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00:00:16.380 Are you, or a member of your family, an illegal immigrant?

00:00:21.460 Is ice hot on your trail?

00:00:24.600 Maybe you've just crossed the border illegally and you're not quite sure where the safest place to evade the cops are.

00:00:30.000 Well, fear no more, because now Apple has a new app for that.

00:00:36.840 The app is called Notify.

00:00:40.020 It's described as a, quote, tool to protect immigrants living in the U.S. illegally by utilizing high-tech and online social communications, end quote.

00:00:50.780 Okay, so I'm, I'm, I'm, okay.

00:00:53.940 If an illegal immigrant is about to get arrested crossing the border or inside the United States, all they have to do is click on the app, click one button, and an emergency plan of action initiates.

00:01:08.240 Lawyers and family members are notified and a predetermined plan executes.

00:01:12.700 Another feature coming to the app soon is a heat map that shows where the arrests are being made.

00:01:19.120 That way, you can avoid those areas and stay hidden.

00:01:22.880 This is fantastic.

00:01:25.900 It actually sounds like it should be illegal, but you can download the app right now from both Google and Apple app stores.

00:01:35.940 So now, how does something that helps you evade the authorities get approved by both Google and Apple?

00:01:49.980 Well, may I just point out, it's probably has a little something to do with money.

00:01:55.520 It's always interesting to follow the money.

00:02:00.980 So who is the organization behind this app?

00:02:04.880 Well, it's a group named United We Dream.

00:02:08.960 And United We Dream is a group that has 400,000 members.

00:02:13.220 And their stated goal is to, quote,

00:02:15.100 embrace the common struggle of all people of color and stand up against racism, colonialism, colorism, and xenophobia.

00:02:27.060 Now, a list of some of their biggest projects.

00:02:30.740 DACA, the Dream Educational Empowerment Program, the Education Not Deportation Project.

00:02:37.540 And this one has to be the most random on the list.

00:02:40.840 The Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project.

00:02:45.100 I guess they have that one in there so they can just check every single box on the social justice wish list.

00:02:52.360 Anyway, back to the money.

00:02:55.080 United We Dream.

00:02:56.960 Now, who formed that?

00:02:59.120 Well, it was formed in 2008 as an initiative by a group called the National Immigration Law Center,

00:03:06.620 which turns out that they actually have two rich sugar daddies.

00:03:12.180 The first one isn't going to surprise you.

00:03:15.100 It's George Soros.

00:03:19.200 The second one might surprise you.

00:03:24.920 Uncle Sam.

00:03:26.500 According to Judicial Watch, the U.S. government actually funded this group with over $200,000 tax dollars in federal grant money.

00:03:36.700 And both groups, United We Dream and its parent company, list George Soros Open Society Foundation as its key financial backer.

00:03:47.460 The progressives' radical agenda to fundamentally transform the United States is being handled with George Soros as usual, but now your tax dollars.

00:03:59.100 We can't fund a wall.

00:04:01.100 We can't fund a wall.

00:04:02.160 You know why?

00:04:04.000 Because we're already funding an app that is helping illegal immigrants stay hidden. 1.00

00:04:10.860 It's Thursday, May 3rd.

00:04:27.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:29.460 So I want to get to the Rudy Giuliani stuff here in just a second.

00:04:36.640 But, Stu, I would like to actually start with a little game.

00:04:39.780 All right.

00:04:40.200 Tell me what these things have in common.

00:04:43.540 Okay.

00:04:43.880 You ready?

00:04:44.140 Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court, the Invisible State, I have more, fathers, husbands, boyfriends, male bosses, Democratic documentary makers, voter suppression, Benghazi investigators, women protesters, Matt Lauer, the Republican Party, the media, Steve Bannon.

00:05:14.140 The Democratic Party.

00:05:16.140 The Democratic Party.

00:05:20.040 Is it time for me to guess?

00:05:21.440 Well, I have more, but you want to take a guess?

00:05:23.640 No, not yet.

00:05:24.740 Campaign finance.

00:05:27.200 Netflix.

00:05:28.640 Facebook.

00:05:30.140 Twitter.

00:05:32.800 Content farms in Macedonia.

00:05:37.400 Is it time?

00:05:38.640 I have more, but, I mean, you want to take a guess?

00:05:41.640 I do have a guess.

00:05:44.140 Uh, things that can be described by words.

00:05:47.940 No.

00:05:49.580 You can't describe those things?

00:05:51.320 That's not what I'm looking for.

00:05:52.680 Oh.

00:05:53.100 Television executives. 0.87

00:05:55.660 Misogynists.

00:05:56.600 These all have one thing in common.

00:05:59.280 Misogynists.

00:06:00.580 People wanting change.

00:06:03.800 Uh, Bernie Sanders supporters.

00:06:06.340 Bernie Sanders himself.

00:06:08.460 The New York Times.

00:06:09.740 Joe Biden.

00:06:12.160 White women. 1.00

00:06:14.660 Anti-American forces. 0.98

00:06:16.860 The Electoral College.

00:06:19.740 Everyone who just assumes.

00:06:23.540 Barack Obama.

00:06:25.420 The Russians. 0.71

00:06:26.800 WikiLeaks.

00:06:28.080 Low information voters.

00:06:30.580 Bad polling numbers.

00:06:32.300 Anything yet?

00:06:35.480 You've listed all things.

00:06:37.280 James Comey.

00:06:38.080 FBI.

00:06:38.980 Vladimir Putin.

00:06:40.760 And the last one.

00:06:42.640 Let's see if I have it.

00:06:44.300 I did the invisible state, right?

00:06:46.680 Mm-hmm.

00:06:46.980 And the last one.

00:06:49.460 Capitalism.

00:06:52.160 All things available on Earth?

00:06:54.360 All things Hillary Clinton has said was, uh, what caused her to lose the election. 1.00

00:07:01.760 So I was right.

00:07:02.680 All things available on Earth.

00:07:03.820 The latest is capitalism.

00:07:06.380 Have you heard what she said?

00:07:07.620 Oh, my gosh.

00:07:08.320 This is, do we have the audio, Sarah, of Hillary Clinton yesterday giving an interview

00:07:13.980 where she said, because I was, said I was a capitalist is the reason why I lost.

00:07:19.400 Listen.

00:07:20.140 You may be the only, uh, presidential candidate since World War II that actually had to stand

00:07:24.600 up and say, I am a capitalist.

00:07:26.980 Uh, and you did.

00:07:28.280 Uh, did it hurt you?

00:07:30.180 Probably.

00:07:30.840 I mean, you know, it's, it's hard, it's hard to know.

00:07:33.780 But, I mean, if you're in the Iowa caucuses and 41% of Democrats are, uh, socialists or

00:07:39.740 self-described socialists, and I'm asked, are you a capitalist?

00:07:43.200 And I say, yes, but with appropriate regulation and appropriate, uh, uh, accountability, uh,

00:07:49.720 you know, that, that probably gets lost in the, oh, my gosh, she's a capitalist. 1.00

00:07:53.760 I mean.

00:07:54.680 Wow.

00:07:55.020 What an admission.

00:07:55.920 What an admission.

00:07:57.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:07:58.320 41% of Democrats in the Iowa caucus are self-described socialists.

00:08:03.260 What an admission.

00:08:05.620 The mask comes off and they say, they'll just come out and say, yes, I'm a socialist because

00:08:11.340 this system doesn't work.

00:08:13.520 There it is.

00:08:14.560 There it is.

00:08:15.240 I mean, and that, did you see how easily that came off the tongue?

00:08:18.160 Yes.

00:08:18.760 That was not a, that was not a stat she needed to look up.

00:08:21.820 That was not something she wasn't, uh, which says she was unfamiliar with.

00:08:25.320 That is her realizing that half of her party identify themselves as socialists.

00:08:34.180 But we were crazy conspiracy freaks for saying that.

00:08:38.760 We were hateful.

00:08:39.600 We were hateful.

00:08:40.160 If you remember with Barack Obama, it was racist to say he was a socialist would never,

00:08:44.240 which never made any sense.

00:08:45.480 Yes.

00:08:45.700 That is a fascinating admission.

00:08:48.400 First of all, she didn't lose to Bernie Sanders in the election, right?

00:08:53.560 So, uh, why she thinks this hurt her so much, uh, I don't know why.

00:08:58.840 I mean, Donald Trump won the election, if you remember, and he pretty much is clear that

00:09:02.660 he's a capitalist.

00:09:03.900 He is, he is Mr. Capitalism.

00:09:06.920 Right.

00:09:07.640 Uh, and then on the other side, just to admit that that portion.

00:09:11.880 That's phenomenal.

00:09:13.180 It's phenomenal.

00:09:13.320 And you know, even the question is, can you play it again?

00:09:16.080 Listen, listen to the question.

00:09:18.280 What an odd question to ask.

00:09:20.600 You may be the only, uh, presidential candidate since World War II that actually had to stand

00:09:25.040 up and say, I am a capitalist.

00:09:27.360 Uh, and you did, uh, did it hurt you?

00:09:30.640 Probably.

00:09:31.300 I mean, you know, it's, it's who asks that question unless you were kind of a socialist

00:09:38.660 yourself, you know what I mean?

00:09:41.080 Or unless you at least recognize that the democratic party is almost all socialist now.

00:09:46.900 Who asked that question?

00:09:48.040 I don't know.

00:09:48.520 Would you ever, would you ever think of asking somebody, do you think that, you know, when

00:09:54.820 she said or that anyone said that they were a capitalist in America, that that hurt them?

00:09:59.920 That's a pretty weird question.

00:10:02.020 Yeah.

00:10:02.200 I mean, the only thing I can think of is if I was looking to see where it happened, it

00:10:05.560 happened at the values leadership summit.

00:10:08.120 Yeah.

00:10:08.600 Which I was thinking if it was, she was doing a yet another one of her speeches to some

00:10:12.380 gigantic bank, right?

00:10:13.820 That would make sense as a question potentially.

00:10:16.340 Um, but yeah, I mean, the values leadership summit, you know, I don't know why you'd ask

00:10:20.860 that question unless, you know, one of your values is socialism.

00:10:25.340 Yeah.

00:10:25.720 I mean, I guess, I mean, you know, he may think that it's so obvious that we're all

00:10:29.600 capitalists, right?

00:10:30.340 Why aren't, of course we're all capitalists and you're the only person who actually had

00:10:33.280 to say it because there were socialists coming against you, right?

00:10:36.560 Could be that sort of construct.

00:10:37.920 But regardless, it's still an amazing moment.

00:10:41.460 Absolutely amazing.

00:10:43.180 I mean, that's half your party.

00:10:44.780 I know.

00:10:46.060 So the media today is focusing on this so-called mistake that Rudy Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani

00:10:52.100 did not make a mistake last night.

00:10:54.300 That's interesting.

00:10:54.800 I didn't think so either.

00:10:55.940 He did not make a mistake.

00:10:57.780 They keep saying that.

00:10:58.460 Oh, he let something slip.

00:10:59.880 No, he didn't.

00:11:00.460 No, he didn't.

00:11:00.860 No, he didn't.

00:11:01.280 He put them on better legal ground.

00:11:02.760 No, he didn't.

00:11:03.960 He put the president on more solid legal ground.

00:11:07.480 Okay.

00:11:07.680 So we're going to get into that here in a second.

00:11:09.140 But you're going to hear all about Rudy Giuliani today from the media.

00:11:13.020 You're not going to hear, again, not a mistake, just an honest admission that 41 percent of

00:11:23.140 the Democratic caucus in Iowa are self-described socialists and the Democratic Party is masquerading

00:11:34.360 as a pro-American, pro-Constitution, pro-reasonable capitalist party.

00:11:43.480 They're not.

00:11:44.580 They are the Socialist Party.

00:11:46.840 And you're not going to hear anyone report on that.

00:11:55.440 Back with the Rudy Giuliani thing in just a second.

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00:13:20.840 So glad that you have joined us today.

00:13:23.760 There's so much going on.

00:13:26.300 I want to get to the Rudy Giuliani thing.

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00:14:14.340 If you don't toe the line, we'll give all of that coming up in just a few minutes.

00:14:18.580 Let's just go over what happened with Rudy Giuliani last night on the Sean Hannity show.

00:14:22.780 Everybody is saying that, uh, he made a mistake.

00:14:25.580 He didn't make a mistake.

