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00:00:17.920 Hello America from Los Angeles, California.

00:00:21.600 Welcome to the program.

00:00:23.080 We've got a lot to talk about today.

00:00:24.960 The fires at Berkeley and defending the indefensible.

00:00:35.040 That's where we find ourselves today.

00:00:39.140 I am a proponent of free speech.

00:00:45.800 And it means you have to defend the ugliest speech around.

00:00:52.620 Doesn't mean you have to like it.

00:00:54.100 Doesn't mean you have to agree with it.

00:00:56.620 And it doesn't mean that you don't warn against it.

00:01:01.900 But you must ensure that it still can be heard.

00:01:06.200 An ugly job, for me at least, today begins right now.

00:01:10.720 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:32.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:40.940 Hello America and welcome to the program.

00:01:44.000 Last night in UC Berkeley, things got really ugly and out of hand.

00:01:54.200 And it looks as though the press doesn't really care about the anarchy and the anti-capitalists that were out smashing the banks and the Starbucks.

00:02:07.480 Like they had anything to do with anything.

00:02:10.760 Starbucks, where you sit and have coffee and you discuss Karl Marx.

00:02:16.480 Why are you breaking their windows?

00:02:18.700 What have they done?

00:02:21.040 Oh, I remember.

00:02:22.780 You're upset at Donald Trump and his Muslim ban, which isn't a Muslim ban.

00:02:30.240 Got it, got it, got it, got it.

00:02:32.260 But wait a minute.

00:02:33.140 Didn't Starbucks say they were going to hire 10,000 refugees?

00:02:37.460 Oh, that doesn't matter. 0.99

00:02:39.320 Go ahead, burn them down too. 0.98

00:02:42.580 Because you don't really care. 0.99

00:02:46.780 You're for chaos.

00:02:48.120 You're for burning the whole system down.

00:02:54.380 And who are you protesting?

00:02:58.040 You're protesting another guy who wants to burn the entire system down.

00:03:02.720 You two should unite.

00:03:05.000 You two should get together.

00:03:06.540 You two should go on the road.

00:03:08.880 Maybe you will.

00:03:09.660 Maybe Milo could go from place to place, college campus to college campus, just saying horrible, despicable things.

00:03:20.660 And you can fall right into it.

00:03:24.300 Because all he's trying to do is create chaos.

00:03:26.880 That's what he believes in.

00:03:28.300 Chaos. 0.97

00:03:29.780 Burn the entire thing down.

00:03:32.440 None of it works. 0.99

00:03:36.800 Nihilist.

00:03:39.660 Then you can actually, in protesting a nihilist, you can become the nihilist yourself and burn it all down.

00:03:52.440 And then the regular people will stand around saying, somebody has to make that stop.

00:03:59.740 Because the world has been turned inside out and upside down.

00:04:04.780 And the top will come crashing down to help you.

00:04:09.660 Geez, where have I seen this before?

00:04:21.360 I can't take 144 characters anymore.

00:04:25.160 I can't take Facebook anymore.

00:04:27.340 I can't take, I can't take talk radio where we have three hours to converse.

00:04:36.820 Because there are those who will listen to two minutes of what I have to say that might take me 20 minutes to fully explain and understand.

00:04:46.900 And you're off on Facebook.

00:04:50.300 You're off on Twitter.

00:04:51.820 You're off making a meme to make sure that you can dump more poison into the system.

00:04:58.360 Isn't this great?

00:04:59.780 America, this is what it's all about. 0.72

00:05:01.680 This is the land of the free and home of the brave, isn't it?

00:05:06.960 Look how brave we are.

00:05:08.700 We can all sit behind our little memes.

00:05:13.760 We can all sit behind an avatar and a fake name.

00:05:17.560 And we can produce a fake life.

00:05:19.660 And we can take pictures of just the good parts of our life so we can show everybody how great and cool we are.

00:05:30.840 Boy, we are the home of the brave.

00:05:32.500 The young face of the alt-right. 1.00

00:05:49.080 The 31-year-old, what a surprise, Breitbart writer, known as the dangerous faggot, 1.00

00:05:58.640 Breitbart, has quickly become a hero to young conservatives and libertarians. 0.99

00:06:07.640 Why?

00:06:09.320 Because he punches back twice as hard.

00:06:13.040 That's why.

00:06:16.860 He's neither a libertarian nor a conservative.

00:06:22.720 Well, Glenn, how could you possibly say he's a racist?

00:06:25.860 Oh, my gosh. 1.00

00:06:28.100 He's a homosexual who has dated black dudes. 0.99

00:06:32.340 Oh, you're right. 0.97

00:06:34.160 Hey, by the way, you should come over sometime because a friend of mine, Brent Ashworth,

00:06:38.500 he's got the whole collection of letters that Goebbels wrote to his Jewish girlfriend.

00:06:45.920 You're right.

00:06:47.540 You're right.

00:06:49.180 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:50.480 The Night of Long Knives.

00:06:52.040 I'm trying to remember.

00:06:52.940 How many SA commanders were caught in bed with young men?

00:06:59.540 I'm trying to remember.

00:07:00.540 That number was zero, or I know it had a zero or two in the number, so it must have been zero.

00:07:07.820 If Donald Trump defies political correctness, then Milo, how do you say his name, Yapanapolis,

00:07:24.080 is an avid Trump supporter prone to calling the Donald daddy, and he obliterates political correctness.

00:07:35.140 He says, F your feelings, and the kids love it.

00:07:43.020 How could you not?

00:07:45.460 As the student left becomes insufferably extreme, he's the perfect counterpunch.

00:07:52.780 He's irreverent.

00:07:54.360 He's exciting.

00:07:55.180 He's punk rock.

00:07:58.780 He's got bleach blonde hair.

00:08:01.740 He sticks his middle finger up to the establishment on the left and the right.

00:08:12.960 He's connecting with the 18 to 34 year olds.

00:08:15.860 He warns the GOP, you're alienating not the old voters, but the next generation of conservative firebrands who are currently gravitating to Trump, the alt-right, and Milo.

00:08:37.520 He's the guy who wrote for Breitbart the 3,500 word piece, The Establishment Conservatives' Guide to the Alt-Right.

00:08:50.320 Although initially small in numbers, the alt-right has youthful energy and jarring, taboo-defying rhetoric that has boosted its membership and made it impossible to ignore.

00:09:05.780 This movement is young, and they defy all the taboos, and unfortunately the alt-right has become impossible to ignore.

00:09:14.200 Because it's racist.

00:09:18.300 But I don't mean racist like the left does, where merely being white and male is a sin. 0.79

00:09:24.440 I mean rationalizing what you're intellectually or culturally superior because you're white. 0.98

00:09:29.960 I mean believing that black and brown people are less valuable society and should be viewed with contempt. 0.99

00:09:39.080 Is he racist? 0.99

00:09:40.400 No, he's dated black dudes.

00:09:44.200 Even though the alt-right will openly crack jokes about the holocaust.

00:09:56.780 Express its outrage of race mixing. 1.00

00:10:01.920 They do have real problems with race mixing, writes Milo. 0.63

00:10:07.660 And that's only because anything associated as closely with racism and bigotry as the alt-right will inevitably attract real racists and bigots.

00:10:20.240 The alt-right intellectuals would also argue that culture really is inseparable from race.

00:10:26.540 There's a difference, and we are in the, we're in the we generation now.

00:10:40.220 And this is what happened in the 1930s.

00:10:45.100 This is what happened during the French Revolution.

00:10:48.780 The we gets together and either says, we're better than this.

00:10:53.160 We're better than this.

00:10:54.460 We're better than this.

00:10:56.540 And they understand who they serve.

00:10:59.200 And they serve a loving God that teaches peace and comfort, decency, honor, charity, love.

00:11:14.220 Or they serve a God that says, tear it all down.

00:11:17.960 The ends justify the means.

00:11:22.780 Darkness is good. 1.00

00:11:26.200 Dick Cheney.

00:11:28.840 Darth Vader. 0.95

00:11:30.560 Satan.

00:11:32.000 That's real power.

00:11:34.780 That's Steve Bannon's quote.

00:11:37.780 Does it sound familiar at all?

00:11:39.620 At least a tip of the hat to the world's first rebel who rebelled so well that at least he won his own kingdom, Satan.

00:11:50.800 That's Saul Alinsky.

00:11:53.220 You got him on both sides.

00:11:55.440 But because we have, we have been poked and prodded.

00:12:05.720 Right now, Donald Trump is having a war with CNN.

00:12:10.620 Well, I've seen this movie before.

00:12:16.280 Except the press didn't report the last time a president did this.

00:12:23.320 And it's just been ratcheted up.

00:12:25.280 But it's the same exact war.

00:12:28.340 Donald Trump has been saying, I don't watch CNN anymore.

00:12:31.440 It's all fake news.

00:12:32.720 Gosh, I remember somebody else saying that about Fox News.

00:12:40.020 Who was that?

00:12:42.920 See, I was there.

00:12:45.520 I was there when we were effectively taking on the Obama administration.

00:12:53.360 And first, the pressure started coming up from the office of Roger Ailes.

00:12:57.680 Hey, we all love the Constitution, but, you know, there are things we have to do.

00:13:03.920 Hey, you know, you're kind of speaking out against the GOP.

00:13:08.720 Hey, we're starting to get a lot of pressure now from the White House to our White House reporters.

00:13:14.460 Our White House reporters aren't really getting access.

00:13:17.620 Don't ever say you like our White House news reporters.

00:13:22.540 See, I was there.

00:13:24.060 I saw that pressure.

00:13:25.320 I saw how that worked.

00:13:27.680 So Trump isn't doing anything new.

00:13:33.640 Trump is just taking it up one more leg, one more rung up on the ladder, because he learned what worked from the left.

00:13:45.920 And the press was quiet and complicit.

00:13:51.840 They don't believe in freedom of speech.

00:13:54.900 They believe in the freedom of speech that they like.

00:14:01.260 The First Amendment is worthless unless you stand by the speech that you despise.

00:14:09.920 No university in this country is worth their salt unless they can say,

00:14:16.000 Yes, Milo can show up.

00:14:21.080 Milo can speak.

00:14:30.960 How do you even know what you like, what you despise, who you are, what you believe?

00:14:38.740 If you won't even listen to the other side, except for maybe in 144 characters.

00:14:52.260 Anytime somebody tells you not to watch it, not to listen to it, not to read it.

00:14:57.880 By God, that's the first thing I do.

00:15:01.240 I read, I watch, I listen.

00:15:07.740 I know.

00:15:09.540 I know.

00:15:11.580 Why Hitler is so bad. 1.00

00:15:13.560 Not because I watched some stupid documentary. 1.00

00:15:15.760 Because I read Mein Kampf. 1.00

00:15:23.180 I know why the alt-right is poison.

00:15:27.020 Because I've read Alexander Dugan.

00:15:30.180 I recognize who Milo is.

00:15:33.280 I recognize what Steve Bannon is.

00:15:36.400 I recognize the tools that they're using and why they're choosing each word.

00:15:41.220 I know.

00:15:45.760 Because I've read the horror show and the manual that they're currently using.

00:15:52.040 And it's not 1933.

00:15:56.040 It's a brand new theory.

00:15:58.300 The fourth political theory.

00:16:00.460 You don't know what it is?

00:16:03.120 Oh, well, you shouldn't look into it.

00:16:05.320 Don't read it.

00:16:05.940 It's too dangerous.

00:16:08.780 Don't read it.

00:16:09.640 It's bad.

00:16:10.220 Everyone should read it.

00:16:16.780 Otherwise, you'll be swept up into it.

00:16:20.320 Because it's going to be mighty popular.

00:16:25.560 It's found a way to tell you all the things you want to hear in the language that you want to hear it.

00:16:34.400 Oh, it's going to make you feel so good.

00:16:36.860 It's going to be so popular.

00:16:38.260 But the last thing you should do is know exactly how it works, why it works, and what the ends are.

00:16:45.380 Let's just hope for change.

00:16:48.400 I stand against the UC Berkeley anarchists.

00:16:57.440 You don't have a right to do what you did.

00:17:01.300 I stand for Milo and his ability to be heard and to speak without danger.

00:17:10.100 But I also want to make it very clear. 0.98

00:17:16.220 He is a despicable human being. 1.00

00:17:24.200 His message is poison. 1.00

00:17:28.780 But he has a right to say it.

00:17:31.180 And I believe people should listen.

00:17:36.080 But not go in blindly.

