The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 128 ｜ Will GOP FINALLY Grow a Spine & WIN？｜ Jim Jordan ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 Politicians are notorious for promising everything and then doing nothing.

00:00:05.380 When a politician opens his or her mouth, says, when I'm elected, I'm going to cut spedding, fight for you, the little guy, and work for you.

00:00:15.000 Right? Isn't that your reaction? Rolling your eyes like, uh-huh.

00:00:19.320 There are a few exceptions to this.

00:00:22.000 And the guest today is a congressman who has a solution.

00:00:26.360 He wrote a book about it. His idea is for politicians.

00:00:29.180 Now, I know this sounds crazy.

00:00:31.300 To do what they said they would do.

00:00:33.940 That's the name of the book.

00:00:35.460 And today we discuss how to spot a political faker, what they actually do in Washington, D.C.,

00:00:41.380 the future of the Republican Party, and what is it they need to say they're going to do.

00:00:50.260 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Podcast, Congressman Jim Jordan.

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00:02:50.720 Jim, welcome.

00:02:58.020 How are you?

00:02:58.820 Hey, Glenn.

00:02:59.460 I'm doing fine.

00:03:00.280 Good to be with you.

00:03:00.740 I want to start with Chapter 7 because it is something I have said for 10 years, and nobody in Washington seems to pay attention to it.

00:03:15.460 Chapter 7, when is someone going to jail?

00:03:21.120 Yeah.

00:03:22.000 I think I've shared with you before, Glenn, I've had, that's like one of the number one questions I get, and I always remember this occasion.

00:03:29.420 I think it was the Tulsa airport, but I can't remember for sure what airport it was.

00:03:33.120 But I literally walk out of the restroom, and there was a guy like just looking at me, big old guy with a cowboy hat, just kind of staring me down.

00:03:40.720 And I'm thinking, I don't know if this guy's a friend or foe here.

00:03:43.800 And so I kind of walk over toward him.

00:03:45.580 He starts moving to me, and when he gets close, he doesn't say hi.

00:03:48.180 He doesn't say anything. He just looks at me with his finger and says, when is someone going to jail?

00:03:51.900 And it's because it resonates with the American people.

00:03:54.720 We get fairness, and we understand when there's one set of rules for the elite, the fancy people here in D.C., and a different set for all us regular folk, that's not how it's supposed to work.

00:04:06.320 So whether it's Lois Lerner, whether it's Amy McCabe, whether it's Jim Comey, whether it's Hillary Clinton, people are fed up with it.

00:04:12.040 And, yeah, it's one of the questions I think is key, and I write a lot about that in the book, particularly some of the big investigations like the IRS, the Benghazi investigation, and, of course, the Trump-Russia investigation.

00:04:23.220 So can we go into that?

00:04:24.720 Because you do go into it in the book.

00:04:25.880 And I would like to know your answers, because there are, I mean, for instance, you're instrumental in exposing Merrick Garland and this National School Board incident.

00:04:38.340 Yeah.

00:04:38.860 That seems pretty clear.

00:04:40.500 Now, I haven't seen all the evidence of it, so, I mean, it needs to process through.

00:04:45.240 But there's a lot of things, Hunter Biden's laptop, Hunter Biden's art, you know, plus everything that happened in the last administration.

00:04:59.560 Why isn't this ever pursued?

00:05:02.100 Why?

00:05:02.940 Never.

00:05:03.680 Yeah, I know.

00:05:05.400 And it is frustrating for me.

00:05:07.180 But think about, you know, the American people.

00:05:09.560 I mean, in the end, it's because the Justice Department doesn't prosecute them.

00:05:13.200 They can go after anyone associated with Trump.

00:05:16.260 They can take Mr. O'Keefe's phone and hold him, you know, interrogate him at his apartment.

00:05:23.240 They can go after Roger Stone at five in the morning.

00:05:25.620 They can do all the things they do.

00:05:27.160 But it never seems like people who kind of come from the left ever get held to account.

00:05:31.640 So the short answer is we've got to have a Justice Department that's willing to prosecute people who do wrong.

00:05:36.660 Now, maybe there's still a little hope with the Durham investigation because, you know, there has been indictments on Mr. Zussman and Mr. Dan Chinco.

00:05:46.020 So we'll see how that all shakes out.

00:05:48.440 But all we can do in Congress is draw attention to the truth, have the hearings, do the investigations, do the oversight, get the information to the American people.

00:05:57.700 But in the end, you've got to have an attorney general who's willing to prosecute and willing to hold these people accountable.

00:06:04.160 And so far, we really haven't seen that.

00:06:07.040 We're never going to get anywhere unless we I mean, I I remember in 2016, I talked to a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump and I was not at the time for Donald Trump.

00:06:17.020 And one of the reasons was I kept hearing this from people who supported him.

00:06:20.460 We just need to burn the whole system down.

00:06:22.640 And I'm like, no, that's a really bad idea.

00:06:25.740 Don't burn the system down.

00:06:27.760 We just need to clean out things.

00:06:30.500 But I'm beginning to believe that I mean, I hate to use this phrase without a great reset.

00:06:38.620 You know, can we can you unplug it and plug it back in that reset back to its factory settings?

00:06:47.160 I don't know how we're going to ever end this.

00:06:49.860 It seems endemic everywhere.

00:06:54.760 Yeah.

00:06:54.940 One is you don't you don't fund it as much.

00:06:57.760 That's that's certainly something we're going to have to do.

00:06:59.760 I think we're going to win back the House and Senate next November.

00:07:03.480 Second is when President Trump runs and when he wins in 2024 and takes office in January of 25.

00:07:09.960 I think you have to fire anybody and everybody you're permitted to.

00:07:13.780 And frankly, probably fire some people you aren't and make them sue you in court to get their job back.

00:07:18.720 I mean, you have to do that kind of cleansing of all the decision makers at the top of the bureaucracy.

00:07:23.120 So, for example, I always point out, when did Dr. Fauci ever put his name on a ballot?

00:07:28.880 When did he ever run for office?

00:07:30.420 Yet he seems to be the most powerful guy in the government today and he's in the bureaucracy.

00:07:34.480 He's never once had to go out and campaign and talk to we the people and get elected to high office.

00:07:39.480 So that has to happen.

00:07:41.520 And again, you got in a new administration, you're going to have to have an attorney general who's willing to hold people accountable, willing to indict people who did wrong.

00:07:51.000 Like Lois Lerner, who set up the whole system and systematically targeted people, you know, people who will follow your podcast, listen to your shows. 0.74

00:07:59.060 Yeah.

00:07:59.820 Good people all across this country are going to have to go after people in the Garland Justice Department who are targeting moms and dads.

00:08:06.960 And I think we talked about this earlier, Glenn.

00:08:10.580 I actually don't think the thing started, the school board situation.

00:08:15.360 I don't think that started with the letter from the school board.

00:08:18.400 I actually think it went the other direction.

00:08:20.780 I just think the letter from the school board was the excuse for the Garland administration, Justice Department, the Biden administration, the excuse and the pretext they wanted to go after parents.

00:08:32.460 And much like the dossier was the excuse Comey needed to go spy on the Trump.

00:08:37.380 He wanted to spy on the Trump campaign.

00:08:38.720 He needed some pretext to do it. 1.00

00:08:40.240 Oh, Shazam, here's a dossier that we know is garbage. 0.95

00:08:43.060 We'll use that as the pretext to get the FISA warrant to go spy on the Trump campaign. 0.94

00:08:47.640 I think the same thing happened here, which is even more frightening, frankly.

00:08:50.620 And it's why I'm solely focused on that issue right now in the Judiciary Committee.

00:08:55.340 You know, I've I've always the last thing that I thought could be co-opted was the military.

00:09:03.060 And I watched these institutions that I believed in fall one by one into corruption.

00:09:09.400 Yeah.

00:09:10.180 And now the military.

00:09:12.540 I mean, I was really disheartened with Benghazi because I know what the military could have flown jets very low, full afterburners and blown the windows out.

00:09:25.160 Of everything and scared those people half to death and they would have gone.

00:09:28.620 They would have run.

00:09:29.960 And we didn't.

00:09:31.140 We had no intention.

00:09:32.160 And something wrong was happening in Benghazi.

00:09:36.800 I think I know what it was.

00:09:38.400 But I mean, how dead are we in the Pentagon now?

