00.340 But much of the time, it's because they haven't seen anything else, and they've been indoctrinated their whole lives.

01:10:10.960 It's like, were the German children that were in the Hitler Youth, were they bad? 0.60

01:10:16.780 Or were they indoctrinated?

01:10:18.280 That's the difference.

01:10:23.700 And that's where we need to start fighting this like it's World War II, because it is World War III.

01:10:30.240 This is affecting the entire world.

01:10:32.840 And we need to be able to say, we don't hate Germans.

01:10:35.260 We hate Nazis.

01:10:37.420 Germans are not a problem.

01:10:38.520 I don't have a problem with Germans.

01:10:39.580 I have a problem with Nazis.

01:10:44.380 And that was declaration or proclamation number one that Eisenhower had put as broadsides on all of the sides of buildings, on telephone poles, everywhere around Germany.

01:10:56.900 Proclamation number one.

01:10:58.160 It was in English and in German.

01:11:00.240 And it said, we are here to kill the Nazis.

01:11:03.200 If you were a member of the Nazi Party, then you are the enemy of freedom of man, and we will kill you, and we are looking for those who were members of the Nazi Party. 0.78

01:11:19.760 But we are not the enemy of the German people.

01:11:23.580 We are the enemy of the Nazis.

01:11:27.080 And we know the distinction.

01:11:28.880 German people, we are here to bring peace and to be your friends.

01:11:35.760 That's the difference.

01:11:37.620 And we're not going to get that difference.

01:11:40.320 Nobody's, you're not going to get that difference by having bluster and talking about a Muslim ban. 0.75

01:11:48.820 That has to be done with some art in your soul.

01:11:55.120 That has to be done carefully, precision, not carpet bombing with words, but precision bombing with words.

01:12:05.520 That's really important for President Trump to learn.

01:12:11.040 That is a difference that Americans will understand and accept.

01:12:15.000 But you can't get it with a carpet bombing, and you'll never get it with the people who want to give excuses for everybody in the Middle East.

01:12:22.400 Sorry, there are some bad guys and some good guys.

01:12:25.280 And they're not just in the Middle East.

01:12:26.760 They're here, too.

01:12:27.940 Don't have to worry about banning people from moving in.

01:12:31.500 They're bad people here already.

01:12:33.520 And you know what?

01:12:34.360 Some of them look just like you.

01:12:38.240 That is what we have to get across to the American people.

01:12:41.020 And that is what I hope Donald Trump will begin to work on, is watching his language a little bit more.

01:12:47.360 And now this.

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01:12:53.120 By the way, one more thing, because I've got to say this.

01:12:55.680 I hope that Trump learns that, as I just said.

01:13:01.200 But that is not the only point of this monologue.

01:13:04.320 The point of this monologue was the carpet bombing of the press.

01:13:07.940 The reason why nobody believes us over there is because the press is spreading the poison that no one can be trusted, except them, in the United States.

01:13:20.300 They have to be artful with their words as well and understand the platform that they're on.

01:13:26.680 Tax identity theft cost taxpayers $4.1 billion last year.

01:13:31.420 Most of it came from tax refund fraud.

01:13:34.120 And that's when the thieves will send you an email and they'll say, hey, we need to get this information from you.

01:13:40.400 And they pose as the IRS.

01:13:42.060 You give up your Social Security card and they steal your refund.

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01:14:41.260 There is a ton to talk about today.

01:14:43.400 I've got two minutes.

01:14:44.420 I have to tell you about the doomsday prep for the super rich.

01:14:47.440 We have Riaz Batal coming up in just a second.

01:14:49.780 I also want to talk to you about Russia, what's happening in Russia, which is pretty amazing.

01:14:55.040 And, Stu, you sent me a story this morning I haven't had a chance to read about, Bannon in Russia?

01:14:59.720 Yeah, it's actually not a new story.

01:15:02.180 Something that a while ago, I think it was BuzzFeed, did a separate investigation about some stuff in Europe,

01:15:09.120 and Steve Bannon spoke to a group in Europe that they just happened to be there and capture this.

01:15:15.660 This is long before Trump was even running for president.

01:15:19.480 And, of course, a BuzzFeed title is something like, you know, Steve Bannon explains his views on the entire world.

01:15:25.140 But he does kind of outline what he thinks about the world in it, and it's a long transcript, and the video is there as well in case anybody wants to watch it.

01:15:35.620 But what was interesting is he went into depth about some of the stuff you've talked about when it comes to Russia.

01:15:44.820 Neo-Eurasianism?

01:15:45.140 Eurasianism?

01:15:45.780 Yeah, Eurasianism, and, you know, seemingly he refers to Alexander Dugan at one point, a guy you've spoken about.

01:15:53.800 In a good way or a bad way?

01:15:55.380 I would say mostly in a bad way, though he seems to refer to sort of the charm of what they're doing.

01:16:03.800 Or maybe the charm's not the right word, maybe effectiveness is the right word.

01:16:06.820 Talking about how, and you've spoken about this as well, where they're using sort of this appeal to traditionalism, this appeal to nationalism in a way that is effective for people who are in difficult positions, and utilizing it as a way to essentially cover your own corruption.

01:16:27.720 And he's talking about that with Vladimir Putin, which he, you know, outwardly criticizes pretty extensively.

01:16:33.800 If you understand the Neo-Eurasian movement from Russia, you will understand Bannon and how he is advising the president.