00:14:26.980 He put the president in a better position legally, uh, last night and it was made to look impromptu.

00:14:34.700 Uh, I think, um, he had every intention of saying that if it was a mistake, Rudy Giuliani

00:14:40.900 will be torn apart by the president and Twitter or fired, but he won't be because this is putting

00:14:46.780 the president in a better situation.

00:14:48.860 Yeah.

00:14:49.400 And said, you know, Trump kind of tweeted something very legalistic this morning about,

00:14:52.920 about what Giuliani said.

00:14:54.840 And, and if you don't know campaign finance, you know, law, which no one should, uh, because 1.00

00:15:02.080 it's stupid. 0.97

00:15:02.880 Um, but if you, a person makes a giant donation to a candidate, it is a major problem. 1.00

00:15:09.860 It's what put Dinesh D'Souza in, in jail.

00:15:12.540 Okay.

00:15:12.900 And of course that was a ridiculous, uh, you know, yes, but again, it's, it's what the law 0.58

00:15:17.740 was supposedly.

00:15:19.440 So you make a big donation to someone you can't do.

00:15:22.920 You can't do that.

00:15:23.700 However, the candidate themselves can make large donations to their campaign, right?

00:15:28.940 So if you're, if you make a large donation to your campaign and it's not disclosed, there's

00:15:34.260 probably a fine involved.

00:15:35.280 Maybe if you have someone making a large donation over the legal limit and that comes out, you

00:15:43.200 can go to prison.

00:15:44.020 Okay.

00:15:44.540 So the idea, it's better for Donald Trump to have paid for the, for the payment to

00:15:51.000 Stormy Daniels than it is Michael Cohen, um, uh, paying for it himself.

00:15:55.600 So, and we've been talking about this for weeks.

00:15:58.500 Why do they keep saying that, that Cohen made this payment?

00:16:01.540 Well, Giuliani has gone in there now, has figured this out.

00:16:05.300 And then he comes out and quote unquote blurts it out on the Sean Hannity show.

00:16:09.200 I think what he's doing instead here is, is a, a smart move to put both the president

00:16:14.280 and Michael Cohen on much more solid legal ground.

00:16:16.960 Because it's much better to have the president come out and say, yes, I lied.

00:16:21.500 Now see, this sounds familiar.

00:16:23.060 Yes, I lied, but I only did it to protect my wife, Melania.

00:16:27.400 I just, I, I didn't, you know, I just did it for Melania.

00:16:31.600 It's a well-worn path.

00:16:32.520 It's, it's totally fine and totally acceptable to half of the public, whichever half happens

00:16:38.380 to be in office.

00:16:39.880 Uh, so that's where he's going.

00:16:42.140 Yes, I lied to you, but it was my own personal business.

00:16:44.740 It's my own faults, et cetera, et cetera.

00:16:47.000 But I paid for that myself.

00:16:48.900 I just didn't want Melania to know, which will keep everybody out of jail and his supporters

00:16:54.480 will accept just like the Clinton supporters accepted it at that time.

00:16:59.580 Yeah.

00:16:59.820 This is the Bill Clinton press precedent.

00:17:01.940 You lie about something until the lie becomes a crime and then you do some prioritization.

00:17:06.800 You have to prioritize whether you want to take a legal beating or a political beating.

00:17:12.300 And so it's, now he has not come out and said that he slept with Stormy Daniels or anything

00:17:17.760 like that yet.

00:17:18.820 Um, though I would not be surprised that won't happen unless there's a blue dress.

00:17:22.800 He'll, he'll go down this road and say that it didn't happen until there's a blue dress.

00:17:26.160 And then he'll, and then at that point he'll change his mind and take a political hit for

00:17:29.580 it, but not a legal one.

00:17:30.440 Um, so that's why I think they're nervous about him talking to, you know, Mueller, because

00:17:35.660 if he blurt something out there, that's not true.

00:17:38.140 He actually can have consequences.

00:17:39.900 So that's a, that's a potential issue.

00:17:41.560 But Giuliani, we should listen to the clip.

00:17:43.820 You know, if you watch the clip, he looks a little disheveled.

00:17:47.260 Rudy is, you know, added some ages, added some years to his age over the, you know, over

00:17:51.420 time.

00:17:51.680 And he looks a little disheveled and it feels like he's blurting it out.

00:17:55.680 He's not, but I don't think so.

00:17:57.040 I mean, Giuliani is a smart guy and this puts, it doesn't just coincidentally put the president

00:18:03.120 of the United States on better legal ground.

00:18:05.120 If, if this is a mistake and it may be, but if it is a mistake, you'll see him get fired

00:18:10.040 in the next few days or you'll never see him on television again.

00:18:13.460 Um, I don't know.

00:18:14.240 Maybe that will happen.

00:18:15.000 Maybe it won't.

00:18:15.960 But here's the clip from Giuliani with Sean Hannity yesterday.

00:18:19.160 That money was not campaign money.

00:18:21.640 Having something to do with paying some stormy Daniels woman 130,000.

00:18:26.880 I mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal.

00:18:31.280 That money was not campaign money.

00:18:33.500 Sorry.

00:18:34.080 I'm giving you a fact now that you don't know.

00:18:36.260 It's not campaign money.

00:18:38.440 No campaign finance violation.

00:18:42.120 So they funneled it through the law firm.

00:18:45.020 Funnel through the law firm and the president repaid it.

00:18:48.460 Oh, I didn't know.

00:18:49.680 He did.

00:18:50.220 Yeah.

00:18:50.540 There's no campaign finance law.

00:18:52.380 Zero.

00:18:53.820 So the president.

00:18:54.640 Just like every, Sean.

00:18:55.960 So this decision was made by.

00:18:58.200 Everybody.

00:18:58.800 Everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning.

00:19:00.980 I wasn't.

00:19:01.820 I knew how much money Donald Trump put into that campaign.

00:19:04.700 I said 130,000.

00:19:06.540 He's going to do a couple of checks for 130,000.

00:19:09.060 When I heard Cohen's retainer of 35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said,

00:19:15.420 well, that's how he's repaying.

00:19:16.880 That's how he's repaying it.

00:19:19.220 With a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael.

00:19:23.580 But do you know the president didn't know about this?

00:19:28.100 I believe that's what Michael said.

00:19:29.060 He didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as I know.

00:19:32.040 But he did know about the general arranger that Michael would take care of things like this.

00:19:36.340 Like, I take care of things like this for my clients.

00:19:39.500 I don't burden them with every single thing that comes along.

00:19:42.500 That's incredible.

00:19:44.000 That's incredible.

00:19:45.480 And makes sense.

00:19:47.180 And probably is the way that Donald Trump operates.

00:19:51.340 Yeah.

00:19:51.820 I mean, it seems unlikely he didn't know anything about this particular payment.

00:19:56.100 But again, I mean, you know, what does it matter?

00:19:59.400 He can pay.

00:20:00.460 That is absolutely legal.

00:20:01.540 It feels weird.

00:20:03.000 But it's absolutely legal in this society to pay someone to not say things.

00:20:06.820 That is absolutely something that can happen.

00:20:09.120 It happens all the time in America.

00:20:11.100 Anyway, don't just don't listen to the press on this one.

00:20:14.400 Rudy Giuliani was not making an error.

00:20:17.540 He was putting the president in a better legal position.

00:20:21.520 This is nothing more than political maneuvering and maneuvering yet again.

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00:21:45.480 You know, George Washington talked about words, not sorry, deeds, not words.

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00:22:50.960 Please pray for us.

00:22:52.200 Well, as it turns out, the American strike was very surgical and everybody turned out to be fine. 0.80

00:22:58.100 But about a decade ago.

00:23:01.880 Jeremy and his wife, Jessica, they chose to move to Iraq.

00:23:06.160 Now, who chooses that?

00:23:09.600 The country was in absolute chaos.

00:23:12.420 And Jeremy met a little girl who was dying of a heart defect.

00:23:16.660 And there were all of these kids that were in the same situation to where they could not they had no access to any kind of medical care.

00:23:26.500 Thousands of people waiting in line for surgeries that their country could no longer provide.

00:23:30.540 That's when they started this organization called the Preemptive Love Coalition.

00:23:35.080 And over the next several years, they've done life-saving medical care for thousands of children and hands-on training for medical staff in the countries.

00:23:43.540 They're making a difference.

00:23:45.000 They're in Doma. 0.82

00:23:46.200 They're in the area where the chemical attack happened.

00:23:50.560 And we have Jeremy on the phone from Iraq now.

00:23:54.620 Hello, Jeremy.

00:23:55.140 How are you?

00:23:56.880 Hey, Glenn.

00:23:57.460 I'm doing well.

00:23:58.000 How are things in Iraq today?

00:24:00.540 You know, I guess it depends on what you're comparing it to.

00:24:05.180 I mean, in many ways, it feels like we're out of the fire.

00:24:08.820 But that's actually when the hard work begins.

00:24:11.440 Now the media has largely packed up and moved on.

00:24:14.900 And people aren't talking about Iraq anymore.

00:24:16.600 And what we have is just a whole lot of destruction after years of war and fighting ISIS and thousands of people, tens of thousands of people still needing to put their lives back together.

00:24:26.500 So, you know, it's not all day chaos every day in areas where we are working like it has been over recent years.

00:24:35.280 But we still have grave concerns for the people here and what it means to help them get back on their own two feet.

00:24:41.600 How concerned are the people in Iraq about what's happening with Iran and Israel now?

00:24:47.880 I mean, that looks like that could become a hot war.

00:24:51.420 Yeah, I think it depends.

00:24:54.920 You know, anytime we start talking about entire countries worth of people, we do best to take the time to be nuanced.

00:25:04.060 You know, I've got people here who who would be, you know, fully on the side of Iran. 0.98

00:25:09.140 And then we've got all kinds of friends who would be deathly afraid of Iran and kind of every stripe in between.

00:25:14.720 So you were down on the streets after the retaliation and you saw the same thing.

00:25:21.660 You saw people cheering that Assad had shot down all of the missiles, which wasn't true.

00:25:30.880 And you also saw friends and neighbors and people doing the opposite, saying, thank God for Donald Trump.

00:25:39.140 Yeah, our team in Syria has really seen all kinds of various reactions.

00:25:43.400 It really just depends on maybe what part of the country you're in, what it could depend on ideology and on what you've been through, what you've lived through and how that shapes your worldview.

00:25:54.980 What did you what did your team find it at DOMA?

00:25:58.080 Nobody's really been allowed in that region with the chemical attack.

00:26:03.940 Did you guys get close enough to the chemical attack to be able to see the results of that and and to verify that that actually did happen?

00:26:13.200 Well, look, we don't have the expertise to make a definitive claim, you know, about whether or not chemical attacks happen.

00:26:21.080 That's just we simply don't have those skills.

00:26:22.780 But but but but but there but there were people there.

00:26:28.840 I mean, some people are claiming that that was just all like a, you know, a Photoshop kind of event that that there was no attack there even.

00:26:37.540 Well, if I'm being honest, I'll have to say I still know plenty of people who share that perspective as well.

00:26:43.620 I mean, it's it's murky.

00:26:45.600 Well, I mean, that's all at best.

00:26:47.460 That's what anyone can say who doesn't.

00:26:50.740 I mean, allegedly there's there's, you know, crystal clear damning evidence out there in the intelligence space.

00:26:57.400 I don't have access to that.

00:26:58.720 So what I've got is people on the ground and access to real life humans.

00:27:02.840 And when you when you do it that way, you get any number of different stories and theories.

00:27:07.420 And that's that's all I'm left with is a really murky stew of different people's perspectives.

00:27:12.660 How does the average person because we're starting this now in the United States where you don't know what truth is.

00:27:18.880 How does the average person navigate through those waters?

00:27:23.820 Do you just as everybody just become polarized and, you know, on opposite sides and nobody really has the facts.

00:27:32.140 I mean, what is that what's happening?

00:27:34.820 Well, here's how we do it.

00:27:36.180 We begin with the premise that every single person has value.

00:27:42.380 Every single person is intrinsically valuable.

00:27:45.580 Every single person is made in the image of God, as the Christian tradition puts it.

00:27:50.320 And when every single person is made in the image of God, the facts matter.

00:27:56.860 The truth matters.

00:27:58.100 But but how I respond to the person in front of me, whether they are friend or foe, doesn't necessarily matter.

