The Glenn Beck Program - 'Confrontational Tones and Tactics'？ - 7⧸11⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.

00:00:08.120 A couple of weeks ago, a trenching rain battered the dense tropical forests of northern Thailand.

00:00:16.580 It's a seasonal rain, streams downward, flash floods, fill caves, destroy crops.

00:00:28.000 It's the rainy season, and it lasts until October.

00:00:35.120 Well, 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach found themselves trapped in one of the caves.

00:00:41.560 Two and a half miles from the entrance.

00:00:45.500 Inside the cave, it's dark, it's cold, and the boys can hear the clamor of rain stomping on the earth outside.

00:00:53.700 They can hear the slow creep of water inching upward.

00:00:58.000 The boys all hunch.

00:01:02.000 They're cold in their red jerseys, each one with a number over the upper left side.

00:01:07.640 But they remain calm.

00:01:09.800 The boys meditate.

00:01:11.860 Their coach is trained in meditation as a Buddhist monk for a decade.

00:01:16.540 He went to live in a monastery when he was 12 after being orphaned.

00:01:19.840 The boys range in age from 11 to 16, and their coach is known to be a guy who has put together a tight-knit group who go on adventures.

00:01:31.680 And they go swimming, which is unusual for kids.

00:01:35.560 They swim in waterfalls, cycling trips, through the mountains, they river raft, and they cave explore.

00:01:42.800 They had survived for 10 days before they were discovered.

00:01:48.800 Now imagine, two weeks in a cave, muddy, clouded, dark, dark water.

00:01:57.180 The haunted green murk, tiny spires underwater.

00:02:04.940 It'd probably be pretty cool if it wasn't a matter of life and death.

00:02:14.620 In the middle was a narrow, flooded passage.

00:02:18.560 The winding, sharp fangs of the cave and the engulfing caverns.

00:02:24.240 The rescue effort began on Sunday.

00:02:29.420 Former Thai Navy SEAL died last week, setting up an escape route.

00:02:34.720 Seasonal rains have ravaged the dense jungles, relenting only long enough for a thick fog to drape over the area.

00:02:44.360 A squad of more than 100 divers, in dark uniforms, with tinges of reflective ultraviolet yellow of safety gear, with bright yellow helmets and headlamps.

00:02:56.840 The divers followed a thick yellow oxygen tube, the width of a bumper.

00:03:03.140 At the midpoint, the divers had to climb a sharp, slippery jut of rock using full climbing gear.

00:03:11.280 Each boy had to wear scuba gear.

00:03:14.360 With breathing tanks.

00:03:16.420 The breathing tanks were carried by the Navy SEALs.

00:03:21.120 They were kind of pulled or swam through the curvatures in the dark.

00:03:29.200 The cavernous waters.

00:03:31.140 Through the cramped chambers.

00:03:33.220 The spiked passageways.

00:03:38.840 One passageway was no more bigger than two feet around.

00:03:44.360 Too narrow for the scuba tanks.

00:03:48.200 So each boy was escorted by two divers.

00:03:53.620 The boys emerged from the cave.

00:03:55.600 The last one was pulled out yesterday, draped in hypothermia blankets.

00:04:02.940 Some of the boys were well enough to ask for their favorite dish, spikesy pork, stir-fried with basil.

00:04:10.080 We're not sure if this is a miracle or science or what.

00:04:20.640 All of the 13 wild boars are now out of the cave.

00:04:23.680 Now that's what a post to the Navy SEALs Facebook page said.

00:04:27.940 The name of the soccer team.

00:04:32.700 But everybody is safe.

00:04:34.420 Last night at the boys were out.

00:04:39.380 Monks in saffron robes and wooden slippers meditated over the boys.

00:04:45.520 Praying for health, for calm, and for peace.

00:04:49.280 It's Wednesday, July 11th.

00:04:57.580 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:59.420 That's really a remarkable story, isn't it?

00:05:02.380 Amazing.

00:05:03.280 It really is truly an amazing story.

00:05:06.240 The part where they couldn't fit through the opening with the tanks on their back is incredible.

00:05:12.020 Because they take them off, then they get through there, then they put them back on.

00:05:17.200 The climbing gear they had, they had to climb over certain areas.

00:05:20.620 Just an incredible story.

00:05:22.220 How did somebody find out where they were?

00:05:27.040 Do you know?

00:05:27.680 I don't.

00:05:29.080 Because you couldn't have gotten a signal out of there.

00:05:31.140 No.

00:05:31.820 It was two and a half miles back, right?

00:05:34.420 Marissa, can you figure out how they did that?

00:05:37.780 I mean, you know, they'd been there for 10 days before somebody figured it out.

00:05:43.180 Yeah, it's extraordinary.

00:05:45.520 And, you know, kind of lost in the shuffle seems to be this Navy SEAL who died.

00:05:50.860 Gave his life trying to save the kids.

00:05:54.100 Somebody came in and one of the Navy SEALs came in and had to give some of them swimming lessons.

00:05:59.220 It's apparently very unusual for children in Thailand to swim.

00:06:04.580 Yeah.

00:06:05.600 And to swim not only.

00:06:08.960 I mean, you know, we think of these caves as anything you would see in a movie.

00:06:12.660 I don't think this cave was like that.

00:06:15.060 This cave was not like this.

00:06:17.040 And the water was mud.

00:06:19.920 Yeah, you couldn't see anything.

00:06:22.560 So that couldn't have been a fun adventure.

00:06:24.820 You couldn't have.

00:06:25.340 That had to be frightening.

00:06:26.160 You couldn't have done it.

00:06:27.620 No.

00:06:28.120 You're so claustrophobic.

00:06:29.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:29.640 You wouldn't have gotten in.

00:06:31.000 But if you had gotten in, there's no way you would have gotten out.

00:06:33.600 Uh-uh.

00:06:34.420 They would have had to.

00:06:35.960 Tranquilize you.

00:06:36.680 Uh-uh.

00:06:37.420 Which I guess some of the kids were.

00:06:39.720 They gave them.

00:06:41.300 I think they gave them sedatives so that they wouldn't panic on the way out.

00:06:44.920 Because if you panic, you know, that might take the life of a Navy SEAL that's trying

00:06:50.120 to help you get out, too.

00:06:51.700 So I think they did drug the kids to get them out.

00:06:57.040 Fascinating story.

00:06:58.780 Oh, Marissa said they found the gear outside of the cave.

00:07:02.280 That's how they figured it out.

00:07:04.240 I couldn't imagine that, though.

00:07:05.740 Amazing.

00:07:06.280 You find the gear outside of the cave.

00:07:09.140 You can go in.

00:07:10.420 You don't know that they're two and a half miles in.

00:07:13.220 Right.

00:07:15.620 Yeah.

00:07:16.180 And it's a remarkable story.

00:07:17.800 I think at one point they were thinking about drilling down to them through the.

00:07:22.680 But that would, I guess, take it too long.

00:07:24.880 But that's how they would have had to get me out of there.

00:07:26.560 Because I'm not going through the tunnels.

00:07:29.200 You really would.

00:07:30.320 If you wouldn't have, they'd have to hit you with a dart.

00:07:32.720 I'll just stay here.

00:07:33.700 You would.

00:07:34.080 I'll stay till October.

00:07:35.460 We'll see you then.

00:07:37.400 I don't think so.

00:07:39.460 I don't think.

00:07:40.700 Send me a blanket and some food.

00:07:42.440 How long do you think the flashlights lasted?

00:07:46.480 I mean, it would be one thing if you were there.

00:07:48.940 I don't know when you start to lose hope.

00:07:55.260 10 days is a long time.

00:07:57.580 Long time.

00:07:58.400 Long time.

00:07:59.320 And I.

00:08:00.180 Most societies and people and groups break down 72 hours.

00:08:04.660 If help doesn't come within 72 hours, you begin to believe it's not coming.

00:08:12.060 So, I mean, they're a long way past that.

00:08:16.480 That's what makes me believe that 25-year-old coach was a hero.

00:08:20.420 Because he must have kept them together.

00:08:22.040 He must have.

00:08:22.800 And I'm not sure what they survived on for 10 days either.

00:08:26.540 There's no way they could have had provisions for 10 days when they went in there.

00:08:30.000 They weren't planning on that.

00:08:30.980 I haven't heard that story either.

00:08:35.020 What did you live on for 10 days before somebody finally got to you and got you supplies?

00:08:39.280 And so, excuse me, because I was on vacation while all of this happened.

00:08:43.220 But they were in.

00:08:44.960 Were they planning on staying overnight or something?

00:08:47.460 How fast did this water just.

00:08:49.580 Really fast.

00:08:50.380 Really fast, right?

00:08:51.500 Mm-hmm.

00:08:51.880 Flash flooding.

00:08:53.560 And they apparently weren't planning on it.

00:08:57.600 But that can happen at any time during monsoon season.

00:09:01.200 So, it reminds me of some of the canyons in Utah that people hike through.

00:09:06.120 And, you know, there's warnings all over the place.

00:09:08.300 You know, watch for flash floods because they can come up at any time.

00:09:11.800 People don't believe it.

00:09:12.620 And then they drown because they go into these narrow passageways.

00:09:15.440 And they fill up immediately with water.

00:09:17.540 Sometimes, you know, 10 feet.

00:09:19.100 I lived in Arizona for a while.

00:09:20.540 The flash floods there were crazy.

00:09:22.860 In Phoenix, you would just.

00:09:24.100 They have these.

00:09:25.180 You'd just be driving down the road.

00:09:26.280 And all of a sudden, you're in this giant ditch.

00:09:29.080 You know?

00:09:29.740 And if you're in Arizona and you're in the desert and you're just not even thinking.

00:09:34.500 And you've lived there for six months and you've never seen anything like this.

00:09:38.040 It's just a little dip in the road.

00:09:39.760 You don't even think about it.

00:09:40.700 And it is always marked warning, flash flood, wash.

00:09:46.000 And so people will go down and they'll get stuck in that as the water.

00:09:50.300 And they will just push their car down.

00:09:52.580 I mean, all of a sudden, you're in trouble.

00:09:54.740 In real trouble.

00:09:56.000 It's amazing how fast that water can come.

00:09:59.320 Okay.

00:09:59.900 Let's go to Europe and Donald Trump.

00:10:02.460 He was over having breakfast this morning with the NATO leaders.

00:10:07.680 And I have to tell you, this is the first time that because I, you know, I've I've I've said that I like a lot of the stuff that he does and a lot of the stuff he does.

00:10:18.920 I don't like it's generally when he's talking that I don't like it.

00:10:24.060 You know, today is the first day that I heard him do something that is really controversial.

00:10:31.500 But I don't think any other president except maybe Reagan would have done and and come around the end of it and go.

00:10:40.340 That was completely lucid.

00:10:42.280 That was it was well stated.

00:10:45.140 He he made a good argument.

00:10:47.780 He had a good comeback.

00:10:49.980 Just to set the scene.

00:10:51.480 They're at a NATO breakfast.

00:10:53.040 All the leaders are lined up at this long table.

00:10:55.300 And there's press there, obviously, yeah, starts talking to he's he starts saying some truth about NATO.

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00:13:12.840 We have to we have to separate a couple of things on this speech that Donald Trump gave this morning or, you know, just a conversation with the NATO countries.

00:13:24.880 He's he's having breakfast with him.

00:13:27.540 Now, this is going to be said by the press.

00:13:30.080 Oh, my gosh.

00:13:30.660 Look, he's just folding into Russia.

00:13:32.840 He's giving Russia everything he wants because Russia wants the end of NATO.

00:13:37.440 OK, well, that's true.

00:13:39.920 But let's separate that truth from what Donald Trump was doing.

00:13:47.580 Now, listen to what he's saying here and how he said it.

00:13:51.480 It's extraordinary.

00:13:52.720 Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned, because the United States has had to pay for them.

00:14:03.220 So if you go back 10 or 20 years, you'll just add it all up.

00:14:06.160 It's massive amounts of money is owed.

00:14:08.720 The United States has paid and stepped up like nobody.

00:14:14.260 This has gone on for decades, by the way.

00:14:15.940 This has gone on for many presidents, but no other president brought it up like I bring it up.