01:16:46.980 I'm absolutely convinced of it.

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01:17:24.520 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:25.520 Tonight, 8 o'clock, we find out the pick from Donald Trump on SCOTUS,

01:17:31.140 who he is going to name as the possibly next Supreme Court justice.

01:17:38.540 And a friend of the program who I've introduced you to now several times, Riaz Patel,

01:17:44.240 he is the man who is a gay, Muslim, Pakistani, married man with an adopted child.

01:17:51.440 There's no more boxes you can check.

01:17:53.020 I mean, he's checked every single box.

01:17:56.320 Everybody is supposed to hate him, even some Muslims and some Pakistanis.

01:18:01.580 I mean, he's friends with nobody.

01:18:03.220 He's friends with us.

01:18:04.920 Love this man.

01:18:06.160 He is open-minded, and he is a man of real intestinal fortitude.

01:18:13.220 A guy who hadn't really met any conservatives until he met with us about six months ago.

01:18:19.980 And then he thought, you know what?

01:18:21.740 When everybody was calling Donald Trump supporters crazy, maybe I should go meet them myself.

01:18:27.640 So he went on his own dime and flew up to Alaska and spent a weekend with Trump supporters

01:18:32.880 and said, they're wonderful people.

01:18:36.020 I understand why they're voting for Donald Trump and came out with this amazing, uniting article

01:18:44.180 for the left saying they're not who you think they are.

01:18:47.840 A guy of intellectual curiosity and integrity.

01:18:52.480 I have emailed him back and forth this week with the Muslim ban, which is not a ban.

01:18:57.840 It is a pause.

01:18:59.560 I don't know exactly where he stands on this, but I'm interested to hear his point of view,

01:19:04.260 especially while the media is in full-fledged meltdown on this.

01:19:10.140 We go there right now.

01:19:12.460 I will make a stand.

01:19:15.060 I will raise my voice.

01:19:17.340 I will hold your hand.

01:19:19.760 Because we are one.

01:19:21.600 I will beat my drum.

01:19:23.800 I have made my choice.

01:19:26.060 We will overcome.

01:19:28.340 Because we are one.

01:19:30.200 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:19:34.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:19:40.620 Riaz Patel, how are you, sir?

01:19:42.740 Good morning.

01:19:43.560 Hey, Glenn.

01:19:44.400 Welcome to the program.

01:19:46.420 Thank you.

01:19:46.960 Thank you.

01:19:47.220 What a nice intro, by the way.

01:19:48.420 Gosh, I hope to be that man that you introduced.

01:19:51.100 He seems great.

01:19:52.320 Yeah, I think you are.

01:19:53.780 My personal motto that I picked up a few months ago that I tell myself every day, I'm not the man I need to be.

01:20:02.280 I'm not the man I want to be.

01:20:03.560 But thank God I am not the man I used to be.

01:20:06.940 Yeah.

01:20:07.380 And moving forward every day.

01:20:09.500 And I really appreciate our friendship.

01:20:12.600 And you are the only person that I think I've ever met that is from the left, has all the boxes checked, that Pat has a love fest for.

01:20:25.020 I mean, Pat doesn't like anybody.

01:20:29.380 He loves you.

01:20:30.160 Pat and I passed each other in the halls in Dallas, and there was an awkward moment where I was like, okay, what's the next step, Pat?

01:20:36.820 Do we go to dinner?

01:20:37.620 Like, what happens next?

01:20:40.520 Okay.

01:20:41.120 So, tell me.

01:20:42.100 Hang on just a second.

01:20:43.560 Would you tell my, excuse me, my wife keeps texting Matthew, I guess, and he keeps looking at me like, fix your hair.

01:20:49.860 Here, honey.

01:20:50.880 She's watching.

01:20:52.160 She's watching.

01:20:52.680 I put a hat on.

01:20:53.900 How's my hair now?

01:20:55.560 Okay.

01:20:56.220 So, Riaz, tell me what your thoughts are and your process through the last few days of what's been happening.

01:21:07.540 You know, it's always a bit of an emotional process for me because we're talking about me.

01:21:14.160 You know, as we're talking about this Muslim ban, and I'm using air quotes because, you know, I think that becomes part of the problem. 0.99

01:21:20.080 When it becomes labeled as this Muslim ban, by association, we've yet again lumped 1.4 billion of us together in one world and one sort of people.

01:21:30.560 But as you look at it, you realize, I would hope, I would assume, that you wouldn't be included because, strangely, he didn't include Pakistan.

01:21:42.140 Yes, the first thing I noticed is it's not Pakistan, not Saudi Arabia.

01:21:46.740 And so, to me, when it's labeled as a Muslim ban, it can't be.

01:21:50.940 It cannot be specifically a Muslim ban.

01:21:52.740 Indonesia, the most populated Muslim nation in the world, is not there.

01:21:56.340 And so, you know, then there's a counterattack that he has business interests.

01:21:59.620 I don't know what business interests he could possibly have in Pakistan.

01:22:02.800 But it, to me, is not a full Muslim ban.

01:22:06.240 And I get very nervous when the media and the left rile up this angry because in this yelling, you can't hear.

01:22:13.300 And the hearing is what is key, is what I did in Alaska.

01:22:16.140 And, again, your very nice intro.

01:22:17.880 All it takes is someone to humbly listen.

01:22:19.800 You did it to me.

01:22:20.540 I did it to you.