00:28:06.420 The variance in between how I should regard them is kind of leveled by the simple fact that I regard them as human,

00:28:14.680 that I regard to reduce them to animal or monster, that I refuse to to fail to regard them as being made in the image of God.

00:28:23.900 And and it helps me look inside myself and realize that I've got the propensity for the same kind of evil in me.

00:28:29.480 And there's just a couple of things in my life that I would live through or things that could go wrong, sort of a but for the grace of God, there go I kind of thing that I have the capacity for this stuff in me, too.

00:28:41.260 And it helps humble me and keep us pushing forward into these scary situations.

00:28:45.640 How do you how do you reconcile that with the with the face of evil like ISIS?

00:28:51.520 Oh, I absolutely believe there's evil.

00:28:53.920 I believe ISIS has committed a lot of evil.

00:28:57.020 I believe the force that was in Duma before the Jaisal Islam Islamic army, as they call themselves, have have committed tremendous acts of evil. 0.98

00:29:07.440 So it's certainly not about denying that or turning a face from that or creating a kind of moral equivalency against that.

00:29:17.100 It's it's more about who I'm trying to be, who we're trying to become than it is about reducing ourselves to.

00:29:24.200 Yeah, well, they did this or they did that.

00:29:27.020 I believe in justice.

00:29:28.220 I believe that people should be brought to justice.

00:29:30.960 I believe there's consequences to actions that that we do.

00:29:34.140 I believe that the state has to be involved in some of this stuff.

00:29:38.040 But, you know, for our part as a humanitarian coalition of peacemakers, we're just trying to press into the front lines.

00:29:47.180 We're trying to get there first when the bombs are still falling or as soon thereafter as we can and trying to show up on the scene with love, because I think that the military solutions absolutely have to be in this equation.

00:30:00.420 But we can't bomb our way to peace.

00:30:03.020 That's not going to get us there.

00:30:04.420 And we need more boots on the ground.

00:30:06.820 We need more people showing up in love, because that's the only powerful, the only force really powerful enough to transform anything.

00:30:13.420 Yeah.

00:30:13.900 Jeremy, I appreciate it.

00:30:15.340 And I appreciate your partnership and all that you're doing.

00:30:18.280 I know that you're feeding thousands of people every single day, just, I think, what, about 400 people alone were inside the area of the latest supposed atrocity, the chemical attacks.

00:30:37.400 And I appreciate all of the risk you and your team are taking and your partnership with Mercury One.

00:30:44.360 If you'd like to find out more, you can go to preemptivelove.org, preemptivelove.org.

00:30:50.560 The people who are actually not talking about it, but actually walking the walk and the nazarenefund.org.

00:30:57.380 Thanks so much, Jeremy.

00:31:01.440 No.

00:31:01.880 You said it's a supposed attack, or you're not a skeptic on the attack?

00:31:08.700 No, I'm not.

00:31:09.760 I'm not.

00:31:11.400 You know, he is a guy on the ground, and he has said, you know, we haven't seen it.

00:31:16.940 Yeah, I mean, I think that's a...

00:31:18.040 He had a totally fair breakdown of that, right?

00:31:19.860 It is an alleged attack.

00:31:21.300 There's no real way to prove it, obviously.

00:31:23.240 Yeah.

00:31:23.460 But there's no...

00:31:24.120 We haven't seen the evidence of it.

00:31:25.700 I happen to believe it.

00:31:27.200 Others don't.

00:31:28.820 But, you know, it still is alleged.

00:31:31.880 Until we can see the evidence.

00:31:34.600 I've seen the photographic evidence, but I don't know if I believe my eyes anymore.

00:31:39.380 I do in this particular case, but we're entering a time where I don't know what's true or not.

00:31:45.720 Do you?

00:31:47.180 I know everything that's true, yes.

00:31:49.000 I actually figured it all out last night.

00:31:51.080 Did you really?

00:31:51.640 Yeah, I was so good.

00:31:52.380 I was on the borderline.

00:31:53.280 Can I go home?

00:31:54.900 Will you just...

00:31:55.720 Well, yeah, I guess.

00:31:56.700 Why don't you just take the show and just explain everything?

00:31:59.560 Yeah.

00:31:59.720 We can be done.

00:32:00.340 We can just call it a day.

00:32:01.460 We could call it a career, really.

00:32:03.460 Yeah.

00:32:03.820 No, I mean, I guess you could call 888-727-BECK, ask any question, and I can answer it for you.

00:32:08.640 But other than that, I don't know what we're doing here.

00:32:10.160 All right.

00:32:10.540 Really.

00:32:10.700 Okay.

00:32:11.160 Thanks a lot, Stu.

00:32:12.000 I appreciate it.

00:32:14.300 All right.

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00:33:53.300 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:34:07.240 Glenn Beck.

00:34:08.800 The Glenn Beck Program presents Drunk News.

00:34:15.680 I resemble that remark.

00:34:19.520 News from Dunderfirmeline Sheriff Court.

00:34:28.020 A man ended up behind bars after being found in Dunder Mifflin Street with an offensive weapon.

00:34:39.540 Scott Walker is 39 years old at the James Bank Hostel.

00:34:44.440 James Street, he appeared from custody at Dunder Mifflin Sheriff's Court.

00:34:53.120 He did admit on Saturday in Appling Crescent, a public place, that he was in possession of an object which had a blade or was sharply pointed.

00:35:06.960 I have to remember, we're now starting to confiscate all weapons, like knives and knives.

00:35:19.960 And he had a blade that was sharply pointed, namely a potato peeler.

00:35:28.960 A defense solicitor, Selina McKay, said her client suffers from significant learning difficulties, which have been lifelong.

00:35:42.020 And he had absolutely no idea that a potato peeler was a dangerous weapon.

00:35:49.060 But in all fairness, neither did this reporter.

00:35:54.460 This has been another highly intoxicating episode of Drunk News.

00:35:59.980 A potato peeler.

00:36:02.080 Guy goes to jail for a potato peeler.

00:36:05.500 Does make more sense when you say it.

00:36:07.440 It is.

00:36:08.240 Yeah, but that's a very dangerous weapon.

00:36:11.580 Have you ever.

00:36:12.200 Well, it's dangerous to the potatoes.

00:36:13.360 Potatoes, potatoes are the most untrustworthy of all of the vegetables and root vegetables.

00:36:23.400 It's the only ones with eyes.

00:36:24.780 They have eyes everywhere, on all sides.

00:36:27.320 They're watching you all the time.

00:36:29.500 You have to sneak up.

00:36:32.060 And you have your potato peeler.

00:36:34.440 Your potato peeler, you can use a knife, but potatoes know what knives are.

00:36:39.220 And so the potato peeler, they're like, oh, that's just not a knife.

00:36:43.460 It's actually a very dangerous weapon.

00:36:45.900 It can take your eyes out.

00:36:47.740 I joke about this all you want, but imagine if you're the, you know, you're Mr. and Mrs.

00:36:52.180 Potato Head and you're seeing a potato peeler.

00:36:54.540 Imagine the horror film that that is for the potato.

00:36:57.520 Mr. Potato Head was not asked for comment at this time.

00:37:02.020 He is at home resting comfortably with his wife.

00:37:06.400 I, uh, this is what we're getting down to, gang.

00:37:11.320 So they're, they're legitimately arresting people for potato peelers.

00:37:15.760 Who had a potato peeler.

00:37:17.620 Putting them in jail. 1.00

00:37:19.420 And the defense was, oh, he's a complete imbecile. 1.00

00:37:24.520 That sucks. 1.00

00:37:25.780 It sucks when that's your defense. 1.00

00:37:27.320 I mean, that's crazy. 0.98

00:37:28.720 We use that.

00:37:29.160 We hear that a lot in politics, though.

00:37:30.960 It's kind of the, the standard line of defense for every politician these days. 1.00

00:37:34.800 Ah, I'm just an idiot. 0.99

00:37:35.980 I'm sorry. 0.99

00:37:38.120 Okay. 1.00

00:37:39.220 Uh, listen, Mike, my client, uh, is this a moron? 1.00

00:37:47.060 I would accept that. 0.99

00:37:48.340 Wouldn't you love to hear that from somebody who was like, Judge Roy Moore? 1.00

00:37:53.580 Of course, he's a moron. 1.00

00:37:57.040 It would be interesting to see that as an approach. 1.00

00:37:59.260 It would be effective, I think.

00:38:00.480 Hilary, Hilary, Hilary, Hilary, Hilary, uh, Rodham, uh, Clinton.

00:38:07.540 She, she, she didn't make a lot of mistakes. 1.00

00:38:11.860 She's just a moron. 1.00

00:38:14.800 She was, your honor, when she was taking all of those things, she doesn't break. 1.00

00:38:21.540 She's just a moron. 1.00

00:38:24.640 It works. 1.00

00:38:27.760 I don't think there's enough, the ego cannot be violated in that way for most politicians,

00:38:33.360 though.

00:38:33.520 They can't take that. 1.00

00:38:34.160 Oh, yeah, moron would say that. 1.00

00:38:36.020 Because this works. 1.00

00:38:39.580 Put down that potato peeler.

00:38:42.680 Glenn, back, Mercury.

00:38:45.020 You know, I'm not really sure if, uh, anybody paid attention to what, uh, is happening in,

00:39:07.860 in, in the culture, uh, right now.

00:39:10.320 And, and some of the honest things that are being said, SNL creator, Lorne Michaels has

00:39:15.520 just come out and said that the show lambast Republicans more often because quote, Democrats

00:39:20.320 tend to take it personally and Republicans think it's funny.

00:39:25.100 I don't know if that's true or not.

00:39:26.480 Cause I think we're all losing our sense of humor, but, but what he's saying here is we

00:39:31.680 can attack the, the right because the left becomes offended.

00:39:38.100 So we'll ridicule the other side. 0.97

00:39:41.800 Uh, that, I mean, we all have to get over it.

00:39:45.700 Jokes about president Trump had become the airplane food, you know, comedy routine of

00:39:50.180 our day.

00:39:50.800 Can you believe how bad the food is on airplanes?

00:39:54.140 I mean, am I right?

00:39:55.620 That's the kind of thing that we're getting down to.

00:39:57.920 It's a hack comedian.

00:39:59.580 You, you can do it every day.

00:40:01.780 It's really, really easy.

00:40:04.520 Now, Rob Schneider, who is not exactly the guy that I would go to, you know, for, you

00:40:11.620 know, all my comedy advice, but he makes a really good point when he said, uh, comedy

00:40:18.320 needs surprise.

00:40:19.880 It has to keep the audience guessing.

00:40:22.060 It shouldn't be afraid to shock or offend.

00:40:24.060 It should attack the powerful and the arrogant, but at the same time, it has to come

00:40:27.900 from a place of inspiration where it made the writer laugh.

00:40:30.760 But, uh, if there are ideas of justice, morality, and righteousness, even better, but they always

00:40:37.620 have to take a backseat to actually being funny.

00:40:40.880 The loyalty should reside inside the joke, not through some political identity.

00:40:48.320 That is the problem right now.

00:40:50.900 Everything that everyone is trying to do is trying to make a point.

00:40:54.960 And even if you're not trying to make a point, people take it as you are.

00:41:00.340 For instance, we are so addicted to outrage.

00:41:04.440 It drives me nuts.

00:41:06.380 This stuff with a poo on the Simpsons. 0.87

00:41:09.400 Can we just recognize who Homer Simpson is? 0.87

00:41:15.380 Homer Simpson is the laziest guy in the world, or at least Springfield. 0.85

00:41:21.740 The laziest guy in Springfield. 0.78

00:41:24.580 How many times, Stu, has he almost, uh, vaporized the city of Springfield because...

00:41:30.040 Dozens.

00:41:30.820 I mean, he's constantly threatening his own community with nuclear holocaust. 0.89

00:41:34.640 He's drinking all the time.

00:41:36.480 He's a terrible father almost all the time. 0.99

00:41:39.440 Horrible husband. 0.99

00:41:40.860 Yep. 1.00

00:41:41.880 Well, he's a white guy.

00:41:44.320 Okay.

00:41:45.080 Well, technically yellow, but yes, he's one of those yellow people. 1.00

00:41:49.300 And I'm not offended by that.

00:41:52.120 No, I mean, that's an unbelievable stereotype.

00:41:55.480 Right.