00:17:38.780 Now this.

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00:17:51.880 The average person who's doing business travel spends 84 minutes, 84 minutes trying to book your hotel and your airfare.

00:17:59.220 Stop it right now.

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00:18:07.540 On top of that, every time you buy a trip at Upside, they give you an Amazon gift card worth $100, $200, or even $300 every single time.

00:18:16.900 Here's how it works.

00:18:18.240 Upside bundles your flight and your hotel together.

00:18:21.120 And they give you one low price.

00:18:22.560 And the bundling is what saves money.

00:18:26.340 It's the way the companies like to work, especially on business travel.

00:18:30.660 So Upside gives you the free Amazon gift cards the more you bundle.

00:18:34.720 The more you save, the more they give you.

00:18:37.920 If you're a frequent business traveler, your company will save a ton of money.

00:18:41.980 You can get thousands of years just for buying your air and hotel together on Upside.

00:18:47.260 Plus, you still get all of your miles.

00:18:50.100 This is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

00:18:51.880 This comes from the mind of the guy who created Priceline.

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00:20:12.540 There is a leak in the White House.

00:20:40.840 And it's interesting because they leaked something to the Associated Press,

00:20:46.560 and the Associated Press printed something that wasn't true.

00:20:51.580 Who caught it and corrected it?

00:20:55.300 CNN.

00:20:57.580 Now, why is this leak happening in the White House?

00:21:02.720 Is somebody in the White House saying, please, help, help, help?

00:21:05.960 Or is the White House intentionally doing it to discredit news?

00:21:10.840 Something isn't right.

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00:21:13.240 Next.

00:21:14.400 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:21:19.760 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:22.580 Let me say hello to Stu and Jeffy back at the studios in Dallas.

00:21:28.520 I'm in Los Angeles this week.

00:21:30.260 Welcome to the program.

00:21:31.120 How are you doing, boys?

00:21:32.160 Very well, Glenn.

00:21:33.580 Thanks for the intro.

00:21:34.500 What did you think of the riots and the Milo stuff?

00:21:40.160 Well, I mean, you're completely right in that you have to defend the speech you don't like.

00:21:45.660 I mean, you know, look.

00:21:48.240 Period.

00:21:48.900 You don't need to defend speech that everybody loves.

00:21:51.760 Yeah, that's easy.

00:21:52.360 You know, the idea that, you know, we're talking about a person who thinks we live in a post-fact era.

00:21:58.420 And he likes it.

00:21:59.480 And likes it.

00:22:00.420 And may I add, he's correct about that.

00:22:02.420 I mean, I'm not criticizing his analysis of the situation.

00:22:05.360 I just don't like it like he does.

00:22:07.220 Right.

00:22:07.440 He says this is great because now you can smash everything.

00:22:10.940 Yeah.

00:22:11.060 I mean, if you're living in a post-fact world, you can do whatever you want and create whatever you want to be able to control or smash.

00:22:17.860 Yeah, he says truth is not enough anymore.

00:22:20.560 You need performance, basically, on top of that.

00:22:22.920 And that's what he likes.

00:22:24.240 And, you know, so I'm not a fan of him in any way.

00:22:26.320 Obviously, I know you and I defend the First Amendment rights of somebody to say something.

00:22:32.080 It's a horrible, horrible thing that should be absolutely shunned when you're talking about violence against people who are attending the event and this sort of reaction to it.

00:22:41.600 If it was the other way around, we can play this game, I know, all day.

00:22:44.880 But if it was, it would be the biggest story for weeks that they were beating up people like this at an event.

00:22:50.980 I went to the Huffington Post today to look.

00:22:53.480 It wasn't even on the front page.

00:22:56.260 The UC Berkeley riots weren't even on the front page.

00:23:00.680 How is that possible?

00:23:01.880 Yeah.

00:23:02.200 They were practically patting me down on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to make sure I didn't have a bomb on me.

00:23:08.920 And you were hosting the event.

00:23:10.500 Right.

00:23:11.660 This goes on and it's non-news.

00:23:13.880 Well, and another part of this, because I know, you know, we can always say that you talk about people, you talk about ideas, but let's go above that to principle for a second.

00:23:23.300 You know, after this all happens, we all know how bad it is where the violence is being caused.

00:23:30.020 Donald Trump's reaction has now become part of the news in which he tweeted basically like, maybe I'll cut off the federal funding for the university.

00:23:37.680 It's honestly like a feel good reaction.

00:23:41.340 You know, it's like, well, you know what?

00:23:42.360 These people deserve this.

00:23:43.800 But beyond that and a larger scale issue to the left for a moment.

00:23:47.440 And this is why we say you don't want federal control of your schools.

00:23:53.560 Yeah.

00:23:54.140 We put so much control in the federal government.

00:23:57.740 When you get someone you don't like, which happened to us for the last eight years and is happening to you now, you have some you have the ability to control the way funding for education happens.

00:24:09.020 And the way it's the way everything from I mean, with Obama, it was curriculum.

00:24:13.880 It was the things you can and cannot teach.

00:24:16.280 It was it was other.

00:24:19.080 It's safe zones.

00:24:20.480 It was safe zones.

00:24:21.380 It all came out from the the the poison of political correctness.

00:24:27.760 It's a great argument to the left to understand why you need to minimize the role of government.

00:24:32.000 Now, may I may I say everybody is celebrating on the right, not everybody, many are celebrating on the right about these executive orders that he is signing and the way he is bullying people.

00:24:44.080 I was on the other side of the bullying.

00:24:47.940 I don't know how many people I have said I am here in Hollywood.

00:24:51.440 So I'm meeting with I'm meeting with centrists.

00:24:53.800 I honestly I had a conversation with somebody who is no one would believe he's a centrist.

00:25:02.400 And and we were talking and he said, you know, look, I'm a centrist.

00:25:05.940 And I almost laughed.

00:25:07.180 He said, I'm a centrist.

00:25:08.060 He said these the Democratic Party with these they're communists, they're communists and they're socialists and they're radicals.

00:25:17.380 I mean, you know, Hillary Clinton.

00:25:20.360 I mean, I'm just right in the center.

00:25:23.800 Right, right.

00:25:24.880 Oh, you're right.

00:25:25.880 You're exactly right.

00:25:26.860 But that shows the bubble that they live in here.

00:25:30.480 But the the there I'm hoping that there are people out there that are looking at things like this gentleman did, where he said, you know what?

00:25:44.800 I was fine with the executive orders under Barack Obama.

00:25:49.220 Probably shouldn't have been fine with that.

00:25:51.860 No, thank you.

00:25:53.100 Thank you.

00:25:54.820 You shouldn't be fine with those executive orders.

00:25:57.760 You shouldn't be fine with our side.

00:26:00.400 Shouldn't be fine with someone who is going after the press.

00:26:04.460 When I said to a few people, I said, you know, that I was and I said one to a press person, you know, that I was the first person in American history to have not one, but five White House sponsored boycotts.

00:26:21.580 It's not officially sponsored by the White House, but people in the White House using their organizations to boycott me.

00:26:30.040 Did you know that?

00:26:31.920 No, I didn't.

00:26:33.160 Huh.

00:26:33.440 Why didn't you know that?

00:26:34.480 I used to say it on Fox all the time.

00:26:37.140 I can show you how it happened.

00:26:38.860 I can show you who did it, which organizations were doing it.

00:26:41.900 I can show you all the evidence.

00:26:44.340 You didn't see that.

00:26:45.580 Huh.

00:26:46.100 Why?

00:26:46.440 Oh, that's right.

00:26:47.880 Because it was your side that did it.

00:26:51.180 Now you're all up in arms when when the White House is calling CNN fake news.

00:26:58.640 Well, wait a minute.

00:27:00.900 Didn't Hillary Clinton come out and say that Fox News, you don't even think it's news anymore. 1.00

00:27:06.380 That's why she goes to Al Jazeera.

00:27:09.020 Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:27:11.480 You like it when it's happening for your team.

00:27:15.320 It's why we have to get off of teams and start looking at the because.

00:27:21.260 If you think that you like what's happening right now with Donald Trump and you're like, get them.

00:27:28.640 Do you think the left is going to suddenly find reason and go, oh, you know what?

00:27:36.300 We shouldn't play that game.

00:27:38.760 Huh.

00:27:39.720 We should forgive them as they're doing this.

00:27:42.040 Or do you think in a populist time period, the popular opinion would be get a guy bigger and meaner than that guy and shove it down their throat next time?

00:27:56.920 I'm guessing that that's the way it's going to go.

00:27:59.460 I'm going to go option B on that one.

00:28:00.660 Yeah.

00:28:01.160 Yeah.

00:28:01.900 I mean, they'll always try to make it.

00:28:03.760 They'll always try to take a step or two further from where we are.

00:28:07.440 Progressives do that.

00:28:08.300 That's what the progressive name means in a real short summary.

00:28:11.980 We're making progress just in the wrong way.

00:28:14.080 Right.

00:28:14.200 It is progressing.

00:28:15.100 Our civility is regressing.

00:28:19.000 It's going the wrong way, but they're making progress towards something.

00:28:23.460 And of course, the left is much more willing to go to the area of violent riots because they know they'll have at least at some level protection from the media.

00:28:33.540 They don't get vilified.

00:28:35.100 I mean, you've spoken about this before pretty recently, Glenn.

00:28:38.900 You know, Occupy Wall Street went through and, you know, there were obviously rapes in the middle of this.

00:28:45.500 But they actually wanted to blow up a bridge in Ohio.

00:28:49.660 And that's a story that almost no one knows.

00:28:51.840 Caught them on the way, if I'm not mistaken, on the way to blow the bridge up.

00:28:57.760 It's that the FBI had infiltrated this group.

00:29:01.400 I mean, it's frightening.

00:29:02.580 Nobody knows that story.

00:29:03.620 And remember when the Tea Party was going on and you heard all this, like the anti-government Tea Party.

00:29:08.120 They don't want any.

00:29:09.020 They don't want to govern.

00:29:09.840 We used to say, well, actually, they keep talking about the Constitution, which is the basic foundational document of the government.

00:29:16.740 So they must want some government.

00:29:18.900 But hang on just a second.

00:29:20.760 But before you go into that, let me just point this out.

00:29:23.640 What happened to those people?

00:29:25.060 Those people saw that they weren't listened to, that nobody paid attention to them, and pain was inflicted on them.

00:29:35.920 They were mocked and ridiculed, and all they wanted was a return to the Constitution.

00:29:42.180 And so now the popular feeling is screw them.

00:29:48.120 I don't want anything to do with anything.

00:29:50.320 The whole system is broken. 1.00

00:29:52.420 Burn the damn thing down. 1.00

00:29:53.700 And that's when the radicals who have been saying that, who we've rejected for generations, step in and say, yes, you're right. 1.00

00:30:05.320 I can help you burn it down.

00:30:07.460 And I'm not talking about Donald Trump.

00:30:09.300 I'm talking about the left and the right, the uber fringes.

00:30:15.120 Yes, I'll help you burn it down.

00:30:17.160 And the people in the middle cheer.

00:30:22.180 Thank goodness somebody's finally given it to them.

00:30:26.780 And remember, what did they say about, let's say, for example, the Tea Party protest?

00:30:31.820 They said that they wanted to dismantle the state.

00:30:36.460 They were ungovernable.

00:30:38.740 They didn't care about anything other than basically starting a war.

00:30:44.960 Well, this is from Occupy Oakland last night in a public tweet.

00:30:49.560 Not just one person.

00:30:50.980 The group Occupy Oakland tweets, we won this night.

00:30:54.600 We will control the streets.

00:30:56.140 We will liberate the land.

00:30:57.740 We will fight fascists.

00:30:59.460 We will dismantle the state.

00:31:01.840 This is war, and we need to become ungovernable is one of their signs.

00:31:08.700 This is war, and we will dismantle the state.

00:31:12.320 They're actually saying the things.

00:31:14.880 They accused the Tea Party of thinking in the secret backroom meetings before the party,

00:31:20.980 or before the marches were organized.

00:31:23.180 They're saying that during the march.

00:31:24.880 I was in those secret meetings.

00:31:26.120 We met in the mouth of the snake, the Don't Tread on Me snake.

00:31:29.980 We used to meet in there.

00:31:31.020 I can't tell you where we – I was blindfolded when I went to that.

00:31:34.340 Of course.

00:31:34.900 So I don't know how to get there anymore.

00:31:36.500 But remember those donuts at that one – I mean, they were delicious.