01:22:21.620 It's not a superpower.

01:22:22.580 And so, to me, I really want to make sure that in this deafening roar that people like Zudi Jasser are heard, people like Diyad Khan, who's an amazing woman.

01:22:32.020 She's a filmmaker, did a TED Talk about how bad it is, the extremism in Europe.

01:22:36.840 And so, yes, we want to be polite.

01:22:38.880 And I so, so appreciate the outpouring from your viewers, from people who say, look, I don't know a Muslim, but you seem okay.

01:22:45.320 And that's great because there's a gray area to many of us.

01:22:48.020 But it really makes me nervous when it becomes one hyperbole of one group.

01:22:52.460 It doesn't serve the cause to me.

01:22:55.540 Last night, I said earlier on the program, I had to turn CNN off because at first I turned Fox off.

01:23:03.480 Then I turned CNN off because everyone was talking to their specific audience alone.

01:23:09.980 And the apex of this happened on CNN when Fareed Zakaria was talking to Alan Dershowitz, who is a very reasonable man.

01:23:23.040 I may not agree with everything he says, but he's a reasonably well-thought-out man.

01:23:27.540 He's not a guy who you can always say, yeah, he's going to fall down here because he's a Democrat or he's a Republican.

01:23:34.280 He's a guy who thinks for himself and has his own opinion.

01:23:37.300 He was in the middle of saying something that I found very reasonable.

01:23:41.520 And Fareed said, right in the middle, I'm not listening to anything you're saying, Alan.

01:23:46.840 I'm just not listening to this explanation.

01:23:48.720 I won't listen to this explanation.

01:23:51.000 And I thought, well, there's the problem.

01:23:53.400 There's the problem.

01:23:55.500 You're having an intellectual discussion, and all it's come to is I won't listen to your side.

01:24:03.120 And they're both doing it.

01:24:04.500 I won't listen to your side.

01:24:05.780 Instead, I want to throw a bomb.

01:24:07.960 Yeah.

01:24:08.660 Yeah.

01:24:08.980 And I think, to me, the listening is the hardest part.

01:24:11.980 Look, the thing I feel the most uncomfortable is the executive order of it all.

01:24:16.000 I believe in due process of government.

01:24:18.380 It makes me very nervous when these things are just brought in by executive order.

01:24:21.940 And I know people are feeling like, this is great.

01:24:24.200 After eight years, we're doing something.

01:24:25.980 But we know the swiftness of this is a counterreaction to the eight years.

01:24:30.440 It doesn't necessarily address the problem today.

01:24:33.440 Look, there absolutely needs to be something done.

01:24:35.300 I do believe there are bad parts of Islam. 1.00

01:24:37.700 Absolutely.

01:24:38.760 But they are limited, and they need to be targeted.

01:24:41.260 But to me, the executive action of it makes me very nervous because Fareed Zakaria and I are brown people.

01:24:47.020 And so whenever we're talking about this, there's a lifetime of abuse, a lifetime of racial epithets that have been thrown at us from age four and five.

01:24:57.140 So it is hard to be completely objective when we're listening to things that are vilifying us.

01:25:03.200 And so I can understand that.

01:25:04.560 But, again, as a reporter and CNN, you have to get over it.

01:25:07.100 But it is hard to find that balance of we're talking about me.

01:25:11.360 Did you have a problem with executive orders that Barack Obama did?

01:25:17.020 I mean, I did, yes, absolutely.

01:25:18.340 And I think I learned about them in Alaska, of all places.

01:25:21.160 The executive orders that he had done to the lumber industry and, sorry, Clintons had done to the lumber industry ruined this town of Kachakan.

01:25:28.040 So I absolutely – I don't think I was aware of how bad they were until recently, but they are.

01:25:33.400 We have government for a reason.

01:25:34.480 We have due process for a reason.

01:25:35.660 And I know people are scared.

01:25:37.260 But the problem of reaction, counterreaction, is that is exactly what ISIS wants. 0.83

01:25:42.180 The more we're angry, the more there's a rift in American society, the more lost people fall in, and ISIS goes in and grabs them.

01:25:49.100 And so, to me, this rift of fighting and yelling so loud we can't hear each other is the perfect chaos for ISIS to play in. 0.54

01:25:56.580 So I think it's the perfect chaos for everybody to play in.

01:25:59.640 I mean, anybody who wants to control things.

01:26:02.180 Agreed. Agreed.

01:26:03.000 Chaos is wonderful.

01:26:03.460 And I don't like the political nature of it.

01:26:05.000 Yeah.

01:26:06.160 So as I was watching last night, and I hear from people all across the country.

01:26:13.560 I read Facebook, Twitter.

01:26:15.520 I meet people.

01:26:17.320 You do too.

01:26:18.000 There is a small group, I think, on the right and the left that are sick of hearing this and don't want to be shouting each other down.

01:26:35.140 We can look at it and say, look, look, I disagree with this, but that's what this really is.

01:26:40.960 This is, you know, X, Y, and Z.

01:26:43.020 And maybe my side went too far here, here, and here, but now you're going too far here, here, and here.

01:26:49.300 And I don't want to argue about it.

01:26:51.000 I'll admit that my side did these things wrong, and we shouldn't have done that, but now you guys shouldn't do that.

01:26:57.600 When I say that on the air, I am overwhelmed with people who say, it's never going to happen, Glenn.