00:41:55.740 I'm not offended by Cletus and all of his toothless kids.

00:41:59.300 That's a stereotype.

00:42:00.820 Both of those kinds of people exist.

00:42:03.620 Can we not laugh at ourself?

00:42:11.580 You know, the, the nature of comedy is by itself.

00:42:18.360 Parody by nature is divisive.

00:42:21.020 Satire is the weaponization of humor.

00:42:24.260 It's the tactical fusing of comedy and politics.

00:42:28.180 And it's the tactical use of humor to voice political insurgency.

00:42:32.120 We know this.

00:42:34.120 You add judgment and attack to humor, and it is inherently negative.

00:42:40.280 Its basis is anger, but in order to be effective, it also must be funny.

00:42:48.660 And we are cutting the funny out of absolutely everything because we're all so angry.

00:42:59.460 Not only are left leading audiences unable to laugh at themselves, you know, as said by

00:43:05.980 Lauren Michaels, they're unable to laugh at a growing list of topics that they've deemed

00:43:11.460 offensive.

00:43:11.920 There is a difference between offensive and unfunny.

00:43:16.860 One thing for a person to dislike a joke because they find it unfunny, but the argument

00:43:21.900 against humor now is it's offensive.

00:43:25.560 Well, maybe, but you don't have a right to tell me that I don't have the right to offend

00:43:34.060 you.

00:43:34.580 Do I have the right to tell you you can't offend me?

00:43:38.660 No, I'm offended all the time.

00:43:42.540 It's it's called life, but we are in this sea of microaggressions and it is shutting all

00:43:50.280 voices up.

00:43:51.660 Somebody is going to get at the top.

00:43:53.840 Do you want me setting the let me ask the left?

00:43:57.160 Do you want me setting the bar and saying what's offensive and what isn't?

00:44:01.540 No, and I don't want you setting the bar.

00:44:04.920 So let's agree to disagree.

00:44:10.000 If you have the ability to laugh.

00:44:12.960 I think that says a lot about you.

00:44:19.320 The best thing we can do.

00:44:21.960 Is stop being offended by everything.

00:44:25.220 Smile.

00:44:26.320 Laugh.

00:44:27.980 Mark Twain said humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

00:44:32.420 So today, instead of being offended. 0.98

00:44:36.080 Show the clowns of the world. 0.99

00:44:38.440 That you're blessed. 0.98

00:44:40.660 Blessed with a sense of humor.

00:44:47.760 It's Thursday, May 3rd.

00:44:49.960 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:44:53.220 Today is World Press Freedom Day.

00:44:56.680 We cannot have a free society if the press is afraid of challenging those who are in power or dare I say, the press is in bed with those who are in power.

00:45:15.420 We have no shot of freedom because there will be no one holding anyone responsible.

00:45:21.580 We are weaponizing the press, both left and right, because the left will defend absolutely anything.

00:45:31.400 The right will defend their side on absolutely anything.

00:45:34.820 We need a free press.

00:45:38.140 And there is a movement and has been a movement for a very long time to stifle the voices of the press.

00:45:46.320 It was happening under Obama in different ways.

00:45:49.460 It's happening again.

00:45:50.420 And we must stand for the right of the press.

00:45:54.640 Today is World Press Freedom Day.

00:45:57.980 And Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

00:46:03.180 Joel, welcome to the program.

00:46:04.980 It's great to be on.

00:46:05.760 Thanks so much for having me.

00:46:06.780 And happy World Press Freedom Day.

00:46:08.100 So tell me what your organization does and why it's important.

00:46:14.900 Okay.

00:46:15.540 Well, let me start with why it's World Press Freedom Day.

00:46:18.580 World Press Freedom Day is one of those strange UN-declared days.

00:46:23.180 And what happened was in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was this brief period of consensus where everyone agreed free press is important.

00:46:33.400 It holds the powerful to accountable to account it creates more representative and democratic societies.

00:46:42.060 And we need to support a free press around the world.

00:46:44.660 And so in that brief period, all the countries of the world came together and declared World Press Freedom Day.

00:46:51.120 I'm not sure it could happen now.

00:46:52.800 But what do we do?

00:46:53.700 So we defend this basic right around the world.

00:46:55.960 We defend the rights of journalists, particularly those working in repressive and dangerous societies, to report the news without fear of reprisal.

00:47:05.140 Journalists shouldn't be killed for reporting the news.

00:47:07.700 They shouldn't go to jail.

00:47:09.220 They shouldn't be censored.

00:47:10.780 This is a basic human right.

00:47:12.400 This is a fundamental right available to all people around the world.

00:47:15.700 We're an organization of journalists, and we defend this right at a global level.

00:47:20.240 So do you defend everyone's right, no matter which side they're on?

00:47:24.200 We defend everyone's right, no matter which side they're on.

00:47:28.300 We believe in a free press.

00:47:31.900 We believe that journalists have to be able to report the news, that government shouldn't be able to determine what's news and what's not news,

00:47:38.620 that terrorists and criminals shouldn't be able to determine what's news and what's not news.

00:47:43.060 And so we defend the rights of journalists everywhere.

00:47:45.740 So tell me what's happening to the right of free press around the world.

00:47:50.120 It is frightening what is happening.

00:47:54.200 It's really terrible what's happening.

00:47:57.100 We're seeing, first of all, last year we recorded a record number of journalists jailed around the world, 262 journalists in jail around the world.

00:48:05.820 That's the most we've ever recorded.

00:48:08.000 They're being jailed in places like Turkey, like Egypt, like China.

00:48:12.660 These are some of the most repressive places around the world.

00:48:15.600 And they're also being killed.

00:48:16.720 Glenn, we saw this horrible attack the other day, the suicide bombing carried out by the Islamic State in Kabul.

00:48:22.740 And what they did, this is so insidious and so terrible, they sent off a small bomb.

00:48:27.700 And then when journalists came to cover that explosion, they had a bomber who was disguised as a journalist,

00:48:35.040 inserted himself in the middle of this group, and blew himself up, killed nine journalists.

00:48:38.800 They carried out another attack later that day.

00:48:41.700 They killed a journalist from the BBC.

00:48:44.620 Now, all of these journalists are Afghans, but they're really reporting for the world.

00:48:48.380 Five of them work for international news organizations.

00:48:51.060 So these are the people who are reporting for all of us.

00:48:54.300 They're the ones who are documenting what's happening in Afghanistan.

00:48:56.940 It's just outrageous and horrifying.

00:48:59.400 These journalists, you should go look at their work.

00:49:01.480 They're so talented.

00:49:02.360 These are such amazing reporters.

00:49:03.560 This is a terrible loss.

00:49:06.040 Joel, you know, I'm very concerned about what's happening in America and in Russia.

00:49:13.140 And I think we're finding the same kinds of things in the last 10 years that we're at the very infant stages that we now find in Russia. 0.72

00:49:24.380 And people don't understand how dangerous it is to be a journalist in Russia.

00:49:30.360 It sure is dangerous to be a journalist in Russia.

00:49:32.940 I mean, it's a place where, you know, a journalist recently who did some critical investigative reporting recently, quote-unquote, fell out of a window in Russia.

00:49:42.620 Yeah, I know.

00:49:43.080 So, you know, that's what happens to you in Russia if you get too close to power.

00:49:48.400 But, you know, the thing is that we've actually seen a decline in journalists being killed in Russia.

00:49:52.340 And that's because it's become so – that the fear has so pervaded the Russian media that we're not seeing that kind of aggressive investigative reporting.

00:50:00.020 That's a really bad thing for Russia.

00:50:01.740 That's actually a really bad thing for all of us here who care about news around the world because there's just less accountability, less probing reporting, less information, frankly.

00:50:10.920 Joel, I – in watching and reading both sides, I read, you know, conservative stuff and I read liberal stuff.

00:50:20.280 And I am somebody who enjoys reading things that I don't agree with.

00:50:25.720 And I have noticed here in America that both sides are hearing things from their own echo chamber.

00:50:34.560 And there is truth that both sides are not aware of.

00:50:39.660 You know what I mean?

00:50:40.260 There's – the right will report something that happened, you know, because of the left.

00:50:47.200 And the left won't report it.

00:50:49.200 You know, the left media won't report it.

00:50:51.040 And then the same thing with the right.

00:50:52.600 There will be something that has happened because of the right.

00:50:55.700 And the left will report it, but the right never hears it.

00:50:58.960 We're in these echo chambers.

00:51:01.200 And I fear that, you know, I don't see a way out of this.

00:51:07.820 And we're both trying to shut everybody up.

00:51:11.380 How do we go the other way?

00:51:13.780 I think we have to reaffirm our faith in the First Amendment.

00:51:17.300 I mean, that's really what – at the heart of our political culture is the First Amendment and the idea that the news media and all media is just an expression of this fundamental right of people expressing their ideas.

00:51:31.580 And we can disagree with them.

00:51:32.840 We can call them names.

00:51:33.840 We can do whatever we want.

00:51:34.980 But, you know, fundamentally, we need to – what we're losing in our media culture and in our political culture is this sort of tolerance for dissenting views and an openness.

00:51:47.380 And that's happening at a global level.

00:51:49.480 So, Joel, how are you going to do that when you have universities now that should be the bastion of all free thought, having riots, you know, or counseling sessions after somebody with an opposite opinion shows up on campus?

00:52:06.320 Well, comedians won't even go play college campuses now.

00:52:09.240 I think it's like 51 percent or 47 percent of college-age students say that there are a lot of limits to the First Amendment.

00:52:20.300 Well, look, we are a global press freedom organization.

00:52:25.180 My fundamental concern is with ensuring that journalists in places like Afghanistan and Mexico and Russia can continue to do their job.

00:52:34.980 I want the U.S. to be a beacon of press freedom, of these values and these tolerance.

00:52:40.960 And whenever we fall down, it has a ripple effect around the world.

00:52:44.880 I mean, let's take fake news, okay?

00:52:46.900 Fake news, this concept of fake news, we can argue about it back and forth, people.

00:52:52.140 It's fake news.

00:52:52.700 It's not fake news, whatever.

00:52:54.140 But you know what's happening?

00:52:55.420 Fake news is being criminalized around the world.

00:52:58.160 There's a new law in Malaysia that makes fake news illegal.

00:53:00.940 In the Philippines, in Singapore, in China, in Russia, fake news is becoming criminalized.

00:53:08.340 And journalists who report what governments deem to be fake news are being put in jail.

00:53:13.340 Yes.

00:53:13.500 But that's a really bad thing.

00:53:15.100 We don't want governments determining what's fake and what's not fake.

00:53:19.020 So I really think we have to kind of – I don't have an easy answer to what you're saying.

00:53:23.000 No, I know.

00:53:23.380 But I think the point is that we need to understand that these debates that we have here have an impact around the world, globally.

00:53:31.380 We set an example.

00:53:32.940 And when we fall down, when we don't uphold our own values, it has an impact on our society.

00:53:38.740 But it is an even more profound impact, which we may not be aware of, in societies around the world that are battling repression and violence.

00:53:45.360 In the days of FISA and everything that is going on in the world, there is nothing, nothing more important than the freedom to speak and the freedom to report on the news without being shut down.

00:54:03.220 Joel Simon from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

00:54:08.280 You can follow him at atpressfreedom.

00:54:12.200 Also, thepressfreedomtracker.us.

00:54:16.240 It's a searchable tool for press freedom violations in the U.S.

00:54:19.280 And you would be surprised on what you will see.

00:54:24.040 Pressfreedomtracker.us.

00:54:25.920 Thank you so much, Joel.

00:54:26.720 Appreciate it.

00:54:27.820 Great to be on.

00:54:28.420 Thank you so much.

00:54:29.140 You bet.

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00:55:55.820 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:55:58.200 You know, we're just talking in the break that freedom of speech is really truly on the ropes.

00:56:27.060 And freedom of the press is on the ropes all around the world.

00:56:30.720 But it's happening here as well.

00:56:33.360 And this is something that we should all be paying attention to is the First Amendment.

00:56:39.200 Your right to speak.

00:56:40.780 Your right to assemble.

00:56:42.020 Your right to petition.

00:56:43.840 Your right to a free, unfettered press.

00:56:47.840 Those things are important.

00:56:49.520 And what people do is they try to show—they're doing it really kind of, in a way, to Kanye now.