00:31:39.180 They were really good.

00:31:40.040 That one thing – can I tell you something?

00:31:41.480 The one thing, we had all of the bakers who were against gays making donuts for us in those meetings.

00:31:47.260 So it was really – it was at least – we were well fed.

00:31:51.420 We were well fed.

00:31:52.240 As you can tell if you watch television.

00:31:55.200 But, I mean, seriously, this is them saying they want to dismantle the state.

00:31:58.720 This is not us saying it.

00:31:59.880 It's the people on the left saying it, and there's no attention.

00:32:04.380 Yeah, wait.

00:32:05.040 That is not entirely true.

00:32:07.680 That is the stated reason why Bannon calls himself a Leninist.

00:32:15.520 It is – the problem is, it is the desire of both sides.

00:32:21.580 I've told you forever, there comes a point to where, because we're back on the European railroad tracks, that it will become a battle between the fascists and the communists.

00:32:36.160 Neither one of them, neither one of them like the Constitution, neither one of them like what we're doing, neither one of them want to repair and restore.

00:32:48.360 They both want to burn it down, and it depends on who's in office, who has more of their people in.

00:32:55.980 Do the fascists have their people in, or do the communists have their people in?

00:33:01.340 I contend the vast majority of people in America are tired of this.

00:33:09.000 They want to be – I talked to somebody yesterday, had lunch with somebody who is a big Hillary Clinton funder, and beforehand hated it.

00:33:21.700 They hated it in 2008, and this time was like, I had lunch with him yesterday.

00:33:30.280 He said, I got to tell you, I just want to be left alone.

00:33:36.000 I just want to be left alone.

00:33:38.760 Just don't take my stuff.

00:33:41.600 Don't tell me how to live.

00:33:43.600 Don't tell me how to run my business.

00:33:45.620 Don't tax me to death.

00:33:47.060 And I said, my friend, welcome to the tea party.

00:33:51.700 He looked at me, and he said, this is a quote.

00:33:58.180 This is a very intelligent man.

00:34:00.300 This is a quote.

00:34:02.600 You know, you guys, you know, the ID for voting.

00:34:09.860 And I said, you don't think people should have ID to vote?

00:34:14.300 Yes, I do, but it should be just like a driver's license.

00:34:18.500 Right?

00:34:20.420 Right?

00:34:20.900 Well, what do you guys want?

00:34:23.400 A driver's license?

00:34:25.700 Well, wait.

00:34:27.380 Then what's the argument about?

00:34:28.940 You guys want nothing. 0.99

00:34:30.960 Well, that's ridiculous. 0.99

00:34:32.460 Welcome to the tea party! 0.96

00:34:34.040 There's a chance because people are tired and they see that it's not working and they're tired of defending their own side.

00:34:45.740 We have to stick to principles because the vast majority does not agree with Milo.

00:34:53.520 It might make them feel good.

00:34:55.080 And the vast majority does not agree with Occupy Wall Street, although in their secret meeting places it might make them feel good.

00:35:03.240 But that's not who they want leading the country.

00:35:07.000 That's not how they want to end up.

00:35:09.020 Those are devices to punch back and then we'll go back.

00:35:15.700 They'll teach them a lesson and then we'll go back.

00:35:17.480 No, it doesn't work that way.

00:35:18.860 We have to stay pegged to reason and principles.

00:35:24.240 We are going to get to the leak in the White House because there seems to be a lot of leaks in the White House and it's disturbing what's happening.

00:35:31.260 We'll get to that coming up in a little while.

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00:36:33.920 Glenn Beck Program.

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00:36:42.680 Let's look into some statistics here, Stu.

00:36:45.180 Well, I mean, you talked about voter ID.

00:36:47.440 It's amazing how people think this is a controversial issue.

00:36:50.400 It's actually one of the most uniting issues on the docket today.

00:36:54.180 Almost everybody agrees with it.

00:36:55.700 Here are the percentages of different groups that oppose voter ID.

00:36:59.080 Men, 19%.

00:37:00.460 Women, 19%. 0.52

00:37:02.700 How about over 65?

00:37:05.580 Age over 65?

00:37:06.880 Only 18% oppose it.

00:37:08.360 But young people, only 18% oppose it.

00:37:11.480 White people, 17% oppose it.

00:37:14.500 Black people.

00:37:15.180 This is supposed to be the group that's being benefited by opposing voter ID laws.

00:37:19.360 Only 26% of African Americans oppose voter ID laws.

00:37:24.420 You know, again, think about that.

00:37:27.640 We're in a country where typically the Republican candidate gets less than 10% of the vote.

00:37:32.160 Only 26% oppose the Republican position on that issue.

00:37:35.920 In one category.

00:37:38.280 The lowest approval rating is 74%.

00:37:42.960 Most of the approval ratings are in the 80s.

00:37:46.360 Yeah, and Democrats, Glenn, Democrats, only 32% oppose voter ID.

00:37:52.120 That's how low this is.

00:37:53.260 This is one of the most popular issues discussed in public discourse today, and yet people still

00:37:58.340 oppose it.

00:38:00.060 Back in a minute.

00:38:03.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:38:39.120 Is the Washington Post insinuating that Donald Trump doesn't know that Frederick Douglass is dead?

00:38:44.820 Or are they just saying he doesn't know who he was?

00:38:49.980 And what did Donald Trump say?

00:38:53.060 Oh my gosh.

00:38:54.240 And there's a leak in the White House.

00:38:57.240 Is this a leak from somebody who doesn't like Donald Trump and is saying, help me, help me, help me?

00:39:03.580 Or is this an intentional leak to discredit the press?

00:39:08.660 All I know is I'm the one saying, help me, help me, help me.

00:39:13.820 I'm trapped in a parallel universe.

00:39:15.560 Somehow or another, a wormhole opened up about a year ago.

00:39:20.420 And this looks a lot like the universe I come from.

00:39:24.500 But nothing here makes sense.

00:39:27.220 We begin there right now.

00:39:28.740 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:39:50.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:57.040 Hello, America.

00:40:03.540 I'm so glad you're here.

00:40:04.980 We're live from Los Angeles.

00:40:08.080 The boys are back at the studio.

00:40:09.940 Stu, you leave for the Super Bowl tomorrow, do you not?

00:40:13.360 Very excited, Glenn.

00:40:14.880 Rooting hard for the Atlanta Falcons.

00:40:17.080 Pat, in the 30 years that I have known him and worked with him for almost 30 years now, he's never been sick.

00:40:28.860 I've never seen him take a sick day unless he was literally in surgery.

00:40:33.780 This is the second day this week he's been sick.

00:40:38.100 I think we should start preparing the eulogy.

00:40:42.540 I was berating him yesterday for coming in.

00:40:45.160 It's not like you're a first-term intern here.

00:40:49.860 Everyone knows you're dedicated to the job.

00:40:52.180 Go home and don't get us sick.

00:40:54.240 I know.

00:40:54.620 Well, I think I'm sick from him.

00:40:56.740 I'm getting something now.

00:40:58.480 And I think I got it from him when he was coming in earlier this week going,

00:41:01.640 No, I'm good.

00:41:03.700 Stop.

00:41:04.920 Stop.

00:41:05.880 I had a guy a week ago in my office come in for a meeting.

00:41:10.620 He flew into town for a meeting.

00:41:13.240 I have a meeting with him.

00:41:14.540 11 o'clock.

00:41:15.180 He walks into my office.

00:41:16.380 And I mean he looks dead.

00:41:19.520 And I look at him and I'm like,

00:41:22.400 Dude, are you okay?

00:41:24.340 And he's like,

00:41:25.000 I've just been in the bathroom throwing up.

00:41:28.740 I've been throwing up for the last day and a half.

00:41:32.260 But I didn't want to miss our meeting.

00:41:34.520 And I'm like,

00:41:35.100 Okay, stop where you are.

00:41:37.300 Turn around.

00:41:38.640 Don't touch anything.

00:41:41.380 And get out.

00:41:43.180 Seriously.

00:41:44.180 It's crazy.

00:41:45.280 Stop it.

00:41:45.980 There's some weird thing that both Pat and Jeffy believe in.

00:41:49.220 This odd,

00:41:50.160 I'm a man,

00:41:51.380 so I'm going to come in and get the rest of the office sick thing.

00:41:54.740 That like maybe was smart when you had to go hunt in the 1300s and no food means you die.

00:42:01.760 Yes, you show up to work.

00:42:03.320 This is 2017.

00:42:04.800 I'll never forget when I was at the bottom of the food chain and I was working my way up.

00:42:09.360 This is in the 1980s.

00:42:10.780 I had to work on Christmas.

00:42:12.740 You couldn't be sick.

00:42:14.180 I literally had the stomach flu and I was vomiting in the garbage can in the control room

00:42:20.780 because I didn't want somebody else to have to come in on Christmas and work for me.

00:42:25.620 That's kind of a good trait.

00:42:29.600 Yes, it is a good trait.

00:42:31.280 But us old school people need to let a little bit of that go because you get everybody sick.

00:42:38.600 Stu's convincing me on that.

00:42:39.900 It's one of those things where, you know, the flu kills thousands and thousands of people every year.

00:42:46.360 So, Pat, who tested positive for the flu, then because he wants to prove to us that day 97,000 of his radio career,

00:42:59.660 where he showed up for 96,995, he wants to make sure he gets the extra one in to prove to us for some reason

00:43:08.000 that he's able to drag himself in here looking like he's going to die and somehow, while risking the death of every other employee,

00:43:19.060 wow, we think Pat is tough.

00:43:20.900 Thank God he stayed home.

00:43:22.180 I berated him all day yesterday.

00:43:23.920 I don't know about any part of it, but maybe we finally found a cure for that ailment.

00:43:28.140 By the way, if you've ever seen the Rubin Report or watched the Rubin Report online, I did an interview with Dave Rubin,

00:43:38.640 and he is a, I think, a reformed progressive.

00:43:44.520 He calls himself now a classic liberal, and I'm with him on that one.

00:43:50.600 I think I'm a classic liberal.

00:43:51.800 He no longer seems to believe in the big government things because he realized, wait a minute, I think I was on the wrong side.

00:44:05.120 These people weren't really saying, they weren't really going where I thought we were going.

00:44:11.120 And by the way, we should point out to anyone in the audience who doesn't follow the nerd terminology of these past movements,

00:44:17.020 classic liberal, classical liberal essentially means what today's libertarian is.

00:44:20.900 If you want to kind of easily summarize it, it does not have anything to do with Nancy Pelosi or anything like that.

00:44:27.100 You know what's amazing is when you find out the root of the current liberal and conservative,

00:44:32.940 they both came from a speech from FDR, and he labeled the libertarian, which was the classic liberal, which most people were.

00:44:44.080 Most people back then were all classic liberals.

00:44:47.160 Leave me alone.

00:44:48.200 I'll leave you alone.

00:44:49.360 But that wasn't working when you were fighting against growing the state to control everything.

00:44:56.840 The classic liberal had to be eliminated.

00:44:59.720 So because everyone back then was pretty much a classic liberal, he named the progressive party of the left liberals.

00:45:08.300 And in the speech, he talked about how we're liberal, and we're for the everyday guy.

00:45:14.020 And the conservative, the Republicans are conservative because they just want to conserve the old, tired, and worn-out ways.

00:45:24.260 And we allowed him to define those terms.

00:45:30.540 We allowed the progressives to define who we are.

00:45:34.140 I am a classic liberal, and I know that it causes a lot of trouble, but that's not a libertarian exactly.

00:45:43.320 A classic liberal can mean libertarian, but it doesn't mean—libertarian now means—and I don't think this is what this means either, but this is how it's defined now. 0.98

00:45:54.420 So, hey, everybody, do some blow off of a hooker's belly today at 3 o'clock because you can. 1.00

00:46:04.980 What? 0.99

00:46:07.260 So a classic liberal needs to be retaken.

00:46:10.720 Anyway, the Rubin Report yesterday, they released the first 19 minutes of an interview that we had, and it's really quite fascinating, I think.

00:46:20.200 And today is the last 19 minutes.

00:46:23.380 Yeah, they're both upright now.

00:46:24.760 And you want to hear it.

00:46:26.360 Where is it at?

00:46:27.320 The Rubin Report.

00:46:28.420 Where do you get it?

00:46:29.100 On YouTube.

00:46:30.340 Yeah, YouTube Rubin Report.

00:46:33.100 They're both upright now.

