The Glenn Beck Program - ＂Courage is Contagious＂ (Ben Shapiro, Rep. Thomas Massie & Austin Petersen join Glenn)

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

00:00:10.080 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.280 I think it's pretty obvious to everybody now that there's something really rotten in Broward County.

00:00:20.680 The actions of the sheriff and his deputies that arrived at Stoneman shooting is becoming more convoluted today.

00:00:27.180 Last night, Laura Ingram reported that she had a source who revealed why the officers didn't initially enter the high school.

00:00:34.900 Our sources near the Broward County Sheriff's Department are telling us that the deputies who arrived at the scene of the shooting were told not to enter the school unless their body cameras were turned on.

00:00:48.480 And then we found out that the deputies did not have body cameras, so they did not enter the building or engage the shooter.

00:00:57.940 So, curiously, police also lost radio communications during the Parkland shooting.

00:01:04.220 And our source claims that radio communication also went dead during the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting in 2017 that he also got a lot of criticism for.

00:01:13.640 Now, to lose precious seconds because of a lack of body cameras is outrageous.

00:01:19.880 We didn't have body cameras five years ago.

00:01:22.000 What would the officers have done then?

00:01:24.700 Scott Peterson, the deputy who stayed behind the concrete stairwell during the rampage, also defended his actions yesterday.

00:01:32.480 He issued a statement through his lawyer claiming that he heard gunshots but believed the gunshots were originating from outside of the buildings on the school campus.

00:01:40.760 The sheriff's office trains its officers that in the event of an outdoor gunfire, you're supposed to seek cover, assess the situation in order to communicate what one observes with other law enforcement agencies.

00:01:55.620 Allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance under the circumstances failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue.

00:02:05.480 That's an end of the quote.

00:02:07.820 Now, maybe Peterson is telling the truth.

00:02:09.600 It's quite possible that he complied with all of his training.

00:02:14.080 It's quite possible that they were told not to go in with body cameras because that sounds like a political move.

00:02:19.340 And we all know that the sheriff now is nothing but political.

00:02:23.080 But if this is the case, it seems like strict adherence to the rules and regulation has cost people their lives.

00:02:30.760 When does making sure a body camera is operational more important than saving a life?

00:02:35.960 The answer is never.

00:02:37.300 When does making sure that you're in compliance with an outdoor gunfire situation more important than tracking down and stopping a mass murderer?

00:02:45.180 Look, I wasn't there that day.

00:02:49.660 And it's easy for all of us to play quarterback now after the game is over.

00:02:54.380 However, we don't know what really happened.

00:02:56.920 These all could be feeble attempts to cover the Broward County Sheriff's Department's actions or inactions.

00:03:03.300 They could be telling the truth.

00:03:05.720 We don't know.

00:03:06.900 Right now, we are desperately searching for somebody to blame for this tragedy, but we already have that person in jail.

00:03:14.680 The guy who pulled the trigger.

00:03:17.760 Let's remember not to be too judgmental as we continue our search for the truth on who dropped the ball.

00:03:25.840 Could this have been prevented?

00:03:28.040 The answer is yes.

00:03:29.400 Now, without a lynch mob, let's find out exactly how and who was not doing their job.

00:03:48.520 It's Tuesday, February 27th.

00:03:51.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:53.840 Editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro.

00:03:56.300 Hello, Ben.

00:03:56.820 How are you?

00:03:58.260 Hanging in there.

00:03:58.840 How are you?

00:03:59.740 Good.

00:04:00.140 Has anybody followed your lead on not giving the name of the shooter?

00:04:09.260 Not so far as I'm aware.

00:04:10.680 So we over at The Daily Wire have taken up the policy in the last week and a half after Parkland of not sharing the name or face of the shooter on our website.

00:04:20.160 I'm not aware that anybody else in the mainstream media have done that.

00:04:22.880 We're not the first to the ballgame, of course.

00:04:24.180 There are other outlets that have done that before.

00:04:26.160 But I am surprised that the same media that proclaims that every law-abiding gun owner in the country has to give up their rifle is happy to show continually on a loop the name and face of the shooter when there are many studies suggesting that mass shooters actually thrive on this sort of publicity.

00:04:41.620 And it drives actually more common mass shootings.

00:04:45.200 So, Ben, we are totally unhinged now from facts.

00:04:50.520 The CNN town hall debate last week was grotesque.

00:04:55.620 And they still don't get it.

00:04:57.900 I mean, I think, you know, it would do a great service to CNN and to Jake Tapper if they would just come out and say, you know what?

00:05:06.720 Having that crowd there was a horrible idea.

00:05:10.300 Horrible idea.

00:05:11.860 Would you agree?

00:05:13.700 Totally agree.

00:05:14.300 I mean, I thought it was Orwell's humanitate.

00:05:16.140 I thought it was just a show trial for gun owners.

00:05:19.500 I thought it was a show trial for the NRA.

00:05:21.520 And, you know, I know Jake.

00:05:23.200 I like Jake.

00:05:23.860 I think Jake does a good job.

00:05:25.140 Me too.

00:05:25.540 When he tries.

00:05:26.380 But I think that the but I think that that I told him this.

00:05:29.960 I mean, I think that that I thought that was egregious.

00:05:32.500 I thought it was just egregious.

00:05:33.380 I thought the entire event was a setup from the start.

00:05:36.360 Jake was not a moderator.

00:05:37.480 Jake allowed the students to go up there and browbeat people like Senator Rubio, one of the students suggesting that when he looked down the bear.

00:05:44.320 When he looked at Rubio, he was like looking down the barrel of the gun of the shooter, which is just an insane statement to make publicly.

00:05:49.940 And the crowd cheered that because it was it was more bang mob than it was an actual crowd of people considering possible arguments.

00:05:57.740 I understand passions are high, but that's the whole point of being in the news business.

00:06:00.440 I mean, passions are high a lot of places, but there's a selective decision that's being made by news outlets as to which sorts of town halls you should set up like this.

00:06:09.600 I mean, as I said at the time, I don't remember CNN doing a town hall in Texas on the border about illegal immigration after some high profile killing of somebody by an illegal immigrant.

00:06:20.220 No.

00:06:20.440 With all the members of the community.

00:06:21.460 Of course, they wouldn't do that because they would say this is a newsworthy.

00:06:23.780 It's not newsworthy.

00:06:24.600 The people are passionate and upset after a shooting.

00:06:26.840 And what's newsworthy is the argument that actually happens on the basis of reason and decency.

00:06:31.520 And both of those things have completely fallen away here.

00:06:34.420 And instead, CNN has decided to put on a particular set of students.

00:06:37.920 Now, there are a bunch of students who go to that school.

00:06:40.220 I mean, there's thousands of students who go to that school.

00:06:42.180 I know at least one of them who is a who's a Second Amendment advocate who is not being booked every single day on CNN.

00:06:48.300 The ones who are booked every day on CNN are, of course, this small group of students that you've seen their faces plastered all over the media.

00:06:53.960 Emma Gonzalez and Cameron Kasky and David Hogg, you know their names.

00:06:57.600 You don't know the names of people who were killed.

00:06:59.320 But you know the names of these kids who are on TV for the last two weeks spouting gun control and suggesting that folks like Dana Lash, who we both know and like, you know, and are friends with, that people like Dana are actually uncaring about the deaths of children, which is just the sickest form of demagoguery.

00:07:13.440 I mean, I've been calling that out since Piers Morgan.

00:07:15.160 I hate that so much.

00:07:16.620 This routine where we disagree on policy and therefore we don't care if kids get killed.

00:07:20.280 It's disgusting.

00:07:21.260 Well, I mean, you could make the case we care about kids getting killed in larger numbers than than what is happening now.

00:07:30.840 The greatest mass shootings in all of history come from out of control governments.

00:07:36.300 And that's why we have the Second Amendment to to to sit here and say we don't care about kids being shot.

00:07:41.920 We absolutely do care about that.

00:07:44.820 But we also care about protecting the freedoms of of children and the children that haven't even been born yet.

00:07:51.780 That's exactly right.

00:07:53.600 It's also true that even if you were to put aside the arguments on the family level for the Second Amendment, you're telling me that in this particular case, the FBI failed twice.

00:08:02.320 They were told specifically twice about the shooter by name and they did nothing.

00:08:06.360 The local law enforcement had at least 45 calls, according to CNN, from the shooter's house, including the shooter himself calling the police on himself a few months ago.

00:08:14.820 And they did nothing. And then we had an armed, an armed deputy on who was present with a handgun.

00:08:20.800 And we're now we're now being told by the media, of course, that a handgun can never go up against a rifle, which is just an insane contention that is completely meritless.

00:08:28.060 As anyone who's ever fired a gun knows. And then they're telling us that all of these law enforcement bodies fail.

00:08:33.720 But we have to give up our guns. So just to get this straight, my self-defense now rests on me giving up my guns to a bunch of people who will do nothing if somebody threatens me with a gun.

00:08:42.740 So even even on the most basic self-defense level, why in the world would I possibly give up my right to keep and bear firearms when the authorities aren't even keeping me safe?

00:08:52.460 I mean, according to the lock-in bargain, this is like their only job. Their only job is to prevent life, liberty and property.

00:08:58.160 And they didn't do any of those things. They're not protecting life, obviously. They didn't in Parkland.

00:09:02.100 They're not protecting liberty because they want to seize my liberty and not protect my life.

00:09:05.540 And they're not protecting the property of the school.

00:09:07.760 Ben, where do you think this where do you think this goes?

00:09:10.120 Because we all know that another shooting is going to happen because we're not taking care of the real issues.

00:09:16.360 We're not even willing to, you know, I was talking yesterday about, you know, they'll take in and send the police for, you know, a third grader who is brandishing a second degree lookalike firearm, otherwise known as a finger gun.

00:09:33.300 And yet we can't have a conversation. They'll say that's leading to violence and we can't have a conversation about our culture, about the violent nature of our culture, the violent nature of our movies, the the, you know, video games that our kids are deeply entrenched in.

00:09:52.920 I'm not saying I want to ban any of that or anything else, but we can't even have a conversation about it.

00:09:57.880 It's all about the control over you and any way of you defending yourself.

00:10:06.560 So where do we go from here? Because half of the country is dead set on that, it seems.

00:10:13.400 Yeah, I think that it's going to be hard to go anywhere because, again, the entire premise of this conversation has become you hate children.

00:10:20.080 And you can't have a conversation with someone when they're screaming children to come to any sort of agreement about that.

00:10:25.600 I think there are things that could be done. I mean, I've suggested a bunch of things I think would be effective, not only the media refusing to show names and faces,

00:10:32.400 but I think that David French has proposed gun violence restraining orders, which is a bunch of basically your family members and close friends can go to a court and petition to have your gun rights temporarily suspended.

00:10:43.600 If the court finds you mentally incompetent or a danger to yourself or others, that seems like a decent idea to me.

00:10:50.120 And there's been talk about I am a strong advocate of better security in schools.

00:10:55.380 I went to a private school and actually my private school was nearly targeted by a mass shooter.

00:11:00.400 Mass shooter drove past our private school targeting his Jewish school, targeting Jewish school.

00:11:05.000 He saw there were armed guards or at least he thought they were armed and he just kept driving.

00:11:08.960 He drove over to the West Valley JCC and shot that place up instead.

00:11:11.640 That's because our school had hard security barriers. It has a certain number of security guards per number of students.

00:11:17.120 There's bombs in our school every so often. Nobody at that school has ever been shot or killed on premises, at least.

00:11:22.700 And it seems to me that we should be guarding our kids the same way that we guard our banks.

00:11:26.680 All of this stuff, I would assume, should get wide agreement across the spectrum because it's relatively uncontroversial that we should be protecting our schools in a better way.

00:11:34.460 But the left doesn't want to discuss any of those things, which demonstrates that there really is an agenda here.

00:11:38.860 And the agenda has a lot less to do with defending schools and defending kids than it has to do with the generalized gun control push that the left likes to engage in.

00:11:46.100 And more importantly, the moral push that you are a bad human being if you disagree with them.

00:11:50.720 Because, again, this is what the Obama administration in the early years, they had 60 votes in the Senate.

00:11:55.740 They had the House and they did nothing on gun control, nothing, because they knew the American people didn't want it.

00:12:00.440 And then as soon as the Republicans took back the House, suddenly it turned into, well, let's talk about gun control every single day and why Republicans are obstructionists, which says to me that this is a lot more about politicking than it is about protection.

00:12:10.940 Is it about is their motivation to essentially get their base fired up and get you're coming up to an election.

00:12:17.640 They want all this new money coming in and they don't necessarily want this problem solved, because if it's solved, then they don't have the argument anymore to take to their base.

00:12:27.940 Yeah, I think there's definitely some truth to that.

00:12:29.760 I'm not going to say that their motives are awful and they don't care about kids or anything like that.

00:12:33.820 But I will say that they are that in the same way that the left did not resolve the illegal immigration issue when they had the power to do so, because it is a valuable political tool for them.

00:12:44.440 I think they don't actually want to do the gun control stuff, because if they do, number one, it's not going to stop the mass shootings.

00:12:49.720 There's just it's not going to not a single element that they have proposed is going to minimize or stop mass shootings other than total gun confiscation, which they proclaim they don't want.

00:12:57.260 And so they would rather gin up the base for the elections.

00:13:01.140 So we are either going to revive the Enlightenment or we are going to die in darkness.

00:13:08.280 Which one wins?