00:09:44.660 Yeah, it's funny you bring it up because I write about that in the book as well.

00:09:47.520 When Tyrone Woods was still on the annex fighting for his life, defending his fellow citizens, we had yet to send anything to really help him.

00:09:58.040 I mean, that's this is hours of fighting.

00:10:00.900 I mean, it's unbelievable what those guys did and those those four Americans who gave their life for our country.

00:10:06.240 And you're right.

00:10:07.280 You look now.

00:10:08.640 This is why it's so important that Americans step up.

00:10:11.740 And there are some encouraging signs.

00:10:13.300 We saw what happened in Virginia.

00:10:14.520 We saw 12 jurors in Kenosha.

00:10:16.360 Follow the facts.

00:10:17.220 Follow the truth.

00:10:17.820 Follow due process.

00:10:18.620 So I always say courage is contagious.

00:10:20.620 And a few moms and dads stand up and speak out for their kids and things start to roll.

00:10:24.920 And the next thing you know, Glenn Youngkin is going to be the next governor of Virginia.

00:10:27.760 So we got to do that.

00:10:29.120 But but we're up against it's a big fight because the left, as you rightly point out, the left controls almost everything.

00:10:35.640 The left controls big government.

00:10:37.360 The left controls big tech.

00:10:38.680 The left controls big corporations.

00:10:40.180 Left controls big media.

00:10:41.460 The left controls big sports.

00:10:43.340 Look at the NBA.

00:10:44.620 I mean, the left controls the the bureaucracy.

00:10:47.620 They control the House.

00:10:48.460 They control the Senate.

00:10:49.320 They control the White House.

00:10:50.640 But they still don't control we the people.

00:10:53.700 And when we the people get together, stand up for the truth and do it in a compelling way, we can still win.

00:11:01.100 And again, we just saw it a month ago in Virginia.

00:11:05.100 We just saw it a few weeks ago in Kenosha.

00:11:07.240 I think that's going to build.

00:11:09.000 I do, too.

00:11:09.380 And it has to, frankly, if we're going to save the country.

00:11:12.020 So.

00:11:15.020 I think you're right.

00:11:16.260 I think that is going to build.

00:11:17.640 I think that there are tons of good signs.

00:11:20.240 I, you know, over the summer, I had almost no faith that we could turn this around because I wasn't seeing the American people standing up.

00:11:30.280 I think they're going to stand up and I think they're going to.

00:11:32.920 I mean, they know who's responsible for the gas prices.

00:11:37.220 They know who's responsible for inflation.

00:11:41.540 You know, they know who's responsible for meat prices.

00:11:45.920 And all of these things did not have to happen.

00:11:49.420 And, you know, they know who is responsible for Afghanistan. 0.93

00:11:52.860 It's not a mystery.

00:11:54.620 They also don't believe the press anymore.

00:11:57.560 But here's the challenge.

00:11:59.160 And I think this is this is the point of your book.

00:12:04.400 Are the Republican?

00:12:05.780 I don't even know what the Republicans stand for.

00:12:08.420 I don't know what.

00:12:10.060 You know, it's amazing that we might be getting the overturn of Roe versus Wade,

00:12:15.040 something I never thought was possible with the Republicans out of control of the House, the Senate and the White House,

00:12:22.340 because they always said, give us those three things and all magic happens.

00:12:26.240 Well, you lost all of those things and magic's happening.

00:12:29.300 Yeah, well, that's because the founders in their wisdom set up this federal system so states can push back, too.

00:12:36.660 So we've got to do our job when we get back in power in November and we take back the House and the next Congress.

00:12:42.700 But states and you're seeing it.

00:12:44.800 You're seeing what what Georgia did with their election law. 0.92

00:12:47.080 You're seeing what what Texas is did with their election law and how they're cleaning it up with what Mississippi did with this pro-life legislation.

00:12:55.000 So that is a good sign. And frankly, I spoke with Governor DeSantis a few weeks ago and it was interesting because he said when he ran in one in twenty eighteen,

00:13:05.900 there were, I think, three hundred thousand more registered Democrats in the state of Florida than than Republicans.

00:13:13.080 Today, it's even or slightly in favor of Republicans.

00:13:17.020 And it's not simply because some people are switching parties or independents are now registering.

00:13:21.280 There's some of that. But it's mostly because people are moving with their feet.

00:13:25.580 They're saying, I'm going to where freedom exists. I want to I want to move to freedom.

00:13:28.860 And they're moving in. So this this concept of of 50 states, I think it was Governor DeSantis got a question at a press conference recently.

00:13:38.080 And one of the reporters asked him if a local community wants to do something different on vaccine mandates than what you want or they want to have some local control.

00:13:46.920 You know, you're a conservative, you're a Republican. Why aren't you for local control?

00:13:50.680 And the governor said, because it's not the United Counties of America, it's the United States of America.

00:13:56.980 And it's a compelling point. And we're seeing that play out so that that is happening.

00:14:02.240 If we get back in power, though, we're going to have to do our job here in Congress.

00:14:05.540 We're going to have to fight. We're going to take on the DOJ.

00:14:08.220 We're going to have to do the oversight investigations that need to happen with Fauci in China and gain of function with Hunter Biden,

00:14:13.260 with what the DOJ is doing to parents and on and on. That's going to be a critical function when we're in control of Congress and Joe Biden is still in the White House.

00:14:20.500 Do you think the GOP gets it? Because I think the Freedom Caucus does, you know, but then, you know, I don't even know why Dan Crenshaw says,

00:14:31.000 oh, Freedom Caucus, we've got a lot of these people who are grifters. Really? Really?

00:14:35.920 Because pot may be calling the kettle black here. The Freedom Caucus seems to be the only one standing up for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,

00:14:46.460 which all of our problems stem from the ignoring of those things.

00:14:52.100 Do the Republicans get it? Are we going to just have more of the same bullcrap in the House and the Senate from McCarthy and McConnell?

00:15:03.020 I think I think Leader McCarthy has done a good job of keeping us together.

00:15:08.320 I'll go back to the first impeachment. The conventional wisdom was that every Democrat was going to vote to impeach President Trump.

00:15:17.060 And some Republicans would join in that effort in the House of Representatives.

00:15:20.680 When it all came down to the vote, it was actually just the opposite.

00:15:24.100 Every Republican voted not to because it was ridiculous what they tried to do to the president.

00:15:27.960 And we had three Democrats join us and one Democrat switch parties.

00:15:32.080 And so I feel like we have we have come together.

00:15:34.960 But that's not McCarthy. That was that was honest people looking at that going.

00:15:39.420 This is ridiculous. Was that McCarthy that did that? 0.77

00:15:43.400 It was ridiculous, but I think he made some some good moves.

00:15:46.360 And as and as and more than any leader, certainly I talk about this in the book.

00:15:50.960 John Boehner never worked with the Freedom Caucus. Yeah.

00:15:53.540 Paul Ryan did it. But Kevin McCarthy understands we had better come together if we're going to deal with the Democrats and what they want to do to the country.

00:16:02.120 And I tell my I tell my colleagues, both Freedom Caucus and folks who aren't.

00:16:06.040 I said any differences that the Freedom Caucus may have with other members of our conference pale, pale in comparison to differences between us and the Democrats of today.

00:16:17.460 They don't the Democrats of today. They don't like America.

00:16:20.480 They want to fundamentally change America.

00:16:22.640 And they have got us on this accelerated march to communism that we have to come together to stop that if we're going to save the country.

00:16:30.180 And the scariest thing of all is what you just mentioned, what they're doing to the First Amendment.

00:16:35.160 It used to be that the left actually cherished the First Amendment as much as you and I do, but not today.

00:16:40.540 They say, oh, oh, if you don't agree with me, you're not allowed to speak, Glenn.

00:16:44.860 And if you try, we're going to call you a racist and we're going to try to cancel you.

00:16:49.200 That is scary, but that's who they are.

00:16:51.260 So we had better come together as a party to stop what they're trying to do to the Bill of Rights and specifically to the First Amendment.

00:16:57.740 Those of us in talk radio and online now, they chased us out of mainstream corporate media.

00:17:06.600 Fine. So we start our own thing.

00:17:08.280 And now they're trying to chase us out of this.

00:17:11.780 The FCC, it's only a matter of time before they come after talk radio.

00:17:17.260 I mean, Jim, it is.