00:46:34.940 Okay.

00:46:36.120 All right.

00:46:36.800 Let's talk about this leak in the White House.

00:46:39.720 And the reason why—I'd say there's a leak.

00:46:43.900 AP yesterday came out with a story that Donald Trump told the Mexican president that he might invade to combat the bad hombres that Mexico just can't control.

00:47:00.040 And here's the quote.

00:47:01.220 President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call—threatened in a phone call with the Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop the bad hombres down there unless the Mexican military does more to control them, according to an excerpt of a transcript of the conversation obtained by the Associated Press.

00:47:18.940 The excerpt of the call did not detail who exactly Trump considered bad hombres, nor—can I just stop?

00:47:27.200 We're talking about the president of the United States in a transcript with a world leader, and I'm actually reading the words bad hombres.

00:47:33.360 I mean, I expect, like, a 1960s version of Clint Eastwood to show up chewing a small cigar.

00:47:42.960 It didn't make it clear the tone or the context of the remark.

00:47:48.220 It was made Friday morning in a phone call between the leaders.

00:47:50.680 It also did not contain Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's response.

00:47:56.120 Mexico denies Trump made the threat.

00:47:59.540 Okay.

00:48:00.320 So what happened?

00:48:01.080 Everybody, of course, picked that up because that sounds like something that Donald Trump would do, and it came from the Associated Press.

00:48:12.940 However, CNN, you know, the one engaged in fake news?

00:48:19.700 Jake Tapper says,

00:48:23.980 My reporting suggests the AP is not quoting a transcript.

00:48:29.800 It is quoting from an internal White House readout of the Trump Peña Nieto call.

00:48:35.700 I have an excerpt of the transcript.

00:48:38.880 We're about to publish what President Trump actually said on the call.

00:48:42.840 It is not as antagonistic as the readout.

00:48:46.380 According, now he wrote, according to the expert of the transcript of the call provided to CNN,

00:48:53.020 Trump said,

00:48:54.260 You have some pretty tough hombres, not bad hombres, pretty tough hombres in Mexico that you might need help with.

00:49:03.300 We are willing to help with that bigly.

00:49:07.760 But...

00:49:08.160 I'm sure it was big league.

00:49:09.760 I'm sure of it.

00:49:10.600 It's always big league.

00:49:11.880 Thank you.

00:49:12.300 But they have to be knocked out, and you have not done a good job knocking them out.

00:49:19.200 He made an offer to help with the drug cartels.

00:49:21.780 Excerpt of the transcript obtained by CNN differs with the eternal readout of the call that wrongly suggested Trump was contemplating sending troops to the border in a hostile way.

00:49:32.000 Wow.

00:49:32.660 Again, and who was that?

00:49:33.840 It was Jake Tapper, yet again?

00:49:35.220 It was, again, Jake Tapper, a guy who has proven himself...

00:49:38.300 You know, I said to Anderson Cooper last night that somebody asked me recently, and I shouldn't have said this because there are a couple of people that do come to mind.

00:49:49.680 The question was, and in fact, I think it was in the Rubin Report, do you know anyone who is intellectually curious and intellectually honest?

00:49:58.420 Now, that is really tough, to be curious, to be curious enough to go, I'm still exploring the world, and I don't have all the answers, and I don't know.

00:50:08.980 Anderson strikes me as that guy that's curious and tries to get it right.

00:50:15.140 Doesn't mean he does.

00:50:16.260 Doesn't mean I agree with him on everything, but I think he's intellectually curious and intellectually honest.

00:50:21.100 But there are other reporters who are good.

00:50:27.740 Jake Tapper is one.

00:50:29.260 I think Chuck Todd is trying to get it right on Meet the Press.

00:50:35.760 But there are few and far between that just don't take it.

00:50:38.620 Jake Tapper never just takes it and says, oh, well, I've got this report.

00:50:44.060 He looks into everything, and he did it under Obama.

00:50:47.600 Oh, yeah.

00:50:48.220 He's doing it now under Trump, and here he is being called a guy who just does nothing but fake news, clearing Donald Trump.

00:50:57.760 Yeah, I mean, he's done a great—I mean, Tapper's record is excellent and lengthy as far as, you know, actually reporting the news and trying to tell the truth.

00:51:06.880 And it's weird because, I mean, you never see—intellectually curious part of that is interesting because you never see people ask the next question.

00:51:13.800 For example, the other one of these big leaks that came out of the White House last night was this Australia story where we got—the reports are Trump got in a screaming match with the head of Australia because of this refugee deal.

00:51:28.940 And he doesn't want to take these refugees. 0.99

00:51:30.320 And he said, hey, you know, this could be the next Boston bomber that comes out of this group. 0.84

00:51:34.800 And Obama made some crappy deal.

00:51:36.300 Well, I don't want to do it.

00:51:37.680 Well, okay.

00:51:39.480 First of all, you know, even the Australian president is saying that—what is it, prime minister, president, whatever it is in Australia—is saying, you know, that's not really how it went.

00:51:47.280 But, of course, you kind of expect that, that they would try to tamp it down.

00:51:50.140 Correct.

00:51:50.580 But ask the next question.

00:51:52.560 The reason—why is the deal made in the first place?

00:51:56.400 Why did Obama have to make this deal in the first place to take 1,800 refugees or whatever the number is?

00:52:04.040 The reason is because Australia has a much more stringent refugee policy than the one you're complaining about with Donald Trump.

00:52:12.700 They won't allow anyone who takes a boat to the country to step foot on land, let alone import them and embrace them as citizens. 0.99

00:52:21.580 They will not even allow any of them to actually step foot on the mainland.

00:52:27.080 They store them on an offshore island and then must export them to another country who will take them.

00:52:33.580 That's how hardcore their refugee policy is.

00:52:37.120 Excuse me.

00:52:37.880 Hang on just a second.

00:52:39.320 Except when it came to the Nazarene Fund.

00:52:42.940 Australia was the biggest home to the Christian and Yazidi refugees in the world.

00:52:50.240 We sent Christian and Yazidi refugees to Australia, to the mainland, and set them up in homes on the mainland. 1.00

00:53:03.600 They just have a problem—uh-oh.

00:53:07.600 Wait a minute.

00:53:08.600 With the—hmm.

00:53:10.300 Well, I can't say that they have a ban on Muslims.

00:53:13.820 They just didn't have a problem taking the refugees that were Christian or Yazidi or the ones that are minority religious groups that are being persecuted.

00:53:26.400 Hmm.

00:53:27.140 And to be clear, certainly I'm not bashing Australia.

00:53:29.980 They're a great ally of ours.

00:53:31.400 I'm bashing the media's perception of how—the actual text of the executive order on immigration.

00:53:37.160 But beyond that, this is specifically tied to people who try to arrive by boat because they've had a huge problem.

00:53:42.680 They've had a problem with so many people coming in that they've had to make incredibly restrictive laws.

00:53:48.560 I don't know.

00:53:49.740 Would you consider the fact that we have 11 million illegal immigrants in this country a reason that we might need to have restrictive laws?

00:53:56.800 They were talking about hundreds of thousands in Australia.

00:53:58.880 We're talking about millions and millions and millions of people, some of which have been here multiple decades, and we are supposed to, you know, ignore the border problem, ignore the problems with—potentially with refugees. 0.99

00:54:12.960 And, you know, there are problems there.

00:54:14.940 Was the rollout handled well?

00:54:17.080 You know, the answer to that is no.

00:54:18.260 But to act as if we are going to bash Trump for a call that he had with Australia when Australia has a more restrictive policy than the one they've been complaining about for the last week is completely absurd.

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00:56:52.520 Some say we're living in a post-fact world.

00:56:59.660 I refuse to go over the cliff with the rest of humanity.

00:57:03.140 I will trust that the American people do care about the facts,

00:57:07.060 do care about principles,

00:57:09.000 and don't care about parties, teams,

00:57:12.740 and don't want revenge.

00:57:16.560 They want something sane and safe,

00:57:19.740 and they believe in the Constitution.

00:57:22.640 We're going to keep going down that road,

00:57:25.720 and with that belief that we are not alone.

00:57:32.580 Welcome to the program.

00:57:34.820 We have Ben Sasse coming on with us.

00:57:36.920 I think it's at the top of next hour, hour number three.

00:57:40.680 He is reintroducing the Born Alive legislation,

00:57:43.580 which is, you know, obviously, I mean, the name says,

00:57:48.420 if you're born alive, we can't kill you. 0.98

00:57:50.640 What a crazy idea. 0.96

00:57:54.620 I can't believe we have to have a law that says that,

00:57:59.540 but we do, unfortunately.

00:58:03.100 He's also going to talk a little bit about SCOTUS.

00:58:06.960 Mike Lee is supposed to be on with us.

00:58:08.920 He was going to be on with us today,

00:58:10.400 but he had a meeting with the new SCOTUS nominee.

00:58:16.840 He's having that right now,

00:58:18.460 and so we're going to talk to him about that tomorrow

00:58:21.200 and get his feeling on it.

00:58:23.000 I think he is a fan of this nominee,

00:58:26.160 and we've been going back and forth on the Muslim ban,

00:58:30.800 and honestly, he wrote me some stuff.

00:58:33.480 I'm not smart enough for my friends.

00:58:34.960 He wrote me some stuff yesterday that I read,

00:58:36.620 and I actually read it to a couple of friends here who are in the car,

00:58:40.160 and I'm like, okay, can anybody tell me

00:58:41.620 what the hell he's even talking about?

00:58:44.760 He's just so smart,

00:58:46.220 and so we'll talk to him a little bit about that

00:58:48.500 and his take on where we are as a country

00:58:52.120 and where we're headed.

00:58:53.100 I hope you're going to take some time today

00:58:54.820 to address the bacon shortage.

00:58:59.060 I'm very concerned about the bacon shortage.

00:59:01.060 Look at me.

00:59:02.920 Yeah, well, okay.

00:59:03.600 Now, you've made a good point there.

00:59:04.820 You probably really do.

00:59:08.560 Jeff, he's concerned.

00:59:10.100 I am concerned about it.

00:59:11.820 I noticed this yesterday.

00:59:13.600 Please tell me some good news.

00:59:14.840 There is a major development that is breaking

00:59:16.940 in the bacon shortage crisis of 2017

00:59:19.500 that you need to know about.

00:59:22.760 Oh, boy.

00:59:23.460 I'm concerned he didn't say good news.

00:59:25.520 I'm concerned.

00:59:25.880 No, he did not.

00:59:26.400 You'll pause and take your phone calls.

00:59:28.860 888-727-BECK.

00:59:30.820 Next.

00:59:31.160 We are watching the Glenn Beck Program.

00:59:39.340 Mercury.

00:59:41.620 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:59:46.060 Raising the next generation of leaders.

00:59:48.960 Welcome to the program.

00:59:50.700 Let me go to Donna quickly in Ohio. 0.93

00:59:53.160 She's been holding for a while.

00:59:54.640 Hello, Donna.

00:59:55.740 Hi.

00:59:56.260 My name is Donovan.

00:59:57.680 Donovan Irish.

00:59:58.400 Oh, no, no, no.

00:59:59.600 That's fine.

01:00:00.320 Anyway, good morning to you and the boys in Dallas.

01:00:02.360 And I used to listen to you on my way to NPR in Cincinnati,

01:00:04.900 and I was the only one there that did.

01:00:07.280 So it's nice to talk.

01:00:09.840 Yeah, a pretty lonely place.

01:00:12.060 Well, NPR was a lonely place for me.

01:00:13.920 I can tell you that.

01:00:15.040 I know.

01:00:16.280 Originally, you were talking about Steve Bannon this morning.

01:00:18.860 And I'm really very interested.

01:00:21.160 And I have been listening to you, and, of course, I've been listening to you for quite a few years.

01:00:24.920 But how do you find out the real truth?

01:00:26.540 Because I read snippets, and I read skewed articles, and I read that he's a white supremacist.

01:00:32.420 And as I listen, I think if he –

01:00:34.460 Well, I take him –

01:00:34.960 Oh, I was just going to say –

01:00:36.240 I'm so sorry.

01:00:37.740 Is he the opposite of Van Jones?

01:00:40.580 Is he like the polar opposite of Van Jones?

01:00:42.780 I think – what a great way to describe him.

01:00:46.040 I think he is absolutely the Van Jones of the right, except I'm not convinced he believes in anything.

01:00:59.900 Van Jones was a committed communist, at least at one point in his life.