01:27:04.960 It's never going to happen.

01:27:06.240 And my response is, well, then, do you have a better suggestion than just expecting the best out of people and encouraging people to do that?

01:27:17.420 Do you have a better suggestion?

01:27:19.880 I mean, to me, it's not going to happen.

01:27:22.180 To me, I hear that I'm not going to do that.

01:27:24.900 Again, we're not talking about some absurd superpower that people have to develop in a science lab.

01:27:30.020 We're talking about listening.

01:27:31.440 And so, to me, this absurd yelling, I agree with you, Glenn, and to me, the absurdity of our own friendship is the reason why it works.

01:27:39.720 It obviously works.

01:27:41.120 When you and I sat opposite each other, we had nothing in common, and yet we found we have almost everything in common.

01:27:46.540 And so, to me, it's getting past the discomfort of that first conversation.

01:27:50.600 Riaz, I think what you just said, the absurdity of our friendship is so a sign of the times, such a sign of the times.

01:27:57.660 Sometimes, my parents, I don't remember my parents or my grandparents ever saying, well, who did he vote for?

01:28:06.840 Oh, what party does he belong to?

01:28:09.440 Oh, well, what church do they belong to?

01:28:11.700 I never heard any of that.

01:28:15.060 Now, I don't think that I have ever met a Muslim or a Jew when I was growing up.

01:28:21.480 And that's because I grew up in the whitest white town in America, Mount Vernon, Washington.

01:28:26.900 And so, at the time, I lived there.

01:28:28.800 The diversity was there.

01:28:30.100 It was Hispanic and Asian.

01:28:32.400 But to me, that was just normal.

01:28:34.880 Yeah.

01:28:35.540 Now, to see Jews and Muslims, to me, that is different.

01:28:41.800 But I might have lived around Muslims.

01:28:44.080 I might have lived around Jews.

01:28:45.660 We just never talked about it.

01:28:47.380 We didn't categorize people like that.

01:28:49.300 So, when you say the absurdity of our friendship, only today.

01:28:55.300 I think we have much more in common than we have different.

01:29:02.520 Absolutely.

01:29:03.720 And so, to me, it's that awkwardness that people feel that that first conversation is so possible, but is not possible.

01:29:10.540 And to me, it becomes an ego thing.

01:29:12.660 Look, you and I could have sat down opposite each other and fought to the death to be right.

01:29:16.580 And neither of us wanted that, because it doesn't help to be right.

01:29:20.640 And so, I think, really, it's going to take a humbling, and I think it's going to be hard.

01:29:24.800 But my hope is, Glenn, that a different sort of leadership will emerge.

01:29:28.560 We've got four years.

01:29:29.800 Like, I don't even want to think about the election.

01:29:32.060 But I hope that this activism leads to new kinds of leadership.

01:29:35.520 And we get away from the established speech givers, because you and I should be friends.

01:29:41.000 And I think, again, when we keep saying Muslim ban, Muslim ban, Muslim ban, what is the word that comes to the mind?

01:29:45.540 Everyone's talking about Muslims as one big group again.

01:29:49.120 I don't think that helps me.

01:29:50.860 I don't think it does at all.

01:29:52.060 And so, to me, I'm trying to – and you are with Zutty Jasser saying, look, there are other people.

01:29:56.960 There are other opinions within this community we need to hear.

01:29:59.980 I would love other media sources to do that, too.

01:30:03.100 And so, I really do believe it's just humbling yourself.

01:30:05.880 It's just being nice.

01:30:07.260 It's just believing that the other person is probably kind and generous, too, and just sitting down.

01:30:12.200 Because the absurdity – you're right.

01:30:13.980 Except for today, there would be no bizarreness of our friendship.

01:30:17.360 And so, we need to get back to that.

01:30:18.780 And I think we will.

01:30:19.720 You and I will make that happen.

01:30:22.060 So, Riaz, what do you say to people who look and say, well, the problem is the media and the politicians?

01:30:31.520 And I agree much of that is true, the media and the politicians.

01:30:35.500 However, the media and politicians in some way – the media is a reflection of the people who are in it.

01:30:44.040 The politicians are a reflection of us.

01:30:47.300 So, we're kind of cut from the same cloth in many ways.

01:30:50.580 We get what we vote for.

01:30:52.320 We get what we accept.

01:30:54.020 The media is a reflection of the people who are in it.

01:30:57.080 But we are now in it and read Facebook and Twitter.

01:31:01.400 So, what do you say to people who say, I'll never be able to change the media?

01:31:05.480 And they're never going to change.

01:31:06.660 Change what you consume.

01:31:09.120 I mean, I work in media.

01:31:10.140 I'm a producer.

01:31:10.840 I'm in Hollywood.

01:31:11.480 So, we don't really create shows that we don't think there will be an audience for.

01:31:15.740 And I will be very proud.

01:31:17.000 I'm very proud of the fact that I've never created the kind of conflict-driven stuff that has been out there.

01:31:20.720 But that stuff gets made because people watch it.

01:31:24.000 You stop watching it.

01:31:25.340 It doesn't get made.

01:31:26.400 And so, to me, you said media is part of the people who make it and people who are in it.

01:31:29.960 It's also the people who consume it.

01:31:31.680 If you don't want to consume and eat a steady diet of conflict and rage every day, don't do it.

01:31:37.760 I literally took a challenge in the new year not to complain.

01:31:40.340 I'm serious.