00:14:20.560 The good news is that the allies have started to invest more in.

00:14:25.780 This is the secretary general of NATO responding to him, sitting right across the table from him.

00:14:30.560 Defense.

00:14:31.820 After years of cutting defense budgets, they have started to add billions to the defense budgets.

00:14:39.140 And last year was the biggest increase in defense spending across Europe and Canada in that generation.

00:14:45.420 Why was that last year?

00:14:47.300 It's also because of your leadership, because they carried a message.

00:14:51.720 They won't write that.

00:14:54.300 You notice that he says, so why did you increase your spending last year?

00:14:58.900 And Stoltenberg, the secretary general, says, well, it's in part because of your leadership.

00:15:03.100 Right.

00:15:03.400 They won't print that.

00:15:04.640 Right.

00:15:05.320 Meaning the press, of course, isn't going to say anything good about it.

00:15:08.020 Well, they weren't there.

00:15:08.800 You could hear that they weren't in the room.

00:15:10.440 I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where

00:15:18.620 you're supposed to be guarding against Russia.

00:15:21.040 And Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.

00:15:25.840 So we're protecting Germany. 0.79

00:15:27.520 We're protecting France.

00:15:28.860 We're protecting all of these countries.

00:15:30.520 And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia, where they're

00:15:36.260 paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

00:15:40.440 So we're supposed to protect you against Russia. 0.53

00:15:43.040 But they're paying billions of dollars to Russia.

00:15:45.480 And I think that's very inappropriate.

00:15:47.060 And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying

00:15:51.860 the gas.

00:15:53.780 Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70 percent of their country controlled by Russia with 0.96

00:16:01.520 natural gas.

00:16:02.360 So you tell me, is that appropriate?

00:16:04.600 I mean, I've been complaining about this from the time I got in.

00:16:08.120 It should have never been allowed to have happened.

00:16:10.400 But Germany is totally controlled by Russia.

00:16:12.940 I think it's something that NATO has to look at.

00:16:15.420 I think it's very inappropriate.

00:16:17.100 You and I agree that it's inappropriate.

00:16:19.180 NATO is the alliance of 29 nations.

00:16:21.480 And there are sometimes differences and different views and also some disagreements.

00:16:26.520 And the gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is one issue where allies disagree.

00:16:32.780 But the strength on NATO is that despite these differences, we have always been able to unite

00:16:38.320 around our core task to protect and defend each other because we understand that we are stronger

00:16:43.200 together than apart.

00:16:45.420 I think that two world wars and the cold war thought was that we are stronger together

00:16:49.200 than apart.

00:16:51.180 How can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection

00:16:57.260 against or from the group that you want protection against?

00:16:59.600 Because we understand that when we stand together also in dealing with Russia, we are stronger.

00:17:05.640 I think what we have seen is that...

00:17:07.160 No, you're just making Russia richer.

00:17:09.060 Well, you're not dealing with Russia.

00:17:10.260 You're making Russia richer.

00:17:11.400 I think that even during the Cold War, NATO allies were trading with Russia.

00:17:16.680 Then there have been disagreements about what kind of trade arrangements we should go into.

00:17:22.560 I think trade is wonderful.

00:17:23.560 I think energy is a whole different story.

00:17:26.340 I think energy is a much different story than normal trade.

00:17:29.520 And you have a country like Poland that won't accept the gas.

00:17:34.080 You take a look at some of the countries, they won't accept it because they don't want

00:17:36.980 to be captive to Russia. 0.56

00:17:38.840 But Germany, as far as I'm concerned, is captive to Russia because it's getting so much of its 1.00

00:17:43.800 energy from Russia.

00:17:45.400 So we're supposed to protect Germany, but they're getting their energy from Russia. 0.86

00:17:50.920 Explain that.

00:17:51.900 And it can't be explained, you know.

00:17:53.520 I just love it.

00:17:54.800 I love it.

00:17:55.400 It's awesome.

00:17:56.100 I love it.

00:17:57.560 It is.

00:17:58.080 He was clear.

00:18:00.160 Yeah.

00:18:00.540 He was cogent.

00:18:02.660 He was right.

00:18:03.440 He's right.

00:18:05.420 You know, and who is going to say that to NATO?

00:18:08.540 Nobody.

00:18:08.980 Not only, hey, you got to pay your fair share, but why are we protecting Germany? 0.81

00:18:13.820 Why if Germany will go and take their oil and their gas and be beholden to the country that 0.95

00:18:23.960 is trying that we're protecting them from?

00:18:26.220 All they have to do is threaten to shut off that pipeline.

00:18:28.860 Right.

00:18:29.160 And they fold.

00:18:29.980 They fold.

00:18:30.340 They fold immediately.

00:18:31.680 Right.

00:18:32.320 It's why Poland and Georgia and I think the Ukraine are completely off of Russian oil.

00:18:40.980 They don't want they don't want any of that gas.

00:18:43.540 They don't want any of that oil and they don't want it because they know all they have to

00:18:48.200 do is shut the pipeline off and we freeze to death in the winter.

00:18:52.220 Right.

00:18:53.240 Right.

00:18:54.080 Everything Trump said there to show me where the fault is.

00:18:57.100 I mean, that's all true.

00:18:59.060 Now, if you're worried about NATO shaking apart over it, I just don't think that's going to

00:19:03.480 happen.

00:19:04.840 So if you're but if that's what you think is going to happen because of what he said there,

00:19:09.360 then maybe he is playing into Putin's hand.

00:19:14.020 But they're not going to it's not going to break up the NATO alliance just because he

00:19:18.280 said that to them.

00:19:19.260 It's a pretty weak alliance if it does break up over that.

00:19:22.840 And I'm wondering.

00:19:23.460 I'm wondering if there's anything that Germany could do.

00:19:28.620 To solve this.

00:19:31.380 Like.

00:19:33.320 By the natural gas from us.

00:19:36.060 Right.

00:19:37.780 Seems like that's where Poland's buying it.

00:19:40.280 Mm hmm.

00:19:40.580 You know, that kind of kills two birds with one stone.

00:19:45.760 And I mean, it was Reagan that said the whole collapse of the Soviet Union will be worth 0.89

00:19:51.780 nothing if Russia ever builds pipelines and Europe allows themselves to become beholden 0.72

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00:21:11.860 If you've watched this program or listen to this program for a while, you'll remember him

00:21:16.940 as the guy who said this.

00:21:18.880 Who, you know, in whose conception, under what paradigm, you know, I'm just resisting.

00:21:23.520 What am I resisting?

00:21:24.720 I don't know.

00:21:25.260 The collectivization of manufacture, the institutionalization of the human psyche.

00:21:29.140 I'm not sure.

00:21:30.000 But I can tell you one thing.

00:21:31.480 This is a symbol of reversibility that can never eradicate the gun from the earth.

00:21:35.740 So weird because I was thinking the exact same thing.

00:21:38.200 That's what I got up thinking this morning.

00:21:39.680 Right.

00:21:39.900 When he said it.

00:21:40.560 Yeah.

00:21:41.220 Yeah.

00:21:41.460 So he was a guy who I followed that with, I think something along the lines of, I don't

00:21:50.860 I don't I don't even know what you just said, and I'm not sure you're a good guy or a bad

00:21:54.740 guy.

00:21:56.220 He's a guy who is a crypto anarchist.

00:22:00.480 He is a free market guy and a strong defender of the Second Amendment.

00:22:06.860 And what he was talking about now, this is five years ago.

00:22:10.000 What he was talking about was I can print a gun.

00:22:14.980 And if I 3D print a gun, is that against the law?

00:22:20.400 I don't know.

00:22:21.660 Is it the collectivization of manufacture?

00:22:23.940 Right.

00:22:24.360 The institutionalization of the human psyche.

00:22:26.460 I'm not sure.

00:22:26.940 I'm not sure.

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00:22:50.100 I mean, that's a sure.

00:22:51.600 That's a 1911.

00:22:52.740 That's got some heft.

00:22:53.940 Yeah.

00:22:54.440 That is.

00:22:55.180 If I handed that to you, would you have any idea?

00:22:57.440 That that was 3D printed.

00:22:58.660 Absolutely not.

00:22:59.620 Right.

00:22:59.960 I would expect 3D printed to be plastic, to be lightweight.

00:23:03.920 Right.

00:23:04.280 And this is metal.

00:23:06.500 And look at it.

00:23:07.220 You can see when you look up close, you can see the how it was printed.

00:23:10.400 Can you see how it was printed?

00:23:12.020 Look at maybe the handle.

00:23:13.860 The handle is kind of on the side.

00:23:17.920 Oh, yeah.

00:23:19.100 So you can see how it was.

00:23:21.020 Yeah.

00:23:21.300 It was 3D printed.

00:23:22.540 It's a 3D printed gun.

00:23:24.260 So amazing.

00:23:25.020 So there were 100 of these made at the time, and that got him into an awful lot of trouble

00:23:32.180 with the United States government and Barack Obama.

00:23:35.060 And Barack Obama said, you can't do that.

00:23:38.240 They put him almost on a terrorist list.

00:23:41.340 They claimed that he was, I think they said that he was an arms dealer, an international arms dealer.

00:23:49.800 I mean, he was in a lot of trouble.

00:23:52.600 And Wired Magazine called him one of the 15 most dangerous people in the world.

00:23:57.960 And one of the five most dangerous people on the Internet.

00:24:03.380 That's remarkable.

00:24:05.300 Amazing.

00:24:05.960 So now what he was really going after was something I disagree with him on, is can you print schematics?

00:24:16.560 Can you just take all of the schematics of anything, which would be a violation of copyright laws?

00:24:25.220 And you have a right to have a copyright.

00:24:28.140 If I've spent my time and money doing it, you don't have a right to take my idea and make money from it.

00:24:35.120 This is where the anarchist part of him comes out.

00:24:37.840 He believes that everyone should have the right to any idea and be able to print it.

00:24:43.000 Well, that stops people.

00:24:44.660 We know this.

00:24:45.720 It stops people from inventing.

00:24:48.060 That's really one of the secrets of America.

00:24:51.080 We were the ones who came up with a copyright.

00:24:53.840 It was Ben Franklin who did it.

00:24:55.580 And that empowered the person who was just in their, you know, their barn tinkering to come up with something because they knew if they could copyright it, then they could make money off of it.

00:25:07.800 And so people were motivated to to think out of the box and create something different and to put their time and their money in it because it could change their lives and could eventually change other people's lives.

00:25:21.280 So he wants that gone.

00:25:23.760 But that's not really what this court case was about.

00:25:27.440 The court case has just been settled.

00:25:31.820 It was just settled in Bellevue, Washington.

00:25:35.360 The Department of Justice and Second Amendment Foundation have reached a settlement in the lawsuit.

00:25:43.900 SAF and Defense Distributed had filed a suit against the State Department under the Obama administration.

00:25:51.280 Challenging a May 2013 attempt to control public speech as an export under the international traffic and arms regulations.

00:25:59.400 So what this was is they were saying he is violating an arms agreement because he is putting things out on the Internet that can now go all around the world.

00:26:10.920 And he's basically exporting arms under the terms of the settlement.

00:26:15.660 The government has agreed to waive its prior restraint against the plaintiffs, allowing them to freely publish the 3D files and other information at issue.

00:26:26.180 The government has also agreed to pay significant portion of plaintiff's attorney fees and return $10,000 in State Department registration dues paid by the defense distributed as a result of the prior restraint.

00:26:38.120 Okay, so the big news isn't even I haven't even gotten to the big news yet.

00:26:42.740 So the first thing that happened was now the genie is officially out of the bottle because now the now the government has lost a lawsuit and has settled this saying one.

00:26:57.600 You can distribute the 3D schematics to print your own weapon.

00:27:03.980 Cody, when he was here five or six years ago, said once that happens, the gun debate is over.

00:27:11.040 Now, I think the gun debate has been over for a long time because of 3D printing.

00:27:15.400 But now you can, without becoming a criminal, distribute the plans to print arms.

00:27:26.800 That's a pretty big deal.

00:27:29.660 The second part is bigger.