00:17:23.140 Do do the members of the GOP?

00:17:26.260 I'm not talking Freedom Caucus.

00:17:28.620 I was there for the Tea Party and the GOP gave it lip service.

00:17:33.900 OK, they didn't believe in that.

00:17:36.120 I think they hate the people that vote for him in many cases.

00:17:39.540 They just don't they don't like them.

00:17:41.500 They're not at the cocktail parties.

00:17:43.140 They're not the pretty people.

00:17:45.500 And and so they'll just say what they have to say.

00:17:49.160 If you we are so close.

00:17:51.580 I talk to all of the people in my industry.

00:17:54.440 We are so close.

00:17:56.000 We are the last line of defense.

00:17:58.440 And every day they shut us down on another topic.

00:18:03.300 Yep.

00:18:03.920 Is what's the what's the help coming for us on that?

00:18:09.540 So the reason I think our party now gets it is because I think back to use the example you just used,

00:18:17.240 that back during the attack from the IRS on the Tea Party on conservatives and the targeting by the are the Bo Lola,

00:18:22.620 be on the lookout for Glenn Beck and and people who use patriot and conservative, you know, that whole effort.

00:18:28.580 I think I think many people in this town thought that, well, that's kind of a one off.

00:18:32.220 This was Lois Lerner, a few crazies at the IRS doing stuff. 0.96

00:18:35.300 And and, you know, that that was a one off thing.

00:18:38.460 But since then, what have we seen?

00:18:40.700 We've seen what they did to President Trump.

00:18:43.340 We're seeing what they're doing with the January 6th Commission.

00:18:45.940 We're seeing what the Justice Department is doing to moms and dads.

00:18:48.780 And suddenly it's not a one off.

00:18:50.800 It's a pattern of weaponizing the government, whether it's the IRS or whether it's the Justice Department,

00:18:56.460 to go after people who who's who have a different political belief.

00:19:01.260 And that is what is most frightening.

00:19:03.520 So I think that the party gets it, that we're going to have to come together to stop that,

00:19:08.860 because if we don't, if we don't, then then we are no longer America.

00:19:13.540 Because if you can just go get your political enemies and not let them speak and use the law enforcement arm of government

00:19:21.920 to silence any any criticism or any dissent, then you don't have a First Amendment.

00:19:27.780 You don't have a United States of America. 0.99

00:19:29.300 And that that to me is the fundamental problem, because we can recover from all the stupid policies on taxes and spending and regulation and all this. 0.98

00:19:40.180 But you can't recover if you don't have a First Amendment. 0.96

00:19:43.080 The Davos crowd believes the biggest challenge to democracies around the world is the system of government,

00:19:57.340 really, that in some ways Mussolini pioneered and China is perfecting this this state that is basically all hands in to the corporations.

00:20:11.200 And they believe that we have to be something like that, except not so spooky.

00:20:19.200 I know you're against the Great Reset or the Build Back Better bill, but you've got a lot of Republicans that voted.

00:20:26.880 They're fine with it.

00:20:28.760 Do they know what they're doing, what they're facing?

00:20:32.160 Are they why are they breaking and voting for things like that?

00:20:36.860 Well, I'm not sure why some of them I think some of them legitimately thought it was going to help.

00:20:42.380 You know, the what little bit of infrastructure was in that first part of this bigger package, kind of step one to the Build Back Better plan.

00:20:50.120 I think they thought there was actually some some legitimate infrastructure that would help in their in their district.

00:20:54.880 I disagreed because all I saw it as simply setting the tone or setting the stage for this crazy Build Back Better package that they're trying to pass through the United States Senate right now.

00:21:04.480 And let's hope Senator Sinema and Manchin do what they said they would do and not not not support that.

00:21:10.640 So I'm hopeful we can stop it, at least the worst, worst part of it.

00:21:16.100 But I do think, as I've said now a couple of times, that Republicans are beginning to understand you're going to have to stand up to the left and not and fight everything.

00:21:26.180 Gone are the days where you can work with them because of we now know where that the left, which controls the Democrat Party, where they want to take the country.

00:21:35.000 And so you've got to fight them. You've just got to fight them every step of the way.

00:21:40.980 And I think people are again, more members are beginning to to realize that.

00:21:45.900 No, not one single Republican voted for the Build Back Better.

00:21:49.400 Thank goodness for that, even though a handful voted for the the first part that sort of set the stage for it.

00:21:55.680 Um, what is it that you have a we almost have a perfect conservative score, except with the Patriot Act and FISA.

00:22:09.340 That's what brings you down every time. Otherwise, you're 100 percent.

00:22:14.500 Why will you not reevaluate or look at what is it about the Patriot Act in the FISA thing?

00:22:20.640 Oh, no, I've I've I've already reevaluated and decided I'm I'm for letting FISA expire because when we supported that years ago when I first got here, that was that was before we saw what what the FBI did.

00:22:36.560 That was before we saw what what what Merrick Garland is now doing.

00:22:40.380 So, yeah, I'm for letting this. That was before we got the Horowitz report.

00:22:44.280 OK, two years ago, that said twenty five randomly selected FISAs.

00:22:48.800 There were problems with every single one of them.

00:22:51.640 The Woods file that's supposed to accompany that, which is the sort of the underlying evidence for why you go for the FISA in the application itself.

00:22:58.920 They said there were problems with every single one and four of them for those twenty five randomly selected FISA applications that the inspector general looked at.

00:23:08.660 They didn't even have a Woods file.

00:23:11.240 They didn't have it.

00:23:12.140 So you have with the FISA law real concerns with does it even fit with the Constitution, which now after seeing how it's played out, it doesn't, doesn't even fit with the Constitution.

00:23:23.660 And so so I don't think it follows the Constitution.

00:23:26.640 And then the guidelines that the FBI has set up for people who what you have to go through, the rules you have to follow to get a FISA.

00:23:33.280 They don't follow their own rules either.

00:23:36.020 So, like, well, why it's time for this to go.

00:23:39.820 So, yeah, I think so many Republicans have had a change of heart on so much of this because we see how it is being used to go after the left's political opponents.

00:23:51.040 Somebody told me a very experienced Washington, a former politician who said nobody's ever going to turn that around.

00:24:00.360 Nobody will ever really get rid of that because it provides too much information and you don't want to close that door because the rest of the world has that kind of information, et cetera, et cetera.

00:24:16.840 Do you believe that to be true?

00:24:19.400 I think there are folks in this town who think that.

00:24:21.680 But, I mean, our best argument is, you know, tell me how it complies with the Constitution and tell me how you're going to prevent what we now know happened.

00:24:30.060 I mean, think about it.

00:24:31.480 Even The Washington Post has admitted, oh, we were wrong about reporting on the dossier.

00:24:36.260 We were wrong about reporting on the Trump-Russia.

00:24:38.260 When The Washington Post admits they were wrong about something that was going after President Trump, you know how serious and how wrong it was and how bad it is.

00:24:45.620 So that's the context now, and we all fully get that.

00:24:49.680 So if we can't change it now, well, you know, I don't know when we are.

00:24:55.660 So are you concerned?

00:24:57.580 When does it come up?

00:25:00.060 It comes up for reauthorization in the spring of 23.

00:25:02.880 So I'm hopeful that's when we're back in control and we're going to have some real say on how that gets reauthorized.

00:25:08.680 What I would prefer is it not get reauthorized at all.

00:25:10.940 Just let it go.

00:25:11.900 Yeah, I agree.

00:25:13.140 Done.

00:25:13.220 Are you concerned at all about the Capitol Police?

00:25:19.640 No FOIA.

00:25:20.760 I can't FOIA them.

00:25:22.020 I can't ask for any details on anything.

00:25:25.440 It's a house-run police department that seems to be now becoming an intelligence arm that is opening up an office in California and Florida.

00:25:37.720 If you've got a concern about something, that's the FBI's job.

00:25:42.340 What is this?

00:25:44.140 Yeah.

00:25:44.560 I think that all changes when we're back in control.

00:25:46.800 I think a lot changes.

00:25:48.020 We've got metal detectors that members have to walk through to go do their constitutional duty on behalf of the citizens in their congressional district because Pelosi did that.

00:25:55.860 Pelosi won't give the information over about all the information she had that she knew.

00:26:01.940 That's the one area that wasn't really investigated by the Senate report.