00:56:55.760 I mean, he's not a press person.

00:56:58.120 I like how you're on a first-name basis with him.

00:56:59.760 I don't know why.

00:57:00.960 So anyway, it's what they're doing now.

00:57:05.160 You have to pick on the biggest person.

00:57:08.240 And you shut that person up, and all the sheep behind him are silent.

00:57:14.100 That's why they pick on Fox News or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or me.

00:57:17.620 Hey, whenever you're the it person, shut them down.

00:57:22.620 Because there's a whole bunch of people standing behind going, well, if he can say that, I can.

00:57:27.300 So you've got to shut that down.

00:57:29.660 Right.

00:57:29.820 And then if you see a huge figure torn down, you say, oh, my God, I'd never get away.

00:57:35.180 If he can't get away with that, I definitely can't.

00:57:37.240 I mean, the scary—like, you listen to what he was talking about with Russia, where he says killing of journalists is actually down.

00:57:45.700 And normally, you take that as a real positive sign, right?

00:57:48.300 It's not.

00:57:48.800 It's not.

00:57:49.420 They're saying, A, they've killed most of the people who would stand up to Putin anyway.

00:57:54.100 They're already gone.

00:57:54.820 And, B, there's a whole group of people who would like to stand up to Putin who are saying, if I do this, I'm going to be dead.

00:58:01.200 So I'm not going to do it.

00:58:03.020 And then now there's no need for the Russians to kill as many journalists. 0.62

00:58:06.180 So now he can say they're terrifying.

00:58:07.420 No, we're not taking on journalists now.

00:58:09.320 Of course not.

00:58:10.000 You've set the bar.

00:58:12.740 Sent the appropriate message.

00:58:14.180 Yeah.

00:58:14.780 You know, that's why he killed people openly in England with something that is clearly from Russia. 0.76

00:58:24.200 Yeah.

00:58:24.460 He's sending a message.

00:58:25.720 Yeah, I can get you anywhere in the world.

00:58:28.760 There's a polonium attack from years ago, the same type of thing.

00:58:32.220 It was, why would you do it and allow it to be basically traceable to Russia?

00:58:37.300 You do it so everyone knows that when you oppose Russia, this could happen to you. 0.78

00:58:42.180 If they're willing to be that brazen with someone much, you know, more well-known than you, well, of course, they're going to kill you off.

00:58:49.180 No one's even going to notice.

00:58:50.020 And that is, globally, it is, you know, cataclysmic levels.

00:58:56.860 Here, it's getting worse.

00:58:58.120 I have to tell you, how do you define the press?

00:59:01.420 You know, your freedom of speech when it comes to, when it comes to Facebook and YouTube.

00:59:09.120 I mean, I have to play something from Dave Rubin I heard yesterday where he said, they're going to come for you.

00:59:14.980 If you're listening on the left, they're coming for you.

00:59:17.860 Next.

00:59:19.660 Glenn Beck.

00:59:21.320 Mercury.

00:59:21.960 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:59:39.940 You know, it's truly remarkable is the way Kanye West is being treated in the press.

00:59:49.320 And, you know, I, again, I'm not a fan of Kanye West.

00:59:52.720 I just believe in freedom of thought and freedom of speech.

00:59:55.080 And last night on television, I went through a list of things that he has said over Twitter.

01:00:00.280 And the vast majority of stuff in a certain given time period, I have agreed with.

01:00:08.320 And I, and I relatively sane and also under control, right?

01:00:12.660 Like he's, he's not hateful about them.

01:00:15.800 He's, I mean, again, this is a limited time period.

01:00:18.860 We're focusing on, tell me which the left would disagree with.

01:00:24.560 Um, if your friend jumps off a bridge, you don't have to do the same.

01:00:29.460 I don't tell Hillary supporters not to support Hillary.

01:00:31.880 I love Hillary too.

01:00:33.800 Okay.

01:00:34.300 What's the problem with that?

01:00:35.700 I'm not a Democrat or a Republican.

01:00:37.980 It's a problem with saying that I haven't done enough research on conservatives to call

01:00:42.000 myself a one or to be called one.

01:00:44.800 I'm just refusing to be enslaved by monolithic thought.

01:00:48.160 Great.

01:00:48.860 We have freedom of speech in America, but not freedom of thought.

01:00:51.720 True.

01:00:52.420 The thought police want to suppress freedom of thought.

01:00:55.440 True.

01:00:56.460 And the left says that about the right.

01:00:58.580 The right says that about the left.

01:01:00.960 Constantly bringing up the past keeps you stuck there.

01:01:04.540 Yep.

01:01:05.160 That is true.

01:01:06.300 That's true about everything.

01:01:08.100 How many, Glenn, how many personal life interactions do you have?

01:01:12.000 I know I have relatives and friends who have a big incident in their life lives and they always

01:01:18.120 look back at it and it's always the focus of their life and it makes it impossible for

01:01:21.700 them to move on.

01:01:22.420 It's got nothing to do with slavery.

01:01:23.940 Unless they say, if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have woken up.

01:01:28.500 Right.

01:01:29.140 It's either good or it crushes you.

01:01:32.540 Um, we're bringing, we're being starved and anyone who starts asking unpopular questions

01:01:37.760 get demonized.

01:01:38.880 Only free thinkers can change the world.

01:01:41.620 What is wrong with this?

01:01:44.500 What is wrong with this?

01:01:46.040 Because it's tied to him liking a Republican president.

01:01:49.540 So Brian's, uh, Stelter, who I think has just gone off the rails.

01:01:56.500 Um, he is, you know, the senior media consultant.

01:02:01.180 He attacked Kanye yesterday saying he's a gift to racists.

01:02:07.060 Now, Brian, I want to see the article when you said that Kanye was a gift to racist when 0.99

01:02:13.500 he said, George Bush hates all black people. 0.97

01:02:17.500 Did, did you say he was a gift to racists when he was saying that? 0.98

01:02:23.040 That was probably before his, uh, rise to prominence, but yes, he, I know he was in the

01:02:28.060 press.

01:02:28.520 I know he was doing stuff in the press.

01:02:31.000 He said West is, is what he's really doing is boltering, bolstering the white supremacist 0.54

01:02:36.380 racist cause. 0.66

01:02:38.140 It's backfiring in a really embarrassing and public, even humiliating way.

01:02:42.320 You look at the reactions to what Kanye West said on TMZ about slavery, and he's being

01:02:47.720 roundly denounced, widely denounced for what he said.

01:02:50.560 Yes.

01:02:51.380 For what he said there, where it appeared to everybody that he said, uh, slavery was a

01:02:58.800 choice.

01:02:59.800 He didn't even really say it in that context, even in, in his initial statement, he didn't

01:03:04.060 really say that.

01:03:04.940 If you want to give him zero benefit of the doubt, that's what he said.

01:03:09.600 You give him benefit of the doubt.

01:03:11.580 And what he's saying is, you know, you can't be a huge population bigger than the white 0.95

01:03:17.960 population and, uh, and not throw overthrow the shackles after 400 years, unless you've

01:03:26.420 been made a slave in your mind.

01:03:28.660 If you've been made a slave in your mind, you don't overthrow the shackles.

01:03:32.080 And he's, his point was, we have to not create new shackles in our mind of the past or of,

01:03:41.040 I'm going to just think this one way.

01:03:43.580 Look at the facts.

01:03:44.980 Are those things that you've been taught to think, are they true?

01:03:49.220 Do they work?

01:03:50.680 Are they helping you?

01:03:52.260 That is very reasoned.

01:03:54.220 Now he may have said it in an inartful way and people have taken it to mean something

01:03:59.700 that he didn't mean.

01:04:01.760 Yes.

01:04:03.560 If you want to give him zero benefit of the doubt, which is always what the media does

01:04:08.280 to anybody who has a differing apparent opinion than them, then they're going to, you know,

01:04:13.460 then that's fine. 1.00

01:04:14.900 Shoot him. 1.00

01:04:15.600 That's a great, it's a great point though. 1.00

01:04:16.740 Does a guy who believes, to pick his worst viewpoint, that the government created AIDS to kill

01:04:24.740 black people, do you really think that person thinks that slavery was a choice? 0.59

01:04:30.200 I mean, we blatantly know he doesn't actually believe that they were like, yeah, you know

01:04:34.860 what?

01:04:35.080 Those boats look great.

01:04:36.220 Put those chains on me.

01:04:37.440 That's not what he was saying at all.

01:04:38.840 It's blatantly obvious.

01:04:40.000 I think even from when he said it initially, but again, when you have something that you may

01:04:44.680 not understand, you ask for clarification.

01:04:46.740 You get it, right?

01:04:47.960 He clarifies later and spells out exactly what he means.

01:04:52.220 I think we all realize that, you know, Kanye West is not an anti-black activist, right?

01:04:58.820 Can we come to that conclusion?

01:05:00.520 Can we at least admit the thing we know? 1.00

01:05:01.040 The guy said AIDS was developed to kill the black population. 0.98

01:05:06.260 That is a Jeremiah Wright level sort of viewpoint that you can't be an anti-black activist. 0.98

01:05:13.980 He's not going to put on a hood, okay?

01:05:17.200 Kanye West, we all knew that as of last week, but now we have to pretend that this guy is 0.96

01:05:22.520 the most evil anti-black KKK member of all time because he said he likes Donald Trump. 0.97

01:05:28.020 I mean, it's just absurd. 0.96

01:05:29.400 We all know these things aren't true.

01:05:31.020 And we act as if we don't know them to get our point across for an hour of Twitter retweets.

01:05:36.780 It's infuriating.

01:05:38.200 It is the addiction to outrage you've been pointing out over and over and over again.

01:05:42.180 Totally addicted.

01:05:42.660 It's a terrible thing that our society has developed.

01:05:46.040 It's a terrible habit.

01:05:47.380 And it's the type of thing.

01:05:49.100 And it's turning good people into really weird absolutists.

01:05:58.100 Where's the reason?

01:05:59.980 Where's the reason?

01:06:01.200 He's now empowering the racist right?

01:06:07.240 What are you talking about?

01:06:09.140 Was he empowering the racist left?

01:06:11.840 And if so, where were all of your voices?

01:06:13.920 Is, please, it's Kanye West.

01:06:19.640 It's Kanye West.

01:06:21.480 And if you take and look at what he is saying in balance, he's saying, think for yourself.

01:06:28.520 Is there a better message than think for yourself?

01:06:33.040 I disagree with him on almost everything he says.

01:06:37.080 I think he's most likely doing this just to promote his album.

01:06:41.740 I don't really care about him.

01:06:44.580 I really don't.

01:06:46.160 But what he's saying is really important to our society right now.

01:06:51.280 And that is, think for yourself.

01:06:54.240 I honestly think we are moving to a point where that is no longer the American gene.

01:07:03.240 Think for yourself.

01:07:04.340 We are becoming, especially when it comes to thought, a collectivist society.

01:07:09.200 Where there are two large groups of people who must stay in line.

01:07:12.820 I won't either.

01:07:13.460 I won't go there.

01:07:14.140 It's too boring, first of all.

01:07:16.400 We can go down a million different rows of why it's terrible for society.

01:07:19.280 But let's start with it's boring.

01:07:21.260 And let me just say, once you narrow it down to two, then you'll have to narrow it down to one.

01:07:26.720 Right.

01:07:26.940 That's what happens.

01:07:27.960 So.

01:07:28.440 I mean, you look at just the way the left watches.

01:07:31.400 People step out of line.

01:07:32.680 What's Brett Weinstein?

01:07:34.200 The guy, he's at Evergreen State University, says something that's mildly out of step with the left's current new positioning on gender, which is consistent with our scientific understanding for hundreds of years, thousands of years, millions of years.

01:07:50.180 And he is attacked and brutalized because of that.

01:07:55.040 Driven out of academia.

01:07:56.260 And look, we've seen the same thing on the right, too.

01:07:57.960 Let's not deny it doesn't happen there.

01:07:59.040 It does.

01:07:59.920 You know, it does.

01:08:01.220 And the point is, you become better when you come up against another person who's well-reasoned and make us a point, even if, at times, they don't have the backup for it.

01:08:14.400 You know, like, I think that was one of the things that I thought was interesting that Kanye West said, which was like, you know what?

01:08:18.880 I don't know.

01:08:19.320 It was just kind of an idea.

01:08:21.100 He wasn't saying he thought it out perfectly.