00:27:32.520 Significantly, the government expressly acknowledges that non-automatic firearms up to a .50 caliber, including modern semi-auto sporting rifles, such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms, quote, are not inherently military.

00:27:57.420 Wow.

00:27:57.980 Not only is this a First Amendment victory for free speech, it also is a devastating blow to the gun prohibition lobby.

00:28:06.480 For years, anti-gun people have contended that modern semi-automatic fully sport utility rifles are so-called weapons of war.

00:28:16.720 And with this settlement, the government has acknowledged that they are nothing of the sort.

00:28:21.560 Under this settlement, the government will draft and pursue regulatory amendments that eliminate control for the technological information going across the Internet.

00:28:34.980 They will transfer export jurisdiction to the Commerce Department, which does not impose prior restraint on public speech.

00:28:43.320 And that will allow Defense Distributed and SAF to publish information about 3D technology.

00:28:50.280 This is huge.

00:28:53.280 So the guy who, I still don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy, has done something remarkable that makes it really almost impossible for guns to ever now go away.

00:29:15.960 You can't talk about, well, I'm just, you just don't, you don't make them anymore.

00:29:21.880 We're going to go after the manufacturer.

00:29:23.820 Well, you can't anymore.

00:29:25.920 Because as long as you have a 3D printer, you can now make a gun.

00:29:30.140 Well, it's a symbol of reversibility that the gun can never be eradicated from the face of the earth.

00:29:35.640 Is that really what it is?

00:29:37.360 Or is it the collectivization of manufacturing?

00:29:40.280 Yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I mean, I think we could go back and forth on that all day long.

00:29:44.280 I don't know, I'm not sure.

00:29:46.420 Jonah Goldberg's joining us here in just a few minutes.

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00:31:37.000 Could I just ask a question about the most puzzling media question I have heard in a very long time?

00:31:45.700 Could you please play the audio of Mike Pence, please?

00:31:49.660 In 2006, Brett Kavanaugh testified that Roe v. Wade is settled law.

00:31:56.220 You campaigned extensively on the notion that Roe v. Wade should be consigned to the ash heap of history.

00:32:04.980 Are you worried that he's not going to follow what you want to do?

00:32:08.900 Well, Dan, as you know, I'm pro-life.

00:32:11.080 I don't apologize for it, and I'm proud to be part of a pro-life administration that's advanced pro-life policies.

00:32:18.140 But what I can assure you is that what the president was looking for here was a nominee who will respect the Constitution as written,

00:32:28.340 who will faithfully uphold the Constitution in all of his interpretations of the law.

00:32:35.220 Do you still want Roe v. Wade to be overturned?

00:32:37.780 Well, I do, but I haven't been nominated to the Supreme Court.

00:32:42.000 Right, but you're part of the administration that campaigned, you and the president campaigned,

00:32:46.620 saying you will find nominees to overturn Roe v. Wade.

00:32:51.240 Will you be disappointed if he is given that opportunity and he doesn't?

00:32:55.940 Will you be disappointed?

00:32:57.180 Well, as I said, I stand for the sanctity of life.

00:33:00.800 This administration, this president are pro-life.

00:33:04.900 But what the American people ought to know is that, as the president said today,

00:33:10.680 this is not an issue that he discussed with Judge Kavanaugh.

00:33:14.320 I didn't discuss it with him either.

00:33:16.480 What we really focused on was the character, the background, the credentials, and the judicial philosophy.

00:33:24.740 But, again, you campaigned so aggressively on finding a nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade.

00:33:32.340 So ridiculous.

00:33:33.260 Do you feel confident?

00:33:34.760 Can you assure the people who voted for you on that notion that this is the man who will do that?

00:33:41.080 Well, what I can assure people that voted for us is that this will continue to be a pro-life administration.

00:33:47.340 Now, this is like going to Cecile Richards and saying, are you still for Roe v. Wade?

00:33:56.000 Yeah.

00:33:56.540 I mean...

00:33:57.000 It is.

00:33:57.600 Yeah.

00:33:58.260 Yes.

00:33:59.040 I'm the head of Planned Parenthood.

00:34:00.540 Yes.

00:34:00.960 I'm still for it.

00:34:02.440 This is a guy who has always been for life.

00:34:07.280 Always.

00:34:08.520 Unabashedly.

00:34:09.160 Doesn't have a problem saying it.

00:34:11.440 And now they're putting him, and the headline is, he's still pro-life.

00:34:16.080 Well, obviously he is.

00:34:19.380 Why would that change?

00:34:21.780 And I don't like the fact that we mince words on this.

00:34:27.820 If you believe that abortion is murder, which I do believe, and I have sympathy, and I don't...

00:34:39.400 I mean, I feel so horrible, horrible for some of the women that find themselves in this situation

00:34:46.940 where they feel like that's the only out.

00:34:49.740 Others, you know, what's being promoted now where it's just like, hey, I'm going to go do whatever I want.

00:34:54.400 Don't worry about it.

00:34:55.100 I'm going to have an abortion. 0.99

00:34:56.100 That's just...

00:34:56.560 You're a murderer.

00:34:57.200 You're just a serial killer without any remorse at all.

00:35:03.900 I mean, anyway, why should we be afraid to say, yeah, I'll be disappointed?

00:35:12.180 We shouldn't.

00:35:13.620 We shouldn't.

00:35:15.120 There's no reason in the world.

00:35:17.940 It's like we've talked about before, that we were kind of put off the subject because it was too controversial.

00:35:25.880 It didn't go anywhere.

00:35:26.980 It caused too much rancor.

00:35:29.140 So stop talking about it on talk radio.

00:35:31.520 It's just not a good talk radio topic.

00:35:33.680 And I think we made a big mistake in going along with that reasoning for a long time.

00:35:39.420 Well, then we realized how important it is to just keep talking about things because it can change people's minds.

00:35:47.280 Look what happened with the movement of same sex. 1.00

00:35:50.200 It was 65 to 35 against in the late 90s and early 2000s.

00:35:57.260 It's 65-35 in favor now.

00:36:00.520 Why?

00:36:01.020 Because they were unabashedly, unashamedly pushing for it really hard and never stopped.

00:36:07.000 And also using comedy.

00:36:09.420 Yeah.

00:36:10.120 They also used comedy and tried to make people, you know, to take people who were gay and show them nothing to be afraid of here.

00:36:24.720 And there was nothing wrong with normalizing homosexuality. 1.00

00:36:28.680 I mean, there's nothing wrong with showing if you're a homosexual, you're just like everybody else. 0.93

00:36:33.820 But that was the linchpin because the other side was making it about gay marriage instead of saying the government doesn't have a place in anybody's marriage.

00:36:48.020 In anybody's marriage.

00:36:49.540 We would have we would have so short circuited all of this crap about the First Amendment, not only speech, but First Amendment protection of religion.

00:36:59.560 Had we said this has no place in government, no place you can go get married, you know, go marry a tree if you want to do what you want to do.

00:37:11.720 Do a will do what we do.

00:37:13.940 Do not try to tell my church or my arborist what who they can and cannot marry, period.

00:37:22.420 If we would have done that, we would have had a different outcome.

00:37:27.200 This one, we're sitting here and they are starting to normalize now that that's what's happening with all these abortion jokes.

00:37:34.600 Yeah.

00:37:35.080 Is they're starting to make it funny.

00:37:38.420 If they succeed on this, the value of life will go down dramatically.

00:37:45.400 Glenn Beck, it's Wednesday, July 11th.

00:37:54.100 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:55.900 One of the great thinkers of our of our times is Jonah Goldberg, bestselling author of liberal fascism, a book that changed my life.

00:38:04.560 He's got a new book out.

00:38:05.740 It's been out for a while.

00:38:06.440 It's great.

00:38:07.160 It's called Suicide of the West.

00:38:09.320 Welcome to the program, Jonah.

00:38:10.300 How are you?

00:38:11.700 Hey, Glenn.

00:38:12.180 It's great to be back.

00:38:12.940 Yeah.

00:38:13.160 Good to have you.

00:38:13.720 Um, we just had or we just heard, uh, Donald Trump, uh, over with the NATO allies and he said, you know, you guys got to start paying your way.

00:38:22.360 And why should we be defending Germany when you're taking all of your oil in Germany or your gas, uh, from Russia?

00:38:31.160 How does that make any sense?

00:38:32.560 You're empowering them and then asking us to protect you from them.

00:38:36.460 Did you hear that?

00:38:37.720 And do you think he has a good point?

00:38:39.960 I think he has a point.

00:38:41.060 I think he's got a bunch of points.

00:38:42.280 Some of them are good.

00:38:43.140 Some of them are, uh, pretty well grounded in previous, you know, complaints from other administrations about, uh, you know, European allies and NATO not, not carrying the load.

00:38:54.560 I think that's all fine.

00:38:56.140 Um, I don't necessarily love the way he did this this morning.

00:38:59.620 I think it'll play very well politically back here at home.

00:39:02.260 Um, but there are ways to chastise allies, um, that, uh, I think are probably, uh, like, how would you have said that?

00:39:12.740 I mean, I, I listened to him and, and, and it's the first time that I, you know, I, I like some of the stuff he does, some of the stuff I don't like.

00:39:21.280 And it's usually when he's talking or tweeting that I don't like it this time.

00:39:25.860 He was, he seemed well grounded, well founded and, um, and, and just spoke clearly and plainly.

00:39:33.120 Um, yeah, it also seemed, and look, there are two ways to look at this on the merits of what he was actually saying.

00:39:39.780 Um, um, I'm pretty much with him, right?

00:39:42.680 Uh, I thought the pipeline deal was a bad deal.

00:39:45.520 I don't, I don't think it was a bad deal because it was robbing us of sales that we couldn't make.

00:39:50.760 We can't get natural gas in those volumes to Europe anyway.

00:39:54.200 That's a bit of a red herring, but, um, the bad, it was a bad deal because, and Germany does have too many ties with, with Russia.

00:40:02.420 Um, but the, the tone and tenor and the way he did it, refused to walk out on the blue carpet, the way he sort of belittled.

00:40:09.800 An ally, um, the merits of his case are probably less important than the body language and the tone because so much of what he says, he says the EU is worse than, than NAFTA.

00:40:20.320 He goes out, he says that NATO isn't worth it anymore, that these people are, are deadbeats.

00:40:25.100 And that is sowing discord in the most successful military alliance in human history.

00:40:32.260 And that seems to be the way that the tone and tenor of it seems to be pitched at that.

00:40:36.900 By all means, I want, you know, you know, look, I mean, there is this sort of time-tested thing about how things go bad when Germany's defense budget goes up.

00:40:46.320 But, um, but as a general proposition, by all means, I want these guys to spend more money on their defense budget.

00:40:52.380 But this idea that somehow NATO, or that the EU even, you know, are designed to take advantage of America, which is something he says all the time, I just don't think is true.

00:41:02.420 And the fact that he is much more willing to lavish praise on dictators, authoritarians, and, and essentially enemies of the United States, while throwing, you know, leaders of allied countries under the bus and ridiculing them, I think, like, I don't think there was a lot of Russia collusion.

00:41:20.160 I think the Russia collusion story has always been sort of too cute by half, and I've never bought into it.

00:41:26.060 But this stuff of sowing discord in the Western alliance, undermining the legitimacy of NATO, undermining of our relationships with our key allies, this is all music to Vladimir Putin's ears.

00:41:38.900 And, you know, we should at least tread carefully, Europe was the source of, you know, instability and bloodshed, the likes of which no continent has matched, for half a millennia. 0.73

00:41:54.980 And it was only with the bloodshed that they created in World War I and World War II, and then with the rise of the Soviet Union. 0.92

00:42:03.220 And the only thing that has sort of kept that entire region a zone of peace is American will imposed through NATO.

00:42:11.340 And, and the idea that somehow we can just, you know, willy nilly throw it away, based upon the fact that they're not paying enough dues, NATO doesn't work that way anyway.

00:42:23.460 It just seems to me to be taking quite a flyer.

00:42:26.940 But by all means, you know, you know, Bob Gates, you know, lots of these guys used to grill NATO and say, you need to pay up more, you need to pay more into your national defense.