00:26:05.320 And we know the January 6th committee is not going to look into that.

00:26:08.620 So I think all that changes when we're back in control and we have Speaker McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:26:15.900 I don't think you have that kind of stuff going on, which is exactly where it needs.

00:26:19.320 I hope on January 3rd, 2023, Lord willing, we win the majority.

00:26:25.660 The moment the gavel gets handed to Speaker McCarthy, I hope we hear the workers outside the chamber taking down the metal detectors.

00:26:34.380 I mean, I hope it happens that fast.

00:26:36.380 And I hope on January 3rd, certain people get fired right away who are part of the Pelosi regime.

00:26:44.940 So I hope all that happens right away.

00:26:46.980 And frankly, if Democrats are going to continue to cross this bridge and go after their political enemies, I don't think you should do that.

00:26:56.760 But if it's good for one side, frankly, it's good for the other.

00:26:59.760 If they're going to hold Mark Meadows in contempt for exercising executive privilege, a 200 plus year precedent we've had in this country, then frankly, same should go.

00:27:09.480 Same should apply when when our side's in charge.

00:27:12.180 I like the fighting attitude.

00:27:13.840 Dude, I don't like becoming all the things that we despise, but I like the spirit of that.

00:27:20.280 One of the big problems is that, you know, I heard you talking to an aide before we started and they said, you know, you have such and such time.

00:27:29.720 You said, I want to I want to be able to get down onto the floor to say a few words.

00:27:34.160 I was watching Chip Roy the other day, who I just adore, and he was speaking out and there wasn't anybody in the chamber and nobody in the chamber.

00:27:45.360 You guys aren't I mean, and I don't mean it to be you, but this was with Boehner.

00:27:49.760 This you've got a few people that are making all the decisions.

00:27:53.300 Nobody said I don't know the last time I do.

00:27:57.680 I think the last time I saw people in those seats was when the television cameras were on for the last the last State of the Union address.

00:28:08.260 This isn't really that there's no real debate going on anymore.

00:28:12.440 It's decided by a bunch of insiders at the very top.

00:28:17.140 Is that going to change?

00:28:19.560 Yeah, and there is real debate in committees.

00:28:22.260 You know, if you come to the Judiciary Committee, we got to seem like there's a fight going on in there every time we have a hearing, every time there's a subcommittee hearing.

00:28:31.440 So there is real debate that happens there.

00:28:33.880 There are sometimes on the floor there.

00:28:35.480 There's as you point out, there's just no one in there.

00:28:37.780 There's a few people debating some bill.

00:28:40.060 Maybe it's a suspension bill that's maybe not quite as important as some other legislation.

00:28:46.420 But there are times, too, when there are members in there.

00:28:51.160 And I kind of frankly enjoy that because my background is a sport of wrestling.

00:28:54.660 I kind of like when it's a little more combative.

00:28:57.880 Well, I like it when it's open.

00:29:00.140 I like it when it's open and transparent and we can see the deals that are being made.

00:29:07.340 Yeah.

00:29:07.500 No, that's what people, Americans deserve that. 1.00

00:29:10.060 They deserve a transparent government.

00:29:11.380 But there are some members, some Democrat members who haven't been here since Pelosi put in the proxy voting.

00:29:19.240 There's one member who's been here one time in the last 20 months.

00:29:24.620 Now, tell me how that is real representation for the folks in his or her district.

00:29:29.860 This individual came on the one day he had to come, which is January 3rd, when Pelosi was being sworn in as speaker.

00:29:37.360 And that's it.

00:29:38.800 So this is again, these things will change when Republicans are in control because you can't have proxy voting, for goodness sake.

00:29:45.540 You got it.

00:29:45.980 In order to debate, you got to actually be in Washington, D.C.

00:29:49.120 Right.

00:29:49.300 So this proxy voting, I think, is unconstitutional.

00:29:53.020 We have sued.

00:29:54.420 The leader has brought a lawsuit.

00:29:56.480 We'll see how that plays out in the courts.

00:29:58.080 So, Jim, you and I have known each other for a long time.

00:30:01.180 You know that I've been talking about Woodrow Wilson in the progressive era for a very long time.

00:30:06.580 Yep.

00:30:06.940 This is just the culmination of everything that they set out to do.

00:30:13.640 And one of the things they set out to do, and I don't think the founders ever dreamt that this could happen.

00:30:20.460 They wanted Congress to just give up their role and give it all to the administration.

00:30:28.100 So we see bill after bill after bill that says, secretary shall determine.

00:30:34.380 No, that's your job.

00:30:36.520 When is Congress going to be excited about doing their job?

00:30:40.360 Because I think I think it's it's weasel town. 0.99

00:30:45.740 Nobody wants to be responsible for anything, which makes it impossible for the people to actually get representation, because who's responsible for that law?

00:30:56.000 Who's responsible for that that that person coming to my house and saying I have to do this? 0.59

00:31:01.960 It's not our congressman.

00:31:04.140 Yeah, no, I know, because they can.

00:31:05.840 Members of Congress can say, oh, the agency's in control.

00:31:08.420 They determine they write the rule that applies to the law that was passed and they make the decision.

00:31:12.800 And it's and it's passing the buck.

00:31:14.660 You're exactly right.

00:31:15.780 The founders, in their wisdom, set up three separate and equal branches of government.

00:31:20.080 And the first one that they talk about in the Constitution is the legislative branch.

00:31:23.960 Correct.

00:31:24.480 We are maybe first first among equals, but it's certainly not the not the case today.

00:31:28.440 I would argue that the people who have the power are the bureaucracy, bureaucrats in the administration.

00:31:34.740 As you point out, did General Milley ever put his name on a ballot?

00:31:39.900 But yet, supposedly, he called up this Chinese counterpart and said, I'll give you a heads up if we're coming.

00:31:44.540 Yeah, that's not your call, General.

00:31:46.580 That belongs to the commander in chief whose name is on the ballot and gets elected president.

00:31:50.660 Did Dr. Fauci ever put his name on a ballot and run for office?

00:31:53.700 No, but it's funny you bring us up, Glenn, because we had a hearing last week on the Administrative Procedures Act and Democrats want to go the wrong direction.

00:32:03.060 They want to give more power to the bureaucrats in the agencies. 0.75

00:32:06.700 And so I was questioning the witness and I said, who does Dr. Fauci answer to?

00:32:11.060 And the witness says, well, in the end, in the end, the answers to the president of the United States.

00:32:16.860 I said, well, not really, because remember, just last Sunday, two Sundays ago, Dr. Fauci said, basically, I represent science.

00:32:24.500 I am science.

00:32:25.700 And Joe Biden has said, I will follow the science.

00:32:28.160 So Dr. Fauci doesn't answer to Joe Biden.

00:32:31.220 It's the other way around.

00:32:32.900 Joe Biden's answering to Dr. Fauci.

00:32:34.600 That is not how it is supposed to work.

00:32:36.920 So we have to reclaim that authority.

00:32:39.400 And the only way to do it, the only way to do it, and this is why the founders gave this power to the legislative branch.

00:32:44.900 The only way to do it is take their money away.

00:32:47.120 It all comes down to the money.

00:32:48.340 These agencies don't have the money.

00:32:49.800 It's tough to do what they're trying to do.

00:32:51.520 That's why this bill is so bad that it gives them 80,000 new IRS agents.

00:32:55.680 You think they targeted people 10 years ago?

00:32:57.640 Oh, my goodness.

00:32:58.300 Wait till they get that.

00:32:59.460 So, yeah, that is how we have to do it.

00:33:01.660 You've got to go after the money.

00:33:04.620 But when you try to go after the money, I mean, I see this continuing resolution pass again, and I'm like, why?

00:33:14.540 Why doesn't somebody have this again is your book?

00:33:20.040 Where's the frickin backbone?

00:33:23.180 This is becoming an abusive government.

00:33:25.940 You can't tell me that the ones that have the wallet or the purse strings can't say, no.

00:33:33.800 You answer to us for the money.

00:33:37.000 And I'm not funding it because 80 percent of it is out of control.

00:33:42.280 Yeah.

00:33:43.160 Here's here's the problem, too, is if you stand up and fight for the things that the voters sent you here to do, if you actually get to this town and do what you said you would do, you are going to get attacked.

00:33:56.440 It is so much easier to just keep your head down.

00:33:59.960 Oh, I know.