01:01:06.480 And then he saw the light when he was sitting in a jail cell, and he said that the new red is green.

01:01:15.080 And he talked about dropping the radical pose for the radical ends.

01:01:20.200 And, you know, he was there early on with the 9-11 truthers, and he has dropped that radical pose.

01:01:29.780 And he was in the White House, and he talked on record about how he could speak to any audience

01:01:38.440 because he would learn their language, and he studied people to be able to gain power.

01:01:45.320 So I've always felt that he was a very dangerous man.

01:01:49.760 Bannon, I think, is more dangerous because I think Bannon is better at it.

01:01:54.300 But I also don't know if he actually believes in anything except the destruction of the system

01:02:03.640 and then being on the front lines to help somebody build the new system of tomorrow.

01:02:10.340 What I take from Bannon and how I arrive at Bannon, I know three very good friends

01:02:17.300 who are going to be, who will remain nameless, but they are all three people that any conservative,

01:02:25.620 I should say before Trump, and I'm not saying that these people were never Trumpers.

01:02:31.580 I'm not even sure where all of them stood.

01:02:35.700 I'm trying to think.

01:02:36.460 All three of these people, you would know and respect, you would say that all three of these people

01:02:45.180 are extraordinarily brave.

01:02:48.380 One of them is so afraid of Bannon that they won't, they look over their shoulder and say,

01:02:58.460 I don't even want to, I can't talk about it.

01:03:02.520 He is such a dangerous man.

01:03:04.900 The three people that I know who know him, were around him a great deal of time,

01:03:11.280 are terrified of him.

01:03:14.960 What you have to do with Bannon is only take his quotes.

01:03:19.440 His quotes are enough.

01:03:21.640 His quotes in Vanity Fair was,

01:03:27.000 Darkness is a good thing. 1.00

01:03:29.020 Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, and Satan.

01:03:31.760 Now that's real power.

01:03:33.040 You have to take his quote of, I'm a Leninist.

01:03:38.820 Poor Dick Cheney in that quote, by the way.

01:03:40.720 I know, I know.

01:03:41.720 There's no reason he gets involved in that mess.

01:03:44.300 Yeah.

01:03:44.940 I think he was kind of, that's his tip of the hat to, you know, to the left making a joke out of it.

01:03:52.000 Yeah.

01:03:52.120 Um, he has, uh, claimed that he's a Leninist when he was asked, I think it was the LA Times.

01:03:57.940 Do you know, Stu?

01:03:58.840 But I think it was the LA Times.

01:04:00.300 And they said, wait, so you're a Marxist?

01:04:02.760 And he said, no, I don't agree with Marx.

01:04:04.720 But I agree with what Lenin did and how he gained power.

01:04:09.220 He came in, turned the tables upside down, and he burned it down to the ground so he could rebuild it.

01:04:16.420 I'm a Leninist.

01:04:18.640 That's pretty frightening.

01:04:20.140 That's pretty frightening stuff.

01:04:21.320 I will say, though, Glenn, I, you know, one, one question you asked was, is he a white supremacist?

01:04:26.380 I think the answer to that is no.

01:04:28.340 I don't know.

01:04:29.220 I don't know for sure.

01:04:30.440 I've never heard him say, yeah, I've never heard him say anything.

01:04:33.680 That's why I say, I don't know what he believes, if anything.

01:04:37.180 Well, two, two things on that.

01:04:38.400 And because I can understand, obviously, you know, because of the embrace of the alt-right, there's a legitimate question as to whether that would be true.

01:04:44.360 So two points on this.

01:04:46.000 One is Ben Shapiro, who is a guy who has been, was very, obviously, does not like Bannon at all, left Breitbart, did not like Bannon at all in the way that he, you know, sort of trashed his own reporters in conflicts with Trump.

01:04:59.540 But he even said he doesn't think he believes a lot of the things that are out there.

01:05:05.100 A second point of that.

01:05:06.060 Wait, wait, wait.

01:05:06.520 But the problem is, I think it's even more dangerous because it's the night of long knives kind of stuff.

01:05:13.620 He's using those people.

01:05:16.040 And so he will use them until they burn things down. 1.00

01:05:20.140 And then you go and you kill them. 0.99

01:05:22.180 Well, I don't think that he's going to kill them. 0.99

01:05:24.560 No, well, Lenin did, and so did Hitler. 0.90

01:05:27.400 So, I mean, if you're a fan, I mean, we would never have given that distinction to Van Jones.

01:05:33.520 We would have never said, well, he's not going to do that.

01:05:37.020 We would say, I would hope he wouldn't.

01:05:39.100 But that's who he's saying he is modeling himself after.

01:05:44.020 And that's exactly what Lenin did.

01:05:45.840 There's a revealing, I think, point on this, though, from the interview he did with the think tank in Europe.

01:05:51.920 BuzzFeed printed the transcript of this during the campaign.

01:05:55.540 And he was talking about, it was a European think tank, so he was talking about the situation in Europe.

01:06:00.980 And talking about, he was sort of praising, you know, offhandedly sort of the Marine Le Pen group, the National Front,

01:06:09.920 which is known for, you know, real extremism in some circles.

01:06:13.780 And also deeply in bed and funded by Dugan in Russia.

01:06:17.460 Yeah.

01:06:18.080 And so he was kind of praising those things.

01:06:21.260 However, he pointed out that there are real problems with it.

01:06:26.320 There is real racists and things like that in it.

01:06:29.580 And in the end, I believe it'll all shake out, was essentially his analysis of the situation.

01:06:35.600 That the fringe people that are involved in the group, once the group becomes more mainstream,

01:06:40.560 will be pushed away, sort of excommunicated, or will join the larger group.

01:06:46.580 A lot of people thought about that, thought that in Germany.

01:06:49.180 And in fact, that's exactly what Lenin, I just keep going back to Lenin because that's what he claims his,

01:06:54.740 he's a Leninist.

01:06:56.300 That's exactly what Lenin said as well.

01:06:58.660 That's why he is the creator of Democratic Socialists.

01:07:03.400 He said, I'm not a communist.

01:07:05.100 I'm a Democratic Socialist.

01:07:06.360 I know what communists do.

01:07:08.000 We're Democratic Socialists.

01:07:09.760 To try to mitigate the fact that he was such a radical.

01:07:14.900 Yeah, and I'm not sitting here trying to defend Ben and I'm not a fan, but I think like at least his,

01:07:22.340 his position as he looks at these groups seems to be, I'll use their energy.

01:07:27.200 And in the end, they won't be the movement anyway.

01:07:30.500 That's a very risky way to go, I think.

01:07:33.180 But I don't think, I think it indicates that he's not a, necessarily a white supremacist who's like,

01:07:39.100 I can't wait until white people run the world. 1.00

01:07:42.160 He just, I think he realizes and recognizes, and I don't think this is a positive thing,

01:07:46.800 but he recognizes that there's a lot of energy among that group,

01:07:50.140 and that has helped him in his rise and sort of expanding his worldview.

01:07:57.080 It sure worked for the, it sure worked for the Democrats, didn't it?

01:08:01.840 Because what they did is they recognized that these Marxists, these anarchists,

01:08:06.540 these radicalized groups, there was a lot of energy there.

01:08:10.360 And they could channel that energy and use them to help win elections.

01:08:16.000 And, you know, they just started to co-opt them until somebody like, oh, I don't know,

01:08:21.900 Joe Lieberman finally came out and said, there is no place for me in this party anymore.

01:08:29.500 There's no place for a guy like Joe Lieberman.

01:08:34.920 Because the Democrats didn't win.

01:08:38.420 The Democrats became the radicals.

01:08:41.780 The radicals were like, oh, yeah, we'll come in.

01:08:44.300 We'll help you.

01:08:45.320 They didn't fumigate the radicals, did they?

01:08:47.960 The radicals took over the system.

01:08:50.740 And that's the problem.

01:08:53.040 Donovan, I thank you very much for your phone call,

01:08:54.900 and thank you for doing your own homework.

01:08:56.920 Let me go to Mark quickly.

01:08:58.360 Hello, Mark.

01:08:58.800 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:09:01.520 Hi.

01:09:02.560 So I read your book, Liars.

01:09:03.860 I just wanted to thank you for all the connections you drew between progressives all over the world.

01:09:09.660 I took AP U.S. History two years ago, and I learned about the people,

01:09:12.980 but I didn't learn anything connecting them.

01:09:15.220 Wow.

01:09:15.660 How old are you?

01:09:17.580 17.

01:09:18.700 17.

01:09:19.020 And you went out and bought the book, Liars, or did somebody give it to you?

01:09:23.320 No, actually, I got a sample of it online.

01:09:25.480 And I only read about the first chapter, so I'm planning to go to the library today

01:09:29.180 and check out and read the rest of the book.

01:09:30.880 You know what?

01:09:31.400 I tell you what, Mark, you hang on the phone.

01:09:33.060 I'm going to get your address.

01:09:33.920 I'm going to send you an autographed copy of it, okay?

01:09:36.400 Really?

01:09:36.680 So you don't have to.

01:09:37.220 Yeah.

01:09:37.520 Thanks.

01:09:38.000 Absolutely.

01:09:38.320 What did you learn in the first chapter that you didn't learn in AP history?

01:09:43.040 Well, it was particularly about the Cross of Gold Sermon.

01:09:48.200 Drawing, Jennings was his last name, wasn't it?

01:09:51.520 Yes.

01:09:52.440 Yeah.

01:09:52.980 Drawing connections to him to the guy that came right before, Carl Mark Sternet.

01:09:57.600 I can't remember his name.

01:09:58.320 So you were interested in Williams, Jennings, Brian?

01:10:05.260 No.

01:10:05.800 We had learned about it in AP U.S. history a few years ago, and I didn't know a whole ton

01:10:09.640 about it, and I listen to your show every day, and so I was curious to learn more about

01:10:14.800 the progressive movement and how it came about in the United States and stuff like that,

01:10:17.940 because I, myself, I consider myself a conservative but independent, so.

01:10:23.600 Yeah, good for you.

01:10:24.680 Mark, I appreciate it.

01:10:25.620 I want you to hold on.

01:10:26.360 I'm going to get some information.

01:10:27.800 I'll send you a book, and I'd love to hear what else you didn't learn.

01:10:33.600 In fact, I'll send you two copies.

01:10:34.800 You read one and highlight all the stuff in it that you didn't learn in AP history so

01:10:40.200 I can see it.

01:10:41.360 Send that one back to me, and you can keep the autographed copy.

01:10:45.140 Thanks, Mark.

01:10:45.760 Now this, make this year the year that you get things right.

01:10:53.180 Valentine's Day is around the corner.

01:10:55.380 Don't get it wrong.

01:10:56.760 I remember the first year, Stu, you were, I think you were behind me in line.

01:11:01.200 It was either you or Stu or Pat, but the first year that we worked in New York, and we were

01:11:06.820 working in Rockefeller Center, and it was Valentine's Day, and we both realized, oh, crap, and we

01:11:13.040 went downstairs to the subway platform because there was that big flower shop.

01:11:17.740 Was that you that was with me?

01:11:19.120 Given that my wife could be listening, it was absolutely not me.

01:11:22.720 Right.

01:11:23.040 They literally, by the time that we were going home, all they were, they were actually selling

01:11:33.320 this, and it was a bunch of bums like me that were buying baby's breath. 0.97

01:11:39.860 That's all they had left was baby's breath.

01:11:44.280 I went home empty-handed.

01:11:46.560 Others walked out with the bouquets of baby's breath, and I'm thinking, she's not going to

01:11:50.400 buy it, man.

01:11:51.560 She'll know.

01:11:52.860 She'll know.

01:11:54.280 Yeah.

01:11:54.520 Run for your life.

01:11:56.280 Get a dozen red roses.

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01:12:28.580 Can you put the camera on the roses in the studio real quick?

01:12:32.560 Because have they dropped a petal yet?

01:12:35.600 I've had these since Thursday.

01:12:36.540 It doesn't seem to be.

01:12:36.880 They look very full.

01:12:38.340 Yeah, and they're still blooming.

01:12:39.900 Those are a week old now.

01:12:42.160 That's not what happens to roses. 1.00

01:12:44.020 Usually, they're buds, and then the head of the bud goes down, and then all of the petals

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01:13:17.300 We have Ben Sass going to be joining us here in just a few minutes.