00:42:35.100 But, you know, let's not lose sight of the fact that this alliance, which won World War II and won the Cold War, has real value for the United States of America, and is not just simply simply a bunch of Euro weenies playing us for suckers.

00:42:49.380 I would agree with that, but let me, let me slightly change gears here.

00:42:54.640 Brexit.

00:42:55.260 Sure.

00:42:55.660 I see what's happening in Brexit, and, and, and, and Russia is behind some of this with Brexit.

00:43:01.840 They're just using, they're using people's, they're using what some people are feeling, and they are exploiting it for their own purposes.

00:43:13.440 But it's real what people in Europe are feeling, and this nationalism, while it is really, really frightening, it is important to recognize it as something inherently human.

00:43:28.300 I know you talk a lot about nationalism.

00:43:30.660 But there is something to be said about being proud, and there's, there is a fine line between, hey, I'm proud of who we are, and, and nationalism.

00:43:42.560 No, I agree with that entirely.

00:43:44.340 I mean, entirely.

00:43:45.360 Look, my attitude towards nationalism has always been sort of like, one of the analogies I often use is salt, right?

00:43:53.520 All poisons are determined by the dose.

00:43:56.740 Diet Coke is poisonous if you drink enough of it.

00:43:58.720 Everything is poisonous if you eat enough of it, right?

00:44:01.940 But you take salt, right?

00:44:03.500 A little salt brings the meal together.

00:44:05.740 It binds the flavors together.

00:44:07.780 A little nationalism is essential for society to have a sense that this country is mine, there may be others like it, but this one is special to me.

00:44:16.780 It gives you a sense of social solidarity, community, brotherhood, sisterhood, whatever you want to call it.

00:44:22.460 It binds you together to your community, to the largest community, you know, that matters.

00:44:28.720 That's all fine.

00:44:30.040 And I think a country without a little nationalism would be a hot mess.

00:44:34.680 But too much nationalism, it starts to go the other way, and way too much nationalism, it becomes lethal and poisonous.

00:44:43.320 I don't think we're anywhere close to that yet.

00:44:46.260 There are certainly some very toxic voices for nationalism out there, you know, under the rocks of Twitter and comment sections.

00:44:53.680 But I just think you have to sort of take it carefully about what sort of rhetoric and what sort of movements you encourage.

00:45:03.340 I think, look, I've been against the European Union.

00:45:06.040 I've been against cosmopolitanism my entire professional life.

00:45:09.600 I very much prefer, in the American context, talking about patriotism over nationalism, because patriotism is a body of ideas and creeds and customs that you can sort of identify.

00:45:22.660 Nationalism is too close to populism to me, which basically just says whatever we the people want is right.

00:45:29.380 But I understand there's some fuzziness in the definitions there, and nationalism and patriotism aren't at odds necessarily.

00:45:37.880 I don't think you could—you have a hard time pulling patriotism and nationalism apart now, because we don't need our creeds. 1.00

00:45:49.980 I mean, you make a really good point in your book about, you know, how these truths are not self-evident.

00:45:56.360 You want to go into that?

00:45:57.380 Right.

00:45:58.380 Sure.

00:45:59.080 Look, I mean, so the basic thesis of the book, or the basic setup for the book, is what I try to do is work on the terms of the sort of secular, modern, progressive, left, whatever you want to call it.

00:46:12.120 Not the left-left, but just sort of like where the conversation is in America.

00:46:15.600 I don't make appeals to the—I believe in God, but I don't say that God is responsible for all of these things that we have.

00:46:23.780 I basically make the point that for 250,000 years, man's natural environment was grinding poverty, punctuated by an early death, usually from violence or some bow stewing disease.

00:46:38.260 And if democracy, human rights, property rights, free speech, all of these things, if capitalism, if all of these things were natural, they would have showed up a little earlier in the evolutionary record.

00:46:53.160 It turns out that we kind of—we stumbled into, in one sense, we fought for, in another sense, all of these amazing things that come together, which I call the miracle.

00:47:02.320 They include things like the Enlightenment, but also all sorts of cultural and sort of almost tribal attachments to freedom and limited government that we stumbled into and honed over the last 300 years.

00:47:14.740 They're the only thing that has ever delivered man out of poverty.

00:47:17.300 They're the only thing that has ever sort of improved the lot of the average human being anywhere in the world.

00:47:23.820 Aristocrats have done well for a couple thousand years, but the average human's lot has not improved until about 300 years ago. 0.94

00:47:30.600 And these things are embedded in our culture, but they're embedded in our creeds and our ideas.

00:47:36.900 And what we need to do is teach people to be grateful for them, to appreciate them.

00:47:42.220 When you're grateful for something, you take care of it.

00:47:44.460 You want to pass it on to the next generation.

00:47:46.580 When you take it for granted, right, so the opposite of gratitude is taking stuff for granted, which breeds a sense of another opposite of gratitude, which is entitlement and resentment.

00:48:00.880 And we teach vast numbers of people today that they're just simply owed to something, that all of the good things that we have in life, the fact that we don't die at the age of 30.

00:48:11.800 You know, a hundred years ago, almost every single family in America had the experience of at least one child dying.

00:48:20.480 That's vanished.

00:48:22.120 You know, it used to be a common occurrence in this country.

00:48:25.360 Calvin Coolidge's kid got a blister on his foot playing tennis on the White House tennis court and died a week later.

00:48:32.080 That was normal, and there was nothing we could do about it.

00:48:34.900 We take all of those sorts of things for granted, and instead we teach people that the history of this country is defined by our worst crimes rather than our greatest triumphs, and that if you don't like the world around you, it's because someone is screwing you.

00:48:52.580 And that is a deeply poisonous thing, and it is the thing that I think is a sort of suicidal choice as a civilization.

00:49:02.680 So we're seeing now the rise of democratic socialism, unlike I think we've ever seen before, maybe around the turn of the century it was like this.

00:49:14.760 Um, and it is really coming from the youth.

00:49:20.640 Uh, they are, because we haven't taught anything, they are wrapping their arms around it.

00:49:27.460 As a guy who knows history, what is coming?

00:49:32.900 Oh, well, I mean, clearly the living will envy the dead.

00:49:36.120 No, look, I mean, I, I, it's, you're absolutely right, you know, and I do think it was more intense at the beginning of the 20th century, but in defense of those guys, at least it was kind of a new idea back then.

00:49:52.720 Right?

00:49:53.120 You know, I mean, it's like...

00:49:54.220 Yes, there was no, there was no evidence that it would end in a hundred million dead.

00:49:58.860 Now that's all there is.

00:50:00.740 And it sounded like a pretty cool idea.

00:50:03.280 I mean, you know, I get it.

00:50:04.480 Um, not the hundred million dead part, but like everybody living, you know, and sharing and kumbaya and we're going to, if we all work our hardest, we'll make this the best yearbook ever.

00:50:14.020 I mean, that all sounded great back then.

00:50:16.340 But, um, today, uh, I think part of the problem is that everyone forgets the rivers of blood that were created by, you know, socialism.

00:50:25.100 And in fairness, you know, not all forms of socialism leads to Gulag or even to Venezuela.

00:50:30.040 Right.

00:50:30.600 Um, but the only thing that, um, prevents socialism from leading to those things is it has nothing to do with socialism itself.

00:50:41.180 Right.

00:50:41.460 I mean, the democratic and democratic socialism has to do all of the heavy lifting because in pure socialism, you do get up, you either, you do end up with, uh, you know, mobs,

00:50:53.020 looting stores or the Gulag or troops shooting people, you have to have other things that dilute and, and, and prevent the socialism from reaching its natural conclusion.

00:51:07.040 And those things like constitutions and, and, and, and, and democratic checks and balances like Denmark, you can get some of that, but places like Denmark and Sweden really aren't socialist anymore because it didn't work for them either.

00:51:20.700 Well, but they, they got better welfare states, but that's different, but they, but they also, um, are homogenized.

00:51:29.240 I mean, it is up until recently, it was very, it was one tribe, everybody kind of looked alike.

00:51:36.320 They all kind of agreed that we're all together.

00:51:38.420 It's easy to keep something together like that.

00:51:41.380 When you all think alike and you're all from the same culture, that culture brings you together.

00:51:47.140 We're not that culture.

00:51:48.700 We never have really been that culture.

00:51:51.020 Um, we are, we are, we're from all over the world.

00:51:54.580 We're all immigrants.

00:51:55.780 We used to come here for one idea.

00:51:58.420 That idea was not socialism or collectivism.

00:52:01.600 Now that idea is gone.

00:52:04.160 You throw socialism on top of it when you are this split and you are headed for gulags.

00:52:11.420 Oh, no, no, no, let me put it this way.

00:52:14.160 That's one gulag is certainly one of the options. 0.97

00:52:16.000 One of them is just an unbelievable hot mess.

00:52:18.060 You also throw in the fact that, uh, you know, what's her name?

00:52:22.640 Alexandria Cortez.

00:52:24.080 Yes.

00:52:24.460 Or however you say her name.

00:52:25.600 She is, um, she's also for open borders. 0.99

00:52:28.520 I know.

00:52:29.240 And here's what you open borders.

00:52:31.900 Socialism is can't be done.

00:52:35.000 It's, it's like, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's like having screen doors in a submarine, right?

00:52:41.560 It just, it, it doesn't, I mean, it just simply doesn't work in it.

00:52:45.360 And it used to be that at least the Bernie Sanders style socialist understood that, you

00:52:52.540 know, Bernie Sanders used to decry open borders as a, uh, Koch brothers scheme to bring in

00:52:58.060 cheap labor.

00:52:59.080 Now the Democratic Party has kind of lost its mind and basically says, we can both have,

00:53:05.120 we can both, we can give you the moon, free education, free housing, free this, free that,

00:53:09.320 guaranteed job, and everybody can get in the pool.

00:53:12.680 And it just doesn't work that way.

00:53:14.600 And so on the Swedish, on the Scandinavian model, you're, you're absolutely right.

00:53:19.860 You know, like Charles Murray, my friend Charles Murray always used to say that, um, there's

00:53:24.360 a well-established finding in the social science literature that pretty much any idea will work

00:53:29.280 for a while with Swedes.

00:53:32.020 And, um, the Swedes, um, had a profound amount of social solidarity.

00:53:37.240 Um, it's very easy to maintain a generous welfare state.

00:53:40.420 Um, uh, when you're a stranger's grandmother, it looks just like your grandmother, you know, 0.66

00:53:46.900 in Sweden, this is, you know, it has always been amazing to me in Sweden.

00:53:51.600 I mean, everyone has a right to look up any other Swedes tax returns on the web.

00:53:57.360 So everyone knows what everyone else makes every, you know, that kind of thing is possible in

00:54:02.360 a small, deeply homogenous system.

00:54:05.040 Um, it doesn't work.

00:54:06.600 It doesn't work that way in America.

00:54:07.800 And it's not because Americans are racist.

00:54:10.020 It's just that the whole point of America, this is what, one of the things that drives

00:54:13.680 me crazy, both on the right and the left these days, is the way American exceptionalism has

00:54:19.020 been redefined to mean we're just better than everybody.

00:54:22.780 And the left hates that.

00:54:24.320 And the right likes it.

00:54:25.280 And both are garbage.

00:54:26.840 There's an enormous amount of historical and social science literature going back 150 years

00:54:32.280 on American exceptionalism.

00:54:33.780 And the whole point of American exceptionalism wasn't that we were better than everybody.

00:54:38.960 Seymour Martin Lipset called it a double-edged sword.

00:54:41.440 On the one hand, there were a lot of good things that came with American exceptionalism.

00:54:45.460 On the other hand, there were a lot of bad things.

00:54:46.820 We were more violent than almost any other country because of American exceptionalism.

00:54:50.920 We settled our disputes out in the West with our fists and our six guns.

00:54:55.180 That was part of our thing.

00:54:57.980 And the literature on this goes by a psychologist named Werner Assange.

00:55:05.280 We've lost Jonah Goldberg.

00:55:08.140 Try to pick it up with him on the other side or have him back.

00:55:10.920 Suicide of the West is the name of the book.

00:55:12.760 Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West.

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00:56:45.380 People are really split on the tariffs.