00:34:00.400 Kind of try to make a few little differences around the edges.

00:34:03.500 It is so much easier because you won't get attacked.

00:34:06.900 The press won't lie about you.

00:34:08.420 But I tell my colleagues all the time, I said, look, here's the nature of this business today with the left as crazy as they are and them fundamentally trying to change our country and marching us on this accelerated direction in this accelerated way to communism.

00:34:21.440 You have to fight them.

00:34:22.940 But if you do, just understand they're going to lie about you.

00:34:26.260 The mainstream press is going to lie about you.

00:34:27.740 Democrats are going to lie about you. 0.62

00:34:28.900 Big, big, big tech's going to help foster the lie.

00:34:31.340 And when you try to give the truth, they're going to they're going to throttle that back on your social media.

00:34:35.500 That's what you're in for.

00:34:36.740 But just understand if they're not saying bad things about you, you ain't doing anything any good.

00:34:41.340 That's just how that's the name of the.

00:34:43.980 And it's worth it because what they're attempting to do is so dangerous.

00:34:48.960 I said this in a speech the other day.

00:34:52.700 What they're doing to the First Amendment.

00:34:55.000 You think about it, Glenn.

00:34:55.880 You have five liberties on the First Amendment.

00:34:57.680 Your right to practice your faith.

00:34:58.780 Your right to assemble.

00:34:59.540 Your right to petition the government.

00:35:00.860 Freedom of press.

00:35:01.500 Freedom of speech.

00:35:02.420 Everyone's been attacked.

00:35:03.540 Yep.

00:35:03.920 Everyone.

00:35:04.360 There are places in the country today a full congregation still cannot meet on a Sunday morning in America.

00:35:09.820 We came here because we wanted religious freedom and full congregation.

00:35:13.320 That is so wrong.

00:35:14.580 You want to you want to assemble?

00:35:15.800 I spoke to the New Mexico Republican Party in Amarillo, Texas, because they had to go to Texas to get freedom because their crazy governor wouldn't let them get together in more than 150 people at a time.

00:35:30.300 And they wanted to get 450 people together.

00:35:32.600 So they had to go to Texas to exercise their right to assemble, to exercise their First Amendment.

00:35:38.220 And you can just go down the list.

00:35:39.300 And the scariest one of all, and we talked about this earlier, is what they're doing to speech.

00:35:44.740 Because the truth is, if you can't speak, it's the most important right you have.

00:35:50.060 Because if you can't speak, how do you practice your faith?

00:35:52.600 How do you share your faith?

00:35:54.100 How do you assemble?

00:35:54.920 How do you petition your government?

00:35:56.400 And that's what the left is coming after.

00:35:58.500 And they're trying to do it to you.

00:35:59.940 You've had to change your format and how you communicate with people.

00:36:02.440 They're trying to do it to everyone.

00:36:04.140 That is why we have to just say, I don't care what they say about me.

00:36:06.940 I don't care about all the lies they tell about me.

00:36:09.060 I'm fighting for the First Amendment.

00:36:11.100 That should be a rallying cry for people to have the courage to step forward.

00:36:15.240 And I think Americans are ready to do it.

00:36:17.020 Oh, I think they are.

00:36:17.880 I think they are, too.

00:36:19.380 You know, I brought this up maybe two years ago, got hammered for it.

00:36:24.300 Luckily, I wasn't the one who came up with the term.

00:36:26.780 It was one of the biggest experts on the Holocaust that is alive today, Edwin Black.

00:36:33.940 And I was, I had just talked to Edwin, and I said on the air, this is a digital ghetto.

00:36:44.200 You can talk.

00:36:46.300 You know, Jews could talk in the ghetto, but there was a wall there.

00:36:49.560 Nobody could hear them.

00:36:50.800 This is a digital ghetto.

00:36:53.080 I put out, I mean, stuff that everything was FOIA'd.

00:36:57.300 I've got it traced back six ways to Sunday.

00:37:00.500 I have every single document.

00:37:02.580 I put out a special about what really happened with COVID and where members of Congress and

00:37:08.140 the Senate need to start looking.

00:37:10.980 Yeah.

00:37:11.180 Jim, Facebook pulled it halfway through.

00:37:13.920 And there's nothing that I said in there that is crazy or about medicine.

00:37:19.020 It's questioning the government.

00:37:20.800 And now YouTube left it, but you can't find it.

00:37:26.560 It's still there, but you can't find it.

00:37:29.080 It's a digital ghetto.

00:37:31.200 Yep.

00:37:31.600 They throttle us back on everything.

00:37:33.440 Right.

00:37:34.440 It's all throttled back if you're conservative, if you're putting the truth out there.

00:37:40.300 And what the irony of it all is, anyone who questioned anything about COVID over the last

00:37:44.920 year, suddenly so many of the questions we raised, best examples, the lab leak, the best

00:37:50.780 example.

00:37:51.480 And it turned out that was actually the most plausible explanation.

00:37:55.400 I think it definitely came from the lab.

00:37:57.380 I do too.

00:37:57.720 And here's the interesting thing.

00:37:59.060 On that specific issue, Dr. Fauci knew on January 31st, 2020, he gets an email from Dr.

00:38:06.340 Christian Anderson right at the start, right from the get-go, gets an email from Christian

00:38:09.360 Anderson, one of these doctors, these virologists who Dr. Fauci had been handing out our tax

00:38:13.200 money to, email from Christian Anderson says to Dr. Fauci, virus looks engineered, virus

00:38:18.840 not consistent with evolutionary theory.

00:38:21.100 Now, that is a fancy way of saying this thing came from a lab.

00:38:24.540 Dr. Fauci knew that on January 31st, 2020, and he goes into overdrive to cover his backside

00:38:29.760 and what he had done to EcoHealth and what EcoHealth had given to the Wuhan Institute of

00:38:34.240 Virology and all this.

00:38:35.260 So, yeah, but this is the world, the big tech world, where they throttle us back and hide

00:38:41.240 the facts from the American people.

00:38:42.740 And the best example, maybe even better than that, is what they did in the fall of 2020

00:38:47.480 with the Hunter Biden story.

00:38:50.200 We had an eyewitness, an eyewitness, Tony Bobulinski, credible eyewitness, Naval Academy

00:38:55.720 graduate, successful business guy.

00:38:57.980 Tony Bobulinski, eyewitness.

00:38:59.200 We had documents, actual emails, talked about the big guy, Hunter Biden, everything else.

00:39:03.020 We had a laptop.

00:39:03.980 We had other physical evidence.

00:39:05.220 And we had the fact the FBI was investigating.

00:39:08.540 And what did Facebook and everyone tell us and the big tech people tell us?

00:39:14.020 Misinformation.

00:39:14.880 Can't do the story.

00:39:16.480 Not going to let the American people see the facts.

00:39:18.720 And now, of course, everything proven to be true.

00:39:20.880 Well, their golden excuse was, we didn't want a surprise that could upset the election

00:39:26.460 if we didn't know it was true.

00:39:28.040 Well, what's your excuse now?

00:39:30.340 Because it's all verifiable.

00:39:32.300 It's there.

00:39:33.000 What is your excuse today for not going after?

00:39:37.800 Because I don't buy your excuse.

00:39:39.260 You didn't want to affect the election.

00:39:41.580 You want these policies in.

00:39:43.540 You want these people in for some other reason.

00:39:47.040 It's not that you didn't.

00:39:48.920 Oh, you know, we just want to make sure that this was a fair election. 0.99

00:39:51.660 That's bullcrap. 0.97

00:39:53.440 Yep. 0.98

00:39:54.120 Well, they also want to continue to stymie you and limit your speech.

00:39:58.460 I mean, that's that's the other thing that they they want to.

00:40:01.400 And the left has now embraced this.

00:40:03.680 They like the fact that big tech limits what Glenn Beck can say, limits what Jim Jordan

00:40:07.940 can say.

00:40:08.140 They like that.

00:40:09.180 And that is such a difference from the left of tenure.

00:40:12.320 Maybe I've shared this example with you for Dennis Kucinich is a friend of mine.

00:40:16.020 Yeah.

00:40:16.400 Dennis Kucinich is an old school liberal who believed in the First Amendment.

00:40:20.240 You make your argument, Jim.

00:40:21.300 I'll make my I text with Dennis last week.

00:40:23.260 Good guy.