01:13:41.040 We'll talk about his Born Alive legislation that he would like your help with, and we'll

01:13:46.940 talk to him about the new SCOTUS, which, by the way, I said during the nomination period

01:13:54.100 in the primary that I would be the first to thank you and apologize if the Supreme Court

01:14:05.220 nominee was Scalia-like, and he was, and I believe I actually was the first yesterday

01:14:13.120 to apologize and thank anyone who was telling me all last year, Glenn, it's got to be for

01:14:21.440 SCOTUS, and I said, he's not going to do it.

01:14:25.380 Yes, he will.

01:14:26.520 What evidence?

01:14:27.500 What proof?

01:14:28.220 He will.

01:14:30.040 All right.

01:14:30.560 Well, if he does, I'll be the first to apologize and say thank you.

01:14:33.380 If you missed it yesterday, thank you.

01:14:37.080 You were right.

01:14:38.980 Okay.

01:14:39.720 Stu, before we get Ben Sass in here, we have a couple of things.

01:14:46.640 Bacon?

01:14:46.760 Do you want to talk bacon?

01:14:47.520 Is that what you're trying to do?

01:14:48.160 Yeah, let's talk the bacon, because we also haven't done the Australian.

01:14:50.760 Oh, yeah, we did the Prime Minister of Australia.

01:14:53.380 Yep.

01:14:53.660 So give me the bacon update.

01:14:55.280 All right.

01:14:55.500 17.8 million pounds.

01:14:56.940 That's all we have in bacon reserves right now.

01:14:58.880 That's down from 35 million pounds from the year prior.

01:15:02.400 Wait a minute.

01:15:02.960 So we have 17 million pounds?

01:15:05.220 Yeah.

01:15:05.520 From 35 million pounds to 17.8 million pounds in reserves of bacon.

01:15:10.340 All right, Jeffy, that will last for you, you know, four breakfasts?

01:15:15.400 Well, not on Super Bowl weekend, no.

01:15:17.400 Oh, yeah.

01:15:17.820 Maybe two.

01:15:18.880 All because of the potatoes.

01:15:20.440 But does Idaho have enough potatoes to grind that bacon into on the top for the potato skins?

01:15:26.020 There's a very scary statement that came out.

01:15:28.000 Today's pig farmers are setting historic records by producing more pigs than ever.

01:15:32.620 Yet our reserves are still depleting.

01:15:34.840 The organization even created a website, BaconShortage.com, and many outlets, including USA Today, NBC, CBS, ran with the news.

01:15:42.660 But the truth is, the frozen reserves are just that.

01:15:46.260 Reserves.

01:15:47.240 There will be no rationing at all.

01:15:49.300 They're saying it's basically fake news.

01:15:51.440 And even the people who created the bacon shortage website, the Ohio Pork Council, are saying, we just thought this was a good marketing tool.

01:15:59.360 Yeah.

01:15:59.480 So, no bacon shortage.

01:16:02.440 So, I ran out to the store last night and stored up all that bacon for no reason.

01:16:09.080 Well, you'll have to eat through it.

01:16:10.600 Oh, no. 1.00

01:16:12.060 Darn. 1.00

01:16:12.800 My life sucks. 1.00

01:16:14.560 Fake news. 1.00

01:16:15.740 Ben Sass, next.

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01:16:51.280 Tulsi Gabbard and Dennis Kucinich went to Syria and Lebanon this week.

01:16:56.860 The press asked, who's paying for your trip?

01:17:02.340 They said, well, not the taxpayers.

01:17:05.820 Boy, probably for the first time in their life, they would have wished that it would have been the taxpayers,

01:17:14.800 and they would have only had to deal with that scandal.

01:17:17.920 Who paid for their trip?

01:17:20.460 Wait until you hear.

01:17:23.460 Hamas, Hezbollah. 0.95

01:17:24.720 Ha, that's nothing.

01:17:27.720 Wait until you hear.

01:17:28.600 Coming up in just a second.

01:17:29.720 Also, Ben Sass reintroducing the Born Alive legislation, and he'd like your help and support.

01:17:36.940 He joins us right now.

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01:18:01.000 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:04.460 Senator Ben Sass, welcome to the program.

01:18:10.000 Senator from Nebraska, we're glad to have you on.

01:18:13.060 Thank you for having me.

01:18:13.980 Good to be here, Glenn.

01:18:15.340 So, you're reintroducing the Born Alive legislation.

01:18:18.080 Let's get to this first before we talk about all the other things that are happening in our world.

01:18:24.440 Tell me what this is and how we can help.

01:18:26.920 Yeah, thank you.

01:18:27.660 Well, this is a bill that ensures that babies who survive an attempted abortion get a fighting chance.

01:18:32.740 It requires that hospitals and doctors give the same medical attention to an abortion survivor that would have been offered to any premature baby at the same age.

01:18:40.800 And it criminalizes the intentional killing of a baby that was born.

01:18:44.120 So, last week, I introduced it to 27 other senators, which is sort of a good thing, but you're like, how in the world is this not introduced with 99 other senators?

01:18:53.400 It passed the House of Representatives on a bipartisan vote last year but didn't go anywhere in the Senate.

01:18:58.040 So, please let your senators know that this is just common-sense legislation.

01:19:03.300 Okay, so I want to make sure I understand this.

01:19:05.860 This is not you can't do partial birth abortion. 1.00

01:19:09.980 This is if the baby survives the partial birth abortion or any abortion and is still alive, you can't lock them in a closet so they just die.

01:19:22.000 You got it.

01:19:23.380 I mean, there's a lot.

01:19:24.780 I mean, I'm a solidly pro-life guy on anything we're going to talk about, but this is a different thing than that.

01:19:30.820 And Republicans and Democrats obviously don't agree on a lot of things, but everybody should be able to agree on this, that life isn't disposable.

01:19:37.780 And when a baby is born, you can't lock her in a closet and just leave her alone and cold to die, struggling for breath.

01:19:44.420 And, you know, it's crazy that we haven't yet criminalized that.

01:19:49.180 Ben, I have to tell you, partial birth abortion is so far beyond – I mean, it's into the Mengele territory. 0.97

01:19:58.020 It really is.

01:19:58.780 I don't know – and the only reason why partial birth abortion is happening is because people don't understand what it is.

01:20:08.080 There's no life of the mother that is even possible with a partial birth.

01:20:13.060 She's already given birth to the baby except for the head. 0.92

01:20:17.060 And then they hold the head in the birth canal while they cut its neck and suck its brains out. 0.99

01:20:24.220 It's horrible, that tactic. 0.54

01:20:28.920 I can't believe we need a law to tell doctors that after that, they still can't kill – because the line that they have in their head is,

01:20:42.600 well, it's still inside the woman's body, so, you know, that head's still in there, so it's still part of her body.

01:20:49.160 But once she survives that and the baby is born, why do we have to have a law? 0.99

01:20:54.600 Yeah, I mean, let's back up a tiny little bit, too, and just talk at the macro level about the fact that so much of the pro-life movement is having real success,

01:21:06.280 and it's outside of the legislative sphere, really good things are happening as young people are becoming more pro-life than the generation above them.

01:21:14.760 And that's because they're a heavily image-driven culture.

01:21:17.840 There are a whole bunch of places where we'd have debates about deliberation and reading and reflection,

01:21:22.700 where we want all sorts of things to happen in a more orderly way for our teenagers and our 20-somethings that are coming of age.

01:21:29.020 But one of the good effects of the image-centricity of this culture – and it's problematic in general –

01:21:35.440 but one of the good things is people are seeing diagnostic technologies of babies in utero, and they're realizing that that's a baby.

01:21:42.460 It's not a squirrel.

01:21:44.120 And so there's a lot of good stuff happening in the pro-life movement as people are celebrating a culture of life,

01:21:49.860 and frankly, as those of us in the pro-life movement are getting better at making sure that we actually are checking our own energies and zeal and consciences

01:21:58.300 to make sure we're loving moms and trying to persuade them, not just try to think this is primarily about legislation,

01:22:04.780 because it's mostly not about legislation.

01:22:06.820 But in the legislative domain, we ought to be able to start with things that we can agree on.

01:22:11.440 Americans are the kind of people who cheer for the vulnerable.

01:22:14.220 We fight for minorities.

01:22:15.480 We protect the powerless from the powerful.

01:22:17.960 And a little baby boy or girl that's just been born fighting for their life, I mean, it's the most basic thing that people who are humane defend.

01:22:25.780 Is this happening very often, Ben?

01:22:28.300 Well, I mean, we don't know, highly unlikely that it's happening often, but you remember the Gosnell case a few years ago.

01:22:36.500 So it gets about, Ben, four or five years ago.

01:22:38.420 This Philadelphia abortionist, for those of your listeners who don't know, Kermit Gosnell was convicted of murdering newborns.

01:22:44.520 I mean, court documents reveal that he made millions of dollars over the course of 30 years performing as many late-term abortions as he could.

01:22:52.240 So, again, this is the late-term abortion stuff you're talking about.

01:22:54.820 He had this simple business model, offer abortions to women who couldn't find them elsewhere because they were too pregnant.

01:23:01.260 And we know that there are cases where he delivered living, breathing, struggling newborns and killed them with the scissors and just discarded them as waste.

01:23:09.460 And he destroyed his medical files, so relatively few of the cases were prosecuted.

01:23:15.380 But court documents indicate that he induced abortion on a 17-year-old woman who was seven and a half months pregnant, and a baby there was born breathing and moving and weighed about six pounds.

01:23:25.920 And he severed the baby's spine, and he joked that this baby was so big that the baby could have walked him to a bus stop.

01:23:34.440 Jeez.

01:23:35.460 But he's in jail, so why do we need this law?

01:23:40.000 Well, we need clarity in this movement about the fact that people – I mean, to the point you're making about late-term abortion.

01:23:48.680 Late-term abortion is totally morally abhorrent.

01:23:52.620 And there should be movement on a whole bunch of different domains.

01:23:57.460 But the people who argue against – the people who argue for all abortion on demand all the time without any questioning ever, we need to be having a debate about what life is because the babies in utero are babies.

01:24:11.800 And we need to be able to have that conversation.

01:24:14.500 Ben, last night I was on CNN, and what I didn't know is about an hour later, Milo What's-His-Face from Breitbart, who is a despicable alt-right guy who has said,

01:24:33.960 we live in a post-fact world, and I revel in that because you can do whatever you want, wasn't – it had a talk scheduled at UC Berkeley.

01:24:47.340 Then the anarchists – not the anti-Trump, the anti-government people, the Occupy Wall Street that said afterwards,

01:24:56.220 this was a victory, and we're going to burn the whole system down and take the government down, and this is war.

01:25:04.400 These two were going at it last night, and there's no good party here.

01:25:10.660 I said last night on CNN, I asked the press, you guys keep punching Donald Trump.

01:25:17.760 We know that when you punch him, he punches back twice as hard.

01:25:21.900 So that means you're going to have to punch him back, and then he'll punch you back.

01:25:26.760 I feel like I'm the computer in war games.

01:25:30.760 The only way to win is to not play the game.

01:25:33.960 And I asked the question for the left and the right, how do you see this ending?

01:25:41.380 How do you see one side winning?

01:25:45.200 Yeah, so many things to say there.

01:25:48.220 So let me just start by admitting that I don't know the details of what happened last night.

01:25:51.820 I saw some headlines this morning about some of the debates at Berkeley and whatnot.

01:25:55.920 But let's just step back from that for a minute and say America has always been an idea founded on the premise that we're not going to agree.

01:26:06.260 Thoughtful people, people who are grappling with mortality and heaven and hell and love and beauty and truth are not going to agree on everything.

01:26:14.500 And so we have to decide what things do you solve by power and what things do you not solve by power.

01:26:20.880 And the vast majority of life is not about power.

01:26:23.780 It is not about politics.

01:26:25.440 The vast majority of life is about persuasion.

01:26:27.980 It's about voluntarism.

01:26:29.140 It's about entrepreneurship.

01:26:30.200 It's about love.

01:26:31.040 The vast majority of life is the things that you persuade people to join with you in doing and that you figure out a way to lovingly disagree about with people that you can't persuade on things, often in our own families and in our own neighborhoods and our own companies and our own churches, et cetera, right?

01:26:45.240 So the vast majority of life is about these places where we debate lovingly, winsomely, but you don't try to solve these problems by power.

01:26:54.440 And so the First Amendment, the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, protest, or the redress of grievances, all of these things are a way of saying there's a difference between physical violence, which government exists to protect us from, and you can't let that word of violence drift into places where we're having debates.