00:56:51.420 The Dow is down another 135 points today based on rumor that Donald Trump is preparing more tariffs, another 10% on China.

00:57:03.240 China is going to retaliate, and this is the answer to China's retaliation.

00:57:09.660 Some people say that Donald Trump is just using this as a bargaining chip.

00:57:15.920 It's a brilliant tactic.

00:57:17.800 He's negotiating.

00:57:19.500 And maybe he is.

00:57:20.980 I hope so, but I hope so, and I hope he knows how to time the market, if you will.

00:57:27.620 We'll talk to Jonah Goldberg, the author of Suicide of the West.

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00:58:38.860 Jonah Goldberg from National Review and also the author of a new book, Suicide of the West, which is an absolute must-read.

00:58:47.960 You remind me, Jonah, I would like to ask you, I want to start putting together a library of books that are essential for, you know, the study of the Republic and to be able to know, you know, what built us.

00:59:06.620 Right.

00:59:06.840 And I'd love to get some book picks from you, but let me start with trade.

00:59:13.040 I am a free trade guy.

00:59:15.620 I think tariffs are an absolute nightmare.

00:59:18.580 I think, you know, I know enough history to know that it was Smoot Hawley that really dragged us into the deep depression, and it doesn't usually work out well.

00:59:29.440 A lot of people will say Donald Trump is using this as a tactic.

00:59:34.000 How's it working out for us so far?

00:59:36.840 Well, I think pretty badly.

00:59:40.460 You know, one of my frustrations in talking about all this is that when we talk about tariffs with China or, you know, trade with China,

00:59:51.200 I absolutely have no problem with people saying the intellectual property theft from China is a problem, because it is. 1.00

00:59:59.520 They've been stealing from us.

01:00:01.020 They do it all the time.

01:00:01.840 One of the things that really bothers me, though, is the way big corporations and CEOs say they have nothing.

01:00:08.740 They agree to these agreements with Chinese companies and Chinese government, and then they go whining about how they were forced to do it.

01:00:15.840 They could say no.

01:00:16.640 Right.

01:00:17.180 And they don't.

01:00:18.380 And so there's a little bit.

01:00:20.180 But anyway, the intellectual property theft is a big deal.

01:00:23.000 But whenever the conversation, including with friends of mine like Larry Kudlow, you know, and Stephen Moore, whenever the conversation is about China and trade, they can't defend the tariff stuff.

01:00:35.080 So they immediately switch to the intellectual property theft stuff.

01:00:38.600 And they're different things.

01:00:40.740 Go talk to soybean farmers who, in the last, I don't know, 60 days, have seen the price of their crops drop by 20 percent.

01:00:49.780 You know, margins in agriculture are pretty tight.

01:00:51.880 And it would bother me less if there was some evidence that there are actual conversations going on between China and the United States to avoid this getting worse.

01:01:08.560 And there's none.

01:01:09.240 I mean, what to say is Brady, the head of the Appropriations Committee, came out with a statement today saying there was no evidence that there are any of these conversations going on.

01:01:16.140 And China keeps coming out with these statements saying we're willing to talk, but you need to give us a list of the things that you want done.

01:01:22.160 And the Bush administration and the Trump administration won't do it.

01:01:25.660 And ultimately, the problem with the tariff stuff is that it is really boiled down to just another example of picking winners and losers in the economy.

01:01:37.180 And we tend to punish ourselves more than we punish other nations.

01:01:44.240 Do I want there to be free of trade?

01:01:46.360 Do the Europeans and the Chinese play games that I would like to get rid of? 1.00

01:01:51.620 Sure.

01:01:53.240 But, you know, when Donald Trump talks about, you know, our trade deficit with these countries, he makes it sound as if we're – he literally says they're robbing us of billions of dollars.

01:02:05.220 That's not how trade works.

01:02:06.440 You know when you go to, like, Dave & Buster's and you get those tokens to play the video games?

01:02:11.080 Yes.

01:02:11.920 You can't spend those tokens any place other than Dave & Buster's.

01:02:15.960 You can't spend U.S. dollars any place other than the United States of America.

01:02:21.360 That's why almost any economist will tell you the opposite or the flip side of a trade deficit is an investment surplus because those dollars come back to America.

01:02:34.020 That's why it's so maddening when Donald Trump talks about how these trade deficits are so terrible and then often in the same sentence or paragraph brags about all the foreign investment that's coming into America.

01:02:45.640 Well, that foreign investment has to come into America because it's in dollars.

01:02:49.920 And so we don't get robbed.

01:02:51.780 You know, if – you know, a friend of mine, Tim Carney, first pointed this out.

01:02:54.960 There was this great thing where the creator of the cronut, you know, this sort of croissant-donut hybrid thing, he was like, look, I want to give back to – you know, he got really rich.

01:03:05.860 He says, I want to give back to the country that, you know, made me rich and made me success.

01:03:09.640 And they've been so good to me, so I want to give back.

01:03:12.780 And Tim goes, you don't have to give back anything.

01:03:15.360 You gave us the cronut.

01:03:18.960 It's a fair deal.

01:03:20.840 And that's what trade is, is we get something.

01:03:23.420 It's non-zero-sum.

01:03:24.800 Anyone who buys something that they want gets something that they want.

01:03:28.420 And the person who sells it gets something that they want money.

01:03:31.500 First of all, how is Larry?

01:03:32.720 Have you heard from Larry Kudlow?

01:03:34.360 I have not, but the last I heard, he was definitely on the mend and that the heart attack was pretty mild.

01:03:39.640 So is he going back to work?

01:03:43.320 Because it made me feel a lot better when Larry was involved in this.

01:03:47.940 No, I agree.

01:03:49.000 I don't know.

01:03:50.320 I should find out.

01:03:51.340 I'm kind of glad you reminded me.

01:03:53.120 I've been traveling so much, I should find out.

01:03:56.080 You know, look, the Trump administration has got a lot of good people.

01:03:59.200 You know, Mick Mulvaney believes in a lot of – believes in free trade.

01:04:03.800 Kevin Hassett believes in free trade.

01:04:06.500 Larry Kudlow.

01:04:07.480 Peter Navarro doesn't, and I don't have a lot of respect for Peter Navarro.

01:04:10.920 But most of these guys believe that the problem is the president has a very much a 1980s view about trade that might have made more sense in the 1980s when, you know, we were doing this stuff with Japan.

01:04:23.340 But now he just sees it as the same problem, and supply chains don't work that way.

01:04:28.980 Lots of products – you know, the ingredients to lots of products cross the U.S.-Mexican border like 20 times before the finished product because that's how supply chains work now.

01:04:43.160 And we use a hell of a lot more steel than we make.

01:04:48.520 And so when you put tariffs on foreign steel, you are taxing manufacturing companies to a far greater extent than you are rewarding people who work in the steel industry.

01:04:58.600 You point out in your book, you say that capitalism – you know, everybody just assumes that it's pretty automatic.

01:05:08.440 But it kind of goes back to the self-evident truths.

01:05:11.460 It's not.

01:05:12.280 Capitalism is not automatic.

01:05:15.040 Right.

01:05:15.400 So, you know, one of the things that – you know, I originally wanted to call the book The Tribe of Liberty, and this kind of gets back to your point about Sweden from earlier.

01:05:23.460 Yeah.

01:05:24.460 Capitalism, to a serious extent, is a cultural phenomenon more than an economic phenomenon.

01:05:32.000 It has embedded within it all sorts of cultural assumptions about how people should live, what the role of the family is, what the role of the individual is, about whether or not innovation is a good thing or a bad thing.

01:05:48.780 And those institutions, those ideas, they emerge in England and Holland at a specific point in time, but they're not universal laws, and they don't just emerge automatically.

01:06:02.940 If you put a bunch of uneducated humans in the raw on an island, they wouldn't start creating, you know, apps for Uber.

01:06:12.060 They'd all grab spears and start killing each other, because that's our natural state.

01:06:16.640 And so capitalism emerges out of this very English quirkiness that has a lot to do with Protestantism, it has a lot to do with Judeo-Christian tradition, and there's a lot to – well, there are a lot of contributing factors to it.

01:06:30.740 It also has a lot to do with the fact that the nuclear family emerges in England for reasons that it didn't emerge almost anywhere else in the world.

01:06:38.740 And so we sort of just assume that, you know, it does turn out that capitalism is exportable, and that markets are exportable, because they work.

01:06:50.020 And so people see that it works, and they adjust them to their own societies.

01:06:53.920 But it is not foreordained that we have to be capitalists.

01:06:57.020 In fact, biologically, it's far more, you know, ordained that we should be socialists, because that's what tribes are, is a bunch of socialists.

01:07:04.240 So how do you teach – how do you teach the youth that is not hearing a pro-capitalist message, except in everything they do and buy, but somehow or another they don't associate the apps and everything, all the freedoms that they have with capitalism?

01:07:25.280 How do we teach this?

01:07:26.700 How do we get this to the next generation?

01:07:29.300 Yeah, I actually don't think it's very hard to teach it.

01:07:32.320 I mean, I could teach this kind of stuff in my sleep, and I know lots of other people who can.

01:07:37.860 The problem is, it's not so much that we don't know how to teach it, it's that we don't know how to get the teachers to want to teach it.

01:07:44.400 And we don't know how to get – you know, there's a reason why journalists, social workers, and teachers tend to – not uniformly, it's not an iron law – but they tend to be on the more liberal side.

01:07:56.100 And it's a psychological orientation that says, if I could just get the truth out there, if I could just proselytize, I don't really care very much about getting rich, I want to do good things.

01:08:05.860 Because it's not an evil orientation, that they go into certain professions.

01:08:14.380 And certainly at the graduate level, the people who run the education schools and a lot of the graduate programs, they are committed to an ideology that is just very deeply hostile to liberal democratic capitalism.

01:08:28.240 And this is not a newslash to anybody.

01:08:30.940 And so if you make it out of that pipeline, and you go – and there's one thing that bothers me a lot, I talk to conservatives about this a lot, I'm very much in favor of school choice, right?

01:08:39.360 But I have school choice.

01:08:40.420 I send my kid to a private school in D.C. because I don't want to send my kid to D.C. public schools.

01:08:45.800 And I can afford it, and I'm lucky, and I only have one kid, so, you know, I can do that, but I spend a lot of money doing it.

01:08:52.140 She still gets taught a lot of this stuff.

01:08:54.700 All my friends who send their kids to private schools get taught this stuff, too.

01:08:58.240 It's not – you know, breaking up the public school monopoly has lots of advantages for it, but it doesn't solve all these problems.

01:09:04.980 Yeah.

01:09:06.640 It's almost impossible to come out of the pipeline with a certificate and still believe the things that, you know, we used to all believe.

01:09:17.660 It just changes you.

01:09:19.440 It's not being taught anywhere or very few places.

01:09:21.460 Real quick, Jonah, if I put you on a desert island and I said five books that you want to take with you so you don't lose the Western civilization, you can restart the civilization or at least understand it, what would they be?

01:09:43.520 Oh, gosh.

01:09:45.080 Under the gun with the rule that I can change my mind later.

01:09:48.460 Yeah.

01:09:48.760 I think you've got to do the full Bible, right?

01:09:52.140 I think you probably need, gosh, something from the sort of Catholic tradition, either from St. Aquinas or St. Augustine, but I'm maybe city god, city man.

01:10:05.180 Then, again, if this is like the starter east for Western civilization, the wealth of nations, maybe the Federalist Papers, and then, of course, Suicide of the West.

01:10:18.680 Very good.

01:10:22.720 Very good.

01:10:23.280 Bill O'Reilly would have started with, you know, Killing the Nazis or whatever book he's working on.

01:10:27.280 Killing Lincoln.

01:10:28.360 That's right.

01:10:29.480 All right.

01:10:29.820 Thank you so much, Jonah.

01:10:30.660 I appreciate it.

01:10:31.520 God bless.

01:10:31.820 Good to be here.

01:10:32.100 Thank you.

01:10:32.360 You bet.

01:10:32.780 Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West.

01:10:34.520 Great book and one that you should have in your library.

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01:11:50.720 So let me ask you, Pat.