00:40:23.720 He's got a book out.

00:40:24.460 We got our book out.

00:40:25.200 We're talking about good guy.

00:40:26.780 He believed in making your argument, believe in the First Amendment.

00:40:29.800 Get your best hold.

00:40:30.560 Let's see who wins the debate.

00:40:31.800 Move on.

00:40:32.240 That's America.

00:40:33.460 Today's left.

00:40:34.400 No, they don't do it.

00:40:35.660 And that's why they they've embraced the cancel culture, the cancel culture mindset.

00:40:41.580 Barry Weiss called it the digital thunderdome, because if you disagree with them, the left

00:40:45.920 will use they'll use the big tech to come after you and then they'll limit your ability

00:40:51.380 to respond by throttling you back.

00:40:53.300 That's the digital thunderdome Barry Weiss talked about when she resigned.

00:40:56.520 And she's on the left when she resigned from the New York Times editorial board.

00:41:00.120 I think there's a lot of I've I've talked to a lot of people that used to think they

00:41:05.240 hated me and hated conservatives that we find ourselves standing in exactly the same

00:41:11.080 place right now.

00:41:12.440 We might disagree on policies, but principles we all believe in.

00:41:17.920 And and I think that that is, you know, I start every conversation with somebody who thinks

00:41:22.720 they disagree with me on everything.

00:41:24.740 I start with this.

00:41:26.560 Can we just go through the Bill of Rights?

00:41:28.680 Do you agree with the Bill of Rights?

00:41:30.960 And yeah, and they always say yes.

00:41:33.340 And when you talk about policies, then you can always go.

00:41:36.440 But wait, Bill of Rights says this.

00:41:39.100 It's a violation of that.

00:41:41.720 All of our problems are coming because we don't talk about the Bill of Rights anymore.

00:41:45.880 And if you're on the left, I can't compromise it.

00:41:51.000 The days of coming together are over because you don't agree with the founding documents

00:41:57.880 anymore.

00:41:58.780 I'm not the radical revolutionary.

00:42:01.400 You are.

00:42:03.240 Yeah.

00:42:03.920 Yeah.

00:42:04.540 Yeah.

00:42:04.800 I mean, so I couldn't say it any better.

00:42:08.060 And but here's another example.

00:42:10.960 They'll they'll accuse us all the time of you guys are always fighting the culture war.

00:42:15.020 And we're like, we didn't want we're not the ones who said guys should be able to play

00:42:19.460 in girls sports.

00:42:20.100 You guys did.

00:42:21.120 We're not fighting the culture war.

00:42:22.100 We just want it to be like it's supposed to be.

00:42:24.240 So they always they always accuse us of fighting the culture war.

00:42:27.480 And like we actually think human life is sacred and say and we should do the sanctity of life

00:42:32.440 is critical.

00:42:33.040 We should protect it.

00:42:34.060 You're the guy.

00:42:34.920 They're the ones who always do it.

00:42:36.280 Then they accuse us of somehow starting a cultural fight.

00:42:38.580 No, you guys do.

00:42:40.220 We we want it to be like it's supposed to be like it clearly should be.

00:42:43.760 We we just want the truth.

00:42:46.520 Again, it's so tough to compromise with them today.

00:42:48.940 You just got to stop them.

00:42:50.260 Can I can I ask you about the digital world, the metaverse, the AGI, ASI is so far beyond

00:42:58.880 most people in Washington because they just are not that's not what they do.

00:43:04.060 It is way down the road and has everything to do with digital currencies.

00:43:11.960 And the United States government getting their hands on a digital currency.

00:43:18.440 And I know I'm not saying it is.

00:43:21.340 I'm saying that's what the Bible describes really as the mark of the beast.

00:43:26.680 They will know everything.

00:43:28.340 They can track you on everything you can't buy or sell if they don't want you.

00:43:33.680 It is the second half of modern monetary theory.

00:43:39.200 Print all the money you want.

00:43:40.720 As long as we can say you can't buy that product right now or we have high gas prices.

00:43:48.360 So only the people who are going to work today that are essential can have their their Bitcoin

00:43:55.440 or Fed dollar work at the gas station.

00:43:58.400 That's total control, total control.

00:44:02.920 Will you stand up and and and block or will the Republicans stand up and block the federal government

00:44:12.280 banning everything else and just going to a Fed Bitcoin?

00:44:18.260 Well, we saw this.

00:44:19.920 We saw the prelude to this with this.

00:44:22.700 Any transaction in your bank account of six hundred dollars or more.

00:44:26.860 Correct.

00:44:27.120 They wanted to have eyes on that and reporting on that.

00:44:30.600 And I was very encouraged because I talked to some of our folks in the banking industry

00:44:34.640 back in the Fourth District of Ohio and they were so alarmed at this, not from the perspective

00:44:39.780 you might first think, not from this is going to be a hassle for us to do.

00:44:43.840 It's going to cost us money.

00:44:45.060 It's going to be an accounting problem.

00:44:47.620 No, they came at it straight from fundamental liberty.

00:44:50.920 And I was so encouraged because that still is is deep in the heart, I think, of most Americans.

00:44:56.860 They get the liberty concern that you just pointed out and that that policy would violate.

00:45:02.380 And that policy is straight from communist China where they want you get your social score.

00:45:06.980 Oh, yeah.

00:45:07.480 They watch everything you do, everything you do economically, everything you're saying, everything you're posting.

00:45:12.920 That is frightening.

00:45:14.480 And we're starting, as you point out, starting to see where with a with an FBI and a DOJ that is willing to target parents for speaking out.

00:45:22.000 What's the next step?

00:45:23.080 And then a bill that gets introduced that has this component on banking and any transaction over six hundred dollars has got to be reported.

00:45:29.580 And the government gets to see it like and of course, it's always for a good reason.

00:45:32.960 It's because we don't want people cheating on their taxes.

00:45:35.760 Give me a break.

00:45:36.780 This is about liberty.

00:45:38.300 Americans.

00:45:38.840 I said this the other day to someone.

00:45:41.020 It's Americans want safe cities, affordable gas and freedom.

00:45:44.240 And what the Democrats have given us is record crime, record inflation and Dr. Fauci.

00:45:48.840 So Americans still get freedom.

00:45:51.440 And again, I'm encouraged by the fact that we push back on that crazy thing, even with Democrats in control of all government on the banking issue.

00:45:59.020 We just got to keep fighting it.

00:46:00.560 Of course, we got to fight a move in that direction.

00:46:03.060 How versed are you in the Great Reset?

00:46:07.560 Not not.

00:46:09.000 Phil, I mean, I just wrote a book on it.

00:46:12.600 I'll send it to you.

00:46:14.700 But I think it's farther down the road than that most than most people know that right now.

00:46:22.540 City.

00:46:23.140 I think it was City Group came out this week with what are called ESG scores, environmental, social justice and governance.

00:46:31.560 OK, and they've been saying these are only for the corporations.

00:46:36.620 Yeah.

00:46:37.340 Well, what do you mean?

00:46:40.240 They're for the corporations.

00:46:41.360 Well, if you're a brown company, we can't we can't loan you any money because that we're trying to get our score high. 0.98

00:46:51.140 Europe is already doing this.

00:46:52.600 You can't even do business with companies that have lower scores than you.

00:46:56.540 They just came out this week and talked about you're not going to get a loan.

00:47:03.220 And if you are a brown company or you are a person that you're not looking at the environment or social justice in the same way, we can't give you a loan. 0.71

00:47:14.820 Yeah, this is this is this is bad.

00:47:19.060 No, it's very bad.

00:47:19.980 And it's and it's it's it's it's a it's a it's a it's related to what what many folks try to do to Israel and say, we're not going to invest in the great state of Israel.

00:47:29.840 So because, you know, the whole Palestinian argument, which was just completely divestment issue in there, which was so wrong.

00:47:36.980 So it's it's the same kind of this stuff is bad.

00:47:39.940 Corporations, I thought they were focused on return on investment and, you know, answering to their stockholders versus this this woke agenda that they have.

00:47:49.380 So, yeah, this is really bad stuff.

00:47:51.580 It's why the Financial Services Committee and who who runs that Republicans in charge of that versus Maxine Waters is a is the is is one of the things we need to happen to stop that kind of that kind of move from from from getting a full grip and a full hold.

00:48:08.020 What should.