01:08:23.840 He had an idea, and if you can't bring up an idea without being destroyed, how do you disprove that idea?

01:08:32.760 You know, we talked about this with...

01:08:34.340 How do you have new ideas?

01:08:35.780 Right.

01:08:36.180 Every idea starts...

01:08:38.980 I mean, look at...

01:08:40.100 Let me take something that's, you know, completely harmless.

01:08:43.200 The assembly line.

01:08:45.620 Henry Ford tried it three times.

01:08:49.780 Three times.

01:08:50.780 If he would have said, you know what we should do?

01:08:52.480 We should have things on an assembly line. 0.99

01:08:54.140 And everybody said, shut up, shut up, shut up. 1.00

01:08:57.360 You are just a monger. 1.00

01:08:59.320 I hate you. 1.00

01:09:00.820 Shut up, shut up. 1.00

01:09:02.660 And he never would have done it. 1.00

01:09:04.720 We wouldn't be where we are today.

01:09:07.260 Not only did he do it once, it failed.

01:09:09.960 He then said, I got another idea the way we can do it.

01:09:13.420 It failed.

01:09:14.360 Another guy came up to him and said, look, dude, I think I have the idea. 0.97

01:09:19.440 Henry Ford could have said, shut up. 0.78

01:09:21.020 It's my idea. 0.88

01:09:22.180 My idea that's going to make this work.

01:09:24.280 No, it was somebody else who was saying to him, dude, you're missing the point.

01:09:29.640 You have to have that conversation.

01:09:33.280 And we are stifling it.

01:09:36.260 And the press has no idea.

01:09:40.180 No idea.

01:09:41.300 Brian, you are a media, you're a, I need to make it about Brian.

01:09:46.840 He's just, it's just, it's, it's bothering me how certain the people are in the media.

01:09:55.180 They have gone from, gee, I wonder why Donald Trump won.

01:09:59.920 Gee, should we examine ourselves to, we are absolutely right.

01:10:04.140 We know exactly what is going on.

01:10:06.580 There's no other kind of thinking.

01:10:09.220 There's no other way you can possibly ever look at this.

01:10:13.140 You are doing what you accused me of doing.

01:10:18.460 Stop it.

01:10:20.220 Freedom of thought.

01:10:22.600 Let people express ideas.

01:10:26.040 Don't demonize everyone.

01:10:28.560 Just because they disagree with you.

01:10:30.860 Here's an idea. 1.00

01:10:32.020 When you show me your vitriolic rants against the government invented AIDS to kill black people and your rants on George Bush just hates black people. 0.99

01:10:48.380 You can then have some credibility to say, look, it's the same kind of rant and the same kind of reaction from all of my esteemed colleagues. 0.99

01:11:00.640 We're 100% consistent.

01:11:03.240 You're not. 1.00

01:11:04.200 Do you think George Bush hates black people and AIDS was created to kill black people? 0.99

01:11:11.480 Do you think that might have been speaking to the racist left, to the Black Panthers? 1.00

01:11:17.640 No, because you guys don't pay attention to that.

01:11:19.800 You don't care about that.

01:11:20.820 You won't recognize any of that. 0.98

01:11:23.560 It's only white people that you should be afraid of. 1.00

01:11:26.500 And if you remember, we have a very clear example of someone prominent saying in a political context, the AIDS was created to kill black people. 0.99

01:11:35.640 It was Jeremiah Wright.

01:11:36.360 And when when when Republicans brought up Jeremiah Wright, hey, here's a guy who not not was that some rapper, this is a guy who was the spiritual leader of the next president of the United States.

01:11:49.620 When that was brought up, it was it was attacked as if you couldn't even acknowledge that someone in his circle believed that I believe, Stu, that at one point we had the research that showed that it was Van Jones and his color of change organization.

01:12:06.360 That was in with Kanye West to help promote that thought.

01:12:11.340 Yeah, if I remember correctly, they were selling T-shirts that said Bush.

01:12:16.380 And isn't he Van Jones?

01:12:20.280 Isn't he an employee of CNN?

01:12:22.380 Yes.

01:12:23.260 Huh.

01:12:24.900 That's interesting.

01:12:28.920 It is interesting.

01:12:30.180 Yes.

01:12:30.960 Well, I just wonder.

01:12:32.680 I just wonder.

01:12:33.600 It's CNN hold him and his group.

01:12:37.880 They love to uphold color of change is this great organization.

01:12:42.660 Weren't they speaking directly to the racists of the left and the black movement, the ultra nationalist or the ultra racists that want a separate country for black people?

01:12:58.460 Well, and again, we were we were really critical of Jeremiah, right, for saying those things back then.

01:13:03.320 But now that Kanye West is on our side, are we critical of Kanye West saying the AIDS thing?

01:13:09.660 Yes.

01:13:10.060 We're critical of both of them saying it both times because it's not even close to true.

01:13:14.540 And then we're looking at the things that he has said that are true.

01:13:18.700 Like we cannot ever be truly free without freedom of expression, without being shouted down and demonized.

01:13:27.880 That's true.

01:13:28.900 And both sides know that.

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01:14:55.340 We have so much yet to talk about today.

01:14:58.500 The state of New York is weaponizing their regulatory powers over the financial institutions to crush the NRA and gun dealerships.

01:15:11.280 And this is just the beginning.

01:15:14.080 This is just the beginning.

01:15:16.220 We'll give you that coming up in just a few minutes.

01:15:18.580 I also want to play this piece with Dave Rubin where he is warning.

01:15:23.320 He is a former progressive that has kind of opened his eyes and is part of this free thought movement that is really kind of taking and starting a grass fire in California.

01:15:35.800 I hate to use that phrase in California, but he is warning his fellow progressives.

01:15:43.600 Listen to this.

01:15:44.140 Why are they all lefties who then say one thing that upsets the left and then they're purged?

01:15:51.420 It will come for you.

01:15:53.180 I mean, if there's someone that's watching this right now that is a hardcore progressive that's going,

01:15:57.280 man, I hate Prager and Rubin and this is all nonsense, guess what?

01:16:00.740 If you have any spark of individualism in you, if you have any, anything about you that's interesting or different, they will come to destroy that too.

01:16:10.280 So you can't just sit there and wait.

01:16:12.260 You cannot.

01:16:13.140 This is, this is the great fight of our generation.

01:16:16.840 Is that not phenomenal?

01:16:18.340 Kanye is living that right now and everyone will live that unless we start to recognize differences and celebrate and protect those differences,

01:16:33.360 especially those differences that make us uncomfortable.

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01:16:59.300 Well, some not surprising news, unless you haven't been paying attention.

01:17:05.680 New York has now weaponized the regulatory powers against the NRA.

01:17:11.820 This is something that I, I warned you about.

01:17:14.480 Uh, and I believe it was Citigroup, which was the first financial institution that started to fall into line.

01:17:21.360 The next one was Bank of America, Stu.

01:17:24.760 Do you, do you remember, uh, where they just stops?

01:17:27.600 They started saying, I'm, we're not going to offer any financial services to any gun manufacturers that make military assault rifles, uh, and, uh, high capacity magazines.

01:17:39.440 And I warned you, there is an effort underfoot.

01:17:43.680 Well, Cuomo has just, uh, outlined a directive to the financial regulators, and he is pressuring them to break ties with the NRA.

01:17:56.440 I'm going to quote from the directive.

01:17:58.500 I am directing the Department of Financial Services to urge insurers and bankers statewide.

01:18:05.780 Well, good thing there's no big banks in New York.

01:18:08.660 And bankers statewide to determine whether any relationship they may have with the NRA or similar organizations sends the wrong message to their clients and their communities who often look to them for guidance and support.

01:18:23.780 Uh, the, uh, the Department of Financial Services, this is the one that regulates the banking and insurance industries in New York.

01:18:30.900 Uh, he continued, the department urge or encourages its chartered and licensed financial institutions to continue evaluating and managing their risks, including reputational risks that may arise from their dealings with the NRA or similar gun promotion organizations.

01:18:51.760 Huh, as well as continued assessment of compliance with their own codes of social responsibility.

01:19:00.840 The department encourages regulated institutions to review any relationship they may have with the NRA or any similar gun promotion organization and to take prompt actions to manage these risks and promote public health and safety.

01:19:18.080 What is a, what is a, what is a fascistic regime?

01:19:26.040 What, what is that?

01:19:28.460 It is somebody who's at the top that uses the controls of power and government to force their point of view on everyone.

01:19:39.080 This is a step towards totalitarianism or fascism in the United States of America.

01:19:49.160 They are now threatening the banks and the insurers to just, they're just, they're just reminding them to do the right thing.

01:20:02.420 May I suggest America, we have a difference of opinion on what the right thing is.

01:20:09.080 But when it comes to fascism and standing up against anyone, abusing power to force any point of view.

01:20:18.800 I suggest we all do the right thing and resist.

01:20:29.480 It's Thursday, May 3rd.

01:20:31.720 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:20:33.720 Wow.

01:20:33.980 Targeting districts again.

01:20:35.660 Wow.

01:20:35.980 Look at that horrible behavior.

01:20:37.620 You know, I, I am, I'm really excited about this, uh, that there are some really brave people that are willing to stand up and buck the system and, and not say I'm right.

01:20:52.600 Just say, you know, we should think about this a little more broadly and we should, we should maybe notice that maybe as we're fighting for freedom, we're actually fighting for, for totalitarianism.

01:21:04.420 Um, and both sides are doing it.

01:21:07.600 And there is this group of people, this intellectual dark web of people that are standing up in their own place and saying, Hey, wait a minute.

01:21:15.700 I just like to throw out another opinion.

01:21:17.440 And I saw one on, uh, Prager university, uh, and it is a video called, uh, what's this a greater leap of faith, God or the multiverse.

01:21:28.800 And it's from Brian Keating.

01:21:30.680 He is, um, uh, the professor of physics at the university of California, San Diego.

01:21:36.380 He is also the author of a new book, losing the Nobel prize, which we have to talk to him about, but I wanted to get him on and, and just have him.

01:21:45.260 Here's a guy who is a professor of physics to explain the multiverse, which is an unproven theory and how it relates to people who believe in God.

01:21:57.440 Welcome to the, uh, uh, program, Brian.

01:22:00.600 Yeah, it's great to be here with you, Glenn.

01:22:02.380 Thank you.

01:22:02.800 So this is a great Prager university, uh, video.

01:22:06.440 Can you just summarize it a bit?

01:22:08.800 Yeah.

01:22:09.240 So there's a, um, a boiling roiling, uh, controversy that's pervading the normally stayed academic world of cosmology of all things.

01:22:18.320 And it, it actually is rekindling a debate that's really gone on for millennia, which is, you know, how did our universe come to be?

01:22:26.180 How do we come to find ourselves as, as conscious beings in a universe that we can attempt to understand?

01:22:31.540 And for millennia, uh, there was no support for the Genesis one, one narrative that suggested that the, you know, the big bang or the origin of the universe, uh, began at a single point in time.

01:22:44.160 Even if you didn't believe it was created by a creator, there was still no evidence that the universe came, you know, had a, had a birthday, shall we say.

01:22:51.380 And until 1965, when astronomers were using a special kind of telescope, uh, that's an ancestor to the types of telescopes that, that my group and my students and I build today, that saw heat left over from the big bang.

01:23:05.600 And this was sort of incontrovertible evidence that the universe originated in a fiery, uh, almost explosion-like event, unlike anything ever witnessed before or since.

01:23:16.640 And before that time, there was literally no physical evidence for an origin event.

01:23:22.720 And so people just naturally believed the universe had been around forever.

01:23:25.480 This was the so-called steady state theory, which was, you know, held not only by, you know, atheists and non-believers, it was held by everybody, including, uh, Einstein and Newton, who were, you know, devoutly, Newton was devoutly religious, as you know.

01:23:38.860 And so the, the question as to what evidence people that had belief in a singular origin had, there was no evidence for them.

01:23:46.720 And yet they believed, and they did so on the basis of faith, and then that's fine.

01:23:50.480 But at least they admitted it was faith, and they didn't say that, well, we have evidence for that.

01:23:54.600 Nowadays, there's a notion that the universe is not only, uh, had a beginning, but it, uh, it is not only the only universe.