01:11:52.480 I put you on a deserted island, and I say we want to put a bunch of books there that will help revive or understand Western civilization.

01:12:08.940 What do you put?

01:12:11.140 Look at the top of the list is green eggs and ham.

01:12:15.820 Myrtle the turtle's got to be in there. 1.00

01:12:18.360 Well, obviously, like Jonah said, the Bible, and Adam Smith, of course, both of his works,

01:12:27.480 You know, Wealth of Nations and...

01:12:29.020 And moral sentiments.

01:12:29.760 Yes.

01:12:30.440 Got to have moral sentiments.

01:12:31.420 Maybe Ayn Rand.

01:12:36.000 Ayn Rand.

01:12:36.820 Oh.

01:12:38.380 Which one?

01:12:41.140 Atlas Shrugged?

01:12:42.080 Probably Atlas Shrugged, yeah.

01:12:46.980 It's hard, because if you can only have five...

01:12:50.060 Give me more.

01:12:51.260 I want to put together a library of books, a hard-bound library of books that will tell the story of the entire West.

01:13:05.260 Like, you know, should it be...

01:13:06.980 I mean, the history of the English-speaking peoples.

01:13:09.420 Yeah.

01:13:10.060 You know?

01:13:10.780 Also, you'd need the Constitution, right?

01:13:12.540 The U.S. Constitution.

01:13:13.100 Yes, you need the document.

01:13:14.260 Got to have that foundation.

01:13:15.120 And the Federalist Papers, because that explains the thinking that went into the Constitution.

01:13:20.140 Right, and I think there should be something.

01:13:21.800 I don't know if there's a great book that has the documents and then the best speeches from America.

01:13:28.580 You know what I mean?

01:13:29.020 Yeah, like what Barack Obama gave to the Queen of England.

01:13:31.900 Exactly, that's what I was looking for.

01:13:34.000 Well, a little more.

01:13:35.520 His entire works.

01:13:36.460 Maybe a little more broad than that.

01:13:39.000 Maybe a little bit more.

01:13:41.480 What about...

01:13:42.220 Is there one more missing?

01:13:42.780 What about, like, Up From Slavery?

01:13:45.880 What tells the...

01:13:46.820 Oh, that would be great.

01:13:49.000 Although the left would...

01:13:50.740 I don't care.

01:13:51.380 This is not for the left.

01:13:52.360 This is for me.

01:13:53.740 Up From Slavery is great, because...

01:13:55.740 Booker T. Washington.

01:13:56.820 Yeah.

01:13:57.740 Because there's a guy who, you know, he's really young, but he was a slave at the start

01:14:03.980 of his life, and then he experienced freedom, and he loved the country.

01:14:08.000 It is the...

01:14:09.060 It's one of the most compelling stories of slavery, saying that he remembers...

01:14:15.960 He remembers somebody coming to the plantation and saying, you're free.

01:14:20.440 Mm-hmm.

01:14:20.960 And that was June 4.

01:14:22.100 Yeah, and it was Juneteenth.

01:14:23.440 And he said, all I remember is everyone was really excited that day, and then the next

01:14:28.660 day, everybody was really afraid.

01:14:30.940 They're like, what does that even mean?

01:14:32.640 And he said...

01:14:32.980 Where do we go?

01:14:33.380 What do we do?

01:14:33.860 Yeah, and he said, even the plantation owners were the same.

01:14:37.000 They were afraid.

01:14:38.340 They didn't know what that meant.

01:14:40.520 Yeah.

01:14:41.000 What is that?

01:14:41.340 What's going to happen?

01:14:42.760 Yeah.

01:14:43.160 And he said, we found that we really needed each other.

01:14:46.820 They had skills that we didn't have, and we had skills that they didn't have, and we

01:14:52.560 ended up working together.

01:14:55.020 And then he goes off and, you know, starts his own school, and just the story of him getting

01:15:01.680 into a school is phenomenal.

01:15:04.820 Up From Slavery.

01:15:05.600 If you've never read it, you should.

01:15:07.000 Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington.

01:15:09.240 Back in just a minute.

01:15:14.220 Glenn Beck.

01:15:15.720 Let's just stop for a minute, because there's been so much crap going on this week.

01:15:18.700 Let me look into something that happened late Saturday night.

01:15:22.920 Police in western Montana, they got a phone call.

01:15:25.500 32-year-old man acting really strange, threatening people that he had a gun.

01:15:29.720 When police came to the scene, the man was gone.

01:15:33.180 Police learned that a five-month-old boy that had been left in this man's care was missing.

01:15:39.620 Short time later, police receive a call.

01:15:42.500 A new tip.

01:15:43.660 911 caller spotted the man.

01:15:46.000 They quickly apprehend him.

01:15:47.840 The man was incoherent, apparently under the influence of drugs.

01:15:52.140 Police tried to question him about the missing boy.

01:15:53.940 The man only made vague statements about the baby who was possibly buried someplace in the mountains.

01:16:00.520 It doesn't have a happy ending, does it, Glenn?

01:16:02.580 Wait, wait, wait.

01:16:04.400 Search and rescue team.

01:16:06.260 Quickly assembled.

01:16:07.740 Officers scoured the remote woods in the dark for the next six hours.

01:16:12.320 2.30 in the morning.

01:16:14.600 A deputy, his name is Ross Jessup.

01:16:17.300 He heard a whimper.

01:16:18.580 He and another officer followed the sound to a pile of sticks and debris.

01:16:25.720 Underneath the sticks and debris, they found the baby boy, buried face down under the pile.

01:16:33.200 The baby was shivering, clothed only in a onesie that was wet and soiled, but the boy survived.

01:16:39.840 He had been alone for at least nine hours in 46-degree night weather.

01:16:46.420 Jessup said the baby was alert.

01:16:49.100 Exhausted and unable to cry anymore.

01:16:52.720 On the way to the hospital, the baby coughed up small sticks.

01:16:56.780 He's been treated for dehydration, minor scrapes and bruises, but believe it or not, he is in good condition.

01:17:04.840 The man who left him in the woods being held on multiple charges.

01:17:09.220 Yesterday, the Missoula County Sheriff's Office posted on its Facebook page,

01:17:14.720 this is what we would call a miracle.

01:17:16.280 Law enforcement officers can have a dreary outlook on life at times.

01:17:21.260 Calls come in and you see people at their absolute worst day after day.

01:17:25.400 But over the weekend, out of so much darkness came a little light.

01:17:29.920 A baby was found alive.

01:17:33.200 It's easier to look at the world as a dark place, but we have seen so many people come together for one single reason.

01:17:41.400 Humanity and life.

01:17:42.880 Thank you to those who have reached out, sent prayers to this little baby.

01:17:49.020 It matters.

01:17:50.020 I wanted to start this hour with this story.

01:17:54.240 This week has been so dominated by so much media angst over abortion rights.

01:18:00.000 It's nice to be reminded that in many corners of America that no one is ever really looking at,

01:18:08.000 people understand that a baby's life is still worth preserving.

01:18:13.760 It's Wednesday, July 11th.

01:18:22.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:24.660 Now, let me just dip our foot back into the insanity pool here for just a second.

01:18:33.080 But Keith Ellison yesterday, Keith came out and he said that he won't rule out impeaching Supreme Court justices

01:18:42.760 if Democrats win Congress.

01:18:45.400 That's not a good precedent to set.

01:18:49.040 Here he is.

01:18:50.080 Listen.

01:18:51.020 Is there any possibility that the legislative branch would remove Supreme Court justice?

01:18:57.640 I know it's constitutionally possible.

01:18:59.720 I also don't understand what they've done.

01:19:04.160 We have to find some evidence of, like, corruption.

01:19:09.460 I will say that there have been no court judges that have been impeached.

01:19:13.300 Right.

01:19:13.480 And, honestly, there were some things that came up with Justice Thomas that I thought were very concerning to me

01:19:18.720 in terms of his personality.

01:19:21.660 So I agree with you.

01:19:23.620 It's not going to happen, but it could theoretically happen.

01:19:27.500 So he says there's some things that, you know, maybe we should have impeached Clarence Thomas

01:19:33.360 because he said some really crazy things.

01:19:36.360 Okay, well, let's just assume that you can't impeach people just because of their point of view.

01:19:44.940 They actually have to not be doing their job.

01:19:48.540 What is the job of the Supreme Court, Pat?

01:19:52.020 Let's see.

01:19:52.820 To rule on constitutionality.

01:19:55.200 Is a matter constitutional or is it not?

01:19:58.020 Okay.

01:19:58.460 So wait a minute.

01:19:59.280 That implies that you have to use the Constitution.

01:20:04.520 Yes, the U.S. Constitution should be used.

01:20:07.520 You don't hear this clip enough, and I know we've played it on this show quite often,

01:20:12.380 but I think you need to hear it again.

01:20:13.900 It's Justice Ginsburg on how she looks at cases and the Constitution. 0.98

01:20:21.940 You should certainly be aided by all the Constitution writing that has gone on since the end of World War II.

01:20:32.020 I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012.

01:20:39.820 I might look at the Constitution of South Africa.

01:20:42.840 That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government

01:20:49.360 that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary.

01:20:56.260 What a concept that would be, an independent judiciary.

01:21:00.280 I guess you can only dream of a country like that.

01:21:03.260 I think we have that, and she belongs to it, as a matter of fact.

01:21:07.760 I think we have that.

01:21:08.760 I think a great piece of work that was done.

01:21:14.280 Much more recently than the U.S. Constitution, Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

01:21:22.060 It dates from 1982.

01:21:26.320 You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights.

01:21:30.240 So, yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?

01:21:37.500 Well, I would say, Ruth, you know, one reason why not is because you are to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

01:21:50.180 When we're talking about constitutional law, we're meaning the Constitution of the United States.

01:21:56.940 I don't know if you know this, we don't live in Europe or South Africa or Canada.

01:22:02.420 We live here, and the Constitution you should be paying attention to would be ours.

01:22:08.900 Yeah, the one here, the one that they've been sworn to protect and defend, that one.

01:22:15.000 Yes.

01:22:15.880 There's a reason our Constitution is the oldest in existence on the planet, because it works better than anything man has done in the history of politics,

01:22:30.620 in the history of putting together a government.

01:22:33.280 This is the one that has held everything together for, you know, how many civilizations have tried what we're doing?

01:22:40.180 Over and over and over and over it failed.

01:22:43.240 We had the 56 men with all the wisdom and drive in the same place, at the same time,

01:22:51.900 some of the greatest men in the history of this planet got together and, you know, through, I believe, divine inspiration,

01:22:58.560 came up with the best possible solution for any government ever.

01:23:02.000 You know, I was, because I'm writing a book, comes out September 18th.

01:23:08.900 You can get it now on Amazon.

01:23:11.480 It is called Addicted to Outrage.

01:23:13.560 And I really looked into the founders, and I looked into the founding documents.

01:23:21.180 You know, at least 12 other countries have taken our documents, and they've used our documents to start their own country.

01:23:30.920 Absolutely.

01:23:32.040 They didn't work.

01:23:33.880 They didn't work.

01:23:35.600 They failed.

01:23:36.880 We did.

01:23:38.340 We succeeded.

01:23:40.400 So there is something more than just the documents themselves.

01:23:44.480 It is the culture that those documents produced, you know what I mean?

01:23:50.920 Or the culture that produced those documents is probably a better way of saying it.

01:23:57.120 There was something different about the people here.

01:24:02.200 And we have, we have, we are exceptional in the fact that we are the only ones that have ever been able to really do this.

01:24:14.960 Everybody else had to come through all kinds of bloodshed and everything else.

01:24:20.140 Because we're just now deciding whether or not we want to keep the culture, and we want to keep the Western way of life.

01:24:30.320 How are we even having these conversations?

01:24:32.740 How can we even have a conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she's talking about different constitutions, and we don't even know ours?

01:24:44.500 Yeah.

01:24:44.780 We don't even know our Bill of Rights.

01:24:46.580 How are we supposed to come up with something better if we don't even know what we have?

01:24:53.320 And who should know better than a U.S. Supreme Court justice whose only job is to protect and defend the Constitution and decide on the constitutionality of laws?