01:31:41.000 It's incredibly hard.

01:31:42.240 But I'm trying not to complain.

01:31:43.860 And so, to me, I don't go to social media for that fix of complaining and rage and anger that I need.

01:31:49.260 So, to me, change what you consume.

01:31:51.800 Change what you put in your mind.

01:31:53.180 And it will change who you are.

01:31:56.340 Reyes, thank you for your insight.

01:31:57.740 I appreciate it.

01:31:58.620 God bless.

01:31:59.480 And we'll talk to you again soon.

01:32:00.280 Love talking to you, Glenn.

01:32:01.220 Thank you.

01:32:02.100 God bless.

01:32:02.740 Bye.

01:32:03.660 Bye.

01:32:04.580 He's great.

01:32:05.280 I love that guy.

01:32:06.300 He is great.

01:32:07.300 I love that guy.

01:32:07.980 And he's totally right, too.

01:32:09.020 I mean, you know, we've all gone through periods where you get on social media and you're firing back at people and it makes you feel good for that one second and then you feel terrible afterwards.

01:32:18.760 And you get to that point where, generally speaking, I just try to ignore it at this point.

01:32:23.100 I don't know that it's probably better to replace it with something positive.

01:32:26.600 That's probably what Reyes would tell us.

01:32:29.280 But, you know, the less you can deal with that stuff, the better.

01:32:33.160 I mean, you know, there's people that I.

01:32:34.520 Well, still staying connected.

01:32:36.100 I mean, you still have to stay connected.

01:32:37.600 Last night, I just wanted the news of what's happening.

01:32:41.180 I didn't want to hear all of the comments from you.

01:32:43.840 I just what has happened?

01:32:45.620 I've been on a plane for three hours.

01:32:47.420 What has happened in the last three hours?

01:32:49.540 So I turn on the news and I didn't get what happened.

01:32:52.500 All I got was trying to figure out what happened in between when they're all yelling about it.

01:33:00.020 I want to know what happened, please.

01:33:03.400 All right.

01:33:04.380 Let's take a quick break.

01:33:05.840 We're going to tell you a little bit about SCOTUS.

01:33:08.820 The SCOTUS pick happens tonight at 8 o'clock.

01:33:11.400 And the Blaze will be on that with a live broadcast.

01:33:14.020 And we'll talk to Doc about that and who he thinks the president is going to pick.

01:33:18.380 If you miss on who I think is going to pick, I did it last hour.

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01:33:36.060 Not so good.

01:33:36.900 And I have this strange feeling.

01:33:39.080 I'm not even going to say it out loud.

01:33:40.880 One of them is not so good.

01:33:42.320 And it's not going to happen.

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01:34:55.160 What haven't we covered yet, Stu?

01:34:59.880 I've got a few things.

01:35:02.160 I'm really hoping for a question from the maybe Two Spicer today or Trump in some interview.

01:35:10.540 Because I think there's an easy way for him to push off all of this Muslim ban talk that everyone keeps mentioning.

01:35:17.460 Because the executive order does not say that.

01:35:19.320 So if he did, and I understand why people are jumping to that.

01:35:24.440 But that policy, which I opposed as vigilantly as anyone, his initial Trump proposal of a Muslim ban, I think, was unconstitutional and horrible.

01:35:34.260 But that policy is not this policy.

01:35:37.100 Correct.

01:35:37.420 So here's an easy way to test the Trump administration.

01:35:40.280 Population of Iran is made up of 89% Shia Muslims and 9% Sunni Muslims.

01:35:46.420 In Iran, Sunni Muslims are a religious minority.

01:35:49.720 If they were persecuted by a terrible Iranian government, would they be allowed to go to the front of the line once refugee admissions continue like other religious minorities? 0.99

01:35:57.940 If Episcopalians started violently persecuting Presbyterians somewhere, no one would say, well, they're all Christians, so you don't have to worry about it.

01:36:05.260 The distinction would be important.

01:36:07.500 And I think what would surprise a lot of people is that Sunni Muslims being imported in that scenario. 0.99

01:36:12.820 Spicer, do you think Spicer could answer that?

01:36:14.720 I don't know enough about Spicer yet.

01:36:16.560 I don't know.

01:36:16.960 But, I mean, it's a good question to ask.

01:36:19.040 And if the Trump administration were smart, they would say, wait a minute.

01:36:22.240 Yeah, I mean, they would be OK.

01:36:23.920 They're certainly OK by the language of it.

01:36:25.980 Only the intent would prevent this from occurring.

01:36:30.040 The Giuliani problem is the sticking point here.

01:36:33.220 It's very tough.

01:36:33.620 Yeah, very tough.

01:36:34.240 That Giuliani came out and said Donald Trump just wanted a clever way to do a Muslim ban.

01:36:39.780 That's the problem with it.

01:36:41.800 Do you take him seriously or literally?

01:36:43.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:36:54.280 Hello, America.

01:36:56.340 Welcome to the program.

01:36:58.040 Doc Thompson is with us in-house.

01:37:01.500 Doc Thompson does the morning show on the Blaze Radio Network.

01:37:04.900 And you can hear live stream and also podcasts, all kinds of stuff on the Blaze Radio Network.

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01:37:22.240 It is the, I think, the 18th largest stream in the country, which everybody else has all of these different channels.

01:37:30.980 Right.

01:37:31.400 We only have one.

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01:37:36.340 Glenn.