00:48:11.040 What should Republicans, I mean, do what you said you would do.

00:48:15.500 I'm not sure where I would even start if I were making a list, because we are we are on fire almost everywhere and it's critical that we can begin putting it out.

00:48:31.840 I'd love to see a contract for America.

00:48:34.460 I'd love to see a list of things that I can say that's what you're going to do.

00:48:42.300 Yes, then I'll vote for you.

00:48:43.940 But I'll remember if you don't do this and I'll work.

00:48:46.800 I'll campaign against you the next time.

00:48:49.620 What exactly what should that list be?

00:48:53.580 Where should we start?

00:48:55.000 What what will make an impact big enough that the Democrats that the Republicans should be held to?

00:49:03.200 Yeah, let me let me do three.

00:49:04.760 Three quick one is what we've been talking a lot about is is full sort of defense of the First Amendment, the Constitution, Bill of Rights.

00:49:10.580 And so what does that mean?

00:49:12.200 Definitely. What do you put into motion or repeal?

00:49:17.400 Yeah. Well, I think you you first of all, do everything you can do to hold DOJ accountable where they've been violating those those fundamental principles.

00:49:25.700 Second, you pass legislation that you can.

00:49:28.680 But knowing that President Biden's not going to sign it.

00:49:31.360 Sure. So you you take away the liability protection big tech has as as you just pass that bill.

00:49:36.840 You pass a bill that says any antitrust action, we're going to get it to the Supreme Court in a much an expedited manner.

00:49:42.560 So we can get a ruling on these big tech companies and the antitrust seems to me.

00:49:46.880 Justice Thomas has given all kinds of indications he wants to.

00:49:50.240 He wants a case on that. So you you you try to set up a system where you you get those cases.

00:49:55.340 Remember, the Trump administration sued big tech on antitrust to two suits.

00:49:59.040 So you want to get that to the to the Supreme Court in the in the in the big tech area on the on the border.

00:50:06.760 You you have to pass something that says we will not fund catch and release because we should build the wall.

00:50:14.680 We should do everything. But if people come across the wall and the border agents are there and then we're just releasing them into the country. 1.00

00:50:21.300 OK, the wall slowed them down. But the catch and release is what's that's why people are coming because they know they're going to get released to the country.

00:50:28.020 You have to stop catch and release. And the way to do it is say we are not going to you just make that illegal.

00:50:34.460 You cannot do catch and release and then get more agents there so you can actually secure the border, build the wall, do what you have to do.

00:50:41.400 School choice. I am so adamant on this.

00:50:44.380 The federal government to voters out there, I say, do not support any candidate who is not for letting moms and dads select where their son or daughter will get the best education.

00:50:55.840 I don't care if it's a Republican candidate. If they're not for school choice, don't help them.

00:50:59.380 Go find a Republican who's for school choice.

00:51:02.020 We have if we're going to get rid of this crazy thinking out there in this hate America curriculum,

00:51:07.260 then you're going to have to create competition because what will happen in our public schools is they'll just call it something else.

00:51:14.380 And teach it again. We so at all levels of government, we have to elect people who are solely on the side of moms and dads selecting where their kid gets an education. 0.78

00:51:23.580 We have to full throated support for endorsement of school choice at the federal level.

00:51:28.740 What we can say is we're not going to send any money. Federal government doesn't do much money on funding of education.

00:51:34.560 But the money we do have is not going to go to schools that do school districts that don't offer school choice to the to the kids.

00:51:40.400 And that we have to have that long term to to fix things.

00:51:44.980 So I think those are three right at the start. And then.

00:51:49.400 Maybe just more more basic here. If we win, we have to do oversight.

00:51:54.300 The Ways and Means Committee has to figure out how was it that thousands of Americans tax returns became public?

00:52:00.660 How that happened? We need to know the Judiciary Committee.

00:52:04.980 Mayor Garland, what did you really do? What communications really took place between the Attorney General of the United States and the School Board Dissociation prior to the launch of this letter?

00:52:13.740 Because remember, that letter sent on the 29th of September and five days later later, we got a memo enacting everything that letter wants it to do.

00:52:21.340 And in between that, you got the director of counterterrorism at the FBI, Tim Langan, having conversations with the DOJ.

00:52:26.700 And the person who wrote the letter, Viola Garcia, at the School Board Dissociation, gets a plum assignment on October 1st.

00:52:31.740 Two days later, a plum position with the Department of Education Board.

00:52:35.500 I mean, when have you ever seen government move that fast in five days?

00:52:38.320 I've never seen federal government move that fast.

00:52:40.220 No.

00:52:40.300 So what all happened before? We have to get answers to that question, the Fauci question.

00:52:44.960 How about the Penn Center or excuse me, the Biden Center up at the University of Pennsylvania and the China money that came into the Biden Center?

00:52:52.340 Where's that investigation, for goodness sake?

00:52:54.560 So the Education and Labor Committee with Republicans in charge should be doing subpoenas and asking questions and finding out, because I think that is just like the Clinton Foundation was.

00:53:03.300 I think there's a bunch of money that went there.

00:53:04.860 We don't know until we do an investigation. So the oversight function, which is our constitutional duty, has to be front and center in 23 and 24 as we move into a presidential election that I think will decide, are we going to have are we going to save America or not?

00:53:20.860 That's how you frame it up. That's how I think that's our fundamental mission.

00:53:24.260 Is there a chance of being even bolder on things like why do we have the Department of Education?

00:53:33.020 Yeah. Why do we have the Department of Education?

00:53:36.100 Like four or five thousand people over there making making twice as much money as a teacher in a classroom.

00:53:40.840 Actually, it's always funny in education. The further you get away from the kid, the more money you make.

00:53:45.140 And you get all the way to Washington, the Department of Education, you're getting paid one hundred twenty thousand to make life miserable for the good school districts that are trying to teach people.

00:53:51.440 Right. It's crazy. And I mean, I I've always said I really want the president who will say for all of those who own property in Washington and Virginia and Maryland around the D.C.

00:54:05.760 area, you're going to hate me because your property is going to lose a ton of value when I get in because I'm just shutting this stuff down because it give it back to the American people and give that power back to the states.

00:54:23.060 But I don't know if I'll ever see that guy, which brings me to back to Donald Trump.

00:54:28.840 I think I think Trump, at least his staff, knew at the end we needed to fill those posts.

00:54:40.200 We needed to pay more attention to what is called the deep state, which is just the bureaucracy and the people who don't care about who's president.

00:54:49.120 They're going to do it their way and I'll outlive you.

00:54:52.500 So two questions, if Donald Trump is elected, he'll only have four years.

00:55:01.860 That wasn't enough to do it last time.

00:55:06.560 Is is there a way is there going to be a team that will be able to flush this deep state and make the changes deep enough if we only have four years?

00:55:19.720 Yeah, I think they will, because you're right.

00:55:24.800 They came in in 17, not realizing how deep the state was and what they were up against and how everyone in the bureaucracy was out to stop him.

00:55:33.500 I always point out, though, in spite of that, in spite of every Democrat being against him, everyone in the mainstream press against him, half the Republicans against him and all the bureaucracy against him.

00:55:42.900 He got more done than any president in our lifetime.

00:55:44.400 So so this is the guy we need for the job.

00:55:47.800 But, yeah, he'll hit the ground running in 2025 and he'll understand we can't we can't make the same mistake last time, kind of trying to figure things out.

00:55:55.100 It's full steam ahead.

00:55:56.220 Fire everyone you can and a few more put your team in place.

00:56:01.100 And it better be people who are willing to bust chops and get stuff done.

00:56:05.140 And that's the only way we can we can do it.

00:56:08.040 And you get and you're going to have to have a Congress, Republican controlled House and Senate who are fully behind him.

00:56:13.320 Yeah, because you didn't have that last time.

00:56:15.700 You didn't have that.

00:56:16.400 We did it.

00:56:17.400 No, we did.

00:56:18.200 You guys could.

00:56:18.880 I mean, it's amazing to me.

00:56:21.200 You had the biggest distraction of all time.

00:56:25.180 You could have you could have abolished Roe versus Wade and nobody would have been talking about it because they would have talked about his tweets.

00:56:34.360 You had this golden opportunity and the Republicans just wasted it.

00:56:39.440 Just wasted it.

00:56:40.400 Yeah.

00:56:41.400 Yeah, we yeah, we're going to have to be ready to go from from day one.