01:25:03.080 And that's the whole job description.

01:25:05.500 So, there's one of the greatest reasons I've ever heard to impeach a Supreme Court justice.

01:25:12.460 Yeah.

01:25:12.720 Keith, you want to go down that road.

01:25:14.260 Yeah.

01:25:14.700 Let's start with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

01:25:16.620 That's craziness.

01:25:17.840 It's craziness.

01:25:19.120 And to my knowledge, nobody's really ever talked about this with her.

01:25:24.600 I don't remember it, you know, really blowing up into a massive story in 2012 when she said all those things.

01:25:29.940 I remember we talked about it.

01:25:31.120 We did talk about it.

01:25:32.000 Yeah, but I don't remember a massive story on it.

01:25:33.540 No.

01:25:33.820 Now, how can there not be?

01:25:36.880 That's a Supreme Court justice.

01:25:38.760 Because that's the way people are going now.

01:25:41.160 Yeah.

01:25:41.700 And people don't necessarily revere the Constitution anymore.

01:25:46.060 Oh, you're right.

01:25:46.440 It's old.

01:25:47.200 It's old.

01:25:47.960 And they were, which is another, it's just more proof of how the progressives started out and why they started out disparaging the founders.

01:25:59.420 Because you had to disparage everything that came from them.

01:26:01.920 And they've done such a good job of that, that you, when somebody calls into question the legitimacy of the U.S. Constitution, people think, oh, yeah, that came from those rich, old white guys who own slaves. 0.58

01:26:17.860 And so it's been such an effective job.

01:26:22.800 People don't respect the founders anymore.

01:26:25.820 You don't go there.

01:26:27.120 And there's no, there's no more logical thinking.

01:26:31.360 I mean, I would really like to talk to the Democratic Socialists about their plan.

01:26:38.440 Let's actually hear your plan.

01:26:42.260 As Jonah said, you know, you can't have socialism and open borders.

01:26:50.820 You can't have one or the other.

01:26:52.280 You can't have both.

01:26:53.480 You know, you made the prediction, this is years ago, that socialists would just come out eventually and just admit it.

01:27:00.780 Yeah, we're socialists.

01:27:01.780 Yeah.

01:27:02.000 So what?

01:27:03.120 And now they're doing just that.

01:27:05.100 Right.

01:27:05.360 But I thought, I thought at the time, yeah, I'll bet they will, but then they'll be rejected.

01:27:11.300 You know, the American people will reject them.

01:27:12.820 Did you really think that?

01:27:13.760 I did.

01:27:14.380 I did at the time.

01:27:15.300 I certainly don't now.

01:27:16.900 I've been proven so wrong.

01:27:19.140 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a perfect example of that.

01:27:23.640 And, you know, I've been talking about what a concern that is in our country that she could be.

01:27:28.220 She was so popular.

01:27:29.860 She blew out a 10 term congressman to get that job. 1.00

01:27:34.900 And so it shows you the embrace of socialism, I'm afraid, in our society.

01:27:40.900 But people will call on my show and say, no, it's just because she's attractive and she's young. 0.99

01:27:48.720 That's the appeal there.

01:27:49.760 She's got charisma. 0.99

01:27:52.200 I think what if I may kind of build on that, I think she is young and attractive.

01:27:58.520 She's got a great story, whichever story is being told.

01:28:02.940 She's got several great stories, depending on what day it is.

01:28:06.480 Right.

01:28:06.780 She's got good story.

01:28:08.580 She she worked hard for it.

01:28:12.280 I mean, she went out and the other guy didn't.

01:28:16.020 And I think there is a mood.

01:28:19.400 You remember the whole prediction was they're going to just take their masks off and say, yeah, I am a socialist.

01:28:25.340 And there's nothing wrong with that because this system isn't working.

01:28:28.560 Yeah.

01:28:29.180 And that's what she's saying.

01:28:30.020 And that's what she's saying.

01:28:31.100 Exactly what she's saying.

01:28:32.300 And so people who don't know, well, wait a minute, that's because we haven't been doing what our founders have said we were supposed to do.

01:28:40.420 We're not that anymore.

01:28:41.640 We haven't been that in a very long time.

01:28:43.540 They just assume that this is discredited.

01:28:48.980 But really, what's discredited is this hybrid version of of a of a big state government control.

01:28:58.640 And, you know, the the the tip of the hat to the Bill of Rights.

01:29:04.420 That's what doesn't work.

01:29:05.880 Mm hmm.

01:29:07.200 And, you know, nobody's asking her, you know, her line continues to be when she's asked, what's what's the difference between democratic socialism and and socialism?

01:29:18.420 Or what's the difference between those and just being a Democrat?

01:29:21.840 And the only thing I've ever heard her explain is that, well, in a country that's the wealthiest and most prosperous in the world, there shouldn't be any poor.

01:29:30.680 Well, I mean, welcome to utopia.

01:29:33.280 Yeah. Yes, that's we'd all love that.

01:29:35.860 However, we know that you can't eradicate poverty completely from the face of the earth.

01:29:41.380 There's there's just no way to do that.

01:29:43.700 So how are you proposing to pay for everybody having a free education, free health care, guaranteed job and a guaranteed place to live?

01:29:55.520 But see what you just did.

01:29:56.960 You know, you're making a point on her say you.

01:30:00.600 You you're making a point on her answer.

01:30:03.860 She didn't answer your questions. 0.99

01:30:05.720 That's right.

01:30:06.600 She didn't even answer.

01:30:07.560 You're saying, what's the difference?

01:30:10.440 And she answers it one way.

01:30:12.200 And then I start down that road down that road.

01:30:14.640 No, no, no, no.

01:30:15.680 No, what's the difference?

01:30:17.620 What's the difference between that?

01:30:19.800 I mean, Lenin.

01:30:21.940 Lenin is the guy who came up with democratic socialism.

01:30:25.240 Yeah.

01:30:25.660 We're democratic socialists.

01:30:27.820 We're not communists.

01:30:29.500 He used that in the 1919 revolution because they didn't.

01:30:34.140 The people were afraid because then it was it was scary to him.

01:30:37.380 It was scary.

01:30:38.400 So we are democratic socialists.

01:30:41.200 That's where that comes from.

01:30:42.920 It's it's only democratic once.

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01:32:37.880 There is another problem coming out of the Houston School District.

01:32:41.600 If you remember, Houston School District, wasn't it Houston that had the problem with the superintendent

01:32:49.520 or was that Katie?

01:32:50.880 Yeah, it was Katie, but that's part of Houston.

01:32:53.240 Yeah.

01:32:53.700 So now there is a new problem at a school.

01:32:58.620 It was a field trip with sixth grade girls.

01:33:06.220 Twenty two of them were strip searched on this field trip because one of the teachers on the trip was missing fifty dollars.

01:33:15.200 So they stripped twenty two sixth grade girls down to their bra and panties. 1.00

01:33:22.080 And searched for the missing fifty dollars to find out who had stolen it.

01:33:27.100 And nobody had not one of them.

01:33:29.940 They didn't find the fifty.

01:33:31.340 I wonder if the kids were allowed to strip search the adults.

01:33:34.060 He doesn't doesn't say that in this story.

01:33:37.020 So my guess is no.

01:33:39.680 But after it went missing, a police officer working at the Lanier Middle School informed the school's assistant principal that girls sometimes like to hide things in their bras and panties.

01:33:52.000 So that's why they they strip searched him.

01:33:54.600 So then they loosened their bras, checked around the waistband of their panties and found no money.

01:34:02.520 So can you how would how imagine livid as a parent would you be if this was your daughter?

01:34:09.620 This is Texas.

01:34:10.360 This is Texas.

01:34:13.360 Sad.

01:34:13.900 How many of these things are taking place in Texas?

01:34:17.240 Texas is close.

01:34:18.840 Texas is on the edge.

01:34:19.900 That's why they're worried about this blue wave thing.

01:34:22.040 I know.

01:34:22.600 I think Texas is close.

01:34:24.320 There's all these people that have moved from California.

01:34:26.740 All these companies that have moved in.

01:34:28.920 Texas is, you know, number one with business now.

01:34:31.580 We should have built a wall on our western border a long time ago.

01:34:35.080 A long time ago.

01:34:35.660 Keep the Californians out. 0.97

01:34:37.020 And the northern border.

01:34:38.120 Yep.

01:34:38.400 You know, not Canada.

01:34:40.680 Oklahoma.

01:34:41.520 Yes.

01:34:42.940 Stay out.

01:34:43.820 We're closed.

01:34:44.680 Yeah.

01:34:44.900 I mean, it's it's it's changing here dramatically.

01:34:48.660 And that's not good.

01:34:50.960 We'll give you the stats on Texas here in just a second on on what Texas means to America just on business.

01:34:57.860 Because we are different than the other 49 states.

01:35:03.260 But it's changing here in Texas.

01:35:05.680 Back in a minute.

01:35:07.380 All right.

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01:36:11.020 So let me before we get back into Texas and and what it means in Texas to the rest of the country to have Texas a free state.

01:36:23.280 Let me let me give you the first real casualty here.

01:36:26.700 It seems in the trade war with China, it looks like it's Tesla.

01:36:31.080 Tesla already having a problem with their, you know, with their manufacturing Tesla hit was hit with a a price tariff by the Chinese of 20 percent.

01:36:51.120 They back their price down and they went up another 10 percent.

01:36:58.780 And so there's nothing they can do now.

01:37:04.500 Tesla tariff is 40 percent.

01:37:08.580 Wow.

01:37:10.960 The Tesla is a huge, huge market.

01:37:14.180 Was it doing well in China?

01:37:15.440 China is a huge expensive cars.

01:37:18.060 Yes, it was two billion dollars last year.

01:37:21.820 Wow.

01:37:22.040 China was their second biggest market.

01:37:24.600 If they lose China, they could go under.

01:37:28.300 Now, let me ask you for this is because this is the way the economy actually works.

01:37:35.520 The idea is to save jobs here and to keep manufacturing here.

01:37:41.520 What would Tesla do?

01:37:44.540 Tesla will either lose two billion dollars and possibly fold because it's their second largest market or.

01:37:52.020 Move manufacturing to China and make their cars in China, they can make them here for here and make them over there for them. 0.95

01:38:04.360 Which do you think they're going to do go out of business or move their manufacturing?

01:38:09.520 This is why trade tariffs just don't work.

01:38:14.360 Yep.

01:38:14.900 They don't.

01:38:16.180 They don't protect anybody.

01:38:17.960 And you can see it.

01:38:19.480 You can see it.

01:38:20.540 It's not necessarily.

01:38:21.600 If you think of tariffs as a tax, then you can understand that if you build things or make things in California, your taxes are so high.

01:38:32.560 What do people do they move if your regulation and your taxes are high, you move to a place to where the regulation allows you to do business.

01:38:44.740 That's been the secret of of Texas.

01:38:49.000 It is this from Forbes.

01:38:50.840 No, not Forbes.

01:38:51.580 This is what's the CNBC CNBC.

01:38:54.120 They've been doing this for 12 years.

01:38:56.840 Texas has won the top spot for best place to do business four times out of 12 years.

01:39:04.520 So give me the stats on this.

01:39:08.240 So we are.

01:39:10.400 They say that this is that we went back to the top of the list because of rising the rising tide of energy prices when oil, you know, oil is still the number one industry here.

01:39:22.080 But it's not just oil that's doing really well in Texas.

01:39:25.860 We actually had GDP growth in the fourth quarter last year of 5.2%.

01:39:33.560 Holy cow. 0.89

01:39:34.740 5.2%.

01:39:36.820 We are responsible for one in seven jobs being added throughout the nation.

01:39:44.420 So for every seven jobs that happened in the country, Texas contributed one of them.

01:39:51.080 Actually, that's, you know what?

01:39:52.980 That's good for America. 0.93

01:39:54.780 Do you remember under Obama the first couple of years, Texas was over 50% of all jobs?

01:40:00.560 Yep.

01:40:01.000 We've added more than 350,000 jobs in Texas in the last year.

01:40:06.700 Kind of turbocharging our $1.6 trillion economy.

01:40:11.040 I think we'd be 10th or 11th in the world in GDP, the state of Texas.