01:37:36.420 Oh, I think you left out a couple of qualifiers on that one this time, Jeffy.

01:37:40.080 You got about six more qualifiers to make that near true.

01:37:43.220 Yeah.

01:37:43.400 But anyway, Doc leads the way every morning with the Doc Thompson radio broadcast.

01:37:48.740 And he's really a, he's cut from the same cloth in some ways as I am.

01:37:56.420 He is a deeply emotional guy and kind of a soft-hearted guy that will rip your heart out and show it to you before you fall down on the ground if he thinks you're wrong.

01:38:08.820 But I've noticed, too, he actually uses a lot less cloth than you when it comes to cover the, just a textile sort of observation there.

01:38:23.880 So Doc is here.

01:38:25.420 How are you doing, Doc?

01:38:27.660 Doc, can you hear him?

01:38:28.920 No.

01:38:30.180 He's apparently having audio issues.

01:38:32.100 He's having audio issues.

01:38:33.780 But luckily, he did hear me make fun of you and your appearance, which I think is probably the most important part of this segment.

01:38:40.960 No offense, Doc, to whatever you're about to say.

01:38:42.440 Doc, shut him up. 1.00

01:38:43.400 There he is.

01:38:43.980 He's got you now, I think.

01:38:44.880 Hey, you're doing a live Facebook post tonight for Blaze Radio Network on SCOTUS.

01:38:51.660 Who do you think it's going to be?

01:38:54.840 I don't think it's going to be prior.

01:38:56.300 I think that's too conservative for him, too religious conservative.

01:38:59.420 I think it's probably going to be Hardiman.

01:39:01.980 I think that's probably where we go.

01:39:03.240 But the thing is, that's the one I'm frightened that it will be.

01:39:06.780 I will tell you this.

01:39:08.440 The evangelicals, I mean, the evangelicals are the ones that got Donald Trump into office.

01:39:15.620 Sure.

01:39:16.260 And he promised them.

01:39:18.640 And I don't mean promise them on stage.

01:39:20.960 I mean, he looked them in the eye and said, Jerry Falwell.

01:39:25.220 Uh, uh, uh, uh, what's his name?

01:39:29.360 Uh, Franklin Graham, uh, James Robison.

01:39:32.800 You guys, I'm going to do, I'm going to pay you back for this.

01:39:37.300 And they all said, the only thing we want is the Supreme Court justice that falls in line with our values.

01:39:45.060 That's all we want.

01:39:46.300 So this is the payback.

01:39:48.260 And if he betrays the evangelicals and, and I think goes with somebody like Thomas Hardiman, uh, that's not going to sit well.

01:39:57.620 But I mean, they knew he was on the list though.

01:40:00.280 And they all approved of the list.

01:40:01.740 None of them said, okay, this is great.

01:40:03.820 They are behind the scenes with him now.

01:40:06.920 They have a list of their own where three of those people are unacceptable.

01:40:11.180 And they have, they have met with him several times and his people.

01:40:15.600 These people are not acceptable.

01:40:17.280 Is there any possibility he goes off the board and doesn't pick one of these three?

01:40:21.160 Oh, absolutely.

01:40:21.780 Oh, yeah.

01:40:22.600 I mean, if I had a field bet here, I'd probably take it.

01:40:26.320 Just because Trump is, you know, he likes the drama.

01:40:29.600 He likes leaking things that are incorrect all the time.

01:40:32.880 He likes making everyone believe he's going to do A and then do B on television in front of everyone.

01:40:37.240 I would not be surprised at all that it's not one of these three.

01:40:40.080 But if he goes off the board, doesn't it have to be somebody that everybody loves?

01:40:43.820 Can he reunify some people that were against him, people like me that didn't support him,

01:40:47.880 with a Ted Cruz, with a Mike Lee?

01:40:51.140 Do you pick somebody like that?

01:40:51.620 He's not going to do that.

01:40:52.520 He's not going to do that.

01:40:53.600 First of all, Ted Cruz, he wouldn't pick.

01:40:55.280 I don't think he would pick Mike Lee.

01:40:57.000 Cruz apparently said he didn't want it, at least as far as reporting went.

01:41:00.040 He apparently did meet with them initially about the possibility, like Romney met, about Secretary of State.

01:41:06.940 But Cruz was the one who said, you know what?

01:41:08.700 I don't want this.

01:41:09.240 I've got other work to do right now.

01:41:11.340 The Mike Lee thing, I don't think Lee is going to be picked.

01:41:14.760 But quite honestly, because not Mike, but his brother, and I think it's because he's a Mormon,

01:41:23.520 there is still, with some evangelicals, a problem with Mormons.

01:41:31.360 And that is one of the things, is it Thomas Hardiman, I think he's Catholic.

01:41:38.160 And while I don't think the evangelicals have a problem necessarily with Catholics, I don't think most have a problem even anymore with Mormons,

01:41:47.580 although much more so, that won't go in his favor.

01:41:51.600 There's no evangelical on the court.

01:41:55.040 There's, I think it's only Catholics and Jews that are on the court. 0.94

01:41:59.340 Isn't that right?

01:41:59.980 Or atheists? 0.65

01:42:02.300 Does anybody know?

01:42:03.480 I don't know.

01:42:04.000 It's only, I think it's, they're not going off.

01:42:07.620 And while that is not a first in anybody's checklist, I know that that is one of the things that they would like somebody that reflects them on the court.