00:13:12.140 You know, I'm I'm with you on this.

00:13:14.580 I think that the Enlightenment that there it's become a controversial proposition to say things like use your reason instead of your motion and tell the truth instead of prevaricating.

00:13:23.540 And one, if those are controversial propositions, we're in serious trouble.

00:13:27.720 So, you know, there's some of us who are obviously trying to fight back against that.

00:13:31.220 There's some of us who are trying to restore the nature of the Enlightenment.

00:13:33.880 But I think one of the great debates that's happening right now inside even the group of us who are pro-Enlightenment is what what roots have to be restored?

00:13:42.580 Can you just restore Enlightenment ideology without restoring respect for Judeo-Christian values and Greek thought?

00:13:47.580 Can you just take the cherry on top of the sundae and then leave aside the religion and leave aside the reason?

00:13:54.240 Or do you have to go back to basics and try to relearn all of those things?

00:13:57.140 I think that's a vigorous debate that's right now happening among people on the right and left.

00:14:01.080 It's a debate that I think that's happening between people, you know, like Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker, for example.

00:14:06.640 But there must be broad agreement that at least we're trying to get back there.

00:14:10.400 And I don't think there's even broad agreement we're trying to get back to Enlightenment mentality.

00:14:13.920 Yeah, I'm reading Steven Pinker's book now and yeah, he is.

00:14:19.920 He is really, you know, he makes a lot of good points, but the guy just does not like religion at all, to put it mildly.

00:14:29.840 And I, you know, I think we dismiss religion because of its ills and we fail to recognize that it's set up for the very first time a real civil society where we were able to search for truth.

00:14:47.840 A hundred percent. I mean, this is one of my great critiques of Pinker's book, and I'm actually writing a book that takes on his book in a pretty substantial way.

00:14:55.720 Not because I disagree with him about the value of reason, but because I think that he has and I think that the, you know, the materialist atheist movement has fundamentally undercut a lot of the contentions that they're seeking to support.

00:15:07.420 So you have an entire book by Pinker about the value of reason and the value of Enlightenment thinking, and that neglects 3,000 years of history that went into building that.

00:15:16.740 Can you actually rip away the foundations of that, which are Judeo-Christian religion on the one hand and Greek thought on the other?

00:15:22.060 Just take those away, and then suddenly the superstructure is supposed to stand.

00:15:25.180 So he'll talk about reason. He'll talk about the value of reason. He'll talk about the value of the Enlightenment.

00:15:28.880 And not once in that entire book did he mention the French Revolution.

00:15:32.280 Well, you can't do that. I mean, if you're not going to mention Comte, if you're not going to mention the French Revolution, if you're not going to mention the progressives of the early 19th century, 20th century,

00:15:43.500 if you're not going to mention the risks that came along with the Enlightenment, and Enlightenment unmoored from traditional moral values and from Greek teleology,

00:15:52.140 meaning the notion that the universe has a purpose that we can discover as individuals human beings.

00:15:56.220 And if you remove all of that, then people are going to come up with a morally relativistic universe they think is based on reason pretty quickly.

00:16:03.380 And that, I think, is what Pinker neglects, and I think that it's a problem for him.

00:16:07.040 I think that it's hard to build a moral system on the basis that we are balls of floating meat with no free will.

00:16:11.360 That is exactly the case, as I understand it, that Nietzsche was making when he said God is dead.

00:16:18.160 Okay, then who becomes God?

00:16:19.560 And what man, and that was the beginning of this whole collective idea that led to mass murder.

00:16:29.580 Totally agree.

00:16:30.440 And I think that, again, you know, Pinker mentioned Nietzsche, but only to disparage Nietzsche's thought.

00:16:34.800 What he fails to recognize is that Nietzsche was making a diagnosis.

00:16:37.480 Nietzsche wasn't making a recommendation.

00:16:39.600 And Nietzsche was looking at the Enlightenment mentality, which had said,

00:16:43.060 We are smarter than everybody else in history, and we have come up with our own reason, and that reason is going to guide us.

00:16:49.460 The cult of reason was actually a cult in the French Revolution.

00:16:52.600 The first official state religion of the French Revolution was the cult of reason, the goddess of reason.

00:16:58.280 And, of course, that immediately devolves into people chopping each other's heads off.

00:17:02.180 I'm all for reason, and I love reason.

00:17:04.420 A reason has to be undergirded by a search for a commonly available truth that can either be found through nature,

00:17:10.680 and nature's God, as the founders put it, or can be found in the revelatory dictates of divinely inspired religion.

00:17:19.360 Thank you, Ben.

00:17:21.900 Ben Shapiro, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire.

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00:18:44.900 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:18:47.240 Glenn Beck.

00:18:54.840 We're just talking.

00:18:55.800 I'm reading two books right now.

00:18:57.420 I'm reading Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules to Live By and Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, and it's a good juxtaposition.

00:19:04.420 I'm reading Pinker at night and Jordan during the day, and they're both books that you have to just read over and over and over again and really listen to.

00:19:12.400 Jordan Peterson's book, number one New York Times bestseller, I think people think is a self-help book, and it is.

00:19:20.280 It's kind of cloaked as that, but it's really not a self-help book.

00:19:25.420 I mean, it's deep, deep philosophy.

00:19:28.620 And, you know, one of the chapters, I don't remember which one it is.

00:19:31.780 I'm halfway through the book, and it's on evil, and how do we confront evil, you know?

00:19:39.900 When somebody decides to go to the bottom of the barrel, what do we do?

00:19:45.000 How do we deal with that?

00:19:46.180 And it's really what we're dealing with right now, and we're not having that conversation, and we need to.

00:19:53.660 Yeah, and there's a lot of this popping up right now, which is kind of encouraging a little bit.

00:19:59.340 You know, a lot of people who are seemingly trying to actually get answers, people who are allowing the other side to make their rational point,

00:20:07.180 and you make your rational point, and you just kind of hash it out.

00:20:09.520 And there's more and more people on both sides that are taking on their own side first.

00:20:15.260 There's some really interesting people we're going to have as future guests that are starting to take on their own side.

00:20:21.980 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:29.340 Loads of ammunition and a powerful AR-15.

00:20:34.000 Assault rifles out of the hands of people.

00:20:36.340 I want this to be the end of the Second Amendment.

00:20:39.480 The latest school shooting has ignited the gun debate.

00:20:42.480 Now more than ever, you need to know the facts.

00:20:45.340 Get control.

00:20:46.320 Exposing the truth about guns on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

00:20:49.840 So I'm going to tell you about a movement now to get schools just to recognize the Sixth Commandment.

00:21:01.140 Just can we recognize the Sixth?

00:21:03.540 Don't have to have all ten.

00:21:05.220 Let's just put one in.

00:21:08.080 You can't murder.

00:21:09.200 How much of this has been, how much of this has been, has the foundation for our society been laid to grow these killers?

00:21:26.040 How much of just the removal of basic principles and then not replacing them with anything other than gobbledygook?

00:21:36.720 We're doing this now with science.

00:21:39.200 We're now saying that just because you say you're a man or say you're a woman, you are rejecting science.

00:21:47.480 We have always been told as religious people, you are science deniers.

00:21:52.760 But we are now being told that just because you say you're a woman, you are a woman denying the X and Y chromosomes.

00:22:05.680 What is happening to us?

00:22:07.280 What happens to us is no matter what the God is, no matter what the God, we develop a society based on what the shoebox says.

00:22:17.560 And inside the shoebox is a magic eight ball.

00:22:21.380 And that's what we've set our society up on.

00:22:25.420 Well, we might go and say, you know, am I a woman?

00:22:31.700 Shake the magic eight ball.

00:22:33.080 And it says, ask again later.

00:22:35.360 And we build our whole foundation on that.

00:22:38.340 Well, if you take away the magic eight ball, you better replace it with something else that is going to decide what is true and what is not.

00:22:49.160 We've taken away our magic eight ball.

00:22:51.800 We've taken away the truth that we all recognize, the Judeo-Christian truth.

00:22:56.620 We have taken we have taken God and chased him out.

00:23:01.660 In our society, what made Western culture different was we looked to Jesus.

00:23:10.180 Jesus was a messenger of peace.

00:23:12.760 Now, religions got screwed up all the time, all the time.

00:23:17.720 But generally speaking, when we would take these big leap forward, it was because we were basing our society and the greatest men in our society on Jesus.

00:23:31.540 They were the ones who sacrificed it all.

00:23:33.940 They were the ones who were peaceful, who were gentle, who were giving, who were healing, who were listeners and comforters, who took more than their fair share for everybody else.

00:23:46.540 And that was something that was grown inside of us.

00:23:51.440 Now we've gotten rid of that character.

00:23:55.040 And what have we replaced it with?

00:23:58.260 Nothing.

00:23:59.240 There is no hero.

00:24:00.620 There is no archetype.

00:24:01.800 There is nothing.

00:24:03.100 Point to what we're all striving to be.

00:24:07.280 You know, we all we all chanted.

00:24:09.260 Well, not all of us, but many chanted for change.

00:24:13.640 To what?

00:24:14.840 To what?

00:24:16.740 There has to be a point on the horizon.

00:24:19.980 To what?

00:24:22.300 Many of us said you're going to make these changes and they're never going to be enough.

00:24:28.440 It's never going to be enough because you haven't told us.

00:24:33.360 If you told us that, look, we just want people to be fairly treated.

00:24:39.420 Gay people should be able to get married.

00:24:43.080 Fine.

00:24:43.880 The way to solve this is to get the government out of marriage.

00:24:49.720 Otherwise, you cause far too many problems.

00:24:52.880 So get government out of marriage.

00:24:55.400 I don't as a Christian, I don't get any anything from the government declaring my marriage is sacred or valid.

00:25:03.180 Who cares?

00:25:04.300 What we've done, however, is created a system to where now, what about the wedding cake?

00:25:11.780 What about this?

00:25:12.460 What about that?

00:25:13.100 And the government has to be involved.

00:25:14.640 That's not American.

00:25:15.780 That's not freedom.

00:25:16.620 But because we don't have a point on the horizon where we're saying we're headed for that archetype, that's what we want.

00:25:28.360 And this is what people are like in that archetype.

00:25:32.420 And they're well-defined characters in all kinds of situations.

00:25:36.900 We know how Jesus acted when he was angry.

00:25:39.560 We know Jesus, how he was acted when he was being scourged and accused.

00:25:43.520 We know when he had the power to heal.

00:25:45.640 We know how he acted when he was offered up the wealth of the earth.

00:25:49.580 We know every scenario.

00:25:51.460 We know.

00:25:52.740 Where is that archetype for us?

00:25:56.960 This is, you know, I'm reading Pinkerton and I'm also reading Jordan Peterson at the same time.

00:26:07.900 And they're both coming at the problems of our society in very similar ways.

00:26:14.240 Jordan Peterson, however, is saying there is a case for God here.

00:26:18.840 Pinkerton is saying there's no case for God.

00:26:22.660 As I'm looking at, as I'm looking at things, I'm realizing how foolish I have been and how much, how much I have to learn.

00:26:36.040 And how I have, how I have allowed people to shape my thinking.

00:26:42.300 For instance, I've always thought Nietzsche was, you know, God is dead and it's nihilistic and it's all over and, and there's nothing good.

00:26:51.580 Nihilism.

00:26:52.840 No, that's what he was warning against.

00:26:55.160 And it's amazing because he, he, he makes this case that God is dead in something that he calls the parable of the madman.

00:27:03.820 And the ending is what we've done.

00:27:10.140 We didn't listen to what he was saying.

00:27:12.880 Listen to this parable of a madman.

00:27:14.760 Have you not heard of the man, the madman who led to lit a lantern in the bright morning hours and ran into the marketplace and cried incessantly, I'm looking for God.

00:27:23.940 I'm looking for God.

00:27:25.020 And many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there and excited considerable laughter.

00:27:31.000 And they said, oh, you lost him.

00:27:33.060 Oh, did he lose his way like a child?

00:27:35.040 Is he hiding?

00:27:36.060 Oh, he's afraid of us.

00:27:37.320 Has he gone on a voyage?

00:27:38.580 Maybe he's emigrated.

00:27:39.760 They shouted and they laughed and the madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

00:27:46.240 So here he is around a bunch of people who are mocking the fact that he's looking for God.

00:27:53.620 He says, where is he gone?

00:27:56.140 I'll tell you, we have killed him.

00:27:59.400 You and I, we are his murderers.

00:28:02.380 But how have we done this?

00:28:03.940 How are we able to drink up the sea?

00:28:05.660 Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon?

00:28:09.760 What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun?

00:28:13.320 Is it moving or are we moving?

00:28:16.220 Or are we perpetually falling backwards, sideward, forward, in all directions?

00:28:21.460 Is there even an up or down left now?

00:28:27.100 Ask yourself these questions.

00:28:29.320 Is there an up or down left now?

00:28:32.380 Do you know what's up, down, sideways?

00:28:35.360 Do you know which way we're falling?

00:28:36.780 Are we falling to the left or are we falling to the right?

00:28:41.040 Are we falling forward or are we falling backward?

00:28:44.580 There's no consensus on this at all.

00:28:47.280 We have no idea.

00:28:49.440 That's what this, quote, madman was saying to the people.

00:28:54.280 We don't have any idea.

00:28:56.580 Is it not more and more night coming all the time?

00:28:59.760 Has it not become colder?

00:29:01.280 Ask yourself that question.