01:27:12.420 We need to have the debates.

01:27:14.220 A safe space movement is the antithesis of education.

01:27:16.880 If you're never going to encounter an idea that you didn't already know, if you're never going to refine your own beliefs, if you're never going to have to admit, hey, I was wrong on this, or come to say, you know what, I think I'm right on this, and now I know how to explain it with a little more empathy and a little more persuasion with people who disagree with me, I don't know why mom and dad are writing a tuition check.

01:27:33.300 The purpose of education is, frankly, to be pushed out of your safe spaces.

01:27:38.260 It's so true. 0.84

01:27:39.080 As Senator Ben Sasse we're talking to right now, Senator, can we move to the Supreme Court?

01:27:43.220 You mentioned really our foundational principles as you were speaking there.

01:27:46.300 And, you know, I've got to admit, I was a skeptic on whether Trump would actually come up with somebody who really respected the Constitution to be named to the Supreme Court.

01:27:55.100 I think he hit that mark, and I think he hit it in a really impressive way.

01:27:58.820 Can you tell us about Justice Gorsuch, or hopeful Justice Gorsuch?

01:28:03.620 Let's applaud the president.

01:28:04.980 This is a tremendous pick.

01:28:06.860 This is the kind of guy that the founders envisioned serving on the Supreme Court.

01:28:11.860 He's a judge's judge.

01:28:12.920 I really do want to applaud the president and his team on picking somebody off the list of 21.

01:28:19.240 They campaigned about it.

01:28:20.300 They were transparent.

01:28:21.680 Many of us have, you know, disagreed with the president on a number of things and whatnot.

01:28:27.700 But on this, he kept his word.

01:28:29.620 He picked somebody off the list of 21, and, frankly, he picked somebody great off the list of 21.

01:28:33.680 I've been reading Judge Gorsuch's opinions, dabbling in them for three weeks when it became clear that he was one of the likely finalists.

01:28:40.720 And I don't have a clue what his policy views are.

01:28:43.780 I don't know what his personal preferences are on things.

01:28:45.880 And, frankly, I don't care.

01:28:47.500 That's not a judge's job, and he gets what a judge's job is.

01:28:50.920 He's a worthy heir to the Scalia seat.

01:28:54.380 Yeah, and that's really impressive.

01:28:55.900 One of the things that I think is important is you read this in many of the reviews about it, and I'm sure you can speak much more eloquently than I can on it.

01:29:04.020 But things like the Dormant Commerce Clause, which, to me, if it is dormant, it's not in the actual Constitution, which is kind of a problem.

01:29:12.640 And it seems like Gorsuch has that same problem.

01:29:15.600 Well, I mean, you know, you guys are pros at mass communication.

01:29:19.720 And, you know, the one thing that I know about a national talk radio audience is the main thing they want on a Thursday morning is four dissenting views on the history of the Commerce Clause.

01:29:28.440 So, I mean, let's just say top line.

01:29:32.060 I mean, the Dormant Commerce Clause relates to what states can do with regard to taxes and regulations that would impact people in other states.

01:29:41.040 And there are lots of nerdy debates here, and I think I'm one of only a handful of people in the whole U.S. Senate who's not an attorney, let alone the fact that I'm serving on the Judiciary Committee.

01:29:51.380 So, like Chairman Grassley from Iowa, we are the non-technical nerds on the Judiciary Committee.

01:29:56.560 But the big point to be made is that the Commerce Clause has just swallowed up almost everything, so many things.

01:30:03.300 Government finds a way to try to claim that it has the authority to get to through the Commerce Clause, and that's a mess.

01:30:10.100 Underneath that, there are a lot of nerdy debates about the Commerce Clause in general and the Dormant Commerce Clause, as you flag.

01:30:16.600 Our entire audience is a bunch of nerds, so they appreciate the Commerce Clause talk in the morning.

01:30:21.000 I really thought you had an audience bigger than 11, but I stand correct.

01:30:24.380 Senator Ben Sasse, we actually lost connection with Glenn here in the middle of this, but it was really interesting to listen to you.

01:30:32.280 And, you know, I think a lot of people came to, after the election, were really worried about what Trump might do with the Supreme Court.

01:30:39.320 And not only am I thrilled, I think it's also a real statement on people like yourself who opposed him on some of this,

01:30:45.620 but was able to say, look, you know, when he does a good job, we're going to say it, and that's the most important thing we can do.

01:30:49.720 Amen. I mean, you know, Gorsuch is the kind of guy that becomes an occasion for us to teach our kids civics.

01:30:56.520 I mean, this is a guy who, I mean, he writes really clearly.

01:30:59.260 I mean, he says things like, judges are different than politicians because we took an oath to apply the law as it is, not to reshape the law as we wish it were.

01:31:07.340 Well, that's pretty darn good Schoolhouse Rock right there.

01:31:09.560 You know, the Congress is the people, we're the people who are supposed to make policy because ultimately the voters of America are supposed to be preeminent, and they can hire and fire us.

01:31:19.620 If you're a judge and you have a lifetime appointment, you don't get to make policy because the people can't fire you.

01:31:25.060 That's not the American way. 0.96

01:31:26.500 And so a judge has a different job, and this guy gets that.

01:31:29.040 And frankly, I really do hope Democrats come around to recognizing that this is the kind of guy that everybody should be applauding.

01:31:35.340 When he takes off his robe at night and turns on ESPN, I have no idea what his personal policy views are.

01:31:41.840 What I know is he distinguishes between the time he had his robe on and the time when he has his robe off.

01:31:46.260 And when he has the robe on, he's not a super legislator.

01:31:49.360 Senator Ben Sasse, I'm actually back.

01:31:51.420 We just reconnected, but I've been listening to the whole thing.

01:31:53.460 I have one more question.

01:31:54.480 Can you hold for just a few minutes?

01:31:56.620 I have to run into a hearing moment.

01:31:58.340 I can hang on for two minutes.

01:31:59.300 I tell you what.

01:32:00.340 No, I tell you what.

01:32:01.040 Why don't you go, and we'll have you back on next week because I wanted to ask you a couple of other questions.

01:32:05.420 Thank you so much.

01:32:06.080 Hey, by the way, when they were talking dormant commerce clause, Glenn, we heard you snoring.

01:32:10.640 No, I was actually fascinated by it.

01:32:13.060 I was one of the 11.

01:32:14.180 So thank you very much.

01:32:15.180 I appreciate it.

01:32:15.560 Bye.

01:32:15.940 Thanks, man.

01:32:16.800 All right.

01:32:17.560 Senator Ben Sasse.

01:32:20.920 Good guy.

01:32:22.960 He's great.

01:32:23.280 And held to his principles, and it's good to hear him say that about Gorsuch.

01:32:28.820 And now this.

01:32:29.380 It would be prudent on our part to examine the possible negative side effects of doing away with cash or the possible negative side effects of saying that, oh, the problems are all fixed.

01:32:49.420 I want to talk to you about a meeting I had here in Los Angeles with some very big financial people, and I said, what do you think is coming?

01:33:01.280 And the gobbledygook that came out of their mouth, I hope they're right.

01:33:05.200 I said to them, I hope you're right.

01:33:07.520 But they were talking to me about how, oh, this $4 trillion that we printed, they could print more, and it's not really going to affect us.

01:33:14.840 Oh, we could have tariffs, and it won't be a big deal.

01:33:18.540 We could pretty much wall ourselves off from the rest of the world, and it won't affect our economy.

01:33:22.920 Oh, this, the housing market, that's not a bubble, and neither is Wall Street.

01:33:27.900 Those are all, it was incredible to listen to.

01:33:31.560 It was really incredible.

01:33:33.300 The next meeting I had was with a billionaire, okay?

01:33:37.320 And I sat down with him, and he said, where do you think the world's headed?

01:33:39.960 And I said, that's what I wanted to ask you.

01:33:41.420 And he said, oh, my gosh, the world is headed for an implosion.

01:33:45.060 I said, it's really weird, because the guys who try to sell people stocks, they don't think so.

01:33:51.260 And he said, don't listen to those guys.

01:33:54.140 May I ask you to go to Goldline and find out, read their important risk information, and find out if buying gold is sane.

01:34:03.780 I don't buy it as an investment.

01:34:05.520 I buy it as an insurance policy for when the world goes nuts.

01:34:10.680 Are we there yet, kids?

01:34:12.220 Also, ask them for their free cashless society risk report.

01:34:18.500 In India, they sped up the process of going digital by invalidating 86% of their currency with four hours' notice.

01:34:27.620 It caused a panic, and gold doubled in price overnight.

01:34:32.280 I want you to call Goldline now, 1-866-GOLDLINE.

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01:36:04.200 This is the end, my friends, and it is time to say goodbye.

01:36:08.000 And I realize that this is the worst possible time for a political columnist to retire.

01:36:18.860 But what I really didn't realize is that any of you cared.

01:36:22.960 These are the words of Roger Simon.

01:36:26.420 He is retiring, and this is what he wrote.

01:36:30.580 I've been flooded.

01:36:33.120 No, really, you can read them with messages on Facebook and Twitter asking me not to retire.

01:36:38.980 Not now.

01:36:39.640 I'm told when America really needs voices of reason.

01:36:42.520 I know, I know.

01:36:43.280 It's preposterous.

01:36:46.000 It's laughable.

01:36:50.240 But not to some.

01:36:52.120 For some, I have been the friend they have never met for more than 40 years.

01:36:56.540 And for all of those years, my job took me all over the world.

01:36:59.260 Now my wife wants to see the world with me.

01:37:03.380 As I said, bad timing.

01:37:05.420 So instead of the usual goopy farewell, I'll actually speak my mind.

01:37:10.140 And I do so, understanding that many will disagree with me.

01:37:14.740 Mine enemies grow older, Alexander King, social critic, once wrote.

01:37:19.960 It's one of the comforts we of columnists have.

01:37:24.300 He talks about the pivotal time that we live in.

01:37:28.140 And a time where facts don't matter.

01:37:32.580 He makes the case, oh yes, they do.

01:37:36.460 We'll get into that.

01:37:37.860 And your phone calls, 888-727-BECK.

01:37:41.140 Coming up.

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01:37:59.560 Okay, I want to read this article real quick.

01:38:02.120 And then we're going to get to Syria.

01:38:03.560 And it's one of the things that some of our congressmen have been doing over in Syria.

01:38:07.460 It's pretty amazing.

01:38:08.160 But I want to tell you, this came from Roger Simon.

01:38:10.740 I don't agree with Roger Simon at all.

01:38:12.440 And you're not going to agree with what he says here about President Trump at all.

01:38:16.720 But I want you to read it.

01:38:18.220 In fact, maybe I'll read it.

01:38:20.860 Everywhere I put Barack Obama, he's putting Donald Trump.

01:38:25.520 But I want you to hear it because it's exactly what you felt when Barack Obama was in office, which I believe gives us a point of connection to make the case of constitutional rule.

01:38:40.900 Because no one should feel this way because a president is in office, one you don't like.

01:38:47.100 So, I know, I know, it's preposterous, blah, blah, blah.

01:38:53.540 We live at a pivotal time because Barack Obama and his thugs have done us a favor.

01:39:00.200 They have shown us that democracy is not inevitable.

01:39:03.900 They have shown us that it can fail.

01:39:06.960 Now, he wrote it as Donald Trump.

01:39:08.420 But that is a phrase that could have very easily been written by anybody in the Tea Party.

01:39:15.360 In just a matter of days, they have shown us how democracy can be transformed into something evil.

01:39:21.220 We can imagine a future of jackboots crashing through our doors at 2 a.m., trucks in the streets to take people away to the internment camps, bright lights, parking dogs, and worse.

01:39:30.360 Does this make me sound hysterical?

01:39:32.640 Maybe.

01:39:33.600 But this is my last chance to be. 0.81

01:39:35.240 In the first week, he writes, the Trump administration demonstrated its contempt for Mexicans, Muslims, and Jews.

01:39:43.280 You could say Barack Obama demonstrated his contempt for the people in the middle of the country, conservatives, and religious gun owners.

01:39:54.960 Should we keep quiet as we watch this?

01:39:57.480 Is this why America was created?

01:39:59.180 The most important poll was created by Henry David Thoreau when he wrote,

01:40:05.500 Any man has more right than his neighbors because he constitutes a majority of one.

01:40:15.640 You are a majority of one, and you have a duty to act like it.

01:40:19.840 You have a duty to do something to preserve democracy.