01:42:19.600 I would be surprised if he went off the list of 20 here with his first pick.

01:42:24.260 If one were to get blocked, I would not be surprised to see him leave that list of 20.

01:42:27.620 But, I mean, I would be surprised if he left a list of 20.

01:42:30.800 I would not be at all surprised if he left the most heavily reported three.

01:42:35.300 I think one of the things that Trump likes about doing this type of delivery, if he does do it, is it helps his narrative that the media is wrong.

01:42:43.540 Everyone's running stories today that it's one of these three guys.

01:42:46.700 And then he's going to, if he were to do this, then he comes out and says, well, they all were reporting it was going to be one of those three.

01:42:51.420 And I knew the whole time, fake news.

01:42:53.080 And it helps that narrative.

01:42:55.040 So I think he likes that sort of, that approach.

01:42:58.560 Would not be surprised at all that it's somebody else.

01:43:00.320 And I don't think, if he picks off the list of 20, I don't think any of us are going to be able to come in here tomorrow and say it was a bad pick.

01:43:06.000 I think we can all say, I'm worried about, like Hardeman, for example.

01:43:08.740 If he picks Hardeman, I'm very worried.

01:43:11.340 I'm very concerned.

01:43:12.020 And the evangelicals will be very, very concerned.

01:43:14.840 However, I won't be able to tell you.

01:43:16.980 There's not enough in his record that says he's not a conservative.

01:43:20.680 He's been conservative on many things.

01:43:24.060 It's just one of those things that once these justices get into action, it never seems to be that they move to the right of where you think they might go.

01:43:32.780 It's always the opposite.

01:43:33.880 They always are more liberal than you have considered previously.

01:43:38.020 So starting with a centrist, it makes me worry.

01:43:40.160 I will tell you that if I had, if it was a coin toss with me, okay, I'm the president, and it's a coin toss.

01:43:47.560 Nobody is going to make, and I think Donald Trump is this way, nobody's going to make the decision for him.

01:43:52.760 He's never going to say, okay, you give me this.

01:43:55.900 I hope not.

01:43:56.820 He's never going to say, okay, you give me this, and I'll give you whatever you want.

01:44:00.460 But as it should be if somebody is working with you like it is on everything, if I'm working around a bunch of people, Stu, if I have a coin toss and you say, Glenn, this really means something to me, I'll do it your way because it helps you, and you're my friend, and we work together, and we've been working well together.

01:44:22.780 You know what I mean?

01:44:23.160 And there's nothing wrong with that.

01:44:25.000 If it's a coin toss, if he doesn't give the evangelicals the pick that they want, this is literally, there is no one that can say that they won the election for Donald Trump besides Donald Trump and the evangelicals.

01:44:49.760 Had the evangelicals not behaved the way that leadership of the evangelicals did, if they would have gone another way and really led by James Robinson and, shoot, what's his name, at Liberty University and Franklin Graham, if they would have not done what they did, Donald Trump would not be president today.

01:45:17.000 I'm convinced of it.

01:45:17.980 How do you go against that block when all they're asking for is this?

01:45:23.240 They've said from the beginning, because of the Supreme Court pick, we must fall in line behind him.

01:45:30.800 And you know what?

01:45:31.500 It's not exclusively this way, but Trump does reward loyalty at times.

01:45:37.300 Not all the time, but at times.

01:45:39.380 Well, he usually does when somebody has really taken it on the chin for him and excused him of something that goes against what they believe.

01:45:49.360 And if the evangelicals didn't do that for Donald Trump, I don't know who did.

01:45:53.240 I mean, they made, they gave him credit and said, hey, this mea culpa is enough.

01:45:59.320 And, I mean, they excused some pretty big things that no one else would have gotten a pass for.

01:46:05.940 They stood up for him.

01:46:07.480 And some of them did it early, you know, even in primary.

01:46:09.840 Really early.

01:46:10.420 So you think that might be rewarded.

01:46:12.560 Is there any reason that he would have to go against the evangelicals?

01:46:16.400 Any reason that he would say?

01:46:17.980 I mean, I can't think of anything in either one of these three picks or most of the list that he would say, that's going to do it for me.

01:46:23.660 That's what I want.

01:46:24.700 I think, well, there is a list there because I know some of these guys and I know, you know, they're good guys and, you know, they have the best intentions.

01:46:37.100 And I don't know necessarily who's on the list.

01:46:39.680 I think Thomas Hardiman is.

01:46:41.680 I'm not sure.

01:46:43.040 But there are, I know that there are three that they have said unacceptable.

01:46:47.700 On this list, three are absolutely unacceptable.

01:46:50.820 I don't know who they are.

01:46:51.720 I think Thomas Hardiman is one of them.

01:46:55.080 Yeah, I mean, you know, and one thing you might want to look for potentially here is if he if he says, OK, this list of 20 is acceptable to conservatives.

01:47:03.880 That's what they told me when they gave it to me.

01:47:05.920 I put it out there.

01:47:06.780 It was generally well received by most.

01:47:08.980 There are people that have problems with individual picks.

01:47:11.520 But, you know, generally speaking, it was a well received list by conservatives.

01:47:15.160 One of the things you might want to look for.

01:47:16.760 And this is I know one of the issues that some religious groups have talked about.

01:47:21.720 Is, you know, for example, Trump has continued the executive order by the Obama administration on the LGBTQ issues that happened this morning.