00:29:02.460 Are we not a colder society than we were 20 years ago, 40 years ago?

00:29:09.480 Are we not colder in many ways?

00:29:12.960 Does it seem like darkness is getting earlier and earlier now in our society?

00:29:20.360 He then says, the famous quote from Nietzsche,

00:29:23.560 God is dead.

00:29:25.160 God remains dead.

00:29:26.920 Here's what we don't follow.

00:29:28.340 And we have killed him.

00:29:31.380 How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves now?

00:29:37.640 Think of this.

00:29:38.760 If there is no God, who's consoling?

00:29:42.000 Where do you get your peace, your solace?

00:29:47.200 He's saying because in that society, everybody found it with God.

00:29:51.400 That which is holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives.

00:30:00.120 Who's going to wipe this blood off of us?

00:30:02.380 With what water could we purify ourselves?

00:30:05.120 What festivals of atonement?

00:30:07.320 What sacred games will we need to invent?

00:30:11.620 Now, think of that.

00:30:13.120 We had a system.

00:30:14.560 It was the atonement.

00:30:17.420 It was for Christians.

00:30:20.200 It was Jesus bore the sins so you can start over.

00:30:23.520 Well, what is our ritual of atonement now?

00:30:27.620 We don't have one as a society.

00:30:29.540 There is no one who makes up for everything.

00:30:31.900 There is no one who can forgive our sins.

00:30:34.040 We just have to do it.

00:30:35.060 You just forgive it.

00:30:37.060 All you have to do is stop drinking.

00:30:38.660 Just stop drinking.

00:30:40.200 All you have to do is just stop eating so much.

00:30:42.400 Just stop eating so much.

00:30:44.560 That's all you have to do.

00:30:47.760 Then why don't we do it?

00:30:49.740 You know what I have to do?

00:30:50.920 I just have to start exercising.

00:30:52.620 Why don't we do it?

00:30:54.600 There are things that we tell ourselves all the time that we just have to get over it.

00:30:58.780 But why don't we?

00:31:01.660 That was an important ritual that we had.

00:31:07.020 Now, here's where it gets interesting.

00:31:08.640 Listen to what the people said.

00:31:10.780 Here the madman fell silent.

00:31:14.560 He regarded his listeners.

00:31:15.920 They were silent as well and stared at him.

00:31:18.780 At last, he threw down his lantern to the ground and broke and it went out.

00:31:22.780 I have come too early, he said to them.

00:31:25.780 My time is not yet come.

00:31:27.880 The tremendous event is still on its way, still traveling.

00:31:30.600 It hasn't reached the ears of men yet.

00:31:32.900 Lightning and thunder require time.

00:31:35.040 The light of the stars require time.

00:31:38.140 Deeds require time even after they are done.

00:31:41.000 Before they can even be seen or heard, this deed is still more distant than them from the distant stars.

00:31:47.440 And yet, they had done it themselves.

00:31:49.920 Meaning, Nietzsche is telling us now, what are you going to invent?

00:31:57.160 But who's going to be your God?

00:31:59.720 Who's going to make your rules?

00:32:03.420 Now, remember, he's writing this in Germany.

00:32:06.880 And he's saying, the Germans have lost their God.

00:32:11.380 You're now going to have to restructure.

00:32:13.860 So what is it?

00:32:14.900 So it was built on the progressive era.

00:32:17.680 It was built on science and pseudoscience.

00:32:22.680 According to man.

00:32:25.660 And man said, you know what we have to do is treat everybody equally.

00:32:29.060 We have to be a collective.

00:32:30.960 Instead of God saying, each of you are individuals, man said, yeah, but we're going to protect the individuals by working as a collective.

00:32:40.620 That led to death camps, death chambers, gas chambers, gulags, all over the world.

00:32:47.660 We have to fix reason firmly in our seat, but we also have to realize we've killed God in our society.

00:32:58.840 And it's going to end the same way it does every time a society kills God.

00:33:04.440 If you want to kill God, then what are you replacing it with?

00:33:10.100 Let's be very specific on that.

00:33:13.460 What is our God?

00:33:15.640 What gives us eternal truth?

00:33:19.380 What is that point on the horizon that we need to affix and look at and say we're headed in that direction?

00:33:26.200 If you get rid of the God who gave us the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as individuals,

00:33:33.940 if you get rid of him, then it's logical to have a conversation about getting rid of those rights.

00:33:40.780 But then who is going to issue our rights and what exactly do they mean?

00:33:47.620 Again, reading Steven Pinker and his book, Enlightenment Now, and also Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules to Live By,

00:34:08.140 both approaching the same problem, one from a spiritual aspect and one from an atheist aspect.

00:34:16.020 They're both worth reading.

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00:35:54.900 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:35:57.340 Glad you're here.

00:36:10.560 You know, I'm actually more optimistic than I have been in a while because I'm hearing more and more people on the left say,

00:36:18.120 okay, what do we do?

00:36:20.040 What do we do?

00:36:21.200 Because I can't take this anymore.

00:36:22.980 They can't take it on the left, and so many people on the right can't take it on the right.

00:36:26.820 They just, they feel instinctively, this is not our best self.

00:36:31.820 It's a good example.

00:36:32.660 I tweeted something the other day about, it was, you know, Trump is a fascist.

00:36:38.840 Give him all our guns.

00:36:40.520 Yeah.

00:36:40.960 Blatantly, and then they wrote, smart chance was the hashtag.

00:36:44.400 But the point is, if you think Trump is a fascist, you shouldn't want to give him all your guns, right?

00:36:48.420 I'm mocking the left.

00:36:49.600 I can't tell you how many Trump supporters.

00:36:51.540 I'm the typical never-Trumper, like, just yelling at me as if I'm not on the side of, I'm on their side on this argument.

00:37:01.700 People can't even read a tweet for context.

00:37:05.040 They can't even get to the bottom of 280 characters to figure out what the hell the person is saying.

00:37:10.680 Yeah.

00:37:10.920 I don't know how we, I don't know how we solve this, but there's some optimism.

00:37:14.340 There is optimism, you're killing it, but there is optimism because there are more people that are not engaging like that, that are tired of it and say, I'm done with that.

00:37:24.320 There's got to be a better way.

00:37:25.800 Mercury.

00:37:32.520 Love.

00:37:33.720 Courage.

00:37:35.460 Truth.

00:37:37.180 Glenn Beck.

00:37:38.580 Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb that maybe it's not just me, and maybe it's not just Stu.

00:37:44.340 But I really don't like the direction of anything anymore.

00:37:48.440 I don't like, I don't like any of this stuff anymore.

00:37:52.620 I, I, because it's meaningless.

00:37:54.800 It really is meaningless in our life.

00:37:56.940 You know, the, the FISA gate thing.

00:37:59.080 Release the memo.

00:38:00.040 We got to have the memo released.

00:38:01.920 This is an all encompassing controversy like three weeks ago, right?

00:38:07.140 All everyone was talking.

00:38:09.080 Release the memo.

00:38:10.280 No, not that memo.

00:38:11.220 They're going to release both of them.

00:38:12.420 No, Trump's not going to release the Democrat memo.

00:38:14.400 Oh, they're going to redact them too much.

00:38:15.640 Oh my gosh.

00:38:16.080 What's going to happen?

00:38:16.840 And we went back and forth and back and forth and back and forth for weeks on that.

00:38:20.520 And now they're both out.

00:38:22.480 So what happened?

00:38:24.240 What was the point of all of that?

00:38:25.800 I'm going to tell you something that no other talk show host in America would ever admit.

00:38:31.540 I saw the redacted Democratic memo.

00:38:36.060 I hit print and it said on my printer and then on my desk for three days.

00:38:41.820 I had no desire.

00:38:43.160 I only read it because I had to for you.

00:38:47.660 So I just want you to please tell us to stop when you because we're only doing this crap for you because we think you want it.

00:38:55.260 But I think that you don't want it.

00:38:57.720 But here it is.

00:38:59.240 So the Democrats finally released their rebuttal memo and the world has gone dark.

00:39:06.500 All of a sudden, everything has changed.

00:39:09.580 Either that or nothing happened.

00:39:13.420 The hyped bombshell memo really has nothing in it.

00:39:18.680 It doesn't tell us jack squat.

00:39:20.560 Let me recap.

00:39:21.480 Republican memo alleged the FBI and DOJ abused surveillance powers by lying by omission to the FISA court.

00:39:28.320 The memo claimed that the FISA warrant justification was based purely off the information in the infamous Steele dossier.

00:39:36.240 But the fact that the dossier was paid for by the Democratic Democratic Party was kept hidden.

00:39:42.660 Now, here's the problem, as we stated at the time with the Republican memo.

00:39:47.760 There had to be some corroborating information besides the Steele dossier that the FBI and DOJ used to justify a FISA warrant had to.

00:39:56.900 Now, don't get me wrong, using the Steele dossier and concealing who funded it from FISA court is really bad.

00:40:04.400 But I just don't think there's any way the court would grant a warrant based purely off one dossier and a Yahoo News article.

00:40:11.440 And if that's true, we need to know it.

00:40:15.860 Now, that sounds funny, but that's what the Republican memo insinuated.

00:40:20.760 Now, I said immediately after that document,

00:40:23.620 Oh, let's get the memo, release the memo, don't release the other memo.

00:40:26.900 Oh, geez.

00:40:28.520 We have to see the Democrat side, right?

00:40:31.940 Well, we finally got it over the weekend.

00:40:34.220 I was not interested at all.

00:40:38.080 It could have said Democrats threaten nuclear war and actually put a warhead in Donald Trump's pants.

00:40:47.580 And I would have been like, whatever.

00:40:49.520 However, the Democratic memo says basically exactly what we figured it would.

00:40:55.940 They did acknowledge that the Steele dossier was used, but they downplayed its importance and pointed to additional sources of information.

00:41:03.520 Now, if you're curious about what that additional information is, good luck.

00:41:09.300 It's easy to find it in the 10 page report.

00:41:11.840 Just flip through and find the big black boxes that are overall of the type.

00:41:17.280 So basically, the Republican memo talks up the importance of the Steele dossier in the FISA request, downplays additional sourcing.

00:41:24.340 The Democratic memo downplays the importance of the dossier, but talks up the additional sourcing.

00:41:29.540 And we all go around in circles again and again and again.

00:41:33.460 So, what should we be asking?

00:41:41.740 Why the hell are we doing this again?

00:41:53.140 It's Tuesday, February 27th.

00:41:56.320 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:59.160 I have to tell you, I want to solve the problems.

00:42:01.920 I want to solve the problems.

00:42:03.900 I don't want to solve the problems by undermining the Constitution.

00:42:08.440 I think our problems are caused by undermining the Constitution.

00:42:12.500 I don't want to do that.

00:42:14.540 But I am willing to look at new ideas.

00:42:16.640 I'm willing to.

00:42:17.460 I'm willing to work.

00:42:18.800 I'm willing to compromise on some things.

00:42:21.320 Not my principles.

00:42:23.000 But I am willing to compromise on things where, you know, we don't necessarily agree.

00:42:26.920 But, okay, that doesn't shred people's life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness.

00:42:32.300 Okay, let's try that.

00:42:35.440 I'm looking for somebody who is reasonable.

00:42:38.520 Somebody who is as tired of it as I am.

00:42:45.660 Because we're not getting anywhere and we're getting there fast.

00:42:48.240 I don't know if you know this.

00:42:49.200 We've already arrived.

00:42:50.420 So we need to start to have conversations with people that are taking on power in their own space.

00:43:01.200 Because I said this morning, I'm going to start a conversation.

00:43:05.980 Courage is contagious.

00:43:07.740 And I just want to start having conversations with people I may not even agree with.

00:43:11.900 Yesterday we had the guy from Politico, editor-in-chief of Politico, who was taking on his own side and saying,

00:43:18.400 I don't know about this Russia thing.

00:43:20.560 And he said he got a lot of pushback.

00:43:23.480 Good for you.

00:43:24.620 I may not agree with you, but good for you for saying, speaking truth to your power and saying, sit down for a minute.

00:43:31.960 I'm not sure it's all like that.

00:43:33.980 And we start to have to start looking for people who can have those conversations in intelligent ways, not just sound bites.

00:43:44.700 I think we have, do we have somebody here, Stu, that maybe fits that bill?

00:43:49.820 I hope so.

00:43:50.920 I hope so, too.

00:43:51.860 He's running for a Senate in Missouri.

00:43:53.880 Austin Peterson joins us.

00:43:55.980 Austin, welcome.

00:43:57.400 Welcome, Austin.

00:43:58.500 Hi, Glenn.

00:43:59.840 Thanks for having me on.

00:44:00.680 You bet.

00:44:01.260 You bet.

00:44:01.780 So how are things going with your candidacy?

00:44:06.940 Well, we're not supposed to be doing as well as we are because the Republican establishment does not want me.

00:44:13.660 But we have actually had sort of a sea change in the last month.

00:44:17.660 This morning, I officially filed to run with the Secretary of State here in Jefferson City.

00:44:22.040 So we crossed the Rubicon.

00:44:23.720 And fundraising is going very well.

00:44:26.980 We've got a lot of press.

00:44:28.160 We've gotten a lot of good, strong conservative endorsements.

00:44:30.580 Name ID is up.

00:44:32.360 I'm the hardest-working man in the race.

00:44:34.180 I've been all over the state multiple times, made a lot of good connections.

00:44:37.780 And people really like what they're hearing because, you know, I'm a different kind of a Republican.

00:44:42.220 And, you know, I love my country and the Constitution.

00:44:44.300 And I talk about how much I love freedom.

00:44:46.380 And that's really a message that brings a lot of Americans together.

00:44:49.240 And it really resonates well in Missouri.

00:44:51.340 So let's talk about this.

00:44:52.580 You've had endorsements from Mary Matlin, Eric Erickson, Leon Wolf, who's the editor-in-chief of the Blaze magazine.

00:44:59.420 Tell me, tell me, help steer us through what's happening in Florida right now.

00:45:06.680 You're in the Senate.

00:45:07.440 What are you saying right now?

00:45:11.220 Well, the first thing is, you know, we've got to be humans and empathize and say, I absolutely sympathize with the victims of this shooting.

00:45:17.980 And, you know, I have my principles that I want to stick to.

00:45:20.920 But the truth is, Glenn, is there is no tragedy, no matter how great, that justifies taking away the rights of innocent people.

00:45:27.280 And what bothers me is when I see some people on our side starting to cave to gun control measures through executive orders, and that's bothersome to me.

00:45:36.220 But I think that the truth is, is that, you know, an armed society is a polite society.

00:45:40.500 I think that, you know, America is strong because America is free and we have a right to bear arms.

00:45:45.320 So I defend the Second Amendment, and I think we ought to stick firm to it.

00:45:49.100 But, yeah, we've got a problem.

00:45:50.580 I think it probably lies in mental health.

00:45:52.220 But you know what?

00:45:52.900 It also probably lies in our fathers, right?

00:45:55.260 Many of these shooters, they just don't have good fathers.

00:45:58.260 I had a wonderful father who taught me how to have firearm safety and how to use a gun responsibly and defend myself.

00:46:04.760 And that's probably what we need more of.

00:46:06.880 But, frankly, as a senator, I don't know how to solve that problem, right?

00:46:09.960 I only have certain limited powers as a federal senator, and I can only be a moral leader and explain what I think the problem is.

00:46:16.440 Tell me what you think of the idea that our system is wholly inadequate for an irreligious and immoral people.

00:46:25.260 That's what our founders said.

00:46:26.960 Are we there yet?

00:46:28.240 I don't think so, Glenn.

00:46:31.480 Maybe it's because I'm young and naive, but I'm really optimistic because I interact with a lot of people out on the campaign trail.

00:46:38.720 And when I talk to them about the future of our country, especially when the economy starts to improve,

00:46:43.600 people start to look at things like these shootings in Florida more as anomalies than anything.

00:46:49.060 Because if you look at the data, violent crime involving guns is actually at an all-time low.

00:46:53.660 But the media likes to play it up.

00:46:55.720 Remember, if it bleeds, it leads, right?

00:46:57.500 So people see all the negativity on the media, and they confuse that for real life.

00:47:02.420 But it's not real life.

00:47:03.640 You know, these kinds of shootings are very rare.

00:47:06.600 And I think we ought to look back at that Reagan-esque optimism.

00:47:11.500 America is a shining city on a hill.

00:47:13.300 I mean, the young people right now, the millennials, are now the largest voting bloc.

00:47:16.480 I don't think a negative message is going to sell.

00:47:18.360 I think we need a positive, optimistic message that protects religious liberty for all Americans.

00:47:23.440 It seems like, Austin, as far as the gun debate goes after the shooting, we have kind of an argument on two sides.

00:47:28.880 One, the left, which is saying we're going to grab as many guns as we can get away with at this particular moment.

00:47:34.920 And the Republicans seem to be pushing back on that and saying,

00:47:37.980 we're just going to infringe on your right a little bit.

00:47:41.020 Is that okay?

00:47:42.580 Is that okay, Austin?

00:47:44.980 No, not this Republican is saying things like that.

00:47:47.680 Absolutely not.

00:47:48.560 We need to obey the Constitution.

00:47:49.880 There's a reason why it's an enumerated right.

00:47:53.080 And we need to follow due process.

00:47:55.300 I don't think mentally ill people who are dangerous should have guns.

00:47:58.200 But the problem is the law enforcement agency is to blame because they failed to uphold their own protocols.

00:48:04.080 Right?

00:48:04.360 I don't understand why it is when we have a failure of government that we need to turn around and blame the freedoms of the people.

00:48:10.880 Like, that's the issue.

00:48:11.760 It's not.

00:48:12.520 We even found out yesterday the shooter, Nicholas Cruz, tried to turn himself in.

00:48:16.220 He reported on himself as having mental health issues and problems.

00:48:20.620 And then we had those sheriffs who didn't go in.

00:48:23.220 You know, why is it always that when government fails, people blame freedom?

00:48:26.420 I just can't go along with that.

00:48:27.840 So, Austin, I was watching CPAC and they had Marion LePen there.

00:48:35.740 They had invited one of the bigger conspiracy theorists from Gateway Pundit to speak.

00:48:43.640 And I look at the conservative movement and say, if that's who you're embracing, then I don't even know what a conservative means or what a conservative is.

00:48:54.860 Can you define the future of the conservative movement as you see it?

00:49:02.980 Thank you for asking that question, Glenn.

00:49:04.720 Glenn, I have had a conversation with Ben Shapiro about this, and both of us agree.

00:49:09.180 Conservatives need to accept the libertarian view on government, and libertarians need to accept the conservative view of institutions, families, friends, neighbors, churches,

00:49:18.940 that will be needed if we have a smaller government to solve society's ills.

00:49:24.800 And, you know, I think the problem is that libertarians and conservatives, we've been sort of at each other's throats.

00:49:29.960 So, in order for us to solve the populist wave that we're seeing right now, which has, I'll admit, there are some libertarian instincts there,

00:49:39.620 but generally they tend towards the darker side, towards statism very frequently.

00:49:45.160 But I think the future with people like Ben Shapiro, people like yourself, people like, you know, myself out there advocating for a new alliance,

00:49:53.180 a conservative libertarian alliance, that could be very powerful.

00:49:56.320 If we all work together, I think that we can do something wonderful this year.

00:49:59.480 That's why I'm running for a Senate.

00:50:01.060 I'm trying to bring conservatives on board.

00:50:03.160 You know, I'm trying to bring libertarians on board.

00:50:05.040 Sometimes we fight.

00:50:06.080 Sometimes we hate each other.

00:50:07.300 But I think that we should do what's in our best interest for our country.

00:50:10.120 That's why I'm running.

00:50:11.120 Do you have any, as far as congressmen, senators that are currently serving, that you look at and you say have this vision right now?

00:50:16.980 We have one, and I think that does, Thomas Massey, coming on here next hour.

00:50:20.780 Is there anyone that you look at like that and you say, finally, at least that person's in there speaking and I can team up with them?

00:50:26.300 Yes.

00:50:26.660 Obviously, I love Thomas Massey.

00:50:28.260 He's absolutely brilliant.

00:50:30.080 And there's, of course, Justin Amash in Michigan.

00:50:33.720 And then you have people like Rand Paul and Mike Lee and Ted Cruz in the Senate, who I very much identify with and I'd like to team up with.

00:50:40.460 You know, it would be the four horsemen of freedom next year if I can get in there to help those gentlemen.

00:50:45.500 But, yeah, there are some true defenders of liberty in there, right?

00:50:48.620 We've lost a few over the years.

00:50:50.960 We've lost a few to populism.

00:50:52.480 But I think that those people have stayed strong.

00:50:55.660 Thomas Massey hasn't caved on any gun measures.

00:50:58.240 Justin Amash is still fighting.

00:50:59.660 You know, Rand was there at 3 a.m. in the morning.

00:51:02.140 He was the only person who stood up there at 3 a.m.

00:51:05.100 and tried to stop that budget from being passed with the trillion-dollar deficits, a million dollars a minute, $20 trillion debt.

00:51:12.080 Rand Paul stood alone.

00:51:13.460 And I don't want him to do that anymore.

00:51:15.260 I'm running to help give some backup to those fine gentlemen.

00:51:17.580 How are you going to sell that to the people who no longer see the debt, obviously, as any kind of problem?

00:51:26.040 Well, you know, it's really the establishment that doesn't see it as any problem.

00:51:29.700 When I talk to the congressmen, you know, they're like, well, we need to govern, you know.

00:51:34.740 And then when you talk to regular people, they do see it as a problem.

00:51:40.040 I was at a high school in Higginsville, Missouri yesterday, and I talked to the young people.

00:51:43.480 They said, what are you going to do about the debt?

00:51:45.360 I'm like, well, you can't cut taxes and increase spending, so you have to make reasonable cuts to spending.

00:51:51.140 I've always advocated for a simple across-the-board penny plan, penny out of every federal dollar cut at just the start.

00:51:58.140 But Congress doesn't seem interested in that, and it bothers me because, you know, they campaigned on the promises for seven years.

00:52:05.160 Back in the Tea Party days, Glenn, when you were out there at the Lincoln Memorial, everybody was talking about if you just put Republicans in power,

00:52:11.680 then they will cut spending.

00:52:13.260 They'll overturn Obamacare.

00:52:14.160 They can't keep their promises, and that's the problem, is that we send people to Washington just because they have an R after their name,

00:52:20.760 not based on what they believe, but because of what their party is.

00:52:23.460 I think that's the problem.

00:52:24.440 I will tell you, Austin, I have a great admiration for you.

00:52:27.140 You've taken on your own home of the libertarian.

00:52:30.200 You are a strong libertarian, but you have spoken uncomfortable things to your own people that had to be said,

00:52:38.140 and I am looking more and more for those people who, before they take on somebody else, take on your problems in your own house first,

00:52:45.680 and I respect you for doing that, and I wish you the best of luck.

00:52:48.620 U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Austin Peterson.

00:52:51.340 You want to get involved with the campaign?

00:52:57.940 AustinPeterson.com, or on Twitter, AP, the number four, Liberty.

00:53:03.480 It's Austin Peterson, and he's running against McCaskill, right?

00:53:07.640 She's wonderful.

00:53:09.420 In Missouri, she's fantastic.

00:53:11.240 I can't believe anyone.

00:53:12.700 I figured she'd run unopposed.

00:53:15.300 Remember that gigantic data breach of Equifax last September?

00:53:20.180 The one that exposed Social Security numbers, names, and birthdates over 145 million customers?

00:53:26.020 Yeah, it was pretty bad, right?

00:53:27.920 Yeah, they've come out now and said,

00:53:29.500 ah, we also kind of had the tax ID numbers and the driver's license numbers that were accessed.

00:53:40.220 Oh, okay, good, good.

00:53:43.440 That's the kind of information that can be used by cybercriminals long after the breach, for years.

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00:54:34.300 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:54:48.040 Glenn Beck.

00:54:50.900 Thomas Massey is going to be joining us in about 40 minutes from now.

00:54:55.980 He is so good and one of the few that are really standing up in Washington, D.C.

00:55:04.520 We need more people like Thomas Massey.

00:55:07.720 We'll get to him in just a second.

00:55:12.200 Also, there's some other things that I'd like to pass on to you.

00:55:18.240 One, the American Family Association is asking that every school in the country put this statement on their school marquee or school sign for one week.

00:55:28.300 You shall not murder.

00:55:31.080 While the country is, you know, going through what we're going through right now, murder is against the law in every state.

00:55:40.340 But, and these few words emphasize that it's morally wrong, we tell students, stop bullying, don't bully, say no to bullying, don't text and drive, say no to drugs, don't drink and drive.

00:55:59.020 How many schools have the courage to put you shall not murder on their school signs just for a week?

00:56:10.340 There is an open letter to American schools, and you can share this idea.

00:56:20.380 Tweet a picture of your school sign using the Twitter hashtag, hashtag number six, hashtag number six.

00:56:30.500 Isn't it bizarre that we, that that would be controversial?

00:56:34.780 Really?

00:56:35.580 It's like, what's controversial about it?

00:56:37.140 The word shall?

00:56:38.800 Because that makes it sound biblical?

00:56:40.840 That it came from God.

00:56:41.620 Right.

00:56:41.860 That makes it sound biblical.

00:56:43.580 Yeah.

00:56:44.280 I mean, I guess if you put up there, hey, please don't kill other people.

00:56:49.700 Is that controversial?

00:56:51.920 I don't know.

00:56:53.060 Seems like that's kind of an obvious point.

00:56:55.360 And it seems like we're all kind of able to, you know, you have to be able to respect life, and you have to be able to defend life.

00:57:03.820 I mean, think of what, think of the loops and the hoops that you have to jump through to be able to be against putting you shall not murder on there.

00:57:14.260 What is going through your head?

00:57:15.860 You're signaling some biblical thing.

00:57:18.420 You want people.

00:57:19.140 You're endorsing God.

00:57:20.540 Yeah.

00:57:20.760 But think about, like, is that an accusation, or are you complimenting me?

00:57:24.100 Which one are you?

00:57:25.340 It's crazy.

00:57:25.780 It's now become some sort of attack that you'd, God forbid, someone in public life would admit.

00:57:32.740 Put it up in your school sign, you shall not murder, and take a picture of it, put it on Twitter, hashtag number six.

00:57:47.820 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:57:55.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:05.880 Any time that we engage in a discussion or a debate, the scope of that discussion is framed by the words that we choose.

00:58:15.300 And if we include some words and exclude others, we automatically shape the discussion and help predetermine the given outcome.

00:58:27.400 Because words have so much power over the outcome of our discussions, if you can control the words and the language being used, you have a strong advantage in determining the ultimate outcome.

00:58:40.080 By controlling the language you use, you have the power over what people think and decide.

00:58:49.980 Now, for the last, what, two weeks, since the Parkland, Florida shooting by a deranged lunatic, the nation has reengaged in a long-lived debate.

00:59:02.380 Since the 14th of February, every newspaper, every website, every pundit, every Facebook feed has been filled with, quote, the great gun debate.

00:59:13.980 We have to debate gun control.

00:59:17.240 We have to have common sense discussion about what types of guns people are allowed to have and when they're allowed to have them.

00:59:24.160 Because if you don't, you don't care about children.

00:59:31.580 You want more people to die.

00:59:36.440 We're trying to get past the senseless and cruel killing of our fellow citizens and our fellow children.

00:59:45.340 And yet the left and the media have demanded that we work with them and finally enact common sense gun control.

00:59:51.760 But the problem with all of this is there isn't a gun control debate to be had.

00:59:57.740 There's none to be had.

01:00:00.060 There is no such thing as a gun debate.

01:00:03.220 It doesn't exist.

01:00:04.800 It only exists because we insist on engaging in it.

01:00:11.620 Let me have Thomas Jefferson explain.

01:00:14.280 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable, unchangeable rights that among these are life, liberty, and property.

01:00:33.820 Jefferson put it very clearly and very plainly.

01:00:37.100 By the nature as a species, each of us is free.

01:00:42.340 We're a free being.

01:00:43.620 That's the first principle of being man.

01:00:47.320 Our natural state is free.

01:00:49.840 Our natural state is to be self-aware.

01:00:53.140 We're a self-aware being with the capacity to make choices.

01:00:56.620 And because our rights are natural to us as human beings, they cannot be changed by anyone.

01:01:05.180 To remove the rights is to remove our humanity.

01:01:09.500 Let me say that again.

01:01:10.840 To remove our rights is to remove our humanity.

01:01:17.180 Because we are born human, we have rights.

01:01:22.000 So there's no such thing as a gun debate.

01:01:28.540 We aren't having a gun debate in this country.

01:01:31.920 We are having a freedom debate in this country.

01:01:36.700 And it is important that we treat it as such.

01:01:41.860 You're against common sense gun control.

01:01:45.100 No, I am for maximum freedom.

01:01:49.440 Because it is our freedom to choose our own course.

01:01:53.420 It is the freedom to choose our own course because of the rights that we are given.

01:02:02.040 Because we are human.

01:02:05.540 That I'm standing up for.

01:02:07.780 I'm standing up for the state of being human.

01:02:11.560 They're framing the scope of the discussion and driving their desired agenda by limiting the language being used to common sense gun control.

01:02:26.180 Which means they're already winning.

01:02:28.820 But make no doubt about it.

01:02:30.840 This is not a debate about your guns.

01:02:34.760 This is a debate about your freedom.

01:02:38.260 This isn't about gun control.

01:02:39.840 This is about you control.

01:02:45.060 It's a debate about controlling people.

01:02:51.800 You know, the amazing thing about the Second Amendment is it is designed around an inherent self-fulfilling prophecy.

01:02:59.140 Kind of an auto-renewal that sets it apart from all of the other amendments set forward in the Bill of Rights.

01:03:06.500 It's really ingenious when you think about it.

01:03:08.940 But our founders thought to enshrine our basic right to self-defense into the Constitution for one very explicit reason.

01:03:18.240 What was that reason?

01:03:19.580 We've said it before, and it's common knowledge around most, but in case you have friends or neighbors or colleagues who still thinks nobody needs an AR-15 or other, quote-unquote, weapons of war, they need to know not only how wrong they are.

01:03:36.800 They need to know why they're wrong.

01:03:39.080 The fact that the exact intent of the Second Amendment was that every citizen should be armed with the same weapons that the soldiers have in the standing army.

01:03:51.700 Because the goal of the amendment was to ensure that a standing army, which we never had until 1955.

01:03:58.240 That a standing army, because the goal of the amendment was to ensure the standing army could never be used to take rights away from people.

01:04:08.600 So we had to have armed citizens.

01:04:12.400 So in case the government ever went crazy and said, we're taking away your rights, people could defend themselves.

01:04:20.280 If we all had pea shooters and they had rifles, we would lose.

01:04:24.660 It's why every dictator, the first thing they do is take up all of the guns.

01:04:28.860 It's why there's no logic to the left's debate right now.

01:04:33.040 If you really listen to them, Donald Trump is a dictator.

01:04:37.840 Let's surrender all of our guns.

01:04:41.120 That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

01:04:44.220 There's no logic there.

01:04:46.680 If you're afraid he's a dictator, the last thing you do is give up your right to be able to overthrow a dictatorial government.

01:04:56.800 So they'll say he's a dictator, but at the same time they'll say, well, the revolution's never going to happen here.

01:05:02.160 It's already happening.

01:05:04.320 You got a violent revolution.

01:05:06.020 What are you going to take on the military?

01:05:07.760 Well, yes, if there's a dictator.

01:05:10.540 Yeah, I would be willing to do that.

01:05:12.660 You wouldn't.

01:05:13.160 You just want to go along with it.

01:05:17.680 So weapons of war is exactly what we are supposed to have.

01:05:22.880 And therein lies the genius of the Second Amendment.

01:05:26.300 Because the minute somebody, I mean, you pass an amendment that ensures you have a well-armed populace that can stand against any tyranny of any government who would use force to deprive citizens of their natural rights.

01:05:40.520 Then you pass an amendment that says we're taking away that right.

01:05:45.920 You've proven that the Second Amendment is needed.

01:05:51.520 You've automatically, if they use force to disarm the populace, the need for the Second Amendment is openly proven.

01:05:59.360 It's self-fulfilling prophecy.

01:06:01.480 So the left has a logic problem here.

01:06:10.020 Whatever bills they pass, banning assault weapons or anything else, given that tens of millions of Americans will not agree,

01:06:18.220 and if you get down to taking guns, they will refuse to comply, and then that will compel the government to use force, which makes the Second Amendment a self-fulfilling prophecy.

01:06:35.120 What is it all about?

01:06:37.760 The Second Amendment wasn't for hunting.

01:06:40.560 And it really isn't about fighting the government.

01:06:43.240 It is about ensuring people's freedom, the freedom to make and chart their own course, to be who they believe they were born to be, as long as they're not killing people, ripping people off.

01:07:06.760 I was born free, and my rights and my liberty are mine by nature.

01:07:13.900 We have to reframe the discussion.

01:07:17.580 This debate is about freedom, about how our natural God-given freedom and how much of our humanity are we willing to surrender to satisfy an angry or terrified mob.

01:07:30.120 I am willing to sit down with anybody calm and rationally and talk about how do we protect our children, but the best way to start is to protect our schools, to actually fortify where our treasure.

01:07:44.600 Look at how we fortify Fort Knox, and I contend there's nothing in Fort Knox.

01:07:49.980 Our greatest treasure is in our schools, our children.

01:07:53.300 So when you say we have to talk about guns, I'll say to you, we have to first talk about security.

01:08:01.320 Let's secure our schools, let's secure our greatest treasures.

01:08:06.660 When you say, well, we still have to talk about guns, I will then say to you, no, you mean now you want to talk about the basic human freedoms and which one you believe you can infringe upon or take away.

01:08:23.920 It's not a gun debate.

01:08:31.780 It's a debate about control.

01:08:34.440 Gun control works in other countries.

01:08:54.120 40% of all guns are sold without background checks.

01:08:56.620 More guns means more murder.

01:08:58.100 Mass shootings are becoming more common.

01:09:00.720 You've heard all these lines a thousand times.

01:09:02.900 Know the facts.

01:09:04.920 Get control.

01:09:05.900 Exposing the truth about guns on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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01:10:38.120 Glenn Beck.

01:10:40.140 Mercury.

01:10:50.700 Glenn Beck.

01:10:52.900 Mona Sharon is on with us tonight at 5 o'clock.

01:10:56.860 I'm really anxious to speak to her.

01:10:59.560 She spoke at CPAC last week and some people walked out on her.

01:11:04.320 Some people were very upset and other people were, you know, standing on their feet cheering and yet still others were being neutral and talking to her behind the scenes going, I'm glad you said this.

01:11:19.140 That's a common refrain we hear.

01:11:23.680 Yeah, it is.

01:11:24.700 We're familiar with that sort of conversation, aren't we?

01:11:27.060 Thank goodness you're saying this.

01:11:28.460 I don't have the courage to say that.

01:11:30.520 Oh, really?

01:11:31.300 Thank you.

01:11:31.780 Thanks.

01:11:32.080 Anyway, but she's going to be on and she wrote a great op-ed in the New York Times about where do we go from here?

01:11:41.620 What does it mean to be a conservative?

01:11:44.720 And I think the title of it is, I'm glad I was booed at CPAC.

01:11:49.920 Yeah.

01:11:52.400 Interesting.

01:11:53.140 But she's going to be joining us tonight at 5 o'clock and I want to talk to her a little bit about the alt-right movement that is infiltrated.

01:12:01.340 I mean, she worked with Reagan and everything else.

01:12:03.100 She's quite a scholar.

01:12:04.520 So, how big is the gun debate right now?

01:12:09.500 We know how important our Second Amendment rights are.

01:12:11.200 People are looking for the facts on that.

01:12:12.540 I was just scrolling through Amazon here and there's a section called, it's books about the Constitution.

01:12:19.180 So, the number eight book about the Constitution is currently Control, your book about guns, exposing the truth about guns.

01:12:26.820 Number eight, that's the Kindle edition.

01:12:29.140 And number seven is the Know Your Bill of Rights book.

01:12:32.900 Number six, Glenn Beck Control, the audio edition.

01:12:37.360 Number five is a hardbound copy of the Constitution itself.

01:12:41.140 Number four is the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.

01:12:45.080 Number three is the Federalist Papers.

01:12:47.100 Number two, the Constitution of the United States, a paperback copy.

01:12:50.260 Number one, the book copy, Control, exposing the truth about guns.

01:12:54.120 Holy cow.

01:12:54.720 Yeah.

01:12:55.020 And that's a book that came out in, what, 2013, 2014, something like that?

01:12:58.220 I don't remember.

01:12:58.820 It was right around Sandy Hook, was it not?

01:13:02.900 Yeah.

01:13:03.180 I think it came right after Sandy Hook.

01:13:05.240 And it is a, it's a fantastic book.

01:13:08.900 If you, you know, we made it in paperback and we made it short and pithy.

01:13:13.100 So, it answered all of the questions and all of the debate.

01:13:16.900 So, you could, you could have that at your fingertips and you could share it with friends.

01:13:22.480 Uh, and if you know anybody who cares about the Second Amendment, you've got to have the facts down.

01:13:30.440 Yeah.

01:13:30.820 Because it has every argument being made now and all the information you need to know about that argument with all the stats and all the backup.

01:13:37.080 Uh, plus, it's short and easy to read.

01:13:40.300 It's digestible.

01:13:41.580 Um, and it's currently $7 on Amazon.

01:13:44.420 So, for seven bucks, you're going to get every single fact you need to know about the gun debate.

01:13:48.900 And you'll be able to, uh, you know, walk into the battles that you have, you know, when it comes to policy with the ammunition you need.

01:13:57.160 Um, which is important.

01:13:58.720 It also, it also has suggestions on, okay, so what do we do?

01:14:02.040 And a really controversial section of the book, uh, is video games.

01:14:07.900 Uh, and I went to, uh, Colonel, uh, Lieutenant Colonel Grossman, who is the guy who wrote, literally wrote the book on killing.

01:14:17.200 It's called On Killing.

01:14:19.360 And it is, uh, it is the Pentagon's go-to book on what killing does to a person, uh, what, how do you get people to kill?

01:14:31.840 Uh, it is the number one scholarly book in the world on killing.

01:14:37.300 And he is dead set against video games.

01:14:41.880 He says these video games, these first-person shooter games are dangerous.

01:14:45.980 Uh, it's very controversial, but you should read it, especially if you have kids that are playing those games.

01:14:53.000 Uh, read it.

01:14:54.040 The book is Control, available at Amazon.

01:14:57.400 Seven bucks now.

01:14:59.480 Glenn Beck.

01:15:01.300 Mercury.

01:15:07.420 Love.

01:15:08.620 Courage.

01:15:10.340 Truth.

01:15:12.100 Glenn Beck.

01:15:13.500 I mean, do we have a king or do we elect people?

01:15:16.600 I don't even know how our system works anymore.

01:15:19.000 Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration's appeal to quickly end the DACA program.

01:15:24.760 The White House made an unusual request to the Supreme Court after two lower court judges issued injunctions last month blocking President Trump from ending DACA.

01:15:34.080 Now, in case you need a quick refresher, DACA, former President Obama, created this program in 2012, and he did it outside of the legislative process.

01:15:45.060 This is where he said, excuse me, sometimes, oh my gosh, I bore myself to death.

01:15:49.660 Um, this is where he said, uh, you know, I have a phone and a pen.

01:15:54.320 He'll do it through executive order.

01:15:56.340 Now, it's a program that allows illegal immigrants who came here to the U.S. before they turned 16 to apply for a permit that keeps them from getting deported and allows them to work.

01:16:04.520 Around 800,000 so-called dreamers applied for the DACA permit.

01:16:09.700 Obama claimed his program was not a path to citizenship, just a measure, a measure that temporarily would help those young immigrants until Congress got its act together to pass permanent immigration legislation.

01:16:21.160 He did a lot of executive ordering that way.

01:16:23.820 Now, I know this is a shock, but Congress never passed anything.

01:16:27.600 So, the dreamers were allowed to renew their two-year permits for an additional two years.

01:16:32.880 President Trump inherited this gigantic DACA mess from Obama.

01:16:38.420 Trump is continually blamed for being anti-immigrant, but the left forgets a key part of the narrative here, that several states were threatening to sue the government over DACA.

01:16:49.680 Facing that pressure, Trump announced last September that the program would end in six months.

01:16:54.780 That deadline is next week.

01:16:56.440 In the meantime, if your DACA permit was set to expire before March 5th, you've been given an extra month to apply for renewal.

01:17:09.520 Those who did so got two more years of permit protection, but a federal district judge in Northern California blocked the plan to end DACA,

01:17:18.340 ruling that Trump has to keep accepting renewal applications past March 5th.

01:17:23.420 There's no rules for anything anymore.

01:17:26.440 The Trump administration then asked the Supreme Court to step in and allow DACA to end on the original deadline.

01:17:33.400 The court didn't issue any opinion on the matter.

01:17:35.720 It just refused to deal with it right now.

01:17:38.500 So, that doesn't change anything.

01:17:41.020 It just means we kick the can down the road and the battle goes on in the lower courts and the DACA program will continue as it has since Obama decreed it in 2012.

01:17:52.220 Of course, you know, Congress could step in at any time and actually pass some sort of reform legislation.

01:17:59.940 But then again, hell could freeze over as well.

01:18:09.500 It's Tuesday, February 27th.

01:18:12.760 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:18:14.900 Thomas Massey is with us.

01:18:18.920 He's a representative from Kentucky.

01:18:21.240 He is great on the budget.

01:18:23.460 He is great on the Constitution, on guns.

01:18:26.520 And it's always a pleasure to have you on, Tom.

01:18:28.900 Thank you so much for being with us.

01:18:30.880 Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

01:18:32.040 So, can you help me out here?

01:18:35.840 Is there any constitutional law at all anymore as far as Congress and the government is concerned?

01:18:45.820 Very little.

01:18:47.400 And I heard your beginning there before I came on.

01:18:51.420 Let's not forget that Obama said two dozen times he didn't have the authority to do DACA.

01:18:56.220 Correct.

01:18:57.080 So, by what authority is this being held up?

01:18:59.580 We have a constitutional crisis, in my opinion.

01:19:05.280 We absolutely.

01:19:06.540 In other words, you know, the executive branch needs to somehow take authority here for this.

01:19:12.180 And sometimes Congress needs to take authority on things that the executive branch has usurped.

01:19:17.500 For one, Congressman, is the idea of the budget.

01:19:23.680 We hear all this budget talk.

01:19:26.240 It's not budget.

01:19:27.040 It's a continuing resolution.

01:19:29.120 It is a suicidal way to run a government.

01:19:33.000 And it has no standing.

01:19:35.800 There is no government.

01:19:36.760 There's no budget here.

01:19:38.740 You know, General Mattis spoke to us at the retreat, at the Republican retreat.

01:19:42.740 And he said, you know what's worth more than 10 battleships to me in the next war, in the next fight?

01:19:47.880 He says, it's an example of a functioning republic back there in Washington, D.C.

01:19:53.000 And he's right.

01:19:55.020 When you're trying to win the hearts and minds of the 90% of the people in that country that aren't taking up rifles, you better darn well show them that our government works better than the dictatorship they've got.

01:20:06.220 But so far, we've been dysfunctional here on the budget.

01:20:09.080 It is extremely frustrating to me.

01:20:11.600 So, first of all, can you explain the continuing resolution to the average person?

01:20:16.140 They have no idea.

01:20:18.080 They hear, oh, the budget.

01:20:19.400 It's going to shut down because the budget talks.

01:20:21.260 No, it's a continuing resolution.

01:20:22.700 Well, it's legislative malpractice, first of all.

01:20:28.280 There are 12 months in a year, okay?

01:20:30.800 And when you do a continuing resolution, you just basically cut, copy, and paste a few months and paste them into the next few months in terms of spending.

01:20:39.120 You don't really change the spending.

01:20:40.820 You don't decide where the spending should go.

01:20:42.960 You just keep doing what you were doing.

01:20:45.360 And this is a legislative crisis.

01:20:48.220 This is going to be the fifth or sixth continuing resolution.

01:20:50.840 By the way, I haven't voted for any of them.

01:20:53.120 I was in that train wreck going to the Republican retreat.

01:20:56.200 Mike Lee was sitting next to me.

01:20:57.540 I hit my head.

01:20:58.740 And when I came back up, he said, are you okay?

01:21:00.640 I said, I think I'm okay.

01:21:01.640 But if I vote for a continuing resolution, let's get me a CAT scan.

01:21:10.720 Mike Lee can confirm that story.

01:21:12.580 Yeah.

01:21:12.900 So, well, you don't use Mike Lee as your source unless you're prepared to have him vouch for it because he'll always tell the truth.

01:21:24.300 Oh, yeah.

01:21:25.080 Absolutely.

01:21:25.560 So, the continuing resolution, it is Congress abdicating their power because they have the power of the purse.

01:21:35.500 And so, you can't do anything unless it's coming through Congress and you're saying, this is where this is spent.

01:21:43.400 This is where this is spent.

01:21:44.740 This is how much.

01:21:46.460 That's right.

01:21:47.060 It's a complete abdication of our responsibility and our authority.

01:21:51.480 There is a solution.

01:21:52.920 There is a solution to all this.

01:21:54.520 The problem, Glenn, is that four people inside of a room behind closed doors are trying to write an omnibus bill, a bill that will fund all of government.

01:22:04.960 Instead of letting 435 members in the House and 100 senators debate this and come up with 12 separate bills that would fund the 12 separate parts of government.

01:22:15.320 The problem when you put all of this in one bill is it's ripe for taking hostage.

01:22:20.300 Look, the last time it happened, it was Schumer and Durbin.

01:22:24.940 They said, we want DACA and we're going to take all of government hostage.

01:22:28.720 But nobody should be allowed to take all of government spending hostage, not even the Freedom Caucus, frankly.

01:22:34.800 And that wouldn't be possible if we would pass 12 separate bills.

01:22:39.560 I call it letting the 12 hostages out of the room one at a time.

01:22:43.240 I propose put the first bill on the floor.

01:22:45.940 It should be the legislative branch that you fund.

01:22:48.920 Challenge these guys not to fund their own salaries.

01:22:52.080 I would die laughing if they vote against their own salaries because they're so self-interested.

01:22:57.600 Of course, they're going to vote for their own salaries.

01:23:00.000 And their staffer salaries would be in that, too.

01:23:03.740 So you'd get a 12th of that government funded.

01:23:06.380 The next thing you put up there, let's say the judicial branch, okay?

01:23:10.080 We've got to fund the judicial branch, and most people will vote to fund that.

01:23:14.740 Another one, this is one of my favorites.

01:23:17.060 It's the bill, the financial services appropriations bill.

01:23:20.760 It's also got Washington, D.C. in there because it's a federal city, and it has to be appropriated.

01:23:26.840 Well, what Democrat is not going to vote to fund Washington, D.C.?

01:23:30.700 I mean, it's 96-plus percent Democrat here.

01:23:33.860 And then what Republican is not going to vote to fund financial services?

01:23:38.420 Are they going to go back and tell their banker friends?

01:23:40.460 Sorry, we didn't get your bill passed.

01:23:42.880 So that's one appropriations bill that comes up here in front of Congress that can pass with bipartisan support

01:23:48.740 that nobody's going to take hostage to try and get whatever it is they want.

01:23:53.080 Let those hostages out of the room one at a time.

01:23:55.620 Even the Democrats were begging to fund military salaries at some point in the last shutdown

01:24:00.320 because they were taking so much heat.

01:24:02.620 Let's put the bill that funds the military on the floor.

01:24:05.580 Pass it.

01:24:06.480 You will get bipartisan votes to pass that.

01:24:09.160 And by the way, Glenn, I told you I never voted for a CR, but I have voted for individual appropriations bills

01:24:14.960 when they come to the floor.

01:24:16.700 That's because you may not be able to get a majority for a bill that funds all of government at once,

01:24:22.080 but you can almost always find a majority for little slivers of government like the judicial branch.

01:24:27.400 The problem with this, Tom, and this is not my problem.

01:24:30.460 This is actually a reason to do it, is the left or the special interest right will say,

01:24:37.700 well, no, you don't want to do that because then that's going to leave this little orphan out here all by itself,

01:24:42.760 and I don't know if we can get enough votes to pass a budget for that because it's not very popular.

01:24:47.500 Yeah, well, what you'll be left with is the EPA, the Department of Labor.

01:24:52.000 Yeah, they're worried about that because then when somebody takes the Department of Labor

01:24:56.940 and the EPA hostage and says, if I don't get my whatever it is, I'm going to shut these down,

01:25:02.160 everybody just sort of drums their fingers on the table and says, hmm, that might not be such a bad idea.

01:25:07.660 Can you imagine the countdown clock on CNN to days until or hours until the EPA shuts down?

01:25:14.480 Like, nobody's going to watch that or care when it does shut down for the Department of Labor.

01:25:19.980 So what's standing in your way from getting it done this way?

01:25:24.460 Now, another thing for who is standing in your way?

01:25:27.020 Leadership.

01:25:27.980 It's in the House.

01:25:29.160 I'm not going to talk about the Senate because I don't work in the Senate,

01:25:32.820 but here in the House it's a complete total failure of Paul Ryan to facilitate an orderly process.

01:25:39.860 It's because they don't trust our Republican form of government.

01:25:44.460 They think that four people in the House and four people in the Senate should do all of this work

01:25:50.100 and that we can't be trusted with offering amendments and voting on various parts of the government.

01:25:55.580 Does it want to do it all?

01:25:56.580 Is it too far to say that we are in a way already at a dictatorship of four people?

01:26:05.300 Yeah, oligarchy, whatever you want to call it, we are there.

01:26:08.320 And the rest of us are ornamental.

01:26:11.320 We are ombudsmen to the rest of government.

01:26:15.540 I mean, I can give you a tour of the Capitol here, Glenn, if you'd like, and I'll come to your Rotary Club.

01:26:21.100 But, and I can tell you, and I can act like what Paul Ryan is doing is, you know, I had a hand in it,

01:26:28.320 but the reality is there are four people writing this legislation and the rest of it are told to take it or leave it.

01:26:33.920 And we're basically dared to go home and face our constituents not having voted for roads and bridges or not having voted for the military.

01:26:42.080 See, it's also our leadership that's taking this hostage because they know they can get us to vote for all the money at the Department of Labor and the EPA if they put it in with the rest of it.

01:26:52.860 All right.

01:26:53.060 So let's switch gears here.

01:26:54.920 Let's go to guns.

01:26:56.480 Yeah.

01:26:57.480 How, what do these four people believe on infringing on the Second Amendment?

01:27:03.720 Well, they're horrible and they'll blow whichever way the breeze blows.

01:27:08.200 And let me tell you, I am just furious with my colleagues here.

01:27:14.700 We had a shooting in Kentucky, okay, a school shooting recently.

01:27:19.820 And there was the shooting, obviously, in Florida, and I've talked to survivors of Columbine, the Columbine shooting.

01:27:25.800 And they are furious people.

01:27:28.100 The people that I talk to are furious that my colleagues are offering unserious solutions.

01:27:33.020 Yeah.

01:27:33.260 They are true.

01:27:33.960 Look, let me give, for instance, the assault weapons ban or raising the minimum age to buy an assault weapon.

01:27:40.640 Look, when Columbine happened, the assault weapons ban had been in place for five years and they didn't even use a so-called assault weapon.

01:27:47.700 And then they talk about raising the age to buy a long gun.

01:27:52.100 Well, the age to buy a handgun is 21 already, but the kid in Kentucky who committed the shooting there was 15 years old.

01:27:59.360 There's no background check, no minimum age in the world that would have stopped him.

01:28:04.000 Or the one in Connecticut that took his mom's gun, shot his mom, and then went to school and shot his classmates.

01:28:09.700 These aren't problems that are solved with background checks or universal background checks.

01:28:16.260 I mean, in Columbine, they used straw purchasers, the two perpetrators.

01:28:20.300 And I'm not going to use their names.

01:28:21.740 I don't think anybody should say these low-life names and memorialize them.

01:28:25.800 But the two perpetrators in Columbine, they got an 18-year-old girl to buy the long guns, and then they got a 22-year-old guy to buy the handgun for them.

01:28:34.540 Those were straw purchases.

01:28:36.060 Those weren't individual transfers.

01:28:38.040 Those were straw purchases, and those are illegal already.

01:28:40.760 So, Congressman, we're talking to Congressman Thomas Massey from Kentucky, and I hear this from people, and I think the mood of the country is changing on both sides.

01:28:53.220 People are tired of the extremes, and they want something to be done.

01:28:56.760 And it's not just anything.

01:28:57.900 They want something they can tell in this that, you know, look it, we protect what I contend is an empty Fort Knox, and we protect that because that's where our, quote, treasure is.

01:29:12.140 Well, the average person's treasure is in the school, and we're refusing to harden those and protect them.

01:29:19.180 We're doing worse.

01:29:20.700 We're advertising their vulnerability by calling them gun-free school zones.

01:29:24.380 Ninety-eight percent of mass public shootings happen in a gun-free zone, and I think our kids deserve to be in the two percent category where only two percent of them happen, not in the 98 percent vulnerable.

01:29:37.000 That's why my solution would be to arm teachers.

01:29:40.360 Now, here's what you'll hear.

01:29:42.480 Oh, teachers don't want the training.

01:29:44.060 Teachers don't want the responsibility.

01:29:45.600 Teachers will shoot students.

01:29:46.800 Police will shoot teachers.

01:29:48.480 Teachers, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

01:29:50.880 There's already 12 states that do this.

01:29:53.060 And a lot of private schools.

01:29:55.120 Just an hour ago, I talked to somebody from Kentucky up here visiting.

01:29:58.360 Yeah, my kid goes to a private school, and out front the sign says the teachers are armed.

01:30:02.720 He says, I don't have to worry about my kids when they go to school.

01:30:05.680 Same here in Texas.

01:30:07.300 Yeah, and in Oklahoma, if you've got a concealed carry permit, you can carry, the teacher can carry in the school.

01:30:13.300 Look, once you take out New York City and California, eight percent of Americans have concealed carry permits.

01:30:19.400 And I have reason to believe there's probably about eight percent of teachers, too.

01:30:24.140 So there's eight percent that already have passed the qualifications in their state, already own a firearm, already know how to use it, and are comfortable carrying it.

01:30:33.000 I wouldn't make it mandatory, but eight percent of the teachers armed?

01:30:36.740 That would stop these things now.

01:30:40.280 Congressman Thomas Massey from Kentucky.

01:30:42.720 Thank you, Congressman.

01:30:47.180 On Twitter at RepThomasMassey and Massey.House.gov, of course, the website.

01:30:53.620 He's a really smart guy.

01:30:55.440 One of the good guys.

01:30:56.220 One of the people who doesn't think the Second Amendment says that our right to bear arms shall not be infringed, except by a little bit sometimes.

01:31:06.500 I mean, come on.

01:31:07.620 That's not what it says.

01:31:08.820 I want to talk to you a little bit about Goldline and the threat of inflation.

01:31:13.880 Do you know that your money, the U.S. dollar, has lost 11 percent of its value since 2016?

01:31:21.840 That's pretty remarkable.

01:31:24.020 Imagine if I – well, I am telling you this.

01:31:27.140 What you have in your bank account, what you have in your savings, what you have under your bed or in stock or whatever, has lost, if it's in U.S. currency, has lost 11 percent of its value in the last year.

01:31:43.860 I don't know.

01:31:44.580 That's pretty significant, don't you think?

01:31:46.240 This is why gold is a safe haven against inflation.

01:31:52.200 When the dollar starts to go down, gold goes up.

01:31:55.700 That's why Goldline had its best year, you know, last year since, what, 2010?

01:32:01.260 With the rise of the stock market, with the instability, with what the government is doing, all of these things, the printing, the interest rates that are going up.

01:32:10.120 Please consider gold, and the people that I've trusted for years is Goldline.

01:32:16.300 They are under new management, so they have new ownership, actually, so they have better prices.

01:32:20.740 But the same people that were so good at customer service, they're all there.

01:32:25.720 Goldline, 1-866-GOLDLINE, 1-866-GOLDLINE or goldline.com.

01:32:31.480 If right now, they're offering $750 in free coins when you purchase $25,000 or more, using their industry-leading Express IRA program.

01:32:41.400 Call them about the special, 1-866-GOLDLINE.

01:32:46.480 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:32:56.800 Glenn Beck.

01:32:57.820 You know, it's amazing to me that, you know, arming teachers is so bad.

01:33:02.560 We're not talking about, you know, Mrs. Webb, the, you know, fifth-grade math teacher, who is this little old lady who carries her purse in, it's still patent leather, and is teaching math.

01:33:14.500 Unless Mrs. Webb is already trained and she carries a gun in her purse already, that's what you're talking about.

01:33:20.200 You're not talking about arming people.

01:33:21.920 You're saying, I'm not going to tell people who are concealed carry permit holders already to leave their gun at home.

01:33:29.600 Right.

01:33:29.780 Arming teachers is a bad way to put it, because it seems like you're making an army of librarians that are going to bring in.

01:33:36.660 They're like, oh, I don't know.

01:33:37.940 How do I handle this?

01:33:39.300 Like, no, that's not what we're talking about.

01:33:40.820 These are people who already own guns in their real lives.

01:33:43.820 And they take those guns into every other building they walk into on a daily basis except work.

01:33:49.260 I mean, they are able to not shoot people all over the place, but yet we expect that they're going to start executing people for some reason at school.

01:33:56.720 I have to tell you, I am for this, but I'm also for just, let's all have a secret, okay?

01:34:02.500 Let's tell everybody that 10% of the teachers in every school is armed.

01:34:07.740 Then take down the gun-free zone, and let's just tell everybody that, hey, oh, the teachers are armed here.

01:34:14.880 Why would we advertise, come on in, the shooting's free.

01:34:18.840 Yeah, even if you want your school to be a gun-free zone, don't tell people that it's a gun-free zone.

01:34:23.540 You would never put a sign up in front of your house that said, we don't have an alarm, we don't have a gun, we don't have a dog.

01:34:29.200 You would never do those things in front of your house.

01:34:31.040 We're a dog-free, burglar, I mean, a dog-free, burglar alarm-free, phone-free house.

01:34:39.640 You could never do that.

01:34:40.860 It makes no sense.

01:34:41.940 The point is you want a gun-free zone is a danger-free zone for criminals.

01:34:47.020 Here's a good example.

01:34:47.800 People, when burglar alarms first started coming on the market, they were expensive, and they were always like, you know, Brinks, and they had stickers that you would put on the door or little signs.

01:34:57.680 People tried to buy those signs because they couldn't afford the burglar alarm, but they thought, if I just put the sign in the yard, we're doing the opposite.

01:35:07.660 No protection here.

01:35:09.300 Come on in.

01:35:10.540 It's insanity.

01:35:21.160 Glenn Beck.

01:35:23.120 Mercury.

01:35:27.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:35.140 So, Pat Gray is here from Pat Gray Unleashed.

01:35:38.160 Welcome to the program.

01:35:39.500 Thank you.

01:35:40.040 Hello, Pat.

01:35:40.640 What's on your mind today?

01:35:42.120 I'm pretty proud of FedEx for standing up to the pressure, standing up to the 16-year-olds who are tweeting about him, who are all over them with social media.

01:35:53.340 And they actually said, no, we're not going to cut ties with the NRA.

01:35:57.760 We're not going to do that.

01:35:59.220 How many companies have had the giblets to actually make that decision and stick with them?

01:36:05.760 Very few so far.

01:36:07.000 Yeah, very few.

01:36:07.700 There have been a couple.

01:36:08.880 So, now, how do you, where do you stand on, I mean, I don't like it.

01:36:12.900 I don't like it that people are cutting ties with the NRA because it is making the NRA membership look like we're killers.

01:36:21.760 And we're not.

01:36:23.020 We're, you know, it's like, you know, AARP or ACLU.

01:36:28.080 The ACLU believes in things.

01:36:30.020 You're going to give them a discount?

01:36:32.540 So, I don't like this, but I also understand it from the business side of the left is so nasty, they will destroy your business.

01:36:43.580 I personally think don't do any of them.

01:36:46.580 Don't do ACLU.

01:36:48.040 Don't do the Sierra Club.

01:36:49.240 Don't do any of them.

01:36:51.900 Yeah, but, I mean, these are private businesses making decisions on their own.

01:36:57.680 They're not being forced into these deals.

01:37:00.180 Right.

01:37:00.260 So, yeah.

01:37:01.460 And it's, and they're, at least for me, I didn't join the NRA for the discounts.

01:37:07.840 Zero people did.

01:37:08.780 Let's be honest about it.

01:37:09.460 Very few people did.

01:37:10.420 I don't think anybody did.

01:37:12.040 In fact, I don't even know about most of the discounts.

01:37:14.500 I've been kind of surprised.

01:37:15.860 I know.

01:37:16.200 I was like, I could have been getting a deal this whole time.

01:37:18.200 What is your arrangement with United Airlines?

01:37:20.820 Yeah, I didn't know about that.

01:37:21.980 I didn't either.

01:37:22.840 I guess, as I think about it, I have been asked a few times if I'm a member of the NRA.

01:37:27.720 Because, you know, there are certain times when you can get that discount.

01:37:30.380 Usually when you're, I mean, but the only time they're going to ask you that probably

01:37:32.760 is around firearms, which some people might think, okay, you know.

01:37:36.040 Yeah, firearms.

01:37:36.720 Like firearm training and things like that, you might be able to get discounts.

01:37:39.180 But Enterprise rent a car?

01:37:40.360 Like, there was never a point where I was like, oh, gosh, I got to go to Enterprise to get

01:37:43.040 that discount because I'm an NRA member.

01:37:45.220 And, of course, David Hogg went to work on them immediately.

01:37:48.840 So, which companies use FedEx the most?

01:37:50.460 We could pressure them to stop business until FedEx ends their support of the NRA.

01:37:54.300 Sell FedEx stock.

01:37:56.040 If they want to stick with the NRA, we'll stick with UPS.

01:37:59.160 This is economic terrorism.

01:38:01.040 It is.

01:38:01.640 It's economic terrorism.

01:38:03.340 And when does this guy go from a sympathetic, you know, 16-year-old character who's grieving

01:38:08.580 to just your average extremist left-wing activist?

01:38:12.380 First, tell me how you felt about Delta getting a slap from the lieutenant governor of Georgia

01:38:19.260 and said, fine, then you don't get your tax breaks.

01:38:21.980 How I felt emotionally?

01:38:23.220 I felt good.

01:38:27.280 It was satisfying emotionally.

01:38:28.960 It is satisfying.

01:38:30.340 Yeah.

01:38:31.020 Emotionally, it just feels good.

01:38:34.180 For a second, you're like, yes.

01:38:36.300 Yes.

01:38:37.240 Although I don't think I like that.

01:38:39.520 Although maybe government shouldn't be giving out goodies to them.

01:38:44.020 Yeah.

01:38:44.240 You shouldn't be giving them to them in the first place.

01:38:47.040 Right.

01:38:47.320 But if you're going to give it to them, you need to base it on, is it good for the state?

01:38:53.360 If you, I mean, this would really make me, if I was in Georgia, I'd be looking at, wait,

01:38:57.300 whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

01:38:58.740 Hold it.

01:38:59.880 Why are you guys giving this out?

01:39:01.460 I mean, if it's so frivolous that something for the NRA, which no NRA member has, I contend,

01:39:10.400 really cares about the discounts, they care about being labeled a terrorist or a killer

01:39:16.080 or something like that.

01:39:17.020 That's what that's about.

01:39:19.100 Tell me you're not going to give them that tax, but you were making the case that this

01:39:25.600 was good for jobs and everything else.

01:39:27.400 So wait, what's happening here?

01:39:29.620 I mean, it's not good.

01:39:31.500 It's true.

01:39:32.360 It's like, is the policy the right policy or not?

01:39:36.160 It doesn't become the wrong policy because you're upset at something else they did that's

01:39:40.960 completely separate from what's going on.

01:39:42.800 Does it become the right policy when it feels good?

01:39:45.540 I don't think that's the standard we're supposed to be hitting here.

01:39:49.120 It does today.

01:39:49.820 It does today.

01:39:51.180 But again, it goes back to they shouldn't, you shouldn't be carving out tax breaks for

01:39:56.540 individual companies anyway.

01:39:58.400 They shouldn't have had the tax break in the first place.

01:40:00.720 Look, if you're Hollywood and you say, hey, we want to keep our movies here, so we're

01:40:05.620 going to lower the tax base for all movie studios.

01:40:09.640 Even that?

01:40:10.440 Yeah.

01:40:11.140 That's just picking an industry rather than a company.

01:40:13.340 I agree with you, but it's better than just saying, you know, this particular company, this

01:40:18.820 particular company.

01:40:19.960 And it brings benefit to your state.

01:40:21.380 Yeah.

01:40:21.760 I mean, it's going to make money from the movies.

01:40:23.560 Look at there.

01:40:24.300 I mean, look what, you know, Louisiana.

01:40:26.180 The only really reason why the Duck Dynasty happened is because Louisiana made its tax burden

01:40:35.220 so low if you developed and shot movies in Louisiana that it was crazy.

01:40:42.400 So they actually, the company got together and said, find something in Louisiana.

01:40:47.280 That's how they found the guys from Duck Dynasty.

01:40:49.820 They found it because they were financially motivated to find that.

01:40:54.120 So it can help you.

01:40:56.280 It can.

01:40:57.240 But that's a real question.

01:40:58.360 Right.

01:40:58.520 Like, where does that money come from?

01:40:59.720 Right.

01:40:59.920 So we raise taxes on other people in the state to pay for Duck Dynasty?

01:41:03.160 I agree.

01:41:03.580 I don't want it.

01:41:04.560 I don't want special favors.

01:41:06.080 I don't want tax breaks.

01:41:07.600 I want flat taxes, period.

01:41:11.040 That's just not going to happen.

01:41:12.260 No.

01:41:12.400 But this is an interesting reveal of how transparent this process is.

01:41:18.120 Right.

01:41:18.300 Like, here's a favor for Delta.

01:41:19.720 Now we don't like their policy.

01:41:20.900 So now we're taking it away.

01:41:22.180 We're slapping you.

01:41:22.760 It's like we're giving you a giveaway.

01:41:23.800 Now we're slapping your wrist.

01:41:24.740 And what makes a difference?

01:41:26.240 What makes us different?

01:41:27.860 We like it this time.

01:41:29.800 But, you know, if the government said to us, you know, oh, you're supporting the NRA?

01:41:37.220 Oh, you don't get your tax break.

01:41:39.260 Would you be cool with that?

01:41:40.800 No.

01:41:41.380 No.

01:41:41.780 Of course not.

01:41:42.300 So we can't celebrate when something, when injustice is done to the other side, it might

01:41:48.540 feel good, but that's not necessarily how you should rule your life.

01:41:51.820 Very true.

01:41:52.620 But I do notice that you're avoiding, again, as usual, the real issue.

01:41:57.940 What is the real issue?

01:41:59.100 Well, like you don't know.

01:42:00.500 I mean, is this just some kind of massive cover up with you guys?

01:42:03.780 I wanted to talk about it.

01:42:05.360 Glenn said no.

01:42:06.140 I hate to out you on the air, but Glenn said no.

01:42:08.620 Do I have to go to the tape?

01:42:10.280 You're going to have to go to the tape.

01:42:11.480 Go to the tape.

01:42:12.100 I don't know what you're talking about.

01:42:13.400 I'm going to show you the real issue.

01:42:14.940 Okay.

01:42:15.440 You're avoiding.

01:42:16.140 Okay.

01:42:16.620 Here it is.

01:42:17.300 Ladies and gentlemen, I can now officially say that it's about a 90% chance that the

01:42:25.240 Florida event at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has killed 17 people and injured

01:42:32.000 over 20 is a deep state false flag operation.

01:42:37.240 Yes.

01:42:37.620 It's not just a false flag.

01:42:39.620 It's a deep state false flag.

01:42:42.460 However, I will say he's leaving out on the table that 10% chance it's maybe something

01:42:49.620 real.

01:42:50.120 I don't know.

01:42:52.000 That's unbelievable.

01:42:53.060 Is that incredible?

01:42:53.940 That's unbelievable.

01:42:54.940 Sandy Hook.

01:42:55.960 Las Vegas.

01:42:56.940 Now Florida.

01:42:57.640 And I think every shooting in between.

01:42:59.180 There's never been an actual tragedy that's ever occurred to this guy.

01:43:02.220 And remember, when he went on Megyn Kelly, he apologized.

01:43:05.180 He said, well, that was taken out of context.

01:43:07.180 What is the context on this one?

01:43:09.000 I know.

01:43:09.320 The 10%.

01:43:09.860 Did he?

01:43:10.700 Can you make it?

01:43:11.500 He just said it was 90%.

01:43:12.940 I didn't say it was 100%.

01:43:14.240 Can LeBron James be like, I want to officially announce that there's a 90% chance I go to

01:43:18.420 the Miami Heat?

01:43:19.220 Like, no.

01:43:19.760 You say it's official when you make your decision, not when there's still an outlying chance that

01:43:24.260 the opposite is true.

01:43:25.080 Well, I mean, even if he said, well, you cut that out of context, because right before I

01:43:28.800 said, everything I'm about to say is untrue, there's a 90%.

01:43:32.920 Well, then you said there's a 10% that it was.

01:43:36.940 That's crazy.

01:43:38.260 That's amazing.

01:43:38.980 Did he give his reason at all why it was a false?

01:43:41.100 Because he's very sure or 90% sure.

01:43:43.340 Oh, there's crisis actors.

01:43:43.820 You know, these actors that are out there, like David Hogg and all the rest.

01:43:47.600 They're too good.

01:43:48.900 They're too seasoned.

01:43:51.400 They're crisis actors.

01:43:52.660 My favorite part of it.

01:43:53.340 And then something about, okay, there was a videotape, and we actually saw it, and we

01:44:00.020 played it, from a girl, a student, who was interviewed by KHOU-TV in Houston.

01:44:06.780 They were there because the Astros are in training camp, and so he just went from training camp

01:44:12.800 over there to cover it.

01:44:14.120 And the girl said, I walked down the hall next to this guy, and he wasn't armed at the time.

01:44:22.560 And she said, well, when I heard shots, and then I saw you without a gun, I was surprised

01:44:28.120 it wasn't you.

01:44:29.720 And he said, huh?

01:44:31.680 And then they left the school.

01:44:34.840 So he's taking that to mean he wasn't the shooter, because the shooter was supposedly

01:44:40.020 going on at the time.

01:44:41.380 Whereas I think that he had already put his guns down by then, changed his clothes, and

01:44:46.560 was sneaking out with the rest of the kids.

01:44:48.080 That's exactly what happened.

01:44:49.180 That's what he did.

01:44:49.800 And the police thought he was still in there because the videotape was on a 21-minute delay

01:44:54.760 for some unknown reason.

01:44:56.020 But these are the things Alex Jones can't noodle through.

01:44:58.960 Oh, my gosh.

01:44:59.580 And so that's one of the...

01:45:00.880 And then there was something about they were...

01:45:02.760 Some of the kids were funneled up to the third floor.

01:45:05.740 I don't even...

01:45:06.500 I didn't even understand that explanation.

01:45:08.460 One of my favorite ones is they went back afterwards and, of course, started looking

01:45:11.740 through this.

01:45:12.200 And again, David Hogg has reached the point where he is in the public debate, and his points

01:45:16.520 need to be talked about.

01:45:17.940 It's ridiculous.

01:45:18.900 You know, Charles C.W.

01:45:20.580 Cook put this really well.

01:45:21.720 Hogg's defenders have cast upon him, in an instant, diametrically opposed terms.

01:45:26.020 As an irrelevance, as a mere kid, as a grieving ornament who sits outside our national conversation,

01:45:31.240 and one who, of course, is bringing all these points up.

01:45:33.180 This is extraordinary.

01:45:34.100 How obvious, one wonders, do his champions intend to make it that they are using him

01:45:38.400 to launder his views?

01:45:39.960 That is exactly what the left is doing right now.

01:45:43.440 But from the crisis actor nonsense from Alex Jones, one of my favorite parts was after

01:45:50.120 this all happened, and he's going on TV all the time, they went back and found pictures

01:45:54.160 of him when he was at...

01:45:56.280 He took a tour of CNN, like, earlier in his life, and they found pictures of him, like,

01:46:02.020 you know, like anyone would be, if you happen to be interested in news, you might go, you

01:46:05.960 know, take a tour.

01:46:06.920 Like, there's...

01:46:07.380 We used to see tours go through CNN all the time when we were there.

01:46:09.340 All the time.

01:46:10.440 And so he took a tour of the...

01:46:11.420 And special hallways with special windows on the second, on the floor above us, looking

01:46:15.320 into the studio, built just for tours.

01:46:17.500 For tours.

01:46:18.160 Like, the people...

01:46:18.840 Oh, that's cool.

01:46:19.420 It's like the NBC tour.

01:46:20.560 Yeah, exactly.

01:46:21.020 There you go.

01:46:21.520 So they found pictures of him at CNN, like, previously, and they're like, look, he did

01:46:26.500 this for CNN.

01:46:28.020 And it's like, come on!

01:46:29.860 Like, it's just this retroactive, like, reverse engineering yourself into whatever you previously

01:46:36.280 believed.

01:46:36.660 And Alex Jones does this every single day, and he's 90% sure he's got this one right.

01:46:40.600 We are getting to the place.

01:46:41.680 I remember thinking years ago, how did they get away with the Reichstag fire thing?

01:46:47.420 I mean, that was the catalyst.

01:46:49.460 And Hitler had said that he had a seance with somebody, and they said, the Reichstag is going

01:46:56.080 to catch fire on this date.

01:46:58.340 Lo and behold, it did.

01:47:00.980 Wow.

01:47:01.180 How do you...

01:47:02.000 How did they get away with it?

01:47:03.100 Wow.

01:47:03.240 Because people wanted to believe that.

01:47:06.660 It's interesting because I think you'd think it would have been harder to get away with

01:47:16.180 something like that now, right?

01:47:18.260 Because there's so much more media, but I think it confuses it.

01:47:21.040 I think it's easier.

01:47:21.680 It's amazing.

01:47:23.000 Pat Gray, by the way, and I guess he'll, I hope he'll be covering the 90% false flag we

01:47:28.360 now know is the Florida shooting.

01:47:30.140 Either that or why we use spoons for grapefruits, but no spoons for oranges.

01:47:35.260 Well, that's coming up today.

01:47:36.080 Actually, we're going to do that on the News and Why It Matters.

01:47:38.020 Oh, it's okay.

01:47:38.660 Are we good?

01:47:39.340 That's on 530 Eastern on the Blaze TV.

01:47:41.380 Pat will be on that as well.

01:47:42.420 Doc Thompson, myself, Sarah Gonzalez, and Glenn Beck.

01:47:45.520 Imagine going about food for weeks.

01:47:47.880 This is what's happening in Venezuela.

01:47:49.400 Do you know the average person in Venezuela has lost 26 pounds in the last year?

01:47:54.100 Can you, can you even imagine that?

01:47:56.640 Everyone, you know, has lost 26 pounds and it's not because you're all getting together

01:48:00.880 going, yay, you made it.

01:48:02.380 It's because holy cow, you made it.

01:48:06.140 This is what happens when FEMA trucks roll through your neighbor, they drop a neighborhood

01:48:10.280 and they drop off care packages inside, mostly junk food, potato chips, chocolate bars, even

01:48:16.540 expired MREs.

01:48:17.920 This is what happened in Puerto Rico.

01:48:19.800 In Venezuela, they don't have any of those trucks.

01:48:22.960 And in December, the FEMA, the Emergency Relief Management Association said, by the way,

01:48:32.320 we're out.

01:48:33.240 The next hurricane or the next disaster that hits, we're not going to be able to be there.

01:48:38.460 So are you prepared?

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01:49:41.560 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:49:51.480 Glenn Beck.

01:49:54.120 All right, so let's get some comments from you, uh, on the Chinese president to serve unlimited

01:50:00.800 terms.

01:50:01.340 Now, Jonathan wrote in, uh, you know, people could revolt against an oppressive government.

01:50:06.440 They just need to take up.

01:50:08.120 Oh yeah.

01:50:08.720 Guns have been confiscated.

01:50:10.240 Uh, Daryl writes in us has two choices, get tough on China or learn Chinese.

01:50:16.060 More than 70 lawmakers in Florida call on Broward County sheriff to be suspended for incompetence.

01:50:21.360 Sue writes, he knows he's going to end up becoming the darling for the left, a real hero and champion

01:50:26.380 for their causes to further their agenda.

01:50:28.340 Rob says what this country needs is better firearm safety and education, but Hey, let's

01:50:34.120 just let the media outlets keep it, keep each other at, uh, keep themselves at each other's

01:50:38.900 throats.

01:50:39.240 Instead, the mayor of California that gives illegal immigrants a heads up about impending

01:50:44.920 ice operation.

01:50:46.120 Rodney wrote, this should be immediate jail time for obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting

01:50:51.020 a criminal.

01:50:51.500 She's also rig rig rig rig rig rig rig rig on her, uh, oath of office to uphold the constitution.

01:50:57.880 Supreme court refuses white house requests to overrule law courts, DACA injunction.

01:51:02.120 This one really puzzles me.

01:51:05.000 This should never even had needed an appeal.

01:51:08.220 The law on this is very clear.

01:51:09.720 The rule that a president can't rescind a blatantly unconstitutional executive order is

01:51:15.000 ludicrous.

01:51:15.060 I thought DACA was done by executive order.

01:51:19.740 Why can't it be done the same way as Rick shooter and the timeline that we did yesterday,

01:51:25.280 Glenn, thank you.

01:51:27.020 I get it.

01:51:27.940 I love you when you're behind or when you're in front of a chalkboard.

01:51:32.960 And Stu says, we've missed one story today.

01:51:35.760 Well, Canada's government is at it again.

01:51:38.680 They've once again denied that Justin Trudeau is the love child of Fidel Castro.

01:51:44.420 And we all know this is true, but they say, oh, he's, he said, Pierre Trudeau is his dad.

01:51:51.260 Yeah, right.

01:51:52.340 Come on.

01:51:53.060 We all know he looks just like Fidel Castro.

01:51:55.080 Look at the pictures.

01:51:56.100 It's blatantly clear.

01:51:57.520 It's a false flag.

01:51:58.500 I was going to say, this is a deep state.

01:52:00.460 It is a deep state, false flag, deep state, false flag.

01:52:03.300 They actually, because this is, I mean, they look, they look similar when they were younger.

01:52:07.300 That's basically the basis of this theory.

01:52:08.940 But there is a, it was, it's been passed around so much on the internet that the Canadian

01:52:13.860 government had to actually issue a formal denial that their prime minister was the

01:52:19.940 son of Fidel Castro.

01:52:21.780 Unbelievable.

01:52:23.860 We'll see you tonight on the blaze TV at five o'clock and five 30, the news and why it

01:52:28.580 matters.

01:52:29.140 Glenn, back, Mercury.

01:52:33.300 So.

01:52:40.320 We'll see you tonight.

01:52:42.000 We'll see you tonight.

01:52:43.880 We'll see you tonight.

01:52:48.260 I.

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＂Courage is Contagious＂ (Ben Shapiro, Rep. Thomas Massie & Austin Petersen join Glenn) - 2⧸27⧸18

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