00:56:47.240 And when President Trump gets reelected, I think he's going to run.

00:56:51.880 I've been for him.

00:56:52.960 Oh, I think he is, too.

00:56:53.760 I mean, I mean, since since since he's left office on January 20th, 2021, I've been ready for him to run again.

00:57:02.820 And I hope he does, because he's proven he can take the heat, stand up to the pressure and forge ahead and do what he like I said, do what he told the American people he was going to do.

00:57:13.880 I write a lot about him in the book and the interactions I had the privilege of having with him.

00:57:18.620 Give me give me give me give me give me an example from the book on.

00:57:23.140 And on that, because, you know, Ron DeSantis seems like he's cut from the same cloth, but yeah, it's a different you're you're playing for a stadium when you're the president of the United States, not a local theater.

00:57:39.020 And I know the state of Florida is a big deal and he's taking a lot of heat. 0.97

00:57:42.400 But Donald Trump seems to have this thing where he doesn't give a flying crap about anything. 0.94

00:57:50.980 And it makes him it's a superpower. 0.97

00:57:53.620 It's a superpower.

00:57:54.680 Yeah, I don't I don't write about this in the book, but this one I don't think I've shared before.

00:57:59.500 I'm in the Oval Office with him and a couple of my colleagues.

00:58:02.540 And it's a day after the first CARES Act passes where, you know, we're early in this thing and there's money in there for Harvard.

00:58:10.240 And he didn't know about some of the details in the bill because it's a monstrous bill.

00:58:14.080 And we come in and one of my colleagues points out to him, Mr. President, there's money in this bill for Harvard.

00:58:19.340 He's like, what money for Harvard?

00:58:21.700 They got a bazillion dollar endowment, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.

00:58:24.560 Now, he literally gets on the phone with cabinet secretaries, starts making an issue, tweets out things.

00:58:30.800 The next day, the next day, Harvard gave back the money.

00:58:35.580 Now, that's a business guy who understands.

00:58:37.920 It's a business guy who can like we're going to we're going to get results.

00:58:41.540 And that is exactly the kind of attitudes needed.

00:58:44.560 There was a time I've shared this story before.

00:58:47.500 I don't I don't but I didn't put this one in the book either.

00:58:49.480 But it was it was in the middle of the Trump Russia stuff.

00:58:52.540 I'm in the Capitol.

00:58:54.760 The president calls me and I'm I just I step in this room and I'm kind of pacing around this table.

00:59:00.740 We're talking about McCabe and struck and all this all the crazy stuff that's going on.

00:59:05.580 And at some point in the conversation, I said, you know, Mr. President, I know what I get.

00:59:11.220 I know how the press lies about me and the fake news and all the BS and MSNBC and the New York.

00:59:16.140 I said, I know what I get.

00:59:17.500 And it's not fun.

00:59:18.260 I don't like it.

00:59:18.860 But just it is what it is.

00:59:20.980 I said, but you get it a thousand times worse.

00:59:24.480 You get it every day, every stinking day, all hours of the day.

00:59:28.400 And there was a little pause.

00:59:29.840 And, you know, you talk to the president.

00:59:31.100 A lot of times there's not much pause because it's, you know, always it's always intense.

00:59:34.140 I'm talking about result pause.

00:59:35.700 And he goes, well, Jim, what are you going to do? 0.99

00:59:39.280 Go over in the corner, get in a fetal position, start sucking your thumb. 0.99

00:59:42.580 He goes, we got to fight back. 0.99

00:59:44.440 And I'm like, I agree, Mr.

00:59:45.920 President, let's keep fighting.

00:59:47.100 And that is the attitude that is an American attitude.

00:59:50.800 That is a winning attitude.

00:59:52.220 President Trump, he despises losing.

00:59:54.840 He wants to win.

00:59:56.100 And that is so American.

00:59:57.320 And he is willing to take all the abuse and the lies to do what he told the American people he was going to do.

01:00:04.000 Because deep down, he loves this country so much.

01:00:06.820 And I have seen it.

01:00:07.660 You've seen it.

01:00:08.200 You've been around him.

01:00:09.300 He is an amazing individual who has this energy and charisma about him.

01:00:14.540 You can't help but like him when you're around him.

01:00:16.880 Yeah.

01:00:17.060 And that's the kind of individual I think we need, again, as President of the United States.

01:00:21.320 So what do you say to the people?

01:00:23.360 Because I've heard several people who support the president like what he did.

01:00:27.980 But they just are like, it's going to be a replay.

01:00:31.280 Because how is he going to grow his base?

01:00:33.320 Those people still hate him, even if it's Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.

01:00:41.740 They still don't like him.

01:00:43.700 How is he going to expand the base?

01:00:47.680 They're going to do, first of all, the main point is they're going to do that to whoever our nominee is.

01:00:52.040 If Glenn Beck's our nominee for president, they're going to lie about you.

01:00:56.120 They're going to make you the most hated guy in the country.

01:00:58.040 If Ron DeSantis, who's done an outstanding job as governor, one of the original nine members of the Freedom Caucus, when we formed that group, if Ron DeSantis was our candidate, they've already started on DeSantis.

01:01:09.200 I know.

01:01:09.620 They've made DeSantis.

01:01:10.540 They said Ron DeSantis is killing people.

01:01:12.220 When, in fact, it's just the opposite.

01:01:13.580 You go down there, you can get the monoclonal antibodies treatment.

01:01:16.580 I talked to people who walk in and got it, and it made a difference in like 24 hours.

01:01:20.400 Ron DeSantis has done great work.

01:01:22.340 So it doesn't matter who our nominee is.

01:01:24.680 They're going to do it to that individual.

01:01:26.260 What I know about President Trump is he can take it, and he did more what he said he would do than any president, maybe in history, maybe certainly in my lifetime, and he did it with everyone against him.

01:01:38.840 And he didn't have the full weight of the Republican House and Senate supporting him all the time, and he's still got so many great things done.

01:01:47.940 So I hear that argument.

01:01:51.260 Right.

01:01:51.660 OK, so you got it there.

01:01:53.000 I agree with you on that.

01:01:54.420 How does he get the Republicans, who are mealy-mouthed, worthless, kind of rhino anyway, that don't see the big vision here of we're about to lose the country, what does he have to do to get the lockstep support? 0.66

01:02:13.760 He doesn't just need their silence or their compliance. 0.89

01:02:17.120 He needs their support.

01:02:18.520 Everybody needs to be running in the same direction for four years.

01:02:21.680 How does he do that?

01:02:23.420 Well, I think it'll be there because it's a different context.

01:02:28.880 I know you wrote a lot about this, when the whole framework or the whole window moves, then suddenly people have to reevaluate it.

01:02:36.080 Well, the window has moved because now we have Joe Biden, who is the worst president in our lifetime, maybe the worst in history.

01:02:42.360 Everything he's done has been a debacle.

01:02:43.960 So in that context, with the guy who can fight it, so think about it, he won in 2016, coming off Obama when Obama wasn't even close to anything close to as bad as where Biden is.

01:02:55.380 So I think the framework, the window has moved and people are going to say, we need this guy again.

01:03:01.740 Look at the border.

01:03:02.860 We elected him in 16 because the border was a mess.

01:03:05.560 Now it's 10 times worse.

01:03:06.880 We definitely need him to come in and pick. 0.99

01:03:09.040 So I think that, along with his proven ability to take him on, I just know deep in my gut, and I think you do as well, Glenn, we have to have him, that kind of guy, in the White House at this critical moment in American history.

01:03:23.820 The name of the book is Do What You Said You Would Do.

01:03:26.540 And, Jim, I want to thank you for actually living that title.

01:03:30.080 Thank you.

01:03:30.880 Yeah, well, you do too.

01:03:31.880 Thank you.

01:03:32.380 God bless.

01:03:32.920 Have a great Christmas.

01:03:33.540 You too.

01:03:34.160 Bye-bye.

01:03:36.880 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend so it can be discovered by other people.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 11, 2021

Ep 128 ｜ Will GOP FINALLY Grow a Spine & WIN？｜ Jim Jordan ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 11, 2021

Ep 128 ｜ Will GOP FINALLY Grow a Spine & WIN？ ｜ Jim Jordan ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Ep 128 ｜ Will GOP FINALLY Grow a Spine & WIN？｜ Jim Jordan ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast