Glenn Beck is back from a trip to Israel and still recovering from jet lag. He talks about the latest in the Biden vs. Kamala Harris debate, and why he thinks Joe Biden should step down as the Democratic presidential nominee.
00:00:30.560I'm guessing that you, like me, find all these anti-American, anti-Israel college protests really kind of disgusting, a little terrifying for the country.
00:00:39.200But you know who's helping George Soros fund these college occupations or occupations is you.
00:06:20.180It's like, however you get these people out of office for the next five, four and a half year or four years is almost more important than what happens in the next six months.
00:07:41.920If the president of the United States is having seepy seeps, starting at, you know, waking up at 11 o'clock in the morning, having a meeting, and then going to bed at four, who's running the country?
00:08:00.300Those preparations, which took place over six days for the debate, never started before 11 a.m., and Mr. Biden was given a time for an afternoon nap each day.
00:08:11.200This is according to the New York Times.
00:08:13.500The only example they could come up with when they were pressed for examples where he's really, really on top of things was him screwing over Israel, which is when they were in the middle of all these missiles being fired at them.
00:08:27.440He was on his game to tell Netanyahu, no, you're not allowed to fire back.
00:08:32.200That's the only thing they could come up with.
00:08:34.240Now, of course, we have no evidence that that's true, but the fact that he was inspired to be awake by screwing Jews over isn't necessarily something that gives you more confidence.
00:08:43.560You know, Jake, do you hear Jake Tapper yesterday?
00:08:46.620Jake Tapper accused the Democratic Party of engaging in Orwellian tactics.
00:08:51.440At the opening of the show, Tapper called out the Democratic Party for engaging in a discernible pattern of lying to the public.
00:09:00.200He argued party officials want Americans to not believe what you saw and what you heard with your eyes and your own ears last Thursday night.
00:09:09.000He said, quote, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
00:09:13.680It was their final, most essential command.
00:09:48.660It's performing so well that it's going to stay up there, you know, for a while and maybe up there for a long while.
00:09:58.760And we might leave it up there and then we'll return those astronauts home on some other vehicle that is not as good as the Boeing Starliner.
00:10:05.400Starliner, the Starliner, they still haven't figured out why the jets weren't working, why the the you know, the positioning jets around the side, like 28 of them just didn't work.
00:12:26.320An unnamed source from the White House said Hunter Biden popped into a couple of meetings and phone calls with the president that he had with some of his advisers.
00:12:36.220Another person familiar with the matter said the reaction from some senior White House staff members has been, what the hell is happening?
00:13:43.580If he he fails this this Friday, George Stephanopoulos interview, if he screws up at all, if he zones out, if he can't express himself, if he doesn't look vital and invigorated, he's done.
00:14:35.020They don't tell you what these people are saying behind the scenes.
00:14:37.520They form the opinion they want you to have.
00:14:40.480And that is what they're doing again here.
00:14:42.740And Stephanopoulos' approach in this interview is going to be fascinating to watch because, obviously, he can help take him out.
00:14:51.100If he presses him, if he goes after him, if he really makes this as uncomfortable as possible, he could end the campaign.
00:14:59.280Or will he do the old school thing, which they've been doing for as long as I've known every Democratic media member and just, like, soft pedal it, let, you know, when he has a bad moment, step in, cut him off, help him.
00:15:34.020You know, they decided that he was fine up until last Thursday and that all of us were liars and, you know, misinforming and using disinformation and Russia, Russia, Russia to mislead the nation in thinking he was incompetent.
00:15:50.440Then he went from he's Superman to good heavens, we got to get him out of there overnight.
00:15:57.300And now they're rushing and saying, he's got to go.
00:16:27.720I mean, it does to me feel like the Kamala thing is the most likely thing.
00:16:33.260I mean, there's a lot of intricate logistical reasons for that, mostly revolving around money that make that so.
00:16:40.580But still, it's like, you know, if they try to go down this road and turn this into some big spectacle, I don't think that's necessarily going to help them.
00:16:50.660And you see a lot of these people who are leaking against Biden are saying wonderful things about Kamala.
00:16:55.520Now, some might speculate, as we have said since the very beginning, there's no way this four year presidency ends without Kamala Harris taking a shot at winning this.
00:17:08.420She is the most ambitious, selfish person in Washington, D.C.
00:17:13.700And she I guarantee right now her people are all leaking against Biden to make this thing happen.
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00:19:59.120If he holds his own on Friday's George Stephanopoulos, if he's okay, and he doesn't make any critical errors, and he doesn't look bad, he's still the nominee.
00:21:14.300You're going to see how I perform and judge me by that.
00:21:18.060There are a hundred reports today that I read this morning, Glenn, from insider tip sheets and all these other things of people saying Friday is too late.
00:31:28.320Because that's what every authoritarian and autocratic and theocratic dictator has always said.
00:31:33.660The problem is who's in charge of judging what's dangerous and not?
00:31:38.900The church, the government, academia, some other group or organization that would have the power to silence people?
00:31:48.460Remember, the only speech that needs protecting is the speech that either the majority doesn't like or power doesn't like.
00:31:57.320You know, the world was flat for a very long time.
00:32:04.180And for centuries, that was the accepted view.
00:32:07.120And challenging it was seen as heresy.
00:32:08.840And then thinkers like Pythagoras, and later during the Age of Exploration, Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus dared to propose and demonstrate otherwise.
00:32:21.040It was their courage to speak out and to explore beyond the known boundaries that led to an understanding of what the earth really was.
00:34:56.960And he did it through smear campaigns and propaganda.
00:35:01.240He had public demonstrations where he got this sick doctor to go and electrocute animals using Tesla's alternating current.
00:35:12.380He would take down horses, dogs, whatever you had.
00:35:17.100He'd go to a state fair or a local fair and he'd execute the animals and saying, that's what Tesla wants to put in your house.
00:35:24.500Thank God we weren't afraid of the scare tactics.
00:35:29.680Because that's what we all have in our house today.
00:35:32.060Or at least we will for a while until they come up with something even better that you're not allowed to question.
00:35:38.220If you can't challenge prevailing wisdom, if you can't propose a new idea, if you can't say, wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense, everything stops.
00:35:56.060Progress depends on the free exchange of ideas.
00:36:00.040And if you get rid of your opposition, life falls apart.
00:36:06.000Even the Bible says, opposition in all things.
00:36:13.000You have to have the metal and the flint.
00:36:21.160It's when they rub together, when they strike against each other, that's when a spark is made.
00:36:29.340This is what we're arguing about right now.
00:36:39.180It should show you the health of America.
00:36:42.980I mean, when you have a cold, the doctor might talk to you about, you know, okay, I want you to take this and this and this and just get some bed rest.
00:36:51.740But when you have a cold and you have cancer, the doctor's not talking about the cold, okay?
00:37:22.500Meanwhile, they want you to yell and scream about Biden or Trump or whatever.
00:37:27.920However, it's the fundamental rights that are first expressed in our Declaration of Independence, something that was signed and agreed upon on July 2nd, finally announced to the American people on July 4th, that we should be concentrating on.
00:37:49.860I urge you this Independence Day, tomorrow, and I know your family's going to roll their eyes and go, Dad, please, at least mine do all the time.
00:37:59.900Dad, please, read the Declaration of Independence tomorrow.
00:46:17.160He was on just a couple of weeks ago, and he said he was planning on suing New York in response to the unconstitutional lawfare against Trump.
00:46:26.400Breaking news here on the program with Attorney General Bailey on what the next steps are.
00:53:49.200Um, and they just are keep hanging on the same thing with Joe Biden.
00:53:54.920If they would have done the responsible thing, the right thing a year ago, and said, you know, there's a lot of smoke about his confusion.
00:54:04.140Um, let's just make sure that that's not happening for the good of the country, for the love of Pete.
00:54:10.100And they would have listened to the American people, and they would have said, Joe, you've got to do, because we have all these questions, you have to do either the primary, or you have to do X number of interviews with tougher people.
00:54:25.180Not people who are in the bag with some tougher people, um, and we have to see you perform, and the American people need to see you perform.
00:54:33.220If they would have done the right thing then, they wouldn't be in this situation.
00:54:36.580But now, the entire thing is in chaos, and it's because they refuse to admit that they don't control everything.
00:54:50.940You have to be so arrogant that you think your way is the only way, and it's the right way, and that you can control all of these different variables, so it'll work out for you.
00:55:04.240Yeah, yet again, centralized control fails, right?
00:55:08.440It's this story of the past, you know, couple hundred years, uh, really since, since communism came around, we've seen this happen over and over and over and over and over again.
00:55:18.040I, uh, you know, you look at this, and their new excuse is almost the most disturbing one, which was, this is from media and Democratic elected officials, and basically what they're saying to these reporters off the record is, we're angry at the aides around the president because they kept telling us he was fine, and so we kept believing it and repeating it, and now we look bad.
00:55:48.360I, I think, I think there's an aspect to it, at least that's true, which is, they, I think they knew what was going on, but they kept taking these words and being like, well, let's, you know, this is the spin.
00:56:01.280This is what we're supposed to be doing.
00:56:02.900We're dutifully going to report it to everyone, and now that it's fallen apart, they're sitting here blaming the aides, which, again, it's on you.
00:56:10.440If you're a journalist, you're the one that should have been asking these questions the whole time.
00:56:15.540So I've been doing a lot of research on progressive doctors, and especially those that influenced those doctors in Germany, and then those in Germany, and what they said during the Nuremberg trials.
00:56:44.880They couldn't be a doctor if you wouldn't participate in it.
00:56:49.080So they chose that they wanted their lifestyle and their, you know, their position, and they chose to deny what they knew to be true, that killing people is killing people.
00:57:05.560And in the end, they all tried to blame somebody else, but they all knew.
00:57:09.180There's no way you rode on that airplane with him.
00:57:11.640There's no way you were walking the halls of the White House.
00:57:15.960There's no way none of these people had a really well-placed source inside the White House that wasn't saying, geez, man, this is getting insane.
01:03:09.180You can get judged that way everywhere else.
01:03:11.340I want to judge this on who motivated you.
01:03:15.460Who connected with that American story in the most passionate way that you walked away after seeing that and going, that is game-changing for me.
01:03:24.060I understand that port of history or it's inspired me somehow or another.
01:03:47.760Hopefully, this will be something that will happen yearly where we'll be able to tell new stories about America and push new art out into our system, into our culture.
01:04:03.320So, you know, Americans can have something hanging on their wall that's more than a soldier, a jet, an American flag with the eagle carrying the president in his cloth.
01:04:14.460I mean, it would be good if it was President Biden being carried away in his cloth.
01:07:42.720It's in theaters nationwide, and it's called The Sound of Hope, and it is about a Texas church that adopted 77 kids that no one wanted in the foster care system.
01:07:55.460It's a true story and unbelievable, and the guy to tell it is Josh Weigel.
01:08:10.820So how did you find the story of this church?
01:08:14.300Well, my wife and I had adopted, and she was working very much in that space in Los Angeles, and so she ran across the story and met Bishop Martin, and long story short, we just felt like this story had to be told in a movie if possible.
01:08:31.380And so we just began that journey, especially after hearing the kids' stories.
01:08:38.360And I felt like, you know, it's a tough one to get on the screen with all the characters, but we just dug in and felt like it needed to be done.
01:08:45.280I tell you, I have several friends who grew up in the foster care system, and their stories are just nightmares.
01:08:53.300I mean, it's not Chucheska, but it's really a horrible system that we have many, many times.
01:09:00.980And just in seeing the way you portray some of the trauma from these kids and the things that the families had to deal with, I mean, it wasn't – it's not all rosy.
01:09:12.560I mean, it was – it's hard work to take kids who have been beaten and abused in a foster care system and bring them into your home.
01:09:23.700I mean, so these kids in particular, all kids go through extreme trauma just by losing their family and anything related to that, just powerfully hurtful.
01:09:33.440But these kids, the 77, you know, these were the ones that were difficult to place.
01:09:37.420So that was kids who were heavily traumatized physically or sexually abused.
01:09:43.640Sibling sets, you know, they hate to break up sets of kids, which is fantastic.
01:09:47.600They try to keep them together, but it's really hard to place a lot of the time because of that.
01:09:53.180We kind of have – if people want to do this, it's often like the younger ones, they're less scary, I guess.
01:09:59.500You know, it feels like there won't be as much to deal with.
01:10:01.840But it is – they took on the ones that no one wanted, which is what really made this story stand out to me.
01:10:08.520I felt like, you know, if they can do this, this little average community of people have the courage to just dive in when they saw this problem, then, you know, we can all do something.
01:10:24.580Yeah, so it's not even an official town.
01:10:26.480It's a region – it's like an area, and they've just called it Possum Trot for years, which, as weird as that might be, people might be surprised to hear that Kansas City, when they're trying to think of a name for Kansas City, it was between Kansas City and Possum Trot.
01:10:40.060So it must have been a big deal way back then, I don't know.