01:40:19.280 You mean California is.

01:40:21.680 We would be if people would stop denying that we're our own country.

01:40:24.400 Yes.

01:40:24.800 So Texas is home to 39 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, including AT&T, ExxonMobil, Texas Instruments, and some of the biggest privately held companies, too, including HEB, Neiman Marcus, Hunt Oil.

01:40:40.220 So they also say that we did really well in other categories of competitiveness.

01:40:48.720 We were seventh in workforce, number one in infrastructure, number nine in technology and innovation, and access to capital.

01:40:57.000 We were third.

01:40:57.560 So in virtually every metric, we're at least top 10, and in many cases, the number one state in the country.

01:41:08.380 So what's number two?

01:41:10.800 Give me the top five.

01:41:11.460 This will probably surprise you a little bit.

01:41:12.560 Number two is Washington.

01:41:16.220 Washington State.

01:41:17.640 I don't think I would have ever guessed that.

01:41:20.860 At third is...

01:41:22.360 Wait.

01:41:23.040 I'm having a hard time getting my arms around it because you have Seattle.

01:41:26.580 Now, maybe it's because you have eastern Washington that balances things out.

01:41:31.440 Their economy was the fastest growing in the nation last year at 4.4%.

01:41:36.440 That was for the full year.

01:41:37.520 Just like to remind you what my grandmother said before I moved away.

01:41:40.540 Uh-huh.

01:41:40.840 Glenn, tell everyone you meet, it rains there all the time.

01:41:46.780 And I said, Grandma, I don't have a problem saying that because it does.

01:41:51.880 And she said, good.

01:41:52.700 Now you don't have to lie.

01:41:53.600 She was trying to get people to not move to the Seattle area and wreck it. 0.96

01:42:00.500 Now, one of the problems, though, that you might imagine Washington has is $13.8 billion

01:42:07.820 in unfunded pension obligations.

01:42:11.620 So, the pension thing is killing Washington State just like it is Illinois, Massachusetts,

01:42:18.940 and other states.

01:42:20.160 What are we going to do when those pensions go belly up, the states have to pay them,

01:42:27.140 and they go to the United States government, and the United States government says, we'll

01:42:33.100 bail you out.

01:42:33.800 How is the United States government going to pull that off, though?

01:42:40.100 I don't understand how they bankrupt the federal government then, too.

01:42:44.860 And do I, as a citizen of another state that, I mean, you want to talk about taxation without

01:42:50.980 representation.

01:42:52.260 I didn't vote for those pensions.

01:42:54.200 Right.

01:42:54.600 We didn't accrue that debt.

01:42:57.300 Why are you giving my tax money to them for the debt that they racked up?

01:43:04.720 You think that's going to be a problem?

01:43:06.900 Yeah, I do.

01:43:07.780 When California comes knocking on the door of the federal government to bail them out?

01:43:11.820 And Illinois?

01:43:13.760 And New York?

01:43:15.280 New York?

01:43:16.940 And Washington?

01:43:18.960 No, people aren't going to be happy about that.

01:43:20.880 Utah at number three.

01:43:23.660 So they rose five places from last year.

01:43:26.280 Job growth was about 3.4% in Utah.

01:43:29.960 They actually beat Texas on a percentage basis.

01:43:33.060 The Silicon Slopes tech region is thriving.

01:43:35.860 6,500 startups and tech companies now are based in Utah.

01:43:40.920 That's amazing.

01:43:43.420 And then there's demand for housing, and that fuels construction, and so all of that's happening.

01:43:49.200 Utah added 50,000 jobs last year, which is a 3.4% increase.

01:43:54.120 Then you've got Colorado, which is back for the first time in a while in the top five.

01:44:01.840 Some of the biggest movers on this list, New York actually jumped from 38th to 27th.

01:44:10.860 So they actually improved.

01:44:12.540 They were the most improved because apparently their finances are in better shape now.

01:44:17.520 The housing market is strong, and only California is home to more standard and poorest 500 companies.

01:44:23.900 Where's California?

01:44:26.360 California is somewhere in the middle of the pack.

01:44:28.560 I'm telling you, if California didn't have perfect weather, no one would live there.

01:44:34.620 Yes.

01:44:35.140 It wouldn't even be in the top 50 of the 50 states.

01:44:37.660 No one would live there.

01:44:38.560 You just would not go.

01:44:39.340 Yeah, there is so much that people give up, and they're just like, I just, you know, I just, I just love the weather, and I just love the weather.

01:44:49.080 And I think that you just kind of give up after a while, you know.

01:44:55.480 Yes.

01:44:55.920 I mean, the weather, though, is great.

01:44:57.760 The traffic is awful, and the taxes are awful.

01:45:00.200 The people are pretty nasty.

01:45:01.860 And I don't really want to.

01:45:04.460 Then there's mudslides and earthquakes.

01:45:06.260 And when there's fire.

01:45:07.440 And when there's fire, but.

01:45:08.340 But.

01:45:08.900 The weather.

01:45:09.480 The weather.

01:45:09.760 The weather is great.

01:45:11.300 I mean, it's just.

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01:47:42.140 This is how split our culture is.

01:47:45.280 Back in the 1960s, the Beatles had, what, four out of the top ten?

01:47:51.580 They had, uh, all top five.

01:47:53.800 All five of the top five in the country.

01:47:56.540 They had, uh, Can't Buy Me Love was number one.

01:47:58.800 Twist and Shout, two. 0.99

01:47:59.860 And number three, She Loves You.

01:48:01.400 Fourth was I Want to Hold Your Hand.

01:48:03.200 And number five was Please, Please Me.

01:48:04.820 Okay, so.

01:48:05.980 All the top five.

01:48:06.880 Those are all songs, if you're our age.

01:48:08.900 If you're my age, you know them.

01:48:10.440 If you're 30, you probably have at least heard them.

01:48:14.440 Everybody.

01:48:15.240 It was a cultural revolution.

01:48:17.900 Yep.

01:48:18.340 Somebody has just broken this record.

01:48:21.060 Yeah.

01:48:21.340 Don't say the name.

01:48:22.220 They smashed the record.

01:48:24.580 They've got seven in the top, uh, ten.

01:48:29.520 He's got number one, number two, number four, number six, seven, eight, and nine songs in

01:48:34.940 the country right now.

01:48:36.500 In this country?

01:48:37.720 Yes.

01:48:38.000 In this country.

01:48:39.400 Okay.

01:48:39.740 On the Billboard Hot 100.

01:48:40.440 Now, the reason why I said in this country is, I know I'm going to sound like a really

01:48:45.200 old guy here, but everyone knew the Beatles.

01:48:49.680 Every, you could not escape the Beatles.

01:48:52.860 But we are such a country that is now, and I'm not saying this in a bad way, but we can

01:48:58.440 all find our own stuff, and we can cut ourselves out of giant movements.

01:49:03.720 This is obviously a giant movement of some sort.

01:49:08.260 I've never heard of him.

01:49:09.440 Drake, rapper.

01:49:10.440 I've heard of him.

01:49:14.240 I don't think I've ever heard one of his songs.

01:49:17.120 I don't.

01:49:17.720 Marissa, is this like, is this like, is he everywhere?

01:49:22.640 You don't know?

01:49:23.280 You're...

01:49:23.460 I don't know.

01:49:24.480 Really?

01:49:24.880 You're not familiar with Drake, either?

01:49:26.660 I'm familiar with him.

01:49:27.700 I don't...

01:49:27.980 How old are you, 20...

01:49:29.120 25.

01:49:30.160 25?

01:49:30.840 Yeah.

01:49:31.380 He's everywhere.

01:49:32.500 I don't listen to him.

01:49:34.180 Okay.

01:49:34.600 Wow.

01:49:35.480 And is he any good?

01:49:39.520 Not...

01:49:40.160 I mean, I would rather listen to the Beatles, personally.

01:49:43.380 Okay.

01:49:44.220 He's okay.

01:49:45.960 But you're not a huge rap fan, either.

01:49:47.320 I don't know Kanye West with his new album.

01:49:49.880 Yeah.

01:49:50.360 Well...

01:49:50.680 Well, who is?

01:49:51.340 Poopity Scoop.

01:49:52.280 I mean...

01:49:52.740 Yeah.

01:49:52.860 I mean...

01:49:53.360 Come on.

01:49:53.860 You can't.

01:49:54.160 You can't make up those lyrics.

01:49:55.080 No.

01:49:55.660 Well, you can.

01:49:56.940 Yeah.

01:49:57.640 But sometimes you don't want to.

01:49:59.520 Yeah.

01:49:59.960 Yeah.

01:50:00.880 And listen to this.

01:50:01.780 Not only does he have seven of the top ten, he right now has 27 songs overall in the Hot

01:50:10.980 100.

01:50:11.340 27% of the chart are Drake songs.

01:50:17.940 How is that even possible?

01:50:20.220 I got to listen to some.

01:50:21.580 Yeah.

01:50:21.920 I have to hear what he sounds like now.

01:50:24.960 His new album, Scorpion, debuted at number one.

01:50:28.780 All 25 tracks from that album are on the Hot 100, plus two more, obviously.

01:50:34.100 So he's now charted 186 songs over the course of his career, which I don't know how many years

01:50:41.260 that spans.

01:50:44.160 So wait.

01:50:44.920 So the Billboard chart, if I'm not mistaken, Billboard is just from sales, not Radio Play.

01:50:51.680 It used to be that way.

01:50:53.260 I'm not sure that's still the case.

01:50:54.800 Does Radio Play even matter?

01:50:55.880 I think Radio Play does factor into Billboard, I think.

01:51:01.780 But it's incredible.

01:51:06.620 It's because people don't listen.

01:51:08.440 They don't even listen to music the same way they used to with Spotify and Pandora.

01:51:14.200 You know, music on demand, you can listen to any song you want at any time you want.

01:51:18.640 Now, it's not like you're held hostage by music radio anymore.

01:51:23.840 So this is even a bigger accomplishment, I think, because of that.

01:51:28.760 That's just the number one song in the country, Nice For What?

01:51:34.080 Number two, Non-Stop.

01:51:35.280 Number four, God's Plan.

01:51:36.740 Number six, In My Feelings.

01:51:38.720 I'm Upset.

01:51:39.800 Number seven, Emotionless.

01:51:41.160 Number eight, and Don't Matter To Me.

01:51:42.600 Featuring Michael Jackson, number nine.

01:51:44.580 So wait, give me the names again, because it seems they seem to be diametrically opposed

01:51:52.220 to each other.

01:51:53.160 Nice For What?

01:51:54.360 Mm-hmm.

01:51:54.800 Non-Stop.

01:51:56.160 God's Plan.

01:51:57.280 Mm-hmm.

01:51:57.800 In My Feelings.

01:51:59.260 Okay, In My Feelings.

01:52:00.540 I'm Upset.

01:52:01.620 I'm Upset.

01:52:03.160 Emotionless.

01:52:03.820 But I have no emotions.

01:52:06.260 Emotionless.

01:52:06.760 Yeah, I'm Emotionless.

01:52:07.760 And Don't Matter To Me.

01:52:08.960 And It Doesn't Matter.

01:52:09.640 Don't Matter To Me.

01:52:10.560 Uh, I've got, I gotta listen to some of these.

01:52:15.200 Because to beat the Beatles record, uh, you should have to be pretty exceptional.

01:52:20.780 And I don't know any rap like that, frankly.

01:52:24.300 Now it may be, it may be.

01:52:26.380 Maybe I'm not the target, Demo, there.

01:52:27.920 You may not be the target.

01:52:29.200 You think that's possible?

01:52:30.100 Yes.

01:52:30.860 But I would at least expect somebody who has 27% of the Hot 100 on Billboard, I would expect

01:52:38.600 would be so culturally relevant that everyone would at least go, oh, yeah, I think I know

01:52:45.040 that guy.

01:52:47.300 Glenn Beck.

01:52:49.320 Mercury.

01:52:49.760 And Julie.

01:52:50.620 1600 Bass.

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The Glenn Beck Program - July 11, 2018

'Confrontational Tones and Tactics'？ - 7⧸11⧸18

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