01:24:02.740 And in order to explain the peculiar features of our universe and the improbability of existence of conscious entities such as ourselves, many of my erudite colleagues have proposed a model which is every bit as revolutionary as the Big Bang, you know, might have sounded, uh, 55 years ago.

01:24:20.900 And this is that the universe that we inhabit is not the only universe.

01:24:24.280 And it is a, the best way I've heard it described is if you, you know, you're giving your kids a bath, and there's all these soap bubbles in the corner of the bathtub, and you kind of pick that up.

01:24:35.420 They're all connected to each other, but you can't pass from one bubble to the other, or they'll pop.

01:24:40.840 But they are just a big collection of, of bubbles, and they're more and less, and they kind of come into existence and form new bubbles.

01:24:48.460 And that's what it really is, and each bubble is its own separate universe.

01:24:54.300 We're just one of those bubbles in that big handful.

01:24:57.720 Is that right?

01:24:58.260 Exactly.

01:24:58.780 And it's a natural, you know, phenomena that people will have a tendency to be biased towards and, you know, something that would make sense to them.

01:25:06.560 And in this case, what's unusual to me is that the scenario that you described is perfectly reasonable from a physicist's point of view.

01:25:13.940 But you at least have to admit that there's currently no evidence for such a proposition.

01:25:19.280 And the point that is made in the Prager University video is that when the secular scientist is confronted with the question of whether or not to believe in God, as 70% of the most prestigious academy of sciences in the world, the National Academy of Sciences in America, they declare themselves not to be agnostic, but to be atheist.

01:25:38.040 And in that sense, you have to wonder, why are they so quick to believe a theory for which there's no hard, physical, tangible, scientific method, provable evidence?

01:25:47.940 And I claim that in some cases, some of my colleagues are doing so in such a way as to bolster their, you know, their preconceived biases of secularism.

01:25:57.760 And it's fine to be secular, Glenn.

01:25:59.540 I'm not complaining.

01:26:00.380 No, I know.

01:26:00.880 People can be a conscientious, you know, atheist, and that's fine.

01:26:04.320 But I think to say that you're a scientist and you believe in the scientific method and religious believers in the faithful like us, that we are somehow foolish because we believe in something on the basis of faith when they have just as much faith.

01:26:18.480 You know, I say it takes a fair amount of faith to be an atheist.

01:26:21.700 Yeah.

01:26:22.100 And I think it – I really do think it does.

01:26:24.640 I mean, intelligent design makes sense to me.

01:26:28.320 I mean, quantum physics makes no sense to me, but I believe quantum physics is probably on the right – I mean, I have no idea when it breaks down.

01:26:38.140 I haven't tried to understand it.

01:26:40.760 It's way beyond me.

01:26:42.600 It doesn't seem to make sense, but that's because everything else breaks down.

01:26:47.500 So having a multiverse where there's all these different kinds of options out there and we're playing out every single option seems like science fiction, but I don't know.

01:26:57.520 It might be true.

01:26:59.160 Yeah, and you will trust the knowledge of experts such as myself when it comes to quantum physics, right?

01:27:06.200 Right.

01:27:06.420 Just like I won't do brain surgery.

01:27:08.500 You know, I think I'm pretty intelligent, but I won't do brain surgery on myself.

01:27:12.240 Right.

01:27:12.380 I'll go to an expert.

01:27:13.960 So what always tickles me is that my brilliant colleagues, my brilliant atheists – and I say this with all honesty – I have utmost respect for my colleagues.

01:27:21.980 Even if they are secular, we get along great and we can have a wonderful conversation over a glass of a beverage of our choice.

01:27:28.380 But when we do so, I think it's important to realize that they're not subject matter experts when it comes to religion.

01:27:35.480 And most of them, if they ever did practice religion, probably gave it up when they were about 13 or so.

01:27:41.860 And so they're left with a 13-year-old's understanding of this immense, immense thing.

01:27:48.020 You know, I know you've written a lot of books, and that's wonderful, and I just wrote my first, and that's the only one I may ever write.

01:27:54.700 But, you know, what they say, you know, I'd trade – and I'm sure you believe this – you know, if you could trade, you know, one reader 100 years from now for 100 readers tomorrow, you would do that in a second.

01:28:05.780 Because it would mean your ideas are timeless.

01:28:08.380 And in the case of something like, you know, Stephen Hawking, the late, great Stephen Hawking, who wrote a book, A Brief History of Time, that book, you know, I hope it's not relevant in 100 years.

01:28:18.640 Because I hope that we've made tremendous scientific progress.

01:28:21.620 But if you look at the Bible, the Bible had to speak 30 centuries ago, and it has to speak 30 centuries from now.

01:28:27.080 How many books can do that?

01:28:28.620 And so when people – and my colleagues, brilliant, you know, men and women – when they reject it because, you know, and they erect a straw man and burn it down, that's the problem that I have with them.

01:28:38.300 And that they're so willing to accept the lack of evidence for something in which, you know, really may never be provable.

01:28:43.920 Not even – has no evidence now, but may not be physically impossible to prove.

01:28:48.080 It's a little bit nervous and nerve-wracking for me.

01:28:50.540 Brian Keating, he is the author of a new book, Losing the Nobel Prize.

01:28:55.220 And I want to talk to him about that book because it's interesting to see how the inner workings of science and the pursuit of the Nobel Prize.

01:29:08.200 We'll continue our conversation here in just a second.

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01:30:49.840 So today, there's a lot of talk of the possibility of President Trump winning a peace prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, because hostages have been released in North Korea.

01:31:01.100 Looks like we're on the right track for peace there.

01:31:02.920 A lot of people are poo-pooing this, but he's already accomplished more than Barack Obama did when he got a Nobel Peace Prize for his hopes and aspirations,

01:31:12.480 which I think was kind of a low point for the Nobel Prize, but who am I to judge?

01:31:18.400 Brian Keating has just written a book called Losing the Nobel Prize.

01:31:23.160 This is a story of actual science and what the award was actually deemed to promote, and it starts with something that you created with your team called BICEP.

01:31:38.500 Can you tell me what BICEP is?

01:31:40.560 Yeah, BICEP is a telescope, and like all telescopes, it's also a time machine.

01:31:46.000 So, you know, light travels extremely rapidly.

01:31:49.600 It's the fastest velocity that anything can possibly reach, and yet it's not infinite.

01:31:55.380 So when we look back in space, we're seeing things the way that they were, not instantaneously.

01:32:00.760 So you remember, or you've seen footage, you're not old enough maybe to remember, but the moon landings,

01:32:05.900 the astronauts would communicate back and forth with radios, and it would take about a second and a half to get to the moon,

01:32:10.300 because the moon's a quarter million miles away.

01:32:12.760 So that delay is a responsibility of the finite speed of light.

01:32:17.300 So what happens is, and radio waves are just another form of light.

01:32:21.340 So what happens is when you look back in space, you're looking back in time.

01:32:25.080 What I wanted to do with this telescope, and my colleagues and I wanted to do,

01:32:28.740 is build a telescope that could look back where there's no moons in the way, there's no sun in the way,

01:32:33.440 there's no planets or stars or galaxies or anything else in our way, and then you could look back theoretically to the beginning of time.

01:32:40.340 And if we were to do so, we were told not only would we capture really the birth pangs of the Big Bang,

01:32:45.840 you know, what caused the Big Bang to bang, if you will,

01:32:49.460 but we would also most assuredly receive a Nobel Prize for the efforts.

01:32:53.660 And it took us to the very bottom of the world.

01:32:56.540 The telescope bicep, it's an acronym that's not worth getting into here,

01:33:00.620 but the acronym really referred to the job of the telescope was to measure these patterns called curl patterns

01:33:06.540 in this ancient heat left over from the Big Bang called the cosmic microwave background.

01:33:11.780 And so if we did that, the telescope had to be brought to a very special place.

01:33:15.960 And it was, in this case, it was brought to the very bottom of the world, the South Pole Antarctica.

01:33:19.960 And so I describe in the book what it's like to go to the South Pole, you know,

01:33:23.720 currently in the South Pole, the entire continent of Antarctica, you know,

01:33:27.140 there's only about a thousand people and an entire continent much bigger than the state of Texas.

01:33:32.080 And so it's quite a forbidding location to go to.

01:33:35.020 And we built it there because the telescope needs to be in a place that's very dry and very cold.

01:33:39.360 And the South Pole is very cold and it's also at 10,000 feet above sea level.

01:33:44.140 So it's very dry and above most of the water vapor in our atmosphere.

01:33:47.100 So it made the perfect perch to search for the Big Bang's earliest aftershocks.

01:33:51.860 So did you find them?

01:33:53.520 We did find them.

01:33:54.580 You know, it's surprising when you go out and look for something.

01:33:56.840 Oftentimes you find it, even if you're a dispassionate scientist.

01:34:00.340 Well, we didn't know at the time when we made this big announcement on St. Patrick's Day 2014.

01:34:04.360 It was covered, you know, above the fold, as they say, in every major newspaper in the world,

01:34:09.180 because it was thought to be, you know, as far back in human history,

01:34:13.200 not human history, in cosmic history, that human beings could ever glimpse.

01:34:17.700 And immediately the Nobel Whispers began.

01:34:21.440 Unfortunately, what turned out to happen is that our discovery was sort of mixed with a signal

01:34:28.840 that comes not from the cosmos, not from the Big Bang, but from what's called dust.

01:34:33.740 So I know you have kids, I have kids, and, you know, a cloud of dust surrounds your kids at all times.

01:34:39.240 At least they do it for my boys.

01:34:41.180 And when that is, it's not the same dust that's in the Milky Way galaxy.

01:34:44.680 And this is a special type of dust.

01:34:46.180 This is dust in our galaxy that was produced from the death explosion of a star called a supernova.

01:34:51.320 And what's so poetic about it is, you know, just like the Bible accounts, you know, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

01:34:59.540 So the dust that, you know, the Bible poetically and metaphorically speaks of as being the formation of human beings is actually true.

01:35:07.100 So there's actually flowing through your veins, your listeners' veins right now, is stardust.

01:35:10.980 And it's stardust that was created in the beginning of time when the universe, or not in the beginning of time,

01:35:16.380 when our galaxy produced a star that exploded and spewed forth this iron that now is the hemoglobin inside of your blood.

01:35:23.920 So in our bodies flows dust, and in the cosmos flows too, and this dust obscured the signal that we were looking for.

01:35:30.440 So we eventually, embarrassingly, had to retract our discovery, and our Nobel dreams literally turned to dust.

01:35:36.260 And so your concern about the Nobel Prize is that it's become what?

01:35:43.860 It's become very politicized, become very vaunted as societies, not just science's ultimate accolade, but on all of society.

01:35:51.380 There's nothing as prestigious as a Nobel Prize, which is why there's so much controversy, you know, heaven forbid, that Donald Trump would win a Nobel Prize.

01:35:58.920 You know, he would join the likes of, you know, Yasser Arafat and all these other great men.

01:36:05.320 I don't know. Yeah, exactly.

01:36:06.880 So, you know, I would advise him not to hold his breath, because I doubt it's likely.

01:36:11.120 I was asked to nominate the winners of the Nobel Prize two years ago.

01:36:14.460 And when I did so, I found out a whole bunch of scary things that the Nobel Prize committee was doing that were really sullying the literal Nobel vision of Alfred Nobel.

01:36:24.320 And it really troubled me.

01:36:25.340 And so I set out, in part, the book is written, not only to describe the way that my team lost our own Nobel Prize, but that parts of the Nobel Prize, and maybe even the Nobel Prize itself, needs to be lost.

01:36:36.320 That's what it's doing to science and society.

01:36:38.540 Wow.

01:36:38.740 Currently, right now, there's a sex scandal rocking the Nobel Prize in literature.

01:36:42.120 There's a financial crimes investigation unit probing it.

01:36:44.960 They might cancel the Nobel Prizes.

01:36:46.600 Wow.

01:36:46.940 I have to tell you, I cannot wait to read the book.

01:36:51.380 It's called Losing the Nobel Prize.

01:36:53.840 Brian Keating is the author and esteemed scientist that lost the Nobel Prize.

01:37:01.000 And you can pick his book up.

01:37:02.680 It's available everywhere now.

01:37:04.100 Losing the Nobel Prize.

01:37:05.240 Thanks, Brian.

01:37:05.620 Glenn Beck.

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01:37:30.580 So yesterday on the program, we told you about Seattle's new head tax.