01:47:33.900 And that was a question of whether he was going to take that back.

01:47:36.460 He's decided to continue it.

01:47:38.360 On which which one?

01:47:39.220 I'm sorry.

01:47:39.720 On the LGBTQ.

01:47:41.500 What are the new letters, Jeffy?

01:47:42.980 I.

01:47:43.180 I.

01:47:43.660 I.

01:47:44.060 I.

01:47:44.140 L.G.

01:47:44.820 B.Q.

01:47:45.100 I.

01:47:45.340 I.

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01:47:46.260 I.

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01:47:47.460 I.

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01:47:47.980 I.

01:47:48.140 I.

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01:47:48.260 I.

01:47:48.380 I.

01:47:49.380 I.

01:47:49.900 Intersex. 0.94

01:47:50.100 And asexual.

01:47:51.380 Right.

01:47:51.640 You didn't even bring them up.

01:47:54.420 And I wanted to make sure at least they were included in the conversation.

01:47:56.600 Thank you.

01:47:56.880 Thank you.

01:47:57.640 L.B.G.

01:47:58.660 Q.

01:47:59.220 L.G.B.T.

01:48:00.240 Q.I.A.

01:48:01.880 L.G.B.T.Q. I.A.

01:48:02.080 Why don't we just start saying, I'm part of the A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.K.L.M.N.L.P.Q.R.S.T.U.V.W.X.Y.Z.

01:48:09.700 That's really insulting.

01:48:10.260 I would at least cover it, I will say.

01:48:11.460 That's really insulting.

01:48:12.240 I'm part of that community.

01:48:13.280 That's very insulting.

01:48:13.700 not really insulting but very but that seems like one of the issues you know the law cabin

01:48:18.220 republicans called uh donald trump the most pro-gay rights candidate in in history to have

01:48:24.020 the nomination i mean i think you can legitimately make the case that he's the most pro-gay rights

01:48:28.460 president to ever take office given the fact that he's the first one that has ever taken office that

01:48:33.320 did not oppose gay marriage remember barack obama when he took office opposed gay marriage that's

01:48:37.880 right so you know you have that might be the type of thing you might look for and it looks like

01:48:42.980 hardiman and at some level prior as well has has ruled um favorably on those issues um for

01:48:51.080 something maybe like avanka would like um and maybe if there's an issue where he might he might try to

01:48:57.180 get a little breathing room it might be that direction um at least you know that's something

01:49:02.520 to speculate on but we don't have to speculate for long we're gonna know tonight uh supposedly i can't

01:49:07.220 even imagine is the we should take we should take bets on which city is on fire tonight because it

01:49:15.060 doesn't matter if he picks off of that list every liberal is going to say they are worse than hitler

01:49:19.420 oh yeah that is every single one it's the worst person of all time they are monsters they are going to

01:49:27.360 resurrect adolf hitler it's it's coming and they are dear gear by the way even if he were to pick

01:49:32.980 someone who is acceptable to the left they are so pissed off that they never gave a hearing to

01:49:38.020 merrick garland right during the obama administration they've already announced they're going to filibuster

01:49:42.440 and do everything they can to stop this if they can pull it off somehow they are going to um be surprised

01:49:48.860 because i believe he's going to use the nuclear option yes oh yeah i mean he will just do

01:49:56.580 he'll it's 50 votes 51 votes that's it that's all we need and it'll happen and you're assuming it's

01:50:02.980 only one city that's going to burn tonight that's true i mean doc how concerned are you watching the

01:50:09.640 news just last night i mean we're headed towards i mean where where are we headed it's it's just going

01:50:14.880 to keep going that way listen there's no going back to any of this stuff the genie's out of the bottle

01:50:18.760 the only way out sadly even for people like us that say hey we want to talk is forward and forward

01:50:24.440 is going to be through a lot of bad and there's going to be some climactic moment i just hope that

01:50:29.040 climactic moment isn't too devastating and we can all say okay that's bad let's do something else i do

01:50:36.060 think there's any way back no no i don't um only way back is forward yeah all right i gotta take a

01:50:42.240 break tonight facebook after uh the presidential uh announcement uh join doc um on uh facebook

01:50:48.240 glenn beck program triple eight seven two seven back mercury

01:50:54.860 the glenn beck program all right so the pick tonight i'm going off of the top three i'm hoping

01:51:05.320 for gorsuch yeah i mean i i it's a good pick i i think um if i add one more name here outside the

01:51:12.440 three if i could get some odds i think the value pick is don willett from florida and he if you don't

01:51:18.780 know him very smart conservative good justice seemingly would be a good pick but also great

01:51:25.040 on twitter a fantastic guy on twitter i think honestly like he picks these things a lot of times

01:51:31.400 with sort of a commercial interest in mind and i think he would be a good pick and would also give

01:51:37.440 him a little bit of color it's not a boring guy i never heard of i'm hoping he goes for gorsuchus but

01:51:41.780 i've talked myself into prior because i think it would be the most kind of screw you to the to the

01:51:46.400 people on the left so i think you may go for it uh immediately following his pick tonight i'll be on

01:51:50.260 facebook live go to the blaze.com slash facebook and we'll have full coverage it's at facebook.com

01:51:55.580 slash the blaze tonight immediately following the pick all right we'll see you tonight at five

01:52:00.840 then the pick uh from los angeles and our mercury studios see ya

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