01:40:22.980 I disagree with that, to preserve the republic.

01:40:26.940 Something nonviolent, I hope, but something.

01:40:33.320 Let me, I mean, I have to rephrase too much of this, but I could say the same thing about Barack Obama.

01:40:39.260 Trump tells civil rights leader John Lewis to keep his mouth shut, and then Trump smiles his smile.

01:40:44.000 In what fantasy land, in what delusional world would one desire the words of Donald Trump and the silence of John Lewis?

01:40:53.180 I hear that George Orwell's classic 1984 is popular again.

01:40:57.600 Good.

01:40:58.340 It's a great read with a real message, but don't get carried away.

01:41:01.400 There's a spoiler alert.

01:41:03.020 The bad guys win in the end.

01:41:05.220 Their tentacles of power have reached too deeply and spread too far.

01:41:08.900 We're told today the truth no longer matters.

01:41:11.480 It does.

01:41:12.160 We're told human decency is the concern of the weak.

01:41:15.700 It isn't.

01:41:16.920 We're told that civil liberties can be brushed aside when it's convenient to the wielders of power to do so.

01:41:22.700 Such people should be stopped.

01:41:24.600 They must be stopped.

01:41:26.900 I can make that case about the IRS.

01:41:29.840 I can make that case about the NSA.

01:41:31.620 I can make that case about the secret courts that were put in under a Bush administration,

01:41:37.640 expanded under an Obama administration.

01:41:42.160 You see, people ask me all the time, what do we have in common?

01:41:49.540 Everything.

01:41:50.900 Even the struggle.

01:41:53.500 This is why I'm saying you have to listen to people and say, first, I know how you're feeling.

01:42:00.000 Because I read this and I could read this and say, how dare you say this about Donald Trump after you just spent eight years.

01:42:10.540 That's why we might as well do that.

01:42:20.140 Let's just bark like dogs at one another.

01:42:22.040 Or we could say, sincerely, I know how you feel.

01:42:29.020 And you're afraid of the abuse of the same things I was afraid of on your side.

01:42:35.500 Well, my side wouldn't have done it.

01:42:36.920 Well, but I don't know that.

01:42:38.820 And your side was doing it.

01:42:40.780 Your side used the IRS to go after people like me.

01:42:46.040 Your side went after some of our journalists.

01:42:51.740 Barack Obama put some in jail.

01:42:54.160 We're spying on others.

01:42:56.500 It did happen.

01:42:57.960 You just didn't know it because the press didn't report it.

01:43:01.680 That can't be true.

01:43:04.100 We've got Google, man.

01:43:05.840 Let's look it up right now together.

01:43:07.880 It did.

01:43:08.740 And I'm not sitting here to go say, see, you guys started it.

01:43:11.720 I'm just saying, stop.

01:43:14.920 We have this in common.

01:43:17.680 I don't have to go further.

01:43:19.840 We have this in common.

01:43:21.400 What are they afraid of?

01:43:22.920 The suspension of civil rights.

01:43:25.780 What am I afraid of?

01:43:27.360 The suspension of the Bill of Rights.

01:43:29.560 It's the same thing.

01:43:31.680 We're not that far apart.

01:43:38.180 We just have to stop yapping at each other like dogs.

01:43:44.900 We just have to stop pointing fingers.

01:43:47.900 You know, see what word he used in here?

01:43:49.820 That would set you off.

01:43:51.520 Because it did me.

01:43:54.140 He said, just a matter of days,

01:43:56.000 they've shown us how democracy can be transformed into something evil.

01:44:00.620 Oh.

01:44:02.440 Gorsuch, is he evil?

01:44:04.740 Is he evil?

01:44:06.080 Is a pause on let's see how we're vetting people for 60 days, is that evil?

01:44:12.520 Now, it might turn into a Muslim ban.

01:44:14.780 I don't think so.

01:44:15.780 But it might.

01:44:16.580 And if it does, then yes.

01:44:19.200 Probably evil. 0.57

01:44:20.400 And I'll stand with you to fight a Muslim ban. 0.99

01:44:23.340 Nobody of that religion is coming in. 0.98

01:44:25.040 That's un-American. 0.81

01:44:25.700 I'll stand with you.

01:44:34.980 We have to get away from the names and the people and even the events and look at what is his idea here.

01:44:47.120 What is the idea of this article?

01:44:49.080 The idea of this article is our republic is at stake.

01:44:53.760 Our rights are at stake.

01:44:56.560 You agree with that.

01:45:00.120 But what happens is the small minds talk about the people.

01:45:05.380 Don't get me wrong.

01:45:08.540 I'm not saying I'm some great mind.

01:45:10.500 I read this quote about three months ago and decided I have to live this way.

01:45:16.960 Small minds talk about people.

01:45:18.980 Average minds talk about events.

01:45:20.680 Truly exceptional minds talk about ideas.

01:45:25.980 The news.

01:45:27.020 It's all about Donald Trump and either how good he is or how evil he is.

01:45:30.500 Small minds.

01:45:32.040 They're talking about the event.

01:45:35.000 They're talking about the Muslim ban and that event.

01:45:38.660 Is that event, does that mean this or does that mean that?

01:45:43.200 I'd like to talk about the idea.

01:45:44.700 The idea is no man should be afraid of any president no matter what side.

01:45:52.620 No person in America should be afraid of the IRS coming and turning you upside down because of what you believe.

01:46:02.220 Or the jackbooted thugs kicking down your door because you believe something and you're nonviolent. 0.69

01:46:12.380 Nobody, nobody should have to worry about the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street setting the world on fire and trying to overthrow the government.

01:46:27.520 But because everybody's been playing the game of it's my person I want to win.

01:46:32.680 I want Barack Obama or I want Donald Trump.

01:46:36.180 We'll blame the people.

01:46:38.820 Occupy Wall Street.

01:46:40.260 No, they're blameless.

01:46:41.020 Because my guy, my person, they're on his side.

01:46:48.780 And look at those Tea Party people.

01:46:50.400 Look how evil.

01:46:51.000 They want to destroy the government.

01:46:52.240 No, they don't.

01:46:53.480 And then you ignore it.

01:46:55.540 Go out and read.

01:46:56.780 Go read the Huffington Post.

01:46:58.420 See how they're condemning Occupy Wall Street or Occupy, not San Francisco, Oakland last night for what they did in Berkeley.

01:47:08.020 Oh, they're not.

01:47:10.440 Why?

01:47:11.180 Because they're still about people.

01:47:15.040 Roger Simon wrote a great half of a great farewell.

01:47:20.440 But he still made it about people.

01:47:22.720 I read it to you by inserting Barack Obama so you could see.

01:47:29.640 If I just changed the president, you agree with him.

01:47:34.360 Why?

01:47:35.540 Because the idea is what we agree on.

01:47:41.040 The idea of America is what made us great.

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01:49:32.880 So, Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich, and two others were going to Syria and Lebanon this week.

01:49:43.040 During the visit, they met with Al-Assad and a couple of other people.

01:49:50.240 They were asked, who financed the trip?

01:49:53.280 And her press secretary said, well, it's not paid for by the American taxpayers.

01:49:59.580 Well, the Daily Beast looked into it, and it is Access Ohio.

01:50:07.760 Now, who is Access Ohio?

01:50:10.420 A-A-C-C-E-S-S. 1.00

01:50:13.240 It is the Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services.

01:50:17.720 Well, there's nothing wrong with Access Ohio, right?

01:50:20.180 Well, unfortunately, the two people that she went with, Bassam and Eli Kawam, are both

01:50:31.200 officials in the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

01:50:37.420 Hmm.

01:50:38.420 What is the Social Nationalist Party?

01:50:40.800 Well, now, we're hearing nationalism is good, right? 0.98

01:50:42.960 And socialism is good.

01:50:45.040 Not when you combine them.

01:50:47.120 This is an organization that was founded in Lebanon in 1932.

01:50:55.380 So the SSNP is the Nazi Party of Syria.

01:51:02.840 They have a long history of terrorism against the West and within the region spanning decades.

01:51:08.420 They were founded in 1932.

01:51:10.120 They were one of Nazi Germany's earliest and most passionate supporters.

01:51:17.700 This is what they described.

01:51:19.880 They described the influence that the SSNP had on the Nazis.

01:51:25.920 From the Hitlerite Germany, we borrowed the symbolism and the rituals from the SSNP based on the National 0.91

01:51:33.600 Socialist model, the party's emblem, a red vortex on a white ground framed in black that recreated the spiral motion of the swastika.

01:51:44.060 Also, the Marshall salute with the arms outstretched and the cult of leader, they said,

01:51:50.300 Zayim, instead of Heil Hitler, they said, Taya Surya, or something like that.

01:52:01.040 They also glorified violence.

01:52:05.000 This is the Syrian Nazi Party paying for our leadership to go and see what's really happening in Syria.

01:52:16.300 Our leadership either knows or doesn't care that there is a Syrian Nazi Party that is located

01:52:26.600 in Ohio with the acronym ACCESS Ohio.

01:52:34.580 But nothing to see here, people.

01:52:37.040 I'm sure it's just a conspiracy theory.

01:52:40.340 Let me go to Marlene in Delaware quickly.

01:52:42.840 Hello, Marlene. 0.98

01:52:44.200 Hi, Glenn.

01:52:46.300 I'm so glad to get a chance to talk to you.

01:52:48.060 I used to watch you when you were on Fox.

01:52:49.740 Thank you.

01:52:49.920 I didn't understand you all the time, but I want to say I love you.

01:52:52.660 Thank you.

01:52:54.080 And I wanted to say I am a Democrat, but I voted for Donald Trump because I'm a Christian.

01:52:59.460 I'm a believer.

01:53:00.540 And the main thing for me was the Supreme Court justice and Israel and abortion.

01:53:05.600 But I wanted to say that a lot of African Americans who don't think like the far left,

01:53:09.960 I think we believe a lot.

01:53:11.680 We take a lot of what we hear on the news, CNN and Fox, we hear it through our culture.

01:53:17.740 And I think sometimes we get caught up in what we believe.

01:53:20.500 Like I didn't vote for Barack Obama the second term because I didn't agree with a lot of stuff

01:53:24.680 he did in the first term.

01:53:25.600 But I used to feel offended when I would hear people talk about him because I think for us

01:53:30.640 it was a big deal that in our lifetime we saw a black man as president.

01:53:35.120 But the bottom line is our principles were changing.

01:53:37.360 I want to say I agree with a lot of things that you say.

01:53:39.960 And I wish I had a voice when I'm looking at CNN and Fox to say, no, we don't really

01:53:45.140 all feel that way.

01:53:46.340 We want people to have IDs.

01:53:49.900 We want, I want my four grandsons to have principles that go beyond their culture.

01:53:54.420 And I want them to understand that.

01:53:56.000 And so I teach them that.

01:53:56.880 And I get a lot of flack for listening to you and Fox, you know, but I turn Fox off and

01:54:01.480 on because I think that there are going to be the MSNBC to President Trump as MSNBC was

01:54:06.960 to Obama on some level, maybe not all of it.

01:54:09.560 So I just felt like I just needed to tell you that there's a lot of us that listen to you

01:54:13.240 that we agree with you.

01:54:14.420 And we do have a lot more in common, and I think that's why there should be a diverse

01:54:17.640 personnel around the table on all of these shows that say, no, that's not how we feel.

01:54:23.480 But I want to hear what you have to say.

01:54:24.780 And then now I understand it.

01:54:25.880 So I kept listening to you, and I get it.

01:54:28.540 Thank you, Marlene.

01:54:29.340 I sure appreciate it.

01:54:30.260 What a great compliment and way to end the broadcast from Los Angeles.

01:54:35.060 Stu, is there anything that we've missed before we hit the happy trails?

01:54:39.640 Well, I think we should get your Super Bowl pick.

01:54:41.400 What are you thinking?

01:54:42.340 I think it's going to be the, you know, up north against the guys who are, you know,

01:54:52.640 in the more western part of the country.

01:54:55.520 Well, there's really no west coast team.

01:54:58.340 No, but more western than the other team.

01:55:01.680 I mean, I guess you're saying Atlanta, but you said north.

01:55:05.060 Ah, Atlanta.

01:55:05.300 Well, yeah, but that's north is the other team.

01:55:08.800 New England.

01:55:09.500 Yeah, and then you have the kind of south, but more west than New England would be Atlanta.

01:55:14.000 So that's my analysis.

01:55:15.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:55:18.560 Mercury.

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