01:37:37.380 Now, what is a head tax?

01:37:39.500 Well, a head tax is for any company that makes over $20 million a year and not in profit, but in sales, that they generate $20 million or more.

01:37:53.200 That's 586 companies in Seattle.

01:37:56.480 What they've done is they've said that there is a about a $520 tax per employee.

01:38:06.860 So if you make over $20 million a year in your company, not profit, you just make over $20 million.

01:38:15.360 You now have a new tax.

01:38:17.180 If there's only one of you in that company, it's not so bad.

01:38:19.640 It's $500 or 526.

01:38:21.760 But if you're a company like Amazon, that's a $21 million tax every year.

01:38:33.260 Now, let's just think of the free market here for a second.

01:38:37.360 Who the hell is going to build a big business in Seattle?

01:38:41.720 I wouldn't. 0.96

01:38:42.580 An insane person?

01:38:43.780 Yeah.

01:38:44.280 I mean, there's lots of other places we can do it.

01:38:47.260 I mean, why would you do it there?

01:38:48.780 Well, you remember when we used to have a studio, one right across the street from Philadelphia, and they had a tax, a city wage tax in Philadelphia, and we built it on the other side of the road in Bella Kinwood.

01:39:01.780 Called City Line Avenue.

01:39:03.180 Right.

01:39:03.540 And you look, at least back when we were there, you could drive down that road, and one side of the street had basically no businesses, and the other side of the street had tons and tons of businesses.

01:39:11.940 Because everyone chose to build their business on the other side of the street and give all the business and all the tax revenue that would come in to Bella Kinwood. 0.99

01:39:22.820 To Bella Kinwood.

01:39:24.040 And, you know, does that make any sense?

01:39:26.580 I mean, yeah.

01:39:27.780 As a business, it makes a hell of a lot of logical sense.

01:39:31.300 Why wouldn't you?

01:39:32.720 And Seattle's going to find the same thing.

01:39:34.540 I mean, they've done so many things.

01:39:36.080 You know, $15 minimum wage.

01:39:37.440 And now this tax, why would you go to Seattle?

01:39:41.120 I want you to listen.

01:39:42.000 I want you to listen to this story. 1.00

01:39:43.340 I want you to listen to the arrogance and the stupidity of Seattle. 1.00

01:39:47.900 Okay. 1.00

01:39:48.740 Seattle City Council considering a new head tax to be imposed on businesses with annual taxable receipts of more than $200 million.

01:39:56.080 I'm sorry.

01:39:56.300 I thought it was $20 million.

01:39:57.140 $200 million.

01:39:57.980 The move would cost Amazon over $20 million at the rate of $0.26 per employee per hour as proposed.

01:40:06.620 So per employee per hour times 40 hours times 50 weeks.

01:40:13.100 It's about $526.

01:40:17.840 This proposal has caused Amazon to halt construction of a huge project in downtown Seattle.

01:40:27.360 Amazon's vice president said, quote, I can confirm that the pending pending the outcome of the head tax vote by city council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is reevaluating the options to sublease all of the space in our recently leased Rainier Square building.

01:40:49.380 More than 45,000 people in Seattle are employed by Amazon.

01:40:55.120 The city hopes to raise $75 million annually with a new tax in order to provide affordable housing and additional services for the homeless.

01:41:03.820 Roughly 585 businesses would face this targeted tax.

01:41:07.240 city council member Shashma Shwant, which I swear to you is I think the only way I can pronounce, I think that, I just, I think it sounds like a, maybe a Muppet name, but I think it's Shashma Shwant.

01:41:22.640 Shashma Shwant Shwant Showant Shwant Shwant Shwant the first name is a little more difficult, but you could go Shashma or Shashma there's probably like 3 or 4 of those letters are silent.

01:41:37.380 Yeah.

01:41:37.540 Okay.

01:41:37.780 So anyway, she said that the council meeting on Wednesday in response to Amazon's move that it was critical that we not accept this extortion.

01:41:48.240 she referred to the tax as pocket change for these businesses and added that amazon is perfectly

01:41:55.860 capable of paying that paying double or even four times that amount now why in the hell would you

01:42:07.640 ever you mean i mean at least with woodrow wilson with the income tax he said it'll never be over

01:42:13.540 seven percent these people are saying they can afford it even four times the amount if they take

01:42:20.760 this tax now you think they're going to stop at 526 per employee another council person in support

01:42:30.380 of the proposal mark uh michael brian said i understand amazon doesn't like it i'm sure

01:42:37.520 they'd love to go to a city that has no taxes and maybe they'll find that place oh my gosh if i were 0.54

01:42:45.200 amazon if i were jeff bezos today i would say pack your crap and let's go and here's why the arrogance 0.94

01:42:55.940 of seattle it's a city that is supposed to do right by its people you have one of the biggest employers 0.99

01:43:07.320 in all of your city and you're saying pack your crap and get out i remember rainier square i grew up 0.77

01:43:16.060 there there wasn't always seattle wasn't always seattle is the place that has the first skid row 0.90

01:43:25.480 i remember my mother taking me to pike uh pike place market when they were thinking about tearing it down 1.00

01:43:32.640 because it was an eyesore and i remember my mother and my family being pariahs because we thought you

01:43:39.360 know the city could you know do something private industry could do something and make things a lot

01:43:44.380 better if you just let private industry do something she used to tell me all the time do you can you

01:43:51.360 imagine what this place would be like i mean here i am i'm like eight years old she's walking around

01:43:55.600 skid row and pike place market when it was full of thieves and killers still kind of is but in a 1.00

01:44:03.300 different way anyway uh and she had that vision seattle don't get so arrogant to think that you can't

01:44:12.980 collapse you start doing this to companies you're going to find a ghost town yeah they will find think

01:44:20.360 of this you know what they're doing they're calculating well they've got all that money they've

01:44:24.300 already started construction on their new thing well let me think and wouldn't that also be pocket

01:44:30.180 change to amazon especially when that is a one-time expense let's say they have 20 million let's say

01:44:37.980 they have 40 million into it why not walk away i could lose 40 million now or i could lose a minimum

01:44:47.640 of 40 million over the next two years in this tax and they got me once we move in we're there

01:44:55.560 once we build everything out what do you say we lose the 40 million now we just walk away let's go

01:45:01.220 find a place if i were jeff bezos seattle would be done done today if they pass this yeah if they pass

01:45:09.220 this because i mean but i have to tell you as a business owner i might not even i might not for that

01:45:13.920 because they could pass that at any time next year and this is the thing it's when you move all of

01:45:19.200 these jobs in when you move you build these facilities you're making a commitment to the town

01:45:23.900 you're making a commitment to the city and if i especially if you have the power of bezos and amazon

01:45:29.000 you see what they're doing around the country with talking you know the way they're shopping around

01:45:33.380 their next facility you almost want to guarantee that this stuff's not going to happen after you move

01:45:38.640 in they suckered them into starting to build this uh facility and then right after they start

01:45:46.900 construction and they're in the middle of doing it and they're spending all this money they say oh by

01:45:50.420 the way we're going to charge you a lot more what other business is that okay if you go you can't buy

01:45:55.720 a car and you've been driving it around for a month and all of a sudden they say by the way that

01:45:58.760 you know the payment's going to be you know three hundred dollars more sorry okay that's insanity

01:46:03.780 it's it's completely unfair to a business trying to do uh do something good for the community right

01:46:11.180 i mean you you think they look at the way these cities they hate rich people yeah look at the way

01:46:16.460 the cities around the country are recruiting amazon they're bending over backwards in ways that

01:46:20.440 probably aren't right either to lure them into their cities yeah but stew you could see the mountain

01:46:26.560 today it's so beautiful today yeah it's beautiful and you can see the mountain maybe 25

01:46:33.340 days a year the rest of the time it's depressing and rainy i mean highest suicide rate in the states

01:46:42.380 oh why do you think that is because you can never see the beauty because it's always cloudy and rainy

01:46:48.120 that's why it's a great place to live seattle is one of the most beautiful cities naturally the most

01:46:57.340 beautiful city i think in america it is fantastic but i'm sorry i i'm not i gotta run a business i have

01:47:06.720 responsibility to my shareholders i have a responsibility to the teachers fund all of you

01:47:15.360 socialist teachers your retirement that's all in a fund and i can guarantee you it is highly invested

01:47:23.140 in amazon so are all you socialist teachers willing to take a hit to your retirement fund

01:47:31.800 you might have to work a few years longer because they're going to pay this huge tax because they

01:47:38.400 can afford it now that'll hurt their stock price but they're being responsible are you happy about this

01:47:45.100 with your retirement fund think it through yeah seattle is really going after business with the

01:47:52.220 passion of a serial killer they are meticulous they're methodical they're picking apart any any

01:47:58.500 reason to do business in the city yeah well they're just so far left they are just so far left

01:48:04.640 listen to this one i think we're at the place of now shove and almost to shoot okay remember first you

01:48:12.780 have to you know you try to convince then you nudge then you have to then you shout then you have to shove

01:48:20.140 then you shoot that's the progression of progress when you're when your ideas don't make sense and don't

01:48:29.380 meet the market's needs listen to this afl-cio now demands that people never use the self-serve

01:48:37.400 checkout a growing concern across the globe that automation will lead us to a dystopian future

01:48:42.920 with robots becoming ubiquitous on every aspect of our life the marketplace will be filled with cheap

01:48:49.000 goods but the consuming population can't acquire them because they don't have a job it's a legitimate

01:48:53.940 worry for millions of people especially when you see the countless videos and news articles about a

01:48:58.100 robot flipping hamburgers etc etc and one of the latest doom and gloom alarmist in wisconsin chapter

01:49:04.440 is the afl-cio which is griping about self-service checkouts it's not convenient for me to help

01:49:12.800 corporations fire workers they just raise their profits i stand in line when the lines backed up

01:49:18.640 the store calls for more cashiers to the front if we keep doing it they'll need to hire more people 0.98

01:49:23.680 never ever use self-checkout okay well this is the beginning of another prediction

01:49:32.320 that i have said because jobs are going to be lost progressives you know the ones who embrace

01:49:41.920 the future are going to turn on the future they're going to turn on the things that make your life

01:49:51.040 easier make your life faster make your life better like i don't know let's think of a couple of

01:49:57.620 things self-checkout or amazon and they'll demonize them because well they're taking away jobs those

01:50:07.380 jobs are never coming back they're not coming back and we have to get a grip on that right now we have

01:50:15.040 to stop demonizing china and stop demonizing uh silicon valley and progress that is like going back

01:50:24.720 into time these progressives are the people that would have been saying you're going to put the

01:50:30.680 horse and buggy business out of business we we've got to swear allegiance to the horse and buggy business

01:50:36.600 that don't ever buy a car i'm telling you right now because all these jobs will be lost don't you get

01:50:43.580 a cotton gin don't you do it all those jobs will be lost all those slaves will then be free to do 0.96

01:50:53.880 other things well what will they do well you know they'll turn on us so you better keep them busy

01:50:59.480 don't buy a cotton gin any of this sound progressive to you progressives always stand in the way of

01:51:11.160 freedom of thought and freedom to progress to the next exciting place afl cio don't use checkout

01:51:22.120 why because they're not taking you forward seattle better do a tax because they can afford it they

01:51:31.240 can afford four times that tax and besides amazon it's going to eventually kill a lot of jobs

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01:53:10.360 glenn beck you know the afl-cio this is you know asking people don't use self-checkout because it's

01:53:32.600 gonna it's gonna hurt jobs do you know who that is that's not a crazy idea to the left do you remember

01:53:38.960 when the president said it's these kiosks and these atm machines they're cutting out jobs oh obama

01:53:44.460 yeah right making your life easier having society progress having a business make progress making it

01:53:54.760 easier letting the free market work it out and say you know what i think if we put a kiosk up everybody

01:54:00.520 would like our airline better because there's no lines and progressive saying no no no no no don't do

01:54:06.240 that that's evil it's true i mean i think you know there's a lot of reasons why trump beat hillary

01:54:11.920 clinton but hillary clinton taking a stand against things like uber was an underreported one yes i mean 0.98

01:54:17.000 this is the future people are excited about it they love it and progressives are going to become the

01:54:22.060 anti-future people mark my word they are going to be the one that turns on science and turns on technology

01:54:28.960 glenn beck mercury

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