01:10:43.800So it's – I mean, how much – how many – the population of Possum Trot compared to this church, which seems pretty small, I mean, 77 kids.
01:10:58.500How many people were involved in this?
01:11:02.020The area probably has 300 or 400 people, and that's sprawling.
01:11:06.440I mean, that's miles and miles of area considered Possum Trot.
01:11:10.240And so this community is more condensed, you know, in terms of the people who were involved in the church itself, you know, probably has, you know, now, I don't know, 75 members or something.
01:11:21.260It's not a big – it's not a big church.
01:11:23.220So, you know, they imagine that, all those kids, and what that did to just the number of people and all of that, the growth that happened so rapidly.
01:11:33.960And then you've got kids that are struggling.
01:11:38.640So what was the secret that you found at Possum Trot that we should all take away?
01:11:47.540Well, I think on a humanity, sort of human level, we see problems all around us and so often just leave it to others to deal with, especially the government, something like this.
01:12:00.260It's like, well, there's a foster system.
01:12:02.360Surely they'll, you know, take care of it.
01:12:03.720But, you know, these are human children.
01:12:06.500This is nothing that a government should be primarily responsible in terms of raising the kids, you know.
01:12:15.480So I think we've got to do – follow the lead of this community on one level and just go, look, there's problems that we can solve.
01:12:25.000And if you're someone – this is about a Christian church, so, you know, that's a whole other layer of responsibility and heart.
01:12:33.420I mean, you – I think many of us in that place feel probably even more compelled to meet the needs of these kids.
01:12:42.640And then we have scriptures actually teaching us, you know, go – James 1.27 – go and visit or take care of the needs of the orphans and widows.
01:12:51.560Not just keep yourself pure and unspotted from the world, but there's this need to take action and do things in the name of Jesus and follow His footsteps.
01:13:21.220Extended family, friends, they all do life together.
01:13:24.520And so these kids came into a very strong community and structure that, you know, they know is always there for them.
01:13:33.800They could always come back to and just embrace them.
01:13:37.820You know, imagine that, just all of these different people.
01:13:41.300Whether they, you know, adopted the children or not, there's just a lot of people around to become that extended family.
01:13:48.600So, the – you know, I think our churches have become more theoretical.
01:13:58.700And, you know, church has become a building, and it's not meant to be a building.
01:14:04.040You know, when they talk about it in the scriptures and they say the church, they don't mean the building.
01:14:08.320They mean the people that are following.
01:14:10.800And being a Christian, a true Christian, is really hard, not because it makes you unpopular, but because there's so much required to do that most of us are just like, yeah, well, I'm going to – you know what?
01:14:29.440That's not what this is, and this is truly about building community and doing the things you don't want to do, but you're required to do, and you're required to do it with joy.
01:14:44.800And, man, sometimes that sucks, you know?
01:14:47.760Well, I mean, that is a powerful reality, and I think what's so interesting and, honestly, I think the silver lining in that is that as you are called into these hard things – and I'm just talking about, you know, Christians.
01:15:05.740I think humans, you know, we have a conscience, but you've got people saying they're following Jesus in particular, and they ought to do the things that Jesus did and follow where he goes, and he's always going to the broken things, and we were all broken, right?
01:15:21.600So it's – there is that part of it that kind of sounds like, geez, do I really have to do this?
01:15:29.000Can't I just be an American with a white picket fence?
01:15:31.060And the answer, of course, is no, but what happens, and in my experience, is once you step into it, I mean, you have everything you need.
01:15:39.940I think we hear this word grace a lot, and I think that's a big part of what we mean by it, is that God is going to meet you with what you need when you step in.
01:15:52.260You might have to step into it first, and then all of a sudden you're full of everything you need, and that's a struggle.
01:15:59.040But, I mean, what – the things that disturb us the most in this world, I feel a responsibility as a Christian to do what I can to resolve them.
01:16:10.820That's what it means to be light and salt, and all these things were metaphorically, you know, just talked about as.
01:16:18.920And I think that's something that's missing right now in America.
01:22:29.780That's some breaking news once again from the New York Times, who, I kid you not, is literally all in on making sure Joe Biden does not have this nomination anymore past this weekend.
01:22:54.980But they report that a key, Biden told a key ally that he is weighing whether to continue in the race.
01:23:02.700The president's conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday.
01:23:13.200Goes on to talk about whether he knows he has to nail these three appearances he has coming up, a couple of campaign rallies, but then also this George Stephanopoulos ABC News interview.
01:23:22.480It's going to be a great holiday, but an incredibly fascinating weekend.
01:26:02.400And we'll talk about that in 60 seconds.
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01:27:27.400So, President Biden has agreed to do a sit-down with George Stephanopoulos on Friday, uh, and yet they are still pushing him to, uh, step down so they can find another nominee.
01:27:41.460Um, they've created a huge mess in their own party because they refuse to, um, recognize the obvious that it's human to start to slip towards the end.
01:27:54.220Uh, and I guess they can't wait until Friday, which says to me that he's in even more trouble than, uh, we've even seen.
01:28:03.400Because if he wasn't, he could sit down with George Stephanopoulos and knock it out of the park and it would be over, I think.
01:28:10.660Um, but somebody, you know, very powerful people and a lot of Americans want him out of office now after the debate.
01:28:17.600Right. He has just, the White House has just made an announcement, which is, uh, to be clear, it is a report from the New York Times that, uh, Biden told an ally that he is weighing whether to continue in the race.
01:28:31.900This is the first indication from anywhere inside the Biden camp that this is going on.
01:28:37.000Now, assuming the Times is telling the truth, which of course is something we definitely have to consider.
01:28:41.720Yeah. And you have to, you know, if that would have come out two weeks ago, it would have been a different story.
01:28:46.060Yep. Um, but now the New York Times is on the exact opposite foot and they are doing everything they can to get him out.
01:29:02.460It does give essentially Biden an out here. He's got an interview scheduled with Stephanopoulos, as you point out, on Friday and two campaign stops, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
01:29:11.680Those must go well is essentially the standard they've set for themselves here.
01:29:16.060Uh, which is just really legitimately incredible, um, to the, to the extent that now we have a, we went through a nomination process.
01:29:25.220Joe Biden won that nomination process. He has participated as the nominee during a presidential debate.
01:44:58.260And more than anything else, obviously, this is just a, you're trying to, you know, egg me on about the bet that we made that I had won.
01:45:05.760I don't know how this is even a conversation.
01:45:08.000But now Joe Biden is the, not even the favorite to win his own nomination.
01:45:11.940And they ran a poll with a bunch of different candidates to try to find out who would be the best challenger.
01:45:18.060And for all the troubles that Joe Biden is having, the polls haven't really reflected it yet.
01:45:23.800And even in this, like, he, the only, he was better than all of the other options that were offered, including the big names like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris and all these other ones, with one exception.
01:45:35.660I think he was down one point or tied with Donald Trump, Joe Biden was.
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01:47:53.360We are so glad that you tuned in today.
01:47:55.460Tomorrow is Independence Day, and I would strongly urge you to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to your kids this weekend.
01:48:07.580Do it while you're sitting around in the yard or whatever.
01:48:53.140Let me read to you the Declaration of Independence.
01:48:56.720In Congress, July 4th, 1776, the unanimous Declaration of the 13 United States of America.
01:49:04.180When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
01:49:13.840and then to assume among the powers of the earth the separate but equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitles them,
01:49:24.160a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
01:49:32.160So, in other words, we've got to break up, and we want you to understand why.
01:49:41.540Because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,
01:49:52.260and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
01:49:55.420The part that we should start to memorize is after this, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,
01:50:05.780deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
01:50:52.560We don't know what we're even fighting for.
01:50:55.260And, you know, it has to be earned by every generation.
01:50:59.140But prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
01:51:08.620And, accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer while the evils are sufferable
01:51:15.860than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they're accustomed.
01:51:20.280But when a long train of abuses and usurpedations pursuing the same object invinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, got it?
01:51:34.640When there's a long train, you don't change it for little reasons, but when there's a long train and it shows abuse, abuse, abuse,
01:51:40.940and it all leads to one thing, despotism, totalitarianism, fascism, communism, then it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such a government
01:51:53.820and provide new guards for their future security.
01:51:57.460So you can't really throw this off and say, I want communism.
01:52:02.240You can throw this government off if it's become a dictatorship,
01:52:07.040but you have to then replace it with a government that is best to secure those natural rights.
01:52:15.240Such has been the patient suffering, sufferance of the colonies,
01:52:18.960and such it's now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former system of government.
01:52:24.520And the history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries,
01:52:29.260all having direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over these states.
01:52:35.300And to prove this, we state these facts to a candid world.